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

6 months to
16 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 6,913 2,933 2,494
As % of all contract jobs in England 14.99% 10.56% 7.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.70% 11.62% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,574 1,992 1,594
10th Percentile £385 £361 £363
25th Percentile £456 £447 £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 £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £528 £538
% change year-on-year +4.17% -1.77% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 63 72
10th Percentile £20.32 £28.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.02 £33.00 £42.47
Median hourly rate £60.25 £47.48 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +26.91% -22.93% +23.30%
75th Percentile £80.00 £61.88 £75.00
90th Percentile £99.25 £77.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £47.48 £60.83
% change year-on-year +27.44% -21.95% +16.54%

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 39,062 25,238 28,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.72% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,917 16,041 17,545
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
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 2,725 1,497 1,306
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £14.92
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +13 3,634 £563 +0.99% 4,814
North of England +5 1,036 £505 +1.00% 1,220
South East +9 881 £550 +4.76% 1,448
Midlands +6 604 £500 -4.76% 760
North West +3 530 £525 +5.00% 743
West Midlands +9 486 £500 -7.53% 527
Yorkshire +8 441 £500 +1.01% 370
South West +7 377 £550 - 506
East of England +9 220 £525 -4.55% 395
East Midlands -3 103 £500 +13.31% 233
North East -2 74 £495 -4.81% 113
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
1 349 (5.05%) Confluence
2 192 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 64 (0.93%) CMS
4 48 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 37 (0.54%) Apache
6 28 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 22 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 22 (0.32%) SAS
8 13 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.13%) WordPress
10 8 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 7 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.087%) ArcGIS
12 6 (0.087%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
13 5 (0.072%) CICS
13 5 (0.072%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.072%) Sitecore CMS
14 4 (0.058%) Kentico
14 4 (0.058%) Moodle
Applications
1 312 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 166 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 163 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
4 141 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
5 73 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.33%) Revit
7 18 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 17 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
9 15 (0.22%) Navisworks
10 14 (0.20%) Chatbot
11 10 (0.14%) Trello
12 8 (0.12%) ProjectWise
13 6 (0.087%) Windchill
14 5 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 5 (0.072%) Adobe XD
15 4 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
15 4 (0.058%) Notion
15 4 (0.058%) Photoshop
16 3 (0.043%) CPLEX
16 3 (0.043%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 240 (3.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 91 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 30 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 28 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 27 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 24 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
8 23 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
8 23 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
9 20 (0.29%) SAP Payroll
10 19 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
10 19 (0.27%) SAP ERP
10 19 (0.27%) SAP HR
11 17 (0.25%) SAP FI
11 17 (0.25%) SAP HCM
12 16 (0.23%) Aladdin
12 16 (0.23%) SAP MDG
12 16 (0.23%) SAP SD
13 15 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 15 (0.22%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,261 (18.24%) Azure
2 852 (12.32%) AWS
3 527 (7.62%) Power Platform
4 332 (4.80%) GCP
5 278 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
6 248 (3.59%) SaaS
7 217 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
8 167 (2.42%) GitHub
9 166 (2.40%) Entra ID
10 144 (2.08%) Snowflake
11 135 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
12 98 (1.42%) Microsoft Copilot
13 96 (1.39%) Serverless
14 85 (1.23%) Power Automate
15 80 (1.16%) PowerApps
16 79 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
17 72 (1.04%) OCI
18 70 (1.01%) Amazon S3
19 67 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
20 65 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 127 (1.84%) Firewall
2 126 (1.82%) Network Security
3 77 (1.11%) WAN
4 68 (0.98%) DNS
5 48 (0.69%) LAN
6 44 (0.64%) VPN
7 42 (0.61%) DHCP
7 42 (0.61%) TCP/IP
8 35 (0.51%) SD-WAN
9 28 (0.41%) 4G
9 28 (0.41%) 5G
9 28 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (0.35%) BGP
11 22 (0.32%) Wireless
12 21 (0.30%) Internet
13 20 (0.29%) Broadband
14 19 (0.27%) MPLS
15 16 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
15 16 (0.23%) SSL
16 15 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 409 (5.92%) Power BI
2 193 (2.79%) Metadata
3 191 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
4 114 (1.65%) SQL Server
5 94 (1.36%) Data Lake
6 78 (1.13%) Tableau
7 72 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
8 51 (0.74%) Delta Lake
9 50 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 50 (0.72%) Relational Database
10 48 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
11 41 (0.59%) BigQuery
11 41 (0.59%) MongoDB
12 32 (0.46%) NoSQL
12 32 (0.46%) Oracle Database
13 30 (0.43%) Looker
14 29 (0.42%) DynamoDB
15 26 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
16 25 (0.36%) Big Data
17 24 (0.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 650 (9.40%) JIRA
2 132 (1.91%) Git
3 98 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 82 (1.19%) GitLab
5 59 (0.85%) Selenium
6 37 (0.54%) Cucumber
7 34 (0.49%) JUnit
8 29 (0.42%) SonarQube
9 28 (0.41%) Postman
10 25 (0.36%) Gatling
11 17 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 17 (0.25%) Zephyr
12 15 (0.22%) Maven
13 14 (0.20%) JMeter
14 11 (0.16%) Mockito
14 11 (0.16%) WebDriver
15 10 (0.14%) Claude Code
15 10 (0.14%) ERwin
15 10 (0.14%) LoadRunner
16 8 (0.12%) MSI
General
1 3,673 (53.13%) Social Skills
2 2,295 (33.20%) Finance
3 1,162 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
4 874 (12.64%) Public Sector
5 682 (9.87%) Banking
6 414 (5.99%) Influencing Skills
7 406 (5.87%) Retail
8 315 (4.56%) Organisational Skills
9 295 (4.27%) Legal
10 237 (3.43%) Marketing
11 234 (3.38%) Manufacturing
12 231 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
13 183 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
14 181 (2.62%) Telecoms
15 139 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 124 (1.79%) Aerospace
17 111 (1.61%) Local Government
18 105 (1.52%) Front Office
19 93 (1.35%) Billing
20 88 (1.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,003 (14.51%) Analyst
2 947 (13.70%) Lead
3 930 (13.45%) Architect
4 777 (11.24%) Project Manager
5 731 (10.57%) Senior
6 643 (9.30%) Business Analyst
7 446 (6.45%) Consultant
8 318 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
9 253 (3.66%) Senior Manager
10 201 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
11 182 (2.63%) Programme Manager
12 179 (2.59%) IT Manager
13 172 (2.49%) Product Manager
14 162 (2.34%) Developer
15 134 (1.94%) Technical Manager
16 128 (1.85%) Product Owner
17 127 (1.84%) Senior Analyst
18 118 (1.71%) Senior Project Manager
19 113 (1.63%) Data Analyst
20 112 (1.62%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (3.62%) Terraform
2 183 (2.65%) REST
3 127 (1.84%) Middleware
4 98 (1.42%) .NET
5 82 (1.19%) Kafka
5 82 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
6 75 (1.08%) SOAP
7 66 (0.95%) PySpark
8 61 (0.88%) React
9 60 (0.87%) OAuth
10 59 (0.85%) JSON
11 55 (0.80%) Spring
12 49 (0.71%) HTML
12 49 (0.71%) LDAP
13 45 (0.65%) XML
14 44 (0.64%) CSS
15 42 (0.61%) Playwright
16 41 (0.59%) Spring Boot
17 39 (0.56%) SailPoint
17 39 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 531 (7.68%) Product Ownership
2 398 (5.76%) Onboarding
3 272 (3.93%) Cloud Native
4 223 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 171 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
6 161 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 159 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
8 135 (1.95%) Data Centre
9 117 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 113 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
11 111 (1.61%) AI Agents
12 107 (1.55%) Operational Technology
12 107 (1.55%) Virtual Team
13 95 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
14 89 (1.29%) Security Posture
15 86 (1.24%) NHS
16 83 (1.20%) CMDB
17 73 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
17 73 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
18 62 (0.90%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 219 (3.17%) Windows
2 137 (1.98%) Linux
3 64 (0.93%) Windows Server
4 46 (0.67%) Unix
5 25 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.26%) Android
7 16 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.20%) VMS
10 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.12%) zOS
12 7 (0.10%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.072%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.058%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.043%) CentOS
15 3 (0.043%) Solaris
16 2 (0.029%) Data ONTAP
16 2 (0.029%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,188 (31.65%) Agile
2 1,256 (18.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,164 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
4 1,127 (16.30%) Roadmaps
5 962 (13.92%) Migration
6 928 (13.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 918 (13.28%) Decision-Making
8 884 (12.79%) AI
9 823 (11.91%) DevOps
10 809 (11.70%) Project Management
11 803 (11.62%) Project Delivery
12 788 (11.40%) Analytics
13 707 (10.23%) Change Management
14 683 (9.88%) Risk Management
15 671 (9.71%) Workshop Facilitation
16 664 (9.61%) CI/CD
17 574 (8.30%) User Acceptance Testing
18 569 (8.23%) Cybersecurity
19 568 (8.22%) Requirements Gathering
20 560 (8.10%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 618 (8.94%) SQL
2 444 (6.42%) Python
3 185 (2.68%) Java
4 135 (1.95%) PowerShell
5 132 (1.91%) JavaScript
6 84 (1.22%) C#
7 64 (0.93%) Bash
8 54 (0.78%) TypeScript
9 40 (0.58%) Bicep
10 34 (0.49%) ABAP
11 30 (0.43%) Korn
12 25 (0.36%) R
13 23 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 22 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 22 (0.32%) T-SQL
15 19 (0.27%) VBA
16 15 (0.22%) Go
16 15 (0.22%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.20%) Apex Code
18 10 (0.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,393 (20.15%) Security Cleared
2 1,015 (14.68%) SC Cleared
3 461 (6.67%) Degree
4 311 (4.50%) PMP
5 274 (3.96%) PMI Certification
6 268 (3.88%) DV Cleared
7 231 (3.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 157 (2.27%) CISSP
9 127 (1.84%) Azure Certification
10 121 (1.75%) CISM
11 85 (1.23%) AWS Certification
11 85 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
12 78 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
13 74 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
14 52 (0.75%) Master's Degree
15 49 (0.71%) ACCA
15 49 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
16 48 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 46 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 46 (0.67%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 524 (7.58%) Data Quality
2 390 (5.64%) QA
3 325 (4.70%) PMO
4 217 (3.14%) GDPR
5 190 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 174 (2.52%) NIST
7 169 (2.44%) Accessibility
8 126 (1.82%) GRC
9 94 (1.36%) SLA
10 65 (0.94%) WCAG
11 60 (0.87%) NCSC
12 31 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
13 28 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 26 (0.38%) IFRS
15 24 (0.35%) ISO 20022
16 23 (0.33%) COBIT
16 23 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
17 22 (0.32%) PCI DSS
18 19 (0.27%) SOC 2
19 18 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 182 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 162 (2.34%) Docker
3 68 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 26 (0.38%) vSphere
5 25 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 11 (0.16%) NFS
10 7 (0.10%) Postfix
11 6 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.072%) Time Sharing Option
12 5 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.043%) Ceph
13 3 (0.043%) Firmware
13 3 (0.043%) FreeRADIUS
13 3 (0.043%) IAG
13 3 (0.043%) KVM
13 3 (0.043%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 233 (3.37%) Kubernetes
2 106 (1.53%) Ansible
3 62 (0.90%) Grafana
4 46 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 41 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 32 (0.46%) SCCM
8 17 (0.25%) Argo
9 12 (0.17%) Control-M
10 11 (0.16%) Kibana
11 10 (0.14%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.10%) HP ALM
12 7 (0.10%) Puppet
12 7 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.087%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.087%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.087%) WMI
14 5 (0.072%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.072%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.058%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,150 (16.64%) Microsoft
2 530 (7.67%) SAP
3 377 (5.45%) Oracle
4 343 (4.96%) ServiceNow
5 252 (3.65%) Salesforce
6 216 (3.12%) Databricks
7 146 (2.11%) Google
8 102 (1.48%) VMware
9 97 (1.40%) Workday
10 82 (1.19%) Cisco
11 76 (1.10%) CyberArk
12 63 (0.91%) IBM
13 60 (0.87%) Adobe
14 54 (0.78%) Splunk
15 46 (0.67%) Ariba
16 42 (0.61%) MuleSoft
17 41 (0.59%) Informatica
18 30 (0.43%) Atlassian
18 30 (0.43%) Foundry
19 29 (0.42%) F5