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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,714 2,268 3,177
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.29% 8.56% 8.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.87% 9.57% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,563 1,417 2,223
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £444 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 51 94
10th Percentile £14.50 £35.00 £21.48
25th Percentile £23.00 £38.00 £31.06
Median hourly rate £45.23 £56.50 £51.24
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +10.27% -6.76%
75th Percentile £69.99 £66.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.75 £80.00 £79.78
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £54.63 £54.39
% change year-on-year -25.86% +0.44% -2.38%

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 28,849 23,705 33,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.71% 89.48% 87.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,454 14,499 22,354
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £619 £643 £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 1,790 754 1,912
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -3.47% +2.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 1 February 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 1,896 £550 - 749
North of England +5 563 £475 -9.52% 248
Midlands -1 458 £485 -6.73% 178
South East +7 419 £525 - 465
North West +6 288 £455 -12.92% 143
West Midlands -4 286 £500 -4.76% 124
Yorkshire +10 246 £500 -0.70% 89
South West +10 190 £550 +4.76% 104
East Midlands +11 172 £450 -5.26% 52
East of England -3 101 £550 - 92
North East +3 43 £450 -22.58% 16
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
1 272 (7.32%) Confluence
2 111 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.02%) SAS
4 37 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 34 (0.92%) CMS
6 15 (0.40%) Appian
7 11 (0.30%) TPMS
8 8 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.19%) Apache
9 7 (0.19%) Camunda
10 6 (0.16%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
11 5 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (0.11%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.081%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.081%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.081%) nginx
13 3 (0.081%) WebSphere
Applications
1 208 (5.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
3 117 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
4 102 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 72 (1.94%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.43%) Trello
7 13 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.11%) Sketch
10 3 (0.081%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.054%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.054%) InVision
12 1 (0.027%) Blender
12 1 (0.027%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.027%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.027%) Simulink
12 1 (0.027%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.027%) UXPin
12 1 (0.027%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 132 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.97%) Oracle EBS
4 22 (0.59%) Aladdin
5 20 (0.54%) Workday HCM
6 19 (0.51%) Endur
7 17 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
8 14 (0.38%) Primavera
8 14 (0.38%) SAP CO
8 14 (0.38%) SAP EWM
9 13 (0.35%) NetSuite
9 13 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
9 13 (0.35%) SAP FI
10 12 (0.32%) Loan IQ
10 12 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
11 11 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
12 10 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
13 9 (0.24%) SAP MDG
13 9 (0.24%) SAP PP
14 8 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 542 (14.59%) Azure
2 369 (9.94%) AWS
3 243 (6.54%) Power Platform
4 161 (4.33%) GCP
5 121 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
6 114 (3.07%) SaaS
7 109 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
8 83 (2.23%) Entra ID
9 63 (1.70%) OpenShift
10 47 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
10 47 (1.27%) GitHub
11 45 (1.21%) OCI
12 42 (1.13%) Serverless
13 37 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
13 37 (1.00%) Power Automate
14 36 (0.97%) Snowflake
15 32 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
16 31 (0.83%) Google Workspace
17 30 (0.81%) PowerApps
18 26 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 78 (2.10%) Firewall
2 47 (1.27%) WAN
3 36 (0.97%) LAN
4 35 (0.94%) Network Security
5 30 (0.81%) SD-WAN
5 30 (0.81%) VPN
6 27 (0.73%) DNS
7 22 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (0.57%) SSH
9 19 (0.51%) MPLS
10 18 (0.48%) SSL
11 16 (0.43%) BGP
12 13 (0.35%) Broadband
12 13 (0.35%) Wireless
13 12 (0.32%) DHCP
13 12 (0.32%) Intranet
13 12 (0.32%) OSPF
14 11 (0.30%) Internet
14 11 (0.30%) SNMP
14 11 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (5.79%) Power BI
2 74 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (1.97%) Tableau
4 57 (1.53%) Metadata
5 31 (0.83%) Data Lake
5 31 (0.83%) NoSQL
6 26 (0.70%) SQL Server
7 25 (0.67%) Power Query
8 24 (0.65%) Relational Database
9 20 (0.54%) BigQuery
9 20 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.51%) MySQL
10 19 (0.51%) Oracle Database
11 17 (0.46%) DynamoDB
12 16 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
15 11 (0.30%) RDBMS
15 11 (0.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 468 (12.60%) JIRA
2 75 (2.02%) Jenkins
3 71 (1.91%) Git
4 52 (1.40%) GitLab
5 27 (0.73%) Selenium
6 22 (0.59%) JUnit
7 16 (0.43%) Maven
8 11 (0.30%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.24%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.24%) SpecFlow
10 8 (0.22%) Postman
11 7 (0.19%) Gradle
11 7 (0.19%) MLflow
11 7 (0.19%) Mockito
11 7 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
12 6 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.13%) SonarLint
14 4 (0.11%) Axure RP
14 4 (0.11%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 1,998 (53.80%) Social Skills
2 1,240 (33.39%) Finance
3 624 (16.80%) Analytical Skills
4 368 (9.91%) Public Sector
5 364 (9.80%) Banking
6 191 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
7 158 (4.25%) Retail
8 149 (4.01%) Legal
9 130 (3.50%) Marketing
10 128 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
11 116 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
12 114 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
13 107 (2.88%) Telecoms
14 99 (2.67%) Manufacturing
15 72 (1.94%) Front Office
16 62 (1.67%) Law
17 56 (1.51%) Financial Institution
18 54 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 51 (1.37%) Investment Banking
20 43 (1.16%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 726 (19.55%) Analyst
2 531 (14.30%) Project Manager
3 527 (14.19%) Business Analyst
4 442 (11.90%) Lead
5 426 (11.47%) Architect
6 327 (8.80%) Senior
7 234 (6.30%) Consultant
8 159 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
9 134 (3.61%) Senior Manager
10 133 (3.58%) Programme Manager
11 101 (2.72%) IT Manager
12 98 (2.64%) Delivery Manager
13 83 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
14 80 (2.15%) Data Analyst
15 72 (1.94%) Change Manager
16 70 (1.88%) Product Owner
16 70 (1.88%) Senior Business Analyst
17 69 (1.86%) Senior Project Manager
18 68 (1.83%) Developer
18 68 (1.83%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (2.75%) REST
2 62 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 41 (1.10%) SOAP
4 40 (1.08%) Middleware
5 37 (1.00%) .NET
6 36 (0.97%) JSON
7 35 (0.94%) OAuth
7 35 (0.94%) OpenID
8 32 (0.86%) SAML
8 32 (0.86%) XML
9 31 (0.83%) Kafka
9 31 (0.83%) RESTful
10 28 (0.75%) HTML
11 23 (0.62%) React
11 23 (0.62%) SailPoint
12 21 (0.57%) CSS
12 21 (0.57%) LDAP
12 21 (0.57%) pytest
13 19 (0.51%) ADO
13 19 (0.51%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 310 (8.35%) Product Ownership
2 192 (5.17%) Onboarding
3 109 (2.93%) Cloud Native
4 102 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
5 97 (2.61%) Management Information System
6 93 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
7 81 (2.18%) Data Centre
8 79 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
9 56 (1.51%) PMI
10 51 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 40 (1.08%) NHS
12 38 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
13 36 (0.97%) CMDB
14 35 (0.94%) Operational Technology
14 35 (0.94%) Public Cloud
15 33 (0.89%) Data Structures
16 29 (0.78%) Virtual Team
17 27 (0.73%) FMCG
18 24 (0.65%) e-Learning
18 24 (0.65%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 109 (2.93%) Windows
2 54 (1.45%) Linux
3 27 (0.73%) Unix
4 21 (0.57%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.54%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.35%) VMS
7 12 (0.32%) Mac OS
8 11 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.24%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.13%) Android
11 4 (0.11%) CentOS
11 4 (0.11%) Solaris
12 1 (0.027%) AIX
12 1 (0.027%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,228 (33.06%) Agile
2 691 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
3 577 (15.54%) Project Management
4 541 (14.57%) Migration
5 529 (14.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 516 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 437 (11.77%) Change Management
8 433 (11.66%) Roadmaps
9 405 (10.90%) Project Delivery
10 364 (9.80%) DevOps
11 352 (9.48%) Decision-Making
12 331 (8.91%) Analytics
13 329 (8.86%) Risk Management
14 312 (8.40%) Scrum
15 309 (8.32%) Requirements Gathering
16 306 (8.24%) Workshop Facilitation
17 287 (7.73%) User Acceptance Testing
18 267 (7.19%) Waterfall
19 263 (7.08%) Business Intelligence
20 261 (7.03%) AI
Programming Languages
1 296 (7.97%) SQL
2 259 (6.97%) Python
3 84 (2.26%) PowerShell
4 79 (2.13%) Java
5 52 (1.40%) JavaScript
6 48 (1.29%) C#
7 34 (0.92%) Bash
8 23 (0.62%) VBA
9 22 (0.59%) TypeScript
10 16 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 15 (0.40%) R
12 13 (0.35%) Korn
13 12 (0.32%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.27%) Bicep
15 7 (0.19%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.19%) VB
16 6 (0.16%) ABAP
16 6 (0.16%) C++
17 4 (0.11%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 652 (17.56%) Security Cleared
2 500 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 380 (10.23%) Degree
4 196 (5.28%) PMI Certification
5 182 (4.90%) PMP
6 91 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 73 (1.97%) Master's Degree
8 71 (1.91%) DV Cleared
9 64 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 53 (1.43%) CISSP
11 38 (1.02%) CISM
12 36 (0.97%) CBAP
13 32 (0.86%) Azure Certification
14 27 (0.73%) AWS Certification
14 27 (0.73%) ISTQB
15 23 (0.62%) IIBA
16 22 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
16 22 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
17 20 (0.54%) APMP
17 20 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (6.49%) QA
2 229 (6.17%) GDPR
3 142 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 141 (3.80%) Data Quality
5 131 (3.53%) PMO
6 125 (3.37%) NIST
7 68 (1.83%) PCI DSS
8 61 (1.64%) GRC
9 46 (1.24%) SLA
10 42 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 39 (1.05%) Accessibility
11 39 (1.05%) NCSC
12 26 (0.70%) IFRS
13 23 (0.62%) PSD2
14 20 (0.54%) COBIT
15 16 (0.43%) IFRS 17
15 16 (0.43%) WCAG
16 15 (0.40%) ISO 20022
17 13 (0.35%) Basel III
17 13 (0.35%) HIPAA
System Software
1 89 (2.40%) Docker
2 63 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 34 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.16%) vSphere
7 5 (0.13%) NFS
7 5 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.054%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.027%) Firmware
10 1 (0.027%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.027%) IAG
10 1 (0.027%) NDS
10 1 (0.027%) NetIQ eDirectory
10 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.027%) SRDF
10 1 (0.027%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.027%) XenApp
10 1 (0.027%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 128 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 86 (2.32%) Terraform
3 48 (1.29%) Ansible
4 36 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.57%) Grafana
6 19 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.48%) SCCM
8 12 (0.32%) FortiGate
8 12 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.19%) HP ALM
10 6 (0.16%) Kibana
10 6 (0.16%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.13%) Puppet
11 5 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.11%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.11%) vMotion
13 3 (0.081%) Control-M
14 2 (0.054%) Nagios
Vendors
1 447 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 309 (8.32%) SAP
3 208 (5.60%) Oracle
4 161 (4.33%) ServiceNow
5 143 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 88 (2.37%) Workday
7 86 (2.32%) Google
8 58 (1.56%) Databricks
9 49 (1.32%) VMware
10 45 (1.21%) Splunk
11 41 (1.10%) Cisco
12 38 (1.02%) IBM
13 33 (0.89%) CyberArk
13 33 (0.89%) Fortinet
14 31 (0.83%) Ariba
15 26 (0.70%) Adobe
15 26 (0.70%) MuleSoft
16 24 (0.65%) Citrix
17 23 (0.62%) Informatica
18 22 (0.59%) Red Hat