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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 6,721 2,891 2,478
As % of all contract jobs in England 14.51% 10.48% 7.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.09% 11.54% 8.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,453 1,959 1,614
10th Percentile £388 £360 £363
25th Percentile £456 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £744 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 62 72
10th Percentile £21.08 £28.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £33.70 £33.00 £49.53
Median hourly rate £56.25 £48.25 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +16.58% -21.67% +27.01%
75th Percentile £80.00 £68.87 £75.00
90th Percentile £99.17 £78.63 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £47.50 £60.83
% change year-on-year +25.26% -21.91% +21.76%

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 39,321 25,058 28,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.80% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,195 15,905 17,612
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £752
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,661 1,475 1,343
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.27 £14.84
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.83 £20.24
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.96% -41.51% +0.58%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.03 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.17% -41.51% +1.96%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +11 3,530 £563 +1.53% 3,326
North of England +3 1,014 £500 - 818
South East +9 866 £550 +4.76% 1,020
Midlands +4 581 £500 -4.76% 472
North West +2 528 £525 +5.00% 496
West Midlands +8 463 £500 -7.66% 320
Yorkshire +7 425 £500 - 243
South West +8 372 £550 +4.76% 408
East of England +10 212 £525 -4.55% 255
East Midlands -2 102 £500 +14.42% 152
North East -5 70 £490 +1.03% 87
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
1 342 (5.09%) Confluence
2 183 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 64 (0.95%) CMS
4 45 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (0.49%) Apache
6 28 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 21 (0.31%) SAS
8 20 (0.30%) Apache Spark
9 12 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 7 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.10%) WordPress
12 6 (0.089%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.074%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.074%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
13 5 (0.074%) Sitecore CMS
14 4 (0.060%) Appian
14 4 (0.060%) FactoryTalk
14 4 (0.060%) Kentico
Applications
1 308 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 165 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 161 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
4 151 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
5 69 (1.03%) MS Visio
6 21 (0.31%) Revit
7 17 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 17 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 15 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.18%) Navisworks
10 10 (0.15%) Trello
11 7 (0.10%) ProjectWise
12 6 (0.089%) Windchill
13 5 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.060%) Adobe XD
14 4 (0.060%) Notion
15 3 (0.045%) Adobe Illustrator
15 3 (0.045%) CPLEX
15 3 (0.045%) Photoshop
15 3 (0.045%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 234 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 86 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 30 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
5 27 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 26 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 25 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
8 24 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
9 23 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
10 19 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
11 18 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 17 (0.25%) SAP FI
12 17 (0.25%) SAP SD
13 16 (0.24%) Aladdin
13 16 (0.24%) SAP ERP
14 15 (0.22%) Primavera
14 15 (0.22%) SAP MDG
15 14 (0.21%) Finacle
15 14 (0.21%) SAP HR
15 14 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,244 (18.51%) Azure
2 834 (12.41%) AWS
3 495 (7.36%) Power Platform
4 321 (4.78%) GCP
5 274 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
6 244 (3.63%) SaaS
7 203 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
8 172 (2.56%) Entra ID
9 152 (2.26%) GitHub
10 141 (2.10%) Snowflake
11 123 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
12 89 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
13 87 (1.29%) Serverless
14 75 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
15 72 (1.07%) OCI
15 72 (1.07%) PowerApps
16 69 (1.03%) Power Automate
17 66 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
18 61 (0.91%) Amazon S3
19 60 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 129 (1.92%) Network Security
2 128 (1.90%) Firewall
3 78 (1.16%) WAN
4 67 (1.00%) DNS
5 51 (0.76%) LAN
6 43 (0.64%) VPN
7 41 (0.61%) TCP/IP
8 39 (0.58%) DHCP
8 39 (0.58%) SD-WAN
9 29 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
10 28 (0.42%) 4G
10 28 (0.42%) 5G
11 27 (0.40%) BGP
12 26 (0.39%) Wireless
13 20 (0.30%) Broadband
14 19 (0.28%) Internet
15 18 (0.27%) MPLS
16 17 (0.25%) OSPF
16 17 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
17 16 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 387 (5.76%) Power BI
2 187 (2.78%) Metadata
3 183 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
4 109 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 85 (1.26%) Data Lake
6 75 (1.12%) Tableau
7 66 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
8 50 (0.74%) Delta Lake
8 50 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 49 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 43 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
11 39 (0.58%) MongoDB
12 35 (0.52%) BigQuery
13 31 (0.46%) Oracle Database
14 29 (0.43%) NoSQL
15 27 (0.40%) Looker
16 25 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
17 24 (0.36%) Big Data
18 23 (0.34%) DynamoDB
19 22 (0.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 642 (9.55%) JIRA
2 117 (1.74%) Git
3 91 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 70 (1.04%) GitLab
5 57 (0.85%) Selenium
6 31 (0.46%) Cucumber
7 30 (0.45%) JUnit
8 29 (0.43%) Postman
9 25 (0.37%) SonarQube
10 22 (0.33%) Gatling
11 18 (0.27%) Cypress.io
11 18 (0.27%) Zephyr
12 17 (0.25%) JMeter
13 14 (0.21%) Maven
14 12 (0.18%) LoadRunner
15 11 (0.16%) ERwin
15 11 (0.16%) Mockito
15 11 (0.16%) WebDriver
16 10 (0.15%) MSI
16 10 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3,521 (52.39%) Social Skills
2 2,253 (33.52%) Finance
3 1,128 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
4 848 (12.62%) Public Sector
5 667 (9.92%) Banking
6 405 (6.03%) Retail
7 391 (5.82%) Influencing Skills
8 300 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
9 277 (4.12%) Legal
10 231 (3.44%) Marketing
11 229 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
12 221 (3.29%) Manufacturing
13 178 (2.65%) Telecoms
14 176 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
15 133 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 115 (1.71%) Aerospace
17 110 (1.64%) Local Government
18 98 (1.46%) Front Office
19 95 (1.41%) Billing
20 84 (1.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 974 (14.49%) Analyst
2 945 (14.06%) Lead
3 876 (13.03%) Architect
4 772 (11.49%) Project Manager
5 707 (10.52%) Senior
6 627 (9.33%) Business Analyst
7 433 (6.44%) Consultant
8 298 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
9 242 (3.60%) Senior Manager
10 194 (2.89%) Delivery Manager
11 187 (2.78%) Programme Manager
12 174 (2.59%) IT Manager
13 156 (2.32%) Product Manager
14 150 (2.23%) Developer
15 129 (1.92%) Technical Manager
16 125 (1.86%) Product Owner
17 121 (1.80%) Senior Analyst
18 115 (1.71%) Senior Project Manager
19 112 (1.67%) Designer
20 111 (1.65%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (3.51%) Terraform
2 175 (2.60%) REST
3 119 (1.77%) Middleware
4 90 (1.34%) .NET
5 87 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
6 77 (1.15%) Kafka
7 73 (1.09%) SOAP
8 60 (0.89%) PySpark
9 58 (0.86%) OAuth
10 55 (0.82%) JSON
11 51 (0.76%) React
12 49 (0.73%) Spring
13 45 (0.67%) HTML
14 43 (0.64%) LDAP
15 42 (0.62%) XML
16 40 (0.60%) CSS
16 40 (0.60%) Playwright
16 40 (0.60%) SailPoint
17 38 (0.57%) OpenID
17 38 (0.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 506 (7.53%) Product Ownership
2 392 (5.83%) Onboarding
3 263 (3.91%) Cloud Native
4 209 (3.11%) Management Information System
5 160 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 159 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
7 152 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
8 135 (2.01%) Data Centre
9 116 (1.73%) Data Structures
10 108 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
11 102 (1.52%) AI Agents
12 100 (1.49%) Operational Technology
13 98 (1.46%) Virtual Team
14 97 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
15 87 (1.29%) Security Posture
16 84 (1.25%) CMDB
17 80 (1.19%) NHS
18 70 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
18 70 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
19 64 (0.95%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 210 (3.12%) Windows
2 129 (1.92%) Linux
3 61 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 46 (0.68%) Unix
5 24 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.27%) Android
7 16 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.21%) VMS
8 14 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.10%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.10%) zOS
11 5 (0.074%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.060%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.060%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.060%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.045%) CentOS
13 3 (0.045%) Solaris
14 2 (0.030%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.030%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,131 (31.71%) Agile
2 1,220 (18.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,121 (16.68%) Problem-Solving
4 1,079 (16.05%) Roadmaps
5 938 (13.96%) Migration
6 903 (13.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 877 (13.05%) Decision-Making
8 849 (12.63%) AI
9 809 (12.04%) Project Management
10 799 (11.89%) DevOps
11 788 (11.72%) Project Delivery
12 757 (11.26%) Analytics
13 693 (10.31%) Change Management
14 660 (9.82%) Risk Management
15 652 (9.70%) Workshop Facilitation
16 623 (9.27%) CI/CD
17 565 (8.41%) User Acceptance Testing
18 559 (8.32%) Cybersecurity
19 548 (8.15%) Requirements Gathering
20 547 (8.14%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 590 (8.78%) SQL
2 420 (6.25%) Python
3 170 (2.53%) Java
4 136 (2.02%) PowerShell
5 120 (1.79%) JavaScript
6 76 (1.13%) C#
7 64 (0.95%) Bash
8 44 (0.65%) TypeScript
9 39 (0.58%) Bicep
10 29 (0.43%) Korn
11 26 (0.39%) ABAP
12 24 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 24 (0.36%) R
13 23 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 22 (0.33%) T-SQL
15 19 (0.28%) VBA
16 15 (0.22%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.21%) Apex Code
17 14 (0.21%) Go
18 10 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,362 (20.26%) Security Cleared
2 990 (14.73%) SC Cleared
3 450 (6.70%) Degree
4 310 (4.61%) PMP
5 272 (4.05%) PMI Certification
6 260 (3.87%) DV Cleared
7 216 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 155 (2.31%) CISSP
9 123 (1.83%) CISM
10 117 (1.74%) Azure Certification
11 81 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
12 77 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 77 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
13 70 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
14 49 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
14 49 (0.73%) Master's Degree
15 45 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 45 (0.67%) ACCA
15 45 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 43 (0.64%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 490 (7.29%) Data Quality
2 389 (5.79%) QA
3 323 (4.81%) PMO
4 217 (3.23%) GDPR
5 177 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 171 (2.54%) NIST
7 160 (2.38%) Accessibility
8 125 (1.86%) GRC
9 94 (1.40%) SLA
10 57 (0.85%) WCAG
11 55 (0.82%) NCSC
12 29 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 27 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
14 25 (0.37%) IFRS
15 23 (0.34%) COBIT
15 23 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
15 23 (0.34%) SOC 2
16 22 (0.33%) ISO 20022
17 21 (0.31%) PCI DSS
18 18 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 180 (2.68%) Active Directory
2 148 (2.20%) Docker
3 68 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 25 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (0.33%) VMware NSX
5 22 (0.33%) vSphere
6 15 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.16%) NFS
9 7 (0.10%) Postfix
10 6 (0.089%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.060%) Time Sharing Option
12 3 (0.045%) Ceph
12 3 (0.045%) IAG
12 3 (0.045%) KVM
12 3 (0.045%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.045%) Varnish
12 3 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.030%) FreeRADIUS
Systems Management
1 218 (3.24%) Kubernetes
2 103 (1.53%) Ansible
3 62 (0.92%) Grafana
4 46 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 40 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 32 (0.48%) SCCM
8 17 (0.25%) Argo
9 11 (0.16%) Control-M
10 10 (0.15%) Kibana
10 10 (0.15%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.12%) HP ALM
12 7 (0.10%) Puppet
12 7 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.089%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.089%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.089%) WMI
14 5 (0.074%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.074%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.074%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,098 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 516 (7.68%) SAP
3 369 (5.49%) Oracle
4 342 (5.09%) ServiceNow
5 243 (3.62%) Salesforce
6 210 (3.12%) Databricks
7 134 (1.99%) Google
8 102 (1.52%) VMware
9 93 (1.38%) Workday
10 82 (1.22%) Cisco
11 72 (1.07%) CyberArk
12 57 (0.85%) Adobe
13 54 (0.80%) IBM
13 54 (0.80%) Splunk
14 46 (0.68%) Ariba
15 43 (0.64%) Informatica
16 37 (0.55%) MuleSoft
17 30 (0.45%) F5
18 29 (0.43%) Atlassian
18 29 (0.43%) Foundry