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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 15 21
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 7,426 2,970 2,558
As % of all contract jobs in England 16.05% 10.61% 7.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.93% 11.68% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,894 2,025 1,598
10th Percentile £390 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £642
90th Percentile £750 £739 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 64 68
10th Percentile £20.00 £24.05 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £61.25 £48.25 £61.33
Median % change year-on-year +26.94% -21.33% +26.45%
75th Percentile £80.43 £60.94 £75.00
90th Percentile £97.75 £73.38 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £48.25 £60.30
% change year-on-year +25.39% -19.98% +14.76%

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 39,226 25,436 27,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.80% 90.90% 86.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,709 16,124 17,045
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £641
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,969 1,568 1,160
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.43 £17.87 £20.28
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%
75th Percentile £67.25 £45.80 £67.14
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.63% -7.56%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 3,907 £563 +2.27% 3,550
North of England +8 1,119 £500 - 987
South East +12 949 £550 +4.76% 1,003
Midlands +8 666 £500 -0.99% 611
North West +4 559 £525 +5.00% 556
West Midlands +8 537 £488 -9.97% 402
Yorkshire +8 488 £500 +1.01% 327
South West +8 366 £550 - 366
East of England +12 236 £510 -7.27% 335
East Midlands 0 112 £509 +14.13% 209
North East +2 80 £500 -2.91% 104
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
1 370 (4.98%) Confluence
2 201 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 72 (0.97%) CMS
4 52 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 43 (0.58%) Apache
6 30 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 26 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 23 (0.31%) SAS
9 14 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 10 (0.13%) WordPress
11 9 (0.12%) CICS
11 9 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 8 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
13 7 (0.094%) nginx
13 7 (0.094%) WebSphere
14 6 (0.081%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
14 6 (0.081%) WebLogic
15 5 (0.067%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 338 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 178 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 168 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
4 145 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
5 73 (0.98%) MS Visio
6 24 (0.32%) Revit
7 18 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 18 (0.24%) Navisworks
8 15 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
9 14 (0.19%) Chatbot
10 11 (0.15%) Trello
11 9 (0.12%) ProjectWise
12 8 (0.11%) Windchill
13 5 (0.067%) Adobe XD
14 4 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
14 4 (0.054%) Notion
14 4 (0.054%) Photoshop
15 3 (0.040%) CPLEX
15 3 (0.040%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 281 (3.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 97 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 38 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 34 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
4 34 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 31 (0.42%) SAP FI
6 28 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 27 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
8 25 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 25 (0.34%) SAP HCM
8 25 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
9 24 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
10 23 (0.31%) Aladdin
10 23 (0.31%) SAP HR
11 19 (0.26%) SAP CO
11 19 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
12 18 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
13 17 (0.23%) SAP ERP
13 17 (0.23%) SAP MDG
14 16 (0.22%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,346 (18.13%) Azure
2 880 (11.85%) AWS
3 584 (7.86%) Power Platform
4 361 (4.86%) GCP
5 301 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
6 265 (3.57%) SaaS
7 246 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
8 193 (2.60%) GitHub
9 187 (2.52%) Entra ID
10 149 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
11 145 (1.95%) Snowflake
12 115 (1.55%) Microsoft Copilot
13 107 (1.44%) Serverless
14 96 (1.29%) Power Automate
15 92 (1.24%) SuccessFactors
16 84 (1.13%) PowerApps
17 77 (1.04%) OCI
18 76 (1.02%) Amazon S3
19 71 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
20 69 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 150 (2.02%) Firewall
2 139 (1.87%) Network Security
3 79 (1.06%) WAN
4 72 (0.97%) DNS
5 55 (0.74%) VPN
6 50 (0.67%) LAN
7 46 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 45 (0.61%) DHCP
9 39 (0.53%) SD-WAN
10 26 (0.35%) BGP
10 26 (0.35%) Internet
10 26 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (0.32%) 4G
11 24 (0.32%) 5G
12 23 (0.31%) Wireless
13 22 (0.30%) MPLS
14 21 (0.28%) Broadband
15 19 (0.26%) VLAN
16 17 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
17 16 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 449 (6.05%) Power BI
2 210 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
3 203 (2.73%) Metadata
4 119 (1.60%) SQL Server
5 103 (1.39%) Data Lake
6 93 (1.25%) Tableau
7 78 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
8 54 (0.73%) BigQuery
8 54 (0.73%) Relational Database
9 52 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
10 51 (0.69%) MongoDB
11 50 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
12 48 (0.65%) Delta Lake
13 43 (0.58%) Looker
14 37 (0.50%) Oracle Database
15 36 (0.48%) NoSQL
16 29 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
16 29 (0.39%) DynamoDB
17 25 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 24 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 679 (9.14%) JIRA
2 150 (2.02%) Git
3 101 (1.36%) GitLab
4 99 (1.33%) Jenkins
5 72 (0.97%) Selenium
6 51 (0.69%) Cucumber
7 44 (0.59%) JUnit
8 35 (0.47%) Gatling
9 31 (0.42%) SonarQube
10 30 (0.40%) Postman
11 20 (0.27%) Cypress.io
12 18 (0.24%) Zephyr
13 15 (0.20%) JMeter
14 13 (0.18%) Maven
15 12 (0.16%) LoadRunner
15 12 (0.16%) WebDriver
16 11 (0.15%) Claude Code
16 11 (0.15%) MSI
17 9 (0.12%) Mockito
17 9 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
General
1 3,983 (53.64%) Social Skills
2 2,470 (33.26%) Finance
3 1,243 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
4 1,001 (13.48%) Public Sector
5 781 (10.52%) Banking
6 457 (6.15%) Influencing Skills
7 406 (5.47%) Retail
8 343 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
9 329 (4.43%) Legal
10 295 (3.97%) Manufacturing
11 249 (3.35%) Marketing
12 243 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
13 195 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
14 186 (2.50%) Telecoms
15 148 (1.99%) Aerospace
15 148 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 122 (1.64%) Local Government
17 121 (1.63%) Front Office
18 104 (1.40%) Investment Banking
19 101 (1.36%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,066 (14.35%) Analyst
2 1,006 (13.55%) Architect
3 994 (13.39%) Lead
4 802 (10.80%) Senior
5 784 (10.56%) Project Manager
6 687 (9.25%) Business Analyst
7 500 (6.73%) Consultant
8 335 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
9 252 (3.39%) Senior Manager
10 216 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
11 189 (2.55%) Product Manager
12 185 (2.49%) IT Manager
13 181 (2.44%) Programme Manager
14 173 (2.33%) Developer
15 144 (1.94%) Senior Analyst
16 141 (1.90%) Technical Manager
17 134 (1.80%) Product Owner
18 120 (1.62%) Data Analyst
18 120 (1.62%) Data Engineer
19 117 (1.58%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 284 (3.82%) Terraform
2 209 (2.81%) REST
3 142 (1.91%) Middleware
4 113 (1.52%) .NET
5 90 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
6 88 (1.19%) Kafka
7 75 (1.01%) SOAP
8 73 (0.98%) PySpark
9 70 (0.94%) React
10 69 (0.93%) OAuth
11 64 (0.86%) Spring
12 61 (0.82%) JSON
13 55 (0.74%) Playwright
14 53 (0.71%) HTML
15 51 (0.69%) LDAP
16 45 (0.61%) CSS
17 43 (0.58%) SailPoint
17 43 (0.58%) XML
18 42 (0.57%) OAuth2
19 41 (0.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 571 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 445 (5.99%) Onboarding
3 311 (4.19%) Cloud Native
4 251 (3.38%) Management Information System
5 211 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
6 175 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
7 174 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
8 147 (1.98%) Data Centre
9 136 (1.83%) AI Agents
10 123 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
11 122 (1.64%) Data Structures
11 122 (1.64%) Operational Technology
12 106 (1.43%) Virtual Team
13 98 (1.32%) Security Posture
14 95 (1.28%) CMDB
15 91 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
16 90 (1.21%) NHS
17 82 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
18 79 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
19 73 (0.98%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 249 (3.35%) Windows
2 158 (2.13%) Linux
3 80 (1.08%) Windows Server
4 57 (0.77%) Unix
5 24 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (0.27%) Android
7 18 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.19%) VMS
10 11 (0.15%) zOS
11 10 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.094%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.054%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.054%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.040%) CentOS
16 2 (0.027%) AIX
16 2 (0.027%) HPUX
16 2 (0.027%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,301 (30.99%) Agile
2 1,367 (18.41%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,280 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
4 1,264 (17.02%) Roadmaps
5 1,073 (14.45%) Migration
6 1,017 (13.70%) Decision-Making
7 1,012 (13.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 988 (13.30%) AI
9 877 (11.81%) DevOps
10 870 (11.72%) Project Delivery
11 862 (11.61%) Analytics
12 815 (10.97%) Project Management
13 788 (10.61%) Workshop Facilitation
14 753 (10.14%) Change Management
15 739 (9.95%) Risk Management
16 729 (9.82%) CI/CD
17 628 (8.46%) Cybersecurity
17 628 (8.46%) Requirements Gathering
17 628 (8.46%) User Acceptance Testing
18 610 (8.21%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 679 (9.14%) SQL
2 485 (6.53%) Python
3 205 (2.76%) Java
4 156 (2.10%) PowerShell
5 154 (2.07%) JavaScript
6 94 (1.27%) C#
7 77 (1.04%) Bash
8 65 (0.88%) TypeScript
9 48 (0.65%) Bicep
10 44 (0.59%) ABAP
11 36 (0.48%) Korn
12 27 (0.36%) R
13 25 (0.34%) T-SQL
14 23 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 23 (0.31%) PL/SQL
15 19 (0.26%) Shell Script
16 18 (0.24%) Go
17 13 (0.18%) Apex Code
17 13 (0.18%) VBA
18 12 (0.16%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1,485 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1,095 (14.75%) SC Cleared
3 517 (6.96%) Degree
4 315 (4.24%) PMP
5 288 (3.88%) PMI Certification
6 280 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 276 (3.72%) DV Cleared
8 169 (2.28%) CISSP
9 131 (1.76%) Azure Certification
10 126 (1.70%) CISM
11 97 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
12 95 (1.28%) AWS Certification
13 80 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
14 79 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
15 65 (0.88%) ACCA
16 62 (0.83%) CIMA
17 59 (0.79%) Master's Degree
18 53 (0.71%) ISTQB
19 49 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
20 48 (0.65%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 576 (7.76%) Data Quality
2 431 (5.80%) QA
3 324 (4.36%) PMO
4 221 (2.98%) GDPR
5 210 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 208 (2.80%) Accessibility
7 169 (2.28%) NIST
8 137 (1.84%) GRC
9 96 (1.29%) SLA
10 77 (1.04%) WCAG
11 67 (0.90%) NCSC
12 42 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
13 32 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 28 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
15 27 (0.36%) IFRS
16 25 (0.34%) ISO 20022
17 24 (0.32%) GxP
17 24 (0.32%) PCI DSS
18 23 (0.31%) COBIT
19 21 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 199 (2.68%) Active Directory
2 173 (2.33%) Docker
3 76 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 30 (0.40%) vSphere
5 24 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.30%) VMware NSX
7 16 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.11%) NFS
9 8 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.081%) Time Sharing Option
11 5 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.054%) FreeRADIUS
12 4 (0.054%) IAG
12 4 (0.054%) Postfix
13 3 (0.040%) Ceph
13 3 (0.040%) Firmware
13 3 (0.040%) KVM
13 3 (0.040%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 251 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 109 (1.47%) Ansible
3 67 (0.90%) Grafana
4 54 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 48 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (0.43%) SCCM
7 31 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.22%) Argo
9 14 (0.19%) Control-M
10 12 (0.16%) Kibana
11 10 (0.13%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.11%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.11%) Tivoli
12 8 (0.11%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.11%) WMI
13 7 (0.094%) Puppet
13 7 (0.094%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 6 (0.081%) Tivoli Monitoring
15 5 (0.067%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.067%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1,277 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 603 (8.12%) SAP
3 401 (5.40%) Oracle
4 372 (5.01%) ServiceNow
5 259 (3.49%) Salesforce
6 228 (3.07%) Databricks
7 168 (2.26%) Google
8 115 (1.55%) Workday
9 107 (1.44%) VMware
10 104 (1.40%) Cisco
11 79 (1.06%) CyberArk
12 78 (1.05%) IBM
13 63 (0.85%) Splunk
14 60 (0.81%) Adobe
15 51 (0.69%) Ariba
16 42 (0.57%) MuleSoft
17 40 (0.54%) Informatica
18 38 (0.51%) Fortinet
19 36 (0.48%) Dynatrace
20 33 (0.44%) OpenAI