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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,595 2,297 3,068
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.25% 8.53% 8.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.74% 9.57% 9.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,448 1,436 2,108
10th Percentile £363 £366 £368
25th Percentile £442 £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 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 51 91
10th Percentile £17.00 £35.00 £21.25
25th Percentile £25.75 £36.00 £30.27
Median hourly rate £40.78 £56.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.82% +13.00% -4.09%
75th Percentile £63.88 £66.75 £61.23
90th Percentile £89.75 £80.00 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £40.47 £54.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -25.06% +8.00% -5.00%

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 28,213 24,003 32,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.28% 89.19% 87.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,027 14,736 21,710
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £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 1,750 779 1,598
10th Percentile £15.17 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.29
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -13.14% +15.12%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.47 £75.00 £76.33
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -18.75% +16.65%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +6 1,822 £550 - 472
North of England +4 549 £475 -9.52% 285
Midlands -1 440 £477 -9.24% 238
South East +9 408 £525 - 551
North West +7 284 £460 -12.38% 120
West Midlands -5 281 £500 -4.76% 115
Yorkshire +10 236 £492 -1.60% 132
South West +12 193 £550 +7.32% 177
East Midlands +11 159 £450 -4.87% 117
East of England -3 101 £525 -4.55% 198
North East +8 42 £450 -25.73% 35
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
1 251 (6.98%) Confluence
2 109 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 35 (0.97%) SAS
4 30 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (0.70%) CMS
6 13 (0.36%) Appian
7 10 (0.28%) TPMS
8 7 (0.19%) Apache
8 7 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.19%) Camunda
9 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.14%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
10 4 (0.11%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.11%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2013
11 3 (0.083%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.083%) nginx
11 3 (0.083%) WebSphere
Applications
1 211 (5.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (3.34%) Microsoft Project
3 116 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
4 106 (2.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 73 (2.03%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.50%) Trello
7 12 (0.33%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.11%) Sketch
9 3 (0.083%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.056%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.056%) InVision
11 1 (0.028%) Blender
11 1 (0.028%) CINEMA 4D
11 1 (0.028%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.028%) Simulink
11 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.028%) UXPin
11 1 (0.028%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 135 (3.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.56%) Aladdin
4 20 (0.56%) Endur
4 20 (0.56%) Workday HCM
5 16 (0.45%) Primavera
6 14 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 14 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
6 14 (0.39%) SAP CO
6 14 (0.39%) SAP HCM
7 13 (0.36%) SAP EWM
7 13 (0.36%) SAP FI
8 12 (0.33%) NetSuite
8 12 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
9 11 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
10 10 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
11 9 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
11 9 (0.25%) SAP PP
11 9 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 520 (14.46%) Azure
2 352 (9.79%) AWS
3 240 (6.68%) Power Platform
4 166 (4.62%) GCP
5 113 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
6 107 (2.98%) SaaS
7 99 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
8 74 (2.06%) Entra ID
9 51 (1.42%) OpenShift
10 44 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
11 43 (1.20%) GitHub
12 40 (1.11%) OCI
13 39 (1.08%) Serverless
14 36 (1.00%) Power Automate
15 34 (0.95%) Snowflake
16 29 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
16 29 (0.81%) SuccessFactors
17 26 (0.72%) PowerApps
18 25 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
19 24 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 78 (2.17%) Firewall
2 38 (1.06%) WAN
3 31 (0.86%) Network Security
4 28 (0.78%) SD-WAN
5 27 (0.75%) VPN
6 26 (0.72%) LAN
7 25 (0.70%) DNS
8 23 (0.64%) SSH
9 17 (0.47%) MPLS
9 17 (0.47%) SSL
10 15 (0.42%) BGP
11 14 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (0.39%) Wireless
12 13 (0.36%) Broadband
13 12 (0.33%) DHCP
14 11 (0.31%) Internet
15 10 (0.28%) Intranet
15 10 (0.28%) OSPF
15 10 (0.28%) SNMP
16 9 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (6.04%) Power BI
2 68 (1.89%) Tableau
3 67 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (1.42%) Metadata
5 28 (0.78%) Power Query
6 24 (0.67%) NoSQL
6 24 (0.67%) Relational Database
7 23 (0.64%) BigQuery
7 23 (0.64%) Data Lake
8 22 (0.61%) SQL Server
9 20 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.53%) MySQL
10 19 (0.53%) Oracle Database
11 17 (0.47%) DynamoDB
12 16 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (0.31%) RDBMS
15 11 (0.31%) Redis
16 10 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 445 (12.38%) JIRA
2 72 (2.00%) Git
3 65 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 52 (1.45%) GitLab
5 28 (0.78%) Selenium
6 21 (0.58%) JUnit
7 17 (0.47%) Maven
8 12 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.25%) MLflow
10 8 (0.22%) Gradle
10 8 (0.22%) SpecFlow
11 7 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
12 6 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.17%) Mockito
13 5 (0.14%) Postman
13 5 (0.14%) SonarLint
14 4 (0.11%) Axure RP
14 4 (0.11%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 1,923 (53.49%) Social Skills
2 1,194 (33.21%) Finance
3 611 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 353 (9.82%) Banking
5 346 (9.62%) Public Sector
6 184 (5.12%) Influencing Skills
7 151 (4.20%) Retail
8 147 (4.09%) Legal
9 133 (3.70%) Marketing
10 114 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
11 111 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
12 110 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
13 107 (2.98%) Manufacturing
14 101 (2.81%) Telecoms
15 74 (2.06%) Front Office
16 60 (1.67%) Law
17 56 (1.56%) Financial Institution
18 55 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 53 (1.47%) Investment Banking
20 46 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 703 (19.55%) Analyst
2 533 (14.83%) Project Manager
3 507 (14.10%) Business Analyst
4 401 (11.15%) Lead
5 393 (10.93%) Architect
6 307 (8.54%) Senior
7 244 (6.79%) Consultant
8 155 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
9 129 (3.59%) Programme Manager
10 122 (3.39%) Senior Manager
11 95 (2.64%) IT Manager
12 89 (2.48%) Delivery Manager
13 83 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
14 79 (2.20%) Data Analyst
15 77 (2.14%) Change Manager
16 72 (2.00%) Product Owner
17 70 (1.95%) Senior Business Analyst
18 67 (1.86%) Developer
18 67 (1.86%) Senior Project Manager
19 65 (1.81%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (2.50%) REST
2 60 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 37 (1.03%) Middleware
3 37 (1.03%) SOAP
4 33 (0.92%) .NET
5 31 (0.86%) JSON
5 31 (0.86%) Kafka
6 30 (0.83%) OAuth
7 28 (0.78%) XML
8 26 (0.72%) HTML
9 24 (0.67%) RESTful
9 24 (0.67%) SailPoint
10 22 (0.61%) OpenID
11 19 (0.53%) pytest
11 19 (0.53%) Spring Boot
12 18 (0.50%) React
12 18 (0.50%) SAML
13 17 (0.47%) Playwright
14 16 (0.45%) ADO
14 16 (0.45%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 289 (8.04%) Product Ownership
2 178 (4.95%) Onboarding
3 101 (2.81%) Cloud Native
4 99 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
5 88 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 85 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
7 83 (2.31%) Data Centre
8 78 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 59 (1.64%) PMI
10 47 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
11 40 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
12 37 (1.03%) CMDB
13 36 (1.00%) NHS
14 35 (0.97%) Public Cloud
15 32 (0.89%) Operational Technology
16 30 (0.83%) Virtual Team
17 27 (0.75%) FMCG
18 26 (0.72%) Data Structures
18 26 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
18 26 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 102 (2.84%) Windows
2 51 (1.42%) Linux
3 31 (0.86%) Unix
4 22 (0.61%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.53%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.36%) VMS
7 12 (0.33%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.11%) CentOS
10 4 (0.11%) Solaris
11 3 (0.083%) Android
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
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,162 (32.32%) Agile
2 669 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
3 585 (16.27%) Project Management
4 506 (14.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 504 (14.02%) Migration
6 496 (13.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 433 (12.04%) Change Management
8 427 (11.88%) Roadmaps
9 412 (11.46%) Project Delivery
10 340 (9.46%) Decision-Making
11 325 (9.04%) DevOps
12 307 (8.54%) Analytics
12 307 (8.54%) Risk Management
13 297 (8.26%) Workshop Facilitation
14 293 (8.15%) Requirements Gathering
15 292 (8.12%) Scrum
16 267 (7.43%) Business Intelligence
17 261 (7.26%) Waterfall
18 258 (7.18%) User Acceptance Testing
19 246 (6.84%) AI
Programming Languages
1 275 (7.65%) SQL
2 252 (7.01%) Python
3 76 (2.11%) Java
3 76 (2.11%) PowerShell
4 52 (1.45%) JavaScript
5 40 (1.11%) C#
6 33 (0.92%) Bash
7 25 (0.70%) VBA
8 18 (0.50%) R
8 18 (0.50%) TypeScript
9 17 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (0.39%) Korn
11 12 (0.33%) Shell Script
12 11 (0.31%) ABAP
13 8 (0.22%) Bicep
13 8 (0.22%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.19%) VB
15 6 (0.17%) C++
16 4 (0.11%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 606 (16.86%) Security Cleared
2 458 (12.74%) SC Cleared
3 359 (9.99%) Degree
4 197 (5.48%) PMI Certification
5 177 (4.92%) PMP
6 88 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 68 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 66 (1.84%) Master's Degree
9 62 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 55 (1.53%) CISSP
11 36 (1.00%) CISM
12 32 (0.89%) CBAP
13 29 (0.81%) Azure Certification
14 25 (0.70%) ISTQB
15 24 (0.67%) AWS Certification
16 22 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
17 20 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
18 19 (0.53%) ACCA
18 19 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
18 19 (0.53%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (6.23%) QA
2 217 (6.04%) GDPR
3 131 (3.64%) PMO
4 124 (3.45%) Data Quality
5 123 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 105 (2.92%) NIST
7 59 (1.64%) PCI DSS
8 53 (1.47%) GRC
9 41 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 41 (1.14%) SLA
10 35 (0.97%) Accessibility
11 27 (0.75%) NCSC
12 26 (0.72%) IFRS
13 19 (0.53%) PSD2
14 15 (0.42%) COBIT
14 15 (0.42%) WCAG
15 14 (0.39%) IFRS 17
15 14 (0.39%) ISO 20022
16 13 (0.36%) Basel III
16 13 (0.36%) MiFID
System Software
1 84 (2.34%) Docker
2 65 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.17%) vSphere
7 5 (0.14%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.083%) NFS
8 3 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.056%) Firmware
9 2 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.028%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.028%) IAG
10 1 (0.028%) NDS
10 1 (0.028%) NetIQ eDirectory
10 1 (0.028%) NLBS
10 1 (0.028%) SRDF
10 1 (0.028%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.028%) XenApp
10 1 (0.028%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 111 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 83 (2.31%) Terraform
3 44 (1.22%) Ansible
4 29 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.58%) Grafana
6 17 (0.47%) SCCM
6 17 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.33%) FortiGate
7 12 (0.33%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.19%) HP ALM
9 6 (0.17%) Kibana
9 6 (0.17%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
11 4 (0.11%) PingFederate
11 4 (0.11%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.083%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.083%) Control-M
12 3 (0.083%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.083%) Nessus
13 2 (0.056%) Nagios
Vendors
1 434 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 313 (8.71%) SAP
3 204 (5.67%) Oracle
4 152 (4.23%) ServiceNow
5 133 (3.70%) Salesforce
6 91 (2.53%) Workday
7 79 (2.20%) Google
8 55 (1.53%) Databricks
9 43 (1.20%) IBM
9 43 (1.20%) VMware
10 41 (1.14%) Cisco
11 32 (0.89%) Ariba
12 31 (0.86%) Splunk
13 29 (0.81%) Fortinet
14 28 (0.78%) MuleSoft
15 26 (0.72%) Adobe
16 24 (0.67%) Planview
17 22 (0.61%) Citrix
17 22 (0.61%) CyberArk
18 20 (0.56%) F5