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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 15 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,109 2,642 2,733
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.63% 10.12% 7.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.63% 11.12% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,428 1,787 1,963
10th Percentile £381 £356 £358
25th Percentile £456 £431 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £740 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 62 76
10th Percentile £24.38 £31.64 £18.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £41.78 £35.94
Median hourly rate £60.50 £54.01 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.03% -9.99% +13.27%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £104.00 £78.63 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +13.08% -10.83% +13.27%

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 37,490 23,760 31,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.05% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,605 15,276 20,748
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,184 2,308
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +8 2,645 £560 -2.61% 1,287
North of England -1 736 £500 - 397
South East +5 666 £550 +4.76% 577
Midlands +1 519 £500 - 234
West Midlands +1 379 £500 -4.76% 143
North West -1 372 £509 +1.70% 244
Yorkshire +2 331 £500 +2.04% 129
South West +11 287 £550 +4.76% 175
East of England +9 150 £525 -6.67% 116
East Midlands +9 132 £488 +10.80% 89
North East -22 44 £478 +6.11% 32
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
1 291 (5.70%) Confluence
2 141 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 57 (1.12%) CMS
4 34 (0.67%) SAS
5 24 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.23%) Apache
8 11 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.18%) Appian
10 8 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 7 (0.14%) WordPress
12 6 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.098%) Apache Spark
13 5 (0.098%) Kentico
13 5 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.078%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.059%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
15 3 (0.059%) TPMS
16 2 (0.039%) IBM HTTP Server
16 2 (0.039%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 225 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 142 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
3 124 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
4 115 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (1.37%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.23%) Revit
8 10 (0.20%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.078%) Navisworks
9 4 (0.078%) Trello
10 3 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.059%) Notion
10 3 (0.059%) Sketch
11 2 (0.039%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.039%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.039%) Windchill
12 1 (0.020%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 175 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 57 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 24 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
4 24 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
5 22 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 21 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
7 17 (0.33%) Aladdin
7 17 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
8 15 (0.29%) Workday HCM
9 14 (0.27%) Finacle
9 14 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
10 13 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
10 13 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
10 13 (0.25%) SAP SD
11 12 (0.23%) SAP ERP
11 12 (0.23%) SAP FI
12 11 (0.22%) Primavera
13 10 (0.20%) Loan IQ
13 10 (0.20%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 827 (16.19%) Azure
2 580 (11.35%) AWS
3 309 (6.05%) Power Platform
4 211 (4.13%) GCP
5 178 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
6 176 (3.44%) SaaS
7 122 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
8 100 (1.96%) Entra ID
9 85 (1.66%) GitHub
9 85 (1.66%) Snowflake
10 62 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
11 56 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
12 54 (1.06%) OCI
13 53 (1.04%) Amazon S3
14 50 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
15 48 (0.94%) Serverless
16 44 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
16 44 (0.86%) PowerApps
17 41 (0.80%) Power Automate
18 39 (0.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 91 (1.78%) Network Security
2 89 (1.74%) Firewall
3 66 (1.29%) WAN
4 50 (0.98%) LAN
5 42 (0.82%) DNS
6 37 (0.72%) SD-WAN
7 31 (0.61%) VPN
8 29 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 28 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (0.43%) BGP
11 21 (0.41%) DHCP
12 19 (0.37%) OSPF
13 17 (0.33%) MPLS
14 14 (0.27%) BIG-IP
14 14 (0.27%) Wireless
15 13 (0.25%) NGFW
15 13 (0.25%) SAN
16 12 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
17 11 (0.22%) 5G
17 11 (0.22%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (4.89%) Power BI
2 112 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
3 94 (1.84%) Metadata
4 63 (1.23%) Data Lake
5 61 (1.19%) SQL Server
6 58 (1.14%) Tableau
7 41 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (0.72%) Relational Database
9 35 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 30 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
11 27 (0.53%) Oracle Database
11 27 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
12 24 (0.47%) NoSQL
13 21 (0.41%) Big Data
13 21 (0.41%) DynamoDB
14 20 (0.39%) Delta Lake
15 15 (0.29%) BigQuery
15 15 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
15 15 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (0.27%) Looker
Development Applications
1 545 (10.67%) JIRA
2 83 (1.62%) Jenkins
3 74 (1.45%) Git
4 42 (0.82%) GitLab
5 34 (0.67%) Selenium
6 29 (0.57%) JUnit
7 23 (0.45%) Postman
8 15 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.29%) JMeter
8 15 (0.29%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.27%) Maven
10 13 (0.25%) Mockito
11 10 (0.20%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.20%) DbUnit
11 10 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (0.20%) WebDriver
11 10 (0.20%) Zephyr
12 9 (0.18%) jMock
13 8 (0.16%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,569 (50.28%) Social Skills
2 1,826 (35.74%) Finance
3 788 (15.42%) Analytical Skills
4 618 (12.10%) Public Sector
5 464 (9.08%) Banking
6 304 (5.95%) Retail
7 266 (5.21%) Influencing Skills
8 231 (4.52%) Legal
9 192 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
10 187 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
11 175 (3.43%) Marketing
12 150 (2.94%) Manufacturing
13 126 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
14 116 (2.27%) Telecoms
15 94 (1.84%) Local Government
16 88 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 75 (1.47%) Financial Institution
18 71 (1.39%) Aerospace
19 70 (1.37%) Billing
20 69 (1.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 777 (15.21%) Analyst
2 725 (14.19%) Lead
3 714 (13.98%) Project Manager
4 594 (11.63%) Architect
5 538 (10.53%) Senior
6 522 (10.22%) Business Analyst
7 254 (4.97%) Consultant
8 230 (4.50%) Senior Manager
9 222 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
10 180 (3.52%) Programme Manager
11 169 (3.31%) Delivery Manager
12 159 (3.11%) IT Manager
13 119 (2.33%) Product Manager
14 117 (2.29%) Senior Project Manager
15 107 (2.09%) Product Owner
16 95 (1.86%) Change Manager
17 93 (1.82%) Technical Manager
18 90 (1.76%) Developer
19 86 (1.68%) Data Analyst
20 85 (1.66%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (2.41%) REST
2 90 (1.76%) Middleware
3 79 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
4 66 (1.29%) SOAP
5 55 (1.08%) .NET
6 41 (0.80%) JSON
7 37 (0.72%) OAuth
8 36 (0.70%) PySpark
9 35 (0.69%) Kafka
10 33 (0.65%) SailPoint
11 32 (0.63%) SAML
12 31 (0.61%) AngularJS
12 31 (0.61%) CSS
12 31 (0.61%) OpenID
12 31 (0.61%) Spring
13 29 (0.57%) XML
14 28 (0.55%) HTML
14 28 (0.55%) React
15 27 (0.53%) RESTful
15 27 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 371 (7.26%) Product Ownership
2 272 (5.32%) Onboarding
3 169 (3.31%) Cloud Native
4 151 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
5 141 (2.76%) Management Information System
6 122 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
7 112 (2.19%) Data Centre
8 93 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 93 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 83 (1.62%) Virtual Team
10 68 (1.33%) NHS
11 66 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 65 (1.27%) Operational Technology
13 63 (1.23%) Security Posture
14 59 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
15 51 (1.00%) Public Cloud
16 49 (0.96%) AI Agents
16 49 (0.96%) CMDB
17 48 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
18 47 (0.92%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 152 (2.98%) Windows
2 81 (1.59%) Linux
3 32 (0.63%) Android
4 28 (0.55%) Unix
5 27 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 25 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.14%) VMS
10 5 (0.098%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.098%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.078%) AIX
11 4 (0.078%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.078%) Solaris
11 4 (0.078%) zOS
12 2 (0.039%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.039%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.039%) HPUX
13 1 (0.020%) CentOS
13 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,675 (32.79%) Agile
2 837 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 800 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
4 718 (14.05%) Migration
5 707 (13.84%) Roadmaps
6 704 (13.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 668 (13.07%) Project Management
8 602 (11.78%) Decision-Making
9 595 (11.65%) DevOps
10 560 (10.96%) Change Management
11 559 (10.94%) Project Delivery
12 520 (10.18%) AI
13 518 (10.14%) Analytics
14 510 (9.98%) Risk Management
15 440 (8.61%) User Acceptance Testing
16 423 (8.28%) CI/CD
17 413 (8.08%) Validation
18 410 (8.03%) Workshop Facilitation
19 398 (7.79%) ITIL
20 396 (7.75%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 414 (8.10%) SQL
2 291 (5.70%) Python
3 101 (1.98%) Java
4 71 (1.39%) PowerShell
5 53 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 50 (0.98%) C#
7 30 (0.59%) Bash
8 22 (0.43%) Bicep
8 22 (0.43%) VBA
9 21 (0.41%) TypeScript
10 20 (0.39%) Korn
11 19 (0.37%) ABAP
12 15 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.25%) T-SQL
14 11 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 11 (0.22%) R
14 11 (0.22%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.16%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.16%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,010 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 759 (14.86%) SC Cleared
3 376 (7.36%) Degree
4 266 (5.21%) PMP
5 233 (4.56%) PMI Certification
6 154 (3.01%) DV Cleared
7 142 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 110 (2.15%) CISSP
9 82 (1.61%) Azure Certification
10 76 (1.49%) CISM
11 56 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 49 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
13 48 (0.94%) AWS Certification
14 45 (0.88%) Master's Degree
15 32 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
15 32 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 31 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
17 29 (0.57%) ACCA
18 28 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 27 (0.53%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (5.73%) Data Quality
2 277 (5.42%) QA
3 249 (4.87%) PMO
4 220 (4.31%) GDPR
5 159 (3.11%) NIST
6 146 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 92 (1.80%) GRC
8 87 (1.70%) SLA
9 80 (1.57%) Accessibility
10 55 (1.08%) NCSC
11 45 (0.88%) PCI DSS
12 37 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 33 (0.65%) COBIT
14 32 (0.63%) SOC 2
15 27 (0.53%) IFRS
16 19 (0.37%) WCAG
17 18 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
17 18 (0.35%) JSP 440
18 16 (0.31%) Solvency II
19 14 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 101 (1.98%) Docker
2 86 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 37 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.25%) VMware NSX
6 12 (0.23%) NFS
6 12 (0.23%) Postfix
7 11 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.14%) vSphere
10 4 (0.078%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.078%) SRDF
10 4 (0.078%) Varnish
11 3 (0.059%) HDFS
11 3 (0.059%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.039%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.039%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.039%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.020%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 144 (2.82%) Kubernetes
2 135 (2.64%) Terraform
3 75 (1.47%) Ansible
4 51 (1.00%) Grafana
5 38 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 37 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 32 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 18 (0.35%) SCCM
9 13 (0.25%) Argo
10 10 (0.20%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.16%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.14%) RSA Archer
12 7 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.12%) Puppet
13 6 (0.12%) vCenter Server
14 5 (0.098%) HAProxy
15 4 (0.078%) EMC VPLEX
15 4 (0.078%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.078%) vMotion
Vendors
1 646 (12.64%) Microsoft
2 412 (8.06%) SAP
3 279 (5.46%) Oracle
4 271 (5.30%) ServiceNow
5 194 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 106 (2.07%) Databricks
7 101 (1.98%) Google
8 77 (1.51%) VMware
9 70 (1.37%) Workday
10 60 (1.17%) Cisco
11 50 (0.98%) CyberArk
12 47 (0.92%) Adobe
13 43 (0.84%) Splunk
14 33 (0.65%) MuleSoft
15 32 (0.63%) Ariba
15 32 (0.63%) Informatica
16 29 (0.57%) F5
16 29 (0.57%) IBM
17 26 (0.51%) IFS
18 25 (0.49%) Citrix