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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 15 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,409 2,764 2,644
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.08% 10.16% 7.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.14% 11.20% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,628 1,888 1,885
10th Percentile £386 £358 £358
25th Percentile £460 £431 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £534
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +0.66% -2.91%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £740 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £530
% change year-on-year +2.86% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 61 78
10th Percentile £27.40 £31.64 £23.03
25th Percentile £35.28 £41.54 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -13.15% +14.79%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £103.90 £78.75 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £61.06
% change year-on-year +16.82% -12.38% +13.78%

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 38,249 24,669 31,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.41% 90.67% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,059 15,837 20,183
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,307 2,114
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.26 £13.18
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £53.75 £63.67
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.33 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +8 2,806 £560 -1.41% 948
North of England -1 787 £500 - 379
South East +7 722 £550 +4.76% 515
Midlands +1 521 £500 -0.15% 212
North West +1 393 £513 +2.65% 227
West Midlands +1 392 £500 -7.66% 139
Yorkshire +6 355 £500 +1.52% 121
South West +9 299 £550 +1.15% 166
East of England +14 167 £525 -4.55% 96
East Midlands +6 118 £500 +13.64% 72
North East -17 51 £478 +6.11% 34
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
1 314 (5.81%) Confluence
2 144 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 59 (1.09%) CMS
4 32 (0.59%) SAS
5 24 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 16 (0.30%) Apache
8 11 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.13%) Apache Spark
9 7 (0.13%) Appian
9 7 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.13%) WordPress
10 6 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.092%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.092%) Kentico
12 4 (0.074%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.055%) FactoryTalk
13 3 (0.055%) Oracle Coherence
13 3 (0.055%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 227 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 150 (2.77%) Microsoft Project
3 131 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
4 117 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 68 (1.26%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 13 (0.24%) Revit
9 11 (0.20%) AutoCAD
10 7 (0.13%) Trello
11 5 (0.092%) Navisworks
11 5 (0.092%) Sketch
12 4 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.074%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.055%) Notion
14 2 (0.037%) CPLEX
14 2 (0.037%) EngageOne
14 2 (0.037%) EPLAN
14 2 (0.037%) Windchill
15 1 (0.018%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 188 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 69 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 25 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 22 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 20 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
8 18 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
9 17 (0.31%) Workday HCM
10 16 (0.30%) Aladdin
10 16 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
10 16 (0.30%) SAP SD
11 15 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
12 14 (0.26%) SAP FI
12 14 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
13 13 (0.24%) Primavera
14 12 (0.22%) Finacle
14 12 (0.22%) SAP ERP
15 11 (0.20%) Magento
15 11 (0.20%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 918 (16.97%) Azure
2 622 (11.50%) AWS
3 335 (6.19%) Power Platform
4 235 (4.34%) GCP
5 206 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
6 188 (3.48%) SaaS
7 125 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
8 111 (2.05%) Entra ID
9 98 (1.81%) GitHub
10 90 (1.66%) Snowflake
11 73 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
12 61 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
13 60 (1.11%) OCI
14 59 (1.09%) Amazon S3
15 52 (0.96%) Serverless
16 49 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
16 49 (0.91%) PowerApps
17 47 (0.87%) Figma
18 44 (0.81%) PaaS
18 44 (0.81%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 101 (1.87%) Firewall
2 95 (1.76%) Network Security
3 65 (1.20%) WAN
4 51 (0.94%) LAN
5 49 (0.91%) DNS
6 35 (0.65%) SD-WAN
6 35 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 34 (0.63%) VPN
8 30 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (0.43%) DHCP
10 21 (0.39%) BGP
11 19 (0.35%) OSPF
12 16 (0.30%) Wireless
13 15 (0.28%) Intranet
13 15 (0.28%) SAN
14 14 (0.26%) BIG-IP
14 14 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
15 13 (0.24%) 4G
15 13 (0.24%) MPLS
15 13 (0.24%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (4.95%) Power BI
2 126 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 103 (1.90%) Metadata
4 71 (1.31%) Data Lake
5 66 (1.22%) SQL Server
6 59 (1.09%) Tableau
7 46 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
8 39 (0.72%) Relational Database
9 37 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (0.54%) Oracle Database
12 28 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
13 23 (0.43%) Big Data
13 23 (0.43%) DynamoDB
14 22 (0.41%) Delta Lake
14 22 (0.41%) NoSQL
15 17 (0.31%) BigQuery
16 16 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
16 16 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 14 (0.26%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 578 (10.69%) JIRA
2 87 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 81 (1.50%) Git
4 41 (0.76%) GitLab
5 40 (0.74%) Selenium
6 30 (0.55%) JUnit
7 24 (0.44%) Postman
8 19 (0.35%) Cucumber
9 16 (0.30%) SonarQube
10 15 (0.28%) JMeter
11 14 (0.26%) Maven
12 13 (0.24%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.24%) Mockito
13 12 (0.22%) WebDriver
14 10 (0.18%) DbUnit
14 10 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
14 10 (0.18%) Zephyr
15 9 (0.17%) jMock
16 8 (0.15%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,691 (49.75%) Social Skills
2 1,899 (35.11%) Finance
3 866 (16.01%) Analytical Skills
4 661 (12.22%) Public Sector
5 480 (8.87%) Banking
6 331 (6.12%) Retail
7 287 (5.31%) Influencing Skills
8 241 (4.46%) Legal
9 215 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
10 199 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
11 189 (3.49%) Marketing
12 151 (2.79%) Manufacturing
13 132 (2.44%) Telecoms
14 130 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
15 98 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 94 (1.74%) Local Government
17 81 (1.50%) Aerospace
18 77 (1.42%) Billing
19 71 (1.31%) Financial Institution
20 68 (1.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 819 (15.14%) Analyst
2 769 (14.22%) Lead
3 747 (13.81%) Project Manager
4 626 (11.57%) Architect
5 572 (10.57%) Senior
6 555 (10.26%) Business Analyst
7 268 (4.95%) Consultant
8 240 (4.44%) Senior Manager
9 230 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
10 182 (3.36%) Programme Manager
11 176 (3.25%) Delivery Manager
12 167 (3.09%) IT Manager
13 133 (2.46%) Product Manager
14 123 (2.27%) Senior Project Manager
15 110 (2.03%) Product Owner
16 107 (1.98%) Developer
17 104 (1.92%) Technical Manager
18 92 (1.70%) IT Project Manager
19 90 (1.66%) Change Manager
20 89 (1.65%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (2.38%) REST
2 94 (1.74%) Middleware
3 90 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
4 66 (1.22%) SOAP
5 59 (1.09%) .NET
6 44 (0.81%) JSON
7 40 (0.74%) Kafka
8 37 (0.68%) PySpark
9 36 (0.67%) CSS
9 36 (0.67%) OAuth
9 36 (0.67%) SailPoint
10 35 (0.65%) React
11 33 (0.61%) HTML
12 32 (0.59%) AngularJS
13 31 (0.57%) Spring
13 31 (0.57%) Web Services
14 30 (0.55%) OpenID
14 30 (0.55%) SAML
14 30 (0.55%) XML
15 28 (0.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 396 (7.32%) Product Ownership
2 294 (5.44%) Onboarding
3 173 (3.20%) Cloud Native
4 159 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
5 148 (2.74%) Management Information System
6 126 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
7 114 (2.11%) Data Centre
8 102 (1.89%) Data Structures
9 94 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 88 (1.63%) Virtual Team
11 78 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
12 74 (1.37%) Operational Technology
13 70 (1.29%) NHS
14 67 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
14 67 (1.24%) Security Posture
15 58 (1.07%) AI Agents
16 56 (1.04%) CMDB
17 52 (0.96%) FMCG
17 52 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
18 44 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 165 (3.05%) Windows
2 85 (1.57%) Linux
3 35 (0.65%) Android
4 33 (0.61%) Unix
5 30 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 30 (0.55%) Windows Server
6 23 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.18%) VMS
9 6 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.092%) Solaris
10 5 (0.092%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.074%) AIX
11 4 (0.074%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.074%) zOS
12 3 (0.055%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.037%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.037%) HPUX
13 2 (0.037%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.018%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,772 (32.76%) Agile
2 935 (17.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 868 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
4 770 (14.24%) Roadmaps
5 753 (13.92%) Migration
6 747 (13.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 692 (12.79%) Project Management
8 656 (12.13%) Decision-Making
9 642 (11.87%) DevOps
10 618 (11.43%) Project Delivery
11 597 (11.04%) Change Management
12 576 (10.65%) AI
13 563 (10.41%) Analytics
14 528 (9.76%) Risk Management
15 474 (8.76%) User Acceptance Testing
16 459 (8.49%) CI/CD
17 456 (8.43%) Workshop Facilitation
18 444 (8.21%) Validation
19 428 (7.91%) ITIL
19 428 (7.91%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 426 (7.88%) SQL
2 307 (5.68%) Python
3 110 (2.03%) Java
4 83 (1.53%) PowerShell
5 66 (1.22%) JavaScript
6 53 (0.98%) C#
7 34 (0.63%) Bash
8 23 (0.43%) Bicep
9 22 (0.41%) Korn
9 22 (0.41%) TypeScript
10 20 (0.37%) ABAP
10 20 (0.37%) VBA
11 17 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 14 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 14 (0.26%) R
12 14 (0.26%) Shell Script
13 13 (0.24%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.18%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,064 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 794 (14.68%) SC Cleared
3 393 (7.27%) Degree
4 275 (5.08%) PMP
5 242 (4.47%) PMI Certification
6 176 (3.25%) DV Cleared
7 156 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 119 (2.20%) CISSP
9 89 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 84 (1.55%) CISM
11 58 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
12 54 (1.00%) AWS Certification
13 51 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
14 46 (0.85%) Master's Degree
15 39 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
15 39 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
16 36 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 30 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 30 (0.55%) ACCA
17 30 (0.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 316 (5.84%) Data Quality
2 297 (5.49%) QA
3 268 (4.95%) PMO
4 223 (4.12%) GDPR
5 151 (2.79%) NIST
6 141 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 97 (1.79%) Accessibility
7 97 (1.79%) GRC
8 89 (1.65%) SLA
9 54 (1.00%) NCSC
10 36 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 35 (0.65%) PCI DSS
12 33 (0.61%) SOC 2
13 32 (0.59%) COBIT
14 27 (0.50%) WCAG
15 22 (0.41%) IFRS
16 18 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.30%) JSP 440
17 16 (0.30%) Solvency II
18 15 (0.28%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 105 (1.94%) Docker
2 102 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 46 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (0.26%) NFS
6 14 (0.26%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.22%) Postfix
8 11 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.17%) vSphere
10 6 (0.11%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.074%) SRDF
11 4 (0.074%) Varnish
12 3 (0.055%) HDFS
12 3 (0.055%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.037%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.037%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.037%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.018%) RACF
Systems Management
1 145 (2.68%) Terraform
2 144 (2.66%) Kubernetes
3 78 (1.44%) Ansible
4 53 (0.98%) Grafana
5 40 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 37 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 33 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 22 (0.41%) SCCM
9 14 (0.26%) Argo
10 9 (0.17%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.15%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.13%) Puppet
12 7 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 7 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 7 (0.13%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.11%) Control-M
14 4 (0.074%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.074%) Oracle RMAN
14 4 (0.074%) vMotion
Vendors
1 716 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 431 (7.97%) SAP
3 296 (5.47%) Oracle
4 289 (5.34%) ServiceNow
5 212 (3.92%) Salesforce
6 109 (2.02%) Google
7 108 (2.00%) Databricks
8 85 (1.57%) VMware
9 78 (1.44%) Workday
10 56 (1.04%) Cisco
11 53 (0.98%) CyberArk
12 52 (0.96%) Adobe
13 43 (0.79%) Splunk
14 37 (0.68%) Ariba
15 35 (0.65%) IBM
16 33 (0.61%) Informatica
17 32 (0.59%) MuleSoft
18 31 (0.57%) F5
19 28 (0.52%) Atlassian
20 26 (0.48%) Foundry