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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 7,366 2,936 2,550
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.90% 10.58% 7.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.77% 11.63% 9.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,860 2,005 1,594
10th Percentile £390 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -2.36% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £739 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.37% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 64 68
10th Percentile £20.00 £24.05 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £61.00 £48.25 £61.33
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% -21.33% +29.96%
75th Percentile £80.06 £60.94 £75.00
90th Percentile £98.00 £73.38 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £48.25 £60.30
% change year-on-year +25.39% -19.98% +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 39,251 25,237 27,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.73% 90.91% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,728 16,010 16,947
10th Percentile £325 £297 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £642
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,965 1,563 1,177
10th Percentile £13.82 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.57 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.75 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +53.08% -38.77% -3.91%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +14 3,882 £563 +2.27% 3,701
North of England +7 1,104 £500 - 1,085
South East +12 938 £550 +4.76% 1,296
Midlands +8 661 £500 -4.76% 696
North West +4 553 £525 +5.00% 605
West Midlands +8 535 £488 -10.67% 461
Yorkshire +7 482 £500 - 356
South West +7 366 £550 - 390
East of England +12 236 £510 -7.27% 345
East Midlands +2 110 £509 +14.13% 235
North East +5 78 £500 -3.38% 127
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
1 364 (4.94%) Confluence
2 202 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 72 (0.98%) CMS
4 53 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 42 (0.57%) Apache
6 30 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 25 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.30%) SAS
9 13 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.14%) Headless CMS
10 10 (0.14%) WordPress
11 9 (0.12%) CICS
11 9 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 8 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
13 6 (0.081%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
13 6 (0.081%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.068%) NetWeaver
14 5 (0.068%) nginx
14 5 (0.068%) WebLogic
Applications
1 332 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 176 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 164 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
4 142 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
5 74 (1.00%) MS Visio
6 24 (0.33%) Revit
7 18 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 18 (0.24%) Navisworks
8 15 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
9 14 (0.19%) Chatbot
10 11 (0.15%) Trello
11 9 (0.12%) ProjectWise
12 8 (0.11%) Windchill
13 5 (0.068%) Adobe XD
14 4 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
14 4 (0.054%) Notion
14 4 (0.054%) Photoshop
15 3 (0.041%) CPLEX
15 3 (0.041%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 277 (3.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 96 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 38 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 34 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
5 33 (0.45%) Workday HCM
6 29 (0.39%) SAP FI
7 28 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
8 27 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
9 25 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
9 25 (0.34%) SAP HCM
9 25 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
10 24 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
11 23 (0.31%) SAP HR
12 21 (0.29%) Aladdin
13 18 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
13 18 (0.24%) SAP CO
13 18 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
14 17 (0.23%) SAP ERP
14 17 (0.23%) SAP MDG
15 16 (0.22%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,329 (18.04%) Azure
2 876 (11.89%) AWS
3 578 (7.85%) Power Platform
4 360 (4.89%) GCP
5 296 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
6 264 (3.58%) SaaS
7 240 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
8 190 (2.58%) GitHub
9 181 (2.46%) Entra ID
10 147 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
10 147 (2.00%) Snowflake
11 112 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
12 104 (1.41%) Serverless
13 94 (1.28%) Power Automate
14 92 (1.25%) SuccessFactors
15 82 (1.11%) PowerApps
16 76 (1.03%) OCI
17 74 (1.00%) Amazon S3
18 69 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
18 69 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 146 (1.98%) Firewall
2 137 (1.86%) Network Security
3 80 (1.09%) WAN
4 70 (0.95%) DNS
5 52 (0.71%) VPN
6 51 (0.69%) LAN
7 44 (0.60%) DHCP
7 44 (0.60%) TCP/IP
8 40 (0.54%) SD-WAN
9 27 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
10 26 (0.35%) BGP
11 25 (0.34%) Internet
12 24 (0.33%) 4G
12 24 (0.33%) 5G
12 24 (0.33%) Wireless
13 22 (0.30%) MPLS
14 21 (0.29%) Broadband
15 18 (0.24%) VLAN
16 17 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
17 16 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 446 (6.05%) Power BI
2 208 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
3 203 (2.76%) Metadata
4 121 (1.64%) SQL Server
5 101 (1.37%) Data Lake
6 90 (1.22%) Tableau
7 77 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
8 54 (0.73%) BigQuery
8 54 (0.73%) Relational Database
9 51 (0.69%) MongoDB
10 50 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 49 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
11 49 (0.67%) Delta Lake
12 41 (0.56%) Looker
13 37 (0.50%) Oracle Database
14 34 (0.46%) NoSQL
15 29 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
16 28 (0.38%) DynamoDB
17 26 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 24 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 674 (9.15%) JIRA
2 146 (1.98%) Git
3 99 (1.34%) GitLab
4 96 (1.30%) Jenkins
5 69 (0.94%) Selenium
6 49 (0.67%) Cucumber
7 43 (0.58%) JUnit
8 35 (0.48%) Gatling
9 31 (0.42%) SonarQube
10 29 (0.39%) Postman
11 18 (0.24%) Cypress.io
11 18 (0.24%) Zephyr
12 15 (0.20%) JMeter
13 13 (0.18%) Maven
14 12 (0.16%) LoadRunner
14 12 (0.16%) WebDriver
15 11 (0.15%) Claude Code
15 11 (0.15%) MSI
16 9 (0.12%) ERwin
16 9 (0.12%) Mockito
General
1 3,947 (53.58%) Social Skills
2 2,443 (33.17%) Finance
3 1,235 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
4 991 (13.45%) Public Sector
5 770 (10.45%) Banking
6 451 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
7 408 (5.54%) Retail
8 338 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
9 326 (4.43%) Legal
10 289 (3.92%) Manufacturing
11 250 (3.39%) Marketing
12 241 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
13 195 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
14 180 (2.44%) Telecoms
15 149 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 144 (1.95%) Aerospace
17 122 (1.66%) Local Government
18 120 (1.63%) Front Office
19 101 (1.37%) Investment Banking
20 99 (1.34%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,061 (14.40%) Analyst
2 996 (13.52%) Architect
3 989 (13.43%) Lead
4 797 (10.82%) Senior
5 782 (10.62%) Project Manager
6 683 (9.27%) Business Analyst
7 492 (6.68%) Consultant
8 333 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
9 255 (3.46%) Senior Manager
10 210 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
11 186 (2.53%) IT Manager
12 185 (2.51%) Product Manager
13 179 (2.43%) Programme Manager
14 172 (2.34%) Developer
15 144 (1.95%) Senior Analyst
16 138 (1.87%) Technical Manager
17 132 (1.79%) Product Owner
18 120 (1.63%) Data Analyst
18 120 (1.63%) Data Engineer
19 117 (1.59%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 276 (3.75%) Terraform
2 204 (2.77%) REST
3 141 (1.91%) Middleware
4 109 (1.48%) .NET
5 90 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
6 85 (1.15%) Kafka
7 75 (1.02%) SOAP
8 72 (0.98%) PySpark
9 68 (0.92%) React
10 67 (0.91%) OAuth
11 64 (0.87%) Spring
12 62 (0.84%) JSON
13 52 (0.71%) HTML
13 52 (0.71%) Playwright
14 49 (0.67%) LDAP
15 45 (0.61%) XML
16 44 (0.60%) CSS
17 42 (0.57%) SailPoint
18 41 (0.56%) OAuth2
18 41 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 566 (7.68%) Product Ownership
2 444 (6.03%) Onboarding
3 303 (4.11%) Cloud Native
4 248 (3.37%) Management Information System
5 207 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
6 175 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 165 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
8 144 (1.95%) Data Centre
9 139 (1.89%) AI Agents
10 122 (1.66%) Data Structures
11 121 (1.64%) Operational Technology
12 119 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
13 104 (1.41%) Virtual Team
14 98 (1.33%) Security Posture
15 95 (1.29%) CMDB
16 93 (1.26%) NHS
17 90 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
18 80 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
19 74 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
20 71 (0.96%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 239 (3.24%) Windows
2 149 (2.02%) Linux
3 77 (1.05%) Windows Server
4 55 (0.75%) Unix
5 24 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (0.27%) Android
7 18 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.19%) VMS
10 11 (0.15%) zOS
11 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.095%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.068%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.054%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.054%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.041%) CentOS
16 2 (0.027%) AIX
16 2 (0.027%) Data ONTAP
16 2 (0.027%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,285 (31.02%) Agile
2 1,349 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,268 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
4 1,248 (16.94%) Roadmaps
5 1,061 (14.40%) Migration
6 995 (13.51%) Decision-Making
7 994 (13.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 980 (13.30%) AI
9 865 (11.74%) DevOps
10 862 (11.70%) Project Delivery
11 858 (11.65%) Analytics
12 812 (11.02%) Project Management
13 781 (10.60%) Workshop Facilitation
14 747 (10.14%) Change Management
15 732 (9.94%) Risk Management
16 717 (9.73%) CI/CD
17 626 (8.50%) Requirements Gathering
18 623 (8.46%) User Acceptance Testing
19 617 (8.38%) Cybersecurity
20 605 (8.21%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 670 (9.10%) SQL
2 477 (6.48%) Python
3 205 (2.78%) Java
4 151 (2.05%) JavaScript
5 146 (1.98%) PowerShell
6 90 (1.22%) C#
7 74 (1.00%) Bash
8 62 (0.84%) TypeScript
9 45 (0.61%) Bicep
10 44 (0.60%) ABAP
11 35 (0.48%) Korn
12 27 (0.37%) R
13 26 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 23 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 22 (0.30%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.26%) Shell Script
17 18 (0.24%) Go
18 13 (0.18%) Apex Code
18 13 (0.18%) VBA
19 12 (0.16%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,476 (20.04%) Security Cleared
2 1,088 (14.77%) SC Cleared
3 508 (6.90%) Degree
4 317 (4.30%) PMP
5 286 (3.88%) PMI Certification
6 278 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 273 (3.71%) DV Cleared
8 164 (2.23%) CISSP
9 131 (1.78%) Azure Certification
10 122 (1.66%) CISM
11 96 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
12 93 (1.26%) AWS Certification
13 80 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
14 79 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
15 61 (0.83%) ACCA
16 58 (0.79%) CIMA
16 58 (0.79%) Master's Degree
17 51 (0.69%) ISTQB
18 48 (0.65%) CRISC
18 48 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 569 (7.72%) Data Quality
2 424 (5.76%) QA
3 322 (4.37%) PMO
4 220 (2.99%) GDPR
5 205 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 203 (2.76%) Accessibility
7 167 (2.27%) NIST
8 139 (1.89%) GRC
9 98 (1.33%) SLA
10 76 (1.03%) WCAG
11 65 (0.88%) NCSC
12 41 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
13 31 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 27 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
14 27 (0.37%) IFRS
15 25 (0.34%) ISO 20022
16 24 (0.33%) GxP
16 24 (0.33%) PCI DSS
17 23 (0.31%) COBIT
18 21 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 191 (2.59%) Active Directory
2 168 (2.28%) Docker
3 74 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.41%) vSphere
5 29 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 25 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 18 (0.24%) Hyper-V
9 16 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.12%) NFS
11 8 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.081%) Time Sharing Option
13 5 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.054%) FreeRADIUS
14 4 (0.054%) IAG
14 4 (0.054%) Postfix
15 3 (0.041%) Ceph
15 3 (0.041%) Firmware
15 3 (0.041%) KVM
15 3 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 249 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 108 (1.47%) Ansible
3 68 (0.92%) Grafana
4 51 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 43 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (0.43%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.42%) SCCM
8 17 (0.23%) Argo
9 14 (0.19%) Control-M
10 11 (0.15%) Kibana
11 10 (0.14%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.11%) Tivoli
13 8 (0.11%) WMI
14 7 (0.095%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.095%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 6 (0.081%) Puppet
15 6 (0.081%) Tivoli Monitoring
16 5 (0.068%) Data Guard
16 5 (0.068%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1,254 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 595 (8.08%) SAP
3 400 (5.43%) Oracle
4 369 (5.01%) ServiceNow
5 255 (3.46%) Salesforce
6 227 (3.08%) Databricks
7 168 (2.28%) Google
8 112 (1.52%) Workday
9 104 (1.41%) VMware
10 103 (1.40%) Cisco
11 76 (1.03%) CyberArk
12 75 (1.02%) IBM
13 62 (0.84%) Splunk
14 59 (0.80%) Adobe
15 51 (0.69%) Ariba
16 41 (0.56%) MuleSoft
17 40 (0.54%) Informatica
18 38 (0.52%) Fortinet
19 35 (0.48%) Dynatrace
20 32 (0.43%) OpenAI