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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 15 20
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 7,695 3,025 2,535
As % of all contract jobs in England 16.43% 10.75% 7.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.33% 11.82% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,072 2,084 1,588
10th Percentile £390 £360 £363
25th Percentile £455 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% -2.95% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 67 63
10th Percentile £21.00 £23.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.35 £33.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £61.50 £49.00 £60.60
Median % change year-on-year +25.51% -19.14% +31.23%
75th Percentile £81.46 £63.88 £75.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £77.50 £82.96
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £48.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +24.87% -19.58% +23.71%

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 39,799 25,590 27,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.90% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,011 16,250 16,937
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,071 1,598 1,107
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.53 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.25 £44.78 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £74.18
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 4,042 £563 +2.27% 553
North of England +9 1,165 £500 - 246
South East +12 987 £550 +4.76% 315
Midlands +7 683 £495 -1.00% 165
North West +4 577 £525 +5.00% 133
West Midlands +8 549 £475 -12.96% 121
Yorkshire +9 512 £500 +1.63% 90
South West +8 380 £550 - 154
East of England +13 248 £510 -7.27% 67
East Midlands -1 117 £525 +19.66% 44
North East +8 84 £500 -1.48% 23
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
1 382 (4.96%) Confluence
2 209 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 75 (0.97%) CMS
4 51 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
5 43 (0.56%) Apache
6 30 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 23 (0.30%) SAS
9 15 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 10 (0.13%) WordPress
11 9 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 8 (0.10%) CICS
13 7 (0.091%) nginx
13 7 (0.091%) WebSphere
14 6 (0.078%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.078%) Jupyter
14 6 (0.078%) Oracle Workflow
14 6 (0.078%) WebLogic
Applications
1 358 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 185 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 169 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
4 153 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
5 77 (1.00%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.30%) Revit
7 18 (0.23%) Navisworks
8 17 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 15 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
10 13 (0.17%) Chatbot
11 11 (0.14%) Trello
12 9 (0.12%) ProjectWise
12 9 (0.12%) Windchill
13 5 (0.065%) Adobe Illustrator
13 5 (0.065%) Adobe XD
13 5 (0.065%) Photoshop
14 4 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.052%) Notion
15 3 (0.039%) Productboard
15 3 (0.039%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 294 (3.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 95 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.47%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
5 34 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 31 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 31 (0.40%) SAP FI
7 27 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
8 26 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
8 26 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 26 (0.34%) SAP HCM
8 26 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
9 25 (0.32%) Aladdin
10 24 (0.31%) SAP HR
11 19 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
11 19 (0.25%) SAP CO
11 19 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
12 17 (0.22%) SAP ERP
12 17 (0.22%) SAP MDG
12 17 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,379 (17.92%) Azure
2 895 (11.63%) AWS
3 604 (7.85%) Power Platform
4 368 (4.78%) GCP
5 314 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
6 274 (3.56%) SaaS
7 262 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
8 204 (2.65%) GitHub
9 188 (2.44%) Entra ID
10 154 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
11 152 (1.98%) Snowflake
12 124 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
13 110 (1.43%) Serverless
14 98 (1.27%) Power Automate
15 93 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
16 86 (1.12%) PowerApps
17 85 (1.10%) OCI
18 78 (1.01%) Amazon S3
19 77 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
20 69 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 155 (2.01%) Firewall
2 138 (1.79%) Network Security
3 80 (1.04%) WAN
4 75 (0.97%) DNS
5 57 (0.74%) VPN
6 51 (0.66%) LAN
7 50 (0.65%) TCP/IP
8 46 (0.60%) DHCP
9 39 (0.51%) SD-WAN
10 32 (0.42%) BGP
11 29 (0.38%) Internet
12 26 (0.34%) MPLS
13 25 (0.32%) 4G
13 25 (0.32%) Wireless
14 24 (0.31%) 5G
14 24 (0.31%) VLAN
14 24 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
15 21 (0.27%) Broadband
15 21 (0.27%) OSPF
16 19 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 467 (6.07%) Power BI
2 217 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
3 203 (2.64%) Metadata
4 122 (1.59%) SQL Server
5 103 (1.34%) Data Lake
6 102 (1.33%) Tableau
7 81 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
8 58 (0.75%) BigQuery
9 56 (0.73%) Relational Database
10 55 (0.71%) MongoDB
11 52 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
12 48 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
13 46 (0.60%) Delta Lake
14 45 (0.58%) Looker
15 38 (0.49%) Oracle Database
16 36 (0.47%) NoSQL
17 29 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
17 29 (0.38%) DynamoDB
18 24 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
18 24 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 695 (9.03%) JIRA
2 163 (2.12%) Git
3 107 (1.39%) GitLab
4 103 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 79 (1.03%) Selenium
6 56 (0.73%) Cucumber
7 48 (0.62%) JUnit
8 40 (0.52%) Gatling
9 33 (0.43%) Postman
9 33 (0.43%) SonarQube
10 23 (0.30%) Cypress.io
11 20 (0.26%) Zephyr
12 17 (0.22%) JMeter
13 14 (0.18%) LoadRunner
14 13 (0.17%) Maven
15 12 (0.16%) Claude Code
15 12 (0.16%) WebDriver
16 11 (0.14%) MSI
16 11 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
17 9 (0.12%) ERwin
General
1 4,130 (53.67%) Social Skills
2 2,570 (33.40%) Finance
3 1,308 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1,034 (13.44%) Public Sector
5 821 (10.67%) Banking
6 479 (6.22%) Influencing Skills
7 405 (5.26%) Retail
8 355 (4.61%) Organisational Skills
9 348 (4.52%) Legal
10 313 (4.07%) Manufacturing
11 258 (3.35%) Marketing
12 251 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
13 205 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
14 192 (2.50%) Telecoms
15 160 (2.08%) Aerospace
16 153 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 129 (1.68%) Local Government
18 125 (1.62%) Front Office
19 109 (1.42%) Investment Banking
20 101 (1.31%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,113 (14.46%) Analyst
2 1,032 (13.41%) Lead
3 1,024 (13.31%) Architect
4 832 (10.81%) Senior
5 807 (10.49%) Project Manager
6 721 (9.37%) Business Analyst
7 517 (6.72%) Consultant
8 345 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
9 258 (3.35%) Senior Manager
10 232 (3.01%) Delivery Manager
11 195 (2.53%) Programme Manager
12 190 (2.47%) Product Manager
13 189 (2.46%) IT Manager
14 181 (2.35%) Developer
15 156 (2.03%) Senior Analyst
16 141 (1.83%) Product Owner
16 141 (1.83%) Technical Manager
17 130 (1.69%) Data Analyst
18 120 (1.56%) Senior Project Manager
19 119 (1.55%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (3.86%) Terraform
2 217 (2.82%) REST
3 142 (1.85%) Middleware
4 121 (1.57%) .NET
5 99 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
6 88 (1.14%) Kafka
7 75 (0.97%) SOAP
8 73 (0.95%) PySpark
8 73 (0.95%) React
9 68 (0.88%) OAuth
9 68 (0.88%) Spring
10 67 (0.87%) JSON
11 61 (0.79%) Playwright
12 53 (0.69%) HTML
13 50 (0.65%) LDAP
14 45 (0.58%) CSS
15 43 (0.56%) Spring Boot
15 43 (0.56%) Web Services
15 43 (0.56%) XML
16 42 (0.55%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 591 (7.68%) Product Ownership
2 455 (5.91%) Onboarding
3 322 (4.18%) Cloud Native
4 259 (3.37%) Management Information System
5 224 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
6 179 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
7 177 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
8 154 (2.00%) Data Centre
9 152 (1.98%) AI Agents
10 132 (1.72%) Operational Technology
11 130 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
12 124 (1.61%) Data Structures
13 117 (1.52%) Virtual Team
14 106 (1.38%) CMDB
15 99 (1.29%) Security Posture
16 96 (1.25%) NHS
17 93 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
18 86 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
19 79 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
19 79 (1.03%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 258 (3.35%) Windows
2 165 (2.14%) Linux
3 81 (1.05%) Windows Server
4 59 (0.77%) Unix
5 26 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (0.30%) Android
7 20 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.18%) VMS
10 10 (0.13%) macOS
10 10 (0.13%) zOS
11 8 (0.10%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.065%) Alpine Linux
12 5 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.039%) CentOS
14 3 (0.039%) Solaris
15 2 (0.026%) AIX
15 2 (0.026%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,359 (30.66%) Agile
2 1,421 (18.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,346 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
4 1,311 (17.04%) Roadmaps
5 1,106 (14.37%) Migration
6 1,055 (13.71%) Decision-Making
7 1,040 (13.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1,027 (13.35%) AI
9 927 (12.05%) Project Delivery
10 909 (11.81%) DevOps
11 888 (11.54%) Analytics
12 846 (10.99%) Project Management
13 826 (10.73%) Workshop Facilitation
14 768 (9.98%) Change Management
15 764 (9.93%) CI/CD
15 764 (9.93%) Risk Management
16 664 (8.63%) Requirements Gathering
17 655 (8.51%) User Acceptance Testing
18 652 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
19 642 (8.34%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 700 (9.10%) SQL
2 511 (6.64%) Python
3 216 (2.81%) Java
4 162 (2.11%) JavaScript
5 158 (2.05%) PowerShell
6 101 (1.31%) C#
7 76 (0.99%) Bash
8 67 (0.87%) TypeScript
9 50 (0.65%) Bicep
10 43 (0.56%) ABAP
11 35 (0.45%) Korn
12 28 (0.36%) R
13 24 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 23 (0.30%) T-SQL
15 22 (0.29%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.26%) Shell Script
17 18 (0.23%) Go
18 15 (0.19%) Kotlin
19 14 (0.18%) Apex Code
19 14 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,540 (20.01%) Security Cleared
2 1,130 (14.68%) SC Cleared
3 540 (7.02%) Degree
4 325 (4.22%) PMP
5 301 (3.91%) PMI Certification
6 290 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 290 (3.77%) DV Cleared
7 172 (2.24%) CISSP
8 133 (1.73%) Azure Certification
9 129 (1.68%) CISM
10 101 (1.31%) AWS Certification
11 97 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
12 81 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
13 80 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
14 73 (0.95%) ACCA
15 70 (0.91%) CIMA
16 61 (0.79%) ISTQB
17 60 (0.78%) Master's Degree
18 53 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 52 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 598 (7.77%) Data Quality
2 447 (5.81%) QA
3 340 (4.42%) PMO
4 221 (2.87%) GDPR
5 220 (2.86%) Accessibility
6 216 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 174 (2.26%) NIST
8 141 (1.83%) GRC
9 101 (1.31%) SLA
10 85 (1.10%) WCAG
11 68 (0.88%) NCSC
12 48 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
13 30 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 29 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
15 28 (0.36%) IFRS
16 27 (0.35%) PCI DSS
17 26 (0.34%) GxP
17 26 (0.34%) ISO 20022
18 24 (0.31%) COBIT
19 23 (0.30%) SEPA
System Software
1 200 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 183 (2.38%) Docker
3 80 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 31 (0.40%) vSphere
5 25 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.30%) VMware NSX
7 16 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.10%) NFS
9 8 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.078%) Time Sharing Option
11 5 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.052%) FreeRADIUS
12 4 (0.052%) IAG
13 3 (0.039%) Firmware
13 3 (0.039%) KVM
13 3 (0.039%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.039%) Postfix
13 3 (0.039%) RACF
Systems Management
1 260 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 117 (1.52%) Ansible
3 68 (0.88%) Grafana
4 54 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 48 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (0.43%) SCCM
7 31 (0.40%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.21%) Argo
9 13 (0.17%) Control-M
9 13 (0.17%) Kibana
10 10 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.12%) Tivoli
12 8 (0.10%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.10%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.10%) WMI
13 7 (0.091%) Puppet
13 7 (0.091%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 6 (0.078%) Functional Safety
14 6 (0.078%) Tivoli Monitoring
15 5 (0.065%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 1,328 (17.26%) Microsoft
2 615 (7.99%) SAP
3 417 (5.42%) Oracle
4 383 (4.98%) ServiceNow
5 266 (3.46%) Salesforce
6 231 (3.00%) Databricks
7 179 (2.33%) Google
8 113 (1.47%) Workday
9 111 (1.44%) VMware
10 109 (1.42%) Cisco
11 85 (1.10%) IBM
12 83 (1.08%) CyberArk
13 70 (0.91%) Splunk
14 60 (0.78%) Adobe
15 50 (0.65%) Ariba
16 42 (0.55%) Fortinet
17 41 (0.53%) Informatica
18 38 (0.49%) MuleSoft
19 37 (0.48%) Dynatrace
20 34 (0.44%) OpenAI