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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 15 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,478 2,767 2,581
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.21% 10.14% 7.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.31% 11.18% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,679 1,886 1,833
10th Percentile £384 £358 £359
25th Percentile £458 £431 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £530
% change year-on-year +2.86% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 62 77
10th Percentile £28.00 £31.64 £22.93
25th Percentile £36.08 £41.78 £41.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £54.01 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +15.73% -12.33% +16.29%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £103.85 £78.63 £85.26
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £60.60
% change year-on-year +16.82% -11.72% +14.40%

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 38,278 24,745 30,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 90.65% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,038 15,865 19,799
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 £635 £645
90th Percentile £737 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,361 1,324 1,984
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.95 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £69.50 £53.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £74.31
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +9 2,841 £560 - 1,434
North of England 0 796 £500 - 514
South East +7 733 £550 +3.58% 585
Midlands +1 526 £500 -0.20% 257
West Midlands +3 405 £500 -7.66% 159
North West +2 399 £513 +2.50% 299
Yorkshire +6 355 £500 +1.01% 169
South West +6 303 £550 +3.53% 200
East of England +11 169 £525 -4.55% 126
East Midlands +8 109 £500 +22.25% 96
North East -15 54 £475 +5.56% 47
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
1 322 (5.88%) Confluence
2 151 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.00%) CMS
4 32 (0.58%) SAS
5 23 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
7 18 (0.33%) Apache
8 11 (0.20%) 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
12 4 (0.073%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.073%) Kentico
12 4 (0.073%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.055%) FactoryTalk
13 3 (0.055%) Oracle Coherence
13 3 (0.055%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 222 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 150 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
3 126 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
4 114 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (1.28%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 13 (0.24%) Revit
9 11 (0.20%) AutoCAD
10 8 (0.15%) Trello
11 5 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.091%) Navisworks
11 5 (0.091%) Sketch
12 4 (0.073%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.055%) Notion
14 2 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.037%) CPLEX
14 2 (0.037%) EPLAN
14 2 (0.037%) Photoshop
14 2 (0.037%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 198 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 70 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
5 25 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 23 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 20 (0.37%) 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 (0.26%) Aladdin
10 14 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
11 13 (0.24%) Primavera
12 12 (0.22%) Finacle
12 12 (0.22%) SAP CO
12 12 (0.22%) SAP ERP
13 11 (0.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 940 (17.16%) Azure
2 622 (11.35%) AWS
3 344 (6.28%) Power Platform
4 235 (4.29%) GCP
5 213 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
6 188 (3.43%) SaaS
7 138 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
8 120 (2.19%) Entra ID
9 102 (1.86%) GitHub
10 94 (1.72%) Snowflake
11 79 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
12 69 (1.26%) SuccessFactors
13 62 (1.13%) OCI
14 59 (1.08%) Amazon S3
15 53 (0.97%) PowerApps
15 53 (0.97%) Serverless
16 51 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
17 48 (0.88%) Figma
17 48 (0.88%) Power Automate
18 47 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 102 (1.86%) Firewall
2 96 (1.75%) Network Security
3 66 (1.20%) WAN
4 51 (0.93%) DNS
5 49 (0.89%) LAN
6 37 (0.68%) TCP/IP
7 36 (0.66%) SD-WAN
7 36 (0.66%) VPN
8 31 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
9 26 (0.47%) DHCP
10 21 (0.38%) BGP
11 19 (0.35%) OSPF
12 17 (0.31%) Wireless
13 15 (0.27%) Intranet
13 15 (0.27%) SAN
13 15 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
14 14 (0.26%) 4G
14 14 (0.26%) 5G
14 14 (0.26%) BIG-IP
14 14 (0.26%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 275 (5.02%) Power BI
2 125 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
3 106 (1.94%) Metadata
4 68 (1.24%) Data Lake
5 67 (1.22%) SQL Server
6 58 (1.06%) Tableau
7 47 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
8 39 (0.71%) Relational Database
9 36 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
11 30 (0.55%) Oracle Database
12 27 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
13 26 (0.47%) Delta Lake
14 23 (0.42%) Big Data
14 23 (0.42%) DynamoDB
15 18 (0.33%) NoSQL
16 17 (0.31%) BigQuery
17 16 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
17 16 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 14 (0.26%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 589 (10.75%) JIRA
2 83 (1.52%) Git
2 83 (1.52%) Jenkins
3 41 (0.75%) GitLab
3 41 (0.75%) Selenium
4 29 (0.53%) JUnit
5 23 (0.42%) Postman
6 20 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 17 (0.31%) JMeter
8 16 (0.29%) SonarQube
9 15 (0.27%) Zephyr
10 14 (0.26%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.26%) Maven
11 13 (0.24%) WebDriver
12 12 (0.22%) Mockito
13 11 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
14 10 (0.18%) DbUnit
15 9 (0.16%) ERwin
15 9 (0.16%) jMock
16 8 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,718 (49.62%) Social Skills
2 1,909 (34.85%) Finance
3 882 (16.10%) Analytical Skills
4 667 (12.18%) Public Sector
5 495 (9.04%) Banking
6 343 (6.26%) Retail
7 292 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
8 242 (4.42%) Legal
9 222 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
10 194 (3.54%) Marketing
11 193 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
12 156 (2.85%) Manufacturing
13 132 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
14 129 (2.35%) Telecoms
15 100 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 95 (1.73%) Local Government
17 83 (1.52%) Aerospace
18 81 (1.48%) Billing
19 71 (1.30%) Financial Institution
20 70 (1.28%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 823 (15.02%) Analyst
2 777 (14.18%) Lead
3 740 (13.51%) Project Manager
4 631 (11.52%) Architect
5 585 (10.68%) Senior
6 551 (10.06%) Business Analyst
7 277 (5.06%) Consultant
8 243 (4.44%) Senior Manager
9 235 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
10 186 (3.40%) Programme Manager
11 182 (3.32%) Delivery Manager
12 169 (3.09%) IT Manager
13 136 (2.48%) Product Manager
14 123 (2.25%) Senior Project Manager
15 113 (2.06%) Product Owner
16 112 (2.04%) Developer
17 107 (1.95%) Technical Manager
18 93 (1.70%) IT Project Manager
19 90 (1.64%) Designer
20 89 (1.62%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (2.45%) REST
2 97 (1.77%) Middleware
3 89 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
4 70 (1.28%) SOAP
5 58 (1.06%) .NET
6 43 (0.78%) JSON
7 40 (0.73%) Kafka
8 38 (0.69%) PySpark
8 38 (0.69%) SailPoint
9 33 (0.60%) OAuth
10 32 (0.58%) CSS
10 32 (0.58%) React
10 32 (0.58%) Spring
10 32 (0.58%) Web Services
11 30 (0.55%) HTML
12 29 (0.53%) AngularJS
13 27 (0.49%) RESTful
13 27 (0.49%) XML
14 24 (0.44%) Spring Boot
15 23 (0.42%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 418 (7.63%) Product Ownership
2 296 (5.40%) Onboarding
3 168 (3.07%) Cloud Native
4 158 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
5 143 (2.61%) Management Information System
6 126 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
7 118 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 102 (1.86%) Data Structures
9 95 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 92 (1.68%) Virtual Team
11 79 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
12 77 (1.41%) Operational Technology
13 69 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
13 69 (1.26%) NHS
14 67 (1.22%) AI Agents
15 66 (1.20%) Security Posture
16 56 (1.02%) CMDB
16 56 (1.02%) FMCG
17 52 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
18 43 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 172 (3.14%) Windows
2 89 (1.62%) Linux
3 35 (0.64%) Android
3 35 (0.64%) Unix
4 33 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 30 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 23 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.18%) VMS
9 7 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.091%) Solaris
10 5 (0.091%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.073%) AIX
11 4 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.073%) zOS
12 3 (0.055%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.037%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.037%) HPUX
13 2 (0.037%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.018%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,796 (32.79%) Agile
2 953 (17.40%) Continuous Improvement
3 883 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
4 805 (14.70%) Roadmaps
5 760 (13.87%) Migration
6 746 (13.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 689 (12.58%) Project Management
8 666 (12.16%) Decision-Making
9 650 (11.87%) DevOps
10 616 (11.24%) Project Delivery
11 601 (10.97%) Change Management
12 597 (10.90%) AI
13 577 (10.53%) Analytics
14 542 (9.89%) Risk Management
15 474 (8.65%) User Acceptance Testing
16 459 (8.38%) Workshop Facilitation
17 457 (8.34%) CI/CD
18 446 (8.14%) Validation
19 440 (8.03%) Scrum
20 432 (7.89%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 431 (7.87%) SQL
2 308 (5.62%) Python
3 109 (1.99%) Java
4 86 (1.57%) PowerShell
5 69 (1.26%) JavaScript
6 54 (0.99%) C#
7 37 (0.68%) Bash
8 25 (0.46%) Bicep
9 23 (0.42%) Korn
10 21 (0.38%) VBA
11 20 (0.37%) ABAP
11 20 (0.37%) TypeScript
12 17 (0.31%) PL/SQL
13 16 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 14 (0.26%) R
14 14 (0.26%) Shell Script
15 13 (0.24%) T-SQL
16 12 (0.22%) Apex Code
17 10 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
18 7 (0.13%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,069 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 799 (14.59%) SC Cleared
3 392 (7.16%) Degree
4 282 (5.15%) PMP
5 247 (4.51%) PMI Certification
6 176 (3.21%) DV Cleared
7 155 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 120 (2.19%) CISSP
9 94 (1.72%) Azure Certification
10 86 (1.57%) CISM
11 56 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
12 53 (0.97%) AWS Certification
13 52 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
14 43 (0.78%) Master's Degree
15 42 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
16 39 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
16 39 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 31 (0.57%) ISTQB
18 30 (0.55%) ACCA
18 30 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 325 (5.93%) Data Quality
2 308 (5.62%) QA
3 273 (4.98%) PMO
4 219 (4.00%) GDPR
5 144 (2.63%) NIST
6 137 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 100 (1.83%) Accessibility
8 97 (1.77%) GRC
9 87 (1.59%) SLA
10 49 (0.89%) NCSC
11 37 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 32 (0.58%) COBIT
13 31 (0.57%) SOC 2
14 30 (0.55%) WCAG
15 29 (0.53%) PCI DSS
16 22 (0.40%) IFRS
17 19 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
18 16 (0.29%) JSP 440
18 16 (0.29%) Solvency II
19 15 (0.27%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 114 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 106 (1.94%) Docker
3 47 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.27%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.26%) NFS
8 12 (0.22%) Postfix
8 12 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.18%) vSphere
10 6 (0.11%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.073%) SRDF
11 4 (0.073%) Varnish
12 3 (0.055%) HDFS
12 3 (0.055%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.037%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.037%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.037%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.018%) RACF
Systems Management
1 149 (2.72%) Terraform
2 139 (2.54%) Kubernetes
3 78 (1.42%) Ansible
4 56 (1.02%) Grafana
5 44 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
6 36 (0.66%) 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%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.073%) EMC VPLEX
14 4 (0.073%) vMotion
Vendors
1 739 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 443 (8.09%) SAP
3 297 (5.42%) Oracle
4 291 (5.31%) ServiceNow
5 217 (3.96%) Salesforce
6 117 (2.14%) Databricks
7 110 (2.01%) Google
8 86 (1.57%) VMware
9 80 (1.46%) Workday
10 58 (1.06%) Cisco
11 54 (0.99%) Adobe
12 47 (0.86%) CyberArk
13 42 (0.77%) IBM
14 38 (0.69%) Splunk
15 37 (0.68%) Ariba
16 33 (0.60%) MuleSoft
17 32 (0.58%) Informatica
18 31 (0.57%) F5
19 28 (0.51%) Atlassian
20 27 (0.49%) Foundry