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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 15 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,373 2,760 2,667
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.00% 10.15% 7.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.05% 11.20% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,599 1,880 1,903
10th Percentile £384 £358 £356
25th Percentile £458 £434 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £533
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +0.84% -3.09%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £744 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £526
% change year-on-year +2.86% -0.10% -4.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 61 80
10th Percentile £25.00 £31.64 £21.91
25th Percentile £35.00 £41.54 £41.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £61.33
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -12.77% +14.28%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £103.75 £78.75 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.82% -10.83% +11.80%

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 38,234 24,648 31,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.43% 90.68% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,071 15,798 20,362
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,374 1,309 2,214
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.70 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +8 2,777 £556 -2.88% 962
North of England -2 780 £500 - 390
South East +7 719 £550 +4.76% 561
Midlands +1 526 £500 -0.15% 237
North West +1 391 £516 +3.25% 228
West Midlands +1 388 £500 -6.23% 153
Yorkshire +5 353 £500 +1.01% 124
South West +10 294 £550 +1.15% 188
East of England +12 167 £525 -4.55% 93
East Midlands +7 127 £500 +13.64% 81
North East -21 48 £475 +5.56% 41
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
1 314 (5.84%) Confluence
2 144 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 57 (1.06%) CMS
4 32 (0.60%) SAS
5 24 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 16 (0.30%) Apache
8 11 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.13%) Apache Spark
9 7 (0.13%) Appian
9 7 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.13%) WordPress
10 6 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.093%) Kentico
12 4 (0.074%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.074%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.056%) Oracle Coherence
13 3 (0.056%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
14 2 (0.037%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 227 (4.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 150 (2.79%) Microsoft Project
3 131 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
4 115 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 67 (1.25%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 13 (0.24%) Revit
9 11 (0.20%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.093%) Navisworks
10 5 (0.093%) Sketch
10 5 (0.093%) Trello
11 4 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.074%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.056%) Notion
13 2 (0.037%) CPLEX
13 2 (0.037%) EngageOne
13 2 (0.037%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.037%) Windchill
14 1 (0.019%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 197 (3.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 68 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 24 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 21 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 20 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
8 17 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
8 17 (0.32%) Workday HCM
9 16 (0.30%) Aladdin
9 16 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
9 16 (0.30%) SAP SD
10 15 (0.28%) SAP FI
11 14 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
11 14 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
12 13 (0.24%) Primavera
13 12 (0.22%) Finacle
13 12 (0.22%) SAP CO
13 12 (0.22%) SAP ERP
14 11 (0.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 908 (16.90%) Azure
2 617 (11.48%) AWS
3 334 (6.22%) Power Platform
4 230 (4.28%) GCP
5 202 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
6 186 (3.46%) SaaS
7 124 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
8 108 (2.01%) Entra ID
9 95 (1.77%) GitHub
10 91 (1.69%) Snowflake
11 71 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
12 61 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
13 60 (1.12%) OCI
14 59 (1.10%) Amazon S3
15 52 (0.97%) Serverless
16 49 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
17 48 (0.89%) PowerApps
18 47 (0.87%) Figma
19 44 (0.82%) PaaS
20 43 (0.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 99 (1.84%) Firewall
2 92 (1.71%) Network Security
3 64 (1.19%) WAN
4 50 (0.93%) LAN
5 47 (0.87%) DNS
6 35 (0.65%) SD-WAN
7 34 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 34 (0.63%) VPN
8 28 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (0.41%) DHCP
10 21 (0.39%) BGP
11 19 (0.35%) OSPF
12 15 (0.28%) Intranet
12 15 (0.28%) SAN
13 14 (0.26%) BIG-IP
13 14 (0.26%) MPLS
13 14 (0.26%) Wireless
14 13 (0.24%) NAS
15 12 (0.22%) 4G
15 12 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 269 (5.01%) Power BI
2 123 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
3 101 (1.88%) Metadata
4 71 (1.32%) Data Lake
5 65 (1.21%) SQL Server
6 59 (1.10%) Tableau
7 47 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
8 38 (0.71%) Relational Database
9 37 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (0.54%) Oracle Database
12 28 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
13 23 (0.43%) Big Data
13 23 (0.43%) DynamoDB
14 22 (0.41%) Delta Lake
14 22 (0.41%) NoSQL
15 17 (0.32%) BigQuery
16 16 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
16 16 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 14 (0.26%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 576 (10.72%) JIRA
2 87 (1.62%) Jenkins
3 80 (1.49%) Git
4 43 (0.80%) GitLab
5 40 (0.74%) Selenium
6 30 (0.56%) JUnit
7 24 (0.45%) Postman
8 19 (0.35%) Cucumber
9 16 (0.30%) SonarQube
10 15 (0.28%) JMeter
11 14 (0.26%) Maven
12 13 (0.24%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.24%) Mockito
13 12 (0.22%) WebDriver
14 10 (0.19%) DbUnit
14 10 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
14 10 (0.19%) Zephyr
15 9 (0.17%) jMock
16 8 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
16 8 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 2,678 (49.84%) Social Skills
2 1,892 (35.21%) Finance
3 861 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
4 662 (12.32%) Public Sector
5 471 (8.77%) Banking
6 329 (6.12%) Retail
7 285 (5.30%) Influencing Skills
8 242 (4.50%) Legal
9 209 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
10 198 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
11 188 (3.50%) Marketing
12 149 (2.77%) Manufacturing
13 131 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
14 130 (2.42%) Telecoms
15 97 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 97 (1.81%) Local Government
16 81 (1.51%) Aerospace
17 77 (1.43%) Billing
18 70 (1.30%) Financial Institution
19 68 (1.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 815 (15.17%) Analyst
2 772 (14.37%) Lead
3 737 (13.72%) Project Manager
4 622 (11.58%) Architect
5 571 (10.63%) Senior
6 548 (10.20%) Business Analyst
7 267 (4.97%) Consultant
8 243 (4.52%) Senior Manager
9 228 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
10 180 (3.35%) Programme Manager
11 176 (3.28%) Delivery Manager
12 164 (3.05%) IT Manager
13 131 (2.44%) Product Manager
14 125 (2.33%) Senior Project Manager
15 110 (2.05%) Product Owner
16 103 (1.92%) Developer
17 102 (1.90%) Technical Manager
18 90 (1.68%) IT Project Manager
19 89 (1.66%) Change Manager
19 89 (1.66%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (2.35%) REST
2 95 (1.77%) Middleware
3 88 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 64 (1.19%) SOAP
5 58 (1.08%) .NET
6 44 (0.82%) JSON
7 40 (0.74%) Kafka
8 37 (0.69%) PySpark
9 36 (0.67%) OAuth
10 34 (0.63%) CSS
10 34 (0.63%) SailPoint
11 33 (0.61%) React
12 32 (0.60%) AngularJS
13 31 (0.58%) HTML
13 31 (0.58%) Spring
14 30 (0.56%) OpenID
14 30 (0.56%) SAML
14 30 (0.56%) Web Services
15 29 (0.54%) XML
16 27 (0.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 395 (7.35%) Product Ownership
2 291 (5.42%) Onboarding
3 173 (3.22%) Cloud Native
4 158 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
5 147 (2.74%) Management Information System
6 125 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
7 114 (2.12%) Data Centre
8 102 (1.90%) Data Structures
9 92 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 88 (1.64%) Virtual Team
11 77 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
12 73 (1.36%) Operational Technology
13 69 (1.28%) NHS
14 66 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
15 65 (1.21%) Security Posture
16 58 (1.08%) AI Agents
17 55 (1.02%) CMDB
18 53 (0.99%) Public Cloud
19 52 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
20 50 (0.93%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 160 (2.98%) Windows
2 84 (1.56%) Linux
3 35 (0.65%) Android
4 33 (0.61%) Unix
5 30 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 27 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.13%) VMS
10 6 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.093%) Solaris
11 5 (0.093%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.074%) AIX
12 4 (0.074%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.074%) zOS
13 3 (0.056%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.037%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.037%) HPUX
15 1 (0.019%) MVS
15 1 (0.019%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,757 (32.70%) Agile
2 922 (17.16%) Continuous Improvement
3 864 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
4 759 (14.13%) Roadmaps
5 756 (14.07%) Migration
6 742 (13.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 681 (12.67%) Project Management
8 651 (12.12%) Decision-Making
9 634 (11.80%) DevOps
10 610 (11.35%) Project Delivery
11 592 (11.02%) Change Management
12 572 (10.65%) AI
13 560 (10.42%) Analytics
14 525 (9.77%) Risk Management
15 476 (8.86%) User Acceptance Testing
16 455 (8.47%) CI/CD
17 450 (8.38%) Workshop Facilitation
18 442 (8.23%) Validation
19 424 (7.89%) ITIL
20 422 (7.85%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 424 (7.89%) SQL
2 307 (5.71%) Python
3 109 (2.03%) Java
4 80 (1.49%) PowerShell
5 63 (1.17%) JavaScript
6 52 (0.97%) C#
7 33 (0.61%) Bash
8 22 (0.41%) Bicep
8 22 (0.41%) Korn
9 21 (0.39%) TypeScript
9 21 (0.39%) VBA
10 20 (0.37%) ABAP
11 17 (0.32%) PL/SQL
12 16 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 14 (0.26%) R
13 14 (0.26%) Shell Script
14 13 (0.24%) T-SQL
15 10 (0.19%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,055 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 788 (14.67%) SC Cleared
3 393 (7.31%) Degree
4 272 (5.06%) PMP
5 237 (4.41%) PMI Certification
6 175 (3.26%) DV Cleared
7 156 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 118 (2.20%) CISSP
9 89 (1.66%) Azure Certification
10 83 (1.54%) CISM
11 58 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 54 (1.01%) AWS Certification
13 50 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
14 45 (0.84%) Master's Degree
15 38 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
15 38 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
16 37 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 30 (0.56%) ACCA
17 30 (0.56%) ISTQB
18 29 (0.54%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 317 (5.90%) Data Quality
2 296 (5.51%) QA
3 261 (4.86%) PMO
4 222 (4.13%) GDPR
5 151 (2.81%) NIST
6 140 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 96 (1.79%) GRC
8 94 (1.75%) Accessibility
9 89 (1.66%) SLA
10 53 (0.99%) NCSC
11 36 (0.67%) PCI DSS
11 36 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 33 (0.61%) SOC 2
13 32 (0.60%) COBIT
14 25 (0.47%) WCAG
15 22 (0.41%) IFRS
16 18 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.30%) JSP 440
17 16 (0.30%) Solvency II
18 15 (0.28%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 104 (1.94%) Docker
2 98 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 44 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.26%) NFS
5 14 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.26%) VMware NSX
6 12 (0.22%) Postfix
7 11 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.15%) vSphere
9 5 (0.093%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.074%) SRDF
10 4 (0.074%) Varnish
11 3 (0.056%) HDFS
11 3 (0.056%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.037%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.037%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.037%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.019%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 145 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 143 (2.66%) Terraform
3 77 (1.43%) Ansible
4 53 (0.99%) Grafana
5 39 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 37 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 33 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.39%) SCCM
9 14 (0.26%) Argo
10 9 (0.17%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.15%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 7 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 7 (0.13%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.11%) Control-M
13 6 (0.11%) Puppet
14 4 (0.074%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.074%) Oracle RMAN
14 4 (0.074%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 703 (13.08%) Microsoft
2 436 (8.11%) SAP
3 292 (5.43%) Oracle
4 287 (5.34%) ServiceNow
5 212 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 110 (2.05%) Databricks
7 106 (1.97%) Google
8 83 (1.54%) VMware
9 74 (1.38%) Workday
10 56 (1.04%) Cisco
11 52 (0.97%) Adobe
12 51 (0.95%) CyberArk
13 42 (0.78%) Splunk
14 37 (0.69%) Ariba
15 35 (0.65%) IBM
16 33 (0.61%) Informatica
17 32 (0.60%) MuleSoft
18 31 (0.58%) F5
19 28 (0.52%) Atlassian
20 26 (0.48%) Foundry