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

6 months to
6 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 5,849 2,876 2,460
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.85% 10.41% 7.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.08% 11.47% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,893 1,959 1,712
10th Percentile £390 £361 £363
25th Percentile £460 £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 £527 £538
% change year-on-year +4.46% -2.05% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 65 67
10th Percentile £28.00 £29.61 £30.11
25th Percentile £36.25 £37.02 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.00 £53.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +15.89% -13.15% +34.26%
75th Percentile £83.25 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £102.50 £78.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +15.89% -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 38,782 25,081 28,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.18% 90.77% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,156 16,055 18,761
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 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,506 1,391 1,691
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.87 £18.21
Median hourly rate £44.23 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.86% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 3,072 £563 -1.32% 2,011
North of England 0 857 £507 +1.40% 587
South East +8 764 £550 +4.76% 759
Midlands +1 528 £500 -4.76% 348
North West -2 431 £525 +5.00% 327
West Midlands +2 415 £500 -7.41% 223
Yorkshire +5 373 £500 +1.52% 183
South West +9 333 £550 +4.76% 251
East of England +8 179 £525 -4.55% 168
East Midlands +4 98 £500 +24.22% 125
North East -14 61 £490 +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
1 334 (5.71%) Confluence
2 158 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 54 (0.92%) CMS
4 29 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (0.48%) Apache
5 28 (0.48%) SAS
6 22 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 15 (0.26%) Apache Spark
8 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.10%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.10%) WordPress
11 5 (0.085%) Appian
11 5 (0.085%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.068%) FactoryTalk
12 4 (0.068%) Kentico
12 4 (0.068%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.051%) Moodle
13 3 (0.051%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 253 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 153 (2.62%) Microsoft Project
3 131 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
4 124 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.32%) Revit
6 19 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 16 (0.27%) AutoCAD
7 16 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.19%) Navisworks
9 10 (0.17%) Trello
10 6 (0.10%) ProjectWise
11 5 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.068%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.068%) Notion
13 3 (0.051%) Sketch
14 2 (0.034%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.034%) EPLAN
14 2 (0.034%) Photoshop
14 2 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 204 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 72 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 26 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 24 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 24 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 22 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 22 (0.38%) Workday HCM
7 20 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 19 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
9 18 (0.31%) SAP FI
10 17 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
11 16 (0.27%) Primavera
12 15 (0.26%) SAP SD
13 14 (0.24%) Finacle
13 14 (0.24%) SAP CO
13 14 (0.24%) SAP ERP
14 13 (0.22%) Aladdin
14 13 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
14 13 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,040 (17.78%) Azure
2 695 (11.88%) AWS
3 389 (6.65%) Power Platform
4 266 (4.55%) GCP
5 231 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
6 208 (3.56%) SaaS
7 154 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
8 132 (2.26%) Entra ID
9 118 (2.02%) GitHub
10 116 (1.98%) Snowflake
11 90 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
12 78 (1.33%) SuccessFactors
13 66 (1.13%) OCI
14 62 (1.06%) Serverless
15 60 (1.03%) Amazon S3
16 57 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
17 56 (0.96%) PowerApps
18 54 (0.92%) Power Automate
19 53 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
20 47 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 101 (1.73%) Firewall
2 99 (1.69%) Network Security
3 61 (1.04%) WAN
4 58 (0.99%) DNS
5 43 (0.74%) LAN
6 38 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 37 (0.63%) VPN
8 33 (0.56%) SD-WAN
9 31 (0.53%) DHCP
10 24 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (0.38%) BGP
12 20 (0.34%) 4G
12 20 (0.34%) 5G
13 19 (0.32%) OSPF
14 16 (0.27%) Wireless
15 15 (0.26%) Internet
15 15 (0.26%) MPLS
15 15 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
16 13 (0.22%) 3G
16 13 (0.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 316 (5.40%) Power BI
2 152 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
3 118 (2.02%) Metadata
4 75 (1.28%) SQL Server
5 74 (1.27%) Data Lake
6 68 (1.16%) Tableau
7 52 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
8 42 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 42 (0.72%) Relational Database
9 37 (0.63%) Delta Lake
10 31 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (0.53%) Oracle Database
11 27 (0.46%) Big Data
11 27 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
12 24 (0.41%) BigQuery
13 23 (0.39%) DynamoDB
13 23 (0.39%) NoSQL
14 21 (0.36%) Looker
15 19 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
15 19 (0.32%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 608 (10.39%) JIRA
2 96 (1.64%) Git
3 85 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 58 (0.99%) GitLab
5 49 (0.84%) Selenium
6 33 (0.56%) JUnit
7 27 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 25 (0.43%) Postman
9 22 (0.38%) SonarQube
10 19 (0.32%) JMeter
11 17 (0.29%) Cypress.io
12 16 (0.27%) Maven
12 16 (0.27%) Zephyr
13 15 (0.26%) WebDriver
14 14 (0.24%) Gatling
15 13 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
16 12 (0.21%) Mockito
17 10 (0.17%) DbUnit
17 10 (0.17%) ERwin
18 9 (0.15%) LoadRunner
General
1 2,942 (50.30%) Social Skills
2 2,033 (34.76%) Finance
3 960 (16.41%) Analytical Skills
4 717 (12.26%) Public Sector
5 569 (9.73%) Banking
6 359 (6.14%) Retail
7 315 (5.39%) Influencing Skills
8 251 (4.29%) Legal
9 238 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
10 207 (3.54%) Marketing
11 201 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
12 173 (2.96%) Manufacturing
13 151 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
14 144 (2.46%) Telecoms
15 120 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 100 (1.71%) Local Government
17 94 (1.61%) Aerospace
18 87 (1.49%) Billing
19 83 (1.42%) Front Office
20 77 (1.32%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 868 (14.84%) Analyst
2 847 (14.48%) Lead
3 751 (12.84%) Project Manager
4 692 (11.83%) Architect
5 629 (10.75%) Senior
6 578 (9.88%) Business Analyst
7 341 (5.83%) Consultant
8 274 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
9 241 (4.12%) Senior Manager
10 182 (3.11%) Programme Manager
11 180 (3.08%) Delivery Manager
12 167 (2.86%) IT Manager
13 142 (2.43%) Product Manager
14 132 (2.26%) Developer
15 120 (2.05%) Senior Project Manager
16 116 (1.98%) Product Owner
17 115 (1.97%) Technical Manager
18 103 (1.76%) Senior Analyst
19 101 (1.73%) Data Analyst
20 97 (1.66%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (2.55%) REST
2 105 (1.80%) Middleware
3 93 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
4 73 (1.25%) SOAP
5 65 (1.11%) .NET
6 50 (0.85%) Kafka
7 45 (0.77%) JSON
8 43 (0.74%) PySpark
9 42 (0.72%) React
10 41 (0.70%) OAuth
11 40 (0.68%) Spring
12 39 (0.67%) SailPoint
13 36 (0.62%) HTML
14 34 (0.58%) Web Services
15 33 (0.56%) CSS
16 32 (0.55%) XML
17 29 (0.50%) AngularJS
17 29 (0.50%) Playwright
17 29 (0.50%) Spring Boot
18 26 (0.44%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 448 (7.66%) Product Ownership
2 335 (5.73%) Onboarding
3 194 (3.32%) Cloud Native
4 170 (2.91%) Management Information System
5 168 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
6 127 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 124 (2.12%) Data Centre
8 109 (1.86%) Data Structures
9 98 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
10 97 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
11 94 (1.61%) Virtual Team
12 83 (1.42%) Operational Technology
13 81 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
14 76 (1.30%) AI Agents
15 72 (1.23%) Security Posture
16 71 (1.21%) NHS
17 60 (1.03%) CMDB
18 59 (1.01%) FMCG
18 59 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
19 49 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 181 (3.09%) Windows
2 104 (1.78%) Linux
3 42 (0.72%) Windows Server
4 38 (0.65%) 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 (0.15%) VMS
11 5 (0.085%) Solaris
11 5 (0.085%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.068%) AIX
12 4 (0.068%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.068%) zOS
13 3 (0.051%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.034%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.034%) HPUX
14 2 (0.034%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,902 (32.52%) Agile
2 1,017 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
3 932 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
4 890 (15.22%) Roadmaps
5 812 (13.88%) Migration
6 785 (13.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 731 (12.50%) Decision-Making
8 726 (12.41%) Project Management
9 697 (11.92%) DevOps
10 675 (11.54%) AI
11 672 (11.49%) Project Delivery
12 646 (11.04%) Analytics
13 611 (10.45%) Change Management
14 582 (9.95%) Risk Management
15 515 (8.80%) CI/CD
16 509 (8.70%) Workshop Facilitation
17 496 (8.48%) User Acceptance Testing
18 472 (8.07%) Cybersecurity
18 472 (8.07%) Scrum
19 469 (8.02%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 490 (8.38%) SQL
2 335 (5.73%) Python
3 132 (2.26%) Java
4 97 (1.66%) PowerShell
5 90 (1.54%) JavaScript
6 55 (0.94%) C#
7 41 (0.70%) Bash
8 29 (0.50%) Bicep
9 26 (0.44%) TypeScript
10 23 (0.39%) ABAP
10 23 (0.39%) Korn
11 21 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 18 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 18 (0.31%) R
12 18 (0.31%) VBA
13 16 (0.27%) T-SQL
14 15 (0.26%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.21%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,148 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 840 (14.36%) SC Cleared
3 410 (7.01%) Degree
4 286 (4.89%) PMP
5 247 (4.22%) PMI Certification
6 211 (3.61%) DV Cleared
7 164 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 133 (2.27%) CISSP
9 102 (1.74%) CISM
10 100 (1.71%) Azure Certification
11 63 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 57 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
13 54 (0.92%) AWS Certification
13 54 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
14 43 (0.74%) Master's Degree
15 42 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 38 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
17 35 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 33 (0.56%) ISTQB
18 33 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 375 (6.41%) Data Quality
2 329 (5.62%) QA
3 284 (4.86%) PMO
4 215 (3.68%) GDPR
5 148 (2.53%) NIST
6 146 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 125 (2.14%) Accessibility
8 103 (1.76%) GRC
9 92 (1.57%) SLA
10 48 (0.82%) NCSC
11 41 (0.70%) WCAG
12 37 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 31 (0.53%) SOC 2
14 30 (0.51%) COBIT
15 25 (0.43%) PCI DSS
16 21 (0.36%) IFRS
17 20 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
18 16 (0.27%) ISO 20022
18 16 (0.27%) JSP 440
19 15 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 134 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 127 (2.17%) Docker
3 56 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.32%) 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 (0.15%) Hyper-V
11 6 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.068%) SRDF
12 4 (0.068%) Varnish
13 3 (0.051%) HDFS
13 3 (0.051%) 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
1 177 (3.03%) Terraform
2 167 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 85 (1.45%) Ansible
4 57 (0.97%) Grafana
5 45 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 42 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.58%) Prometheus
8 27 (0.46%) SCCM
9 17 (0.29%) Argo
10 10 (0.17%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.15%) Puppet
12 8 (0.14%) Control-M
12 8 (0.14%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.12%) HP ALM
13 7 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 6 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.085%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.085%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.085%) RSA Archer
16 4 (0.068%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 830 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 463 (7.92%) SAP
3 320 (5.47%) Oracle
4 303 (5.18%) ServiceNow
5 224 (3.83%) Salesforce
6 147 (2.51%) Databricks
7 115 (1.97%) Google
8 93 (1.59%) VMware
9 88 (1.50%) Workday
10 63 (1.08%) Cisco
11 55 (0.94%) Adobe
12 51 (0.87%) CyberArk
13 49 (0.84%) IBM
14 37 (0.63%) MuleSoft
14 37 (0.63%) Splunk
15 35 (0.60%) Ariba
16 32 (0.55%) Atlassian
17 31 (0.53%) Informatica
18 30 (0.51%) F5
19 28 (0.48%) Foundry