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

6 months to
26 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 7,222 2,940 2,537
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.51% 10.52% 7.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.33% 11.58% 8.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,782 1,998 1,594
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 £549 £528 £550
% change year-on-year +4.02% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 63 67
10th Percentile £19.80 £27.42 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.35 £33.00 £47.32
Median hourly rate £60.50 £49.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +23.47% -20.45% +27.01%
75th Percentile £80.00 £60.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £76.75 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £49.00 £60.30
% change year-on-year +23.47% -18.74% +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 39,398 25,390 28,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 16,126 17,350
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
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 2,849 1,543 1,244
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%
75th Percentile £67.70 £47.50 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £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 26 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 26 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 26 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 3,799 £560 +1.82% 3,755
North of England +7 1,077 £500 - 1,060
South East +12 916 £550 +4.76% 1,305
Midlands +6 642 £500 -4.76% 697
North West +4 535 £525 +5.00% 610
West Midlands +8 522 £492 -10.55% 486
Yorkshire +8 474 £500 - 340
South West +9 378 £550 - 405
East of England +9 229 £510 -7.27% 356
East Midlands -3 105 £500 +13.31% 209
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
1 356 (4.93%) Confluence
2 199 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 68 (0.94%) 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 22 (0.30%) SAS
9 13 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 9 (0.12%) 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 (0.069%) NetWeaver
15 5 (0.069%) WebLogic
Applications
1 322 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 172 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 163 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
4 135 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
5 73 (1.01%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.35%) Revit
7 19 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 18 (0.25%) Navisworks
9 15 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
10 14 (0.19%) Chatbot
11 11 (0.15%) Trello
12 9 (0.12%) ProjectWise
13 7 (0.097%) Windchill
14 6 (0.083%) Adobe XD
15 5 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 4 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
16 4 (0.055%) Notion
16 4 (0.055%) Photoshop
16 4 (0.055%) Sketch
17 3 (0.042%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 254 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 96 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 32 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 29 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 27 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 25 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
7 25 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
8 23 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
9 22 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
9 22 (0.30%) SAP HCM
10 21 (0.29%) SAP HR
11 19 (0.26%) SAP ERP
12 18 (0.25%) Aladdin
12 18 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
12 18 (0.25%) SAP FI
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 1,299 (17.99%) Azure
2 874 (12.10%) AWS
3 563 (7.80%) Power Platform
4 354 (4.90%) GCP
5 277 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
6 250 (3.46%) SaaS
7 227 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
8 180 (2.49%) GitHub
9 171 (2.37%) Entra ID
10 148 (2.05%) Snowflake
11 143 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
12 109 (1.51%) Microsoft Copilot
13 101 (1.40%) Serverless
14 93 (1.29%) Power Automate
15 87 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
16 83 (1.15%) PowerApps
17 75 (1.04%) Amazon S3
18 71 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
19 69 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
19 69 (0.96%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 143 (1.98%) Firewall
2 135 (1.87%) Network Security
3 79 (1.09%) WAN
4 71 (0.98%) DNS
5 50 (0.69%) 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 (0.37%) 4G
10 27 (0.37%) 5G
10 27 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
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 (6.02%) Power BI
2 204 (2.82%) Metadata
3 199 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
4 116 (1.61%) SQL Server
5 100 (1.38%) Data Lake
6 87 (1.20%) Tableau
7 72 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
8 52 (0.72%) BigQuery
9 51 (0.71%) Delta Lake
9 51 (0.71%) 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 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
16 23 (0.32%) MySQL
17 22 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 659 (9.12%) JIRA
2 144 (1.99%) Git
3 98 (1.36%) GitLab
4 97 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 71 (0.98%) Selenium
6 48 (0.66%) 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 (0.12%) ERwin
General
1 3,869 (53.57%) Social Skills
2 2,386 (33.04%) Finance
3 1,205 (16.69%) Analytical Skills
4 944 (13.07%) Public Sector
5 739 (10.23%) Banking
6 441 (6.11%) Influencing Skills
7 414 (5.73%) Retail
8 323 (4.47%) Organisational Skills
9 316 (4.38%) Legal
10 261 (3.61%) Manufacturing
11 243 (3.36%) Marketing
12 235 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
13 192 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
14 180 (2.49%) Telecoms
15 147 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 137 (1.90%) Aerospace
17 119 (1.65%) Local Government
18 114 (1.58%) Front Office
19 95 (1.32%) Billing
20 93 (1.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,037 (14.36%) Analyst
2 978 (13.54%) Architect
2 978 (13.54%) Lead
3 785 (10.87%) Project Manager
4 764 (10.58%) Senior
5 668 (9.25%) Business Analyst
6 471 (6.52%) Consultant
7 325 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
8 245 (3.39%) Senior Manager
9 209 (2.89%) Delivery Manager
10 184 (2.55%) IT Manager
11 179 (2.48%) Programme Manager
12 176 (2.44%) Product Manager
13 166 (2.30%) Developer
14 139 (1.92%) Senior Analyst
15 138 (1.91%) Technical Manager
16 131 (1.81%) Product Owner
17 119 (1.65%) Data Analyst
18 118 (1.63%) Designer
19 116 (1.61%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (3.71%) Terraform
2 202 (2.80%) REST
3 137 (1.90%) Middleware
4 104 (1.44%) .NET
5 84 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
6 83 (1.15%) Kafka
7 81 (1.12%) SOAP
8 71 (0.98%) PySpark
9 66 (0.91%) JSON
9 66 (0.91%) React
10 64 (0.89%) OAuth
11 60 (0.83%) 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 42 (0.58%) SailPoint
18 41 (0.57%) Web Services
19 39 (0.54%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 564 (7.81%) Product Ownership
2 438 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 290 (4.02%) Cloud Native
4 232 (3.21%) Management Information System
5 183 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 171 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
7 165 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
8 137 (1.90%) Data Centre
9 124 (1.72%) AI Agents
10 119 (1.65%) Data Structures
11 117 (1.62%) Operational Technology
12 116 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
13 109 (1.51%) Virtual Team
14 99 (1.37%) Security Posture
15 92 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
16 91 (1.26%) CMDB
17 90 (1.25%) NHS
18 80 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
19 75 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
20 65 (0.90%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 235 (3.25%) Windows
2 152 (2.10%) Linux
3 74 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 53 (0.73%) Unix
5 28 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (0.28%) 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 (0.069%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.055%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.055%) 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 2,262 (31.32%) Agile
2 1,314 (18.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,226 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
4 1,193 (16.52%) Roadmaps
5 1,021 (14.14%) Migration
6 961 (13.31%) Decision-Making
7 959 (13.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 950 (13.15%) AI
9 847 (11.73%) DevOps
10 840 (11.63%) Project Delivery
11 823 (11.40%) Analytics
12 810 (11.22%) Project Management
13 727 (10.07%) Change Management
14 724 (10.02%) Workshop Facilitation
15 716 (9.91%) Risk Management
16 711 (9.84%) CI/CD
17 604 (8.36%) Cybersecurity
18 602 (8.34%) User Acceptance Testing
19 600 (8.31%) Requirements Gathering
20 591 (8.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 663 (9.18%) SQL
2 476 (6.59%) Python
3 201 (2.78%) Java
4 151 (2.09%) JavaScript
5 147 (2.04%) PowerShell
6 90 (1.25%) C#
7 74 (1.02%) Bash
8 59 (0.82%) TypeScript
9 42 (0.58%) ABAP
10 41 (0.57%) Bicep
11 33 (0.46%) Korn
12 27 (0.37%) R
13 24 (0.33%) 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 1,460 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 1,076 (14.90%) SC Cleared
3 495 (6.85%) Degree
4 312 (4.32%) PMP
5 276 (3.82%) PMI Certification
6 271 (3.75%) DV Cleared
7 264 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 163 (2.26%) CISSP
9 127 (1.76%) Azure Certification
10 122 (1.69%) CISM
11 92 (1.27%) AWS Certification
11 92 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
12 78 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
12 78 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 57 (0.79%) ACCA
14 56 (0.78%) Master's Degree
15 54 (0.75%) CIMA
16 50 (0.69%) ISTQB
17 49 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 48 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 556 (7.70%) Data Quality
2 415 (5.75%) QA
3 325 (4.50%) PMO
4 222 (3.07%) GDPR
5 197 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 191 (2.64%) Accessibility
7 172 (2.38%) NIST
8 135 (1.87%) GRC
9 100 (1.38%) SLA
10 75 (1.04%) WCAG
11 63 (0.87%) NCSC
12 38 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
13 29 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 27 (0.37%) 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
1 187 (2.59%) Active Directory
2 171 (2.37%) Docker
3 74 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.40%) vSphere
5 27 (0.37%) 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 (0.055%) FreeRADIUS
12 4 (0.055%) 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 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 109 (1.51%) Ansible
3 61 (0.84%) Grafana
4 50 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 40 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.43%) SCCM
8 17 (0.24%) Argo
9 13 (0.18%) Control-M
10 11 (0.15%) Kibana
11 9 (0.12%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.12%) 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 1,211 (16.77%) Microsoft
2 557 (7.71%) SAP
3 385 (5.33%) Oracle
4 364 (5.04%) ServiceNow
5 256 (3.54%) Salesforce
6 226 (3.13%) Databricks
7 167 (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 61 (0.84%) Splunk
14 44 (0.61%) Ariba
15 43 (0.60%) MuleSoft
16 41 (0.57%) Informatica
17 35 (0.48%) Fortinet
18 31 (0.43%) Bloomberg
19 30 (0.42%) Foundry