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

6 months to
17 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 6,977 2,933 2,494
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.03% 10.56% 7.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.73% 11.62% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,619 1,992 1,594
10th Percentile £386 £361 £363
25th Percentile £456 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £528 £538
% change year-on-year +4.17% -1.77% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 63 72
10th Percentile £20.54 £28.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.67 £33.00 £42.47
Median hourly rate £60.50 £47.48 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +27.44% -22.93% +23.30%
75th Percentile £80.00 £61.88 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £77.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £47.48 £60.83
% change year-on-year +27.44% -21.95% +16.54%

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 39,349 25,238 28,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.76% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,108 16,041 17,545
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
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 2,747 1,497 1,306
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £14.92
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 3,672 £563 +0.99% 4,914
North of England +5 1,043 £507 +1.40% 1,212
South East +10 893 £550 +4.76% 1,445
Midlands +7 608 £500 -4.76% 755
North West +3 534 £525 +5.00% 745
West Midlands +9 488 £500 -7.53% 513
Yorkshire +8 443 £500 +1.01% 365
South West +7 379 £550 - 506
East of England +8 220 £525 -4.55% 398
East Midlands -1 105 £500 +13.31% 242
North East -2 75 £495 -4.81% 108
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
1 350 (5.02%) Confluence
2 193 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 65 (0.93%) CMS
4 48 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 38 (0.54%) Apache
6 29 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 24 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.32%) SAS
9 13 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 9 (0.13%) WordPress
11 8 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 7 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.086%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.086%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.086%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.072%) CICS
14 5 (0.072%) NetWeaver
14 5 (0.072%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.072%) Sitecore CMS
15 4 (0.057%) Kentico
Applications
1 313 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 166 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 163 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
4 141 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
5 74 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.33%) Revit
7 18 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 17 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
9 15 (0.21%) Navisworks
10 14 (0.20%) Chatbot
11 10 (0.14%) Trello
12 8 (0.11%) ProjectWise
13 7 (0.10%) Windchill
14 6 (0.086%) Adobe XD
15 5 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 4 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
16 4 (0.057%) Notion
16 4 (0.057%) Photoshop
16 4 (0.057%) Sketch
17 3 (0.043%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 242 (3.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 91 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 30 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 28 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 27 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 24 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 23 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
8 23 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
9 21 (0.30%) SAP Payroll
10 19 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
10 19 (0.27%) SAP ERP
10 19 (0.27%) SAP HR
11 18 (0.26%) SAP HCM
12 17 (0.24%) SAP FI
12 17 (0.24%) SAP MDG
13 16 (0.23%) Aladdin
13 16 (0.23%) SAP SD
14 15 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
14 15 (0.21%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,277 (18.30%) Azure
2 861 (12.34%) AWS
3 530 (7.60%) Power Platform
4 335 (4.80%) GCP
5 279 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 249 (3.57%) SaaS
7 219 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
8 167 (2.39%) Entra ID
8 167 (2.39%) GitHub
9 144 (2.06%) Snowflake
10 135 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
11 99 (1.42%) Microsoft Copilot
12 97 (1.39%) Serverless
13 86 (1.23%) Power Automate
14 81 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
15 80 (1.15%) PowerApps
16 73 (1.05%) OCI
17 71 (1.02%) Amazon S3
18 70 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
19 65 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 129 (1.85%) Firewall
2 127 (1.82%) Network Security
3 78 (1.12%) WAN
4 69 (0.99%) DNS
5 49 (0.70%) LAN
6 45 (0.64%) VPN
7 43 (0.62%) DHCP
8 42 (0.60%) TCP/IP
9 36 (0.52%) SD-WAN
10 28 (0.40%) 4G
10 28 (0.40%) 5G
10 28 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
11 25 (0.36%) BGP
12 23 (0.33%) Wireless
13 21 (0.30%) Internet
14 20 (0.29%) Broadband
14 20 (0.29%) MPLS
15 16 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
15 16 (0.23%) SSL
16 15 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 412 (5.91%) Power BI
2 196 (2.81%) Metadata
3 193 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
4 114 (1.63%) SQL Server
5 95 (1.36%) Data Lake
6 79 (1.13%) Tableau
7 72 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
8 52 (0.75%) Delta Lake
9 51 (0.73%) Relational Database
10 50 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
11 48 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
12 41 (0.59%) BigQuery
12 41 (0.59%) MongoDB
13 32 (0.46%) NoSQL
13 32 (0.46%) Oracle Database
14 30 (0.43%) Looker
15 29 (0.42%) DynamoDB
16 26 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
17 25 (0.36%) Big Data
18 24 (0.34%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 653 (9.36%) JIRA
2 134 (1.92%) Git
3 98 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 83 (1.19%) GitLab
5 59 (0.85%) Selenium
6 37 (0.53%) Cucumber
7 34 (0.49%) JUnit
8 29 (0.42%) Postman
8 29 (0.42%) SonarQube
9 25 (0.36%) Gatling
10 17 (0.24%) Cypress.io
10 17 (0.24%) Zephyr
11 15 (0.21%) Maven
12 14 (0.20%) JMeter
13 11 (0.16%) Mockito
13 11 (0.16%) WebDriver
14 10 (0.14%) Claude Code
14 10 (0.14%) ERwin
14 10 (0.14%) LoadRunner
15 8 (0.11%) REST Assured
General
1 3,698 (53.00%) Social Skills
2 2,315 (33.18%) Finance
3 1,171 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
4 886 (12.70%) Public Sector
5 693 (9.93%) Banking
6 418 (5.99%) Influencing Skills
7 407 (5.83%) Retail
8 316 (4.53%) Organisational Skills
9 296 (4.24%) Legal
10 239 (3.43%) Marketing
11 237 (3.40%) Manufacturing
12 231 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
13 183 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
14 181 (2.59%) Telecoms
15 139 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 127 (1.82%) Aerospace
17 111 (1.59%) Local Government
18 105 (1.50%) Front Office
19 93 (1.33%) Billing
20 89 (1.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,013 (14.52%) Analyst
2 959 (13.75%) Lead
3 943 (13.52%) Architect
4 782 (11.21%) Project Manager
5 736 (10.55%) Senior
6 648 (9.29%) Business Analyst
7 449 (6.44%) Consultant
8 322 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
9 253 (3.63%) Senior Manager
10 202 (2.90%) Delivery Manager
11 182 (2.61%) Programme Manager
12 179 (2.57%) IT Manager
13 174 (2.49%) Product Manager
14 163 (2.34%) Developer
15 135 (1.93%) Technical Manager
16 129 (1.85%) Senior Analyst
17 128 (1.83%) Product Owner
18 118 (1.69%) Senior Project Manager
19 116 (1.66%) Designer
20 115 (1.65%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (3.60%) Terraform
2 185 (2.65%) REST
3 129 (1.85%) Middleware
4 98 (1.40%) .NET
5 84 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
6 82 (1.18%) Kafka
7 77 (1.10%) SOAP
8 67 (0.96%) PySpark
9 62 (0.89%) OAuth
10 61 (0.87%) React
11 60 (0.86%) JSON
12 55 (0.79%) Spring
13 49 (0.70%) HTML
13 49 (0.70%) LDAP
14 45 (0.64%) XML
15 44 (0.63%) CSS
16 42 (0.60%) Playwright
17 41 (0.59%) Spring Boot
18 40 (0.57%) SailPoint
18 40 (0.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 539 (7.73%) Product Ownership
2 405 (5.80%) Onboarding
3 277 (3.97%) Cloud Native
4 223 (3.20%) Management Information System
5 172 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
6 166 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 160 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
8 136 (1.95%) Data Centre
9 118 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 115 (1.65%) AI Agents
11 113 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
12 108 (1.55%) Virtual Team
13 107 (1.53%) Operational Technology
14 95 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
15 89 (1.28%) Security Posture
16 86 (1.23%) NHS
17 84 (1.20%) CMDB
18 74 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
19 73 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
20 63 (0.90%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 221 (3.17%) Windows
2 138 (1.98%) Linux
3 66 (0.95%) Windows Server
4 47 (0.67%) Unix
5 26 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.26%) Android
7 16 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.20%) VMS
10 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.11%) zOS
12 7 (0.10%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.072%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.057%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.043%) CentOS
15 3 (0.043%) Solaris
16 2 (0.029%) Data ONTAP
16 2 (0.029%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,210 (31.68%) Agile
2 1,269 (18.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,171 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
4 1,135 (16.27%) Roadmaps
5 970 (13.90%) Migration
6 937 (13.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 925 (13.26%) Decision-Making
8 891 (12.77%) AI
9 830 (11.90%) DevOps
10 815 (11.68%) Project Delivery
11 812 (11.64%) Project Management
12 797 (11.42%) Analytics
13 712 (10.20%) Change Management
14 686 (9.83%) Risk Management
15 675 (9.67%) Workshop Facilitation
16 672 (9.63%) CI/CD
17 580 (8.31%) User Acceptance Testing
18 574 (8.23%) Cybersecurity
19 572 (8.20%) Requirements Gathering
20 565 (8.10%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 627 (8.99%) SQL
2 450 (6.45%) Python
3 186 (2.67%) Java
4 135 (1.93%) PowerShell
5 132 (1.89%) JavaScript
6 84 (1.20%) C#
7 65 (0.93%) Bash
8 54 (0.77%) TypeScript
9 40 (0.57%) Bicep
10 36 (0.52%) ABAP
11 30 (0.43%) Korn
12 25 (0.36%) R
13 23 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 22 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 22 (0.32%) T-SQL
15 19 (0.27%) VBA
16 15 (0.21%) Go
16 15 (0.21%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.20%) Apex Code
18 10 (0.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,410 (20.21%) Security Cleared
2 1,029 (14.75%) SC Cleared
3 469 (6.72%) Degree
4 313 (4.49%) PMP
5 275 (3.94%) PMI Certification
6 272 (3.90%) DV Cleared
7 235 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 157 (2.25%) CISSP
9 127 (1.82%) Azure Certification
10 121 (1.73%) CISM
11 86 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
12 85 (1.22%) AWS Certification
13 78 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
14 74 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
15 53 (0.76%) Master's Degree
16 50 (0.72%) ACCA
17 49 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
18 48 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 47 (0.67%) CIMA
20 46 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 530 (7.60%) Data Quality
2 390 (5.59%) QA
3 325 (4.66%) PMO
4 218 (3.12%) GDPR
5 191 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 177 (2.54%) Accessibility
7 174 (2.49%) NIST
8 129 (1.85%) GRC
9 95 (1.36%) SLA
10 66 (0.95%) WCAG
11 61 (0.87%) NCSC
12 31 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
13 28 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 27 (0.39%) IFRS
15 24 (0.34%) ISO 20022
16 23 (0.33%) COBIT
16 23 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
17 22 (0.32%) PCI DSS
18 19 (0.27%) SOC 2
19 18 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 184 (2.64%) Active Directory
2 163 (2.34%) Docker
3 68 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 26 (0.37%) vSphere
5 25 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 11 (0.16%) NFS
10 7 (0.10%) Postfix
11 6 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.072%) Time Sharing Option
12 5 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.043%) Ceph
13 3 (0.043%) Firmware
13 3 (0.043%) FreeRADIUS
13 3 (0.043%) IAG
13 3 (0.043%) KVM
13 3 (0.043%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 233 (3.34%) Kubernetes
2 107 (1.53%) Ansible
3 62 (0.89%) Grafana
4 46 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 41 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 32 (0.46%) SCCM
8 17 (0.24%) Argo
9 12 (0.17%) Control-M
10 11 (0.16%) Kibana
11 10 (0.14%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.10%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.10%) HP ALM
12 7 (0.10%) Puppet
12 7 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.086%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (0.086%) WMI
14 5 (0.072%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.072%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.057%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,160 (16.63%) Microsoft
2 537 (7.70%) SAP
3 380 (5.45%) Oracle
4 345 (4.94%) ServiceNow
5 253 (3.63%) Salesforce
6 219 (3.14%) Databricks
7 148 (2.12%) Google
8 102 (1.46%) VMware
9 99 (1.42%) Workday
10 84 (1.20%) Cisco
11 77 (1.10%) CyberArk
12 66 (0.95%) IBM
13 61 (0.87%) Adobe
14 55 (0.79%) Splunk
15 46 (0.66%) Ariba
16 44 (0.63%) MuleSoft
17 42 (0.60%) Informatica
18 31 (0.44%) Foundry
19 30 (0.43%) Atlassian
20 29 (0.42%) Fortinet