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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,803 2,869 2,458
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.78% 10.39% 7.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.00% 11.45% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,861 1,952 1,713
10th Percentile £390 £360 £363
25th Percentile £463 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -2.36% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 66 67
10th Percentile £28.00 £29.95 £30.11
25th Percentile £36.25 £37.21 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -13.15% +34.26%
75th Percentile £83.43 £72.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £102.70 £78.13 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.82% -10.83% +30.61%

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 38,695 25,047 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.19% 90.72% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,133 16,039 18,801
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,478 1,391 1,685
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 5 August 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 3,049 £563 -0.97% 2,138
North of England 0 849 £500 - 671
South East +7 755 £550 +4.76% 779
Midlands +1 525 £500 -4.76% 369
North West -1 427 £525 +5.00% 390
West Midlands +2 413 £500 -7.53% 246
Yorkshire +6 370 £500 +1.52% 198
South West +11 331 £550 +4.76% 264
East of England +7 178 £525 -4.55% 171
East Midlands +5 97 £500 +24.22% 123
North East -11 60 £480 -1.03% 86
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
1 334 (5.76%) Confluence
2 157 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 54 (0.93%) CMS
4 28 (0.48%) Apache
4 28 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (0.48%) SAS
5 21 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.26%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.10%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.10%) WordPress
10 5 (0.086%) Appian
10 5 (0.086%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.086%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.069%) FactoryTalk
11 4 (0.069%) Kentico
12 3 (0.052%) Moodle
12 3 (0.052%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.052%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 252 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 153 (2.64%) Microsoft Project
3 129 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
4 124 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.31%) Revit
6 18 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 14 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.17%) Navisworks
9 10 (0.17%) Trello
10 5 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.086%) ProjectWise
10 5 (0.086%) Sketch
11 4 (0.069%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.069%) Notion
12 2 (0.034%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.034%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.034%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 203 (3.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 71 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 25 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 24 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 24 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 22 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 21 (0.36%) Workday HCM
8 20 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
9 19 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
10 18 (0.31%) SAP FI
11 17 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
12 16 (0.28%) Primavera
13 15 (0.26%) SAP SD
14 14 (0.24%) Finacle
14 14 (0.24%) SAP CO
14 14 (0.24%) SAP ERP
15 13 (0.22%) Aladdin
15 13 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
15 13 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,033 (17.80%) Azure
2 692 (11.92%) AWS
3 386 (6.65%) Power Platform
4 264 (4.55%) GCP
5 230 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
6 206 (3.55%) SaaS
7 153 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
8 130 (2.24%) Entra ID
9 116 (2.00%) GitHub
10 114 (1.96%) Snowflake
11 88 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
12 78 (1.34%) SuccessFactors
13 65 (1.12%) OCI
14 62 (1.07%) Serverless
15 60 (1.03%) Amazon S3
16 56 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
16 56 (0.97%) PowerApps
17 54 (0.93%) Power Automate
18 51 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
19 47 (0.81%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 102 (1.76%) Firewall
2 100 (1.72%) Network Security
3 62 (1.07%) WAN
4 58 (1.00%) DNS
5 44 (0.76%) LAN
6 38 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 37 (0.64%) VPN
8 34 (0.59%) SD-WAN
9 31 (0.53%) DHCP
10 25 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (0.36%) BGP
12 19 (0.33%) 4G
12 19 (0.33%) 5G
12 19 (0.33%) OSPF
13 17 (0.29%) Wireless
14 15 (0.26%) Internet
14 15 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
15 14 (0.24%) MPLS
16 13 (0.22%) BIG-IP
16 13 (0.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 311 (5.36%) Power BI
2 150 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
3 116 (2.00%) Metadata
4 75 (1.29%) SQL Server
5 73 (1.26%) Data Lake
6 66 (1.14%) Tableau
7 52 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
8 42 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 42 (0.72%) Relational Database
9 36 (0.62%) Delta Lake
10 31 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (0.53%) Oracle Database
11 27 (0.47%) Big Data
12 26 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
13 24 (0.41%) BigQuery
14 23 (0.40%) DynamoDB
15 21 (0.36%) Looker
15 21 (0.36%) NoSQL
16 19 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
16 19 (0.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 610 (10.51%) JIRA
2 94 (1.62%) Git
3 85 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 57 (0.98%) GitLab
5 48 (0.83%) Selenium
6 33 (0.57%) JUnit
7 27 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 25 (0.43%) Postman
9 22 (0.38%) SonarQube
10 19 (0.33%) JMeter
11 16 (0.28%) Cypress.io
11 16 (0.28%) Maven
12 15 (0.26%) WebDriver
12 15 (0.26%) Zephyr
13 14 (0.24%) Gatling
14 13 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
15 12 (0.21%) Mockito
16 10 (0.17%) DbUnit
16 10 (0.17%) ERwin
17 9 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,918 (50.28%) Social Skills
2 2,018 (34.78%) Finance
3 947 (16.32%) Analytical Skills
4 710 (12.24%) Public Sector
5 559 (9.63%) Banking
6 358 (6.17%) Retail
7 314 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
8 248 (4.27%) Legal
9 236 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
10 204 (3.52%) Marketing
11 196 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
12 172 (2.96%) Manufacturing
13 150 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
14 140 (2.41%) Telecoms
15 118 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 98 (1.69%) Local Government
17 91 (1.57%) Aerospace
18 85 (1.46%) Billing
19 83 (1.43%) Front Office
20 78 (1.34%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 860 (14.82%) Analyst
2 844 (14.54%) Lead
3 742 (12.79%) Project Manager
4 685 (11.80%) Architect
5 627 (10.80%) Senior
6 575 (9.91%) Business Analyst
7 337 (5.81%) Consultant
8 273 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
9 238 (4.10%) Senior Manager
10 182 (3.14%) Programme Manager
11 181 (3.12%) Delivery Manager
12 166 (2.86%) IT Manager
13 141 (2.43%) Product Manager
14 132 (2.27%) Developer
15 119 (2.05%) Senior Project Manager
16 117 (2.02%) Product Owner
17 112 (1.93%) Technical Manager
18 102 (1.76%) Senior Analyst
19 97 (1.67%) Data Analyst
19 97 (1.67%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (2.55%) REST
2 104 (1.79%) Middleware
3 89 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
4 73 (1.26%) SOAP
5 65 (1.12%) .NET
6 51 (0.88%) Kafka
7 45 (0.78%) JSON
8 43 (0.74%) PySpark
9 42 (0.72%) React
10 41 (0.71%) OAuth
11 40 (0.69%) Spring
12 39 (0.67%) SailPoint
13 36 (0.62%) HTML
14 34 (0.59%) CSS
14 34 (0.59%) Web Services
15 32 (0.55%) XML
16 29 (0.50%) AngularJS
16 29 (0.50%) Spring Boot
17 28 (0.48%) Playwright
18 26 (0.45%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 444 (7.65%) Product Ownership
2 329 (5.67%) Onboarding
3 194 (3.34%) Cloud Native
4 168 (2.90%) Management Information System
5 166 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 126 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 123 (2.12%) Data Centre
8 107 (1.84%) Data Structures
9 96 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 96 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
9 96 (1.65%) Virtual Team
10 83 (1.43%) Operational Technology
11 81 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
12 77 (1.33%) AI Agents
13 72 (1.24%) Security Posture
14 70 (1.21%) NHS
15 60 (1.03%) CMDB
16 58 (1.00%) FMCG
17 55 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
18 49 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 178 (3.07%) Windows
2 102 (1.76%) Linux
3 40 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 36 (0.62%) Unix
5 32 (0.55%) Android
6 28 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.16%) VMS
11 5 (0.086%) Solaris
11 5 (0.086%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.069%) AIX
12 4 (0.069%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.069%) zOS
13 3 (0.052%) Amazon Linux
13 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.034%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.034%) HPUX
14 2 (0.034%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,893 (32.62%) Agile
2 1,010 (17.40%) Continuous Improvement
3 930 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
4 883 (15.22%) Roadmaps
5 797 (13.73%) Migration
6 783 (13.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 729 (12.56%) Decision-Making
8 722 (12.44%) Project Management
9 693 (11.94%) DevOps
10 672 (11.58%) AI
11 666 (11.48%) Project Delivery
12 639 (11.01%) Analytics
13 608 (10.48%) Change Management
14 583 (10.05%) Risk Management
15 509 (8.77%) CI/CD
16 507 (8.74%) Workshop Facilitation
17 494 (8.51%) User Acceptance Testing
18 470 (8.10%) Cybersecurity
19 467 (8.05%) Scrum
20 464 (8.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 481 (8.29%) SQL
2 330 (5.69%) Python
3 132 (2.27%) Java
4 95 (1.64%) PowerShell
5 90 (1.55%) JavaScript
6 55 (0.95%) C#
7 40 (0.69%) Bash
8 28 (0.48%) Bicep
9 26 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 24 (0.41%) Korn
11 23 (0.40%) ABAP
12 20 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 18 (0.31%) PL/SQL
13 18 (0.31%) R
13 18 (0.31%) VBA
14 16 (0.28%) T-SQL
15 15 (0.26%) Shell Script
16 12 (0.21%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.12%) Go
17 7 (0.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,140 (19.65%) Security Cleared
2 838 (14.44%) SC Cleared
3 409 (7.05%) Degree
4 285 (4.91%) PMP
5 247 (4.26%) PMI Certification
6 206 (3.55%) DV Cleared
7 164 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 130 (2.24%) CISSP
9 100 (1.72%) CISM
10 98 (1.69%) Azure Certification
11 63 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 56 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
13 54 (0.93%) AWS Certification
14 52 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
15 44 (0.76%) Master's Degree
16 41 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 39 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
18 34 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 32 (0.55%) ACCA
19 32 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 363 (6.26%) Data Quality
2 326 (5.62%) QA
3 283 (4.88%) PMO
4 212 (3.65%) GDPR
5 148 (2.55%) NIST
6 145 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 125 (2.15%) Accessibility
8 103 (1.77%) GRC
9 92 (1.59%) SLA
10 47 (0.81%) NCSC
11 41 (0.71%) WCAG
12 36 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 31 (0.53%) COBIT
13 31 (0.53%) SOC 2
14 25 (0.43%) PCI DSS
15 21 (0.36%) IFRS
16 20 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.28%) ISO 20022
17 16 (0.28%) JSP 440
18 15 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 131 (2.26%) Active Directory
2 127 (2.19%) Docker
3 54 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.33%) VMware NSX
6 17 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.26%) vSphere
8 13 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.21%) NFS
9 12 (0.21%) Postfix
10 9 (0.16%) Hyper-V
11 6 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.069%) SRDF
12 4 (0.069%) Varnish
13 3 (0.052%) HDFS
13 3 (0.052%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.034%) Ceph
14 2 (0.034%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.034%) KVM
14 2 (0.034%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 176 (3.03%) Terraform
2 165 (2.84%) Kubernetes
3 84 (1.45%) Ansible
4 57 (0.98%) Grafana
5 45 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 41 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.59%) Prometheus
8 27 (0.47%) SCCM
9 17 (0.29%) Argo
10 9 (0.16%) Puppet
10 9 (0.16%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.14%) Control-M
11 8 (0.14%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.12%) HP ALM
12 7 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.086%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.086%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.086%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.069%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 820 (14.13%) Microsoft
2 459 (7.91%) SAP
3 316 (5.45%) Oracle
4 306 (5.27%) ServiceNow
5 221 (3.81%) Salesforce
6 145 (2.50%) Databricks
7 114 (1.96%) Google
8 91 (1.57%) VMware
9 86 (1.48%) Workday
10 62 (1.07%) Cisco
11 55 (0.95%) Adobe
12 51 (0.88%) CyberArk
13 49 (0.84%) IBM
14 37 (0.64%) MuleSoft
15 35 (0.60%) Ariba
15 35 (0.60%) Splunk
16 32 (0.55%) Atlassian
17 31 (0.53%) Informatica
18 30 (0.52%) F5
19 28 (0.48%) Foundry