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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 15 21
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 7,463 2,986 2,570
As % of all contract jobs in England 16.15% 10.63% 7.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.04% 11.70% 9.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,917 2,035 1,607
10th Percentile £390 £362 £363
25th Percentile £456 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £642
90th Percentile £750 £747 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 64 68
10th Percentile £20.30 £24.05 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.21 £33.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £62.00 £48.25 £61.33
Median % change year-on-year +28.50% -21.33% +26.45%
75th Percentile £80.55 £60.94 £75.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £73.38 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £47.50 £60.30
% change year-on-year +29.47% -21.23% +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 39,199 25,531 28,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.87% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,678 16,181 17,100
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,975 1,587 1,157
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.79 £20.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.92
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -8.31%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 3,928 £563 +2.27% 3,863
North of England +8 1,118 £500 - 978
South East +13 956 £550 +4.76% 994
Midlands +7 668 £500 - 619
North West +4 557 £525 +5.00% 554
West Midlands +7 539 £488 -9.97% 412
Yorkshire +7 489 £500 +2.56% 326
South West +8 370 £550 +3.77% 349
East of England +13 242 £510 -7.27% 339
East Midlands -3 112 £517 +15.66% 206
North East +1 80 £500 -2.91% 99
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
1 370 (4.96%) Confluence
2 201 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 72 (0.96%) CMS
4 52 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 43 (0.58%) Apache
6 30 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 26 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.29%) SAS
9 14 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 10 (0.13%) WordPress
11 9 (0.12%) CICS
11 9 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 8 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
13 7 (0.094%) nginx
13 7 (0.094%) WebSphere
14 6 (0.080%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.080%) Oracle Workflow
14 6 (0.080%) WebLogic
15 5 (0.067%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 342 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 177 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 167 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
4 144 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
5 73 (0.98%) MS Visio
6 24 (0.32%) Revit
7 18 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 18 (0.24%) Navisworks
8 15 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
9 13 (0.17%) Chatbot
10 11 (0.15%) Trello
11 9 (0.12%) ProjectWise
12 8 (0.11%) Windchill
13 5 (0.067%) Adobe XD
14 4 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
14 4 (0.054%) Notion
14 4 (0.054%) Photoshop
15 3 (0.040%) CPLEX
15 3 (0.040%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 286 (3.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 97 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 38 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
5 34 (0.46%) Workday HCM
6 30 (0.40%) SAP FI
7 28 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 28 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
8 26 (0.35%) SAP HCM
8 26 (0.35%) SAP Payroll
9 25 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
9 25 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
10 24 (0.32%) SAP HR
11 23 (0.31%) Aladdin
12 20 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
13 19 (0.25%) SAP CO
13 19 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
14 17 (0.23%) SAP ERP
14 17 (0.23%) SAP MDG
15 16 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,348 (18.06%) Azure
2 880 (11.79%) AWS
3 583 (7.81%) Power Platform
4 361 (4.84%) GCP
5 303 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
6 270 (3.62%) SaaS
7 253 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
8 197 (2.64%) GitHub
9 186 (2.49%) Entra ID
10 150 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
11 149 (2.00%) Snowflake
12 117 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
13 106 (1.42%) Serverless
14 96 (1.29%) Power Automate
15 93 (1.25%) SuccessFactors
16 84 (1.13%) PowerApps
17 82 (1.10%) OCI
18 76 (1.02%) Amazon S3
19 73 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
20 69 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 152 (2.04%) Firewall
2 138 (1.85%) Network Security
3 80 (1.07%) WAN
4 75 (1.00%) DNS
5 58 (0.78%) VPN
6 50 (0.67%) LAN
7 49 (0.66%) TCP/IP
8 46 (0.62%) DHCP
9 39 (0.52%) SD-WAN
10 32 (0.43%) BGP
11 28 (0.38%) Internet
12 26 (0.35%) 4G
12 26 (0.35%) MPLS
12 26 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (0.33%) 5G
14 24 (0.32%) Wireless
15 22 (0.29%) VLAN
16 21 (0.28%) Broadband
16 21 (0.28%) OSPF
17 19 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 448 (6.00%) Power BI
2 212 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
3 206 (2.76%) Metadata
4 121 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 103 (1.38%) Data Lake
6 97 (1.30%) Tableau
7 78 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
8 56 (0.75%) BigQuery
8 56 (0.75%) Relational Database
9 53 (0.71%) MongoDB
10 52 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
11 50 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
12 48 (0.64%) Delta Lake
13 43 (0.58%) Looker
14 39 (0.52%) Oracle Database
15 36 (0.48%) NoSQL
16 29 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
17 28 (0.38%) DynamoDB
18 24 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
18 24 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 678 (9.08%) JIRA
2 157 (2.10%) Git
3 103 (1.38%) GitLab
4 101 (1.35%) Jenkins
5 77 (1.03%) Selenium
6 53 (0.71%) Cucumber
7 46 (0.62%) JUnit
8 37 (0.50%) Gatling
9 34 (0.46%) Postman
10 33 (0.44%) SonarQube
11 23 (0.31%) Cypress.io
12 19 (0.25%) Zephyr
13 15 (0.20%) JMeter
14 13 (0.17%) Maven
15 12 (0.16%) LoadRunner
15 12 (0.16%) WebDriver
16 11 (0.15%) Claude Code
16 11 (0.15%) MSI
17 10 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
18 9 (0.12%) Mockito
General
1 4,007 (53.69%) Social Skills
2 2,480 (33.23%) Finance
3 1,255 (16.82%) Analytical Skills
4 1,006 (13.48%) Public Sector
5 791 (10.60%) Banking
6 462 (6.19%) Influencing Skills
7 404 (5.41%) Retail
8 345 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
9 332 (4.45%) Legal
10 300 (4.02%) Manufacturing
11 252 (3.38%) Marketing
12 247 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
13 199 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
14 188 (2.52%) Telecoms
15 150 (2.01%) Aerospace
16 147 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 123 (1.65%) Local Government
18 122 (1.63%) Front Office
19 104 (1.39%) Investment Banking
20 100 (1.34%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,078 (14.44%) Analyst
2 1,002 (13.43%) Architect
3 1,000 (13.40%) Lead
4 804 (10.77%) Senior
5 788 (10.56%) Project Manager
6 693 (9.29%) Business Analyst
7 503 (6.74%) Consultant
8 335 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
9 253 (3.39%) Senior Manager
10 214 (2.87%) Delivery Manager
11 189 (2.53%) Product Manager
12 184 (2.47%) IT Manager
13 183 (2.45%) Programme Manager
14 173 (2.32%) Developer
15 147 (1.97%) Senior Analyst
16 140 (1.88%) Technical Manager
17 134 (1.80%) Product Owner
18 123 (1.65%) Data Analyst
19 119 (1.59%) Data Engineer
20 117 (1.57%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (3.82%) Terraform
2 212 (2.84%) REST
3 142 (1.90%) Middleware
4 115 (1.54%) .NET
5 92 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
6 88 (1.18%) Kafka
7 75 (1.00%) SOAP
8 72 (0.96%) PySpark
8 72 (0.96%) React
9 68 (0.91%) OAuth
10 66 (0.88%) JSON
11 64 (0.86%) Spring
12 59 (0.79%) Playwright
13 53 (0.71%) HTML
14 50 (0.67%) LDAP
15 45 (0.60%) CSS
16 43 (0.58%) XML
17 42 (0.56%) OAuth2
17 42 (0.56%) Web Services
18 41 (0.55%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 573 (7.68%) Product Ownership
2 446 (5.98%) Onboarding
3 311 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 251 (3.36%) Management Information System
5 212 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
6 177 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
7 174 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 151 (2.02%) Data Centre
9 134 (1.80%) AI Agents
10 124 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
11 123 (1.65%) Operational Technology
12 118 (1.58%) Data Structures
13 108 (1.45%) Virtual Team
14 99 (1.33%) CMDB
15 97 (1.30%) Security Posture
16 92 (1.23%) NHS
17 91 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
18 85 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
19 79 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
20 75 (1.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 250 (3.35%) Windows
2 159 (2.13%) Linux
3 80 (1.07%) Windows Server
4 58 (0.78%) Unix
5 24 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (0.27%) Android
7 18 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.19%) VMS
10 10 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 10 (0.13%) zOS
11 7 (0.094%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.054%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.054%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.040%) CentOS
14 3 (0.040%) Solaris
15 2 (0.027%) AIX
15 2 (0.027%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,306 (30.90%) Agile
2 1,372 (18.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,292 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
4 1,264 (16.94%) Roadmaps
5 1,079 (14.46%) Migration
6 1,023 (13.71%) Decision-Making
7 1,009 (13.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 994 (13.32%) AI
9 882 (11.82%) DevOps
10 880 (11.79%) Project Delivery
11 864 (11.58%) Analytics
12 819 (10.97%) Project Management
13 794 (10.64%) Workshop Facilitation
14 756 (10.13%) Change Management
15 746 (10.00%) Risk Management
16 739 (9.90%) CI/CD
17 635 (8.51%) User Acceptance Testing
18 632 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
19 630 (8.44%) Requirements Gathering
20 615 (8.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 681 (9.13%) SQL
2 496 (6.65%) Python
3 208 (2.79%) Java
4 156 (2.09%) JavaScript
4 156 (2.09%) PowerShell
5 98 (1.31%) C#
6 76 (1.02%) Bash
7 65 (0.87%) TypeScript
8 48 (0.64%) Bicep
9 44 (0.59%) ABAP
10 36 (0.48%) Korn
11 27 (0.36%) R
12 23 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 23 (0.31%) T-SQL
13 22 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 19 (0.25%) Shell Script
15 18 (0.24%) Go
16 13 (0.17%) Apex Code
16 13 (0.17%) VBA
17 12 (0.16%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,489 (19.95%) Security Cleared
2 1,097 (14.70%) SC Cleared
3 517 (6.93%) Degree
4 317 (4.25%) PMP
5 290 (3.89%) PMI Certification
6 280 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 277 (3.71%) DV Cleared
8 170 (2.28%) CISSP
9 131 (1.76%) Azure Certification
10 128 (1.72%) CISM
11 97 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
12 94 (1.26%) AWS Certification
13 79 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
13 79 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
14 65 (0.87%) ACCA
15 62 (0.83%) CIMA
16 59 (0.79%) Master's Degree
17 58 (0.78%) ISTQB
18 50 (0.67%) CRISC
18 50 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 580 (7.77%) Data Quality
2 434 (5.82%) QA
3 327 (4.38%) PMO
4 223 (2.99%) GDPR
5 213 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 212 (2.84%) Accessibility
7 170 (2.28%) NIST
8 137 (1.84%) GRC
9 97 (1.30%) SLA
10 79 (1.06%) WCAG
11 67 (0.90%) NCSC
12 43 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
13 32 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 28 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
15 27 (0.36%) IFRS
16 26 (0.35%) PCI DSS
17 25 (0.33%) ISO 20022
18 24 (0.32%) GxP
19 23 (0.31%) COBIT
20 21 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 200 (2.68%) Active Directory
2 175 (2.34%) Docker
3 76 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 30 (0.40%) vSphere
6 24 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (0.29%) VMware NSX
8 16 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 14 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.11%) NFS
10 8 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.080%) Time Sharing Option
12 5 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.054%) FreeRADIUS
13 4 (0.054%) IAG
13 4 (0.054%) Postfix
14 3 (0.040%) Firmware
14 3 (0.040%) KVM
14 3 (0.040%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.040%) RACF
Systems Management
1 252 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 114 (1.53%) Ansible
3 67 (0.90%) Grafana
4 54 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 48 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (0.43%) SCCM
7 31 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.21%) Argo
9 13 (0.17%) Control-M
10 12 (0.16%) Kibana
11 10 (0.13%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.11%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.11%) Tivoli
12 8 (0.11%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.11%) WMI
13 7 (0.094%) Puppet
13 7 (0.094%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 6 (0.080%) Tivoli Monitoring
15 5 (0.067%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.067%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1,283 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 612 (8.20%) SAP
3 409 (5.48%) Oracle
4 376 (5.04%) ServiceNow
5 262 (3.51%) Salesforce
6 227 (3.04%) Databricks
7 174 (2.33%) Google
8 114 (1.53%) Workday
9 108 (1.45%) Cisco
10 107 (1.43%) VMware
11 79 (1.06%) IBM
12 78 (1.05%) CyberArk
13 66 (0.88%) Splunk
14 60 (0.80%) Adobe
15 52 (0.70%) Ariba
16 41 (0.55%) Fortinet
16 41 (0.55%) MuleSoft
17 40 (0.54%) Informatica
18 36 (0.48%) Dynatrace
19 33 (0.44%) Bloomberg