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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 20 21
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,059 2,195 3,019
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.18% 8.89% 7.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.92% 9.81% 9.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,808 1,487 2,125
10th Percentile £363 £363 £374
25th Percentile £447 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £542 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -1.53% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 53 79
10th Percentile £16.50 £36.00 £15.80
25th Percentile £27.81 £41.25 £25.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £46.39
Median % change year-on-year - +29.34% -17.60%
75th Percentile £80.32 £75.00 £63.48
90th Percentile £95.13 £80.00 £83.61
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £60.00 £46.95
% change year-on-year -11.25% +27.81% -14.57%

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 31,421 22,365 33,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.55% 90.61% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,102 14,445 21,880
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,952 795 2,164
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.80 £21.01 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.53
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.81 £71.83
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 11 March 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 +10 2,065 £550 -0.90% 625
North of England +5 583 £475 -9.31% 236
Midlands +2 542 £485 -3.00% 168
South East +5 479 £550 +4.76% 354
West Midlands 0 364 £492 -6.29% 118
North West +3 284 £450 -13.88% 132
Yorkshire +10 266 £500 - 88
South West +27 209 £550 +0.92% 106
East Midlands +7 176 £455 +1.79% 49
East of England -5 102 £550 - 64
North East +3 48 £450 -21.05% 19
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
1 297 (7.32%) Confluence
2 129 (3.18%) SharePoint
3 50 (1.23%) SAS
4 37 (0.91%) CMS
4 37 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.42%) Appian
6 10 (0.25%) Apache
6 10 (0.25%) TPMS
7 9 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.20%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
10 6 (0.15%) Camunda
11 5 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.099%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.099%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.074%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.074%) nginx
13 3 (0.074%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 211 (5.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 142 (3.50%) Microsoft Project
3 108 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
4 101 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 76 (1.87%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.37%) Trello
7 14 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.27%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.15%) Sketch
10 4 (0.099%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.049%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.049%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.049%) InVision
12 1 (0.025%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.025%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.025%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.025%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.025%) UXPin
12 1 (0.025%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 139 (3.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
3 41 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
4 24 (0.59%) Aladdin
5 19 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 16 (0.39%) SAP CO
7 15 (0.37%) Endur
8 14 (0.34%) Loan IQ
8 14 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 13 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
9 13 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
9 13 (0.32%) Primavera
9 13 (0.32%) SAP FI
9 13 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
10 12 (0.30%) NetSuite
11 11 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
11 11 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
12 10 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
13 9 (0.22%) SAP ERP
13 9 (0.22%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 595 (14.66%) Azure
2 415 (10.22%) AWS
3 255 (6.28%) Power Platform
4 174 (4.29%) GCP
5 131 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
6 123 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 113 (2.78%) SaaS
8 96 (2.37%) Entra ID
9 66 (1.63%) OpenShift
10 53 (1.31%) OCI
11 48 (1.18%) Snowflake
12 46 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
12 46 (1.13%) GitHub
13 40 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
13 40 (0.99%) Power Automate
14 39 (0.96%) Serverless
14 39 (0.96%) SuccessFactors
15 34 (0.84%) Google Workspace
16 31 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
17 30 (0.74%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 73 (1.80%) Firewall
2 52 (1.28%) WAN
3 47 (1.16%) Network Security
4 38 (0.94%) LAN
4 38 (0.94%) SD-WAN
5 31 (0.76%) DNS
6 29 (0.71%) VPN
7 24 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (0.52%) BGP
9 19 (0.47%) MPLS
9 19 (0.47%) SSH
10 17 (0.42%) OSPF
10 17 (0.42%) SSL
11 14 (0.34%) DHCP
12 13 (0.32%) TCP/IP
13 12 (0.30%) Broadband
13 12 (0.30%) Wireless
14 10 (0.25%) SNMP
14 10 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
15 9 (0.22%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (5.42%) Power BI
2 85 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
3 74 (1.82%) Tableau
4 54 (1.33%) Metadata
5 38 (0.94%) Data Lake
6 34 (0.84%) SQL Server
7 30 (0.74%) NoSQL
8 28 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
8 28 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (0.57%) Oracle Database
9 23 (0.57%) Relational Database
10 20 (0.49%) Power Query
11 18 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (0.42%) MySQL
13 16 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.37%) BigQuery
14 15 (0.37%) DynamoDB
15 13 (0.32%) Big Data
16 12 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
16 12 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 503 (12.39%) JIRA
2 87 (2.14%) Jenkins
3 84 (2.07%) Git
4 62 (1.53%) GitLab
5 39 (0.96%) JUnit
5 39 (0.96%) Selenium
6 17 (0.42%) Cucumber
7 14 (0.34%) Maven
8 11 (0.27%) Mockito
9 10 (0.25%) MLflow
9 10 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
9 10 (0.25%) SpecFlow
10 9 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.22%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.20%) JMeter
11 8 (0.20%) Postman
12 6 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.15%) Axure RP
12 6 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
13 5 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 2,115 (52.11%) Social Skills
2 1,403 (34.57%) Finance
3 645 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
4 440 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 395 (9.73%) Banking
6 205 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
7 165 (4.07%) Retail
8 162 (3.99%) Legal
9 139 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
10 131 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
11 128 (3.15%) Marketing
12 120 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
13 104 (2.56%) Telecoms
14 103 (2.54%) Manufacturing
15 77 (1.90%) Financial Institution
16 69 (1.70%) Front Office
17 62 (1.53%) Law
18 59 (1.45%) Local Government
19 53 (1.31%) Investment Banking
20 43 (1.06%) Billing
Job Titles
1 747 (18.40%) Analyst
2 601 (14.81%) Project Manager
3 550 (13.55%) Business Analyst
4 511 (12.59%) Lead
5 461 (11.36%) Architect
6 388 (9.56%) Senior
7 230 (5.67%) Consultant
8 175 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
9 161 (3.97%) Senior Manager
10 154 (3.79%) Programme Manager
11 127 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
12 111 (2.73%) IT Manager
13 86 (2.12%) Data Analyst
14 85 (2.09%) Senior Analyst
15 84 (2.07%) Change Manager
16 83 (2.04%) Senior Project Manager
17 74 (1.82%) Developer
17 74 (1.82%) Product Manager
18 72 (1.77%) Technical Manager
19 70 (1.72%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (2.98%) REST
2 80 (1.97%) Oracle Fusion
3 57 (1.40%) Middleware
4 55 (1.36%) SOAP
5 39 (0.96%) JSON
6 38 (0.94%) .NET
7 37 (0.91%) OAuth
8 35 (0.86%) OpenID
9 32 (0.79%) SAML
10 31 (0.76%) Kafka
10 31 (0.76%) XML
11 29 (0.71%) HTML
11 29 (0.71%) React
12 28 (0.69%) pytest
12 28 (0.69%) RESTful
13 25 (0.62%) AngularJS
13 25 (0.62%) SailPoint
14 24 (0.59%) Web Services
15 23 (0.57%) CSS
16 22 (0.54%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 309 (7.61%) Product Ownership
2 220 (5.42%) Onboarding
3 120 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
4 108 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
5 105 (2.59%) Cloud Native
6 98 (2.41%) Management Information System
7 94 (2.32%) Data Centre
8 76 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 55 (1.36%) PMI
10 54 (1.33%) Data Structures
11 50 (1.23%) NHS
11 50 (1.23%) Public Cloud
12 43 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
13 36 (0.89%) Operational Technology
14 35 (0.86%) CMDB
14 35 (0.86%) Virtual Team
15 33 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
16 29 (0.71%) FMCG
16 29 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
17 27 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 133 (3.28%) Windows
2 67 (1.65%) Linux
3 32 (0.79%) Unix
4 24 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.57%) Android
5 23 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 20 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.32%) VMS
9 12 (0.30%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.12%) Solaris
11 3 (0.074%) AIX
11 3 (0.074%) CentOS
12 1 (0.025%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,323 (32.59%) Agile
2 722 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
3 614 (15.13%) Migration
4 612 (15.08%) Project Management
5 604 (14.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 549 (13.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 497 (12.24%) Change Management
8 477 (11.75%) Roadmaps
9 438 (10.79%) Project Delivery
10 434 (10.69%) DevOps
11 417 (10.27%) Decision-Making
12 367 (9.04%) Analytics
13 360 (8.87%) Risk Management
14 340 (8.38%) Scrum
15 328 (8.08%) User Acceptance Testing
15 328 (8.08%) Workshop Facilitation
16 321 (7.91%) Requirements Gathering
17 307 (7.56%) Validation
18 291 (7.17%) AI
18 291 (7.17%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 317 (7.81%) SQL
2 267 (6.58%) Python
3 91 (2.24%) PowerShell
4 84 (2.07%) Java
5 54 (1.33%) JavaScript
6 50 (1.23%) C#
7 34 (0.84%) Bash
8 24 (0.59%) TypeScript
9 21 (0.52%) VBA
10 19 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (0.39%) Korn
11 16 (0.39%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.34%) R
13 10 (0.25%) Bicep
13 10 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.22%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.17%) ABAP
15 7 (0.17%) VB
16 6 (0.15%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.15%) C++
Qualifications
1 792 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 621 (15.30%) SC Cleared
3 382 (9.41%) Degree
4 213 (5.25%) PMI Certification
5 208 (5.12%) PMP
6 104 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 77 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 72 (1.77%) Master's Degree
9 66 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 62 (1.53%) CISSP
11 46 (1.13%) CISM
12 39 (0.96%) Azure Certification
13 32 (0.79%) CBAP
14 29 (0.71%) AWS Certification
15 27 (0.67%) ISTQB
16 25 (0.62%) IIBA
16 25 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
17 23 (0.57%) APMP
18 22 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
19 21 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 281 (6.92%) QA
2 236 (5.81%) GDPR
3 177 (4.36%) Data Quality
4 163 (4.02%) PMO
5 150 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 148 (3.65%) NIST
7 70 (1.72%) GRC
8 66 (1.63%) PCI DSS
9 56 (1.38%) SLA
10 46 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 45 (1.11%) Accessibility
11 45 (1.11%) NCSC
12 30 (0.74%) COBIT
13 29 (0.71%) IFRS
14 19 (0.47%) PSD2
15 18 (0.44%) IFRS 17
16 17 (0.42%) SOC 2
17 16 (0.39%) WCAG
18 13 (0.32%) Basel III
18 13 (0.32%) MiFID
System Software
1 98 (2.41%) Docker
2 75 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 37 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.15%) NFS
6 6 (0.15%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.15%) vSphere
7 5 (0.12%) Postfix
8 3 (0.074%) HDFS
8 3 (0.074%) SRDF
8 3 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.049%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.025%) Firmware
10 1 (0.025%) NDS
10 1 (0.025%) NetIQ eDirectory
10 1 (0.025%) NLBS
10 1 (0.025%) RACF
10 1 (0.025%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 141 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 81 (2.00%) Terraform
3 52 (1.28%) Ansible
4 51 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 33 (0.81%) Grafana
6 25 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (0.49%) SCCM
8 19 (0.47%) Prometheus
9 15 (0.37%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.17%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.15%) HP ALM
11 6 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.15%) Kibana
11 6 (0.15%) Puppet
11 6 (0.15%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.099%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.099%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.099%) vMotion
13 3 (0.074%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.074%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 471 (11.60%) Microsoft
2 343 (8.45%) SAP
3 241 (5.94%) Oracle
4 197 (4.85%) ServiceNow
5 153 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 91 (2.24%) Google
7 85 (2.09%) Workday
8 68 (1.68%) VMware
9 59 (1.45%) Databricks
10 50 (1.23%) Cisco
11 46 (1.13%) Splunk
12 43 (1.06%) IBM
13 37 (0.91%) Citrix
14 36 (0.89%) CyberArk
15 30 (0.74%) Ariba
15 30 (0.74%) Fortinet
16 26 (0.64%) Adobe
16 26 (0.64%) MuleSoft
17 24 (0.59%) Atlassian
17 24 (0.59%) Informatica