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

6 months to
21 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 5,446 2,764 2,584
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.15% 10.14% 7.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.23% 11.19% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,655 1,884 1,833
10th Percentile £385 £358 £359
25th Percentile £457 £431 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £642 £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 61 77
10th Percentile £28.00 £31.64 £22.93
25th Percentile £36.08 £41.54 £41.50
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 £103.85 £78.75 £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 38,258 24,707 30,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 90.66% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 15,833 19,804
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £745 £751
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,373 1,323 1,986
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.22 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69.50 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.03 £74.22
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 21 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 21 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 21 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 2,823 £558 -0.40% 1,064
North of England -1 793 £500 - 423
South East +6 732 £550 +3.58% 534
Midlands +1 527 £500 -4.40% 217
West Midlands +2 403 £500 -7.66% 137
North West +1 398 £513 +2.50% 259
Yorkshire +6 353 £500 +1.01% 133
South West +7 301 £550 +2.33% 163
East of England +9 166 £525 -4.55% 100
East Midlands +8 112 £500 +21.95% 78
North East -19 54 £475 +5.56% 33
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
1 323 (5.93%) Confluence
2 151 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 56 (1.03%) CMS
4 32 (0.59%) SAS
5 24 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 18 (0.33%) Apache
8 11 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.17%) 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 (0.092%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.092%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (0.073%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.073%) Kentico
13 3 (0.055%) FactoryTalk
13 3 (0.055%) Oracle Coherence
13 3 (0.055%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 226 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 149 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
3 128 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
4 119 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 69 (1.27%) 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 (0.092%) Navisworks
11 5 (0.092%) Sketch
12 4 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.073%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.055%) Notion
14 2 (0.037%) CPLEX
14 2 (0.037%) EngageOne
14 2 (0.037%) EPLAN
14 2 (0.037%) Windchill
15 1 (0.018%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 193 (3.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 70 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 31 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 25 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 22 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 18 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 18 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
7 18 (0.33%) Workday HCM
8 16 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
8 16 (0.29%) SAP SD
9 15 (0.28%) Aladdin
9 15 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
10 14 (0.26%) SAP FI
10 14 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
11 13 (0.24%) Primavera
12 12 (0.22%) Finacle
12 12 (0.22%) SAP ERP
13 11 (0.20%) Magento
13 11 (0.20%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 935 (17.17%) Azure
2 626 (11.49%) AWS
3 343 (6.30%) Power Platform
4 239 (4.39%) GCP
5 214 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
6 188 (3.45%) SaaS
7 135 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
8 118 (2.17%) Entra ID
9 100 (1.84%) GitHub
10 95 (1.74%) Snowflake
11 78 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
12 66 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
13 61 (1.12%) OCI
14 60 (1.10%) Amazon S3
15 53 (0.97%) Serverless
16 51 (0.94%) PowerApps
17 49 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
18 47 (0.86%) Figma
19 46 (0.84%) Microsoft Copilot
19 46 (0.84%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 102 (1.87%) Firewall
2 96 (1.76%) Network Security
3 66 (1.21%) WAN
4 51 (0.94%) DNS
5 50 (0.92%) LAN
6 36 (0.66%) SD-WAN
6 36 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 35 (0.64%) VPN
8 30 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
9 25 (0.46%) DHCP
10 21 (0.39%) BGP
11 19 (0.35%) OSPF
12 16 (0.29%) Wireless
13 15 (0.28%) Intranet
13 15 (0.28%) SAN
14 14 (0.26%) 4G
14 14 (0.26%) 5G
14 14 (0.26%) BIG-IP
14 14 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
15 13 (0.24%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 275 (5.05%) Power BI
2 128 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
3 105 (1.93%) Metadata
4 71 (1.30%) Data Lake
5 66 (1.21%) SQL Server
6 61 (1.12%) Tableau
7 47 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
8 38 (0.70%) Relational Database
9 37 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (0.53%) Oracle Database
12 27 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
13 24 (0.44%) Delta Lake
14 23 (0.42%) Big Data
14 23 (0.42%) DynamoDB
15 21 (0.39%) 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 (10.82%) JIRA
2 84 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 82 (1.51%) Git
4 41 (0.75%) GitLab
4 41 (0.75%) Selenium
5 30 (0.55%) JUnit
6 25 (0.46%) Postman
7 20 (0.37%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.31%) JMeter
9 16 (0.29%) SonarQube
10 14 (0.26%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.26%) Maven
10 14 (0.26%) Zephyr
11 13 (0.24%) Mockito
11 13 (0.24%) WebDriver
12 10 (0.18%) DbUnit
12 10 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (0.17%) jMock
14 8 (0.15%) LoadRunner
14 8 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,701 (49.60%) Social Skills
2 1,898 (34.85%) Finance
3 875 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
4 665 (12.21%) Public Sector
5 491 (9.02%) Banking
6 337 (6.19%) Retail
7 289 (5.31%) Influencing Skills
8 240 (4.41%) Legal
9 219 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
10 196 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
11 193 (3.54%) Marketing
12 153 (2.81%) Manufacturing
13 130 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
14 129 (2.37%) Telecoms
15 101 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 95 (1.74%) Local Government
17 81 (1.49%) Aerospace
18 78 (1.43%) Billing
19 71 (1.30%) Financial Institution
20 68 (1.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 823 (15.11%) Analyst
2 771 (14.16%) Lead
3 739 (13.57%) Project Manager
4 627 (11.51%) Architect
5 579 (10.63%) Senior
6 549 (10.08%) Business Analyst
7 275 (5.05%) Consultant
8 243 (4.46%) Senior Manager
9 231 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
10 185 (3.40%) Programme Manager
11 179 (3.29%) Delivery Manager
12 167 (3.07%) IT Manager
13 134 (2.46%) Product Manager
14 123 (2.26%) Senior Project Manager
15 111 (2.04%) Product Owner
16 110 (2.02%) Developer
17 106 (1.95%) Technical Manager
18 92 (1.69%) IT Project Manager
19 89 (1.63%) Data Analyst
19 89 (1.63%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (2.41%) REST
2 93 (1.71%) Middleware
3 89 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
4 68 (1.25%) SOAP
5 57 (1.05%) .NET
6 44 (0.81%) JSON
7 40 (0.73%) Kafka
8 38 (0.70%) SailPoint
9 37 (0.68%) PySpark
10 34 (0.62%) OAuth
11 33 (0.61%) CSS
12 32 (0.59%) React
13 31 (0.57%) Spring
14 30 (0.55%) HTML
14 30 (0.55%) Web Services
15 29 (0.53%) AngularJS
15 29 (0.53%) XML
16 27 (0.50%) RESTful
17 26 (0.48%) OpenID
18 25 (0.46%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 409 (7.51%) Product Ownership
2 296 (5.44%) Onboarding
3 171 (3.14%) Cloud Native
4 157 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
5 149 (2.74%) Management Information System
6 123 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
7 117 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 100 (1.84%) Data Structures
9 93 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 90 (1.65%) Virtual Team
11 76 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
11 76 (1.40%) Operational Technology
12 68 (1.25%) NHS
13 67 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
13 67 (1.23%) Security Posture
14 65 (1.19%) AI Agents
15 56 (1.03%) CMDB
16 54 (0.99%) FMCG
17 51 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
18 42 (0.77%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 168 (3.08%) Windows
2 87 (1.60%) Linux
3 35 (0.64%) Android
4 33 (0.61%) Unix
5 32 (0.59%) Windows Server
6 30 (0.55%) Apple iOS
7 23 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.18%) VMS
10 6 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.092%) Solaris
11 5 (0.092%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.073%) AIX
12 4 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.073%) zOS
13 3 (0.055%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.037%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.037%) HPUX
14 2 (0.037%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.018%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,789 (32.85%) Agile
2 947 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
3 878 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
4 792 (14.54%) Roadmaps
5 761 (13.97%) Migration
6 743 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 686 (12.60%) Project Management
8 663 (12.17%) Decision-Making
9 653 (11.99%) DevOps
10 616 (11.31%) Project Delivery
11 601 (11.04%) Change Management
12 588 (10.80%) AI
13 569 (10.45%) Analytics
14 539 (9.90%) Risk Management
15 470 (8.63%) User Acceptance Testing
16 460 (8.45%) CI/CD
17 458 (8.41%) Workshop Facilitation
18 443 (8.13%) Validation
19 439 (8.06%) Scrum
20 432 (7.93%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 425 (7.80%) SQL
2 309 (5.67%) Python
3 111 (2.04%) Java
4 85 (1.56%) PowerShell
5 67 (1.23%) JavaScript
6 52 (0.95%) C#
7 36 (0.66%) Bash
8 26 (0.48%) Bicep
9 23 (0.42%) Korn
10 21 (0.39%) TypeScript
10 21 (0.39%) VBA
11 20 (0.37%) ABAP
12 17 (0.31%) PL/SQL
13 15 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 14 (0.26%) R
14 14 (0.26%) Shell Script
15 13 (0.24%) T-SQL
16 11 (0.20%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,074 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 802 (14.73%) SC Cleared
3 395 (7.25%) Degree
4 279 (5.12%) PMP
5 244 (4.48%) PMI Certification
6 177 (3.25%) DV Cleared
7 157 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 120 (2.20%) CISSP
9 94 (1.73%) Azure Certification
10 86 (1.58%) CISM
11 59 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 55 (1.01%) AWS Certification
13 51 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
14 45 (0.83%) Master's Degree
15 41 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
16 39 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
17 37 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 31 (0.57%) ISTQB
19 30 (0.55%) ACCA
19 30 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 321 (5.89%) Data Quality
2 307 (5.64%) QA
3 273 (5.01%) PMO
4 218 (4.00%) GDPR
5 146 (2.68%) NIST
6 138 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 100 (1.84%) Accessibility
8 97 (1.78%) GRC
9 88 (1.62%) SLA
10 51 (0.94%) NCSC
11 36 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 34 (0.62%) PCI DSS
13 33 (0.61%) SOC 2
14 32 (0.59%) COBIT
15 29 (0.53%) WCAG
16 21 (0.39%) IFRS
17 19 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
18 16 (0.29%) JSP 440
18 16 (0.29%) Solvency II
19 15 (0.28%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 111 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 105 (1.93%) Docker
3 47 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (0.26%) NFS
6 14 (0.26%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.22%) Postfix
7 12 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.18%) vSphere
9 6 (0.11%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.073%) SRDF
10 4 (0.073%) Varnish
11 3 (0.055%) HDFS
11 3 (0.055%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.037%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.037%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.037%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.018%) RACF
Systems Management
1 152 (2.79%) Terraform
2 141 (2.59%) Kubernetes
3 78 (1.43%) Ansible
4 56 (1.03%) Grafana
5 42 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 37 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.62%) Prometheus
8 24 (0.44%) SCCM
9 15 (0.28%) Argo
10 9 (0.17%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.15%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.13%) Control-M
12 7 (0.13%) Puppet
12 7 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 7 (0.13%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.11%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.073%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.073%) Kustomize
14 4 (0.073%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 729 (13.39%) Microsoft
2 435 (7.99%) SAP
3 294 (5.40%) Oracle
4 292 (5.36%) ServiceNow
5 215 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 114 (2.09%) Databricks
7 110 (2.02%) Google
8 86 (1.58%) VMware
9 79 (1.45%) Workday
10 57 (1.05%) Cisco
11 52 (0.95%) Adobe
12 49 (0.90%) CyberArk
13 41 (0.75%) IBM
13 41 (0.75%) Splunk
14 37 (0.68%) Ariba
15 33 (0.61%) MuleSoft
16 32 (0.59%) Informatica
17 30 (0.55%) F5
18 28 (0.51%) Atlassian
19 27 (0.50%) Foundry