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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 15 21
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 7,665 3,010 2,529
As % of all contract jobs in England 16.37% 10.70% 7.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.27% 11.77% 9.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,055 2,067 1,583
10th Percentile £390 £361 £363
25th Percentile £455 £446 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 65 63
10th Percentile £21.00 £23.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £62.00 £47.50 £60.60
Median % change year-on-year +30.53% -21.62% +31.23%
75th Percentile £82.40 £60.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £73.25 £82.96
UK median hourly rate £61.75 £47.49 £60.00
% change year-on-year +30.03% -20.85% +23.71%

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 39,775 25,570 27,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.94% 90.90% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,015 16,235 16,841
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,044 1,594 1,106
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.41 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.47 £44.80 £66.90
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +14 4,028 £563 +2.27% 2,337
North of England +9 1,157 £500 - 647
South East +12 981 £550 +4.76% 665
Midlands +7 681 £495 -1.98% 369
North West +4 572 £525 +5.00% 350
West Midlands +8 547 £475 -12.28% 246
Yorkshire +8 509 £500 +1.63% 240
South West +7 379 £550 - 236
East of England +13 252 £510 -7.27% 190
East Midlands 0 117 £525 +18.98% 123
North East +6 84 £500 -1.48% 57
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
1 379 (4.94%) Confluence
2 209 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 75 (0.98%) CMS
4 52 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 43 (0.56%) Apache
6 30 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 26 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 23 (0.30%) SAS
9 15 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 10 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 10 (0.13%) WordPress
11 9 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 8 (0.10%) CICS
13 7 (0.091%) nginx
13 7 (0.091%) WebSphere
14 6 (0.078%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.078%) Jupyter
14 6 (0.078%) Oracle Workflow
14 6 (0.078%) WebLogic
Applications
1 355 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 184 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 167 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
4 151 (1.97%) Microsoft Project
5 78 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.30%) Revit
7 18 (0.23%) Navisworks
8 17 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 15 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 13 (0.17%) Chatbot
11 11 (0.14%) Trello
12 9 (0.12%) ProjectWise
12 9 (0.12%) Windchill
13 5 (0.065%) Adobe Illustrator
13 5 (0.065%) Adobe XD
13 5 (0.065%) Photoshop
14 4 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.052%) Notion
15 3 (0.039%) Productboard
15 3 (0.039%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 293 (3.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 96 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 39 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 35 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
4 35 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 31 (0.40%) SAP FI
6 30 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
7 27 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
8 26 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
8 26 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 26 (0.34%) SAP HCM
8 26 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
9 25 (0.33%) Aladdin
10 24 (0.31%) SAP HR
11 19 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
11 19 (0.25%) SAP CO
11 19 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
12 17 (0.22%) SAP ERP
12 17 (0.22%) SAP MDG
12 17 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,374 (17.93%) Azure
2 894 (11.66%) AWS
3 599 (7.81%) Power Platform
4 367 (4.79%) GCP
5 315 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
6 275 (3.59%) SaaS
7 260 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
8 201 (2.62%) GitHub
9 186 (2.43%) Entra ID
10 155 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
11 154 (2.01%) Snowflake
12 122 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
13 109 (1.42%) Serverless
14 97 (1.27%) Power Automate
15 93 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
16 85 (1.11%) PowerApps
17 83 (1.08%) OCI
18 79 (1.03%) Amazon S3
19 75 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
20 71 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 154 (2.01%) Firewall
2 138 (1.80%) Network Security
3 80 (1.04%) WAN
4 75 (0.98%) DNS
5 57 (0.74%) VPN
6 51 (0.67%) LAN
7 50 (0.65%) TCP/IP
8 46 (0.60%) DHCP
9 39 (0.51%) SD-WAN
10 32 (0.42%) BGP
11 29 (0.38%) Internet
12 26 (0.34%) 4G
12 26 (0.34%) MPLS
12 26 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (0.33%) 5G
13 25 (0.33%) Wireless
14 23 (0.30%) VLAN
15 21 (0.27%) Broadband
15 21 (0.27%) OSPF
16 19 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 462 (6.03%) Power BI
2 218 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
3 203 (2.65%) Metadata
4 124 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 104 (1.36%) Data Lake
6 99 (1.29%) Tableau
7 81 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
8 59 (0.77%) BigQuery
9 56 (0.73%) Relational Database
10 55 (0.72%) MongoDB
11 53 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
12 49 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
13 47 (0.61%) Delta Lake
14 45 (0.59%) Looker
15 38 (0.50%) Oracle Database
16 36 (0.47%) NoSQL
17 30 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
18 29 (0.38%) DynamoDB
19 24 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
19 24 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 693 (9.04%) JIRA
2 163 (2.13%) Git
3 105 (1.37%) GitLab
4 102 (1.33%) Jenkins
5 79 (1.03%) Selenium
6 56 (0.73%) Cucumber
7 48 (0.63%) JUnit
8 40 (0.52%) Gatling
9 34 (0.44%) Postman
9 34 (0.44%) SonarQube
10 23 (0.30%) Cypress.io
11 20 (0.26%) Zephyr
12 16 (0.21%) JMeter
13 13 (0.17%) LoadRunner
13 13 (0.17%) Maven
14 12 (0.16%) Claude Code
14 12 (0.16%) WebDriver
15 11 (0.14%) MSI
15 11 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
16 9 (0.12%) ERwin
General
1 4,113 (53.66%) Social Skills
2 2,561 (33.41%) Finance
3 1,298 (16.93%) Analytical Skills
4 1,031 (13.45%) Public Sector
5 820 (10.70%) Banking
6 474 (6.18%) Influencing Skills
7 408 (5.32%) Retail
8 353 (4.61%) Organisational Skills
9 344 (4.49%) Legal
10 309 (4.03%) Manufacturing
11 259 (3.38%) Marketing
12 251 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
13 204 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
14 193 (2.52%) Telecoms
15 156 (2.04%) Aerospace
16 151 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 128 (1.67%) Local Government
18 124 (1.62%) Front Office
19 109 (1.42%) Investment Banking
20 102 (1.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,108 (14.46%) Analyst
2 1,024 (13.36%) Lead
3 1,022 (13.33%) Architect
4 827 (10.79%) Senior
5 807 (10.53%) Project Manager
6 716 (9.34%) Business Analyst
7 513 (6.69%) Consultant
8 344 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
9 259 (3.38%) Senior Manager
10 230 (3.00%) Delivery Manager
11 194 (2.53%) Programme Manager
12 191 (2.49%) Product Manager
13 188 (2.45%) IT Manager
14 181 (2.36%) Developer
15 153 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
16 142 (1.85%) Product Owner
17 141 (1.84%) Technical Manager
18 128 (1.67%) Data Analyst
19 121 (1.58%) Senior Project Manager
20 120 (1.57%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (3.84%) Terraform
2 215 (2.80%) REST
3 144 (1.88%) Middleware
4 119 (1.55%) .NET
5 96 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
6 88 (1.15%) Kafka
7 75 (0.98%) SOAP
8 73 (0.95%) React
9 72 (0.94%) PySpark
10 68 (0.89%) OAuth
11 67 (0.87%) JSON
11 67 (0.87%) Spring
12 61 (0.80%) Playwright
13 53 (0.69%) HTML
14 50 (0.65%) LDAP
15 45 (0.59%) CSS
16 43 (0.56%) XML
17 42 (0.55%) OAuth2
17 42 (0.55%) Spring Boot
17 42 (0.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 593 (7.74%) Product Ownership
2 453 (5.91%) Onboarding
3 320 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 257 (3.35%) Management Information System
5 220 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
6 179 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
6 179 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
7 154 (2.01%) Data Centre
8 151 (1.97%) AI Agents
9 131 (1.71%) Operational Technology
10 129 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
11 122 (1.59%) Data Structures
12 118 (1.54%) Virtual Team
13 104 (1.36%) CMDB
14 99 (1.29%) Security Posture
15 94 (1.23%) NHS
16 91 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
17 85 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
18 79 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
19 77 (1.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 257 (3.35%) Windows
2 164 (2.14%) Linux
3 81 (1.06%) Windows Server
4 58 (0.76%) Unix
5 26 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (0.30%) Android
7 20 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.18%) VMS
10 10 (0.13%) macOS
10 10 (0.13%) zOS
11 8 (0.10%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.065%) Alpine Linux
12 5 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.039%) CentOS
14 3 (0.039%) Solaris
15 2 (0.026%) AIX
15 2 (0.026%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,365 (30.85%) Agile
2 1,408 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,341 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1,302 (16.99%) Roadmaps
5 1,100 (14.35%) Migration
6 1,054 (13.75%) Decision-Making
7 1,035 (13.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1,023 (13.35%) AI
9 920 (12.00%) Project Delivery
10 907 (11.83%) DevOps
11 881 (11.49%) Analytics
12 842 (10.98%) Project Management
13 822 (10.72%) Workshop Facilitation
14 767 (10.01%) Change Management
15 765 (9.98%) Risk Management
16 760 (9.92%) CI/CD
17 659 (8.60%) Requirements Gathering
18 655 (8.55%) User Acceptance Testing
19 644 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
20 636 (8.30%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 698 (9.11%) SQL
2 507 (6.61%) Python
3 215 (2.80%) Java
4 160 (2.09%) JavaScript
5 158 (2.06%) PowerShell
6 101 (1.32%) C#
7 76 (0.99%) Bash
8 66 (0.86%) TypeScript
9 50 (0.65%) Bicep
10 44 (0.57%) ABAP
11 35 (0.46%) Korn
12 27 (0.35%) R
13 24 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 23 (0.30%) T-SQL
15 22 (0.29%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.25%) Shell Script
17 18 (0.23%) Go
18 15 (0.20%) Kotlin
19 14 (0.18%) Apex Code
19 14 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,527 (19.92%) Security Cleared
2 1,122 (14.64%) SC Cleared
3 533 (6.95%) Degree
4 325 (4.24%) PMP
5 300 (3.91%) PMI Certification
6 288 (3.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 287 (3.74%) DV Cleared
8 172 (2.24%) CISSP
9 132 (1.72%) Azure Certification
10 129 (1.68%) CISM
11 99 (1.29%) AWS Certification
12 97 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
13 81 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
14 80 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
15 71 (0.93%) ACCA
16 68 (0.89%) CIMA
17 61 (0.80%) ISTQB
18 60 (0.78%) Master's Degree
19 53 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 51 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 590 (7.70%) Data Quality
2 446 (5.82%) QA
3 341 (4.45%) PMO
4 224 (2.92%) GDPR
5 220 (2.87%) Accessibility
6 216 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 173 (2.26%) NIST
8 140 (1.83%) GRC
9 100 (1.30%) SLA
10 85 (1.11%) WCAG
11 68 (0.89%) NCSC
12 47 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
13 31 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 28 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
14 28 (0.37%) IFRS
15 27 (0.35%) PCI DSS
16 26 (0.34%) GxP
16 26 (0.34%) ISO 20022
17 24 (0.31%) COBIT
18 23 (0.30%) SEPA
System Software
1 199 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 180 (2.35%) Docker
3 77 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 30 (0.39%) vSphere
6 24 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (0.29%) VMware NSX
8 16 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 14 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.10%) NFS
10 8 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.078%) Time Sharing Option
12 5 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.052%) FreeRADIUS
13 4 (0.052%) IAG
13 4 (0.052%) Postfix
14 3 (0.039%) Firmware
14 3 (0.039%) KVM
14 3 (0.039%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.039%) RACF
Systems Management
1 258 (3.37%) Kubernetes
2 117 (1.53%) Ansible
3 69 (0.90%) Grafana
4 54 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 48 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (0.43%) SCCM
7 32 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.21%) Argo
9 13 (0.17%) Control-M
10 12 (0.16%) Kibana
11 10 (0.13%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.12%) Tivoli
13 8 (0.10%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.10%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.10%) WMI
14 7 (0.091%) Puppet
14 7 (0.091%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 6 (0.078%) Functional Safety
15 6 (0.078%) Tivoli Monitoring
16 5 (0.065%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,318 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 619 (8.08%) SAP
3 415 (5.41%) Oracle
4 383 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 265 (3.46%) Salesforce
6 231 (3.01%) Databricks
7 177 (2.31%) Google
8 114 (1.49%) Workday
9 109 (1.42%) Cisco
10 108 (1.41%) VMware
11 83 (1.08%) IBM
12 78 (1.02%) CyberArk
13 69 (0.90%) Splunk
14 60 (0.78%) Adobe
15 51 (0.67%) Ariba
16 42 (0.55%) Fortinet
17 40 (0.52%) Informatica
18 38 (0.50%) MuleSoft
19 36 (0.47%) Dynatrace
20 34 (0.44%) Atlassian