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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 15 23
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,289 2,759 2,677
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.80% 10.11% 7.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.80% 11.14% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,542 1,878 1,908
10th Percentile £381 £358 £356
25th Percentile £456 £435 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +0.93% -2.73%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £744 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £530 £530
% change year-on-year +1.89% - -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 63 81
10th Percentile £25.00 £31.64 £18.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £42.02 £41.25
Median hourly rate £62.00 £54.51 £61.06
Median % change year-on-year +13.74% -10.73% +14.52%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £103.80 £78.50 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £54.01 £60.00
% change year-on-year +14.80% -9.99% +12.53%

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 38,320 24,760 31,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 90.73% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,128 15,919 20,389
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,284 2,227
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.33 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.08 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -5.96%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.81 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £72.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +7 2,728 £560 -2.61% 1,468
North of England -2 764 £500 - 480
South East +6 706 £550 +4.76% 624
Midlands +1 530 £500 -0.20% 270
North West 0 397 £510 +2.00% 266
West Midlands 0 385 £500 -7.66% 170
Yorkshire +4 333 £500 +1.01% 169
South West +10 293 £550 +4.76% 280
East of England +7 161 £525 -6.67% 115
East Midlands +11 134 £481 +9.38% 98
North East -18 44 £478 +6.11% 49
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
1 312 (5.90%) Confluence
2 144 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 58 (1.10%) CMS
4 33 (0.62%) SAS
5 24 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 20 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (0.28%) Apache
8 11 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
10 7 (0.13%) Apache Spark
10 7 (0.13%) Appian
10 7 (0.13%) WordPress
11 6 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.095%) Kentico
12 5 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.076%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.057%) Oracle Coherence
14 3 (0.057%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
15 2 (0.038%) nginx
15 2 (0.038%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 229 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 147 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
3 129 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
4 115 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 71 (1.34%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 13 (0.25%) Revit
9 11 (0.21%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.095%) Navisworks
11 4 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.076%) Sketch
12 3 (0.057%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.057%) Notion
12 3 (0.057%) Trello
13 2 (0.038%) EngageOne
13 2 (0.038%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.038%) Windchill
14 1 (0.019%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.019%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 184 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 24 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 22 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 21 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
8 17 (0.32%) Aladdin
8 17 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
8 17 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
8 17 (0.32%) Workday HCM
9 14 (0.26%) Finacle
9 14 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
9 14 (0.26%) SAP SD
10 13 (0.25%) Primavera
10 13 (0.25%) SAP FI
10 13 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
11 12 (0.23%) SAP ERP
12 10 (0.19%) SAP CO
12 10 (0.19%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 866 (16.37%) Azure
2 603 (11.40%) AWS
3 328 (6.20%) Power Platform
4 221 (4.18%) GCP
5 190 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
6 184 (3.48%) SaaS
7 124 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
8 104 (1.97%) Entra ID
9 93 (1.76%) GitHub
10 87 (1.64%) Snowflake
11 72 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
12 59 (1.12%) OCI
13 58 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
14 57 (1.08%) Amazon S3
15 50 (0.95%) Serverless
16 49 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
17 48 (0.91%) PowerApps
18 44 (0.83%) Figma
18 44 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
18 44 (0.83%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 96 (1.82%) Firewall
2 93 (1.76%) Network Security
3 66 (1.25%) WAN
4 51 (0.96%) LAN
5 46 (0.87%) DNS
6 36 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 32 (0.61%) TCP/IP
7 32 (0.61%) VPN
8 28 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (0.43%) DHCP
10 21 (0.40%) BGP
11 20 (0.38%) OSPF
12 15 (0.28%) BIG-IP
12 15 (0.28%) Wireless
13 14 (0.26%) MPLS
13 14 (0.26%) SAN
14 13 (0.25%) NGFW
15 12 (0.23%) 5G
15 12 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
15 12 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (5.03%) Power BI
2 116 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
3 99 (1.87%) Metadata
4 67 (1.27%) Data Lake
5 63 (1.19%) SQL Server
5 63 (1.19%) Tableau
6 46 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
7 39 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 36 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 31 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 28 (0.53%) Oracle Database
10 28 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
11 22 (0.42%) Big Data
11 22 (0.42%) Delta Lake
11 22 (0.42%) NoSQL
12 21 (0.40%) DynamoDB
13 17 (0.32%) BigQuery
14 16 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
15 15 (0.28%) Looker
15 15 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 569 (10.76%) JIRA
2 86 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 79 (1.49%) Git
4 45 (0.85%) GitLab
5 36 (0.68%) Selenium
6 30 (0.57%) JUnit
7 24 (0.45%) Postman
8 18 (0.34%) Cucumber
9 16 (0.30%) SonarQube
10 15 (0.28%) JMeter
11 14 (0.26%) Maven
12 13 (0.25%) Mockito
13 12 (0.23%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.21%) WebDriver
15 10 (0.19%) DbUnit
15 10 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (0.19%) Zephyr
16 9 (0.17%) jMock
17 8 (0.15%) Bitbucket
17 8 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 2,646 (50.03%) Social Skills
2 1,873 (35.41%) Finance
3 839 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
4 646 (12.21%) Public Sector
5 473 (8.94%) Banking
6 314 (5.94%) Retail
7 279 (5.28%) Influencing Skills
8 236 (4.46%) Legal
9 204 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
10 196 (3.71%) Documentation Skills
11 183 (3.46%) Marketing
12 153 (2.89%) Manufacturing
13 129 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
14 121 (2.29%) Telecoms
15 98 (1.85%) Local Government
16 93 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 78 (1.47%) Aerospace
18 76 (1.44%) Billing
19 72 (1.36%) Financial Institution
20 70 (1.32%) Law
Job Titles
1 812 (15.35%) Analyst
2 754 (14.26%) Lead
3 725 (13.71%) Project Manager
4 619 (11.70%) Architect
5 563 (10.64%) Senior
6 545 (10.30%) Business Analyst
7 264 (4.99%) Consultant
8 239 (4.52%) Senior Manager
9 230 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
10 177 (3.35%) Programme Manager
11 170 (3.21%) Delivery Manager
12 163 (3.08%) IT Manager
13 126 (2.38%) Product Manager
14 121 (2.29%) Senior Project Manager
15 108 (2.04%) Product Owner
16 97 (1.83%) Developer
17 96 (1.82%) Technical Manager
18 93 (1.76%) Change Manager
19 89 (1.68%) Data Analyst
20 87 (1.64%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (2.38%) REST
2 93 (1.76%) Middleware
3 85 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
4 64 (1.21%) SOAP
5 56 (1.06%) .NET
6 44 (0.83%) JSON
7 38 (0.72%) Kafka
8 36 (0.68%) OAuth
8 36 (0.68%) PySpark
9 35 (0.66%) CSS
10 33 (0.62%) React
10 33 (0.62%) SailPoint
11 32 (0.61%) HTML
12 31 (0.59%) AngularJS
12 31 (0.59%) OpenID
12 31 (0.59%) SAML
13 30 (0.57%) Spring
14 29 (0.55%) XML
15 28 (0.53%) Web Services
16 27 (0.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 386 (7.30%) Product Ownership
2 284 (5.37%) Onboarding
3 172 (3.25%) Cloud Native
4 154 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
5 145 (2.74%) Management Information System
6 123 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
7 111 (2.10%) Data Centre
8 96 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 93 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 87 (1.64%) Virtual Team
11 74 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
12 70 (1.32%) NHS
12 70 (1.32%) Operational Technology
13 65 (1.23%) Security Posture
14 62 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
15 53 (1.00%) CMDB
15 53 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
16 51 (0.96%) AI Agents
17 50 (0.95%) Public Cloud
18 47 (0.89%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 157 (2.97%) Windows
2 83 (1.57%) Linux
3 33 (0.62%) Android
4 31 (0.59%) Unix
5 28 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 27 (0.51%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.13%) VMS
10 6 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.095%) Solaris
11 5 (0.095%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.076%) AIX
12 4 (0.076%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.076%) zOS
13 3 (0.057%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.038%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.038%) HPUX
15 1 (0.019%) MVS
15 1 (0.019%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,726 (32.63%) Agile
2 894 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
3 847 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
4 742 (14.03%) Roadmaps
5 741 (14.01%) Migration
6 731 (13.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 681 (12.88%) Project Management
8 628 (11.87%) Decision-Making
9 619 (11.70%) DevOps
10 587 (11.10%) Project Delivery
11 580 (10.97%) Change Management
12 543 (10.27%) Analytics
13 541 (10.23%) AI
14 521 (9.85%) Risk Management
15 474 (8.96%) User Acceptance Testing
16 441 (8.34%) CI/CD
17 434 (8.21%) Validation
17 434 (8.21%) Workshop Facilitation
18 416 (7.87%) ITIL
19 409 (7.73%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 421 (7.96%) SQL
2 304 (5.75%) Python
3 104 (1.97%) Java
4 78 (1.47%) PowerShell
5 60 (1.13%) JavaScript
6 51 (0.96%) C#
7 32 (0.61%) Bash
8 23 (0.43%) Bicep
9 22 (0.42%) VBA
10 21 (0.40%) Korn
10 21 (0.40%) TypeScript
11 20 (0.38%) ABAP
12 16 (0.30%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.26%) R
14 13 (0.25%) T-SQL
15 12 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 12 (0.23%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.19%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,051 (19.87%) Security Cleared
2 786 (14.86%) SC Cleared
3 391 (7.39%) Degree
4 268 (5.07%) PMP
5 233 (4.41%) PMI Certification
6 169 (3.20%) DV Cleared
7 153 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 115 (2.17%) CISSP
9 89 (1.68%) Azure Certification
10 80 (1.51%) CISM
11 58 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 53 (1.00%) AWS Certification
13 50 (0.95%) Master's Degree
14 49 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
15 38 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
16 34 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
16 34 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 30 (0.57%) ACCA
18 29 (0.55%) CIMA
19 28 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 308 (5.82%) Data Quality
2 291 (5.50%) QA
3 258 (4.88%) PMO
4 221 (4.18%) GDPR
5 152 (2.87%) NIST
6 140 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 96 (1.82%) GRC
8 91 (1.72%) Accessibility
9 87 (1.64%) SLA
10 55 (1.04%) NCSC
11 40 (0.76%) PCI DSS
12 37 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 33 (0.62%) SOC 2
14 31 (0.59%) COBIT
15 27 (0.51%) IFRS
16 23 (0.43%) WCAG
17 19 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
18 18 (0.34%) JSP 440
19 16 (0.30%) Solvency II
20 14 (0.26%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 106 (2.00%) Docker
2 91 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 43 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.26%) VMware NSX
6 13 (0.25%) NFS
7 12 (0.23%) Postfix
8 11 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.15%) vSphere
10 5 (0.095%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.076%) SRDF
11 4 (0.076%) Varnish
12 3 (0.057%) HDFS
12 3 (0.057%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.057%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.038%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.038%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.019%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 147 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 144 (2.72%) Terraform
3 78 (1.47%) Ansible
4 53 (1.00%) Grafana
5 38 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.38%) SCCM
8 14 (0.26%) Argo
9 9 (0.17%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.15%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.13%) RSA Archer
11 7 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 7 (0.13%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.11%) Control-M
12 6 (0.11%) Puppet
13 5 (0.095%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.076%) Kustomize
14 4 (0.076%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 686 (12.97%) Microsoft
2 423 (8.00%) SAP
3 291 (5.50%) Oracle
4 280 (5.29%) ServiceNow
5 207 (3.91%) Salesforce
6 106 (2.00%) Databricks
7 104 (1.97%) Google
8 82 (1.55%) VMware
9 78 (1.47%) Workday
10 58 (1.10%) Cisco
11 51 (0.96%) Adobe
11 51 (0.96%) CyberArk
12 43 (0.81%) Splunk
13 36 (0.68%) Ariba
14 33 (0.62%) MuleSoft
15 32 (0.61%) IBM
15 32 (0.61%) Informatica
16 31 (0.59%) F5
17 26 (0.49%) Atlassian
18 25 (0.47%) Foundry