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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 15 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 5,457 2,772 2,634
As % of all contract jobs in England 12.13% 10.18% 7.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.19% 11.23% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,658 1,892 1,878
10th Percentile £386 £358 £357
25th Percentile £460 £431 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £533
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +0.89% -3.14%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 60 78
10th Percentile £27.55 £31.64 £23.03
25th Percentile £35.55 £42.26 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £54.01 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +15.73% -12.33% +14.79%
75th Percentile £84.00 £72.81 £75.00
90th Percentile £103.80 £78.88 £85.65
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £53.50 £61.06
% change year-on-year +16.82% -12.38% +13.78%

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 38,446 24,678 30,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.44% 90.65% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,172 15,843 20,140
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £746 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,378 1,309 2,090
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.28 £13.18
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.83
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +8 2,830 £560 - 921
North of England -1 796 £500 - 389
South East +7 728 £550 +4.76% 519
Midlands 0 529 £500 -0.15% 204
West Midlands +1 400 £500 -7.66% 132
North West -1 394 £514 +2.80% 231
Yorkshire +6 361 £500 +1.52% 127
South West +7 300 £550 +1.15% 160
East of England +12 167 £525 -4.55% 96
East Midlands +8 118 £500 +17.65% 71
North East -13 53 £475 +5.56% 34
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
1 318 (5.83%) Confluence
2 147 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 59 (1.08%) CMS
4 32 (0.59%) SAS
5 24 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
7 17 (0.31%) Apache
8 11 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.15%) Apache Spark
10 7 (0.13%) Appian
10 7 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
10 7 (0.13%) WordPress
11 6 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.092%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.092%) Kentico
13 4 (0.073%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.055%) FactoryTalk
14 3 (0.055%) Oracle Coherence
14 3 (0.055%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 227 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 151 (2.77%) Microsoft Project
3 131 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
4 117 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 68 (1.25%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 13 (0.24%) Revit
9 11 (0.20%) AutoCAD
10 7 (0.13%) Trello
11 5 (0.092%) Navisworks
11 5 (0.092%) Sketch
12 4 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.073%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.055%) Notion
14 2 (0.037%) CPLEX
14 2 (0.037%) EngageOne
14 2 (0.037%) EPLAN
14 2 (0.037%) Windchill
15 1 (0.018%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 193 (3.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 71 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
5 25 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 22 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 20 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
8 18 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
9 17 (0.31%) Workday HCM
10 16 (0.29%) Aladdin
10 16 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
10 16 (0.29%) SAP SD
11 15 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
12 14 (0.26%) SAP FI
12 14 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
13 13 (0.24%) Primavera
14 12 (0.22%) Finacle
14 12 (0.22%) SAP ERP
15 11 (0.20%) Magento
15 11 (0.20%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 928 (17.01%) Azure
2 626 (11.47%) AWS
3 339 (6.21%) Power Platform
4 238 (4.36%) GCP
5 209 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
6 189 (3.46%) SaaS
7 130 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
8 114 (2.09%) Entra ID
9 99 (1.81%) GitHub
10 94 (1.72%) Snowflake
11 76 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
12 62 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
13 60 (1.10%) OCI
14 59 (1.08%) Amazon S3
15 53 (0.97%) Serverless
16 51 (0.93%) PowerApps
17 49 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
18 47 (0.86%) Figma
18 47 (0.86%) Power Automate
19 45 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 101 (1.85%) Firewall
2 95 (1.74%) Network Security
3 67 (1.23%) WAN
4 51 (0.93%) LAN
5 49 (0.90%) DNS
6 37 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 35 (0.64%) TCP/IP
8 34 (0.62%) VPN
9 30 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
10 23 (0.42%) DHCP
11 21 (0.38%) BGP
12 19 (0.35%) OSPF
13 16 (0.29%) Wireless
14 15 (0.27%) Intranet
14 15 (0.27%) SAN
15 14 (0.26%) 4G
15 14 (0.26%) 5G
15 14 (0.26%) BIG-IP
15 14 (0.26%) MPLS
15 14 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 272 (4.98%) Power BI
2 127 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 104 (1.91%) Metadata
4 70 (1.28%) Data Lake
5 68 (1.25%) SQL Server
6 59 (1.08%) Tableau
7 47 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
8 39 (0.71%) Relational Database
9 37 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (0.53%) Oracle Database
12 28 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
13 23 (0.42%) Big Data
13 23 (0.42%) DynamoDB
13 23 (0.42%) NoSQL
14 22 (0.40%) Delta Lake
15 17 (0.31%) BigQuery
16 16 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
16 16 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 14 (0.26%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 585 (10.72%) JIRA
2 86 (1.58%) Jenkins
3 81 (1.48%) Git
4 41 (0.75%) GitLab
4 41 (0.75%) Selenium
5 30 (0.55%) JUnit
6 25 (0.46%) Postman
7 20 (0.37%) Cucumber
8 16 (0.29%) JMeter
8 16 (0.29%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 14 (0.26%) Maven
10 13 (0.24%) Mockito
10 13 (0.24%) WebDriver
11 12 (0.22%) Zephyr
12 10 (0.18%) DbUnit
12 10 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (0.16%) jMock
14 8 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
14 8 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 2,715 (49.75%) Social Skills
2 1,912 (35.04%) Finance
3 874 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
4 667 (12.22%) Public Sector
5 488 (8.94%) Banking
6 335 (6.14%) Retail
7 293 (5.37%) Influencing Skills
8 245 (4.49%) Legal
9 217 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
10 198 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
11 189 (3.46%) Marketing
12 151 (2.77%) Manufacturing
13 132 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
13 132 (2.42%) Telecoms
14 100 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 94 (1.72%) Local Government
16 81 (1.48%) Aerospace
17 79 (1.45%) Billing
18 71 (1.30%) Financial Institution
19 69 (1.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 825 (15.12%) Analyst
2 775 (14.20%) Lead
3 753 (13.80%) Project Manager
4 636 (11.65%) Architect
5 581 (10.65%) Senior
6 555 (10.17%) Business Analyst
7 274 (5.02%) Consultant
8 242 (4.43%) Senior Manager
9 233 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
10 185 (3.39%) Programme Manager
11 177 (3.24%) Delivery Manager
12 169 (3.10%) IT Manager
13 134 (2.46%) Product Manager
14 123 (2.25%) Senior Project Manager
15 110 (2.02%) Product Owner
16 108 (1.98%) Developer
17 105 (1.92%) Technical Manager
18 93 (1.70%) IT Project Manager
19 90 (1.65%) Change Manager
20 89 (1.63%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (2.36%) REST
2 95 (1.74%) Middleware
3 90 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
4 66 (1.21%) SOAP
5 60 (1.10%) .NET
6 44 (0.81%) JSON
7 40 (0.73%) Kafka
8 37 (0.68%) PySpark
8 37 (0.68%) SailPoint
9 36 (0.66%) CSS
9 36 (0.66%) OAuth
10 35 (0.64%) React
11 33 (0.60%) HTML
12 32 (0.59%) AngularJS
13 31 (0.57%) Spring
13 31 (0.57%) Web Services
14 29 (0.53%) OpenID
14 29 (0.53%) SAML
14 29 (0.53%) XML
15 28 (0.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 402 (7.37%) Product Ownership
2 295 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 173 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 160 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
5 149 (2.73%) Management Information System
6 126 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
7 117 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 102 (1.87%) Data Structures
9 93 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 90 (1.65%) Virtual Team
11 78 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
12 75 (1.37%) Operational Technology
13 70 (1.28%) NHS
14 67 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
14 67 (1.23%) Security Posture
15 62 (1.14%) AI Agents
16 56 (1.03%) CMDB
17 53 (0.97%) FMCG
18 52 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
19 44 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 165 (3.02%) Windows
2 85 (1.56%) Linux
3 35 (0.64%) Android
4 33 (0.60%) Unix
5 30 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 30 (0.55%) Windows Server
6 23 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.18%) VMS
9 6 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.092%) Solaris
10 5 (0.092%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.073%) AIX
11 4 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.073%) zOS
12 3 (0.055%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.037%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.037%) HPUX
13 2 (0.037%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.018%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,789 (32.78%) Agile
2 946 (17.34%) Continuous Improvement
3 875 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
4 784 (14.37%) Roadmaps
5 762 (13.96%) Migration
6 754 (13.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 698 (12.79%) Project Management
8 664 (12.17%) Decision-Making
9 647 (11.86%) DevOps
10 622 (11.40%) Project Delivery
11 608 (11.14%) Change Management
12 585 (10.72%) AI
13 565 (10.35%) Analytics
14 535 (9.80%) Risk Management
15 478 (8.76%) User Acceptance Testing
16 460 (8.43%) CI/CD
17 459 (8.41%) Workshop Facilitation
18 445 (8.15%) Validation
19 435 (7.97%) Scrum
20 432 (7.92%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 426 (7.81%) SQL
2 308 (5.64%) Python
3 110 (2.02%) Java
4 84 (1.54%) PowerShell
5 67 (1.23%) JavaScript
6 55 (1.01%) C#
7 34 (0.62%) Bash
8 24 (0.44%) Bicep
9 22 (0.40%) Korn
9 22 (0.40%) TypeScript
10 20 (0.37%) ABAP
10 20 (0.37%) VBA
11 17 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 14 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 14 (0.26%) R
12 14 (0.26%) Shell Script
13 13 (0.24%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.18%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,072 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 801 (14.68%) SC Cleared
3 394 (7.22%) Degree
4 283 (5.19%) PMP
5 249 (4.56%) PMI Certification
6 176 (3.23%) DV Cleared
7 158 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 119 (2.18%) CISSP
9 90 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 85 (1.56%) CISM
11 58 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
12 54 (0.99%) AWS Certification
13 51 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
14 46 (0.84%) Master's Degree
15 41 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
16 39 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
17 37 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 31 (0.57%) ISTQB
19 30 (0.55%) ACCA
19 30 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 319 (5.85%) Data Quality
2 303 (5.55%) QA
3 268 (4.91%) PMO
4 223 (4.09%) GDPR
5 150 (2.75%) NIST
6 140 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 100 (1.83%) Accessibility
8 98 (1.80%) GRC
9 90 (1.65%) SLA
10 53 (0.97%) NCSC
11 36 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 35 (0.64%) PCI DSS
13 33 (0.60%) SOC 2
14 32 (0.59%) COBIT
15 29 (0.53%) WCAG
16 22 (0.40%) IFRS
17 18 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
18 16 (0.29%) JSP 440
18 16 (0.29%) Solvency II
19 15 (0.27%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 105 (1.92%) Active Directory
1 105 (1.92%) Docker
2 46 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.26%) NFS
5 14 (0.26%) VMware NSX
6 12 (0.22%) Postfix
7 11 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.16%) vSphere
9 6 (0.11%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.073%) SRDF
10 4 (0.073%) Varnish
11 3 (0.055%) HDFS
11 3 (0.055%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.037%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.037%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.037%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.018%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 146 (2.68%) Terraform
2 144 (2.64%) Kubernetes
3 78 (1.43%) Ansible
4 54 (0.99%) Grafana
5 40 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 37 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.62%) Prometheus
8 22 (0.40%) SCCM
9 14 (0.26%) Argo
10 9 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.15%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.13%) Puppet
12 7 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 7 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 7 (0.13%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.11%) Control-M
14 4 (0.073%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.073%) Oracle RMAN
14 4 (0.073%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 722 (13.23%) Microsoft
2 436 (7.99%) SAP
3 296 (5.42%) Oracle
4 293 (5.37%) ServiceNow
5 212 (3.88%) Salesforce
6 111 (2.03%) Databricks
7 110 (2.02%) Google
8 85 (1.56%) VMware
9 78 (1.43%) Workday
10 57 (1.04%) Cisco
11 52 (0.95%) Adobe
11 52 (0.95%) CyberArk
12 42 (0.77%) Splunk
13 38 (0.70%) IBM
14 37 (0.68%) Ariba
15 33 (0.60%) Informatica
16 32 (0.59%) MuleSoft
17 31 (0.57%) F5
18 28 (0.51%) Atlassian
19 27 (0.49%) Foundry