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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 19 18
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,526 2,361 3,055
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.12% 8.40% 8.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.56% 9.46% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,421 1,480 2,097
10th Percentile £369 £368 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 58 88
10th Percentile £17.00 £35.00 £21.78
25th Percentile £30.68 £39.01 £33.00
Median hourly rate £47.48 £60.00 £51.24
Median % change year-on-year -20.88% +17.10% -1.71%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £80.18 £75.84
UK median hourly rate £40.92 £57.50 £54.39
% change year-on-year -28.83% +5.73% +4.16%

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 28,064 24,952 32,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.52% 88.77% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,908 15,353 21,703
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £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 1,766 818 1,417
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.39
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%
75th Percentile £56.69 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +27.14%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 1 January 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 1,790 £550 - 662
North of England +2 532 £475 -9.52% 249
Midlands -1 414 £491 -6.48% 138
South East +9 405 £525 - 399
West Midlands -6 279 £500 -4.76% 87
North West +6 278 £475 -8.65% 123
Yorkshire +5 224 £490 -2.05% 110
South West +12 200 £550 +10.00% 78
East Midlands +9 135 £450 -5.26% 46
East of England -6 103 £525 -4.55% 86
North East +10 41 £450 -27.92% 21
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
1 244 (6.92%) Confluence
2 111 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 33 (0.94%) SAS
4 29 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (0.79%) CMS
6 10 (0.28%) Appian
7 8 (0.23%) TPMS
8 7 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.20%) Camunda
9 6 (0.17%) Apache
10 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.14%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.14%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.14%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
11 3 (0.085%) Exchange Server 2013
11 3 (0.085%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.085%) nginx
11 3 (0.085%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.085%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 197 (5.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 117 (3.32%) Microsoft Project
3 116 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
4 100 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 64 (1.82%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.51%) Trello
7 12 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.11%) Sketch
10 3 (0.085%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.057%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.057%) InVision
12 1 (0.028%) Blender
12 1 (0.028%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.028%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.028%) Notion
12 1 (0.028%) Simulink
12 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.028%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 134 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
4 24 (0.68%) Endur
5 21 (0.60%) Workday HCM
6 17 (0.48%) Aladdin
7 16 (0.45%) Primavera
7 16 (0.45%) SAP HCM
8 14 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
9 13 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
9 13 (0.37%) SAP EWM
10 12 (0.34%) NetSuite
10 12 (0.34%) SAP CO
11 11 (0.31%) SAP FI
12 10 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
12 10 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
12 10 (0.28%) SAP MDG
13 9 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
13 9 (0.26%) SAP ERP
13 9 (0.26%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 515 (14.61%) Azure
2 349 (9.90%) AWS
3 239 (6.78%) Power Platform
4 169 (4.79%) GCP
5 116 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
6 110 (3.12%) SaaS
7 94 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (1.99%) Entra ID
9 51 (1.45%) OpenShift
10 45 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
11 41 (1.16%) GitHub
12 40 (1.13%) OCI
13 38 (1.08%) Serverless
14 33 (0.94%) Power Automate
15 32 (0.91%) Snowflake
16 30 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
17 29 (0.82%) PowerApps
18 26 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
19 23 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
20 21 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 78 (2.21%) Firewall
2 34 (0.96%) WAN
3 32 (0.91%) Network Security
4 28 (0.79%) VPN
5 25 (0.71%) LAN
5 25 (0.71%) SD-WAN
6 23 (0.65%) SSH
7 22 (0.62%) DNS
8 15 (0.43%) SSL
9 14 (0.40%) Broadband
9 14 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.37%) MPLS
10 13 (0.37%) Wireless
11 12 (0.34%) BGP
12 11 (0.31%) Internet
13 10 (0.28%) DHCP
13 10 (0.28%) Intranet
13 10 (0.28%) SAN
14 9 (0.26%) OSPF
14 9 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (6.01%) Power BI
2 71 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (1.87%) Tableau
4 51 (1.45%) Metadata
5 31 (0.88%) Data Lake
6 28 (0.79%) Power Query
7 24 (0.68%) Relational Database
8 23 (0.65%) BigQuery
8 23 (0.65%) NoSQL
9 20 (0.57%) Oracle Database
9 20 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.54%) SQL Server
11 18 (0.51%) MySQL
12 16 (0.45%) DynamoDB
13 15 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
15 12 (0.34%) RDBMS
16 11 (0.31%) Big Data
17 10 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 429 (12.17%) JIRA
2 71 (2.01%) Git
3 67 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 52 (1.47%) GitLab
5 30 (0.85%) Selenium
6 21 (0.60%) JUnit
7 18 (0.51%) Maven
8 14 (0.40%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.28%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.26%) Gradle
11 8 (0.23%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.20%) MLflow
12 7 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
13 6 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.17%) Mockito
14 5 (0.14%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.14%) Postman
14 5 (0.14%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.14%) SonarLint
15 4 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 1,869 (53.01%) Social Skills
2 1,152 (32.67%) Finance
3 597 (16.93%) Analytical Skills
4 328 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 327 (9.27%) Banking
6 175 (4.96%) Influencing Skills
7 157 (4.45%) Retail
8 148 (4.20%) Legal
9 135 (3.83%) Marketing
10 112 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
10 112 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
11 106 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
12 102 (2.89%) Manufacturing
13 100 (2.84%) Telecoms
14 71 (2.01%) Front Office
15 56 (1.59%) Law
16 53 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 52 (1.47%) Financial Institution
18 51 (1.45%) Investment Banking
19 45 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 671 (19.03%) Analyst
2 523 (14.83%) Project Manager
3 478 (13.56%) Business Analyst
4 390 (11.06%) Architect
5 381 (10.81%) Lead
6 280 (7.94%) Senior
7 243 (6.89%) Consultant
8 149 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
9 126 (3.57%) Programme Manager
10 113 (3.20%) Senior Manager
11 88 (2.50%) IT Manager
12 84 (2.38%) Delivery Manager
13 74 (2.10%) Data Analyst
14 72 (2.04%) Product Owner
15 70 (1.99%) Developer
16 68 (1.93%) Change Manager
16 68 (1.93%) Senior Analyst
17 67 (1.90%) Technical Manager
18 64 (1.82%) Senior Project Manager
19 63 (1.79%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (2.33%) REST
2 61 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
3 36 (1.02%) Middleware
4 34 (0.96%) SOAP
5 31 (0.88%) .NET
5 31 (0.88%) JSON
6 30 (0.85%) Kafka
7 27 (0.77%) OAuth
8 26 (0.74%) XML
9 25 (0.71%) HTML
10 24 (0.68%) SailPoint
11 21 (0.60%) RESTful
12 20 (0.57%) OpenID
13 19 (0.54%) Spring Boot
14 18 (0.51%) React
15 17 (0.48%) pytest
16 16 (0.45%) Playwright
16 16 (0.45%) SAML
17 15 (0.43%) ADO
17 15 (0.43%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 274 (7.77%) Product Ownership
2 174 (4.93%) Onboarding
3 98 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 91 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
5 88 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 85 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 81 (2.30%) Data Centre
8 76 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 52 (1.47%) PMI
10 49 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
12 38 (1.08%) CMDB
13 34 (0.96%) NHS
14 29 (0.82%) Virtual Team
15 28 (0.79%) Reinsurance
16 27 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
16 27 (0.77%) Operational Technology
17 25 (0.71%) Data Structures
18 24 (0.68%) Mobile App
18 24 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 106 (3.01%) Windows
2 53 (1.50%) Linux
3 33 (0.94%) Unix
4 20 (0.57%) Windows 10
4 20 (0.57%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.34%) VMS
8 6 (0.17%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.14%) Solaris
10 4 (0.11%) CentOS
10 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.085%) Android
11 3 (0.085%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.028%) AIX
12 1 (0.028%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,133 (32.13%) Agile
2 661 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 557 (15.80%) Project Management
4 495 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 490 (13.90%) Migration
6 487 (13.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 434 (12.31%) Roadmaps
8 418 (11.85%) Change Management
9 403 (11.43%) Project Delivery
10 325 (9.22%) Decision-Making
11 312 (8.85%) DevOps
12 300 (8.51%) Risk Management
13 298 (8.45%) Analytics
14 289 (8.20%) Scrum
15 277 (7.86%) Requirements Gathering
16 276 (7.83%) Workshop Facilitation
17 262 (7.43%) Business Intelligence
18 258 (7.32%) Waterfall
19 241 (6.83%) ITIL
20 240 (6.81%) AI
Programming Languages
1 267 (7.57%) SQL
2 246 (6.98%) Python
3 76 (2.16%) Java
3 76 (2.16%) PowerShell
4 49 (1.39%) JavaScript
5 39 (1.11%) C#
6 33 (0.94%) Bash
7 24 (0.68%) VBA
8 18 (0.51%) R
9 17 (0.48%) TypeScript
10 16 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (0.45%) Shell Script
11 14 (0.40%) Korn
12 13 (0.37%) ABAP
13 8 (0.23%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.20%) VB
15 6 (0.17%) Bicep
15 6 (0.17%) C++
16 5 (0.14%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 583 (16.53%) Security Cleared
2 445 (12.62%) SC Cleared
3 347 (9.84%) Degree
4 187 (5.30%) PMI Certification
5 170 (4.82%) PMP
6 77 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 66 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 66 (1.87%) DV Cleared
8 62 (1.76%) Master's Degree
9 56 (1.59%) CISSP
10 36 (1.02%) CISM
11 30 (0.85%) Azure Certification
12 28 (0.79%) CBAP
13 27 (0.77%) AWS Certification
14 23 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
15 22 (0.62%) ISTQB
16 21 (0.60%) ACCA
16 21 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
17 19 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
18 18 (0.51%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (6.35%) QA
2 204 (5.79%) GDPR
3 124 (3.52%) PMO
4 119 (3.37%) Data Quality
5 112 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 97 (2.75%) NIST
7 50 (1.42%) PCI DSS
8 48 (1.36%) GRC
9 43 (1.22%) SLA
10 37 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 34 (0.96%) Accessibility
12 24 (0.68%) IFRS
13 20 (0.57%) NCSC
14 15 (0.43%) COBIT
14 15 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
14 15 (0.43%) MiFID
14 15 (0.43%) PSD2
15 14 (0.40%) WCAG
16 13 (0.37%) Basel III
17 12 (0.34%) HIPAA
System Software
1 80 (2.27%) Docker
2 63 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.17%) vSphere
6 5 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.085%) NFS
7 3 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.057%) Firmware
8 2 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.028%) IAG
9 1 (0.028%) NDS
9 1 (0.028%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.028%) SRDF
9 1 (0.028%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.028%) XenApp
9 1 (0.028%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 106 (3.01%) Kubernetes
2 83 (2.35%) Terraform
3 44 (1.25%) Ansible
4 30 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.62%) Grafana
6 20 (0.57%) SCCM
7 16 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.34%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.31%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.20%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.20%) Kibana
11 6 (0.17%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.14%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.14%) Puppet
13 4 (0.11%) Argo
13 4 (0.11%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.11%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.085%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.085%) Control-M
14 3 (0.085%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 442 (12.54%) Microsoft
2 308 (8.74%) SAP
3 202 (5.73%) Oracle
4 150 (4.25%) ServiceNow
5 138 (3.91%) Salesforce
6 90 (2.55%) Workday
7 76 (2.16%) Google
8 57 (1.62%) Databricks
9 47 (1.33%) IBM
10 43 (1.22%) VMware
11 33 (0.94%) Cisco
12 30 (0.85%) Ariba
12 30 (0.85%) Splunk
13 28 (0.79%) Fortinet
13 28 (0.79%) MuleSoft
14 25 (0.71%) Adobe
15 23 (0.65%) Citrix
16 22 (0.62%) Planview
16 22 (0.62%) Red Hat
17 19 (0.54%) Informatica