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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 19 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,030 2,265 3,008
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.34% 8.82% 7.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.01% 9.78% 9.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,795 1,471 2,102
10th Percentile £363 £363 £374
25th Percentile £449 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 57 80
10th Percentile £16.25 £35.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £27.63 £39.68 £27.73
Median hourly rate £59.50 £60.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +23.08% -6.96%
75th Percentile £80.55 £72.50 £62.48
90th Percentile £95.25 £80.00 £83.51
UK median hourly rate £48.98 £57.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -14.07% +14.00% -4.39%

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 30,972 23,170 33,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.17% 90.22% 87.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,848 14,569 21,913
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 £617 £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 1,919 779 2,056
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.59 £13.42
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.77
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +0.68% -0.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.93
90th Percentile £72.51 £75.30 £72.17
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% -2.99% -4.29%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 28 February 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 2,059 £550 - 415
North of England +4 582 £475 -9.52% 186
Midlands +1 526 £490 -2.20% 162
South East +7 459 £550 +4.76% 340
West Midlands -1 351 £500 -4.76% 115
North West +3 283 £451 -13.59% 112
Yorkshire +9 267 £500 - 65
South West +20 214 £550 -1.35% 83
East Midlands +12 175 £450 -4.26% 47
East of England -7 102 £550 - 55
North East +2 46 £444 -22.83% 12
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
1 292 (7.25%) Confluence
2 124 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 50 (1.24%) SAS
4 37 (0.92%) CMS
5 35 (0.87%) 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%) Camunda
12 5 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
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 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 138 (3.42%) Microsoft Project
3 112 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
4 100 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 74 (1.84%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.42%) Trello
7 13 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.15%) Sketch
10 4 (0.099%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.050%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.050%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.050%) 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
1 132 (3.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 41 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
4 22 (0.55%) Aladdin
5 19 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 18 (0.45%) Endur
7 15 (0.37%) SAP CO
8 13 (0.32%) Loan IQ
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 (0.30%) NetSuite
9 12 (0.30%) Primavera
10 11 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
11 10 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 10 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
11 10 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
11 10 (0.25%) SAP EWM
11 10 (0.25%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 585 (14.52%) Azure
2 408 (10.12%) AWS
3 250 (6.20%) Power Platform
4 172 (4.27%) GCP
5 131 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
6 116 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
7 111 (2.75%) SaaS
8 91 (2.26%) Entra ID
9 66 (1.64%) OpenShift
10 50 (1.24%) OCI
11 47 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
11 47 (1.17%) GitHub
12 44 (1.09%) Snowflake
13 42 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
14 39 (0.97%) Power Automate
15 37 (0.92%) Serverless
16 34 (0.84%) Google Workspace
17 32 (0.79%) SuccessFactors
18 31 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
19 30 (0.74%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 77 (1.91%) Firewall
2 48 (1.19%) WAN
3 41 (1.02%) Network Security
4 35 (0.87%) SD-WAN
5 34 (0.84%) LAN
6 28 (0.69%) DNS
7 26 (0.65%) VPN
8 22 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
9 20 (0.50%) SSH
10 18 (0.45%) MPLS
11 17 (0.42%) BGP
12 16 (0.40%) SSL
13 14 (0.35%) DHCP
14 13 (0.32%) OSPF
15 12 (0.30%) Broadband
16 10 (0.25%) SNMP
16 10 (0.25%) TCP/IP
16 10 (0.25%) Wireless
17 9 (0.22%) Intranet
17 9 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (5.36%) Power BI
2 82 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (1.66%) Tableau
4 59 (1.46%) Metadata
5 36 (0.89%) Data Lake
6 32 (0.79%) SQL Server
7 30 (0.74%) NoSQL
8 28 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
10 23 (0.57%) Relational Database
11 22 (0.55%) Oracle Database
12 21 (0.52%) Power Query
13 17 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (0.42%) MySQL
14 16 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.37%) BigQuery
15 15 (0.37%) DynamoDB
16 12 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
16 12 (0.30%) Big Data
16 12 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 495 (12.28%) JIRA
2 86 (2.13%) Jenkins
3 83 (2.06%) Git
4 61 (1.51%) GitLab
5 40 (0.99%) JUnit
6 38 (0.94%) Selenium
7 17 (0.42%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.37%) Maven
9 12 (0.30%) 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
14 5 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
14 5 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 2,125 (52.73%) Social Skills
2 1,367 (33.92%) Finance
3 648 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
4 418 (10.37%) Public Sector
5 384 (9.53%) Banking
6 199 (4.94%) Influencing Skills
7 165 (4.09%) Retail
8 162 (4.02%) Legal
9 138 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
10 132 (3.28%) Marketing
11 129 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
12 123 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
13 110 (2.73%) Manufacturing
14 104 (2.58%) Telecoms
15 71 (1.76%) Financial Institution
16 70 (1.74%) Front Office
17 60 (1.49%) Law
18 54 (1.34%) Local Government
19 51 (1.27%) Investment Banking
20 50 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 759 (18.83%) Analyst
2 596 (14.79%) Project Manager
3 551 (13.67%) Business Analyst
4 483 (11.99%) Lead
5 468 (11.61%) Architect
6 375 (9.31%) Senior
7 229 (5.68%) Consultant
8 175 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
9 162 (4.02%) Senior Manager
10 151 (3.75%) Programme Manager
11 120 (2.98%) Delivery Manager
12 115 (2.85%) IT Manager
13 86 (2.13%) Senior Project Manager
14 85 (2.11%) Senior Analyst
15 84 (2.08%) Data Analyst
16 79 (1.96%) Change Manager
17 76 (1.89%) Developer
18 74 (1.84%) Product Manager
19 72 (1.79%) Product Owner
20 69 (1.71%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (3.00%) REST
2 73 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
3 55 (1.36%) Middleware
4 53 (1.32%) SOAP
5 40 (0.99%) JSON
6 38 (0.94%) .NET
7 37 (0.92%) OAuth
8 36 (0.89%) OpenID
9 32 (0.79%) Kafka
9 32 (0.79%) SAML
9 32 (0.79%) XML
10 29 (0.72%) HTML
10 29 (0.72%) pytest
11 28 (0.69%) React
11 28 (0.69%) RESTful
12 26 (0.65%) SailPoint
13 25 (0.62%) AngularJS
14 24 (0.60%) Web Services
15 23 (0.57%) CSS
15 23 (0.57%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 313 (7.77%) Product Ownership
2 219 (5.43%) Onboarding
3 111 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
4 110 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
5 106 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 99 (2.46%) Management Information System
7 90 (2.23%) Data Centre
8 77 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 54 (1.34%) PMI
10 48 (1.19%) Data Structures
10 48 (1.19%) NHS
11 44 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
12 41 (1.02%) Public Cloud
13 38 (0.94%) Virtual Team
14 37 (0.92%) Operational Technology
15 35 (0.87%) CMDB
16 33 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
17 30 (0.74%) FMCG
18 28 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
18 28 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 133 (3.30%) Windows
2 66 (1.64%) Linux
3 32 (0.79%) Unix
4 24 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 22 (0.55%) Android
5 22 (0.55%) Windows 10
6 21 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.32%) VMS
9 12 (0.30%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.12%) Solaris
11 4 (0.099%) CentOS
12 2 (0.050%) 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 1,308 (32.46%) Agile
2 712 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
3 608 (15.09%) Project Management
4 591 (14.67%) Migration
5 587 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 538 (13.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 491 (12.18%) Change Management
8 474 (11.76%) Roadmaps
9 418 (10.37%) Project Delivery
10 410 (10.17%) DevOps
11 403 (10.00%) Decision-Making
12 366 (9.08%) Analytics
13 350 (8.68%) Risk Management
14 338 (8.39%) Scrum
15 322 (7.99%) Requirements Gathering
15 322 (7.99%) Workshop Facilitation
16 312 (7.74%) User Acceptance Testing
17 289 (7.17%) Validation
18 283 (7.02%) AI
19 276 (6.85%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 318 (7.89%) SQL
2 270 (6.70%) Python
3 90 (2.23%) PowerShell
4 84 (2.08%) Java
5 55 (1.36%) JavaScript
6 50 (1.24%) C#
7 33 (0.82%) Bash
8 24 (0.60%) TypeScript
8 24 (0.60%) VBA
9 18 (0.45%) Korn
10 17 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 15 (0.37%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.32%) R
13 10 (0.25%) Bicep
13 10 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.22%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.20%) ABAP
15 8 (0.20%) VB
16 6 (0.15%) C++
17 4 (0.099%) PHP
Qualifications
1 768 (19.06%) Security Cleared
2 601 (14.91%) SC Cleared
3 382 (9.48%) Degree
4 205 (5.09%) PMI Certification
5 198 (4.91%) PMP
6 102 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 75 (1.86%) DV Cleared
8 74 (1.84%) Master's Degree
9 63 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 60 (1.49%) CISSP
11 44 (1.09%) CISM
12 34 (0.84%) Azure Certification
13 31 (0.77%) CBAP
14 28 (0.69%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.65%) ISTQB
16 25 (0.62%) IIBA
17 24 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
18 22 (0.55%) APMP
18 22 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
19 19 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 263 (6.53%) QA
2 232 (5.76%) GDPR
3 172 (4.27%) Data Quality
4 160 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 157 (3.90%) PMO
6 149 (3.70%) NIST
7 70 (1.74%) GRC
8 69 (1.71%) PCI DSS
9 51 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 49 (1.22%) SLA
11 46 (1.14%) NCSC
12 39 (0.97%) Accessibility
13 31 (0.77%) COBIT
14 29 (0.72%) IFRS
15 19 (0.47%) PSD2
16 18 (0.45%) IFRS 17
17 16 (0.40%) WCAG
18 14 (0.35%) Basel III
18 14 (0.35%) SOC 2
19 13 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 98 (2.43%) Docker
2 66 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 35 (0.87%) 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 (0.099%) Postfix
8 3 (0.074%) HDFS
8 3 (0.074%) SRDF
8 3 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.050%) 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
1 138 (3.42%) Kubernetes
2 79 (1.96%) Terraform
3 53 (1.32%) Ansible
4 51 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (0.84%) Grafana
6 20 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 18 (0.45%) SCCM
9 13 (0.32%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.17%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.15%) Kibana
11 6 (0.15%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.12%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.12%) Puppet
13 4 (0.099%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.099%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.099%) vMotion
14 3 (0.074%) Control-M
14 3 (0.074%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 471 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 331 (8.21%) SAP
3 233 (5.78%) Oracle
4 192 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 145 (3.60%) Salesforce
6 92 (2.28%) Google
7 85 (2.11%) Workday
8 65 (1.61%) VMware
9 61 (1.51%) Databricks
10 47 (1.17%) Cisco
10 47 (1.17%) Splunk
11 42 (1.04%) IBM
12 37 (0.92%) CyberArk
13 35 (0.87%) Citrix
14 31 (0.77%) Ariba
14 31 (0.77%) Fortinet
15 27 (0.67%) Adobe
16 25 (0.62%) MuleSoft
17 24 (0.60%) F5
18 23 (0.57%) Informatica