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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 20
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,237 2,346 2,859
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.75% 9.58% 7.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.59% 10.52% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,919 1,609 2,015
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 66 75
10th Percentile £16.26 £35.00 £14.45
25th Percentile £30.94 £45.30 £30.08
Median hourly rate £40.64 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.27% +20.00% -11.46%
75th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £71.75
90th Percentile £87.63 £80.29 £85.39
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -35.00% +20.00% -11.46%

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 33,651 22,305 32,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.36% 91.07% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,531 14,664 21,253
10th Percentile £313 £310 £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 £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,083 886 2,215
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.80 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +32.29% -7.51% -6.66%
75th Percentile £67.13 £63.75 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.38 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.18% -5.92%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 2,172 £550 -4.35% 681
North of England -2 613 £475 -7.21% 238
South East +6 513 £574 +14.80% 369
Midlands -1 507 £485 -3.10% 178
West Midlands -2 348 £492 -6.29% 113
North West -5 302 £471 -9.64% 122
Yorkshire +9 279 £500 - 97
South West +26 229 £550 +1.62% 91
East Midlands +4 157 £459 +2.29% 64
East of England +1 122 £563 -6.25% 101
North East -6 48 £440 -20.00% 24
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
1 286 (6.75%) Confluence
2 124 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 49 (1.16%) SAS
4 39 (0.92%) CMS
5 34 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.40%) Appian
7 12 (0.28%) Apache
8 9 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 8 (0.19%) TPMS
10 7 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.12%) Camunda
11 5 (0.12%) nginx
12 3 (0.071%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.071%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.071%) WebSphere
Applications
1 220 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 137 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
3 109 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 106 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
5 79 (1.86%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.24%) Trello
9 7 (0.17%) Sketch
10 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.094%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.094%) Revit
12 2 (0.047%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.047%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.047%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.047%) InVision
12 2 (0.047%) Navisworks
12 2 (0.047%) Windchill
13 1 (0.024%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 125 (2.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 45 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
3 23 (0.54%) Aladdin
4 18 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 16 (0.38%) Workday HCM
6 15 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
7 13 (0.31%) Endur
7 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
7 13 (0.31%) SAP CO
7 13 (0.31%) SAP ERP
7 13 (0.31%) SAP FI
8 12 (0.28%) Loan IQ
8 12 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
9 11 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
9 11 (0.26%) SAP EWM
10 10 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 606 (14.30%) Azure
2 434 (10.24%) AWS
3 236 (5.57%) Power Platform
4 178 (4.20%) GCP
5 129 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
6 122 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
7 112 (2.64%) SaaS
8 89 (2.10%) Entra ID
9 60 (1.42%) OpenShift
10 56 (1.32%) OCI
11 54 (1.27%) Snowflake
12 50 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
13 43 (1.01%) GitHub
13 43 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
14 42 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
15 37 (0.87%) Figma
15 37 (0.87%) Power Automate
16 34 (0.80%) Google Workspace
16 34 (0.80%) Serverless
17 33 (0.78%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.53%) Firewall
2 60 (1.42%) Network Security
3 56 (1.32%) WAN
4 42 (0.99%) LAN
5 37 (0.87%) SD-WAN
6 33 (0.78%) DNS
7 29 (0.68%) VPN
8 26 (0.61%) BGP
8 26 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (0.52%) OSPF
10 19 (0.45%) MPLS
10 19 (0.45%) TCP/IP
11 16 (0.38%) SSL
12 14 (0.33%) Wireless
13 13 (0.31%) DHCP
14 12 (0.28%) NGFW
14 12 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
15 11 (0.26%) Broadband
15 11 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
15 11 (0.26%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (4.70%) Power BI
2 86 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (1.77%) Metadata
4 62 (1.46%) Tableau
5 43 (1.01%) SQL Server
6 34 (0.80%) Data Lake
7 32 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
8 29 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (0.59%) NoSQL
10 24 (0.57%) Relational Database
11 23 (0.54%) Power Query
12 22 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
13 19 (0.45%) Big Data
14 18 (0.42%) DynamoDB
14 18 (0.42%) Oracle Database
15 16 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
16 15 (0.35%) BigQuery
17 14 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
18 12 (0.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 499 (11.78%) JIRA
2 87 (2.05%) Jenkins
3 79 (1.86%) Git
4 50 (1.18%) GitLab
5 39 (0.92%) Selenium
6 35 (0.83%) JUnit
7 16 (0.38%) Postman
8 15 (0.35%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.33%) Maven
10 13 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 12 (0.28%) Mockito
11 12 (0.28%) SpecFlow
12 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.26%) JMeter
13 10 (0.24%) MLflow
13 10 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.19%) DbUnit
14 8 (0.19%) jMock
14 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
15 7 (0.17%) Artifactory
General
1 2,151 (50.77%) Social Skills
2 1,480 (34.93%) Finance
3 666 (15.72%) Analytical Skills
4 464 (10.95%) Public Sector
5 410 (9.68%) Banking
6 214 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
7 191 (4.51%) Retail
8 168 (3.97%) Legal
9 148 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
10 136 (3.21%) Marketing
11 135 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
12 122 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
13 105 (2.48%) Manufacturing
14 100 (2.36%) Telecoms
15 78 (1.84%) Financial Institution
16 63 (1.49%) Front Office
17 62 (1.46%) Local Government
18 54 (1.27%) Law
19 48 (1.13%) Investment Banking
20 45 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 726 (17.13%) Analyst
2 631 (14.89%) Project Manager
3 581 (13.71%) Lead
4 536 (12.65%) Business Analyst
5 459 (10.83%) Architect
6 428 (10.10%) Senior
7 198 (4.67%) Consultant
8 183 (4.32%) Programme Manager
9 182 (4.30%) Senior Manager
10 164 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
11 143 (3.38%) Delivery Manager
12 126 (2.97%) IT Manager
13 92 (2.17%) Senior Analyst
14 91 (2.15%) Change Manager
15 89 (2.10%) Senior Project Manager
16 84 (1.98%) Data Analyst
16 84 (1.98%) Product Manager
16 84 (1.98%) Technical Manager
17 76 (1.79%) Test Manager
18 73 (1.72%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (2.93%) REST
2 83 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
3 72 (1.70%) Middleware
4 58 (1.37%) SOAP
5 36 (0.85%) OAuth
6 34 (0.80%) .NET
7 33 (0.78%) JSON
7 33 (0.78%) Kafka
8 31 (0.73%) XML
9 30 (0.71%) OpenID
10 28 (0.66%) SAML
11 27 (0.64%) Web Services
12 26 (0.61%) AngularJS
12 26 (0.61%) RESTful
13 25 (0.59%) React
13 25 (0.59%) Spring
14 24 (0.57%) pytest
15 23 (0.54%) Playwright
15 23 (0.54%) Swagger
16 21 (0.50%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 330 (7.79%) Product Ownership
2 214 (5.05%) Onboarding
3 137 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 123 (2.90%) Cloud Native
5 112 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
6 105 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 86 (2.03%) Data Centre
8 70 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 70 (1.65%) Data Structures
9 56 (1.32%) Virtual Team
10 55 (1.30%) NHS
11 53 (1.25%) PMI
12 47 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
13 45 (1.06%) Public Cloud
14 39 (0.92%) Operational Technology
15 36 (0.85%) FMCG
16 34 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
17 30 (0.71%) CMDB
18 29 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
18 29 (0.68%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 118 (2.78%) Windows
2 64 (1.51%) Linux
3 25 (0.59%) Android
3 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 21 (0.50%) Windows 10
5 18 (0.42%) Unix
5 18 (0.42%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.26%) VMS
8 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.12%) Solaris
10 3 (0.071%) AIX
11 2 (0.047%) CentOS
11 2 (0.047%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.047%) zOS
12 1 (0.024%) MVS
12 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,386 (32.71%) Agile
2 698 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
3 652 (15.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 639 (15.08%) Migration
5 638 (15.06%) Project Management
6 553 (13.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 525 (12.39%) Roadmaps
8 519 (12.25%) Change Management
9 467 (11.02%) Decision-Making
10 466 (11.00%) DevOps
11 454 (10.72%) Project Delivery
12 412 (9.72%) Risk Management
13 394 (9.30%) Analytics
14 363 (8.57%) User Acceptance Testing
15 355 (8.38%) Scrum
16 341 (8.05%) Validation
17 339 (8.00%) AI
18 331 (7.81%) Workshop Facilitation
19 323 (7.62%) Requirements Gathering
20 315 (7.43%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 325 (7.67%) SQL
2 250 (5.90%) Python
3 92 (2.17%) Java
4 73 (1.72%) PowerShell
5 51 (1.20%) C#
6 49 (1.16%) JavaScript
7 29 (0.68%) Bash
8 23 (0.54%) TypeScript
8 23 (0.54%) VBA
9 17 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (0.38%) Korn
10 16 (0.38%) R
11 12 (0.28%) PL/SQL
12 11 (0.26%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.21%) ABAP
13 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.19%) Bicep
15 6 (0.14%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 866 (20.44%) Security Cleared
2 665 (15.70%) SC Cleared
3 353 (8.33%) Degree
4 230 (5.43%) PMP
5 219 (5.17%) PMI Certification
6 114 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 102 (2.41%) DV Cleared
8 72 (1.70%) CISSP
9 62 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 58 (1.37%) Master's Degree
11 49 (1.16%) CISM
12 41 (0.97%) Azure Certification
13 31 (0.73%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.66%) CBAP
15 26 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
15 26 (0.61%) ISTQB
16 25 (0.59%) IIBA
17 24 (0.57%) APMP
18 21 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (6.75%) QA
2 234 (5.52%) GDPR
3 207 (4.89%) Data Quality
4 189 (4.46%) PMO
5 165 (3.89%) NIST
6 143 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 74 (1.75%) GRC
8 63 (1.49%) SLA
9 58 (1.37%) PCI DSS
10 47 (1.11%) Accessibility
11 43 (1.01%) NCSC
12 39 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 29 (0.68%) COBIT
13 29 (0.68%) IFRS
14 26 (0.61%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.42%) IFRS 17
16 17 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.38%) HL7
18 14 (0.33%) Basel III
18 14 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 102 (2.41%) Docker
2 67 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 38 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.24%) Postfix
5 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.19%) NFS
7 7 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.12%) vSphere
9 4 (0.094%) SRDF
10 3 (0.071%) HDFS
10 3 (0.071%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.071%) Varnish
11 2 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.047%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.047%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.024%) NLBS
12 1 (0.024%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.024%) RACF
Systems Management
1 140 (3.30%) Kubernetes
2 80 (1.89%) Terraform
3 53 (1.25%) Ansible
4 45 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (0.80%) Grafana
6 23 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.45%) SCCM
9 12 (0.28%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.19%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.19%) Puppet
11 6 (0.14%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.094%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.094%) Istio
14 3 (0.071%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.071%) Kibana
14 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.071%) vMotion
Vendors
1 468 (11.05%) Microsoft
2 346 (8.17%) SAP
3 260 (6.14%) Oracle
4 199 (4.70%) ServiceNow
5 172 (4.06%) Salesforce
6 95 (2.24%) Google
7 77 (1.82%) Workday
8 74 (1.75%) VMware
9 67 (1.58%) Databricks
10 47 (1.11%) Cisco
11 46 (1.09%) Splunk
12 40 (0.94%) CyberArk
13 35 (0.83%) Ariba
14 34 (0.80%) IBM
15 32 (0.76%) MuleSoft
16 30 (0.71%) Adobe
17 29 (0.68%) Citrix
18 26 (0.61%) Atlassian
19 25 (0.59%) Informatica
19 25 (0.59%) Red Hat