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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 6,456 2,893 2,504
As % of all contract jobs in England 14.07% 10.43% 7.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.57% 11.49% 8.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,272 1,963 1,677
10th Percentile £385 £358 £363
25th Percentile £456 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 64 71
10th Percentile £25.54 £28.25 £32.25
25th Percentile £34.02 £34.22 £53.75
Median hourly rate £59.00 £48.25 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% -21.67% +27.01%
75th Percentile £80.00 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £101.01 £77.13 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £59.75 £48.25 £61.06
% change year-on-year +23.83% -20.98% +22.22%

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 38,963 25,189 28,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.89% 90.78% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,049 16,044 18,122
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,587 1,471 1,456
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +11 3,399 £563 -0.71% 3,218
North of England +3 968 £500 - 800
South East +8 838 £550 +4.76% 1,020
Midlands +4 556 £500 -4.76% 421
North West 0 505 £525 +5.00% 499
West Midlands +5 434 £500 -4.76% 282
Yorkshire +7 406 £500 +1.01% 217
South West +8 351 £550 +4.76% 436
East of England +11 208 £525 -4.55% 231
East Midlands 0 105 £500 +16.01% 136
North East -7 65 £490 +1.03% 89
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
1 345 (5.34%) Confluence
2 176 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 60 (0.93%) CMS
4 43 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 32 (0.50%) Apache
6 27 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 21 (0.33%) SAS
8 20 (0.31%) Apache Spark
9 12 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.093%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.093%) Headless CMS
11 6 (0.093%) WordPress
12 5 (0.077%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.077%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.077%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.062%) Appian
13 4 (0.062%) FactoryTalk
13 4 (0.062%) Moodle
13 4 (0.062%) WebSphere
Applications
1 292 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 157 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 156 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
4 149 (2.31%) Microsoft Project
5 71 (1.10%) MS Visio
6 21 (0.33%) Revit
7 17 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 17 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 16 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.19%) Navisworks
10 9 (0.14%) Trello
11 7 (0.11%) ProjectWise
12 6 (0.093%) Windchill
13 5 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.062%) Adobe XD
14 4 (0.062%) Notion
15 3 (0.046%) CPLEX
15 3 (0.046%) Sketch
16 2 (0.031%) EngageOne
16 2 (0.031%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 232 (3.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 80 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 27 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
5 26 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
5 26 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 22 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
7 20 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 20 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
8 18 (0.28%) Aladdin
8 18 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 18 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 17 (0.26%) SAP SD
10 16 (0.25%) Primavera
10 16 (0.25%) SAP ERP
11 14 (0.22%) Finacle
11 14 (0.22%) SAP CO
11 14 (0.22%) SAP MDG
12 13 (0.20%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,204 (18.65%) Azure
2 799 (12.38%) AWS
3 471 (7.30%) Power Platform
4 312 (4.83%) GCP
5 267 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
6 233 (3.61%) SaaS
7 191 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
8 161 (2.49%) Entra ID
9 145 (2.25%) GitHub
10 140 (2.17%) Snowflake
11 110 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
12 82 (1.27%) Serverless
13 79 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
14 77 (1.19%) SuccessFactors
15 71 (1.10%) OCI
16 67 (1.04%) PowerApps
17 64 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
18 63 (0.98%) Power Automate
19 61 (0.94%) Amazon S3
20 58 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 129 (2.00%) Network Security
2 128 (1.98%) Firewall
3 77 (1.19%) WAN
4 67 (1.04%) DNS
5 50 (0.77%) LAN
6 45 (0.70%) VPN
7 43 (0.67%) TCP/IP
8 39 (0.60%) SD-WAN
9 38 (0.59%) DHCP
10 31 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (0.43%) BGP
12 26 (0.40%) 4G
12 26 (0.40%) 5G
13 24 (0.37%) Wireless
14 19 (0.29%) Internet
14 19 (0.29%) OSPF
15 18 (0.28%) MPLS
16 17 (0.26%) Broadband
17 15 (0.23%) SAN
18 14 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 376 (5.82%) Power BI
2 178 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
3 170 (2.63%) Metadata
4 99 (1.53%) SQL Server
5 84 (1.30%) Data Lake
6 81 (1.25%) Tableau
7 61 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
8 50 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 49 (0.76%) Relational Database
10 48 (0.74%) Delta Lake
11 41 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
12 34 (0.53%) BigQuery
13 32 (0.50%) Oracle Database
14 31 (0.48%) MongoDB
15 27 (0.42%) Looker
16 26 (0.40%) NoSQL
17 25 (0.39%) Big Data
18 24 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
19 21 (0.33%) DynamoDB
20 20 (0.31%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 637 (9.87%) JIRA
2 108 (1.67%) Git
3 86 (1.33%) Jenkins
4 64 (0.99%) GitLab
5 52 (0.81%) Selenium
6 30 (0.46%) Postman
7 27 (0.42%) Cucumber
8 26 (0.40%) JUnit
9 25 (0.39%) SonarQube
10 21 (0.33%) Gatling
11 19 (0.29%) Zephyr
12 18 (0.28%) Cypress.io
12 18 (0.28%) JMeter
13 12 (0.19%) LoadRunner
13 12 (0.19%) Maven
14 11 (0.17%) ERwin
14 11 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (0.17%) WebDriver
15 9 (0.14%) Mockito
15 9 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 3,353 (51.94%) Social Skills
2 2,185 (33.84%) Finance
3 1,074 (16.64%) Analytical Skills
4 805 (12.47%) Public Sector
5 638 (9.88%) Banking
6 395 (6.12%) Retail
7 373 (5.78%) Influencing Skills
8 278 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
9 265 (4.10%) Legal
10 223 (3.45%) Marketing
11 217 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
12 209 (3.24%) Manufacturing
13 168 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
14 167 (2.59%) Telecoms
15 130 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 109 (1.69%) Aerospace
17 104 (1.61%) Local Government
18 95 (1.47%) Front Office
19 91 (1.41%) Billing
20 78 (1.21%) Law
Job Titles
1 953 (14.76%) Analyst
2 920 (14.25%) Lead
3 811 (12.56%) Architect
4 767 (11.88%) Project Manager
5 677 (10.49%) Senior
6 613 (9.50%) Business Analyst
7 416 (6.44%) Consultant
8 289 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
9 235 (3.64%) Senior Manager
10 186 (2.88%) Delivery Manager
11 184 (2.85%) Programme Manager
12 170 (2.63%) IT Manager
13 155 (2.40%) Product Manager
14 141 (2.18%) Developer
15 125 (1.94%) Technical Manager
16 122 (1.89%) Product Owner
17 116 (1.80%) Senior Analyst
18 113 (1.75%) Senior Project Manager
19 110 (1.70%) Designer
20 108 (1.67%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (3.53%) Terraform
2 165 (2.56%) REST
3 115 (1.78%) Middleware
4 87 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
5 79 (1.22%) .NET
6 70 (1.08%) SOAP
7 69 (1.07%) Kafka
8 57 (0.88%) PySpark
9 52 (0.81%) JSON
10 51 (0.79%) OAuth
11 47 (0.73%) React
12 41 (0.64%) HTML
12 41 (0.64%) Spring
13 40 (0.62%) SailPoint
14 39 (0.60%) XML
15 38 (0.59%) CSS
16 36 (0.56%) Playwright
17 32 (0.50%) OpenID
17 32 (0.50%) Web Services
18 31 (0.48%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 491 (7.61%) Product Ownership
2 366 (5.67%) Onboarding
3 247 (3.83%) Cloud Native
4 191 (2.96%) Management Information System
5 166 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
6 148 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 134 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
8 132 (2.04%) Data Centre
9 118 (1.83%) Data Structures
10 98 (1.52%) AI Agents
10 98 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
11 97 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
12 96 (1.49%) Operational Technology
13 94 (1.46%) Virtual Team
14 85 (1.32%) Security Posture
15 80 (1.24%) NHS
16 76 (1.18%) CMDB
17 68 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
18 67 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
19 64 (0.99%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 194 (3.00%) Windows
2 125 (1.94%) Linux
3 56 (0.87%) Windows Server
4 45 (0.70%) Unix
5 25 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.29%) Android
7 16 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.22%) VMS
10 10 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.077%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.077%) zOS
13 4 (0.062%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.062%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.062%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.046%) CentOS
14 3 (0.046%) Solaris
15 2 (0.031%) AIX
15 2 (0.031%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,067 (32.02%) Agile
2 1,163 (18.01%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,055 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
4 1,016 (15.74%) Roadmaps
5 911 (14.11%) Migration
6 874 (13.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 832 (12.89%) Decision-Making
8 810 (12.55%) AI
9 794 (12.30%) Project Management
10 779 (12.07%) DevOps
11 765 (11.85%) Project Delivery
12 724 (11.21%) Analytics
13 672 (10.41%) Change Management
14 640 (9.91%) Risk Management
15 625 (9.68%) Workshop Facilitation
16 595 (9.22%) CI/CD
17 552 (8.55%) User Acceptance Testing
18 536 (8.30%) Cybersecurity
19 523 (8.10%) Requirements Gathering
20 521 (8.07%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 563 (8.72%) SQL
2 402 (6.23%) Python
3 157 (2.43%) Java
4 128 (1.98%) PowerShell
5 113 (1.75%) JavaScript
6 66 (1.02%) C#
7 62 (0.96%) Bash
8 38 (0.59%) Bicep
9 37 (0.57%) TypeScript
10 28 (0.43%) Korn
11 25 (0.39%) ABAP
12 24 (0.37%) R
13 23 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 19 (0.29%) VBA
15 18 (0.28%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.26%) T-SQL
17 16 (0.25%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.22%) Apex Code
18 14 (0.22%) Go
19 10 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,299 (20.12%) Security Cleared
2 953 (14.76%) SC Cleared
3 439 (6.80%) Degree
4 306 (4.74%) PMP
5 266 (4.12%) PMI Certification
6 237 (3.67%) DV Cleared
7 193 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 149 (2.31%) CISSP
9 119 (1.84%) CISM
10 117 (1.81%) Azure Certification
11 81 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
12 74 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
13 73 (1.13%) AWS Certification
14 68 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
15 48 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
16 47 (0.73%) Master's Degree
17 46 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 43 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 43 (0.67%) ACCA
19 42 (0.65%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 449 (6.95%) Data Quality
2 371 (5.75%) QA
3 312 (4.83%) PMO
4 216 (3.35%) GDPR
5 158 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 156 (2.42%) NIST
7 150 (2.32%) Accessibility
8 122 (1.89%) GRC
9 92 (1.43%) SLA
10 53 (0.82%) NCSC
11 50 (0.77%) WCAG
12 30 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 27 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
14 24 (0.37%) IFRS
14 24 (0.37%) SOC 2
15 23 (0.36%) COBIT
16 22 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
16 22 (0.34%) PCI DSS
17 17 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 17 (0.26%) GxP
System Software
1 162 (2.51%) Active Directory
2 140 (2.17%) Docker
3 65 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 21 (0.33%) VMware NSX
7 20 (0.31%) vSphere
8 14 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.19%) NFS
10 8 (0.12%) Postfix
11 6 (0.093%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.062%) Varnish
13 3 (0.046%) Ceph
13 3 (0.046%) KVM
13 3 (0.046%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.046%) Time Sharing Option
13 3 (0.046%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.031%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 201 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 98 (1.52%) Ansible
3 59 (0.91%) Grafana
4 41 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 40 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.48%) SCCM
8 17 (0.26%) Argo
9 11 (0.17%) Control-M
10 10 (0.15%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.14%) HP ALM
12 8 (0.12%) Kibana
12 8 (0.12%) Puppet
13 7 (0.11%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 6 (0.093%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.077%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.077%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.077%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.077%) WMI
Vendors
1 1,029 (15.94%) Microsoft
2 508 (7.87%) SAP
3 350 (5.42%) Oracle
4 330 (5.11%) ServiceNow
5 242 (3.75%) Salesforce
6 195 (3.02%) Databricks
7 133 (2.06%) Google
8 96 (1.49%) VMware
9 91 (1.41%) Workday
10 78 (1.21%) Cisco
11 58 (0.90%) CyberArk
12 56 (0.87%) Adobe
13 54 (0.84%) IBM
14 51 (0.79%) Splunk
15 43 (0.67%) Ariba
16 37 (0.57%) Informatica
16 37 (0.57%) MuleSoft
17 33 (0.51%) Atlassian
18 31 (0.48%) F5
19 30 (0.46%) Foundry