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

6 months to
21 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 3,634 2,278 3,067
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.26% 8.55% 8.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.77% 9.57% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,481 1,418 2,127
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £445 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 51 91
10th Percentile £15.50 £35.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £36.50 £31.46
Median hourly rate £40.76 £56.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.87% +13.00% -4.24%
75th Percentile £63.81 £66.75 £63.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £80.00 £79.17
UK median hourly rate £40.44 £54.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -25.12% +8.00% -5.61%

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 28,450 23,808 32,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.12% 89.33% 87.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,222 14,593 21,730
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £409 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,765 770 1,701
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -8.27% +9.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.01 £63.29
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -13.33% +17.19%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +7 1,849 £550 -1.35% 488
North of England +4 559 £475 -9.52% 245
Midlands -1 451 £477 -9.24% 179
South East +8 404 £525 +0.24% 511
North West +5 287 £463 -11.90% 117
West Midlands -5 286 £500 -4.76% 102
Yorkshire +10 243 £500 - 101
South West +13 190 £550 +4.76% 140
East Midlands +12 165 £449 -5.47% 74
East of England -3 100 £525 -4.55% 152
North East +4 42 £450 -25.73% 28
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
1 254 (6.99%) Confluence
2 110 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 35 (0.96%) SAS
4 30 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (0.80%) CMS
6 14 (0.39%) Appian
7 11 (0.30%) 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%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.083%) WordPress
Applications
1 214 (5.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 123 (3.38%) Microsoft Project
3 119 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
4 105 (2.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 73 (2.01%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.50%) Trello
7 13 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.33%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.11%) Sketch
10 3 (0.083%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.055%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.055%) InVision
12 1 (0.028%) Blender
12 1 (0.028%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.028%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.028%) Simulink
12 1 (0.028%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.028%) UXPin
12 1 (0.028%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 133 (3.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
4 21 (0.58%) Aladdin
5 20 (0.55%) Workday HCM
6 19 (0.52%) Endur
7 16 (0.44%) Primavera
8 14 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
8 14 (0.39%) SAP CO
9 13 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
9 13 (0.36%) SAP EWM
9 13 (0.36%) SAP FI
10 12 (0.33%) NetSuite
10 12 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
11 11 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
11 11 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
12 10 (0.28%) Loan IQ
12 10 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
12 10 (0.28%) SAP HCM
13 9 (0.25%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 522 (14.36%) Azure
2 354 (9.74%) AWS
3 238 (6.55%) Power Platform
4 161 (4.43%) GCP
5 113 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
6 108 (2.97%) SaaS
7 100 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
8 76 (2.09%) Entra ID
9 55 (1.51%) OpenShift
10 44 (1.21%) GitHub
11 43 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
12 40 (1.10%) OCI
13 39 (1.07%) Serverless
14 36 (0.99%) Power Automate
15 32 (0.88%) Snowflake
16 30 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
17 27 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
18 26 (0.72%) PowerApps
19 25 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
20 24 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 75 (2.06%) Firewall
2 37 (1.02%) WAN
3 30 (0.83%) Network Security
4 27 (0.74%) LAN
4 27 (0.74%) SD-WAN
4 27 (0.74%) VPN
5 25 (0.69%) DNS
6 24 (0.66%) SSH
7 18 (0.50%) MPLS
7 18 (0.50%) SSL
8 15 (0.41%) BGP
9 14 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.36%) Broadband
10 13 (0.36%) Wireless
11 12 (0.33%) DHCP
12 11 (0.30%) Internet
12 11 (0.30%) SNMP
13 10 (0.28%) Intranet
13 10 (0.28%) OSPF
14 9 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (5.94%) Power BI
2 68 (1.87%) Tableau
3 67 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (1.40%) Metadata
5 28 (0.77%) Power Query
6 27 (0.74%) NoSQL
7 25 (0.69%) Relational Database
8 24 (0.66%) Data Lake
8 24 (0.66%) SQL Server
9 23 (0.63%) BigQuery
10 20 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (0.52%) MySQL
11 19 (0.52%) Oracle Database
12 17 (0.47%) DynamoDB
13 16 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
16 11 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
16 11 (0.30%) RDBMS
16 11 (0.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 451 (12.41%) JIRA
2 71 (1.95%) Git
3 69 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 52 (1.43%) GitLab
5 28 (0.77%) Selenium
6 21 (0.58%) JUnit
7 17 (0.47%) Maven
8 12 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.28%) MLflow
10 9 (0.25%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.22%) Gradle
11 8 (0.22%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
13 6 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.17%) Mockito
14 5 (0.14%) Postman
14 5 (0.14%) SonarLint
15 4 (0.11%) Axure RP
15 4 (0.11%) REST Assured
15 4 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 1,946 (53.55%) Social Skills
2 1,220 (33.57%) Finance
3 617 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
4 357 (9.82%) Banking
5 355 (9.77%) Public Sector
6 191 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
7 152 (4.18%) Legal
8 151 (4.16%) Retail
9 131 (3.60%) Marketing
10 119 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
11 114 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
12 111 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
13 106 (2.92%) Manufacturing
14 104 (2.86%) Telecoms
15 75 (2.06%) Front Office
16 60 (1.65%) Law
17 56 (1.54%) Financial Institution
18 54 (1.49%) Investment Banking
19 53 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 44 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 707 (19.46%) Analyst
2 544 (14.97%) Project Manager
3 513 (14.12%) Business Analyst
4 410 (11.28%) Lead
5 400 (11.01%) Architect
6 308 (8.48%) Senior
7 239 (6.58%) Consultant
8 156 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
9 132 (3.63%) Programme Manager
10 121 (3.33%) Senior Manager
11 98 (2.70%) IT Manager
12 92 (2.53%) Delivery Manager
13 84 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
14 80 (2.20%) Change Manager
14 80 (2.20%) Data Analyst
15 71 (1.95%) Senior Business Analyst
16 70 (1.93%) Product Owner
17 67 (1.84%) Developer
18 66 (1.82%) Senior Project Manager
19 65 (1.79%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (2.56%) REST
2 61 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
3 40 (1.10%) Middleware
4 37 (1.02%) SOAP
5 36 (0.99%) .NET
6 32 (0.88%) OAuth
7 31 (0.85%) JSON
7 31 (0.85%) Kafka
8 29 (0.80%) HTML
8 29 (0.80%) XML
9 26 (0.72%) OpenID
10 25 (0.69%) RESTful
11 23 (0.63%) SailPoint
11 23 (0.63%) SAML
12 21 (0.58%) React
13 20 (0.55%) pytest
14 19 (0.52%) CSS
14 19 (0.52%) Spring Boot
15 17 (0.47%) ADO
15 17 (0.47%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 288 (7.93%) Product Ownership
2 182 (5.01%) Onboarding
3 102 (2.81%) Cloud Native
3 102 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
4 90 (2.48%) Management Information System
5 89 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
6 81 (2.23%) Data Centre
7 78 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 60 (1.65%) PMI
9 50 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
10 39 (1.07%) NHS
11 38 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
12 37 (1.02%) CMDB
12 37 (1.02%) Public Cloud
13 32 (0.88%) Operational Technology
14 30 (0.83%) Virtual Team
15 29 (0.80%) Data Structures
16 27 (0.74%) FMCG
17 26 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
18 24 (0.66%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 102 (2.81%) Windows
2 52 (1.43%) Linux
3 31 (0.85%) Unix
4 21 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.52%) 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 1,177 (32.39%) Agile
2 676 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
3 594 (16.35%) Project Management
4 515 (14.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 511 (14.06%) Migration
6 506 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 441 (12.14%) Change Management
8 429 (11.81%) Roadmaps
9 422 (11.61%) Project Delivery
10 343 (9.44%) Decision-Making
11 334 (9.19%) DevOps
12 311 (8.56%) Risk Management
13 308 (8.48%) Analytics
14 298 (8.20%) Requirements Gathering
14 298 (8.20%) Workshop Facilitation
15 297 (8.17%) Scrum
16 265 (7.29%) Business Intelligence
16 265 (7.29%) User Acceptance Testing
17 263 (7.24%) Waterfall
18 245 (6.74%) AI
Programming Languages
1 279 (7.68%) SQL
2 253 (6.96%) Python
3 77 (2.12%) PowerShell
4 75 (2.06%) Java
5 52 (1.43%) JavaScript
6 43 (1.18%) C#
7 33 (0.91%) Bash
8 25 (0.69%) VBA
9 19 (0.52%) TypeScript
10 17 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 17 (0.47%) R
11 14 (0.39%) Korn
12 12 (0.33%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.22%) Bicep
13 8 (0.22%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.19%) ABAP
14 7 (0.19%) VB
15 6 (0.17%) C++
16 4 (0.11%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 614 (16.90%) Security Cleared
2 464 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 360 (9.91%) Degree
4 200 (5.50%) PMI Certification
5 181 (4.98%) PMP
6 90 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 68 (1.87%) DV Cleared
8 67 (1.84%) Master's Degree
9 61 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 55 (1.51%) CISSP
11 36 (0.99%) CISM
12 32 (0.88%) CBAP
13 29 (0.80%) Azure Certification
14 25 (0.69%) ISTQB
15 24 (0.66%) AWS Certification
16 22 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
17 20 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
18 19 (0.52%) ACCA
18 19 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
18 19 (0.52%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (6.22%) QA
2 222 (6.11%) GDPR
3 132 (3.63%) PMO
4 128 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 126 (3.47%) Data Quality
6 112 (3.08%) NIST
7 60 (1.65%) PCI DSS
8 56 (1.54%) GRC
9 44 (1.21%) SLA
10 42 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 36 (0.99%) Accessibility
12 31 (0.85%) NCSC
13 27 (0.74%) IFRS
14 19 (0.52%) PSD2
15 15 (0.41%) COBIT
15 15 (0.41%) WCAG
16 14 (0.39%) IFRS 17
16 14 (0.39%) ISO 20022
17 13 (0.36%) Basel III
18 12 (0.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 84 (2.31%) Docker
2 65 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.85%) 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 (0.055%) Firmware
9 2 (0.055%) 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
1 114 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 83 (2.28%) Terraform
3 46 (1.27%) Ansible
4 29 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.58%) Grafana
6 17 (0.47%) SCCM
6 17 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.33%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.30%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.19%) HP ALM
10 6 (0.17%) Kibana
10 6 (0.17%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.14%) Puppet
11 5 (0.14%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.11%) PingFederate
13 3 (0.083%) Control-M
13 3 (0.083%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.083%) Nessus
14 2 (0.055%) Nagios
Vendors
1 439 (12.08%) Microsoft
2 309 (8.50%) SAP
3 207 (5.70%) Oracle
4 153 (4.21%) ServiceNow
5 135 (3.71%) Salesforce
6 91 (2.50%) Workday
7 79 (2.17%) Google
8 54 (1.49%) Databricks
9 43 (1.18%) IBM
10 42 (1.16%) VMware
11 41 (1.13%) Cisco
12 36 (0.99%) Splunk
13 31 (0.85%) Ariba
14 30 (0.83%) Fortinet
15 28 (0.77%) MuleSoft
16 27 (0.74%) CyberArk
17 25 (0.69%) Adobe
18 23 (0.63%) Planview
19 22 (0.61%) Citrix
20 21 (0.58%) Red Hat