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

6 months to
24 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 6,227 2,880 2,485
As % of all contract jobs in England 13.63% 10.38% 7.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.07% 11.43% 8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,131 1,956 1,689
10th Percentile £381 £358 £363
25th Percentile £456 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -
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 188 66 65
10th Percentile £26.05 £28.25 £31.15
25th Percentile £35.00 £35.60 £53.75
Median hourly rate £59.00 £49.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.59% -19.24% +23.30%
75th Percentile £80.01 £71.40 £75.00
90th Percentile £101.34 £76.88 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £60.30
% change year-on-year +20.00% -17.08% +17.27%

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 38,743 25,202 28,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 90.84% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,962 16,051 18,351
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,572 1,476 1,524
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.25 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.17 £17.87 £18.08
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% -3.67%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +11 3,283 £563 +1.81% 1,287
North of England 0 922 £500 - 437
South East +8 803 £550 +4.76% 725
Midlands +4 544 £500 -4.58% 284
North West +1 483 £525 +5.00% 254
West Midlands +5 427 £500 -4.76% 197
Yorkshire +5 385 £500 +1.01% 129
South West +8 344 £550 +4.76% 262
East of England +10 198 £525 -4.55% 140
East Midlands -2 100 £500 +14.42% 86
North East -12 62 £480 -7.69% 56
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
1 339 (5.44%) Confluence
2 171 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 55 (0.88%) CMS
4 38 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (0.48%) Apache
6 24 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 22 (0.35%) SAS
8 19 (0.31%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.096%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.096%) WordPress
12 5 (0.080%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.080%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.080%) 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
1 283 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 150 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 148 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 148 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
4 68 (1.09%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.31%) Revit
6 16 (0.26%) AutoCAD
6 16 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 16 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.18%) Navisworks
8 9 (0.14%) Trello
9 6 (0.096%) ProjectWise
10 5 (0.080%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.064%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.064%) Notion
11 4 (0.064%) Windchill
12 3 (0.048%) Sketch
13 2 (0.032%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.032%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.032%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 221 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 79 (1.27%) 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 20 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 20 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
9 18 (0.29%) SAP FI
10 17 (0.27%) Primavera
10 17 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
10 17 (0.27%) SAP SD
11 16 (0.26%) SAP ERP
12 14 (0.22%) Aladdin
12 14 (0.22%) Finacle
12 14 (0.22%) SAP CO
13 13 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
13 13 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,149 (18.45%) Azure
2 764 (12.27%) AWS
3 448 (7.19%) Power Platform
4 303 (4.87%) GCP
5 258 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
6 227 (3.65%) SaaS
7 178 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
8 151 (2.42%) Entra ID
9 134 (2.15%) GitHub
9 134 (2.15%) Snowflake
10 105 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
11 78 (1.25%) SuccessFactors
12 74 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
12 74 (1.19%) Serverless
13 66 (1.06%) OCI
14 64 (1.03%) PowerApps
15 58 (0.93%) Amazon S3
16 57 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
16 57 (0.92%) Power Automate
17 56 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 118 (1.89%) Firewall
2 117 (1.88%) Network Security
3 70 (1.12%) WAN
4 64 (1.03%) DNS
5 48 (0.77%) LAN
6 43 (0.69%) VPN
7 41 (0.66%) TCP/IP
8 36 (0.58%) SD-WAN
9 35 (0.56%) DHCP
10 27 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
11 25 (0.40%) BGP
12 24 (0.39%) 4G
12 24 (0.39%) 5G
13 22 (0.35%) Wireless
14 19 (0.31%) Internet
14 19 (0.31%) OSPF
15 17 (0.27%) MPLS
16 14 (0.22%) 3G
16 14 (0.22%) Broadband
16 14 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 359 (5.77%) Power BI
2 169 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
3 149 (2.39%) Metadata
4 96 (1.54%) SQL Server
5 79 (1.27%) Data Lake
6 77 (1.24%) Tableau
7 65 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
8 51 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 48 (0.77%) Relational Database
10 45 (0.72%) Delta Lake
11 41 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
12 33 (0.53%) BigQuery
13 32 (0.51%) Oracle Database
14 30 (0.48%) MongoDB
15 26 (0.42%) NoSQL
16 25 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
16 25 (0.40%) Big Data
17 24 (0.39%) Looker
18 22 (0.35%) MySQL
19 20 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 624 (10.02%) JIRA
2 104 (1.67%) Git
3 86 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 60 (0.96%) GitLab
5 50 (0.80%) Selenium
6 30 (0.48%) Postman
7 25 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 25 (0.40%) JUnit
8 24 (0.39%) SonarQube
9 19 (0.31%) Gatling
9 19 (0.31%) JMeter
9 19 (0.31%) Zephyr
10 18 (0.29%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.19%) LoadRunner
11 12 (0.19%) Maven
11 12 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
11 12 (0.19%) WebDriver
12 10 (0.16%) ERwin
13 9 (0.14%) REST Assured
14 8 (0.13%) MSI
General
1 3,187 (51.18%) Social Skills
2 2,126 (34.14%) Finance
3 1,042 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
4 765 (12.29%) Public Sector
5 608 (9.76%) Banking
6 384 (6.17%) Retail
7 347 (5.57%) Influencing Skills
8 265 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
9 264 (4.24%) Legal
10 219 (3.52%) Marketing
11 211 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
12 199 (3.20%) Manufacturing
13 160 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
13 160 (2.57%) Telecoms
14 128 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 102 (1.64%) Aerospace
16 99 (1.59%) Local Government
17 93 (1.49%) Billing
18 87 (1.40%) Front Office
19 75 (1.20%) Law
Job Titles
1 912 (14.65%) Analyst
2 902 (14.49%) Lead
3 768 (12.33%) Project Manager
4 759 (12.19%) Architect
5 656 (10.53%) Senior
6 590 (9.47%) Business Analyst
7 393 (6.31%) Consultant
8 272 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
9 238 (3.82%) Senior Manager
10 183 (2.94%) Programme Manager
11 175 (2.81%) Delivery Manager
12 167 (2.68%) IT Manager
13 148 (2.38%) Product Manager
14 137 (2.20%) Developer
15 121 (1.94%) Technical Manager
16 120 (1.93%) Product Owner
17 115 (1.85%) Senior Project Manager
18 111 (1.78%) Senior Analyst
19 107 (1.72%) Designer
20 104 (1.67%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (3.40%) Terraform
2 165 (2.65%) REST
3 113 (1.81%) Middleware
4 85 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
5 78 (1.25%) .NET
6 73 (1.17%) SOAP
7 67 (1.08%) Kafka
8 52 (0.84%) PySpark
9 49 (0.79%) JSON
9 49 (0.79%) OAuth
10 46 (0.74%) React
11 41 (0.66%) HTML
12 40 (0.64%) SailPoint
13 39 (0.63%) Spring
14 38 (0.61%) CSS
15 37 (0.59%) XML
16 33 (0.53%) Playwright
16 33 (0.53%) Web Services
17 30 (0.48%) OpenID
17 30 (0.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 480 (7.71%) Product Ownership
2 352 (5.65%) Onboarding
3 232 (3.73%) Cloud Native
4 178 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 164 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 133 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
7 127 (2.04%) Data Centre
8 121 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
9 113 (1.81%) Data Structures
10 98 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 94 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
12 93 (1.49%) Virtual Team
13 92 (1.48%) Operational Technology
14 90 (1.45%) AI Agents
15 84 (1.35%) Security Posture
16 74 (1.19%) NHS
17 68 (1.09%) CMDB
18 63 (1.01%) FMCG
18 63 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
19 57 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 183 (2.94%) Windows
2 114 (1.83%) Linux
3 50 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 44 (0.71%) Unix
5 24 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (0.35%) Android
7 20 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.22%) VMS
8 14 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 11 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.080%) 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 2,009 (32.26%) Agile
2 1,112 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,017 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
4 964 (15.48%) Roadmaps
5 871 (13.99%) Migration
6 833 (13.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 783 (12.57%) Decision-Making
8 774 (12.43%) Project Management
9 765 (12.29%) AI
10 760 (12.20%) DevOps
11 747 (12.00%) Project Delivery
12 696 (11.18%) Analytics
13 645 (10.36%) Change Management
14 610 (9.80%) Risk Management
15 592 (9.51%) Workshop Facilitation
16 575 (9.23%) CI/CD
17 531 (8.53%) User Acceptance Testing
18 518 (8.32%) Cybersecurity
19 499 (8.01%) Scrum
20 495 (7.95%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 542 (8.70%) SQL
2 375 (6.02%) Python
3 149 (2.39%) Java
4 116 (1.86%) PowerShell
5 110 (1.77%) JavaScript
6 63 (1.01%) C#
7 52 (0.84%) Bash
8 36 (0.58%) Bicep
9 35 (0.56%) TypeScript
10 28 (0.45%) Korn
11 23 (0.37%) ABAP
12 22 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 22 (0.35%) R
13 20 (0.32%) VBA
14 19 (0.31%) PL/SQL
15 17 (0.27%) T-SQL
16 14 (0.22%) Apex Code
16 14 (0.22%) Shell Script
17 12 (0.19%) Go
18 10 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,246 (20.01%) Security Cleared
2 906 (14.55%) SC Cleared
3 427 (6.86%) Degree
4 294 (4.72%) PMP
5 252 (4.05%) PMI Certification
6 231 (3.71%) DV Cleared
7 180 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 142 (2.28%) CISSP
9 111 (1.78%) CISM
10 110 (1.77%) Azure Certification
11 77 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
12 68 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
13 66 (1.06%) AWS Certification
14 60 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
15 46 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 44 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 43 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
18 41 (0.66%) ISTQB
19 39 (0.63%) ACCA
19 39 (0.63%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 422 (6.78%) Data Quality
2 361 (5.80%) QA
3 307 (4.93%) PMO
4 217 (3.48%) GDPR
5 153 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 151 (2.42%) NIST
7 140 (2.25%) Accessibility
8 118 (1.89%) GRC
9 90 (1.45%) SLA
10 52 (0.84%) NCSC
11 43 (0.69%) WCAG
12 32 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 26 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
13 26 (0.42%) SOC 2
14 24 (0.39%) COBIT
14 24 (0.39%) IFRS
15 21 (0.34%) PCI DSS
16 19 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
17 18 (0.29%) ISO 20022
18 17 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 153 (2.46%) Active Directory
2 134 (2.15%) Docker
3 61 (0.98%) 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 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 12 (0.19%) NFS
10 9 (0.14%) Postfix
11 6 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.064%) Varnish
13 3 (0.048%) Ceph
13 3 (0.048%) KVM
13 3 (0.048%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.032%) FreeRADIUS
14 2 (0.032%) HDFS
14 2 (0.032%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 185 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 94 (1.51%) Ansible
3 60 (0.96%) Grafana
4 42 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 42 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
5 33 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 30 (0.48%) SCCM
7 17 (0.27%) Argo
8 10 (0.16%) Control-M
8 10 (0.16%) vCenter Server
9 9 (0.14%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.13%) Puppet
11 7 (0.11%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 6 (0.096%) Oracle RMAN
13 5 (0.080%) Data Guard
13 5 (0.080%) Kibana
13 5 (0.080%) RSA Archer
13 5 (0.080%) WMI
14 4 (0.064%) CASB
Vendors
1 967 (15.53%) Microsoft
2 490 (7.87%) SAP
3 338 (5.43%) Oracle
4 315 (5.06%) ServiceNow
5 234 (3.76%) Salesforce
6 185 (2.97%) Databricks
7 131 (2.10%) Google
8 91 (1.46%) VMware
9 90 (1.45%) Workday
10 73 (1.17%) Cisco
11 56 (0.90%) CyberArk
12 55 (0.88%) Adobe
13 53 (0.85%) IBM
14 45 (0.72%) Splunk
15 38 (0.61%) Informatica
16 37 (0.59%) Ariba
17 35 (0.56%) MuleSoft
18 34 (0.55%) Atlassian
19 31 (0.50%) F5
20 29 (0.47%) Foundry