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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 15 23
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,601 2,836 2,490
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.49% 10.31% 7.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.66% 11.36% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,727 1,932 1,749
10th Percentile £390 £358 £362
25th Percentile £463 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -0.47% -2.27%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £548 £525 £531
% change year-on-year +4.29% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 65 72
10th Percentile £28.00 £29.61 £24.01
25th Percentile £35.90 £37.80 £50.63
Median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £61.33
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -12.77% +31.89%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £103.50 £78.25 £85.00
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 38,210 24,959 29,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.22% 90.75% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,914 15,999 19,151
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -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% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,365 1,791
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.22 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.75
Median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £69.49 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.10 £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 29 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 29 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 29 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 2,916 £560 +1.08% 1,317
North of England -1 811 £500 - 479
South East +8 746 £550 +4.76% 617
Midlands +1 523 £500 -0.10% 259
West Midlands +3 410 £500 -7.66% 175
North West -1 404 £524 +4.80% 263
Yorkshire +6 360 £500 +2.30% 158
South West +9 316 £550 +4.76% 210
East of England +6 177 £525 -4.55% 124
East Midlands +5 99 £500 +24.22% 84
North East -15 59 £475 +5.56% 60
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
1 318 (5.68%) Confluence
2 147 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 55 (0.98%) CMS
4 29 (0.52%) SAS
5 22 (0.39%) Apache
6 21 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
7 18 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.20%) Apache Spark
9 9 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.11%) WordPress
11 5 (0.089%) Appian
11 5 (0.089%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.071%) FactoryTalk
12 4 (0.071%) Kentico
13 3 (0.054%) Moodle
13 3 (0.054%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.054%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 234 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 153 (2.73%) Microsoft Project
3 126 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
4 118 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (1.25%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.27%) Revit
8 14 (0.25%) 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%) EPLAN
14 2 (0.036%) Photoshop
14 2 (0.036%) ProjectWise
14 2 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 202 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 69 (1.23%) 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 19 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
9 18 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
10 17 (0.30%) SAP FI
11 16 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
11 16 (0.29%) SAP SD
12 14 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
13 13 (0.23%) Aladdin
13 13 (0.23%) Finacle
13 13 (0.23%) Primavera
13 13 (0.23%) SAP CO
13 13 (0.23%) SAP ERP
14 12 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 985 (17.59%) Azure
2 656 (11.71%) AWS
3 357 (6.37%) Power Platform
4 254 (4.53%) GCP
5 220 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
6 197 (3.52%) SaaS
7 141 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
8 122 (2.18%) Entra ID
9 109 (1.95%) GitHub
10 99 (1.77%) Snowflake
11 81 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
12 74 (1.32%) SuccessFactors
13 61 (1.09%) Amazon S3
13 61 (1.09%) OCI
14 58 (1.04%) Serverless
15 51 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
15 51 (0.91%) PowerApps
16 50 (0.89%) Power Automate
17 48 (0.86%) Figma
18 46 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 104 (1.86%) Firewall
2 102 (1.82%) Network Security
3 63 (1.12%) WAN
4 54 (0.96%) DNS
5 44 (0.79%) LAN
6 37 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 36 (0.64%) SD-WAN
7 36 (0.64%) VPN
8 29 (0.52%) DHCP
9 25 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
10 20 (0.36%) BGP
11 18 (0.32%) OSPF
12 17 (0.30%) 4G
12 17 (0.30%) 5G
12 17 (0.30%) Wireless
13 15 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
14 14 (0.25%) BIG-IP
14 14 (0.25%) Intranet
14 14 (0.25%) MPLS
15 12 (0.21%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (5.12%) Power BI
2 130 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
3 109 (1.95%) Metadata
4 71 (1.27%) SQL Server
5 69 (1.23%) Data Lake
6 63 (1.12%) Tableau
7 51 (0.91%) 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 (0.54%) Delta Lake
12 27 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
13 25 (0.45%) Big Data
14 23 (0.41%) DynamoDB
15 20 (0.36%) BigQuery
16 19 (0.34%) NoSQL
17 18 (0.32%) Looker
18 17 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
19 16 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 588 (10.50%) JIRA
2 83 (1.48%) Git
3 80 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 45 (0.80%) GitLab
5 44 (0.79%) Selenium
6 29 (0.52%) JUnit
7 24 (0.43%) Postman
8 21 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.32%) JMeter
9 18 (0.32%) SonarQube
10 15 (0.27%) Cypress.io
10 15 (0.27%) Maven
10 15 (0.27%) Zephyr
11 14 (0.25%) WebDriver
12 12 (0.21%) Mockito
13 11 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
14 10 (0.18%) DbUnit
15 9 (0.16%) ERwin
15 9 (0.16%) jMock
16 8 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,790 (49.81%) Social Skills
2 1,942 (34.67%) Finance
3 913 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
4 689 (12.30%) Public Sector
5 517 (9.23%) Banking
6 343 (6.12%) Retail
7 308 (5.50%) Influencing Skills
8 243 (4.34%) Legal
9 229 (4.09%) Organisational Skills
10 200 (3.57%) Marketing
11 196 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
12 163 (2.91%) Manufacturing
13 145 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
14 134 (2.39%) Telecoms
15 111 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 98 (1.75%) Local Government
17 83 (1.48%) Billing
18 82 (1.46%) Aerospace
19 76 (1.36%) Front Office
20 72 (1.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 833 (14.87%) Analyst
2 809 (14.44%) Lead
3 744 (13.28%) Project Manager
4 658 (11.75%) Architect
5 593 (10.59%) Senior
6 558 (9.96%) Business Analyst
7 308 (5.50%) Consultant
8 253 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
9 233 (4.16%) Senior Manager
10 180 (3.21%) Delivery Manager
11 179 (3.20%) Programme Manager
12 168 (3.00%) IT Manager
13 132 (2.36%) Product Manager
14 121 (2.16%) Developer
15 120 (2.14%) Senior Project Manager
16 114 (2.04%) Product Owner
17 111 (1.98%) Technical Manager
18 95 (1.70%) Designer
19 94 (1.68%) Data Analyst
20 93 (1.66%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (2.57%) REST
2 101 (1.80%) Middleware
3 89 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
4 74 (1.32%) SOAP
5 61 (1.09%) .NET
6 47 (0.84%) Kafka
7 42 (0.75%) JSON
8 40 (0.71%) PySpark
9 39 (0.70%) SailPoint
10 38 (0.68%) OAuth
11 37 (0.66%) React
12 35 (0.62%) Spring
12 35 (0.62%) Web Services
13 33 (0.59%) CSS
13 33 (0.59%) HTML
14 30 (0.54%) AngularJS
15 27 (0.48%) Spring Boot
15 27 (0.48%) XML
16 25 (0.45%) RESTful
17 23 (0.41%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 419 (7.48%) Product Ownership
2 310 (5.53%) Onboarding
3 178 (3.18%) Cloud Native
4 161 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
5 153 (2.73%) Management Information System
6 127 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
7 121 (2.16%) Data Centre
8 105 (1.87%) Data Structures
9 96 (1.71%) Virtual Team
10 92 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
11 89 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
12 77 (1.37%) Operational Technology
13 75 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
14 71 (1.27%) NHS
15 70 (1.25%) Security Posture
16 69 (1.23%) AI Agents
17 60 (1.07%) CMDB
18 58 (1.04%) FMCG
19 55 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
20 44 (0.79%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 172 (3.07%) Windows
2 98 (1.75%) Linux
3 37 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 36 (0.64%) Unix
5 33 (0.59%) Android
6 28 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.18%) VMS
10 8 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.089%) Solaris
11 5 (0.089%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.071%) AIX
12 4 (0.071%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.071%) zOS
13 3 (0.054%) Amazon Linux
13 3 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.036%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.036%) HPUX
14 2 (0.036%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,814 (32.39%) Agile
2 984 (17.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 894 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
4 839 (14.98%) Roadmaps
5 771 (13.77%) Migration
6 756 (13.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 711 (12.69%) Project Management
8 694 (12.39%) Decision-Making
9 663 (11.84%) DevOps
10 636 (11.36%) Project Delivery
11 627 (11.19%) AI
12 602 (10.75%) Change Management
13 596 (10.64%) Analytics
14 553 (9.87%) Risk Management
15 485 (8.66%) User Acceptance Testing
16 479 (8.55%) Workshop Facilitation
17 474 (8.46%) CI/CD
18 450 (8.03%) Scrum
19 448 (8.00%) Validation
20 443 (7.91%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 444 (7.93%) SQL
2 317 (5.66%) Python
3 119 (2.12%) Java
4 87 (1.55%) PowerShell
5 80 (1.43%) JavaScript
6 54 (0.96%) C#
7 38 (0.68%) Bash
8 25 (0.45%) Bicep
9 24 (0.43%) TypeScript
10 22 (0.39%) Korn
11 20 (0.36%) ABAP
11 20 (0.36%) VBA
12 17 (0.30%) PL/SQL
12 17 (0.30%) R
13 16 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 14 (0.25%) Shell Script
14 14 (0.25%) T-SQL
15 12 (0.21%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.12%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,101 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 812 (14.50%) SC Cleared
3 392 (7.00%) Degree
4 285 (5.09%) PMP
5 251 (4.48%) PMI Certification
6 197 (3.52%) DV Cleared
7 157 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 122 (2.18%) CISSP
9 95 (1.70%) Azure Certification
10 91 (1.62%) CISM
11 60 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
12 54 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
13 53 (0.95%) AWS Certification
14 49 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
15 42 (0.75%) Master's Degree
16 41 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 39 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
18 32 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 32 (0.57%) ISTQB
19 31 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 335 (5.98%) Data Quality
2 313 (5.59%) QA
3 277 (4.95%) PMO
4 212 (3.79%) GDPR
5 142 (2.54%) NIST
6 133 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 108 (1.93%) Accessibility
8 97 (1.73%) GRC
9 89 (1.59%) SLA
10 45 (0.80%) NCSC
11 37 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 33 (0.59%) WCAG
13 32 (0.57%) COBIT
14 30 (0.54%) SOC 2
15 27 (0.48%) PCI DSS
16 21 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
17 20 (0.36%) IFRS
18 16 (0.29%) ISO 20022
18 16 (0.29%) JSP 440
19 15 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 123 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 112 (2.00%) 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 12 (0.21%) NFS
7 12 (0.21%) Postfix
7 12 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (0.21%) vSphere
8 8 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.089%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.071%) SRDF
10 4 (0.071%) Varnish
11 3 (0.054%) HDFS
11 3 (0.054%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.036%) Ceph
12 2 (0.036%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.036%) KVM
12 2 (0.036%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 163 (2.91%) Terraform
2 149 (2.66%) Kubernetes
3 81 (1.45%) Ansible
4 56 (1.00%) Grafana
5 43 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 36 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 27 (0.48%) SCCM
9 17 (0.30%) Argo
10 9 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.16%) Puppet
11 8 (0.14%) Control-M
11 8 (0.14%) HP ALM
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%) EMC NetWorker
15 4 (0.071%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 769 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 452 (8.07%) SAP
3 306 (5.46%) ServiceNow
4 305 (5.45%) Oracle
5 214 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 127 (2.27%) Databricks
7 109 (1.95%) Google
8 85 (1.52%) VMware
9 82 (1.46%) Workday
10 61 (1.09%) Cisco
11 52 (0.93%) Adobe
12 47 (0.84%) CyberArk
13 43 (0.77%) IBM
14 36 (0.64%) Ariba
15 34 (0.61%) MuleSoft
15 34 (0.61%) Splunk
16 32 (0.57%) Atlassian
17 31 (0.55%) Informatica
18 30 (0.54%) F5
19 26 (0.46%) Foundry