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

6 months to
3 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 6,519 2,841 2,491
As % of all contract jobs in England 14.29% 10.38% 7.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.83% 11.43% 8.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,320 1,924 1,663
10th Percentile £390 £359 £363
25th Percentile £458 £437 £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 £750 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 62 71
10th Percentile £21.81 £28.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £33.70 £33.41 £52.75
Median hourly rate £58.00 £49.25 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +17.77% -20.05% +30.54%
75th Percentile £80.00 £68.87 £75.00
90th Percentile £99.84 £78.63 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £59.75 £49.00 £61.06
% change year-on-year +21.94% -19.75% +25.90%

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 38,735 24,846 28,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.77% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,900 15,805 17,939
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,596 1,469 1,428
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.38 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +11 3,432 £563 +0.99% 3,670
North of England +3 978 £503 +0.50% 932
South East +9 841 £550 +2.42% 1,071
Midlands +4 563 £500 -4.76% 502
North West +2 512 £525 +5.00% 569
West Midlands +6 444 £500 -6.10% 340
Yorkshire +7 410 £500 +1.01% 264
South West +8 358 £550 +4.76% 463
East of England +8 206 £525 -4.55% 280
East Midlands -2 103 £500 +16.01% 160
North East -6 64 £480 -1.03% 105
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
1 341 (5.23%) Confluence
2 180 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 64 (0.98%) CMS
4 44 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 34 (0.52%) Apache
6 27 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 21 (0.32%) SAS
8 20 (0.31%) Apache Spark
9 12 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.092%) ArcGIS
12 6 (0.092%) WordPress
13 5 (0.077%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.077%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.077%) Oracle Workflow
13 5 (0.077%) Sitecore CMS
14 4 (0.061%) Appian
14 4 (0.061%) FactoryTalk
14 4 (0.061%) Moodle
Applications
1 298 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 164 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 157 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
4 148 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
5 70 (1.07%) MS Visio
6 21 (0.32%) Revit
7 17 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 17 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 16 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.18%) Navisworks
10 9 (0.14%) Trello
11 7 (0.11%) ProjectWise
12 6 (0.092%) Windchill
13 5 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.061%) Adobe XD
14 4 (0.061%) Notion
15 3 (0.046%) Adobe Illustrator
15 3 (0.046%) CPLEX
15 3 (0.046%) Photoshop
15 3 (0.046%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 229 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 83 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 27 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
5 26 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 23 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 23 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
7 20 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
8 19 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 19 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
9 18 (0.28%) Aladdin
10 17 (0.26%) SAP FI
10 17 (0.26%) SAP SD
11 16 (0.25%) SAP ERP
12 15 (0.23%) Primavera
12 15 (0.23%) SAP MDG
13 14 (0.21%) Finacle
13 14 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
14 13 (0.20%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 1,221 (18.73%) Azure
2 816 (12.52%) AWS
3 480 (7.36%) Power Platform
4 312 (4.79%) GCP
5 269 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
6 239 (3.67%) SaaS
7 197 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
8 165 (2.53%) Entra ID
9 146 (2.24%) GitHub
10 141 (2.16%) Snowflake
11 117 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
12 84 (1.29%) Serverless
13 83 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
14 73 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
15 70 (1.07%) PowerApps
16 68 (1.04%) OCI
17 67 (1.03%) Power Automate
18 65 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
19 60 (0.92%) Amazon S3
20 59 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 128 (1.96%) Network Security
2 127 (1.95%) Firewall
3 77 (1.18%) WAN
4 67 (1.03%) DNS
5 50 (0.77%) LAN
6 43 (0.66%) VPN
7 41 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 39 (0.60%) DHCP
9 38 (0.58%) SD-WAN
10 29 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (0.41%) 4G
11 27 (0.41%) 5G
11 27 (0.41%) BGP
12 25 (0.38%) Wireless
13 19 (0.29%) Internet
14 18 (0.28%) Broadband
14 18 (0.28%) MPLS
15 17 (0.26%) OSPF
16 16 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
16 16 (0.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (5.83%) Power BI
2 181 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
2 181 (2.78%) Metadata
3 105 (1.61%) SQL Server
4 84 (1.29%) Data Lake
5 78 (1.20%) Tableau
6 64 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
7 49 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 48 (0.74%) Delta Lake
8 48 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 41 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
10 35 (0.54%) MongoDB
11 34 (0.52%) BigQuery
12 31 (0.48%) Oracle Database
13 27 (0.41%) Looker
13 27 (0.41%) NoSQL
14 25 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
15 24 (0.37%) Big Data
16 22 (0.34%) DynamoDB
16 22 (0.34%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 634 (9.73%) JIRA
2 114 (1.75%) Git
3 87 (1.33%) Jenkins
4 67 (1.03%) GitLab
5 54 (0.83%) Selenium
6 30 (0.46%) Cucumber
7 29 (0.44%) JUnit
7 29 (0.44%) Postman
8 25 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 22 (0.34%) Gatling
10 18 (0.28%) Cypress.io
10 18 (0.28%) Zephyr
11 17 (0.26%) JMeter
12 14 (0.21%) Maven
13 12 (0.18%) LoadRunner
14 11 (0.17%) ERwin
14 11 (0.17%) Mockito
14 11 (0.17%) WebDriver
15 10 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
16 9 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 3,413 (52.35%) Social Skills
2 2,192 (33.62%) Finance
3 1,093 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
4 813 (12.47%) Public Sector
5 646 (9.91%) Banking
6 398 (6.11%) Retail
7 378 (5.80%) Influencing Skills
8 284 (4.36%) Organisational Skills
9 269 (4.13%) Legal
10 225 (3.45%) Marketing
11 223 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
12 215 (3.30%) Manufacturing
13 175 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
14 173 (2.65%) Telecoms
15 131 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 112 (1.72%) Aerospace
17 107 (1.64%) Local Government
18 96 (1.47%) Front Office
19 93 (1.43%) Billing
20 82 (1.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 953 (14.62%) Analyst
2 914 (14.02%) Lead
3 840 (12.89%) Architect
4 766 (11.75%) Project Manager
5 683 (10.48%) Senior
6 613 (9.40%) Business Analyst
7 423 (6.49%) Consultant
8 288 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
9 237 (3.64%) Senior Manager
10 185 (2.84%) Delivery Manager
11 182 (2.79%) Programme Manager
12 171 (2.62%) IT Manager
13 153 (2.35%) Product Manager
14 146 (2.24%) Developer
15 126 (1.93%) Technical Manager
16 122 (1.87%) Product Owner
17 116 (1.78%) Senior Analyst
18 115 (1.76%) Senior Project Manager
19 110 (1.69%) Data Analyst
19 110 (1.69%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (3.48%) Terraform
2 169 (2.59%) REST
3 118 (1.81%) Middleware
4 87 (1.33%) .NET
5 84 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
6 72 (1.10%) Kafka
7 71 (1.09%) SOAP
8 59 (0.91%) PySpark
9 55 (0.84%) JSON
10 54 (0.83%) OAuth
11 50 (0.77%) React
12 45 (0.69%) Spring
13 44 (0.67%) HTML
14 41 (0.63%) XML
15 40 (0.61%) SailPoint
16 39 (0.60%) CSS
16 39 (0.60%) Playwright
17 36 (0.55%) LDAP
18 35 (0.54%) OpenID
19 34 (0.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 492 (7.55%) Product Ownership
2 375 (5.75%) Onboarding
3 253 (3.88%) Cloud Native
4 195 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 160 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
6 152 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
7 150 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
8 132 (2.02%) Data Centre
9 115 (1.76%) Data Structures
10 100 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
11 99 (1.52%) AI Agents
12 98 (1.50%) Operational Technology
13 97 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
14 96 (1.47%) Virtual Team
15 85 (1.30%) Security Posture
16 78 (1.20%) CMDB
16 78 (1.20%) NHS
17 69 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
18 66 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
19 64 (0.98%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 202 (3.10%) Windows
2 128 (1.96%) Linux
3 60 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 46 (0.71%) Unix
5 25 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.28%) Android
7 16 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.21%) VMS
8 14 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.077%) Amazon Linux
11 5 (0.077%) zOS
12 4 (0.061%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.046%) CentOS
13 3 (0.046%) Solaris
14 2 (0.031%) AIX
14 2 (0.031%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,077 (31.86%) Agile
2 1,180 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,072 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
4 1,040 (15.95%) Roadmaps
5 915 (14.04%) Migration
6 886 (13.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 840 (12.89%) Decision-Making
8 825 (12.66%) AI
9 801 (12.29%) Project Management
10 787 (12.07%) DevOps
11 770 (11.81%) Project Delivery
12 736 (11.29%) Analytics
13 677 (10.39%) Change Management
14 640 (9.82%) Risk Management
15 635 (9.74%) Workshop Facilitation
16 608 (9.33%) CI/CD
17 554 (8.50%) User Acceptance Testing
18 547 (8.39%) Cybersecurity
19 531 (8.15%) Requirements Gathering
20 530 (8.13%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 575 (8.82%) SQL
2 409 (6.27%) Python
3 163 (2.50%) Java
4 130 (1.99%) PowerShell
5 118 (1.81%) JavaScript
6 73 (1.12%) C#
7 63 (0.97%) Bash
8 40 (0.61%) TypeScript
9 37 (0.57%) Bicep
10 28 (0.43%) Korn
11 26 (0.40%) ABAP
12 24 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 23 (0.35%) R
14 20 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 20 (0.31%) T-SQL
15 19 (0.29%) VBA
16 16 (0.25%) Shell Script
17 15 (0.23%) Apex Code
18 14 (0.21%) Go
19 10 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,314 (20.16%) Security Cleared
2 957 (14.68%) SC Cleared
3 439 (6.73%) Degree
4 304 (4.66%) PMP
5 267 (4.10%) PMI Certification
6 248 (3.80%) DV Cleared
7 199 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 152 (2.33%) CISSP
9 120 (1.84%) CISM
10 115 (1.76%) Azure Certification
11 80 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
12 76 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
13 74 (1.14%) AWS Certification
14 69 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
15 50 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
16 47 (0.72%) Master's Degree
17 45 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 44 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 43 (0.66%) ACCA
20 42 (0.64%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 461 (7.07%) Data Quality
2 374 (5.74%) QA
3 316 (4.85%) PMO
4 217 (3.33%) GDPR
5 169 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 163 (2.50%) NIST
7 155 (2.38%) Accessibility
8 122 (1.87%) GRC
9 94 (1.44%) SLA
10 56 (0.86%) WCAG
11 54 (0.83%) NCSC
12 30 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 26 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
14 24 (0.37%) IFRS
15 23 (0.35%) COBIT
15 23 (0.35%) SOC 2
16 22 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
16 22 (0.34%) PCI DSS
17 19 (0.29%) ISO 20022
18 17 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 168 (2.58%) Active Directory
2 142 (2.18%) Docker
3 66 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 21 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 20 (0.31%) vSphere
8 15 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 14 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
10 12 (0.18%) NFS
11 8 (0.12%) Postfix
12 6 (0.092%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.061%) Varnish
14 3 (0.046%) Ceph
14 3 (0.046%) KVM
14 3 (0.046%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.046%) Time Sharing Option
14 3 (0.046%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.031%) FreeRADIUS
15 2 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 206 (3.16%) Kubernetes
2 98 (1.50%) Ansible
3 61 (0.94%) Grafana
4 43 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.48%) SCCM
8 17 (0.26%) Argo
9 11 (0.17%) Control-M
10 10 (0.15%) Kibana
10 10 (0.15%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.12%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.12%) Puppet
12 7 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.092%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.092%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.077%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.077%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.077%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.077%) WMI
Vendors
1 1,055 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 505 (7.75%) SAP
3 351 (5.38%) Oracle
4 334 (5.12%) ServiceNow
5 239 (3.67%) Salesforce
6 206 (3.16%) Databricks
7 133 (2.04%) Google
8 98 (1.50%) VMware
9 91 (1.40%) Workday
10 80 (1.23%) Cisco
11 63 (0.97%) CyberArk
12 57 (0.87%) Adobe
13 53 (0.81%) Splunk
14 51 (0.78%) IBM
15 44 (0.67%) Ariba
16 39 (0.60%) Informatica
17 36 (0.55%) MuleSoft
18 30 (0.46%) F5
18 30 (0.46%) Foundry
19 29 (0.44%) Atlassian