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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,492 2,377 2,770
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.69% 9.89% 7.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.58% 10.83% 8.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 1,631 1,967
10th Percentile £371 £360 £360
25th Percentile £450 £440 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £744 £750
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 57 81
10th Percentile £22.38 £35.45 £15.13
25th Percentile £32.66 £45.00 £30.16
Median hourly rate £52.25 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% - +6.48%
75th Percentile £84.00 £75.00 £72.90
90th Percentile £104.00 £77.25 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +7.82%

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 35,705 21,941 31,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.32% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,665 14,273 20,637
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 £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,224 953 2,305
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.55 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +64.62% -23.21% -0.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £27.97 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.26% -23.38% -1.35%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +8 2,293 £550 -4.35% 465
North of England -1 686 £494 -1.20% 186
Midlands +5 536 £492 -1.60% 147
South East 0 521 £550 +4.76% 354
West Midlands 0 362 £500 -4.76% 96
Yorkshire +8 330 £500 +1.01% 60
North West -1 325 £475 -5.94% 106
South West +18 255 £550 +4.76% 94
East Midlands +11 167 £464 +3.75% 50
East of England -3 126 £530 -11.67% 66
North East -2 51 £450 -14.29% 23
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
1 289 (6.43%) Confluence
2 137 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.00%) CMS
4 39 (0.87%) SAS
5 22 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.31%) Appian
7 12 (0.27%) Apache
7 12 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.13%) WordPress
11 5 (0.11%) TPMS
12 4 (0.089%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.089%) Kentico
13 3 (0.067%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.067%) nginx
13 3 (0.067%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
13 3 (0.067%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 216 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 137 (3.05%) Microsoft Project
3 116 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 115 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
5 76 (1.69%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.18%) Revit
9 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.13%) Trello
10 4 (0.089%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.089%) Sketch
11 3 (0.067%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.045%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.045%) Notion
13 1 (0.022%) Autodesk Smoke
13 1 (0.022%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.022%) PlantUML
13 1 (0.022%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 139 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 57 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 23 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
3 23 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 21 (0.47%) Aladdin
5 16 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
6 14 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 14 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
6 14 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
6 14 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
6 14 (0.31%) SAP ERP
7 12 (0.27%) SAP CO
7 12 (0.27%) SAP FI
8 11 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
8 11 (0.24%) SAP HCM
9 10 (0.22%) Loan IQ
10 9 (0.20%) NEC Housing
11 7 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
11 7 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 683 (15.20%) Azure
2 490 (10.91%) AWS
3 253 (5.63%) Power Platform
4 185 (4.12%) GCP
5 147 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
6 132 (2.94%) SaaS
7 113 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
8 93 (2.07%) Entra ID
9 66 (1.47%) Snowflake
10 60 (1.34%) GitHub
11 52 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
12 46 (1.02%) OCI
13 45 (1.00%) OpenShift
14 43 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
14 43 (0.96%) SuccessFactors
15 42 (0.93%) Amazon S3
16 41 (0.91%) Serverless
17 37 (0.82%) Google Workspace
18 36 (0.80%) Figma
19 34 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.45%) Firewall
1 65 (1.45%) Network Security
2 53 (1.18%) WAN
3 40 (0.89%) LAN
4 35 (0.78%) DNS
5 28 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
6 27 (0.60%) SD-WAN
7 23 (0.51%) TCP/IP
7 23 (0.51%) 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
1 207 (4.61%) Power BI
2 89 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
3 85 (1.89%) Metadata
4 63 (1.40%) Tableau
5 55 (1.22%) SQL Server
6 45 (1.00%) Data Lake
7 36 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
10 25 (0.56%) NoSQL
10 25 (0.56%) Relational Database
11 21 (0.47%) DynamoDB
12 20 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (0.42%) Big Data
14 17 (0.38%) Delta Lake
14 17 (0.38%) Oracle Database
15 16 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
17 13 (0.29%) Power Query
18 12 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 517 (11.51%) JIRA
2 79 (1.76%) Jenkins
3 65 (1.45%) Git
4 42 (0.93%) 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 (0.24%) 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 2,226 (49.55%) Social Skills
2 1,601 (35.64%) Finance
3 665 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
4 507 (11.29%) Public Sector
5 438 (9.75%) Banking
6 223 (4.96%) Retail
7 213 (4.74%) Influencing Skills
8 196 (4.36%) Legal
9 164 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
10 156 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
11 142 (3.16%) Marketing
12 118 (2.63%) Manufacturing
13 105 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
14 99 (2.20%) Telecoms
15 79 (1.76%) Local Government
16 72 (1.60%) Financial Institution
17 62 (1.38%) Law
18 56 (1.25%) Aerospace
19 55 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 54 (1.20%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 710 (15.81%) Analyst
2 681 (15.16%) Project Manager
3 635 (14.14%) Lead
4 518 (11.53%) Architect
5 510 (11.35%) Business Analyst
6 474 (10.55%) Senior
7 210 (4.67%) Senior Manager
8 200 (4.45%) Consultant
9 185 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
10 168 (3.74%) Programme Manager
11 152 (3.38%) Delivery Manager
12 139 (3.09%) IT Manager
13 108 (2.40%) Senior Project Manager
14 94 (2.09%) Product Manager
15 93 (2.07%) Product Owner
16 89 (1.98%) Technical Manager
17 88 (1.96%) Change Manager
18 86 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
19 81 (1.80%) IT Project Manager
20 74 (1.65%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (2.56%) REST
2 81 (1.80%) Middleware
3 78 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
4 59 (1.31%) SOAP
5 45 (1.00%) .NET
6 39 (0.87%) OAuth
7 33 (0.73%) JSON
8 32 (0.71%) OpenID
8 32 (0.71%) RESTful
9 30 (0.67%) Kafka
9 30 (0.67%) Web Services
10 29 (0.65%) XML
11 27 (0.60%) AngularJS
11 27 (0.60%) Spring
12 26 (0.58%) CSS
12 26 (0.58%) SAML
13 25 (0.56%) React
14 23 (0.51%) ADO
15 22 (0.49%) HTML
15 22 (0.49%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 355 (7.90%) Product Ownership
2 209 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 153 (3.41%) Cloud Native
4 142 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
5 121 (2.69%) Management Information System
6 114 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
7 100 (2.23%) Data Centre
8 81 (1.80%) Data Structures
9 72 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 70 (1.56%) Virtual Team
11 51 (1.14%) Operational Technology
12 49 (1.09%) NHS
13 48 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
14 47 (1.05%) Public Cloud
15 44 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
16 43 (0.96%) PMI
17 38 (0.85%) Security Posture
17 38 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
18 35 (0.78%) AI Agents
19 33 (0.73%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 136 (3.03%) Windows
2 76 (1.69%) Linux
3 29 (0.65%) Android
3 29 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 22 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 21 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (0.45%) Windows 10
7 19 (0.42%) Unix
8 9 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.16%) VMS
10 4 (0.089%) AIX
10 4 (0.089%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.089%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.089%) 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%) CentOS
13 1 (0.022%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,459 (32.48%) Agile
2 703 (15.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 679 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
4 664 (14.78%) Project Management
5 655 (14.58%) Migration
6 586 (13.05%) Roadmaps
7 583 (12.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 524 (11.67%) Change Management
8 524 (11.67%) DevOps
9 510 (11.35%) Decision-Making
10 486 (10.82%) Project Delivery
11 435 (9.68%) Risk Management
12 424 (9.44%) Analytics
13 387 (8.62%) AI
14 371 (8.26%) User Acceptance Testing
15 358 (7.97%) Validation
16 357 (7.95%) Scrum
17 347 (7.72%) CI/CD
18 327 (7.28%) Workshop Facilitation
19 326 (7.26%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 357 (7.95%) SQL
2 244 (5.43%) Python
3 93 (2.07%) Java
4 72 (1.60%) PowerShell
5 45 (1.00%) JavaScript
6 43 (0.96%) C#
7 34 (0.76%) Bash
8 21 (0.47%) VBA
9 20 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 16 (0.36%) Korn
11 14 (0.31%) Bicep
12 13 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.27%) R
14 11 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (0.20%) ABAP
15 9 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.20%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.18%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.18%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.13%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 913 (20.33%) Security Cleared
2 711 (15.83%) SC Cleared
3 346 (7.70%) Degree
4 238 (5.30%) PMP
5 209 (4.65%) PMI Certification
6 124 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 107 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 94 (2.09%) CISSP
9 68 (1.51%) CISM
10 55 (1.22%) Azure Certification
11 53 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
12 47 (1.05%) Master's Degree
13 40 (0.89%) AWS Certification
14 30 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
15 28 (0.62%) IIBA
16 26 (0.58%) ACCA
16 26 (0.58%) CBAP
16 26 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
17 24 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 23 (0.51%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 268 (5.97%) QA
2 234 (5.21%) Data Quality
3 220 (4.90%) PMO
4 203 (4.52%) GDPR
5 160 (3.56%) NIST
6 134 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 78 (1.74%) GRC
8 73 (1.63%) SLA
9 67 (1.49%) Accessibility
10 50 (1.11%) NCSC
10 50 (1.11%) PCI DSS
11 37 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 33 (0.73%) IFRS
13 28 (0.62%) COBIT
13 28 (0.62%) SOC 2
14 18 (0.40%) JSP 440
15 17 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
15 17 (0.38%) IFRS 17
15 17 (0.38%) WCAG
16 15 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 96 (2.14%) Docker
2 69 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 34 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.27%) Postfix
6 11 (0.24%) 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 (0.089%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.089%) 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
1 140 (3.12%) Kubernetes
2 96 (2.14%) Terraform
3 62 (1.38%) Ansible
4 45 (1.00%) Grafana
5 44 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
6 31 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 28 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (0.47%) SCCM
9 8 (0.18%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.16%) HP ALM
11 6 (0.13%) Puppet
11 6 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.11%) Argo
12 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.089%) Control-M
13 4 (0.089%) EMC VPLEX
13 4 (0.089%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.089%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 4 (0.089%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 522 (11.62%) Microsoft
2 362 (8.06%) SAP
3 243 (5.41%) Oracle
4 205 (4.56%) ServiceNow
5 174 (3.87%) Salesforce
6 96 (2.14%) Google
7 86 (1.91%) Databricks
8 72 (1.60%) VMware
9 60 (1.34%) Workday
10 49 (1.09%) Splunk
11 42 (0.93%) Cisco
12 38 (0.85%) CyberArk
13 31 (0.69%) MuleSoft
14 29 (0.65%) Ariba
14 29 (0.65%) Citrix
14 29 (0.65%) Informatica
15 27 (0.60%) IBM
16 26 (0.58%) Adobe
17 25 (0.56%) Atlassian
18 24 (0.53%) F5