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

6 months to
4 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 7,338 2,974 2,555
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.84% 10.59% 7.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.71% 11.64% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,844 2,029 1,598
10th Percentile £388 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -2.36% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £645
90th Percentile £750 £741 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 64 68
10th Percentile £20.00 £24.05 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.67 £33.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £48.25 £61.33
Median % change year-on-year +25.39% -21.33% +29.96%
75th Percentile £80.00 £60.94 £75.00
90th Percentile £98.25 £76.38 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £48.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +24.87% -19.58% +16.69%

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 39,229 25,540 27,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.96% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,740 16,195 17,136
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £643
90th Percentile £738 £734 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,947 1,574 1,191
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.54 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £46.55 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.62 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.57% -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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +14 3,878 £563 +2.27% 3,760
North of England +6 1,092 £500 - 1,166
South East +12 930 £550 +4.76% 1,375
Midlands +8 665 £500 -4.76% 753
North West +3 544 £525 +5.00% 646
West Midlands +8 538 £488 -9.97% 494
Yorkshire +8 480 £500 - 373
South West +8 364 £550 - 458
East of England +13 232 £510 -7.27% 404
East Midlands +2 111 £507 +13.68% 259
North East 0 77 £500 -3.38% 152
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
1 365 (4.97%) Confluence
2 202 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 71 (0.97%) CMS
4 53 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 42 (0.57%) Apache
6 29 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 25 (0.34%) 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 (0.095%) Palantir Foundry
12 7 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
13 6 (0.082%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.082%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.082%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.068%) NetWeaver
14 5 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.068%) WebLogic
Applications
1 329 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 174 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 165 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
4 141 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
5 74 (1.01%) MS Visio
6 24 (0.33%) Revit
7 18 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 18 (0.25%) Navisworks
8 15 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
9 13 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 11 (0.15%) Trello
11 9 (0.12%) ProjectWise
12 8 (0.11%) Windchill
13 5 (0.068%) Adobe XD
14 4 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
14 4 (0.055%) Notion
14 4 (0.055%) Photoshop
15 3 (0.041%) CPLEX
15 3 (0.041%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 275 (3.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 95 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 38 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 34 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
5 32 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 28 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 27 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
7 27 (0.37%) SAP FI
8 25 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 25 (0.34%) SAP HCM
8 25 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
9 24 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
10 23 (0.31%) SAP HR
11 21 (0.29%) Aladdin
12 18 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
13 17 (0.23%) SAP ERP
13 17 (0.23%) SAP MDG
14 16 (0.22%) SAP CO
14 16 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
14 16 (0.22%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,317 (17.95%) Azure
2 875 (11.92%) AWS
3 573 (7.81%) Power Platform
4 362 (4.93%) GCP
5 288 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
6 255 (3.48%) SaaS
7 237 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
8 183 (2.49%) GitHub
9 174 (2.37%) Entra ID
10 147 (2.00%) Snowflake
11 145 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
12 111 (1.51%) Microsoft Copilot
13 101 (1.38%) Serverless
14 93 (1.27%) Power Automate
14 93 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
15 82 (1.12%) PowerApps
16 75 (1.02%) OCI
17 74 (1.01%) Amazon S3
18 69 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
19 68 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 144 (1.96%) Firewall
2 135 (1.84%) Network Security
3 78 (1.06%) WAN
4 68 (0.93%) DNS
5 50 (0.68%) LAN
5 50 (0.68%) VPN
6 43 (0.59%) DHCP
6 43 (0.59%) TCP/IP
7 38 (0.52%) SD-WAN
8 26 (0.35%) BGP
8 26 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 24 (0.33%) 4G
9 24 (0.33%) 5G
10 23 (0.31%) Internet
10 23 (0.31%) Wireless
11 22 (0.30%) MPLS
12 21 (0.29%) Broadband
13 18 (0.25%) VLAN
14 17 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
15 16 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 445 (6.06%) Power BI
2 205 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
3 199 (2.71%) Metadata
4 119 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 101 (1.38%) Data Lake
6 90 (1.23%) Tableau
7 75 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
8 55 (0.75%) BigQuery
9 53 (0.72%) Relational Database
10 51 (0.70%) MongoDB
11 50 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
12 49 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
12 49 (0.67%) Delta Lake
13 41 (0.56%) Looker
14 36 (0.49%) Oracle Database
15 34 (0.46%) NoSQL
16 29 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
17 28 (0.38%) DynamoDB
18 24 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
18 24 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 672 (9.16%) JIRA
2 146 (1.99%) Git
3 99 (1.35%) GitLab
4 96 (1.31%) Jenkins
5 70 (0.95%) Selenium
6 49 (0.67%) Cucumber
7 43 (0.59%) JUnit
8 35 (0.48%) Gatling
9 31 (0.42%) SonarQube
10 29 (0.40%) Postman
11 19 (0.26%) Zephyr
12 18 (0.25%) Cypress.io
13 15 (0.20%) JMeter
14 13 (0.18%) Maven
15 12 (0.16%) LoadRunner
15 12 (0.16%) WebDriver
16 11 (0.15%) Claude Code
16 11 (0.15%) MSI
17 9 (0.12%) ERwin
17 9 (0.12%) Mockito
General
1 3,934 (53.61%) Social Skills
2 2,437 (33.21%) Finance
3 1,237 (16.86%) Analytical Skills
4 973 (13.26%) Public Sector
5 763 (10.40%) Banking
6 451 (6.15%) Influencing Skills
7 408 (5.56%) Retail
8 340 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
9 324 (4.42%) Legal
10 281 (3.83%) Manufacturing
11 248 (3.38%) Marketing
12 239 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
13 194 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
14 180 (2.45%) Telecoms
15 150 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 140 (1.91%) Aerospace
17 121 (1.65%) Front Office
18 120 (1.64%) Local Government
19 99 (1.35%) Billing
20 98 (1.34%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,060 (14.45%) Analyst
2 986 (13.44%) Lead
3 981 (13.37%) Architect
4 793 (10.81%) Senior
5 779 (10.62%) Project Manager
6 684 (9.32%) Business Analyst
7 491 (6.69%) Consultant
8 328 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
9 258 (3.52%) Senior Manager
10 208 (2.83%) Delivery Manager
11 186 (2.53%) IT Manager
11 186 (2.53%) Product Manager
12 179 (2.44%) Programme Manager
13 174 (2.37%) Developer
14 144 (1.96%) Senior Analyst
15 138 (1.88%) Technical Manager
16 133 (1.81%) Product Owner
17 120 (1.64%) Data Analyst
18 119 (1.62%) Data Engineer
19 118 (1.61%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 271 (3.69%) Terraform
2 198 (2.70%) REST
3 139 (1.89%) Middleware
4 107 (1.46%) .NET
5 90 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
6 85 (1.16%) Kafka
7 75 (1.02%) SOAP
8 72 (0.98%) PySpark
9 68 (0.93%) React
10 66 (0.90%) OAuth
11 63 (0.86%) Spring
12 61 (0.83%) JSON
13 52 (0.71%) HTML
13 52 (0.71%) Playwright
14 49 (0.67%) LDAP
15 45 (0.61%) CSS
15 45 (0.61%) XML
16 43 (0.59%) SailPoint
17 40 (0.55%) Spring Boot
18 39 (0.53%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 569 (7.75%) Product Ownership
2 443 (6.04%) Onboarding
3 300 (4.09%) Cloud Native
4 240 (3.27%) Management Information System
5 198 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 172 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
7 166 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
8 142 (1.94%) Data Centre
9 138 (1.88%) AI Agents
10 122 (1.66%) Data Structures
11 121 (1.65%) Operational Technology
12 116 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
13 104 (1.42%) Virtual Team
14 97 (1.32%) Security Posture
15 95 (1.29%) CMDB
16 93 (1.27%) NHS
17 91 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
18 81 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
19 74 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
20 72 (0.98%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 239 (3.26%) Windows
2 149 (2.03%) Linux
3 77 (1.05%) Windows Server
4 55 (0.75%) Unix
5 24 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (0.27%) Android
7 18 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.19%) VMS
10 11 (0.15%) zOS
11 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.095%) 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 2,288 (31.18%) Agile
2 1,349 (18.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,263 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
4 1,236 (16.84%) Roadmaps
5 1,044 (14.23%) Migration
6 992 (13.52%) Decision-Making
7 991 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 973 (13.26%) AI
9 857 (11.68%) DevOps
9 857 (11.68%) Project Delivery
10 847 (11.54%) Analytics
11 809 (11.02%) Project Management
12 777 (10.59%) Workshop Facilitation
13 741 (10.10%) Change Management
14 723 (9.85%) Risk Management
15 709 (9.66%) CI/CD
16 627 (8.54%) Requirements Gathering
17 624 (8.50%) User Acceptance Testing
18 606 (8.26%) Cybersecurity
19 603 (8.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 669 (9.12%) SQL
2 479 (6.53%) Python
3 204 (2.78%) Java
4 151 (2.06%) JavaScript
5 146 (1.99%) PowerShell
6 90 (1.23%) C#
7 74 (1.01%) Bash
8 61 (0.83%) TypeScript
9 44 (0.60%) ABAP
10 39 (0.53%) Bicep
11 35 (0.48%) Korn
12 28 (0.38%) R
13 26 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 23 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 22 (0.30%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.26%) Shell Script
17 18 (0.25%) Go
18 13 (0.18%) Apex Code
18 13 (0.18%) VBA
19 12 (0.16%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1,473 (20.07%) Security Cleared
2 1,086 (14.80%) SC Cleared
3 505 (6.88%) Degree
4 317 (4.32%) PMP
5 286 (3.90%) PMI Certification
6 273 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 273 (3.72%) DV Cleared
7 162 (2.21%) CISSP
8 126 (1.72%) Azure Certification
9 121 (1.65%) CISM
10 94 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
11 92 (1.25%) AWS Certification
12 79 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
13 78 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
14 59 (0.80%) ACCA
15 58 (0.79%) Master's Degree
16 56 (0.76%) CIMA
17 50 (0.68%) ISTQB
18 48 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
19 47 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 564 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 427 (5.82%) QA
3 328 (4.47%) PMO
4 219 (2.98%) GDPR
5 201 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 200 (2.73%) Accessibility
7 166 (2.26%) NIST
8 137 (1.87%) GRC
9 97 (1.32%) SLA
10 76 (1.04%) WCAG
11 64 (0.87%) NCSC
12 40 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
13 30 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 27 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
14 27 (0.37%) IFRS
15 25 (0.34%) ISO 20022
16 24 (0.33%) GxP
16 24 (0.33%) PCI DSS
17 23 (0.31%) COBIT
18 21 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 190 (2.59%) Active Directory
2 168 (2.29%) Docker
3 74 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.41%) vSphere
5 28 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 25 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 18 (0.25%) Hyper-V
9 16 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.12%) NFS
11 8 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.082%) Time Sharing Option
13 5 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.055%) FreeRADIUS
14 4 (0.055%) IAG
14 4 (0.055%) Postfix
15 3 (0.041%) Firmware
15 3 (0.041%) KVM
15 3 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.041%) RACF
Systems Management
1 248 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 108 (1.47%) Ansible
3 62 (0.84%) Grafana
4 49 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 42 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.42%) SCCM
8 17 (0.23%) Argo
9 14 (0.19%) Control-M
10 11 (0.15%) Kibana
11 10 (0.14%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.11%) Tivoli
13 8 (0.11%) WMI
14 7 (0.095%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.095%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 6 (0.082%) Puppet
15 6 (0.082%) Tivoli Monitoring
16 5 (0.068%) Data Guard
16 5 (0.068%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1,240 (16.90%) Microsoft
2 595 (8.11%) SAP
3 397 (5.41%) Oracle
4 367 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 254 (3.46%) Salesforce
6 225 (3.07%) Databricks
7 171 (2.33%) Google
8 111 (1.51%) Workday
9 103 (1.40%) VMware
10 100 (1.36%) Cisco
11 77 (1.05%) CyberArk
12 75 (1.02%) IBM
13 62 (0.84%) Splunk
14 58 (0.79%) Adobe
15 51 (0.70%) Ariba
16 41 (0.56%) MuleSoft
17 40 (0.55%) Informatica
18 37 (0.50%) Fortinet
19 32 (0.44%) OpenAI
20 31 (0.42%) Bloomberg