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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 19 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,069 2,219 2,994
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.32% 8.82% 7.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.00% 9.76% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,826 1,458 2,097
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £447 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 55 76
10th Percentile £16.25 £35.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £26.13 £40.47 £27.73
Median hourly rate £59.50 £60.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +23.08% -12.36%
75th Percentile £80.55 £74.38 £62.98
90th Percentile £95.25 £80.00 £83.90
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -24.23% +20.00% -9.01%

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 31,295 22,746 32,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.03% 90.36% 87.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,032 14,434 21,722
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £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 1,939 776 2,084
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +3.63% -6.18%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.44
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.38 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £32.50 £32.85
% change year-on-year -14.03% -1.05% -6.16%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 2,067 £550 - 587
North of England +4 589 £475 -9.31% 262
Midlands +2 532 £490 -2.00% 195
South East +6 471 £550 +4.76% 361
West Midlands -2 353 £500 -4.76% 128
North West +5 286 £451 -13.78% 147
Yorkshire +9 270 £500 - 98
South West +22 220 £550 -1.35% 125
East Midlands +10 178 £455 -3.19% 64
East of England -6 102 £550 - 99
North East +1 47 £450 -21.74% 20
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
1 288 (7.08%) Confluence
2 126 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 50 (1.23%) SAS
4 37 (0.91%) CMS
5 36 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.42%) Appian
7 10 (0.25%) TPMS
8 9 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.20%) Apache
9 8 (0.20%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
10 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 6 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
11 6 (0.15%) Camunda
12 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.074%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.074%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.074%) nginx
13 3 (0.074%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.074%) WebSphere
Applications
1 209 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 139 (3.42%) Microsoft Project
3 111 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
4 100 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 73 (1.79%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.39%) Trello
7 13 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.15%) Sketch
10 4 (0.098%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.049%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.049%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.049%) InVision
12 1 (0.025%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.025%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.025%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.025%) Simulink
12 1 (0.025%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.025%) UXPin
12 1 (0.025%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 140 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
3 42 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (0.54%) Aladdin
5 19 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 18 (0.44%) Endur
7 15 (0.37%) SAP CO
8 14 (0.34%) Loan IQ
9 13 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
9 13 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
9 13 (0.32%) SAP FI
9 13 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
10 12 (0.29%) NetSuite
10 12 (0.29%) Primavera
11 11 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
12 10 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 10 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
12 10 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
12 10 (0.25%) SAP EWM
12 10 (0.25%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 592 (14.55%) Azure
2 413 (10.15%) AWS
3 250 (6.14%) Power Platform
4 173 (4.25%) GCP
5 132 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
6 120 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
7 113 (2.78%) SaaS
8 91 (2.24%) Entra ID
9 67 (1.65%) OpenShift
10 53 (1.30%) OCI
11 47 (1.16%) GitHub
12 46 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
13 45 (1.11%) Snowflake
14 44 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
15 39 (0.96%) Power Automate
16 38 (0.93%) Serverless
16 38 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
17 34 (0.84%) Google Workspace
18 31 (0.76%) Amazon S3
18 31 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 79 (1.94%) Firewall
2 49 (1.20%) WAN
3 46 (1.13%) Network Security
4 36 (0.88%) SD-WAN
5 35 (0.86%) LAN
6 29 (0.71%) DNS
7 27 (0.66%) VPN
8 24 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
9 20 (0.49%) SSH
10 18 (0.44%) BGP
10 18 (0.44%) MPLS
11 17 (0.42%) SSL
12 14 (0.34%) DHCP
12 14 (0.34%) OSPF
13 12 (0.29%) Broadband
14 11 (0.27%) TCP/IP
15 10 (0.25%) SNMP
15 10 (0.25%) Wireless
16 9 (0.22%) Intranet
16 9 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (5.31%) Power BI
2 84 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
3 69 (1.70%) Tableau
4 56 (1.38%) Metadata
5 37 (0.91%) Data Lake
6 33 (0.81%) SQL Server
7 30 (0.74%) NoSQL
8 28 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
10 24 (0.59%) Relational Database
11 23 (0.57%) Oracle Database
12 21 (0.52%) Power Query
13 17 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (0.42%) MySQL
14 16 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.37%) BigQuery
15 15 (0.37%) DynamoDB
16 13 (0.32%) Big Data
17 12 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
18 11 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 496 (12.19%) JIRA
2 86 (2.11%) Jenkins
3 83 (2.04%) Git
4 61 (1.50%) GitLab
5 40 (0.98%) JUnit
6 39 (0.96%) Selenium
7 17 (0.42%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.37%) Maven
9 12 (0.29%) Mockito
10 10 (0.25%) MLflow
10 10 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
10 10 (0.25%) SpecFlow
11 9 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.22%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.17%) JMeter
12 7 (0.17%) Postman
13 6 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.15%) Axure RP
13 6 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
14 5 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 2,142 (52.64%) Social Skills
2 1,381 (33.94%) Finance
3 647 (15.90%) Analytical Skills
4 433 (10.64%) Public Sector
5 386 (9.49%) Banking
6 204 (5.01%) Influencing Skills
7 165 (4.06%) Retail
8 163 (4.01%) Legal
9 137 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
10 132 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
11 130 (3.19%) Marketing
12 125 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
13 106 (2.61%) Manufacturing
14 104 (2.56%) Telecoms
15 73 (1.79%) Financial Institution
16 70 (1.72%) Front Office
17 61 (1.50%) Law
18 56 (1.38%) Local Government
19 51 (1.25%) Investment Banking
20 49 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 762 (18.73%) Analyst
2 603 (14.82%) Project Manager
3 555 (13.64%) Business Analyst
4 492 (12.09%) Lead
5 466 (11.45%) Architect
6 378 (9.29%) Senior
7 231 (5.68%) Consultant
8 176 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
9 162 (3.98%) Senior Manager
10 153 (3.76%) Programme Manager
11 120 (2.95%) Delivery Manager
12 115 (2.83%) IT Manager
13 85 (2.09%) Senior Analyst
13 85 (2.09%) Senior Project Manager
14 84 (2.06%) Data Analyst
15 81 (1.99%) Change Manager
16 74 (1.82%) Developer
16 74 (1.82%) Product Manager
17 73 (1.79%) Product Owner
18 71 (1.74%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (2.97%) REST
2 73 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
3 55 (1.35%) Middleware
4 53 (1.30%) SOAP
5 40 (0.98%) JSON
6 38 (0.93%) .NET
7 37 (0.91%) OAuth
8 36 (0.88%) OpenID
9 32 (0.79%) Kafka
9 32 (0.79%) SAML
9 32 (0.79%) XML
10 29 (0.71%) HTML
10 29 (0.71%) pytest
10 29 (0.71%) React
11 28 (0.69%) RESTful
12 25 (0.61%) AngularJS
12 25 (0.61%) SailPoint
13 24 (0.59%) Web Services
14 23 (0.57%) CSS
14 23 (0.57%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 318 (7.82%) Product Ownership
2 224 (5.51%) Onboarding
3 116 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
4 111 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
5 107 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 101 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 92 (2.26%) Data Centre
8 76 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 53 (1.30%) PMI
10 52 (1.28%) Data Structures
11 50 (1.23%) NHS
12 46 (1.13%) Public Cloud
13 43 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
14 39 (0.96%) Virtual Team
15 36 (0.88%) Operational Technology
16 35 (0.86%) CMDB
17 33 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
18 29 (0.71%) FMCG
18 29 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
19 28 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 133 (3.27%) Windows
2 66 (1.62%) Linux
3 32 (0.79%) Unix
4 24 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.57%) Android
5 23 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 20 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.32%) VMS
9 12 (0.29%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.12%) Solaris
11 4 (0.098%) CentOS
12 2 (0.049%) AIX
13 1 (0.025%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,320 (32.44%) Agile
2 721 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
3 611 (15.02%) Project Management
4 602 (14.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 600 (14.75%) Migration
6 548 (13.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 495 (12.17%) Change Management
8 481 (11.82%) Roadmaps
9 424 (10.42%) Project Delivery
10 416 (10.22%) DevOps
11 409 (10.05%) Decision-Making
12 372 (9.14%) Analytics
13 359 (8.82%) Risk Management
14 338 (8.31%) Scrum
15 327 (8.04%) Workshop Facilitation
16 325 (7.99%) Requirements Gathering
17 322 (7.91%) User Acceptance Testing
18 296 (7.27%) Validation
19 289 (7.10%) AI
20 279 (6.86%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 320 (7.86%) SQL
2 270 (6.64%) Python
3 89 (2.19%) PowerShell
4 86 (2.11%) Java
5 55 (1.35%) JavaScript
6 51 (1.25%) C#
7 33 (0.81%) Bash
8 24 (0.59%) TypeScript
9 22 (0.54%) VBA
10 18 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (0.39%) Korn
12 15 (0.37%) Shell Script
13 14 (0.34%) R
14 11 (0.27%) Bicep
15 10 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (0.22%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.20%) ABAP
17 8 (0.20%) VB
18 6 (0.15%) C++
19 5 (0.12%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 784 (19.27%) Security Cleared
2 611 (15.02%) SC Cleared
3 386 (9.49%) Degree
4 206 (5.06%) PMI Certification
5 199 (4.89%) PMP
6 103 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 77 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 75 (1.84%) Master's Degree
9 65 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 62 (1.52%) CISSP
11 46 (1.13%) CISM
12 35 (0.86%) Azure Certification
13 31 (0.76%) CBAP
14 28 (0.69%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.69%) ISTQB
15 25 (0.61%) IIBA
16 24 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
17 23 (0.57%) APMP
18 22 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
19 20 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (6.76%) QA
2 230 (5.65%) GDPR
3 177 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 159 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 158 (3.88%) PMO
6 150 (3.69%) NIST
7 76 (1.87%) GRC
8 69 (1.70%) PCI DSS
9 51 (1.25%) SLA
10 50 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 47 (1.16%) NCSC
12 40 (0.98%) Accessibility
13 31 (0.76%) COBIT
14 29 (0.71%) IFRS
15 19 (0.47%) PSD2
16 18 (0.44%) IFRS 17
17 16 (0.39%) WCAG
18 14 (0.34%) Basel III
18 14 (0.34%) SOC 2
19 13 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 99 (2.43%) Docker
2 71 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 35 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.15%) vSphere
6 5 (0.12%) NFS
6 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.098%) Postfix
8 3 (0.074%) HDFS
8 3 (0.074%) SRDF
8 3 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.025%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.025%) IAG
10 1 (0.025%) NDS
10 1 (0.025%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.025%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.025%) XenApp
10 1 (0.025%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 139 (3.42%) Kubernetes
2 81 (1.99%) Terraform
3 53 (1.30%) Ansible
4 51 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (0.84%) Grafana
6 24 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (0.49%) SCCM
8 19 (0.47%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.34%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.17%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.15%) HP ALM
11 6 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.15%) Kibana
11 6 (0.15%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.12%) Puppet
13 4 (0.098%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.098%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.098%) vMotion
14 3 (0.074%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.074%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 473 (11.62%) Microsoft
2 343 (8.43%) SAP
3 237 (5.82%) Oracle
4 197 (4.84%) ServiceNow
5 148 (3.64%) Salesforce
6 92 (2.26%) Google
7 86 (2.11%) Workday
8 65 (1.60%) VMware
9 61 (1.50%) Databricks
10 48 (1.18%) Cisco
11 47 (1.16%) Splunk
12 45 (1.11%) IBM
13 37 (0.91%) Citrix
13 37 (0.91%) CyberArk
14 31 (0.76%) Ariba
14 31 (0.76%) Fortinet
15 26 (0.64%) Adobe
15 26 (0.64%) MuleSoft
16 25 (0.61%) F5
17 23 (0.57%) Informatica