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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 7,278 2,944 2,507
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.63% 10.61% 7.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.47% 11.66% 9.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,817 2,004 1,562
10th Percentile £387 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £530 £540
% change year-on-year +3.77% -1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 63 67
10th Percentile £20.00 £27.42 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.00 £47.32
Median hourly rate £60.50 £49.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -19.64% +30.54%
75th Percentile £80.00 £60.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £99.75 £76.75 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £49.50 £60.30
% change year-on-year +21.72% -17.91% +17.27%

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 39,415 25,251 27,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.00% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,982 16,042 16,911
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -2.64% -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 2,873 1,537 1,195
10th Percentile £13.88 £14.39 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £47.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.86 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +54.51% -40.82% -

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 3,836 £563 +2.27% 3,087
North of England +6 1,085 £503 +0.60% 926
South East +12 923 £550 +4.76% 950
Midlands +6 654 £500 -4.76% 624
West Midlands +7 534 £490 -10.91% 425
North West +4 534 £525 +5.00% 539
Yorkshire +8 482 £500 - 289
South West +8 373 £550 - 340
East of England +10 224 £510 -7.27% 299
East Midlands 0 104 £500 +12.11% 199
North East +1 78 £500 -3.85% 99
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
1 361 (4.96%) Confluence
2 202 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 70 (0.96%) CMS
4 52 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 43 (0.59%) Apache
6 30 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 24 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 21 (0.29%) SAS
9 13 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.14%) Headless CMS
10 10 (0.14%) WordPress
11 9 (0.12%) CICS
12 7 (0.096%) nginx
12 7 (0.096%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.082%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.082%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.082%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.069%) NetWeaver
14 5 (0.069%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.069%) WebLogic
Applications
1 322 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 170 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 164 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
4 135 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
5 73 (1.00%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.34%) Revit
7 19 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 18 (0.25%) Navisworks
9 15 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
10 14 (0.19%) Chatbot
11 11 (0.15%) Trello
12 9 (0.12%) ProjectWise
13 7 (0.096%) Windchill
14 5 (0.069%) Adobe XD
15 4 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 4 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
15 4 (0.055%) Notion
15 4 (0.055%) Photoshop
16 3 (0.041%) CPLEX
16 3 (0.041%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 265 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 95 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 38 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 33 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
5 31 (0.43%) Workday HCM
6 28 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 26 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
7 26 (0.36%) SAP FI
8 24 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
9 23 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
9 23 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
10 22 (0.30%) SAP HCM
11 21 (0.29%) SAP HR
12 20 (0.27%) Aladdin
13 19 (0.26%) SAP ERP
14 18 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
15 17 (0.23%) SAP MDG
16 16 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
16 16 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
16 16 (0.22%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,310 (18.00%) Azure
2 878 (12.06%) AWS
3 569 (7.82%) Power Platform
4 356 (4.89%) GCP
5 281 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
6 256 (3.52%) SaaS
7 232 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
8 182 (2.50%) GitHub
9 174 (2.39%) Entra ID
10 148 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
10 148 (2.03%) Snowflake
11 110 (1.51%) Microsoft Copilot
12 102 (1.40%) Serverless
13 96 (1.32%) Power Automate
14 88 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
15 84 (1.15%) PowerApps
16 76 (1.04%) Amazon S3
17 73 (1.00%) OCI
18 69 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
18 69 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 144 (1.98%) Firewall
2 135 (1.85%) Network Security
3 79 (1.09%) WAN
4 71 (0.98%) DNS
5 50 (0.69%) LAN
5 50 (0.69%) VPN
6 46 (0.63%) DHCP
7 45 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 37 (0.51%) SD-WAN
9 27 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
10 25 (0.34%) 4G
10 25 (0.34%) 5G
10 25 (0.34%) BGP
11 24 (0.33%) Internet
12 23 (0.32%) Wireless
13 21 (0.29%) Broadband
13 21 (0.29%) MPLS
14 18 (0.25%) VLAN
15 17 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
16 16 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 441 (6.06%) Power BI
2 205 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
3 202 (2.78%) Metadata
4 118 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 99 (1.36%) Data Lake
6 89 (1.22%) Tableau
7 73 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
8 53 (0.73%) BigQuery
9 50 (0.69%) Delta Lake
9 50 (0.69%) Relational Database
10 49 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
10 49 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
10 49 (0.67%) MongoDB
11 39 (0.54%) Looker
12 34 (0.47%) Oracle Database
13 33 (0.45%) NoSQL
14 29 (0.40%) DynamoDB
15 28 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
16 25 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 23 (0.32%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 666 (9.15%) JIRA
2 145 (1.99%) Git
3 99 (1.36%) GitLab
4 97 (1.33%) Jenkins
5 71 (0.98%) Selenium
6 49 (0.67%) Cucumber
7 44 (0.60%) JUnit
8 35 (0.48%) Gatling
9 32 (0.44%) SonarQube
10 30 (0.41%) Postman
11 20 (0.27%) Zephyr
12 18 (0.25%) Cypress.io
13 15 (0.21%) JMeter
14 14 (0.19%) Maven
15 12 (0.16%) LoadRunner
15 12 (0.16%) WebDriver
16 11 (0.15%) Claude Code
16 11 (0.15%) MSI
17 10 (0.14%) Mockito
18 9 (0.12%) ERwin
General
1 3,893 (53.49%) Social Skills
2 2,413 (33.15%) Finance
3 1,216 (16.71%) Analytical Skills
4 960 (13.19%) Public Sector
5 751 (10.32%) Banking
6 443 (6.09%) Influencing Skills
7 406 (5.58%) Retail
8 328 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
9 320 (4.40%) Legal
10 271 (3.72%) Manufacturing
11 246 (3.38%) Marketing
12 237 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
13 193 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
14 180 (2.47%) Telecoms
15 149 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 137 (1.88%) Aerospace
17 119 (1.64%) Local Government
18 114 (1.57%) Front Office
19 97 (1.33%) Billing
20 91 (1.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,045 (14.36%) Analyst
2 987 (13.56%) Architect
3 983 (13.51%) Lead
4 785 (10.79%) Project Manager
5 775 (10.65%) Senior
6 673 (9.25%) Business Analyst
7 482 (6.62%) Consultant
8 327 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
9 249 (3.42%) Senior Manager
10 207 (2.84%) Delivery Manager
11 181 (2.49%) IT Manager
12 179 (2.46%) Product Manager
13 176 (2.42%) Programme Manager
14 168 (2.31%) Developer
15 142 (1.95%) Senior Analyst
16 137 (1.88%) Technical Manager
17 134 (1.84%) Product Owner
18 120 (1.65%) Data Analyst
19 119 (1.64%) Data Engineer
20 115 (1.58%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 272 (3.74%) Terraform
2 201 (2.76%) REST
3 141 (1.94%) Middleware
4 106 (1.46%) .NET
5 88 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
6 82 (1.13%) Kafka
7 81 (1.11%) SOAP
8 72 (0.99%) PySpark
9 67 (0.92%) React
10 65 (0.89%) JSON
10 65 (0.89%) OAuth
11 61 (0.84%) Spring
12 52 (0.71%) Playwright
13 51 (0.70%) HTML
14 49 (0.67%) LDAP
15 45 (0.62%) XML
16 44 (0.60%) CSS
17 42 (0.58%) SailPoint
18 41 (0.56%) Web Services
19 40 (0.55%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 568 (7.80%) Product Ownership
2 440 (6.05%) Onboarding
3 293 (4.03%) Cloud Native
4 235 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 192 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
6 174 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
7 166 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
8 142 (1.95%) Data Centre
9 127 (1.74%) AI Agents
10 121 (1.66%) Data Structures
11 116 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
11 116 (1.59%) Operational Technology
12 105 (1.44%) Virtual Team
13 99 (1.36%) Security Posture
14 91 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
14 91 (1.25%) CMDB
15 90 (1.24%) NHS
16 78 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
17 75 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
18 70 (0.96%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 237 (3.26%) Windows
2 149 (2.05%) Linux
3 75 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 53 (0.73%) Unix
5 25 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.26%) Android
7 18 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.19%) VMS
10 11 (0.15%) zOS
11 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.096%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.069%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.055%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.041%) CentOS
15 3 (0.041%) Solaris
16 2 (0.027%) AIX
16 2 (0.027%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,278 (31.30%) Agile
2 1,321 (18.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,237 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1,214 (16.68%) Roadmaps
5 1,050 (14.43%) Migration
6 973 (13.37%) Decision-Making
7 966 (13.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 957 (13.15%) AI
9 859 (11.80%) DevOps
10 839 (11.53%) Project Delivery
11 830 (11.40%) Analytics
12 809 (11.12%) Project Management
13 742 (10.20%) Workshop Facilitation
14 735 (10.10%) Change Management
15 721 (9.91%) Risk Management
16 717 (9.85%) CI/CD
17 616 (8.46%) User Acceptance Testing
18 613 (8.42%) Requirements Gathering
19 605 (8.31%) Cybersecurity
20 598 (8.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 664 (9.12%) SQL
2 475 (6.53%) Python
3 204 (2.80%) Java
4 151 (2.07%) JavaScript
5 146 (2.01%) PowerShell
6 90 (1.24%) C#
7 74 (1.02%) Bash
8 62 (0.85%) TypeScript
9 42 (0.58%) ABAP
10 41 (0.56%) Bicep
11 33 (0.45%) Korn
12 28 (0.38%) R
13 26 (0.36%) T-SQL
14 23 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 23 (0.32%) PL/SQL
15 18 (0.25%) Go
15 18 (0.25%) Shell Script
16 16 (0.22%) VBA
17 13 (0.18%) Apex Code
18 12 (0.16%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1,466 (20.14%) Security Cleared
2 1,081 (14.85%) SC Cleared
3 501 (6.88%) Degree
4 311 (4.27%) PMP
5 278 (3.82%) PMI Certification
6 272 (3.74%) DV Cleared
7 269 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 160 (2.20%) CISSP
9 128 (1.76%) Azure Certification
10 121 (1.66%) CISM
11 95 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
12 93 (1.28%) AWS Certification
13 79 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
13 79 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
14 59 (0.81%) ACCA
15 56 (0.77%) CIMA
15 56 (0.77%) Master's Degree
16 50 (0.69%) ISTQB
17 48 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
17 48 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 557 (7.65%) Data Quality
2 424 (5.83%) QA
3 326 (4.48%) PMO
4 222 (3.05%) GDPR
5 196 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 195 (2.68%) Accessibility
7 171 (2.35%) NIST
8 133 (1.83%) GRC
9 97 (1.33%) SLA
10 75 (1.03%) WCAG
11 65 (0.89%) NCSC
12 40 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
13 29 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 27 (0.37%) IFRS
15 26 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
16 25 (0.34%) ISO 20022
17 24 (0.33%) GxP
18 23 (0.32%) COBIT
18 23 (0.32%) PCI DSS
19 21 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 190 (2.61%) Active Directory
2 174 (2.39%) Docker
3 74 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.40%) vSphere
5 27 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 25 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (0.32%) VMware NSX
8 18 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.14%) NFS
10 8 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.082%) Postfix
11 6 (0.082%) Time Sharing Option
12 4 (0.055%) FreeRADIUS
12 4 (0.055%) IAG
13 3 (0.041%) KVM
13 3 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.041%) RACF
13 3 (0.041%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 249 (3.42%) Kubernetes
2 110 (1.51%) Ansible
3 61 (0.84%) Grafana
4 50 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 43 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 30 (0.41%) SCCM
8 17 (0.23%) Argo
9 13 (0.18%) Control-M
10 11 (0.15%) Kibana
11 9 (0.12%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.12%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.11%) Tivoli
12 8 (0.11%) WMI
13 7 (0.096%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.096%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 6 (0.082%) HP ALM
14 6 (0.082%) Oracle RMAN
14 6 (0.082%) Puppet
14 6 (0.082%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 1,224 (16.82%) Microsoft
2 575 (7.90%) SAP
3 396 (5.44%) Oracle
4 365 (5.02%) ServiceNow
5 260 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 227 (3.12%) Databricks
7 170 (2.34%) Google
8 111 (1.53%) Workday
9 106 (1.46%) VMware
10 97 (1.33%) Cisco
11 77 (1.06%) CyberArk
12 76 (1.04%) IBM
13 60 (0.82%) Adobe
13 60 (0.82%) Splunk
14 47 (0.65%) Ariba
15 42 (0.58%) MuleSoft
16 40 (0.55%) Informatica
17 35 (0.48%) Fortinet
18 31 (0.43%) Atlassian
18 31 (0.43%) Bloomberg