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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 15 23
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,567 2,798 2,560
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.38% 10.23% 7.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.51% 11.27% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,725 1,903 1,817
10th Percentile £381 £358 £362
25th Percentile £456 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £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 168 65 76
10th Percentile £28.00 £29.61 £22.84
25th Percentile £36.08 £37.80 £50.63
Median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -13.15% +16.29%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £103.65 £78.25 £85.32
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £60.83
% change year-on-year +16.82% -12.05% +14.84%

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 38,365 24,818 30,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 90.70% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,059 15,915 19,627
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,375 1,336 1,933
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.23 £13.60
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%
75th Percentile £69.63 £52.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -6.98%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +10 2,892 £560 -2.61% 1,299
North of England -1 818 £500 - 523
South East +8 741 £550 +4.76% 632
Midlands +1 521 £500 -0.15% 293
North West +1 415 £515 +3.00% 294
West Midlands +2 403 £500 -7.66% 188
Yorkshire +5 358 £500 - 168
South West +7 311 £550 +3.53% 224
East of England +7 172 £525 -4.55% 126
East Midlands +7 106 £500 +21.95% 103
North East -13 57 £475 +5.56% 62
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
1 332 (5.96%) Confluence
2 154 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 55 (0.99%) CMS
4 30 (0.54%) SAS
5 24 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
7 20 (0.36%) Apache
8 12 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 6 (0.11%) Appian
10 6 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.11%) WordPress
11 5 (0.090%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.090%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.072%) Kentico
12 4 (0.072%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.054%) FactoryTalk
13 3 (0.054%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.054%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 232 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 154 (2.77%) Microsoft Project
3 128 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
4 118 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (1.26%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.27%) Revit
8 14 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.22%) AutoCAD
10 8 (0.14%) Trello
11 7 (0.13%) Navisworks
12 5 (0.090%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 5 (0.090%) Sketch
13 4 (0.072%) Adobe XD
14 3 (0.054%) Notion
15 2 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
15 2 (0.036%) EPLAN
15 2 (0.036%) Photoshop
15 2 (0.036%) ProjectWise
15 2 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 200 (3.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 72 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 26 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
5 25 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 24 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 21 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
8 19 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 19 (0.34%) Workday HCM
9 16 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
9 16 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
9 16 (0.29%) SAP FI
9 16 (0.29%) SAP SD
10 14 (0.25%) Aladdin
10 14 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
11 13 (0.23%) Finacle
11 13 (0.23%) Primavera
11 13 (0.23%) SAP ERP
12 12 (0.22%) SAP CO
13 11 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 958 (17.21%) Azure
2 640 (11.50%) AWS
3 356 (6.39%) Power Platform
4 241 (4.33%) GCP
5 217 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
6 196 (3.52%) SaaS
7 145 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
8 121 (2.17%) Entra ID
9 103 (1.85%) GitHub
10 94 (1.69%) Snowflake
11 85 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
12 69 (1.24%) SuccessFactors
13 60 (1.08%) Amazon S3
14 59 (1.06%) OCI
15 57 (1.02%) PowerApps
15 57 (1.02%) Serverless
16 52 (0.93%) Power Automate
17 51 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
18 49 (0.88%) Figma
19 48 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 103 (1.85%) Firewall
2 97 (1.74%) Network Security
3 69 (1.24%) WAN
4 52 (0.93%) DNS
4 52 (0.93%) LAN
5 38 (0.68%) TCP/IP
5 38 (0.68%) VPN
6 36 (0.65%) SD-WAN
7 33 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
8 27 (0.49%) DHCP
9 21 (0.38%) BGP
10 19 (0.34%) OSPF
11 17 (0.31%) Wireless
12 15 (0.27%) 4G
12 15 (0.27%) 5G
12 15 (0.27%) Intranet
12 15 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
13 14 (0.25%) BIG-IP
13 14 (0.25%) MPLS
13 14 (0.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 282 (5.07%) Power BI
2 128 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
3 108 (1.94%) Metadata
4 70 (1.26%) Data Lake
5 69 (1.24%) SQL Server
6 59 (1.06%) Tableau
7 47 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
8 38 (0.68%) Relational Database
9 37 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (0.56%) Oracle Database
11 27 (0.49%) Delta Lake
11 27 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
12 24 (0.43%) Big Data
13 23 (0.41%) DynamoDB
14 18 (0.32%) BigQuery
14 18 (0.32%) NoSQL
15 17 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
16 16 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 15 (0.27%) Looker
Development Applications
1 602 (10.81%) JIRA
2 83 (1.49%) Git
3 80 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 43 (0.77%) GitLab
4 43 (0.77%) Selenium
5 29 (0.52%) JUnit
6 24 (0.43%) Postman
7 20 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.32%) JMeter
9 16 (0.29%) SonarQube
10 15 (0.27%) Zephyr
11 14 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 14 (0.25%) Maven
12 13 (0.23%) WebDriver
13 12 (0.22%) Mockito
14 11 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (0.18%) DbUnit
16 9 (0.16%) ERwin
16 9 (0.16%) jMock
17 8 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,773 (49.81%) Social Skills
2 1,933 (34.72%) Finance
3 898 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 683 (12.27%) Public Sector
5 513 (9.22%) Banking
6 346 (6.22%) Retail
7 296 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
8 244 (4.38%) Legal
9 228 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
10 199 (3.57%) Marketing
11 193 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
12 158 (2.84%) Manufacturing
13 141 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
14 135 (2.43%) Telecoms
15 103 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 98 (1.76%) Local Government
17 83 (1.49%) Aerospace
17 83 (1.49%) Billing
18 72 (1.29%) Financial Institution
19 71 (1.28%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 830 (14.91%) Analyst
2 802 (14.41%) Lead
3 749 (13.45%) Project Manager
4 644 (11.57%) Architect
5 588 (10.56%) Senior
6 557 (10.01%) Business Analyst
7 287 (5.16%) Consultant
8 240 (4.31%) Senior Manager
9 237 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
10 181 (3.25%) Programme Manager
11 180 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
12 170 (3.05%) IT Manager
13 138 (2.48%) Product Manager
14 124 (2.23%) Senior Project Manager
15 117 (2.10%) Developer
16 115 (2.07%) Product Owner
17 109 (1.96%) Technical Manager
18 94 (1.69%) IT Project Manager
19 92 (1.65%) Designer
20 91 (1.63%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (2.57%) REST
2 101 (1.81%) Middleware
3 86 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
4 73 (1.31%) SOAP
5 61 (1.10%) .NET
6 43 (0.77%) JSON
7 41 (0.74%) Kafka
8 39 (0.70%) SailPoint
9 38 (0.68%) PySpark
10 35 (0.63%) React
11 33 (0.59%) CSS
11 33 (0.59%) OAuth
11 33 (0.59%) Spring
11 33 (0.59%) Web Services
12 31 (0.56%) HTML
13 28 (0.50%) AngularJS
13 28 (0.50%) RESTful
14 27 (0.49%) XML
15 25 (0.45%) Spring Boot
16 24 (0.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 425 (7.63%) Product Ownership
2 303 (5.44%) Onboarding
3 169 (3.04%) Cloud Native
4 161 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
5 150 (2.69%) Management Information System
6 128 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
7 119 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 104 (1.87%) Data Structures
9 94 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 92 (1.65%) Virtual Team
11 85 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
12 74 (1.33%) Operational Technology
13 72 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
14 69 (1.24%) NHS
15 68 (1.22%) Security Posture
16 67 (1.20%) AI Agents
17 58 (1.04%) CMDB
18 57 (1.02%) FMCG
19 55 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
20 43 (0.77%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 175 (3.14%) Windows
2 94 (1.69%) Linux
3 37 (0.66%) Unix
4 35 (0.63%) Android
5 33 (0.59%) Windows Server
6 30 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.18%) VMS
10 8 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.090%) Solaris
11 5 (0.090%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.072%) AIX
12 4 (0.072%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.072%) zOS
13 3 (0.054%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.036%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.036%) HPUX
14 2 (0.036%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.018%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,820 (32.69%) Agile
2 974 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 891 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
4 827 (14.86%) Roadmaps
5 769 (13.81%) Migration
6 752 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 704 (12.65%) Project Management
8 681 (12.23%) Decision-Making
9 661 (11.87%) DevOps
10 630 (11.32%) Project Delivery
11 614 (11.03%) AI
12 605 (10.87%) Change Management
13 587 (10.54%) Analytics
14 552 (9.92%) Risk Management
15 484 (8.69%) User Acceptance Testing
16 465 (8.35%) CI/CD
17 462 (8.30%) Workshop Facilitation
18 453 (8.14%) Validation
19 449 (8.07%) Scrum
20 439 (7.89%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 439 (7.89%) SQL
2 316 (5.68%) Python
3 115 (2.07%) Java
4 87 (1.56%) PowerShell
5 72 (1.29%) JavaScript
6 55 (0.99%) C#
7 38 (0.68%) Bash
8 25 (0.45%) Bicep
9 24 (0.43%) TypeScript
10 22 (0.40%) Korn
11 21 (0.38%) VBA
12 20 (0.36%) ABAP
13 17 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 16 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 16 (0.29%) R
15 14 (0.25%) Shell Script
16 13 (0.23%) T-SQL
17 12 (0.22%) Apex Code
18 10 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
19 7 (0.13%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,085 (19.49%) Security Cleared
2 807 (14.50%) SC Cleared
3 395 (7.10%) Degree
4 284 (5.10%) PMP
5 250 (4.49%) PMI Certification
6 185 (3.32%) DV Cleared
7 159 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 120 (2.16%) CISSP
9 92 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 86 (1.54%) CISM
11 56 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
12 53 (0.95%) AWS Certification
13 52 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
14 45 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
15 41 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 39 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
16 39 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 32 (0.57%) ISTQB
18 30 (0.54%) ACCA
18 30 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (5.95%) Data Quality
2 311 (5.59%) QA
3 277 (4.98%) PMO
4 221 (3.97%) GDPR
5 139 (2.50%) NIST
6 132 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 102 (1.83%) Accessibility
8 99 (1.78%) GRC
9 87 (1.56%) SLA
10 46 (0.83%) NCSC
11 37 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 31 (0.56%) SOC 2
12 31 (0.56%) WCAG
13 30 (0.54%) COBIT
14 29 (0.52%) PCI DSS
15 21 (0.38%) IFRS
16 20 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.29%) JSP 440
18 15 (0.27%) ISO 20022
18 15 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 119 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 108 (1.94%) Docker
3 47 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.27%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.23%) NFS
8 12 (0.22%) Postfix
8 12 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.18%) vSphere
10 6 (0.11%) Hyper-V
11 5 (0.090%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.072%) SRDF
12 4 (0.072%) Varnish
13 3 (0.054%) HDFS
13 3 (0.054%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.036%) Ceph
14 2 (0.036%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.036%) KVM
14 2 (0.036%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 152 (2.73%) Terraform
2 139 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 81 (1.46%) Ansible
4 56 (1.01%) Grafana
5 44 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 36 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 25 (0.45%) SCCM
9 15 (0.27%) Argo
10 9 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.16%) Puppet
11 8 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.13%) Control-M
12 7 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 7 (0.13%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.11%) RSA Archer
14 5 (0.090%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.090%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.072%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 753 (13.53%) Microsoft
2 446 (8.01%) SAP
3 300 (5.39%) ServiceNow
4 298 (5.35%) Oracle
5 215 (3.86%) Salesforce
6 118 (2.12%) Databricks
7 110 (1.98%) Google
8 85 (1.53%) VMware
9 81 (1.46%) Workday
10 59 (1.06%) Cisco
11 55 (0.99%) Adobe
12 46 (0.83%) CyberArk
13 42 (0.75%) IBM
14 36 (0.65%) Ariba
15 35 (0.63%) Splunk
16 33 (0.59%) Informatica
16 33 (0.59%) MuleSoft
17 30 (0.54%) Atlassian
17 30 (0.54%) F5
18 27 (0.49%) Foundry