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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 15 23
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,621 2,816 2,539
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.45% 10.28% 7.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.58% 11.33% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,763 1,916 1,799
10th Percentile £381 £358 £360
25th Percentile £456 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -0.56% -1.82%
75th Percentile £642 £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 170 65 76
10th Percentile £28.00 £29.61 £22.84
25th Percentile £35.73 £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 £103.55 £78.25 £85.32
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £60.30
% change year-on-year +16.82% -11.28% +13.84%

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 38,549 24,860 29,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.39% 90.73% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,182 15,935 19,502
10th Percentile £325 £300 £311
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 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,381 1,342 1,889
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.26 £13.67
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.90 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £69.50 £52.00 £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 25 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 25 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 25 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 2,918 £560 -1.75% 1,209
North of England -1 826 £500 - 461
South East +7 749 £550 +4.76% 564
Midlands +1 526 £500 -0.10% 247
North West -1 417 £515 +3.00% 258
West Midlands 0 405 £500 -7.66% 165
Yorkshire +5 362 £500 +0.50% 149
South West +10 313 £550 +4.76% 189
East of England +10 174 £525 -4.55% 109
East Midlands +8 109 £500 +21.95% 81
North East -14 59 £475 +5.56% 56
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
1 333 (5.92%) Confluence
2 154 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 56 (1.00%) CMS
4 29 (0.52%) SAS
5 24 (0.43%) 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%) Appian
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%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.071%) FactoryTalk
11 4 (0.071%) Kentico
11 4 (0.071%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.053%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.053%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 234 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 155 (2.76%) Microsoft Project
3 128 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
4 119 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (1.25%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.27%) Revit
8 14 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.21%) AutoCAD
10 8 (0.14%) Trello
11 7 (0.12%) Navisworks
12 5 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 5 (0.089%) Sketch
13 4 (0.071%) Adobe XD
14 3 (0.053%) 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 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 73 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 26 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
4 26 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
5 24 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 21 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
7 19 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
7 19 (0.34%) Workday HCM
8 17 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
8 17 (0.30%) SAP FI
9 16 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 16 (0.28%) 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 CO
11 13 (0.23%) SAP ERP
12 12 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 973 (17.31%) Azure
2 651 (11.58%) AWS
3 361 (6.42%) Power Platform
4 250 (4.45%) GCP
5 219 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
6 198 (3.52%) SaaS
7 146 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
8 122 (2.17%) Entra ID
9 105 (1.87%) GitHub
10 98 (1.74%) Snowflake
11 86 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
12 69 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
13 61 (1.09%) Amazon S3
13 61 (1.09%) OCI
14 58 (1.03%) Serverless
15 57 (1.01%) PowerApps
16 53 (0.94%) Power Automate
17 51 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
18 50 (0.89%) Figma
19 48 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 104 (1.85%) Firewall
2 99 (1.76%) Network Security
3 70 (1.25%) WAN
4 52 (0.93%) DNS
4 52 (0.93%) LAN
5 39 (0.69%) TCP/IP
5 39 (0.69%) VPN
6 36 (0.64%) SD-WAN
7 33 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
8 27 (0.48%) DHCP
9 21 (0.37%) BGP
10 19 (0.34%) OSPF
11 17 (0.30%) 4G
11 17 (0.30%) 5G
11 17 (0.30%) Wireless
12 15 (0.27%) Intranet
12 15 (0.27%) SAN
12 15 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
13 14 (0.25%) BIG-IP
13 14 (0.25%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (5.11%) Power BI
2 132 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
3 109 (1.94%) Metadata
4 70 (1.25%) Data Lake
4 70 (1.25%) SQL Server
5 61 (1.09%) Tableau
6 48 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
7 40 (0.71%) Relational Database
8 38 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 31 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
9 31 (0.55%) Oracle Database
10 29 (0.52%) Delta Lake
11 27 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
12 25 (0.44%) Big Data
13 23 (0.41%) DynamoDB
14 21 (0.37%) NoSQL
15 20 (0.36%) BigQuery
16 17 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
16 17 (0.30%) Looker
17 16 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 605 (10.76%) JIRA
2 85 (1.51%) Git
3 79 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 44 (0.78%) Selenium
5 43 (0.76%) GitLab
6 29 (0.52%) JUnit
7 25 (0.44%) Postman
8 21 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.32%) JMeter
10 16 (0.28%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.27%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.27%) Zephyr
12 14 (0.25%) Maven
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%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,803 (49.87%) Social Skills
2 1,948 (34.66%) Finance
3 906 (16.12%) Analytical Skills
4 693 (12.33%) Public Sector
5 518 (9.22%) Banking
6 349 (6.21%) Retail
7 302 (5.37%) Influencing Skills
8 244 (4.34%) Legal
9 229 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
10 202 (3.59%) Marketing
11 195 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
12 161 (2.86%) Manufacturing
13 142 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
14 138 (2.46%) Telecoms
15 107 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 98 (1.74%) Local Government
17 83 (1.48%) Aerospace
17 83 (1.48%) Billing
18 74 (1.32%) Financial Institution
19 72 (1.28%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 838 (14.91%) Analyst
2 811 (14.43%) Lead
3 752 (13.38%) Project Manager
4 650 (11.56%) Architect
5 596 (10.60%) Senior
6 561 (9.98%) Business Analyst
7 294 (5.23%) Consultant
8 242 (4.31%) Senior Manager
9 239 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
10 182 (3.24%) Delivery Manager
11 181 (3.22%) Programme Manager
12 172 (3.06%) IT Manager
13 139 (2.47%) Product Manager
14 125 (2.22%) Senior Project Manager
15 119 (2.12%) Developer
16 115 (2.05%) Product Owner
17 110 (1.96%) Technical Manager
18 95 (1.69%) IT Project Manager
19 94 (1.67%) Designer
20 92 (1.64%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (2.56%) REST
2 101 (1.80%) Middleware
3 88 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
4 73 (1.30%) SOAP
5 61 (1.09%) .NET
6 45 (0.80%) Kafka
7 43 (0.76%) JSON
8 40 (0.71%) PySpark
8 40 (0.71%) SailPoint
9 37 (0.66%) React
10 35 (0.62%) CSS
11 34 (0.60%) OAuth
11 34 (0.60%) Spring
12 33 (0.59%) HTML
12 33 (0.59%) Web Services
13 30 (0.53%) RESTful
14 29 (0.52%) AngularJS
15 27 (0.48%) XML
16 26 (0.46%) Spring Boot
17 24 (0.43%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 430 (7.65%) Product Ownership
2 307 (5.46%) Onboarding
3 170 (3.02%) Cloud Native
4 162 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
5 151 (2.69%) Management Information System
6 129 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 120 (2.13%) Data Centre
8 107 (1.90%) Data Structures
9 95 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 93 (1.65%) Virtual Team
11 86 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
12 75 (1.33%) Operational Technology
13 74 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
14 70 (1.25%) NHS
15 69 (1.23%) Security Posture
16 68 (1.21%) AI Agents
17 58 (1.03%) CMDB
18 57 (1.01%) FMCG
19 55 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
20 43 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 176 (3.13%) Windows
2 95 (1.69%) Linux
3 37 (0.66%) Unix
4 35 (0.62%) Android
5 34 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 30 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 25 (0.44%) 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 (0.071%) AIX
12 4 (0.071%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.071%) zOS
13 3 (0.053%) 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 1,834 (32.63%) Agile
2 982 (17.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 903 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
4 833 (14.82%) Roadmaps
5 775 (13.79%) Migration
6 757 (13.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 713 (12.68%) Project Management
8 694 (12.35%) Decision-Making
9 666 (11.85%) DevOps
10 633 (11.26%) Project Delivery
11 618 (10.99%) AI
12 609 (10.83%) Change Management
13 595 (10.59%) Analytics
14 557 (9.91%) Risk Management
15 489 (8.70%) User Acceptance Testing
16 470 (8.36%) CI/CD
17 466 (8.29%) Workshop Facilitation
18 458 (8.15%) Validation
19 453 (8.06%) Scrum
20 442 (7.86%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 443 (7.88%) SQL
2 322 (5.73%) Python
3 119 (2.12%) Java
4 89 (1.58%) PowerShell
5 77 (1.37%) JavaScript
6 56 (1.00%) C#
7 38 (0.68%) Bash
8 26 (0.46%) Bicep
9 25 (0.44%) TypeScript
10 22 (0.39%) Korn
11 21 (0.37%) VBA
12 20 (0.36%) ABAP
13 17 (0.30%) PL/SQL
13 17 (0.30%) R
14 16 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 14 (0.25%) Shell Script
16 13 (0.23%) T-SQL
17 12 (0.21%) Apex Code
18 10 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
19 7 (0.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,092 (19.43%) Security Cleared
2 810 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 399 (7.10%) Degree
4 286 (5.09%) PMP
5 251 (4.47%) PMI Certification
6 188 (3.34%) DV Cleared
7 161 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 120 (2.13%) CISSP
9 92 (1.64%) Azure Certification
10 88 (1.57%) CISM
11 57 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
12 53 (0.94%) AWS Certification
12 53 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
13 46 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 42 (0.75%) Master's Degree
15 39 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
15 39 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 33 (0.59%) ISTQB
17 31 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 30 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 335 (5.96%) Data Quality
2 316 (5.62%) QA
3 278 (4.95%) PMO
4 222 (3.95%) GDPR
5 139 (2.47%) NIST
6 131 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 107 (1.90%) Accessibility
8 99 (1.76%) GRC
9 88 (1.57%) SLA
10 45 (0.80%) NCSC
11 37 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 34 (0.60%) WCAG
13 31 (0.55%) COBIT
13 31 (0.55%) SOC 2
14 29 (0.52%) PCI DSS
15 21 (0.37%) IFRS
16 20 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.28%) JSP 440
18 15 (0.27%) ISO 20022
18 15 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 119 (2.12%) Active Directory
2 113 (2.01%) Docker
3 48 (0.85%) 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 (0.071%) SRDF
12 4 (0.071%) Varnish
13 3 (0.053%) HDFS
13 3 (0.053%) 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
1 155 (2.76%) Terraform
2 143 (2.54%) Kubernetes
3 81 (1.44%) Ansible
4 56 (1.00%) Grafana
5 45 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
6 36 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.60%) Prometheus
8 25 (0.44%) 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 (0.12%) Control-M
12 7 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 7 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.11%) RSA Archer
14 5 (0.089%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.089%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.071%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 757 (13.47%) Microsoft
2 447 (7.95%) SAP
3 304 (5.41%) ServiceNow
4 301 (5.35%) Oracle
5 217 (3.86%) Salesforce
6 123 (2.19%) Databricks
7 112 (1.99%) Google
8 86 (1.53%) VMware
9 81 (1.44%) Workday
10 60 (1.07%) Cisco
11 55 (0.98%) Adobe
12 46 (0.82%) CyberArk
13 42 (0.75%) IBM
14 36 (0.64%) Ariba
15 34 (0.60%) Splunk
16 33 (0.59%) Informatica
16 33 (0.59%) MuleSoft
17 31 (0.55%) Atlassian
18 30 (0.53%) F5
19 27 (0.48%) Foundry