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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 6,612 2,864 2,463
As % of all contract jobs in England 14.41% 10.45% 7.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.98% 11.52% 8.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,384 1,941 1,630
10th Percentile £388 £360 £363
25th Percentile £457 £438 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £641
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £528 £539
% change year-on-year +4.17% -2.04% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 62 71
10th Percentile £21.56 £28.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £33.70 £33.00 £47.32
Median hourly rate £57.50 £48.25 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.17% -21.67% +34.26%
75th Percentile £80.00 £68.87 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.18 £78.63 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £47.50 £60.60
% change year-on-year +25.26% -21.62% +26.25%

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 38,940 24,864 27,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.85% 90.76% 85.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,004 15,800 17,728
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% -2.96% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,613 1,459 1,377
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.24 £14.43
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.88
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.35% +3.33%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +11 3,481 £563 -0.97% 2,758
North of England +4 999 £501 +0.25% 684
South East +8 850 £550 +4.76% 939
Midlands +4 565 £500 -4.76% 421
North West +2 522 £525 +5.00% 405
West Midlands +5 447 £500 -7.41% 288
Yorkshire +7 419 £500 +0.50% 206
South West +9 363 £550 +4.76% 349
East of England +7 207 £525 -4.55% 212
East Midlands -3 102 £500 +16.01% 131
North East -5 65 £490 +1.03% 80
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
1 341 (5.16%) Confluence
2 181 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 64 (0.97%) CMS
4 45 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (0.50%) Apache
6 27 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 21 (0.32%) SAS
8 20 (0.30%) Apache Spark
9 12 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.091%) ArcGIS
12 6 (0.091%) WordPress
13 5 (0.076%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.076%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.076%) Oracle Workflow
13 5 (0.076%) Sitecore CMS
14 4 (0.060%) Appian
14 4 (0.060%) FactoryTalk
14 4 (0.060%) Moodle
Applications
1 299 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 164 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 158 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
4 148 (2.24%) Microsoft Project
5 69 (1.04%) MS Visio
6 21 (0.32%) Revit
7 17 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 17 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 15 (0.23%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.18%) Navisworks
10 10 (0.15%) Trello
11 7 (0.11%) ProjectWise
12 6 (0.091%) Windchill
13 5 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.060%) Adobe XD
14 4 (0.060%) Notion
15 3 (0.045%) Adobe Illustrator
15 3 (0.045%) CPLEX
15 3 (0.045%) Photoshop
15 3 (0.045%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 230 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 86 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 30 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
5 27 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 26 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 24 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
7 24 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
8 23 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
9 18 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 18 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
10 17 (0.26%) SAP FI
10 17 (0.26%) SAP SD
11 16 (0.24%) Aladdin
11 16 (0.24%) SAP ERP
12 15 (0.23%) Primavera
12 15 (0.23%) SAP MDG
13 14 (0.21%) Finacle
13 14 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
14 13 (0.20%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 1,233 (18.65%) Azure
2 827 (12.51%) AWS
3 485 (7.34%) Power Platform
4 317 (4.79%) GCP
5 274 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
6 242 (3.66%) SaaS
7 200 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
8 170 (2.57%) Entra ID
9 151 (2.28%) GitHub
10 140 (2.12%) Snowflake
11 121 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
12 87 (1.32%) Serverless
13 86 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
14 74 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
15 71 (1.07%) OCI
15 71 (1.07%) PowerApps
16 68 (1.03%) Power Automate
17 66 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
18 61 (0.92%) Amazon S3
19 60 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 129 (1.95%) Network Security
2 127 (1.92%) Firewall
3 77 (1.16%) WAN
4 67 (1.01%) DNS
5 50 (0.76%) LAN
6 43 (0.65%) VPN
7 41 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 39 (0.59%) DHCP
9 38 (0.57%) SD-WAN
10 29 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (0.41%) 4G
11 27 (0.41%) 5G
11 27 (0.41%) BGP
12 25 (0.38%) Wireless
13 19 (0.29%) Broadband
13 19 (0.29%) Internet
14 18 (0.27%) MPLS
15 17 (0.26%) OSPF
16 16 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
16 16 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (5.75%) Power BI
2 184 (2.78%) Metadata
3 183 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
4 107 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 85 (1.29%) Data Lake
6 75 (1.13%) Tableau
7 65 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
8 49 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 49 (0.74%) Delta Lake
8 49 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 43 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
10 38 (0.57%) MongoDB
11 35 (0.53%) BigQuery
12 31 (0.47%) Oracle Database
13 28 (0.42%) NoSQL
14 27 (0.41%) Looker
15 25 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
16 24 (0.36%) Big Data
17 23 (0.35%) DynamoDB
18 22 (0.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 635 (9.60%) JIRA
2 115 (1.74%) Git
3 89 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 69 (1.04%) GitLab
5 55 (0.83%) Selenium
6 30 (0.45%) Cucumber
7 29 (0.44%) JUnit
7 29 (0.44%) Postman
8 25 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 22 (0.33%) Gatling
10 18 (0.27%) Cypress.io
10 18 (0.27%) Zephyr
11 17 (0.26%) JMeter
12 14 (0.21%) Maven
13 12 (0.18%) LoadRunner
14 11 (0.17%) ERwin
14 11 (0.17%) Mockito
14 11 (0.17%) WebDriver
15 10 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
16 9 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 3,465 (52.40%) Social Skills
2 2,221 (33.59%) Finance
3 1,106 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
4 830 (12.55%) Public Sector
5 657 (9.94%) Banking
6 401 (6.06%) Retail
7 383 (5.79%) Influencing Skills
8 292 (4.42%) Organisational Skills
9 272 (4.11%) Legal
10 227 (3.43%) Marketing
11 226 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
12 216 (3.27%) Manufacturing
13 175 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
14 173 (2.62%) Telecoms
15 131 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 113 (1.71%) Aerospace
17 107 (1.62%) Local Government
18 96 (1.45%) Front Office
19 95 (1.44%) Billing
20 82 (1.24%) Law
Job Titles
1 962 (14.55%) Analyst
2 932 (14.10%) Lead
3 857 (12.96%) Architect
4 770 (11.65%) Project Manager
5 694 (10.50%) Senior
6 619 (9.36%) Business Analyst
7 430 (6.50%) Consultant
8 292 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
9 237 (3.58%) Senior Manager
10 187 (2.83%) Delivery Manager
11 186 (2.81%) Programme Manager
12 173 (2.62%) IT Manager
13 154 (2.33%) Product Manager
14 150 (2.27%) Developer
15 129 (1.95%) Technical Manager
16 123 (1.86%) Product Owner
17 119 (1.80%) Senior Analyst
18 115 (1.74%) Senior Project Manager
19 111 (1.68%) Data Architect
20 110 (1.66%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (3.54%) Terraform
2 175 (2.65%) REST
3 118 (1.78%) Middleware
4 87 (1.32%) .NET
4 87 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
5 75 (1.13%) Kafka
6 73 (1.10%) SOAP
7 59 (0.89%) PySpark
8 58 (0.88%) OAuth
9 55 (0.83%) JSON
10 51 (0.77%) React
11 47 (0.71%) Spring
12 45 (0.68%) HTML
13 41 (0.62%) XML
14 40 (0.60%) CSS
14 40 (0.60%) SailPoint
15 39 (0.59%) Playwright
16 38 (0.57%) LDAP
16 38 (0.57%) OpenID
17 36 (0.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 502 (7.59%) Product Ownership
2 384 (5.81%) Onboarding
3 257 (3.89%) Cloud Native
4 205 (3.10%) Management Information System
5 160 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 153 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 152 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
8 133 (2.01%) Data Centre
9 116 (1.75%) Data Structures
10 106 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
11 100 (1.51%) AI Agents
12 98 (1.48%) Operational Technology
13 96 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
13 96 (1.45%) Virtual Team
14 86 (1.30%) Security Posture
15 80 (1.21%) CMDB
16 79 (1.19%) NHS
17 69 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
17 69 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
18 64 (0.97%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 206 (3.12%) Windows
2 129 (1.95%) Linux
3 61 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 46 (0.70%) Unix
5 24 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.27%) Android
7 16 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.21%) VMS
8 14 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.11%) zOS
11 5 (0.076%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.060%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.060%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.060%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.045%) CentOS
13 3 (0.045%) Solaris
14 2 (0.030%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.030%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,108 (31.88%) Agile
2 1,195 (18.07%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,094 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
4 1,056 (15.97%) Roadmaps
5 931 (14.08%) Migration
6 890 (13.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 857 (12.96%) Decision-Making
8 834 (12.61%) AI
9 805 (12.17%) Project Management
10 796 (12.04%) DevOps
11 779 (11.78%) Project Delivery
12 745 (11.27%) Analytics
13 688 (10.41%) Change Management
14 653 (9.88%) Risk Management
15 645 (9.75%) Workshop Facilitation
16 618 (9.35%) CI/CD
17 557 (8.42%) User Acceptance Testing
18 554 (8.38%) Cybersecurity
19 539 (8.15%) Requirements Gathering
20 536 (8.11%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 583 (8.82%) SQL
2 414 (6.26%) Python
3 165 (2.50%) Java
4 134 (2.03%) PowerShell
5 119 (1.80%) JavaScript
6 73 (1.10%) C#
7 64 (0.97%) Bash
8 42 (0.64%) TypeScript
9 39 (0.59%) Bicep
10 28 (0.42%) Korn
11 26 (0.39%) ABAP
12 24 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 23 (0.35%) R
14 21 (0.32%) PL/SQL
15 20 (0.30%) T-SQL
16 19 (0.29%) VBA
17 15 (0.23%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.21%) Apex Code
18 14 (0.21%) Go
19 10 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,333 (20.16%) Security Cleared
2 971 (14.69%) SC Cleared
3 444 (6.72%) Degree
4 307 (4.64%) PMP
5 269 (4.07%) PMI Certification
6 252 (3.81%) DV Cleared
7 207 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 153 (2.31%) CISSP
9 121 (1.83%) CISM
10 117 (1.77%) Azure Certification
11 81 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
12 77 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
13 76 (1.15%) AWS Certification
14 70 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
15 49 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
16 48 (0.73%) Master's Degree
17 45 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 45 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 43 (0.65%) ACCA
19 42 (0.64%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 476 (7.20%) Data Quality
2 382 (5.78%) QA
3 320 (4.84%) PMO
4 215 (3.25%) GDPR
5 172 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 165 (2.50%) NIST
7 157 (2.37%) Accessibility
8 124 (1.88%) GRC
9 96 (1.45%) SLA
10 56 (0.85%) WCAG
11 55 (0.83%) NCSC
12 29 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 27 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
14 24 (0.36%) IFRS
15 23 (0.35%) COBIT
15 23 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
15 23 (0.35%) SOC 2
16 21 (0.32%) PCI DSS
17 20 (0.30%) ISO 20022
18 18 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 173 (2.62%) Active Directory
2 146 (2.21%) Docker
3 67 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 25 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (0.33%) VMware NSX
6 21 (0.32%) vSphere
7 15 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.17%) NFS
10 7 (0.11%) Postfix
11 6 (0.091%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.060%) Time Sharing Option
13 3 (0.045%) Ceph
13 3 (0.045%) KVM
13 3 (0.045%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.045%) Varnish
13 3 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.030%) FreeRADIUS
14 2 (0.030%) IAG
Systems Management
1 213 (3.22%) Kubernetes
2 102 (1.54%) Ansible
3 62 (0.94%) Grafana
4 46 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 40 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 32 (0.48%) SCCM
8 17 (0.26%) Argo
9 11 (0.17%) Control-M
10 10 (0.15%) Kibana
10 10 (0.15%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.12%) HP ALM
12 7 (0.11%) Puppet
12 7 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.091%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.091%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.076%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.076%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.076%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.076%) WMI
Vendors
1 1,073 (16.23%) Microsoft
2 507 (7.67%) SAP
3 358 (5.41%) Oracle
4 338 (5.11%) ServiceNow
5 239 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 207 (3.13%) Databricks
7 134 (2.03%) Google
8 101 (1.53%) VMware
9 92 (1.39%) Workday
10 80 (1.21%) Cisco
11 66 (1.00%) CyberArk
12 57 (0.86%) Adobe
13 53 (0.80%) IBM
13 53 (0.80%) Splunk
14 45 (0.68%) Ariba
15 42 (0.64%) Informatica
16 36 (0.54%) MuleSoft
17 30 (0.45%) F5
18 29 (0.44%) Atlassian
18 29 (0.44%) Foundry