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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 7,055 2,877 2,493
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.24% 10.49% 7.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.01% 11.55% 8.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,668 1,965 1,589
10th Percentile £387 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £645 £650 £642
90th Percentile £747 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £548 £530 £540
% change year-on-year +3.30% -1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 59 66
10th Percentile £20.43 £28.04 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.00 £41.66
Median hourly rate £60.50 £49.00 £61.33
Median % change year-on-year +23.47% -20.10% +22.76%
75th Percentile £80.00 £61.88 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £77.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £49.00 £60.30
% change year-on-year +23.47% -18.74% +13.10%

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 39,170 24,908 27,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 90.84% 86.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,910 15,798 17,347
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,803 1,504 1,266
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.69 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.95%
75th Percentile £67.85 £47.50 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.85 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -1.10%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 3,712 £560 +1.36% 3,305
North of England +7 1,059 £508 +1.50% 926
South East +11 898 £550 +4.76% 1,189
Midlands +7 617 £500 - 628
North West +4 533 £525 +5.00% 560
West Midlands +9 497 £495 -8.68% 437
Yorkshire +9 458 £500 - 275
South West +8 377 £550 - 357
East of England +9 220 £520 -5.45% 291
East Midlands 0 105 £500 +13.64% 191
North East +4 77 £500 -4.76% 94
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
1 348 (4.93%) Confluence
2 195 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 68 (0.96%) CMS
4 47 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 40 (0.57%) Apache
6 28 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 24 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.31%) SAS
9 13 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 9 (0.13%) WordPress
12 7 (0.099%) nginx
12 7 (0.099%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.085%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.085%) CICS
13 6 (0.085%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
13 6 (0.085%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.071%) NetWeaver
14 5 (0.071%) WebLogic
Applications
1 317 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 170 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 162 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
4 139 (1.97%) Microsoft Project
5 72 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.35%) Revit
7 19 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 18 (0.26%) Navisworks
9 15 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
10 14 (0.20%) Chatbot
11 11 (0.16%) Trello
12 9 (0.13%) ProjectWise
13 7 (0.099%) Windchill
14 6 (0.085%) Adobe XD
15 5 (0.071%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 4 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
16 4 (0.057%) Notion
16 4 (0.057%) Photoshop
16 4 (0.057%) Sketch
17 3 (0.043%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 245 (3.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 96 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 31 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 28 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 28 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 24 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
6 24 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
7 22 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
8 20 (0.28%) SAP Payroll
9 19 (0.27%) SAP ERP
10 18 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
10 18 (0.26%) SAP FI
11 17 (0.24%) Aladdin
11 17 (0.24%) SAP HR
11 17 (0.24%) SAP MDG
12 16 (0.23%) SAP HCM
12 16 (0.23%) SAP SD
13 15 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 15 (0.21%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,284 (18.20%) Azure
2 864 (12.25%) AWS
3 543 (7.70%) Power Platform
4 344 (4.88%) GCP
5 277 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
6 249 (3.53%) SaaS
7 221 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
8 172 (2.44%) GitHub
9 167 (2.37%) Entra ID
10 145 (2.06%) Snowflake
11 141 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
12 104 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
13 99 (1.40%) Serverless
14 91 (1.29%) Power Automate
15 81 (1.15%) PowerApps
16 79 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
17 73 (1.03%) Amazon S3
18 71 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
18 71 (1.01%) OCI
19 66 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 135 (1.91%) Firewall
2 132 (1.87%) Network Security
3 76 (1.08%) WAN
4 70 (0.99%) DNS
5 47 (0.67%) LAN
6 46 (0.65%) VPN
7 45 (0.64%) DHCP
8 44 (0.62%) TCP/IP
9 35 (0.50%) SD-WAN
10 27 (0.38%) 4G
10 27 (0.38%) 5G
10 27 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (0.34%) BGP
12 23 (0.33%) Internet
12 23 (0.33%) Wireless
13 20 (0.28%) Broadband
13 20 (0.28%) MPLS
14 17 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
15 16 (0.23%) SAN
15 16 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 420 (5.95%) Power BI
2 204 (2.89%) Metadata
3 196 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 115 (1.63%) SQL Server
5 96 (1.36%) Data Lake
6 80 (1.13%) Tableau
7 72 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
8 51 (0.72%) Delta Lake
8 51 (0.72%) Relational Database
9 49 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 48 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
11 46 (0.65%) BigQuery
12 42 (0.60%) MongoDB
13 34 (0.48%) Looker
14 32 (0.45%) NoSQL
14 32 (0.45%) Oracle Database
15 29 (0.41%) DynamoDB
16 27 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
17 23 (0.33%) Big Data
17 23 (0.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 655 (9.28%) JIRA
2 136 (1.93%) Git
3 98 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 87 (1.23%) GitLab
5 67 (0.95%) Selenium
6 43 (0.61%) Cucumber
7 39 (0.55%) JUnit
8 31 (0.44%) Postman
9 29 (0.41%) SonarQube
10 28 (0.40%) Gatling
11 19 (0.27%) Cypress.io
12 18 (0.26%) Zephyr
13 15 (0.21%) JMeter
13 15 (0.21%) Maven
14 12 (0.17%) LoadRunner
14 12 (0.17%) WebDriver
15 11 (0.16%) Claude Code
15 11 (0.16%) Mockito
16 9 (0.13%) ERwin
16 9 (0.13%) REST Assured
General
1 3,748 (53.13%) Social Skills
2 2,339 (33.15%) Finance
3 1,189 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
4 908 (12.87%) Public Sector
5 708 (10.04%) Banking
6 430 (6.09%) Influencing Skills
7 411 (5.83%) Retail
8 319 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
9 303 (4.29%) Legal
10 250 (3.54%) Manufacturing
11 240 (3.40%) Marketing
12 233 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
13 186 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
14 183 (2.59%) Telecoms
15 144 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 133 (1.89%) Aerospace
17 114 (1.62%) Local Government
18 108 (1.53%) Front Office
19 93 (1.32%) Billing
20 92 (1.30%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,016 (14.40%) Analyst
2 965 (13.68%) Lead
3 951 (13.48%) Architect
4 780 (11.06%) Project Manager
5 745 (10.56%) Senior
6 650 (9.21%) Business Analyst
7 456 (6.46%) Consultant
8 322 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
9 251 (3.56%) Senior Manager
10 203 (2.88%) Delivery Manager
11 184 (2.61%) IT Manager
12 178 (2.52%) Programme Manager
13 174 (2.47%) Product Manager
14 164 (2.32%) Developer
15 139 (1.97%) Technical Manager
16 134 (1.90%) Senior Analyst
17 127 (1.80%) Product Owner
18 116 (1.64%) Data Analyst
18 116 (1.64%) Designer
19 115 (1.63%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (3.70%) Terraform
2 190 (2.69%) REST
3 133 (1.89%) Middleware
4 99 (1.40%) .NET
5 84 (1.19%) Kafka
6 83 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
7 79 (1.12%) SOAP
8 67 (0.95%) PySpark
9 63 (0.89%) OAuth
10 61 (0.86%) JSON
10 61 (0.86%) React
11 57 (0.81%) Spring
12 50 (0.71%) HTML
13 49 (0.69%) LDAP
14 47 (0.67%) Playwright
15 44 (0.62%) CSS
15 44 (0.62%) XML
16 41 (0.58%) SailPoint
16 41 (0.58%) Spring Boot
16 41 (0.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 541 (7.67%) Product Ownership
2 417 (5.91%) Onboarding
3 279 (3.95%) Cloud Native
4 230 (3.26%) Management Information System
5 173 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
6 168 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 159 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
8 133 (1.89%) Data Centre
9 119 (1.69%) AI Agents
9 119 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 114 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
11 113 (1.60%) Operational Technology
12 106 (1.50%) Virtual Team
13 95 (1.35%) Security Posture
14 94 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
15 89 (1.26%) CMDB
16 87 (1.23%) NHS
17 77 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
18 74 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
19 63 (0.89%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 226 (3.20%) Windows
2 143 (2.03%) Linux
3 71 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 48 (0.68%) Unix
5 27 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.27%) Android
7 17 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.20%) VMS
8 14 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.11%) zOS
11 7 (0.099%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.071%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.057%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.043%) CentOS
14 3 (0.043%) Solaris
15 2 (0.028%) HPUX
15 2 (0.028%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,211 (31.34%) Agile
2 1,288 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,196 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
4 1,152 (16.33%) Roadmaps
5 990 (14.03%) Migration
6 942 (13.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 937 (13.28%) Decision-Making
8 911 (12.91%) AI
9 828 (11.74%) DevOps
10 813 (11.52%) Project Delivery
11 809 (11.47%) Project Management
12 802 (11.37%) Analytics
13 720 (10.21%) Change Management
14 702 (9.95%) Risk Management
15 690 (9.78%) Workshop Facilitation
16 685 (9.71%) CI/CD
17 587 (8.32%) Cybersecurity
18 585 (8.29%) User Acceptance Testing
19 578 (8.19%) Requirements Gathering
20 577 (8.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 636 (9.01%) SQL
2 457 (6.48%) Python
3 191 (2.71%) Java
4 140 (1.98%) JavaScript
5 138 (1.96%) PowerShell
6 88 (1.25%) C#
7 69 (0.98%) Bash
8 57 (0.81%) TypeScript
9 41 (0.58%) Bicep
10 36 (0.51%) ABAP
11 32 (0.45%) Korn
12 25 (0.35%) R
13 23 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 22 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 22 (0.31%) T-SQL
15 18 (0.26%) Go
15 18 (0.26%) VBA
16 16 (0.23%) Shell Script
17 13 (0.18%) Apex Code
18 10 (0.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,429 (20.26%) Security Cleared
2 1,048 (14.85%) SC Cleared
3 482 (6.83%) Degree
4 310 (4.39%) PMP
5 275 (3.90%) PMI Certification
6 270 (3.83%) DV Cleared
7 244 (3.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 162 (2.30%) CISSP
9 128 (1.81%) Azure Certification
10 122 (1.73%) CISM
11 90 (1.28%) AWS Certification
12 89 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
13 78 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
14 77 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
15 54 (0.77%) Master's Degree
16 53 (0.75%) ACCA
17 50 (0.71%) CIMA
17 50 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 49 (0.69%) ISTQB
18 49 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 541 (7.67%) Data Quality
2 399 (5.66%) QA
3 327 (4.64%) PMO
4 217 (3.08%) GDPR
5 191 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 184 (2.61%) Accessibility
7 175 (2.48%) NIST
8 135 (1.91%) GRC
9 96 (1.36%) SLA
10 70 (0.99%) WCAG
11 63 (0.89%) NCSC
12 33 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
13 29 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 27 (0.38%) IFRS
15 26 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
16 25 (0.35%) ISO 20022
17 23 (0.33%) PCI DSS
18 22 (0.31%) COBIT
19 19 (0.27%) SEPA
20 18 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 184 (2.61%) Active Directory
2 164 (2.32%) Docker
3 71 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.41%) vSphere
5 27 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 25 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (0.33%) VMware NSX
8 20 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.24%) Hyper-V
10 11 (0.16%) NFS
11 8 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (0.099%) Postfix
13 6 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
13 6 (0.085%) Time Sharing Option
14 3 (0.043%) Ceph
14 3 (0.043%) Firmware
14 3 (0.043%) FreeRADIUS
14 3 (0.043%) IAG
14 3 (0.043%) KVM
14 3 (0.043%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 235 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 106 (1.50%) Ansible
3 63 (0.89%) Grafana
4 48 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 41 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.44%) SCCM
8 17 (0.24%) Argo
9 12 (0.17%) Control-M
10 11 (0.16%) Kibana
11 10 (0.14%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.099%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.099%) HP ALM
12 7 (0.099%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.085%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.085%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.085%) Puppet
13 6 (0.085%) WMI
14 5 (0.071%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.071%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,177 (16.68%) Microsoft
2 537 (7.61%) SAP
3 379 (5.37%) Oracle
4 354 (5.02%) ServiceNow
5 254 (3.60%) Salesforce
6 221 (3.13%) Databricks
7 158 (2.24%) Google
8 107 (1.52%) VMware
9 102 (1.45%) Workday
10 88 (1.25%) Cisco
11 75 (1.06%) CyberArk
12 70 (0.99%) IBM
13 61 (0.86%) Adobe
14 60 (0.85%) Splunk
15 44 (0.62%) MuleSoft
16 42 (0.60%) Ariba
16 42 (0.60%) Informatica
17 32 (0.45%) Fortinet
18 31 (0.44%) Bloomberg
19 30 (0.43%) Atlassian