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

6 months to
19 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 6,158 2,871 2,461
As % of all contract jobs in England 13.47% 10.41% 7.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.85% 11.46% 8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,088 1,947 1,692
10th Percentile £387 £358 £363
25th Percentile £459 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -2.36% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
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 62 64
10th Percentile £26.12 £28.59 £31.79
25th Percentile £35.00 £35.70 £55.39
Median hourly rate £59.50 £51.84 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% -15.85% +34.26%
75th Percentile £80.00 £72.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £101.18 £77.38 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £59.75 £51.84 £60.60
% change year-on-year +15.27% -14.46% +32.08%

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 38,841 25,050 28,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.82% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,525
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,548 1,450 1,590
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.12
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.87 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.45 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% +0.61%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +10 3,241 £565 +0.89% 2,170
North of England 0 906 £503 +0.65% 633
South East +10 798 £550 +4.76% 850
Midlands +2 543 £500 -4.58% 367
North West -1 468 £525 +5.00% 392
West Midlands +4 426 £500 -4.76% 239
Yorkshire +5 385 £500 +0.50% 169
South West +6 342 £550 +4.76% 342
East of England +9 196 £525 -4.55% 204
East Midlands 0 100 £500 +19.12% 128
North East -13 61 £478 -8.17% 76
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
1 346 (5.62%) Confluence
2 162 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 55 (0.89%) CMS
4 36 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (0.49%) Apache
6 28 (0.45%) SAS
7 22 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 19 (0.31%) Apache Spark
9 12 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.097%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.097%) WordPress
12 5 (0.081%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.081%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.065%) Appian
13 4 (0.065%) FactoryTalk
13 4 (0.065%) Kentico
13 4 (0.065%) Moodle
14 3 (0.049%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 274 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 151 (2.45%) Microsoft Project
3 146 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
4 143 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (1.14%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.31%) Revit
7 16 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 16 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 16 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.18%) Navisworks
9 10 (0.16%) Trello
10 6 (0.097%) ProjectWise
11 5 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.065%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.065%) Notion
12 4 (0.065%) Windchill
13 3 (0.049%) Sketch
14 2 (0.032%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.032%) CPLEX
14 2 (0.032%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 219 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 77 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 25 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 24 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
7 23 (0.37%) Workday HCM
8 22 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
9 21 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 20 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
11 18 (0.29%) SAP FI
12 17 (0.28%) Primavera
12 17 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
12 17 (0.28%) SAP SD
13 16 (0.26%) SAP ERP
14 14 (0.23%) Aladdin
14 14 (0.23%) Finacle
14 14 (0.23%) SAP CO
15 13 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
15 13 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,125 (18.27%) Azure
2 759 (12.33%) AWS
3 428 (6.95%) Power Platform
4 295 (4.79%) GCP
5 250 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
6 223 (3.62%) SaaS
7 165 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
8 145 (2.35%) Entra ID
9 129 (2.09%) Snowflake
10 125 (2.03%) GitHub
11 100 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
12 78 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
13 67 (1.09%) Serverless
14 65 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
15 62 (1.01%) PowerApps
16 61 (0.99%) OCI
17 57 (0.93%) Amazon S3
18 55 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
18 55 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
18 55 (0.89%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 120 (1.95%) Network Security
2 117 (1.90%) Firewall
3 69 (1.12%) WAN
4 63 (1.02%) DNS
5 49 (0.80%) LAN
6 42 (0.68%) VPN
7 39 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 37 (0.60%) SD-WAN
9 34 (0.55%) DHCP
10 27 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (0.39%) BGP
12 23 (0.37%) 4G
12 23 (0.37%) 5G
13 20 (0.32%) OSPF
13 20 (0.32%) Wireless
14 17 (0.28%) Internet
14 17 (0.28%) MPLS
15 15 (0.24%) SAN
15 15 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
16 14 (0.23%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 345 (5.60%) Power BI
2 169 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
3 139 (2.26%) Metadata
4 89 (1.45%) SQL Server
5 77 (1.25%) Data Lake
6 70 (1.14%) Tableau
7 63 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
8 50 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
9 45 (0.73%) Relational Database
10 44 (0.71%) Delta Lake
11 39 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
12 33 (0.54%) Oracle Database
13 31 (0.50%) BigQuery
14 28 (0.45%) MongoDB
15 26 (0.42%) Big Data
16 25 (0.41%) NoSQL
17 24 (0.39%) Looker
18 23 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
19 22 (0.36%) MySQL
20 20 (0.32%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 624 (10.13%) JIRA
2 102 (1.66%) Git
3 91 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 61 (0.99%) GitLab
5 50 (0.81%) Selenium
6 30 (0.49%) Postman
7 27 (0.44%) JUnit
8 22 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 21 (0.34%) SonarQube
10 18 (0.29%) Cypress.io
10 18 (0.29%) JMeter
10 18 (0.29%) Zephyr
11 16 (0.26%) Gatling
12 13 (0.21%) Maven
13 12 (0.19%) LoadRunner
13 12 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
13 12 (0.19%) WebDriver
14 10 (0.16%) ERwin
15 9 (0.15%) Mockito
15 9 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 3,137 (50.94%) Social Skills
2 2,119 (34.41%) Finance
3 1,026 (16.66%) Analytical Skills
4 760 (12.34%) Public Sector
5 598 (9.71%) Banking
6 380 (6.17%) Retail
7 332 (5.39%) Influencing Skills
8 261 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
9 259 (4.21%) Legal
10 217 (3.52%) Marketing
11 211 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
12 198 (3.22%) Manufacturing
13 160 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
14 155 (2.52%) Telecoms
15 128 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 101 (1.64%) Aerospace
17 99 (1.61%) Local Government
18 89 (1.45%) Billing
19 84 (1.36%) Front Office
20 72 (1.17%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 901 (14.63%) Analyst
2 884 (14.36%) Lead
3 767 (12.46%) Project Manager
4 745 (12.10%) Architect
5 648 (10.52%) Senior
6 592 (9.61%) Business Analyst
7 383 (6.22%) Consultant
8 271 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
9 237 (3.85%) Senior Manager
10 182 (2.96%) Programme Manager
11 179 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
12 166 (2.70%) IT Manager
13 148 (2.40%) Product Manager
14 138 (2.24%) Developer
15 121 (1.96%) Technical Manager
16 120 (1.95%) Product Owner
17 116 (1.88%) Senior Project Manager
18 107 (1.74%) Senior Analyst
19 104 (1.69%) Designer
20 102 (1.66%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (2.65%) REST
2 112 (1.82%) Middleware
3 85 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
4 76 (1.23%) .NET
5 73 (1.19%) SOAP
6 66 (1.07%) Kafka
7 52 (0.84%) PySpark
8 48 (0.78%) JSON
9 47 (0.76%) OAuth
10 45 (0.73%) React
11 40 (0.65%) HTML
11 40 (0.65%) SailPoint
12 37 (0.60%) CSS
13 36 (0.58%) Spring
13 36 (0.58%) XML
14 34 (0.55%) Web Services
15 30 (0.49%) Playwright
15 30 (0.49%) RESTful
15 30 (0.49%) Spring Boot
16 29 (0.47%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 467 (7.58%) Product Ownership
2 347 (5.63%) Onboarding
3 224 (3.64%) Cloud Native
4 179 (2.91%) Management Information System
5 165 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 132 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
7 127 (2.06%) Data Centre
8 118 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
9 112 (1.82%) Data Structures
10 99 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
11 95 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
11 95 (1.54%) Virtual Team
12 87 (1.41%) AI Agents
12 87 (1.41%) Operational Technology
13 84 (1.36%) Security Posture
14 74 (1.20%) NHS
15 66 (1.07%) CMDB
16 63 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
17 61 (0.99%) FMCG
18 57 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 191 (3.10%) Windows
2 115 (1.87%) Linux
3 49 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 46 (0.75%) Unix
5 27 (0.44%) Android
5 27 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.24%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.19%) VMS
9 11 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.065%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.065%) zOS
12 3 (0.049%) CentOS
12 3 (0.049%) Solaris
12 3 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.032%) AIX
13 2 (0.032%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,999 (32.46%) Agile
2 1,091 (17.72%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,008 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
4 946 (15.36%) Roadmaps
5 861 (13.98%) Migration
6 828 (13.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 772 (12.54%) Decision-Making
8 761 (12.36%) Project Management
9 759 (12.33%) DevOps
10 747 (12.13%) AI
11 730 (11.85%) Project Delivery
12 684 (11.11%) Analytics
13 645 (10.47%) Change Management
14 601 (9.76%) Risk Management
15 576 (9.35%) Workshop Facilitation
16 566 (9.19%) CI/CD
17 526 (8.54%) User Acceptance Testing
18 508 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
19 495 (8.04%) Scrum
20 490 (7.96%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 529 (8.59%) SQL
2 368 (5.98%) Python
3 142 (2.31%) Java
4 110 (1.79%) PowerShell
5 107 (1.74%) JavaScript
6 61 (0.99%) C#
7 50 (0.81%) Bash
8 33 (0.54%) TypeScript
9 32 (0.52%) Bicep
10 26 (0.42%) Korn
11 23 (0.37%) ABAP
12 22 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 20 (0.32%) R
13 20 (0.32%) VBA
14 19 (0.31%) PL/SQL
15 16 (0.26%) Shell Script
15 16 (0.26%) T-SQL
16 14 (0.23%) Apex Code
17 12 (0.19%) Go
18 9 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,228 (19.94%) Security Cleared
2 897 (14.57%) SC Cleared
3 425 (6.90%) Degree
4 294 (4.77%) PMP
5 250 (4.06%) PMI Certification
6 226 (3.67%) DV Cleared
7 175 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 146 (2.37%) CISSP
9 113 (1.84%) CISM
10 108 (1.75%) Azure Certification
11 76 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
12 68 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
13 65 (1.06%) AWS Certification
14 58 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
15 46 (0.75%) Master's Degree
16 44 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 43 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
18 41 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 41 (0.67%) ISTQB
19 37 (0.60%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 407 (6.61%) Data Quality
2 349 (5.67%) QA
3 300 (4.87%) PMO
4 219 (3.56%) GDPR
5 152 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 151 (2.45%) NIST
7 134 (2.18%) Accessibility
8 112 (1.82%) GRC
9 91 (1.48%) SLA
10 52 (0.84%) NCSC
11 42 (0.68%) WCAG
12 33 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 27 (0.44%) SOC 2
14 25 (0.41%) COBIT
15 23 (0.37%) IFRS
16 22 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
16 22 (0.36%) PCI DSS
17 18 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
17 18 (0.29%) ISO 20022
18 17 (0.28%) JSP 440
System Software
1 148 (2.40%) Active Directory
2 128 (2.08%) Docker
3 62 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.31%) vSphere
8 14 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.19%) NFS
10 11 (0.18%) Hyper-V
11 10 (0.16%) Postfix
12 6 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.065%) SRDF
13 4 (0.065%) Varnish
14 3 (0.049%) Ceph
14 3 (0.049%) HDFS
14 3 (0.049%) KVM
14 3 (0.049%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.032%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 206 (3.35%) Terraform
2 184 (2.99%) Kubernetes
3 95 (1.54%) Ansible
4 59 (0.96%) Grafana
5 46 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 44 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 29 (0.47%) SCCM
9 17 (0.28%) Argo
10 10 (0.16%) Control-M
10 10 (0.16%) Puppet
10 10 (0.16%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.15%) HP ALM
12 7 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.097%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.097%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.081%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.081%) Kibana
14 5 (0.081%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 935 (15.18%) Microsoft
2 486 (7.89%) SAP
3 336 (5.46%) Oracle
4 314 (5.10%) ServiceNow
5 231 (3.75%) Salesforce
6 171 (2.78%) Databricks
7 128 (2.08%) Google
8 96 (1.56%) VMware
9 90 (1.46%) Workday
10 74 (1.20%) Cisco
11 57 (0.93%) Adobe
11 57 (0.93%) CyberArk
12 53 (0.86%) IBM
13 47 (0.76%) Splunk
14 36 (0.58%) Ariba
14 36 (0.58%) Informatica
15 34 (0.55%) Atlassian
15 34 (0.55%) MuleSoft
16 32 (0.52%) F5
17 30 (0.49%) Okta