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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,875 2,875 2,454
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.87% 10.42% 7.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.11% 11.48% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,910 1,958 1,706
10th Percentile £389 £361 £363
25th Percentile £460 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.18% -2.14% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £746 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £530 £538
% change year-on-year +3.77% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 64 66
10th Percentile £28.00 £29.27 £30.29
25th Percentile £36.25 £36.77 £54.30
Median hourly rate £62.50 £53.09 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +17.74% -13.82% +34.26%
75th Percentile £83.25 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £102.50 £78.38 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £53.09 £60.00
% change year-on-year +17.74% -11.53% +30.78%

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 38,882 25,041 28,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 90.76% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,206 16,026 18,694
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,519 1,388 1,683
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.88 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.27 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.68 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +69.69% -37.63% -5.12%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 3,089 £563 -2.17% 2,032
North of England -1 862 £503 +0.65% 594
South East +8 762 £550 +4.76% 784
Midlands +1 529 £500 -4.76% 342
North West -1 433 £525 +5.00% 337
West Midlands +2 413 £500 -7.41% 222
Yorkshire +5 375 £500 +1.01% 181
South West +9 334 £550 +4.76% 247
East of England +6 182 £525 -4.55% 174
East Midlands +4 101 £500 +24.22% 120
North East -12 62 £480 -7.69% 81
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
1 332 (5.65%) Confluence
2 158 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 54 (0.92%) CMS
4 30 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (0.49%) Apache
6 28 (0.48%) SAS
7 22 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 16 (0.27%) Apache Spark
9 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.10%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.10%) WordPress
12 5 (0.085%) Appian
12 5 (0.085%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.068%) FactoryTalk
13 4 (0.068%) Kentico
13 4 (0.068%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.051%) Moodle
14 3 (0.051%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 252 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 151 (2.57%) Microsoft Project
3 130 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
4 123 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.32%) Revit
6 19 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 16 (0.27%) AutoCAD
7 16 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.19%) Navisworks
9 10 (0.17%) Trello
10 6 (0.10%) ProjectWise
11 5 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.068%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.068%) Notion
13 3 (0.051%) Sketch
14 2 (0.034%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.034%) EPLAN
14 2 (0.034%) Photoshop
14 2 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 207 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 72 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 26 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 24 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 24 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 22 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 22 (0.37%) Workday HCM
7 20 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 19 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
9 18 (0.31%) SAP FI
10 17 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
11 16 (0.27%) Primavera
12 15 (0.26%) SAP SD
13 14 (0.24%) Finacle
13 14 (0.24%) SAP CO
13 14 (0.24%) SAP ERP
14 13 (0.22%) Aladdin
14 13 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
14 13 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,047 (17.82%) Azure
2 698 (11.88%) AWS
3 391 (6.66%) Power Platform
4 269 (4.58%) GCP
5 235 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 210 (3.57%) SaaS
7 155 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
8 136 (2.31%) Entra ID
9 119 (2.03%) GitHub
10 118 (2.01%) Snowflake
11 91 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
12 78 (1.33%) SuccessFactors
13 66 (1.12%) OCI
14 63 (1.07%) Serverless
15 59 (1.00%) Amazon S3
16 57 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
16 57 (0.97%) PowerApps
17 54 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
17 54 (0.92%) Power Automate
18 49 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 103 (1.75%) Firewall
2 101 (1.72%) Network Security
3 61 (1.04%) WAN
4 59 (1.00%) DNS
5 43 (0.73%) LAN
6 38 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 37 (0.63%) VPN
8 33 (0.56%) SD-WAN
9 32 (0.54%) DHCP
10 24 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (0.37%) BGP
12 20 (0.34%) 4G
12 20 (0.34%) 5G
13 19 (0.32%) OSPF
14 16 (0.27%) Internet
14 16 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
14 16 (0.27%) Wireless
15 15 (0.26%) MPLS
16 13 (0.22%) 3G
16 13 (0.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 318 (5.41%) Power BI
2 154 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
3 120 (2.04%) Metadata
4 79 (1.34%) SQL Server
5 74 (1.26%) Data Lake
6 68 (1.16%) Tableau
7 52 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
8 44 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 43 (0.73%) Relational Database
10 38 (0.65%) Delta Lake
11 31 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
11 31 (0.53%) Oracle Database
12 27 (0.46%) Big Data
13 26 (0.44%) BigQuery
14 24 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
15 22 (0.37%) Looker
15 22 (0.37%) NoSQL
16 21 (0.36%) DynamoDB
17 20 (0.34%) MongoDB
18 19 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 606 (10.31%) JIRA
2 95 (1.62%) Git
3 84 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 59 (1.00%) GitLab
5 49 (0.83%) Selenium
6 31 (0.53%) JUnit
7 27 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 25 (0.43%) Postman
9 21 (0.36%) SonarQube
10 19 (0.32%) JMeter
11 17 (0.29%) Cypress.io
12 16 (0.27%) Zephyr
13 15 (0.26%) WebDriver
14 14 (0.24%) Gatling
14 14 (0.24%) Maven
15 13 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
16 10 (0.17%) ERwin
16 10 (0.17%) Mockito
17 9 (0.15%) LoadRunner
17 9 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,961 (50.40%) Social Skills
2 2,039 (34.71%) Finance
3 968 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 723 (12.31%) Public Sector
5 575 (9.79%) Banking
6 360 (6.13%) Retail
7 315 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
8 253 (4.31%) Legal
9 240 (4.09%) Organisational Skills
10 207 (3.52%) Marketing
11 201 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
12 176 (3.00%) Manufacturing
13 151 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
14 146 (2.49%) Telecoms
15 121 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 103 (1.75%) Local Government
17 95 (1.62%) Aerospace
18 87 (1.48%) Billing
19 83 (1.41%) Front Office
20 79 (1.34%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 871 (14.83%) Analyst
2 852 (14.50%) Lead
3 754 (12.83%) Project Manager
4 696 (11.85%) Architect
5 632 (10.76%) Senior
6 580 (9.87%) Business Analyst
7 345 (5.87%) Consultant
8 275 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
9 240 (4.09%) Senior Manager
10 184 (3.13%) Programme Manager
11 180 (3.06%) Delivery Manager
12 168 (2.86%) IT Manager
13 141 (2.40%) Product Manager
14 128 (2.18%) Developer
15 121 (2.06%) Senior Project Manager
16 116 (1.97%) Product Owner
16 116 (1.97%) Technical Manager
17 103 (1.75%) Senior Analyst
18 101 (1.72%) Data Analyst
19 97 (1.65%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (2.57%) REST
2 106 (1.80%) Middleware
3 90 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
4 71 (1.21%) SOAP
5 66 (1.12%) .NET
6 51 (0.87%) Kafka
7 45 (0.77%) JSON
8 44 (0.75%) PySpark
9 42 (0.71%) OAuth
9 42 (0.71%) React
10 40 (0.68%) SailPoint
11 38 (0.65%) Spring
12 37 (0.63%) HTML
13 34 (0.58%) CSS
14 32 (0.54%) Web Services
14 32 (0.54%) XML
15 29 (0.49%) Playwright
16 27 (0.46%) OpenID
16 27 (0.46%) Spring Boot
17 26 (0.44%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 451 (7.68%) Product Ownership
2 337 (5.74%) Onboarding
3 196 (3.34%) Cloud Native
4 172 (2.93%) Management Information System
5 169 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
6 129 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
7 127 (2.16%) Data Centre
8 110 (1.87%) Data Structures
9 101 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
10 97 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
11 94 (1.60%) Virtual Team
12 83 (1.41%) Operational Technology
13 80 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
14 77 (1.31%) AI Agents
15 72 (1.23%) NHS
15 72 (1.23%) Security Posture
16 60 (1.02%) CMDB
17 59 (1.00%) FMCG
17 59 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
18 50 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 181 (3.08%) Windows
2 101 (1.72%) Linux
3 43 (0.73%) Windows Server
4 38 (0.65%) Unix
5 31 (0.53%) Android
6 27 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.15%) VMS
11 5 (0.085%) Solaris
11 5 (0.085%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.068%) AIX
12 4 (0.068%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.068%) zOS
13 3 (0.051%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.034%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.034%) HPUX
14 2 (0.034%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,908 (32.48%) Agile
2 1,024 (17.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 943 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
4 892 (15.18%) Roadmaps
5 817 (13.91%) Migration
6 790 (13.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 735 (12.51%) Decision-Making
8 726 (12.36%) Project Management
9 701 (11.93%) DevOps
10 678 (11.54%) AI
11 675 (11.49%) Project Delivery
12 652 (11.10%) Analytics
13 612 (10.42%) Change Management
14 583 (9.92%) Risk Management
15 519 (8.83%) CI/CD
16 513 (8.73%) Workshop Facilitation
17 500 (8.51%) User Acceptance Testing
18 475 (8.09%) Cybersecurity
19 469 (7.98%) Scrum
19 469 (7.98%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 492 (8.37%) SQL
2 339 (5.77%) Python
3 131 (2.23%) Java
4 98 (1.67%) PowerShell
5 93 (1.58%) JavaScript
6 56 (0.95%) C#
7 41 (0.70%) Bash
8 29 (0.49%) Bicep
9 27 (0.46%) TypeScript
10 23 (0.39%) ABAP
10 23 (0.39%) Korn
11 21 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 18 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 18 (0.31%) R
12 18 (0.31%) VBA
13 16 (0.27%) T-SQL
14 15 (0.26%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.20%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,149 (19.56%) Security Cleared
2 841 (14.31%) SC Cleared
3 412 (7.01%) Degree
4 287 (4.89%) PMP
5 248 (4.22%) PMI Certification
6 213 (3.63%) DV Cleared
7 167 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 134 (2.28%) CISSP
9 102 (1.74%) CISM
10 100 (1.70%) Azure Certification
11 65 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
12 57 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
13 55 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
14 54 (0.92%) AWS Certification
15 43 (0.73%) Master's Degree
16 42 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 38 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
18 35 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 34 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
20 33 (0.56%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 377 (6.42%) Data Quality
2 330 (5.62%) QA
3 283 (4.82%) PMO
4 216 (3.68%) GDPR
5 148 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 148 (2.52%) NIST
6 127 (2.16%) Accessibility
7 104 (1.77%) GRC
8 92 (1.57%) SLA
9 49 (0.83%) NCSC
10 42 (0.71%) WCAG
11 37 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 31 (0.53%) SOC 2
13 30 (0.51%) COBIT
14 25 (0.43%) PCI DSS
15 22 (0.37%) IFRS
16 20 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
17 17 (0.29%) ISO 20022
18 16 (0.27%) JSP 440
18 16 (0.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 136 (2.31%) Active Directory
2 128 (2.18%) Docker
3 58 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 18 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.27%) vSphere
8 13 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.20%) NFS
10 10 (0.17%) Postfix
11 9 (0.15%) Hyper-V
12 6 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.068%) SRDF
13 4 (0.068%) Varnish
14 3 (0.051%) HDFS
14 3 (0.051%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.034%) Ceph
15 2 (0.034%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.034%) KVM
15 2 (0.034%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 179 (3.05%) Terraform
2 169 (2.88%) Kubernetes
3 85 (1.45%) Ansible
4 55 (0.94%) Grafana
5 45 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 43 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.58%) Prometheus
8 27 (0.46%) SCCM
9 17 (0.29%) Argo
10 10 (0.17%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.15%) Puppet
12 8 (0.14%) Control-M
12 8 (0.14%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.12%) HP ALM
13 7 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 6 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.085%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.085%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.085%) RSA Archer
16 4 (0.068%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 838 (14.26%) Microsoft
2 465 (7.91%) SAP
3 317 (5.40%) Oracle
4 307 (5.23%) ServiceNow
5 223 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 149 (2.54%) Databricks
7 116 (1.97%) Google
8 95 (1.62%) VMware
9 88 (1.50%) Workday
10 63 (1.07%) Cisco
11 55 (0.94%) Adobe
12 51 (0.87%) CyberArk
13 48 (0.82%) IBM
14 38 (0.65%) MuleSoft
15 37 (0.63%) Splunk
16 34 (0.58%) Ariba
17 32 (0.54%) Atlassian
18 31 (0.53%) Informatica
19 30 (0.51%) F5
20 28 (0.48%) Foundry