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

6 months to
20 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 6,185 2,864 2,457
As % of all contract jobs in England 13.55% 10.38% 7.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.95% 11.43% 8.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,106 1,943 1,687
10th Percentile £387 £358 £363
25th Percentile £459 £436 £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% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 63 64
10th Percentile £26.12 £28.93 £31.79
25th Percentile £35.00 £35.80 £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 £71.48 £75.00
90th Percentile £101.18 £77.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £60.60
% change year-on-year +20.00% -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 38,776 25,061 28,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.80% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,043 15,975 18,472
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
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 2,543 1,444 1,583
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.88 £18.12
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.21 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.63 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.54% -38.57% -0.24%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 3,267 £563 +1.53% 1,313
North of England 0 911 £509 +1.75% 458
South East +8 798 £550 +4.76% 736
Midlands +2 537 £500 -4.40% 303
North West 0 473 £525 +5.00% 264
West Midlands +4 420 £500 -4.76% 205
Yorkshire +4 384 £500 +1.01% 138
South West +8 346 £550 +4.76% 249
East of England +11 196 £525 -4.55% 144
East Midlands -1 100 £500 +19.12% 97
North East -10 62 £480 -1.03% 59
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
1 345 (5.58%) Confluence
2 167 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 55 (0.89%) CMS
4 36 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (0.49%) Apache
6 24 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 23 (0.37%) SAS
8 19 (0.31%) Apache Spark
9 12 (0.19%) 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 (0.065%) Appian
13 4 (0.065%) FactoryTalk
13 4 (0.065%) Kentico
13 4 (0.065%) Moodle
14 3 (0.049%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 276 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 149 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
3 145 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
4 143 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 69 (1.12%) 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 (0.065%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.065%) Notion
12 4 (0.065%) Windchill
13 3 (0.049%) Sketch
14 2 (0.032%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.032%) CPLEX
14 2 (0.032%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 218 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 77 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 25 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 24 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
7 23 (0.37%) Workday HCM
8 22 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
9 21 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 20 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
11 18 (0.29%) SAP FI
12 17 (0.27%) Primavera
12 17 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
12 17 (0.27%) SAP SD
13 16 (0.26%) SAP ERP
14 14 (0.23%) Aladdin
14 14 (0.23%) Finacle
14 14 (0.23%) SAP CO
15 13 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
15 13 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,135 (18.35%) Azure
2 763 (12.34%) AWS
3 431 (6.97%) Power Platform
4 297 (4.80%) GCP
5 254 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
6 226 (3.65%) SaaS
7 173 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
8 150 (2.43%) Entra ID
9 130 (2.10%) Snowflake
10 129 (2.09%) GitHub
11 101 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
12 78 (1.26%) SuccessFactors
13 71 (1.15%) Serverless
14 69 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
15 63 (1.02%) OCI
15 63 (1.02%) PowerApps
16 58 (0.94%) Amazon S3
17 56 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
17 56 (0.91%) Power Automate
18 55 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 120 (1.94%) Network Security
2 116 (1.88%) Firewall
3 68 (1.10%) WAN
4 63 (1.02%) DNS
5 48 (0.78%) LAN
6 42 (0.68%) VPN
7 40 (0.65%) TCP/IP
8 36 (0.58%) SD-WAN
9 34 (0.55%) DHCP
10 27 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (0.39%) 4G
11 24 (0.39%) 5G
12 23 (0.37%) BGP
13 20 (0.32%) Wireless
14 19 (0.31%) OSPF
15 17 (0.27%) Internet
15 17 (0.27%) MPLS
16 15 (0.24%) SAN
16 15 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
17 14 (0.23%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 346 (5.59%) Power BI
2 167 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 141 (2.28%) Metadata
4 90 (1.46%) SQL Server
5 77 (1.24%) Data Lake
6 70 (1.13%) Tableau
7 63 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
8 50 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
9 46 (0.74%) Relational Database
10 45 (0.73%) Delta Lake
11 39 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
12 32 (0.52%) BigQuery
12 32 (0.52%) Oracle Database
13 29 (0.47%) MongoDB
14 27 (0.44%) Big Data
15 25 (0.40%) NoSQL
16 23 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
16 23 (0.37%) Looker
17 22 (0.36%) MySQL
18 20 (0.32%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 625 (10.11%) JIRA
2 100 (1.62%) Git
3 88 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 58 (0.94%) GitLab
5 46 (0.74%) Selenium
6 30 (0.49%) Postman
7 23 (0.37%) JUnit
8 22 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 22 (0.36%) SonarQube
9 18 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 18 (0.29%) JMeter
9 18 (0.29%) Zephyr
10 16 (0.26%) Gatling
11 13 (0.21%) Maven
12 12 (0.19%) LoadRunner
12 12 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
12 12 (0.19%) WebDriver
13 10 (0.16%) ERwin
14 9 (0.15%) Mockito
14 9 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 3,155 (51.01%) Social Skills
2 2,124 (34.34%) Finance
3 1,029 (16.64%) Analytical Skills
4 771 (12.47%) Public Sector
5 602 (9.73%) Banking
6 385 (6.22%) Retail
7 333 (5.38%) Influencing Skills
8 262 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
9 259 (4.19%) Legal
10 218 (3.52%) Marketing
11 210 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
12 197 (3.19%) Manufacturing
13 163 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
14 156 (2.52%) Telecoms
15 128 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 101 (1.63%) Aerospace
17 99 (1.60%) Local Government
18 90 (1.46%) Billing
19 84 (1.36%) Front Office
20 74 (1.20%) Law
Job Titles
1 901 (14.57%) Analyst
2 892 (14.42%) Lead
3 770 (12.45%) Project Manager
4 753 (12.17%) Architect
5 650 (10.51%) Senior
6 589 (9.52%) Business Analyst
7 386 (6.24%) Consultant
8 273 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
9 237 (3.83%) Senior Manager
10 182 (2.94%) Programme Manager
11 179 (2.89%) Delivery Manager
12 168 (2.72%) IT Manager
13 148 (2.39%) Product Manager
14 139 (2.25%) Developer
15 121 (1.96%) Technical Manager
16 118 (1.91%) Product Owner
17 116 (1.88%) Senior Project Manager
18 107 (1.73%) Senior Analyst
19 105 (1.70%) Designer
20 103 (1.67%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 210 (3.40%) Terraform
2 164 (2.65%) REST
3 112 (1.81%) Middleware
4 87 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
5 76 (1.23%) .NET
6 74 (1.20%) SOAP
7 68 (1.10%) Kafka
8 52 (0.84%) PySpark
9 49 (0.79%) JSON
10 48 (0.78%) OAuth
11 45 (0.73%) React
12 40 (0.65%) HTML
12 40 (0.65%) SailPoint
13 37 (0.60%) CSS
13 37 (0.60%) Spring
13 37 (0.60%) XML
14 34 (0.55%) Web Services
15 31 (0.50%) Spring Boot
16 30 (0.49%) OpenID
16 30 (0.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 470 (7.60%) Product Ownership
2 349 (5.64%) Onboarding
3 226 (3.65%) Cloud Native
4 179 (2.89%) Management Information System
5 166 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 134 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 127 (2.05%) Data Centre
8 119 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
9 112 (1.81%) Data Structures
10 99 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
11 95 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
12 94 (1.52%) Virtual Team
13 88 (1.42%) AI Agents
14 87 (1.41%) Operational Technology
15 85 (1.37%) Security Posture
16 76 (1.23%) NHS
17 68 (1.10%) CMDB
18 64 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
19 62 (1.00%) FMCG
20 56 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 188 (3.04%) Windows
2 115 (1.86%) Linux
3 49 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 46 (0.74%) Unix
5 27 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 26 (0.42%) Android
7 24 (0.39%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.23%) VMS
10 11 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.065%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.065%) zOS
13 3 (0.049%) CentOS
13 3 (0.049%) Solaris
13 3 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.032%) AIX
14 2 (0.032%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,999 (32.32%) Agile
2 1,100 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,012 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
4 955 (15.44%) Roadmaps
5 866 (14.00%) Migration
6 833 (13.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 775 (12.53%) Decision-Making
8 768 (12.42%) Project Management
9 760 (12.29%) DevOps
10 753 (12.17%) AI
11 733 (11.85%) Project Delivery
12 687 (11.11%) Analytics
13 643 (10.40%) Change Management
14 604 (9.77%) Risk Management
15 583 (9.43%) Workshop Facilitation
16 569 (9.20%) CI/CD
17 527 (8.52%) User Acceptance Testing
18 512 (8.28%) Cybersecurity
19 494 (7.99%) Scrum
20 492 (7.95%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 532 (8.60%) SQL
2 371 (6.00%) Python
3 143 (2.31%) Java
4 114 (1.84%) PowerShell
5 108 (1.75%) JavaScript
6 62 (1.00%) C#
7 52 (0.84%) Bash
8 35 (0.57%) Bicep
9 34 (0.55%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.44%) Korn
11 23 (0.37%) ABAP
12 22 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 21 (0.34%) R
14 20 (0.32%) PL/SQL
14 20 (0.32%) VBA
15 17 (0.27%) T-SQL
16 16 (0.26%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.23%) Apex Code
18 12 (0.19%) Go
19 9 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,234 (19.95%) Security Cleared
2 897 (14.50%) SC Cleared
3 423 (6.84%) Degree
4 297 (4.80%) PMP
5 252 (4.07%) PMI Certification
6 228 (3.69%) DV Cleared
7 178 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 145 (2.34%) CISSP
9 112 (1.81%) CISM
10 109 (1.76%) Azure Certification
11 76 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
12 68 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
13 66 (1.07%) AWS Certification
14 59 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
15 46 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 44 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 43 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
18 41 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 41 (0.66%) ISTQB
19 37 (0.60%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 411 (6.65%) Data Quality
2 351 (5.68%) QA
3 302 (4.88%) PMO
4 221 (3.57%) GDPR
5 152 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 151 (2.44%) NIST
7 135 (2.18%) Accessibility
8 112 (1.81%) GRC
9 91 (1.47%) SLA
10 53 (0.86%) NCSC
11 42 (0.68%) WCAG
12 33 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 27 (0.44%) SOC 2
14 24 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
14 24 (0.39%) COBIT
15 23 (0.37%) IFRS
16 22 (0.36%) PCI DSS
17 18 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
17 18 (0.29%) ISO 20022
18 17 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 149 (2.41%) Active Directory
2 130 (2.10%) Docker
3 62 (1.00%) 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 10 (0.16%) Postfix
12 6 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.065%) SRDF
13 4 (0.065%) Varnish
14 3 (0.049%) Ceph
14 3 (0.049%) HDFS
14 3 (0.049%) KVM
14 3 (0.049%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.032%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 183 (2.96%) Kubernetes
2 96 (1.55%) Ansible
3 61 (0.99%) Grafana
4 45 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 44 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (0.52%) 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 (0.15%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.13%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.097%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.097%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.081%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.081%) Kibana
14 5 (0.081%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.065%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 949 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 486 (7.86%) SAP
3 338 (5.46%) Oracle
4 318 (5.14%) ServiceNow
5 233 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 177 (2.86%) Databricks
7 129 (2.09%) Google
8 95 (1.54%) VMware
9 90 (1.46%) Workday
10 73 (1.18%) Cisco
11 57 (0.92%) CyberArk
12 56 (0.91%) Adobe
13 55 (0.89%) IBM
14 47 (0.76%) Splunk
15 36 (0.58%) Ariba
15 36 (0.58%) Informatica
16 35 (0.57%) MuleSoft
17 34 (0.55%) Atlassian
18 31 (0.50%) F5
19 30 (0.49%) Okta