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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 15 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,042 2,608 2,727
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.50% 10.17% 7.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.48% 11.16% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,387 1,769 1,954
10th Percentile £375 £357 £358
25th Percentile £456 £431 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £537 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% -0.56% -1.82%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 62 77
10th Percentile £23.75 £31.64 £18.00
25th Percentile £34.06 £41.78 £35.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £54.01 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.32% -9.99% +13.27%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £104.00 £78.63 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +9.35% -10.83% +13.27%

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 37,409 23,372 31,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.17% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,567 15,052 20,589
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.79% -4.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,348 1,165 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.97 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.50 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.93
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.81%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +8 2,589 £550 -4.35% 911
North of England -2 739 £500 - 327
South East +5 660 £550 +4.76% 508
Midlands +3 526 £500 - 219
West Midlands +1 380 £500 -4.76% 130
North West 0 370 £500 - 207
Yorkshire +4 338 £500 +2.04% 93
South West +13 286 £550 +4.76% 143
East of England +8 144 £525 -4.55% 94
East Midlands +8 138 £465 +7.51% 87
North East -15 44 £478 +6.11% 34
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
1 294 (5.83%) Confluence
2 140 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 57 (1.13%) CMS
4 35 (0.69%) SAS
5 24 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.24%) Apache
8 11 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.20%) Appian
10 8 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 7 (0.14%) WordPress
12 6 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.099%) Apache Spark
13 5 (0.099%) Kentico
13 5 (0.099%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.079%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.060%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
15 3 (0.060%) TPMS
16 2 (0.040%) IBM HTTP Server
16 2 (0.040%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 226 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 142 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
3 122 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
4 118 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 71 (1.41%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 12 (0.24%) Revit
9 10 (0.20%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.079%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.079%) Trello
11 3 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.060%) Notion
11 3 (0.060%) Sketch
12 2 (0.040%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.040%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.040%) Windchill
13 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
13 1 (0.020%) UserZoom
13 1 (0.020%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 165 (3.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 24 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
5 23 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
6 22 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 21 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
8 17 (0.34%) Aladdin
9 16 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
10 15 (0.30%) Workday HCM
11 14 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
12 13 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
12 13 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
13 12 (0.24%) Finacle
13 12 (0.24%) SAP ERP
13 12 (0.24%) SAP FI
14 10 (0.20%) Loan IQ
14 10 (0.20%) Primavera
14 10 (0.20%) SAP QM
14 10 (0.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 811 (16.08%) Azure
2 568 (11.27%) AWS
3 304 (6.03%) Power Platform
4 208 (4.13%) GCP
5 177 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
6 175 (3.47%) SaaS
7 122 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
8 101 (2.00%) Entra ID
9 84 (1.67%) Snowflake
10 76 (1.51%) GitHub
11 62 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
12 56 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
13 51 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
14 48 (0.95%) Amazon S3
14 48 (0.95%) Serverless
15 47 (0.93%) OCI
16 42 (0.83%) PowerApps
17 39 (0.77%) Power Automate
18 38 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
19 37 (0.73%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 91 (1.80%) Network Security
2 88 (1.75%) Firewall
3 65 (1.29%) WAN
4 49 (0.97%) LAN
5 42 (0.83%) DNS
6 37 (0.73%) SD-WAN
7 31 (0.61%) VPN
8 29 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 28 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (0.44%) BGP
11 21 (0.42%) DHCP
12 19 (0.38%) OSPF
13 17 (0.34%) MPLS
14 14 (0.28%) BIG-IP
14 14 (0.28%) Wireless
15 13 (0.26%) NGFW
15 13 (0.26%) SAN
16 12 (0.24%) Intranet
16 12 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
17 11 (0.22%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (4.88%) Power BI
2 108 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
3 93 (1.84%) Metadata
4 63 (1.25%) Data Lake
5 62 (1.23%) SQL Server
6 61 (1.21%) Tableau
7 39 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (0.71%) Relational Database
9 35 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 30 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
11 27 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
12 26 (0.52%) Oracle Database
13 24 (0.48%) NoSQL
14 21 (0.42%) Big Data
14 21 (0.42%) DynamoDB
15 20 (0.40%) Delta Lake
16 15 (0.30%) BigQuery
16 15 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
16 15 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 14 (0.28%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 549 (10.89%) JIRA
2 80 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 72 (1.43%) Git
4 42 (0.83%) GitLab
5 34 (0.67%) Selenium
6 29 (0.58%) JUnit
7 23 (0.46%) Postman
8 15 (0.30%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.30%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.28%) JMeter
9 14 (0.28%) Maven
10 13 (0.26%) Mockito
11 10 (0.20%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.20%) DbUnit
11 10 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (0.20%) WebDriver
11 10 (0.20%) Zephyr
12 9 (0.18%) jMock
12 9 (0.18%) MLflow
13 8 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,540 (50.38%) Social Skills
2 1,812 (35.94%) Finance
3 770 (15.27%) Analytical Skills
4 600 (11.90%) Public Sector
5 466 (9.24%) Banking
6 296 (5.87%) Retail
7 256 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
8 226 (4.48%) Legal
9 187 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
10 184 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
11 172 (3.41%) Marketing
12 149 (2.96%) Manufacturing
13 123 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
14 117 (2.32%) Telecoms
15 91 (1.80%) Local Government
16 88 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 75 (1.49%) Financial Institution
18 69 (1.37%) Law
19 68 (1.35%) Billing
19 68 (1.35%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 767 (15.21%) Analyst
2 712 (14.12%) Lead
3 708 (14.04%) Project Manager
4 593 (11.76%) Architect
5 534 (10.59%) Senior
6 515 (10.21%) Business Analyst
7 246 (4.88%) Consultant
8 228 (4.52%) Senior Manager
9 222 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
10 177 (3.51%) Programme Manager
11 170 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
12 154 (3.05%) IT Manager
13 117 (2.32%) Senior Project Manager
14 115 (2.28%) Product Manager
15 105 (2.08%) Product Owner
16 94 (1.86%) Technical Manager
17 91 (1.80%) Change Manager
18 89 (1.77%) Developer
19 85 (1.69%) Data Analyst
19 85 (1.69%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (2.44%) REST
2 85 (1.69%) Middleware
3 78 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
4 65 (1.29%) SOAP
5 55 (1.09%) .NET
6 41 (0.81%) JSON
7 38 (0.75%) OAuth
8 36 (0.71%) PySpark
9 34 (0.67%) Kafka
10 33 (0.65%) SailPoint
11 32 (0.63%) SAML
12 31 (0.61%) AngularJS
12 31 (0.61%) CSS
12 31 (0.61%) OpenID
12 31 (0.61%) Spring
13 29 (0.58%) Web Services
13 29 (0.58%) XML
14 28 (0.56%) HTML
14 28 (0.56%) React
14 28 (0.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 373 (7.40%) Product Ownership
2 259 (5.14%) Onboarding
3 170 (3.37%) Cloud Native
4 151 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 140 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 121 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
7 114 (2.26%) Data Centre
8 92 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 91 (1.80%) Data Structures
10 78 (1.55%) Virtual Team
11 67 (1.33%) NHS
12 66 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
13 63 (1.25%) Operational Technology
14 62 (1.23%) Security Posture
15 57 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
16 50 (0.99%) Public Cloud
17 49 (0.97%) CMDB
18 47 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
19 46 (0.91%) AI Agents
19 46 (0.91%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 151 (2.99%) Windows
2 80 (1.59%) Linux
3 32 (0.63%) Android
4 28 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 27 (0.54%) Unix
6 25 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.14%) VMS
10 5 (0.099%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.099%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.079%) AIX
11 4 (0.079%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.079%) zOS
12 3 (0.060%) Solaris
13 2 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.040%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.040%) HPUX
14 1 (0.020%) CentOS
14 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,653 (32.78%) Agile
2 825 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 787 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
4 712 (14.12%) Migration
5 695 (13.78%) Roadmaps
6 686 (13.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 662 (13.13%) Project Management
8 596 (11.82%) DevOps
9 588 (11.66%) Decision-Making
10 551 (10.93%) Change Management
11 548 (10.87%) Project Delivery
12 514 (10.19%) Analytics
13 508 (10.08%) AI
14 494 (9.80%) Risk Management
15 432 (8.57%) User Acceptance Testing
16 415 (8.23%) CI/CD
17 409 (8.11%) Validation
18 400 (7.93%) Workshop Facilitation
19 394 (7.81%) Scrum
20 386 (7.66%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 410 (8.13%) SQL
2 286 (5.67%) Python
3 99 (1.96%) Java
4 73 (1.45%) PowerShell
5 54 (1.07%) JavaScript
6 50 (0.99%) C#
7 26 (0.52%) Bash
8 23 (0.46%) VBA
9 22 (0.44%) Bicep
10 20 (0.40%) Korn
10 20 (0.40%) TypeScript
11 19 (0.38%) ABAP
12 14 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.26%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 11 (0.22%) R
16 10 (0.20%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.16%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.16%) Go
17 8 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 994 (19.71%) Security Cleared
2 748 (14.84%) SC Cleared
3 367 (7.28%) Degree
4 263 (5.22%) PMP
5 230 (4.56%) PMI Certification
6 149 (2.96%) DV Cleared
7 137 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 110 (2.18%) CISSP
9 80 (1.59%) Azure Certification
10 76 (1.51%) CISM
11 55 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 49 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
13 47 (0.93%) AWS Certification
14 44 (0.87%) Master's Degree
15 31 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
15 31 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 30 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
17 28 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 28 (0.56%) ACCA
18 26 (0.52%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (5.77%) Data Quality
2 273 (5.41%) QA
3 245 (4.86%) PMO
4 215 (4.26%) GDPR
5 160 (3.17%) NIST
6 141 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 91 (1.80%) GRC
8 84 (1.67%) SLA
9 79 (1.57%) Accessibility
10 56 (1.11%) NCSC
11 45 (0.89%) PCI DSS
12 38 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 34 (0.67%) COBIT
14 31 (0.61%) SOC 2
15 29 (0.58%) IFRS
16 19 (0.38%) WCAG
17 18 (0.36%) JSP 440
18 17 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
19 16 (0.32%) Solvency II
20 15 (0.30%) PSD2
System Software
1 98 (1.94%) Docker
2 85 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 36 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.24%) NFS
5 12 (0.24%) Postfix
5 12 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.12%) vSphere
8 4 (0.079%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.079%) SRDF
8 4 (0.079%) Varnish
9 3 (0.060%) HDFS
9 3 (0.060%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.040%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.040%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.040%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.020%) RACF
Systems Management
1 146 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 128 (2.54%) Terraform
3 76 (1.51%) Ansible
4 45 (0.89%) Grafana
5 38 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
6 37 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 32 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 18 (0.36%) SCCM
9 10 (0.20%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.16%) Argo
10 8 (0.16%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.14%) RSA Archer
11 7 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 6 (0.12%) Puppet
13 5 (0.099%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.099%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.079%) Kustomize
14 4 (0.079%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.079%) vMotion
Vendors
1 635 (12.59%) Microsoft
2 404 (8.01%) SAP
3 268 (5.32%) Oracle
4 265 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 194 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 106 (2.10%) Databricks
7 98 (1.94%) Google
8 75 (1.49%) VMware
9 65 (1.29%) Workday
10 57 (1.13%) Cisco
11 49 (0.97%) CyberArk
12 47 (0.93%) Adobe
13 43 (0.85%) Splunk
14 33 (0.65%) Ariba
14 33 (0.65%) MuleSoft
15 32 (0.63%) Informatica
16 29 (0.58%) IBM
17 28 (0.56%) F5
18 26 (0.52%) Atlassian
18 26 (0.52%) IFS