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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 24
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 6,207 2,866 2,466
As % of all contract jobs in England 13.59% 10.40% 7.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.01% 11.45% 8.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,115 1,943 1,688
10th Percentile £385 £358 £363
25th Percentile £458 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -2.36% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 65 64
10th Percentile £26.12 £28.99 £31.79
25th Percentile £35.00 £35.60 £55.39
Median hourly rate £59.50 £50.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.00% -18.83% +34.26%
75th Percentile £80.00 £71.45 £75.00
90th Percentile £101.18 £77.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £50.00 £60.60
% change year-on-year +20.50% -17.49% +32.08%

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 38,779 25,035 28,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.92% 90.85% 85.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,017 15,949 18,476
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,455 1,574
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.92 £17.80
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +67.00% -37.90% -1.22%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +10 3,273 £563 +0.45% 1,287
North of England 0 913 £510 +2.00% 455
South East +8 803 £550 +4.76% 732
Midlands +4 544 £500 -4.40% 284
North West +1 476 £525 +5.00% 260
West Midlands +5 427 £500 -4.76% 196
Yorkshire +5 383 £500 +1.01% 137
South West +7 347 £550 +4.76% 245
East of England +10 197 £525 -4.55% 141
East Midlands -1 100 £500 +19.12% 87
North East -11 62 £480 -1.03% 60
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
1 344 (5.54%) Confluence
2 169 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 55 (0.89%) CMS
4 38 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (0.48%) Apache
6 24 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 23 (0.37%) SAS
8 19 (0.31%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.097%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.097%) WordPress
12 5 (0.081%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.081%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.064%) Appian
13 4 (0.064%) FactoryTalk
13 4 (0.064%) Kentico
13 4 (0.064%) Moodle
14 3 (0.048%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 280 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 149 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
3 147 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
4 146 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 68 (1.10%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.31%) Revit
7 16 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 16 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 16 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.18%) Navisworks
9 10 (0.16%) Trello
10 6 (0.097%) ProjectWise
11 5 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.064%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.064%) Notion
12 4 (0.064%) Windchill
13 3 (0.048%) Sketch
14 2 (0.032%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.032%) CPLEX
14 2 (0.032%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 219 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 78 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 25 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 24 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 24 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 22 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
8 21 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 20 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
10 18 (0.29%) SAP FI
11 17 (0.27%) Primavera
11 17 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
11 17 (0.27%) SAP SD
12 16 (0.26%) SAP ERP
13 14 (0.23%) Aladdin
13 14 (0.23%) Finacle
13 14 (0.23%) SAP CO
14 13 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
14 13 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,141 (18.38%) Azure
2 763 (12.29%) AWS
3 439 (7.07%) Power Platform
4 300 (4.83%) GCP
5 255 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
6 227 (3.66%) SaaS
7 177 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
8 150 (2.42%) Entra ID
9 133 (2.14%) Snowflake
10 130 (2.09%) GitHub
11 102 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
12 78 (1.26%) SuccessFactors
13 73 (1.18%) Serverless
14 71 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
15 66 (1.06%) OCI
16 64 (1.03%) PowerApps
17 58 (0.93%) Amazon S3
18 57 (0.92%) Power Automate
19 56 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
20 54 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 118 (1.90%) Network Security
2 117 (1.88%) Firewall
3 68 (1.10%) WAN
4 63 (1.01%) DNS
5 47 (0.76%) LAN
6 42 (0.68%) VPN
7 40 (0.64%) TCP/IP
8 36 (0.58%) SD-WAN
9 34 (0.55%) DHCP
10 27 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (0.39%) 4G
11 24 (0.39%) 5G
11 24 (0.39%) BGP
12 20 (0.32%) Wireless
13 18 (0.29%) Internet
13 18 (0.29%) OSPF
14 17 (0.27%) MPLS
15 15 (0.24%) SAN
16 14 (0.23%) 3G
16 14 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 353 (5.69%) Power BI
2 168 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
3 143 (2.30%) Metadata
4 94 (1.51%) SQL Server
5 79 (1.27%) Data Lake
6 75 (1.21%) Tableau
7 65 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
8 52 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
9 48 (0.77%) Relational Database
10 45 (0.72%) Delta Lake
11 41 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
12 32 (0.52%) BigQuery
12 32 (0.52%) Oracle Database
13 29 (0.47%) MongoDB
14 25 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
14 25 (0.40%) Big Data
14 25 (0.40%) NoSQL
15 24 (0.39%) Looker
16 22 (0.35%) MySQL
17 19 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 626 (10.09%) JIRA
2 100 (1.61%) Git
3 88 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 58 (0.93%) GitLab
5 47 (0.76%) Selenium
6 30 (0.48%) Postman
7 22 (0.35%) Cucumber
7 22 (0.35%) JUnit
8 21 (0.34%) SonarQube
9 19 (0.31%) JMeter
9 19 (0.31%) Zephyr
10 18 (0.29%) Cypress.io
11 16 (0.26%) Gatling
12 12 (0.19%) LoadRunner
12 12 (0.19%) Maven
12 12 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
12 12 (0.19%) WebDriver
13 10 (0.16%) ERwin
14 9 (0.14%) REST Assured
15 8 (0.13%) Mockito
General
1 3,169 (51.06%) Social Skills
2 2,119 (34.14%) Finance
3 1,038 (16.72%) Analytical Skills
4 765 (12.32%) Public Sector
5 602 (9.70%) Banking
6 383 (6.17%) Retail
7 339 (5.46%) Influencing Skills
8 264 (4.25%) Legal
9 262 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
10 220 (3.54%) Marketing
11 208 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
12 200 (3.22%) Manufacturing
13 161 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
14 156 (2.51%) Telecoms
15 128 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 102 (1.64%) Aerospace
17 98 (1.58%) Local Government
18 93 (1.50%) Billing
19 86 (1.39%) Front Office
20 74 (1.19%) Law
Job Titles
1 899 (14.48%) Analyst
2 896 (14.44%) Lead
3 771 (12.42%) Project Manager
4 762 (12.28%) Architect
5 650 (10.47%) Senior
6 587 (9.46%) Business Analyst
7 389 (6.27%) Consultant
8 274 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
9 238 (3.83%) Senior Manager
10 184 (2.96%) Programme Manager
11 177 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
12 165 (2.66%) IT Manager
13 148 (2.38%) Product Manager
14 138 (2.22%) Developer
15 120 (1.93%) Technical Manager
16 119 (1.92%) Product Owner
17 115 (1.85%) Senior Project Manager
18 108 (1.74%) Senior Analyst
19 106 (1.71%) Designer
20 102 (1.64%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (3.42%) Terraform
2 164 (2.64%) REST
3 113 (1.82%) Middleware
4 88 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
5 77 (1.24%) .NET
6 73 (1.18%) SOAP
7 68 (1.10%) Kafka
8 52 (0.84%) PySpark
9 49 (0.79%) JSON
10 48 (0.77%) OAuth
11 45 (0.72%) React
12 40 (0.64%) HTML
13 39 (0.63%) SailPoint
14 37 (0.60%) CSS
14 37 (0.60%) XML
15 36 (0.58%) Spring
16 33 (0.53%) Web Services
17 30 (0.48%) OpenID
17 30 (0.48%) Playwright
17 30 (0.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 477 (7.68%) Product Ownership
2 348 (5.61%) Onboarding
3 230 (3.71%) Cloud Native
4 178 (2.87%) Management Information System
5 165 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
6 134 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
7 128 (2.06%) Data Centre
8 119 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
9 112 (1.80%) Data Structures
10 99 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
11 95 (1.53%) Virtual Team
12 94 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
13 89 (1.43%) AI Agents
13 89 (1.43%) Operational Technology
14 85 (1.37%) Security Posture
15 74 (1.19%) NHS
16 68 (1.10%) CMDB
17 64 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
18 63 (1.01%) FMCG
19 56 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 186 (3.00%) Windows
2 116 (1.87%) Linux
3 49 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 47 (0.76%) Unix
5 27 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (0.40%) Android
7 23 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.23%) VMS
8 14 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 11 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.081%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.064%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.064%) zOS
13 3 (0.048%) CentOS
13 3 (0.048%) Solaris
13 3 (0.048%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.032%) AIX
14 2 (0.032%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,999 (32.21%) Agile
2 1,105 (17.80%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,013 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
4 962 (15.50%) Roadmaps
5 869 (14.00%) Migration
6 831 (13.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 776 (12.50%) Decision-Making
8 770 (12.41%) Project Management
9 763 (12.29%) DevOps
10 757 (12.20%) AI
11 740 (11.92%) Project Delivery
12 691 (11.13%) Analytics
13 641 (10.33%) Change Management
14 604 (9.73%) Risk Management
15 584 (9.41%) Workshop Facilitation
16 573 (9.23%) CI/CD
17 529 (8.52%) User Acceptance Testing
18 516 (8.31%) Cybersecurity
19 494 (7.96%) ITIL
19 494 (7.96%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 536 (8.64%) SQL
2 375 (6.04%) Python
3 145 (2.34%) Java
4 115 (1.85%) PowerShell
5 109 (1.76%) JavaScript
6 63 (1.01%) C#
7 52 (0.84%) Bash
8 35 (0.56%) Bicep
9 34 (0.55%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.43%) Korn
11 23 (0.37%) ABAP
12 22 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 22 (0.35%) R
13 20 (0.32%) PL/SQL
13 20 (0.32%) VBA
14 17 (0.27%) T-SQL
15 16 (0.26%) Shell Script
16 14 (0.23%) Apex Code
17 12 (0.19%) Go
18 10 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,241 (19.99%) Security Cleared
2 904 (14.56%) SC Cleared
3 425 (6.85%) Degree
4 296 (4.77%) PMP
5 252 (4.06%) PMI Certification
6 230 (3.71%) DV Cleared
7 177 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 144 (2.32%) CISSP
9 112 (1.80%) CISM
10 109 (1.76%) Azure Certification
11 76 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
12 66 (1.06%) AWS Certification
12 66 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
13 59 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
14 46 (0.74%) Master's Degree
15 43 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 42 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
17 41 (0.66%) ISTQB
18 39 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 37 (0.60%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 416 (6.70%) Data Quality
2 353 (5.69%) QA
3 305 (4.91%) PMO
4 216 (3.48%) GDPR
5 152 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 152 (2.45%) NIST
6 135 (2.17%) Accessibility
7 115 (1.85%) GRC
8 89 (1.43%) SLA
9 52 (0.84%) NCSC
10 40 (0.64%) WCAG
11 32 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 26 (0.42%) SOC 2
13 24 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
13 24 (0.39%) COBIT
14 23 (0.37%) IFRS
15 21 (0.34%) PCI DSS
16 18 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
16 18 (0.29%) ISO 20022
17 17 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 151 (2.43%) Active Directory
2 130 (2.09%) Docker
3 63 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.31%) vSphere
8 14 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.19%) NFS
10 11 (0.18%) Hyper-V
11 9 (0.14%) Postfix
12 6 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.064%) SRDF
13 4 (0.064%) Varnish
14 3 (0.048%) Ceph
14 3 (0.048%) HDFS
14 3 (0.048%) KVM
14 3 (0.048%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.032%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 182 (2.93%) Kubernetes
2 97 (1.56%) Ansible
3 61 (0.98%) Grafana
4 45 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 42 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 29 (0.47%) SCCM
8 17 (0.27%) Argo
9 10 (0.16%) Control-M
9 10 (0.16%) Puppet
9 10 (0.16%) vCenter Server
10 9 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 7 (0.11%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 6 (0.097%) Oracle RMAN
12 6 (0.097%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.081%) Data Guard
13 5 (0.081%) Kibana
13 5 (0.081%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.064%) CASB
Vendors
1 959 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 488 (7.86%) SAP
3 342 (5.51%) Oracle
4 317 (5.11%) ServiceNow
5 234 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 181 (2.92%) Databricks
7 130 (2.09%) Google
8 95 (1.53%) VMware
9 91 (1.47%) Workday
10 74 (1.19%) Cisco
11 56 (0.90%) CyberArk
12 55 (0.89%) Adobe
13 53 (0.85%) IBM
14 46 (0.74%) Splunk
15 38 (0.61%) Informatica
16 37 (0.60%) Ariba
17 35 (0.56%) MuleSoft
18 33 (0.53%) Atlassian
19 30 (0.48%) F5
20 29 (0.47%) Foundry