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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 4,249 2,349 2,877
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.70% 9.56% 7.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.56% 10.49% 8.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,927 1,607 2,031
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £447 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 67 77
10th Percentile £16.15 £35.00 £14.68
25th Percentile £31.25 £45.59 £30.16
Median hourly rate £48.00 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +9.09% -2.54%
75th Percentile £80.07 £75.00 £72.33
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.24 £85.26
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -32.50% +20.00% -11.40%

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 33,832 22,384 32,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 91.08% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,627 14,686 21,247
10th Percentile £315 £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 £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,111 905 2,227
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.79 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.91
Median hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.10% -11.43% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.47
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £29.90 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.11% -14.57% -6.67%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +7 2,176 £550 -4.35% 529
North of England -2 626 £475 -7.32% 174
South East +6 513 £574 +14.80% 343
Midlands -2 494 £485 -3.00% 146
West Midlands -2 332 £492 -6.29% 90
North West -3 305 £468 -10.22% 90
Yorkshire +10 291 £500 - 70
South West +25 234 £550 +0.46% 80
East Midlands +4 159 £463 +3.12% 55
East of England +3 124 £550 -8.33% 74
North East -6 47 £440 -20.00% 18
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
1 293 (6.90%) Confluence
2 123 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 36 (0.85%) CMS
4 34 (0.80%) SAS
5 32 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (0.38%) Appian
7 12 (0.28%) Apache
8 9 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
9 8 (0.19%) TPMS
10 7 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.12%) nginx
12 4 (0.094%) Camunda
13 3 (0.071%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.071%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.047%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 222 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 140 (3.29%) Microsoft Project
3 109 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 108 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
5 77 (1.81%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.26%) Trello
9 7 (0.16%) Sketch
10 6 (0.14%) Revit
11 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.094%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.094%) Navisworks
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.047%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.047%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.047%) InVision
13 2 (0.047%) Windchill
14 1 (0.024%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 128 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 43 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
4 23 (0.54%) Aladdin
5 18 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 17 (0.40%) Workday HCM
7 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
8 15 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
9 13 (0.31%) Endur
9 13 (0.31%) SAP CO
9 13 (0.31%) SAP FI
10 12 (0.28%) Loan IQ
10 12 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
10 12 (0.28%) SAP ERP
10 12 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
11 11 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
11 11 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
11 11 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
12 10 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
12 10 (0.24%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 611 (14.38%) Azure
2 437 (10.28%) AWS
3 239 (5.62%) Power Platform
4 181 (4.26%) GCP
5 130 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
6 121 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
7 112 (2.64%) SaaS
8 88 (2.07%) Entra ID
9 57 (1.34%) Snowflake
10 56 (1.32%) OCI
11 53 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
12 48 (1.13%) OpenShift
13 43 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 43 (1.01%) GitHub
13 43 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
14 38 (0.89%) Power Automate
15 37 (0.87%) Figma
16 34 (0.80%) Amazon S3
16 34 (0.80%) Google Workspace
16 34 (0.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.44%) Firewall
1 61 (1.44%) Network Security
2 54 (1.27%) WAN
3 39 (0.92%) LAN
4 34 (0.80%) SD-WAN
5 32 (0.75%) DNS
6 28 (0.66%) VPN
7 26 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (0.54%) BGP
9 20 (0.47%) TCP/IP
10 19 (0.45%) OSPF
11 17 (0.40%) MPLS
12 16 (0.38%) SSL
13 12 (0.28%) DHCP
13 12 (0.28%) NGFW
13 12 (0.28%) Wireless
14 11 (0.26%) 5G
14 11 (0.26%) BIG-IP
14 11 (0.26%) Broadband
14 11 (0.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (4.75%) Power BI
2 90 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
3 78 (1.84%) Metadata
4 63 (1.48%) Tableau
5 45 (1.06%) SQL Server
6 39 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 32 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
8 30 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (0.59%) Relational Database
10 24 (0.56%) NoSQL
11 23 (0.54%) Power Query
12 21 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (0.45%) Big Data
14 17 (0.40%) DynamoDB
15 16 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
16 15 (0.35%) BigQuery
17 14 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
18 13 (0.31%) Oracle Database
19 12 (0.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 513 (12.07%) JIRA
2 76 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 68 (1.60%) Git
4 39 (0.92%) GitLab
5 31 (0.73%) Selenium
6 26 (0.61%) 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%) MLflow
11 12 (0.28%) Mockito
11 12 (0.28%) SpecFlow
12 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.26%) JMeter
13 10 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.19%) DbUnit
14 8 (0.19%) jMock
14 8 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
15 7 (0.16%) Artifactory
General
1 2,144 (50.46%) Social Skills
2 1,489 (35.04%) Finance
3 669 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
4 461 (10.85%) Public Sector
5 414 (9.74%) Banking
6 211 (4.97%) Influencing Skills
7 192 (4.52%) Retail
8 170 (4.00%) Legal
9 149 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
10 137 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
11 135 (3.18%) Marketing
12 119 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
13 108 (2.54%) Telecoms
14 107 (2.52%) Manufacturing
15 77 (1.81%) Financial Institution
16 63 (1.48%) Front Office
16 63 (1.48%) Local Government
17 55 (1.29%) Law
18 48 (1.13%) Investment Banking
19 42 (0.99%) Billing
Job Titles
1 721 (16.97%) Analyst
2 638 (15.02%) Project Manager
3 585 (13.77%) Lead
4 532 (12.52%) Business Analyst
5 469 (11.04%) Architect
6 436 (10.26%) Senior
7 200 (4.71%) Consultant
8 186 (4.38%) Senior Manager
9 181 (4.26%) Programme Manager
10 168 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
11 141 (3.32%) Delivery Manager
12 131 (3.08%) IT Manager
13 93 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
14 92 (2.17%) Senior Project Manager
15 89 (2.09%) Change Manager
16 86 (2.02%) Technical Manager
17 83 (1.95%) Product Manager
18 81 (1.91%) Data Analyst
19 77 (1.81%) Test Manager
20 75 (1.77%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (2.61%) REST
2 80 (1.88%) Oracle Fusion
3 72 (1.69%) Middleware
4 58 (1.37%) SOAP
5 37 (0.87%) OAuth
6 36 (0.85%) .NET
7 35 (0.82%) JSON
8 32 (0.75%) Kafka
8 32 (0.75%) XML
9 30 (0.71%) OpenID
10 28 (0.66%) SAML
11 26 (0.61%) RESTful
11 26 (0.61%) Web Services
12 25 (0.59%) AngularJS
12 25 (0.59%) React
12 25 (0.59%) Spring
13 23 (0.54%) Playwright
13 23 (0.54%) Swagger
14 20 (0.47%) CSS
14 20 (0.47%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 331 (7.79%) Product Ownership
2 211 (4.97%) Onboarding
3 137 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
4 127 (2.99%) Cloud Native
5 114 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
6 109 (2.57%) Management Information System
7 85 (2.00%) Data Centre
8 74 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 71 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 57 (1.34%) Virtual Team
11 54 (1.27%) NHS
12 53 (1.25%) PMI
13 45 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
13 45 (1.06%) Public Cloud
14 41 (0.96%) Operational Technology
15 35 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
16 34 (0.80%) FMCG
17 30 (0.71%) CMDB
18 29 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
18 29 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 119 (2.80%) Windows
2 64 (1.51%) Linux
3 25 (0.59%) Android
3 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 21 (0.49%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.45%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.42%) Unix
7 15 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.26%) VMS
9 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.12%) Solaris
11 3 (0.071%) AIX
12 2 (0.047%) CentOS
12 2 (0.047%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.047%) zOS
13 1 (0.024%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.024%) MVS
13 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,383 (32.55%) Agile
2 693 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
3 663 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
4 652 (15.34%) Migration
5 646 (15.20%) Project Management
6 550 (12.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 533 (12.54%) Roadmaps
8 518 (12.19%) Change Management
9 476 (11.20%) Decision-Making
10 462 (10.87%) DevOps
11 453 (10.66%) Project Delivery
12 413 (9.72%) Risk Management
13 387 (9.11%) Analytics
14 368 (8.66%) User Acceptance Testing
15 351 (8.26%) Scrum
16 348 (8.19%) AI
17 340 (8.00%) Validation
18 337 (7.93%) Workshop Facilitation
19 318 (7.48%) Requirements Gathering
20 307 (7.23%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 333 (7.84%) SQL
2 237 (5.58%) Python
3 92 (2.17%) Java
4 74 (1.74%) PowerShell
5 53 (1.25%) C#
6 50 (1.18%) JavaScript
7 29 (0.68%) Bash
8 25 (0.59%) VBA
9 23 (0.54%) TypeScript
10 17 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (0.38%) Korn
12 15 (0.35%) R
13 12 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.24%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.21%) ABAP
15 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.19%) Bicep
17 7 (0.16%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.14%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 857 (20.17%) Security Cleared
2 655 (15.42%) SC Cleared
3 355 (8.35%) Degree
4 229 (5.39%) PMP
5 216 (5.08%) PMI Certification
6 113 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 106 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 68 (1.60%) CISSP
9 64 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 60 (1.41%) Master's Degree
11 50 (1.18%) CISM
12 41 (0.96%) Azure Certification
13 34 (0.80%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.66%) CBAP
15 27 (0.64%) ISTQB
16 25 (0.59%) IIBA
17 24 (0.56%) APMP
18 23 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
19 22 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
19 22 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (6.78%) QA
2 231 (5.44%) GDPR
3 206 (4.85%) Data Quality
4 187 (4.40%) PMO
5 160 (3.77%) NIST
6 137 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 74 (1.74%) GRC
8 66 (1.55%) SLA
9 53 (1.25%) PCI DSS
10 48 (1.13%) Accessibility
11 41 (0.96%) NCSC
12 36 (0.85%) 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 93 (2.19%) Docker
2 69 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 36 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.24%) Postfix
5 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.19%) NFS
7 7 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
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
1 132 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 78 (1.84%) Terraform
3 51 (1.20%) Ansible
4 45 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (0.85%) Grafana
6 25 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 22 (0.52%) 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 5 (0.12%) RSA Archer
11 5 (0.12%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.094%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.094%) Istio
12 4 (0.094%) Kibana
13 3 (0.071%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.071%) vMotion
Vendors
1 478 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 354 (8.33%) SAP
3 249 (5.86%) Oracle
4 199 (4.68%) ServiceNow
5 175 (4.12%) Salesforce
6 95 (2.24%) Google
7 79 (1.86%) Workday
8 74 (1.74%) Databricks
9 73 (1.72%) VMware
10 46 (1.08%) Splunk
11 44 (1.04%) Cisco
12 40 (0.94%) CyberArk
13 35 (0.82%) Ariba
14 33 (0.78%) IBM
14 33 (0.78%) MuleSoft
15 29 (0.68%) Citrix
16 28 (0.66%) Adobe
17 26 (0.61%) Atlassian
17 26 (0.61%) Informatica
18 24 (0.56%) Red Hat