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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 7,322 2,965 2,550
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.73% 10.59% 7.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.57% 11.65% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,842 2,020 1,595
10th Percentile £388 £363 £363
25th Percentile £455 £449 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 64 70
10th Percentile £20.00 £26.71 £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% +29.96%
75th Percentile £80.00 £60.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £98.75 £76.38 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £49.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +22.84% -17.92% +16.69%

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 39,430 25,460 28,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.71% 90.97% 86.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,919 16,157 17,165
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £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 2,918 1,560 1,201
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.42 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.25
Median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.28 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +13 3,866 £563 +2.27% 3,962
North of England +7 1,096 £500 - 1,111
South East +9 923 £550 +4.76% 1,333
Midlands +7 662 £500 -4.76% 703
North West +3 540 £525 +5.00% 645
West Midlands +8 537 £488 -10.67% 478
Yorkshire +8 488 £500 - 351
South West +7 370 £550 - 445
East of England +8 227 £510 -7.27% 363
East Midlands 0 109 £503 +12.67% 225
North East 0 77 £500 -3.85% 117
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
1 365 (4.98%) Confluence
2 200 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 70 (0.96%) CMS
4 53 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 42 (0.57%) Apache
6 30 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 25 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 21 (0.29%) SAS
9 13 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.14%) Headless CMS
10 10 (0.14%) WordPress
11 9 (0.12%) CICS
12 7 (0.096%) Palantir Foundry
12 7 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
13 6 (0.082%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.082%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.082%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.068%) NetWeaver
14 5 (0.068%) nginx
14 5 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 324 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 172 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 166 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
4 140 (1.91%) Microsoft Project
5 74 (1.01%) MS Visio
6 24 (0.33%) Revit
7 18 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 18 (0.25%) Navisworks
8 15 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
9 14 (0.19%) Chatbot
10 11 (0.15%) Trello
11 9 (0.12%) ProjectWise
12 7 (0.096%) Windchill
13 5 (0.068%) Adobe XD
14 4 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
14 4 (0.055%) Notion
14 4 (0.055%) Photoshop
15 3 (0.041%) CPLEX
15 3 (0.041%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 271 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 94 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 38 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 34 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
5 32 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 28 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 27 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
8 26 (0.36%) SAP FI
9 25 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
9 25 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
10 24 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
10 24 (0.33%) SAP HCM
11 23 (0.31%) SAP HR
12 21 (0.29%) Aladdin
13 17 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
13 17 (0.23%) SAP ERP
13 17 (0.23%) SAP MDG
14 16 (0.22%) SAP CO
14 16 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
14 16 (0.22%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,317 (17.99%) Azure
2 881 (12.03%) AWS
3 571 (7.80%) Power Platform
4 360 (4.92%) GCP
5 287 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
6 256 (3.50%) SaaS
7 236 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
8 184 (2.51%) GitHub
9 174 (2.38%) Entra ID
10 145 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
10 145 (1.98%) Snowflake
11 111 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
12 103 (1.41%) Serverless
13 95 (1.30%) Power Automate
14 90 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
15 84 (1.15%) PowerApps
16 77 (1.05%) Amazon S3
17 75 (1.02%) OCI
18 69 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
19 68 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 144 (1.97%) Firewall
2 136 (1.86%) Network Security
3 79 (1.08%) WAN
4 67 (0.92%) DNS
5 50 (0.68%) LAN
5 50 (0.68%) VPN
6 43 (0.59%) DHCP
7 42 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 37 (0.51%) SD-WAN
9 27 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
10 25 (0.34%) 4G
10 25 (0.34%) 5G
10 25 (0.34%) BGP
11 23 (0.31%) Internet
11 23 (0.31%) Wireless
12 21 (0.29%) Broadband
12 21 (0.29%) MPLS
13 18 (0.25%) VLAN
14 17 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
15 16 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 443 (6.05%) Power BI
2 204 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
3 201 (2.75%) Metadata
4 119 (1.63%) SQL Server
5 99 (1.35%) Data Lake
6 89 (1.22%) Tableau
7 75 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
8 53 (0.72%) BigQuery
8 53 (0.72%) Relational Database
9 50 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
9 50 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 50 (0.68%) MongoDB
10 49 (0.67%) Delta Lake
11 40 (0.55%) Looker
12 35 (0.48%) Oracle Database
13 34 (0.46%) NoSQL
14 30 (0.41%) DynamoDB
15 29 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
16 25 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 23 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 672 (9.18%) JIRA
2 147 (2.01%) Git
3 100 (1.37%) GitLab
4 97 (1.32%) Jenkins
5 70 (0.96%) Selenium
6 49 (0.67%) Cucumber
7 44 (0.60%) JUnit
8 35 (0.48%) Gatling
9 32 (0.44%) SonarQube
10 29 (0.40%) Postman
11 19 (0.26%) Zephyr
12 18 (0.25%) Cypress.io
13 15 (0.20%) JMeter
14 14 (0.19%) Maven
15 12 (0.16%) LoadRunner
15 12 (0.16%) WebDriver
16 11 (0.15%) Claude Code
16 11 (0.15%) MSI
17 10 (0.14%) Mockito
18 9 (0.12%) ERwin
General
1 3,917 (53.50%) Social Skills
2 2,434 (33.24%) Finance
3 1,234 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
4 962 (13.14%) Public Sector
5 763 (10.42%) Banking
6 450 (6.15%) Influencing Skills
7 408 (5.57%) Retail
8 335 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
9 323 (4.41%) Legal
10 281 (3.84%) Manufacturing
11 246 (3.36%) Marketing
12 240 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
13 195 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
14 181 (2.47%) Telecoms
15 150 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 140 (1.91%) Aerospace
17 120 (1.64%) Front Office
18 118 (1.61%) Local Government
19 98 (1.34%) Investment Banking
20 97 (1.32%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,061 (14.49%) Analyst
2 983 (13.43%) Lead
3 981 (13.40%) Architect
4 787 (10.75%) Project Manager
4 787 (10.75%) Senior
5 687 (9.38%) Business Analyst
6 491 (6.71%) Consultant
7 326 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
8 257 (3.51%) Senior Manager
9 208 (2.84%) Delivery Manager
10 186 (2.54%) IT Manager
10 186 (2.54%) Product Manager
11 178 (2.43%) Programme Manager
12 172 (2.35%) Developer
13 144 (1.97%) Senior Analyst
14 137 (1.87%) Technical Manager
15 134 (1.83%) Product Owner
16 121 (1.65%) Data Analyst
17 120 (1.64%) Data Engineer
18 118 (1.61%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (3.74%) Terraform
2 202 (2.76%) REST
3 137 (1.87%) Middleware
4 110 (1.50%) .NET
5 90 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
6 84 (1.15%) Kafka
7 77 (1.05%) SOAP
8 73 (1.00%) PySpark
9 67 (0.92%) OAuth
9 67 (0.92%) React
10 64 (0.87%) Spring
11 61 (0.83%) JSON
12 52 (0.71%) Playwright
13 51 (0.70%) HTML
14 50 (0.68%) LDAP
15 45 (0.61%) XML
16 44 (0.60%) CSS
17 41 (0.56%) SailPoint
17 41 (0.56%) Spring Boot
18 40 (0.55%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 567 (7.74%) Product Ownership
2 444 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 298 (4.07%) Cloud Native
4 235 (3.21%) Management Information System
5 196 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
6 172 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 168 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
8 141 (1.93%) Data Centre
9 131 (1.79%) AI Agents
10 122 (1.67%) Data Structures
11 121 (1.65%) Operational Technology
12 118 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
13 106 (1.45%) Virtual Team
14 99 (1.35%) Security Posture
15 93 (1.27%) NHS
16 92 (1.26%) CMDB
17 91 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
18 79 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
19 74 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
20 70 (0.96%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 240 (3.28%) Windows
2 150 (2.05%) Linux
3 78 (1.07%) Windows Server
4 53 (0.72%) Unix
5 25 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.26%) Android
7 18 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.19%) VMS
10 11 (0.15%) zOS
11 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.096%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.068%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.055%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.041%) CentOS
16 2 (0.027%) AIX
16 2 (0.027%) HPUX
16 2 (0.027%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,287 (31.23%) Agile
2 1,337 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,253 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1,228 (16.77%) Roadmaps
5 1,042 (14.23%) Migration
6 986 (13.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 984 (13.44%) Decision-Making
8 970 (13.25%) AI
9 859 (11.73%) DevOps
10 848 (11.58%) Project Delivery
11 838 (11.44%) Analytics
12 809 (11.05%) Project Management
13 764 (10.43%) Workshop Facilitation
14 735 (10.04%) Change Management
15 724 (9.89%) Risk Management
16 716 (9.78%) CI/CD
17 627 (8.56%) Requirements Gathering
18 621 (8.48%) User Acceptance Testing
19 610 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
20 598 (8.17%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 668 (9.12%) SQL
2 479 (6.54%) Python
3 207 (2.83%) Java
4 150 (2.05%) JavaScript
5 147 (2.01%) PowerShell
6 92 (1.26%) C#
7 76 (1.04%) Bash
8 61 (0.83%) TypeScript
9 44 (0.60%) ABAP
10 41 (0.56%) Bicep
11 34 (0.46%) Korn
12 28 (0.38%) R
13 26 (0.36%) T-SQL
14 23 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 21 (0.29%) PL/SQL
16 18 (0.25%) Go
16 18 (0.25%) Shell Script
17 13 (0.18%) Apex Code
17 13 (0.18%) VBA
18 12 (0.16%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1,468 (20.05%) Security Cleared
2 1,087 (14.85%) SC Cleared
3 510 (6.97%) Degree
4 317 (4.33%) PMP
5 285 (3.89%) PMI Certification
6 272 (3.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 270 (3.69%) DV Cleared
8 163 (2.23%) CISSP
9 128 (1.75%) Azure Certification
10 122 (1.67%) CISM
11 98 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
12 93 (1.27%) AWS Certification
13 79 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
14 78 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
15 60 (0.82%) ACCA
16 57 (0.78%) CIMA
16 57 (0.78%) Master's Degree
17 49 (0.67%) ISTQB
18 48 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
19 47 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 563 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 419 (5.72%) QA
3 327 (4.47%) PMO
4 216 (2.95%) GDPR
5 198 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 197 (2.69%) Accessibility
7 166 (2.27%) NIST
8 137 (1.87%) GRC
9 95 (1.30%) SLA
10 75 (1.02%) WCAG
11 63 (0.86%) NCSC
12 41 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
13 30 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 27 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
14 27 (0.37%) IFRS
15 25 (0.34%) ISO 20022
16 24 (0.33%) GxP
16 24 (0.33%) PCI DSS
17 23 (0.31%) COBIT
18 21 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 191 (2.61%) Active Directory
2 172 (2.35%) Docker
3 73 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.40%) vSphere
5 28 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 25 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 18 (0.25%) Hyper-V
9 16 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.12%) NFS
11 8 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.082%) Time Sharing Option
13 5 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.068%) Postfix
14 4 (0.055%) FreeRADIUS
14 4 (0.055%) IAG
15 3 (0.041%) Ceph
15 3 (0.041%) Firmware
15 3 (0.041%) KVM
15 3 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 251 (3.43%) Kubernetes
2 107 (1.46%) Ansible
3 63 (0.86%) Grafana
4 50 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 42 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.42%) SCCM
8 17 (0.23%) Argo
9 13 (0.18%) Control-M
10 11 (0.15%) Kibana
11 9 (0.12%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.12%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.11%) Tivoli
12 8 (0.11%) WMI
13 7 (0.096%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.096%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 6 (0.082%) Puppet
14 6 (0.082%) Tivoli Monitoring
15 5 (0.068%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.068%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1,238 (16.91%) Microsoft
2 585 (7.99%) SAP
3 397 (5.42%) Oracle
4 364 (4.97%) ServiceNow
5 256 (3.50%) Salesforce
6 226 (3.09%) Databricks
7 169 (2.31%) Google
8 111 (1.52%) Workday
9 103 (1.41%) VMware
10 97 (1.32%) Cisco
11 76 (1.04%) CyberArk
12 75 (1.02%) IBM
13 62 (0.85%) Splunk
14 58 (0.79%) Adobe
15 49 (0.67%) Ariba
16 41 (0.56%) MuleSoft
17 40 (0.55%) Informatica
18 35 (0.48%) Fortinet
19 32 (0.44%) OpenAI
20 31 (0.42%) Atlassian