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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 15 23
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,784 2,861 2,467
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.71% 10.37% 7.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.90% 11.42% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,850 1,946 1,731
10th Percentile £390 £358 £363
25th Percentile £459 £435 £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 £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 67 71
10th Percentile £28.00 £30.28 £23.33
25th Percentile £36.25 £37.41 £41.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £61.06
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -12.38% +33.09%
75th Percentile £83.94 £72.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £102.80 £78.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.82% -10.83% +30.78%

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 38,823 25,045 28,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.31% 90.74% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,257 16,045 18,963
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,475 1,380 1,752
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.87 £17.80
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.16% -1.11%
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 3,017 £561 -1.19% 1,533
North of England 0 848 £500 - 548
South East +8 761 £550 +3.58% 688
Midlands +1 535 £500 -4.76% 295
West Midlands +3 424 £500 -7.66% 193
North West -2 423 £525 +5.00% 310
Yorkshire +6 373 £500 +2.04% 165
South West +11 332 £550 +4.76% 236
East of England +7 179 £525 -4.55% 139
East Midlands +3 97 £500 +24.22% 101
North East -12 61 £475 -2.56% 76
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
1 326 (5.64%) Confluence
2 152 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 54 (0.93%) CMS
4 29 (0.50%) SAS
5 27 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 26 (0.45%) Apache
7 19 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 9 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.10%) Appian
11 6 (0.10%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.10%) WordPress
12 5 (0.086%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.069%) FactoryTalk
13 4 (0.069%) Kentico
14 3 (0.052%) Camunda
14 3 (0.052%) Moodle
14 3 (0.052%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 240 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 153 (2.65%) Microsoft Project
3 127 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
4 120 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.26%) Revit
8 14 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.21%) AutoCAD
10 10 (0.17%) Trello
11 7 (0.12%) Navisworks
12 5 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 5 (0.086%) Sketch
13 4 (0.069%) Adobe XD
13 4 (0.069%) Notion
14 2 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.035%) EPLAN
14 2 (0.035%) Photoshop
14 2 (0.035%) ProjectWise
14 2 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 205 (3.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 72 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
5 26 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 24 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
7 23 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 22 (0.38%) Workday HCM
9 19 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
9 19 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
10 18 (0.31%) SAP FI
11 16 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
11 16 (0.28%) SAP SD
12 14 (0.24%) Finacle
12 14 (0.24%) Primavera
12 14 (0.24%) SAP CO
12 14 (0.24%) SAP ERP
12 14 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
13 13 (0.22%) Aladdin
13 13 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,026 (17.74%) Azure
2 692 (11.96%) AWS
3 374 (6.47%) Power Platform
4 266 (4.60%) GCP
5 228 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
6 203 (3.51%) SaaS
7 147 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
8 128 (2.21%) Entra ID
9 115 (1.99%) GitHub
10 112 (1.94%) Snowflake
11 88 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
12 78 (1.35%) SuccessFactors
13 63 (1.09%) OCI
14 61 (1.05%) Amazon S3
15 60 (1.04%) Serverless
16 56 (0.97%) PowerApps
17 55 (0.95%) Power Automate
18 53 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
19 52 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
20 51 (0.88%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 104 (1.80%) Firewall
2 100 (1.73%) Network Security
3 62 (1.07%) WAN
4 57 (0.99%) DNS
5 44 (0.76%) LAN
6 39 (0.67%) TCP/IP
7 36 (0.62%) VPN
8 35 (0.61%) SD-WAN
9 31 (0.54%) DHCP
10 25 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (0.36%) BGP
12 19 (0.33%) 4G
12 19 (0.33%) 5G
12 19 (0.33%) OSPF
13 17 (0.29%) Wireless
14 15 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
15 14 (0.24%) BIG-IP
15 14 (0.24%) Internet
15 14 (0.24%) MPLS
16 13 (0.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 300 (5.19%) Power BI
2 147 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
3 113 (1.95%) Metadata
4 77 (1.33%) SQL Server
5 72 (1.24%) Data Lake
6 65 (1.12%) Tableau
7 52 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
8 43 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
9 42 (0.73%) Relational Database
10 35 (0.61%) Delta Lake
11 32 (0.55%) Oracle Database
12 31 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
13 27 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
14 26 (0.45%) Big Data
15 25 (0.43%) BigQuery
16 23 (0.40%) DynamoDB
17 21 (0.36%) NoSQL
18 20 (0.35%) Looker
19 19 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
19 19 (0.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 602 (10.41%) JIRA
2 94 (1.63%) Git
3 86 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 57 (0.99%) GitLab
5 49 (0.85%) Selenium
6 34 (0.59%) JUnit
7 27 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 25 (0.43%) Postman
9 22 (0.38%) SonarQube
10 18 (0.31%) JMeter
11 16 (0.28%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.26%) Maven
12 15 (0.26%) WebDriver
12 15 (0.26%) Zephyr
13 13 (0.22%) Gatling
14 12 (0.21%) Mockito
14 12 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (0.17%) DbUnit
15 10 (0.17%) ERwin
16 9 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,905 (50.22%) Social Skills
2 2,008 (34.72%) Finance
3 944 (16.32%) Analytical Skills
4 716 (12.38%) Public Sector
5 547 (9.46%) Banking
6 352 (6.09%) Retail
7 314 (5.43%) Influencing Skills
8 250 (4.32%) Legal
9 233 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
10 202 (3.49%) Marketing
11 196 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
12 171 (2.96%) Manufacturing
13 148 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
14 137 (2.37%) Telecoms
15 117 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 99 (1.71%) Local Government
17 89 (1.54%) Aerospace
18 85 (1.47%) Billing
19 81 (1.40%) Front Office
20 76 (1.31%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 858 (14.83%) Analyst
2 837 (14.47%) Lead
3 747 (12.91%) Project Manager
4 687 (11.88%) Architect
5 623 (10.77%) Senior
6 576 (9.96%) Business Analyst
7 328 (5.67%) Consultant
8 272 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
9 240 (4.15%) Senior Manager
10 185 (3.20%) Delivery Manager
11 182 (3.15%) Programme Manager
12 166 (2.87%) IT Manager
13 138 (2.39%) Product Manager
14 131 (2.26%) Developer
15 120 (2.07%) Senior Project Manager
16 118 (2.04%) Product Owner
17 114 (1.97%) Technical Manager
18 101 (1.75%) Senior Analyst
19 99 (1.71%) Designer
20 94 (1.63%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (2.59%) REST
2 103 (1.78%) Middleware
3 91 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
4 74 (1.28%) SOAP
5 66 (1.14%) .NET
6 49 (0.85%) Kafka
7 46 (0.80%) JSON
8 42 (0.73%) PySpark
8 42 (0.73%) React
9 41 (0.71%) OAuth
10 40 (0.69%) SailPoint
10 40 (0.69%) Spring
11 37 (0.64%) HTML
12 35 (0.61%) CSS
12 35 (0.61%) Web Services
13 30 (0.52%) AngularJS
14 29 (0.50%) Spring Boot
15 28 (0.48%) Playwright
15 28 (0.48%) XML
16 26 (0.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 438 (7.57%) Product Ownership
2 325 (5.62%) Onboarding
3 192 (3.32%) Cloud Native
4 166 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
5 162 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 126 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
7 122 (2.11%) Data Centre
8 108 (1.87%) Data Structures
9 98 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 94 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
11 93 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
12 81 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
13 80 (1.38%) Operational Technology
14 74 (1.28%) AI Agents
15 73 (1.26%) NHS
16 68 (1.18%) Security Posture
17 62 (1.07%) CMDB
18 58 (1.00%) FMCG
19 56 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
20 44 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 175 (3.03%) Windows
2 101 (1.75%) Linux
3 39 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 36 (0.62%) Unix
5 34 (0.59%) Android
6 29 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.17%) VMS
10 9 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.086%) Solaris
11 5 (0.086%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.069%) AIX
12 4 (0.069%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.069%) zOS
13 3 (0.052%) Amazon Linux
13 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.035%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.035%) HPUX
14 2 (0.035%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,881 (32.52%) Agile
2 1,010 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 930 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
4 868 (15.01%) Roadmaps
5 798 (13.80%) Migration
6 778 (13.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 725 (12.53%) Decision-Making
8 722 (12.48%) Project Management
9 688 (11.89%) DevOps
10 660 (11.41%) AI
11 652 (11.27%) Project Delivery
12 631 (10.91%) Analytics
13 608 (10.51%) Change Management
14 584 (10.10%) Risk Management
15 509 (8.80%) CI/CD
16 498 (8.61%) User Acceptance Testing
17 496 (8.58%) Workshop Facilitation
18 470 (8.13%) Scrum
19 459 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
19 459 (7.94%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 470 (8.13%) SQL
2 331 (5.72%) Python
3 129 (2.23%) Java
4 91 (1.57%) PowerShell
5 90 (1.56%) JavaScript
6 56 (0.97%) C#
7 39 (0.67%) Bash
8 26 (0.45%) Bicep
9 25 (0.43%) Korn
10 24 (0.41%) TypeScript
11 20 (0.35%) ABAP
11 20 (0.35%) VBA
12 19 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 18 (0.31%) PL/SQL
13 18 (0.31%) R
14 16 (0.28%) T-SQL
15 15 (0.26%) Shell Script
16 12 (0.21%) Apex Code
17 10 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
18 7 (0.12%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,136 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 840 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 405 (7.00%) Degree
4 286 (4.94%) PMP
5 251 (4.34%) PMI Certification
6 203 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 163 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 127 (2.20%) CISSP
9 97 (1.68%) CISM
10 95 (1.64%) Azure Certification
11 64 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
12 54 (0.93%) AWS Certification
12 54 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
13 51 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 43 (0.74%) Master's Degree
15 41 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 39 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
17 33 (0.57%) ISTQB
18 32 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 32 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 352 (6.09%) Data Quality
2 325 (5.62%) QA
3 281 (4.86%) PMO
4 216 (3.73%) GDPR
5 148 (2.56%) NIST
6 141 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 124 (2.14%) Accessibility
8 103 (1.78%) GRC
9 91 (1.57%) SLA
10 48 (0.83%) NCSC
11 41 (0.71%) WCAG
12 37 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 32 (0.55%) COBIT
14 30 (0.52%) SOC 2
15 25 (0.43%) PCI DSS
16 21 (0.36%) IFRS
17 20 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
18 16 (0.28%) ISO 20022
18 16 (0.28%) JSP 440
19 15 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 130 (2.25%) Active Directory
2 124 (2.14%) Docker
3 50 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.28%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.21%) NFS
7 12 (0.21%) Postfix
7 12 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (0.21%) vSphere
8 8 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.069%) SRDF
10 4 (0.069%) Varnish
11 3 (0.052%) HDFS
11 3 (0.052%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.035%) Ceph
12 2 (0.035%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.035%) KVM
12 2 (0.035%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 168 (2.90%) Terraform
2 161 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 83 (1.43%) Ansible
4 56 (0.97%) Grafana
5 46 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
6 39 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.59%) Prometheus
8 28 (0.48%) SCCM
9 17 (0.29%) Argo
10 9 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.16%) Puppet
11 8 (0.14%) Control-M
11 8 (0.14%) HP ALM
12 7 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 7 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.10%) RSA Archer
14 5 (0.086%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.086%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.069%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 803 (13.88%) Microsoft
2 462 (7.99%) SAP
3 315 (5.45%) Oracle
4 311 (5.38%) ServiceNow
5 221 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 143 (2.47%) Databricks
7 116 (2.01%) Google
8 88 (1.52%) VMware
9 86 (1.49%) Workday
10 62 (1.07%) Cisco
11 54 (0.93%) Adobe
12 51 (0.88%) CyberArk
13 48 (0.83%) IBM
14 36 (0.62%) Ariba
14 36 (0.62%) MuleSoft
14 36 (0.62%) Splunk
15 32 (0.55%) Atlassian
16 31 (0.54%) F5
16 31 (0.54%) Informatica
17 27 (0.47%) Foundry