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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 7,165 2,925 2,518
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.38% 10.51% 7.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.17% 11.57% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,742 1,992 1,598
10th Percentile £385 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £644 £650 £649
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £545 £530 £540
% change year-on-year +2.83% -1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 62 67
10th Percentile £20.86 £28.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.65 £42.07
Median hourly rate £60.50 £49.25 £61.06
Median % change year-on-year +22.84% -19.34% +29.39%
75th Percentile £80.03 £60.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £77.13 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £49.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +22.84% -17.92% +14.95%

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 39,443 25,283 28,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.86% 86.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,053 16,051 17,283
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,529 1,252
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.09
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +14 3,768 £560 +1.36% 3,860
North of England +7 1,074 £500 - 1,035
South East +11 906 £549 +4.52% 1,287
Midlands +7 633 £500 -0.99% 685
North West +4 534 £525 +5.00% 608
West Midlands +9 513 £492 -9.14% 471
Yorkshire +8 471 £500 - 325
South West +8 379 £550 - 421
East of England +8 228 £510 -7.27% 360
East Midlands -3 105 £500 +12.99% 212
North East -1 78 £495 -5.71% 106
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
1 354 (4.94%) Confluence
2 197 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 70 (0.98%) CMS
4 49 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 41 (0.57%) Apache
6 29 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 24 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.31%) SAS
9 13 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 9 (0.13%) WordPress
12 7 (0.098%) nginx
12 7 (0.098%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.084%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.084%) CICS
13 6 (0.084%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.084%) Oracle Workflow
13 6 (0.084%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.070%) NetWeaver
14 5 (0.070%) WebLogic
Applications
1 316 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 173 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 163 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
4 136 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
5 73 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.35%) Revit
7 19 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 18 (0.25%) Navisworks
9 15 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
10 14 (0.20%) Chatbot
11 11 (0.15%) Trello
12 9 (0.13%) ProjectWise
13 7 (0.098%) Windchill
14 6 (0.084%) Adobe XD
15 5 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 4 (0.056%) Adobe Illustrator
16 4 (0.056%) Notion
16 4 (0.056%) Photoshop
16 4 (0.056%) Sketch
17 3 (0.042%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 253 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 96 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 32 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
5 29 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 28 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
7 25 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
8 24 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
9 23 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
10 22 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
11 20 (0.28%) SAP HR
12 19 (0.27%) SAP ERP
13 18 (0.25%) Aladdin
13 18 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
13 18 (0.25%) SAP FI
13 18 (0.25%) SAP HCM
14 17 (0.24%) SAP MDG
15 16 (0.22%) SAP QM
15 16 (0.22%) SAP SD
16 15 (0.21%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,294 (18.06%) Azure
2 871 (12.16%) AWS
3 555 (7.75%) Power Platform
4 350 (4.88%) GCP
5 278 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
6 248 (3.46%) SaaS
7 223 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
8 178 (2.48%) GitHub
9 168 (2.34%) Entra ID
10 146 (2.04%) Snowflake
11 144 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
12 106 (1.48%) Microsoft Copilot
13 100 (1.40%) Serverless
14 92 (1.28%) Power Automate
15 83 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
16 82 (1.14%) PowerApps
17 76 (1.06%) Amazon S3
18 71 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
19 70 (0.98%) OCI
20 68 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 139 (1.94%) Firewall
2 134 (1.87%) Network Security
3 79 (1.10%) WAN
4 70 (0.98%) DNS
5 50 (0.70%) LAN
6 47 (0.66%) VPN
7 45 (0.63%) DHCP
8 44 (0.61%) TCP/IP
9 37 (0.52%) SD-WAN
10 27 (0.38%) 4G
10 27 (0.38%) 5G
10 27 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 25 (0.35%) BGP
12 23 (0.32%) Internet
12 23 (0.32%) Wireless
13 21 (0.29%) MPLS
14 20 (0.28%) Broadband
15 17 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
16 16 (0.22%) SAN
16 16 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 430 (6.00%) Power BI
2 205 (2.86%) Metadata
3 199 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 116 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 96 (1.34%) Data Lake
6 85 (1.19%) Tableau
7 73 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
8 51 (0.71%) Delta Lake
8 51 (0.71%) Relational Database
9 49 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 49 (0.68%) BigQuery
10 48 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
11 44 (0.61%) MongoDB
12 35 (0.49%) Looker
13 32 (0.45%) NoSQL
13 32 (0.45%) Oracle Database
14 29 (0.40%) DynamoDB
15 28 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
16 23 (0.32%) Big Data
16 23 (0.32%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 659 (9.20%) JIRA
2 140 (1.95%) Git
3 98 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 93 (1.30%) GitLab
5 71 (0.99%) Selenium
6 47 (0.66%) Cucumber
7 43 (0.60%) JUnit
8 32 (0.45%) Gatling
9 31 (0.43%) Postman
9 31 (0.43%) SonarQube
10 19 (0.27%) Cypress.io
11 18 (0.25%) Zephyr
12 15 (0.21%) JMeter
12 15 (0.21%) Maven
13 12 (0.17%) LoadRunner
13 12 (0.17%) WebDriver
14 11 (0.15%) Claude Code
14 11 (0.15%) Mockito
15 9 (0.13%) ERwin
15 9 (0.13%) MSI
General
1 3,819 (53.30%) Social Skills
2 2,370 (33.08%) Finance
3 1,202 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
4 931 (12.99%) Public Sector
5 723 (10.09%) Banking
6 433 (6.04%) Influencing Skills
7 414 (5.78%) Retail
8 322 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
9 312 (4.35%) Legal
10 259 (3.61%) Manufacturing
11 245 (3.42%) Marketing
12 234 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
13 193 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
14 182 (2.54%) Telecoms
15 145 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 136 (1.90%) Aerospace
17 117 (1.63%) Local Government
18 112 (1.56%) Front Office
19 95 (1.33%) Law
20 94 (1.31%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,032 (14.40%) Analyst
2 977 (13.64%) Lead
3 961 (13.41%) Architect
4 783 (10.93%) Project Manager
5 758 (10.58%) Senior
6 662 (9.24%) Business Analyst
7 467 (6.52%) Consultant
8 325 (4.54%) Solutions Architect
9 250 (3.49%) Senior Manager
10 210 (2.93%) Delivery Manager
11 185 (2.58%) IT Manager
12 178 (2.48%) Programme Manager
13 176 (2.46%) Product Manager
14 165 (2.30%) Developer
15 139 (1.94%) Senior Analyst
15 139 (1.94%) Technical Manager
16 132 (1.84%) Product Owner
17 117 (1.63%) Designer
18 116 (1.62%) Data Analyst
19 115 (1.61%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (3.68%) Terraform
2 197 (2.75%) REST
3 133 (1.86%) Middleware
4 102 (1.42%) .NET
5 86 (1.20%) Kafka
6 83 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
7 81 (1.13%) SOAP
8 68 (0.95%) PySpark
9 65 (0.91%) React
10 64 (0.89%) JSON
11 63 (0.88%) OAuth
12 59 (0.82%) Spring
13 51 (0.71%) HTML
13 51 (0.71%) Playwright
14 49 (0.68%) LDAP
15 45 (0.63%) XML
16 44 (0.61%) CSS
17 42 (0.59%) Web Services
18 41 (0.57%) SailPoint
19 40 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 555 (7.75%) Product Ownership
2 425 (5.93%) Onboarding
3 284 (3.96%) Cloud Native
4 231 (3.22%) Management Information System
5 179 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 169 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
7 160 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
8 137 (1.91%) Data Centre
9 120 (1.67%) AI Agents
10 118 (1.65%) Data Structures
11 115 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
12 114 (1.59%) Operational Technology
13 107 (1.49%) Virtual Team
14 95 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
14 95 (1.33%) Security Posture
15 90 (1.26%) CMDB
15 90 (1.26%) NHS
16 78 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
17 75 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
18 65 (0.91%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 230 (3.21%) Windows
2 150 (2.09%) Linux
3 72 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 52 (0.73%) Unix
5 28 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.27%) Android
7 17 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.20%) VMS
8 14 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.11%) zOS
11 7 (0.098%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.070%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.056%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.042%) CentOS
14 3 (0.042%) Solaris
15 2 (0.028%) AIX
15 2 (0.028%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,238 (31.24%) Agile
2 1,306 (18.23%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,208 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
4 1,176 (16.41%) Roadmaps
5 1,007 (14.05%) Migration
6 958 (13.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 953 (13.30%) Decision-Making
8 929 (12.97%) AI
9 842 (11.75%) DevOps
10 828 (11.56%) Project Delivery
11 814 (11.36%) Project Management
12 812 (11.33%) Analytics
13 726 (10.13%) Change Management
14 710 (9.91%) Risk Management
14 710 (9.91%) Workshop Facilitation
15 699 (9.76%) CI/CD
16 598 (8.35%) Cybersecurity
17 595 (8.30%) User Acceptance Testing
18 588 (8.21%) Requirements Gathering
19 587 (8.19%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 649 (9.06%) SQL
2 468 (6.53%) Python
3 196 (2.74%) Java
4 148 (2.07%) JavaScript
5 144 (2.01%) PowerShell
6 90 (1.26%) C#
7 72 (1.00%) Bash
8 59 (0.82%) TypeScript
9 41 (0.57%) ABAP
9 41 (0.57%) Bicep
10 33 (0.46%) Korn
11 26 (0.36%) R
12 24 (0.33%) T-SQL
13 23 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 23 (0.32%) PL/SQL
14 18 (0.25%) Go
14 18 (0.25%) Shell Script
15 17 (0.24%) VBA
16 13 (0.18%) Apex Code
17 10 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,447 (20.20%) Security Cleared
2 1,066 (14.88%) SC Cleared
3 492 (6.87%) Degree
4 315 (4.40%) PMP
5 280 (3.91%) PMI Certification
6 267 (3.73%) DV Cleared
7 254 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 161 (2.25%) CISSP
9 129 (1.80%) Azure Certification
10 120 (1.67%) CISM
11 92 (1.28%) AWS Certification
12 91 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
13 79 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
14 78 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
15 56 (0.78%) Master's Degree
16 54 (0.75%) ACCA
17 51 (0.71%) CIMA
18 50 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 49 (0.68%) ISTQB
20 48 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 550 (7.68%) Data Quality
2 407 (5.68%) QA
3 328 (4.58%) PMO
4 218 (3.04%) GDPR
5 194 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 188 (2.62%) Accessibility
7 173 (2.41%) NIST
8 136 (1.90%) GRC
9 100 (1.40%) SLA
10 74 (1.03%) WCAG
11 63 (0.88%) NCSC
12 37 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
13 29 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 27 (0.38%) IFRS
15 25 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
15 25 (0.35%) ISO 20022
16 24 (0.33%) GxP
17 23 (0.32%) COBIT
17 23 (0.32%) PCI DSS
18 19 (0.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 185 (2.58%) Active Directory
2 169 (2.36%) Docker
3 73 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.42%) vSphere
5 27 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 25 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (0.33%) VMware NSX
8 20 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.24%) Hyper-V
10 11 (0.15%) NFS
11 8 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (0.098%) Postfix
13 6 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
13 6 (0.084%) Time Sharing Option
14 4 (0.056%) FreeRADIUS
14 4 (0.056%) IAG
15 3 (0.042%) KVM
15 3 (0.042%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.042%) RACF
15 3 (0.042%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 241 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 108 (1.51%) Ansible
3 63 (0.88%) Grafana
4 48 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 40 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.43%) SCCM
8 17 (0.24%) Argo
9 12 (0.17%) Control-M
10 11 (0.15%) Kibana
11 10 (0.14%) vCenter Server
12 9 (0.13%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.098%) HP ALM
13 7 (0.098%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 7 (0.098%) Tivoli
13 7 (0.098%) WMI
14 6 (0.084%) Oracle RMAN
14 6 (0.084%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.084%) Puppet
15 5 (0.070%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 1,195 (16.68%) Microsoft
2 546 (7.62%) SAP
3 382 (5.33%) Oracle
4 356 (4.97%) ServiceNow
5 258 (3.60%) Salesforce
6 225 (3.14%) Databricks
7 160 (2.23%) Google
8 108 (1.51%) VMware
9 104 (1.45%) Workday
10 93 (1.30%) Cisco
11 76 (1.06%) CyberArk
12 75 (1.05%) IBM
13 62 (0.87%) Adobe
14 60 (0.84%) Splunk
15 43 (0.60%) Ariba
15 43 (0.60%) MuleSoft
16 42 (0.59%) Informatica
17 35 (0.49%) Fortinet
18 31 (0.43%) Bloomberg
19 30 (0.42%) Foundry