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

6 months to
23 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 5,513 2,781 2,577
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.28% 10.17% 7.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.40% 11.22% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,691 1,890 1,827
10th Percentile £381 £358 £360
25th Percentile £457 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £534
% change year-on-year +2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 63 76
10th Percentile £28.00 £28.93 £22.84
25th Percentile £36.25 £39.78 £50.63
Median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -13.15% +16.29%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £103.75 £78.50 £85.32
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £60.83
% change year-on-year +16.82% -12.05% +14.84%

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 38,297 24,783 30,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.34% 90.63% 85.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 15,884 19,726
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £645
90th Percentile £737 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,330 1,950
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.29 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.99 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69.75 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.23 £71.46 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -36.33% -7.06%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 2,861 £560 - 1,235
North of England -1 809 £500 - 477
South East +8 735 £550 +4.76% 583
Midlands +1 523 £500 -0.20% 252
North West +1 407 £513 +2.50% 272
West Midlands +3 403 £500 -7.66% 161
Yorkshire +6 358 £500 +1.01% 155
South West +8 305 £550 +3.53% 189
East of England +8 167 £525 -4.55% 113
East Midlands +5 108 £500 +22.25% 90
North East -15 56 £475 +5.56% 52
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
1 329 (5.97%) Confluence
2 153 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.00%) CMS
4 30 (0.54%) SAS
5 23 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
7 20 (0.36%) Apache
8 12 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 6 (0.11%) Appian
10 6 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.11%) WordPress
11 5 (0.091%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.091%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.073%) Kentico
12 4 (0.073%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.054%) FactoryTalk
13 3 (0.054%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.054%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 228 (4.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 155 (2.81%) Microsoft Project
3 128 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
4 118 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 69 (1.25%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 14 (0.25%) Revit
8 12 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.15%) Trello
10 6 (0.11%) Navisworks
11 5 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.091%) Sketch
12 4 (0.073%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.054%) 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
1 199 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 71 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 26 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
5 25 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 23 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 20 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
8 18 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
8 18 (0.33%) Workday HCM
9 16 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
9 16 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
9 16 (0.29%) SAP FI
9 16 (0.29%) SAP SD
10 14 (0.25%) Aladdin
10 14 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
11 13 (0.24%) Finacle
11 13 (0.24%) Primavera
11 13 (0.24%) SAP ERP
12 12 (0.22%) SAP CO
13 11 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 942 (17.09%) Azure
2 627 (11.37%) AWS
3 348 (6.31%) Power Platform
4 237 (4.30%) GCP
5 213 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
6 195 (3.54%) SaaS
7 140 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
8 120 (2.18%) Entra ID
9 102 (1.85%) GitHub
10 94 (1.71%) Snowflake
11 80 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
12 69 (1.25%) SuccessFactors
13 60 (1.09%) Amazon S3
14 58 (1.05%) OCI
15 57 (1.03%) Serverless
16 54 (0.98%) PowerApps
17 51 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
18 49 (0.89%) Power Automate
19 48 (0.87%) Figma
19 48 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 102 (1.85%) Firewall
2 96 (1.74%) Network Security
3 68 (1.23%) WAN
4 51 (0.93%) DNS
4 51 (0.93%) LAN
5 37 (0.67%) TCP/IP
6 36 (0.65%) SD-WAN
6 36 (0.65%) VPN
7 33 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
8 26 (0.47%) DHCP
9 21 (0.38%) BGP
10 19 (0.34%) OSPF
11 17 (0.31%) Wireless
12 15 (0.27%) 4G
12 15 (0.27%) 5G
12 15 (0.27%) Intranet
12 15 (0.27%) SAN
12 15 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
13 14 (0.25%) BIG-IP
13 14 (0.25%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (5.06%) Power BI
2 126 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
3 107 (1.94%) Metadata
4 69 (1.25%) Data Lake
5 67 (1.22%) SQL Server
6 59 (1.07%) Tableau
7 47 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
8 39 (0.71%) Relational Database
9 37 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (0.56%) Oracle Database
11 27 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
12 26 (0.47%) Delta Lake
13 23 (0.42%) Big Data
13 23 (0.42%) DynamoDB
14 18 (0.33%) BigQuery
14 18 (0.33%) NoSQL
15 16 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
15 16 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 15 (0.27%) Looker
Development Applications
1 596 (10.81%) JIRA
2 83 (1.51%) Git
3 81 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 41 (0.74%) GitLab
4 41 (0.74%) Selenium
5 29 (0.53%) JUnit
6 23 (0.42%) Postman
7 20 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.31%) JMeter
9 16 (0.29%) SonarQube
10 15 (0.27%) Zephyr
11 14 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 14 (0.25%) Maven
12 13 (0.24%) WebDriver
13 12 (0.22%) Mockito
14 11 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (0.18%) DbUnit
16 9 (0.16%) ERwin
16 9 (0.16%) jMock
17 8 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,738 (49.66%) Social Skills
2 1,921 (34.84%) Finance
3 889 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 676 (12.26%) Public Sector
5 504 (9.14%) Banking
6 342 (6.20%) Retail
7 292 (5.30%) Influencing Skills
8 243 (4.41%) Legal
9 226 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
10 195 (3.54%) Marketing
11 194 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
12 156 (2.83%) Manufacturing
13 137 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
14 133 (2.41%) Telecoms
15 102 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 97 (1.76%) Local Government
17 83 (1.51%) Aerospace
17 83 (1.51%) Billing
18 71 (1.29%) Financial Institution
19 70 (1.27%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 822 (14.91%) Analyst
2 790 (14.33%) Lead
3 747 (13.55%) Project Manager
4 633 (11.48%) Architect
5 581 (10.54%) Senior
6 551 (9.99%) Business Analyst
7 280 (5.08%) Consultant
8 239 (4.34%) Senior Manager
9 233 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
10 183 (3.32%) Programme Manager
11 180 (3.27%) Delivery Manager
12 168 (3.05%) IT Manager
13 136 (2.47%) Product Manager
14 124 (2.25%) Senior Project Manager
15 115 (2.09%) Product Owner
16 114 (2.07%) Developer
17 107 (1.94%) Technical Manager
18 93 (1.69%) IT Project Manager
19 91 (1.65%) Designer
20 89 (1.61%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (2.52%) REST
2 99 (1.80%) Middleware
3 85 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
4 72 (1.31%) SOAP
5 58 (1.05%) .NET
6 43 (0.78%) JSON
7 41 (0.74%) Kafka
8 39 (0.71%) SailPoint
9 38 (0.69%) PySpark
10 34 (0.62%) React
11 33 (0.60%) OAuth
11 33 (0.60%) Spring
12 32 (0.58%) CSS
12 32 (0.58%) Web Services
13 30 (0.54%) HTML
14 29 (0.53%) AngularJS
15 27 (0.49%) RESTful
15 27 (0.49%) XML
16 25 (0.45%) Spring Boot
17 23 (0.42%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 422 (7.65%) Product Ownership
2 298 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 169 (3.07%) Cloud Native
4 159 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
5 143 (2.59%) Management Information System
6 126 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 118 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 103 (1.87%) Data Structures
9 95 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 92 (1.67%) Virtual Team
11 81 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
12 75 (1.36%) Operational Technology
13 71 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
14 69 (1.25%) NHS
15 67 (1.22%) AI Agents
15 67 (1.22%) Security Posture
16 56 (1.02%) CMDB
16 56 (1.02%) FMCG
17 55 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
18 43 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 173 (3.14%) Windows
2 91 (1.65%) Linux
3 36 (0.65%) Unix
4 35 (0.63%) Android
5 33 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 30 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 23 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.18%) VMS
10 7 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.091%) Solaris
11 5 (0.091%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.073%) AIX
12 4 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.073%) zOS
13 3 (0.054%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.036%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.036%) HPUX
14 2 (0.036%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.018%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,802 (32.69%) Agile
2 961 (17.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 885 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
4 817 (14.82%) Roadmaps
5 765 (13.88%) Migration
6 747 (13.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 700 (12.70%) Project Management
8 673 (12.21%) Decision-Making
9 653 (11.84%) DevOps
10 617 (11.19%) Project Delivery
11 610 (11.06%) AI
12 601 (10.90%) Change Management
13 584 (10.59%) Analytics
14 546 (9.90%) Risk Management
15 475 (8.62%) User Acceptance Testing
16 461 (8.36%) CI/CD
16 461 (8.36%) Workshop Facilitation
17 447 (8.11%) Validation
18 443 (8.04%) Scrum
19 434 (7.87%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 436 (7.91%) SQL
2 314 (5.70%) Python
3 114 (2.07%) Java
4 87 (1.58%) PowerShell
5 70 (1.27%) JavaScript
6 54 (0.98%) C#
7 37 (0.67%) Bash
8 25 (0.45%) Bicep
9 23 (0.42%) Korn
10 22 (0.40%) TypeScript
11 21 (0.38%) VBA
12 20 (0.36%) ABAP
13 17 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 16 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 15 (0.27%) R
16 14 (0.25%) Shell Script
17 13 (0.24%) T-SQL
18 12 (0.22%) Apex Code
19 10 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
20 7 (0.13%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,073 (19.46%) Security Cleared
2 798 (14.47%) SC Cleared
3 394 (7.15%) Degree
4 280 (5.08%) PMP
5 246 (4.46%) PMI Certification
6 182 (3.30%) DV Cleared
7 158 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 120 (2.18%) CISSP
9 92 (1.67%) Azure Certification
10 86 (1.56%) CISM
11 56 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
12 53 (0.96%) AWS Certification
13 52 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
14 41 (0.74%) Master's Degree
14 41 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
15 39 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
15 39 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 32 (0.58%) ISTQB
17 30 (0.54%) ACCA
17 30 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 329 (5.97%) Data Quality
2 306 (5.55%) QA
3 275 (4.99%) PMO
4 221 (4.01%) GDPR
5 141 (2.56%) NIST
6 134 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 100 (1.81%) Accessibility
8 98 (1.78%) GRC
9 87 (1.58%) SLA
10 48 (0.87%) NCSC
11 37 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 31 (0.56%) SOC 2
12 31 (0.56%) WCAG
13 30 (0.54%) COBIT
14 29 (0.53%) PCI DSS
15 21 (0.38%) IFRS
16 19 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.29%) JSP 440
17 16 (0.29%) Solvency II
18 15 (0.27%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 116 (2.10%) Active Directory
2 106 (1.92%) Docker
3 47 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.27%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.25%) NFS
8 12 (0.22%) Postfix
8 12 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.18%) vSphere
10 6 (0.11%) Hyper-V
11 5 (0.091%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.073%) SRDF
12 4 (0.073%) Varnish
13 3 (0.054%) HDFS
13 3 (0.054%) 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
1 150 (2.72%) Terraform
2 140 (2.54%) Kubernetes
3 79 (1.43%) Ansible
4 56 (1.02%) Grafana
5 44 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
6 36 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.62%) Prometheus
8 24 (0.44%) SCCM
9 15 (0.27%) Argo
10 8 (0.15%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.15%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.15%) Puppet
11 7 (0.13%) Control-M
11 7 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 7 (0.13%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.11%) RSA Archer
13 5 (0.091%) Oracle RMAN
13 5 (0.091%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.073%) vMotion
Vendors
1 742 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 445 (8.07%) SAP
3 295 (5.35%) Oracle
4 293 (5.31%) ServiceNow
5 216 (3.92%) Salesforce
6 117 (2.12%) Databricks
7 110 (2.00%) Google
8 86 (1.56%) VMware
9 80 (1.45%) Workday
10 59 (1.07%) Cisco
11 55 (1.00%) Adobe
12 47 (0.85%) CyberArk
13 42 (0.76%) IBM
14 37 (0.67%) Ariba
14 37 (0.67%) Splunk
15 33 (0.60%) MuleSoft
16 32 (0.58%) Informatica
17 31 (0.56%) F5
18 30 (0.54%) Atlassian
19 27 (0.49%) Foundry