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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,975 2,890 2,466
As % of all contract jobs in England 13.11% 10.44% 7.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.40% 11.50% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,979 1,967 1,710
10th Percentile £390 £359 £363
25th Percentile £460 £437 £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 £529 £538
% change year-on-year +3.97% -1.58% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 62 66
10th Percentile £28.00 £28.59 £30.29
25th Percentile £36.14 £35.70 £54.30
Median hourly rate £62.25 £51.84 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.09% -15.85% +34.26%
75th Percentile £83.06 £72.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £77.38 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £62.25 £51.84 £60.60
% change year-on-year +20.09% -14.46% +31.91%

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 38,794 25,132 28,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,129 16,058 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,653
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.77% -1.96%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 3,161 £560 -1.15% 3,137
North of England 0 867 £507 +1.30% 809
South East +9 773 £550 +4.76% 953
Midlands +1 538 £500 -4.76% 456
North West -1 436 £525 +5.00% 490
West Midlands +3 423 £500 -6.10% 299
Yorkshire +4 378 £500 +1.01% 229
South West +9 337 £550 +4.76% 369
East of England +7 182 £525 -4.55% 242
East Midlands +4 100 £500 +14.42% 155
North East -14 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
1 332 (5.56%) Confluence
2 161 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 53 (0.89%) CMS
4 33 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
5 30 (0.50%) Apache
6 27 (0.45%) SAS
7 22 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 17 (0.28%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.10%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.10%) WordPress
12 5 (0.084%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.084%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.067%) Appian
13 4 (0.067%) FactoryTalk
13 4 (0.067%) Kentico
13 4 (0.067%) Moodle
13 4 (0.067%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.050%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 256 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 154 (2.58%) Microsoft Project
3 135 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
4 126 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 69 (1.15%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.32%) Revit
7 16 (0.27%) AutoCAD
7 16 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 16 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.18%) Navisworks
9 10 (0.17%) Trello
10 6 (0.10%) ProjectWise
11 5 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.067%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.067%) Notion
13 3 (0.050%) Sketch
13 3 (0.050%) Windchill
14 2 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.033%) CPLEX
14 2 (0.033%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 210 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 73 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 26 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 24 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 23 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
7 22 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
7 22 (0.37%) Workday HCM
8 21 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 20 (0.33%) SAP FI
10 18 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
10 18 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
11 16 (0.27%) Primavera
11 16 (0.27%) SAP CO
11 16 (0.27%) SAP ERP
12 15 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
13 14 (0.23%) Finacle
13 14 (0.23%) SAP SD
14 13 (0.22%) Aladdin
14 13 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,077 (18.03%) Azure
2 724 (12.12%) AWS
3 400 (6.69%) Power Platform
4 279 (4.67%) GCP
5 236 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
6 216 (3.62%) SaaS
7 160 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
8 140 (2.34%) Entra ID
9 124 (2.08%) Snowflake
10 119 (1.99%) GitHub
11 95 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
12 78 (1.31%) SuccessFactors
13 64 (1.07%) OCI
13 64 (1.07%) Serverless
14 60 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
15 59 (0.99%) Amazon S3
15 59 (0.99%) PowerApps
16 54 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
16 54 (0.90%) Power Automate
17 51 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 110 (1.84%) Network Security
2 108 (1.81%) Firewall
3 65 (1.09%) WAN
4 63 (1.05%) DNS
5 46 (0.77%) LAN
6 39 (0.65%) TCP/IP
6 39 (0.65%) VPN
7 34 (0.57%) DHCP
7 34 (0.57%) SD-WAN
8 24 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (0.38%) BGP
10 21 (0.35%) 4G
10 21 (0.35%) 5G
11 20 (0.33%) OSPF
12 17 (0.28%) Internet
12 17 (0.28%) MPLS
13 16 (0.27%) Wireless
14 15 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
15 14 (0.23%) BIG-IP
16 13 (0.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 323 (5.41%) Power BI
2 159 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
3 124 (2.08%) Metadata
4 82 (1.37%) SQL Server
5 77 (1.29%) Data Lake
6 68 (1.14%) Tableau
7 60 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
8 45 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 44 (0.74%) Relational Database
10 39 (0.65%) Delta Lake
11 38 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
12 31 (0.52%) Oracle Database
13 30 (0.50%) BigQuery
14 28 (0.47%) Big Data
15 25 (0.42%) MongoDB
16 24 (0.40%) Looker
17 22 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
17 22 (0.37%) NoSQL
18 21 (0.35%) MySQL
18 21 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 609 (10.19%) JIRA
2 100 (1.67%) Git
3 89 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 61 (1.02%) GitLab
5 50 (0.84%) Selenium
6 31 (0.52%) JUnit
7 29 (0.49%) Cucumber
8 28 (0.47%) Postman
9 22 (0.37%) SonarQube
10 21 (0.35%) JMeter
11 16 (0.27%) Cypress.io
11 16 (0.27%) Gatling
11 16 (0.27%) Zephyr
12 15 (0.25%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.22%) Maven
13 13 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (0.18%) LoadRunner
15 9 (0.15%) ERwin
15 9 (0.15%) Mockito
16 8 (0.13%) DbUnit
General
1 3,024 (50.61%) Social Skills
2 2,057 (34.43%) Finance
3 987 (16.52%) Analytical Skills
4 747 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 579 (9.69%) Banking
6 367 (6.14%) Retail
7 322 (5.39%) Influencing Skills
8 259 (4.33%) Legal
9 248 (4.15%) Organisational Skills
10 213 (3.56%) Marketing
11 209 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
12 185 (3.10%) Manufacturing
13 151 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
14 150 (2.51%) Telecoms
15 122 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 102 (1.71%) Local Government
17 94 (1.57%) Aerospace
18 86 (1.44%) Billing
19 84 (1.41%) Front Office
20 75 (1.26%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 877 (14.68%) Analyst
2 863 (14.44%) Lead
3 762 (12.75%) Project Manager
4 709 (11.87%) Architect
5 646 (10.81%) Senior
6 586 (9.81%) Business Analyst
7 361 (6.04%) Consultant
8 275 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
9 242 (4.05%) Senior Manager
10 180 (3.01%) Programme Manager
11 178 (2.98%) Delivery Manager
12 167 (2.79%) IT Manager
13 143 (2.39%) Product Manager
14 131 (2.19%) Developer
15 120 (2.01%) Senior Project Manager
16 117 (1.96%) Product Owner
16 117 (1.96%) Technical Manager
17 105 (1.76%) Senior Analyst
18 101 (1.69%) Designer
19 100 (1.67%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (2.56%) REST
2 106 (1.77%) Middleware
3 87 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
4 72 (1.21%) SOAP
5 67 (1.12%) .NET
6 59 (0.99%) Kafka
7 48 (0.80%) PySpark
8 47 (0.79%) JSON
9 44 (0.74%) OAuth
10 41 (0.69%) React
11 40 (0.67%) SailPoint
12 39 (0.65%) Spring
13 38 (0.64%) HTML
14 34 (0.57%) CSS
15 33 (0.55%) XML
16 31 (0.52%) Web Services
17 30 (0.50%) Playwright
18 28 (0.47%) OpenID
19 27 (0.45%) Spring Boot
20 25 (0.42%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 456 (7.63%) Product Ownership
2 340 (5.69%) Onboarding
3 209 (3.50%) Cloud Native
4 173 (2.90%) Management Information System
5 169 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
6 133 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
7 124 (2.08%) Data Centre
8 109 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 104 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
10 97 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
11 94 (1.57%) Virtual Team
12 86 (1.44%) Operational Technology
13 84 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
14 81 (1.36%) AI Agents
15 79 (1.32%) Security Posture
16 73 (1.22%) NHS
17 64 (1.07%) CMDB
18 61 (1.02%) FMCG
19 59 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
20 51 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 187 (3.13%) Windows
2 107 (1.79%) Linux
3 46 (0.77%) Windows Server
4 42 (0.70%) Unix
5 27 (0.45%) Android
6 25 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (0.40%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.17%) VMS
10 5 (0.084%) Solaris
10 5 (0.084%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.067%) AIX
11 4 (0.067%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.067%) zOS
12 2 (0.033%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.033%) HPUX
12 2 (0.033%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,937 (32.42%) Agile
2 1,048 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 958 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
4 910 (15.23%) Roadmaps
5 829 (13.87%) Migration
6 795 (13.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 752 (12.59%) Decision-Making
8 739 (12.37%) Project Management
9 718 (12.02%) DevOps
10 701 (11.73%) AI
11 691 (11.56%) Project Delivery
12 655 (10.96%) Analytics
13 614 (10.28%) Change Management
14 590 (9.87%) Risk Management
15 544 (9.10%) CI/CD
16 537 (8.99%) Workshop Facilitation
17 505 (8.45%) User Acceptance Testing
18 485 (8.12%) Cybersecurity
19 473 (7.92%) Validation
20 471 (7.88%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 498 (8.33%) SQL
2 355 (5.94%) Python
3 136 (2.28%) Java
4 104 (1.74%) PowerShell
5 101 (1.69%) JavaScript
6 54 (0.90%) C#
7 45 (0.75%) Bash
8 29 (0.49%) Bicep
9 28 (0.47%) TypeScript
10 24 (0.40%) Korn
11 22 (0.37%) ABAP
12 20 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 19 (0.32%) R
14 18 (0.30%) PL/SQL
14 18 (0.30%) VBA
15 16 (0.27%) T-SQL
16 15 (0.25%) Shell Script
17 13 (0.22%) Apex Code
18 11 (0.18%) Go
19 9 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,181 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 864 (14.46%) SC Cleared
3 415 (6.95%) Degree
4 287 (4.80%) PMP
5 247 (4.13%) PMI Certification
6 219 (3.67%) DV Cleared
7 170 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 138 (2.31%) CISSP
9 106 (1.77%) CISM
10 105 (1.76%) Azure Certification
11 70 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
12 60 (1.00%) AWS Certification
12 60 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
13 57 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
14 43 (0.72%) Master's Degree
15 41 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 39 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
17 37 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 36 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
19 35 (0.59%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 382 (6.39%) Data Quality
2 331 (5.54%) QA
3 290 (4.85%) PMO
4 217 (3.63%) GDPR
5 151 (2.53%) NIST
6 146 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 129 (2.16%) Accessibility
8 104 (1.74%) GRC
9 93 (1.56%) SLA
10 49 (0.82%) NCSC
11 43 (0.72%) WCAG
12 38 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 32 (0.54%) SOC 2
14 29 (0.49%) COBIT
15 23 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
16 22 (0.37%) IFRS
16 22 (0.37%) PCI DSS
17 18 (0.30%) ISO 20022
18 16 (0.27%) JSP 440
18 16 (0.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 142 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 129 (2.16%) Docker
3 61 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (0.33%) VMware NSX
6 18 (0.30%) vSphere
7 13 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (0.20%) NFS
9 11 (0.18%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.17%) Postfix
11 6 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.067%) SRDF
12 4 (0.067%) Varnish
13 3 (0.050%) HDFS
13 3 (0.050%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.033%) Ceph
14 2 (0.033%) KVM
14 2 (0.033%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 194 (3.25%) Terraform
2 179 (3.00%) Kubernetes
3 87 (1.46%) Ansible
4 59 (0.99%) Grafana
5 47 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 44 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
7 35 (0.59%) Prometheus
8 28 (0.47%) SCCM
9 17 (0.28%) Argo
10 10 (0.17%) Control-M
10 10 (0.17%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.15%) Puppet
12 7 (0.12%) HP ALM
12 7 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.084%) Data Guard
14 5 (0.084%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.084%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.067%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 869 (14.54%) Microsoft
2 470 (7.87%) SAP
3 322 (5.39%) Oracle
4 310 (5.19%) ServiceNow
5 228 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 157 (2.63%) Databricks
7 120 (2.01%) Google
8 97 (1.62%) VMware
9 89 (1.49%) Workday
10 64 (1.07%) Cisco
11 56 (0.94%) Adobe
12 54 (0.90%) CyberArk
12 54 (0.90%) IBM
13 42 (0.70%) Splunk
14 37 (0.62%) MuleSoft
15 34 (0.57%) Ariba
15 34 (0.57%) Informatica
16 33 (0.55%) Atlassian
17 31 (0.52%) F5
18 29 (0.49%) Foundry