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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 24
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 6,032 2,888 2,461
As % of all contract jobs in England 13.23% 10.45% 7.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.55% 11.51% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,004 1,966 1,700
10th Percentile £390 £358 £363
25th Percentile £460 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £745 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £527 £538
% change year-on-year +4.46% -2.05% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 62 65
10th Percentile £26.95 £28.59 £32.25
25th Percentile £35.55 £35.70 £55.94
Median hourly rate £60.50 £51.84 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +16.72% -15.85% +34.26%
75th Percentile £83.00 £72.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £101.84 £77.38 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £51.84 £60.83
% change year-on-year +17.68% -14.79% +32.41%

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 38,785 25,097 28,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.06% 90.81% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,091 16,007 18,621
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
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 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,429 1,649
10th Percentile £14.48 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +68.19% -39.40% -2.35%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 3,174 £563 -0.97% 1,913
North of England 0 886 £510 +2.00% 552
South East +9 791 £550 +4.76% 792
Midlands 0 533 £500 -4.76% 356
North West -1 453 £525 +5.00% 318
West Midlands +2 417 £500 -4.76% 235
Yorkshire +5 380 £500 +1.01% 162
South West +6 339 £550 +4.76% 261
East of England +8 186 £525 -4.55% 173
East Midlands 0 101 £500 +24.22% 119
North East -15 61 £478 -8.17% 75
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
1 336 (5.57%) Confluence
2 158 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 54 (0.90%) CMS
4 33 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (0.50%) Apache
6 27 (0.45%) SAS
7 22 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 17 (0.28%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.099%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.099%) WordPress
12 5 (0.083%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.083%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.083%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.066%) Appian
13 4 (0.066%) FactoryTalk
13 4 (0.066%) Kentico
13 4 (0.066%) Moodle
14 3 (0.050%) Camunda
Applications
1 260 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 152 (2.52%) Microsoft Project
3 136 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
4 135 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 68 (1.13%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.31%) Revit
7 16 (0.27%) AutoCAD
7 16 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 16 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.18%) Navisworks
9 10 (0.17%) Trello
10 6 (0.099%) ProjectWise
11 5 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.066%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.066%) Notion
13 3 (0.050%) Sketch
13 3 (0.050%) Windchill
14 2 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.033%) CPLEX
14 2 (0.033%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 214 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 75 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 26 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 26 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 24 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 22 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
7 21 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 21 (0.35%) Workday HCM
8 19 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
8 19 (0.31%) SAP FI
9 18 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
10 17 (0.28%) Primavera
11 16 (0.27%) SAP ERP
12 15 (0.25%) SAP CO
12 15 (0.25%) SAP SD
13 14 (0.23%) Aladdin
13 14 (0.23%) Finacle
13 14 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
14 13 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,095 (18.15%) Azure
2 739 (12.25%) AWS
3 408 (6.76%) Power Platform
4 290 (4.81%) GCP
5 240 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
6 222 (3.68%) SaaS
7 161 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
8 141 (2.34%) Entra ID
9 128 (2.12%) Snowflake
10 122 (2.02%) GitHub
11 96 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
12 76 (1.26%) SuccessFactors
13 63 (1.04%) Serverless
14 62 (1.03%) OCI
15 60 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
16 59 (0.98%) PowerApps
17 56 (0.93%) Amazon S3
18 55 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
19 54 (0.90%) Power Automate
20 53 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 114 (1.89%) Network Security
2 111 (1.84%) Firewall
3 65 (1.08%) WAN
4 63 (1.04%) DNS
5 47 (0.78%) LAN
6 40 (0.66%) VPN
7 39 (0.65%) TCP/IP
8 34 (0.56%) DHCP
8 34 (0.56%) SD-WAN
9 25 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
10 23 (0.38%) BGP
11 22 (0.36%) 4G
11 22 (0.36%) 5G
12 20 (0.33%) OSPF
13 18 (0.30%) Wireless
14 17 (0.28%) Internet
14 17 (0.28%) MPLS
15 15 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
16 14 (0.23%) 3G
16 14 (0.23%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 330 (5.47%) Power BI
2 163 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 128 (2.12%) Metadata
4 86 (1.43%) SQL Server
5 80 (1.33%) Data Lake
6 69 (1.14%) Tableau
7 66 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
8 48 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 45 (0.75%) Relational Database
10 39 (0.65%) Delta Lake
11 38 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
12 31 (0.51%) Oracle Database
13 30 (0.50%) BigQuery
14 27 (0.45%) Big Data
14 27 (0.45%) MongoDB
15 24 (0.40%) Looker
16 23 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
16 23 (0.38%) NoSQL
17 22 (0.36%) MySQL
18 21 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 613 (10.16%) JIRA
2 100 (1.66%) Git
3 89 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 59 (0.98%) GitLab
5 49 (0.81%) Selenium
6 30 (0.50%) JUnit
7 28 (0.46%) Postman
8 27 (0.45%) Cucumber
9 21 (0.35%) JMeter
9 21 (0.35%) SonarQube
10 16 (0.27%) Cypress.io
10 16 (0.27%) Zephyr
11 15 (0.25%) Gatling
11 15 (0.25%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.22%) Maven
13 12 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (0.18%) LoadRunner
15 10 (0.17%) ERwin
16 9 (0.15%) Mockito
17 8 (0.13%) DbUnit
General
1 3,064 (50.80%) Social Skills
2 2,064 (34.22%) Finance
3 1,005 (16.66%) Analytical Skills
4 745 (12.35%) Public Sector
5 584 (9.68%) Banking
6 371 (6.15%) Retail
7 326 (5.40%) Influencing Skills
8 257 (4.26%) Legal
9 248 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
10 214 (3.55%) Marketing
11 211 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
12 194 (3.22%) Manufacturing
13 153 (2.54%) Telecoms
14 151 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
15 126 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 100 (1.66%) Aerospace
17 99 (1.64%) Local Government
18 89 (1.48%) Billing
19 85 (1.41%) Front Office
20 72 (1.19%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 886 (14.69%) Analyst
2 869 (14.41%) Lead
3 761 (12.62%) Project Manager
4 721 (11.95%) Architect
5 647 (10.73%) Senior
6 592 (9.81%) Business Analyst
7 365 (6.05%) Consultant
8 273 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
9 239 (3.96%) Senior Manager
10 181 (3.00%) Programme Manager
11 179 (2.97%) Delivery Manager
12 168 (2.79%) IT Manager
13 146 (2.42%) Product Manager
14 137 (2.27%) Developer
15 122 (2.02%) Technical Manager
16 119 (1.97%) Senior Project Manager
17 118 (1.96%) Product Owner
18 105 (1.74%) Senior Analyst
19 102 (1.69%) Designer
20 100 (1.66%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (2.62%) REST
2 108 (1.79%) Middleware
3 87 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
4 73 (1.21%) SOAP
5 69 (1.14%) .NET
6 62 (1.03%) Kafka
7 48 (0.80%) JSON
7 48 (0.80%) PySpark
8 45 (0.75%) OAuth
9 44 (0.73%) React
10 40 (0.66%) SailPoint
11 39 (0.65%) HTML
11 39 (0.65%) Spring
12 35 (0.58%) CSS
12 35 (0.58%) XML
13 32 (0.53%) Web Services
14 29 (0.48%) Spring Boot
15 28 (0.46%) OpenID
15 28 (0.46%) Playwright
16 27 (0.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 460 (7.63%) Product Ownership
2 344 (5.70%) Onboarding
3 216 (3.58%) Cloud Native
4 176 (2.92%) Management Information System
5 168 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
6 134 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 126 (2.09%) Data Centre
8 110 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 108 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
10 98 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
11 93 (1.54%) Virtual Team
12 87 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
13 86 (1.43%) Operational Technology
14 82 (1.36%) AI Agents
15 81 (1.34%) Security Posture
16 72 (1.19%) NHS
17 66 (1.09%) CMDB
18 62 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
19 61 (1.01%) FMCG
20 54 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 187 (3.10%) Windows
2 111 (1.84%) Linux
3 47 (0.78%) Windows Server
4 43 (0.71%) Unix
5 29 (0.48%) Android
6 26 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 26 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.17%) VMS
9 6 (0.099%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.066%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.066%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.066%) Solaris
10 4 (0.066%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.066%) zOS
11 3 (0.050%) AIX
12 2 (0.033%) CentOS
12 2 (0.033%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.033%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,963 (32.54%) Agile
2 1,061 (17.59%) Continuous Improvement
3 973 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
4 929 (15.40%) Roadmaps
5 845 (14.01%) Migration
6 804 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 753 (12.48%) Decision-Making
8 750 (12.43%) Project Management
9 726 (12.04%) DevOps
10 708 (11.74%) AI
11 707 (11.72%) Project Delivery
12 662 (10.97%) Analytics
13 623 (10.33%) Change Management
14 588 (9.75%) Risk Management
15 552 (9.15%) CI/CD
16 550 (9.12%) Workshop Facilitation
17 516 (8.55%) User Acceptance Testing
18 489 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
19 482 (7.99%) Validation
20 476 (7.89%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 505 (8.37%) SQL
2 361 (5.98%) Python
3 137 (2.27%) Java
4 110 (1.82%) PowerShell
5 103 (1.71%) JavaScript
6 56 (0.93%) C#
7 48 (0.80%) Bash
8 32 (0.53%) TypeScript
9 31 (0.51%) Bicep
10 26 (0.43%) Korn
11 22 (0.36%) ABAP
12 20 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 19 (0.31%) R
13 19 (0.31%) VBA
14 18 (0.30%) PL/SQL
15 17 (0.28%) Shell Script
16 16 (0.27%) T-SQL
17 14 (0.23%) Apex Code
18 11 (0.18%) Go
19 9 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,201 (19.91%) Security Cleared
2 875 (14.51%) SC Cleared
3 413 (6.85%) Degree
4 292 (4.84%) PMP
5 249 (4.13%) PMI Certification
6 221 (3.66%) DV Cleared
7 172 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 139 (2.30%) CISSP
9 108 (1.79%) Azure Certification
9 108 (1.79%) CISM
10 71 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 63 (1.04%) AWS Certification
12 62 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
13 57 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
14 43 (0.71%) Master's Degree
15 42 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 41 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
17 39 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 37 (0.61%) ISTQB
19 34 (0.56%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 383 (6.35%) Data Quality
2 336 (5.57%) QA
3 291 (4.82%) PMO
4 213 (3.53%) GDPR
5 149 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 146 (2.42%) NIST
7 131 (2.17%) Accessibility
8 106 (1.76%) GRC
9 90 (1.49%) SLA
10 48 (0.80%) NCSC
11 41 (0.68%) WCAG
12 36 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 29 (0.48%) SOC 2
14 25 (0.41%) COBIT
15 23 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
16 21 (0.35%) IFRS
16 21 (0.35%) PCI DSS
17 18 (0.30%) ISO 20022
18 16 (0.27%) GxP
18 16 (0.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 142 (2.35%) Active Directory
2 127 (2.11%) Docker
3 61 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (0.33%) VMware NSX
6 18 (0.30%) vSphere
7 14 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (0.20%) NFS
9 11 (0.18%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.17%) Postfix
11 6 (0.099%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.066%) SRDF
12 4 (0.066%) Varnish
13 3 (0.050%) Ceph
13 3 (0.050%) HDFS
13 3 (0.050%) KVM
13 3 (0.050%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.033%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 200 (3.32%) Terraform
2 182 (3.02%) Kubernetes
3 93 (1.54%) Ansible
4 60 (0.99%) Grafana
5 45 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 44 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 35 (0.58%) Prometheus
8 28 (0.46%) SCCM
9 17 (0.28%) Argo
10 10 (0.17%) Control-M
10 10 (0.17%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.15%) HP ALM
11 9 (0.15%) Puppet
12 7 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.099%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.099%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.083%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.083%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.066%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 893 (14.80%) Microsoft
2 478 (7.92%) SAP
3 330 (5.47%) Oracle
4 314 (5.21%) ServiceNow
5 229 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 162 (2.69%) Databricks
7 125 (2.07%) Google
8 95 (1.57%) VMware
9 87 (1.44%) Workday
10 70 (1.16%) Cisco
11 56 (0.93%) Adobe
12 54 (0.90%) CyberArk
13 53 (0.88%) IBM
14 46 (0.76%) Splunk
15 35 (0.58%) Informatica
16 34 (0.56%) MuleSoft
17 33 (0.55%) Atlassian
18 32 (0.53%) Ariba
19 31 (0.51%) F5
20 29 (0.48%) Foundry