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

6 months to
14 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 6,814 2,900 2,501
As % of all contract jobs in England 14.81% 10.52% 7.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.50% 11.58% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,509 1,972 1,615
10th Percentile £385 £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 £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £743 £744 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 59 72
10th Percentile £21.08 £28.04 £35.00
25th Percentile £33.70 £32.32 £42.47
Median hourly rate £59.00 £45.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +31.11% -26.95% +19.80%
75th Percentile £80.00 £61.88 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.59 £75.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £44.75 £60.83
% change year-on-year +34.08% -26.43% +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 38,948 25,051 28,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.90% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,873 15,912 17,703
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 £638 £625 £648
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 2,701 1,483 1,330
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.65 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.73 £66.58
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 14 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 14 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 14 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 3,583 £563 +1.53% 4,232
North of England +5 1,029 £503 +0.60% 1,002
South East +9 867 £550 +4.76% 1,242
Midlands +6 587 £500 -4.76% 627
North West +3 533 £525 +5.00% 599
West Midlands +8 469 £500 -7.66% 406
Yorkshire +8 433 £500 +0.50% 314
South West +8 372 £550 +2.80% 475
East of England +9 216 £525 -4.55% 329
East Midlands -3 103 £500 +13.96% 218
North East -3 72 £490 -5.77% 97
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
1 346 (5.08%) Confluence
2 189 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 63 (0.92%) CMS
4 48 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 34 (0.50%) Apache
6 28 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 22 (0.32%) SAS
8 20 (0.29%) Apache Spark
9 12 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 9 (0.13%) WordPress
11 8 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 7 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.088%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.088%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.073%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.073%) Sitecore CMS
15 4 (0.059%) Kentico
15 4 (0.059%) Moodle
15 4 (0.059%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 312 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 165 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 161 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
4 143 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
5 67 (0.98%) 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 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 87 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 30 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 28 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 27 (0.40%) Workday HCM
7 24 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
8 23 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
8 23 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
9 19 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 19 (0.28%) SAP ERP
10 18 (0.26%) SAP HR
10 18 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
11 17 (0.25%) SAP FI
12 16 (0.23%) Aladdin
12 16 (0.23%) SAP SD
13 15 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 15 (0.22%) SAP HCM
13 15 (0.22%) SAP MDG
14 14 (0.21%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 1,254 (18.40%) Azure
2 839 (12.31%) AWS
3 517 (7.59%) Power Platform
4 330 (4.84%) GCP
5 275 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
6 246 (3.61%) SaaS
7 212 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
8 165 (2.42%) Entra ID
9 162 (2.38%) GitHub
10 143 (2.10%) Snowflake
11 130 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
12 96 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
13 93 (1.36%) Serverless
14 80 (1.17%) Power Automate
15 79 (1.16%) PowerApps
16 78 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
17 69 (1.01%) OCI
18 68 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
19 64 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
20 62 (0.91%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 127 (1.86%) Network Security
2 125 (1.83%) Firewall
3 74 (1.09%) WAN
4 66 (0.97%) DNS
5 46 (0.68%) LAN
6 43 (0.63%) VPN
7 40 (0.59%) DHCP
7 40 (0.59%) 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 20 (0.29%) Broadband
12 20 (0.29%) Internet
13 19 (0.28%) MPLS
14 16 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
15 15 (0.22%) Wireshark
16 14 (0.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 402 (5.90%) Power BI
2 189 (2.77%) Metadata
3 188 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
4 112 (1.64%) SQL Server
5 91 (1.34%) Data Lake
6 75 (1.10%) Tableau
7 69 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
8 51 (0.75%) Delta Lake
8 51 (0.75%) Relational Database
9 49 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 44 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
11 40 (0.59%) MongoDB
12 39 (0.57%) BigQuery
13 32 (0.47%) NoSQL
14 31 (0.45%) Oracle Database
15 29 (0.43%) Looker
16 25 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
16 25 (0.37%) Big Data
16 25 (0.37%) DynamoDB
17 23 (0.34%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 646 (9.48%) JIRA
2 125 (1.83%) Git
3 95 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 74 (1.09%) GitLab
5 55 (0.81%) Selenium
6 33 (0.48%) Cucumber
7 31 (0.45%) JUnit
8 28 (0.41%) Postman
9 26 (0.38%) SonarQube
10 22 (0.32%) Gatling
11 17 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 17 (0.25%) Zephyr
12 14 (0.21%) JMeter
12 14 (0.21%) Maven
13 11 (0.16%) Mockito
13 11 (0.16%) WebDriver
14 10 (0.15%) Claude Code
14 10 (0.15%) ERwin
14 10 (0.15%) LoadRunner
15 8 (0.12%) MSI
General
1 3,608 (52.95%) Social Skills
2 2,265 (33.24%) Finance
3 1,150 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
4 861 (12.64%) Public Sector
5 675 (9.91%) Banking
6 406 (5.96%) Retail
7 401 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
8 308 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
9 287 (4.21%) Legal
10 234 (3.43%) Marketing
11 232 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
12 231 (3.39%) Manufacturing
13 183 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
14 180 (2.64%) Telecoms
15 139 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 118 (1.73%) Aerospace
17 110 (1.61%) Local Government
18 104 (1.53%) Front Office
19 92 (1.35%) Billing
20 87 (1.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 994 (14.59%) Analyst
2 937 (13.75%) Lead
3 913 (13.40%) Architect
4 772 (11.33%) Project Manager
5 722 (10.60%) Senior
6 637 (9.35%) Business Analyst
7 444 (6.52%) Consultant
8 312 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
9 249 (3.65%) Senior Manager
10 195 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
11 178 (2.61%) Programme Manager
12 177 (2.60%) IT Manager
13 164 (2.41%) Product Manager
14 156 (2.29%) Developer
15 131 (1.92%) Technical Manager
16 128 (1.88%) Product Owner
17 127 (1.86%) Senior Analyst
18 116 (1.70%) Senior Project Manager
19 112 (1.64%) Data Analyst
19 112 (1.64%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (3.60%) Terraform
2 179 (2.63%) REST
3 121 (1.78%) Middleware
4 95 (1.39%) .NET
5 82 (1.20%) Kafka
6 81 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
7 71 (1.04%) SOAP
8 63 (0.92%) PySpark
9 60 (0.88%) OAuth
10 57 (0.84%) JSON
10 57 (0.84%) React
11 50 (0.73%) Spring
12 48 (0.70%) HTML
12 48 (0.70%) LDAP
13 44 (0.65%) XML
14 43 (0.63%) CSS
15 40 (0.59%) SailPoint
16 39 (0.57%) OpenID
16 39 (0.57%) Playwright
16 39 (0.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 524 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 396 (5.81%) Onboarding
3 269 (3.95%) Cloud Native
4 217 (3.18%) Management Information System
5 169 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
6 158 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
7 155 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 132 (1.94%) Data Centre
9 114 (1.67%) Data Structures
10 113 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
11 109 (1.60%) AI Agents
12 105 (1.54%) Operational Technology
13 102 (1.50%) Virtual Team
14 95 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
15 88 (1.29%) Security Posture
16 82 (1.20%) CMDB
17 80 (1.17%) NHS
18 71 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
19 70 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
20 63 (0.92%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 212 (3.11%) Windows
2 132 (1.94%) Linux
3 62 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 46 (0.68%) 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 2,154 (31.61%) Agile
2 1,236 (18.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,152 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
4 1,105 (16.22%) Roadmaps
5 946 (13.88%) Migration
6 909 (13.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 893 (13.11%) Decision-Making
8 877 (12.87%) AI
9 814 (11.95%) DevOps
10 799 (11.73%) Project Management
11 788 (11.56%) Project Delivery
12 769 (11.29%) Analytics
13 697 (10.23%) Change Management
14 674 (9.89%) Risk Management
15 662 (9.72%) Workshop Facilitation
16 645 (9.47%) CI/CD
17 566 (8.31%) User Acceptance Testing
18 560 (8.22%) Requirements Gathering
19 559 (8.20%) Cybersecurity
20 542 (7.95%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 607 (8.91%) SQL
2 438 (6.43%) Python
3 179 (2.63%) Java
4 135 (1.98%) PowerShell
5 127 (1.86%) JavaScript
6 81 (1.19%) C#
7 64 (0.94%) Bash
8 51 (0.75%) TypeScript
9 40 (0.59%) Bicep
10 32 (0.47%) ABAP
10 32 (0.47%) Korn
11 25 (0.37%) R
12 23 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 23 (0.34%) PL/SQL
13 22 (0.32%) T-SQL
14 19 (0.28%) VBA
15 15 (0.22%) Go
15 15 (0.22%) Shell Script
16 14 (0.21%) Apex Code
17 10 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,373 (20.15%) Security Cleared
2 1,004 (14.73%) SC Cleared
3 452 (6.63%) Degree
4 305 (4.48%) PMP
5 267 (3.92%) PMI Certification
6 261 (3.83%) DV Cleared
7 227 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 156 (2.29%) CISSP
9 121 (1.78%) Azure Certification
9 121 (1.78%) CISM
10 84 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 81 (1.19%) AWS Certification
12 77 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
13 74 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
14 51 (0.75%) Master's Degree
15 49 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
16 47 (0.69%) ACCA
17 45 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 45 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 44 (0.65%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 507 (7.44%) Data Quality
2 386 (5.66%) QA
3 320 (4.70%) PMO
4 217 (3.18%) GDPR
5 183 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 172 (2.52%) NIST
7 161 (2.36%) Accessibility
8 123 (1.81%) GRC
9 93 (1.36%) SLA
10 60 (0.88%) WCAG
11 56 (0.82%) NCSC
12 29 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 28 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
14 26 (0.38%) IFRS
15 23 (0.34%) COBIT
15 23 (0.34%) ISO 20022
16 22 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
17 21 (0.31%) PCI DSS
18 19 (0.28%) SOC 2
19 18 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 179 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 155 (2.27%) Docker
3 65 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 25 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.34%) vSphere
6 21 (0.31%) VMware NSX
7 16 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 11 (0.16%) NFS
10 7 (0.10%) Postfix
11 6 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.059%) Time Sharing Option
14 3 (0.044%) Ceph
14 3 (0.044%) FreeRADIUS
14 3 (0.044%) IAG
14 3 (0.044%) KVM
14 3 (0.044%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.044%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 228 (3.35%) Kubernetes
2 104 (1.53%) Ansible
3 62 (0.91%) Grafana
4 45 (0.66%) 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 7 (0.10%) HP ALM
11 7 (0.10%) Puppet
11 7 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 6 (0.088%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.088%) Oracle RMAN
12 6 (0.088%) WMI
13 5 (0.073%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.073%) Data Guard
13 5 (0.073%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,130 (16.58%) Microsoft
2 527 (7.73%) SAP
3 371 (5.44%) Oracle
4 341 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 248 (3.64%) Salesforce
6 215 (3.16%) Databricks
7 142 (2.08%) Google
8 98 (1.44%) VMware
8 98 (1.44%) Workday
9 82 (1.20%) Cisco
10 76 (1.12%) CyberArk
11 57 (0.84%) IBM
12 56 (0.82%) Adobe
13 53 (0.78%) Splunk
14 46 (0.68%) Ariba
15 41 (0.60%) Informatica
15 41 (0.60%) MuleSoft
16 30 (0.44%) Atlassian
16 30 (0.44%) Foundry
17 29 (0.43%) Bloomberg