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

6 months to
18 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 6,987 2,937 2,520
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.13% 10.56% 7.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.86% 11.62% 8.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,620 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 £648 £650 £638
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £530 £538
% change year-on-year +3.73% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 59 70
10th Percentile £19.50 £28.04 £34.73
25th Percentile £34.67 £33.00 £41.66
Median hourly rate £59.75 £49.00 £61.33
Median % change year-on-year +21.94% -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 39,123 25,281 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.74% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,918 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 2,776 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 18 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 18 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 18 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 3,679 £561 +1.26% 3,625
North of England +5 1,047 £507 +1.40% 939
South East +10 890 £550 +4.76% 1,290
Midlands +6 613 £500 -4.76% 639
North West +4 534 £525 +5.00% 572
West Midlands +9 491 £500 -7.66% 444
Yorkshire +8 446 £500 - 283
South West +8 377 £550 - 376
East of England +8 216 £515 -6.36% 308
East Midlands -1 107 £500 +13.31% 195
North East -5 76 £495 -4.35% 88
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
1 351 (5.02%) Confluence
2 195 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 64 (0.92%) CMS
4 47 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 38 (0.54%) Apache
6 29 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 24 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.31%) SAS
9 13 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 9 (0.13%) WordPress
11 8 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 7 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
12 7 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.086%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.086%) Jupyter
14 5 (0.072%) CICS
14 5 (0.072%) nginx
14 5 (0.072%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.072%) Sitecore CMS
15 4 (0.057%) Kentico
Applications
1 318 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 167 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 164 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
4 140 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
5 74 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.36%) Revit
7 19 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 17 (0.24%) Navisworks
8 17 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
9 14 (0.20%) Chatbot
10 10 (0.14%) Trello
11 9 (0.13%) ProjectWise
12 7 (0.10%) Windchill
13 6 (0.086%) Adobe XD
14 5 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 4 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
15 4 (0.057%) Notion
15 4 (0.057%) Photoshop
15 4 (0.057%) Sketch
16 3 (0.043%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 244 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 92 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 31 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 28 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 27 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 24 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
7 24 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 22 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
9 20 (0.29%) SAP Payroll
10 19 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
10 19 (0.27%) SAP ERP
11 18 (0.26%) SAP MDG
12 17 (0.24%) Aladdin
12 17 (0.24%) SAP FI
12 17 (0.24%) SAP HR
13 16 (0.23%) SAP HCM
13 16 (0.23%) SAP SD
14 15 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
14 15 (0.21%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,272 (18.21%) Azure
2 857 (12.27%) AWS
3 535 (7.66%) Power Platform
4 333 (4.77%) GCP
5 278 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
6 247 (3.54%) SaaS
7 218 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
8 168 (2.40%) GitHub
9 165 (2.36%) Entra ID
10 144 (2.06%) Snowflake
11 137 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
12 101 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
13 97 (1.39%) Serverless
14 88 (1.26%) Power Automate
15 81 (1.16%) PowerApps
16 79 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
17 72 (1.03%) Amazon S3
17 72 (1.03%) OCI
18 71 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
19 65 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 129 (1.85%) Firewall
2 128 (1.83%) Network Security
3 77 (1.10%) WAN
4 69 (0.99%) DNS
5 48 (0.69%) LAN
6 45 (0.64%) VPN
7 44 (0.63%) DHCP
8 42 (0.60%) 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 23 (0.33%) BGP
11 23 (0.33%) Wireless
12 21 (0.30%) Internet
13 20 (0.29%) Broadband
14 19 (0.27%) MPLS
15 16 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
15 16 (0.23%) SAN
15 16 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 415 (5.94%) Power BI
2 198 (2.83%) Metadata
3 194 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 114 (1.63%) SQL Server
5 96 (1.37%) Data Lake
6 78 (1.12%) Tableau
7 72 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
8 51 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 51 (0.73%) Delta Lake
8 51 (0.73%) Relational Database
9 48 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
10 42 (0.60%) BigQuery
11 41 (0.59%) MongoDB
12 32 (0.46%) NoSQL
12 32 (0.46%) Oracle Database
13 30 (0.43%) Looker
14 29 (0.42%) DynamoDB
15 27 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
16 24 (0.34%) Big Data
17 23 (0.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 655 (9.37%) JIRA
2 135 (1.93%) Git
3 98 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 85 (1.22%) GitLab
5 61 (0.87%) Selenium
6 38 (0.54%) Cucumber
7 35 (0.50%) JUnit
8 30 (0.43%) SonarQube
9 29 (0.42%) Postman
10 27 (0.39%) Gatling
11 18 (0.26%) Cypress.io
12 17 (0.24%) Zephyr
13 15 (0.21%) JMeter
13 15 (0.21%) Maven
14 11 (0.16%) LoadRunner
14 11 (0.16%) Mockito
14 11 (0.16%) WebDriver
15 10 (0.14%) Claude Code
16 9 (0.13%) ERwin
17 8 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 3,716 (53.18%) Social Skills
2 2,325 (33.28%) Finance
3 1,174 (16.80%) Analytical Skills
4 895 (12.81%) Public Sector
5 699 (10.00%) Banking
6 421 (6.03%) Influencing Skills
7 409 (5.85%) Retail
8 319 (4.57%) Organisational Skills
9 296 (4.24%) Legal
10 240 (3.43%) Manufacturing
11 237 (3.39%) Marketing
12 231 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
13 182 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
14 180 (2.58%) Telecoms
15 142 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 127 (1.82%) Aerospace
17 113 (1.62%) Local Government
18 107 (1.53%) Front Office
19 92 (1.32%) Billing
20 90 (1.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,012 (14.48%) Analyst
2 957 (13.70%) Lead
3 945 (13.53%) Architect
4 773 (11.06%) Project Manager
5 740 (10.59%) Senior
6 649 (9.29%) Business Analyst
7 449 (6.43%) Consultant
8 321 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
9 250 (3.58%) Senior Manager
10 199 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
11 181 (2.59%) IT Manager
12 177 (2.53%) Programme Manager
13 175 (2.50%) Product Manager
14 163 (2.33%) Developer
15 137 (1.96%) Technical Manager
16 130 (1.86%) Senior Analyst
17 127 (1.82%) Product Owner
18 115 (1.65%) Data Analyst
18 115 (1.65%) Designer
19 114 (1.63%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (3.62%) Terraform
2 186 (2.66%) REST
3 130 (1.86%) Middleware
4 99 (1.42%) .NET
5 84 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
6 82 (1.17%) Kafka
7 77 (1.10%) SOAP
8 67 (0.96%) PySpark
9 63 (0.90%) OAuth
10 61 (0.87%) JSON
10 61 (0.87%) React
11 56 (0.80%) Spring
12 49 (0.70%) HTML
12 49 (0.70%) LDAP
13 45 (0.64%) Playwright
13 45 (0.64%) XML
14 44 (0.63%) CSS
15 41 (0.59%) Spring Boot
16 40 (0.57%) SailPoint
16 40 (0.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 537 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 411 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 279 (3.99%) Cloud Native
4 226 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 172 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
6 165 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
7 158 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
8 134 (1.92%) Data Centre
9 118 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 115 (1.65%) AI Agents
11 114 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
12 108 (1.55%) Operational Technology
13 106 (1.52%) Virtual Team
14 94 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
15 92 (1.32%) Security Posture
16 86 (1.23%) CMDB
16 86 (1.23%) NHS
17 76 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
18 73 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
19 62 (0.89%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 223 (3.19%) Windows
2 138 (1.98%) Linux
3 68 (0.97%) Windows Server
4 47 (0.67%) Unix
5 26 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.27%) Android
7 16 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.20%) VMS
9 13 (0.19%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.11%) zOS
12 7 (0.10%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.072%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.057%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.043%) CentOS
15 3 (0.043%) Solaris
16 2 (0.029%) Data ONTAP
16 2 (0.029%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,204 (31.54%) Agile
2 1,268 (18.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,178 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
4 1,139 (16.30%) Roadmaps
5 973 (13.93%) Migration
6 937 (13.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 930 (13.31%) Decision-Making
8 899 (12.87%) AI
9 821 (11.75%) DevOps
10 811 (11.61%) Project Delivery
11 810 (11.59%) Project Management
12 799 (11.44%) Analytics
13 715 (10.23%) Change Management
14 690 (9.88%) Risk Management
15 680 (9.73%) Workshop Facilitation
16 675 (9.66%) CI/CD
17 581 (8.32%) User Acceptance Testing
18 578 (8.27%) Requirements Gathering
19 574 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
20 568 (8.13%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 630 (9.02%) SQL
2 450 (6.44%) Python
3 188 (2.69%) Java
4 136 (1.95%) PowerShell
5 132 (1.89%) JavaScript
6 85 (1.22%) C#
7 67 (0.96%) Bash
8 56 (0.80%) TypeScript
9 41 (0.59%) Bicep
10 35 (0.50%) ABAP
11 31 (0.44%) Korn
12 25 (0.36%) 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 16 (0.23%) Go
17 15 (0.21%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.20%) Apex Code
19 11 (0.16%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,410 (20.18%) Security Cleared
2 1,030 (14.74%) SC Cleared
3 469 (6.71%) Degree
4 309 (4.42%) PMP
5 272 (3.89%) PMI Certification
6 269 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 237 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 159 (2.28%) CISSP
9 128 (1.83%) Azure Certification
10 122 (1.75%) CISM
11 88 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
12 87 (1.25%) AWS Certification
13 76 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
14 75 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
15 53 (0.76%) Master's Degree
16 52 (0.74%) ACCA
17 49 (0.70%) CIMA
17 49 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
18 48 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 47 (0.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 539 (7.71%) Data Quality
2 396 (5.67%) QA
3 325 (4.65%) PMO
4 217 (3.11%) GDPR
5 189 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 179 (2.56%) Accessibility
7 172 (2.46%) NIST
8 130 (1.86%) GRC
9 95 (1.36%) SLA
10 68 (0.97%) WCAG
11 61 (0.87%) NCSC
12 32 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
13 29 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 27 (0.39%) IFRS
15 24 (0.34%) ISO 20022
16 23 (0.33%) COBIT
16 23 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
17 22 (0.31%) PCI DSS
18 19 (0.27%) SOC 2
19 18 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 182 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 163 (2.33%) Docker
3 67 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 27 (0.39%) vSphere
5 25 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.33%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 11 (0.16%) NFS
10 7 (0.10%) Postfix
11 6 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.086%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.072%) Time Sharing Option
13 3 (0.043%) Ceph
13 3 (0.043%) Firmware
13 3 (0.043%) FreeRADIUS
13 3 (0.043%) IAG
13 3 (0.043%) KVM
13 3 (0.043%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 232 (3.32%) Kubernetes
2 106 (1.52%) Ansible
3 62 (0.89%) Grafana
4 46 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 41 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 30 (0.43%) SCCM
8 17 (0.24%) Argo
9 12 (0.17%) Control-M
10 11 (0.16%) Kibana
11 10 (0.14%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.10%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.10%) HP ALM
12 7 (0.10%) Puppet
12 7 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.086%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.086%) WMI
14 5 (0.072%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.072%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.057%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,162 (16.63%) Microsoft
2 535 (7.66%) SAP
3 378 (5.41%) Oracle
4 349 (4.99%) ServiceNow
5 252 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 218 (3.12%) Databricks
7 150 (2.15%) Google
8 102 (1.46%) VMware
9 101 (1.45%) Workday
10 86 (1.23%) Cisco
11 75 (1.07%) CyberArk
12 67 (0.96%) IBM
13 61 (0.87%) Adobe
14 56 (0.80%) Splunk
15 45 (0.64%) MuleSoft
16 43 (0.62%) Informatica
17 42 (0.60%) Ariba
18 31 (0.44%) Bloomberg
19 30 (0.43%) Fortinet
19 30 (0.43%) Foundry