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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,994 2,892 2,465
As % of all contract jobs in England 13.15% 10.46% 7.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.46% 11.52% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,982 1,972 1,704
10th Percentile £390 £358 £363
25th Percentile £460 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 62 66
10th Percentile £28.00 £28.59 £30.29
25th Percentile £36.14 £35.70 £54.30
Median hourly rate £62.25 £51.84 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.09% -15.85% +34.26%
75th Percentile £83.06 £72.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £77.38 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £51.84 £60.60
% change year-on-year +20.57% -14.46% +31.91%

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 38,759 25,103 28,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.06% 90.80% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,089 16,021 18,628
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
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 £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,424 1,656
10th Percentile £14.55 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -39.40% -1.55%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 3,172 £563 -0.71% 1,949
North of England 0 872 £507 +1.30% 563
South East +9 777 £550 +4.76% 804
Midlands +1 533 £500 -4.76% 351
North West -1 440 £525 +5.00% 325
West Midlands +2 416 £500 -4.76% 227
Yorkshire +5 378 £500 +1.01% 165
South West +9 338 £550 +4.76% 266
East of England +8 182 £525 -4.55% 168
East Midlands +4 102 £500 +19.12% 121
North East -14 62 £475 -8.65% 76
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
1 335 (5.59%) Confluence
2 159 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 53 (0.88%) CMS
4 33 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (0.50%) Apache
6 27 (0.45%) SAS
7 22 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 17 (0.28%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.10%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.10%) WordPress
12 5 (0.083%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.083%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.083%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.067%) Appian
13 4 (0.067%) FactoryTalk
13 4 (0.067%) Kentico
13 4 (0.067%) Moodle
14 3 (0.050%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 256 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 153 (2.55%) Microsoft Project
3 136 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
4 129 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 69 (1.15%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.32%) Revit
7 16 (0.27%) AutoCAD
7 16 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 16 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.18%) Navisworks
9 10 (0.17%) Trello
10 6 (0.10%) ProjectWise
11 5 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.067%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.067%) Notion
13 3 (0.050%) Sketch
13 3 (0.050%) Windchill
14 2 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.033%) CPLEX
14 2 (0.033%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 213 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 74 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 26 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 26 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 24 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 22 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
6 22 (0.37%) Workday HCM
7 21 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 20 (0.33%) SAP FI
9 19 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
10 18 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
11 17 (0.28%) Primavera
12 16 (0.27%) SAP CO
12 16 (0.27%) SAP ERP
13 15 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
13 15 (0.25%) SAP SD
14 14 (0.23%) Finacle
15 13 (0.22%) Aladdin
15 13 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,085 (18.10%) Azure
2 730 (12.18%) AWS
3 406 (6.77%) Power Platform
4 285 (4.75%) GCP
5 238 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
6 219 (3.65%) SaaS
7 159 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
8 140 (2.34%) Entra ID
9 129 (2.15%) Snowflake
10 121 (2.02%) GitHub
11 95 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
12 76 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
13 63 (1.05%) OCI
13 63 (1.05%) Serverless
14 60 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
15 59 (0.98%) PowerApps
16 57 (0.95%) Amazon S3
17 55 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
18 54 (0.90%) Power Automate
19 53 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 113 (1.89%) Network Security
2 110 (1.84%) Firewall
3 65 (1.08%) WAN
4 63 (1.05%) DNS
5 47 (0.78%) LAN
6 39 (0.65%) TCP/IP
6 39 (0.65%) VPN
7 34 (0.57%) DHCP
7 34 (0.57%) SD-WAN
8 25 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (0.38%) BGP
10 22 (0.37%) 4G
10 22 (0.37%) 5G
11 20 (0.33%) OSPF
12 18 (0.30%) Wireless
13 17 (0.28%) Internet
13 17 (0.28%) MPLS
14 15 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
15 14 (0.23%) 3G
15 14 (0.23%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 328 (5.47%) Power BI
2 164 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
3 126 (2.10%) Metadata
4 84 (1.40%) SQL Server
5 81 (1.35%) Data Lake
6 69 (1.15%) Tableau
7 62 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
8 49 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 44 (0.73%) Relational Database
10 39 (0.65%) Delta Lake
11 37 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
12 31 (0.52%) Oracle Database
13 30 (0.50%) BigQuery
14 28 (0.47%) Big Data
15 26 (0.43%) MongoDB
16 24 (0.40%) Looker
17 22 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
17 22 (0.37%) NoSQL
18 21 (0.35%) MySQL
18 21 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 613 (10.23%) JIRA
2 98 (1.63%) Git
3 88 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 58 (0.97%) GitLab
5 49 (0.82%) Selenium
6 30 (0.50%) JUnit
7 28 (0.47%) Postman
8 27 (0.45%) Cucumber
9 21 (0.35%) JMeter
9 21 (0.35%) SonarQube
10 16 (0.27%) Cypress.io
10 16 (0.27%) Zephyr
11 15 (0.25%) Gatling
11 15 (0.25%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.22%) Maven
12 13 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (0.18%) LoadRunner
14 10 (0.17%) ERwin
15 9 (0.15%) Mockito
16 8 (0.13%) DbUnit
General
1 3,043 (50.77%) Social Skills
2 2,054 (34.27%) Finance
3 997 (16.63%) Analytical Skills
4 748 (12.48%) Public Sector
5 578 (9.64%) Banking
6 368 (6.14%) Retail
7 322 (5.37%) Influencing Skills
8 258 (4.30%) Legal
9 246 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
10 216 (3.60%) Marketing
11 212 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
12 191 (3.19%) Manufacturing
13 153 (2.55%) Telecoms
14 149 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
15 123 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 101 (1.69%) Local Government
17 96 (1.60%) Aerospace
18 87 (1.45%) Billing
19 85 (1.42%) Front Office
20 73 (1.22%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 880 (14.68%) Analyst
2 867 (14.46%) Lead
3 760 (12.68%) Project Manager
4 714 (11.91%) Architect
5 647 (10.79%) Senior
6 590 (9.84%) Business Analyst
7 361 (6.02%) Consultant
8 273 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
9 241 (4.02%) Senior Manager
10 181 (3.02%) Delivery Manager
10 181 (3.02%) Programme Manager
11 166 (2.77%) IT Manager
12 146 (2.44%) Product Manager
13 133 (2.22%) Developer
14 119 (1.99%) Senior Project Manager
14 119 (1.99%) Technical Manager
15 117 (1.95%) Product Owner
16 105 (1.75%) Senior Analyst
17 102 (1.70%) Designer
18 100 (1.67%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (2.59%) REST
2 107 (1.79%) Middleware
3 87 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
4 73 (1.22%) SOAP
5 68 (1.13%) .NET
6 62 (1.03%) Kafka
7 48 (0.80%) JSON
7 48 (0.80%) PySpark
8 44 (0.73%) OAuth
9 42 (0.70%) React
10 40 (0.67%) SailPoint
11 38 (0.63%) HTML
11 38 (0.63%) Spring
12 35 (0.58%) XML
13 34 (0.57%) CSS
14 32 (0.53%) Web Services
15 29 (0.48%) Playwright
16 28 (0.47%) OpenID
16 28 (0.47%) Spring Boot
17 25 (0.42%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 458 (7.64%) Product Ownership
2 339 (5.66%) Onboarding
3 211 (3.52%) Cloud Native
4 171 (2.85%) Management Information System
5 166 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
6 135 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
7 124 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 109 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 107 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
10 99 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
11 93 (1.55%) Virtual Team
12 86 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
13 85 (1.42%) Operational Technology
14 81 (1.35%) AI Agents
14 81 (1.35%) Security Posture
15 73 (1.22%) NHS
16 64 (1.07%) CMDB
17 61 (1.02%) FMCG
18 60 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
19 53 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 185 (3.09%) Windows
2 109 (1.82%) Linux
3 46 (0.77%) Windows Server
4 43 (0.72%) Unix
5 28 (0.47%) Android
6 25 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 25 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.17%) VMS
9 5 (0.083%) Solaris
9 5 (0.083%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.067%) AIX
10 4 (0.067%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.067%) zOS
11 2 (0.033%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.033%) HPUX
11 2 (0.033%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,948 (32.50%) Agile
2 1,052 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 966 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
4 921 (15.37%) Roadmaps
5 833 (13.90%) Migration
6 795 (13.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 749 (12.50%) Decision-Making
8 742 (12.38%) Project Management
9 722 (12.05%) DevOps
10 702 (11.71%) AI
11 698 (11.64%) Project Delivery
12 659 (10.99%) Analytics
13 616 (10.28%) Change Management
14 586 (9.78%) Risk Management
15 548 (9.14%) CI/CD
16 542 (9.04%) Workshop Facilitation
17 510 (8.51%) User Acceptance Testing
18 486 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
19 476 (7.94%) Validation
20 472 (7.87%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 501 (8.36%) SQL
2 359 (5.99%) Python
3 137 (2.29%) Java
4 107 (1.79%) PowerShell
5 101 (1.69%) JavaScript
6 55 (0.92%) C#
7 46 (0.77%) Bash
8 31 (0.52%) Bicep
9 30 (0.50%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.43%) Korn
11 22 (0.37%) ABAP
12 20 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 19 (0.32%) R
14 18 (0.30%) PL/SQL
14 18 (0.30%) VBA
15 16 (0.27%) Shell Script
15 16 (0.27%) T-SQL
16 14 (0.23%) Apex Code
17 11 (0.18%) Go
18 9 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,185 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 869 (14.50%) SC Cleared
3 411 (6.86%) Degree
4 288 (4.80%) PMP
5 248 (4.14%) PMI Certification
6 218 (3.64%) DV Cleared
7 170 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 135 (2.25%) CISSP
9 106 (1.77%) Azure Certification
10 105 (1.75%) CISM
11 69 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
12 61 (1.02%) AWS Certification
13 60 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
14 57 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
15 42 (0.70%) Master's Degree
16 41 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 40 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
18 37 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 36 (0.60%) ISTQB
20 34 (0.57%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 377 (6.29%) Data Quality
2 329 (5.49%) QA
3 288 (4.80%) PMO
4 213 (3.55%) GDPR
5 147 (2.45%) NIST
6 145 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 128 (2.14%) Accessibility
8 102 (1.70%) GRC
9 90 (1.50%) SLA
10 48 (0.80%) NCSC
11 41 (0.68%) WCAG
12 37 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 30 (0.50%) SOC 2
14 26 (0.43%) COBIT
15 23 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
16 21 (0.35%) IFRS
17 20 (0.33%) PCI DSS
18 18 (0.30%) ISO 20022
19 16 (0.27%) JSP 440
19 16 (0.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 140 (2.34%) Active Directory
2 126 (2.10%) Docker
3 62 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (0.33%) VMware NSX
6 18 (0.30%) vSphere
7 14 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (0.20%) NFS
9 11 (0.18%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.17%) Postfix
11 6 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.067%) SRDF
12 4 (0.067%) Varnish
13 3 (0.050%) Ceph
13 3 (0.050%) HDFS
13 3 (0.050%) KVM
13 3 (0.050%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.033%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 197 (3.29%) Terraform
2 180 (3.00%) Kubernetes
3 91 (1.52%) Ansible
4 60 (1.00%) Grafana
5 45 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 44 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 35 (0.58%) Prometheus
8 28 (0.47%) SCCM
9 17 (0.28%) Argo
10 10 (0.17%) Control-M
10 10 (0.17%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.15%) Puppet
12 8 (0.13%) HP ALM
13 7 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 6 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.083%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.083%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.083%) RSA Archer
16 4 (0.067%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 877 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 474 (7.91%) SAP
3 329 (5.49%) Oracle
4 311 (5.19%) ServiceNow
5 227 (3.79%) Salesforce
6 162 (2.70%) Databricks
7 120 (2.00%) Google
8 96 (1.60%) VMware
9 87 (1.45%) Workday
10 69 (1.15%) Cisco
11 56 (0.93%) Adobe
12 54 (0.90%) CyberArk
12 54 (0.90%) IBM
13 44 (0.73%) Splunk
14 36 (0.60%) MuleSoft
15 35 (0.58%) Informatica
16 34 (0.57%) Ariba
17 33 (0.55%) Atlassian
18 31 (0.52%) F5
19 29 (0.48%) Foundry