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

6 months to
2 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 6,479 2,848 2,513
As % of all contract jobs in England 14.21% 10.40% 7.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.74% 11.46% 8.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,288 1,933 1,678
10th Percentile £390 £358 £363
25th Percentile £459 £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% -2.37% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 61 72
10th Percentile £23.58 £28.25 £32.53
25th Percentile £34.02 £33.00 £49.53
Median hourly rate £59.00 £49.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.41% -20.45% +30.54%
75th Percentile £80.00 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £99.84 £77.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £48.25 £60.83
% change year-on-year +24.87% -20.68% +25.42%

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 38,700 24,856 28,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.77% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,864 15,818 18,112
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,605 1,463 1,438
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.56
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 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 2 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 2 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 3,417 £563 +0.45% 3,631
North of England +4 971 £505 +1.00% 908
South East +8 835 £550 +3.58% 1,063
Midlands +4 556 £500 -4.76% 467
North West +1 508 £525 +5.00% 555
West Midlands +6 438 £500 -4.76% 312
Yorkshire +8 407 £500 +1.01% 259
South West +8 355 £550 +4.76% 471
East of England +10 205 £525 -4.55% 268
East Midlands -2 102 £500 +16.01% 153
North East -9 64 £480 -1.03% 100
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 (5.32%) Confluence
2 177 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 63 (0.97%) CMS
4 43 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (0.48%) Apache
6 26 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 21 (0.32%) SAS
8 20 (0.31%) Apache Spark
9 12 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.11%) Headless CMS
10 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.093%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.093%) WordPress
12 5 (0.077%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.077%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.077%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.062%) Appian
13 4 (0.062%) FactoryTalk
13 4 (0.062%) Kentico
13 4 (0.062%) Moodle
Applications
1 293 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 160 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 156 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
4 147 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
5 71 (1.10%) MS Visio
6 21 (0.32%) Revit
7 18 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 17 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 16 (0.25%) Chatbot
10 12 (0.19%) Navisworks
11 9 (0.14%) Trello
12 7 (0.11%) ProjectWise
13 6 (0.093%) Windchill
14 5 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 4 (0.062%) Adobe XD
15 4 (0.062%) Notion
16 3 (0.046%) Adobe Illustrator
16 3 (0.046%) CPLEX
16 3 (0.046%) Photoshop
16 3 (0.046%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 226 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 82 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 27 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
5 26 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 23 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 22 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 20 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
9 19 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 19 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
10 18 (0.28%) Aladdin
11 17 (0.26%) SAP FI
11 17 (0.26%) SAP SD
12 16 (0.25%) Primavera
12 16 (0.25%) SAP ERP
13 15 (0.23%) SAP MDG
14 14 (0.22%) Finacle
15 13 (0.20%) SAP Payroll
15 13 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,216 (18.77%) Azure
2 807 (12.46%) AWS
3 473 (7.30%) Power Platform
4 312 (4.82%) GCP
5 268 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
6 236 (3.64%) SaaS
7 194 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
8 164 (2.53%) Entra ID
9 146 (2.25%) GitHub
10 141 (2.18%) Snowflake
11 113 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
12 84 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
13 82 (1.27%) Serverless
14 71 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
15 70 (1.08%) PowerApps
16 68 (1.05%) OCI
17 66 (1.02%) Power Automate
18 62 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
19 59 (0.91%) Amazon S3
19 59 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 127 (1.96%) Firewall
2 126 (1.94%) Network Security
3 77 (1.19%) WAN
4 66 (1.02%) DNS
5 50 (0.77%) LAN
6 44 (0.68%) VPN
7 42 (0.65%) TCP/IP
8 38 (0.59%) DHCP
8 38 (0.59%) SD-WAN
9 29 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
10 28 (0.43%) BGP
11 27 (0.42%) 4G
11 27 (0.42%) 5G
12 24 (0.37%) Wireless
13 19 (0.29%) Internet
13 19 (0.29%) MPLS
14 18 (0.28%) Broadband
14 18 (0.28%) OSPF
15 16 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
15 16 (0.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 375 (5.79%) Power BI
2 178 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
2 178 (2.75%) Metadata
3 101 (1.56%) SQL Server
4 84 (1.30%) Data Lake
5 79 (1.22%) Tableau
6 64 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
7 49 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 48 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 47 (0.73%) Delta Lake
10 41 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
11 34 (0.52%) BigQuery
11 34 (0.52%) MongoDB
12 31 (0.48%) Oracle Database
13 27 (0.42%) Looker
13 27 (0.42%) NoSQL
14 25 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
15 24 (0.37%) Big Data
16 22 (0.34%) DynamoDB
17 21 (0.32%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 633 (9.77%) JIRA
2 112 (1.73%) Git
3 87 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 65 (1.00%) GitLab
5 52 (0.80%) Selenium
6 29 (0.45%) Postman
7 28 (0.43%) Cucumber
8 27 (0.42%) JUnit
9 25 (0.39%) SonarQube
10 22 (0.34%) Gatling
11 18 (0.28%) Cypress.io
11 18 (0.28%) Zephyr
12 17 (0.26%) JMeter
13 12 (0.19%) LoadRunner
13 12 (0.19%) Maven
14 11 (0.17%) ERwin
14 11 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (0.17%) WebDriver
15 9 (0.14%) Mockito
15 9 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 3,384 (52.23%) Social Skills
2 2,181 (33.66%) Finance
3 1,087 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
4 808 (12.47%) Public Sector
5 640 (9.88%) Banking
6 395 (6.10%) Retail
7 375 (5.79%) Influencing Skills
8 280 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
9 267 (4.12%) Legal
10 223 (3.44%) Marketing
11 222 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
12 212 (3.27%) Manufacturing
13 175 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
14 173 (2.67%) Telecoms
15 130 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 110 (1.70%) Aerospace
17 107 (1.65%) Local Government
18 96 (1.48%) Front Office
19 93 (1.44%) Billing
20 80 (1.23%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 952 (14.69%) Analyst
2 910 (14.05%) Lead
3 827 (12.76%) Architect
4 759 (11.71%) Project Manager
5 682 (10.53%) Senior
6 614 (9.48%) Business Analyst
7 418 (6.45%) Consultant
8 287 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
9 237 (3.66%) Senior Manager
10 185 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
11 183 (2.82%) Programme Manager
12 171 (2.64%) IT Manager
13 154 (2.38%) Product Manager
14 142 (2.19%) Developer
15 124 (1.91%) Technical Manager
16 122 (1.88%) Product Owner
17 118 (1.82%) Senior Analyst
18 114 (1.76%) Senior Project Manager
19 110 (1.70%) Designer
20 109 (1.68%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (3.47%) Terraform
2 169 (2.61%) REST
3 116 (1.79%) Middleware
4 86 (1.33%) .NET
5 85 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
6 71 (1.10%) Kafka
6 71 (1.10%) SOAP
7 58 (0.90%) PySpark
8 53 (0.82%) JSON
8 53 (0.82%) OAuth
9 48 (0.74%) React
10 43 (0.66%) Spring
11 42 (0.65%) HTML
12 40 (0.62%) SailPoint
12 40 (0.62%) XML
13 39 (0.60%) CSS
14 37 (0.57%) Playwright
15 35 (0.54%) LDAP
16 33 (0.51%) OpenID
17 32 (0.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 490 (7.56%) Product Ownership
2 371 (5.73%) Onboarding
3 251 (3.87%) Cloud Native
4 191 (2.95%) Management Information System
5 162 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 151 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
7 147 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 130 (2.01%) Data Centre
9 114 (1.76%) Data Structures
10 99 (1.53%) AI Agents
10 99 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
10 99 (1.53%) Operational Technology
11 98 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
12 94 (1.45%) Virtual Team
13 85 (1.31%) Security Posture
14 79 (1.22%) NHS
15 78 (1.20%) CMDB
16 68 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
17 66 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
18 64 (0.99%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 201 (3.10%) Windows
2 127 (1.96%) Linux
3 58 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 46 (0.71%) Unix
5 25 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.28%) Android
7 16 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.22%) VMS
10 10 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.077%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.077%) zOS
13 4 (0.062%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.062%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.062%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.046%) CentOS
14 3 (0.046%) Solaris
15 2 (0.031%) AIX
15 2 (0.031%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,073 (32.00%) Agile
2 1,175 (18.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,063 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
4 1,031 (15.91%) Roadmaps
5 907 (14.00%) Migration
6 884 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 836 (12.90%) Decision-Making
8 823 (12.70%) AI
9 796 (12.29%) Project Management
10 783 (12.09%) DevOps
11 763 (11.78%) Project Delivery
12 728 (11.24%) Analytics
13 676 (10.43%) Change Management
14 637 (9.83%) Risk Management
15 630 (9.72%) Workshop Facilitation
16 602 (9.29%) CI/CD
17 546 (8.43%) User Acceptance Testing
18 542 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
19 529 (8.16%) Requirements Gathering
20 524 (8.09%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 573 (8.84%) SQL
2 409 (6.31%) Python
3 159 (2.45%) Java
4 130 (2.01%) PowerShell
5 115 (1.77%) JavaScript
6 71 (1.10%) C#
7 63 (0.97%) Bash
8 38 (0.59%) TypeScript
9 37 (0.57%) Bicep
10 27 (0.42%) Korn
11 26 (0.40%) ABAP
12 23 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 23 (0.35%) R
13 20 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 19 (0.29%) T-SQL
14 19 (0.29%) VBA
15 16 (0.25%) Apex Code
15 16 (0.25%) Shell Script
16 14 (0.22%) Go
17 10 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,298 (20.03%) Security Cleared
2 948 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 437 (6.74%) Degree
4 304 (4.69%) PMP
5 265 (4.09%) PMI Certification
6 245 (3.78%) DV Cleared
7 194 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 150 (2.32%) CISSP
9 120 (1.85%) CISM
10 117 (1.81%) Azure Certification
11 81 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
12 75 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
13 73 (1.13%) AWS Certification
14 68 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
15 48 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
16 47 (0.73%) Master's Degree
17 44 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 44 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 43 (0.66%) ACCA
19 42 (0.65%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 454 (7.01%) Data Quality
2 367 (5.66%) QA
3 313 (4.83%) PMO
4 215 (3.32%) GDPR
5 167 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 160 (2.47%) NIST
7 152 (2.35%) Accessibility
8 122 (1.88%) GRC
9 93 (1.44%) SLA
10 53 (0.82%) NCSC
10 53 (0.82%) WCAG
11 30 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 26 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
13 24 (0.37%) IFRS
13 24 (0.37%) SOC 2
14 23 (0.35%) COBIT
15 22 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
15 22 (0.34%) PCI DSS
16 19 (0.29%) ISO 20022
17 17 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 166 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 142 (2.19%) Docker
3 66 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 21 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 20 (0.31%) vSphere
8 15 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 14 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 12 (0.19%) NFS
11 8 (0.12%) Postfix
12 6 (0.093%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.062%) Varnish
14 3 (0.046%) Ceph
14 3 (0.046%) KVM
14 3 (0.046%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.046%) Time Sharing Option
14 3 (0.046%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.031%) FreeRADIUS
15 2 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 204 (3.15%) Kubernetes
2 98 (1.51%) Ansible
3 59 (0.91%) Grafana
4 43 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.48%) SCCM
8 17 (0.26%) Argo
9 11 (0.17%) Control-M
10 10 (0.15%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.12%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.12%) Kibana
11 8 (0.12%) Puppet
12 7 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.093%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.093%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.077%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.077%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.077%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.077%) WMI
Vendors
1 1,043 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 499 (7.70%) SAP
3 350 (5.40%) Oracle
4 330 (5.09%) ServiceNow
5 241 (3.72%) Salesforce
6 201 (3.10%) Databricks
7 133 (2.05%) Google
8 98 (1.51%) VMware
9 90 (1.39%) Workday
10 78 (1.20%) Cisco
11 62 (0.96%) CyberArk
12 57 (0.88%) Adobe
13 52 (0.80%) Splunk
14 51 (0.79%) IBM
15 44 (0.68%) Ariba
16 38 (0.59%) Informatica
17 37 (0.57%) MuleSoft
18 30 (0.46%) Atlassian
18 30 (0.46%) F5
18 30 (0.46%) Foundry