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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 15 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,333 2,736 2,703
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.84% 10.09% 7.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.84% 11.12% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,577 1,860 1,933
10th Percentile £381 £358 £358
25th Percentile £456 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £541 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% +0.60% -2.27%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £744 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £530 £532
% change year-on-year +1.89% -0.38% -3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 62 79
10th Percentile £25.00 £31.64 £18.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £41.78 £41.25
Median hourly rate £62.00 £54.01 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +14.80% -12.33% +15.53%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £103.80 £78.63 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £53.50 £60.30
% change year-on-year +15.89% -11.28% +13.10%

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 38,535 24,596 31,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.57% 90.73% 85.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,284 15,811 20,551
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,270 2,240
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.94 £62.50
90th Percentile £82.60 £72.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +7 2,750 £558 -3.00% 1,202
North of England -1 774 £500 - 417
South East +6 711 £550 +4.76% 605
Midlands +1 532 £500 -0.20% 245
North West +1 400 £507 +1.40% 231
West Midlands +1 386 £500 -7.66% 152
Yorkshire +3 339 £500 +1.01% 147
South West +11 298 £550 +4.76% 174
East of England +10 161 £525 -6.67% 106
East Midlands +9 136 £481 +9.38% 91
North East -18 45 £475 +5.56% 44
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
1 312 (5.85%) Confluence
2 144 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 58 (1.09%) CMS
4 34 (0.64%) SAS
5 24 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 20 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (0.28%) Apache
8 11 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.15%) Appian
9 8 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
10 7 (0.13%) Apache Spark
10 7 (0.13%) WordPress
11 6 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.094%) Kentico
12 5 (0.094%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.075%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.056%) Oracle Coherence
14 3 (0.056%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
15 2 (0.038%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.038%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 229 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 146 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
3 129 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
4 116 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 71 (1.33%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 13 (0.24%) Revit
9 11 (0.21%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.094%) Navisworks
11 4 (0.075%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.075%) Sketch
12 3 (0.056%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.056%) Notion
12 3 (0.056%) Trello
13 2 (0.038%) EngageOne
13 2 (0.038%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.038%) Windchill
14 1 (0.019%) CINEMA 4D
14 1 (0.019%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 184 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 25 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
6 22 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 21 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
8 18 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
9 17 (0.32%) Aladdin
9 17 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
9 17 (0.32%) Workday HCM
10 15 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
11 14 (0.26%) Finacle
11 14 (0.26%) SAP SD
12 13 (0.24%) Primavera
12 13 (0.24%) SAP FI
12 13 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
13 12 (0.23%) SAP ERP
14 10 (0.19%) SAP CO
14 10 (0.19%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 868 (16.28%) Azure
2 605 (11.34%) AWS
3 327 (6.13%) Power Platform
4 221 (4.14%) GCP
5 189 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
6 184 (3.45%) SaaS
7 125 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
8 104 (1.95%) Entra ID
9 93 (1.74%) GitHub
10 88 (1.65%) Snowflake
11 72 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
12 59 (1.11%) OCI
13 58 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
14 57 (1.07%) Amazon S3
15 50 (0.94%) Serverless
16 49 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
17 48 (0.90%) PowerApps
18 45 (0.84%) Power Automate
19 44 (0.83%) Figma
19 44 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 97 (1.82%) Firewall
2 93 (1.74%) Network Security
3 67 (1.26%) WAN
4 51 (0.96%) LAN
5 46 (0.86%) DNS
6 37 (0.69%) SD-WAN
7 32 (0.60%) TCP/IP
7 32 (0.60%) VPN
8 28 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (0.43%) DHCP
10 22 (0.41%) BGP
11 20 (0.38%) OSPF
12 16 (0.30%) MPLS
13 15 (0.28%) BIG-IP
13 15 (0.28%) Wireless
14 14 (0.26%) SAN
15 13 (0.24%) NGFW
15 13 (0.24%) VLAN
16 12 (0.23%) 5G
16 12 (0.23%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (4.97%) Power BI
2 118 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
3 99 (1.86%) Metadata
4 67 (1.26%) Data Lake
5 63 (1.18%) SQL Server
5 63 (1.18%) Tableau
6 46 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
7 39 (0.73%) Relational Database
8 36 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 31 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
10 28 (0.53%) Oracle Database
10 28 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
11 22 (0.41%) Big Data
11 22 (0.41%) Delta Lake
11 22 (0.41%) NoSQL
12 21 (0.39%) DynamoDB
13 17 (0.32%) BigQuery
14 16 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
15 15 (0.28%) Looker
15 15 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 570 (10.69%) JIRA
2 86 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 79 (1.48%) Git
4 45 (0.84%) GitLab
5 36 (0.68%) Selenium
6 30 (0.56%) JUnit
7 24 (0.45%) Postman
8 18 (0.34%) Cucumber
9 16 (0.30%) SonarQube
10 15 (0.28%) JMeter
11 14 (0.26%) Maven
12 13 (0.24%) Mockito
13 12 (0.23%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.21%) WebDriver
15 10 (0.19%) DbUnit
15 10 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (0.19%) Zephyr
16 9 (0.17%) jMock
17 8 (0.15%) Bitbucket
17 8 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,669 (50.05%) Social Skills
2 1,889 (35.42%) Finance
3 843 (15.81%) Analytical Skills
4 648 (12.15%) Public Sector
5 479 (8.98%) Banking
6 320 (6.00%) Retail
7 281 (5.27%) Influencing Skills
8 238 (4.46%) Legal
9 205 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
10 199 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
11 183 (3.43%) Marketing
12 157 (2.94%) Manufacturing
13 129 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
14 124 (2.33%) Telecoms
15 98 (1.84%) Local Government
16 94 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 78 (1.46%) Aerospace
18 76 (1.43%) Billing
19 72 (1.35%) Financial Institution
20 71 (1.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 822 (15.41%) Analyst
2 754 (14.14%) Lead
3 737 (13.82%) Project Manager
4 621 (11.64%) Architect
5 569 (10.67%) Senior
6 555 (10.41%) Business Analyst
7 267 (5.01%) Consultant
8 243 (4.56%) Senior Manager
9 232 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
10 181 (3.39%) Programme Manager
11 172 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
12 165 (3.09%) IT Manager
13 127 (2.38%) Product Manager
14 125 (2.34%) Senior Project Manager
15 109 (2.04%) Product Owner
16 98 (1.84%) Change Manager
17 97 (1.82%) Developer
18 96 (1.80%) Technical Manager
19 89 (1.67%) Data Analyst
20 87 (1.63%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (2.36%) REST
2 93 (1.74%) Middleware
3 85 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
4 64 (1.20%) SOAP
5 57 (1.07%) .NET
6 44 (0.83%) JSON
7 38 (0.71%) Kafka
8 36 (0.68%) OAuth
8 36 (0.68%) PySpark
9 35 (0.66%) CSS
10 33 (0.62%) React
10 33 (0.62%) SailPoint
11 32 (0.60%) HTML
12 31 (0.58%) AngularJS
12 31 (0.58%) OpenID
12 31 (0.58%) SAML
13 30 (0.56%) Spring
14 29 (0.54%) XML
15 28 (0.53%) Web Services
16 27 (0.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 388 (7.28%) Product Ownership
2 286 (5.36%) Onboarding
3 173 (3.24%) Cloud Native
4 154 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
5 146 (2.74%) Management Information System
6 128 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
7 112 (2.10%) Data Centre
8 96 (1.80%) Data Structures
9 94 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 86 (1.61%) Virtual Team
11 74 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
12 70 (1.31%) NHS
12 70 (1.31%) Operational Technology
13 65 (1.22%) Security Posture
14 62 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
15 54 (1.01%) CMDB
16 53 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
17 51 (0.96%) AI Agents
17 51 (0.96%) Public Cloud
18 47 (0.88%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 161 (3.02%) Windows
2 84 (1.58%) Linux
3 33 (0.62%) Android
4 31 (0.58%) Unix
5 28 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 28 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.13%) VMS
9 6 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.094%) Solaris
10 5 (0.094%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.075%) AIX
11 4 (0.075%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.075%) zOS
12 3 (0.056%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.038%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.038%) HPUX
14 1 (0.019%) MVS
14 1 (0.019%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,744 (32.70%) Agile
2 896 (16.80%) Continuous Improvement
3 849 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
4 750 (14.06%) Migration
5 747 (14.01%) Roadmaps
6 739 (13.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 689 (12.92%) Project Management
8 634 (11.89%) Decision-Making
9 620 (11.63%) DevOps
10 588 (11.03%) Project Delivery
11 586 (10.99%) Change Management
12 545 (10.22%) AI
12 545 (10.22%) Analytics
13 524 (9.83%) Risk Management
14 476 (8.93%) User Acceptance Testing
15 443 (8.31%) CI/CD
16 439 (8.23%) Workshop Facilitation
17 434 (8.14%) Validation
18 422 (7.91%) ITIL
19 411 (7.71%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 424 (7.95%) SQL
2 304 (5.70%) Python
3 104 (1.95%) Java
4 78 (1.46%) PowerShell
5 61 (1.14%) JavaScript
6 52 (0.98%) C#
7 32 (0.60%) Bash
8 23 (0.43%) Bicep
9 22 (0.41%) TypeScript
9 22 (0.41%) VBA
10 21 (0.39%) Korn
11 20 (0.38%) ABAP
12 17 (0.32%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.26%) R
14 13 (0.24%) T-SQL
15 12 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 12 (0.23%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.19%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,058 (19.84%) Security Cleared
2 791 (14.83%) SC Cleared
3 391 (7.33%) Degree
4 269 (5.04%) PMP
5 237 (4.44%) PMI Certification
6 168 (3.15%) DV Cleared
7 153 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 115 (2.16%) CISSP
9 88 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 80 (1.50%) CISM
11 58 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 53 (0.99%) AWS Certification
13 50 (0.94%) Master's Degree
14 49 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
15 38 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
16 35 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
17 34 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 30 (0.56%) ACCA
19 29 (0.54%) CIMA
20 28 (0.53%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 310 (5.81%) Data Quality
2 292 (5.48%) QA
3 260 (4.88%) PMO
4 225 (4.22%) GDPR
5 155 (2.91%) NIST
6 144 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 96 (1.80%) GRC
8 92 (1.73%) Accessibility
9 88 (1.65%) SLA
10 55 (1.03%) NCSC
11 42 (0.79%) PCI DSS
12 38 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 33 (0.62%) SOC 2
14 32 (0.60%) COBIT
15 27 (0.51%) IFRS
16 23 (0.43%) WCAG
17 19 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
18 18 (0.34%) JSP 440
19 16 (0.30%) Solvency II
20 14 (0.26%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 106 (1.99%) Docker
2 92 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 43 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.26%) VMware NSX
6 13 (0.24%) NFS
7 12 (0.23%) Postfix
8 11 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.15%) vSphere
10 5 (0.094%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.075%) SRDF
11 4 (0.075%) Varnish
12 3 (0.056%) HDFS
12 3 (0.056%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.056%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.038%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.038%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.019%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 147 (2.76%) Kubernetes
2 145 (2.72%) Terraform
3 78 (1.46%) Ansible
4 53 (0.99%) Grafana
5 38 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.38%) SCCM
8 14 (0.26%) Argo
9 10 (0.19%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.15%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.13%) RSA Archer
11 7 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 7 (0.13%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.11%) Control-M
12 6 (0.11%) Puppet
13 5 (0.094%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.075%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.075%) vMotion
Vendors
1 688 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 426 (7.99%) SAP
3 293 (5.49%) Oracle
4 283 (5.31%) ServiceNow
5 208 (3.90%) Salesforce
6 107 (2.01%) Databricks
7 105 (1.97%) Google
8 83 (1.56%) VMware
9 78 (1.46%) Workday
10 58 (1.09%) Cisco
11 52 (0.98%) CyberArk
12 51 (0.96%) Adobe
13 44 (0.83%) Splunk
14 37 (0.69%) Ariba
15 33 (0.62%) MuleSoft
16 32 (0.60%) IBM
16 32 (0.60%) Informatica
17 31 (0.58%) F5
18 26 (0.49%) Atlassian
19 25 (0.47%) Foundry