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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,887 2,895 2,456
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.92% 10.40% 7.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.18% 11.46% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,914 1,967 1,708
10th Percentile £389 £362 £363
25th Percentile £461 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £533 £538
% change year-on-year +3.29% -0.93% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 64 66
10th Percentile £28.00 £29.27 £30.29
25th Percentile £36.25 £36.77 £54.30
Median hourly rate £62.50 £53.09 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +17.74% -13.82% +34.09%
75th Percentile £83.13 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £102.17 £78.38 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £53.09 £60.60
% change year-on-year +17.74% -12.40% +29.63%

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 38,771 25,264 28,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.11% 90.78% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,101 16,147 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
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 £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.05 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -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 10 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 10 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 10 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 3,107 £563 -1.66% 2,092
North of England 0 863 £510 +2.00% 589
South East +8 760 £550 +2.42% 796
Midlands +1 524 £500 -4.76% 347
North West -1 430 £525 +5.00% 332
West Midlands +2 412 £500 -7.53% 231
Yorkshire +5 380 £500 +1.01% 181
South West +6 334 £550 +4.76% 258
East of England +8 182 £525 -4.55% 178
East Midlands +4 97 £500 +14.42% 116
North East -14 61 £478 -8.17% 80
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
1 333 (5.66%) Confluence
2 160 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 55 (0.93%) CMS
4 31 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (0.51%) Apache
6 26 (0.44%) SAS
7 22 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 17 (0.29%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.10%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.10%) WordPress
12 5 (0.085%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.068%) Appian
13 4 (0.068%) FactoryTalk
13 4 (0.068%) Kentico
13 4 (0.068%) Moodle
13 4 (0.068%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.051%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 252 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 154 (2.62%) Microsoft Project
3 132 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
4 123 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 68 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.32%) Revit
6 19 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 16 (0.27%) AutoCAD
7 16 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.19%) Navisworks
9 10 (0.17%) Trello
10 6 (0.10%) ProjectWise
11 5 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.068%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.068%) Notion
13 3 (0.051%) Sketch
13 3 (0.051%) Windchill
14 2 (0.034%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.034%) CPLEX
14 2 (0.034%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 208 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 73 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 26 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 24 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 22 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
6 22 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 22 (0.37%) Workday HCM
7 21 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
8 19 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 19 (0.32%) SAP FI
9 17 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
10 16 (0.27%) Primavera
11 15 (0.25%) SAP CO
12 14 (0.24%) Finacle
12 14 (0.24%) SAP ERP
12 14 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
12 14 (0.24%) SAP SD
13 13 (0.22%) Aladdin
13 13 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,049 (17.82%) Azure
2 701 (11.91%) AWS
3 394 (6.69%) Power Platform
4 269 (4.57%) GCP
5 236 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
6 213 (3.62%) SaaS
7 156 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
8 138 (2.34%) Entra ID
9 119 (2.02%) GitHub
9 119 (2.02%) Snowflake
10 93 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
11 78 (1.32%) SuccessFactors
12 64 (1.09%) OCI
13 63 (1.07%) Serverless
14 58 (0.99%) Amazon S3
14 58 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
14 58 (0.99%) PowerApps
15 54 (0.92%) Power Automate
16 53 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
17 51 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 105 (1.78%) Firewall
2 103 (1.75%) Network Security
3 60 (1.02%) DNS
3 60 (1.02%) WAN
4 43 (0.73%) LAN
5 38 (0.65%) TCP/IP
5 38 (0.65%) VPN
6 32 (0.54%) DHCP
6 32 (0.54%) SD-WAN
7 23 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
8 22 (0.37%) BGP
9 20 (0.34%) 4G
9 20 (0.34%) 5G
10 19 (0.32%) OSPF
11 16 (0.27%) Internet
11 16 (0.27%) Wireless
12 15 (0.25%) MPLS
12 15 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
13 13 (0.22%) BIG-IP
13 13 (0.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 320 (5.44%) Power BI
2 156 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
3 121 (2.06%) Metadata
4 82 (1.39%) SQL Server
5 76 (1.29%) Data Lake
6 69 (1.17%) Tableau
7 54 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
8 45 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 43 (0.73%) Relational Database
10 39 (0.66%) Delta Lake
11 35 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (0.49%) Oracle Database
13 27 (0.46%) Big Data
13 27 (0.46%) BigQuery
14 23 (0.39%) MongoDB
15 22 (0.37%) Looker
15 22 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
16 20 (0.34%) DynamoDB
16 20 (0.34%) MySQL
16 20 (0.34%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 608 (10.33%) JIRA
2 97 (1.65%) Git
3 86 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 61 (1.04%) GitLab
5 49 (0.83%) Selenium
6 31 (0.53%) JUnit
7 28 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 25 (0.42%) Postman
9 21 (0.36%) JMeter
9 21 (0.36%) SonarQube
10 17 (0.29%) Gatling
11 16 (0.27%) Cypress.io
11 16 (0.27%) Zephyr
12 15 (0.25%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.22%) Maven
13 13 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (0.19%) LoadRunner
15 9 (0.15%) ERwin
15 9 (0.15%) Mockito
16 8 (0.14%) Bitbucket
General
1 2,971 (50.47%) Social Skills
2 2,028 (34.45%) Finance
3 972 (16.51%) Analytical Skills
4 730 (12.40%) Public Sector
5 572 (9.72%) Banking
6 364 (6.18%) Retail
7 316 (5.37%) Influencing Skills
8 255 (4.33%) Legal
9 244 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
10 210 (3.57%) Marketing
11 202 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
12 180 (3.06%) Manufacturing
13 152 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
14 146 (2.48%) Telecoms
15 120 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 101 (1.72%) Local Government
17 94 (1.60%) Aerospace
18 87 (1.48%) Billing
19 83 (1.41%) Front Office
20 74 (1.26%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 870 (14.78%) Analyst
2 853 (14.49%) Lead
3 754 (12.81%) Project Manager
4 695 (11.81%) Architect
5 636 (10.80%) Senior
6 578 (9.82%) Business Analyst
7 353 (6.00%) Consultant
8 272 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
9 239 (4.06%) Senior Manager
10 179 (3.04%) Programme Manager
11 177 (3.01%) Delivery Manager
12 166 (2.82%) IT Manager
13 141 (2.40%) Product Manager
14 128 (2.17%) Developer
15 120 (2.04%) Senior Project Manager
16 116 (1.97%) Product Owner
16 116 (1.97%) Technical Manager
17 102 (1.73%) Senior Analyst
18 101 (1.72%) Data Analyst
19 100 (1.70%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (2.56%) REST
2 106 (1.80%) Middleware
3 87 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
4 71 (1.21%) SOAP
5 67 (1.14%) .NET
6 54 (0.92%) Kafka
7 47 (0.80%) JSON
8 45 (0.76%) PySpark
9 41 (0.70%) OAuth
9 41 (0.70%) React
10 40 (0.68%) SailPoint
11 38 (0.65%) HTML
11 38 (0.65%) Spring
12 34 (0.58%) CSS
13 32 (0.54%) XML
14 31 (0.53%) Web Services
15 29 (0.49%) Playwright
16 27 (0.46%) OpenID
17 26 (0.44%) Spring Boot
18 25 (0.42%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 453 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 339 (5.76%) Onboarding
3 196 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 172 (2.92%) Management Information System
5 167 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
6 131 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
7 126 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 109 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 103 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
10 97 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
11 94 (1.60%) Virtual Team
12 85 (1.44%) Operational Technology
13 81 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
14 80 (1.36%) AI Agents
15 76 (1.29%) Security Posture
16 74 (1.26%) NHS
17 62 (1.05%) CMDB
18 60 (1.02%) FMCG
18 60 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
19 49 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 180 (3.06%) Windows
2 100 (1.70%) Linux
3 43 (0.73%) Windows Server
4 38 (0.65%) Unix
5 29 (0.49%) Android
6 25 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.17%) VMS
10 5 (0.085%) Solaris
10 5 (0.085%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.068%) AIX
11 4 (0.068%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.068%) zOS
12 3 (0.051%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.034%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.034%) HPUX
13 2 (0.034%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,912 (32.48%) Agile
2 1,030 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 945 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
4 894 (15.19%) Roadmaps
5 820 (13.93%) Migration
6 792 (13.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 735 (12.49%) Decision-Making
8 730 (12.40%) Project Management
9 704 (11.96%) DevOps
10 679 (11.53%) AI
11 677 (11.50%) Project Delivery
12 648 (11.01%) Analytics
13 609 (10.34%) Change Management
14 578 (9.82%) Risk Management
15 528 (8.97%) CI/CD
16 522 (8.87%) Workshop Facilitation
17 499 (8.48%) User Acceptance Testing
18 480 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
19 470 (7.98%) Validation
20 469 (7.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 491 (8.34%) SQL
2 339 (5.76%) Python
3 132 (2.24%) Java
4 100 (1.70%) PowerShell
5 98 (1.66%) JavaScript
6 56 (0.95%) C#
7 42 (0.71%) Bash
8 29 (0.49%) Bicep
9 27 (0.46%) TypeScript
10 24 (0.41%) Korn
11 22 (0.37%) ABAP
12 21 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 18 (0.31%) PL/SQL
13 18 (0.31%) R
13 18 (0.31%) VBA
14 16 (0.27%) T-SQL
15 15 (0.25%) Shell Script
16 12 (0.20%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,156 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 846 (14.37%) SC Cleared
3 415 (7.05%) Degree
4 288 (4.89%) PMP
5 249 (4.23%) PMI Certification
6 212 (3.60%) DV Cleared
7 170 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 136 (2.31%) CISSP
9 103 (1.75%) CISM
10 102 (1.73%) Azure Certification
11 67 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
12 58 (0.99%) AWS Certification
13 57 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
14 56 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
15 43 (0.73%) Master's Degree
16 41 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 38 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
18 35 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 34 (0.58%) ACCA
19 34 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 379 (6.44%) Data Quality
2 328 (5.57%) QA
3 285 (4.84%) PMO
4 213 (3.62%) GDPR
5 148 (2.51%) NIST
6 145 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 129 (2.19%) Accessibility
8 103 (1.75%) GRC
9 91 (1.55%) SLA
10 49 (0.83%) NCSC
11 43 (0.73%) WCAG
12 37 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 31 (0.53%) SOC 2
14 28 (0.48%) COBIT
15 22 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
15 22 (0.37%) IFRS
15 22 (0.37%) PCI DSS
16 17 (0.29%) ISO 20022
17 16 (0.27%) JSP 440
17 16 (0.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 137 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 129 (2.19%) Docker
3 58 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 16 (0.27%) vSphere
7 13 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (0.20%) NFS
9 10 (0.17%) Postfix
10 9 (0.15%) Hyper-V
11 6 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.068%) SRDF
12 4 (0.068%) Varnish
13 3 (0.051%) HDFS
13 3 (0.051%) Sendmail
14 2 (0.034%) Ceph
14 2 (0.034%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.034%) KVM
14 2 (0.034%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 186 (3.16%) Terraform
2 172 (2.92%) Kubernetes
3 85 (1.44%) Ansible
4 56 (0.95%) Grafana
5 46 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 43 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 33 (0.56%) Prometheus
8 28 (0.48%) SCCM
9 17 (0.29%) Argo
10 10 (0.17%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.15%) Puppet
12 8 (0.14%) Control-M
12 8 (0.14%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.12%) HP ALM
13 7 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 6 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.085%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.085%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.085%) RSA Archer
16 4 (0.068%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 851 (14.46%) Microsoft
2 466 (7.92%) SAP
3 314 (5.33%) Oracle
4 307 (5.21%) ServiceNow
5 224 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 154 (2.62%) Databricks
7 117 (1.99%) Google
8 95 (1.61%) VMware
9 88 (1.49%) Workday
10 62 (1.05%) Cisco
11 56 (0.95%) Adobe
12 51 (0.87%) CyberArk
13 50 (0.85%) IBM
14 40 (0.68%) Splunk
15 37 (0.63%) MuleSoft
16 34 (0.58%) Ariba
17 33 (0.56%) Atlassian
18 31 (0.53%) Informatica
19 30 (0.51%) F5
20 29 (0.49%) Foundry