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

6 months to
22 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 6,266 2,862 2,474
As % of all contract jobs in England 13.66% 10.37% 7.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.08% 11.42% 8.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,160 1,944 1,692
10th Percentile £381 £358 £363
25th Percentile £456 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £643
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 189 65 65
10th Percentile £26.12 £28.99 £31.15
25th Percentile £35.00 £35.60 £53.75
Median hourly rate £59.50 £50.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.00% -18.83% +34.26%
75th Percentile £80.00 £71.45 £75.00
90th Percentile £101.18 £77.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £50.00 £60.30
% change year-on-year +20.50% -17.08% +31.43%

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 38,969 25,067 28,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.85% 85.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,148 15,970 18,420
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £754
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,571 1,462 1,558
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.21 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.87 £18.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.92 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +66.68% -37.90% -2.41%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 3,303 £563 +1.81% 2,542
North of England 0 927 £500 - 704
South East +7 810 £550 +4.76% 891
Midlands +4 548 £500 -4.40% 392
North West +1 484 £525 +5.00% 433
West Midlands +4 431 £500 -4.76% 264
Yorkshire +5 389 £500 +1.01% 193
South West +8 348 £550 +4.76% 378
East of England +10 198 £525 -4.55% 231
East Midlands -4 100 £500 +19.12% 127
North East -14 62 £480 -7.69% 82
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
1 344 (5.49%) Confluence
2 171 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 55 (0.88%) CMS
4 38 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (0.48%) Apache
6 24 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 24 (0.38%) SAS
7 19 (0.30%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.096%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.096%) WordPress
11 5 (0.080%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.080%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.080%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.064%) Appian
12 4 (0.064%) FactoryTalk
12 4 (0.064%) Kentico
12 4 (0.064%) Moodle
13 3 (0.048%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 284 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 149 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 149 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 149 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
3 68 (1.09%) MS Visio
4 19 (0.30%) Revit
5 16 (0.26%) AutoCAD
5 16 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.18%) Navisworks
7 10 (0.16%) Trello
8 6 (0.096%) ProjectWise
9 5 (0.080%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.064%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.064%) Notion
10 4 (0.064%) Windchill
11 3 (0.048%) Sketch
12 2 (0.032%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.032%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.032%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 221 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 79 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 25 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 24 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 24 (0.38%) Workday HCM
7 22 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
8 21 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 20 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
10 18 (0.29%) SAP FI
11 17 (0.27%) Primavera
11 17 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
11 17 (0.27%) SAP SD
12 16 (0.26%) SAP ERP
13 14 (0.22%) Aladdin
13 14 (0.22%) Finacle
13 14 (0.22%) SAP CO
14 13 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
14 13 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,149 (18.34%) Azure
2 768 (12.26%) AWS
3 448 (7.15%) Power Platform
4 303 (4.84%) GCP
5 258 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
6 228 (3.64%) SaaS
7 178 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
8 151 (2.41%) Entra ID
9 134 (2.14%) Snowflake
10 133 (2.12%) GitHub
11 105 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
12 78 (1.24%) SuccessFactors
13 74 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
14 73 (1.17%) Serverless
15 66 (1.05%) OCI
16 64 (1.02%) PowerApps
17 58 (0.93%) Amazon S3
18 57 (0.91%) Power Automate
19 56 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
19 56 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 120 (1.92%) Firewall
2 119 (1.90%) Network Security
3 70 (1.12%) WAN
4 64 (1.02%) DNS
5 48 (0.77%) LAN
6 43 (0.69%) VPN
7 41 (0.65%) TCP/IP
8 36 (0.57%) SD-WAN
9 35 (0.56%) DHCP
10 27 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
11 25 (0.40%) BGP
12 24 (0.38%) 4G
12 24 (0.38%) 5G
13 22 (0.35%) Wireless
14 19 (0.30%) Internet
14 19 (0.30%) OSPF
15 17 (0.27%) MPLS
16 15 (0.24%) SAN
17 14 (0.22%) 3G
17 14 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 359 (5.73%) Power BI
2 170 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
3 148 (2.36%) Metadata
4 95 (1.52%) SQL Server
5 79 (1.26%) Data Lake
6 76 (1.21%) Tableau
7 65 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
8 52 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
9 48 (0.77%) Relational Database
10 45 (0.72%) Delta Lake
11 41 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
12 33 (0.53%) BigQuery
13 32 (0.51%) Oracle Database
14 29 (0.46%) MongoDB
15 25 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
15 25 (0.40%) Big Data
15 25 (0.40%) NoSQL
16 24 (0.38%) Looker
17 22 (0.35%) MySQL
18 20 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 631 (10.07%) JIRA
2 104 (1.66%) Git
3 88 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 61 (0.97%) GitLab
5 50 (0.80%) Selenium
6 30 (0.48%) Postman
7 25 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 25 (0.40%) JUnit
8 24 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 19 (0.30%) Gatling
9 19 (0.30%) JMeter
9 19 (0.30%) Zephyr
10 18 (0.29%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.19%) LoadRunner
11 12 (0.19%) Maven
11 12 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
11 12 (0.19%) WebDriver
12 10 (0.16%) ERwin
13 9 (0.14%) REST Assured
14 8 (0.13%) Mockito
General
1 3,206 (51.17%) Social Skills
2 2,141 (34.17%) Finance
3 1,048 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
4 774 (12.35%) Public Sector
5 611 (9.75%) Banking
6 385 (6.14%) Retail
7 347 (5.54%) Influencing Skills
8 268 (4.28%) Legal
8 268 (4.28%) Organisational Skills
9 221 (3.53%) Marketing
10 212 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
11 200 (3.19%) Manufacturing
12 162 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
13 160 (2.55%) Telecoms
14 128 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 102 (1.63%) Aerospace
16 99 (1.58%) Local Government
17 93 (1.48%) Billing
18 87 (1.39%) Front Office
19 75 (1.20%) Law
Job Titles
1 915 (14.60%) Analyst
2 903 (14.41%) Lead
3 777 (12.40%) Project Manager
4 764 (12.19%) Architect
5 659 (10.52%) Senior
6 594 (9.48%) Business Analyst
7 393 (6.27%) Consultant
8 274 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
9 239 (3.81%) Senior Manager
10 184 (2.94%) Programme Manager
11 179 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
12 167 (2.67%) IT Manager
13 148 (2.36%) Product Manager
14 138 (2.20%) Developer
15 121 (1.93%) Technical Manager
16 120 (1.92%) Product Owner
17 116 (1.85%) Senior Project Manager
18 111 (1.77%) Senior Analyst
19 107 (1.71%) Designer
20 104 (1.66%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (3.40%) Terraform
2 164 (2.62%) REST
3 114 (1.82%) Middleware
4 88 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
5 77 (1.23%) .NET
6 73 (1.17%) SOAP
7 68 (1.09%) Kafka
8 52 (0.83%) PySpark
9 49 (0.78%) JSON
10 48 (0.77%) OAuth
11 45 (0.72%) React
12 40 (0.64%) HTML
13 39 (0.62%) SailPoint
13 39 (0.62%) Spring
14 37 (0.59%) CSS
14 37 (0.59%) XML
15 33 (0.53%) Playwright
15 33 (0.53%) Web Services
16 30 (0.48%) OpenID
16 30 (0.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 481 (7.68%) Product Ownership
2 354 (5.65%) Onboarding
3 231 (3.69%) Cloud Native
4 180 (2.87%) Management Information System
5 167 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
6 134 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
7 128 (2.04%) Data Centre
8 119 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 114 (1.82%) Data Structures
10 99 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
11 95 (1.52%) Virtual Team
12 94 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
13 92 (1.47%) Operational Technology
14 90 (1.44%) AI Agents
15 85 (1.36%) Security Posture
16 74 (1.18%) NHS
17 68 (1.09%) CMDB
18 64 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
19 63 (1.01%) FMCG
20 56 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 187 (2.98%) Windows
2 117 (1.87%) Linux
3 50 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 47 (0.75%) Unix
5 27 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (0.38%) Android
7 22 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.22%) VMS
8 14 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 11 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.080%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.064%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.064%) zOS
13 3 (0.048%) CentOS
13 3 (0.048%) Solaris
13 3 (0.048%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.032%) AIX
14 2 (0.032%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,023 (32.29%) Agile
2 1,115 (17.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,023 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
4 972 (15.51%) Roadmaps
5 876 (13.98%) Migration
6 837 (13.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 788 (12.58%) Decision-Making
8 780 (12.45%) Project Management
9 767 (12.24%) AI
9 767 (12.24%) DevOps
10 753 (12.02%) Project Delivery
11 698 (11.14%) Analytics
12 649 (10.36%) Change Management
13 613 (9.78%) Risk Management
14 595 (9.50%) Workshop Facilitation
15 578 (9.22%) CI/CD
16 535 (8.54%) User Acceptance Testing
17 520 (8.30%) Cybersecurity
18 504 (8.04%) Scrum
19 497 (7.93%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 543 (8.67%) SQL
2 379 (6.05%) Python
3 149 (2.38%) Java
4 117 (1.87%) PowerShell
5 109 (1.74%) JavaScript
6 63 (1.01%) C#
7 53 (0.85%) Bash
8 36 (0.57%) Bicep
9 34 (0.54%) TypeScript
10 28 (0.45%) Korn
11 23 (0.37%) ABAP
11 23 (0.37%) R
12 22 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 20 (0.32%) PL/SQL
13 20 (0.32%) VBA
14 17 (0.27%) T-SQL
15 16 (0.26%) Shell Script
16 14 (0.22%) Apex Code
17 12 (0.19%) Go
18 10 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,257 (20.06%) Security Cleared
2 916 (14.62%) SC Cleared
3 429 (6.85%) Degree
4 297 (4.74%) PMP
5 254 (4.05%) PMI Certification
6 233 (3.72%) DV Cleared
7 181 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 145 (2.31%) CISSP
9 113 (1.80%) CISM
10 110 (1.76%) Azure Certification
11 78 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
12 69 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
13 66 (1.05%) AWS Certification
14 60 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
15 47 (0.75%) Master's Degree
16 44 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 43 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
18 41 (0.65%) ISTQB
19 40 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 39 (0.62%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 426 (6.80%) Data Quality
2 361 (5.76%) QA
3 309 (4.93%) PMO
4 217 (3.46%) GDPR
5 154 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 152 (2.43%) NIST
7 140 (2.23%) Accessibility
8 118 (1.88%) GRC
9 91 (1.45%) SLA
10 52 (0.83%) NCSC
11 43 (0.69%) WCAG
12 32 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 26 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
13 26 (0.41%) SOC 2
14 25 (0.40%) COBIT
15 24 (0.38%) IFRS
16 21 (0.34%) PCI DSS
17 19 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
18 18 (0.29%) ISO 20022
19 17 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 152 (2.43%) Active Directory
2 134 (2.14%) Docker
3 63 (1.01%) 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 9 (0.14%) Postfix
11 6 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.064%) SRDF
12 4 (0.064%) Varnish
13 3 (0.048%) Ceph
13 3 (0.048%) HDFS
13 3 (0.048%) KVM
13 3 (0.048%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.032%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 186 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 97 (1.55%) Ansible
3 61 (0.97%) Grafana
4 44 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 42 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 30 (0.48%) SCCM
8 17 (0.27%) Argo
9 10 (0.16%) Control-M
9 10 (0.16%) Puppet
9 10 (0.16%) vCenter Server
10 9 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 7 (0.11%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 6 (0.096%) Oracle RMAN
12 6 (0.096%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.080%) Data Guard
13 5 (0.080%) Kibana
13 5 (0.080%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.064%) CASB
Vendors
1 969 (15.46%) Microsoft
2 491 (7.84%) SAP
3 342 (5.46%) Oracle
4 318 (5.08%) ServiceNow
5 236 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 184 (2.94%) Databricks
7 131 (2.09%) Google
8 96 (1.53%) VMware
9 91 (1.45%) Workday
10 76 (1.21%) Cisco
11 56 (0.89%) CyberArk
12 55 (0.88%) Adobe
13 53 (0.85%) IBM
14 46 (0.73%) Splunk
15 39 (0.62%) Informatica
16 37 (0.59%) Ariba
17 35 (0.56%) MuleSoft
18 34 (0.54%) Atlassian
19 31 (0.49%) F5
20 29 (0.46%) Foundry