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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 15 23
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,169 2,686 2,715
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.65% 10.11% 7.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.65% 11.12% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,463 1,823 1,954
10th Percentile £381 £356 £356
25th Percentile £456 £431 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 62 73
10th Percentile £24.75 £31.64 £18.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £41.78 £36.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £54.01 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.03% -9.99% +13.27%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £104.00 £78.63 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +13.08% -10.83% +12.53%

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 37,874 24,162 31,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.36% 90.93% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,840 15,529 20,666
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £517 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,373 1,216 2,288
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -3.85%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +7 2,672 £560 -2.61% 1,271
North of England -1 740 £500 - 429
South East +5 682 £550 +4.76% 600
Midlands +1 521 £500 - 241
West Midlands 0 380 £500 -4.76% 142
North West +1 376 £510 +2.00% 252
Yorkshire +3 330 £500 +1.01% 138
South West +13 292 £550 +4.76% 193
East of England +9 157 £525 -6.67% 124
East Midlands +9 132 £488 +10.80% 97
North East -24 44 £478 +6.11% 46
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
1 297 (5.75%) Confluence
2 141 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 58 (1.12%) CMS
4 34 (0.66%) SAS
5 25 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.23%) Apache
8 11 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.17%) Appian
10 8 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
11 7 (0.14%) WordPress
12 6 (0.12%) Apache Spark
12 6 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.097%) Kentico
13 5 (0.097%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.077%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.058%) Oracle Coherence
15 3 (0.058%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
16 2 (0.039%) ArcGIS
16 2 (0.039%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 226 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 142 (2.75%) Microsoft Project
3 125 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
4 113 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (1.35%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.23%) Revit
8 10 (0.19%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.077%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.058%) Notion
10 3 (0.058%) Sketch
10 3 (0.058%) Trello
11 2 (0.039%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.039%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.039%) Windchill
12 1 (0.019%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.019%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.019%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 179 (3.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 25 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 24 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 22 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 21 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
8 18 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
9 17 (0.33%) Aladdin
9 17 (0.33%) Workday HCM
10 15 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
10 15 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
11 14 (0.27%) Finacle
11 14 (0.27%) SAP SD
12 13 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
13 12 (0.23%) SAP ERP
13 12 (0.23%) SAP FI
14 11 (0.21%) Primavera
15 10 (0.19%) Loan IQ
15 10 (0.19%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 839 (16.23%) Azure
2 585 (11.32%) AWS
3 314 (6.07%) Power Platform
4 213 (4.12%) GCP
5 179 (3.46%) SaaS
6 178 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
7 126 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
8 101 (1.95%) Entra ID
9 89 (1.72%) GitHub
10 86 (1.66%) Snowflake
11 66 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
12 58 (1.12%) OCI
12 58 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
13 54 (1.04%) Amazon S3
14 49 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
15 48 (0.93%) Serverless
16 46 (0.89%) PowerApps
17 45 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
18 43 (0.83%) Power Automate
19 41 (0.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 94 (1.82%) Firewall
2 91 (1.76%) Network Security
3 67 (1.30%) WAN
4 51 (0.99%) LAN
5 46 (0.89%) DNS
6 37 (0.72%) SD-WAN
7 32 (0.62%) VPN
8 30 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 28 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (0.43%) BGP
10 22 (0.43%) DHCP
11 20 (0.39%) OSPF
12 16 (0.31%) MPLS
13 15 (0.29%) BIG-IP
13 15 (0.29%) Wireless
14 14 (0.27%) SAN
15 13 (0.25%) NGFW
16 12 (0.23%) 5G
16 12 (0.23%) NAS
16 12 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 254 (4.91%) Power BI
2 112 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
3 95 (1.84%) Metadata
4 64 (1.24%) Data Lake
5 61 (1.18%) SQL Server
6 60 (1.16%) Tableau
7 42 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (0.72%) Relational Database
9 35 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 30 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
11 28 (0.54%) Oracle Database
12 27 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
13 23 (0.44%) NoSQL
14 21 (0.41%) Big Data
14 21 (0.41%) DynamoDB
15 20 (0.39%) Delta Lake
16 15 (0.29%) BigQuery
16 15 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
16 15 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 14 (0.27%) Looker
Development Applications
1 546 (10.56%) JIRA
2 84 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 73 (1.41%) Git
4 43 (0.83%) GitLab
5 34 (0.66%) Selenium
6 29 (0.56%) JUnit
7 23 (0.44%) Postman
8 15 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.29%) JMeter
8 15 (0.29%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.27%) Maven
10 13 (0.25%) Mockito
11 10 (0.19%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.19%) DbUnit
11 10 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (0.19%) WebDriver
11 10 (0.19%) Zephyr
12 9 (0.17%) jMock
13 8 (0.15%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,598 (50.26%) Social Skills
2 1,847 (35.73%) Finance
3 799 (15.46%) Analytical Skills
4 623 (12.05%) Public Sector
5 468 (9.05%) Banking
6 308 (5.96%) Retail
7 273 (5.28%) Influencing Skills
8 234 (4.53%) Legal
9 194 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
10 187 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
11 177 (3.42%) Marketing
12 153 (2.96%) Manufacturing
13 123 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
14 121 (2.34%) Telecoms
15 95 (1.84%) Local Government
16 88 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 74 (1.43%) Financial Institution
18 73 (1.41%) Aerospace
19 72 (1.39%) Billing
20 71 (1.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 785 (15.19%) Analyst
2 734 (14.20%) Lead
3 716 (13.85%) Project Manager
4 608 (11.76%) Architect
5 540 (10.45%) Senior
6 525 (10.16%) Business Analyst
7 255 (4.93%) Consultant
8 232 (4.49%) Senior Manager
9 226 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
10 180 (3.48%) Programme Manager
11 169 (3.27%) Delivery Manager
12 164 (3.17%) IT Manager
13 122 (2.36%) Product Manager
14 120 (2.32%) Senior Project Manager
15 107 (2.07%) Product Owner
16 95 (1.84%) Change Manager
17 94 (1.82%) Technical Manager
18 91 (1.76%) Developer
19 87 (1.68%) IT Project Manager
20 85 (1.64%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (2.38%) REST
2 91 (1.76%) Middleware
3 84 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
4 65 (1.26%) SOAP
5 56 (1.08%) .NET
6 40 (0.77%) JSON
7 36 (0.70%) Kafka
7 36 (0.70%) OAuth
7 36 (0.70%) PySpark
8 33 (0.64%) SailPoint
9 32 (0.62%) SAML
10 31 (0.60%) AngularJS
10 31 (0.60%) CSS
10 31 (0.60%) OpenID
10 31 (0.60%) Spring
11 29 (0.56%) Web Services
12 28 (0.54%) HTML
12 28 (0.54%) React
12 28 (0.54%) RESTful
13 27 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 373 (7.22%) Product Ownership
2 278 (5.38%) Onboarding
3 169 (3.27%) Cloud Native
4 153 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
5 140 (2.71%) Management Information System
6 124 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
7 111 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 93 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 93 (1.80%) Data Structures
9 84 (1.63%) Virtual Team
10 69 (1.33%) NHS
11 68 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
12 66 (1.28%) Operational Technology
13 64 (1.24%) Security Posture
14 61 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
15 51 (0.99%) CMDB
15 51 (0.99%) Public Cloud
16 50 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
17 49 (0.95%) AI Agents
18 47 (0.91%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 158 (3.06%) Windows
2 82 (1.59%) Linux
3 32 (0.62%) Android
4 30 (0.58%) Unix
5 27 (0.52%) Apple iOS
5 27 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.14%) VMS
9 5 (0.097%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.097%) Solaris
9 5 (0.097%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.077%) AIX
10 4 (0.077%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.077%) zOS
11 2 (0.039%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.039%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.039%) HPUX
12 1 (0.019%) CentOS
12 1 (0.019%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,688 (32.66%) Agile
2 861 (16.66%) Continuous Improvement
3 817 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
4 722 (13.97%) Migration
5 718 (13.89%) Roadmaps
6 714 (13.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 667 (12.90%) Project Management
8 613 (11.86%) Decision-Making
9 598 (11.57%) DevOps
10 564 (10.91%) Change Management
11 562 (10.87%) Project Delivery
12 528 (10.21%) AI
13 525 (10.16%) Analytics
14 514 (9.94%) Risk Management
15 450 (8.71%) User Acceptance Testing
16 427 (8.26%) CI/CD
17 418 (8.09%) Validation
18 414 (8.01%) Workshop Facilitation
19 409 (7.91%) ITIL
20 399 (7.72%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 414 (8.01%) SQL
2 296 (5.73%) Python
3 101 (1.95%) Java
4 73 (1.41%) PowerShell
5 54 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 51 (0.99%) C#
7 31 (0.60%) Bash
8 23 (0.44%) VBA
9 22 (0.43%) Bicep
10 21 (0.41%) Korn
10 21 (0.41%) TypeScript
11 20 (0.39%) ABAP
12 16 (0.31%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.25%) R
13 13 (0.25%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 11 (0.21%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.15%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,018 (19.69%) Security Cleared
2 762 (14.74%) SC Cleared
3 380 (7.35%) Degree
4 266 (5.15%) PMP
5 232 (4.49%) PMI Certification
6 160 (3.10%) DV Cleared
7 145 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 111 (2.15%) CISSP
9 86 (1.66%) Azure Certification
10 76 (1.47%) CISM
11 56 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 49 (0.95%) AWS Certification
12 49 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
13 45 (0.87%) Master's Degree
14 34 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
15 32 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
15 32 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 29 (0.56%) ACCA
17 28 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 27 (0.52%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (5.65%) Data Quality
2 281 (5.44%) QA
3 250 (4.84%) PMO
4 219 (4.24%) GDPR
5 156 (3.02%) NIST
6 146 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 95 (1.84%) GRC
8 87 (1.68%) SLA
9 81 (1.57%) Accessibility
10 55 (1.06%) NCSC
11 44 (0.85%) PCI DSS
12 39 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 33 (0.64%) COBIT
14 32 (0.62%) SOC 2
15 27 (0.52%) IFRS
16 19 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
16 19 (0.37%) WCAG
17 18 (0.35%) JSP 440
18 16 (0.31%) Solvency II
19 14 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 103 (1.99%) Docker
2 89 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 40 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.27%) VMware NSX
6 13 (0.25%) NFS
7 12 (0.23%) Postfix
8 11 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.15%) vSphere
10 4 (0.077%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.077%) SRDF
10 4 (0.077%) Varnish
11 3 (0.058%) HDFS
11 3 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.058%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.039%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.039%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.039%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.019%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 146 (2.82%) Kubernetes
2 140 (2.71%) Terraform
3 77 (1.49%) Ansible
4 52 (1.01%) Grafana
5 38 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 19 (0.37%) SCCM
8 14 (0.27%) Argo
9 10 (0.19%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.15%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.14%) RSA Archer
11 7 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 6 (0.12%) Puppet
12 6 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.097%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.077%) EMC VPLEX
14 4 (0.077%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.077%) vMotion
Vendors
1 659 (12.75%) Microsoft
2 416 (8.05%) SAP
3 286 (5.53%) Oracle
4 276 (5.34%) ServiceNow
5 198 (3.83%) Salesforce
6 106 (2.05%) Databricks
7 102 (1.97%) Google
8 80 (1.55%) VMware
9 71 (1.37%) Workday
10 61 (1.18%) Cisco
11 49 (0.95%) Adobe
11 49 (0.95%) CyberArk
12 43 (0.83%) Splunk
13 35 (0.68%) Ariba
14 33 (0.64%) MuleSoft
15 32 (0.62%) Informatica
16 31 (0.60%) F5
17 29 (0.56%) IBM
18 26 (0.50%) IFS
19 25 (0.48%) Citrix