Stakeholder Management Contract Job Trends

Stakeholder Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Stakeholder Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,269 2,846 3,196
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 10.61% 9.72% 7.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.51% 10.69% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,535 1,920 2,222
10th Percentile £370 £363 £356
25th Percentile £450 £434 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £536
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -2.10% -2.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 62 97
10th Percentile £20.05 £34.66 £15.17
25th Percentile £32.50 £43.13 £23.63
Median hourly rate £52.00 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - +13.27%
75th Percentile £84.00 £74.69 £72.90
90th Percentile £104.00 £78.50 £85.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.37% +12.50% +11.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,104 26,621 36,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.75% 90.94% 85.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,283 16,896 23,594
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,537 1,167 2,565
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%
75th Percentile £67.89 £56.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

Stakeholder Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Stakeholder Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Stakeholder Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Management over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the UK

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Stakeholder Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Management over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the UK

Stakeholder Management
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +6 4,606 £540 +0.47% 1,807
London +8 2,363 £554 -3.65% 838
UK excluding London +6 2,356 £513 +2.50% 1,253
Work from Home +11 1,676 £525 +3.96% 934
North of England -1 689 £500 - 293
South East +2 546 £550 +4.76% 452
Midlands +4 531 £500 - 194
West Midlands -1 363 £500 -4.76% 119
North West -1 330 £484 -4.63% 167
Yorkshire +10 323 £500 +1.01% 100
South West +18 272 £550 +4.76% 119
Scotland +1 166 £475 - 72
East Midlands +10 161 £465 +5.08% 75
East of England -2 130 £525 -12.50% 88
North East -9 50 £463 -10.84% 30
Northern Ireland +20 30 £475 -11.63% 34
Wales +5 24 £513 +12.95% 24

Stakeholder Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 308 (5.85%) Confluence
2 142 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 54 (1.02%) CMS
4 46 (0.87%) SAS
5 24 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (0.30%) Apache
6 16 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
7 11 (0.21%) Appian
8 9 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 8 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
10 7 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.11%) TPMS
11 6 (0.11%) WordPress
12 5 (0.095%) Kentico
12 5 (0.095%) nginx
13 4 (0.076%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
14 3 (0.057%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.057%) WebSphere
Applications
1 254 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 144 (2.73%) Microsoft Project
3 129 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 119 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
5 82 (1.56%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.19%) Revit
9 8 (0.15%) AutoCAD
10 6 (0.11%) Trello
11 4 (0.076%) Navisworks
12 3 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.057%) Sketch
13 2 (0.038%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.038%) Notion
14 1 (0.019%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.019%) Adobe XD
14 1 (0.019%) Autodesk Smoke
14 1 (0.019%) Camtasia
14 1 (0.019%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 211 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
4 29 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 25 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 24 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
7 21 (0.40%) Aladdin
8 20 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
9 17 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
9 17 (0.32%) SAP FI
10 16 (0.30%) SAP CO
11 15 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
11 15 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
12 14 (0.27%) SAP ERP
12 14 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
12 14 (0.27%) SAP SD
13 12 (0.23%) SAP HCM
13 12 (0.23%) SAP MDG
14 11 (0.21%) Workday HCM
15 10 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 812 (15.41%) Azure
2 591 (11.22%) AWS
3 302 (5.73%) Power Platform
4 219 (4.16%) GCP
5 175 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
6 154 (2.92%) SaaS
7 137 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
8 117 (2.22%) Entra ID
9 80 (1.52%) Snowflake
10 65 (1.23%) GitHub
10 65 (1.23%) OCI
11 61 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
12 59 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
13 50 (0.95%) Amazon S3
14 49 (0.93%) Serverless
15 48 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
16 39 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
16 39 (0.74%) OpenShift
17 38 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
17 38 (0.72%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 79 (1.50%) Firewall
2 76 (1.44%) Network Security
3 62 (1.18%) WAN
4 48 (0.91%) LAN
5 39 (0.74%) DNS
6 30 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
7 29 (0.55%) SD-WAN
8 24 (0.46%) VPN
9 23 (0.44%) TCP/IP
10 22 (0.42%) BGP
11 20 (0.38%) MPLS
12 17 (0.32%) OSPF
13 15 (0.28%) DHCP
13 15 (0.28%) Intranet
14 14 (0.27%) NGFW
15 13 (0.25%) Wireless
16 12 (0.23%) BIG-IP
16 12 (0.23%) SAN
16 12 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
17 10 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (4.76%) Power BI
2 114 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
3 106 (2.01%) Metadata
4 74 (1.40%) Tableau
5 60 (1.14%) Data Lake
6 59 (1.12%) SQL Server
7 37 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
9 31 (0.59%) Relational Database
10 30 (0.57%) Big Data
10 30 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
11 29 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 29 (0.55%) NoSQL
12 26 (0.49%) DynamoDB
13 21 (0.40%) Oracle Database
14 19 (0.36%) Delta Lake
15 17 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
16 16 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
17 15 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
18 14 (0.27%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 565 (10.72%) JIRA
2 83 (1.58%) Jenkins
3 75 (1.42%) Git
4 46 (0.87%) GitLab
5 28 (0.53%) Selenium
6 27 (0.51%) JUnit
7 21 (0.40%) Postman
8 15 (0.28%) Maven
8 15 (0.28%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.25%) JMeter
10 12 (0.23%) Mockito
11 11 (0.21%) MLflow
12 10 (0.19%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.19%) DbUnit
12 10 (0.19%) Zephyr
13 9 (0.17%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.17%) jMock
13 9 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.15%) SpecFlow
15 7 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 2,600 (49.35%) Social Skills
2 1,839 (34.90%) Finance
3 770 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
4 635 (12.05%) Public Sector
5 494 (9.38%) Banking
6 259 (4.92%) Legal
7 249 (4.73%) Retail
8 246 (4.67%) Influencing Skills
9 189 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
10 186 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
11 148 (2.81%) Marketing
12 138 (2.62%) Manufacturing
13 115 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
14 114 (2.16%) Telecoms
15 85 (1.61%) Local Government
16 74 (1.40%) Financial Institution
17 71 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 67 (1.27%) Law
19 65 (1.23%) Investment Banking
20 63 (1.20%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 819 (15.54%) Analyst
2 779 (14.78%) Project Manager
3 754 (14.31%) Lead
4 635 (12.05%) Architect
5 586 (11.12%) Business Analyst
6 542 (10.29%) Senior
7 254 (4.82%) Consultant
8 237 (4.50%) Senior Manager
9 234 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
10 189 (3.59%) Programme Manager
11 182 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
12 160 (3.04%) IT Manager
13 121 (2.30%) Senior Project Manager
14 109 (2.07%) Product Manager
15 102 (1.94%) Technical Manager
16 101 (1.92%) Product Owner
17 95 (1.80%) Change Manager
18 94 (1.78%) Senior Analyst
19 88 (1.67%) Data Analyst
19 88 (1.67%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (2.66%) REST
2 97 (1.84%) Middleware
3 93 (1.77%) Oracle Fusion
4 69 (1.31%) SOAP
5 55 (1.04%) .NET
6 53 (1.01%) OAuth
7 45 (0.85%) Kafka
8 38 (0.72%) JSON
9 37 (0.70%) OpenID
10 35 (0.66%) XML
11 34 (0.65%) Web Services
12 33 (0.63%) RESTful
12 33 (0.63%) Spring
13 31 (0.59%) SAML
14 28 (0.53%) AngularJS
14 28 (0.53%) CSS
15 26 (0.49%) ADO
15 26 (0.49%) React
15 26 (0.49%) SailPoint
16 25 (0.47%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 399 (7.57%) Product Ownership
2 248 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 182 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 169 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
5 149 (2.83%) Management Information System
6 133 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
7 109 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 92 (1.75%) Data Structures
9 88 (1.67%) Virtual Team
10 80 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
11 59 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
11 59 (1.12%) Operational Technology
12 56 (1.06%) NHS
12 56 (1.06%) Public Cloud
13 48 (0.91%) Security Posture
14 47 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
15 46 (0.87%) PMI
15 46 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
16 44 (0.84%) AI Agents
17 42 (0.80%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 155 (2.94%) Windows
2 89 (1.69%) Linux
3 30 (0.57%) Android
4 29 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 27 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 24 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (0.40%) Unix
7 21 (0.40%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.21%) VMS
9 9 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.11%) Solaris
11 4 (0.076%) AIX
11 4 (0.076%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.076%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.076%) zOS
12 3 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.038%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.038%) HPUX
13 2 (0.038%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.038%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,680 (31.88%) Agile
2 825 (15.66%) Continuous Improvement
3 781 (14.82%) Problem-Solving
4 752 (14.27%) Migration
5 723 (13.72%) Project Management
6 676 (12.83%) Roadmaps
7 670 (12.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 605 (11.48%) DevOps
9 589 (11.18%) Decision-Making
10 584 (11.08%) Change Management
11 558 (10.59%) Project Delivery
12 517 (9.81%) Analytics
13 482 (9.15%) Risk Management
14 463 (8.79%) AI
15 458 (8.69%) User Acceptance Testing
16 421 (7.99%) Validation
17 417 (7.91%) Scrum
18 415 (7.88%) CI/CD
19 413 (7.84%) ERP
20 401 (7.61%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 426 (8.09%) SQL
2 283 (5.37%) Python
3 120 (2.28%) Java
4 79 (1.50%) PowerShell
5 50 (0.95%) C#
6 48 (0.91%) JavaScript
7 37 (0.70%) Bash
8 25 (0.47%) TypeScript
9 21 (0.40%) Bicep
9 21 (0.40%) VBA
10 17 (0.32%) ABAP
10 17 (0.32%) Korn
11 15 (0.28%) PL/SQL
12 11 (0.21%) R
13 10 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.19%) Shell Script
13 10 (0.19%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.17%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.13%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,045 (19.83%) Security Cleared
2 818 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 372 (7.06%) Degree
4 255 (4.84%) PMP
5 225 (4.27%) PMI Certification
6 154 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 116 (2.20%) DV Cleared
8 106 (2.01%) CISSP
9 79 (1.50%) CISM
10 66 (1.25%) Azure Certification
11 58 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 50 (0.95%) AWS Certification
12 50 (0.95%) Master's Degree
13 40 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
14 30 (0.57%) ACCA
15 29 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 29 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
16 28 (0.53%) CIMA
16 28 (0.53%) IIBA
16 28 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (5.62%) QA
2 290 (5.50%) Data Quality
3 255 (4.84%) PMO
4 230 (4.37%) GDPR
5 166 (3.15%) NIST
6 149 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 91 (1.73%) SLA
8 89 (1.69%) GRC
9 83 (1.58%) Accessibility
10 59 (1.12%) NCSC
11 53 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 52 (0.99%) PCI DSS
13 33 (0.63%) COBIT
13 33 (0.63%) IFRS
14 29 (0.55%) SOC 2
15 20 (0.38%) JSP 440
15 20 (0.38%) WCAG
16 17 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
16 17 (0.32%) IFRS 17
17 16 (0.30%) PSD2
System Software
1 105 (1.99%) Docker
2 85 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 40 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.23%) Postfix
6 11 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.19%) NFS
8 7 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.095%) vSphere
10 4 (0.076%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.076%) SRDF
10 4 (0.076%) Varnish
11 3 (0.057%) HDFS
11 3 (0.057%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.057%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.038%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.038%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.019%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 152 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 116 (2.20%) Terraform
3 62 (1.18%) Ansible
4 51 (0.97%) Grafana
5 49 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 37 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 36 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.40%) SCCM
9 8 (0.15%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.15%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.13%) Argo
11 6 (0.11%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.095%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.095%) Puppet
12 5 (0.095%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.095%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.076%) Control-M
13 4 (0.076%) EMC VPLEX
13 4 (0.076%) vMotion
Vendors
1 614 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 465 (8.83%) SAP
3 306 (5.81%) Oracle
4 246 (4.67%) ServiceNow
5 193 (3.66%) Salesforce
6 114 (2.16%) Google
7 108 (2.05%) Databricks
8 76 (1.44%) VMware
9 71 (1.35%) Workday
10 52 (0.99%) Splunk
11 51 (0.97%) Ariba
11 51 (0.97%) Cisco
12 43 (0.82%) CyberArk
12 43 (0.82%) MuleSoft
13 36 (0.68%) Adobe
14 34 (0.65%) Informatica
15 30 (0.57%) IBM
16 29 (0.55%) Citrix
17 26 (0.49%) Atlassian
18 25 (0.47%) F5