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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 15 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,917 2,556 2,726
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.35% 10.23% 7.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.31% 11.20% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,323 1,738 1,943
10th Percentile £375 £356 £360
25th Percentile £456 £432 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £536 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -0.74% -1.82%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 66 79
10th Percentile £24.38 £31.64 £18.00
25th Percentile £33.59 £43.13 £34.24
Median hourly rate £56.25 £58.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -2.08% +11.80%
75th Percentile £84.00 £74.69 £73.72
90th Percentile £104.00 £78.13 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +11.80%

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 36,943 22,820 31,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 91.36% 85.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,357 14,745 20,676
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,312 1,098 2,392
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.06 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.67% -28.07% +7.07%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.13 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +8 2,519 £558 -2.96% 977
North of England -1 729 £500 - 307
South East +4 618 £550 +4.76% 501
Midlands +3 533 £500 -0.05% 190
West Midlands +2 378 £500 -4.76% 117
North West -1 359 £498 -1.49% 183
Yorkshire +5 337 £500 +3.04% 95
South West +16 287 £550 +4.76% 138
East Midlands +12 147 £465 +5.68% 71
East of England +3 140 £530 -11.67% 97
North East -16 47 £475 +5.56% 34
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
1 289 (5.88%) Confluence
2 136 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 53 (1.08%) CMS
4 42 (0.85%) SAS
5 23 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.26%) Apache
8 11 (0.22%) Appian
9 9 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 7 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 7 (0.14%) WordPress
12 6 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.10%) Apache Spark
13 5 (0.10%) Kentico
14 4 (0.081%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.081%) TPMS
15 3 (0.061%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
15 3 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.061%) WebSphere
Applications
1 232 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 140 (2.85%) Microsoft Project
3 123 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 115 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
5 67 (1.36%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.24%) Revit
8 10 (0.20%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.081%) Navisworks
9 4 (0.081%) Trello
10 3 (0.061%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.061%) Notion
10 3 (0.061%) Sketch
11 2 (0.041%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.041%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.041%) Windchill
12 1 (0.020%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 158 (3.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 58 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 24 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 23 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
5 23 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
6 20 (0.41%) Aladdin
7 19 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
8 18 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
9 15 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
9 15 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
10 13 (0.26%) SAP ERP
10 13 (0.26%) Workday HCM
11 12 (0.24%) SAP CO
11 12 (0.24%) SAP FI
12 11 (0.22%) Finacle
12 11 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
12 11 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
13 10 (0.20%) Loan IQ
13 10 (0.20%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 772 (15.70%) Azure
2 558 (11.35%) AWS
3 294 (5.98%) Power Platform
4 202 (4.11%) GCP
5 167 (3.40%) SaaS
6 165 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
7 116 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
8 97 (1.97%) Entra ID
9 75 (1.53%) Snowflake
10 68 (1.38%) GitHub
11 58 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
12 57 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
13 52 (1.06%) OCI
14 50 (1.02%) Amazon S3
14 50 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
15 49 (1.00%) Serverless
16 38 (0.77%) Power Automate
17 37 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
17 37 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
18 36 (0.73%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 83 (1.69%) Firewall
1 83 (1.69%) Network Security
2 60 (1.22%) WAN
3 46 (0.94%) LAN
4 40 (0.81%) DNS
5 32 (0.65%) SD-WAN
6 29 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
7 28 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 28 (0.57%) VPN
8 22 (0.45%) BGP
9 19 (0.39%) DHCP
10 18 (0.37%) OSPF
11 17 (0.35%) MPLS
12 15 (0.31%) NGFW
12 15 (0.31%) Wireless
13 13 (0.26%) Intranet
14 12 (0.24%) BIG-IP
14 12 (0.24%) SAN
14 12 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
15 10 (0.20%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (4.96%) Power BI
2 100 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
3 90 (1.83%) Metadata
4 66 (1.34%) Tableau
5 63 (1.28%) SQL Server
6 57 (1.16%) Data Lake
7 41 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
8 33 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
8 33 (0.67%) Relational Database
9 29 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 27 (0.55%) NoSQL
10 27 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
11 24 (0.49%) DynamoDB
12 22 (0.45%) Oracle Database
13 20 (0.41%) Big Data
14 19 (0.39%) Delta Lake
15 16 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (0.31%) Power Query
17 14 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
18 13 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 545 (11.08%) JIRA
2 76 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 67 (1.36%) Git
4 42 (0.85%) GitLab
5 30 (0.61%) Selenium
6 26 (0.53%) JUnit
7 21 (0.43%) Postman
8 15 (0.31%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.26%) JMeter
9 13 (0.26%) Maven
10 12 (0.24%) Mockito
11 11 (0.22%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.20%) DbUnit
12 10 (0.20%) MLflow
13 9 (0.18%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.18%) jMock
13 9 (0.18%) Zephyr
14 8 (0.16%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 2,472 (50.27%) Social Skills
2 1,766 (35.92%) Finance
3 739 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
4 583 (11.86%) Public Sector
5 473 (9.62%) Banking
6 270 (5.49%) Retail
7 239 (4.86%) Influencing Skills
8 218 (4.43%) Legal
9 185 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
10 179 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
11 156 (3.17%) Marketing
12 136 (2.77%) Manufacturing
13 124 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
14 110 (2.24%) Telecoms
15 92 (1.87%) Local Government
16 81 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 75 (1.53%) Financial Institution
18 69 (1.40%) Law
19 67 (1.36%) Aerospace
20 66 (1.34%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 747 (15.19%) Analyst
2 708 (14.40%) Lead
3 700 (14.24%) Project Manager
4 579 (11.78%) Architect
5 511 (10.39%) Senior
6 504 (10.25%) Business Analyst
7 233 (4.74%) Consultant
8 219 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
9 218 (4.43%) Senior Manager
10 174 (3.54%) Programme Manager
11 171 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
12 151 (3.07%) IT Manager
13 110 (2.24%) Senior Project Manager
14 106 (2.16%) Product Manager
15 102 (2.07%) Product Owner
16 93 (1.89%) Technical Manager
17 90 (1.83%) Change Manager
18 86 (1.75%) Senior Analyst
19 84 (1.71%) IT Project Manager
20 83 (1.69%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (2.56%) REST
2 84 (1.71%) Middleware
3 83 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
4 68 (1.38%) SOAP
5 52 (1.06%) .NET
6 44 (0.89%) OAuth
7 41 (0.83%) JSON
8 35 (0.71%) Kafka
8 35 (0.71%) PySpark
9 33 (0.67%) OpenID
9 33 (0.67%) Spring
10 32 (0.65%) RESTful
11 31 (0.63%) SailPoint
11 31 (0.63%) SAML
11 31 (0.63%) Web Services
11 31 (0.63%) XML
12 30 (0.61%) AngularJS
13 28 (0.57%) CSS
14 26 (0.53%) React
15 25 (0.51%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 378 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 241 (4.90%) Onboarding
3 167 (3.40%) Cloud Native
4 155 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
5 132 (2.68%) Management Information System
6 121 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
7 108 (2.20%) Data Centre
8 88 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 86 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 78 (1.59%) Virtual Team
11 63 (1.28%) NHS
12 60 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
12 60 (1.22%) Operational Technology
13 57 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
14 54 (1.10%) Security Posture
15 50 (1.02%) Public Cloud
16 45 (0.92%) FMCG
17 44 (0.89%) CMDB
17 44 (0.89%) PMI
18 43 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 143 (2.91%) Windows
2 79 (1.61%) Linux
3 31 (0.63%) Android
4 28 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 24 (0.49%) Unix
5 24 (0.49%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.24%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.12%) VMS
9 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.081%) AIX
10 4 (0.081%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.081%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.081%) zOS
11 3 (0.061%) Solaris
12 2 (0.041%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.041%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.041%) HPUX
13 1 (0.020%) CentOS
13 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,611 (32.76%) Agile
2 788 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 764 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
4 706 (14.36%) Migration
5 667 (13.57%) Project Management
6 658 (13.38%) Roadmaps
7 652 (13.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 589 (11.98%) DevOps
9 568 (11.55%) Decision-Making
10 553 (11.25%) Change Management
11 537 (10.92%) Project Delivery
12 500 (10.17%) Analytics
13 479 (9.74%) Risk Management
14 464 (9.44%) AI
15 427 (8.68%) User Acceptance Testing
16 406 (8.26%) Validation
17 400 (8.14%) CI/CD
18 387 (7.87%) Scrum
19 373 (7.59%) Workshop Facilitation
20 364 (7.40%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 404 (8.22%) SQL
2 273 (5.55%) Python
3 100 (2.03%) Java
4 69 (1.40%) PowerShell
5 51 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 47 (0.96%) C#
7 24 (0.49%) Bash
7 24 (0.49%) VBA
8 21 (0.43%) TypeScript
9 19 (0.39%) Bicep
10 18 (0.37%) Korn
11 14 (0.28%) ABAP
11 14 (0.28%) PL/SQL
12 12 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.22%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.20%) R
14 10 (0.20%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.16%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 994 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 761 (15.48%) SC Cleared
3 358 (7.28%) Degree
4 257 (5.23%) PMP
5 228 (4.64%) PMI Certification
6 142 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 137 (2.79%) DV Cleared
8 107 (2.18%) CISSP
9 77 (1.57%) Azure Certification
10 75 (1.53%) CISM
11 56 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
12 49 (1.00%) Master's Degree
13 47 (0.96%) AWS Certification
14 45 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
15 30 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
16 29 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 28 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 28 (0.57%) ACCA
17 28 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
18 26 (0.53%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 279 (5.67%) Data Quality
2 268 (5.45%) QA
3 244 (4.96%) PMO
4 214 (4.35%) GDPR
5 164 (3.34%) NIST
6 142 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 85 (1.73%) GRC
8 81 (1.65%) SLA
9 74 (1.50%) Accessibility
10 54 (1.10%) NCSC
11 49 (1.00%) PCI DSS
12 40 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 35 (0.71%) IFRS
14 34 (0.69%) COBIT
15 30 (0.61%) SOC 2
16 19 (0.39%) IFRS 17
17 18 (0.37%) JSP 440
18 17 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
18 17 (0.35%) WCAG
19 16 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 97 (1.97%) Docker
2 80 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 34 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.24%) Postfix
6 11 (0.22%) NFS
7 10 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.12%) vSphere
9 4 (0.081%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.081%) SRDF
9 4 (0.081%) Varnish
10 3 (0.061%) HDFS
10 3 (0.061%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.041%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.041%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.041%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.020%) NLBS
12 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 143 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 118 (2.40%) Terraform
3 72 (1.46%) Ansible
4 44 (0.89%) Grafana
5 38 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 37 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 17 (0.35%) SCCM
9 8 (0.16%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.14%) Argo
10 7 (0.14%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.14%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.10%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.10%) Puppet
12 5 (0.10%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.081%) Control-M
13 4 (0.081%) EMC VPLEX
13 4 (0.081%) vMotion
Vendors
1 603 (12.26%) Microsoft
2 393 (7.99%) SAP
3 266 (5.41%) Oracle
4 250 (5.08%) ServiceNow
5 194 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 98 (1.99%) Databricks
7 95 (1.93%) Google
8 71 (1.44%) VMware
9 68 (1.38%) Workday
10 53 (1.08%) Cisco
11 46 (0.94%) CyberArk
12 43 (0.87%) Splunk
13 38 (0.77%) Adobe
14 34 (0.69%) MuleSoft
15 33 (0.67%) Informatica
16 32 (0.65%) Ariba
17 29 (0.59%) IBM
18 25 (0.51%) Atlassian
18 25 (0.51%) F5
19 24 (0.49%) Citrix