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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,100 2,208 3,030
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.08% 9.02% 8.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.82% 9.95% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,844 1,504 2,130
10th Percentile £363 £363 £370
25th Percentile £444 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £743 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 63 81
10th Percentile £16.25 £35.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £27.63 £41.25 £26.00
Median hourly rate £54.46 £60.00 £46.39
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +29.34% -17.85%
75th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £94.00 £80.47 £83.41
UK median hourly rate £42.89 £60.00 £46.29
% change year-on-year -28.52% +29.63% -17.99%

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 31,979 22,196 32,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.71% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,491 14,461 21,766
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £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 1,970 819 2,143
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.08 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £31.45 £33.40 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% +2.77% -10.41%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.20% -8.24%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +9 2,082 £550 -4.35% 636
North of England +1 592 £475 -7.32% 235
Midlands +3 535 £485 -3.00% 159
South East +5 499 £550 +4.76% 368
West Midlands +2 361 £492 -6.29% 101
North West -4 291 £452 -12.07% 124
Yorkshire +11 270 £496 -0.80% 95
South West +26 211 £540 -1.37% 103
East Midlands +4 172 £450 +0.33% 58
East of England -6 104 £550 - 99
North East 0 46 £450 -21.05% 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
1 310 (7.56%) Confluence
2 132 (3.22%) SharePoint
3 50 (1.22%) SAS
4 39 (0.95%) CMS
5 38 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.44%) Appian
7 11 (0.27%) Apache
8 10 (0.24%) TPMS
9 9 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.20%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
11 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
12 6 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
12 6 (0.15%) Camunda
13 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.098%) Apache Spark
14 4 (0.098%) WebSphere
15 3 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2013
15 3 (0.073%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.073%) nginx
15 3 (0.073%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 214 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 149 (3.63%) Microsoft Project
3 108 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
4 102 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 76 (1.85%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.34%) Trello
7 13 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.15%) Sketch
9 4 (0.098%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.049%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.049%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.049%) InVision
11 1 (0.024%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.024%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.024%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.024%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.024%) UXPin
11 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 134 (3.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
3 39 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 25 (0.61%) Aladdin
5 19 (0.46%) Workday HCM
6 16 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 14 (0.34%) Endur
7 14 (0.34%) SAP CO
8 13 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
8 13 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
8 13 (0.32%) SAP FI
8 13 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
9 12 (0.29%) Loan IQ
9 12 (0.29%) NetSuite
10 11 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
10 11 (0.27%) Primavera
10 11 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
11 9 (0.22%) SAP ERP
12 8 (0.20%) NEC Housing
12 8 (0.20%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 605 (14.76%) Azure
2 418 (10.20%) AWS
3 254 (6.20%) Power Platform
4 170 (4.15%) GCP
5 134 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
6 128 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
7 107 (2.61%) SaaS
8 95 (2.32%) Entra ID
9 67 (1.63%) OpenShift
10 55 (1.34%) OCI
11 48 (1.17%) Snowflake
12 46 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
12 46 (1.12%) GitHub
13 41 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
14 40 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
15 39 (0.95%) Power Automate
16 36 (0.88%) Serverless
17 33 (0.80%) Google Workspace
18 31 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
19 28 (0.68%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 75 (1.83%) Firewall
2 57 (1.39%) WAN
3 54 (1.32%) Network Security
4 43 (1.05%) LAN
5 42 (1.02%) SD-WAN
6 32 (0.78%) DNS
7 30 (0.73%) VPN
8 26 (0.63%) BGP
9 24 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (0.54%) OSPF
11 19 (0.46%) MPLS
11 19 (0.46%) SSH
12 16 (0.39%) SSL
12 16 (0.39%) TCP/IP
13 15 (0.37%) Wireless
14 13 (0.32%) DHCP
15 12 (0.29%) Broadband
15 12 (0.29%) NGFW
16 11 (0.27%) Cisco ASA
16 11 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (5.32%) Power BI
2 85 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
3 76 (1.85%) Tableau
4 56 (1.37%) Metadata
5 35 (0.85%) Data Lake
6 34 (0.83%) SQL Server
7 30 (0.73%) NoSQL
7 30 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
8 27 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (0.61%) Oracle Database
10 24 (0.59%) Relational Database
11 22 (0.54%) Power Query
12 18 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 18 (0.44%) MySQL
13 16 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (0.34%) Big Data
14 14 (0.34%) DynamoDB
15 13 (0.32%) BigQuery
15 13 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
16 12 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 522 (12.73%) JIRA
2 88 (2.15%) Jenkins
3 84 (2.05%) Git
4 60 (1.46%) GitLab
5 42 (1.02%) Selenium
6 38 (0.93%) JUnit
7 16 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 14 (0.34%) Maven
9 12 (0.29%) Postman
10 11 (0.27%) JMeter
10 11 (0.27%) Mockito
11 10 (0.24%) MLflow
11 10 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
11 10 (0.24%) SpecFlow
12 9 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.22%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
13 7 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.15%) ERwin
General
1 2,143 (52.27%) Social Skills
2 1,418 (34.59%) Finance
3 647 (15.78%) Analytical Skills
4 455 (11.10%) Public Sector
5 398 (9.71%) Banking
6 200 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
7 171 (4.17%) Retail
8 159 (3.88%) Legal
9 142 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
10 137 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
11 128 (3.12%) Marketing
12 124 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
13 98 (2.39%) Manufacturing
14 94 (2.29%) Telecoms
15 78 (1.90%) Financial Institution
16 66 (1.61%) Front Office
17 63 (1.54%) Law
18 62 (1.51%) Local Government
19 54 (1.32%) Investment Banking
20 45 (1.10%) Billing
Job Titles
1 739 (18.02%) Analyst
2 628 (15.32%) Project Manager
3 543 (13.24%) Business Analyst
4 521 (12.71%) Lead
5 447 (10.90%) Architect
6 385 (9.39%) Senior
7 223 (5.44%) Consultant
8 171 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
9 166 (4.05%) Programme Manager
10 159 (3.88%) Senior Manager
11 132 (3.22%) Delivery Manager
12 114 (2.78%) IT Manager
13 86 (2.10%) Data Analyst
14 85 (2.07%) Change Manager
14 85 (2.07%) Senior Analyst
15 81 (1.98%) Senior Project Manager
16 78 (1.90%) Technical Manager
17 73 (1.78%) Developer
18 72 (1.76%) Product Manager
19 71 (1.73%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (2.93%) REST
2 84 (2.05%) Oracle Fusion
3 61 (1.49%) Middleware
4 55 (1.34%) SOAP
5 37 (0.90%) OAuth
6 35 (0.85%) .NET
6 35 (0.85%) JSON
6 35 (0.85%) OpenID
7 32 (0.78%) SAML
8 31 (0.76%) Kafka
8 31 (0.76%) XML
9 28 (0.68%) pytest
9 28 (0.68%) React
10 25 (0.61%) HTML
10 25 (0.61%) RESTful
11 24 (0.59%) AngularJS
12 23 (0.56%) Playwright
12 23 (0.56%) SailPoint
12 23 (0.56%) Web Services
13 22 (0.54%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 320 (7.80%) Product Ownership
2 222 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 127 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
4 110 (2.68%) Cloud Native
5 106 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
6 100 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 97 (2.37%) Data Centre
8 78 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 56 (1.37%) PMI
10 55 (1.34%) Data Structures
11 51 (1.24%) Public Cloud
12 49 (1.20%) NHS
13 43 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
14 40 (0.98%) Virtual Team
15 37 (0.90%) Operational Technology
16 36 (0.88%) CMDB
17 33 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
18 30 (0.73%) FMCG
19 29 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
19 29 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 128 (3.12%) Windows
2 68 (1.66%) Linux
3 32 (0.78%) Unix
4 25 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 24 (0.59%) Windows 10
6 23 (0.56%) Android
7 19 (0.46%) Windows Server
8 14 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (0.32%) VMS
10 9 (0.22%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.12%) Solaris
12 3 (0.073%) AIX
12 3 (0.073%) CentOS
13 1 (0.024%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,339 (32.66%) Agile
2 727 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
3 630 (15.37%) Project Management
4 619 (15.10%) Migration
5 617 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 550 (13.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 507 (12.37%) Change Management
8 489 (11.93%) Roadmaps
9 456 (11.12%) DevOps
10 452 (11.02%) Project Delivery
11 419 (10.22%) Decision-Making
12 368 (8.98%) Analytics
13 366 (8.93%) Risk Management
14 351 (8.56%) Scrum
15 338 (8.24%) User Acceptance Testing
16 335 (8.17%) Workshop Facilitation
17 322 (7.85%) Requirements Gathering
18 310 (7.56%) Validation
19 293 (7.15%) AI
20 292 (7.12%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 316 (7.71%) SQL
2 264 (6.44%) Python
3 87 (2.12%) PowerShell
4 84 (2.05%) Java
5 50 (1.22%) JavaScript
6 49 (1.20%) C#
7 29 (0.71%) Bash
8 23 (0.56%) TypeScript
9 20 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 20 (0.49%) VBA
10 17 (0.41%) Korn
11 16 (0.39%) Shell Script
12 15 (0.37%) R
13 10 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.22%) Bicep
14 9 (0.22%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.17%) ABAP
16 6 (0.15%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.15%) VB
17 5 (0.12%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 812 (19.80%) Security Cleared
2 627 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 386 (9.41%) Degree
4 227 (5.54%) PMI Certification
5 226 (5.51%) PMP
6 105 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 88 (2.15%) DV Cleared
8 70 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 67 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 63 (1.54%) CISSP
11 45 (1.10%) CISM
12 37 (0.90%) Azure Certification
13 33 (0.80%) CBAP
14 27 (0.66%) AWS Certification
15 25 (0.61%) IIBA
15 25 (0.61%) ISTQB
16 24 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
17 23 (0.56%) APMP
17 23 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
18 21 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 280 (6.83%) QA
2 235 (5.73%) GDPR
3 179 (4.37%) Data Quality
4 166 (4.05%) PMO
5 152 (3.71%) NIST
6 147 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 68 (1.66%) GRC
8 63 (1.54%) PCI DSS
9 56 (1.37%) SLA
10 45 (1.10%) Accessibility
10 45 (1.10%) NCSC
11 43 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 29 (0.71%) COBIT
12 29 (0.71%) IFRS
13 19 (0.46%) PSD2
13 19 (0.46%) SOC 2
14 18 (0.44%) IFRS 17
15 15 (0.37%) HL7
15 15 (0.37%) WCAG
16 13 (0.32%) MiFID
System Software
1 97 (2.37%) Docker
2 75 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 37 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.15%) NFS
6 6 (0.15%) vSphere
7 5 (0.12%) Postfix
8 3 (0.073%) HDFS
8 3 (0.073%) SRDF
8 3 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.049%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.049%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.024%) Firmware
10 1 (0.024%) NLBS
10 1 (0.024%) RACF
10 1 (0.024%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.024%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 140 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 82 (2.00%) Terraform
3 53 (1.29%) Ansible
4 49 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 33 (0.80%) Grafana
6 25 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.46%) Prometheus
8 18 (0.44%) SCCM
9 14 (0.34%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.17%) 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 5 (0.12%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.098%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.098%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.098%) vMotion
14 3 (0.073%) HAProxy
14 3 (0.073%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 467 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 337 (8.22%) SAP
3 249 (6.07%) Oracle
4 194 (4.73%) ServiceNow
5 155 (3.78%) Salesforce
6 88 (2.15%) Google
7 82 (2.00%) Workday
8 69 (1.68%) VMware
9 60 (1.46%) Databricks
10 50 (1.22%) Cisco
11 48 (1.17%) Splunk
12 44 (1.07%) IBM
13 37 (0.90%) CyberArk
14 32 (0.78%) Ariba
15 31 (0.76%) Citrix
16 30 (0.73%) Fortinet
17 26 (0.63%) MuleSoft
18 25 (0.61%) Adobe
18 25 (0.61%) F5
19 24 (0.59%) Informatica