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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 24
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 6,113 2,865 2,451
As % of all contract jobs in England 13.36% 10.38% 7.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.73% 11.43% 8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,051 1,943 1,691
10th Percentile £386 £358 £363
25th Percentile £458 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -2.36% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 62 64
10th Percentile £26.18 £28.59 £31.79
25th Percentile £35.00 £35.70 £55.39
Median hourly rate £60.50 £51.84 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +16.72% -15.85% +35.56%
75th Percentile £82.47 £72.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £101.01 £77.38 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £51.84 £60.60
% change year-on-year +16.72% -14.46% +32.08%

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 38,860 25,068 28,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.79% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,530
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,442 1,597
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.20 £14.15
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% +0.86%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +10 3,222 £563 +0.45% 1,258
North of England 0 899 £500 - 461
South East +9 795 £549 +4.52% 757
Midlands +2 535 £500 -4.40% 314
North West -1 461 £525 +5.00% 260
West Midlands +2 418 £500 -4.76% 210
Yorkshire +5 385 £500 +1.01% 139
South West +8 343 £550 +4.76% 242
East of England +10 193 £525 -4.55% 141
East Midlands 0 102 £500 +24.22% 102
North East -12 61 £478 -8.17% 65
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
1 343 (5.61%) Confluence
2 161 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 55 (0.90%) CMS
4 34 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (0.49%) Apache
6 28 (0.46%) SAS
7 22 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 18 (0.29%) Apache Spark
9 12 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.098%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.098%) WordPress
12 5 (0.082%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.082%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.082%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.065%) Appian
13 4 (0.065%) FactoryTalk
13 4 (0.065%) Kentico
13 4 (0.065%) Moodle
14 3 (0.049%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 271 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 153 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
3 144 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
4 143 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (1.15%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.31%) Revit
7 16 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 16 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 16 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.18%) Navisworks
9 10 (0.16%) Trello
10 6 (0.098%) ProjectWise
11 5 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.065%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.065%) Notion
12 4 (0.065%) Windchill
13 3 (0.049%) Sketch
14 2 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.033%) CPLEX
14 2 (0.033%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 216 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 76 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 25 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 25 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 22 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
6 22 (0.36%) Workday HCM
7 21 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 20 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
9 18 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
9 18 (0.29%) SAP FI
10 17 (0.28%) Primavera
11 16 (0.26%) SAP ERP
12 15 (0.25%) SAP SD
13 14 (0.23%) Aladdin
13 14 (0.23%) Finacle
13 14 (0.23%) SAP CO
14 13 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
14 13 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,114 (18.22%) Azure
2 749 (12.25%) AWS
3 420 (6.87%) Power Platform
4 293 (4.79%) GCP
5 245 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
6 221 (3.62%) SaaS
7 164 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
8 145 (2.37%) Entra ID
9 126 (2.06%) Snowflake
10 121 (1.98%) GitHub
11 99 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
12 78 (1.28%) SuccessFactors
13 64 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
14 63 (1.03%) OCI
14 63 (1.03%) Serverless
15 60 (0.98%) PowerApps
16 56 (0.92%) Amazon S3
17 55 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
18 54 (0.88%) Power Automate
19 52 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 118 (1.93%) Network Security
2 116 (1.90%) Firewall
3 68 (1.11%) WAN
4 63 (1.03%) DNS
5 49 (0.80%) LAN
6 42 (0.69%) VPN
7 39 (0.64%) TCP/IP
8 36 (0.59%) SD-WAN
9 34 (0.56%) DHCP
10 27 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (0.38%) BGP
12 22 (0.36%) 4G
12 22 (0.36%) 5G
13 20 (0.33%) OSPF
13 20 (0.33%) Wireless
14 17 (0.28%) Internet
14 17 (0.28%) MPLS
15 15 (0.25%) SAN
15 15 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
16 14 (0.23%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 337 (5.51%) Power BI
2 165 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 137 (2.24%) Metadata
4 88 (1.44%) SQL Server
5 79 (1.29%) Data Lake
6 69 (1.13%) Tableau
7 66 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
8 48 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 45 (0.74%) Relational Database
10 40 (0.65%) Delta Lake
11 38 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
12 32 (0.52%) Oracle Database
13 29 (0.47%) BigQuery
14 27 (0.44%) Big Data
14 27 (0.44%) MongoDB
15 24 (0.39%) Looker
15 24 (0.39%) NoSQL
16 23 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
17 22 (0.36%) MySQL
18 20 (0.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 622 (10.18%) JIRA
2 102 (1.67%) Git
3 89 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 60 (0.98%) GitLab
5 52 (0.85%) Selenium
6 30 (0.49%) JUnit
7 29 (0.47%) Postman
8 26 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 21 (0.34%) JMeter
9 21 (0.34%) SonarQube
10 18 (0.29%) Zephyr
11 17 (0.28%) Cypress.io
12 16 (0.26%) Gatling
13 15 (0.25%) WebDriver
14 13 (0.21%) Maven
15 12 (0.20%) LoadRunner
15 12 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
16 10 (0.16%) ERwin
17 9 (0.15%) Mockito
17 9 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 3,108 (50.84%) Social Skills
2 2,098 (34.32%) Finance
3 1,017 (16.64%) Analytical Skills
4 756 (12.37%) Public Sector
5 595 (9.73%) Banking
6 377 (6.17%) Retail
7 329 (5.38%) Influencing Skills
8 259 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
9 258 (4.22%) Legal
10 218 (3.57%) Marketing
11 209 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
12 195 (3.19%) Manufacturing
13 159 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
14 154 (2.52%) Telecoms
15 128 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 103 (1.68%) Aerospace
17 98 (1.60%) Local Government
18 89 (1.46%) Billing
19 84 (1.37%) Front Office
20 72 (1.18%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 898 (14.69%) Analyst
2 880 (14.40%) Lead
3 758 (12.40%) Project Manager
4 737 (12.06%) Architect
5 651 (10.65%) Senior
6 592 (9.68%) Business Analyst
7 375 (6.13%) Consultant
8 271 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
9 239 (3.91%) Senior Manager
10 182 (2.98%) Programme Manager
11 180 (2.94%) Delivery Manager
12 168 (2.75%) IT Manager
13 147 (2.40%) Product Manager
14 138 (2.26%) Developer
15 121 (1.98%) Technical Manager
16 120 (1.96%) Product Owner
17 117 (1.91%) Senior Project Manager
18 109 (1.78%) Senior Analyst
19 103 (1.68%) Designer
20 99 (1.62%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (2.63%) REST
2 110 (1.80%) Middleware
3 83 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
4 74 (1.21%) SOAP
5 72 (1.18%) .NET
6 63 (1.03%) Kafka
7 50 (0.82%) PySpark
8 47 (0.77%) JSON
9 46 (0.75%) OAuth
10 45 (0.74%) React
11 41 (0.67%) SailPoint
12 40 (0.65%) HTML
13 38 (0.62%) Spring
14 37 (0.61%) CSS
15 36 (0.59%) XML
16 34 (0.56%) Web Services
17 29 (0.47%) OpenID
17 29 (0.47%) Playwright
17 29 (0.47%) Spring Boot
18 28 (0.46%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 461 (7.54%) Product Ownership
2 348 (5.69%) Onboarding
3 221 (3.62%) Cloud Native
4 178 (2.91%) Management Information System
5 166 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
6 134 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
7 128 (2.09%) Data Centre
8 114 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
9 112 (1.83%) Data Structures
10 99 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
11 93 (1.52%) Virtual Team
12 91 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
13 87 (1.42%) Operational Technology
14 85 (1.39%) AI Agents
15 83 (1.36%) Security Posture
16 71 (1.16%) NHS
17 66 (1.08%) CMDB
18 64 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
19 61 (1.00%) FMCG
20 56 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 189 (3.09%) Windows
2 115 (1.88%) Linux
3 48 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 45 (0.74%) Unix
5 28 (0.46%) Android
6 27 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 26 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 11 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.18%) VMS
10 7 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.065%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.065%) zOS
12 3 (0.049%) CentOS
12 3 (0.049%) Solaris
13 2 (0.033%) AIX
13 2 (0.033%) HPUX
13 2 (0.033%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,984 (32.46%) Agile
2 1,083 (17.72%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,000 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
4 943 (15.43%) Roadmaps
5 851 (13.92%) Migration
6 826 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 771 (12.61%) Decision-Making
8 753 (12.32%) Project Management
9 741 (12.12%) DevOps
10 733 (11.99%) AI
11 713 (11.66%) Project Delivery
12 677 (11.07%) Analytics
13 634 (10.37%) Change Management
14 598 (9.78%) Risk Management
15 569 (9.31%) Workshop Facilitation
16 557 (9.11%) CI/CD
17 521 (8.52%) User Acceptance Testing
18 504 (8.24%) Cybersecurity
19 487 (7.97%) ITIL
20 486 (7.95%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 517 (8.46%) SQL
2 361 (5.91%) Python
3 142 (2.32%) Java
4 108 (1.77%) PowerShell
5 107 (1.75%) JavaScript
6 58 (0.95%) C#
7 48 (0.79%) Bash
8 32 (0.52%) TypeScript
9 31 (0.51%) Bicep
10 26 (0.43%) Korn
11 22 (0.36%) ABAP
12 20 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 20 (0.33%) R
12 20 (0.33%) VBA
13 18 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 16 (0.26%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.26%) T-SQL
15 14 (0.23%) Apex Code
16 11 (0.18%) Go
17 9 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,225 (20.04%) Security Cleared
2 894 (14.62%) SC Cleared
3 424 (6.94%) Degree
4 294 (4.81%) PMP
5 252 (4.12%) PMI Certification
6 225 (3.68%) DV Cleared
7 174 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 146 (2.39%) CISSP
9 113 (1.85%) CISM
10 108 (1.77%) Azure Certification
11 74 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
12 65 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
13 64 (1.05%) AWS Certification
14 58 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
15 45 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 43 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 42 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
18 41 (0.67%) ISTQB
19 40 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 36 (0.59%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 397 (6.49%) Data Quality
2 348 (5.69%) QA
3 298 (4.87%) PMO
4 216 (3.53%) GDPR
5 152 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 151 (2.47%) NIST
7 133 (2.18%) Accessibility
8 110 (1.80%) GRC
9 90 (1.47%) SLA
10 51 (0.83%) NCSC
11 42 (0.69%) WCAG
12 33 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 28 (0.46%) SOC 2
14 25 (0.41%) COBIT
15 23 (0.38%) IFRS
16 22 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
16 22 (0.36%) PCI DSS
17 19 (0.31%) ISO 20022
18 17 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
18 17 (0.28%) JSP 440
System Software
1 146 (2.39%) Active Directory
2 127 (2.08%) Docker
3 62 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (0.33%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.31%) vSphere
8 14 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.20%) NFS
10 11 (0.18%) Hyper-V
11 10 (0.16%) Postfix
12 6 (0.098%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.065%) SRDF
13 4 (0.065%) Varnish
14 3 (0.049%) Ceph
14 3 (0.049%) HDFS
14 3 (0.049%) KVM
14 3 (0.049%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.033%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 202 (3.30%) Terraform
2 184 (3.01%) Kubernetes
3 94 (1.54%) Ansible
4 60 (0.98%) Grafana
5 46 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 44 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.56%) Prometheus
8 28 (0.46%) SCCM
9 17 (0.28%) Argo
10 10 (0.16%) Control-M
10 10 (0.16%) Puppet
10 10 (0.16%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.15%) HP ALM
12 7 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.098%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.098%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.082%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.082%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.065%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 924 (15.12%) Microsoft
2 483 (7.90%) SAP
3 329 (5.38%) Oracle
4 316 (5.17%) ServiceNow
5 229 (3.75%) Salesforce
6 166 (2.72%) Databricks
7 127 (2.08%) Google
8 96 (1.57%) VMware
9 89 (1.46%) Workday
10 73 (1.19%) Cisco
11 56 (0.92%) Adobe
11 56 (0.92%) CyberArk
12 54 (0.88%) IBM
13 47 (0.77%) Splunk
14 36 (0.59%) Informatica
15 35 (0.57%) Ariba
16 34 (0.56%) MuleSoft
17 33 (0.54%) Atlassian
18 32 (0.52%) F5
19 30 (0.49%) Okta