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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 7,191 2,950 2,535
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.51% 10.56% 7.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.34% 11.62% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,760 2,007 1,588
10th Percentile £388 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £447 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £528 £550
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 64 67
10th Percentile £19.90 £27.52 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.67 £33.00 £47.32
Median hourly rate £60.50 £49.25 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +22.84% -20.05% +27.01%
75th Percentile £80.01 £60.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £76.38 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £49.25 £60.30
% change year-on-year +22.84% -18.33% +13.84%

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 39,218 25,382 28,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.59% 90.90% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,880 16,110 17,293
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -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 2,852 1,550 1,234
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.26
Median hourly rate £41.03 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.14% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.41 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.28 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +57.06% -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 27 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 27 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 27 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 3,784 £560 +1.82% 3,259
North of England +7 1,072 £501 +0.25% 984
South East +12 915 £550 +4.76% 1,215
Midlands +7 643 £500 -2.91% 648
North West +4 533 £525 +5.00% 566
West Midlands +8 523 £492 -9.85% 444
Yorkshire +8 471 £500 - 306
South West +8 374 £550 - 365
East of England +9 221 £510 -7.27% 323
East Midlands -2 105 £500 +12.99% 202
North East +1 77 £500 -3.38% 114
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
1 355 (4.94%) Confluence
2 199 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 69 (0.96%) CMS
4 51 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 43 (0.60%) Apache
6 30 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 24 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 21 (0.29%) 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 (0.097%) nginx
13 7 (0.097%) Palantir Foundry
14 6 (0.083%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.083%) Jupyter
14 6 (0.083%) Oracle Workflow
14 6 (0.083%) WebSphere
15 5 (0.070%) NetWeaver
15 5 (0.070%) WebLogic
Applications
1 321 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 172 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 163 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
4 134 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
5 73 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.35%) Revit
7 19 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 18 (0.25%) Navisworks
9 14 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 14 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
10 11 (0.15%) Trello
11 9 (0.13%) ProjectWise
12 7 (0.097%) Windchill
13 6 (0.083%) Adobe XD
14 5 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 4 (0.056%) Adobe Illustrator
15 4 (0.056%) Notion
15 4 (0.056%) Photoshop
15 4 (0.056%) Sketch
16 3 (0.042%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 255 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 93 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 32 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
5 29 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 27 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 25 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
7 25 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
8 23 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
9 22 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
9 22 (0.31%) SAP HCM
10 21 (0.29%) SAP HR
11 19 (0.26%) Aladdin
11 19 (0.26%) SAP ERP
11 19 (0.26%) SAP FI
12 18 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
13 17 (0.24%) SAP MDG
14 16 (0.22%) SAP SD
15 15 (0.21%) Primavera
15 15 (0.21%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,292 (17.97%) Azure
2 868 (12.07%) AWS
3 564 (7.84%) Power Platform
4 351 (4.88%) GCP
5 277 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 250 (3.48%) SaaS
7 227 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
8 180 (2.50%) GitHub
9 171 (2.38%) Entra ID
10 147 (2.04%) Snowflake
11 140 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
12 110 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
13 101 (1.40%) Serverless
14 94 (1.31%) Power Automate
15 88 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
16 84 (1.17%) PowerApps
17 75 (1.04%) Amazon S3
18 69 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
18 69 (0.96%) OCI
19 68 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 143 (1.99%) Firewall
2 134 (1.86%) Network Security
3 79 (1.10%) WAN
4 71 (0.99%) DNS
5 50 (0.70%) LAN
6 49 (0.68%) VPN
7 46 (0.64%) DHCP
8 44 (0.61%) TCP/IP
9 37 (0.51%) SD-WAN
10 27 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 25 (0.35%) 4G
11 25 (0.35%) 5G
11 25 (0.35%) BGP
12 24 (0.33%) Internet
13 23 (0.32%) Wireless
14 21 (0.29%) MPLS
15 20 (0.28%) Broadband
16 17 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
17 16 (0.22%) SSL
17 16 (0.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 435 (6.05%) Power BI
2 201 (2.80%) Metadata
3 198 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
4 114 (1.59%) SQL Server
5 99 (1.38%) Data Lake
6 87 (1.21%) Tableau
7 72 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
8 52 (0.72%) BigQuery
9 50 (0.70%) Delta Lake
9 50 (0.70%) Relational Database
10 49 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 49 (0.68%) MongoDB
11 47 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
12 38 (0.53%) Looker
13 33 (0.46%) NoSQL
13 33 (0.46%) Oracle Database
14 28 (0.39%) DynamoDB
15 27 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
16 23 (0.32%) MySQL
16 23 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 657 (9.14%) JIRA
2 144 (2.00%) Git
3 98 (1.36%) GitLab
4 97 (1.35%) Jenkins
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 (0.19%) Maven
13 13 (0.18%) LoadRunner
14 12 (0.17%) WebDriver
15 11 (0.15%) Claude Code
15 11 (0.15%) MSI
16 10 (0.14%) Mockito
17 9 (0.13%) ERwin
General
1 3,856 (53.62%) Social Skills
2 2,381 (33.11%) Finance
3 1,203 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
4 943 (13.11%) Public Sector
5 735 (10.22%) Banking
6 441 (6.13%) Influencing Skills
7 407 (5.66%) Retail
8 324 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
9 317 (4.41%) Legal
10 261 (3.63%) Manufacturing
11 243 (3.38%) Marketing
12 234 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
13 192 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
14 176 (2.45%) Telecoms
15 148 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 137 (1.91%) Aerospace
17 119 (1.65%) Local Government
18 114 (1.59%) Front Office
19 94 (1.31%) Billing
20 93 (1.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,031 (14.34%) Analyst
2 975 (13.56%) Architect
3 974 (13.54%) Lead
4 777 (10.81%) Project Manager
5 764 (10.62%) Senior
6 665 (9.25%) Business Analyst
7 472 (6.56%) Consultant
8 323 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
9 245 (3.41%) Senior Manager
10 209 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
11 182 (2.53%) IT Manager
12 176 (2.45%) Product Manager
13 175 (2.43%) Programme Manager
14 166 (2.31%) Developer
15 139 (1.93%) Senior Analyst
16 137 (1.91%) Technical Manager
17 130 (1.81%) Product Owner
18 117 (1.63%) Data Analyst
19 116 (1.61%) Data Engineer
19 116 (1.61%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (3.73%) Terraform
2 201 (2.80%) REST
3 138 (1.92%) Middleware
4 105 (1.46%) .NET
5 84 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
6 82 (1.14%) Kafka
7 81 (1.13%) SOAP
8 71 (0.99%) PySpark
9 66 (0.92%) React
10 65 (0.90%) JSON
11 64 (0.89%) OAuth
12 60 (0.83%) Spring
13 52 (0.72%) Playwright
14 51 (0.71%) HTML
15 49 (0.68%) LDAP
16 46 (0.64%) XML
17 44 (0.61%) CSS
18 42 (0.58%) SailPoint
19 41 (0.57%) Web Services
20 39 (0.54%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 562 (7.82%) Product Ownership
2 435 (6.05%) Onboarding
3 289 (4.02%) Cloud Native
4 232 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 186 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
6 171 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 162 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
8 137 (1.91%) Data Centre
9 124 (1.72%) AI Agents
10 120 (1.67%) Data Structures
11 116 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
11 116 (1.61%) Operational Technology
12 106 (1.47%) Virtual Team
13 98 (1.36%) Security Posture
14 91 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
14 91 (1.27%) CMDB
15 90 (1.25%) NHS
16 78 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
17 75 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
18 65 (0.90%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 233 (3.24%) Windows
2 152 (2.11%) Linux
3 74 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 53 (0.74%) Unix
5 28 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.26%) Android
7 18 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.19%) VMS
10 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 10 (0.14%) zOS
11 7 (0.097%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.070%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.056%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.042%) CentOS
14 3 (0.042%) Solaris
15 2 (0.028%) AIX
15 2 (0.028%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,253 (31.33%) Agile
2 1,312 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,223 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
4 1,191 (16.56%) Roadmaps
5 1,018 (14.16%) Migration
6 960 (13.35%) Decision-Making
7 954 (13.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 948 (13.18%) AI
9 846 (11.76%) DevOps
10 835 (11.61%) Project Delivery
11 816 (11.35%) Analytics
12 806 (11.21%) Project Management
13 723 (10.05%) Change Management
13 723 (10.05%) Workshop Facilitation
14 712 (9.90%) Risk Management
15 710 (9.87%) CI/CD
16 603 (8.39%) User Acceptance Testing
17 599 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
17 599 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
18 592 (8.23%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 656 (9.12%) SQL
2 472 (6.56%) Python
3 201 (2.80%) Java
4 151 (2.10%) JavaScript
5 144 (2.00%) PowerShell
6 91 (1.27%) C#
7 74 (1.03%) Bash
8 59 (0.82%) TypeScript
9 42 (0.58%) ABAP
10 41 (0.57%) Bicep
11 33 (0.46%) Korn
12 26 (0.36%) R
13 25 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 23 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 23 (0.32%) PL/SQL
15 18 (0.25%) Go
15 18 (0.25%) Shell Script
15 18 (0.25%) VBA
16 13 (0.18%) Apex Code
17 11 (0.15%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1,457 (20.26%) Security Cleared
2 1,073 (14.92%) SC Cleared
3 494 (6.87%) Degree
4 309 (4.30%) PMP
5 274 (3.81%) PMI Certification
6 271 (3.77%) DV Cleared
7 264 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 161 (2.24%) CISSP
9 127 (1.77%) Azure Certification
10 120 (1.67%) CISM
11 92 (1.28%) AWS Certification
11 92 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
12 78 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
12 78 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 59 (0.82%) ACCA
14 56 (0.78%) CIMA
14 56 (0.78%) Master's Degree
15 50 (0.70%) ISTQB
16 48 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
16 48 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 552 (7.68%) Data Quality
2 416 (5.79%) QA
3 322 (4.48%) PMO
4 221 (3.07%) GDPR
5 194 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 192 (2.67%) Accessibility
7 170 (2.36%) NIST
8 133 (1.85%) GRC
9 100 (1.39%) 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
17 24 (0.33%) PCI DSS
18 23 (0.32%) COBIT
19 21 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 186 (2.59%) Active Directory
2 171 (2.38%) 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 10 (0.14%) NFS
10 8 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.083%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.083%) Postfix
11 6 (0.083%) Time Sharing Option
12 4 (0.056%) FreeRADIUS
12 4 (0.056%) IAG
13 3 (0.042%) KVM
13 3 (0.042%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.042%) RACF
13 3 (0.042%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 244 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 109 (1.52%) Ansible
3 61 (0.85%) Grafana
4 50 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 40 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 30 (0.42%) 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
12 8 (0.11%) WMI
13 7 (0.097%) HP ALM
13 7 (0.097%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.097%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 6 (0.083%) Oracle RMAN
14 6 (0.083%) Puppet
14 6 (0.083%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 1,208 (16.80%) Microsoft
2 558 (7.76%) SAP
3 385 (5.35%) Oracle
4 362 (5.03%) ServiceNow
5 255 (3.55%) Salesforce
6 223 (3.10%) Databricks
7 166 (2.31%) Google
8 106 (1.47%) VMware
8 106 (1.47%) Workday
9 93 (1.29%) Cisco
10 77 (1.07%) CyberArk
11 75 (1.04%) IBM
12 62 (0.86%) Adobe
13 60 (0.83%) Splunk
14 44 (0.61%) Ariba
15 42 (0.58%) MuleSoft
16 40 (0.56%) Informatica
17 35 (0.49%) Fortinet
18 31 (0.43%) Bloomberg
19 30 (0.42%) Foundry