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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 7,217 2,916 2,517
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.58% 10.58% 7.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.42% 11.63% 9.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,780 1,982 1,571
10th Percentile £388 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £455
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 £550 £530 £548
% change year-on-year +3.68% -3.20% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 63 67
10th Percentile £19.80 £27.42 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.00 £47.32
Median hourly rate £60.50 £49.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -19.64% +34.26%
75th Percentile £80.03 £60.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £76.75 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £49.50 £60.30
% change year-on-year +22.22% -17.91% +20.70%

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 39,188 25,068 27,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.60% 90.98% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,853 15,921 17,051
10th Percentile £325 £298 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £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 2,855 1,537 1,209
10th Percentile £13.91 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.19
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +58.05% -40.82% -1.16%

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 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 29 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 29 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 +13 3,801 £560 +1.82% 3,100
North of England +6 1,079 £503 +0.60% 931
South East +11 916 £550 +4.76% 957
Midlands +8 650 £500 -4.76% 631
North West +4 534 £525 +5.00% 537
West Midlands +8 530 £490 -10.91% 432
Yorkshire +7 476 £500 - 296
South West +8 369 £550 - 341
East of England +9 222 £510 -7.27% 298
East Midlands +1 104 £500 +12.99% 199
North East +1 78 £500 -3.85% 99
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
1 356 (4.93%) Confluence
2 200 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 69 (0.96%) CMS
4 52 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 43 (0.60%) Apache
6 30 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 24 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 21 (0.29%) SAS
9 13 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.14%) Headless CMS
10 10 (0.14%) WordPress
11 8 (0.11%) CICS
12 7 (0.097%) nginx
12 7 (0.097%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.083%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.083%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.083%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.069%) NetWeaver
14 5 (0.069%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.069%) WebLogic
Applications
1 319 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 170 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 164 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
4 135 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
5 72 (1.00%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.35%) Revit
7 19 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 18 (0.25%) Navisworks
9 14 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 14 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
10 11 (0.15%) Trello
11 9 (0.12%) ProjectWise
12 7 (0.097%) Windchill
13 5 (0.069%) Adobe XD
14 4 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
14 4 (0.055%) Notion
14 4 (0.055%) Photoshop
15 3 (0.042%) CPLEX
15 3 (0.042%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 262 (3.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 95 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 38 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 32 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 31 (0.43%) Workday HCM
6 28 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
7 25 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
8 24 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
8 24 (0.33%) SAP FI
9 23 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
10 22 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
10 22 (0.30%) SAP HCM
11 21 (0.29%) SAP HR
12 19 (0.26%) Aladdin
12 19 (0.26%) SAP ERP
13 18 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
14 17 (0.24%) SAP MDG
15 16 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
15 16 (0.22%) SAP SD
16 15 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,301 (18.03%) Azure
2 872 (12.08%) AWS
3 564 (7.81%) Power Platform
4 355 (4.92%) GCP
5 280 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
6 253 (3.51%) SaaS
7 231 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
8 182 (2.52%) GitHub
9 172 (2.38%) Entra ID
10 147 (2.04%) Snowflake
11 145 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
12 108 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
13 101 (1.40%) Serverless
14 95 (1.32%) Power Automate
15 88 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
16 84 (1.16%) PowerApps
17 75 (1.04%) Amazon S3
18 70 (0.97%) OCI
19 69 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
20 68 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 143 (1.98%) Firewall
2 135 (1.87%) Network Security
3 79 (1.09%) WAN
4 71 (0.98%) DNS
5 50 (0.69%) LAN
5 50 (0.69%) VPN
6 46 (0.64%) DHCP
7 44 (0.61%) TCP/IP
8 37 (0.51%) SD-WAN
9 27 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
10 25 (0.35%) 4G
10 25 (0.35%) 5G
10 25 (0.35%) BGP
11 24 (0.33%) Internet
12 23 (0.32%) Wireless
13 21 (0.29%) Broadband
13 21 (0.29%) MPLS
14 17 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
14 17 (0.24%) VLAN
15 16 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 436 (6.04%) Power BI
2 203 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
3 202 (2.80%) Metadata
4 117 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 99 (1.37%) Data Lake
6 89 (1.23%) Tableau
7 73 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
8 53 (0.73%) BigQuery
9 50 (0.69%) Delta Lake
9 50 (0.69%) Relational Database
10 49 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 49 (0.68%) MongoDB
11 48 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
12 39 (0.54%) Looker
13 34 (0.47%) Oracle Database
14 33 (0.46%) NoSQL
15 28 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
15 28 (0.39%) DynamoDB
16 24 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 23 (0.32%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 660 (9.15%) JIRA
2 145 (2.01%) Git
3 99 (1.37%) GitLab
4 97 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 72 (1.00%) Selenium
6 49 (0.68%) Cucumber
7 44 (0.61%) JUnit
8 35 (0.48%) Gatling
9 32 (0.44%) SonarQube
10 31 (0.43%) Postman
11 19 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 19 (0.26%) Zephyr
12 16 (0.22%) JMeter
13 14 (0.19%) Maven
14 13 (0.18%) LoadRunner
15 12 (0.17%) WebDriver
16 11 (0.15%) Claude Code
16 11 (0.15%) MSI
17 10 (0.14%) Mockito
18 9 (0.12%) ERwin
General
1 3,870 (53.62%) Social Skills
2 2,384 (33.03%) Finance
3 1,205 (16.70%) Analytical Skills
4 951 (13.18%) Public Sector
5 743 (10.30%) Banking
6 439 (6.08%) Influencing Skills
7 404 (5.60%) Retail
8 326 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
9 319 (4.42%) Legal
10 265 (3.67%) Manufacturing
11 244 (3.38%) Marketing
12 234 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
13 190 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
14 178 (2.47%) Telecoms
15 148 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 135 (1.87%) Aerospace
17 119 (1.65%) Local Government
18 113 (1.57%) Front Office
19 96 (1.33%) Billing
20 91 (1.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,036 (14.35%) Analyst
2 984 (13.63%) Architect
3 970 (13.44%) Lead
4 778 (10.78%) Project Manager
5 770 (10.67%) Senior
6 668 (9.26%) Business Analyst
7 477 (6.61%) Consultant
8 326 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
9 247 (3.42%) Senior Manager
10 207 (2.87%) Delivery Manager
11 181 (2.51%) IT Manager
12 177 (2.45%) Product Manager
13 174 (2.41%) Programme Manager
14 166 (2.30%) Developer
15 140 (1.94%) Senior Analyst
16 136 (1.88%) Technical Manager
17 131 (1.82%) Product Owner
18 119 (1.65%) Data Analyst
18 119 (1.65%) Data Engineer
19 115 (1.59%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 270 (3.74%) Terraform
2 201 (2.79%) REST
3 138 (1.91%) Middleware
4 104 (1.44%) .NET
5 86 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
6 82 (1.14%) Kafka
7 81 (1.12%) SOAP
8 72 (1.00%) PySpark
9 67 (0.93%) React
10 65 (0.90%) JSON
11 64 (0.89%) OAuth
12 61 (0.85%) Spring
13 53 (0.73%) Playwright
14 51 (0.71%) HTML
15 49 (0.68%) LDAP
16 45 (0.62%) XML
17 44 (0.61%) CSS
18 42 (0.58%) SailPoint
19 41 (0.57%) Web Services
20 39 (0.54%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 564 (7.81%) Product Ownership
2 438 (6.07%) Onboarding
3 290 (4.02%) Cloud Native
4 232 (3.21%) Management Information System
5 191 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
6 173 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 162 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
8 140 (1.94%) Data Centre
9 124 (1.72%) AI Agents
10 119 (1.65%) Data Structures
11 116 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
11 116 (1.61%) Operational Technology
12 105 (1.45%) Virtual Team
13 98 (1.36%) Security Posture
14 91 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
14 91 (1.26%) CMDB
15 90 (1.25%) NHS
16 78 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
17 75 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
18 67 (0.93%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 235 (3.26%) Windows
2 148 (2.05%) Linux
3 75 (1.04%) Windows Server
4 53 (0.73%) Unix
5 25 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.26%) Android
7 18 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.19%) VMS
10 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 10 (0.14%) zOS
11 7 (0.097%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.069%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.055%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.042%) CentOS
14 3 (0.042%) Solaris
15 2 (0.028%) AIX
15 2 (0.028%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,266 (31.40%) Agile
2 1,311 (18.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,227 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1,199 (16.61%) Roadmaps
5 1,037 (14.37%) Migration
6 960 (13.30%) Decision-Making
7 955 (13.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 950 (13.16%) AI
9 852 (11.81%) DevOps
10 834 (11.56%) Project Delivery
11 825 (11.43%) Analytics
12 803 (11.13%) Project Management
13 732 (10.14%) Workshop Facilitation
14 728 (10.09%) Change Management
15 713 (9.88%) Risk Management
16 712 (9.87%) CI/CD
17 609 (8.44%) User Acceptance Testing
18 605 (8.38%) Requirements Gathering
19 600 (8.31%) Cybersecurity
20 595 (8.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 661 (9.16%) SQL
2 472 (6.54%) Python
3 204 (2.83%) Java
4 151 (2.09%) JavaScript
5 145 (2.01%) PowerShell
6 89 (1.23%) C#
7 74 (1.03%) Bash
8 61 (0.85%) TypeScript
9 42 (0.58%) ABAP
10 41 (0.57%) Bicep
11 33 (0.46%) Korn
12 28 (0.39%) R
13 26 (0.36%) T-SQL
14 23 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 23 (0.32%) PL/SQL
15 18 (0.25%) Go
15 18 (0.25%) Shell Script
16 16 (0.22%) VBA
17 13 (0.18%) Apex Code
18 12 (0.17%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,457 (20.19%) Security Cleared
2 1,074 (14.88%) SC Cleared
3 497 (6.89%) Degree
4 309 (4.28%) PMP
5 276 (3.82%) PMI Certification
6 272 (3.77%) DV Cleared
7 266 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 160 (2.22%) CISSP
9 127 (1.76%) Azure Certification
10 121 (1.68%) CISM
11 93 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
12 92 (1.27%) AWS Certification
13 79 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
14 78 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
15 56 (0.78%) ACCA
15 56 (0.78%) Master's Degree
16 53 (0.73%) CIMA
17 50 (0.69%) ISTQB
18 48 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
18 48 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 554 (7.68%) Data Quality
2 420 (5.82%) QA
3 322 (4.46%) PMO
4 220 (3.05%) GDPR
5 194 (2.69%) Accessibility
5 194 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 170 (2.36%) NIST
7 132 (1.83%) GRC
8 97 (1.34%) SLA
9 75 (1.04%) WCAG
10 64 (0.89%) NCSC
11 39 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
12 29 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 26 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
13 26 (0.36%) IFRS
14 25 (0.35%) ISO 20022
15 24 (0.33%) GxP
16 23 (0.32%) COBIT
16 23 (0.32%) PCI DSS
17 21 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 187 (2.59%) Active Directory
2 172 (2.38%) Docker
3 73 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.40%) vSphere
5 27 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 25 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (0.32%) VMware NSX
8 18 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.14%) NFS
10 8 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.083%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.083%) Postfix
11 6 (0.083%) Time Sharing Option
12 4 (0.055%) FreeRADIUS
12 4 (0.055%) IAG
13 3 (0.042%) KVM
13 3 (0.042%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.042%) RACF
13 3 (0.042%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 245 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 110 (1.52%) Ansible
3 61 (0.85%) Grafana
4 50 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 40 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 30 (0.42%) SCCM
8 17 (0.24%) Argo
9 13 (0.18%) Control-M
10 11 (0.15%) Kibana
11 9 (0.12%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.12%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.11%) Tivoli
12 8 (0.11%) WMI
13 7 (0.097%) HP ALM
13 7 (0.097%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.097%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 6 (0.083%) Oracle RMAN
14 6 (0.083%) Puppet
14 6 (0.083%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 1,212 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 567 (7.86%) SAP
3 388 (5.38%) Oracle
4 362 (5.02%) ServiceNow
5 259 (3.59%) Salesforce
6 225 (3.12%) Databricks
7 168 (2.33%) Google
8 110 (1.52%) Workday
9 105 (1.45%) VMware
10 95 (1.32%) Cisco
11 77 (1.07%) CyberArk
12 76 (1.05%) IBM
13 60 (0.83%) Adobe
13 60 (0.83%) Splunk
14 45 (0.62%) Ariba
15 42 (0.58%) MuleSoft
16 40 (0.55%) Informatica
17 35 (0.48%) Fortinet
18 31 (0.43%) Bloomberg
19 30 (0.42%) Atlassian