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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 6,761 2,911 2,486
As % of all contract jobs in England 14.60% 10.47% 7.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.20% 11.53% 8.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,475 1,973 1,619
10th Percentile £388 £360 £363
25th Percentile £456 £438 £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 £744 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 62 73
10th Percentile £21.08 £28.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £33.70 £33.00 £42.88
Median hourly rate £57.50 £48.25 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.17% -21.67% +27.01%
75th Percentile £80.00 £68.87 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.85 £78.63 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £59.75 £47.50 £60.60
% change year-on-year +25.79% -21.62% +21.30%

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 39,304 25,245 28,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.83% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,151 16,024 17,695
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £650
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 2,693 1,483 1,349
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.31 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.22
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +11 3,558 £561 +1.82% 2,109
North of England +4 1,019 £500 - 563
South East +9 870 £550 +4.76% 859
Midlands +4 578 £500 -4.76% 363
North West +2 530 £525 +5.00% 332
West Midlands +7 462 £500 -7.66% 256
Yorkshire +7 428 £500 - 171
South West +8 373 £550 +4.76% 283
East of England +9 213 £525 -4.55% 179
East Midlands -3 101 £500 +14.42% 107
North East -5 70 £490 +1.03% 64
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
1 345 (5.10%) Confluence
2 182 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 64 (0.95%) CMS
4 45 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (0.49%) Apache
6 28 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 21 (0.31%) SAS
8 20 (0.30%) Apache Spark
9 12 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 8 (0.12%) WordPress
11 7 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.089%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.074%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.074%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
13 5 (0.074%) Sitecore CMS
14 4 (0.059%) CICS
14 4 (0.059%) Kentico
14 4 (0.059%) Moodle
Applications
1 312 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 165 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 163 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
4 151 (2.23%) Microsoft Project
5 69 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.34%) Revit
7 18 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 17 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
9 15 (0.22%) Chatbot
10 14 (0.21%) Navisworks
11 10 (0.15%) Trello
12 8 (0.12%) ProjectWise
13 6 (0.089%) Windchill
14 5 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 4 (0.059%) Adobe XD
15 4 (0.059%) Notion
16 3 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
16 3 (0.044%) CPLEX
16 3 (0.044%) Photoshop
16 3 (0.044%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 233 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 86 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 30 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 27 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 26 (0.38%) Workday HCM
7 24 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 24 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
8 23 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
9 19 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
10 17 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 17 (0.25%) SAP FI
10 17 (0.25%) SAP SD
11 16 (0.24%) Aladdin
11 16 (0.24%) Primavera
11 16 (0.24%) SAP ERP
12 15 (0.22%) SAP HR
12 15 (0.22%) SAP MDG
13 14 (0.21%) Finacle
13 14 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,247 (18.44%) Azure
2 835 (12.35%) AWS
3 504 (7.45%) Power Platform
4 323 (4.78%) GCP
5 270 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
6 246 (3.64%) SaaS
7 205 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
8 166 (2.46%) Entra ID
9 154 (2.28%) GitHub
10 142 (2.10%) Snowflake
11 125 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
12 90 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
13 87 (1.29%) Serverless
14 75 (1.11%) PowerApps
15 74 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
16 72 (1.06%) Power Automate
17 71 (1.05%) OCI
18 66 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
19 62 (0.92%) Amazon S3
20 60 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 127 (1.88%) Network Security
2 126 (1.86%) Firewall
3 76 (1.12%) WAN
4 66 (0.98%) DNS
5 49 (0.72%) LAN
6 42 (0.62%) VPN
7 40 (0.59%) TCP/IP
8 39 (0.58%) DHCP
9 38 (0.56%) SD-WAN
10 28 (0.41%) 4G
10 28 (0.41%) 5G
10 28 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (0.40%) BGP
12 24 (0.35%) Wireless
13 20 (0.30%) Broadband
14 19 (0.28%) Internet
14 19 (0.28%) MPLS
15 17 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
16 16 (0.24%) OSPF
16 16 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (5.83%) Power BI
2 187 (2.77%) Metadata
3 185 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
4 111 (1.64%) SQL Server
5 85 (1.26%) Data Lake
6 78 (1.15%) Tableau
7 68 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
8 50 (0.74%) Delta Lake
8 50 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 49 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 43 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
11 40 (0.59%) MongoDB
12 36 (0.53%) BigQuery
13 32 (0.47%) Oracle Database
14 29 (0.43%) Looker
14 29 (0.43%) NoSQL
15 25 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
16 24 (0.35%) Big Data
16 24 (0.35%) DynamoDB
17 23 (0.34%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 646 (9.55%) JIRA
2 118 (1.75%) Git
3 91 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 71 (1.05%) GitLab
5 57 (0.84%) Selenium
6 31 (0.46%) Cucumber
7 30 (0.44%) JUnit
8 29 (0.43%) Postman
9 25 (0.37%) SonarQube
10 22 (0.33%) Gatling
11 18 (0.27%) Cypress.io
11 18 (0.27%) Zephyr
12 17 (0.25%) JMeter
13 14 (0.21%) Maven
14 12 (0.18%) LoadRunner
15 11 (0.16%) ERwin
15 11 (0.16%) Mockito
15 11 (0.16%) WebDriver
16 10 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
17 9 (0.13%) REST Assured
General
1 3,556 (52.60%) Social Skills
2 2,260 (33.43%) Finance
3 1,134 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
4 848 (12.54%) Public Sector
5 669 (9.89%) Banking
6 406 (6.01%) Retail
7 393 (5.81%) Influencing Skills
8 304 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
9 281 (4.16%) Legal
10 237 (3.51%) Marketing
11 230 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
12 228 (3.37%) Manufacturing
13 181 (2.68%) Telecoms
14 180 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
15 137 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 119 (1.76%) Aerospace
17 110 (1.63%) Local Government
18 99 (1.46%) Front Office
19 94 (1.39%) Billing
20 85 (1.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 987 (14.60%) Analyst
2 943 (13.95%) Lead
3 884 (13.07%) Architect
4 780 (11.54%) Project Manager
5 708 (10.47%) Senior
6 636 (9.41%) Business Analyst
7 434 (6.42%) Consultant
8 302 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
9 243 (3.59%) Senior Manager
10 193 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
11 186 (2.75%) Programme Manager
12 178 (2.63%) IT Manager
13 159 (2.35%) Product Manager
14 154 (2.28%) Developer
15 130 (1.92%) Technical Manager
16 126 (1.86%) Product Owner
17 122 (1.80%) Senior Analyst
18 114 (1.69%) Senior Project Manager
19 113 (1.67%) Data Analyst
20 112 (1.66%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (3.48%) Terraform
2 176 (2.60%) REST
3 119 (1.76%) Middleware
4 92 (1.36%) .NET
5 85 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
6 78 (1.15%) Kafka
7 72 (1.06%) SOAP
8 60 (0.89%) PySpark
9 58 (0.86%) OAuth
10 55 (0.81%) JSON
11 53 (0.78%) React
12 49 (0.72%) Spring
13 46 (0.68%) HTML
14 43 (0.64%) LDAP
14 43 (0.64%) XML
15 41 (0.61%) CSS
16 40 (0.59%) Playwright
16 40 (0.59%) SailPoint
17 38 (0.56%) OpenID
17 38 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 516 (7.63%) Product Ownership
2 394 (5.83%) Onboarding
3 264 (3.90%) Cloud Native
4 214 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 163 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
6 159 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 152 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
8 136 (2.01%) Data Centre
9 115 (1.70%) Data Structures
10 108 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
11 106 (1.57%) Operational Technology
12 103 (1.52%) AI Agents
13 102 (1.51%) Virtual Team
14 98 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
15 87 (1.29%) Security Posture
16 84 (1.24%) CMDB
17 80 (1.18%) NHS
18 73 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
19 70 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
20 63 (0.93%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 210 (3.11%) Windows
2 130 (1.92%) Linux
3 61 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 46 (0.68%) Unix
5 24 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.27%) Android
7 16 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.21%) VMS
8 14 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.10%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.10%) zOS
11 5 (0.074%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.059%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.044%) CentOS
13 3 (0.044%) Solaris
14 2 (0.030%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.030%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,147 (31.76%) Agile
2 1,225 (18.12%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,131 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
4 1,093 (16.17%) Roadmaps
5 933 (13.80%) Migration
6 905 (13.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 887 (13.12%) Decision-Making
8 855 (12.65%) AI
9 814 (12.04%) Project Management
10 799 (11.82%) DevOps
11 791 (11.70%) Project Delivery
12 763 (11.29%) Analytics
13 696 (10.29%) Change Management
14 667 (9.87%) Risk Management
15 658 (9.73%) Workshop Facilitation
16 625 (9.24%) CI/CD
17 562 (8.31%) User Acceptance Testing
18 560 (8.28%) Cybersecurity
19 553 (8.18%) Requirements Gathering
20 545 (8.06%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 599 (8.86%) SQL
2 424 (6.27%) Python
3 170 (2.51%) Java
4 132 (1.95%) PowerShell
5 122 (1.80%) JavaScript
6 78 (1.15%) C#
7 62 (0.92%) Bash
8 46 (0.68%) TypeScript
9 39 (0.58%) Bicep
10 31 (0.46%) Korn
11 26 (0.38%) ABAP
12 25 (0.37%) R
13 24 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 23 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 22 (0.33%) T-SQL
16 19 (0.28%) VBA
17 15 (0.22%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.21%) Apex Code
18 14 (0.21%) Go
19 10 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,367 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 996 (14.73%) SC Cleared
3 455 (6.73%) Degree
4 314 (4.64%) PMP
5 276 (4.08%) PMI Certification
6 262 (3.88%) DV Cleared
7 220 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 158 (2.34%) CISSP
9 124 (1.83%) CISM
10 118 (1.75%) Azure Certification
11 82 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
12 78 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 78 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
13 70 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
14 50 (0.74%) Master's Degree
15 49 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
16 46 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 45 (0.67%) ACCA
17 45 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 43 (0.64%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 501 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 389 (5.75%) QA
3 325 (4.81%) PMO
4 218 (3.22%) GDPR
5 178 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 170 (2.51%) NIST
7 159 (2.35%) Accessibility
8 125 (1.85%) GRC
9 93 (1.38%) SLA
10 57 (0.84%) WCAG
11 55 (0.81%) NCSC
12 29 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 28 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
14 25 (0.37%) IFRS
15 23 (0.34%) COBIT
16 22 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
16 22 (0.33%) ISO 20022
16 22 (0.33%) SOC 2
17 21 (0.31%) PCI DSS
18 18 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 174 (2.57%) Active Directory
2 151 (2.23%) Docker
3 66 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 24 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.33%) vSphere
7 21 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 15 (0.22%) Hyper-V
9 14 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (0.16%) NFS
11 7 (0.10%) Postfix
12 6 (0.089%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.059%) Time Sharing Option
14 3 (0.044%) Ceph
14 3 (0.044%) IAG
14 3 (0.044%) KVM
14 3 (0.044%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.044%) Varnish
14 3 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.030%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 221 (3.27%) Kubernetes
2 103 (1.52%) Ansible
3 62 (0.92%) Grafana
4 44 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 40 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.46%) SCCM
8 17 (0.25%) Argo
9 11 (0.16%) Control-M
10 10 (0.15%) Kibana
10 10 (0.15%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.12%) HP ALM
12 7 (0.10%) Puppet
12 7 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.089%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.089%) WMI
14 5 (0.074%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.074%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.074%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.074%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,109 (16.40%) Microsoft
2 518 (7.66%) SAP
3 371 (5.49%) Oracle
4 345 (5.10%) ServiceNow
5 245 (3.62%) Salesforce
6 211 (3.12%) Databricks
7 134 (1.98%) Google
8 99 (1.46%) VMware
9 93 (1.38%) Workday
10 81 (1.20%) Cisco
11 71 (1.05%) CyberArk
12 57 (0.84%) Adobe
13 54 (0.80%) IBM
13 54 (0.80%) Splunk
14 46 (0.68%) Ariba
15 42 (0.62%) Informatica
16 39 (0.58%) MuleSoft
17 29 (0.43%) Atlassian
17 29 (0.43%) F5
17 29 (0.43%) Foundry