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

6 months to
15 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 6,096 2,881 2,461
As % of all contract jobs in England 13.31% 10.41% 7.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.63% 11.46% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,045 1,959 1,695
10th Percentile £390 £358 £363
25th Percentile £460 £435 £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 £743 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 62 65
10th Percentile £27.13 £28.59 £32.25
25th Percentile £35.62 £35.70 £55.94
Median hourly rate £60.50 £51.84 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +16.72% -15.85% +34.26%
75th Percentile £82.88 £72.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £101.67 £77.38 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £51.84 £60.83
% change year-on-year +16.72% -14.79% +32.59%

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 38,995 25,146 28,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.11% 90.84% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,229 16,020 18,598
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,544 1,434 1,645
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.35
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.60 £50.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +67.00% -39.40% -1.19%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 3,212 £563 -0.71% 3,137
North of England 0 894 £510 +2.00% 803
South East +9 797 £550 +4.76% 950
Midlands +2 535 £500 -4.76% 455
North West -2 456 £525 +5.00% 493
West Midlands +2 419 £500 -4.76% 298
Yorkshire +4 385 £500 +1.01% 220
South West +6 345 £550 +4.76% 382
East of England +8 189 £525 -4.55% 238
East Midlands +1 101 £500 +24.22% 155
North East -15 61 £478 -8.17% 93
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
1 342 (5.61%) Confluence
2 159 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 54 (0.89%) CMS
4 33 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (0.49%) Apache
6 27 (0.44%) SAS
7 22 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 17 (0.28%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.098%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.098%) WordPress
12 5 (0.082%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.082%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.082%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.066%) Appian
13 4 (0.066%) FactoryTalk
13 4 (0.066%) Kentico
13 4 (0.066%) Moodle
14 3 (0.049%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 266 (4.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 152 (2.49%) Microsoft Project
3 140 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
4 138 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (1.15%) 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 (0.098%) ProjectWise
11 5 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.066%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.066%) Notion
13 3 (0.049%) Sketch
13 3 (0.049%) Windchill
14 2 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.033%) CPLEX
14 2 (0.033%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 214 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 75 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 26 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
6 25 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
7 22 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
7 22 (0.36%) Workday HCM
8 21 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 20 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
10 19 (0.31%) SAP FI
11 18 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
12 17 (0.28%) Primavera
13 16 (0.26%) SAP ERP
14 15 (0.25%) SAP CO
14 15 (0.25%) SAP SD
15 14 (0.23%) Aladdin
15 14 (0.23%) Finacle
15 14 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
16 13 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,105 (18.13%) Azure
2 745 (12.22%) AWS
3 417 (6.84%) Power Platform
4 290 (4.76%) GCP
5 242 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
6 222 (3.64%) SaaS
7 163 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
8 142 (2.33%) Entra ID
9 128 (2.10%) Snowflake
10 122 (2.00%) GitHub
11 99 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
12 77 (1.26%) SuccessFactors
13 63 (1.03%) OCI
13 63 (1.03%) Serverless
14 61 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
14 61 (1.00%) PowerApps
15 56 (0.92%) Amazon S3
15 56 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
16 55 (0.90%) Power Automate
17 53 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 114 (1.87%) Network Security
2 113 (1.85%) Firewall
3 67 (1.10%) WAN
4 63 (1.03%) DNS
5 49 (0.80%) LAN
6 40 (0.66%) VPN
7 39 (0.64%) TCP/IP
8 36 (0.59%) SD-WAN
9 34 (0.56%) DHCP
10 27 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (0.38%) BGP
12 22 (0.36%) 4G
12 22 (0.36%) 5G
13 20 (0.33%) OSPF
14 18 (0.30%) Wireless
15 17 (0.28%) Internet
15 17 (0.28%) MPLS
16 15 (0.25%) SAN
16 15 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
17 14 (0.23%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 338 (5.54%) Power BI
2 163 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
3 132 (2.17%) Metadata
4 88 (1.44%) SQL Server
5 80 (1.31%) Data Lake
6 70 (1.15%) Tableau
7 67 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
8 48 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 47 (0.77%) Relational Database
10 39 (0.64%) Delta Lake
11 38 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
12 31 (0.51%) Oracle Database
13 29 (0.48%) BigQuery
14 27 (0.44%) Big Data
14 27 (0.44%) MongoDB
15 24 (0.39%) Looker
15 24 (0.39%) NoSQL
16 23 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
17 22 (0.36%) MySQL
18 20 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 620 (10.17%) JIRA
2 101 (1.66%) Git
3 89 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 60 (0.98%) GitLab
5 50 (0.82%) Selenium
6 30 (0.49%) JUnit
7 28 (0.46%) Postman
8 27 (0.44%) Cucumber
9 21 (0.34%) JMeter
9 21 (0.34%) SonarQube
10 18 (0.30%) Zephyr
11 16 (0.26%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.25%) Gatling
12 15 (0.25%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.21%) Maven
14 12 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (0.18%) LoadRunner
16 10 (0.16%) ERwin
17 9 (0.15%) Mockito
18 8 (0.13%) DbUnit
General
1 3,087 (50.64%) Social Skills
2 2,086 (34.22%) Finance
3 1,012 (16.60%) Analytical Skills
4 749 (12.29%) Public Sector
5 590 (9.68%) Banking
6 373 (6.12%) Retail
7 334 (5.48%) Influencing Skills
8 258 (4.23%) Legal
9 252 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
10 215 (3.53%) Marketing
11 213 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
12 195 (3.20%) Manufacturing
13 156 (2.56%) Telecoms
14 154 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
15 129 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 101 (1.66%) Aerospace
17 98 (1.61%) Local Government
18 89 (1.46%) Billing
19 85 (1.39%) Front Office
20 72 (1.18%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 901 (14.78%) Analyst
2 874 (14.34%) Lead
3 765 (12.55%) Project Manager
4 732 (12.01%) Architect
5 652 (10.70%) Senior
6 601 (9.86%) Business Analyst
7 370 (6.07%) Consultant
8 274 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
9 240 (3.94%) Senior Manager
10 183 (3.00%) Programme Manager
11 179 (2.94%) Delivery Manager
12 170 (2.79%) IT Manager
13 146 (2.40%) Product Manager
14 138 (2.26%) Developer
15 123 (2.02%) Technical Manager
16 119 (1.95%) Senior Project Manager
17 118 (1.94%) Product Owner
18 107 (1.76%) Senior Analyst
19 103 (1.69%) Data Analyst
20 102 (1.67%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (2.62%) REST
2 109 (1.79%) Middleware
3 86 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
4 74 (1.21%) SOAP
5 70 (1.15%) .NET
6 63 (1.03%) Kafka
7 49 (0.80%) PySpark
8 48 (0.79%) JSON
9 46 (0.75%) OAuth
10 45 (0.74%) React
11 40 (0.66%) HTML
11 40 (0.66%) SailPoint
12 39 (0.64%) Spring
13 37 (0.61%) CSS
14 35 (0.57%) XML
15 33 (0.54%) Web Services
16 29 (0.48%) OpenID
16 29 (0.48%) Spring Boot
17 28 (0.46%) Playwright
17 28 (0.46%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 459 (7.53%) Product Ownership
2 348 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 219 (3.59%) Cloud Native
4 176 (2.89%) Management Information System
5 168 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
6 135 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
7 129 (2.12%) Data Centre
8 112 (1.84%) Data Structures
9 111 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
10 98 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
11 94 (1.54%) Virtual Team
12 87 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
13 86 (1.41%) Operational Technology
14 84 (1.38%) AI Agents
15 81 (1.33%) Security Posture
16 72 (1.18%) NHS
17 66 (1.08%) CMDB
18 62 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
19 61 (1.00%) FMCG
20 55 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 192 (3.15%) Windows
2 112 (1.84%) Linux
3 47 (0.77%) Windows Server
4 44 (0.72%) Unix
5 29 (0.48%) Android
6 26 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 26 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.18%) VMS
9 10 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.098%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.066%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.066%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.066%) Solaris
11 4 (0.066%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.066%) zOS
12 3 (0.049%) AIX
13 2 (0.033%) CentOS
13 2 (0.033%) HPUX
13 2 (0.033%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,980 (32.48%) Agile
2 1,068 (17.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 981 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
4 938 (15.39%) Roadmaps
5 854 (14.01%) Migration
6 814 (13.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 761 (12.48%) Decision-Making
8 755 (12.39%) Project Management
9 735 (12.06%) DevOps
10 723 (11.86%) AI
11 712 (11.68%) Project Delivery
12 667 (10.94%) Analytics
13 628 (10.30%) Change Management
14 597 (9.79%) Risk Management
15 565 (9.27%) Workshop Facilitation
16 555 (9.10%) CI/CD
17 517 (8.48%) User Acceptance Testing
18 501 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
19 483 (7.92%) ITIL
20 482 (7.91%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 514 (8.43%) SQL
2 364 (5.97%) Python
3 138 (2.26%) Java
4 110 (1.80%) PowerShell
5 105 (1.72%) JavaScript
6 56 (0.92%) C#
7 48 (0.79%) Bash
8 32 (0.52%) TypeScript
9 31 (0.51%) Bicep
10 26 (0.43%) Korn
11 22 (0.36%) ABAP
12 20 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 20 (0.33%) VBA
13 19 (0.31%) R
14 18 (0.30%) PL/SQL
15 17 (0.28%) Shell Script
16 16 (0.26%) T-SQL
17 14 (0.23%) Apex Code
18 11 (0.18%) Go
19 9 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,224 (20.08%) Security Cleared
2 893 (14.65%) SC Cleared
3 417 (6.84%) Degree
4 295 (4.84%) PMP
5 252 (4.13%) PMI Certification
6 224 (3.67%) DV Cleared
7 172 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 143 (2.35%) CISSP
9 112 (1.84%) CISM
10 108 (1.77%) Azure Certification
11 72 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
12 63 (1.03%) AWS Certification
12 63 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
13 58 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
14 44 (0.72%) Master's Degree
15 42 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 41 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
17 39 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 39 (0.64%) ISTQB
18 35 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 387 (6.35%) Data Quality
2 346 (5.68%) QA
3 295 (4.84%) PMO
4 215 (3.53%) GDPR
5 151 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 148 (2.43%) NIST
7 133 (2.18%) Accessibility
8 108 (1.77%) GRC
9 90 (1.48%) SLA
10 50 (0.82%) NCSC
11 41 (0.67%) WCAG
12 35 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 29 (0.48%) SOC 2
14 25 (0.41%) COBIT
15 23 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
16 22 (0.36%) IFRS
17 21 (0.34%) PCI DSS
18 18 (0.30%) ISO 20022
19 17 (0.28%) JSP 440
20 16 (0.26%) GxP
System Software
1 144 (2.36%) Active Directory
2 128 (2.10%) Docker
3 62 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (0.33%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.30%) vSphere
8 14 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.20%) NFS
10 11 (0.18%) Hyper-V
11 10 (0.16%) Postfix
12 6 (0.098%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.066%) SRDF
13 4 (0.066%) 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 (0.033%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 201 (3.30%) Terraform
2 184 (3.02%) Kubernetes
3 93 (1.53%) Ansible
4 60 (0.98%) Grafana
5 45 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 44 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
7 35 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 28 (0.46%) SCCM
9 17 (0.28%) Argo
10 10 (0.16%) Control-M
10 10 (0.16%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.15%) HP ALM
11 9 (0.15%) Puppet
12 7 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.098%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.098%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.082%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.082%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.066%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 907 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 480 (7.87%) SAP
3 331 (5.43%) Oracle
4 319 (5.23%) ServiceNow
5 230 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 165 (2.71%) Databricks
7 126 (2.07%) Google
8 96 (1.57%) VMware
9 89 (1.46%) Workday
10 72 (1.18%) Cisco
11 56 (0.92%) Adobe
12 55 (0.90%) CyberArk
13 53 (0.87%) IBM
14 47 (0.77%) Splunk
15 35 (0.57%) Informatica
16 34 (0.56%) MuleSoft
17 33 (0.54%) Ariba
17 33 (0.54%) Atlassian
18 31 (0.51%) F5
19 30 (0.49%) Okta