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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,529 2,394 2,725
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.80% 9.94% 7.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.69% 10.88% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,068 1,639 1,924
10th Percentile £375 £360 £361
25th Percentile £450 £438 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £534 £525 £536
% change year-on-year +1.64% -2.10% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 57 81
10th Percentile £23.88 £35.45 £15.13
25th Percentile £32.66 £45.00 £30.16
Median hourly rate £53.50 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% - +6.57%
75th Percentile £84.00 £75.00 £72.90
90th Percentile £104.00 £77.25 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +9.09%

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 35,679 21,999 31,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.05% 91.35% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,608 14,249 20,517
10th Percentile £325 £304 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,238 979 2,317
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.76 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -24.00% +1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.60 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.93 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +1.39%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 2,321 £554 -3.65% 1,358
North of England -1 688 £500 - 394
South East +2 532 £550 +4.76% 492
Midlands +4 524 £498 -0.50% 263
West Midlands +1 355 £500 -4.76% 176
North West -1 330 £483 -4.83% 234
Yorkshire +10 323 £500 +1.01% 123
South West +18 268 £550 +4.76% 150
East Midlands +7 162 £465 +5.08% 84
East of England -2 123 £543 -9.58% 119
North East -8 49 £475 -8.43% 41
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
1 285 (6.29%) Confluence
2 133 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 48 (1.06%) CMS
4 41 (0.91%) SAS
5 23 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.26%) Apache
6 12 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.26%) Appian
7 8 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
8 7 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.13%) WordPress
10 5 (0.11%) Kentico
10 5 (0.11%) TPMS
11 4 (0.088%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.066%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.066%) nginx
12 3 (0.066%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
12 3 (0.066%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 219 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 132 (2.91%) Microsoft Project
3 120 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 112 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
5 73 (1.61%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.20%) Revit
8 7 (0.15%) AutoCAD
9 5 (0.11%) Trello
10 4 (0.088%) Navisworks
11 3 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.066%) Sketch
12 2 (0.044%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.044%) Notion
13 1 (0.022%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.022%) Autodesk Smoke
13 1 (0.022%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.022%) PlantUML
13 1 (0.022%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 141 (3.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 58 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 23 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 23 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 21 (0.46%) Aladdin
6 18 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
7 17 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
8 15 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
8 15 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
9 14 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
10 13 (0.29%) SAP ERP
11 12 (0.26%) SAP CO
11 12 (0.26%) SAP FI
11 12 (0.26%) SAP HCM
12 11 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
13 10 (0.22%) Loan IQ
14 9 (0.20%) NEC Housing
14 9 (0.20%) Workday HCM
15 8 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 691 (15.26%) Azure
2 494 (10.91%) AWS
3 261 (5.76%) Power Platform
4 185 (4.08%) GCP
5 147 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
6 137 (3.02%) SaaS
7 115 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
8 95 (2.10%) Entra ID
9 67 (1.48%) Snowflake
10 61 (1.35%) GitHub
11 51 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
12 50 (1.10%) OCI
13 45 (0.99%) SuccessFactors
14 43 (0.95%) Amazon S3
14 43 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
14 43 (0.95%) OpenShift
15 41 (0.91%) Serverless
16 38 (0.84%) Google Workspace
17 34 (0.75%) Figma
17 34 (0.75%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 66 (1.46%) Network Security
2 64 (1.41%) Firewall
3 53 (1.17%) WAN
4 40 (0.88%) LAN
5 35 (0.77%) DNS
6 26 (0.57%) SD-WAN
6 26 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (0.51%) TCP/IP
7 23 (0.51%) VPN
8 21 (0.46%) BGP
9 17 (0.38%) MPLS
9 17 (0.38%) OSPF
10 15 (0.33%) DHCP
11 14 (0.31%) NGFW
12 12 (0.26%) BIG-IP
12 12 (0.26%) Intranet
12 12 (0.26%) Wireless
13 11 (0.24%) SAN
14 10 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
15 9 (0.20%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (4.70%) Power BI
2 92 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
3 84 (1.85%) Metadata
4 63 (1.39%) Tableau
5 55 (1.21%) SQL Server
6 45 (0.99%) Data Lake
7 37 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
9 28 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
10 25 (0.55%) NoSQL
10 25 (0.55%) Relational Database
11 21 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (0.46%) DynamoDB
12 19 (0.42%) Big Data
12 19 (0.42%) Oracle Database
13 17 (0.38%) Delta Lake
14 16 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
15 15 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
16 13 (0.29%) Power Query
17 12 (0.26%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 508 (11.22%) JIRA
2 78 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 63 (1.39%) Git
4 42 (0.93%) GitLab
5 28 (0.62%) Selenium
6 26 (0.57%) JUnit
7 19 (0.42%) Postman
8 16 (0.35%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.31%) Maven
10 13 (0.29%) JMeter
11 12 (0.26%) Mockito
12 11 (0.24%) MLflow
13 10 (0.22%) DbUnit
14 9 (0.20%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.20%) jMock
15 8 (0.18%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.18%) SpecFlow
15 8 (0.18%) Zephyr
16 7 (0.15%) WebDriver
General
1 2,247 (49.61%) Social Skills
2 1,617 (35.70%) Finance
3 682 (15.06%) Analytical Skills
4 515 (11.37%) Public Sector
5 440 (9.72%) Banking
6 229 (5.06%) Retail
7 210 (4.64%) Influencing Skills
8 196 (4.33%) Legal
9 168 (3.71%) Documentation Skills
10 159 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
11 140 (3.09%) Marketing
12 115 (2.54%) Manufacturing
13 109 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
14 105 (2.32%) Telecoms
15 78 (1.72%) Local Government
16 69 (1.52%) Financial Institution
17 63 (1.39%) Law
18 58 (1.28%) Aerospace
19 57 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 56 (1.24%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 707 (15.61%) Analyst
2 681 (15.04%) Project Manager
3 640 (14.13%) Lead
4 519 (11.46%) Architect
5 504 (11.13%) Business Analyst
6 475 (10.49%) Senior
7 212 (4.68%) Senior Manager
8 201 (4.44%) Consultant
9 186 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
10 169 (3.73%) Programme Manager
11 160 (3.53%) Delivery Manager
12 141 (3.11%) IT Manager
13 108 (2.38%) Senior Project Manager
14 95 (2.10%) Product Manager
15 90 (1.99%) Product Owner
15 90 (1.99%) Technical Manager
16 86 (1.90%) Change Manager
16 86 (1.90%) Senior Analyst
17 81 (1.79%) IT Project Manager
18 71 (1.57%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (2.50%) REST
2 82 (1.81%) Middleware
3 79 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
4 58 (1.28%) SOAP
5 46 (1.02%) .NET
6 39 (0.86%) OAuth
7 32 (0.71%) JSON
7 32 (0.71%) OpenID
7 32 (0.71%) RESTful
8 30 (0.66%) Kafka
8 30 (0.66%) Web Services
9 28 (0.62%) Spring
9 28 (0.62%) XML
10 27 (0.60%) AngularJS
11 26 (0.57%) SAML
12 25 (0.55%) CSS
12 25 (0.55%) React
13 24 (0.53%) SailPoint
14 23 (0.51%) ADO
15 22 (0.49%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 352 (7.77%) Product Ownership
2 211 (4.66%) Onboarding
3 160 (3.53%) Cloud Native
4 148 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
5 122 (2.69%) Management Information System
6 116 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
7 96 (2.12%) Data Centre
8 79 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 75 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
10 72 (1.59%) Virtual Team
11 52 (1.15%) Operational Technology
12 50 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
12 50 (1.10%) NHS
13 49 (1.08%) Public Cloud
14 46 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
15 42 (0.93%) PMI
16 40 (0.88%) Security Posture
16 40 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
17 37 (0.82%) AI Agents
18 36 (0.79%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 143 (3.16%) Windows
2 77 (1.70%) Linux
3 30 (0.66%) Android
4 29 (0.64%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (0.44%) Unix
7 20 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.18%) VMS
10 4 (0.088%) AIX
10 4 (0.088%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.088%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.088%) zOS
11 3 (0.066%) Solaris
12 2 (0.044%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.044%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.044%) HPUX
13 1 (0.022%) CentOS
13 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,469 (32.44%) Agile
2 704 (15.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 681 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
4 663 (14.64%) Migration
5 653 (14.42%) Project Management
6 589 (13.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 588 (12.98%) Roadmaps
8 532 (11.75%) DevOps
9 529 (11.68%) Change Management
10 514 (11.35%) Decision-Making
11 490 (10.82%) Project Delivery
12 436 (9.63%) Risk Management
13 426 (9.41%) Analytics
14 391 (8.63%) AI
15 388 (8.57%) User Acceptance Testing
16 365 (8.06%) Validation
17 354 (7.82%) CI/CD
18 353 (7.79%) Scrum
19 336 (7.42%) Cybersecurity
20 333 (7.35%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 363 (8.02%) SQL
2 244 (5.39%) Python
3 93 (2.05%) Java
4 72 (1.59%) PowerShell
5 46 (1.02%) JavaScript
6 45 (0.99%) C#
7 33 (0.73%) Bash
8 21 (0.46%) VBA
9 20 (0.44%) TypeScript
10 16 (0.35%) Korn
11 15 (0.33%) Bicep
12 13 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.26%) R
14 11 (0.24%) ABAP
15 10 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 10 (0.22%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.18%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.15%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.13%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 926 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 719 (15.88%) SC Cleared
3 338 (7.46%) Degree
4 241 (5.32%) PMP
5 210 (4.64%) PMI Certification
6 127 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 109 (2.41%) DV Cleared
8 98 (2.16%) CISSP
9 71 (1.57%) CISM
10 59 (1.30%) Azure Certification
11 54 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
12 44 (0.97%) Master's Degree
13 41 (0.91%) AWS Certification
14 34 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (0.62%) IIBA
15 28 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
16 27 (0.60%) ACCA
17 25 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 25 (0.55%) CBAP
18 24 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 263 (5.81%) QA
2 236 (5.21%) Data Quality
3 228 (5.03%) PMO
4 201 (4.44%) GDPR
5 161 (3.55%) NIST
6 139 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 82 (1.81%) GRC
8 79 (1.74%) SLA
9 67 (1.48%) Accessibility
10 51 (1.13%) NCSC
10 51 (1.13%) PCI DSS
11 37 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 32 (0.71%) COBIT
12 32 (0.71%) IFRS
13 28 (0.62%) SOC 2
14 18 (0.40%) JSP 440
15 17 (0.38%) IFRS 17
16 16 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
16 16 (0.35%) PSD2
16 16 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 96 (2.12%) Docker
2 75 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 34 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.26%) Postfix
6 10 (0.22%) NFS
6 10 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.11%) vSphere
10 4 (0.088%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.088%) SRDF
10 4 (0.088%) Varnish
11 3 (0.066%) HDFS
11 3 (0.066%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.044%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.044%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.044%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.022%) NLBS
13 1 (0.022%) RACF
Systems Management
1 141 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 97 (2.14%) Terraform
3 62 (1.37%) Ansible
4 47 (1.04%) Grafana
5 45 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 33 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 33 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.46%) SCCM
8 8 (0.18%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (0.15%) HP ALM
10 6 (0.13%) Argo
10 6 (0.13%) RSA Archer
11 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
11 5 (0.11%) Puppet
11 5 (0.11%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.088%) Control-M
12 4 (0.088%) EMC VPLEX
12 4 (0.088%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 4 (0.088%) vMotion
Vendors
1 539 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 359 (7.93%) SAP
3 252 (5.56%) Oracle
4 220 (4.86%) ServiceNow
5 176 (3.89%) Salesforce
6 97 (2.14%) Google
7 84 (1.85%) Databricks
8 70 (1.55%) VMware
9 60 (1.32%) Workday
10 47 (1.04%) Splunk
11 43 (0.95%) Cisco
12 40 (0.88%) CyberArk
13 31 (0.68%) MuleSoft
14 30 (0.66%) Ariba
15 29 (0.64%) Citrix
15 29 (0.64%) Informatica
16 27 (0.60%) IBM
17 26 (0.57%) Adobe
18 25 (0.55%) Atlassian
18 25 (0.55%) F5