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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 7,128 2,900 2,482
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.32% 10.51% 7.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.08% 11.56% 8.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,721 1,978 1,580
10th Percentile £388 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £645
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £549 £530 £540
% change year-on-year +3.63% -1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 59 67
10th Percentile £20.54 £28.04 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.00 £42.07
Median hourly rate £60.50 £49.00 £61.06
Median % change year-on-year +23.47% -19.75% +22.22%
75th Percentile £80.00 £61.88 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £77.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £49.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +23.47% -18.33% +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 39,416 25,077 27,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.69% 90.84% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,046 15,915 17,172
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,836 1,513 1,250
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £66.58
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 +14 3,752 £560 +1.36% 3,459
North of England +5 1,065 £507 +1.30% 1,004
South East +12 907 £550 +4.76% 1,273
Midlands +7 625 £500 -0.99% 669
North West +4 532 £525 +5.00% 592
West Midlands +9 503 £495 -8.59% 467
Yorkshire +8 465 £500 - 311
South West +6 378 £550 - 400
East of England +7 225 £520 -5.45% 326
East Midlands 0 107 £500 +12.99% 201
North East +2 77 £500 -4.76% 102
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
1 351 (4.92%) Confluence
2 196 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 69 (0.97%) CMS
4 48 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 41 (0.58%) Apache
6 29 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 24 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.31%) SAS
9 13 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 9 (0.13%) WordPress
12 7 (0.098%) nginx
12 7 (0.098%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.084%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.084%) CICS
13 6 (0.084%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.084%) Oracle Workflow
13 6 (0.084%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.070%) NetWeaver
14 5 (0.070%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 320 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 175 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 163 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
4 139 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
5 72 (1.01%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.35%) Revit
7 19 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 18 (0.25%) Navisworks
9 15 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
10 14 (0.20%) Chatbot
11 11 (0.15%) Trello
12 9 (0.13%) ProjectWise
13 7 (0.098%) Windchill
14 6 (0.084%) Adobe XD
15 5 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 4 (0.056%) Adobe Illustrator
16 4 (0.056%) Notion
16 4 (0.056%) Photoshop
16 4 (0.056%) Sketch
17 3 (0.042%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 253 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 96 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 31 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 29 (0.41%) Workday HCM
6 28 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
7 24 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
7 24 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 22 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
9 21 (0.29%) SAP Payroll
10 19 (0.27%) SAP ERP
11 18 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
11 18 (0.25%) SAP FI
11 18 (0.25%) SAP HR
12 17 (0.24%) Aladdin
12 17 (0.24%) SAP HCM
12 17 (0.24%) SAP MDG
13 16 (0.22%) SAP QM
13 16 (0.22%) SAP SD
14 15 (0.21%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,294 (18.15%) Azure
2 870 (12.21%) AWS
3 548 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 349 (4.90%) GCP
5 279 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
6 249 (3.49%) SaaS
7 223 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
8 175 (2.46%) GitHub
9 168 (2.36%) Entra ID
10 145 (2.03%) Snowflake
11 143 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
12 106 (1.49%) Microsoft Copilot
13 100 (1.40%) Serverless
14 91 (1.28%) Power Automate
15 82 (1.15%) PowerApps
16 80 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
17 75 (1.05%) Amazon S3
18 71 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
19 70 (0.98%) OCI
20 68 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 136 (1.91%) Firewall
2 132 (1.85%) Network Security
3 76 (1.07%) WAN
4 70 (0.98%) DNS
5 47 (0.66%) LAN
6 46 (0.65%) VPN
7 45 (0.63%) DHCP
8 44 (0.62%) TCP/IP
9 35 (0.49%) SD-WAN
10 27 (0.38%) 4G
10 27 (0.38%) 5G
10 27 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (0.34%) BGP
12 23 (0.32%) Internet
12 23 (0.32%) Wireless
13 20 (0.28%) Broadband
13 20 (0.28%) MPLS
14 17 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
14 17 (0.24%) SSL
15 16 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 423 (5.93%) Power BI
2 204 (2.86%) Metadata
3 195 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
4 115 (1.61%) SQL Server
5 96 (1.35%) Data Lake
6 82 (1.15%) Tableau
7 73 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
8 51 (0.72%) Delta Lake
8 51 (0.72%) Relational Database
9 49 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 48 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
11 47 (0.66%) BigQuery
12 43 (0.60%) MongoDB
13 34 (0.48%) Looker
14 32 (0.45%) NoSQL
14 32 (0.45%) Oracle Database
15 29 (0.41%) DynamoDB
16 28 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
17 23 (0.32%) Big Data
17 23 (0.32%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 658 (9.23%) JIRA
2 137 (1.92%) Git
3 99 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 89 (1.25%) GitLab
5 67 (0.94%) Selenium
6 43 (0.60%) Cucumber
7 39 (0.55%) JUnit
8 31 (0.43%) Postman
9 29 (0.41%) SonarQube
10 28 (0.39%) Gatling
11 19 (0.27%) Cypress.io
12 18 (0.25%) Zephyr
13 15 (0.21%) JMeter
13 15 (0.21%) Maven
14 12 (0.17%) LoadRunner
14 12 (0.17%) WebDriver
15 11 (0.15%) Claude Code
15 11 (0.15%) Mockito
16 9 (0.13%) ERwin
16 9 (0.13%) REST Assured
General
1 3,791 (53.18%) Social Skills
2 2,366 (33.19%) Finance
3 1,193 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
4 920 (12.91%) Public Sector
5 717 (10.06%) Banking
6 432 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
7 412 (5.78%) Retail
8 323 (4.53%) Organisational Skills
9 305 (4.28%) Legal
10 257 (3.61%) Manufacturing
11 245 (3.44%) Marketing
12 233 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
13 190 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
14 184 (2.58%) Telecoms
15 145 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 133 (1.87%) Aerospace
17 117 (1.64%) Local Government
18 111 (1.56%) Front Office
19 93 (1.30%) Billing
19 93 (1.30%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,025 (14.38%) Analyst
2 974 (13.66%) Lead
3 959 (13.45%) Architect
4 786 (11.03%) Project Manager
5 755 (10.59%) Senior
6 655 (9.19%) Business Analyst
7 463 (6.50%) Consultant
8 324 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
9 254 (3.56%) Senior Manager
10 204 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
11 185 (2.60%) IT Manager
12 180 (2.53%) Programme Manager
13 174 (2.44%) Product Manager
14 165 (2.31%) Developer
15 139 (1.95%) Technical Manager
16 136 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
17 130 (1.82%) Product Owner
18 117 (1.64%) Data Analyst
18 117 (1.64%) Designer
19 115 (1.61%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (3.70%) Terraform
2 195 (2.74%) REST
3 134 (1.88%) Middleware
4 101 (1.42%) .NET
5 86 (1.21%) Kafka
6 82 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
7 80 (1.12%) SOAP
8 68 (0.95%) PySpark
9 63 (0.88%) JSON
9 63 (0.88%) OAuth
10 62 (0.87%) React
11 57 (0.80%) Spring
12 51 (0.72%) HTML
13 49 (0.69%) LDAP
14 47 (0.66%) Playwright
15 45 (0.63%) XML
16 44 (0.62%) CSS
17 41 (0.58%) SailPoint
17 41 (0.58%) Spring Boot
18 40 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 549 (7.70%) Product Ownership
2 422 (5.92%) Onboarding
3 284 (3.98%) Cloud Native
4 231 (3.24%) Management Information System
5 177 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
6 169 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
7 162 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
8 134 (1.88%) Data Centre
9 120 (1.68%) AI Agents
10 119 (1.67%) Data Structures
11 115 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
12 114 (1.60%) Operational Technology
13 109 (1.53%) Virtual Team
14 95 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
14 95 (1.33%) Security Posture
15 89 (1.25%) CMDB
16 87 (1.22%) NHS
17 78 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
18 75 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
19 65 (0.91%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 229 (3.21%) Windows
2 149 (2.09%) Linux
3 72 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 50 (0.70%) Unix
5 28 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.27%) Android
7 17 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.20%) VMS
8 14 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.11%) zOS
11 7 (0.098%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.070%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.056%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.042%) CentOS
14 3 (0.042%) Solaris
15 2 (0.028%) Data ONTAP
15 2 (0.028%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,229 (31.27%) Agile
2 1,296 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,201 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
4 1,167 (16.37%) Roadmaps
5 1,002 (14.06%) Migration
6 954 (13.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 949 (13.31%) Decision-Making
8 919 (12.89%) AI
9 840 (11.78%) DevOps
10 822 (11.53%) Project Delivery
11 817 (11.46%) Project Management
12 808 (11.34%) Analytics
13 724 (10.16%) Change Management
14 707 (9.92%) Risk Management
15 700 (9.82%) Workshop Facilitation
16 693 (9.72%) CI/CD
17 596 (8.36%) Cybersecurity
18 589 (8.26%) User Acceptance Testing
19 584 (8.19%) Validation
20 580 (8.14%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 642 (9.01%) SQL
2 463 (6.50%) Python
3 192 (2.69%) Java
4 144 (2.02%) JavaScript
5 142 (1.99%) PowerShell
6 90 (1.26%) C#
7 71 (1.00%) Bash
8 57 (0.80%) TypeScript
9 41 (0.58%) Bicep
10 39 (0.55%) ABAP
11 33 (0.46%) Korn
12 26 (0.36%) R
13 23 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 23 (0.32%) PL/SQL
13 23 (0.32%) T-SQL
14 18 (0.25%) Go
14 18 (0.25%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.25%) VBA
15 13 (0.18%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,440 (20.20%) Security Cleared
2 1,058 (14.84%) SC Cleared
3 487 (6.83%) Degree
4 315 (4.42%) PMP
5 279 (3.91%) PMI Certification
6 271 (3.80%) DV Cleared
7 248 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 164 (2.30%) CISSP
9 129 (1.81%) Azure Certification
10 123 (1.73%) CISM
11 92 (1.29%) AWS Certification
12 90 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
13 79 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
14 78 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
15 56 (0.79%) Master's Degree
16 54 (0.76%) ACCA
17 51 (0.72%) CIMA
18 50 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 49 (0.69%) ISTQB
19 49 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 545 (7.65%) Data Quality
2 406 (5.70%) QA
3 330 (4.63%) PMO
4 220 (3.09%) GDPR
5 194 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 185 (2.60%) Accessibility
7 175 (2.46%) NIST
8 136 (1.91%) GRC
9 98 (1.37%) SLA
10 71 (1.00%) WCAG
11 63 (0.88%) NCSC
12 34 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
13 29 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 27 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
14 27 (0.38%) IFRS
15 25 (0.35%) ISO 20022
16 24 (0.34%) GxP
16 24 (0.34%) PCI DSS
17 23 (0.32%) COBIT
18 19 (0.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 185 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 166 (2.33%) Docker
3 72 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.41%) vSphere
5 27 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 25 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (0.34%) VMware NSX
8 20 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.24%) Hyper-V
10 11 (0.15%) NFS
11 8 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (0.098%) Postfix
13 6 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
13 6 (0.084%) Time Sharing Option
14 3 (0.042%) Ceph
14 3 (0.042%) FreeRADIUS
14 3 (0.042%) IAG
14 3 (0.042%) KVM
14 3 (0.042%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.042%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 238 (3.34%) Kubernetes
2 107 (1.50%) Ansible
3 63 (0.88%) Grafana
4 48 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 41 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.43%) SCCM
8 17 (0.24%) Argo
9 12 (0.17%) Control-M
10 11 (0.15%) Kibana
11 10 (0.14%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.098%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.098%) HP ALM
12 7 (0.098%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 7 (0.098%) Tivoli
12 7 (0.098%) WMI
13 6 (0.084%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.084%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.084%) Puppet
14 5 (0.070%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 1,192 (16.72%) Microsoft
2 546 (7.66%) SAP
3 380 (5.33%) Oracle
4 356 (4.99%) ServiceNow
5 257 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 222 (3.11%) Databricks
7 161 (2.26%) Google
8 108 (1.52%) VMware
9 103 (1.45%) Workday
10 89 (1.25%) Cisco
11 76 (1.07%) CyberArk
12 73 (1.02%) IBM
13 62 (0.87%) Adobe
14 60 (0.84%) Splunk
15 44 (0.62%) Ariba
15 44 (0.62%) MuleSoft
16 42 (0.59%) Informatica
17 32 (0.45%) Fortinet
18 31 (0.43%) Bloomberg
19 30 (0.42%) Atlassian