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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 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 4,244 2,330 2,825
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.57% 9.53% 7.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.44% 10.45% 8.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,920 1,597 1,990
10th Percentile £363 £363 £360
25th Percentile £450 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £548
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -1.83% -0.45%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 67 75
10th Percentile £16.15 £35.00 £14.45
25th Percentile £31.25 £45.59 £30.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +6.38%
75th Percentile £80.07 £75.00 £73.72
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.24 £85.39
UK median hourly rate £42.89 £60.00 £58.44
% change year-on-year -28.52% +2.67% +3.62%

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 34,120 22,289 31,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 91.13% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,809 14,625 20,976
10th Percentile £318 £310 £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 £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,143 919 2,227
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.74 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.50% -13.00% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £29.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.08% -16.71% -6.27%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +7 2,162 £550 -4.35% 515
North of England -4 627 £475 -7.32% 175
South East +4 520 £570 +14.00% 323
Midlands -4 497 £485 -3.15% 132
West Midlands -3 334 £485 -7.62% 88
North West -2 311 £467 -10.72% 98
Yorkshire +8 289 £500 - 61
South West +24 236 £550 +0.83% 73
East Midlands +3 159 £463 +2.78% 43
East of England 0 123 £543 -9.58% 71
North East -10 44 £440 -20.00% 18
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
1 295 (6.95%) Confluence
2 123 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 37 (0.87%) SAS
4 34 (0.80%) CMS
5 29 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (0.38%) Appian
7 11 (0.26%) Apache
8 9 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 5 (0.12%) nginx
12 4 (0.094%) Camunda
13 3 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.071%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.047%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.047%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 223 (5.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 141 (3.32%) Microsoft Project
3 113 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
4 111 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 78 (1.84%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.26%) Trello
9 7 (0.16%) Sketch
10 6 (0.14%) Revit
11 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.094%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.094%) Navisworks
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.047%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.047%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.047%) InVision
13 2 (0.047%) Windchill
14 1 (0.024%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 128 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 48 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 44 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
4 22 (0.52%) Aladdin
5 18 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 15 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
7 15 (0.35%) Workday HCM
8 14 (0.33%) SAP CO
8 14 (0.33%) SAP FI
9 13 (0.31%) SAP ERP
9 13 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
10 12 (0.28%) Endur
10 12 (0.28%) Loan IQ
10 12 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
11 11 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
11 11 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
11 11 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
12 10 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
12 10 (0.24%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 608 (14.33%) Azure
2 444 (10.46%) AWS
3 234 (5.51%) Power Platform
4 181 (4.26%) GCP
5 130 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
6 116 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
7 114 (2.69%) SaaS
8 86 (2.03%) Entra ID
9 56 (1.32%) Snowflake
10 54 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
10 54 (1.27%) OCI
11 47 (1.11%) OpenShift
12 44 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
12 44 (1.04%) GitHub
13 40 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
14 39 (0.92%) Figma
14 39 (0.92%) Power Automate
15 37 (0.87%) Amazon S3
16 36 (0.85%) Serverless
17 32 (0.75%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.44%) Firewall
2 59 (1.39%) Network Security
3 53 (1.25%) WAN
4 38 (0.90%) LAN
5 34 (0.80%) SD-WAN
6 33 (0.78%) DNS
7 28 (0.66%) VPN
8 26 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (0.52%) BGP
10 20 (0.47%) TCP/IP
11 19 (0.45%) OSPF
12 16 (0.38%) MPLS
12 16 (0.38%) SSL
13 12 (0.28%) Broadband
13 12 (0.28%) DHCP
13 12 (0.28%) NGFW
13 12 (0.28%) Wireless
14 11 (0.26%) BIG-IP
14 11 (0.26%) NAS
14 11 (0.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (4.74%) Power BI
2 92 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (1.86%) Metadata
4 63 (1.48%) Tableau
5 43 (1.01%) SQL Server
6 42 (0.99%) Data Lake
7 32 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
8 29 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (0.59%) Relational Database
10 24 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 22 (0.52%) NoSQL
12 20 (0.47%) DynamoDB
12 20 (0.47%) Power Query
13 18 (0.42%) Big Data
14 16 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
15 15 (0.35%) BigQuery
16 14 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
16 14 (0.33%) Oracle Database
17 13 (0.31%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 514 (12.11%) JIRA
2 75 (1.77%) Jenkins
3 65 (1.53%) Git
4 39 (0.92%) GitLab
5 29 (0.68%) Selenium
6 24 (0.57%) JUnit
7 16 (0.38%) Postman
8 15 (0.35%) SonarQube
9 12 (0.28%) Maven
9 12 (0.28%) MLflow
10 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.26%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.26%) JMeter
10 11 (0.26%) SpecFlow
11 10 (0.24%) Mockito
11 10 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (0.19%) DbUnit
12 8 (0.19%) jMock
13 7 (0.16%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,129 (50.16%) Social Skills
2 1,500 (35.34%) Finance
3 662 (15.60%) Analytical Skills
4 458 (10.79%) Public Sector
5 414 (9.75%) Banking
6 210 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
7 197 (4.64%) Retail
8 171 (4.03%) Legal
9 148 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
10 138 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
11 132 (3.11%) Marketing
12 118 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
13 109 (2.57%) Manufacturing
14 106 (2.50%) Telecoms
15 78 (1.84%) Financial Institution
16 65 (1.53%) Local Government
17 57 (1.34%) Front Office
18 54 (1.27%) Law
19 45 (1.06%) Billing
20 43 (1.01%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 707 (16.66%) Analyst
2 641 (15.10%) Project Manager
3 592 (13.95%) Lead
4 521 (12.28%) Business Analyst
5 463 (10.91%) Architect
6 436 (10.27%) Senior
7 193 (4.55%) Consultant
8 188 (4.43%) Senior Manager
9 179 (4.22%) Programme Manager
10 167 (3.93%) Solutions Architect
11 141 (3.32%) Delivery Manager
12 132 (3.11%) IT Manager
13 92 (2.17%) Senior Project Manager
14 88 (2.07%) Senior Analyst
15 87 (2.05%) Change Manager
16 84 (1.98%) Technical Manager
17 81 (1.91%) Product Manager
17 81 (1.91%) Test Manager
18 77 (1.81%) Data Analyst
19 75 (1.77%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (2.62%) REST
2 82 (1.93%) Oracle Fusion
3 72 (1.70%) Middleware
4 58 (1.37%) SOAP
5 36 (0.85%) .NET
6 35 (0.82%) OAuth
7 33 (0.78%) JSON
8 32 (0.75%) Kafka
8 32 (0.75%) XML
9 28 (0.66%) OpenID
9 28 (0.66%) SAML
10 26 (0.61%) RESTful
10 26 (0.61%) Web Services
11 25 (0.59%) AngularJS
12 24 (0.57%) React
13 23 (0.54%) Spring
13 23 (0.54%) Swagger
14 20 (0.47%) CSS
14 20 (0.47%) Playwright
15 19 (0.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 331 (7.80%) Product Ownership
2 212 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 137 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 132 (3.11%) Cloud Native
5 115 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
6 111 (2.62%) Management Information System
7 85 (2.00%) Data Centre
8 76 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 70 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 57 (1.34%) Virtual Team
11 52 (1.23%) PMI
12 51 (1.20%) NHS
13 46 (1.08%) Public Cloud
14 43 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
14 43 (1.01%) Operational Technology
15 33 (0.78%) FMCG
15 33 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
16 30 (0.71%) CMDB
17 29 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
17 29 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 121 (2.85%) Windows
2 65 (1.53%) Linux
3 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 24 (0.57%) Android
5 20 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 19 (0.45%) Unix
6 19 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 15 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.24%) 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%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.024%) HPUX
13 1 (0.024%) MVS
13 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,378 (32.47%) Agile
2 687 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
3 664 (15.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 653 (15.39%) Migration
5 642 (15.13%) Project Management
6 546 (12.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 528 (12.44%) Roadmaps
8 514 (12.11%) Change Management
9 487 (11.48%) Decision-Making
10 469 (11.05%) DevOps
11 460 (10.84%) Project Delivery
12 421 (9.92%) Risk Management
13 388 (9.14%) Analytics
14 364 (8.58%) User Acceptance Testing
15 356 (8.39%) AI
16 348 (8.20%) Scrum
17 341 (8.03%) Validation
18 336 (7.92%) Workshop Facilitation
19 313 (7.38%) CI/CD
20 311 (7.33%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 330 (7.78%) SQL
2 237 (5.58%) Python
3 90 (2.12%) Java
4 73 (1.72%) PowerShell
5 52 (1.23%) C#
6 49 (1.15%) JavaScript
7 29 (0.68%) Bash
8 23 (0.54%) TypeScript
8 23 (0.54%) VBA
9 16 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (0.38%) Korn
9 16 (0.38%) R
10 12 (0.28%) PL/SQL
11 10 (0.24%) Shell Script
12 9 (0.21%) ABAP
12 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (0.19%) Bicep
14 7 (0.16%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 865 (20.38%) Security Cleared
2 658 (15.50%) SC Cleared
3 357 (8.41%) Degree
4 227 (5.35%) PMP
5 213 (5.02%) PMI Certification
6 113 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 107 (2.52%) DV Cleared
8 68 (1.60%) CISSP
9 62 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 60 (1.41%) Master's Degree
11 49 (1.15%) CISM
12 40 (0.94%) Azure Certification
13 34 (0.80%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.68%) CBAP
15 28 (0.66%) ISTQB
16 27 (0.64%) IIBA
17 24 (0.57%) APMP
18 22 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
18 22 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
19 21 (0.49%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (6.79%) QA
2 231 (5.44%) GDPR
3 209 (4.92%) Data Quality
4 193 (4.55%) PMO
5 159 (3.75%) NIST
6 136 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 73 (1.72%) GRC
8 69 (1.63%) SLA
9 53 (1.25%) PCI DSS
10 50 (1.18%) Accessibility
11 41 (0.97%) NCSC
12 38 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 29 (0.68%) COBIT
13 29 (0.68%) IFRS
14 26 (0.61%) SOC 2
15 17 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
15 17 (0.40%) IFRS 17
16 16 (0.38%) HL7
17 14 (0.33%) Basel III
17 14 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 93 (2.19%) Docker
2 68 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 36 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.24%) Postfix
5 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.19%) NFS
6 8 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.12%) vSphere
8 4 (0.094%) SRDF
9 3 (0.071%) HDFS
9 3 (0.071%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.071%) Varnish
10 2 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.047%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.047%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.024%) NLBS
11 1 (0.024%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.024%) RACF
Systems Management
1 131 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 83 (1.96%) Terraform
3 51 (1.20%) Ansible
4 45 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (0.90%) Grafana
6 26 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 22 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (0.47%) SCCM
9 11 (0.26%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.21%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.19%) Puppet
12 5 (0.12%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.094%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.094%) Istio
14 3 (0.071%) Control-M
14 3 (0.071%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.071%) vMotion
Vendors
1 474 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 350 (8.25%) SAP
3 251 (5.91%) Oracle
4 195 (4.59%) ServiceNow
5 171 (4.03%) Salesforce
6 93 (2.19%) Google
7 74 (1.74%) Databricks
7 74 (1.74%) Workday
8 73 (1.72%) VMware
9 47 (1.11%) Splunk
10 40 (0.94%) Cisco
11 39 (0.92%) CyberArk
12 35 (0.82%) Ariba
13 32 (0.75%) IBM
13 32 (0.75%) MuleSoft
14 29 (0.68%) Citrix
14 29 (0.68%) Informatica
15 28 (0.66%) Adobe
16 26 (0.61%) Atlassian
17 24 (0.57%) Red Hat