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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 15 21
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 7,426 2,963 2,547
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.95% 10.60% 7.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.81% 11.66% 9.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,906 2,020 1,591
10th Percentile £390 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £642
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 64 68
10th Percentile £20.00 £24.05 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £60.75 £48.25 £61.33
Median % change year-on-year +25.91% -21.33% +26.45%
75th Percentile £80.04 £60.94 £75.00
90th Percentile £97.75 £73.38 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £48.25 £60.30
% change year-on-year +25.39% -19.98% +14.76%

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 39,476 25,411 27,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.80% 90.93% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,882 16,117 16,935
10th Percentile £325 £295 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £642
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,976 1,567 1,167
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.75 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.87 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +50.56% -39.40% -2.92%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 +14 3,913 £563 +2.27% 3,848
North of England +7 1,111 £500 - 1,086
South East +12 948 £550 +4.76% 1,295
Midlands +8 667 £500 -4.76% 676
North West +4 555 £525 +5.00% 610
West Midlands +8 539 £488 -11.36% 449
Yorkshire +8 485 £500 +1.01% 357
South West +7 368 £550 - 381
East of England +15 236 £510 -7.27% 340
East Midlands 0 112 £517 +15.92% 227
North East +3 80 £500 -3.38% 121
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
1 369 (4.97%) Confluence
2 202 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 75 (1.01%) CMS
4 53 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 42 (0.57%) Apache
6 31 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 25 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 23 (0.31%) SAS
9 14 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 10 (0.13%) WordPress
11 9 (0.12%) CICS
11 9 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 8 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
13 6 (0.081%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.081%) nginx
13 6 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
13 6 (0.081%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.067%) NetWeaver
14 5 (0.067%) WebLogic
Applications
1 338 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 177 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 165 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
4 147 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
5 74 (1.00%) MS Visio
6 24 (0.32%) Revit
7 18 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 18 (0.24%) Navisworks
8 15 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
9 14 (0.19%) Chatbot
10 11 (0.15%) Trello
11 9 (0.12%) ProjectWise
12 8 (0.11%) Windchill
13 5 (0.067%) Adobe XD
14 4 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
14 4 (0.054%) Notion
14 4 (0.054%) Photoshop
15 3 (0.040%) CPLEX
15 3 (0.040%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 279 (3.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 96 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 38 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 34 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
4 34 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 30 (0.40%) SAP FI
6 28 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 27 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
8 25 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 25 (0.34%) SAP HCM
8 25 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
9 24 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
10 23 (0.31%) SAP HR
11 22 (0.30%) Aladdin
12 18 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
12 18 (0.24%) SAP CO
12 18 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
13 17 (0.23%) SAP ERP
13 17 (0.23%) SAP MDG
14 16 (0.22%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,347 (18.14%) Azure
2 885 (11.92%) AWS
3 580 (7.81%) Power Platform
4 365 (4.92%) GCP
5 302 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
6 267 (3.60%) SaaS
7 244 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
8 192 (2.59%) GitHub
9 185 (2.49%) Entra ID
10 148 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
11 147 (1.98%) Snowflake
12 113 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
13 105 (1.41%) Serverless
14 94 (1.27%) Power Automate
15 93 (1.25%) SuccessFactors
16 82 (1.10%) PowerApps
17 76 (1.02%) OCI
18 75 (1.01%) Amazon S3
19 71 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
20 69 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 148 (1.99%) Firewall
2 139 (1.87%) Network Security
3 80 (1.08%) WAN
4 72 (0.97%) DNS
5 54 (0.73%) VPN
6 51 (0.69%) LAN
7 46 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 45 (0.61%) DHCP
9 40 (0.54%) SD-WAN
10 27 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
11 26 (0.35%) BGP
12 25 (0.34%) Internet
13 24 (0.32%) 4G
13 24 (0.32%) 5G
13 24 (0.32%) Wireless
14 22 (0.30%) MPLS
15 21 (0.28%) Broadband
16 19 (0.26%) VLAN
17 17 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
17 17 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 447 (6.02%) Power BI
2 209 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
3 203 (2.73%) Metadata
4 121 (1.63%) SQL Server
5 101 (1.36%) Data Lake
6 91 (1.23%) Tableau
7 78 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
8 55 (0.74%) BigQuery
9 54 (0.73%) Relational Database
10 51 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
10 51 (0.69%) MongoDB
11 50 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
12 49 (0.66%) Delta Lake
13 42 (0.57%) Looker
14 37 (0.50%) Oracle Database
15 35 (0.47%) NoSQL
16 29 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
17 28 (0.38%) DynamoDB
18 26 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 24 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 680 (9.16%) JIRA
2 149 (2.01%) Git
3 101 (1.36%) GitLab
4 100 (1.35%) Jenkins
5 72 (0.97%) Selenium
6 50 (0.67%) Cucumber
7 44 (0.59%) JUnit
8 35 (0.47%) Gatling
9 31 (0.42%) Postman
9 31 (0.42%) SonarQube
10 20 (0.27%) Cypress.io
11 18 (0.24%) Zephyr
12 15 (0.20%) JMeter
13 13 (0.18%) Maven
14 12 (0.16%) LoadRunner
14 12 (0.16%) WebDriver
15 11 (0.15%) Claude Code
15 11 (0.15%) MSI
16 9 (0.12%) ERwin
16 9 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
General
1 3,972 (53.49%) Social Skills
2 2,462 (33.15%) Finance
3 1,248 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
4 1,003 (13.51%) Public Sector
5 778 (10.48%) Banking
6 458 (6.17%) Influencing Skills
7 409 (5.51%) Retail
8 341 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
9 326 (4.39%) Legal
10 292 (3.93%) Manufacturing
11 251 (3.38%) Marketing
12 242 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
13 195 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
14 184 (2.48%) Telecoms
15 149 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 146 (1.97%) Aerospace
17 123 (1.66%) Local Government
18 120 (1.62%) Front Office
19 102 (1.37%) Investment Banking
20 101 (1.36%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,068 (14.38%) Analyst
2 1,005 (13.53%) Architect
3 995 (13.40%) Lead
4 807 (10.87%) Senior
5 790 (10.64%) Project Manager
6 688 (9.26%) Business Analyst
7 497 (6.69%) Consultant
8 336 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
9 257 (3.46%) Senior Manager
10 214 (2.88%) Delivery Manager
11 187 (2.52%) IT Manager
12 186 (2.50%) Product Manager
13 181 (2.44%) Programme Manager
14 174 (2.34%) Developer
15 146 (1.97%) Senior Analyst
16 141 (1.90%) Technical Manager
17 134 (1.80%) Product Owner
18 121 (1.63%) Data Analyst
19 120 (1.62%) Data Engineer
20 119 (1.60%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (3.76%) Terraform
2 208 (2.80%) REST
3 141 (1.90%) Middleware
4 111 (1.49%) .NET
5 90 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
6 87 (1.17%) Kafka
7 75 (1.01%) SOAP
8 73 (0.98%) PySpark
9 70 (0.94%) React
10 68 (0.92%) OAuth
11 65 (0.88%) Spring
12 62 (0.83%) JSON
13 55 (0.74%) Playwright
14 52 (0.70%) HTML
15 49 (0.66%) LDAP
16 44 (0.59%) CSS
16 44 (0.59%) XML
17 42 (0.57%) OAuth2
17 42 (0.57%) SailPoint
17 42 (0.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 571 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 447 (6.02%) Onboarding
3 307 (4.13%) Cloud Native
4 250 (3.37%) Management Information System
5 210 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
6 177 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 170 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
8 147 (1.98%) Data Centre
9 139 (1.87%) AI Agents
10 123 (1.66%) Data Structures
10 123 (1.66%) Operational Technology
11 121 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
12 105 (1.41%) Virtual Team
13 99 (1.33%) Security Posture
14 95 (1.28%) CMDB
15 93 (1.25%) NHS
16 90 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
17 80 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
18 76 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
19 72 (0.97%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 246 (3.31%) Windows
2 155 (2.09%) Linux
3 79 (1.06%) Windows Server
4 56 (0.75%) Unix
5 24 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (0.27%) Android
7 18 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.19%) VMS
10 11 (0.15%) zOS
11 10 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.094%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.054%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.054%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.040%) CentOS
16 2 (0.027%) AIX
16 2 (0.027%) HPUX
16 2 (0.027%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,307 (31.07%) Agile
2 1,367 (18.41%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,277 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
4 1,263 (17.01%) Roadmaps
5 1,077 (14.50%) Migration
6 1,009 (13.59%) Decision-Making
7 1,002 (13.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 986 (13.28%) AI
9 880 (11.85%) DevOps
10 869 (11.70%) Project Delivery
11 867 (11.68%) Analytics
12 820 (11.04%) Project Management
13 786 (10.58%) Workshop Facilitation
14 754 (10.15%) Change Management
15 741 (9.98%) Risk Management
16 726 (9.78%) CI/CD
17 632 (8.51%) Requirements Gathering
18 630 (8.48%) User Acceptance Testing
19 625 (8.42%) Cybersecurity
20 612 (8.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 675 (9.09%) SQL
2 484 (6.52%) Python
3 207 (2.79%) Java
4 153 (2.06%) JavaScript
5 152 (2.05%) PowerShell
6 93 (1.25%) C#
7 76 (1.02%) Bash
8 64 (0.86%) TypeScript
9 46 (0.62%) Bicep
10 44 (0.59%) ABAP
11 35 (0.47%) Korn
12 27 (0.36%) R
13 26 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 23 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 22 (0.30%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.26%) Shell Script
17 18 (0.24%) Go
18 13 (0.18%) Apex Code
18 13 (0.18%) VBA
19 12 (0.16%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1,488 (20.04%) Security Cleared
2 1,097 (14.77%) SC Cleared
3 516 (6.95%) Degree
4 320 (4.31%) PMP
5 289 (3.89%) PMI Certification
6 281 (3.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 275 (3.70%) DV Cleared
8 166 (2.24%) CISSP
9 132 (1.78%) Azure Certification
10 124 (1.67%) CISM
11 96 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
12 95 (1.28%) AWS Certification
13 81 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
14 79 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
15 63 (0.85%) ACCA
16 60 (0.81%) CIMA
17 59 (0.79%) Master's Degree
18 53 (0.71%) ISTQB
19 49 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
20 48 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 573 (7.72%) Data Quality
2 431 (5.80%) QA
3 322 (4.34%) PMO
4 222 (2.99%) GDPR
5 209 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 206 (2.77%) Accessibility
7 169 (2.28%) NIST
8 141 (1.90%) GRC
9 97 (1.31%) SLA
10 76 (1.02%) WCAG
11 67 (0.90%) NCSC
12 41 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
13 31 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 28 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
15 27 (0.36%) IFRS
16 25 (0.34%) ISO 20022
17 24 (0.32%) GxP
17 24 (0.32%) PCI DSS
18 23 (0.31%) COBIT
19 21 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 195 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 172 (2.32%) Docker
3 77 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 30 (0.40%) vSphere
5 25 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.30%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 16 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.12%) NFS
10 8 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.081%) Time Sharing Option
12 5 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.054%) FreeRADIUS
13 4 (0.054%) IAG
13 4 (0.054%) Postfix
14 3 (0.040%) Firmware
14 3 (0.040%) KVM
14 3 (0.040%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.040%) RACF
Systems Management
1 253 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 110 (1.48%) Ansible
3 68 (0.92%) Grafana
4 54 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 44 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 32 (0.43%) SCCM
7 17 (0.23%) Argo
8 14 (0.19%) Control-M
9 12 (0.16%) Kibana
10 10 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.12%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.11%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.11%) Tivoli
12 8 (0.11%) WMI
13 7 (0.094%) Puppet
13 7 (0.094%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 6 (0.081%) Tivoli Monitoring
15 5 (0.067%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.067%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1,266 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 599 (8.07%) SAP
3 401 (5.40%) Oracle
4 371 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 257 (3.46%) Salesforce
6 228 (3.07%) Databricks
7 170 (2.29%) Google
8 113 (1.52%) Workday
9 108 (1.45%) VMware
10 104 (1.40%) Cisco
11 76 (1.02%) CyberArk
12 75 (1.01%) IBM
13 63 (0.85%) Splunk
14 60 (0.81%) Adobe
15 51 (0.69%) Ariba
16 42 (0.57%) MuleSoft
17 40 (0.54%) Informatica
18 38 (0.51%) Fortinet
19 35 (0.47%) Dynatrace
20 32 (0.43%) OpenAI