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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,917 2,874 2,458
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.93% 10.41% 7.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.16% 11.47% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,936 1,955 1,707
10th Percentile £388 £361 £363
25th Percentile £461 £438 £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 £750 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £531 £538
% change year-on-year +3.53% -1.16% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 64 65
10th Percentile £28.00 £29.27 £30.26
25th Percentile £36.25 £36.77 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.25 £53.09 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +17.26% -13.82% +35.56%
75th Percentile £83.19 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £102.33 £78.38 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £62.25 £53.09 £60.30
% change year-on-year +17.26% -11.97% +31.43%

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 39,026 25,062 28,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.78% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,293 16,024 18,683
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,529 1,392 1,676
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £14.09
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.87 £18.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.27 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -37.90% -4.71%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 8 August 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 3,116 £563 -1.92% 2,072
North of England 0 870 £507 +1.40% 592
South East +8 765 £550 +2.42% 799
Midlands +1 533 £500 -4.76% 344
North West -2 435 £525 +5.00% 334
West Midlands +2 416 £500 -7.66% 225
Yorkshire +6 381 £500 +1.01% 183
South West +9 334 £550 +4.76% 254
East of England +7 182 £525 -4.55% 174
East Midlands +8 102 £500 +14.42% 119
North East -12 62 £480 -7.69% 79
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
1 335 (5.66%) Confluence
2 160 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 54 (0.91%) CMS
4 30 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (0.49%) Apache
6 28 (0.47%) SAS
7 22 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 16 (0.27%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.10%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.10%) WordPress
12 5 (0.085%) Appian
12 5 (0.085%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.068%) FactoryTalk
13 4 (0.068%) Kentico
13 4 (0.068%) Moodle
13 4 (0.068%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.051%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 253 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 153 (2.59%) Microsoft Project
3 130 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
4 125 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (1.18%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.32%) Revit
6 19 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 16 (0.27%) AutoCAD
7 16 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.19%) Navisworks
9 10 (0.17%) Trello
10 6 (0.10%) ProjectWise
11 5 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.068%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.068%) Notion
13 3 (0.051%) Sketch
14 2 (0.034%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.034%) EPLAN
14 2 (0.034%) Photoshop
14 2 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 209 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 72 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 26 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 24 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 24 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 22 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 22 (0.37%) Workday HCM
7 21 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
8 19 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 19 (0.32%) SAP FI
9 17 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
10 16 (0.27%) Primavera
11 15 (0.25%) SAP CO
11 15 (0.25%) SAP SD
12 14 (0.24%) Finacle
12 14 (0.24%) SAP ERP
12 14 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
12 14 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
13 13 (0.22%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 1,054 (17.81%) Azure
2 704 (11.90%) AWS
3 396 (6.69%) Power Platform
4 271 (4.58%) GCP
5 236 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
6 213 (3.60%) SaaS
7 157 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
8 138 (2.33%) Entra ID
9 121 (2.04%) GitHub
10 118 (1.99%) Snowflake
11 93 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
12 79 (1.34%) SuccessFactors
13 66 (1.12%) OCI
14 63 (1.06%) Serverless
15 59 (1.00%) Amazon S3
16 58 (0.98%) Microsoft Copilot
16 58 (0.98%) PowerApps
17 55 (0.93%) Power Automate
18 54 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
19 51 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 105 (1.77%) Firewall
2 102 (1.72%) Network Security
3 61 (1.03%) WAN
4 60 (1.01%) DNS
5 43 (0.73%) LAN
6 38 (0.64%) TCP/IP
6 38 (0.64%) VPN
7 33 (0.56%) SD-WAN
8 32 (0.54%) DHCP
9 24 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (0.37%) BGP
11 20 (0.34%) 4G
11 20 (0.34%) 5G
12 19 (0.32%) OSPF
13 16 (0.27%) Internet
13 16 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
13 16 (0.27%) Wireless
14 15 (0.25%) MPLS
15 13 (0.22%) 3G
15 13 (0.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 321 (5.43%) Power BI
2 156 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
3 121 (2.04%) Metadata
4 80 (1.35%) SQL Server
5 76 (1.28%) Data Lake
6 70 (1.18%) Tableau
7 54 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
8 44 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
9 43 (0.73%) Relational Database
10 38 (0.64%) Delta Lake
11 33 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
12 31 (0.52%) Oracle Database
13 27 (0.46%) Big Data
14 26 (0.44%) BigQuery
15 24 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
16 22 (0.37%) Looker
16 22 (0.37%) MongoDB
16 22 (0.37%) NoSQL
17 21 (0.35%) DynamoDB
18 19 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 611 (10.33%) JIRA
2 98 (1.66%) Git
3 87 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 61 (1.03%) GitLab
5 50 (0.85%) Selenium
6 32 (0.54%) JUnit
7 28 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 25 (0.42%) Postman
9 21 (0.35%) JMeter
9 21 (0.35%) SonarQube
10 17 (0.29%) Cypress.io
10 17 (0.29%) Gatling
11 16 (0.27%) Zephyr
12 15 (0.25%) WebDriver
13 14 (0.24%) Maven
14 13 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (0.19%) LoadRunner
16 10 (0.17%) ERwin
16 10 (0.17%) Mockito
17 9 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,988 (50.50%) Social Skills
2 2,047 (34.60%) Finance
3 976 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 730 (12.34%) Public Sector
5 577 (9.75%) Banking
6 364 (6.15%) Retail
7 317 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
8 256 (4.33%) Legal
9 240 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
10 209 (3.53%) Marketing
11 202 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
12 181 (3.06%) Manufacturing
13 152 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
14 146 (2.47%) Telecoms
15 121 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 103 (1.74%) Local Government
17 94 (1.59%) Aerospace
18 87 (1.47%) Billing
19 83 (1.40%) Front Office
20 79 (1.34%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 874 (14.77%) Analyst
2 855 (14.45%) Lead
3 759 (12.83%) Project Manager
4 701 (11.85%) Architect
5 635 (10.73%) Senior
6 582 (9.84%) Business Analyst
7 354 (5.98%) Consultant
8 277 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
9 240 (4.06%) Senior Manager
10 184 (3.11%) Programme Manager
11 180 (3.04%) Delivery Manager
12 168 (2.84%) IT Manager
13 142 (2.40%) Product Manager
14 130 (2.20%) Developer
15 121 (2.04%) Senior Project Manager
16 117 (1.98%) Technical Manager
17 116 (1.96%) Product Owner
18 103 (1.74%) Senior Analyst
19 101 (1.71%) Data Analyst
20 100 (1.69%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (2.59%) REST
2 108 (1.83%) Middleware
3 91 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
4 72 (1.22%) SOAP
5 67 (1.13%) .NET
6 53 (0.90%) Kafka
7 47 (0.79%) JSON
8 44 (0.74%) PySpark
9 43 (0.73%) React
10 42 (0.71%) OAuth
11 40 (0.68%) SailPoint
12 39 (0.66%) Spring
13 38 (0.64%) HTML
14 34 (0.57%) CSS
15 33 (0.56%) Web Services
16 32 (0.54%) XML
17 30 (0.51%) Playwright
18 27 (0.46%) AngularJS
18 27 (0.46%) OpenID
18 27 (0.46%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 452 (7.64%) Product Ownership
2 338 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 197 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 171 (2.89%) Management Information System
5 169 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 131 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
7 127 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 110 (1.86%) Data Structures
9 103 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
10 98 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
11 94 (1.59%) Virtual Team
12 85 (1.44%) Operational Technology
13 80 (1.35%) AI Agents
13 80 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
14 75 (1.27%) Security Posture
15 73 (1.23%) NHS
16 62 (1.05%) CMDB
17 60 (1.01%) FMCG
18 59 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
19 50 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 182 (3.08%) Windows
2 103 (1.74%) Linux
3 43 (0.73%) Windows Server
4 38 (0.64%) Unix
5 31 (0.52%) Android
6 27 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.17%) VMS
10 5 (0.085%) Solaris
10 5 (0.085%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.068%) AIX
11 4 (0.068%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.068%) zOS
12 3 (0.051%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.034%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.034%) HPUX
13 2 (0.034%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,921 (32.47%) Agile
2 1,034 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
3 948 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
4 898 (15.18%) Roadmaps
5 826 (13.96%) Migration
6 795 (13.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 740 (12.51%) Decision-Making
8 731 (12.35%) Project Management
9 704 (11.90%) DevOps
10 682 (11.53%) AI
11 679 (11.48%) Project Delivery
12 654 (11.05%) Analytics
13 614 (10.38%) Change Management
14 584 (9.87%) Risk Management
15 526 (8.89%) CI/CD
16 521 (8.81%) Workshop Facilitation
17 502 (8.48%) User Acceptance Testing
18 482 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
19 472 (7.98%) Scrum
19 472 (7.98%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 496 (8.38%) SQL
2 344 (5.81%) Python
3 132 (2.23%) Java
4 100 (1.69%) PowerShell
5 97 (1.64%) JavaScript
6 56 (0.95%) C#
7 42 (0.71%) Bash
8 29 (0.49%) Bicep
9 27 (0.46%) TypeScript
10 24 (0.41%) ABAP
10 24 (0.41%) Korn
11 21 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 18 (0.30%) PL/SQL
12 18 (0.30%) R
12 18 (0.30%) VBA
13 16 (0.27%) T-SQL
14 15 (0.25%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.20%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,161 (19.62%) Security Cleared
2 851 (14.38%) SC Cleared
3 415 (7.01%) Degree
4 288 (4.87%) PMP
5 249 (4.21%) PMI Certification
6 214 (3.62%) DV Cleared
7 171 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 136 (2.30%) CISSP
9 103 (1.74%) CISM
10 102 (1.72%) Azure Certification
11 66 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
12 57 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
13 56 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
14 55 (0.93%) AWS Certification
15 43 (0.73%) Master's Degree
16 42 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 38 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
18 35 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 34 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
20 33 (0.56%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 379 (6.41%) Data Quality
2 331 (5.59%) QA
3 286 (4.83%) PMO
4 215 (3.63%) GDPR
5 150 (2.54%) NIST
6 148 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 130 (2.20%) Accessibility
8 104 (1.76%) GRC
9 92 (1.55%) SLA
10 49 (0.83%) NCSC
11 43 (0.73%) WCAG
12 37 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 31 (0.52%) SOC 2
14 30 (0.51%) COBIT
15 25 (0.42%) PCI DSS
16 23 (0.39%) IFRS
17 22 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
18 17 (0.29%) ISO 20022
19 16 (0.27%) JSP 440
19 16 (0.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 137 (2.32%) Active Directory
2 131 (2.21%) Docker
3 58 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 16 (0.27%) vSphere
7 13 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (0.20%) NFS
9 10 (0.17%) Postfix
10 9 (0.15%) Hyper-V
11 6 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.068%) SRDF
12 4 (0.068%) Varnish
13 3 (0.051%) HDFS
13 3 (0.051%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.034%) Ceph
14 2 (0.034%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.034%) KVM
14 2 (0.034%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 182 (3.08%) Terraform
2 173 (2.92%) Kubernetes
3 85 (1.44%) Ansible
4 57 (0.96%) Grafana
5 46 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 43 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 28 (0.47%) SCCM
9 17 (0.29%) Argo
10 10 (0.17%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.15%) Puppet
12 8 (0.14%) Control-M
12 8 (0.14%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.12%) HP ALM
13 7 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 6 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.085%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.085%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.085%) RSA Archer
16 4 (0.068%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 847 (14.31%) Microsoft
2 470 (7.94%) SAP
3 320 (5.41%) Oracle
4 309 (5.22%) ServiceNow
5 224 (3.79%) Salesforce
6 153 (2.59%) Databricks
7 117 (1.98%) Google
8 96 (1.62%) VMware
9 88 (1.49%) Workday
10 63 (1.06%) Cisco
11 56 (0.95%) Adobe
12 51 (0.86%) CyberArk
13 50 (0.85%) IBM
14 40 (0.68%) Splunk
15 38 (0.64%) MuleSoft
16 34 (0.57%) Ariba
17 33 (0.56%) Atlassian
18 31 (0.52%) Informatica
19 30 (0.51%) F5
20 29 (0.49%) Foundry