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

6 months to
1 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 6,451 2,873 2,515
As % of all contract jobs in England 14.13% 10.42% 7.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.65% 11.48% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,265 1,950 1,678
10th Percentile £388 £358 £363
25th Percentile £458 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.37% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 63 73
10th Percentile £25.66 £28.25 £32.80
25th Percentile £34.67 £33.81 £51.75
Median hourly rate £59.75 £47.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +25.79% -22.89% +30.54%
75th Percentile £80.01 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.51 £77.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £47.49 £60.60
% change year-on-year +27.40% -21.64% +24.95%

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 38,738 25,035 28,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 90.79% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,882 15,942 18,107
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,595 1,467 1,443
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.63
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.09 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.39% -40.82% +2.41%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 3,407 £565 +0.44% 3,448
North of England +3 966 £500 - 902
South East +9 833 £550 +3.58% 1,051
Midlands +4 553 £500 -4.76% 458
North West +1 507 £525 +5.00% 547
West Midlands +6 436 £500 -4.76% 314
Yorkshire +7 403 £500 +1.01% 255
South West +8 349 £550 +4.76% 464
East of England +9 205 £525 -4.55% 248
East Midlands -3 101 £500 +16.01% 142
North East -9 64 £480 -7.69% 105
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
1 346 (5.36%) Confluence
2 177 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 63 (0.98%) CMS
4 43 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 32 (0.50%) Apache
6 26 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 21 (0.33%) SAS
8 20 (0.31%) Apache Spark
9 12 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.11%) Headless CMS
10 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.093%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.093%) WordPress
12 5 (0.078%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.078%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.078%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.062%) Appian
13 4 (0.062%) FactoryTalk
13 4 (0.062%) Kentico
13 4 (0.062%) Moodle
Applications
1 291 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 159 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 156 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
4 147 (2.28%) Microsoft Project
5 72 (1.12%) MS Visio
6 21 (0.33%) Revit
7 18 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 17 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 16 (0.25%) Chatbot
10 12 (0.19%) Navisworks
11 9 (0.14%) Trello
12 7 (0.11%) ProjectWise
13 6 (0.093%) Windchill
14 5 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 4 (0.062%) Adobe XD
15 4 (0.062%) Notion
16 3 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
16 3 (0.047%) CPLEX
16 3 (0.047%) Photoshop
16 3 (0.047%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 227 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 82 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 27 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
5 26 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 23 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
7 22 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 20 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 20 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
9 18 (0.28%) Aladdin
9 18 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 18 (0.28%) SAP FI
10 17 (0.26%) SAP SD
11 16 (0.25%) Primavera
11 16 (0.25%) SAP ERP
12 15 (0.23%) SAP MDG
13 14 (0.22%) Finacle
13 14 (0.22%) SAP CO
14 13 (0.20%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,211 (18.77%) Azure
2 803 (12.45%) AWS
3 474 (7.35%) Power Platform
4 312 (4.84%) GCP
5 266 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
6 234 (3.63%) SaaS
7 193 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
8 164 (2.54%) Entra ID
9 146 (2.26%) GitHub
10 140 (2.17%) Snowflake
11 114 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
12 83 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
12 83 (1.29%) Serverless
13 71 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
14 70 (1.09%) PowerApps
15 68 (1.05%) OCI
16 66 (1.02%) Power Automate
17 62 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
18 60 (0.93%) Amazon S3
19 59 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 126 (1.95%) Firewall
2 125 (1.94%) Network Security
3 76 (1.18%) WAN
4 66 (1.02%) DNS
5 49 (0.76%) LAN
6 44 (0.68%) VPN
7 42 (0.65%) TCP/IP
8 38 (0.59%) DHCP
8 38 (0.59%) SD-WAN
9 29 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
10 27 (0.42%) BGP
11 26 (0.40%) 4G
11 26 (0.40%) 5G
12 24 (0.37%) Wireless
13 19 (0.29%) Internet
14 18 (0.28%) Broadband
14 18 (0.28%) MPLS
14 18 (0.28%) OSPF
15 16 (0.25%) SAN
16 15 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 376 (5.83%) Power BI
2 176 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
2 176 (2.73%) Metadata
3 100 (1.55%) SQL Server
4 84 (1.30%) Data Lake
5 80 (1.24%) Tableau
6 63 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
7 51 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 48 (0.74%) Delta Lake
8 48 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 42 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
10 34 (0.53%) BigQuery
11 33 (0.51%) MongoDB
12 31 (0.48%) Oracle Database
13 27 (0.42%) Looker
13 27 (0.42%) NoSQL
14 25 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
15 24 (0.37%) Big Data
16 22 (0.34%) DynamoDB
17 21 (0.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 632 (9.80%) JIRA
2 110 (1.71%) Git
3 87 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 65 (1.01%) GitLab
5 52 (0.81%) Selenium
6 30 (0.47%) Postman
7 28 (0.43%) Cucumber
8 27 (0.42%) JUnit
9 25 (0.39%) SonarQube
10 22 (0.34%) Gatling
11 18 (0.28%) Cypress.io
11 18 (0.28%) JMeter
11 18 (0.28%) Zephyr
12 12 (0.19%) LoadRunner
12 12 (0.19%) Maven
13 11 (0.17%) ERwin
13 11 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (0.17%) WebDriver
14 9 (0.14%) Mockito
14 9 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 3,360 (52.08%) Social Skills
2 2,187 (33.90%) Finance
3 1,081 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
4 804 (12.46%) Public Sector
5 641 (9.94%) Banking
6 397 (6.15%) Retail
7 373 (5.78%) Influencing Skills
8 279 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
9 264 (4.09%) Legal
10 225 (3.49%) Marketing
11 219 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
12 211 (3.27%) Manufacturing
13 169 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
13 169 (2.62%) Telecoms
14 128 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 109 (1.69%) Aerospace
16 106 (1.64%) Local Government
17 96 (1.49%) Front Office
18 93 (1.44%) Billing
19 78 (1.21%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 949 (14.71%) Analyst
2 911 (14.12%) Lead
3 820 (12.71%) Architect
4 757 (11.73%) Project Manager
5 679 (10.53%) Senior
6 612 (9.49%) Business Analyst
7 417 (6.46%) Consultant
8 287 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
9 236 (3.66%) Senior Manager
10 185 (2.87%) Delivery Manager
11 183 (2.84%) Programme Manager
12 169 (2.62%) IT Manager
13 154 (2.39%) Product Manager
14 142 (2.20%) Developer
15 123 (1.91%) Technical Manager
16 121 (1.88%) Product Owner
17 118 (1.83%) Senior Analyst
18 113 (1.75%) Senior Project Manager
19 111 (1.72%) Designer
20 108 (1.67%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (3.50%) Terraform
2 168 (2.60%) REST
3 115 (1.78%) Middleware
4 87 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
5 84 (1.30%) .NET
6 70 (1.09%) Kafka
6 70 (1.09%) SOAP
7 58 (0.90%) PySpark
8 53 (0.82%) JSON
9 52 (0.81%) OAuth
10 48 (0.74%) React
11 43 (0.67%) Spring
12 42 (0.65%) HTML
13 41 (0.64%) SailPoint
14 39 (0.60%) CSS
14 39 (0.60%) XML
15 37 (0.57%) Playwright
16 33 (0.51%) LDAP
17 32 (0.50%) OpenID
17 32 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 490 (7.60%) Product Ownership
2 368 (5.70%) Onboarding
3 249 (3.86%) Cloud Native
4 191 (2.96%) Management Information System
5 163 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
6 151 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
7 143 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
8 130 (2.02%) Data Centre
9 115 (1.78%) Data Structures
10 99 (1.53%) AI Agents
10 99 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
11 98 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
12 97 (1.50%) Operational Technology
13 93 (1.44%) Virtual Team
14 85 (1.32%) Security Posture
15 78 (1.21%) NHS
16 77 (1.19%) CMDB
17 67 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
18 66 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
19 64 (0.99%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 200 (3.10%) Windows
2 127 (1.97%) Linux
3 57 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 46 (0.71%) Unix
5 25 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.28%) Android
7 16 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.22%) VMS
10 11 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.078%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.078%) zOS
13 4 (0.062%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.062%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.062%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.047%) CentOS
14 3 (0.047%) Solaris
15 2 (0.031%) AIX
15 2 (0.031%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,065 (32.01%) Agile
2 1,164 (18.04%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,055 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
4 1,025 (15.89%) Roadmaps
5 907 (14.06%) Migration
6 877 (13.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 832 (12.90%) Decision-Making
8 812 (12.59%) AI
9 796 (12.34%) Project Management
10 780 (12.09%) DevOps
11 765 (11.86%) Project Delivery
12 723 (11.21%) Analytics
13 669 (10.37%) Change Management
14 632 (9.80%) Risk Management
15 624 (9.67%) Workshop Facilitation
16 599 (9.29%) CI/CD
17 547 (8.48%) User Acceptance Testing
18 532 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
19 524 (8.12%) Requirements Gathering
20 520 (8.06%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 570 (8.84%) SQL
2 406 (6.29%) Python
3 159 (2.46%) Java
4 129 (2.00%) PowerShell
5 115 (1.78%) JavaScript
6 69 (1.07%) C#
7 63 (0.98%) Bash
8 38 (0.59%) TypeScript
9 37 (0.57%) Bicep
10 28 (0.43%) Korn
11 26 (0.40%) ABAP
12 23 (0.36%) R
13 22 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 19 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 19 (0.29%) VBA
15 18 (0.28%) T-SQL
16 16 (0.25%) Shell Script
17 15 (0.23%) Apex Code
18 14 (0.22%) Go
19 10 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,297 (20.11%) Security Cleared
2 949 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 435 (6.74%) Degree
4 305 (4.73%) PMP
5 264 (4.09%) PMI Certification
6 240 (3.72%) DV Cleared
7 194 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 148 (2.29%) CISSP
9 118 (1.83%) CISM
10 116 (1.80%) Azure Certification
11 80 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
12 75 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
13 73 (1.13%) AWS Certification
14 67 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
15 48 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
16 46 (0.71%) Master's Degree
17 44 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 44 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 43 (0.67%) ACCA
19 42 (0.65%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 450 (6.98%) Data Quality
2 364 (5.64%) QA
3 312 (4.84%) PMO
4 216 (3.35%) GDPR
5 162 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 158 (2.45%) NIST
7 152 (2.36%) Accessibility
8 116 (1.80%) GRC
9 90 (1.40%) SLA
10 53 (0.82%) WCAG
11 52 (0.81%) NCSC
12 30 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 26 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
14 24 (0.37%) IFRS
14 24 (0.37%) SOC 2
15 23 (0.36%) COBIT
16 22 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
16 22 (0.34%) PCI DSS
17 17 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 17 (0.26%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 162 (2.51%) Active Directory
2 141 (2.19%) Docker
3 66 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 21 (0.33%) VMware NSX
7 20 (0.31%) vSphere
8 15 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 14 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 12 (0.19%) NFS
11 8 (0.12%) Postfix
12 6 (0.093%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.062%) Varnish
14 3 (0.047%) Ceph
14 3 (0.047%) KVM
14 3 (0.047%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.047%) Time Sharing Option
14 3 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.031%) FreeRADIUS
15 2 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 202 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 98 (1.52%) Ansible
3 59 (0.91%) Grafana
4 43 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.48%) SCCM
8 17 (0.26%) Argo
9 11 (0.17%) Control-M
10 10 (0.16%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.12%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.12%) Kibana
11 8 (0.12%) Puppet
12 7 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.093%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.093%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.078%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.078%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.078%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.078%) WMI
Vendors
1 1,039 (16.11%) Microsoft
2 498 (7.72%) SAP
3 351 (5.44%) Oracle
4 325 (5.04%) ServiceNow
5 239 (3.70%) Salesforce
6 199 (3.08%) Databricks
7 133 (2.06%) Google
8 97 (1.50%) VMware
9 91 (1.41%) Workday
10 77 (1.19%) Cisco
11 61 (0.95%) CyberArk
12 56 (0.87%) Adobe
13 52 (0.81%) Splunk
14 51 (0.79%) IBM
15 44 (0.68%) Ariba
16 38 (0.59%) Informatica
17 37 (0.57%) MuleSoft
18 32 (0.50%) Atlassian
19 30 (0.47%) F5
19 30 (0.47%) Foundry