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

6 months to
11 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 5,927 2,876 2,466
As % of all contract jobs in England 13.00% 10.41% 7.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.28% 11.46% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,942 1,953 1,710
10th Percentile £389 £362 £363
25th Percentile £460 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £535 £538
% change year-on-year +2.80% -0.47% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 62 66
10th Percentile £28.00 £28.59 £30.29
25th Percentile £36.25 £36.26 £54.30
Median hourly rate £62.50 £53.09 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +17.74% -13.82% +34.26%
75th Percentile £83.13 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £102.17 £78.63 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £53.09 £60.60
% change year-on-year +17.74% -12.40% +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 38,792 25,089 28,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.08% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,117 16,022 18,624
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £422
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 2,537 1,415 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -1.35%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 3,128 £563 -1.92% 2,200
North of England 0 869 £510 +2.00% 662
South East +8 767 £550 +2.42% 823
Midlands +1 533 £500 -4.76% 394
North West -1 434 £525 +5.00% 400
West Midlands +2 419 £500 -7.53% 262
Yorkshire +6 382 £500 +1.01% 185
South West +8 332 £550 +4.76% 274
East of England +7 182 £525 -4.55% 181
East Midlands +4 99 £500 +14.42% 129
North East -14 61 £478 -8.17% 81
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
1 334 (5.64%) Confluence
2 161 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 54 (0.91%) CMS
4 33 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (0.51%) Apache
6 26 (0.44%) SAS
7 22 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 17 (0.29%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.10%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.10%) WordPress
12 5 (0.084%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.084%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.067%) Appian
13 4 (0.067%) FactoryTalk
13 4 (0.067%) Kentico
13 4 (0.067%) Moodle
13 4 (0.067%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 252 (4.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 154 (2.60%) Microsoft Project
3 132 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
4 123 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 69 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.32%) Revit
7 17 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
8 16 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 16 (0.27%) Chatbot
9 11 (0.19%) Navisworks
10 10 (0.17%) Trello
11 6 (0.10%) ProjectWise
12 5 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 4 (0.067%) Adobe XD
13 4 (0.067%) Notion
14 3 (0.051%) Sketch
14 3 (0.051%) Windchill
15 2 (0.034%) Adobe Illustrator
15 2 (0.034%) CPLEX
15 2 (0.034%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 209 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 73 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 26 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 23 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 22 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
6 22 (0.37%) Workday HCM
7 21 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 21 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
8 20 (0.34%) SAP FI
9 18 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
10 17 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
11 16 (0.27%) Primavera
11 16 (0.27%) SAP CO
12 15 (0.25%) SAP ERP
12 15 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
13 14 (0.24%) Finacle
13 14 (0.24%) SAP SD
14 13 (0.22%) Aladdin
14 13 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,058 (17.85%) Azure
2 711 (12.00%) AWS
3 396 (6.68%) Power Platform
4 272 (4.59%) GCP
5 233 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
6 216 (3.64%) SaaS
7 158 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
8 138 (2.33%) Entra ID
9 122 (2.06%) Snowflake
10 118 (1.99%) GitHub
11 94 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
12 78 (1.32%) SuccessFactors
13 64 (1.08%) OCI
13 64 (1.08%) Serverless
14 60 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
15 59 (1.00%) Amazon S3
16 58 (0.98%) PowerApps
17 54 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
17 54 (0.91%) Power Automate
18 50 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 108 (1.82%) Firewall
1 108 (1.82%) Network Security
2 63 (1.06%) WAN
3 61 (1.03%) DNS
4 45 (0.76%) LAN
5 39 (0.66%) TCP/IP
5 39 (0.66%) VPN
6 34 (0.57%) SD-WAN
7 33 (0.56%) DHCP
8 24 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (0.39%) BGP
10 20 (0.34%) 4G
10 20 (0.34%) 5G
10 20 (0.34%) OSPF
11 16 (0.27%) Internet
11 16 (0.27%) MPLS
11 16 (0.27%) Wireless
12 15 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
13 13 (0.22%) 3G
13 13 (0.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 320 (5.40%) Power BI
2 158 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
3 122 (2.06%) Metadata
4 82 (1.38%) SQL Server
5 77 (1.30%) Data Lake
6 68 (1.15%) Tableau
7 56 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
8 45 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 44 (0.74%) Relational Database
10 39 (0.66%) Delta Lake
11 36 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
12 31 (0.52%) Oracle Database
13 29 (0.49%) BigQuery
14 27 (0.46%) Big Data
15 23 (0.39%) MongoDB
16 22 (0.37%) Looker
17 21 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
18 20 (0.34%) DynamoDB
18 20 (0.34%) MySQL
18 20 (0.34%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 609 (10.28%) JIRA
2 99 (1.67%) Git
3 86 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 60 (1.01%) GitLab
5 49 (0.83%) Selenium
6 31 (0.52%) JUnit
7 29 (0.49%) Cucumber
8 28 (0.47%) Postman
9 22 (0.37%) SonarQube
10 21 (0.35%) JMeter
11 16 (0.27%) Cypress.io
11 16 (0.27%) Gatling
11 16 (0.27%) Zephyr
12 15 (0.25%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.22%) Maven
13 13 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (0.19%) LoadRunner
15 9 (0.15%) Mockito
16 8 (0.13%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.13%) DbUnit
General
1 2,999 (50.60%) Social Skills
2 2,038 (34.39%) Finance
3 977 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 741 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 573 (9.67%) Banking
6 364 (6.14%) Retail
7 319 (5.38%) Influencing Skills
8 259 (4.37%) Legal
9 246 (4.15%) Organisational Skills
10 211 (3.56%) Marketing
11 206 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
12 185 (3.12%) Manufacturing
13 150 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
14 146 (2.46%) Telecoms
15 122 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 101 (1.70%) Local Government
17 94 (1.59%) Aerospace
18 86 (1.45%) Billing
19 83 (1.40%) Front Office
20 75 (1.27%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 874 (14.75%) Analyst
2 854 (14.41%) Lead
3 753 (12.70%) Project Manager
4 703 (11.86%) Architect
5 641 (10.81%) Senior
6 584 (9.85%) Business Analyst
7 358 (6.04%) Consultant
8 275 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
9 240 (4.05%) Senior Manager
10 180 (3.04%) Programme Manager
11 178 (3.00%) Delivery Manager
12 165 (2.78%) IT Manager
13 141 (2.38%) Product Manager
14 130 (2.19%) Developer
15 120 (2.02%) Senior Project Manager
16 118 (1.99%) Product Owner
17 116 (1.96%) Technical Manager
18 104 (1.75%) Senior Analyst
19 101 (1.70%) Data Analyst
20 100 (1.69%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (2.55%) REST
2 107 (1.81%) Middleware
3 87 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
4 71 (1.20%) SOAP
5 68 (1.15%) .NET
6 55 (0.93%) Kafka
7 47 (0.79%) JSON
8 46 (0.78%) PySpark
9 42 (0.71%) OAuth
10 41 (0.69%) React
11 40 (0.67%) SailPoint
12 38 (0.64%) HTML
12 38 (0.64%) Spring
13 34 (0.57%) CSS
13 34 (0.57%) XML
14 31 (0.52%) Web Services
15 29 (0.49%) Playwright
16 27 (0.46%) OpenID
17 26 (0.44%) Spring Boot
18 25 (0.42%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 457 (7.71%) Product Ownership
2 340 (5.74%) Onboarding
3 202 (3.41%) Cloud Native
4 174 (2.94%) Management Information System
5 168 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
6 130 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
7 124 (2.09%) Data Centre
8 108 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 104 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
10 96 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
11 92 (1.55%) Virtual Team
12 86 (1.45%) Operational Technology
13 82 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
14 81 (1.37%) AI Agents
15 78 (1.32%) Security Posture
16 74 (1.25%) NHS
17 63 (1.06%) CMDB
18 60 (1.01%) FMCG
19 59 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
20 50 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 181 (3.05%) Windows
2 105 (1.77%) Linux
3 44 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 41 (0.69%) Unix
5 27 (0.46%) Android
6 25 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (0.40%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.17%) VMS
10 5 (0.084%) Solaris
10 5 (0.084%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.067%) AIX
11 4 (0.067%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.067%) zOS
12 2 (0.034%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.034%) HPUX
12 2 (0.034%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,919 (32.38%) Agile
2 1,040 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 951 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
4 902 (15.22%) Roadmaps
5 823 (13.89%) Migration
6 792 (13.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 747 (12.60%) Decision-Making
8 730 (12.32%) Project Management
9 709 (11.96%) DevOps
10 689 (11.62%) AI
11 683 (11.52%) Project Delivery
12 648 (10.93%) Analytics
13 610 (10.29%) Change Management
14 590 (9.95%) Risk Management
15 534 (9.01%) CI/CD
16 530 (8.94%) Workshop Facilitation
17 505 (8.52%) User Acceptance Testing
18 485 (8.18%) Cybersecurity
19 473 (7.98%) Validation
20 467 (7.88%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 493 (8.32%) SQL
2 348 (5.87%) Python
3 132 (2.23%) Java
4 101 (1.70%) PowerShell
5 99 (1.67%) JavaScript
6 55 (0.93%) C#
7 44 (0.74%) Bash
8 29 (0.49%) Bicep
9 26 (0.44%) TypeScript
10 24 (0.40%) Korn
11 22 (0.37%) ABAP
12 20 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 19 (0.32%) R
14 18 (0.30%) PL/SQL
14 18 (0.30%) VBA
15 16 (0.27%) T-SQL
16 15 (0.25%) Shell Script
17 12 (0.20%) Apex Code
18 9 (0.15%) Go
18 9 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,170 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 854 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 414 (6.98%) Degree
4 286 (4.83%) PMP
5 246 (4.15%) PMI Certification
6 219 (3.69%) DV Cleared
7 170 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 138 (2.33%) CISSP
9 106 (1.79%) CISM
10 103 (1.74%) Azure Certification
11 69 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
12 60 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
13 59 (1.00%) AWS Certification
14 56 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
15 43 (0.73%) Master's Degree
16 41 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 38 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
18 37 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 36 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
20 34 (0.57%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 381 (6.43%) Data Quality
2 332 (5.60%) QA
3 288 (4.86%) PMO
4 215 (3.63%) GDPR
5 150 (2.53%) NIST
6 146 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 129 (2.18%) Accessibility
8 104 (1.75%) GRC
9 91 (1.54%) SLA
10 50 (0.84%) NCSC
11 43 (0.73%) WCAG
12 37 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 31 (0.52%) SOC 2
14 29 (0.49%) COBIT
15 22 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
15 22 (0.37%) IFRS
15 22 (0.37%) PCI DSS
16 17 (0.29%) ISO 20022
17 16 (0.27%) JSP 440
17 16 (0.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 140 (2.36%) Active Directory
2 129 (2.18%) Docker
3 59 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 17 (0.29%) vSphere
7 13 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (0.20%) NFS
9 10 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 10 (0.17%) Postfix
10 6 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.067%) SRDF
11 4 (0.067%) Varnish
12 3 (0.051%) HDFS
12 3 (0.051%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.034%) Ceph
13 2 (0.034%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.034%) FreeRADIUS
13 2 (0.034%) KVM
Systems Management
1 191 (3.22%) Terraform
2 175 (2.95%) Kubernetes
3 87 (1.47%) Ansible
4 57 (0.96%) Grafana
5 45 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 43 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 28 (0.47%) SCCM
9 17 (0.29%) Argo
10 10 (0.17%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.15%) Control-M
11 9 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.15%) Puppet
12 7 (0.12%) HP ALM
12 7 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.084%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.084%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.084%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.067%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 856 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 471 (7.95%) SAP
3 317 (5.35%) Oracle
4 308 (5.20%) ServiceNow
5 226 (3.81%) Salesforce
6 156 (2.63%) Databricks
7 118 (1.99%) Google
8 95 (1.60%) VMware
9 89 (1.50%) Workday
10 64 (1.08%) Cisco
11 56 (0.94%) Adobe
12 54 (0.91%) IBM
13 51 (0.86%) CyberArk
14 40 (0.67%) Splunk
15 37 (0.62%) MuleSoft
16 34 (0.57%) Ariba
17 33 (0.56%) Atlassian
18 32 (0.54%) Informatica
19 30 (0.51%) F5
20 29 (0.49%) Foundry