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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 7,178 2,937 2,537
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.42% 10.54% 7.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.23% 11.60% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,754 2,004 1,605
10th Percentile £386 £363 £363
25th Percentile £455 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £644 £650 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £545 £530 £540
% change year-on-year +2.83% -1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 62 67
10th Percentile £20.76 £28.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.65 £42.07
Median hourly rate £60.50 £49.25 £61.06
Median % change year-on-year +22.84% -19.34% +29.39%
75th Percentile £80.04 £60.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £77.13 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £49.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +22.84% -17.92% +14.95%

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 39,385 25,311 28,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,009 16,087 17,408
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,837 1,536 1,254
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.22 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +13 3,774 £560 +1.63% 3,935
North of England +6 1,078 £500 - 1,046
South East +11 907 £550 +4.76% 1,293
Midlands +7 637 £500 -4.76% 696
North West +3 536 £525 +5.00% 610
West Midlands +7 517 £492 -10.55% 489
Yorkshire +8 472 £500 - 329
South West +7 376 £550 - 401
East of England +9 228 £510 -7.27% 362
East Midlands -1 105 £500 +12.99% 205
North East 0 79 £490 -5.31% 111
South Coast - 1 £450 -
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
1 353 (4.92%) Confluence
2 197 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 68 (0.95%) CMS
4 52 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 43 (0.60%) Apache
6 30 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 24 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.31%) SAS
9 13 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 9 (0.13%) WordPress
12 8 (0.11%) CICS
13 7 (0.098%) nginx
13 7 (0.098%) Palantir Foundry
14 6 (0.084%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.084%) Jupyter
14 6 (0.084%) Oracle Workflow
14 6 (0.084%) WebSphere
15 5 (0.070%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.070%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 319 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 171 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 163 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
4 135 (1.88%) Microsoft Project
5 72 (1.00%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.35%) Revit
7 19 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 18 (0.25%) Navisworks
9 15 (0.21%) Chatbot
9 15 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
10 11 (0.15%) Trello
11 9 (0.13%) ProjectWise
12 6 (0.084%) Adobe XD
12 6 (0.084%) Windchill
13 5 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.056%) Adobe Illustrator
14 4 (0.056%) Notion
14 4 (0.056%) Photoshop
14 4 (0.056%) Sketch
15 3 (0.042%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 253 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 95 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 32 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
5 29 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 28 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
7 25 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
8 24 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
9 23 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
10 22 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
11 20 (0.28%) SAP HR
12 19 (0.26%) SAP ERP
13 18 (0.25%) Aladdin
13 18 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
13 18 (0.25%) SAP FI
13 18 (0.25%) SAP HCM
14 17 (0.24%) SAP MDG
15 16 (0.22%) SAP SD
16 15 (0.21%) Primavera
16 15 (0.21%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,296 (18.06%) Azure
2 870 (12.12%) AWS
3 560 (7.80%) Power Platform
4 352 (4.90%) GCP
5 277 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
6 248 (3.46%) SaaS
7 225 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
8 180 (2.51%) GitHub
9 169 (2.35%) Entra ID
10 147 (2.05%) Snowflake
11 142 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
12 106 (1.48%) Microsoft Copilot
13 100 (1.39%) Serverless
14 93 (1.30%) Power Automate
15 83 (1.16%) PowerApps
15 83 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
16 75 (1.04%) Amazon S3
17 71 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
18 70 (0.98%) OCI
19 69 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 140 (1.95%) Firewall
2 134 (1.87%) Network Security
3 79 (1.10%) WAN
4 71 (0.99%) DNS
5 50 (0.70%) LAN
6 48 (0.67%) VPN
7 46 (0.64%) DHCP
8 44 (0.61%) TCP/IP
9 37 (0.52%) SD-WAN
10 27 (0.38%) 4G
10 27 (0.38%) 5G
10 27 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 25 (0.35%) BGP
12 23 (0.32%) Internet
12 23 (0.32%) Wireless
13 21 (0.29%) MPLS
14 20 (0.28%) Broadband
15 17 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
16 16 (0.22%) SAN
16 16 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 434 (6.05%) Power BI
2 203 (2.83%) Metadata
3 200 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
4 116 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 98 (1.37%) Data Lake
6 87 (1.21%) Tableau
7 72 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
8 51 (0.71%) BigQuery
8 51 (0.71%) Delta Lake
8 51 (0.71%) Relational Database
9 49 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 47 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
11 44 (0.61%) MongoDB
12 37 (0.52%) Looker
13 32 (0.45%) NoSQL
13 32 (0.45%) Oracle Database
14 28 (0.39%) DynamoDB
15 27 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
16 23 (0.32%) MySQL
17 22 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 658 (9.17%) JIRA
2 143 (1.99%) Git
3 97 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 94 (1.31%) GitLab
5 71 (0.99%) Selenium
6 48 (0.67%) Cucumber
7 43 (0.60%) JUnit
8 34 (0.47%) Gatling
9 31 (0.43%) Postman
9 31 (0.43%) SonarQube
10 19 (0.26%) Cypress.io
10 19 (0.26%) Zephyr
11 16 (0.22%) JMeter
12 14 (0.20%) Maven
13 13 (0.18%) LoadRunner
14 12 (0.17%) WebDriver
15 11 (0.15%) Claude Code
16 10 (0.14%) Mockito
17 9 (0.13%) ERwin
17 9 (0.13%) MSI
General
1 3,835 (53.43%) Social Skills
2 2,374 (33.07%) Finance
3 1,205 (16.79%) Analytical Skills
4 938 (13.07%) Public Sector
5 734 (10.23%) Banking
6 436 (6.07%) Influencing Skills
7 414 (5.77%) Retail
8 321 (4.47%) Organisational Skills
9 313 (4.36%) Legal
10 258 (3.59%) Manufacturing
11 238 (3.32%) Marketing
12 233 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
13 191 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
14 180 (2.51%) Telecoms
15 147 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 135 (1.88%) Aerospace
17 118 (1.64%) Local Government
18 113 (1.57%) Front Office
19 95 (1.32%) Billing
20 94 (1.31%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,033 (14.39%) Analyst
2 979 (13.64%) Lead
3 960 (13.37%) Architect
4 785 (10.94%) Project Manager
5 757 (10.55%) Senior
6 662 (9.22%) Business Analyst
7 467 (6.51%) Consultant
8 324 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
9 248 (3.46%) Senior Manager
10 209 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
11 187 (2.61%) IT Manager
12 177 (2.47%) Product Manager
12 177 (2.47%) Programme Manager
13 164 (2.28%) Developer
14 139 (1.94%) Technical Manager
15 137 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
16 131 (1.83%) Product Owner
17 119 (1.66%) Designer
18 118 (1.64%) Data Analyst
18 118 (1.64%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (3.69%) Terraform
2 198 (2.76%) REST
3 135 (1.88%) Middleware
4 103 (1.43%) .NET
5 85 (1.18%) Kafka
6 84 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
7 80 (1.11%) SOAP
8 71 (0.99%) PySpark
9 65 (0.91%) JSON
9 65 (0.91%) React
10 63 (0.88%) OAuth
11 59 (0.82%) Spring
12 52 (0.72%) Playwright
13 51 (0.71%) HTML
14 49 (0.68%) LDAP
15 46 (0.64%) XML
16 44 (0.61%) CSS
17 41 (0.57%) SailPoint
17 41 (0.57%) Web Services
18 39 (0.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 557 (7.76%) Product Ownership
2 429 (5.98%) Onboarding
3 287 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 231 (3.22%) Management Information System
5 182 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 170 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
7 163 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
8 136 (1.89%) Data Centre
9 121 (1.69%) AI Agents
10 117 (1.63%) Data Structures
11 115 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
11 115 (1.60%) Operational Technology
12 107 (1.49%) Virtual Team
13 97 (1.35%) Security Posture
14 95 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
15 90 (1.25%) CMDB
15 90 (1.25%) NHS
16 78 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
17 75 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
18 65 (0.91%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 231 (3.22%) Windows
2 149 (2.08%) Linux
3 73 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 53 (0.74%) Unix
5 28 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.26%) Android
7 17 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.20%) VMS
8 14 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.14%) zOS
10 7 (0.098%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.070%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.056%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.042%) CentOS
13 3 (0.042%) Solaris
14 2 (0.028%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.028%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,244 (31.26%) Agile
2 1,307 (18.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,216 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
4 1,181 (16.45%) Roadmaps
5 1,009 (14.06%) Migration
6 958 (13.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 953 (13.28%) Decision-Making
8 938 (13.07%) AI
9 842 (11.73%) DevOps
10 834 (11.62%) Project Delivery
11 817 (11.38%) Analytics
12 813 (11.33%) Project Management
13 724 (10.09%) Change Management
14 712 (9.92%) Risk Management
14 712 (9.92%) Workshop Facilitation
15 704 (9.81%) CI/CD
16 599 (8.34%) Cybersecurity
17 598 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
18 592 (8.25%) Requirements Gathering
19 586 (8.16%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 658 (9.17%) SQL
2 470 (6.55%) Python
3 195 (2.72%) Java
4 149 (2.08%) JavaScript
5 144 (2.01%) PowerShell
6 90 (1.25%) C#
7 73 (1.02%) Bash
8 59 (0.82%) TypeScript
9 41 (0.57%) ABAP
9 41 (0.57%) Bicep
10 32 (0.45%) Korn
11 27 (0.38%) R
12 24 (0.33%) T-SQL
13 23 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 23 (0.32%) PL/SQL
14 18 (0.25%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.25%) VBA
15 17 (0.24%) Go
16 13 (0.18%) Apex Code
17 11 (0.15%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1,453 (20.24%) Security Cleared
2 1,071 (14.92%) SC Cleared
3 494 (6.88%) Degree
4 314 (4.37%) PMP
5 279 (3.89%) PMI Certification
6 265 (3.69%) DV Cleared
7 256 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 163 (2.27%) CISSP
9 129 (1.80%) Azure Certification
10 122 (1.70%) CISM
11 92 (1.28%) AWS Certification
12 91 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
13 77 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
13 77 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
14 56 (0.78%) ACCA
14 56 (0.78%) Master's Degree
15 53 (0.74%) CIMA
16 50 (0.70%) ISTQB
16 50 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 48 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 554 (7.72%) Data Quality
2 409 (5.70%) QA
3 324 (4.51%) PMO
4 219 (3.05%) GDPR
5 195 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 191 (2.66%) Accessibility
7 172 (2.40%) NIST
8 136 (1.89%) GRC
9 99 (1.38%) SLA
10 75 (1.04%) WCAG
11 63 (0.88%) NCSC
12 38 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
13 29 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 27 (0.38%) IFRS
15 26 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
16 25 (0.35%) ISO 20022
17 24 (0.33%) GxP
18 23 (0.32%) COBIT
18 23 (0.32%) PCI DSS
19 20 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 186 (2.59%) Active Directory
2 170 (2.37%) Docker
3 74 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.40%) vSphere
5 27 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 25 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (0.32%) VMware NSX
8 18 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.15%) NFS
10 8 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.084%) Postfix
11 6 (0.084%) Time Sharing Option
12 4 (0.056%) FreeRADIUS
12 4 (0.056%) IAG
13 3 (0.042%) Ceph
13 3 (0.042%) Firmware
13 3 (0.042%) KVM
13 3 (0.042%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 243 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 107 (1.49%) Ansible
3 61 (0.85%) Grafana
4 49 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 40 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.43%) SCCM
8 17 (0.24%) Argo
9 13 (0.18%) Control-M
10 11 (0.15%) Kibana
11 9 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.13%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.11%) Tivoli
13 7 (0.098%) HP ALM
13 7 (0.098%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 7 (0.098%) WMI
14 6 (0.084%) Oracle RMAN
14 6 (0.084%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.084%) Puppet
14 6 (0.084%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 1,198 (16.69%) Microsoft
2 546 (7.61%) SAP
3 382 (5.32%) Oracle
4 361 (5.03%) ServiceNow
5 253 (3.52%) Salesforce
6 224 (3.12%) Databricks
7 165 (2.30%) Google
8 106 (1.48%) VMware
9 105 (1.46%) Workday
10 93 (1.30%) Cisco
11 76 (1.06%) CyberArk
11 76 (1.06%) IBM
12 62 (0.86%) Adobe
13 60 (0.84%) Splunk
14 44 (0.61%) Ariba
15 43 (0.60%) MuleSoft
16 42 (0.59%) Informatica
17 35 (0.49%) Fortinet
18 31 (0.43%) Bloomberg
19 30 (0.42%) Foundry