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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 6,439 2,894 2,513
As % of all contract jobs in England 14.07% 10.43% 7.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.59% 11.49% 8.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,260 1,964 1,679
10th Percentile £388 £358 £363
25th Percentile £458 £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 £750 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 64 72
10th Percentile £26.18 £28.25 £32.53
25th Percentile £35.00 £34.22 £53.25
Median hourly rate £59.75 £48.25 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +23.83% -21.67% +30.54%
75th Percentile £80.00 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £101.01 £77.13 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £48.25 £60.83
% change year-on-year +24.87% -20.68% +25.42%

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 38,818 25,195 28,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.84% 90.79% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,932 16,050 18,115
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,599 1,473 1,445
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +3.56%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +11 3,388 £565 - 2,009
North of England +3 965 £500 - 581
South East +9 837 £550 +4.76% 848
Midlands +4 552 £500 -4.76% 328
North West +1 504 £525 +5.00% 347
West Midlands +5 433 £500 -4.76% 222
Yorkshire +7 404 £500 +1.01% 160
South West +8 351 £550 +4.76% 323
East of England +12 208 £525 -4.55% 155
East Midlands -2 102 £500 +16.01% 100
North East -6 65 £490 +1.03% 78
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
1 345 (5.36%) Confluence
2 175 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 61 (0.95%) CMS
4 43 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 32 (0.50%) Apache
6 26 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 21 (0.33%) SAS
8 20 (0.31%) Apache Spark
9 12 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.093%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.093%) Headless CMS
11 6 (0.093%) WordPress
12 5 (0.078%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.078%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.078%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.062%) Appian
13 4 (0.062%) Kentico
13 4 (0.062%) Moodle
13 4 (0.062%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 289 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 157 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 155 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
4 147 (2.28%) Microsoft Project
5 71 (1.10%) MS Visio
6 21 (0.33%) Revit
7 17 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 17 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 16 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.19%) Navisworks
10 9 (0.14%) Trello
11 7 (0.11%) ProjectWise
12 6 (0.093%) Windchill
13 5 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.062%) Adobe XD
14 4 (0.062%) Notion
15 3 (0.047%) CPLEX
15 3 (0.047%) Sketch
16 2 (0.031%) EngageOne
16 2 (0.031%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 229 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 81 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 27 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
5 26 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
5 26 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 22 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
7 20 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 20 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
8 18 (0.28%) Aladdin
8 18 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 18 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 17 (0.26%) SAP SD
10 16 (0.25%) Primavera
10 16 (0.25%) SAP ERP
11 14 (0.22%) Finacle
11 14 (0.22%) SAP CO
11 14 (0.22%) SAP MDG
12 13 (0.20%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,200 (18.64%) Azure
2 797 (12.38%) AWS
3 470 (7.30%) Power Platform
4 311 (4.83%) GCP
5 267 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
6 232 (3.60%) SaaS
7 190 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
8 162 (2.52%) Entra ID
9 145 (2.25%) GitHub
10 140 (2.17%) Snowflake
11 111 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
12 82 (1.27%) Serverless
13 79 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
14 73 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
15 71 (1.10%) OCI
16 67 (1.04%) PowerApps
17 63 (0.98%) Power Automate
18 62 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
19 60 (0.93%) Amazon S3
20 58 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 126 (1.96%) Firewall
2 124 (1.93%) Network Security
3 76 (1.18%) WAN
4 66 (1.03%) DNS
5 49 (0.76%) LAN
6 44 (0.68%) VPN
7 42 (0.65%) TCP/IP
8 38 (0.59%) DHCP
8 38 (0.59%) SD-WAN
9 31 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
10 27 (0.42%) BGP
11 26 (0.40%) 4G
11 26 (0.40%) 5G
12 24 (0.37%) Wireless
13 19 (0.30%) Internet
14 18 (0.28%) MPLS
14 18 (0.28%) OSPF
15 17 (0.26%) Broadband
16 15 (0.23%) SAN
17 14 (0.22%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 375 (5.82%) Power BI
2 176 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
3 170 (2.64%) Metadata
4 98 (1.52%) SQL Server
5 84 (1.30%) Data Lake
6 80 (1.24%) Tableau
7 61 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
8 50 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
9 48 (0.75%) Delta Lake
9 48 (0.75%) Relational Database
10 41 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
11 34 (0.53%) BigQuery
12 32 (0.50%) Oracle Database
13 31 (0.48%) MongoDB
14 27 (0.42%) Looker
15 26 (0.40%) NoSQL
16 24 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
16 24 (0.37%) Big Data
17 21 (0.33%) DynamoDB
18 20 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 630 (9.78%) JIRA
2 108 (1.68%) Git
3 86 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 64 (0.99%) GitLab
5 51 (0.79%) Selenium
6 30 (0.47%) Postman
7 27 (0.42%) Cucumber
8 26 (0.40%) JUnit
9 25 (0.39%) SonarQube
10 21 (0.33%) Gatling
11 18 (0.28%) Cypress.io
11 18 (0.28%) JMeter
11 18 (0.28%) Zephyr
12 12 (0.19%) LoadRunner
12 12 (0.19%) Maven
13 11 (0.17%) ERwin
13 11 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (0.17%) WebDriver
14 9 (0.14%) Mockito
14 9 (0.14%) MSI
General
1 3,348 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 2,177 (33.81%) Finance
3 1,074 (16.68%) Analytical Skills
4 799 (12.41%) Public Sector
5 636 (9.88%) Banking
6 395 (6.13%) Retail
7 372 (5.78%) Influencing Skills
8 276 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
9 265 (4.12%) Legal
10 224 (3.48%) Marketing
11 218 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
12 210 (3.26%) Manufacturing
13 167 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
13 167 (2.59%) Telecoms
14 130 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 109 (1.69%) Aerospace
16 105 (1.63%) Local Government
17 95 (1.48%) Front Office
18 90 (1.40%) Billing
19 79 (1.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 948 (14.72%) Analyst
2 917 (14.24%) Lead
3 816 (12.67%) Architect
4 762 (11.83%) Project Manager
5 676 (10.50%) Senior
6 610 (9.47%) Business Analyst
7 414 (6.43%) Consultant
8 289 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
9 236 (3.67%) Senior Manager
10 185 (2.87%) Delivery Manager
11 183 (2.84%) Programme Manager
12 169 (2.62%) IT Manager
13 155 (2.41%) Product Manager
14 141 (2.19%) Developer
15 124 (1.93%) Technical Manager
16 122 (1.89%) Product Owner
17 116 (1.80%) Senior Analyst
18 113 (1.75%) Senior Project Manager
19 110 (1.71%) Designer
20 108 (1.68%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (3.51%) Terraform
2 167 (2.59%) REST
3 116 (1.80%) Middleware
4 87 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
5 80 (1.24%) .NET
6 70 (1.09%) SOAP
7 69 (1.07%) Kafka
8 57 (0.89%) PySpark
9 52 (0.81%) JSON
10 51 (0.79%) OAuth
11 46 (0.71%) React
12 42 (0.65%) Spring
13 41 (0.64%) HTML
14 40 (0.62%) SailPoint
15 39 (0.61%) XML
16 38 (0.59%) CSS
17 36 (0.56%) Playwright
18 32 (0.50%) OpenID
18 32 (0.50%) Spring Boot
18 32 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 492 (7.64%) Product Ownership
2 362 (5.62%) Onboarding
3 248 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 191 (2.97%) Management Information System
5 163 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
6 148 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
7 135 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
8 133 (2.07%) Data Centre
9 118 (1.83%) Data Structures
10 98 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
11 97 (1.51%) AI Agents
11 97 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
11 97 (1.51%) Operational Technology
12 94 (1.46%) Virtual Team
13 85 (1.32%) Security Posture
14 80 (1.24%) NHS
15 77 (1.20%) CMDB
16 67 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
17 66 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
18 64 (0.99%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 194 (3.01%) Windows
2 125 (1.94%) Linux
3 56 (0.87%) Windows Server
4 45 (0.70%) Unix
5 25 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.28%) Android
7 16 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.22%) VMS
8 14 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.078%) Amazon Linux
11 5 (0.078%) zOS
12 4 (0.062%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.062%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.062%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.047%) CentOS
13 3 (0.047%) Solaris
14 2 (0.031%) AIX
14 2 (0.031%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,062 (32.02%) Agile
2 1,161 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,052 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
4 1,016 (15.78%) Roadmaps
5 908 (14.10%) Migration
6 874 (13.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 831 (12.91%) Decision-Making
8 807 (12.53%) AI
9 790 (12.27%) Project Management
10 779 (12.10%) DevOps
11 761 (11.82%) Project Delivery
12 720 (11.18%) Analytics
13 673 (10.45%) Change Management
14 640 (9.94%) Risk Management
15 621 (9.64%) Workshop Facilitation
16 595 (9.24%) CI/CD
17 546 (8.48%) User Acceptance Testing
18 534 (8.29%) Cybersecurity
19 522 (8.11%) ITIL
20 520 (8.08%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 561 (8.71%) SQL
2 400 (6.21%) Python
3 157 (2.44%) Java
4 128 (1.99%) PowerShell
5 113 (1.75%) JavaScript
6 67 (1.04%) C#
7 62 (0.96%) Bash
8 37 (0.57%) Bicep
8 37 (0.57%) TypeScript
9 28 (0.43%) Korn
10 25 (0.39%) ABAP
11 23 (0.36%) R
12 22 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 19 (0.30%) VBA
14 18 (0.28%) PL/SQL
15 17 (0.26%) T-SQL
16 16 (0.25%) Shell Script
17 15 (0.23%) Apex Code
18 14 (0.22%) Go
19 10 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,301 (20.21%) Security Cleared
2 953 (14.80%) SC Cleared
3 437 (6.79%) Degree
4 305 (4.74%) PMP
5 265 (4.12%) PMI Certification
6 241 (3.74%) DV Cleared
7 192 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 149 (2.31%) CISSP
9 119 (1.85%) CISM
10 116 (1.80%) Azure Certification
11 80 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
12 74 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
13 73 (1.13%) AWS Certification
14 67 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
15 48 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
16 47 (0.73%) Master's Degree
17 45 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 43 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 43 (0.67%) ACCA
19 42 (0.65%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 448 (6.96%) Data Quality
2 367 (5.70%) QA
3 311 (4.83%) PMO
4 216 (3.35%) GDPR
5 161 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 159 (2.47%) NIST
7 150 (2.33%) Accessibility
8 119 (1.85%) GRC
9 90 (1.40%) SLA
10 53 (0.82%) NCSC
11 50 (0.78%) WCAG
12 30 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 26 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
14 24 (0.37%) IFRS
14 24 (0.37%) SOC 2
15 23 (0.36%) COBIT
16 22 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
16 22 (0.34%) PCI DSS
17 17 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 17 (0.26%) JSP 440
System Software
1 161 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 139 (2.16%) Docker
3 64 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 21 (0.33%) VMware NSX
7 20 (0.31%) vSphere
8 14 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.19%) NFS
10 8 (0.12%) Postfix
11 6 (0.093%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.062%) Varnish
13 3 (0.047%) Ceph
13 3 (0.047%) KVM
13 3 (0.047%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.047%) Time Sharing Option
13 3 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.031%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 200 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 98 (1.52%) Ansible
3 59 (0.92%) Grafana
4 41 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 30 (0.47%) SCCM
8 17 (0.26%) Argo
9 11 (0.17%) Control-M
10 10 (0.16%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.12%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.12%) Kibana
11 8 (0.12%) Puppet
12 7 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.093%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.093%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.078%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.078%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.078%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.078%) WMI
Vendors
1 1,028 (15.97%) Microsoft
2 500 (7.77%) SAP
3 350 (5.44%) Oracle
4 328 (5.09%) ServiceNow
5 242 (3.76%) Salesforce
6 195 (3.03%) Databricks
7 133 (2.07%) Google
8 95 (1.48%) VMware
9 90 (1.40%) Workday
10 77 (1.20%) Cisco
11 60 (0.93%) CyberArk
12 56 (0.87%) Adobe
13 53 (0.82%) IBM
14 51 (0.79%) Splunk
15 43 (0.67%) Ariba
16 37 (0.57%) Informatica
16 37 (0.57%) MuleSoft
17 32 (0.50%) Atlassian
18 30 (0.47%) F5
18 30 (0.47%) Foundry