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

6 months to
25 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 6,278 2,865 2,485
As % of all contract jobs in England 13.74% 10.40% 7.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.20% 11.45% 8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,164 1,947 1,688
10th Percentile £382 £358 £363
25th Percentile £456 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -
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 191 66 65
10th Percentile £25.60 £28.25 £31.15
25th Percentile £35.00 £35.60 £53.75
Median hourly rate £59.50 £49.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -19.24% +23.30%
75th Percentile £80.00 £71.40 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.85 £76.88 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £50.00 £60.30
% change year-on-year +20.50% -17.08% +17.27%

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 38,748 25,020 28,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.83% 85.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,949 15,925 18,341
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,582 1,471 1,520
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.25 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% -3.67%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +11 3,307 £563 +1.81% 1,271
North of England +1 928 £500 - 447
South East +8 819 £550 +4.76% 704
Midlands +5 549 £500 -4.76% 286
North West +1 487 £525 +5.00% 259
West Midlands +5 429 £500 -4.76% 200
Yorkshire +4 387 £500 +1.01% 134
South West +8 341 £550 +4.76% 296
East of England +10 201 £525 -4.55% 132
East Midlands +1 103 £500 +24.22% 85
North East -12 62 £480 -7.69% 57
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
1 339 (5.40%) Confluence
2 170 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 57 (0.91%) CMS
4 39 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (0.48%) Apache
6 25 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 20 (0.32%) SAS
8 19 (0.30%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.096%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.096%) WordPress
12 5 (0.080%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.080%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.080%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.064%) Appian
13 4 (0.064%) FactoryTalk
13 4 (0.064%) Kentico
13 4 (0.064%) Moodle
13 4 (0.064%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 285 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 152 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
3 151 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 147 (2.34%) Microsoft Project
5 69 (1.10%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.32%) Revit
7 16 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 16 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 16 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.18%) Navisworks
9 9 (0.14%) Trello
10 6 (0.096%) ProjectWise
11 5 (0.080%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.080%) Windchill
12 4 (0.064%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.064%) Notion
13 3 (0.048%) Sketch
14 2 (0.032%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.032%) Photoshop
14 2 (0.032%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 224 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 80 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 25 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
5 25 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 24 (0.38%) Workday HCM
7 22 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
8 20 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 20 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
9 18 (0.29%) SAP FI
10 17 (0.27%) Aladdin
10 17 (0.27%) Primavera
10 17 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
10 17 (0.27%) SAP SD
11 16 (0.25%) SAP ERP
12 14 (0.22%) Finacle
12 14 (0.22%) SAP CO
13 13 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
13 13 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,159 (18.46%) Azure
2 769 (12.25%) AWS
3 448 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 304 (4.84%) GCP
5 260 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
6 228 (3.63%) SaaS
7 178 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
8 153 (2.44%) Entra ID
9 137 (2.18%) Snowflake
10 136 (2.17%) GitHub
11 106 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
12 78 (1.24%) SuccessFactors
13 75 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
13 75 (1.19%) Serverless
14 66 (1.05%) OCI
15 64 (1.02%) PowerApps
16 58 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
16 58 (0.92%) Power Automate
17 57 (0.91%) Amazon S3
17 57 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 121 (1.93%) Firewall
2 119 (1.90%) Network Security
3 71 (1.13%) WAN
4 65 (1.04%) DNS
5 48 (0.76%) LAN
6 44 (0.70%) VPN
7 42 (0.67%) TCP/IP
8 36 (0.57%) DHCP
8 36 (0.57%) SD-WAN
9 27 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
10 25 (0.40%) BGP
11 24 (0.38%) 4G
11 24 (0.38%) 5G
12 22 (0.35%) Wireless
13 19 (0.30%) Internet
13 19 (0.30%) OSPF
14 17 (0.27%) MPLS
15 14 (0.22%) 3G
15 14 (0.22%) Broadband
15 14 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 359 (5.72%) Power BI
2 170 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
3 154 (2.45%) Metadata
4 97 (1.55%) SQL Server
5 82 (1.31%) Data Lake
6 78 (1.24%) Tableau
7 62 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
8 49 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
9 48 (0.76%) Relational Database
10 46 (0.73%) Delta Lake
11 40 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
12 33 (0.53%) BigQuery
13 32 (0.51%) Oracle Database
14 30 (0.48%) MongoDB
15 26 (0.41%) NoSQL
16 25 (0.40%) Big Data
17 24 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
17 24 (0.38%) Looker
18 20 (0.32%) MySQL
18 20 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 626 (9.97%) JIRA
2 107 (1.70%) Git
3 83 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 61 (0.97%) GitLab
5 53 (0.84%) Selenium
6 30 (0.48%) Postman
7 27 (0.43%) Cucumber
7 27 (0.43%) JUnit
8 25 (0.40%) SonarQube
9 21 (0.33%) Gatling
10 19 (0.30%) JMeter
10 19 (0.30%) Zephyr
11 18 (0.29%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.19%) LoadRunner
12 12 (0.19%) Maven
12 12 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
12 12 (0.19%) WebDriver
13 11 (0.18%) ERwin
14 9 (0.14%) REST Assured
15 8 (0.13%) MSI
General
1 3,231 (51.47%) Social Skills
2 2,141 (34.10%) Finance
3 1,048 (16.69%) Analytical Skills
4 772 (12.30%) Public Sector
5 615 (9.80%) Banking
6 385 (6.13%) Retail
7 352 (5.61%) Influencing Skills
8 271 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
9 265 (4.22%) Legal
10 220 (3.50%) Marketing
11 214 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
12 201 (3.20%) Manufacturing
13 163 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
14 161 (2.56%) Telecoms
15 129 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 104 (1.66%) Aerospace
17 99 (1.58%) Local Government
18 93 (1.48%) Billing
19 92 (1.47%) Front Office
20 75 (1.19%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 922 (14.69%) Analyst
2 903 (14.38%) Lead
3 768 (12.23%) Architect
4 763 (12.15%) Project Manager
5 661 (10.53%) Senior
6 596 (9.49%) Business Analyst
7 401 (6.39%) Consultant
8 276 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
9 239 (3.81%) Senior Manager
10 185 (2.95%) Programme Manager
11 179 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
12 166 (2.64%) IT Manager
13 149 (2.37%) Product Manager
14 137 (2.18%) Developer
15 123 (1.96%) Technical Manager
16 120 (1.91%) Product Owner
17 116 (1.85%) Senior Project Manager
18 113 (1.80%) Senior Analyst
19 108 (1.72%) Designer
20 106 (1.69%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (3.42%) Terraform
2 165 (2.63%) REST
3 114 (1.82%) Middleware
4 85 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
5 77 (1.23%) .NET
6 72 (1.15%) SOAP
7 67 (1.07%) Kafka
8 53 (0.84%) PySpark
9 50 (0.80%) OAuth
10 49 (0.78%) JSON
11 47 (0.75%) React
12 41 (0.65%) HTML
12 41 (0.65%) Spring
13 39 (0.62%) SailPoint
14 38 (0.61%) CSS
15 37 (0.59%) XML
16 36 (0.57%) Playwright
17 32 (0.51%) Web Services
18 31 (0.49%) OpenID
19 30 (0.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 483 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 355 (5.65%) Onboarding
3 235 (3.74%) Cloud Native
4 180 (2.87%) Management Information System
5 164 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
6 139 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
7 126 (2.01%) Data Centre
8 125 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
9 114 (1.82%) Data Structures
10 97 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
11 93 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
11 93 (1.48%) Virtual Team
12 92 (1.47%) AI Agents
12 92 (1.47%) Operational Technology
13 84 (1.34%) Security Posture
14 78 (1.24%) NHS
15 71 (1.13%) CMDB
16 64 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
17 62 (0.99%) FMCG
18 59 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 184 (2.93%) Windows
2 115 (1.83%) Linux
3 51 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 42 (0.67%) Unix
5 24 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (0.33%) Android
7 18 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.22%) VMS
10 10 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.080%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.064%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.064%) zOS
14 3 (0.048%) CentOS
14 3 (0.048%) Solaris
14 3 (0.048%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.032%) AIX
15 2 (0.032%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,015 (32.10%) Agile
2 1,121 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,024 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
4 979 (15.59%) Roadmaps
5 878 (13.99%) Migration
6 842 (13.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 788 (12.55%) Decision-Making
8 776 (12.36%) Project Management
9 770 (12.27%) AI
10 762 (12.14%) DevOps
11 755 (12.03%) Project Delivery
12 702 (11.18%) Analytics
13 650 (10.35%) Change Management
14 612 (9.75%) Risk Management
15 599 (9.54%) Workshop Facilitation
16 582 (9.27%) CI/CD
17 536 (8.54%) User Acceptance Testing
18 523 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
19 503 (8.01%) Requirements Gathering
20 501 (7.98%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 548 (8.73%) SQL
2 378 (6.02%) Python
3 150 (2.39%) Java
4 117 (1.86%) PowerShell
5 111 (1.77%) JavaScript
6 64 (1.02%) C#
7 53 (0.84%) Bash
8 36 (0.57%) Bicep
9 35 (0.56%) TypeScript
10 28 (0.45%) Korn
11 23 (0.37%) ABAP
12 22 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 22 (0.35%) R
13 20 (0.32%) VBA
14 17 (0.27%) PL/SQL
14 17 (0.27%) T-SQL
15 14 (0.22%) Apex Code
15 14 (0.22%) Shell Script
16 12 (0.19%) Go
17 10 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,254 (19.97%) Security Cleared
2 915 (14.57%) SC Cleared
3 430 (6.85%) Degree
4 294 (4.68%) PMP
5 252 (4.01%) PMI Certification
6 230 (3.66%) DV Cleared
7 185 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 142 (2.26%) CISSP
9 112 (1.78%) CISM
10 110 (1.75%) Azure Certification
11 77 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
12 68 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
13 66 (1.05%) AWS Certification
14 60 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
15 46 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
15 46 (0.73%) Master's Degree
16 44 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 41 (0.65%) ISTQB
18 40 (0.64%) ACCA
18 40 (0.64%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 428 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 366 (5.83%) QA
3 306 (4.87%) PMO
4 217 (3.46%) GDPR
5 153 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 152 (2.42%) NIST
7 143 (2.28%) Accessibility
8 118 (1.88%) GRC
9 89 (1.42%) SLA
10 52 (0.83%) NCSC
11 45 (0.72%) WCAG
12 31 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 26 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
13 26 (0.41%) SOC 2
14 24 (0.38%) COBIT
14 24 (0.38%) IFRS
15 21 (0.33%) PCI DSS
16 20 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
17 18 (0.29%) ISO 20022
18 17 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 154 (2.45%) Active Directory
2 136 (2.17%) Docker
3 61 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.30%) vSphere
8 14 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 12 (0.19%) NFS
10 8 (0.13%) Postfix
11 6 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.064%) Varnish
13 3 (0.048%) Ceph
13 3 (0.048%) KVM
13 3 (0.048%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.032%) FreeRADIUS
14 2 (0.032%) SRDF
14 2 (0.032%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 190 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 93 (1.48%) Ansible
3 58 (0.92%) Grafana
4 41 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 33 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.49%) SCCM
8 17 (0.27%) Argo
9 10 (0.16%) Control-M
9 10 (0.16%) vCenter Server
10 9 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.13%) Puppet
12 7 (0.11%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.096%) Kibana
13 6 (0.096%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.080%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.080%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.080%) RSA Archer
14 5 (0.080%) WMI
Vendors
1 981 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 495 (7.88%) SAP
3 337 (5.37%) Oracle
4 320 (5.10%) ServiceNow
5 235 (3.74%) Salesforce
6 188 (2.99%) Databricks
7 132 (2.10%) Google
8 91 (1.45%) VMware
8 91 (1.45%) Workday
9 74 (1.18%) Cisco
10 56 (0.89%) CyberArk
11 55 (0.88%) Adobe
12 53 (0.84%) IBM
13 45 (0.72%) Splunk
14 40 (0.64%) Ariba
15 36 (0.57%) Informatica
15 36 (0.57%) MuleSoft
16 33 (0.53%) Atlassian
17 31 (0.49%) F5
18 29 (0.46%) Foundry