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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,456 2,383 2,765
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.65% 9.96% 7.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.55% 10.91% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,025 1,633 1,966
10th Percentile £371 £358 £360
25th Percentile £450 £438 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 58 81
10th Percentile £22.38 £35.59 £15.13
25th Percentile £32.66 £45.13 £30.16
Median hourly rate £52.25 £60.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.99% +1.25% +9.43%
75th Percentile £84.00 £74.69 £72.90
90th Percentile £104.00 £77.00 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £52.25 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.92% - +9.43%

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 35,508 21,848 31,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 91.31% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,529 14,223 20,659
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 949 2,294
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year +66.78% -23.51% -1.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £27.59 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.34% -24.42% +1.04%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +7 2,273 £552 -4.00% 514
North of England -1 682 £495 -1.10% 194
Midlands +3 533 £492 -1.60% 149
South East 0 517 £550 +4.76% 358
West Midlands 0 360 £500 -4.76% 98
Yorkshire +11 328 £500 +2.04% 58
North West -2 323 £475 -5.94% 114
South West +18 254 £550 +4.76% 96
East Midlands +10 166 £463 +3.47% 50
East of England -1 124 £530 -11.67% 68
North East -6 51 £450 -13.25% 25
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
1 287 (6.44%) Confluence
2 134 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 43 (0.96%) CMS
4 38 (0.85%) SAS
5 22 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.31%) Appian
7 12 (0.27%) Apache
8 11 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 7 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.13%) WordPress
12 5 (0.11%) TPMS
13 4 (0.090%) Apache Spark
13 4 (0.090%) Kentico
14 3 (0.067%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.067%) nginx
14 3 (0.067%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
14 3 (0.067%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 215 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 138 (3.10%) Microsoft Project
3 116 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 114 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
5 76 (1.71%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.18%) Revit
9 7 (0.16%) Trello
10 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.090%) Navisworks
11 4 (0.090%) Sketch
12 3 (0.067%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.045%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.045%) Notion
14 1 (0.022%) Autodesk Smoke
14 1 (0.022%) Camtasia
14 1 (0.022%) PlantUML
14 1 (0.022%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 137 (3.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 56 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 23 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 22 (0.49%) NetSuite
5 21 (0.47%) Aladdin
6 16 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 14 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
7 14 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
7 14 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.31%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.27%) SAP CO
8 12 (0.27%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
9 11 (0.25%) SAP HCM
10 10 (0.22%) Loan IQ
11 9 (0.20%) NEC Housing
12 7 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
12 7 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 672 (15.08%) Azure
2 483 (10.84%) AWS
3 251 (5.63%) Power Platform
4 182 (4.08%) GCP
5 144 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 130 (2.92%) SaaS
7 111 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
8 92 (2.06%) Entra ID
9 63 (1.41%) Snowflake
10 57 (1.28%) GitHub
11 52 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
12 46 (1.03%) OCI
13 44 (0.99%) OpenShift
14 42 (0.94%) Amazon S3
14 42 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
15 41 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
16 40 (0.90%) Serverless
17 37 (0.83%) Google Workspace
18 36 (0.81%) Figma
19 33 (0.74%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 64 (1.44%) Firewall
2 63 (1.41%) Network Security
3 52 (1.17%) WAN
4 39 (0.88%) LAN
5 35 (0.79%) DNS
6 27 (0.61%) SD-WAN
6 27 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 23 (0.52%) VPN
8 20 (0.45%) BGP
9 17 (0.38%) OSPF
10 16 (0.36%) MPLS
11 14 (0.31%) DHCP
11 14 (0.31%) NGFW
12 12 (0.27%) BIG-IP
12 12 (0.27%) Intranet
12 12 (0.27%) SAN
12 12 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
12 12 (0.27%) Wireless
13 10 (0.22%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (4.60%) Power BI
2 88 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
3 84 (1.89%) Metadata
4 63 (1.41%) Tableau
5 54 (1.21%) SQL Server
6 45 (1.01%) Data Lake
7 34 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
10 25 (0.56%) NoSQL
11 24 (0.54%) Relational Database
12 21 (0.47%) DynamoDB
13 20 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (0.43%) Big Data
15 17 (0.38%) Delta Lake
15 17 (0.38%) Oracle Database
16 16 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
17 15 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
18 13 (0.29%) Power Query
19 12 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 515 (11.56%) JIRA
2 78 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 64 (1.44%) Git
4 42 (0.94%) GitLab
5 26 (0.58%) Selenium
6 25 (0.56%) JUnit
7 18 (0.40%) Postman
8 16 (0.36%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.31%) Maven
10 12 (0.27%) JMeter
10 12 (0.27%) Mockito
11 11 (0.25%) MLflow
12 10 (0.22%) DbUnit
13 9 (0.20%) jMock
14 8 (0.18%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.18%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.18%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.18%) Zephyr
15 7 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,205 (49.48%) Social Skills
2 1,587 (35.61%) Finance
3 660 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 498 (11.18%) Public Sector
5 434 (9.74%) Banking
6 222 (4.98%) Retail
7 210 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
8 191 (4.29%) Legal
9 163 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
10 154 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
11 141 (3.16%) Marketing
12 118 (2.65%) Manufacturing
13 105 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
14 99 (2.22%) Telecoms
15 78 (1.75%) Local Government
16 72 (1.62%) Financial Institution
17 57 (1.28%) Law
18 56 (1.26%) Aerospace
19 53 (1.19%) Front Office
20 52 (1.17%) Billing
Job Titles
1 704 (15.80%) Analyst
2 677 (15.19%) Project Manager
3 630 (14.14%) Lead
4 512 (11.49%) Architect
5 507 (11.38%) Business Analyst
6 470 (10.55%) Senior
7 209 (4.69%) Senior Manager
8 198 (4.44%) Consultant
9 184 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
10 166 (3.73%) Programme Manager
11 150 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
12 138 (3.10%) IT Manager
13 108 (2.42%) Senior Project Manager
14 94 (2.11%) Product Manager
15 93 (2.09%) Product Owner
16 89 (2.00%) Technical Manager
17 88 (1.97%) Change Manager
18 84 (1.89%) Senior Analyst
19 81 (1.82%) IT Project Manager
20 73 (1.64%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (2.56%) REST
2 79 (1.77%) Middleware
3 78 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
4 58 (1.30%) SOAP
5 44 (0.99%) .NET
6 38 (0.85%) OAuth
7 33 (0.74%) JSON
8 31 (0.70%) OpenID
8 31 (0.70%) RESTful
9 30 (0.67%) Kafka
9 30 (0.67%) Web Services
10 29 (0.65%) XML
11 27 (0.61%) AngularJS
11 27 (0.61%) Spring
12 26 (0.58%) SAML
13 24 (0.54%) CSS
13 24 (0.54%) React
14 22 (0.49%) ADO
14 22 (0.49%) PySpark
15 21 (0.47%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 354 (7.94%) Product Ownership
2 208 (4.67%) Onboarding
3 150 (3.37%) Cloud Native
4 141 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
5 120 (2.69%) Management Information System
6 113 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
7 99 (2.22%) Data Centre
8 80 (1.80%) Data Structures
9 71 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
10 69 (1.55%) Virtual Team
11 51 (1.14%) Operational Technology
12 49 (1.10%) NHS
13 47 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
13 47 (1.05%) Public Cloud
14 43 (0.96%) PMI
15 42 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
16 38 (0.85%) Security Posture
17 37 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
18 34 (0.76%) AI Agents
19 33 (0.74%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 134 (3.01%) Windows
2 74 (1.66%) Linux
3 29 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 28 (0.63%) Android
5 21 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 20 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (0.45%) Windows 10
7 18 (0.40%) Unix
8 9 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.16%) VMS
10 4 (0.090%) AIX
10 4 (0.090%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.090%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.090%) zOS
11 3 (0.067%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (0.067%) Solaris
12 2 (0.045%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.045%) HPUX
13 1 (0.022%) MVS
13 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,447 (32.47%) Agile
2 699 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 672 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
4 662 (14.86%) Project Management
5 648 (14.54%) Migration
6 582 (13.06%) Roadmaps
7 571 (12.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 522 (11.71%) Change Management
9 515 (11.56%) DevOps
10 508 (11.40%) Decision-Making
11 485 (10.88%) Project Delivery
12 428 (9.61%) Risk Management
13 421 (9.45%) Analytics
14 382 (8.57%) AI
15 368 (8.26%) User Acceptance Testing
16 354 (7.94%) Scrum
17 353 (7.92%) Validation
18 340 (7.63%) CI/CD
19 326 (7.32%) Cybersecurity
20 325 (7.29%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 355 (7.97%) SQL
2 239 (5.36%) Python
3 92 (2.06%) Java
4 70 (1.57%) PowerShell
5 44 (0.99%) JavaScript
6 43 (0.96%) C#
7 32 (0.72%) Bash
8 21 (0.47%) VBA
9 20 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 16 (0.36%) Korn
11 13 (0.29%) PL/SQL
12 12 (0.27%) Bicep
12 12 (0.27%) R
13 11 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (0.20%) ABAP
14 9 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.20%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.18%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.18%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.13%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 910 (20.42%) Security Cleared
2 708 (15.89%) SC Cleared
3 341 (7.65%) Degree
4 238 (5.34%) PMP
5 209 (4.69%) PMI Certification
6 123 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 107 (2.40%) DV Cleared
8 93 (2.09%) CISSP
9 68 (1.53%) CISM
10 54 (1.21%) Azure Certification
11 49 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 45 (1.01%) Master's Degree
13 39 (0.88%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (0.63%) IIBA
16 26 (0.58%) ACCA
16 26 (0.58%) CBAP
16 26 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
17 24 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 23 (0.52%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (5.92%) QA
2 233 (5.23%) Data Quality
3 219 (4.91%) PMO
4 203 (4.56%) GDPR
5 160 (3.59%) NIST
6 134 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 77 (1.73%) GRC
8 73 (1.64%) SLA
9 66 (1.48%) Accessibility
10 50 (1.12%) NCSC
10 50 (1.12%) PCI DSS
11 36 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 33 (0.74%) IFRS
13 28 (0.63%) COBIT
13 28 (0.63%) SOC 2
14 18 (0.40%) JSP 440
15 17 (0.38%) IFRS 17
15 17 (0.38%) WCAG
16 16 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
17 15 (0.34%) PSD2
System Software
1 93 (2.09%) Docker
2 69 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 34 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.27%) Postfix
6 11 (0.25%) NFS
7 9 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.11%) SRDF
10 5 (0.11%) vSphere
11 4 (0.090%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.090%) Varnish
12 3 (0.067%) HDFS
12 3 (0.067%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.045%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.045%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.045%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.022%) NLBS
14 1 (0.022%) RACF
Systems Management
1 136 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 93 (2.09%) Terraform
3 61 (1.37%) Ansible
4 44 (0.99%) Grafana
4 44 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 28 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.47%) SCCM
8 8 (0.18%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (0.16%) HP ALM
10 6 (0.13%) Puppet
10 6 (0.13%) RSA Archer
11 5 (0.11%) Argo
11 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.090%) Control-M
12 4 (0.090%) EMC VPLEX
12 4 (0.090%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.090%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.067%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 515 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 356 (7.99%) SAP
3 242 (5.43%) Oracle
4 203 (4.56%) ServiceNow
5 173 (3.88%) Salesforce
6 95 (2.13%) Google
7 81 (1.82%) Databricks
8 72 (1.62%) VMware
9 60 (1.35%) Workday
10 49 (1.10%) Splunk
11 42 (0.94%) Cisco
12 37 (0.83%) CyberArk
13 31 (0.70%) MuleSoft
14 29 (0.65%) Ariba
14 29 (0.65%) Citrix
14 29 (0.65%) Informatica
15 26 (0.58%) IBM
16 25 (0.56%) Adobe
16 25 (0.56%) Atlassian
17 24 (0.54%) F5