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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 15 22
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,611 2,829 2,521
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.45% 10.31% 7.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.60% 11.36% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,753 1,930 1,777
10th Percentile £388 £358 £359
25th Percentile £456 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -0.09% -2.27%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £533
% change year-on-year +2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 65 75
10th Percentile £28.00 £29.61 £22.74
25th Percentile £35.28 £37.80 £47.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -13.15% +32.47%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £103.50 £78.25 £85.39
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.82% -10.83% +27.66%

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 38,425 24,898 29,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.75% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,067 15,953 19,300
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £424 £405 £416
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 £521 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,400 1,362 1,833
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.21 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.69
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.46 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +10 2,925 £560 -0.71% 1,280
North of England -1 820 £500 - 469
South East +8 742 £550 +4.76% 596
Midlands +1 523 £500 - 254
North West +1 410 £522 +4.30% 261
West Midlands +2 408 £500 -7.66% 171
Yorkshire +6 363 £500 +1.01% 153
South West +8 315 £550 +4.76% 206
East of England +6 175 £525 -4.55% 111
East Midlands +3 101 £500 +22.10% 83
North East -15 59 £475 +5.56% 57
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
1 330 (5.88%) Confluence
2 155 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 57 (1.02%) CMS
4 29 (0.52%) SAS
5 23 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 22 (0.39%) Apache
7 21 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
8 11 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 11 (0.20%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.11%) WordPress
10 5 (0.089%) Appian
10 5 (0.089%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.071%) FactoryTalk
11 4 (0.071%) Kentico
11 4 (0.071%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.053%) Moodle
12 3 (0.053%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 236 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 154 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
3 128 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
4 121 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 69 (1.23%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.27%) Revit
8 13 (0.23%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.21%) AutoCAD
10 9 (0.16%) Trello
11 7 (0.12%) Navisworks
12 5 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 5 (0.089%) Sketch
13 4 (0.071%) Adobe XD
13 4 (0.071%) Notion
14 2 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.036%) CPLEX
14 2 (0.036%) EngageOne
14 2 (0.036%) ProjectWise
14 2 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 199 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 71 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 26 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
4 26 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
5 23 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 22 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
7 20 (0.36%) Workday HCM
8 18 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 18 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
9 17 (0.30%) SAP FI
10 16 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
10 16 (0.29%) SAP SD
11 14 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
12 13 (0.23%) Aladdin
12 13 (0.23%) Finacle
12 13 (0.23%) Primavera
12 13 (0.23%) SAP CO
12 13 (0.23%) SAP ERP
13 12 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 979 (17.45%) Azure
2 657 (11.71%) AWS
3 358 (6.38%) Power Platform
4 254 (4.53%) GCP
5 221 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
6 200 (3.56%) SaaS
7 144 (2.57%) Microsoft 365
8 124 (2.21%) Entra ID
9 106 (1.89%) GitHub
10 100 (1.78%) Snowflake
11 84 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
12 71 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
13 61 (1.09%) Amazon S3
13 61 (1.09%) OCI
14 58 (1.03%) Serverless
15 55 (0.98%) PowerApps
16 52 (0.93%) Figma
17 50 (0.89%) Power Automate
18 49 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
19 47 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 104 (1.85%) Firewall
2 101 (1.80%) Network Security
3 70 (1.25%) WAN
4 53 (0.94%) DNS
5 51 (0.91%) LAN
6 38 (0.68%) TCP/IP
7 37 (0.66%) VPN
8 36 (0.64%) SD-WAN
9 33 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
10 28 (0.50%) DHCP
11 20 (0.36%) BGP
12 18 (0.32%) OSPF
13 17 (0.30%) 4G
13 17 (0.30%) 5G
13 17 (0.30%) Wireless
14 15 (0.27%) Intranet
14 15 (0.27%) SAN
14 15 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
15 14 (0.25%) BIG-IP
15 14 (0.25%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 285 (5.08%) Power BI
2 131 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 108 (1.92%) Metadata
4 72 (1.28%) SQL Server
5 70 (1.25%) Data Lake
6 63 (1.12%) Tableau
7 50 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (0.71%) Relational Database
9 37 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (0.55%) Oracle Database
11 30 (0.53%) Delta Lake
12 27 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
13 25 (0.45%) Big Data
14 23 (0.41%) DynamoDB
15 21 (0.37%) NoSQL
16 20 (0.36%) BigQuery
17 18 (0.32%) Looker
18 17 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
19 16 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 605 (10.78%) JIRA
2 85 (1.51%) Git
3 80 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 44 (0.78%) GitLab
4 44 (0.78%) Selenium
5 29 (0.52%) JUnit
6 25 (0.45%) Postman
7 21 (0.37%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.32%) JMeter
8 18 (0.32%) SonarQube
9 15 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 15 (0.27%) Maven
9 15 (0.27%) Zephyr
10 14 (0.25%) WebDriver
11 12 (0.21%) Mockito
12 11 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (0.18%) DbUnit
14 9 (0.16%) ERwin
14 9 (0.16%) jMock
15 8 (0.14%) Bitbucket
General
1 2,794 (49.80%) Social Skills
2 1,940 (34.57%) Finance
3 914 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
4 694 (12.37%) Public Sector
5 518 (9.23%) Banking
6 344 (6.13%) Retail
7 306 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
8 241 (4.30%) Legal
9 230 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
10 204 (3.64%) Marketing
11 196 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
12 161 (2.87%) Manufacturing
13 144 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
14 135 (2.41%) Telecoms
15 109 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 98 (1.75%) Local Government
17 84 (1.50%) Billing
18 82 (1.46%) Aerospace
19 75 (1.34%) Front Office
20 73 (1.30%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 821 (14.63%) Analyst
2 811 (14.45%) Lead
3 748 (13.33%) Project Manager
4 657 (11.71%) Architect
5 596 (10.62%) Senior
6 547 (9.75%) Business Analyst
7 297 (5.29%) Consultant
8 248 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
9 238 (4.24%) Senior Manager
10 181 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
11 180 (3.21%) Programme Manager
12 172 (3.07%) IT Manager
13 137 (2.44%) Product Manager
14 123 (2.19%) Senior Project Manager
15 121 (2.16%) Developer
16 116 (2.07%) Product Owner
17 110 (1.96%) Technical Manager
18 97 (1.73%) Designer
19 96 (1.71%) IT Project Manager
20 93 (1.66%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (2.57%) REST
2 101 (1.80%) Middleware
3 88 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
4 74 (1.32%) SOAP
5 62 (1.10%) .NET
6 47 (0.84%) Kafka
7 44 (0.78%) JSON
8 40 (0.71%) PySpark
9 39 (0.70%) SailPoint
10 38 (0.68%) React
11 36 (0.64%) OAuth
12 35 (0.62%) CSS
12 35 (0.62%) Spring
13 34 (0.61%) HTML
13 34 (0.61%) Web Services
14 31 (0.55%) AngularJS
15 28 (0.50%) XML
16 27 (0.48%) RESTful
16 27 (0.48%) Spring Boot
17 24 (0.43%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 426 (7.59%) Product Ownership
2 309 (5.51%) Onboarding
3 175 (3.12%) Cloud Native
4 161 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
5 155 (2.76%) Management Information System
6 127 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
7 121 (2.16%) Data Centre
8 104 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 95 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 92 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
11 89 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
12 76 (1.35%) Operational Technology
13 74 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
14 71 (1.27%) NHS
15 70 (1.25%) Security Posture
16 68 (1.21%) AI Agents
17 59 (1.05%) CMDB
18 57 (1.02%) FMCG
18 57 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
19 44 (0.78%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 178 (3.17%) Windows
2 95 (1.69%) Linux
3 37 (0.66%) Unix
4 35 (0.62%) Android
4 35 (0.62%) Windows Server
5 30 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 24 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.18%) VMS
9 8 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.089%) Solaris
10 5 (0.089%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.071%) AIX
11 4 (0.071%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.071%) zOS
12 3 (0.053%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.036%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.036%) HPUX
13 2 (0.036%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.018%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,829 (32.60%) Agile
2 981 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
3 903 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
4 841 (14.99%) Roadmaps
5 770 (13.72%) Migration
6 752 (13.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 714 (12.73%) Project Management
8 694 (12.37%) Decision-Making
9 665 (11.85%) DevOps
10 632 (11.26%) Project Delivery
11 624 (11.12%) AI
12 602 (10.73%) Change Management
13 592 (10.55%) Analytics
14 551 (9.82%) Risk Management
15 482 (8.59%) User Acceptance Testing
16 476 (8.48%) CI/CD
17 468 (8.34%) Workshop Facilitation
18 452 (8.06%) Scrum
19 451 (8.04%) Validation
20 442 (7.88%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 442 (7.88%) SQL
2 322 (5.74%) Python
3 121 (2.16%) Java
4 89 (1.59%) PowerShell
5 80 (1.43%) JavaScript
6 56 (1.00%) C#
7 37 (0.66%) Bash
8 25 (0.45%) Bicep
9 24 (0.43%) TypeScript
10 22 (0.39%) Korn
11 21 (0.37%) VBA
12 20 (0.36%) ABAP
13 17 (0.30%) PL/SQL
13 17 (0.30%) R
14 15 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 14 (0.25%) Shell Script
15 14 (0.25%) T-SQL
16 12 (0.21%) Apex Code
17 10 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
18 7 (0.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,102 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 812 (14.47%) SC Cleared
3 396 (7.06%) Degree
4 284 (5.06%) PMP
5 252 (4.49%) PMI Certification
6 195 (3.48%) DV Cleared
7 159 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 121 (2.16%) CISSP
9 93 (1.66%) Azure Certification
10 89 (1.59%) CISM
11 59 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
12 53 (0.94%) AWS Certification
12 53 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
13 47 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 42 (0.75%) Master's Degree
15 40 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 39 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
17 31 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 31 (0.55%) ISTQB
17 31 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 334 (5.95%) Data Quality
2 313 (5.58%) QA
3 279 (4.97%) PMO
4 218 (3.89%) GDPR
5 138 (2.46%) NIST
6 132 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 108 (1.92%) Accessibility
8 97 (1.73%) GRC
9 89 (1.59%) SLA
10 46 (0.82%) NCSC
11 37 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 34 (0.61%) WCAG
13 31 (0.55%) COBIT
14 30 (0.53%) SOC 2
15 28 (0.50%) PCI DSS
16 20 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
16 20 (0.36%) IFRS
17 17 (0.30%) ISO 20022
18 16 (0.29%) JSP 440
19 15 (0.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 120 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 111 (1.98%) Docker
3 49 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.27%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.23%) NFS
8 12 (0.21%) Postfix
8 12 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.20%) vSphere
10 7 (0.12%) Hyper-V
11 5 (0.089%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.071%) SRDF
12 4 (0.071%) Varnish
13 3 (0.053%) HDFS
13 3 (0.053%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.036%) Ceph
14 2 (0.036%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.036%) KVM
14 2 (0.036%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 160 (2.85%) Terraform
2 147 (2.62%) Kubernetes
3 80 (1.43%) Ansible
4 56 (1.00%) Grafana
5 49 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 35 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 26 (0.46%) SCCM
9 16 (0.29%) Argo
10 9 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.16%) Puppet
11 8 (0.14%) Control-M
11 8 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 7 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.11%) RSA Archer
14 5 (0.089%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.089%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.071%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 767 (13.67%) Microsoft
2 447 (7.97%) SAP
3 304 (5.42%) Oracle
3 304 (5.42%) ServiceNow
4 214 (3.81%) Salesforce
5 124 (2.21%) Databricks
6 110 (1.96%) Google
7 87 (1.55%) VMware
8 81 (1.44%) Workday
9 61 (1.09%) Cisco
10 54 (0.96%) Adobe
11 46 (0.82%) CyberArk
12 43 (0.77%) IBM
13 36 (0.64%) Ariba
14 34 (0.61%) Splunk
15 33 (0.59%) MuleSoft
16 31 (0.55%) Atlassian
16 31 (0.55%) Informatica
17 30 (0.53%) F5
18 28 (0.50%) Foundry