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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 15 23
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,683 2,836 2,490
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.57% 10.31% 7.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.75% 11.36% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,789 1,932 1,749
10th Percentile £390 £358 £362
25th Percentile £463 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -0.47% -2.27%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £546 £525 £531
% change year-on-year +4.05% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 65 72
10th Percentile £28.00 £29.61 £24.01
25th Percentile £35.73 £37.80 £50.63
Median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £61.33
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -12.77% +31.89%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £103.20 £78.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.82% -10.83% +27.66%

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 38,532 24,959 29,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.75% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,999 19,151
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,433 1,365 1,791
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.22 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +10 2,962 £560 +1.08% 1,317
North of England -1 826 £500 - 485
South East +8 749 £550 +4.76% 631
Midlands +1 533 £500 -0.10% 273
West Midlands +3 420 £500 -7.66% 184
North West -1 414 £525 +5.00% 270
Yorkshire +6 365 £500 +2.30% 155
South West +9 319 £550 +4.76% 219
East of England +6 178 £525 -4.55% 132
East Midlands +5 99 £500 +24.22% 89
North East -14 59 £475 +5.56% 63
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
1 323 (5.68%) Confluence
2 150 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 55 (0.97%) CMS
4 29 (0.51%) SAS
5 25 (0.44%) Apache
6 23 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 19 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.21%) Apache Spark
9 9 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.11%) Appian
11 6 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.11%) WordPress
12 5 (0.088%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.070%) FactoryTalk
13 4 (0.070%) Kentico
14 3 (0.053%) Camunda
14 3 (0.053%) Moodle
14 3 (0.053%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 237 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 153 (2.69%) Microsoft Project
3 127 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
4 118 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 71 (1.25%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.26%) Revit
8 14 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.21%) AutoCAD
10 9 (0.16%) Trello
11 7 (0.12%) Navisworks
12 5 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 5 (0.088%) Sketch
13 4 (0.070%) Adobe XD
13 4 (0.070%) Notion
14 2 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.035%) EPLAN
14 2 (0.035%) Photoshop
14 2 (0.035%) ProjectWise
14 2 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 203 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 69 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 26 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
4 26 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
5 23 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
5 23 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 20 (0.35%) Workday HCM
7 19 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
8 18 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
9 17 (0.30%) SAP FI
10 16 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
10 16 (0.28%) SAP SD
11 14 (0.25%) Finacle
11 14 (0.25%) Primavera
11 14 (0.25%) SAP ERP
11 14 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
12 13 (0.23%) Aladdin
12 13 (0.23%) SAP CO
13 12 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,001 (17.61%) Azure
2 677 (11.91%) AWS
3 361 (6.35%) Power Platform
4 256 (4.50%) GCP
5 222 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
6 200 (3.52%) SaaS
7 143 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
8 124 (2.18%) Entra ID
9 113 (1.99%) GitHub
10 107 (1.88%) Snowflake
11 81 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
12 77 (1.35%) SuccessFactors
13 62 (1.09%) OCI
14 61 (1.07%) Amazon S3
15 58 (1.02%) Serverless
16 54 (0.95%) PowerApps
17 53 (0.93%) Power Automate
18 51 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
19 50 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
20 49 (0.86%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 105 (1.85%) Firewall
2 102 (1.79%) Network Security
3 63 (1.11%) WAN
4 56 (0.99%) DNS
5 44 (0.77%) LAN
6 37 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 36 (0.63%) SD-WAN
7 36 (0.63%) VPN
8 30 (0.53%) DHCP
9 25 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
10 20 (0.35%) BGP
11 18 (0.32%) 4G
11 18 (0.32%) 5G
11 18 (0.32%) OSPF
12 17 (0.30%) Wireless
13 15 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
14 14 (0.25%) BIG-IP
14 14 (0.25%) Intranet
14 14 (0.25%) MPLS
15 13 (0.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (5.10%) Power BI
2 141 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
3 109 (1.92%) Metadata
4 74 (1.30%) SQL Server
5 73 (1.28%) Data Lake
6 63 (1.11%) Tableau
7 51 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
8 42 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 42 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 33 (0.58%) Delta Lake
10 32 (0.56%) Oracle Database
11 31 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
12 27 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
13 25 (0.44%) Big Data
14 23 (0.40%) DynamoDB
15 22 (0.39%) BigQuery
16 19 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
16 19 (0.33%) NoSQL
17 18 (0.32%) Looker
17 18 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 592 (10.42%) JIRA
2 91 (1.60%) Git
3 84 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 53 (0.93%) GitLab
5 48 (0.84%) Selenium
6 33 (0.58%) JUnit
7 25 (0.44%) Cucumber
8 24 (0.42%) Postman
9 21 (0.37%) SonarQube
10 18 (0.32%) JMeter
11 15 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.26%) Maven
11 15 (0.26%) Zephyr
12 14 (0.25%) WebDriver
13 12 (0.21%) Gatling
13 12 (0.21%) Mockito
14 11 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (0.18%) DbUnit
16 9 (0.16%) ERwin
16 9 (0.16%) jMock
General
1 2,844 (50.04%) Social Skills
2 1,970 (34.66%) Finance
3 923 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
4 701 (12.34%) Public Sector
5 532 (9.36%) Banking
6 351 (6.18%) Retail
7 310 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
8 244 (4.29%) Legal
9 231 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
10 202 (3.55%) Marketing
11 196 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
12 167 (2.94%) Manufacturing
13 146 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
14 136 (2.39%) Telecoms
15 111 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 98 (1.72%) Local Government
17 85 (1.50%) Aerospace
18 83 (1.46%) Billing
19 77 (1.35%) Front Office
20 74 (1.30%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 845 (14.87%) Analyst
2 821 (14.45%) Lead
3 746 (13.13%) Project Manager
4 671 (11.81%) Architect
5 604 (10.63%) Senior
6 568 (9.99%) Business Analyst
7 314 (5.53%) Consultant
8 261 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
9 233 (4.10%) Senior Manager
10 182 (3.20%) Delivery Manager
11 179 (3.15%) Programme Manager
12 169 (2.97%) IT Manager
13 135 (2.38%) Product Manager
14 128 (2.25%) Developer
15 120 (2.11%) Senior Project Manager
16 115 (2.02%) Product Owner
17 113 (1.99%) Technical Manager
18 97 (1.71%) Designer
19 96 (1.69%) Senior Analyst
20 94 (1.65%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (2.59%) REST
2 102 (1.79%) Middleware
3 90 (1.58%) Oracle Fusion
4 74 (1.30%) SOAP
5 63 (1.11%) .NET
6 48 (0.84%) Kafka
7 44 (0.77%) JSON
8 41 (0.72%) PySpark
8 41 (0.72%) React
9 39 (0.69%) OAuth
9 39 (0.69%) SailPoint
10 38 (0.67%) Spring
11 35 (0.62%) CSS
11 35 (0.62%) HTML
11 35 (0.62%) Web Services
12 30 (0.53%) AngularJS
13 27 (0.48%) Playwright
13 27 (0.48%) Spring Boot
13 27 (0.48%) XML
14 25 (0.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 424 (7.46%) Product Ownership
2 314 (5.53%) Onboarding
3 185 (3.26%) Cloud Native
4 162 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
5 157 (2.76%) Management Information System
6 127 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
7 122 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 106 (1.87%) Data Structures
9 97 (1.71%) Virtual Team
10 94 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
11 90 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
12 79 (1.39%) Operational Technology
13 76 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
14 73 (1.28%) NHS
15 71 (1.25%) AI Agents
16 70 (1.23%) Security Posture
17 61 (1.07%) CMDB
18 58 (1.02%) FMCG
19 57 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
20 44 (0.77%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 174 (3.06%) Windows
2 98 (1.72%) Linux
3 39 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 36 (0.63%) Unix
5 34 (0.60%) Android
6 29 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.18%) VMS
10 9 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.088%) Solaris
11 5 (0.088%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.070%) AIX
12 4 (0.070%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.070%) zOS
13 3 (0.053%) Amazon Linux
13 3 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.035%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.035%) HPUX
14 2 (0.035%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,841 (32.39%) Agile
2 997 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 909 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 851 (14.97%) Roadmaps
5 780 (13.73%) Migration
6 769 (13.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 714 (12.56%) Project Management
8 710 (12.49%) Decision-Making
9 673 (11.84%) DevOps
10 645 (11.35%) Project Delivery
11 639 (11.24%) AI
12 609 (10.72%) Analytics
13 603 (10.61%) Change Management
14 564 (9.92%) Risk Management
15 492 (8.66%) CI/CD
16 490 (8.62%) Workshop Facilitation
17 489 (8.60%) User Acceptance Testing
18 463 (8.15%) Scrum
19 452 (7.95%) Validation
20 446 (7.85%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 462 (8.13%) SQL
2 324 (5.70%) Python
3 125 (2.20%) Java
4 89 (1.57%) PowerShell
5 85 (1.50%) JavaScript
6 54 (0.95%) C#
7 38 (0.67%) Bash
8 25 (0.44%) Bicep
9 24 (0.42%) TypeScript
10 23 (0.40%) Korn
11 20 (0.35%) ABAP
11 20 (0.35%) VBA
12 18 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 18 (0.32%) R
13 17 (0.30%) PL/SQL
14 16 (0.28%) T-SQL
15 14 (0.25%) Shell Script
16 12 (0.21%) Apex Code
17 10 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
18 7 (0.12%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,118 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 827 (14.55%) SC Cleared
3 396 (6.97%) Degree
4 285 (5.01%) PMP
5 251 (4.42%) PMI Certification
6 199 (3.50%) DV Cleared
7 162 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 123 (2.16%) CISSP
9 96 (1.69%) Azure Certification
10 92 (1.62%) CISM
11 62 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 54 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
13 53 (0.93%) AWS Certification
14 50 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
15 42 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 41 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 39 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
18 32 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 32 (0.56%) ISTQB
19 31 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 345 (6.07%) Data Quality
2 318 (5.60%) QA
3 278 (4.89%) PMO
4 214 (3.77%) GDPR
5 144 (2.53%) NIST
6 136 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 116 (2.04%) Accessibility
8 99 (1.74%) GRC
9 89 (1.57%) SLA
10 47 (0.83%) NCSC
11 38 (0.67%) WCAG
12 37 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 32 (0.56%) COBIT
14 30 (0.53%) SOC 2
15 27 (0.48%) PCI DSS
16 22 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
17 21 (0.37%) IFRS
18 16 (0.28%) ISO 20022
18 16 (0.28%) JSP 440
19 15 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 126 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 118 (2.08%) Docker
3 49 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.26%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.21%) NFS
7 12 (0.21%) Postfix
7 12 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (0.21%) vSphere
8 8 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.070%) SRDF
10 4 (0.070%) Varnish
11 3 (0.053%) HDFS
11 3 (0.053%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.035%) Ceph
12 2 (0.035%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.035%) KVM
12 2 (0.035%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 166 (2.92%) Terraform
2 155 (2.73%) Kubernetes
3 82 (1.44%) Ansible
4 56 (0.99%) Grafana
5 44 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 38 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.60%) Prometheus
8 27 (0.48%) SCCM
9 17 (0.30%) Argo
10 9 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.16%) Puppet
11 8 (0.14%) Control-M
11 8 (0.14%) HP ALM
12 7 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 7 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.11%) RSA Archer
14 5 (0.088%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.088%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.070%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 782 (13.76%) Microsoft
2 458 (8.06%) SAP
3 312 (5.49%) Oracle
4 310 (5.45%) ServiceNow
5 218 (3.84%) Salesforce
6 136 (2.39%) Databricks
7 111 (1.95%) Google
8 86 (1.51%) VMware
9 82 (1.44%) Workday
10 61 (1.07%) Cisco
11 54 (0.95%) Adobe
12 47 (0.83%) CyberArk
13 44 (0.77%) IBM
14 36 (0.63%) Ariba
15 34 (0.60%) MuleSoft
15 34 (0.60%) Splunk
16 32 (0.56%) Atlassian
17 31 (0.55%) Informatica
18 30 (0.53%) F5
19 27 (0.48%) Foundry