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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 15 23
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,211 2,701 2,712
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.72% 10.12% 7.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.72% 11.14% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,486 1,837 1,953
10th Percentile £381 £356 £356
25th Percentile £456 £431 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £536
% change year-on-year +2.86% -2.10% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 62 73
10th Percentile £25.00 £31.64 £18.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £41.78 £36.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £54.01 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.03% -9.99% +13.27%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £104.00 £78.63 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £53.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +13.08% -10.83% +12.53%

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 37,991 24,251 31,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 90.90% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,934 15,590 20,626
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £517 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,364 1,224 2,273
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.88 £17.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.81 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +7 2,693 £552 -3.96% 1,234
North of England -1 749 £500 - 407
South East +5 690 £550 +4.76% 586
Midlands +1 521 £500 -0.10% 239
North West +1 381 £510 +2.00% 235
West Midlands 0 380 £500 -4.76% 144
Yorkshire +4 333 £500 +1.52% 138
South West +12 295 £550 +4.76% 189
East of England +10 158 £525 -4.55% 104
East Midlands +9 132 £488 +10.80% 93
North East -22 43 £478 +6.11% 37
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
1 301 (5.78%) Confluence
2 140 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 58 (1.11%) CMS
4 34 (0.65%) SAS
5 24 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 19 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.25%) Apache
8 11 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.17%) Appian
10 8 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
11 7 (0.13%) Apache Spark
11 7 (0.13%) WordPress
12 6 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.096%) Kentico
14 4 (0.077%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.077%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.058%) Oracle Coherence
15 3 (0.058%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
16 2 (0.038%) ArcGIS
16 2 (0.038%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 229 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 144 (2.76%) Microsoft Project
3 128 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
4 114 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 71 (1.36%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.23%) Revit
8 10 (0.19%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.077%) Navisworks
9 4 (0.077%) Sketch
10 3 (0.058%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.058%) Notion
10 3 (0.058%) Trello
11 2 (0.038%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.038%) Windchill
12 1 (0.019%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.019%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.019%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 180 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 61 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 25 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 24 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 22 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 21 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
8 17 (0.33%) Aladdin
8 17 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
8 17 (0.33%) Workday HCM
9 16 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
10 14 (0.27%) Finacle
10 14 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
10 14 (0.27%) SAP SD
11 13 (0.25%) SAP FI
11 13 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
12 12 (0.23%) Primavera
12 12 (0.23%) SAP ERP
13 10 (0.19%) Loan IQ
13 10 (0.19%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 846 (16.23%) Azure
2 591 (11.34%) AWS
3 317 (6.08%) Power Platform
4 215 (4.13%) GCP
5 181 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
6 180 (3.45%) SaaS
7 125 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
8 102 (1.96%) Entra ID
9 91 (1.75%) GitHub
10 86 (1.65%) Snowflake
11 66 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
12 58 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
13 57 (1.09%) OCI
14 55 (1.06%) Amazon S3
15 49 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
16 48 (0.92%) Serverless
17 46 (0.88%) PowerApps
18 45 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
19 43 (0.83%) Power Automate
20 41 (0.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 93 (1.78%) Firewall
2 92 (1.77%) Network Security
3 66 (1.27%) WAN
4 51 (0.98%) LAN
5 46 (0.88%) DNS
6 36 (0.69%) SD-WAN
7 32 (0.61%) VPN
8 30 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 28 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (0.42%) BGP
10 22 (0.42%) DHCP
11 20 (0.38%) OSPF
12 16 (0.31%) MPLS
13 15 (0.29%) BIG-IP
13 15 (0.29%) Wireless
14 14 (0.27%) SAN
15 13 (0.25%) NGFW
16 12 (0.23%) 5G
16 12 (0.23%) NAS
16 12 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (4.93%) Power BI
2 113 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
3 96 (1.84%) Metadata
4 64 (1.23%) Data Lake
5 61 (1.17%) SQL Server
5 61 (1.17%) Tableau
6 44 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (0.73%) Relational Database
8 35 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 31 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 28 (0.54%) Oracle Database
11 27 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
12 23 (0.44%) NoSQL
13 22 (0.42%) Big Data
14 21 (0.40%) Delta Lake
14 21 (0.40%) DynamoDB
15 15 (0.29%) BigQuery
15 15 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
15 15 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 551 (10.57%) JIRA
2 85 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 74 (1.42%) Git
4 43 (0.83%) GitLab
5 34 (0.65%) Selenium
6 29 (0.56%) JUnit
7 23 (0.44%) Postman
8 15 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.29%) JMeter
8 15 (0.29%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.27%) Maven
10 13 (0.25%) Mockito
11 10 (0.19%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.19%) DbUnit
11 10 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (0.19%) WebDriver
11 10 (0.19%) Zephyr
12 9 (0.17%) jMock
13 8 (0.15%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,620 (50.28%) Social Skills
2 1,857 (35.64%) Finance
3 810 (15.54%) Analytical Skills
4 631 (12.11%) Public Sector
5 473 (9.08%) Banking
6 310 (5.95%) Retail
7 274 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
8 235 (4.51%) Legal
9 194 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
10 190 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
11 177 (3.40%) Marketing
12 154 (2.96%) Manufacturing
13 125 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
14 122 (2.34%) Telecoms
15 96 (1.84%) Local Government
16 88 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 75 (1.44%) Aerospace
18 73 (1.40%) Billing
18 73 (1.40%) Financial Institution
19 71 (1.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 795 (15.26%) Analyst
2 736 (14.12%) Lead
3 719 (13.80%) Project Manager
4 615 (11.80%) Architect
5 547 (10.50%) Senior
6 533 (10.23%) Business Analyst
7 257 (4.93%) Consultant
8 236 (4.53%) Senior Manager
9 228 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
10 180 (3.45%) Programme Manager
11 168 (3.22%) Delivery Manager
12 163 (3.13%) IT Manager
13 124 (2.38%) Product Manager
14 121 (2.32%) Senior Project Manager
15 108 (2.07%) Product Owner
16 98 (1.88%) Change Manager
17 94 (1.80%) Technical Manager
18 92 (1.77%) Developer
19 86 (1.65%) Data Analyst
19 86 (1.65%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (2.40%) REST
2 91 (1.75%) Middleware
3 83 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
4 65 (1.25%) SOAP
5 56 (1.07%) .NET
6 41 (0.79%) JSON
7 37 (0.71%) Kafka
7 37 (0.71%) OAuth
8 36 (0.69%) PySpark
9 33 (0.63%) SailPoint
10 32 (0.61%) OpenID
10 32 (0.61%) SAML
11 31 (0.59%) AngularJS
11 31 (0.59%) CSS
11 31 (0.59%) Spring
12 29 (0.56%) Web Services
13 28 (0.54%) HTML
13 28 (0.54%) React
13 28 (0.54%) RESTful
14 27 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 377 (7.23%) Product Ownership
2 283 (5.43%) Onboarding
3 172 (3.30%) Cloud Native
4 153 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
5 140 (2.69%) Management Information System
6 125 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
7 111 (2.13%) Data Centre
8 93 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 93 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 84 (1.61%) Virtual Team
10 70 (1.34%) NHS
11 68 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
11 68 (1.30%) Operational Technology
12 65 (1.25%) Security Posture
13 61 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
14 51 (0.98%) CMDB
14 51 (0.98%) Public Cloud
15 50 (0.96%) AI Agents
15 50 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
16 47 (0.90%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 156 (2.99%) Windows
2 82 (1.57%) Linux
3 32 (0.61%) Android
4 30 (0.58%) Unix
5 27 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 26 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 22 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.13%) VMS
10 5 (0.096%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.096%) Solaris
10 5 (0.096%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.077%) AIX
11 4 (0.077%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.077%) zOS
12 3 (0.058%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.038%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.038%) HPUX
14 1 (0.019%) MVS
14 1 (0.019%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,700 (32.62%) Agile
2 868 (16.66%) Continuous Improvement
3 824 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
4 726 (13.93%) Migration
5 724 (13.89%) Roadmaps
6 721 (13.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 673 (12.91%) Project Management
8 617 (11.84%) Decision-Making
9 605 (11.61%) DevOps
10 573 (11.00%) Change Management
11 567 (10.88%) Project Delivery
12 534 (10.25%) AI
13 528 (10.13%) Analytics
14 517 (9.92%) Risk Management
15 456 (8.75%) User Acceptance Testing
16 433 (8.31%) CI/CD
17 423 (8.12%) Validation
18 418 (8.02%) Workshop Facilitation
19 412 (7.91%) ITIL
20 401 (7.70%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 417 (8.00%) SQL
2 299 (5.74%) Python
3 103 (1.98%) Java
4 75 (1.44%) PowerShell
5 54 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 51 (0.98%) C#
7 31 (0.59%) Bash
8 23 (0.44%) Bicep
8 23 (0.44%) VBA
9 21 (0.40%) Korn
9 21 (0.40%) TypeScript
10 20 (0.38%) ABAP
11 16 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 13 (0.25%) R
12 13 (0.25%) T-SQL
13 12 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 11 (0.21%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.15%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,030 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 772 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 381 (7.31%) Degree
4 267 (5.12%) PMP
5 232 (4.45%) PMI Certification
6 161 (3.09%) DV Cleared
7 145 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 112 (2.15%) CISSP
9 87 (1.67%) Azure Certification
10 76 (1.46%) CISM
11 57 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 50 (0.96%) AWS Certification
13 49 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
14 46 (0.88%) Master's Degree
15 35 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
16 32 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
16 32 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 29 (0.56%) ACCA
18 28 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 27 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 297 (5.70%) Data Quality
2 283 (5.43%) QA
3 252 (4.84%) PMO
4 219 (4.20%) GDPR
5 156 (2.99%) NIST
6 145 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 96 (1.84%) GRC
8 87 (1.67%) SLA
9 82 (1.57%) Accessibility
10 54 (1.04%) NCSC
11 44 (0.84%) PCI DSS
12 39 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 33 (0.63%) COBIT
14 32 (0.61%) SOC 2
15 27 (0.52%) IFRS
16 20 (0.38%) WCAG
17 19 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
18 18 (0.35%) JSP 440
19 16 (0.31%) Solvency II
20 14 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 105 (2.01%) Docker
2 89 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 40 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.27%) VMware NSX
6 13 (0.25%) NFS
7 12 (0.23%) Postfix
8 11 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.15%) vSphere
10 4 (0.077%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.077%) SRDF
10 4 (0.077%) Varnish
11 3 (0.058%) HDFS
11 3 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.058%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.038%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.038%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.019%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 147 (2.82%) Kubernetes
2 143 (2.74%) Terraform
3 77 (1.48%) Ansible
4 53 (1.02%) Grafana
5 38 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 19 (0.36%) SCCM
8 14 (0.27%) Argo
9 10 (0.19%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.15%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.13%) RSA Archer
11 7 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 6 (0.12%) Puppet
12 6 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.096%) Control-M
13 5 (0.096%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.077%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.077%) vMotion
Vendors
1 670 (12.86%) Microsoft
2 419 (8.04%) SAP
3 286 (5.49%) Oracle
4 278 (5.33%) ServiceNow
5 201 (3.86%) Salesforce
6 107 (2.05%) Databricks
7 104 (2.00%) Google
8 80 (1.54%) VMware
9 72 (1.38%) Workday
10 60 (1.15%) Cisco
11 50 (0.96%) Adobe
11 50 (0.96%) CyberArk
12 44 (0.84%) Splunk
13 35 (0.67%) Ariba
14 33 (0.63%) MuleSoft
15 32 (0.61%) Informatica
16 31 (0.59%) F5
16 31 (0.59%) IBM
17 26 (0.50%) IFS
18 25 (0.48%) Foundry