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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 7,010 2,898 2,508
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.20% 10.51% 7.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.98% 11.56% 8.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,641 1,978 1,601
10th Percentile £387 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £447 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £648 £650 £642
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £548 £530 £539
% change year-on-year +3.30% -1.67% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 60 66
10th Percentile £20.43 £28.15 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.00 £41.66
Median hourly rate £60.50 £49.25 £61.33
Median % change year-on-year +22.84% -19.70% +22.76%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.06 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £77.63 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £49.25 £60.30
% change year-on-year +22.84% -18.33% +13.10%

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 38,989 25,060 28,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.56% 90.87% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,802 15,892 17,554
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £627 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,803 1,513 1,284
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.69 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.71 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +0.58%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 3,693 £560 +1.63% 4,471
North of England +5 1,049 £507 +1.30% 1,069
South East +11 894 £550 +4.76% 1,353
Midlands +7 614 £500 -2.91% 712
North West +3 532 £525 +5.00% 648
West Midlands +8 494 £495 -8.68% 492
Yorkshire +9 449 £500 - 327
South West +9 376 £550 - 455
East of England +9 216 £515 -6.36% 346
East Midlands +1 105 £500 +13.31% 220
North East 0 77 £500 -3.38% 97
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
1 347 (4.95%) Confluence
2 194 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 66 (0.94%) CMS
4 47 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 38 (0.54%) Apache
6 28 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 24 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.31%) SAS
9 13 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 9 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 9 (0.13%) WordPress
11 7 (0.100%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.086%) ArcGIS
12 6 (0.086%) CICS
12 6 (0.086%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.086%) Oracle Workflow
13 5 (0.071%) nginx
13 5 (0.071%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.071%) Sitecore CMS
14 4 (0.057%) Kentico
Applications
1 315 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 168 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 161 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
4 138 (1.97%) Microsoft Project
5 72 (1.03%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.36%) Revit
7 19 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 18 (0.26%) Navisworks
9 15 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
10 14 (0.20%) Chatbot
11 11 (0.16%) Trello
12 9 (0.13%) ProjectWise
13 7 (0.100%) Windchill
14 6 (0.086%) Adobe XD
15 5 (0.071%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 4 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
16 4 (0.057%) Notion
16 4 (0.057%) Photoshop
16 4 (0.057%) Sketch
17 3 (0.043%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 243 (3.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 96 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 31 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 28 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 27 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 24 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
7 24 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 22 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
9 20 (0.29%) SAP Payroll
10 19 (0.27%) SAP ERP
11 18 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
12 17 (0.24%) Aladdin
12 17 (0.24%) SAP FI
12 17 (0.24%) SAP HR
12 17 (0.24%) SAP MDG
13 16 (0.23%) SAP HCM
13 16 (0.23%) SAP SD
14 15 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
14 15 (0.21%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,276 (18.20%) Azure
2 861 (12.28%) AWS
3 542 (7.73%) Power Platform
4 341 (4.86%) GCP
5 275 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
6 248 (3.54%) SaaS
7 221 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
8 172 (2.45%) GitHub
9 166 (2.37%) Entra ID
10 145 (2.07%) Snowflake
11 140 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
12 103 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
13 99 (1.41%) Serverless
14 91 (1.30%) Power Automate
15 80 (1.14%) PowerApps
16 79 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
17 73 (1.04%) Amazon S3
18 71 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
18 71 (1.01%) OCI
19 66 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 134 (1.91%) Firewall
2 132 (1.88%) Network Security
3 76 (1.08%) WAN
4 70 (1.00%) DNS
5 47 (0.67%) LAN
6 46 (0.66%) VPN
7 45 (0.64%) DHCP
8 44 (0.63%) TCP/IP
9 35 (0.50%) SD-WAN
10 27 (0.39%) 4G
10 27 (0.39%) 5G
10 27 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (0.34%) BGP
12 23 (0.33%) Wireless
13 21 (0.30%) Internet
14 20 (0.29%) Broadband
14 20 (0.29%) MPLS
15 16 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
15 16 (0.23%) SAN
15 16 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 420 (5.99%) Power BI
2 202 (2.88%) Metadata
3 195 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 115 (1.64%) SQL Server
5 96 (1.37%) Data Lake
6 79 (1.13%) Tableau
7 72 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
8 51 (0.73%) Delta Lake
8 51 (0.73%) Relational Database
9 49 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
10 48 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
11 45 (0.64%) BigQuery
12 42 (0.60%) MongoDB
13 34 (0.49%) Looker
14 32 (0.46%) NoSQL
14 32 (0.46%) Oracle Database
15 29 (0.41%) DynamoDB
16 27 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
17 23 (0.33%) Big Data
17 23 (0.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 652 (9.30%) JIRA
2 135 (1.93%) Git
3 97 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 87 (1.24%) GitLab
5 65 (0.93%) Selenium
6 42 (0.60%) Cucumber
7 37 (0.53%) JUnit
8 30 (0.43%) Postman
9 29 (0.41%) SonarQube
10 28 (0.40%) Gatling
11 19 (0.27%) Cypress.io
12 17 (0.24%) Zephyr
13 15 (0.21%) JMeter
13 15 (0.21%) Maven
14 12 (0.17%) WebDriver
15 11 (0.16%) Claude Code
15 11 (0.16%) LoadRunner
15 11 (0.16%) Mockito
16 9 (0.13%) ERwin
17 8 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 3,730 (53.21%) Social Skills
2 2,325 (33.17%) Finance
3 1,178 (16.80%) Analytical Skills
4 900 (12.84%) Public Sector
5 701 (10.00%) Banking
6 426 (6.08%) Influencing Skills
7 411 (5.86%) Retail
8 317 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
9 298 (4.25%) Legal
10 249 (3.55%) Manufacturing
11 239 (3.41%) Marketing
12 232 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
13 183 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
14 180 (2.57%) Telecoms
15 144 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 133 (1.90%) Aerospace
17 114 (1.63%) Local Government
18 108 (1.54%) Front Office
19 92 (1.31%) Billing
20 90 (1.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,012 (14.44%) Analyst
2 960 (13.69%) Lead
3 945 (13.48%) Architect
4 777 (11.08%) Project Manager
5 741 (10.57%) Senior
6 647 (9.23%) Business Analyst
7 451 (6.43%) Consultant
8 320 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
9 250 (3.57%) Senior Manager
10 200 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
11 182 (2.60%) IT Manager
12 178 (2.54%) Programme Manager
13 172 (2.45%) Product Manager
14 164 (2.34%) Developer
15 138 (1.97%) Technical Manager
16 132 (1.88%) Senior Analyst
17 126 (1.80%) Product Owner
18 115 (1.64%) Designer
19 114 (1.63%) Data Analyst
19 114 (1.63%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (3.72%) Terraform
2 188 (2.68%) REST
3 130 (1.85%) Middleware
4 99 (1.41%) .NET
5 83 (1.18%) Kafka
5 83 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
6 78 (1.11%) SOAP
7 67 (0.96%) PySpark
8 63 (0.90%) OAuth
9 61 (0.87%) JSON
9 61 (0.87%) React
10 57 (0.81%) Spring
11 49 (0.70%) HTML
11 49 (0.70%) LDAP
12 46 (0.66%) Playwright
13 45 (0.64%) XML
14 44 (0.63%) CSS
15 41 (0.58%) Spring Boot
15 41 (0.58%) Web Services
16 40 (0.57%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 539 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 412 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 277 (3.95%) Cloud Native
4 229 (3.27%) Management Information System
5 173 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
6 166 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
7 158 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
8 132 (1.88%) Data Centre
9 119 (1.70%) AI Agents
10 118 (1.68%) Data Structures
11 114 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
12 113 (1.61%) Operational Technology
13 103 (1.47%) Virtual Team
14 95 (1.36%) Security Posture
15 94 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
16 87 (1.24%) CMDB
17 86 (1.23%) NHS
18 78 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
19 74 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
20 62 (0.88%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 224 (3.20%) Windows
2 142 (2.03%) Linux
3 70 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 48 (0.68%) Unix
5 27 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.27%) Android
7 16 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.20%) VMS
9 13 (0.19%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.11%) zOS
12 7 (0.100%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.071%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.057%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.043%) CentOS
15 3 (0.043%) Solaris
16 2 (0.029%) HPUX
16 2 (0.029%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,200 (31.38%) Agile
2 1,279 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,186 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
4 1,143 (16.31%) Roadmaps
5 984 (14.04%) Migration
6 937 (13.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 929 (13.25%) Decision-Making
8 906 (12.92%) AI
9 824 (11.75%) DevOps
10 807 (11.51%) Project Delivery
11 805 (11.48%) Project Management
12 797 (11.37%) Analytics
13 719 (10.26%) Change Management
14 694 (9.90%) Risk Management
15 685 (9.77%) Workshop Facilitation
16 683 (9.74%) CI/CD
17 583 (8.32%) Cybersecurity
18 581 (8.29%) User Acceptance Testing
19 578 (8.25%) Requirements Gathering
20 571 (8.15%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 634 (9.04%) SQL
2 455 (6.49%) Python
3 189 (2.70%) Java
4 137 (1.95%) PowerShell
5 135 (1.93%) JavaScript
6 88 (1.26%) C#
7 69 (0.98%) Bash
8 56 (0.80%) TypeScript
9 41 (0.58%) Bicep
10 35 (0.50%) ABAP
11 32 (0.46%) Korn
12 25 (0.36%) R
13 23 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 22 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 22 (0.31%) T-SQL
15 18 (0.26%) Go
15 18 (0.26%) VBA
16 16 (0.23%) Shell Script
17 13 (0.19%) Apex Code
18 11 (0.16%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,416 (20.20%) Security Cleared
2 1,036 (14.78%) SC Cleared
3 479 (6.83%) Degree
4 308 (4.39%) PMP
5 273 (3.89%) PMI Certification
6 270 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 239 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 159 (2.27%) CISSP
9 128 (1.83%) Azure Certification
10 121 (1.73%) CISM
11 90 (1.28%) AWS Certification
12 89 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
13 77 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
13 77 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
14 54 (0.77%) Master's Degree
15 53 (0.76%) ACCA
16 50 (0.71%) CIMA
17 49 (0.70%) ISTQB
17 49 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
17 49 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 539 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 397 (5.66%) QA
3 323 (4.61%) PMO
4 216 (3.08%) GDPR
5 189 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 182 (2.60%) Accessibility
7 173 (2.47%) NIST
8 131 (1.87%) GRC
9 96 (1.37%) SLA
10 70 (1.00%) WCAG
11 62 (0.88%) NCSC
12 32 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
13 28 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 27 (0.39%) IFRS
15 25 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 25 (0.36%) ISO 20022
16 23 (0.33%) PCI DSS
17 22 (0.31%) COBIT
18 19 (0.27%) SEPA
19 18 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 183 (2.61%) Active Directory
2 163 (2.33%) Docker
3 69 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 27 (0.39%) vSphere
5 25 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.33%) VMware NSX
7 20 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 11 (0.16%) NFS
10 8 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.100%) Postfix
12 6 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.086%) Time Sharing Option
13 3 (0.043%) Ceph
13 3 (0.043%) FreeRADIUS
13 3 (0.043%) IAG
13 3 (0.043%) KVM
13 3 (0.043%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.043%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 233 (3.32%) Kubernetes
2 106 (1.51%) Ansible
3 63 (0.90%) Grafana
4 46 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 41 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 30 (0.43%) SCCM
8 17 (0.24%) Argo
9 12 (0.17%) Control-M
10 11 (0.16%) Kibana
11 10 (0.14%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.100%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.100%) HP ALM
12 7 (0.100%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.086%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.086%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.086%) Puppet
13 6 (0.086%) WMI
14 5 (0.071%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.071%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,173 (16.73%) Microsoft
2 534 (7.62%) SAP
3 377 (5.38%) Oracle
4 350 (4.99%) ServiceNow
5 253 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 220 (3.14%) Databricks
7 157 (2.24%) Google
8 104 (1.48%) VMware
9 101 (1.44%) Workday
10 87 (1.24%) Cisco
11 75 (1.07%) CyberArk
12 67 (0.96%) IBM
13 61 (0.87%) Adobe
14 60 (0.86%) Splunk
15 44 (0.63%) MuleSoft
16 42 (0.60%) Ariba
16 42 (0.60%) Informatica
17 32 (0.46%) Fortinet
18 31 (0.44%) Bloomberg
19 30 (0.43%) Foundry