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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 15 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,080 2,619 2,736
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.58% 10.14% 7.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.56% 11.13% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,417 1,775 1,961
10th Percentile £375 £357 £358
25th Percentile £456 £433 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 62 77
10th Percentile £23.75 £31.64 £18.00
25th Percentile £34.06 £41.78 £35.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £54.01 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.32% -9.99% +13.27%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £104.00 £78.63 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +9.35% -10.83% +13.27%

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 37,451 23,541 31,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.15% 85.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,583 15,155 20,721
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.08% -3.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,352 1,173 2,326
10th Percentile £15.26 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +85.35% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.50 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.07
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2,621 £550 -4.35% 1,319
North of England -1 738 £500 - 409
South East +3 665 £550 +4.76% 583
Midlands +1 525 £500 - 236
West Midlands +1 382 £500 -4.76% 145
North West 0 371 £500 - 254
Yorkshire +4 335 £500 +2.30% 133
South West +13 285 £550 +4.76% 178
East of England +9 144 £525 -4.55% 116
East Midlands +8 135 £481 +11.27% 89
North East -17 43 £478 +6.11% 30
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
1 291 (5.73%) Confluence
2 142 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 57 (1.12%) CMS
4 34 (0.67%) SAS
5 24 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.24%) Apache
8 11 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.20%) Appian
10 8 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 7 (0.14%) WordPress
12 6 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.098%) Apache Spark
13 5 (0.098%) Kentico
13 5 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.079%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.059%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
15 3 (0.059%) TPMS
16 2 (0.039%) ArcGIS
16 2 (0.039%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 226 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 142 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
3 123 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
4 116 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 71 (1.40%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 12 (0.24%) Revit
9 10 (0.20%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.079%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.079%) Trello
11 3 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.059%) Notion
11 3 (0.059%) Sketch
12 2 (0.039%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.039%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.039%) Windchill
13 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
13 1 (0.020%) UserZoom
13 1 (0.020%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 167 (3.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 24 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
4 24 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
5 22 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 21 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
7 17 (0.33%) Aladdin
7 17 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
8 15 (0.30%) Workday HCM
9 14 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
10 13 (0.26%) Finacle
10 13 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
10 13 (0.26%) SAP FI
10 13 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
11 12 (0.24%) SAP ERP
12 11 (0.22%) Primavera
13 10 (0.20%) Loan IQ
13 10 (0.20%) SAP QM
13 10 (0.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 822 (16.18%) Azure
2 570 (11.22%) AWS
3 312 (6.14%) Power Platform
4 208 (4.09%) GCP
5 179 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
6 176 (3.46%) SaaS
7 122 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
8 101 (1.99%) Entra ID
9 84 (1.65%) Snowflake
10 79 (1.56%) GitHub
11 62 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
12 56 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
13 51 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
14 50 (0.98%) OCI
15 49 (0.96%) Amazon S3
16 48 (0.94%) Serverless
17 42 (0.83%) PowerApps
18 40 (0.79%) Power Automate
19 39 (0.77%) Microsoft Copilot
20 38 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 91 (1.79%) Network Security
2 88 (1.73%) Firewall
3 66 (1.30%) WAN
4 50 (0.98%) LAN
5 42 (0.83%) DNS
6 37 (0.73%) SD-WAN
7 31 (0.61%) VPN
8 29 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 28 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (0.43%) BGP
11 21 (0.41%) DHCP
12 19 (0.37%) OSPF
13 17 (0.33%) MPLS
14 14 (0.28%) BIG-IP
14 14 (0.28%) Wireless
15 13 (0.26%) NGFW
15 13 (0.26%) SAN
16 12 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
17 11 (0.22%) Intranet
17 11 (0.22%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (4.96%) Power BI
2 111 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
3 94 (1.85%) Metadata
4 63 (1.24%) Data Lake
5 62 (1.22%) SQL Server
6 59 (1.16%) Tableau
7 39 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (0.71%) Relational Database
9 35 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 30 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
11 27 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
12 26 (0.51%) Oracle Database
13 24 (0.47%) NoSQL
14 21 (0.41%) Big Data
14 21 (0.41%) DynamoDB
15 20 (0.39%) Delta Lake
16 15 (0.30%) BigQuery
16 15 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
16 15 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 14 (0.28%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 548 (10.79%) JIRA
2 82 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 74 (1.46%) Git
4 42 (0.83%) GitLab
5 34 (0.67%) Selenium
6 29 (0.57%) JUnit
7 23 (0.45%) Postman
8 15 (0.30%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.30%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.28%) JMeter
9 14 (0.28%) Maven
10 13 (0.26%) Mockito
11 10 (0.20%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.20%) DbUnit
11 10 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (0.20%) WebDriver
11 10 (0.20%) Zephyr
12 9 (0.18%) jMock
12 9 (0.18%) MLflow
13 8 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,553 (50.26%) Social Skills
2 1,827 (35.96%) Finance
3 782 (15.39%) Analytical Skills
4 609 (11.99%) Public Sector
5 467 (9.19%) Banking
6 302 (5.94%) Retail
7 264 (5.20%) Influencing Skills
8 231 (4.55%) Legal
9 190 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
10 188 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
11 173 (3.41%) Marketing
12 149 (2.93%) Manufacturing
13 125 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
14 116 (2.28%) Telecoms
15 94 (1.85%) Local Government
16 88 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 75 (1.48%) Financial Institution
18 69 (1.36%) Aerospace
18 69 (1.36%) Billing
18 69 (1.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 775 (15.26%) Analyst
2 720 (14.17%) Lead
3 716 (14.09%) Project Manager
4 592 (11.65%) Architect
5 537 (10.57%) Senior
6 522 (10.28%) Business Analyst
7 249 (4.90%) Consultant
8 227 (4.47%) Senior Manager
9 221 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
10 178 (3.50%) Programme Manager
11 168 (3.31%) Delivery Manager
12 156 (3.07%) IT Manager
13 117 (2.30%) Product Manager
13 117 (2.30%) Senior Project Manager
14 107 (2.11%) Product Owner
15 93 (1.83%) Change Manager
15 93 (1.83%) Technical Manager
16 89 (1.75%) Developer
17 86 (1.69%) Data Analyst
17 86 (1.69%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (2.44%) REST
2 85 (1.67%) Middleware
3 79 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
4 66 (1.30%) SOAP
5 55 (1.08%) .NET
6 41 (0.81%) JSON
7 38 (0.75%) OAuth
8 36 (0.71%) PySpark
9 35 (0.69%) Kafka
10 33 (0.65%) SailPoint
11 32 (0.63%) SAML
12 31 (0.61%) AngularJS
12 31 (0.61%) CSS
12 31 (0.61%) OpenID
12 31 (0.61%) Spring
13 29 (0.57%) Web Services
13 29 (0.57%) XML
14 28 (0.55%) HTML
14 28 (0.55%) React
14 28 (0.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 372 (7.32%) Product Ownership
2 263 (5.18%) Onboarding
3 169 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 152 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 141 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 122 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
7 114 (2.24%) Data Centre
8 93 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 93 (1.83%) Data Structures
9 80 (1.57%) Virtual Team
10 67 (1.32%) NHS
11 65 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
12 64 (1.26%) Operational Technology
13 63 (1.24%) Security Posture
14 57 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
15 50 (0.98%) Public Cloud
16 49 (0.96%) AI Agents
16 49 (0.96%) CMDB
17 48 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
18 47 (0.93%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 152 (2.99%) Windows
2 80 (1.57%) Linux
3 32 (0.63%) Android
4 28 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 27 (0.53%) Unix
6 25 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.14%) VMS
10 5 (0.098%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.098%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.079%) AIX
11 4 (0.079%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.079%) zOS
12 3 (0.059%) Solaris
13 2 (0.039%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.039%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.039%) HPUX
14 1 (0.020%) CentOS
14 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,668 (32.83%) Agile
2 832 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 794 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
4 719 (14.15%) Migration
5 700 (13.78%) Roadmaps
6 697 (13.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 667 (13.13%) Project Management
8 598 (11.77%) Decision-Making
9 596 (11.73%) DevOps
10 560 (11.02%) Change Management
11 553 (10.89%) Project Delivery
12 517 (10.18%) Analytics
13 514 (10.12%) AI
14 500 (9.84%) Risk Management
15 438 (8.62%) User Acceptance Testing
16 417 (8.21%) CI/CD
17 412 (8.11%) Validation
18 406 (7.99%) Workshop Facilitation
19 399 (7.85%) Scrum
20 393 (7.74%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 414 (8.15%) SQL
2 290 (5.71%) Python
3 99 (1.95%) Java
4 71 (1.40%) PowerShell
5 54 (1.06%) JavaScript
6 50 (0.98%) C#
7 26 (0.51%) Bash
8 23 (0.45%) VBA
9 22 (0.43%) Bicep
10 21 (0.41%) TypeScript
11 20 (0.39%) Korn
12 19 (0.37%) ABAP
13 14 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 13 (0.26%) T-SQL
15 12 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 11 (0.22%) R
17 10 (0.20%) Shell Script
18 9 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
19 8 (0.16%) Apex Code
19 8 (0.16%) Go
Qualifications
1 999 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 748 (14.72%) SC Cleared
3 370 (7.28%) Degree
4 266 (5.24%) PMP
5 233 (4.59%) PMI Certification
6 150 (2.95%) DV Cleared
7 142 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 109 (2.15%) CISSP
9 81 (1.59%) Azure Certification
10 75 (1.48%) CISM
11 55 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 49 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
13 47 (0.93%) AWS Certification
14 45 (0.89%) Master's Degree
15 32 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
16 31 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 30 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
18 29 (0.57%) ACCA
19 28 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 27 (0.53%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (5.75%) Data Quality
2 275 (5.41%) QA
3 250 (4.92%) PMO
4 216 (4.25%) GDPR
5 158 (3.11%) NIST
6 140 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 92 (1.81%) GRC
8 86 (1.69%) SLA
9 79 (1.56%) Accessibility
10 55 (1.08%) NCSC
11 45 (0.89%) PCI DSS
12 38 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 33 (0.65%) COBIT
14 32 (0.63%) SOC 2
15 29 (0.57%) IFRS
16 19 (0.37%) WCAG
17 18 (0.35%) JSP 440
18 17 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
19 16 (0.31%) Solvency II
20 15 (0.30%) PSD2
System Software
1 98 (1.93%) Docker
2 85 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 37 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.24%) NFS
5 12 (0.24%) Postfix
5 12 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.12%) vSphere
8 4 (0.079%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.079%) SRDF
8 4 (0.079%) Varnish
9 3 (0.059%) HDFS
9 3 (0.059%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.039%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.039%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.039%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.020%) RACF
Systems Management
1 145 (2.85%) Kubernetes
2 129 (2.54%) Terraform
3 77 (1.52%) Ansible
4 45 (0.89%) Grafana
5 38 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
6 37 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 31 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 18 (0.35%) SCCM
9 10 (0.20%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.18%) Argo
11 8 (0.16%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.14%) RSA Archer
12 7 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.12%) Puppet
14 5 (0.098%) HAProxy
14 5 (0.098%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.079%) Kustomize
15 4 (0.079%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.079%) vMotion
Vendors
1 640 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 405 (7.97%) SAP
3 273 (5.37%) Oracle
4 270 (5.31%) ServiceNow
5 195 (3.84%) Salesforce
6 106 (2.09%) Databricks
7 100 (1.97%) Google
8 76 (1.50%) VMware
9 68 (1.34%) Workday
10 59 (1.16%) Cisco
11 49 (0.96%) CyberArk
12 47 (0.93%) Adobe
13 42 (0.83%) Splunk
14 33 (0.65%) MuleSoft
15 32 (0.63%) Ariba
15 32 (0.63%) Informatica
16 29 (0.57%) F5
16 29 (0.57%) IBM
17 26 (0.51%) IFS
18 25 (0.49%) Citrix