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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 15 23
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,766 2,883 2,446
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.71% 10.38% 7.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.91% 11.44% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,836 1,962 1,712
10th Percentile £390 £360 £363
25th Percentile £459 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -2.36% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 67 67
10th Percentile £26.95 £30.28 £30.11
25th Percentile £35.14 £37.41 £53.75
Median hourly rate £61.75 £53.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +15.42% -13.15% +34.26%
75th Percentile £83.19 £72.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £102.80 £78.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £61.75 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +15.42% -10.83% +30.61%

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 38,664 25,206 28,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.74% 85.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,131 16,135 18,803
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 £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £757
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,474 1,396 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.14 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.85 £70.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%

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 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 3 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 3 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 3,013 £560 -1.41% 1,928
North of England 0 847 £500 - 598
South East +8 757 £550 +3.58% 729
Midlands +1 526 £500 -4.76% 347
North West -2 425 £525 +5.00% 327
West Midlands +3 416 £500 -7.53% 235
Yorkshire +6 371 £500 +2.04% 194
South West +10 332 £550 +4.76% 258
East of England +9 180 £525 -4.55% 158
East Midlands +3 96 £500 +24.22% 112
North East -12 59 £478 -2.05% 81
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
1 329 (5.71%) Confluence
2 152 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 54 (0.94%) CMS
4 28 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.47%) Apache
5 27 (0.47%) SAS
6 19 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 14 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.10%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.10%) WordPress
11 5 (0.087%) Appian
11 5 (0.087%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.069%) FactoryTalk
12 4 (0.069%) Kentico
13 3 (0.052%) Moodle
13 3 (0.052%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.052%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 243 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 153 (2.65%) Microsoft Project
3 129 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
4 121 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 69 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.31%) Revit
6 18 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 14 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.17%) Navisworks
8 10 (0.17%) Trello
9 5 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.087%) Sketch
10 4 (0.069%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.069%) Notion
10 4 (0.069%) ProjectWise
11 2 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.035%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.035%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 205 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 72 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 26 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 24 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 24 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
6 22 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 22 (0.38%) Workday HCM
7 19 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
7 19 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
8 18 (0.31%) SAP FI
9 16 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 16 (0.28%) SAP SD
10 14 (0.24%) Finacle
10 14 (0.24%) Primavera
10 14 (0.24%) SAP CO
10 14 (0.24%) SAP ERP
10 14 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
11 13 (0.23%) Aladdin
11 13 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,023 (17.74%) Azure
2 690 (11.97%) AWS
3 378 (6.56%) Power Platform
4 265 (4.60%) GCP
5 228 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
6 204 (3.54%) SaaS
7 149 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
8 127 (2.20%) Entra ID
9 115 (1.99%) GitHub
10 112 (1.94%) Snowflake
11 88 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
12 79 (1.37%) SuccessFactors
13 63 (1.09%) OCI
14 61 (1.06%) Amazon S3
14 61 (1.06%) Serverless
15 56 (0.97%) PowerApps
16 54 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
16 54 (0.94%) Power Automate
17 51 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
17 51 (0.88%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 102 (1.77%) Firewall
2 99 (1.72%) Network Security
3 62 (1.08%) WAN
4 57 (0.99%) DNS
5 44 (0.76%) LAN
6 39 (0.68%) TCP/IP
7 36 (0.62%) VPN
8 35 (0.61%) SD-WAN
9 31 (0.54%) DHCP
10 25 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (0.36%) BGP
12 19 (0.33%) 4G
12 19 (0.33%) 5G
12 19 (0.33%) OSPF
13 17 (0.29%) Wireless
14 15 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
15 14 (0.24%) BIG-IP
15 14 (0.24%) Internet
15 14 (0.24%) MPLS
16 13 (0.23%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 304 (5.27%) Power BI
2 147 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
3 112 (1.94%) Metadata
4 76 (1.32%) SQL Server
5 72 (1.25%) Data Lake
6 66 (1.14%) Tableau
7 52 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
8 43 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 42 (0.73%) Relational Database
10 36 (0.62%) Delta Lake
11 31 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
11 31 (0.54%) Oracle Database
12 26 (0.45%) Big Data
12 26 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
13 25 (0.43%) BigQuery
14 23 (0.40%) DynamoDB
15 21 (0.36%) Looker
15 21 (0.36%) NoSQL
16 19 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
16 19 (0.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 605 (10.49%) JIRA
2 93 (1.61%) Git
3 84 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 56 (0.97%) GitLab
5 48 (0.83%) Selenium
6 33 (0.57%) JUnit
7 27 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 25 (0.43%) Postman
9 22 (0.38%) SonarQube
10 18 (0.31%) JMeter
11 16 (0.28%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.26%) Maven
12 15 (0.26%) WebDriver
12 15 (0.26%) Zephyr
13 13 (0.23%) Gatling
14 12 (0.21%) Mockito
14 12 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (0.17%) DbUnit
15 10 (0.17%) ERwin
16 9 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,896 (50.23%) Social Skills
2 2,000 (34.69%) Finance
3 944 (16.37%) Analytical Skills
4 710 (12.31%) Public Sector
5 548 (9.50%) Banking
6 352 (6.10%) Retail
7 314 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
8 248 (4.30%) Legal
9 232 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
10 202 (3.50%) Marketing
11 195 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
12 171 (2.97%) Manufacturing
13 148 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
14 137 (2.38%) Telecoms
15 117 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 98 (1.70%) Local Government
17 88 (1.53%) Aerospace
18 85 (1.47%) Billing
19 82 (1.42%) Front Office
20 77 (1.34%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 858 (14.88%) Analyst
2 834 (14.46%) Lead
3 741 (12.85%) Project Manager
4 685 (11.88%) Architect
5 622 (10.79%) Senior
6 574 (9.95%) Business Analyst
7 329 (5.71%) Consultant
8 271 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
9 238 (4.13%) Senior Manager
10 185 (3.21%) Delivery Manager
11 180 (3.12%) Programme Manager
12 167 (2.90%) IT Manager
13 140 (2.43%) Product Manager
14 131 (2.27%) Developer
15 118 (2.05%) Senior Project Manager
16 117 (2.03%) Product Owner
17 112 (1.94%) Technical Manager
18 102 (1.77%) Senior Analyst
19 100 (1.73%) Designer
20 94 (1.63%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (2.58%) REST
2 103 (1.79%) Middleware
3 90 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
4 74 (1.28%) SOAP
5 66 (1.14%) .NET
6 50 (0.87%) Kafka
7 46 (0.80%) JSON
8 43 (0.75%) PySpark
8 43 (0.75%) React
9 40 (0.69%) OAuth
9 40 (0.69%) Spring
10 39 (0.68%) SailPoint
11 37 (0.64%) HTML
12 35 (0.61%) CSS
13 34 (0.59%) Web Services
14 30 (0.52%) AngularJS
15 29 (0.50%) Spring Boot
16 28 (0.49%) Playwright
16 28 (0.49%) XML
17 25 (0.43%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 440 (7.63%) Product Ownership
2 328 (5.69%) Onboarding
3 192 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 165 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 164 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
6 126 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
7 121 (2.10%) Data Centre
8 106 (1.84%) Data Structures
9 97 (1.68%) Virtual Team
10 95 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
11 93 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
12 81 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
13 80 (1.39%) Operational Technology
14 74 (1.28%) AI Agents
15 73 (1.27%) NHS
16 69 (1.20%) Security Posture
17 62 (1.08%) CMDB
18 58 (1.01%) FMCG
19 54 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
20 44 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 176 (3.05%) Windows
2 101 (1.75%) Linux
3 39 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 36 (0.62%) Unix
5 34 (0.59%) Android
6 29 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.17%) VMS
10 5 (0.087%) Solaris
10 5 (0.087%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.069%) AIX
11 4 (0.069%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.069%) zOS
12 3 (0.052%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.035%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.035%) HPUX
13 2 (0.035%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,880 (32.60%) Agile
2 1,007 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 924 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
4 867 (15.04%) Roadmaps
5 790 (13.70%) Migration
6 780 (13.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 724 (12.56%) Decision-Making
8 719 (12.47%) Project Management
9 686 (11.90%) DevOps
10 659 (11.43%) AI
11 652 (11.31%) Project Delivery
12 627 (10.87%) Analytics
13 603 (10.46%) Change Management
14 580 (10.06%) Risk Management
15 507 (8.79%) CI/CD
16 498 (8.64%) Workshop Facilitation
17 493 (8.55%) User Acceptance Testing
18 468 (8.12%) Scrum
19 461 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
20 456 (7.91%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 471 (8.17%) SQL
2 331 (5.74%) Python
3 129 (2.24%) Java
4 91 (1.58%) JavaScript
4 91 (1.58%) PowerShell
5 56 (0.97%) C#
6 39 (0.68%) Bash
7 26 (0.45%) Bicep
8 25 (0.43%) TypeScript
9 24 (0.42%) Korn
10 20 (0.35%) ABAP
10 20 (0.35%) VBA
11 19 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 18 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 18 (0.31%) R
13 16 (0.28%) T-SQL
14 15 (0.26%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.21%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.12%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,128 (19.56%) Security Cleared
2 833 (14.45%) SC Cleared
3 404 (7.01%) Degree
4 286 (4.96%) PMP
5 251 (4.35%) PMI Certification
6 203 (3.52%) DV Cleared
7 162 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 126 (2.19%) CISSP
9 97 (1.68%) CISM
10 94 (1.63%) Azure Certification
11 64 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
12 54 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
13 53 (0.92%) AWS Certification
14 51 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
15 43 (0.75%) Master's Degree
16 41 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 39 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
18 33 (0.57%) ISTQB
19 32 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 31 (0.54%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 353 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 325 (5.64%) QA
3 281 (4.87%) PMO
4 214 (3.71%) GDPR
5 148 (2.57%) NIST
6 142 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 123 (2.13%) Accessibility
8 102 (1.77%) GRC
9 91 (1.58%) SLA
10 48 (0.83%) NCSC
11 41 (0.71%) WCAG
12 37 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 32 (0.55%) COBIT
14 31 (0.54%) SOC 2
15 25 (0.43%) PCI DSS
16 21 (0.36%) IFRS
17 20 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
18 16 (0.28%) ISO 20022
18 16 (0.28%) JSP 440
19 15 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 130 (2.25%) Active Directory
2 123 (2.13%) Docker
3 50 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.28%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.21%) NFS
7 12 (0.21%) Postfix
7 12 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (0.21%) vSphere
8 8 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.069%) SRDF
10 4 (0.069%) Varnish
11 3 (0.052%) HDFS
11 3 (0.052%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.035%) Ceph
12 2 (0.035%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.035%) KVM
12 2 (0.035%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 168 (2.91%) Terraform
2 159 (2.76%) Kubernetes
3 82 (1.42%) Ansible
4 56 (0.97%) Grafana
5 46 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
6 40 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.59%) Prometheus
8 28 (0.49%) SCCM
9 17 (0.29%) Argo
10 9 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.16%) Puppet
11 8 (0.14%) Control-M
11 8 (0.14%) HP ALM
12 7 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 7 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.087%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.087%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.087%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.069%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 807 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 462 (8.01%) SAP
3 311 (5.39%) Oracle
4 310 (5.38%) ServiceNow
5 221 (3.83%) Salesforce
6 144 (2.50%) Databricks
7 116 (2.01%) Google
8 88 (1.53%) VMware
9 86 (1.49%) Workday
10 62 (1.08%) Cisco
11 54 (0.94%) Adobe
12 50 (0.87%) CyberArk
13 49 (0.85%) IBM
14 36 (0.62%) Ariba
14 36 (0.62%) MuleSoft
15 35 (0.61%) Splunk
16 32 (0.55%) Atlassian
17 31 (0.54%) F5
17 31 (0.54%) Informatica
18 27 (0.47%) Foundry