Stakeholder Management Contract Job Trends in England

Stakeholder Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Stakeholder Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,245 2,318 2,842
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.83% 9.50% 7.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.67% 10.44% 8.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,922 1,589 2,002
10th Percentile £364 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 65 75
10th Percentile £15.98 £35.00 £14.45
25th Percentile £31.25 £45.00 £30.08
Median hourly rate £45.00 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +20.00% -11.46%
75th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £71.75
90th Percentile £88.50 £80.35 £85.39
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -33.75% +20.00% -11.46%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Stakeholder Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,504 22,203 32,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.48% 91.02% 86.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,453 14,593 21,161
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,080 880 2,196
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.83 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.07 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% -6.59% -9.33%
75th Percentile £66.50 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.28 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.78 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.21% -6.91% -8.79%

Stakeholder Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Stakeholder Management job vacancy trend in England

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Stakeholder Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Management in England over the 6 months to 15 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in England

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Stakeholder Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Management in England over the 6 months to 15 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in England

Stakeholder Management
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stakeholder Management within the England region over the 6 months to 15 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +9 2,187 £550 -4.35% 513
North of England -4 606 £475 -7.32% 178
South East +5 512 £575 +12.20% 334
Midlands -1 507 £485 -3.00% 135
West Midlands 0 349 £492 -6.29% 82
North West -4 303 £465 -10.06% 98
Yorkshire +5 270 £500 - 69
South West +26 229 £550 +0.46% 73
East Midlands +4 156 £459 +2.29% 53
East of England -1 119 £550 -4.35% 81
North East -6 49 £439 -21.30% 15
Stakeholder Management
UK

Stakeholder Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 290 (6.83%) Confluence
2 126 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 53 (1.25%) SAS
4 40 (0.94%) CMS
5 35 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.42%) Appian
7 12 (0.28%) Apache
8 9 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 8 (0.19%) TPMS
10 7 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 6 (0.14%) Camunda
12 5 (0.12%) nginx
13 4 (0.094%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.071%) Apache Spark
14 3 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.071%) WebSphere
Applications
1 225 (5.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 138 (3.25%) Microsoft Project
3 110 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 108 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
5 78 (1.84%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.26%) Trello
9 7 (0.16%) Sketch
10 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.094%) Revit
12 2 (0.047%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.047%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.047%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.047%) InVision
12 2 (0.047%) Navisworks
12 2 (0.047%) Windchill
13 1 (0.024%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.024%) UserZoom
13 1 (0.024%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 123 (2.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
3 44 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
4 20 (0.47%) Aladdin
5 18 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 16 (0.38%) Workday HCM
7 15 (0.35%) NetSuite
8 14 (0.33%) Endur
9 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
9 13 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
9 13 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
9 13 (0.31%) SAP CO
9 13 (0.31%) SAP FI
10 12 (0.28%) Loan IQ
10 12 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
11 11 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
11 11 (0.26%) SAP ERP
11 11 (0.26%) SAP EWM
12 10 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
12 10 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 614 (14.46%) Azure
2 435 (10.25%) AWS
3 242 (5.70%) Power Platform
4 180 (4.24%) GCP
5 132 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
6 123 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
7 109 (2.57%) SaaS
8 89 (2.10%) Entra ID
9 64 (1.51%) OpenShift
10 56 (1.32%) OCI
11 50 (1.18%) Snowflake
12 49 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
13 44 (1.04%) GitHub
14 41 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
14 41 (0.97%) SuccessFactors
15 37 (0.87%) Power Automate
16 35 (0.82%) Figma
17 34 (0.80%) Google Workspace
18 32 (0.75%) Amazon S3
18 32 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 66 (1.55%) Firewall
2 60 (1.41%) Network Security
3 55 (1.30%) WAN
4 42 (0.99%) LAN
5 37 (0.87%) SD-WAN
6 34 (0.80%) DNS
7 30 (0.71%) VPN
8 26 (0.61%) BGP
8 26 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (0.52%) OSPF
10 19 (0.45%) TCP/IP
11 18 (0.42%) MPLS
12 16 (0.38%) SSL
13 14 (0.33%) DHCP
13 14 (0.33%) Wireless
14 12 (0.28%) NGFW
14 12 (0.28%) SAN
14 12 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
15 11 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
15 11 (0.26%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (4.83%) Power BI
2 88 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (1.70%) Metadata
4 62 (1.46%) Tableau
5 44 (1.04%) SQL Server
6 34 (0.80%) Data Lake
6 34 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
7 28 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (0.59%) NoSQL
8 25 (0.59%) Relational Database
9 24 (0.57%) Power Query
10 22 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (0.45%) Oracle Database
12 17 (0.40%) Big Data
12 17 (0.40%) DynamoDB
13 16 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
14 15 (0.35%) BigQuery
15 13 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
15 13 (0.31%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 498 (11.73%) JIRA
2 90 (2.12%) Jenkins
3 84 (1.98%) Git
4 54 (1.27%) GitLab
5 43 (1.01%) Selenium
6 38 (0.90%) JUnit
7 16 (0.38%) Postman
8 14 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.31%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.31%) Maven
10 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.26%) JMeter
10 11 (0.26%) Mockito
11 10 (0.24%) MLflow
11 10 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (0.24%) SpecFlow
12 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
13 7 (0.16%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.16%) DbUnit
13 7 (0.16%) jMock
General
1 2,166 (51.02%) Social Skills
2 1,479 (34.84%) Finance
3 674 (15.88%) Analytical Skills
4 463 (10.91%) Public Sector
5 411 (9.68%) Banking
6 216 (5.09%) Influencing Skills
7 192 (4.52%) Retail
8 167 (3.93%) Legal
9 149 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
10 138 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
11 136 (3.20%) Marketing
12 120 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
13 103 (2.43%) Manufacturing
14 102 (2.40%) Telecoms
15 80 (1.88%) Financial Institution
16 63 (1.48%) Front Office
16 63 (1.48%) Local Government
17 60 (1.41%) Law
18 51 (1.20%) Investment Banking
19 46 (1.08%) Billing
Job Titles
1 736 (17.34%) Analyst
2 635 (14.96%) Project Manager
3 577 (13.59%) Lead
4 543 (12.79%) Business Analyst
5 454 (10.69%) Architect
6 428 (10.08%) Senior
7 199 (4.69%) Consultant
8 181 (4.26%) Senior Manager
9 179 (4.22%) Programme Manager
10 163 (3.84%) Solutions Architect
11 143 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
12 126 (2.97%) IT Manager
13 94 (2.21%) Senior Analyst
14 91 (2.14%) Change Manager
15 89 (2.10%) Data Analyst
15 89 (2.10%) Senior Project Manager
16 86 (2.03%) Product Manager
17 81 (1.91%) Technical Manager
18 76 (1.79%) Developer
19 75 (1.77%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (2.99%) REST
2 83 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
3 69 (1.63%) Middleware
4 56 (1.32%) SOAP
5 36 (0.85%) OAuth
6 35 (0.82%) .NET
7 33 (0.78%) JSON
7 33 (0.78%) Kafka
8 31 (0.73%) OpenID
9 30 (0.71%) XML
10 29 (0.68%) SAML
10 29 (0.68%) Web Services
11 28 (0.66%) pytest
12 26 (0.61%) AngularJS
12 26 (0.61%) React
12 26 (0.61%) RESTful
13 24 (0.57%) Spring
14 23 (0.54%) Swagger
15 21 (0.49%) Playwright
15 21 (0.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 325 (7.66%) Product Ownership
2 219 (5.16%) Onboarding
3 132 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
4 116 (2.73%) Cloud Native
5 111 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
6 104 (2.45%) Management Information System
7 88 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 73 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
9 67 (1.58%) Data Structures
10 56 (1.32%) NHS
10 56 (1.32%) Virtual Team
11 53 (1.25%) PMI
12 47 (1.11%) Public Cloud
13 46 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
14 39 (0.92%) Operational Technology
15 35 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
16 34 (0.80%) FMCG
17 30 (0.71%) CMDB
18 29 (0.68%) e-Learning
19 28 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 120 (2.83%) Windows
2 66 (1.55%) Linux
3 25 (0.59%) Android
3 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 21 (0.49%) Windows 10
5 20 (0.47%) Unix
6 18 (0.42%) Windows Server
7 16 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.28%) VMS
9 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.12%) Solaris
11 3 (0.071%) AIX
12 2 (0.047%) CentOS
12 2 (0.047%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.047%) zOS
13 1 (0.024%) MVS
13 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,389 (32.72%) Agile
2 706 (16.63%) Problem-Solving
3 645 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
4 644 (15.17%) Project Management
5 640 (15.08%) Migration
6 553 (13.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 524 (12.34%) Change Management
8 518 (12.20%) Roadmaps
9 467 (11.00%) DevOps
10 462 (10.88%) Project Delivery
11 458 (10.79%) Decision-Making
12 405 (9.54%) Risk Management
13 399 (9.40%) Analytics
14 358 (8.43%) User Acceptance Testing
15 354 (8.34%) Scrum
16 341 (8.03%) AI
17 337 (7.94%) Validation
18 331 (7.80%) Workshop Facilitation
19 323 (7.61%) Requirements Gathering
20 312 (7.35%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 326 (7.68%) SQL
2 255 (6.01%) Python
3 90 (2.12%) Java
4 75 (1.77%) PowerShell
5 50 (1.18%) C#
6 48 (1.13%) JavaScript
7 30 (0.71%) Bash
8 23 (0.54%) VBA
9 22 (0.52%) TypeScript
10 18 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 17 (0.40%) R
12 15 (0.35%) Korn
13 12 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.28%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.21%) ABAP
14 9 (0.21%) Bicep
14 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.14%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.14%) C++
15 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 865 (20.38%) Security Cleared
2 668 (15.74%) SC Cleared
3 361 (8.50%) Degree
4 234 (5.51%) PMP
5 221 (5.21%) PMI Certification
6 112 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 101 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 73 (1.72%) CISSP
9 61 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 58 (1.37%) Master's Degree
11 50 (1.18%) CISM
12 39 (0.92%) Azure Certification
13 30 (0.71%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.66%) CBAP
15 27 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
16 26 (0.61%) IIBA
16 26 (0.61%) ISTQB
17 24 (0.57%) APMP
18 21 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
19 20 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 281 (6.62%) QA
2 237 (5.58%) GDPR
3 211 (4.97%) Data Quality
4 185 (4.36%) PMO
5 166 (3.91%) NIST
6 147 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 73 (1.72%) GRC
8 63 (1.48%) SLA
9 58 (1.37%) PCI DSS
10 49 (1.15%) Accessibility
11 46 (1.08%) NCSC
12 38 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 29 (0.68%) COBIT
13 29 (0.68%) IFRS
14 26 (0.61%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.42%) IFRS 17
16 16 (0.38%) HL7
17 15 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
18 14 (0.33%) MiFID
18 14 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 106 (2.50%) Docker
2 67 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 38 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.21%) Postfix
4 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (0.19%) NFS
6 7 (0.16%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.12%) vSphere
9 4 (0.094%) SRDF
10 3 (0.071%) HDFS
10 3 (0.071%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.071%) Varnish
11 2 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.047%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.047%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.024%) Firmware
12 1 (0.024%) NLBS
12 1 (0.024%) RACF
Systems Management
1 146 (3.44%) Kubernetes
2 80 (1.88%) Terraform
3 54 (1.27%) Ansible
4 46 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 33 (0.78%) Grafana
6 23 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.45%) SCCM
9 13 (0.31%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.19%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.19%) Puppet
11 6 (0.14%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.094%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.094%) Istio
14 3 (0.071%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.071%) Kibana
14 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.071%) vMotion
Vendors
1 470 (11.07%) Microsoft
2 345 (8.13%) SAP
3 259 (6.10%) Oracle
4 200 (4.71%) ServiceNow
5 170 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 97 (2.29%) Google
7 76 (1.79%) Workday
8 73 (1.72%) VMware
9 65 (1.53%) Databricks
10 47 (1.11%) Cisco
11 46 (1.08%) Splunk
12 40 (0.94%) CyberArk
13 36 (0.85%) Ariba
14 34 (0.80%) IBM
15 30 (0.71%) Citrix
15 30 (0.71%) MuleSoft
16 29 (0.68%) Adobe
17 25 (0.59%) Atlassian
17 25 (0.59%) Informatica
17 25 (0.59%) Red Hat