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

6 months to
11 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 6,828 2,920 2,516
As % of all contract jobs in England 14.72% 10.50% 7.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.34% 11.55% 8.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,514 1,981 1,629
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 £649 £650 £638
90th Percentile £741 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £549 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.48% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 63 73
10th Percentile £21.08 £28.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £33.70 £33.00 £42.88
Median hourly rate £58.50 £47.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +23.16% -22.89% +23.30%
75th Percentile £80.00 £67.58 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.68 £78.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £59.75 £47.49 £60.60
% change year-on-year +25.82% -21.64% +17.85%

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 39,380 25,274 28,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.84% 85.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,176 16,039 17,819
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £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 2,707 1,489 1,353
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.33 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -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% +3.61%

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 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 11 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 11 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 +12 3,589 £560 +1.36% 2,094
North of England +4 1,028 £500 - 557
South East +8 878 £550 +4.76% 869
Midlands +3 586 £500 -4.76% 355
North West +3 536 £525 +5.00% 331
West Midlands +7 468 £500 -7.53% 252
Yorkshire +7 431 £500 - 167
South West +7 376 £550 +4.76% 283
East of England +8 217 £525 -4.55% 180
East Midlands +1 103 £500 +14.35% 103
North East -4 70 £490 -5.77% 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
1 350 (5.13%) Confluence
2 189 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 64 (0.94%) CMS
4 47 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 34 (0.50%) Apache
6 29 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 21 (0.31%) SAS
8 20 (0.29%) 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 (0.088%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.073%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.073%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.073%) Oracle Workflow
13 5 (0.073%) Sitecore CMS
14 4 (0.059%) Appian
14 4 (0.059%) FactoryTalk
14 4 (0.059%) Kentico
Applications
1 313 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 167 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 162 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
4 148 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
5 70 (1.03%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.34%) Revit
7 18 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 17 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
9 16 (0.23%) Chatbot
10 14 (0.21%) Navisworks
11 10 (0.15%) Trello
12 8 (0.12%) ProjectWise
13 6 (0.088%) Windchill
14 5 (0.073%) 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
1 237 (3.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 87 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 30 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 27 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 27 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 24 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
7 23 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 23 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
8 19 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 19 (0.28%) SAP ERP
9 17 (0.25%) Aladdin
9 17 (0.25%) SAP FI
9 17 (0.25%) SAP HR
9 17 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
9 17 (0.25%) SAP SD
10 16 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 15 (0.22%) SAP MDG
12 14 (0.21%) Finacle
12 14 (0.21%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,260 (18.45%) Azure
2 840 (12.30%) AWS
3 516 (7.56%) Power Platform
4 332 (4.86%) GCP
5 276 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
6 246 (3.60%) SaaS
7 212 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
8 169 (2.48%) Entra ID
9 160 (2.34%) GitHub
10 142 (2.08%) Snowflake
11 127 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
12 95 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
13 90 (1.32%) Serverless
14 78 (1.14%) PowerApps
15 77 (1.13%) Power Automate
16 76 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
17 71 (1.04%) OCI
18 66 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
19 63 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
20 62 (0.91%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 128 (1.87%) Network Security
2 126 (1.85%) Firewall
3 76 (1.11%) WAN
4 68 (1.00%) DNS
5 49 (0.72%) LAN
6 44 (0.64%) VPN
7 42 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 41 (0.60%) DHCP
9 38 (0.56%) SD-WAN
10 28 (0.41%) 4G
10 28 (0.41%) 5G
10 28 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
11 26 (0.38%) BGP
12 25 (0.37%) Wireless
13 20 (0.29%) Broadband
14 19 (0.28%) Internet
14 19 (0.28%) MPLS
15 16 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
15 16 (0.23%) SAN
16 15 (0.22%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 402 (5.89%) Power BI
2 189 (2.77%) Metadata
3 188 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
4 112 (1.64%) SQL Server
5 89 (1.30%) Data Lake
6 78 (1.14%) Tableau
7 68 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
8 50 (0.73%) Delta Lake
8 50 (0.73%) Relational Database
9 49 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 43 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
11 40 (0.59%) MongoDB
12 39 (0.57%) BigQuery
13 32 (0.47%) Oracle Database
14 31 (0.45%) NoSQL
15 29 (0.42%) Looker
16 25 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
16 25 (0.37%) Big Data
17 24 (0.35%) DynamoDB
18 23 (0.34%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 653 (9.56%) JIRA
2 123 (1.80%) Git
3 95 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 74 (1.08%) GitLab
5 57 (0.83%) Selenium
6 31 (0.45%) Cucumber
7 30 (0.44%) JUnit
8 29 (0.42%) Postman
9 26 (0.38%) SonarQube
10 22 (0.32%) Gatling
11 18 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 18 (0.26%) 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 3,604 (52.78%) Social Skills
2 2,270 (33.25%) Finance
3 1,148 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
4 857 (12.55%) Public Sector
5 674 (9.87%) Banking
6 407 (5.96%) Retail
7 396 (5.80%) Influencing Skills
8 307 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
9 283 (4.14%) Legal
10 237 (3.47%) Marketing
11 230 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
11 230 (3.37%) Manufacturing
12 184 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
13 181 (2.65%) Telecoms
14 138 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 120 (1.76%) Aerospace
16 111 (1.63%) Local Government
17 103 (1.51%) Front Office
18 93 (1.36%) Billing
19 86 (1.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 996 (14.59%) Analyst
2 949 (13.90%) Lead
3 902 (13.21%) Architect
4 784 (11.48%) Project Manager
5 714 (10.46%) Senior
6 642 (9.40%) Business Analyst
7 441 (6.46%) Consultant
8 305 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
9 245 (3.59%) Senior Manager
10 194 (2.84%) Delivery Manager
11 184 (2.69%) Programme Manager
12 180 (2.64%) IT Manager
13 161 (2.36%) Product Manager
14 155 (2.27%) Developer
15 132 (1.93%) Technical Manager
16 128 (1.87%) Product Owner
17 125 (1.83%) Senior Analyst
18 114 (1.67%) Senior Project Manager
19 113 (1.65%) Data Analyst
20 111 (1.63%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (3.54%) Terraform
2 180 (2.64%) REST
3 121 (1.77%) Middleware
4 94 (1.38%) .NET
5 83 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
6 81 (1.19%) Kafka
7 73 (1.07%) SOAP
8 61 (0.89%) PySpark
9 60 (0.88%) OAuth
10 57 (0.83%) JSON
11 54 (0.79%) React
12 50 (0.73%) Spring
13 46 (0.67%) HTML
14 44 (0.64%) LDAP
14 44 (0.64%) XML
15 41 (0.60%) CSS
16 40 (0.59%) Playwright
16 40 (0.59%) SailPoint
17 39 (0.57%) OpenID
17 39 (0.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 526 (7.70%) Product Ownership
2 399 (5.84%) Onboarding
3 267 (3.91%) Cloud Native
4 217 (3.18%) Management Information System
5 168 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
6 160 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
7 159 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
8 136 (1.99%) Data Centre
9 116 (1.70%) Data Structures
10 111 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
11 106 (1.55%) AI Agents
11 106 (1.55%) Operational Technology
12 105 (1.54%) Virtual Team
13 98 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
14 87 (1.27%) Security Posture
15 83 (1.22%) CMDB
16 80 (1.17%) NHS
17 73 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
18 70 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
19 63 (0.92%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 212 (3.10%) Windows
2 131 (1.92%) Linux
3 61 (0.89%) Windows Server
4 46 (0.67%) Unix
5 24 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.26%) Android
7 16 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.21%) VMS
10 10 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.10%) zOS
12 5 (0.073%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.059%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.044%) CentOS
14 3 (0.044%) Solaris
15 2 (0.029%) Data ONTAP
15 2 (0.029%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,164 (31.69%) Agile
2 1,235 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,153 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
4 1,105 (16.18%) Roadmaps
5 948 (13.88%) Migration
6 910 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 890 (13.03%) Decision-Making
8 869 (12.73%) AI
9 818 (11.98%) DevOps
10 817 (11.97%) Project Management
11 799 (11.70%) Project Delivery
12 768 (11.25%) Analytics
13 705 (10.33%) Change Management
14 676 (9.90%) Risk Management
15 665 (9.74%) Workshop Facilitation
16 641 (9.39%) CI/CD
17 572 (8.38%) User Acceptance Testing
18 566 (8.29%) Cybersecurity
19 561 (8.22%) Requirements Gathering
20 543 (7.95%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 609 (8.92%) SQL
2 436 (6.39%) Python
3 179 (2.62%) Java
4 137 (2.01%) PowerShell
5 125 (1.83%) JavaScript
6 79 (1.16%) C#
7 65 (0.95%) Bash
8 47 (0.69%) TypeScript
9 40 (0.59%) Bicep
10 31 (0.45%) ABAP
10 31 (0.45%) Korn
11 25 (0.37%) R
12 24 (0.35%) PL/SQL
13 23 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 22 (0.32%) T-SQL
15 19 (0.28%) VBA
16 15 (0.22%) Go
16 15 (0.22%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.21%) Apex Code
18 10 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,381 (20.23%) Security Cleared
2 1,005 (14.72%) SC Cleared
3 456 (6.68%) Degree
4 316 (4.63%) PMP
5 277 (4.06%) PMI Certification
6 264 (3.87%) DV Cleared
7 223 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 159 (2.33%) CISSP
9 124 (1.82%) CISM
10 119 (1.74%) Azure Certification
11 83 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
12 80 (1.17%) AWS Certification
13 78 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
14 73 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
15 52 (0.76%) Master's Degree
16 49 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
17 46 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 46 (0.67%) ACCA
18 45 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 43 (0.63%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 506 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 390 (5.71%) QA
3 324 (4.75%) PMO
4 219 (3.21%) GDPR
5 180 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 172 (2.52%) NIST
7 159 (2.33%) Accessibility
8 125 (1.83%) GRC
9 92 (1.35%) SLA
10 59 (0.86%) WCAG
11 55 (0.81%) NCSC
12 29 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 28 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
14 25 (0.37%) IFRS
15 23 (0.34%) COBIT
15 23 (0.34%) ISO 20022
16 22 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
17 21 (0.31%) PCI DSS
17 21 (0.31%) SOC 2
18 18 (0.26%) GxP
System Software
1 178 (2.61%) Active Directory
2 155 (2.27%) Docker
3 66 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 25 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.34%) vSphere
6 22 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 15 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.16%) NFS
10 7 (0.10%) Postfix
11 6 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.059%) Time Sharing Option
13 3 (0.044%) Ceph
13 3 (0.044%) Firmware
13 3 (0.044%) IAG
13 3 (0.044%) KVM
13 3 (0.044%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.044%) Varnish
13 3 (0.044%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 227 (3.32%) Kubernetes
2 105 (1.54%) Ansible
3 62 (0.91%) Grafana
4 46 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 41 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 32 (0.47%) SCCM
8 17 (0.25%) Argo
9 12 (0.18%) 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 (0.088%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.088%) WMI
14 5 (0.073%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.073%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.073%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.073%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,128 (16.52%) Microsoft
2 529 (7.75%) SAP
3 372 (5.45%) Oracle
4 346 (5.07%) ServiceNow
5 246 (3.60%) Salesforce
6 212 (3.10%) Databricks
7 141 (2.07%) Google
8 101 (1.48%) VMware
9 97 (1.42%) Workday
10 82 (1.20%) Cisco
11 72 (1.05%) CyberArk
12 56 (0.82%) Adobe
12 56 (0.82%) IBM
13 54 (0.79%) Splunk
14 46 (0.67%) Ariba
15 42 (0.62%) Informatica
16 40 (0.59%) MuleSoft
17 30 (0.44%) Atlassian
17 30 (0.44%) F5
17 30 (0.44%) Foundry