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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 6,880 2,879 2,479
As % of all contract jobs in England 14.88% 10.52% 7.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.57% 11.58% 8.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 1,961 1,598
10th Percentile £385 £360 £363
25th Percentile £456 £438 £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 £738 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 57 72
10th Percentile £19.50 £27.83 £35.00
25th Percentile £33.70 £31.64 £42.47
Median hourly rate £58.00 £44.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +30.34% -27.76% +27.01%
75th Percentile £80.00 £60.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.42 £75.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £43.79 £60.83
% change year-on-year +35.88% -28.02% +18.30%

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 39,157 24,863 28,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.69% 90.87% 86.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,010 15,784 17,561
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £648
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 2,714 1,478 1,320
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.29 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.74 £66.53
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 3,617 £563 +2.18% 4,669
North of England +4 1,036 £507 +1.30% 1,131
South East +8 874 £550 +4.76% 1,308
Midlands +6 599 £500 -4.76% 711
North West +4 534 £525 +5.00% 699
West Midlands +7 481 £500 -7.66% 479
Yorkshire +8 437 £500 +1.01% 332
South West +5 375 £550 +2.33% 485
East of England +9 218 £525 -4.55% 368
East Midlands -1 103 £500 +14.29% 232
North East -2 74 £495 -4.81% 107
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
1 349 (5.07%) Confluence
2 192 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 63 (0.92%) CMS
4 48 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (0.51%) Apache
6 29 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 22 (0.32%) SAS
8 20 (0.29%) Apache Spark
9 12 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 9 (0.13%) WordPress
11 8 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 7 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.087%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.087%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.073%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.073%) Sitecore CMS
15 4 (0.058%) Kentico
15 4 (0.058%) Moodle
15 4 (0.058%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 315 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 167 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 164 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
4 144 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
5 73 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.33%) Revit
7 18 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 17 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
9 16 (0.23%) Chatbot
10 14 (0.20%) Navisworks
11 10 (0.15%) Trello
12 8 (0.12%) ProjectWise
13 6 (0.087%) Windchill
14 5 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 4 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
15 4 (0.058%) Adobe XD
15 4 (0.058%) Notion
15 4 (0.058%) Photoshop
16 3 (0.044%) CPLEX
16 3 (0.044%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 238 (3.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 89 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 30 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 28 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 27 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 24 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
8 23 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
8 23 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
9 19 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 19 (0.28%) SAP ERP
9 19 (0.28%) SAP HR
9 19 (0.28%) SAP Payroll
10 17 (0.25%) SAP FI
11 16 (0.23%) Aladdin
11 16 (0.23%) SAP HCM
11 16 (0.23%) SAP SD
12 15 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 15 (0.22%) SAP MDG
13 14 (0.20%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 1,264 (18.37%) Azure
2 850 (12.35%) AWS
3 526 (7.65%) Power Platform
4 333 (4.84%) GCP
5 279 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
6 248 (3.60%) SaaS
7 216 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
8 167 (2.43%) Entra ID
9 163 (2.37%) GitHub
10 144 (2.09%) Snowflake
11 133 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
12 97 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
13 96 (1.40%) Serverless
14 83 (1.21%) Power Automate
15 80 (1.16%) PowerApps
16 79 (1.15%) SuccessFactors
17 70 (1.02%) OCI
18 68 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
19 66 (0.96%) Amazon S3
20 65 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 128 (1.86%) Network Security
2 127 (1.85%) Firewall
3 77 (1.12%) WAN
4 67 (0.97%) DNS
5 48 (0.70%) LAN
6 43 (0.63%) VPN
7 41 (0.60%) DHCP
7 41 (0.60%) TCP/IP
8 35 (0.51%) SD-WAN
9 28 (0.41%) 4G
9 28 (0.41%) 5G
9 28 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (0.35%) BGP
11 22 (0.32%) Wireless
12 20 (0.29%) Broadband
12 20 (0.29%) Internet
13 19 (0.28%) MPLS
14 16 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
15 15 (0.22%) SSL
15 15 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 408 (5.93%) Power BI
2 191 (2.78%) Metadata
3 189 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
4 114 (1.66%) SQL Server
5 91 (1.32%) Data Lake
6 78 (1.13%) Tableau
7 71 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
8 51 (0.74%) Delta Lake
8 51 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 49 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
10 47 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
11 41 (0.60%) MongoDB
12 40 (0.58%) BigQuery
13 32 (0.47%) NoSQL
14 31 (0.45%) Oracle Database
15 30 (0.44%) Looker
16 28 (0.41%) DynamoDB
17 25 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
17 25 (0.36%) Big Data
18 24 (0.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 651 (9.46%) JIRA
2 129 (1.88%) Git
3 96 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 75 (1.09%) GitLab
5 57 (0.83%) Selenium
6 35 (0.51%) Cucumber
7 32 (0.47%) JUnit
8 28 (0.41%) Postman
9 27 (0.39%) SonarQube
10 23 (0.33%) Gatling
11 17 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 17 (0.25%) Zephyr
12 15 (0.22%) Maven
13 14 (0.20%) JMeter
14 11 (0.16%) Mockito
14 11 (0.16%) WebDriver
15 10 (0.15%) Claude Code
15 10 (0.15%) ERwin
15 10 (0.15%) LoadRunner
16 8 (0.12%) MSI
General
1 3,647 (53.01%) Social Skills
2 2,284 (33.20%) Finance
3 1,161 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
4 872 (12.67%) Public Sector
5 681 (9.90%) Banking
6 410 (5.96%) Retail
7 406 (5.90%) Influencing Skills
8 314 (4.56%) Organisational Skills
9 294 (4.27%) Legal
10 235 (3.42%) Marketing
11 234 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
12 232 (3.37%) Manufacturing
13 184 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
14 181 (2.63%) Telecoms
15 140 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 118 (1.72%) Aerospace
17 111 (1.61%) Local Government
18 105 (1.53%) Front Office
19 93 (1.35%) Billing
20 88 (1.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,007 (14.64%) Analyst
2 942 (13.69%) Lead
3 920 (13.37%) Architect
4 782 (11.37%) Project Manager
5 730 (10.61%) Senior
6 646 (9.39%) Business Analyst
7 447 (6.50%) Consultant
8 315 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
9 253 (3.68%) Senior Manager
10 198 (2.88%) Delivery Manager
11 181 (2.63%) Programme Manager
12 178 (2.59%) IT Manager
13 167 (2.43%) Product Manager
14 160 (2.33%) Developer
15 132 (1.92%) Technical Manager
16 129 (1.88%) Senior Analyst
17 128 (1.86%) Product Owner
18 118 (1.72%) Senior Project Manager
19 114 (1.66%) Data Analyst
20 112 (1.63%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 247 (3.59%) Terraform
2 181 (2.63%) REST
3 124 (1.80%) Middleware
4 96 (1.40%) .NET
5 82 (1.19%) Kafka
5 82 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
6 73 (1.06%) SOAP
7 63 (0.92%) PySpark
8 61 (0.89%) OAuth
9 59 (0.86%) JSON
9 59 (0.86%) React
10 53 (0.77%) Spring
11 49 (0.71%) HTML
11 49 (0.71%) LDAP
12 45 (0.65%) XML
13 44 (0.64%) CSS
14 41 (0.60%) Spring Boot
15 40 (0.58%) Playwright
15 40 (0.58%) SailPoint
16 39 (0.57%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 528 (7.67%) Product Ownership
2 396 (5.76%) Onboarding
3 273 (3.97%) Cloud Native
4 221 (3.21%) Management Information System
5 172 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 159 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
7 158 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
8 133 (1.93%) Data Centre
9 115 (1.67%) Data Structures
10 114 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
11 110 (1.60%) AI Agents
12 105 (1.53%) Operational Technology
12 105 (1.53%) Virtual Team
13 95 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
14 88 (1.28%) Security Posture
15 84 (1.22%) NHS
16 83 (1.21%) CMDB
17 72 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
18 71 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
19 63 (0.92%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 214 (3.11%) Windows
2 133 (1.93%) Linux
3 63 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 46 (0.67%) Unix
5 25 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.26%) Android
7 16 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.20%) VMS
10 10 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.10%) zOS
12 5 (0.073%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.058%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.044%) CentOS
14 3 (0.044%) Solaris
15 2 (0.029%) Data ONTAP
15 2 (0.029%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,174 (31.60%) Agile
2 1,250 (18.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,168 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
4 1,111 (16.15%) Roadmaps
5 958 (13.92%) Migration
6 922 (13.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 906 (13.17%) Decision-Making
8 886 (12.88%) AI
9 824 (11.98%) DevOps
10 808 (11.74%) Project Management
11 799 (11.61%) Project Delivery
12 776 (11.28%) Analytics
13 702 (10.20%) Change Management
14 680 (9.88%) Risk Management
15 669 (9.72%) Workshop Facilitation
16 652 (9.48%) CI/CD
17 574 (8.34%) User Acceptance Testing
18 567 (8.24%) Requirements Gathering
19 561 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
20 550 (7.99%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 614 (8.92%) SQL
2 440 (6.40%) Python
3 181 (2.63%) Java
4 135 (1.96%) PowerShell
5 131 (1.90%) JavaScript
6 82 (1.19%) C#
7 64 (0.93%) Bash
8 52 (0.76%) TypeScript
9 40 (0.58%) Bicep
10 33 (0.48%) ABAP
11 32 (0.47%) Korn
12 26 (0.38%) R
13 23 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 23 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 22 (0.32%) T-SQL
15 19 (0.28%) VBA
16 15 (0.22%) Go
16 15 (0.22%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.20%) Apex Code
18 10 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,378 (20.03%) Security Cleared
2 1,007 (14.64%) SC Cleared
3 458 (6.66%) Degree
4 307 (4.46%) PMP
5 269 (3.91%) PMI Certification
6 261 (3.79%) DV Cleared
7 230 (3.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 155 (2.25%) CISSP
9 123 (1.79%) Azure Certification
10 120 (1.74%) CISM
11 87 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
12 83 (1.21%) AWS Certification
13 77 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
14 75 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
15 52 (0.76%) Master's Degree
16 50 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
17 47 (0.68%) ACCA
18 45 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 45 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 44 (0.64%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 515 (7.49%) Data Quality
2 389 (5.65%) QA
3 323 (4.69%) PMO
4 218 (3.17%) GDPR
5 186 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 172 (2.50%) NIST
7 165 (2.40%) Accessibility
8 124 (1.80%) GRC
9 93 (1.35%) SLA
10 62 (0.90%) WCAG
11 57 (0.83%) NCSC
12 30 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
13 29 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 26 (0.38%) IFRS
15 24 (0.35%) ISO 20022
16 23 (0.33%) COBIT
17 22 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
18 21 (0.31%) PCI DSS
19 19 (0.28%) SEPA
19 19 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 183 (2.66%) Active Directory
2 160 (2.33%) Docker
3 67 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 25 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (0.36%) vSphere
5 22 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 17 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.16%) NFS
9 7 (0.10%) Postfix
10 6 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.058%) Time Sharing Option
13 3 (0.044%) Ceph
13 3 (0.044%) FreeRADIUS
13 3 (0.044%) IAG
13 3 (0.044%) KVM
13 3 (0.044%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.044%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 231 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 105 (1.53%) Ansible
3 62 (0.90%) Grafana
4 46 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 41 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 32 (0.47%) SCCM
8 17 (0.25%) Argo
9 12 (0.17%) Control-M
10 10 (0.15%) Kibana
10 10 (0.15%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.10%) HP ALM
11 7 (0.10%) Puppet
11 7 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 6 (0.087%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.087%) Oracle RMAN
12 6 (0.087%) WMI
13 5 (0.073%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.073%) Data Guard
13 5 (0.073%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,145 (16.64%) Microsoft
2 528 (7.67%) SAP
3 375 (5.45%) Oracle
4 345 (5.01%) ServiceNow
5 248 (3.60%) Salesforce
6 216 (3.14%) Databricks
7 144 (2.09%) Google
8 100 (1.45%) VMware
9 98 (1.42%) Workday
10 82 (1.19%) Cisco
11 77 (1.12%) CyberArk
12 58 (0.84%) IBM
13 57 (0.83%) Adobe
14 53 (0.77%) Splunk
15 46 (0.67%) Ariba
16 41 (0.60%) Informatica
16 41 (0.60%) MuleSoft
17 30 (0.44%) Atlassian
17 30 (0.44%) Foundry
18 29 (0.42%) Bloomberg