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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 15 22
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,722 2,845 2,489
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.62% 10.34% 7.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.81% 11.39% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,812 1,938 1,748
10th Percentile £390 £358 £363
25th Percentile £461 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -0.56% -1.82%
75th Percentile £648 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £548 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.29% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 66 72
10th Percentile £28.00 £29.95 £24.00
25th Percentile £35.90 £37.80 £41.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £61.33
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -12.77% +33.67%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £103.10 £78.13 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.82% -10.83% +30.61%

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 38,641 24,977 29,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.76% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,154 16,016 19,101
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
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% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,371 1,780
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.92 £17.98 £17.72
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +10 2,980 £560 - 1,423
North of England -1 840 £500 - 497
South East +8 753 £550 +3.58% 647
Midlands +2 532 £500 -4.40% 277
West Midlands +4 421 £500 -7.66% 183
North West -1 419 £525 +5.00% 276
Yorkshire +5 370 £500 +2.04% 160
South West +10 325 £550 +4.76% 219
East of England +6 179 £525 -4.55% 137
East Midlands +2 97 £500 +24.22% 94
North East -14 60 £475 -2.56% 64
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
1 323 (5.64%) Confluence
2 151 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 54 (0.94%) CMS
4 29 (0.51%) SAS
5 25 (0.44%) Apache
5 25 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 19 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.10%) Appian
10 6 (0.10%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.10%) WordPress
11 5 (0.087%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.070%) FactoryTalk
12 4 (0.070%) Kentico
13 3 (0.052%) Camunda
13 3 (0.052%) Moodle
13 3 (0.052%) OpenStack
Applications
1 237 (4.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 153 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
3 127 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
4 118 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (1.22%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.26%) Revit
8 14 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.21%) AutoCAD
10 9 (0.16%) Trello
11 7 (0.12%) Navisworks
12 5 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 5 (0.087%) Sketch
13 4 (0.070%) Adobe XD
13 4 (0.070%) Notion
14 2 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.035%) CPLEX
14 2 (0.035%) EngageOne
14 2 (0.035%) ProjectWise
14 2 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 203 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 70 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 26 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
4 26 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
5 23 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
5 23 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 20 (0.35%) Workday HCM
7 19 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
8 18 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
8 18 (0.31%) SAP FI
9 16 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 16 (0.28%) SAP SD
10 14 (0.24%) Finacle
10 14 (0.24%) Primavera
10 14 (0.24%) SAP CO
10 14 (0.24%) SAP ERP
10 14 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
11 13 (0.23%) Aladdin
11 13 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,007 (17.60%) Azure
2 681 (11.90%) AWS
3 369 (6.45%) Power Platform
4 260 (4.54%) GCP
5 224 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
6 203 (3.55%) SaaS
7 144 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
8 127 (2.22%) Entra ID
9 115 (2.01%) GitHub
10 108 (1.89%) Snowflake
11 85 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
12 77 (1.35%) SuccessFactors
13 62 (1.08%) OCI
14 61 (1.07%) Amazon S3
15 59 (1.03%) Serverless
16 55 (0.96%) PowerApps
17 53 (0.93%) Power Automate
18 51 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
18 51 (0.89%) Figma
18 51 (0.89%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 103 (1.80%) Firewall
2 100 (1.75%) Network Security
3 62 (1.08%) WAN
4 55 (0.96%) DNS
5 44 (0.77%) LAN
6 37 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 36 (0.63%) VPN
8 35 (0.61%) SD-WAN
9 30 (0.52%) DHCP
10 25 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
11 20 (0.35%) BGP
12 18 (0.31%) 4G
12 18 (0.31%) 5G
12 18 (0.31%) OSPF
13 17 (0.30%) Wireless
14 15 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
15 14 (0.24%) BIG-IP
15 14 (0.24%) MPLS
16 13 (0.23%) Internet
16 13 (0.23%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 297 (5.19%) Power BI
2 143 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 112 (1.96%) Metadata
4 74 (1.29%) SQL Server
5 72 (1.26%) Data Lake
6 65 (1.14%) Tableau
7 51 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
8 42 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
9 41 (0.72%) Relational Database
10 34 (0.59%) Delta Lake
11 32 (0.56%) Oracle Database
12 31 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
13 27 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
14 26 (0.45%) Big Data
15 24 (0.42%) BigQuery
16 23 (0.40%) DynamoDB
17 20 (0.35%) NoSQL
18 19 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
18 19 (0.33%) Looker
19 18 (0.31%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 594 (10.38%) JIRA
2 93 (1.63%) Git
3 86 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 55 (0.96%) GitLab
5 48 (0.84%) Selenium
6 34 (0.59%) JUnit
7 26 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 24 (0.42%) Postman
9 22 (0.38%) SonarQube
10 18 (0.31%) JMeter
11 15 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.26%) Maven
11 15 (0.26%) Zephyr
12 14 (0.24%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.23%) Gatling
14 12 (0.21%) Mockito
15 11 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
16 10 (0.17%) DbUnit
16 10 (0.17%) ERwin
17 9 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,866 (50.09%) Social Skills
2 1,985 (34.69%) Finance
3 930 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
4 706 (12.34%) Public Sector
5 536 (9.37%) Banking
6 353 (6.17%) Retail
7 309 (5.40%) Influencing Skills
8 249 (4.35%) Legal
9 233 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
10 202 (3.53%) Marketing
11 194 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
12 169 (2.95%) Manufacturing
13 146 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
14 136 (2.38%) Telecoms
15 111 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 99 (1.73%) Local Government
17 88 (1.54%) Aerospace
18 84 (1.47%) Billing
19 77 (1.35%) Front Office
20 75 (1.31%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 848 (14.82%) Analyst
2 821 (14.35%) Lead
3 745 (13.02%) Project Manager
4 679 (11.87%) Architect
5 612 (10.70%) Senior
6 569 (9.94%) Business Analyst
7 318 (5.56%) Consultant
8 266 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
9 236 (4.12%) Senior Manager
10 185 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
11 179 (3.13%) Programme Manager
12 168 (2.94%) IT Manager
13 138 (2.41%) Product Manager
14 130 (2.27%) Developer
15 120 (2.10%) Senior Project Manager
16 116 (2.03%) Product Owner
17 114 (1.99%) Technical Manager
18 99 (1.73%) Designer
19 98 (1.71%) Senior Analyst
20 94 (1.64%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (2.60%) REST
2 103 (1.80%) Middleware
3 90 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
4 74 (1.29%) SOAP
5 64 (1.12%) .NET
6 48 (0.84%) Kafka
7 45 (0.79%) JSON
8 41 (0.72%) PySpark
8 41 (0.72%) React
9 40 (0.70%) OAuth
9 40 (0.70%) SailPoint
10 38 (0.66%) Spring
11 35 (0.61%) HTML
11 35 (0.61%) Web Services
12 34 (0.59%) CSS
13 30 (0.52%) AngularJS
14 28 (0.49%) Playwright
14 28 (0.49%) XML
15 27 (0.47%) Spring Boot
16 25 (0.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 429 (7.50%) Product Ownership
2 315 (5.51%) Onboarding
3 189 (3.30%) Cloud Native
4 165 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
5 160 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 126 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
7 120 (2.10%) Data Centre
8 106 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 98 (1.71%) Virtual Team
10 93 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
11 92 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
12 79 (1.38%) Operational Technology
13 77 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
14 73 (1.28%) NHS
15 72 (1.26%) AI Agents
16 68 (1.19%) Security Posture
17 61 (1.07%) CMDB
18 58 (1.01%) FMCG
19 56 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
20 44 (0.77%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 174 (3.04%) Windows
2 99 (1.73%) Linux
3 39 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 36 (0.63%) Unix
5 34 (0.59%) Android
6 29 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.17%) VMS
10 9 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.087%) Solaris
11 5 (0.087%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.070%) AIX
12 4 (0.070%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.070%) zOS
13 3 (0.052%) Amazon Linux
13 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.035%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.035%) HPUX
14 2 (0.035%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,857 (32.45%) Agile
2 1,004 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 917 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
4 860 (15.03%) Roadmaps
5 785 (13.72%) Migration
6 772 (13.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 717 (12.53%) Decision-Making
8 716 (12.51%) Project Management
9 677 (11.83%) DevOps
10 649 (11.34%) AI
11 643 (11.24%) Project Delivery
12 621 (10.85%) Analytics
13 602 (10.52%) Change Management
14 571 (9.98%) Risk Management
15 501 (8.76%) CI/CD
16 491 (8.58%) User Acceptance Testing
16 491 (8.58%) Workshop Facilitation
17 463 (8.09%) Scrum
18 455 (7.95%) Validation
19 450 (7.86%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 463 (8.09%) SQL
2 326 (5.70%) Python
3 126 (2.20%) Java
4 90 (1.57%) PowerShell
5 86 (1.50%) JavaScript
6 54 (0.94%) C#
7 39 (0.68%) Bash
8 26 (0.45%) Bicep
9 25 (0.44%) Korn
10 24 (0.42%) TypeScript
11 20 (0.35%) ABAP
11 20 (0.35%) VBA
12 18 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 18 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 18 (0.31%) R
13 16 (0.28%) T-SQL
14 15 (0.26%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.21%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,126 (19.68%) Security Cleared
2 833 (14.56%) SC Cleared
3 401 (7.01%) Degree
4 286 (5.00%) PMP
5 251 (4.39%) PMI Certification
6 200 (3.50%) DV Cleared
7 163 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 123 (2.15%) CISSP
9 94 (1.64%) Azure Certification
10 93 (1.63%) CISM
11 63 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 54 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
13 53 (0.93%) AWS Certification
14 50 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
15 42 (0.73%) Master's Degree
16 41 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 39 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
18 32 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 32 (0.56%) ISTQB
19 31 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 347 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 319 (5.57%) QA
3 280 (4.89%) PMO
4 214 (3.74%) GDPR
5 143 (2.50%) NIST
6 136 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 122 (2.13%) Accessibility
8 100 (1.75%) GRC
9 90 (1.57%) SLA
10 48 (0.84%) NCSC
11 40 (0.70%) WCAG
12 37 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 31 (0.54%) COBIT
14 30 (0.52%) SOC 2
15 25 (0.44%) PCI DSS
16 21 (0.37%) IFRS
17 20 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
18 16 (0.28%) ISO 20022
18 16 (0.28%) JSP 440
19 15 (0.26%) GxP
System Software
1 128 (2.24%) Active Directory
2 121 (2.11%) Docker
3 49 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.26%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.21%) NFS
7 12 (0.21%) Postfix
7 12 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (0.21%) vSphere
8 8 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.070%) SRDF
10 4 (0.070%) Varnish
11 3 (0.052%) HDFS
11 3 (0.052%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.035%) Ceph
12 2 (0.035%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.035%) KVM
12 2 (0.035%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 168 (2.94%) Terraform
2 159 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 83 (1.45%) Ansible
4 56 (0.98%) Grafana
5 45 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 39 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.59%) Prometheus
8 27 (0.47%) SCCM
9 17 (0.30%) Argo
10 9 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.16%) Puppet
11 8 (0.14%) Control-M
11 8 (0.14%) HP ALM
12 7 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 7 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.10%) RSA Archer
14 5 (0.087%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.087%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.070%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 788 (13.77%) Microsoft
2 459 (8.02%) SAP
3 313 (5.47%) Oracle
4 309 (5.40%) ServiceNow
5 217 (3.79%) Salesforce
6 140 (2.45%) Databricks
7 113 (1.97%) Google
8 86 (1.50%) VMware
9 84 (1.47%) Workday
10 61 (1.07%) Cisco
11 54 (0.94%) Adobe
12 50 (0.87%) CyberArk
13 47 (0.82%) IBM
14 36 (0.63%) Ariba
15 35 (0.61%) MuleSoft
16 34 (0.59%) Splunk
17 32 (0.56%) Atlassian
18 31 (0.54%) Informatica
19 30 (0.52%) F5
20 27 (0.47%) Foundry