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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,262 2,721 2,728
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.77% 10.08% 7.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.76% 11.11% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,523 1,850 1,962
10th Percentile £381 £356 £358
25th Percentile £456 £431 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £534
% change year-on-year +2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 62 79
10th Percentile £25.00 £31.64 £18.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £41.78 £40.63
Median hourly rate £61.50 £54.01 £61.06
Median % change year-on-year +13.88% -11.55% +15.27%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £103.90 £78.63 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +14.95% -10.83% +12.53%

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 38,237 24,502 31,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.52% 90.81% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,096 15,746 20,754
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,381 1,253 2,276
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.07%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.01 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.37 £70.16 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +7 2,722 £558 -3.00% 1,248
North of England -1 758 £500 - 422
South East +6 697 £550 +4.76% 595
Midlands +1 522 £500 -0.10% 249
North West +1 388 £504 +0.70% 236
West Midlands -1 380 £500 -4.76% 152
Yorkshire +4 335 £500 +1.52% 145
South West +11 296 £550 +4.76% 185
East of England +11 160 £525 -4.55% 112
East Midlands +9 133 £481 +9.38% 95
North East -19 43 £478 +6.11% 43
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
1 306 (5.82%) Confluence
2 143 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 58 (1.10%) CMS
4 34 (0.65%) SAS
5 24 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 19 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.25%) Apache
8 11 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.15%) Appian
9 8 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
10 7 (0.13%) Apache Spark
10 7 (0.13%) WordPress
11 6 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.095%) Kentico
12 5 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.076%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.057%) Oracle Coherence
14 3 (0.057%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
15 2 (0.038%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.038%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 229 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 144 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
3 128 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
4 115 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 71 (1.35%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 12 (0.23%) Revit
9 10 (0.19%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.076%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.076%) Sketch
11 3 (0.057%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.057%) Notion
11 3 (0.057%) Trello
12 2 (0.038%) EngageOne
12 2 (0.038%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.038%) Windchill
13 1 (0.019%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.019%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 184 (3.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 24 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 22 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 21 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
8 18 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
9 17 (0.32%) Aladdin
9 17 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
9 17 (0.32%) Workday HCM
10 15 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
11 14 (0.27%) Finacle
11 14 (0.27%) SAP SD
12 13 (0.25%) SAP FI
12 13 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
13 12 (0.23%) Primavera
13 12 (0.23%) SAP ERP
14 10 (0.19%) Loan IQ
14 10 (0.19%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 859 (16.32%) Azure
2 594 (11.29%) AWS
3 321 (6.10%) Power Platform
4 215 (4.09%) GCP
5 188 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 183 (3.48%) SaaS
7 125 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
8 103 (1.96%) Entra ID
9 93 (1.77%) GitHub
10 87 (1.65%) Snowflake
11 70 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
12 59 (1.12%) OCI
13 58 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
14 55 (1.05%) Amazon S3
15 49 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
15 49 (0.93%) Serverless
16 47 (0.89%) PowerApps
17 45 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
18 44 (0.84%) Power Automate
19 43 (0.82%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 94 (1.79%) Firewall
2 92 (1.75%) Network Security
3 66 (1.25%) WAN
4 51 (0.97%) LAN
5 46 (0.87%) DNS
6 36 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 32 (0.61%) VPN
8 31 (0.59%) TCP/IP
9 28 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (0.42%) BGP
10 22 (0.42%) DHCP
11 20 (0.38%) OSPF
12 16 (0.30%) MPLS
13 15 (0.29%) BIG-IP
13 15 (0.29%) Wireless
14 14 (0.27%) SAN
15 13 (0.25%) NGFW
15 13 (0.25%) VLAN
16 12 (0.23%) 5G
16 12 (0.23%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (4.94%) Power BI
2 116 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
3 98 (1.86%) Metadata
4 65 (1.24%) Data Lake
5 61 (1.16%) SQL Server
5 61 (1.16%) Tableau
6 44 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (0.72%) Relational Database
8 35 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 31 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 28 (0.53%) Oracle Database
10 28 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
11 23 (0.44%) NoSQL
12 22 (0.42%) Big Data
13 21 (0.40%) Delta Lake
13 21 (0.40%) DynamoDB
14 15 (0.29%) BigQuery
14 15 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
14 15 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 14 (0.27%) Looker
Development Applications
1 562 (10.68%) JIRA
2 85 (1.62%) Jenkins
3 75 (1.43%) Git
4 43 (0.82%) GitLab
5 35 (0.67%) Selenium
6 29 (0.55%) JUnit
7 24 (0.46%) Postman
8 16 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 15 (0.29%) JMeter
9 15 (0.29%) SonarQube
10 14 (0.27%) Maven
11 13 (0.25%) Mockito
12 11 (0.21%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.21%) WebDriver
13 10 (0.19%) DbUnit
13 10 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (0.19%) Zephyr
14 9 (0.17%) jMock
15 8 (0.15%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,642 (50.21%) Social Skills
2 1,874 (35.61%) Finance
3 824 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
4 636 (12.09%) Public Sector
5 475 (9.03%) Banking
6 315 (5.99%) Retail
7 275 (5.23%) Influencing Skills
8 237 (4.50%) Legal
9 199 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
10 193 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
11 180 (3.42%) Marketing
12 155 (2.95%) Manufacturing
13 128 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
14 124 (2.36%) Telecoms
15 96 (1.82%) Local Government
16 89 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 77 (1.46%) Aerospace
18 74 (1.41%) Billing
19 73 (1.39%) Financial Institution
20 72 (1.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 807 (15.34%) Analyst
2 746 (14.18%) Lead
3 725 (13.78%) Project Manager
4 616 (11.71%) Architect
5 555 (10.55%) Senior
6 543 (10.32%) Business Analyst
7 263 (5.00%) Consultant
8 238 (4.52%) Senior Manager
9 229 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
10 180 (3.42%) Programme Manager
11 170 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
12 164 (3.12%) IT Manager
13 124 (2.36%) Product Manager
14 122 (2.32%) Senior Project Manager
15 110 (2.09%) Product Owner
16 98 (1.86%) Change Manager
17 94 (1.79%) Developer
17 94 (1.79%) Technical Manager
18 88 (1.67%) Data Analyst
19 87 (1.65%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (2.38%) REST
2 91 (1.73%) Middleware
3 85 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
4 65 (1.24%) SOAP
5 56 (1.06%) .NET
6 43 (0.82%) JSON
7 37 (0.70%) Kafka
8 36 (0.68%) OAuth
8 36 (0.68%) PySpark
9 33 (0.63%) SailPoint
10 31 (0.59%) AngularJS
10 31 (0.59%) CSS
10 31 (0.59%) OpenID
10 31 (0.59%) SAML
10 31 (0.59%) Spring
11 29 (0.55%) XML
12 28 (0.53%) HTML
12 28 (0.53%) React
12 28 (0.53%) Web Services
13 27 (0.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 384 (7.30%) Product Ownership
2 283 (5.38%) Onboarding
3 171 (3.25%) Cloud Native
4 154 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
5 141 (2.68%) Management Information System
6 125 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
7 112 (2.13%) Data Centre
8 96 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 93 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 84 (1.60%) Virtual Team
11 72 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
12 70 (1.33%) NHS
13 69 (1.31%) Operational Technology
14 65 (1.24%) Security Posture
15 61 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
16 51 (0.97%) AI Agents
16 51 (0.97%) CMDB
16 51 (0.97%) Public Cloud
16 51 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
17 47 (0.89%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 158 (3.00%) Windows
2 83 (1.58%) Linux
3 33 (0.63%) Android
4 31 (0.59%) Unix
5 28 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 27 (0.51%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.13%) VMS
10 6 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.095%) Solaris
11 5 (0.095%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.076%) AIX
12 4 (0.076%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.076%) zOS
13 3 (0.057%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.038%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.038%) HPUX
15 1 (0.019%) MVS
15 1 (0.019%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,719 (32.67%) Agile
2 881 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
3 833 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
4 736 (13.99%) Migration
5 732 (13.91%) Roadmaps
6 727 (13.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 681 (12.94%) Project Management
8 622 (11.82%) Decision-Making
9 614 (11.67%) DevOps
10 580 (11.02%) Change Management
11 573 (10.89%) Project Delivery
12 539 (10.24%) AI
13 535 (10.17%) Analytics
14 522 (9.92%) Risk Management
15 469 (8.91%) User Acceptance Testing
16 432 (8.21%) CI/CD
16 432 (8.21%) Validation
17 425 (8.08%) Workshop Facilitation
18 417 (7.92%) ITIL
19 405 (7.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 422 (8.02%) SQL
2 299 (5.68%) Python
3 103 (1.96%) Java
4 77 (1.46%) PowerShell
5 55 (1.05%) JavaScript
6 52 (0.99%) C#
7 31 (0.59%) Bash
8 23 (0.44%) Bicep
8 23 (0.44%) VBA
9 21 (0.40%) Korn
9 21 (0.40%) TypeScript
10 20 (0.38%) ABAP
11 17 (0.32%) PL/SQL
12 13 (0.25%) R
12 13 (0.25%) T-SQL
13 12 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 12 (0.23%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.15%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,040 (19.76%) Security Cleared
2 778 (14.79%) SC Cleared
3 385 (7.32%) Degree
4 269 (5.11%) PMP
5 235 (4.47%) PMI Certification
6 162 (3.08%) DV Cleared
7 146 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 114 (2.17%) CISSP
9 87 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 78 (1.48%) CISM
11 57 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 51 (0.97%) AWS Certification
13 49 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
14 47 (0.89%) Master's Degree
15 35 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
16 34 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
17 32 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 30 (0.57%) ACCA
19 28 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 28 (0.53%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 305 (5.80%) Data Quality
2 289 (5.49%) QA
3 257 (4.88%) PMO
4 221 (4.20%) GDPR
5 156 (2.96%) NIST
6 144 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 97 (1.84%) GRC
8 86 (1.63%) Accessibility
8 86 (1.63%) SLA
9 53 (1.01%) NCSC
10 43 (0.82%) PCI DSS
11 38 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 32 (0.61%) COBIT
12 32 (0.61%) SOC 2
13 27 (0.51%) IFRS
14 21 (0.40%) WCAG
15 19 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
16 18 (0.34%) JSP 440
17 16 (0.30%) Solvency II
18 14 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 104 (1.98%) Docker
2 89 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 41 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.27%) VMware NSX
6 13 (0.25%) NFS
7 12 (0.23%) Postfix
8 11 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.15%) vSphere
10 4 (0.076%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.076%) SRDF
10 4 (0.076%) Varnish
11 3 (0.057%) HDFS
11 3 (0.057%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.057%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.038%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.038%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.019%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 145 (2.76%) Kubernetes
2 143 (2.72%) Terraform
3 77 (1.46%) Ansible
4 53 (1.01%) Grafana
5 38 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.38%) SCCM
8 14 (0.27%) Argo
9 10 (0.19%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.15%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.13%) RSA Archer
11 7 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 6 (0.11%) Puppet
12 6 (0.11%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.095%) Control-M
13 5 (0.095%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.076%) EMC VPLEX
14 4 (0.076%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 678 (12.88%) Microsoft
2 424 (8.06%) SAP
3 291 (5.53%) Oracle
4 280 (5.32%) ServiceNow
5 206 (3.91%) Salesforce
6 107 (2.03%) Databricks
7 103 (1.96%) Google
8 81 (1.54%) VMware
9 75 (1.43%) Workday
10 59 (1.12%) Cisco
11 50 (0.95%) Adobe
12 49 (0.93%) CyberArk
13 43 (0.82%) Splunk
14 37 (0.70%) Ariba
15 33 (0.63%) MuleSoft
16 32 (0.61%) IBM
16 32 (0.61%) Informatica
17 31 (0.59%) F5
18 26 (0.49%) IFS
19 25 (0.48%) Foundry