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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 15 20
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 7,499 2,979 2,574
As % of all contract jobs in England 16.21% 10.62% 7.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.10% 11.68% 9.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,937 2,034 1,608
10th Percentile £392 £362 £363
25th Percentile £455 £444 £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 £748 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 64 68
10th Percentile £20.40 £24.05 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £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 £61.25 £47.50 £60.30
% change year-on-year +28.95% -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 39,257 25,497 27,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.90% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,690 16,157 17,059
10th Percentile £325 £293 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £416
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 2,996 1,590 1,150
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.54 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.33 £17.87 £20.30
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 £67.38
90th Percentile £78.88 £67.28 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.16
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.38% -8.38%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 3,934 £563 +2.27% 4,283
North of England +9 1,131 £500 - 1,178
South East +12 961 £549 +4.52% 1,129
Midlands +8 673 £500 - 724
North West +4 561 £525 +5.00% 676
West Midlands +8 542 £484 -10.57% 482
Yorkshire +7 495 £500 +2.56% 382
South West +8 374 £550 +2.56% 447
East of England +12 246 £510 -7.27% 381
East Midlands -2 114 £525 +17.71% 241
North East +3 83 £500 -2.91% 121
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
1 372 (4.96%) Confluence
2 204 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 72 (0.96%) CMS
4 52 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 43 (0.57%) Apache
6 29 (0.39%) 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%) Palantir Foundry
12 8 (0.11%) CICS
12 8 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
13 7 (0.093%) nginx
13 7 (0.093%) WebSphere
14 6 (0.080%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.080%) Oracle Workflow
14 6 (0.080%) WebLogic
15 5 (0.067%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 349 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 180 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 166 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
4 145 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
5 76 (1.01%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.31%) Revit
7 18 (0.24%) Navisworks
8 17 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 15 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 13 (0.17%) Chatbot
11 11 (0.15%) Trello
12 9 (0.12%) ProjectWise
13 8 (0.11%) Windchill
14 5 (0.067%) Adobe Illustrator
14 5 (0.067%) Adobe XD
14 5 (0.067%) Photoshop
15 4 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 4 (0.053%) Notion
16 3 (0.040%) CPLEX
16 3 (0.040%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 289 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 96 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 39 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
5 34 (0.45%) Workday HCM
6 30 (0.40%) SAP FI
7 29 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
8 27 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
8 27 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
9 26 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
9 26 (0.35%) SAP HCM
9 26 (0.35%) SAP Payroll
10 24 (0.32%) Aladdin
10 24 (0.32%) SAP HR
11 19 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
11 19 (0.25%) SAP CO
11 19 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
12 17 (0.23%) SAP ERP
12 17 (0.23%) SAP MDG
13 16 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,354 (18.06%) Azure
2 879 (11.72%) AWS
3 590 (7.87%) Power Platform
4 362 (4.83%) GCP
5 306 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
6 268 (3.57%) SaaS
7 252 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
8 197 (2.63%) GitHub
9 185 (2.47%) Entra ID
10 152 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
11 149 (1.99%) Snowflake
12 119 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
13 105 (1.40%) Serverless
14 97 (1.29%) Power Automate
15 92 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
16 85 (1.13%) PowerApps
17 82 (1.09%) OCI
18 76 (1.01%) Amazon S3
19 73 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
20 69 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 152 (2.03%) Firewall
2 138 (1.84%) Network Security
3 80 (1.07%) WAN
4 75 (1.00%) DNS
5 58 (0.77%) VPN
6 51 (0.68%) LAN
7 49 (0.65%) TCP/IP
8 46 (0.61%) DHCP
9 39 (0.52%) SD-WAN
10 32 (0.43%) BGP
11 28 (0.37%) Internet
12 26 (0.35%) 4G
12 26 (0.35%) MPLS
12 26 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (0.33%) 5G
13 25 (0.33%) Wireless
14 22 (0.29%) VLAN
15 21 (0.28%) Broadband
15 21 (0.28%) OSPF
16 19 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 454 (6.05%) Power BI
2 213 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
3 206 (2.75%) Metadata
4 122 (1.63%) SQL Server
5 104 (1.39%) Data Lake
6 98 (1.31%) Tableau
7 78 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
8 57 (0.76%) BigQuery
9 56 (0.75%) Relational Database
10 53 (0.71%) MongoDB
11 52 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
12 49 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
13 47 (0.63%) Delta Lake
14 44 (0.59%) Looker
15 39 (0.52%) Oracle Database
16 36 (0.48%) NoSQL
17 29 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
18 28 (0.37%) DynamoDB
19 24 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
19 24 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 681 (9.08%) JIRA
2 157 (2.09%) Git
3 103 (1.37%) GitLab
4 101 (1.35%) Jenkins
5 77 (1.03%) Selenium
6 53 (0.71%) Cucumber
7 46 (0.61%) JUnit
8 38 (0.51%) Gatling
9 34 (0.45%) Postman
10 33 (0.44%) SonarQube
11 23 (0.31%) Cypress.io
12 20 (0.27%) Zephyr
13 16 (0.21%) JMeter
14 13 (0.17%) LoadRunner
14 13 (0.17%) Maven
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 4,026 (53.69%) Social Skills
2 2,494 (33.26%) Finance
3 1,266 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1,011 (13.48%) Public Sector
5 801 (10.68%) Banking
6 463 (6.17%) Influencing Skills
7 404 (5.39%) Retail
8 349 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
9 332 (4.43%) Legal
10 301 (4.01%) Manufacturing
11 251 (3.35%) Marketing
12 248 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
13 199 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
14 189 (2.52%) Telecoms
15 151 (2.01%) Aerospace
16 149 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 122 (1.63%) Front Office
18 121 (1.61%) Local Government
19 105 (1.40%) Investment Banking
20 100 (1.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,081 (14.42%) Analyst
2 1,003 (13.38%) Lead
3 1,002 (13.36%) Architect
4 805 (10.73%) Senior
5 791 (10.55%) Project Manager
6 696 (9.28%) Business Analyst
7 505 (6.73%) Consultant
8 336 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
9 253 (3.37%) Senior Manager
10 216 (2.88%) Delivery Manager
11 189 (2.52%) Product Manager
12 184 (2.45%) IT Manager
13 183 (2.44%) Programme Manager
14 177 (2.36%) Developer
15 147 (1.96%) Senior Analyst
16 140 (1.87%) Technical Manager
17 138 (1.84%) Product Owner
18 124 (1.65%) Data Analyst
19 118 (1.57%) Data Engineer
20 117 (1.56%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (3.81%) Terraform
2 213 (2.84%) REST
3 142 (1.89%) Middleware
4 117 (1.56%) .NET
5 94 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
6 87 (1.16%) 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 (0.85%) Spring
12 59 (0.79%) Playwright
13 53 (0.71%) HTML
14 50 (0.67%) LDAP
15 45 (0.60%) CSS
16 43 (0.57%) XML
17 42 (0.56%) OAuth2
17 42 (0.56%) Web Services
18 41 (0.55%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 580 (7.73%) Product Ownership
2 446 (5.95%) Onboarding
3 312 (4.16%) Cloud Native
4 251 (3.35%) Management Information System
5 214 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
6 178 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
7 174 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
8 151 (2.01%) Data Centre
9 135 (1.80%) AI Agents
10 126 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
11 123 (1.64%) Operational Technology
12 118 (1.57%) Data Structures
13 111 (1.48%) Virtual Team
14 100 (1.33%) CMDB
15 97 (1.29%) Security Posture
16 92 (1.23%) NHS
17 91 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
18 85 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
19 79 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
20 75 (1.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 252 (3.36%) Windows
2 160 (2.13%) Linux
3 80 (1.07%) Windows Server
4 58 (0.77%) Unix
5 24 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.25%) Android
7 17 (0.23%) 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 (0.093%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.053%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.053%) 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 2,312 (30.83%) Agile
2 1,380 (18.40%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,299 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
4 1,262 (16.83%) Roadmaps
5 1,081 (14.42%) Migration
6 1,026 (13.68%) Decision-Making
7 1,018 (13.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 999 (13.32%) AI
9 887 (11.83%) DevOps
10 886 (11.81%) Project Delivery
11 866 (11.55%) Analytics
12 819 (10.92%) Project Management
13 798 (10.64%) Workshop Facilitation
14 754 (10.05%) Change Management
15 746 (9.95%) Risk Management
16 744 (9.92%) CI/CD
17 640 (8.53%) User Acceptance Testing
18 639 (8.52%) Requirements Gathering
19 630 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
20 619 (8.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 687 (9.16%) SQL
2 498 (6.64%) Python
3 209 (2.79%) Java
4 158 (2.11%) JavaScript
5 156 (2.08%) PowerShell
6 101 (1.35%) C#
7 76 (1.01%) Bash
8 65 (0.87%) TypeScript
9 48 (0.64%) Bicep
10 44 (0.59%) ABAP
11 35 (0.47%) Korn
12 27 (0.36%) R
13 23 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 23 (0.31%) T-SQL
14 22 (0.29%) PL/SQL
15 19 (0.25%) Shell Script
16 18 (0.24%) Go
17 13 (0.17%) Apex Code
17 13 (0.17%) VBA
18 12 (0.16%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,503 (20.04%) Security Cleared
2 1,105 (14.74%) SC Cleared
3 516 (6.88%) Degree
4 314 (4.19%) PMP
5 288 (3.84%) PMI Certification
6 281 (3.75%) DV Cleared
7 280 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 168 (2.24%) CISSP
9 131 (1.75%) Azure Certification
10 126 (1.68%) CISM
11 96 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
12 94 (1.25%) AWS Certification
13 79 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
13 79 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
14 66 (0.88%) ACCA
15 63 (0.84%) CIMA
16 61 (0.81%) ISTQB
17 59 (0.79%) Master's Degree
18 50 (0.67%) CRISC
18 50 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 583 (7.77%) Data Quality
2 440 (5.87%) QA
3 333 (4.44%) PMO
4 223 (2.97%) GDPR
5 213 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 212 (2.83%) Accessibility
7 168 (2.24%) NIST
8 138 (1.84%) GRC
9 98 (1.31%) SLA
10 80 (1.07%) WCAG
11 67 (0.89%) NCSC
12 44 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
13 31 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 28 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
15 26 (0.35%) IFRS
15 26 (0.35%) PCI DSS
16 25 (0.33%) ISO 20022
17 24 (0.32%) GxP
18 23 (0.31%) COBIT
19 22 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 199 (2.65%) Active Directory
2 175 (2.33%) Docker
3 76 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.41%) 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 (0.053%) FreeRADIUS
13 4 (0.053%) IAG
13 4 (0.053%) 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 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 115 (1.53%) Ansible
3 67 (0.89%) Grafana
4 54 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 48 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (0.43%) SCCM
7 31 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.21%) Argo
9 13 (0.17%) Control-M
10 12 (0.16%) Kibana
11 10 (0.13%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.12%) Tivoli
13 8 (0.11%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.11%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.11%) WMI
14 7 (0.093%) Puppet
14 7 (0.093%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 6 (0.080%) Tivoli Monitoring
16 5 (0.067%) Data Guard
16 5 (0.067%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1,289 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 611 (8.15%) SAP
3 410 (5.47%) Oracle
4 378 (5.04%) ServiceNow
5 260 (3.47%) Salesforce
6 227 (3.03%) Databricks
7 174 (2.32%) Google
8 113 (1.51%) Workday
9 109 (1.45%) Cisco
10 107 (1.43%) VMware
11 83 (1.11%) IBM
12 78 (1.04%) CyberArk
13 66 (0.88%) Splunk
14 59 (0.79%) Adobe
15 51 (0.68%) Ariba
16 42 (0.56%) Fortinet
17 40 (0.53%) Informatica
18 39 (0.52%) MuleSoft
19 36 (0.48%) Dynatrace
20 34 (0.45%) Atlassian