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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 15 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,952 2,567 2,725
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.40% 10.25% 7.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.37% 11.22% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,341 1,742 1,944
10th Percentile £375 £356 £360
25th Percentile £456 £431 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £536 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -0.74% -1.82%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 67 78
10th Percentile £23.68 £31.64 £18.00
25th Percentile £32.97 £43.75 £35.31
Median hourly rate £56.25 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +12.53%
75th Percentile £84.00 £74.38 £74.13
90th Percentile £104.00 £78.00 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £58.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.26% -2.08% +12.53%

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 37,051 22,887 31,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.28% 91.38% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,430 14,787 20,644
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,322 1,108 2,367
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.78
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 2,543 £554 -3.65% 605
North of England -1 729 £500 - 276
South East +4 625 £550 +4.76% 486
Midlands +3 534 £500 - 176
West Midlands +1 379 £500 -4.76% 109
North West -1 362 £500 -0.99% 165
Yorkshire +3 335 £500 +3.52% 87
South West +13 285 £550 +4.76% 123
East Midlands +11 147 £465 +7.51% 65
East of England +3 142 £530 -9.79% 81
North East -18 46 £478 +6.11% 29
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 (5.90%) Confluence
2 139 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 54 (1.09%) CMS
4 39 (0.79%) SAS
5 23 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.28%) Apache
8 11 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 11 (0.22%) Appian
9 8 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
10 7 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.14%) WordPress
11 6 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.10%) Apache Spark
12 5 (0.10%) Kentico
13 4 (0.081%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.081%) TPMS
14 3 (0.061%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
14 3 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.061%) WebSphere
Applications
1 232 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 141 (2.85%) Microsoft Project
3 123 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 119 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
5 70 (1.41%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 12 (0.24%) Revit
9 10 (0.20%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.081%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.081%) Trello
11 3 (0.061%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.061%) Notion
11 3 (0.061%) Sketch
12 2 (0.040%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.040%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.040%) Windchill
13 1 (0.020%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
13 1 (0.020%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 162 (3.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 24 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
4 24 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 23 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
6 20 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
7 19 (0.38%) Aladdin
8 18 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
9 15 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
9 15 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
10 14 (0.28%) Workday HCM
11 13 (0.26%) SAP ERP
12 12 (0.24%) SAP FI
12 12 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
13 11 (0.22%) Finacle
13 11 (0.22%) SAP CO
14 10 (0.20%) Loan IQ
14 10 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
14 10 (0.20%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 780 (15.75%) Azure
2 560 (11.31%) AWS
3 297 (6.00%) Power Platform
4 204 (4.12%) GCP
5 169 (3.41%) SaaS
6 166 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
7 119 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
8 98 (1.98%) Entra ID
9 76 (1.53%) Snowflake
10 68 (1.37%) GitHub
11 58 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
12 57 (1.15%) SuccessFactors
13 53 (1.07%) OCI
14 50 (1.01%) Amazon S3
14 50 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
14 50 (1.01%) Serverless
15 39 (0.79%) Power Automate
16 37 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
16 37 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
16 37 (0.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 86 (1.74%) Network Security
2 84 (1.70%) Firewall
3 62 (1.25%) WAN
4 47 (0.95%) LAN
5 42 (0.85%) DNS
6 34 (0.69%) SD-WAN
7 30 (0.61%) VPN
8 29 (0.59%) TCP/IP
9 28 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
10 23 (0.46%) BGP
11 20 (0.40%) DHCP
12 19 (0.38%) OSPF
13 18 (0.36%) MPLS
14 14 (0.28%) NGFW
14 14 (0.28%) Wireless
15 13 (0.26%) BIG-IP
15 13 (0.26%) Intranet
16 12 (0.24%) SAN
16 12 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
17 11 (0.22%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (4.99%) Power BI
2 102 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
3 89 (1.80%) Metadata
4 66 (1.33%) Tableau
5 64 (1.29%) SQL Server
6 57 (1.15%) Data Lake
7 41 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
8 34 (0.69%) Relational Database
9 33 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
10 29 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
11 27 (0.55%) NoSQL
11 27 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
12 24 (0.48%) DynamoDB
13 22 (0.44%) Oracle Database
14 20 (0.40%) Big Data
15 19 (0.38%) Delta Lake
16 16 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
17 15 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
17 15 (0.30%) Power Query
18 13 (0.26%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 548 (11.07%) JIRA
2 76 (1.53%) Jenkins
3 68 (1.37%) Git
4 43 (0.87%) GitLab
5 32 (0.65%) Selenium
6 27 (0.55%) JUnit
7 22 (0.44%) Postman
8 15 (0.30%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.26%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.26%) JMeter
9 13 (0.26%) Maven
10 12 (0.24%) Mockito
11 10 (0.20%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.20%) DbUnit
11 10 (0.20%) MLflow
12 9 (0.18%) jMock
12 9 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (0.18%) WebDriver
12 9 (0.18%) Zephyr
13 8 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,489 (50.26%) Social Skills
2 1,778 (35.90%) Finance
3 747 (15.08%) Analytical Skills
4 588 (11.87%) Public Sector
5 471 (9.51%) Banking
6 277 (5.59%) Retail
7 241 (4.87%) Influencing Skills
8 224 (4.52%) Legal
9 186 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
10 181 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
11 161 (3.25%) Marketing
12 136 (2.75%) Manufacturing
13 124 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
14 111 (2.24%) Telecoms
15 92 (1.86%) Local Government
16 85 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 75 (1.51%) Financial Institution
18 68 (1.37%) Law
19 67 (1.35%) Aerospace
19 67 (1.35%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 752 (15.19%) Analyst
2 711 (14.36%) Lead
3 704 (14.22%) Project Manager
4 581 (11.73%) Architect
5 517 (10.44%) Senior
6 508 (10.26%) Business Analyst
7 236 (4.77%) Consultant
8 221 (4.46%) Senior Manager
9 219 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
10 176 (3.55%) Programme Manager
11 168 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
12 152 (3.07%) IT Manager
13 112 (2.26%) Senior Project Manager
14 108 (2.18%) Product Manager
15 102 (2.06%) Product Owner
16 94 (1.90%) Technical Manager
17 92 (1.86%) Change Manager
18 89 (1.80%) Senior Analyst
19 85 (1.72%) IT Project Manager
20 83 (1.68%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (2.58%) REST
2 84 (1.70%) Middleware
3 83 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
4 69 (1.39%) SOAP
5 54 (1.09%) .NET
6 44 (0.89%) OAuth
7 43 (0.87%) JSON
8 35 (0.71%) Kafka
8 35 (0.71%) PySpark
9 34 (0.69%) XML
10 33 (0.67%) OpenID
10 33 (0.67%) Spring
11 32 (0.65%) RESTful
12 31 (0.63%) AngularJS
12 31 (0.63%) SailPoint
12 31 (0.63%) SAML
12 31 (0.63%) Web Services
13 29 (0.59%) CSS
14 28 (0.57%) React
15 26 (0.53%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 373 (7.53%) Product Ownership
2 245 (4.95%) Onboarding
3 168 (3.39%) Cloud Native
4 153 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
5 139 (2.81%) Management Information System
6 121 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
7 110 (2.22%) Data Centre
8 88 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 86 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 78 (1.58%) Virtual Team
11 63 (1.27%) NHS
12 61 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
12 61 (1.23%) Operational Technology
13 57 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
13 57 (1.15%) Security Posture
14 50 (1.01%) Public Cloud
15 46 (0.93%) CMDB
15 46 (0.93%) FMCG
16 44 (0.89%) PMI
16 44 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 143 (2.89%) Windows
2 79 (1.60%) Linux
3 31 (0.63%) Android
4 28 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 24 (0.48%) Unix
5 24 (0.48%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.24%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.12%) VMS
9 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.081%) AIX
10 4 (0.081%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.081%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.081%) zOS
11 3 (0.061%) Solaris
12 2 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.040%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.040%) HPUX
13 1 (0.020%) CentOS
13 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,621 (32.73%) Agile
2 794 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 768 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
4 708 (14.30%) Migration
5 673 (13.59%) Project Management
6 665 (13.43%) Roadmaps
7 657 (13.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 593 (11.97%) DevOps
9 576 (11.63%) Decision-Making
10 556 (11.23%) Change Management
11 541 (10.92%) Project Delivery
12 500 (10.10%) Analytics
13 480 (9.69%) Risk Management
14 478 (9.65%) AI
15 431 (8.70%) User Acceptance Testing
16 410 (8.28%) Validation
17 403 (8.14%) CI/CD
18 388 (7.84%) Scrum
19 378 (7.63%) Workshop Facilitation
20 369 (7.45%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 406 (8.20%) SQL
2 277 (5.59%) Python
3 101 (2.04%) Java
4 70 (1.41%) PowerShell
5 55 (1.11%) JavaScript
6 49 (0.99%) C#
7 24 (0.48%) Bash
7 24 (0.48%) VBA
8 21 (0.42%) TypeScript
9 19 (0.38%) Bicep
9 19 (0.38%) Korn
10 16 (0.32%) ABAP
11 14 (0.28%) PL/SQL
12 12 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.22%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.20%) R
14 10 (0.20%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.16%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 993 (20.05%) Security Cleared
2 757 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 365 (7.37%) Degree
4 260 (5.25%) PMP
5 230 (4.64%) PMI Certification
6 141 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 140 (2.83%) DV Cleared
8 108 (2.18%) CISSP
9 77 (1.55%) Azure Certification
10 75 (1.51%) CISM
11 58 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
12 49 (0.99%) Master's Degree
13 47 (0.95%) AWS Certification
13 47 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
14 30 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 29 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
15 29 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
16 28 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 28 (0.57%) ACCA
17 26 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 279 (5.63%) Data Quality
2 269 (5.43%) QA
3 244 (4.93%) PMO
4 214 (4.32%) GDPR
5 164 (3.31%) NIST
6 143 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 87 (1.76%) GRC
8 82 (1.66%) SLA
9 76 (1.53%) Accessibility
10 56 (1.13%) NCSC
11 49 (0.99%) PCI DSS
12 40 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 35 (0.71%) IFRS
14 34 (0.69%) COBIT
15 30 (0.61%) SOC 2
16 19 (0.38%) IFRS 17
16 19 (0.38%) WCAG
17 18 (0.36%) JSP 440
18 17 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
19 16 (0.32%) PSD2
System Software
1 98 (1.98%) Docker
2 80 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 35 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.24%) Postfix
6 11 (0.22%) NFS
6 11 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.12%) vSphere
9 4 (0.081%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.081%) SRDF
9 4 (0.081%) Varnish
10 3 (0.061%) HDFS
10 3 (0.061%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.040%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.040%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.040%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.020%) NLBS
12 1 (0.020%) RACF
Systems Management
1 144 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 119 (2.40%) Terraform
3 74 (1.49%) Ansible
4 44 (0.89%) Grafana
5 38 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 37 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 17 (0.34%) SCCM
9 9 (0.18%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.14%) Argo
11 7 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 7 (0.14%) RSA Archer
11 7 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.10%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.10%) Puppet
12 5 (0.10%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.081%) Control-M
13 4 (0.081%) EMC VPLEX
13 4 (0.081%) vMotion
Vendors
1 611 (12.34%) Microsoft
2 401 (8.10%) SAP
3 269 (5.43%) Oracle
4 254 (5.13%) ServiceNow
5 195 (3.94%) Salesforce
6 98 (1.98%) Databricks
7 96 (1.94%) Google
8 73 (1.47%) VMware
9 69 (1.39%) Workday
10 54 (1.09%) Cisco
11 46 (0.93%) CyberArk
12 43 (0.87%) Splunk
13 41 (0.83%) Adobe
14 34 (0.69%) MuleSoft
15 33 (0.67%) Informatica
16 32 (0.65%) Ariba
17 29 (0.59%) IBM
18 26 (0.53%) Atlassian
18 26 (0.53%) F5
19 25 (0.50%) OpenAI