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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 15 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,587 2,841 2,523
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.41% 10.29% 7.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.56% 11.34% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,738 1,936 1,778
10th Percentile £385 £358 £359
25th Percentile £456 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -0.09% -2.27%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £533
% change year-on-year +2.86% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 65 75
10th Percentile £28.00 £29.61 £22.74
25th Percentile £35.28 £37.80 £47.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -13.15% +31.06%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £103.50 £78.25 £85.39
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.82% -10.83% +26.98%

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 38,369 25,044 29,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.25% 90.72% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,058 16,057 19,314
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £423 £405 £416
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 £756
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,388 1,359 1,834
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.69
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.56 £51.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 2,907 £560 -0.71% 1,214
North of England -1 819 £500 - 454
South East +8 744 £550 +4.76% 567
Midlands +1 516 £500 - 252
North West +1 414 £520 +4.00% 259
West Midlands +1 402 £500 -7.66% 166
Yorkshire +4 358 £500 +1.01% 143
South West +6 313 £550 +4.76% 192
East of England +9 173 £525 -4.55% 112
East Midlands +4 102 £500 +21.95% 85
North East -13 59 £475 +5.56% 54
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
1 330 (5.91%) Confluence
2 155 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 57 (1.02%) CMS
4 29 (0.52%) SAS
5 23 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 22 (0.39%) Apache
6 22 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 11 (0.20%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.11%) WordPress
10 5 (0.089%) Appian
10 5 (0.089%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.072%) FactoryTalk
11 4 (0.072%) Kentico
11 4 (0.072%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.054%) Moodle
12 3 (0.054%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 234 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 154 (2.76%) Microsoft Project
3 127 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
4 120 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 69 (1.24%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.27%) Revit
8 13 (0.23%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.21%) AutoCAD
10 8 (0.14%) Trello
11 7 (0.13%) Navisworks
12 5 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 5 (0.089%) Sketch
13 4 (0.072%) Adobe XD
13 4 (0.072%) Notion
14 2 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.036%) CPLEX
14 2 (0.036%) EngageOne
14 2 (0.036%) ProjectWise
14 2 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 198 (3.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 72 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 26 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
4 26 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
5 23 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 22 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
7 19 (0.34%) Workday HCM
8 18 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 18 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
9 17 (0.30%) SAP FI
10 16 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
10 16 (0.29%) SAP SD
11 14 (0.25%) Aladdin
11 14 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
12 13 (0.23%) Finacle
12 13 (0.23%) Primavera
12 13 (0.23%) SAP CO
12 13 (0.23%) SAP ERP
13 12 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 971 (17.38%) Azure
2 648 (11.60%) AWS
3 362 (6.48%) Power Platform
4 247 (4.42%) GCP
5 220 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
6 198 (3.54%) SaaS
7 144 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
8 122 (2.18%) Entra ID
9 106 (1.90%) GitHub
10 98 (1.75%) Snowflake
11 85 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
12 70 (1.25%) SuccessFactors
13 62 (1.11%) OCI
14 61 (1.09%) Amazon S3
15 58 (1.04%) Serverless
16 56 (1.00%) PowerApps
17 52 (0.93%) Power Automate
18 50 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
18 50 (0.89%) Figma
19 49 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 103 (1.84%) Firewall
2 98 (1.75%) Network Security
3 69 (1.24%) WAN
4 52 (0.93%) DNS
5 51 (0.91%) LAN
6 38 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 38 (0.68%) VPN
7 35 (0.63%) SD-WAN
8 33 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
9 27 (0.48%) DHCP
10 20 (0.36%) BGP
11 18 (0.32%) OSPF
12 17 (0.30%) 4G
12 17 (0.30%) 5G
12 17 (0.30%) Wireless
13 15 (0.27%) Intranet
13 15 (0.27%) SAN
13 15 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
14 14 (0.25%) BIG-IP
15 13 (0.23%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (5.15%) Power BI
2 132 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
3 108 (1.93%) Metadata
4 70 (1.25%) Data Lake
5 69 (1.24%) SQL Server
6 61 (1.09%) Tableau
7 48 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (0.72%) Relational Database
9 38 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (0.55%) Oracle Database
11 29 (0.52%) Delta Lake
12 27 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
13 25 (0.45%) Big Data
14 23 (0.41%) DynamoDB
15 21 (0.38%) NoSQL
16 20 (0.36%) BigQuery
17 17 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
17 17 (0.30%) Looker
18 16 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 601 (10.76%) JIRA
2 85 (1.52%) Git
3 80 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 44 (0.79%) Selenium
5 43 (0.77%) GitLab
6 29 (0.52%) JUnit
7 25 (0.45%) Postman
8 21 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.32%) JMeter
10 17 (0.30%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.27%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.27%) Maven
11 15 (0.27%) Zephyr
12 14 (0.25%) WebDriver
13 12 (0.21%) 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%) LoadRunner
General
1 2,783 (49.81%) Social Skills
2 1,929 (34.53%) Finance
3 908 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
4 689 (12.33%) Public Sector
5 512 (9.16%) Banking
6 346 (6.19%) Retail
7 302 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
8 242 (4.33%) Legal
9 231 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
10 202 (3.62%) Marketing
11 196 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
12 161 (2.88%) Manufacturing
13 142 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
14 135 (2.42%) Telecoms
15 108 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 97 (1.74%) Local Government
17 84 (1.50%) Billing
18 82 (1.47%) Aerospace
19 72 (1.29%) Financial Institution
19 72 (1.29%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 825 (14.77%) Analyst
2 811 (14.52%) Lead
3 746 (13.35%) Project Manager
4 650 (11.63%) Architect
5 591 (10.58%) Senior
6 551 (9.86%) Business Analyst
7 294 (5.26%) Consultant
8 239 (4.28%) Senior Manager
8 239 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
9 181 (3.24%) Delivery Manager
10 179 (3.20%) Programme Manager
11 170 (3.04%) IT Manager
12 139 (2.49%) Product Manager
13 123 (2.20%) Senior Project Manager
14 120 (2.15%) Developer
15 113 (2.02%) Product Owner
16 109 (1.95%) Technical Manager
17 95 (1.70%) Designer
17 95 (1.70%) IT Project Manager
18 93 (1.66%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (2.60%) REST
2 101 (1.81%) Middleware
3 87 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
4 74 (1.32%) SOAP
5 62 (1.11%) .NET
6 46 (0.82%) Kafka
7 44 (0.79%) JSON
8 40 (0.72%) PySpark
9 39 (0.70%) SailPoint
10 37 (0.66%) React
11 35 (0.63%) CSS
12 34 (0.61%) Spring
12 34 (0.61%) Web Services
13 33 (0.59%) HTML
13 33 (0.59%) OAuth
14 30 (0.54%) AngularJS
15 29 (0.52%) RESTful
16 28 (0.50%) XML
17 26 (0.47%) Spring Boot
18 24 (0.43%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 423 (7.57%) Product Ownership
2 306 (5.48%) Onboarding
3 170 (3.04%) Cloud Native
4 159 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
5 151 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 128 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 120 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 106 (1.90%) Data Structures
9 93 (1.66%) Virtual Team
10 92 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
11 87 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
12 75 (1.34%) Operational Technology
13 74 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
14 70 (1.25%) NHS
15 69 (1.24%) Security Posture
16 68 (1.22%) AI Agents
17 58 (1.04%) CMDB
18 57 (1.02%) FMCG
19 55 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
20 43 (0.77%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 176 (3.15%) Windows
2 95 (1.70%) Linux
3 37 (0.66%) Unix
4 35 (0.63%) Android
5 34 (0.61%) Windows Server
6 30 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 25 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.18%) VMS
10 8 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.089%) Solaris
11 5 (0.089%) 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%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,822 (32.61%) Agile
2 976 (17.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 903 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
4 837 (14.98%) Roadmaps
5 763 (13.66%) Migration
6 752 (13.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 708 (12.67%) Project Management
8 691 (12.37%) Decision-Making
9 663 (11.87%) DevOps
10 629 (11.26%) Project Delivery
11 617 (11.04%) AI
12 601 (10.76%) Change Management
13 591 (10.58%) Analytics
14 550 (9.84%) Risk Management
15 484 (8.66%) User Acceptance Testing
16 467 (8.36%) CI/CD
17 464 (8.30%) Workshop Facilitation
18 450 (8.05%) Scrum
19 449 (8.04%) Validation
20 439 (7.86%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 438 (7.84%) SQL
2 320 (5.73%) Python
3 119 (2.13%) Java
4 89 (1.59%) PowerShell
5 78 (1.40%) JavaScript
6 57 (1.02%) C#
7 38 (0.68%) Bash
8 25 (0.45%) Bicep
8 25 (0.45%) TypeScript
9 22 (0.39%) Korn
10 21 (0.38%) VBA
11 20 (0.36%) ABAP
12 17 (0.30%) PL/SQL
12 17 (0.30%) R
13 16 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 14 (0.25%) Shell Script
15 13 (0.23%) T-SQL
16 12 (0.21%) Apex Code
17 10 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
18 7 (0.13%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,096 (19.62%) Security Cleared
2 808 (14.46%) SC Cleared
3 392 (7.02%) Degree
4 285 (5.10%) PMP
5 251 (4.49%) PMI Certification
6 193 (3.45%) DV Cleared
7 158 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 121 (2.17%) CISSP
9 92 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 89 (1.59%) CISM
11 57 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
12 53 (0.95%) AWS Certification
12 53 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
13 46 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 41 (0.73%) Master's Degree
15 40 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 39 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
17 32 (0.57%) ISTQB
18 31 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 31 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 332 (5.94%) Data Quality
2 312 (5.58%) QA
3 279 (4.99%) PMO
4 217 (3.88%) GDPR
5 138 (2.47%) NIST
6 131 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 107 (1.92%) Accessibility
8 97 (1.74%) GRC
9 90 (1.61%) SLA
10 46 (0.82%) NCSC
11 37 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 34 (0.61%) WCAG
13 31 (0.55%) COBIT
14 30 (0.54%) SOC 2
15 28 (0.50%) PCI DSS
16 20 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
16 20 (0.36%) IFRS
17 16 (0.29%) ISO 20022
17 16 (0.29%) JSP 440
18 15 (0.27%) GxP
System Software
1 119 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 112 (2.00%) Docker
3 48 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.27%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.23%) NFS
8 12 (0.21%) Postfix
8 12 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.18%) vSphere
10 6 (0.11%) Hyper-V
11 5 (0.089%) 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
1 156 (2.79%) Terraform
2 141 (2.52%) Kubernetes
3 81 (1.45%) Ansible
4 56 (1.00%) Grafana
5 46 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 35 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 25 (0.45%) SCCM
9 16 (0.29%) Argo
10 9 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.16%) Puppet
11 8 (0.14%) Control-M
11 8 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 7 (0.13%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.11%) RSA Archer
14 5 (0.089%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.089%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.072%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 759 (13.59%) Microsoft
2 445 (7.96%) SAP
3 302 (5.41%) ServiceNow
4 299 (5.35%) Oracle
5 215 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 124 (2.22%) Databricks
7 108 (1.93%) Google
8 86 (1.54%) VMware
9 80 (1.43%) Workday
10 60 (1.07%) Cisco
11 55 (0.98%) Adobe
12 46 (0.82%) CyberArk
13 43 (0.77%) IBM
14 36 (0.64%) Ariba
15 34 (0.61%) Splunk
16 33 (0.59%) MuleSoft
17 31 (0.55%) Atlassian
17 31 (0.55%) Informatica
18 30 (0.54%) F5
19 27 (0.48%) Foundry