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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 15 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,330 2,758 2,676
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.91% 10.17% 7.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.95% 11.21% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,566 1,880 1,910
10th Percentile £385 £358 £356
25th Percentile £457 £435 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.57% +1.21% -2.73%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £530 £530
% change year-on-year +1.89% - -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 62 80
10th Percentile £25.00 £31.64 £21.91
25th Percentile £35.00 £39.66 £41.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £61.33
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -12.77% +14.28%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £103.75 £78.63 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.82% -10.83% +11.80%

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 38,219 24,611 31,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.42% 90.71% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,063 15,813 20,400
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £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 £734 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,375 1,290 2,230
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.56 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.60 £72.58
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 15 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 15 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 15 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 2,752 £554 -3.65% 1,010
North of England -2 774 £500 - 472
South East +6 711 £550 +3.58% 610
Midlands +1 526 £500 -2.34% 284
North West +2 392 £513 +2.50% 261
West Midlands +1 387 £500 -6.23% 172
Yorkshire +4 347 £500 +1.01% 162
South West +11 293 £550 +1.15% 210
East of England +10 167 £525 -6.67% 134
East Midlands +11 128 £481 +9.38% 109
North East -21 47 £475 +5.56% 53
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
1 313 (5.87%) Confluence
2 144 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 57 (1.07%) CMS
4 32 (0.60%) 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 7 (0.13%) Apache Spark
9 7 (0.13%) Appian
9 7 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.13%) WordPress
10 6 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.094%) Kentico
12 4 (0.075%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.075%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.056%) Oracle Coherence
13 3 (0.056%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
14 2 (0.038%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 225 (4.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 149 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
3 129 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
4 114 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 66 (1.24%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 13 (0.24%) Revit
9 11 (0.21%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.094%) Navisworks
10 5 (0.094%) Sketch
11 4 (0.075%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.075%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.075%) Trello
12 3 (0.056%) Notion
13 2 (0.038%) EngageOne
13 2 (0.038%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.038%) Windchill
14 1 (0.019%) CINEMA 4D
14 1 (0.019%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 190 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 68 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 24 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 22 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 20 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
8 17 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
8 17 (0.32%) Workday HCM
9 16 (0.30%) Aladdin
9 16 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
10 15 (0.28%) SAP FI
10 15 (0.28%) SAP SD
11 14 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
11 14 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
12 13 (0.24%) Primavera
13 12 (0.23%) Finacle
13 12 (0.23%) SAP CO
13 12 (0.23%) SAP ERP
14 11 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 884 (16.59%) Azure
2 608 (11.41%) AWS
3 332 (6.23%) Power Platform
4 223 (4.18%) GCP
5 198 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
6 181 (3.40%) SaaS
7 123 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
8 107 (2.01%) Entra ID
9 95 (1.78%) GitHub
10 90 (1.69%) Snowflake
11 72 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
12 60 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
13 59 (1.11%) Amazon S3
13 59 (1.11%) OCI
14 52 (0.98%) Serverless
15 48 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
15 48 (0.90%) PowerApps
16 45 (0.84%) Figma
17 43 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
17 43 (0.81%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 98 (1.84%) Firewall
2 93 (1.74%) Network Security
3 65 (1.22%) WAN
4 50 (0.94%) LAN
5 47 (0.88%) DNS
6 36 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 34 (0.64%) TCP/IP
7 34 (0.64%) VPN
8 28 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (0.41%) DHCP
10 21 (0.39%) BGP
11 19 (0.36%) OSPF
12 14 (0.26%) BIG-IP
12 14 (0.26%) Intranet
12 14 (0.26%) MPLS
12 14 (0.26%) SAN
12 14 (0.26%) Wireless
13 13 (0.24%) 5G
14 12 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
14 12 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (5.03%) Power BI
2 120 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
3 100 (1.88%) Metadata
4 69 (1.29%) Data Lake
5 64 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 59 (1.11%) Tableau
7 47 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
8 39 (0.73%) Relational Database
9 37 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (0.54%) Oracle Database
12 28 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
13 23 (0.43%) Big Data
13 23 (0.43%) DynamoDB
14 22 (0.41%) NoSQL
15 21 (0.39%) Delta Lake
16 17 (0.32%) BigQuery
17 16 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
18 15 (0.28%) Power Query
18 15 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 574 (10.77%) JIRA
2 85 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 79 (1.48%) Git
4 43 (0.81%) GitLab
5 38 (0.71%) Selenium
6 30 (0.56%) 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 (0.24%) 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%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,660 (49.91%) Social Skills
2 1,875 (35.18%) Finance
3 849 (15.93%) Analytical Skills
4 654 (12.27%) Public Sector
5 471 (8.84%) Banking
6 321 (6.02%) Retail
7 282 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
8 241 (4.52%) Legal
9 208 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
10 197 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
11 186 (3.49%) Marketing
12 150 (2.81%) Manufacturing
13 132 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
14 123 (2.31%) Telecoms
15 99 (1.86%) Local Government
16 96 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 81 (1.52%) Aerospace
18 76 (1.43%) Billing
19 71 (1.33%) Financial Institution
20 68 (1.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 811 (15.22%) Analyst
2 764 (14.33%) Lead
3 728 (13.66%) Project Manager
4 617 (11.58%) Architect
5 567 (10.64%) Senior
6 544 (10.21%) Business Analyst
7 268 (5.03%) Consultant
8 243 (4.56%) Senior Manager
9 227 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
10 178 (3.34%) Programme Manager
11 176 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
12 162 (3.04%) IT Manager
13 132 (2.48%) Product Manager
14 123 (2.31%) Senior Project Manager
15 107 (2.01%) Product Owner
16 103 (1.93%) Developer
17 101 (1.89%) Technical Manager
18 89 (1.67%) Change Manager
19 88 (1.65%) Data Analyst
20 87 (1.63%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (2.36%) REST
2 94 (1.76%) Middleware
3 85 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
4 64 (1.20%) SOAP
5 59 (1.11%) .NET
6 44 (0.83%) JSON
7 40 (0.75%) Kafka
8 36 (0.68%) OAuth
8 36 (0.68%) PySpark
9 34 (0.64%) CSS
9 34 (0.64%) SailPoint
10 33 (0.62%) React
11 32 (0.60%) AngularJS
12 31 (0.58%) HTML
12 31 (0.58%) OpenID
12 31 (0.58%) SAML
12 31 (0.58%) Spring
13 30 (0.56%) Web Services
14 29 (0.54%) XML
15 27 (0.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 385 (7.22%) Product Ownership
2 289 (5.42%) Onboarding
3 171 (3.21%) Cloud Native
4 157 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
5 146 (2.74%) Management Information System
6 125 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
7 111 (2.08%) Data Centre
8 98 (1.84%) Data Structures
9 93 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 89 (1.67%) Virtual Team
11 77 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
12 71 (1.33%) Operational Technology
13 69 (1.29%) NHS
14 65 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
15 64 (1.20%) Security Posture
16 55 (1.03%) CMDB
17 54 (1.01%) AI Agents
18 52 (0.98%) Public Cloud
18 52 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
19 48 (0.90%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 159 (2.98%) Windows
2 84 (1.58%) Linux
3 34 (0.64%) Android
4 32 (0.60%) Unix
5 29 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 27 (0.51%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.13%) VMS
10 6 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.094%) Solaris
11 5 (0.094%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.075%) AIX
12 4 (0.075%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.075%) zOS
13 3 (0.056%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.038%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.038%) HPUX
15 1 (0.019%) MVS
15 1 (0.019%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,741 (32.66%) Agile
2 908 (17.04%) Continuous Improvement
3 857 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
4 753 (14.13%) Roadmaps
5 747 (14.02%) Migration
6 734 (13.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 681 (12.78%) Project Management
8 634 (11.89%) Decision-Making
9 628 (11.78%) DevOps
10 598 (11.22%) Project Delivery
11 585 (10.98%) Change Management
12 555 (10.41%) AI
13 551 (10.34%) Analytics
14 522 (9.79%) Risk Management
15 472 (8.86%) User Acceptance Testing
16 449 (8.42%) CI/CD
17 439 (8.24%) Workshop Facilitation
18 437 (8.20%) Validation
19 417 (7.82%) ITIL
20 415 (7.79%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 422 (7.92%) SQL
2 307 (5.76%) Python
3 108 (2.03%) Java
4 80 (1.50%) PowerShell
5 63 (1.18%) JavaScript
6 53 (0.99%) C#
7 33 (0.62%) Bash
8 22 (0.41%) Bicep
9 21 (0.39%) Korn
9 21 (0.39%) TypeScript
9 21 (0.39%) VBA
10 20 (0.38%) ABAP
11 17 (0.32%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 14 (0.26%) R
13 14 (0.26%) Shell Script
14 13 (0.24%) T-SQL
15 10 (0.19%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,048 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 786 (14.75%) SC Cleared
3 390 (7.32%) Degree
4 270 (5.07%) PMP
5 232 (4.35%) PMI Certification
6 170 (3.19%) DV Cleared
7 154 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 117 (2.20%) CISSP
9 88 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 82 (1.54%) CISM
11 57 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
12 54 (1.01%) AWS Certification
13 49 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
14 46 (0.86%) Master's Degree
15 37 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
15 37 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
16 35 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 30 (0.56%) ACCA
17 30 (0.56%) ISTQB
18 29 (0.54%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 312 (5.85%) Data Quality
2 292 (5.48%) QA
3 259 (4.86%) PMO
4 221 (4.15%) GDPR
5 150 (2.81%) NIST
6 139 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 94 (1.76%) Accessibility
7 94 (1.76%) GRC
8 87 (1.63%) SLA
9 53 (0.99%) NCSC
10 38 (0.71%) PCI DSS
11 36 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 34 (0.64%) SOC 2
13 32 (0.60%) COBIT
14 25 (0.47%) WCAG
15 24 (0.45%) IFRS
16 17 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.30%) JSP 440
17 16 (0.30%) Solvency II
18 15 (0.28%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 105 (1.97%) Docker
2 93 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 44 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.26%) VMware NSX
6 13 (0.24%) NFS
6 13 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.23%) Postfix
8 11 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.15%) vSphere
10 5 (0.094%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.075%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.075%) SRDF
11 4 (0.075%) Varnish
12 3 (0.056%) HDFS
12 3 (0.056%) 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%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 147 (2.76%) Kubernetes
2 144 (2.70%) Terraform
3 78 (1.46%) Ansible
4 53 (0.99%) Grafana
5 39 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 38 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
7 33 (0.62%) Prometheus
8 20 (0.38%) 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%) RSA Archer
12 7 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 7 (0.13%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.11%) Control-M
13 6 (0.11%) Puppet
14 4 (0.075%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.075%) Oracle RMAN
14 4 (0.075%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 693 (13.00%) Microsoft
2 430 (8.07%) SAP
3 290 (5.44%) Oracle
4 285 (5.35%) ServiceNow
5 208 (3.90%) Salesforce
6 108 (2.03%) Databricks
7 103 (1.93%) Google
8 83 (1.56%) VMware
9 74 (1.39%) Workday
10 58 (1.09%) Cisco
11 52 (0.98%) Adobe
12 51 (0.96%) CyberArk
13 43 (0.81%) Splunk
14 36 (0.68%) Ariba
15 33 (0.62%) IBM
15 33 (0.62%) Informatica
16 32 (0.60%) MuleSoft
17 31 (0.58%) F5
18 27 (0.51%) Atlassian
19 25 (0.47%) Foundry