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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 7,157 2,932 2,540
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.51% 10.57% 7.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.35% 11.62% 9.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,742 1,995 1,588
10th Percentile £388 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £645
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £530 £548
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.20% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 64 67
10th Percentile £19.60 £27.52 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.00 £47.32
Median hourly rate £60.50 £49.25 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +22.84% -20.05% +30.54%
75th Percentile £80.00 £60.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £76.38 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £49.25 £60.30
% change year-on-year +22.84% -18.33% +15.53%

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 39,007 25,232 28,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.55% 90.97% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,733 16,031 17,231
10th Percentile £325 £295 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,853 1,544 1,222
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.85 £20.26
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -1.16%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +13 3,772 £560 +1.82% 2,942
North of England +7 1,068 £504 +0.70% 902
South East +12 907 £550 +4.76% 929
Midlands +7 642 £500 -2.91% 595
North West +4 531 £525 +5.00% 519
West Midlands +8 523 £492 -9.85% 406
Yorkshire +7 469 £500 - 289
South West +7 369 £550 - 321
East of England +9 219 £510 -7.27% 286
East Midlands -1 104 £500 +12.99% 188
North East +2 77 £500 -3.85% 95
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
1 354 (4.95%) Confluence
2 199 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 69 (0.96%) CMS
4 51 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 43 (0.60%) Apache
6 30 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 24 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 21 (0.29%) SAS
9 13 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 9 (0.13%) WordPress
12 8 (0.11%) CICS
13 7 (0.098%) nginx
13 7 (0.098%) Palantir Foundry
14 6 (0.084%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.084%) Jupyter
14 6 (0.084%) WebSphere
15 5 (0.070%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.070%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 318 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 170 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 163 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
4 134 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
5 71 (0.99%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.35%) Revit
7 19 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 18 (0.25%) Navisworks
9 14 (0.20%) Chatbot
9 14 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 11 (0.15%) Trello
11 9 (0.13%) ProjectWise
12 7 (0.098%) Windchill
13 5 (0.070%) Adobe XD
14 4 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.056%) Adobe Illustrator
14 4 (0.056%) Notion
14 4 (0.056%) Photoshop
15 3 (0.042%) CPLEX
15 3 (0.042%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 255 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 94 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.50%) NetSuite
4 31 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 29 (0.41%) Workday HCM
6 27 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
7 24 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
8 23 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
8 23 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
9 22 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
9 22 (0.31%) SAP HCM
10 21 (0.29%) SAP HR
11 19 (0.27%) Aladdin
11 19 (0.27%) SAP ERP
11 19 (0.27%) SAP FI
12 18 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
13 17 (0.24%) SAP MDG
14 16 (0.22%) SAP SD
15 15 (0.21%) Primavera
15 15 (0.21%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,292 (18.05%) Azure
2 867 (12.11%) AWS
3 561 (7.84%) Power Platform
4 351 (4.90%) GCP
5 277 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
6 250 (3.49%) SaaS
7 229 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
8 180 (2.52%) GitHub
9 171 (2.39%) Entra ID
10 147 (2.05%) Snowflake
11 141 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
12 108 (1.51%) Microsoft Copilot
13 101 (1.41%) Serverless
14 94 (1.31%) Power Automate
15 87 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
16 83 (1.16%) PowerApps
17 75 (1.05%) Amazon S3
18 69 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
18 69 (0.96%) OCI
19 68 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 143 (2.00%) Firewall
2 134 (1.87%) Network Security
3 79 (1.10%) WAN
4 71 (0.99%) DNS
5 50 (0.70%) LAN
6 49 (0.68%) VPN
7 46 (0.64%) DHCP
8 44 (0.61%) TCP/IP
9 37 (0.52%) SD-WAN
10 27 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 25 (0.35%) 4G
11 25 (0.35%) 5G
11 25 (0.35%) BGP
12 24 (0.34%) Internet
13 23 (0.32%) Wireless
14 21 (0.29%) MPLS
15 20 (0.28%) Broadband
16 17 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
17 16 (0.22%) SSL
17 16 (0.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 434 (6.06%) Power BI
2 200 (2.79%) Metadata
3 199 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 115 (1.61%) SQL Server
5 99 (1.38%) Data Lake
6 87 (1.22%) Tableau
7 72 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
8 52 (0.73%) BigQuery
9 50 (0.70%) Delta Lake
9 50 (0.70%) Relational Database
10 49 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 49 (0.68%) MongoDB
11 47 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
12 38 (0.53%) Looker
13 33 (0.46%) NoSQL
13 33 (0.46%) Oracle Database
14 28 (0.39%) DynamoDB
15 27 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
16 23 (0.32%) MySQL
16 23 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 655 (9.15%) JIRA
2 144 (2.01%) Git
3 98 (1.37%) GitLab
4 97 (1.36%) Jenkins
5 71 (0.99%) Selenium
6 48 (0.67%) Cucumber
7 43 (0.60%) JUnit
8 34 (0.48%) Gatling
9 31 (0.43%) Postman
9 31 (0.43%) SonarQube
10 19 (0.27%) Cypress.io
10 19 (0.27%) Zephyr
11 16 (0.22%) JMeter
12 14 (0.20%) Maven
13 13 (0.18%) LoadRunner
14 12 (0.17%) WebDriver
15 11 (0.15%) Claude Code
15 11 (0.15%) MSI
16 10 (0.14%) Mockito
17 9 (0.13%) ERwin
General
1 3,843 (53.70%) Social Skills
2 2,368 (33.09%) Finance
3 1,196 (16.71%) Analytical Skills
4 942 (13.16%) Public Sector
5 736 (10.28%) Banking
6 437 (6.11%) Influencing Skills
7 403 (5.63%) Retail
8 324 (4.53%) Organisational Skills
9 314 (4.39%) Legal
10 260 (3.63%) Manufacturing
11 243 (3.40%) Marketing
12 232 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
13 191 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
14 174 (2.43%) Telecoms
15 147 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 134 (1.87%) Aerospace
17 119 (1.66%) Local Government
18 113 (1.58%) Front Office
19 94 (1.31%) Billing
20 91 (1.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,025 (14.32%) Analyst
2 975 (13.62%) Architect
3 964 (13.47%) Lead
4 773 (10.80%) Project Manager
5 760 (10.62%) Senior
6 661 (9.24%) Business Analyst
7 469 (6.55%) Consultant
8 324 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
9 245 (3.42%) Senior Manager
10 207 (2.89%) Delivery Manager
11 181 (2.53%) IT Manager
12 176 (2.46%) Product Manager
13 175 (2.45%) Programme Manager
14 165 (2.31%) Developer
15 137 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
16 135 (1.89%) Technical Manager
17 131 (1.83%) Product Owner
18 116 (1.62%) Data Analyst
18 116 (1.62%) Data Engineer
19 113 (1.58%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (3.74%) Terraform
2 201 (2.81%) REST
3 138 (1.93%) Middleware
4 103 (1.44%) .NET
5 84 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
6 82 (1.15%) Kafka
7 81 (1.13%) SOAP
8 71 (0.99%) PySpark
9 66 (0.92%) React
10 65 (0.91%) JSON
11 64 (0.89%) OAuth
12 60 (0.84%) Spring
13 52 (0.73%) Playwright
14 50 (0.70%) HTML
15 49 (0.68%) LDAP
16 46 (0.64%) XML
17 43 (0.60%) CSS
18 42 (0.59%) SailPoint
19 41 (0.57%) Web Services
20 39 (0.54%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 563 (7.87%) Product Ownership
2 434 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 288 (4.02%) Cloud Native
4 231 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 187 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
6 171 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
7 162 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
8 137 (1.91%) Data Centre
9 124 (1.73%) AI Agents
10 118 (1.65%) Data Structures
11 116 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
12 115 (1.61%) Operational Technology
13 105 (1.47%) Virtual Team
14 97 (1.36%) Security Posture
15 91 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
15 91 (1.27%) CMDB
16 89 (1.24%) NHS
17 77 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
18 75 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
19 65 (0.91%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 232 (3.24%) Windows
2 148 (2.07%) Linux
3 74 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 53 (0.74%) Unix
5 25 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.27%) Android
7 18 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.20%) VMS
10 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 10 (0.14%) zOS
11 7 (0.098%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.070%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.056%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.042%) CentOS
14 3 (0.042%) Solaris
15 2 (0.028%) AIX
15 2 (0.028%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,248 (31.41%) Agile
2 1,307 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,216 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
4 1,189 (16.61%) Roadmaps
5 1,018 (14.22%) Migration
6 957 (13.37%) Decision-Making
7 950 (13.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 946 (13.22%) AI
9 846 (11.82%) DevOps
10 830 (11.60%) Project Delivery
11 817 (11.42%) Analytics
12 800 (11.18%) Project Management
13 719 (10.05%) Change Management
13 719 (10.05%) Workshop Facilitation
14 707 (9.88%) Risk Management
15 706 (9.86%) CI/CD
16 601 (8.40%) User Acceptance Testing
17 597 (8.34%) Cybersecurity
18 596 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
19 588 (8.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 654 (9.14%) SQL
2 469 (6.55%) Python
3 201 (2.81%) Java
4 150 (2.10%) JavaScript
5 144 (2.01%) PowerShell
6 88 (1.23%) C#
7 74 (1.03%) Bash
8 59 (0.82%) TypeScript
9 42 (0.59%) ABAP
10 41 (0.57%) Bicep
11 33 (0.46%) Korn
12 27 (0.38%) R
13 25 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 23 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 23 (0.32%) PL/SQL
15 18 (0.25%) Go
15 18 (0.25%) Shell Script
16 16 (0.22%) VBA
17 13 (0.18%) Apex Code
18 11 (0.15%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1,447 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 1,065 (14.88%) SC Cleared
3 494 (6.90%) Degree
4 308 (4.30%) PMP
5 274 (3.83%) PMI Certification
6 271 (3.79%) DV Cleared
7 264 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 159 (2.22%) CISSP
9 127 (1.77%) Azure Certification
10 120 (1.68%) CISM
11 92 (1.29%) AWS Certification
11 92 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
12 78 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 78 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 56 (0.78%) ACCA
13 56 (0.78%) Master's Degree
14 53 (0.74%) CIMA
15 50 (0.70%) ISTQB
16 48 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
16 48 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 549 (7.67%) Data Quality
2 417 (5.83%) QA
3 322 (4.50%) PMO
4 220 (3.07%) GDPR
5 193 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 189 (2.64%) Accessibility
7 169 (2.36%) NIST
8 132 (1.84%) GRC
9 97 (1.36%) SLA
10 74 (1.03%) WCAG
11 63 (0.88%) NCSC
12 38 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
13 29 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 26 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
14 26 (0.36%) IFRS
15 25 (0.35%) ISO 20022
16 24 (0.34%) GxP
17 23 (0.32%) COBIT
17 23 (0.32%) PCI DSS
18 21 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 186 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 171 (2.39%) Docker
3 73 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.41%) vSphere
5 27 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 25 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (0.32%) VMware NSX
8 18 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.14%) NFS
10 8 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.084%) Postfix
11 6 (0.084%) Time Sharing Option
12 4 (0.056%) FreeRADIUS
12 4 (0.056%) IAG
13 3 (0.042%) Ceph
13 3 (0.042%) KVM
13 3 (0.042%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.042%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 244 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 109 (1.52%) Ansible
3 61 (0.85%) Grafana
4 50 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 40 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 30 (0.42%) SCCM
8 17 (0.24%) Argo
9 13 (0.18%) Control-M
10 11 (0.15%) Kibana
11 9 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.13%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.11%) Tivoli
12 8 (0.11%) WMI
13 7 (0.098%) HP ALM
13 7 (0.098%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.098%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 6 (0.084%) Oracle RMAN
14 6 (0.084%) Puppet
14 6 (0.084%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 1,205 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 557 (7.78%) SAP
3 382 (5.34%) Oracle
4 361 (5.04%) ServiceNow
5 256 (3.58%) Salesforce
6 223 (3.12%) Databricks
7 166 (2.32%) Google
8 106 (1.48%) Workday
9 105 (1.47%) VMware
10 93 (1.30%) Cisco
11 77 (1.08%) CyberArk
12 75 (1.05%) IBM
13 60 (0.84%) Adobe
13 60 (0.84%) Splunk
14 44 (0.61%) Ariba
15 42 (0.59%) MuleSoft
16 40 (0.56%) Informatica
17 35 (0.49%) Fortinet
18 31 (0.43%) Bloomberg
19 30 (0.42%) OpenAI