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

6 months to
4 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 5,757 2,869 2,458
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.76% 10.39% 7.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.97% 11.45% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,826 1,952 1,713
10th Percentile £390 £360 £363
25th Percentile £461 £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 178 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 £83.52 £72.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £102.80 £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 38,456 25,047 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 90.72% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,987 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 2,460 1,391 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £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 4 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 4 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 4 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 3,021 £563 -0.97% 1,923
North of England 0 845 £500 - 593
South East +7 752 £550 +4.76% 763
Midlands +1 521 £500 -4.76% 336
North West -1 426 £525 +5.00% 327
West Midlands +2 409 £500 -7.53% 229
Yorkshire +6 367 £500 +1.52% 188
South West +10 328 £550 +4.76% 240
East of England +7 176 £525 -4.55% 156
East Midlands +5 97 £500 +24.22% 107
North East -12 60 £480 -1.03% 82
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
1 329 (5.71%) Confluence
2 156 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 53 (0.92%) CMS
4 28 (0.49%) Apache
4 28 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (0.49%) SAS
5 21 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.24%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.10%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.10%) WordPress
10 5 (0.087%) Appian
10 5 (0.087%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.087%) 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
1 251 (4.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 151 (2.62%) Microsoft Project
3 129 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
4 124 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 69 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.31%) Revit
6 18 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 14 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.17%) Navisworks
8 10 (0.17%) Trello
9 5 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.087%) Sketch
10 4 (0.069%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.069%) Notion
10 4 (0.069%) ProjectWise
11 2 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.035%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.035%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 202 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 71 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 24 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 24 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 24 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
5 22 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 21 (0.36%) Workday HCM
7 19 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
7 19 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
8 18 (0.31%) SAP FI
9 16 (0.28%) Primavera
9 16 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
10 15 (0.26%) SAP SD
11 14 (0.24%) Finacle
11 14 (0.24%) SAP CO
11 14 (0.24%) SAP ERP
12 13 (0.23%) Aladdin
12 13 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
12 13 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,020 (17.72%) Azure
2 687 (11.93%) AWS
3 383 (6.65%) Power Platform
4 262 (4.55%) GCP
5 227 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
6 206 (3.58%) SaaS
7 151 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
8 128 (2.22%) Entra ID
9 114 (1.98%) GitHub
10 112 (1.95%) Snowflake
11 88 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
12 77 (1.34%) SuccessFactors
13 64 (1.11%) OCI
14 61 (1.06%) Serverless
15 60 (1.04%) Amazon S3
16 56 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
16 56 (0.97%) PowerApps
17 54 (0.94%) Power Automate
18 51 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
19 47 (0.82%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 102 (1.77%) Firewall
2 99 (1.72%) Network Security
3 61 (1.06%) WAN
4 58 (1.01%) DNS
5 43 (0.75%) LAN
6 38 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 37 (0.64%) VPN
8 34 (0.59%) SD-WAN
9 31 (0.54%) 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 (0.30%) Wireless
14 15 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
15 14 (0.24%) Internet
15 14 (0.24%) MPLS
16 13 (0.23%) BIG-IP
16 13 (0.23%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 308 (5.35%) Power BI
2 148 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
3 113 (1.96%) Metadata
4 75 (1.30%) SQL Server
5 71 (1.23%) Data Lake
6 66 (1.15%) Tableau
7 52 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
8 42 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 42 (0.73%) Relational Database
9 36 (0.63%) Delta Lake
10 31 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (0.54%) Oracle Database
11 26 (0.45%) Big Data
11 26 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
12 24 (0.42%) BigQuery
13 23 (0.40%) DynamoDB
14 21 (0.36%) Looker
15 20 (0.35%) NoSQL
16 19 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
16 19 (0.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 605 (10.51%) JIRA
2 94 (1.63%) Git
3 85 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 57 (0.99%) 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 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
15 12 (0.21%) Mockito
16 10 (0.17%) DbUnit
16 10 (0.17%) ERwin
17 9 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,896 (50.30%) Social Skills
2 2,005 (34.83%) Finance
3 941 (16.35%) Analytical Skills
4 703 (12.21%) Public Sector
5 556 (9.66%) Banking
6 353 (6.13%) Retail
7 314 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
8 243 (4.22%) Legal
9 236 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
10 203 (3.53%) Marketing
11 196 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
12 168 (2.92%) Manufacturing
13 148 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
14 138 (2.40%) Telecoms
15 118 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 97 (1.68%) Local Government
17 89 (1.55%) Aerospace
18 85 (1.48%) Billing
19 83 (1.44%) Front Office
20 78 (1.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 856 (14.87%) Analyst
2 836 (14.52%) Lead
3 737 (12.80%) Project Manager
4 676 (11.74%) Architect
5 624 (10.84%) Senior
6 573 (9.95%) Business Analyst
7 335 (5.82%) Consultant
8 271 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
9 238 (4.13%) Senior Manager
10 181 (3.14%) Delivery Manager
10 181 (3.14%) Programme Manager
11 165 (2.87%) IT Manager
12 141 (2.45%) Product Manager
13 132 (2.29%) Developer
14 119 (2.07%) Senior Project Manager
15 116 (2.01%) Product Owner
16 111 (1.93%) Technical Manager
17 101 (1.75%) Senior Analyst
18 96 (1.67%) Designer
19 94 (1.63%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (2.55%) REST
2 104 (1.81%) Middleware
3 89 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
4 73 (1.27%) SOAP
5 65 (1.13%) .NET
6 50 (0.87%) Kafka
7 44 (0.76%) JSON
8 42 (0.73%) PySpark
8 42 (0.73%) React
9 41 (0.71%) OAuth
10 40 (0.69%) Spring
11 39 (0.68%) SailPoint
12 36 (0.63%) HTML
13 34 (0.59%) CSS
13 34 (0.59%) Web Services
14 31 (0.54%) XML
15 29 (0.50%) AngularJS
15 29 (0.50%) Spring Boot
16 28 (0.49%) Playwright
17 26 (0.45%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 440 (7.64%) Product Ownership
2 323 (5.61%) Onboarding
3 193 (3.35%) Cloud Native
4 167 (2.90%) Management Information System
5 165 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
6 126 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
7 122 (2.12%) Data Centre
8 107 (1.86%) Data Structures
9 96 (1.67%) Virtual Team
10 94 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 94 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
11 81 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
11 81 (1.41%) Operational Technology
12 75 (1.30%) AI Agents
13 69 (1.20%) NHS
13 69 (1.20%) Security Posture
14 60 (1.04%) CMDB
15 58 (1.01%) FMCG
16 53 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
17 48 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 178 (3.09%) Windows
2 102 (1.77%) Linux
3 40 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 36 (0.63%) Unix
5 32 (0.56%) Android
6 28 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.16%) VMS
11 5 (0.087%) Solaris
11 5 (0.087%) 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 (0.035%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.035%) HPUX
14 2 (0.035%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,882 (32.69%) Agile
2 1,004 (17.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 925 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
4 877 (15.23%) Roadmaps
5 789 (13.71%) Migration
6 780 (13.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 725 (12.59%) Decision-Making
8 719 (12.49%) Project Management
9 686 (11.92%) DevOps
10 662 (11.50%) AI
10 662 (11.50%) Project Delivery
11 630 (10.94%) Analytics
12 600 (10.42%) Change Management
13 581 (10.09%) Risk Management
14 505 (8.77%) CI/CD
14 505 (8.77%) Workshop Facilitation
15 494 (8.58%) User Acceptance Testing
16 465 (8.08%) Scrum
17 462 (8.03%) Cybersecurity
18 459 (7.97%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 474 (8.23%) SQL
2 327 (5.68%) Python
3 132 (2.29%) Java
4 93 (1.62%) PowerShell
5 90 (1.56%) JavaScript
6 55 (0.96%) C#
7 40 (0.69%) Bash
8 26 (0.45%) Bicep
8 26 (0.45%) TypeScript
9 24 (0.42%) Korn
10 23 (0.40%) ABAP
11 20 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 18 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 18 (0.31%) R
12 18 (0.31%) VBA
13 16 (0.28%) T-SQL
14 15 (0.26%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.21%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.12%) Go
16 7 (0.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,127 (19.58%) Security Cleared
2 827 (14.37%) SC Cleared
3 405 (7.03%) Degree
4 283 (4.92%) PMP
5 247 (4.29%) PMI Certification
6 206 (3.58%) DV Cleared
7 164 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 127 (2.21%) CISSP
9 98 (1.70%) CISM
10 96 (1.67%) Azure Certification
11 63 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 54 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
13 53 (0.92%) AWS Certification
14 52 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
15 43 (0.75%) Master's Degree
16 41 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 39 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
18 32 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 32 (0.56%) ACCA
18 32 (0.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 356 (6.18%) Data Quality
2 321 (5.58%) QA
3 282 (4.90%) PMO
4 211 (3.67%) GDPR
5 147 (2.55%) NIST
6 144 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 122 (2.12%) Accessibility
8 103 (1.79%) GRC
9 91 (1.58%) SLA
10 47 (0.82%) NCSC
11 41 (0.71%) WCAG
12 36 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 31 (0.54%) COBIT
13 31 (0.54%) SOC 2
14 24 (0.42%) PCI DSS
15 21 (0.36%) IFRS
16 20 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.28%) ISO 20022
17 16 (0.28%) JSP 440
18 15 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 131 (2.28%) Active Directory
2 126 (2.19%) Docker
3 53 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.31%) VMware NSX
6 17 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.24%) vSphere
8 13 (0.23%) 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 (0.035%) Ceph
14 2 (0.035%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.035%) KVM
14 2 (0.035%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 172 (2.99%) Terraform
2 163 (2.83%) Kubernetes
3 82 (1.42%) Ansible
4 57 (0.99%) 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 (0.30%) Argo
10 9 (0.16%) Puppet
11 8 (0.14%) Control-M
11 8 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.14%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.12%) HP ALM
12 7 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.087%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.087%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.087%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.069%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 814 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 457 (7.94%) SAP
3 314 (5.45%) Oracle
4 304 (5.28%) ServiceNow
5 220 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 143 (2.48%) Databricks
7 113 (1.96%) Google
8 90 (1.56%) VMware
9 86 (1.49%) Workday
10 62 (1.08%) Cisco
11 54 (0.94%) Adobe
12 51 (0.89%) CyberArk
13 48 (0.83%) IBM
14 37 (0.64%) MuleSoft
15 35 (0.61%) Ariba
15 35 (0.61%) Splunk
16 32 (0.56%) Atlassian
17 31 (0.54%) Informatica
18 30 (0.52%) F5
19 28 (0.49%) Foundry