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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 6,360 2,872 2,500
As % of all contract jobs in England 13.91% 10.41% 7.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.40% 11.46% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,201 1,946 1,695
10th Percentile £388 £358 £363
25th Percentile £456 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 67 67
10th Percentile £25.36 £28.25 £31.52
25th Percentile £34.35 £35.60 £53.75
Median hourly rate £58.50 £49.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -19.64% +23.30%
75th Percentile £80.00 £71.35 £75.00
90th Percentile £101.51 £76.75 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £49.50 £60.30
% change year-on-year +20.20% -17.91% +17.27%

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 38,772 25,064 28,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 90.82% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,937 15,945 18,292
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £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 2,579 1,483 1,510
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +11 3,354 £563 +0.90% 3,373
North of England +3 953 £503 +0.50% 841
South East +8 828 £550 +4.76% 1,064
Midlands +4 550 £500 -4.76% 436
North West +1 497 £525 +5.00% 508
West Midlands +4 429 £500 -4.76% 298
Yorkshire +6 400 £500 +1.01% 242
South West +8 344 £550 +4.76% 457
East of England +10 201 £525 -4.55% 252
East Midlands 0 104 £500 +24.22% 138
North East -9 64 £490 +1.03% 94
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
1 341 (5.36%) Confluence
2 175 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 57 (0.90%) CMS
4 41 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 32 (0.50%) Apache
6 26 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 21 (0.33%) SAS
8 20 (0.31%) Apache Spark
9 12 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.094%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.094%) WordPress
12 5 (0.079%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.079%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.063%) Appian
13 4 (0.063%) FactoryTalk
13 4 (0.063%) Kentico
13 4 (0.063%) Moodle
13 4 (0.063%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 288 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 156 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
3 152 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 149 (2.34%) Microsoft Project
5 71 (1.12%) MS Visio
6 21 (0.33%) Revit
7 17 (0.27%) AutoCAD
7 17 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 16 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 12 (0.19%) Navisworks
10 9 (0.14%) Trello
11 7 (0.11%) ProjectWise
12 6 (0.094%) Windchill
13 5 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.063%) Adobe XD
14 4 (0.063%) Notion
15 3 (0.047%) Sketch
16 2 (0.031%) Adobe Illustrator
16 2 (0.031%) EPLAN
16 2 (0.031%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 231 (3.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 81 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
5 26 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 26 (0.41%) Workday HCM
6 25 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
7 22 (0.35%) 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%) SAP FI
10 17 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
10 17 (0.27%) SAP SD
11 16 (0.25%) Primavera
11 16 (0.25%) SAP ERP
12 14 (0.22%) Finacle
12 14 (0.22%) SAP CO
12 14 (0.22%) SAP MDG
13 13 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,192 (18.74%) Azure
2 784 (12.33%) AWS
3 460 (7.23%) Power Platform
4 307 (4.83%) GCP
5 268 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
6 227 (3.57%) SaaS
7 185 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
8 157 (2.47%) Entra ID
9 140 (2.20%) Snowflake
10 138 (2.17%) GitHub
11 110 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
12 79 (1.24%) Serverless
13 78 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
14 77 (1.21%) Microsoft Copilot
15 69 (1.08%) OCI
16 66 (1.04%) PowerApps
17 63 (0.99%) Power Automate
18 62 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
19 59 (0.93%) Amazon S3
20 57 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 126 (1.98%) Network Security
2 125 (1.97%) Firewall
3 75 (1.18%) WAN
4 65 (1.02%) DNS
5 49 (0.77%) LAN
6 44 (0.69%) VPN
7 42 (0.66%) TCP/IP
8 38 (0.60%) SD-WAN
9 36 (0.57%) DHCP
10 31 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (0.44%) BGP
12 26 (0.41%) 4G
12 26 (0.41%) 5G
13 24 (0.38%) Wireless
14 19 (0.30%) Internet
14 19 (0.30%) OSPF
15 17 (0.27%) Broadband
15 17 (0.27%) MPLS
16 15 (0.24%) SAN
17 14 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (5.75%) Power BI
2 176 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
3 162 (2.55%) Metadata
4 98 (1.54%) SQL Server
5 82 (1.29%) Data Lake
6 78 (1.23%) Tableau
7 61 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
8 49 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
8 49 (0.77%) Relational Database
9 47 (0.74%) Delta Lake
10 40 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
11 33 (0.52%) BigQuery
12 32 (0.50%) Oracle Database
13 31 (0.49%) MongoDB
14 26 (0.41%) Looker
14 26 (0.41%) NoSQL
15 25 (0.39%) Big Data
16 24 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
17 20 (0.31%) MySQL
17 20 (0.31%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 630 (9.91%) JIRA
2 108 (1.70%) Git
3 84 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 63 (0.99%) GitLab
5 52 (0.82%) Selenium
6 30 (0.47%) Postman
7 26 (0.41%) Cucumber
7 26 (0.41%) JUnit
8 25 (0.39%) SonarQube
9 21 (0.33%) Gatling
10 19 (0.30%) Zephyr
11 18 (0.28%) Cypress.io
11 18 (0.28%) JMeter
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%) REST Assured
15 8 (0.13%) Mockito
General
1 3,294 (51.79%) Social Skills
2 2,162 (33.99%) Finance
3 1,055 (16.59%) Analytical Skills
4 780 (12.26%) Public Sector
5 628 (9.87%) Banking
6 387 (6.08%) Retail
7 360 (5.66%) Influencing Skills
8 274 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
9 261 (4.10%) Legal
10 221 (3.47%) Marketing
11 215 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
12 204 (3.21%) Manufacturing
13 166 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
14 165 (2.59%) Telecoms
15 129 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 105 (1.65%) Aerospace
17 101 (1.59%) Local Government
18 93 (1.46%) Front Office
19 92 (1.45%) Billing
20 76 (1.19%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 932 (14.65%) Analyst
2 906 (14.25%) Lead
3 793 (12.47%) Architect
4 764 (12.01%) Project Manager
5 670 (10.53%) Senior
6 604 (9.50%) Business Analyst
7 407 (6.40%) Consultant
8 283 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
9 237 (3.73%) Senior Manager
10 186 (2.92%) Programme Manager
11 181 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
12 166 (2.61%) IT Manager
13 151 (2.37%) Product Manager
14 141 (2.22%) Developer
15 126 (1.98%) Technical Manager
16 122 (1.92%) Product Owner
17 115 (1.81%) Senior Project Manager
18 113 (1.78%) Senior Analyst
19 109 (1.71%) Designer
20 108 (1.70%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (3.43%) Terraform
2 165 (2.59%) REST
3 116 (1.82%) Middleware
4 88 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
5 78 (1.23%) .NET
6 71 (1.12%) SOAP
7 67 (1.05%) Kafka
8 55 (0.86%) PySpark
9 51 (0.80%) JSON
9 51 (0.80%) OAuth
10 47 (0.74%) React
11 41 (0.64%) HTML
11 41 (0.64%) Spring
12 39 (0.61%) SailPoint
12 39 (0.61%) XML
13 38 (0.60%) CSS
14 36 (0.57%) Playwright
15 32 (0.50%) OpenID
15 32 (0.50%) Web Services
16 31 (0.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 486 (7.64%) Product Ownership
2 360 (5.66%) Onboarding
3 241 (3.79%) Cloud Native
4 185 (2.91%) Management Information System
5 167 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 147 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
7 129 (2.03%) Data Centre
8 128 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
9 115 (1.81%) Data Structures
10 96 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 96 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
11 94 (1.48%) AI Agents
12 93 (1.46%) Virtual Team
13 91 (1.43%) Operational Technology
14 84 (1.32%) Security Posture
15 78 (1.23%) NHS
16 75 (1.18%) CMDB
17 66 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
18 65 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
19 64 (1.01%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 188 (2.96%) Windows
2 122 (1.92%) Linux
3 54 (0.85%) Windows Server
4 45 (0.71%) Unix
5 24 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.30%) Android
7 16 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.22%) VMS
10 10 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.079%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.079%) zOS
13 4 (0.063%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.063%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.063%) 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 2,032 (31.95%) Agile
2 1,141 (17.94%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,033 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
4 991 (15.58%) Roadmaps
5 899 (14.14%) Migration
6 855 (13.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 808 (12.70%) Decision-Making
8 793 (12.47%) AI
9 782 (12.30%) Project Management
10 776 (12.20%) DevOps
11 755 (11.87%) Project Delivery
12 720 (11.32%) Analytics
13 661 (10.39%) Change Management
14 625 (9.83%) Risk Management
15 613 (9.64%) Workshop Facilitation
16 591 (9.29%) CI/CD
17 546 (8.58%) User Acceptance Testing
18 529 (8.32%) Cybersecurity
19 513 (8.07%) Requirements Gathering
20 506 (7.96%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 554 (8.71%) SQL
2 391 (6.15%) Python
3 154 (2.42%) Java
4 121 (1.90%) PowerShell
5 112 (1.76%) JavaScript
6 66 (1.04%) C#
7 58 (0.91%) Bash
8 36 (0.57%) Bicep
9 35 (0.55%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.42%) Korn
11 25 (0.39%) ABAP
12 24 (0.38%) R
13 23 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 20 (0.31%) VBA
15 18 (0.28%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.27%) T-SQL
17 15 (0.24%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.22%) Apex Code
19 13 (0.20%) Go
20 10 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,266 (19.91%) Security Cleared
2 926 (14.56%) SC Cleared
3 433 (6.81%) Degree
4 299 (4.70%) PMP
5 260 (4.09%) PMI Certification
6 232 (3.65%) DV Cleared
7 189 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 143 (2.25%) CISSP
9 114 (1.79%) CISM
10 113 (1.78%) Azure Certification
11 79 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
12 70 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
13 69 (1.08%) AWS Certification
14 64 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
15 47 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 46 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
17 44 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 42 (0.66%) ACCA
19 41 (0.64%) CIMA
19 41 (0.64%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 443 (6.97%) Data Quality
2 366 (5.75%) QA
3 311 (4.89%) PMO
4 217 (3.41%) GDPR
5 155 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 153 (2.41%) NIST
7 146 (2.30%) Accessibility
8 118 (1.86%) GRC
9 89 (1.40%) SLA
10 51 (0.80%) NCSC
11 47 (0.74%) WCAG
12 31 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 26 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
14 25 (0.39%) SOC 2
15 24 (0.38%) IFRS
16 23 (0.36%) COBIT
16 23 (0.36%) PCI DSS
17 22 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
18 17 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 17 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 159 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 137 (2.15%) Docker
3 63 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (0.31%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.30%) vSphere
8 14 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 12 (0.19%) NFS
10 8 (0.13%) Postfix
11 6 (0.094%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.063%) Varnish
13 3 (0.047%) Ceph
13 3 (0.047%) KVM
13 3 (0.047%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.047%) Time Sharing Option
13 3 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.031%) FreeRADIUS
14 2 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 196 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 95 (1.49%) Ansible
3 59 (0.93%) Grafana
4 41 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
5 38 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 34 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.49%) SCCM
8 17 (0.27%) Argo
9 11 (0.17%) Control-M
10 10 (0.16%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.14%) HP ALM
12 8 (0.13%) Kibana
12 8 (0.13%) Puppet
13 7 (0.11%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 6 (0.094%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.079%) Data Guard
15 5 (0.079%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.079%) WMI
Vendors
1 1,007 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 505 (7.94%) SAP
3 347 (5.46%) Oracle
4 326 (5.13%) ServiceNow
5 238 (3.74%) Salesforce
6 195 (3.07%) Databricks
7 132 (2.08%) Google
8 93 (1.46%) VMware
9 91 (1.43%) Workday
10 78 (1.23%) Cisco
11 57 (0.90%) CyberArk
12 56 (0.88%) Adobe
13 54 (0.85%) IBM
14 49 (0.77%) Splunk
15 43 (0.68%) Ariba
16 37 (0.58%) MuleSoft
17 36 (0.57%) Informatica
18 33 (0.52%) Atlassian
19 31 (0.49%) F5
20 29 (0.46%) Foundry