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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,291 2,385 2,755
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.53% 9.86% 7.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.44% 10.80% 8.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,918 1,652 1,962
10th Percentile £366 £356 £363
25th Percentile £450 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -2.32% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 64 77
10th Percentile £17.13 £35.00 £14.68
25th Percentile £31.25 £42.26 £30.16
Median hourly rate £50.00 £58.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% -2.08% +13.27%
75th Percentile £81.00 £74.06 £74.54
90th Percentile £97.50 £78.00 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £56.38 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.86% -6.04% +11.32%

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 34,498 22,079 31,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.70% 91.24% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,001 14,439 20,650
10th Percentile £320 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 933 2,247
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.44 £12.90
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +47.83% -21.23% +0.29%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +4 2,174 £550 -4.35% 833
North of England -1 647 £482 -4.44% 281
South East +3 520 £550 +8.64% 374
Midlands +1 516 £492 -1.60% 185
West Midlands +1 348 £492 -6.29% 125
North West -3 311 £475 -6.86% 149
Yorkshire +11 308 £500 - 102
South West +17 241 £550 +4.27% 107
East Midlands +5 162 £465 +4.03% 58
East of England -4 120 £525 -4.55% 98
North East -9 47 £450 -16.67% 31
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
1 294 (6.85%) Confluence
2 127 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 36 (0.84%) CMS
3 36 (0.84%) SAS
4 24 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.33%) Appian
6 13 (0.30%) Apache
7 8 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
8 7 (0.16%) TPMS
9 6 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.14%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 6 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.093%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.070%) Camunda
11 3 (0.070%) Exchange Server 2013
11 3 (0.070%) nginx
11 3 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.070%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.047%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 212 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 140 (3.26%) Microsoft Project
3 114 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
4 109 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 77 (1.79%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.19%) Trello
9 7 (0.16%) Revit
10 6 (0.14%) Sketch
11 5 (0.12%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.093%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.093%) Navisworks
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.047%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.047%) Notion
14 1 (0.023%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.023%) Oracle Smart View
14 1 (0.023%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.023%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 129 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 53 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 31 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
4 22 (0.51%) Aladdin
5 21 (0.49%) NetSuite
5 21 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 15 (0.35%) SAP ERP
7 14 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
7 14 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 14 (0.33%) SAP FI
8 13 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
8 13 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
9 12 (0.28%) Loan IQ
10 11 (0.26%) SAP HCM
11 10 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
11 10 (0.23%) Workday HCM
12 9 (0.21%) NEC Housing
12 9 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 630 (14.68%) Azure
2 468 (10.91%) AWS
3 244 (5.69%) Power Platform
4 180 (4.19%) GCP
5 135 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
6 124 (2.89%) SaaS
7 110 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
8 83 (1.93%) Entra ID
9 59 (1.37%) Snowflake
10 58 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
11 51 (1.19%) OCI
12 49 (1.14%) GitHub
13 46 (1.07%) OpenShift
14 44 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
15 40 (0.93%) Figma
15 40 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
16 39 (0.91%) Amazon S3
17 37 (0.86%) Power Automate
17 37 (0.86%) Serverless
18 32 (0.75%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.47%) Network Security
2 59 (1.37%) Firewall
3 48 (1.12%) WAN
4 36 (0.84%) LAN
5 31 (0.72%) DNS
6 28 (0.65%) SD-WAN
7 25 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (0.54%) VPN
9 20 (0.47%) TCP/IP
10 19 (0.44%) BGP
11 16 (0.37%) OSPF
12 13 (0.30%) MPLS
12 13 (0.30%) NGFW
13 12 (0.28%) SSL
13 12 (0.28%) Wireless
14 11 (0.26%) Intranet
14 11 (0.26%) SAN
14 11 (0.26%) SSH
14 11 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
15 10 (0.23%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (4.66%) Power BI
2 89 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
3 77 (1.79%) Metadata
4 58 (1.35%) Tableau
5 45 (1.05%) SQL Server
6 42 (0.98%) Data Lake
7 30 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
8 28 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
9 26 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
10 25 (0.58%) Relational Database
11 22 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (0.47%) DynamoDB
12 20 (0.47%) NoSQL
13 19 (0.44%) Big Data
14 17 (0.40%) Delta Lake
15 16 (0.37%) Power Query
16 14 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
16 14 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
17 13 (0.30%) Oracle Database
18 12 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 509 (11.86%) JIRA
2 76 (1.77%) Jenkins
3 66 (1.54%) Git
4 39 (0.91%) GitLab
5 25 (0.58%) Selenium
6 23 (0.54%) JUnit
7 18 (0.42%) Postman
8 17 (0.40%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.30%) Maven
10 12 (0.28%) MLflow
11 11 (0.26%) JMeter
12 10 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.23%) Mockito
12 10 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.23%) SpecFlow
13 9 (0.21%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.19%) DbUnit
14 8 (0.19%) jMock
15 7 (0.16%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,127 (49.57%) Social Skills
2 1,537 (35.82%) Finance
3 627 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
4 478 (11.14%) Public Sector
5 409 (9.53%) Banking
6 207 (4.82%) Retail
7 206 (4.80%) Influencing Skills
8 167 (3.89%) Legal
9 150 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
10 138 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
11 135 (3.15%) Marketing
12 121 (2.82%) Manufacturing
13 110 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
14 100 (2.33%) Telecoms
15 74 (1.72%) Financial Institution
16 71 (1.65%) Local Government
17 57 (1.33%) Law
18 51 (1.19%) Front Office
19 49 (1.14%) Billing
20 45 (1.05%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 702 (16.36%) Analyst
2 659 (15.36%) Project Manager
3 593 (13.82%) Lead
4 515 (12.00%) Business Analyst
5 481 (11.21%) Architect
6 454 (10.58%) Senior
7 201 (4.68%) Senior Manager
8 194 (4.52%) Consultant
9 172 (4.01%) Programme Manager
10 170 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
11 141 (3.29%) Delivery Manager
12 133 (3.10%) IT Manager
13 102 (2.38%) Senior Project Manager
14 94 (2.19%) Product Manager
15 89 (2.07%) Technical Manager
16 85 (1.98%) Senior Analyst
17 84 (1.96%) Product Owner
18 81 (1.89%) Change Manager
19 76 (1.77%) IT Project Manager
20 73 (1.70%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (2.54%) REST
2 81 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
3 72 (1.68%) Middleware
4 58 (1.35%) SOAP
5 34 (0.79%) .NET
6 33 (0.77%) JSON
7 32 (0.75%) OAuth
8 29 (0.68%) XML
9 28 (0.65%) Kafka
9 28 (0.65%) RESTful
10 27 (0.63%) OpenID
10 27 (0.63%) Web Services
11 25 (0.58%) AngularJS
11 25 (0.58%) Spring
12 24 (0.56%) SAML
13 22 (0.51%) React
13 22 (0.51%) Swagger
14 21 (0.49%) ADO
15 20 (0.47%) CSS
16 19 (0.44%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 330 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 204 (4.75%) Onboarding
3 141 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
4 137 (3.19%) Cloud Native
5 117 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
6 116 (2.70%) Management Information System
7 90 (2.10%) Data Centre
8 76 (1.77%) Data Structures
9 69 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
10 63 (1.47%) Virtual Team
11 49 (1.14%) Operational Technology
12 46 (1.07%) PMI
13 45 (1.05%) Public Cloud
14 43 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
14 43 (1.00%) NHS
15 35 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
16 34 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
17 29 (0.68%) AI Agents
17 29 (0.68%) Security Posture
18 28 (0.65%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 122 (2.84%) Windows
2 64 (1.49%) Linux
3 29 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 28 (0.65%) Android
5 20 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.40%) Unix
7 15 (0.35%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.14%) VMS
11 4 (0.093%) AIX
11 4 (0.093%) Solaris
12 3 (0.070%) zOS
13 2 (0.047%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.047%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.023%) CentOS
14 1 (0.023%) HPUX
14 1 (0.023%) MVS
14 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,409 (32.84%) Agile
2 659 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
3 655 (15.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 647 (15.08%) Project Management
5 644 (15.01%) Migration
6 552 (12.86%) Roadmaps
7 532 (12.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 503 (11.72%) Change Management
9 487 (11.35%) Decision-Making
10 483 (11.26%) DevOps
11 461 (10.74%) Project Delivery
12 411 (9.58%) Risk Management
13 386 (9.00%) Analytics
14 365 (8.51%) User Acceptance Testing
15 360 (8.39%) AI
16 349 (8.13%) Scrum
17 340 (7.92%) Validation
18 324 (7.55%) CI/CD
19 323 (7.53%) Workshop Facilitation
20 320 (7.46%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 338 (7.88%) SQL
2 230 (5.36%) Python
3 80 (1.86%) Java
4 67 (1.56%) PowerShell
5 45 (1.05%) C#
6 43 (1.00%) JavaScript
7 28 (0.65%) Bash
8 23 (0.54%) TypeScript
9 20 (0.47%) VBA
10 14 (0.33%) Korn
11 13 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 13 (0.30%) R
12 12 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.21%) ABAP
13 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (0.21%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.19%) Bicep
15 7 (0.16%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 884 (20.60%) Security Cleared
2 679 (15.82%) SC Cleared
3 349 (8.13%) Degree
4 236 (5.50%) PMP
5 215 (5.01%) PMI Certification
6 115 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 107 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 77 (1.79%) CISSP
9 58 (1.35%) CISM
10 54 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 53 (1.24%) Master's Degree
12 45 (1.05%) Azure Certification
13 39 (0.91%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.68%) CBAP
15 28 (0.65%) IIBA
16 27 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
17 25 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
18 23 (0.54%) ISTQB
18 23 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
19 22 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (6.22%) QA
2 214 (4.99%) Data Quality
3 207 (4.82%) GDPR
4 198 (4.61%) PMO
5 163 (3.80%) NIST
6 133 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 77 (1.79%) GRC
8 67 (1.56%) SLA
9 62 (1.44%) Accessibility
10 51 (1.19%) PCI DSS
11 44 (1.03%) NCSC
12 35 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 30 (0.70%) IFRS
14 29 (0.68%) COBIT
15 26 (0.61%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.40%) IFRS 17
17 16 (0.37%) JSP 440
18 15 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.35%) PSD2
18 15 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 94 (2.19%) Docker
2 65 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.26%) Postfix
6 9 (0.21%) NFS
7 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.093%) SRDF
10 4 (0.093%) Varnish
11 3 (0.070%) HDFS
11 3 (0.070%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.070%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.070%) vSphere
12 2 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.023%) NLBS
13 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.023%) RACF
13 1 (0.023%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 134 (3.12%) Kubernetes
2 83 (1.93%) Terraform
3 56 (1.31%) Ansible
4 44 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 39 (0.91%) Grafana
6 27 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (0.51%) SCCM
9 8 (0.19%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.19%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (0.19%) Puppet
10 5 (0.12%) HAProxy
10 5 (0.12%) RSA Archer
11 4 (0.093%) Istio
11 4 (0.093%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.070%) Argo
12 3 (0.070%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.070%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.070%) vMotion
Vendors
1 481 (11.21%) Microsoft
2 353 (8.23%) SAP
3 243 (5.66%) Oracle
4 192 (4.47%) ServiceNow
5 172 (4.01%) Salesforce
6 88 (2.05%) Google
7 80 (1.86%) Databricks
8 71 (1.65%) VMware
9 63 (1.47%) Workday
10 48 (1.12%) Splunk
11 40 (0.93%) Cisco
12 39 (0.91%) CyberArk
13 31 (0.72%) Ariba
13 31 (0.72%) MuleSoft
14 30 (0.70%) Citrix
15 28 (0.65%) IBM
16 26 (0.61%) Atlassian
16 26 (0.61%) Informatica
17 24 (0.56%) Adobe
18 23 (0.54%) OpenAI