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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 7,301 2,964 2,526
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.68% 10.61% 7.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.52% 11.66% 9.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,823 2,021 1,578
10th Percentile £388 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £642
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £527 £540
% change year-on-year +4.46% -2.50% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 63 69
10th Percentile £20.00 £27.42 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.00 £42.88
Median hourly rate £60.50 £49.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -19.64% +27.01%
75th Percentile £80.00 £60.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £98.75 £76.75 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £49.50 £60.30
% change year-on-year +22.22% -17.91% +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 39,431 25,424 27,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.70% 90.99% 86.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,955 16,149 17,033
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,897 1,546 1,199
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.42 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.55 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -

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 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 1 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 1 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 +13 3,854 £563 +2.27% 3,244
North of England +6 1,091 £500 - 967
South East +12 923 £550 +4.76% 1,032
Midlands +7 657 £500 -4.76% 641
North West +4 537 £525 +5.00% 567
West Midlands +8 536 £490 -10.21% 439
Yorkshire +8 485 £500 - 301
South West +8 368 £550 - 403
East of England +9 228 £510 -7.27% 320
East Midlands -1 105 £500 +11.86% 202
North East +2 78 £500 -3.85% 100
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
1 363 (4.97%) Confluence
2 202 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 70 (0.96%) CMS
4 53 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 44 (0.60%) Apache
6 30 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 24 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 21 (0.29%) SAS
9 13 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.14%) Headless CMS
10 10 (0.14%) WordPress
11 9 (0.12%) CICS
12 7 (0.096%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.082%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.082%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.082%) nginx
13 6 (0.082%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.068%) NetWeaver
14 5 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.068%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 323 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 171 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 164 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
4 139 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
5 74 (1.01%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.34%) Revit
7 19 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 18 (0.25%) Navisworks
9 15 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
10 14 (0.19%) Chatbot
11 11 (0.15%) Trello
12 9 (0.12%) ProjectWise
13 7 (0.096%) Windchill
14 5 (0.068%) Adobe XD
15 4 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 4 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
15 4 (0.055%) Notion
15 4 (0.055%) Photoshop
16 3 (0.041%) CPLEX
16 3 (0.041%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 268 (3.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 95 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 38 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 34 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
5 31 (0.42%) Workday HCM
6 28 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 27 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
8 26 (0.36%) SAP FI
9 25 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
9 25 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
10 24 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
10 24 (0.33%) SAP HCM
11 23 (0.32%) SAP HR
12 21 (0.29%) Aladdin
13 17 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
13 17 (0.23%) SAP ERP
13 17 (0.23%) SAP MDG
14 16 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
14 16 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
14 16 (0.22%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,316 (18.02%) Azure
2 879 (12.04%) AWS
3 573 (7.85%) Power Platform
4 358 (4.90%) GCP
5 286 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
6 256 (3.51%) SaaS
7 235 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
8 182 (2.49%) GitHub
9 175 (2.40%) Entra ID
10 147 (2.01%) Snowflake
11 146 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
12 110 (1.51%) Microsoft Copilot
13 103 (1.41%) Serverless
14 96 (1.31%) Power Automate
15 89 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
16 84 (1.15%) PowerApps
17 77 (1.05%) Amazon S3
18 73 (1.00%) OCI
19 69 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
19 69 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 144 (1.97%) Firewall
2 136 (1.86%) Network Security
3 79 (1.08%) WAN
4 69 (0.95%) DNS
5 50 (0.68%) LAN
5 50 (0.68%) VPN
6 44 (0.60%) DHCP
7 43 (0.59%) TCP/IP
8 37 (0.51%) SD-WAN
9 27 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
10 25 (0.34%) 4G
10 25 (0.34%) 5G
10 25 (0.34%) BGP
11 23 (0.32%) Internet
11 23 (0.32%) Wireless
12 21 (0.29%) Broadband
12 21 (0.29%) MPLS
13 18 (0.25%) VLAN
14 17 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
15 16 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 445 (6.10%) Power BI
2 204 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
3 200 (2.74%) Metadata
4 118 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 99 (1.36%) Data Lake
6 90 (1.23%) Tableau
7 73 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
8 53 (0.73%) BigQuery
9 51 (0.70%) Relational Database
10 50 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
10 50 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 50 (0.68%) MongoDB
11 49 (0.67%) Delta Lake
12 40 (0.55%) Looker
13 34 (0.47%) NoSQL
13 34 (0.47%) Oracle Database
14 30 (0.41%) DynamoDB
15 29 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
16 25 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 23 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 671 (9.19%) JIRA
2 147 (2.01%) Git
3 100 (1.37%) GitLab
4 98 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 71 (0.97%) Selenium
6 49 (0.67%) Cucumber
7 44 (0.60%) JUnit
8 35 (0.48%) Gatling
9 32 (0.44%) SonarQube
10 30 (0.41%) Postman
11 20 (0.27%) Zephyr
12 18 (0.25%) Cypress.io
13 15 (0.21%) JMeter
14 14 (0.19%) Maven
15 12 (0.16%) LoadRunner
15 12 (0.16%) WebDriver
16 11 (0.15%) Claude Code
16 11 (0.15%) MSI
17 10 (0.14%) Mockito
18 9 (0.12%) ERwin
General
1 3,909 (53.54%) Social Skills
2 2,427 (33.24%) Finance
3 1,225 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
4 959 (13.14%) Public Sector
5 755 (10.34%) Banking
6 445 (6.10%) Influencing Skills
7 406 (5.56%) Retail
8 331 (4.53%) Organisational Skills
9 320 (4.38%) Legal
10 274 (3.75%) Manufacturing
11 245 (3.36%) Marketing
12 240 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
13 192 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
14 181 (2.48%) Telecoms
15 150 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 139 (1.90%) Aerospace
17 119 (1.63%) Local Government
18 117 (1.60%) Front Office
19 98 (1.34%) Billing
20 95 (1.30%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,058 (14.49%) Analyst
2 981 (13.44%) Architect
3 978 (13.40%) Lead
4 787 (10.78%) Project Manager
5 786 (10.77%) Senior
6 683 (9.35%) Business Analyst
7 486 (6.66%) Consultant
8 325 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
9 255 (3.49%) Senior Manager
10 207 (2.84%) Delivery Manager
11 183 (2.51%) IT Manager
11 183 (2.51%) Product Manager
12 177 (2.42%) Programme Manager
13 170 (2.33%) Developer
14 144 (1.97%) Senior Analyst
15 135 (1.85%) Technical Manager
16 133 (1.82%) Product Owner
17 121 (1.66%) Data Analyst
17 121 (1.66%) Data Engineer
18 117 (1.60%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (3.75%) Terraform
2 201 (2.75%) REST
3 139 (1.90%) Middleware
4 107 (1.47%) .NET
5 88 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
6 84 (1.15%) Kafka
7 80 (1.10%) SOAP
8 73 (1.00%) PySpark
9 68 (0.93%) React
10 65 (0.89%) OAuth
11 62 (0.85%) JSON
11 62 (0.85%) Spring
12 52 (0.71%) HTML
12 52 (0.71%) Playwright
13 50 (0.68%) LDAP
14 45 (0.62%) CSS
14 45 (0.62%) XML
15 42 (0.58%) SailPoint
16 40 (0.55%) OAuth2
16 40 (0.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 568 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 442 (6.05%) Onboarding
3 298 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 235 (3.22%) Management Information System
5 196 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
6 175 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 168 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
8 142 (1.94%) Data Centre
9 127 (1.74%) AI Agents
10 122 (1.67%) Data Structures
11 118 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
12 116 (1.59%) Operational Technology
13 106 (1.45%) Virtual Team
14 99 (1.36%) Security Posture
15 92 (1.26%) CMDB
15 92 (1.26%) NHS
16 91 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
17 78 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
18 75 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
19 70 (0.96%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 238 (3.26%) Windows
2 150 (2.05%) Linux
3 77 (1.05%) Windows Server
4 54 (0.74%) Unix
5 25 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.26%) Android
7 18 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.19%) VMS
10 11 (0.15%) zOS
11 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.096%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.068%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.055%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.041%) CentOS
16 2 (0.027%) AIX
16 2 (0.027%) HPUX
16 2 (0.027%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,284 (31.28%) Agile
2 1,327 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,246 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
4 1,219 (16.70%) Roadmaps
5 1,049 (14.37%) Migration
6 979 (13.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 978 (13.40%) Decision-Making
8 961 (13.16%) AI
9 861 (11.79%) DevOps
10 843 (11.55%) Project Delivery
11 834 (11.42%) Analytics
12 808 (11.07%) Project Management
13 758 (10.38%) Workshop Facilitation
14 732 (10.03%) Change Management
15 719 (9.85%) Risk Management
16 715 (9.79%) CI/CD
17 622 (8.52%) User Acceptance Testing
18 620 (8.49%) Requirements Gathering
19 605 (8.29%) Cybersecurity
20 600 (8.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 668 (9.15%) SQL
2 478 (6.55%) Python
3 205 (2.81%) Java
4 151 (2.07%) JavaScript
5 147 (2.01%) PowerShell
6 91 (1.25%) C#
7 76 (1.04%) Bash
8 62 (0.85%) TypeScript
9 44 (0.60%) ABAP
10 41 (0.56%) Bicep
11 34 (0.47%) Korn
12 28 (0.38%) R
13 26 (0.36%) T-SQL
14 23 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 21 (0.29%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.26%) Shell Script
17 18 (0.25%) Go
18 14 (0.19%) VBA
19 13 (0.18%) Apex Code
20 12 (0.16%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,468 (20.11%) Security Cleared
2 1,084 (14.85%) SC Cleared
3 505 (6.92%) Degree
4 314 (4.30%) PMP
5 281 (3.85%) PMI Certification
6 272 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 272 (3.73%) DV Cleared
7 159 (2.18%) CISSP
8 128 (1.75%) Azure Certification
9 120 (1.64%) CISM
10 96 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 93 (1.27%) AWS Certification
12 79 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
12 79 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 60 (0.82%) ACCA
14 57 (0.78%) CIMA
14 57 (0.78%) Master's Degree
15 50 (0.68%) ISTQB
16 48 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
17 47 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 565 (7.74%) Data Quality
2 426 (5.83%) QA
3 329 (4.51%) PMO
4 216 (2.96%) GDPR
5 197 (2.70%) Accessibility
6 193 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 164 (2.25%) NIST
8 134 (1.84%) GRC
9 96 (1.31%) SLA
10 75 (1.03%) WCAG
11 64 (0.88%) NCSC
12 41 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
13 29 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 27 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
14 27 (0.37%) IFRS
15 25 (0.34%) ISO 20022
16 24 (0.33%) GxP
17 23 (0.32%) COBIT
17 23 (0.32%) PCI DSS
18 21 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 191 (2.62%) Active Directory
2 175 (2.40%) Docker
3 73 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.40%) vSphere
5 28 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 25 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (0.32%) VMware NSX
8 18 (0.25%) Hyper-V
9 17 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.14%) NFS
11 8 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.082%) Postfix
12 6 (0.082%) Time Sharing Option
13 5 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.055%) FreeRADIUS
14 4 (0.055%) IAG
15 3 (0.041%) Ceph
15 3 (0.041%) KVM
15 3 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.041%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 252 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 108 (1.48%) Ansible
3 63 (0.86%) Grafana
4 50 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 42 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.42%) SCCM
8 17 (0.23%) Argo
9 13 (0.18%) Control-M
10 11 (0.15%) Kibana
11 9 (0.12%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.12%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.11%) Tivoli
12 8 (0.11%) WMI
13 7 (0.096%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.096%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 6 (0.082%) HP ALM
14 6 (0.082%) Puppet
14 6 (0.082%) Tivoli Monitoring
15 5 (0.068%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,232 (16.87%) Microsoft
2 580 (7.94%) SAP
3 395 (5.41%) Oracle
4 365 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 257 (3.52%) Salesforce
6 228 (3.12%) Databricks
7 168 (2.30%) Google
8 110 (1.51%) Workday
9 105 (1.44%) VMware
10 97 (1.33%) Cisco
11 77 (1.05%) CyberArk
12 76 (1.04%) IBM
13 63 (0.86%) Splunk
14 60 (0.82%) Adobe
15 47 (0.64%) Ariba
16 42 (0.58%) MuleSoft
17 40 (0.55%) Informatica
18 35 (0.48%) Fortinet
19 31 (0.42%) Atlassian
19 31 (0.42%) Bloomberg