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

6 months to
12 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 6,866 2,924 2,518
As % of all contract jobs in England 14.81% 10.51% 7.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.46% 11.57% 8.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,545 1,986 1,626
10th Percentile £385 £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 £741 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 63 73
10th Percentile £21.08 £28.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £33.70 £33.00 £42.88
Median hourly rate £58.50 £47.48 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +23.22% -22.93% +19.80%
75th Percentile £80.00 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.51 £77.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £59.75 £46.83 £60.60
% change year-on-year +27.60% -22.73% +16.10%

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 39,332 25,280 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.86% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,139 16,057 17,805
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 £638 £625 £650
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 2,708 1,495 1,348
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.36 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +0.58%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.88 £66.53
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.92%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +13 3,612 £563 +1.81% 2,884
North of England +4 1,037 £500 - 703
South East +8 879 £550 +4.76% 1,039
Midlands +4 587 £500 -4.76% 463
North West +3 537 £525 +5.00% 418
West Midlands +7 469 £500 -7.66% 302
Yorkshire +7 437 £500 +0.50% 216
South West +8 376 £550 +3.77% 353
East of England +10 217 £525 -4.55% 251
East Midlands -2 103 £500 +14.29% 159
North East -6 72 £490 -5.77% 76
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
1 353 (5.14%) Confluence
2 191 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 63 (0.92%) CMS
4 48 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 34 (0.50%) Apache
6 29 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 22 (0.32%) SAS
8 20 (0.29%) Apache Spark
9 12 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 9 (0.13%) WordPress
11 8 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 7 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.087%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.087%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.073%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.073%) Sitecore CMS
15 4 (0.058%) Kentico
15 4 (0.058%) Moodle
15 4 (0.058%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 316 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 167 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 163 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
4 148 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
5 70 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.33%) Revit
7 18 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 17 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
9 16 (0.23%) Chatbot
10 14 (0.20%) Navisworks
11 10 (0.15%) Trello
12 8 (0.12%) ProjectWise
13 6 (0.087%) Windchill
14 5 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 4 (0.058%) Adobe XD
15 4 (0.058%) Notion
16 3 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
16 3 (0.044%) CPLEX
16 3 (0.044%) Photoshop
16 3 (0.044%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 239 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 87 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 30 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 28 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 27 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 24 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
8 23 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
8 23 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
9 19 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 19 (0.28%) SAP ERP
10 18 (0.26%) SAP HR
10 18 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
11 17 (0.25%) Aladdin
11 17 (0.25%) SAP FI
12 16 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 16 (0.23%) SAP SD
13 15 (0.22%) SAP HCM
13 15 (0.22%) SAP MDG
14 14 (0.20%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 1,266 (18.44%) Azure
2 844 (12.29%) AWS
3 520 (7.57%) Power Platform
4 332 (4.84%) GCP
5 280 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
6 246 (3.58%) SaaS
7 213 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
8 168 (2.45%) Entra ID
9 163 (2.37%) GitHub
10 143 (2.08%) Snowflake
11 129 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
12 96 (1.40%) Microsoft Copilot
13 93 (1.35%) Serverless
14 80 (1.17%) Power Automate
15 79 (1.15%) PowerApps
16 77 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
17 70 (1.02%) OCI
18 68 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
19 65 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
20 62 (0.90%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 128 (1.86%) Firewall
2 127 (1.85%) Network Security
3 75 (1.09%) WAN
4 68 (0.99%) DNS
5 48 (0.70%) LAN
6 44 (0.64%) VPN
7 41 (0.60%) DHCP
7 41 (0.60%) TCP/IP
8 37 (0.54%) SD-WAN
9 28 (0.41%) 4G
9 28 (0.41%) 5G
9 28 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (0.35%) BGP
11 22 (0.32%) Wireless
12 20 (0.29%) Broadband
12 20 (0.29%) Internet
13 19 (0.28%) MPLS
14 16 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
14 16 (0.23%) SAN
15 14 (0.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 405 (5.90%) Power BI
2 189 (2.75%) Metadata
3 188 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
4 113 (1.65%) SQL Server
5 91 (1.33%) Data Lake
6 77 (1.12%) Tableau
7 69 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
8 51 (0.74%) Delta Lake
8 51 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 49 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
10 44 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
11 40 (0.58%) MongoDB
12 39 (0.57%) BigQuery
13 32 (0.47%) NoSQL
14 31 (0.45%) Oracle Database
15 29 (0.42%) Looker
16 25 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
16 25 (0.36%) Big Data
16 25 (0.36%) DynamoDB
17 23 (0.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 655 (9.54%) JIRA
2 125 (1.82%) Git
3 96 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 75 (1.09%) GitLab
5 59 (0.86%) Selenium
6 33 (0.48%) Cucumber
7 31 (0.45%) JUnit
8 30 (0.44%) Postman
9 26 (0.38%) SonarQube
10 22 (0.32%) Gatling
11 19 (0.28%) Cypress.io
12 18 (0.26%) Zephyr
13 16 (0.23%) JMeter
14 14 (0.20%) Maven
15 12 (0.17%) LoadRunner
15 12 (0.17%) WebDriver
16 11 (0.16%) Mockito
17 10 (0.15%) ERwin
17 10 (0.15%) REST Assured
17 10 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3,634 (52.93%) Social Skills
2 2,285 (33.28%) Finance
3 1,159 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
4 866 (12.61%) Public Sector
5 678 (9.87%) Banking
6 410 (5.97%) Retail
7 402 (5.85%) Influencing Skills
8 311 (4.53%) Organisational Skills
9 288 (4.19%) Legal
10 237 (3.45%) Marketing
11 232 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
11 232 (3.38%) Manufacturing
12 186 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
13 181 (2.64%) Telecoms
14 139 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 119 (1.73%) Aerospace
16 112 (1.63%) Local Government
17 105 (1.53%) Front Office
18 93 (1.35%) Billing
19 87 (1.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,001 (14.58%) Analyst
2 950 (13.84%) Lead
3 911 (13.27%) Architect
4 784 (11.42%) Project Manager
5 724 (10.54%) Senior
6 643 (9.36%) Business Analyst
7 445 (6.48%) Consultant
8 311 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
9 252 (3.67%) Senior Manager
10 196 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
11 185 (2.69%) Programme Manager
12 179 (2.61%) IT Manager
13 165 (2.40%) Product Manager
14 156 (2.27%) Developer
15 134 (1.95%) Technical Manager
16 128 (1.86%) Product Owner
17 127 (1.85%) Senior Analyst
18 117 (1.70%) Senior Project Manager
19 113 (1.65%) Data Analyst
20 112 (1.63%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (3.58%) Terraform
2 180 (2.62%) REST
3 120 (1.75%) Middleware
4 95 (1.38%) .NET
5 84 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
6 82 (1.19%) Kafka
7 71 (1.03%) SOAP
8 63 (0.92%) PySpark
9 60 (0.87%) OAuth
10 57 (0.83%) JSON
10 57 (0.83%) React
11 50 (0.73%) Spring
12 48 (0.70%) HTML
13 45 (0.66%) LDAP
14 44 (0.64%) XML
15 43 (0.63%) CSS
16 41 (0.60%) Playwright
17 40 (0.58%) SailPoint
18 39 (0.57%) OpenID
18 39 (0.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 526 (7.66%) Product Ownership
2 397 (5.78%) Onboarding
3 271 (3.95%) Cloud Native
4 220 (3.20%) Management Information System
5 169 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
6 160 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
7 159 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
8 135 (1.97%) Data Centre
9 114 (1.66%) Data Structures
10 112 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
11 110 (1.60%) AI Agents
12 107 (1.56%) Operational Technology
13 104 (1.51%) Virtual Team
14 98 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
15 88 (1.28%) Security Posture
16 82 (1.19%) CMDB
17 79 (1.15%) NHS
18 72 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
19 70 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
20 63 (0.92%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 213 (3.10%) Windows
2 133 (1.94%) Linux
3 62 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 46 (0.67%) Unix
5 24 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.26%) Android
7 16 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.20%) VMS
10 10 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.10%) zOS
12 5 (0.073%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.058%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.044%) CentOS
14 3 (0.044%) Solaris
15 2 (0.029%) Data ONTAP
15 2 (0.029%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,172 (31.63%) Agile
2 1,242 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,162 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
4 1,117 (16.27%) Roadmaps
5 954 (13.89%) Migration
6 919 (13.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 900 (13.11%) Decision-Making
8 881 (12.83%) AI
9 823 (11.99%) DevOps
10 815 (11.87%) Project Management
11 797 (11.61%) Project Delivery
12 773 (11.26%) Analytics
13 706 (10.28%) Change Management
14 681 (9.92%) Risk Management
15 669 (9.74%) Workshop Facilitation
16 650 (9.47%) CI/CD
17 574 (8.36%) User Acceptance Testing
18 567 (8.26%) Requirements Gathering
19 564 (8.21%) Cybersecurity
20 542 (7.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 611 (8.90%) SQL
2 440 (6.41%) Python
3 181 (2.64%) Java
4 137 (2.00%) PowerShell
5 128 (1.86%) JavaScript
6 81 (1.18%) C#
7 65 (0.95%) Bash
8 51 (0.74%) TypeScript
9 40 (0.58%) Bicep
10 32 (0.47%) ABAP
10 32 (0.47%) Korn
11 25 (0.36%) R
12 23 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 23 (0.33%) PL/SQL
13 22 (0.32%) T-SQL
14 19 (0.28%) VBA
15 15 (0.22%) Go
15 15 (0.22%) Shell Script
16 14 (0.20%) Apex Code
17 10 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,383 (20.14%) Security Cleared
2 1,009 (14.70%) SC Cleared
3 459 (6.69%) Degree
4 312 (4.54%) PMP
5 273 (3.98%) PMI Certification
6 263 (3.83%) DV Cleared
7 227 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 157 (2.29%) CISSP
9 122 (1.78%) CISM
10 121 (1.76%) Azure Certification
11 84 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
12 81 (1.18%) AWS Certification
13 77 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
14 74 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
15 52 (0.76%) Master's Degree
16 49 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
17 47 (0.68%) ACCA
18 45 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 45 (0.66%) ISTQB
18 45 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 509 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 392 (5.71%) QA
3 324 (4.72%) PMO
4 221 (3.22%) GDPR
5 182 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 171 (2.49%) NIST
7 161 (2.34%) Accessibility
8 123 (1.79%) GRC
9 93 (1.35%) SLA
10 60 (0.87%) WCAG
11 56 (0.82%) NCSC
12 29 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 28 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
14 26 (0.38%) IFRS
15 23 (0.33%) COBIT
15 23 (0.33%) ISO 20022
16 22 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
17 21 (0.31%) PCI DSS
18 20 (0.29%) SOC 2
19 18 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 179 (2.61%) Active Directory
2 156 (2.27%) Docker
3 66 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 25 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.33%) vSphere
6 21 (0.31%) VMware NSX
7 16 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (0.22%) Hyper-V
9 11 (0.16%) NFS
10 7 (0.10%) Postfix
11 6 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.058%) Time Sharing Option
14 3 (0.044%) Ceph
14 3 (0.044%) FreeRADIUS
14 3 (0.044%) IAG
14 3 (0.044%) KVM
14 3 (0.044%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.044%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 229 (3.34%) Kubernetes
2 105 (1.53%) Ansible
3 63 (0.92%) Grafana
4 46 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 41 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 35 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 32 (0.47%) SCCM
8 17 (0.25%) Argo
9 12 (0.17%) 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 (0.087%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.087%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.087%) WMI
14 5 (0.073%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.073%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.073%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,136 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 531 (7.73%) SAP
3 374 (5.45%) Oracle
4 344 (5.01%) ServiceNow
5 248 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 216 (3.15%) Databricks
7 142 (2.07%) Google
8 100 (1.46%) VMware
9 97 (1.41%) Workday
10 81 (1.18%) Cisco
11 73 (1.06%) CyberArk
12 56 (0.82%) Adobe
12 56 (0.82%) IBM
13 53 (0.77%) Splunk
14 46 (0.67%) Ariba
15 42 (0.61%) Informatica
16 41 (0.60%) MuleSoft
17 30 (0.44%) Atlassian
17 30 (0.44%) Foundry
18 29 (0.42%) Bloomberg