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

6 months to
20 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 5,434 2,788 2,617
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.11% 10.17% 7.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.19% 11.21% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,643 1,903 1,862
10th Percentile £385 £358 £358
25th Percentile £459 £431 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +0.56% -2.82%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £527
% change year-on-year +2.86% -0.28% -4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 60 77
10th Percentile £27.55 £31.64 £22.93
25th Percentile £35.55 £42.26 £41.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £54.01 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +15.73% -12.33% +14.79%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.81 £75.00
90th Percentile £103.80 £78.88 £85.26
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £60.30
% change year-on-year +16.82% -11.28% +12.36%

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 38,301 24,864 30,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.33% 90.66% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,041 15,953 19,995
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £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 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,379 1,324 2,046
10th Percentile £15.33 £14.23 £13.22
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.90
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -36.33% -7.06%
75th Percentile £69.10 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.39 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 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 20 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 20 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 2,815 £560 - 1,061
North of England -1 791 £500 - 427
South East +7 727 £550 +4.76% 536
Midlands +1 526 £500 -0.20% 214
West Midlands +2 399 £500 -7.66% 136
North West +2 393 £513 +2.65% 258
Yorkshire +6 357 £500 +1.01% 137
South West +7 300 £550 +1.15% 163
East of England +13 168 £525 -4.55% 98
East Midlands +8 115 £500 +17.65% 77
North East -16 53 £475 +5.56% 35
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
1 320 (5.89%) Confluence
2 149 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 58 (1.07%) CMS
4 32 (0.59%) SAS
5 24 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 17 (0.31%) Apache
8 11 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.15%) Apache Spark
10 7 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
10 7 (0.13%) WordPress
11 6 (0.11%) Appian
11 6 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.092%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.092%) Kentico
13 4 (0.074%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.055%) FactoryTalk
14 3 (0.055%) Oracle Coherence
14 3 (0.055%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 229 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 151 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
3 131 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
4 118 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 68 (1.25%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.33%) 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
1 190 (3.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 70 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 25 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 22 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 18 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 18 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
7 18 (0.33%) Workday HCM
8 16 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
8 16 (0.29%) SAP SD
9 15 (0.28%) Aladdin
9 15 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
10 14 (0.26%) SAP FI
10 14 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
11 13 (0.24%) Primavera
12 12 (0.22%) Finacle
12 12 (0.22%) SAP ERP
13 11 (0.20%) Magento
13 11 (0.20%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 924 (17.00%) Azure
2 624 (11.48%) AWS
3 341 (6.28%) Power Platform
4 239 (4.40%) GCP
5 209 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 188 (3.46%) SaaS
7 131 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
8 112 (2.06%) Entra ID
9 99 (1.82%) GitHub
10 95 (1.75%) Snowflake
11 76 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
12 63 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
13 60 (1.10%) OCI
14 59 (1.09%) Amazon S3
15 53 (0.98%) Serverless
16 51 (0.94%) PowerApps
17 48 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
18 47 (0.86%) Figma
19 46 (0.85%) Power Automate
20 45 (0.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 101 (1.86%) Firewall
2 95 (1.75%) Network Security
3 66 (1.21%) WAN
4 50 (0.92%) LAN
5 49 (0.90%) DNS
6 36 (0.66%) SD-WAN
7 35 (0.64%) TCP/IP
8 34 (0.63%) VPN
9 30 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
10 23 (0.42%) DHCP
11 21 (0.39%) BGP
12 19 (0.35%) OSPF
13 16 (0.29%) Wireless
14 15 (0.28%) Intranet
14 15 (0.28%) SAN
15 14 (0.26%) 4G
15 14 (0.26%) 5G
15 14 (0.26%) BIG-IP
15 14 (0.26%) MPLS
15 14 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 274 (5.04%) Power BI
2 128 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
3 104 (1.91%) Metadata
4 70 (1.29%) Data Lake
5 68 (1.25%) SQL Server
6 61 (1.12%) Tableau
7 47 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
8 38 (0.70%) Relational Database
9 37 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (0.53%) Oracle Database
12 28 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
13 23 (0.42%) Big Data
13 23 (0.42%) DynamoDB
13 23 (0.42%) NoSQL
14 22 (0.40%) Delta Lake
15 17 (0.31%) BigQuery
16 16 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
16 16 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 14 (0.26%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 586 (10.78%) JIRA
2 85 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 81 (1.49%) Git
4 41 (0.75%) GitLab
4 41 (0.75%) Selenium
5 30 (0.55%) JUnit
6 25 (0.46%) Postman
7 20 (0.37%) Cucumber
8 16 (0.29%) JMeter
8 16 (0.29%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 14 (0.26%) Maven
10 13 (0.24%) Mockito
10 13 (0.24%) WebDriver
11 12 (0.22%) Zephyr
12 10 (0.18%) DbUnit
12 10 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (0.17%) jMock
14 8 (0.15%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,701 (49.71%) Social Skills
2 1,902 (35.00%) Finance
3 873 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
4 662 (12.18%) Public Sector
5 488 (8.98%) Banking
6 335 (6.16%) Retail
7 290 (5.34%) Influencing Skills
8 244 (4.49%) Legal
9 217 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
10 196 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
11 190 (3.50%) Marketing
12 151 (2.78%) Manufacturing
13 132 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
14 129 (2.37%) Telecoms
15 101 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 94 (1.73%) Local Government
17 81 (1.49%) Aerospace
18 79 (1.45%) Billing
19 71 (1.31%) Financial Institution
20 69 (1.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 822 (15.13%) Analyst
2 772 (14.21%) Lead
3 746 (13.73%) Project Manager
4 630 (11.59%) Architect
5 578 (10.64%) Senior
6 551 (10.14%) Business Analyst
7 272 (5.01%) Consultant
8 242 (4.45%) Senior Manager
9 230 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
10 186 (3.42%) Programme Manager
11 176 (3.24%) Delivery Manager
12 167 (3.07%) IT Manager
13 133 (2.45%) Product Manager
14 123 (2.26%) Senior Project Manager
15 110 (2.02%) Product Owner
16 108 (1.99%) Developer
17 105 (1.93%) Technical Manager
18 92 (1.69%) IT Project Manager
19 90 (1.66%) Change Manager
20 89 (1.64%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (2.37%) REST
2 94 (1.73%) Middleware
3 90 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
4 66 (1.21%) SOAP
5 60 (1.10%) .NET
6 44 (0.81%) JSON
7 40 (0.74%) Kafka
8 37 (0.68%) PySpark
8 37 (0.68%) SailPoint
9 36 (0.66%) CSS
10 35 (0.64%) React
11 34 (0.63%) OAuth
12 33 (0.61%) HTML
13 32 (0.59%) AngularJS
14 31 (0.57%) Spring
15 30 (0.55%) Web Services
16 29 (0.53%) XML
17 28 (0.52%) OpenID
18 27 (0.50%) RESTful
18 27 (0.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 404 (7.43%) Product Ownership
2 295 (5.43%) Onboarding
3 172 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 158 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
5 149 (2.74%) Management Information System
6 125 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
7 117 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 100 (1.84%) Data Structures
9 93 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 90 (1.66%) Virtual Team
11 78 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
12 75 (1.38%) Operational Technology
13 67 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
13 67 (1.23%) NHS
13 67 (1.23%) Security Posture
14 62 (1.14%) AI Agents
15 55 (1.01%) CMDB
16 54 (0.99%) FMCG
17 51 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
18 42 (0.77%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 165 (3.04%) Windows
2 84 (1.55%) Linux
3 35 (0.64%) Android
4 33 (0.61%) Unix
5 30 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 30 (0.55%) Windows Server
6 23 (0.42%) 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 1,781 (32.78%) Agile
2 940 (17.30%) Continuous Improvement
3 874 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
4 782 (14.39%) Roadmaps
5 760 (13.99%) Migration
6 751 (13.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 695 (12.79%) Project Management
8 663 (12.20%) Decision-Making
9 645 (11.87%) DevOps
10 616 (11.34%) Project Delivery
11 604 (11.12%) Change Management
12 582 (10.71%) AI
13 562 (10.34%) Analytics
14 535 (9.85%) Risk Management
15 476 (8.76%) User Acceptance Testing
16 458 (8.43%) Workshop Facilitation
17 457 (8.41%) CI/CD
18 445 (8.19%) Validation
19 437 (8.04%) Scrum
20 430 (7.91%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 426 (7.84%) SQL
2 308 (5.67%) Python
3 110 (2.02%) Java
4 83 (1.53%) PowerShell
5 67 (1.23%) JavaScript
6 55 (1.01%) C#
7 34 (0.63%) Bash
8 24 (0.44%) Bicep
9 22 (0.40%) Korn
9 22 (0.40%) TypeScript
10 21 (0.39%) VBA
11 20 (0.37%) ABAP
12 17 (0.31%) PL/SQL
13 15 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 14 (0.26%) R
14 14 (0.26%) Shell Script
15 13 (0.24%) T-SQL
16 10 (0.18%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,073 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 801 (14.74%) SC Cleared
3 395 (7.27%) Degree
4 280 (5.15%) PMP
5 247 (4.55%) PMI Certification
6 177 (3.26%) DV Cleared
7 158 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 119 (2.19%) CISSP
9 91 (1.67%) Azure Certification
10 85 (1.56%) CISM
11 59 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 54 (0.99%) AWS Certification
13 51 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
14 46 (0.85%) Master's Degree
15 41 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
16 39 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
17 37 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 31 (0.57%) ISTQB
19 30 (0.55%) ACCA
19 30 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 320 (5.89%) Data Quality
2 303 (5.58%) QA
3 270 (4.97%) PMO
4 221 (4.07%) GDPR
5 148 (2.72%) NIST
6 139 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 99 (1.82%) Accessibility
8 97 (1.79%) GRC
9 88 (1.62%) SLA
10 52 (0.96%) NCSC
11 36 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 34 (0.63%) PCI DSS
13 33 (0.61%) SOC 2
14 32 (0.59%) COBIT
15 29 (0.53%) WCAG
16 21 (0.39%) IFRS
17 18 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
18 16 (0.29%) JSP 440
18 16 (0.29%) Solvency II
19 15 (0.28%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 105 (1.93%) Active Directory
2 104 (1.91%) Docker
3 46 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.29%) 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
1 147 (2.71%) Terraform
2 142 (2.61%) Kubernetes
3 77 (1.42%) Ansible
4 54 (0.99%) Grafana
5 40 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 37 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 22 (0.40%) 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%) Control-M
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 4 (0.074%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.074%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (0.074%) vMotion
Vendors
1 723 (13.31%) Microsoft
2 433 (7.97%) SAP
3 296 (5.45%) Oracle
4 292 (5.37%) ServiceNow
5 212 (3.90%) Salesforce
6 111 (2.04%) Databricks
7 110 (2.02%) Google
8 85 (1.56%) VMware
9 78 (1.44%) Workday
10 57 (1.05%) Cisco
11 52 (0.96%) Adobe
12 50 (0.92%) CyberArk
13 41 (0.75%) Splunk
14 38 (0.70%) IBM
15 37 (0.68%) Ariba
16 33 (0.61%) Informatica
17 32 (0.59%) MuleSoft
18 31 (0.57%) F5
19 28 (0.52%) Atlassian
20 27 (0.50%) Foundry