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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 7,065 2,937 2,520
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.18% 10.56% 7.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.91% 11.62% 8.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,678 1,999 1,612
10th Percentile £385 £362 £363
25th Percentile £456 £447 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £649 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £549 £530 £538
% change year-on-year +3.63% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 59 70
10th Percentile £19.70 £28.04 £34.73
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.00 £41.66
Median hourly rate £60.25 £49.00 £61.33
Median % change year-on-year +22.96% -20.10% +22.76%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.38 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £77.75 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £49.00 £60.30
% change year-on-year +23.47% -18.74% +13.84%

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 39,448 25,281 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.75% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 16,062 17,635
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -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 2,805 1,509 1,303
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.55
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% -1.91%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +13 3,724 £560 +1.08% 3,823
North of England +5 1,057 £507 +1.30% 950
South East +10 898 £550 +4.76% 1,275
Midlands +6 620 £500 -4.76% 650
North West +4 538 £525 +5.00% 581
West Midlands +9 496 £498 -8.12% 455
Yorkshire +8 451 £500 - 287
South West +8 380 £550 - 401
East of England +10 219 £520 -5.45% 314
East Midlands 0 109 £500 +13.31% 195
North East -5 77 £500 -3.38% 87
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
1 353 (5.00%) Confluence
2 195 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 66 (0.93%) CMS
4 47 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 38 (0.54%) Apache
6 29 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 24 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.31%) SAS
9 13 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 9 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 9 (0.13%) WordPress
11 7 (0.099%) Oracle Workflow
11 7 (0.099%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.085%) ArcGIS
12 6 (0.085%) CICS
12 6 (0.085%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.071%) nginx
13 5 (0.071%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.071%) Sitecore CMS
14 4 (0.057%) Moodle
Applications
1 319 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 168 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 164 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
4 141 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
5 74 (1.05%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.35%) Revit
7 19 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 18 (0.25%) Navisworks
9 17 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
10 14 (0.20%) Chatbot
11 11 (0.16%) Trello
12 9 (0.13%) ProjectWise
13 7 (0.099%) Windchill
14 6 (0.085%) Adobe XD
15 5 (0.071%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 4 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
16 4 (0.057%) Notion
16 4 (0.057%) Photoshop
16 4 (0.057%) Sketch
17 3 (0.042%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 246 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 96 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 31 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 28 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 27 (0.38%) Workday HCM
7 26 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
8 24 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
9 22 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
10 20 (0.28%) SAP ERP
10 20 (0.28%) SAP Payroll
11 19 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
12 18 (0.25%) SAP MDG
13 17 (0.24%) Aladdin
13 17 (0.24%) SAP FI
13 17 (0.24%) SAP HR
14 16 (0.23%) SAP HCM
14 16 (0.23%) SAP SD
15 15 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
15 15 (0.21%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,285 (18.19%) Azure
2 865 (12.24%) AWS
3 543 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 341 (4.83%) GCP
5 282 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
6 250 (3.54%) SaaS
7 222 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
8 172 (2.43%) GitHub
9 167 (2.36%) Entra ID
10 145 (2.05%) Snowflake
11 140 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
12 103 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
13 99 (1.40%) Serverless
14 90 (1.27%) Power Automate
15 81 (1.15%) PowerApps
16 79 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
17 73 (1.03%) Amazon S3
17 73 (1.03%) OCI
18 71 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
19 66 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 134 (1.90%) Firewall
2 132 (1.87%) Network Security
3 77 (1.09%) WAN
4 70 (0.99%) DNS
5 48 (0.68%) LAN
6 46 (0.65%) VPN
7 45 (0.64%) DHCP
8 44 (0.62%) TCP/IP
9 35 (0.50%) SD-WAN
10 28 (0.40%) 4G
10 28 (0.40%) 5G
10 28 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (0.34%) BGP
12 23 (0.33%) Wireless
13 21 (0.30%) Internet
14 20 (0.28%) Broadband
14 20 (0.28%) MPLS
15 16 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
15 16 (0.23%) SAN
15 16 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 420 (5.94%) Power BI
2 202 (2.86%) Metadata
3 195 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
4 116 (1.64%) SQL Server
5 96 (1.36%) Data Lake
6 79 (1.12%) Tableau
7 72 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
8 52 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 51 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 51 (0.72%) Delta Lake
10 48 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
11 45 (0.64%) BigQuery
12 42 (0.59%) MongoDB
13 34 (0.48%) Looker
14 32 (0.45%) NoSQL
14 32 (0.45%) Oracle Database
15 29 (0.41%) DynamoDB
16 27 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
17 24 (0.34%) Big Data
18 23 (0.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 661 (9.36%) JIRA
2 137 (1.94%) Git
3 99 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 87 (1.23%) GitLab
5 65 (0.92%) Selenium
6 42 (0.59%) Cucumber
7 37 (0.52%) JUnit
8 31 (0.44%) SonarQube
9 30 (0.42%) Postman
10 28 (0.40%) Gatling
11 19 (0.27%) Cypress.io
12 17 (0.24%) Zephyr
13 15 (0.21%) JMeter
13 15 (0.21%) Maven
14 12 (0.17%) WebDriver
15 11 (0.16%) Claude Code
15 11 (0.16%) LoadRunner
15 11 (0.16%) Mockito
16 9 (0.13%) ERwin
17 8 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 3,755 (53.15%) Social Skills
2 2,345 (33.19%) Finance
3 1,191 (16.86%) Analytical Skills
4 903 (12.78%) Public Sector
5 706 (9.99%) Banking
6 428 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
7 412 (5.83%) Retail
8 321 (4.54%) Organisational Skills
9 299 (4.23%) Legal
10 249 (3.52%) Manufacturing
11 239 (3.38%) Marketing
12 234 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
13 184 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
13 184 (2.60%) Telecoms
14 145 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 134 (1.90%) Aerospace
16 113 (1.60%) Local Government
17 108 (1.53%) Front Office
18 92 (1.30%) Billing
19 91 (1.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,023 (14.48%) Analyst
2 967 (13.69%) Lead
3 952 (13.47%) Architect
4 782 (11.07%) Project Manager
5 749 (10.60%) Senior
6 657 (9.30%) Business Analyst
7 454 (6.43%) Consultant
8 321 (4.54%) Solutions Architect
9 253 (3.58%) Senior Manager
10 202 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
11 183 (2.59%) IT Manager
12 180 (2.55%) Programme Manager
13 176 (2.49%) Product Manager
14 165 (2.34%) Developer
15 138 (1.95%) Technical Manager
16 133 (1.88%) Senior Analyst
17 127 (1.80%) Product Owner
18 115 (1.63%) Data Analyst
18 115 (1.63%) Designer
18 115 (1.63%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (3.69%) Terraform
2 190 (2.69%) REST
3 131 (1.85%) Middleware
4 99 (1.40%) .NET
5 84 (1.19%) Kafka
5 84 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
6 79 (1.12%) SOAP
7 67 (0.95%) PySpark
8 63 (0.89%) OAuth
9 61 (0.86%) JSON
9 61 (0.86%) React
10 57 (0.81%) Spring
11 49 (0.69%) HTML
11 49 (0.69%) LDAP
12 46 (0.65%) Playwright
13 45 (0.64%) XML
14 44 (0.62%) CSS
15 41 (0.58%) Spring Boot
15 41 (0.58%) Web Services
16 40 (0.57%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 542 (7.67%) Product Ownership
2 414 (5.86%) Onboarding
3 283 (4.01%) Cloud Native
4 228 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 174 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
6 168 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 159 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
8 134 (1.90%) Data Centre
9 119 (1.68%) AI Agents
10 118 (1.67%) Data Structures
11 115 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
12 113 (1.60%) Operational Technology
13 106 (1.50%) Virtual Team
14 95 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
14 95 (1.34%) Security Posture
15 89 (1.26%) CMDB
16 86 (1.22%) NHS
17 78 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
18 74 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
19 62 (0.88%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 225 (3.18%) Windows
2 144 (2.04%) Linux
3 70 (0.99%) Windows Server
4 50 (0.71%) Unix
5 27 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.27%) Android
7 16 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.20%) VMS
9 13 (0.18%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.13%) zOS
11 7 (0.099%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.071%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.057%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.042%) CentOS
14 3 (0.042%) Solaris
15 2 (0.028%) HPUX
15 2 (0.028%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,226 (31.51%) Agile
2 1,287 (18.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,198 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
4 1,153 (16.32%) Roadmaps
5 988 (13.98%) Migration
6 947 (13.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 935 (13.23%) Decision-Making
8 911 (12.89%) AI
9 832 (11.78%) DevOps
10 816 (11.55%) Project Management
11 814 (11.52%) Project Delivery
12 804 (11.38%) Analytics
13 726 (10.28%) Change Management
14 699 (9.89%) Risk Management
15 691 (9.78%) Workshop Facilitation
16 686 (9.71%) CI/CD
17 588 (8.32%) User Acceptance Testing
18 587 (8.31%) Cybersecurity
19 583 (8.25%) Requirements Gathering
20 576 (8.15%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 636 (9.00%) SQL
2 457 (6.47%) Python
3 192 (2.72%) Java
4 138 (1.95%) PowerShell
5 135 (1.91%) JavaScript
6 88 (1.25%) C#
7 69 (0.98%) Bash
8 56 (0.79%) TypeScript
9 41 (0.58%) Bicep
10 35 (0.50%) ABAP
11 32 (0.45%) Korn
12 25 (0.35%) R
13 23 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 22 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 22 (0.31%) T-SQL
15 19 (0.27%) VBA
16 18 (0.25%) Go
17 16 (0.23%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.20%) Apex Code
19 11 (0.16%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,428 (20.21%) Security Cleared
2 1,045 (14.79%) SC Cleared
3 480 (6.79%) Degree
4 312 (4.42%) PMP
5 275 (3.89%) PMI Certification
6 270 (3.82%) DV Cleared
7 240 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 162 (2.29%) CISSP
9 129 (1.83%) Azure Certification
10 124 (1.76%) CISM
11 91 (1.29%) AWS Certification
12 89 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
13 77 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
13 77 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
14 54 (0.76%) Master's Degree
15 52 (0.74%) ACCA
16 49 (0.69%) CIMA
16 49 (0.69%) ISTQB
16 49 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
17 48 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 542 (7.67%) Data Quality
2 399 (5.65%) QA
3 327 (4.63%) PMO
4 219 (3.10%) GDPR
5 192 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 182 (2.58%) Accessibility
7 177 (2.51%) NIST
8 132 (1.87%) GRC
9 98 (1.39%) SLA
10 70 (0.99%) WCAG
11 62 (0.88%) NCSC
12 32 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
13 29 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 27 (0.38%) IFRS
15 25 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
15 25 (0.35%) ISO 20022
16 23 (0.33%) COBIT
16 23 (0.33%) PCI DSS
17 19 (0.27%) SEPA
17 19 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 183 (2.59%) Active Directory
2 165 (2.34%) Docker
3 69 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 27 (0.38%) vSphere
5 25 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.33%) VMware NSX
7 20 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 11 (0.16%) NFS
10 8 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.099%) Postfix
12 6 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.085%) Time Sharing Option
13 3 (0.042%) Ceph
13 3 (0.042%) Firmware
13 3 (0.042%) FreeRADIUS
13 3 (0.042%) KVM
13 3 (0.042%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.042%) RACF
Systems Management
1 235 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 108 (1.53%) Ansible
3 63 (0.89%) Grafana
4 47 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 41 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 30 (0.42%) SCCM
8 17 (0.24%) Argo
9 12 (0.17%) Control-M
10 11 (0.16%) Kibana
11 10 (0.14%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.11%) Puppet
13 7 (0.099%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.099%) HP ALM
13 7 (0.099%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 6 (0.085%) Oracle RMAN
14 6 (0.085%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.085%) WMI
15 5 (0.071%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.071%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,178 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 539 (7.63%) SAP
3 382 (5.41%) Oracle
4 353 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 255 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 220 (3.11%) Databricks
7 158 (2.24%) Google
8 104 (1.47%) VMware
9 102 (1.44%) Workday
10 87 (1.23%) Cisco
11 75 (1.06%) CyberArk
12 68 (0.96%) IBM
13 61 (0.86%) Adobe
14 60 (0.85%) Splunk
15 45 (0.64%) MuleSoft
16 43 (0.61%) Informatica
17 42 (0.59%) Ariba
18 32 (0.45%) Fortinet
19 31 (0.44%) Bloomberg
20 30 (0.42%) Atlassian