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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 6,326 2,863 2,488
As % of all contract jobs in England 13.85% 10.39% 7.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.33% 11.44% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,189 1,947 1,689
10th Percentile £386 £358 £363
25th Percentile £456 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -
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 189 66 66
10th Percentile £25.48 £28.25 £31.33
25th Percentile £35.00 £35.60 £53.75
Median hourly rate £59.50 £49.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -19.24% +23.30%
75th Percentile £80.00 £71.40 £75.00
90th Percentile £101.18 £76.88 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £50.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +20.50% -16.67% +16.69%

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 38,747 25,016 28,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.80% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,944 15,923 18,325
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,477 1,517
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.23 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.80 £17.87 £18.13
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 £81.05 £69.79 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.26% -37.90% -4.71%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +11 3,336 £563 +0.90% 1,196
North of England +3 945 £503 +0.50% 389
South East +9 826 £550 +4.76% 365
Midlands +4 546 £500 -4.58% 253
North West +1 493 £525 +5.00% 226
West Midlands +4 426 £500 -4.76% 178
Yorkshire +6 397 £500 +1.01% 118
South West +9 341 £550 +4.76% 270
East of England +10 202 £525 -4.55% 117
East Midlands 0 103 £500 +24.22% 74
North East -9 63 £490 +1.03% 47
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
1 343 (5.42%) Confluence
2 171 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 57 (0.90%) CMS
4 40 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (0.49%) Apache
6 25 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 20 (0.32%) SAS
8 19 (0.30%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.095%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.095%) WordPress
12 5 (0.079%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.079%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.063%) Appian
13 4 (0.063%) FactoryTalk
13 4 (0.063%) Kentico
13 4 (0.063%) Moodle
13 4 (0.063%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 284 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 151 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
3 149 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 147 (2.32%) Microsoft Project
5 70 (1.11%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.32%) Revit
7 17 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 16 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 16 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 11 (0.17%) Navisworks
10 9 (0.14%) Trello
11 6 (0.095%) ProjectWise
11 6 (0.095%) Windchill
12 5 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 4 (0.063%) Adobe XD
13 4 (0.063%) Notion
14 3 (0.047%) Sketch
15 2 (0.032%) Adobe Illustrator
15 2 (0.032%) EPLAN
15 2 (0.032%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 224 (3.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 82 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 25 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
5 25 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 25 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 22 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
7 20 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 20 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 18 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 17 (0.27%) Aladdin
9 17 (0.27%) Primavera
9 17 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 17 (0.27%) SAP ERP
9 17 (0.27%) SAP SD
10 14 (0.22%) Finacle
10 14 (0.22%) SAP CO
11 13 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
11 13 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,184 (18.72%) Azure
2 780 (12.33%) AWS
3 455 (7.19%) Power Platform
4 310 (4.90%) GCP
5 265 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
6 227 (3.59%) SaaS
7 180 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
8 156 (2.47%) Entra ID
9 138 (2.18%) Snowflake
10 137 (2.17%) GitHub
11 111 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
12 77 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
13 76 (1.20%) Serverless
14 75 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
15 67 (1.06%) OCI
16 66 (1.04%) PowerApps
17 61 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
17 61 (0.96%) Power Automate
18 58 (0.92%) Amazon S3
19 57 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 123 (1.94%) Firewall
1 123 (1.94%) Network Security
2 74 (1.17%) WAN
3 65 (1.03%) DNS
4 48 (0.76%) LAN
5 44 (0.70%) VPN
6 42 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 37 (0.58%) SD-WAN
8 36 (0.57%) DHCP
9 29 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
10 27 (0.43%) BGP
11 25 (0.40%) 4G
11 25 (0.40%) 5G
12 23 (0.36%) Wireless
13 19 (0.30%) Internet
13 19 (0.30%) OSPF
14 17 (0.27%) MPLS
15 16 (0.25%) Broadband
16 14 (0.22%) 3G
16 14 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 364 (5.75%) Power BI
2 172 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
3 159 (2.51%) Metadata
4 97 (1.53%) SQL Server
5 82 (1.30%) Data Lake
6 78 (1.23%) Tableau
7 62 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
8 49 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
8 49 (0.77%) Relational Database
9 46 (0.73%) Delta Lake
10 40 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
11 33 (0.52%) BigQuery
12 32 (0.51%) Oracle Database
13 30 (0.47%) MongoDB
14 26 (0.41%) NoSQL
15 25 (0.40%) Big Data
16 24 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
16 24 (0.38%) Looker
17 20 (0.32%) MySQL
17 20 (0.32%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 633 (10.01%) JIRA
2 107 (1.69%) Git
3 83 (1.31%) Jenkins
4 61 (0.96%) GitLab
5 53 (0.84%) Selenium
6 30 (0.47%) Postman
7 27 (0.43%) Cucumber
7 27 (0.43%) JUnit
8 25 (0.40%) SonarQube
9 21 (0.33%) Gatling
10 19 (0.30%) JMeter
10 19 (0.30%) Zephyr
11 18 (0.28%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.19%) LoadRunner
12 12 (0.19%) Maven
12 12 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
12 12 (0.19%) WebDriver
13 11 (0.17%) ERwin
14 9 (0.14%) REST Assured
15 8 (0.13%) MSI
General
1 3,265 (51.61%) Social Skills
2 2,151 (34.00%) Finance
3 1,051 (16.61%) Analytical Skills
4 782 (12.36%) Public Sector
5 623 (9.85%) Banking
6 386 (6.10%) Retail
7 355 (5.61%) Influencing Skills
8 272 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
9 264 (4.17%) Legal
10 221 (3.49%) Marketing
11 214 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
12 201 (3.18%) Manufacturing
13 164 (2.59%) Telecoms
14 162 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
15 128 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 105 (1.66%) Aerospace
17 101 (1.60%) Local Government
18 92 (1.45%) Front Office
19 91 (1.44%) Billing
20 76 (1.20%) Law
Job Titles
1 927 (14.65%) Analyst
2 907 (14.34%) Lead
3 785 (12.41%) Architect
4 764 (12.08%) Project Manager
5 668 (10.56%) Senior
6 600 (9.48%) Business Analyst
7 408 (6.45%) Consultant
8 280 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
9 239 (3.78%) Senior Manager
10 185 (2.92%) Programme Manager
11 180 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
12 167 (2.64%) IT Manager
13 153 (2.42%) Product Manager
14 138 (2.18%) Developer
15 125 (1.98%) Technical Manager
16 122 (1.93%) Product Owner
17 117 (1.85%) Senior Project Manager
18 114 (1.80%) Senior Analyst
19 108 (1.71%) Designer
20 107 (1.69%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (3.41%) Terraform
2 165 (2.61%) REST
3 117 (1.85%) Middleware
4 86 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
5 78 (1.23%) .NET
6 72 (1.14%) SOAP
7 67 (1.06%) Kafka
8 54 (0.85%) PySpark
9 51 (0.81%) OAuth
10 50 (0.79%) JSON
11 47 (0.74%) React
12 41 (0.65%) HTML
12 41 (0.65%) Spring
13 39 (0.62%) SailPoint
14 38 (0.60%) CSS
14 38 (0.60%) XML
15 36 (0.57%) Playwright
16 32 (0.51%) OpenID
16 32 (0.51%) Web Services
17 30 (0.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 487 (7.70%) Product Ownership
2 359 (5.67%) Onboarding
3 241 (3.81%) Cloud Native
4 183 (2.89%) Management Information System
5 168 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
6 142 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
7 128 (2.02%) Data Centre
8 126 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
9 116 (1.83%) Data Structures
10 97 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
11 96 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
12 94 (1.49%) AI Agents
13 93 (1.47%) Virtual Team
14 91 (1.44%) Operational Technology
15 84 (1.33%) Security Posture
16 78 (1.23%) NHS
17 74 (1.17%) CMDB
18 64 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
18 64 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
19 63 (1.00%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 187 (2.96%) Windows
2 119 (1.88%) Linux
3 53 (0.84%) Windows Server
4 44 (0.70%) Unix
5 24 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (0.32%) Android
7 17 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.22%) VMS
10 10 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.079%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.063%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.063%) zOS
14 3 (0.047%) CentOS
14 3 (0.047%) Solaris
14 3 (0.047%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.032%) AIX
15 2 (0.032%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,029 (32.07%) Agile
2 1,135 (17.94%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,032 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
4 988 (15.62%) Roadmaps
5 890 (14.07%) Migration
6 845 (13.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 799 (12.63%) Decision-Making
8 781 (12.35%) AI
9 778 (12.30%) Project Management
10 772 (12.20%) DevOps
11 754 (11.92%) Project Delivery
12 711 (11.24%) Analytics
13 652 (10.31%) Change Management
14 620 (9.80%) Risk Management
15 605 (9.56%) Workshop Facilitation
16 586 (9.26%) CI/CD
17 538 (8.50%) User Acceptance Testing
18 526 (8.31%) Cybersecurity
19 507 (8.01%) Requirements Gathering
20 504 (7.97%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 554 (8.76%) SQL
2 386 (6.10%) Python
3 153 (2.42%) Java
4 120 (1.90%) PowerShell
5 111 (1.75%) JavaScript
6 65 (1.03%) C#
7 56 (0.89%) Bash
8 36 (0.57%) Bicep
9 35 (0.55%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.43%) Korn
11 23 (0.36%) ABAP
11 23 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 23 (0.36%) R
12 20 (0.32%) VBA
13 17 (0.27%) PL/SQL
13 17 (0.27%) T-SQL
14 14 (0.22%) Apex Code
14 14 (0.22%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.19%) Go
16 10 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,268 (20.04%) Security Cleared
2 928 (14.67%) SC Cleared
3 431 (6.81%) Degree
4 298 (4.71%) PMP
5 256 (4.05%) PMI Certification
6 231 (3.65%) DV Cleared
7 189 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 143 (2.26%) CISSP
9 113 (1.79%) CISM
10 111 (1.75%) Azure Certification
11 77 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
12 69 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
13 67 (1.06%) AWS Certification
14 62 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
15 47 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 46 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
17 44 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 41 (0.65%) ACCA
18 41 (0.65%) CIMA
18 41 (0.65%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 437 (6.91%) Data Quality
2 365 (5.77%) QA
3 307 (4.85%) PMO
4 218 (3.45%) GDPR
5 154 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 152 (2.40%) NIST
7 145 (2.29%) Accessibility
8 118 (1.87%) GRC
9 90 (1.42%) SLA
10 53 (0.84%) NCSC
11 46 (0.73%) WCAG
12 31 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 26 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
13 26 (0.41%) SOC 2
14 24 (0.38%) IFRS
15 23 (0.36%) COBIT
16 22 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
17 21 (0.33%) PCI DSS
18 17 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 17 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 157 (2.48%) Active Directory
2 136 (2.15%) Docker
3 62 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.30%) vSphere
8 14 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 12 (0.19%) NFS
10 8 (0.13%) Postfix
11 6 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.063%) Varnish
13 3 (0.047%) Ceph
13 3 (0.047%) KVM
13 3 (0.047%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.032%) FreeRADIUS
14 2 (0.032%) SRDF
14 2 (0.032%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 195 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 94 (1.49%) Ansible
3 59 (0.93%) Grafana
4 41 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 39 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
6 34 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.49%) SCCM
8 17 (0.27%) Argo
9 11 (0.17%) Control-M
10 10 (0.16%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.14%) HP ALM
12 8 (0.13%) Puppet
13 7 (0.11%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.11%) Kibana
13 7 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 6 (0.095%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.079%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.079%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.079%) RSA Archer
15 5 (0.079%) WMI
Vendors
1 992 (15.68%) Microsoft
2 495 (7.82%) SAP
3 341 (5.39%) Oracle
4 324 (5.12%) ServiceNow
5 237 (3.75%) Salesforce
6 193 (3.05%) Databricks
7 133 (2.10%) Google
8 92 (1.45%) VMware
9 90 (1.42%) Workday
10 76 (1.20%) Cisco
11 58 (0.92%) CyberArk
12 55 (0.87%) Adobe
13 54 (0.85%) IBM
14 47 (0.74%) Splunk
15 42 (0.66%) Ariba
16 36 (0.57%) Informatica
16 36 (0.57%) MuleSoft
17 33 (0.52%) Atlassian
18 31 (0.49%) F5
19 29 (0.46%) Foundry