Stakeholder Management Contract Job Trends

Stakeholder Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Stakeholder Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 17 21
Rank change year-on-year +12 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 8,508 3,389 2,959
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 15.64% 10.27% 7.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.52% 11.34% 9.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,532 2,281 1,838
10th Percentile £385 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 65 75
10th Percentile £21.01 £24.40 £30.45
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.00 £39.84
Median hourly rate £60.25 £47.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.84% -20.83% +16.69%
75th Percentile £80.04 £60.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £72.85 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £58.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +11.59% -5.44% +17.24%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,930 29,887 32,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.45% 90.55% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,618 18,553 19,727
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £635 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,299 1,876 1,335
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.31 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.09% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.22 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.60 £65.00 £74.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.52% -48.10% +1.18%

Stakeholder Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Stakeholder Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Stakeholder Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Management over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the UK

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Stakeholder Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Management over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the UK

Stakeholder Management
Top 18 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +11 7,305 £550 +2.42% 7,485
London +14 3,854 £563 +2.27% 3,695
UK excluding London +10 3,633 £525 +5.00% 4,585
Work from Home +13 2,678 £525 - 3,560
North of England +7 1,090 £500 - 1,101
South East +12 932 £550 +4.76% 1,319
Midlands +8 659 £500 -4.76% 711
North West +4 543 £525 +5.00% 603
West Midlands +8 533 £488 -10.67% 474
Yorkshire +8 479 £500 - 362
South West +8 363 £550 - 397
Scotland +15 318 £500 +3.36% 414
East of England +14 230 £510 -7.27% 366
East Midlands +2 110 £509 +14.13% 237
North East +2 77 £500 -3.38% 140
Wales +9 46 £500 +11.11% 160
Northern Ireland +17 36 £450 -8.86% 162
Channel Islands - 10 £550 - 5

Stakeholder Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 406 (4.77%) Confluence
2 227 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 77 (0.91%) CMS
4 55 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
5 44 (0.52%) Apache
6 34 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 28 (0.33%) SAS
9 13 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 11 (0.13%) CICS
11 10 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 10 (0.12%) WordPress
12 8 (0.094%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.082%) Palantir Foundry
13 7 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.071%) WebSphere
15 5 (0.059%) NetWeaver
15 5 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 5 (0.059%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.059%) WebLogic
Applications
1 369 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 192 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 184 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
4 157 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
5 90 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 26 (0.31%) Revit
7 20 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 20 (0.24%) Navisworks
8 15 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
9 14 (0.16%) Chatbot
10 12 (0.14%) Trello
11 11 (0.13%) ProjectWise
12 9 (0.11%) Windchill
13 6 (0.071%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 5 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
14 5 (0.059%) Adobe XD
14 5 (0.059%) Photoshop
15 4 (0.047%) Notion
16 3 (0.035%) CPLEX
16 3 (0.035%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 353 (4.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 106 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 42 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
4 40 (0.47%) Workday HCM
5 38 (0.45%) NetSuite
6 37 (0.43%) SAP FI
7 35 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
8 34 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
8 34 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
9 33 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
10 30 (0.35%) SAP HCM
10 30 (0.35%) SAP HR
11 25 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
11 25 (0.29%) SAP MDG
12 24 (0.28%) Aladdin
12 24 (0.28%) SAP CO
12 24 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
13 22 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
13 22 (0.26%) SAP ERP
14 21 (0.25%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,510 (17.75%) Azure
2 1,027 (12.07%) AWS
3 641 (7.53%) Power Platform
4 409 (4.81%) GCP
5 348 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
6 287 (3.37%) SaaS
7 277 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
8 212 (2.49%) Entra ID
9 203 (2.39%) GitHub
10 174 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
11 158 (1.86%) Snowflake
12 120 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
13 117 (1.38%) SuccessFactors
14 111 (1.30%) Serverless
15 105 (1.23%) Power Automate
16 103 (1.21%) OCI
17 94 (1.10%) PowerApps
18 87 (1.02%) Amazon S3
19 81 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
20 78 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 159 (1.87%) Firewall
2 154 (1.81%) Network Security
3 88 (1.03%) WAN
4 72 (0.85%) DNS
5 57 (0.67%) LAN
6 53 (0.62%) VPN
7 43 (0.51%) DHCP
7 43 (0.51%) TCP/IP
8 42 (0.49%) SD-WAN
9 30 (0.35%) Broadband
10 29 (0.34%) MPLS
11 28 (0.33%) BGP
11 28 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (0.33%) Wireless
12 27 (0.32%) 4G
12 27 (0.32%) 5G
13 24 (0.28%) Internet
14 21 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
15 19 (0.22%) VLAN
16 17 (0.20%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 501 (5.89%) Power BI
2 237 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
3 224 (2.63%) Metadata
4 136 (1.60%) Data Lake
5 126 (1.48%) SQL Server
6 102 (1.20%) Tableau
7 77 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
8 66 (0.78%) Relational Database
9 58 (0.68%) BigQuery
10 57 (0.67%) Delta Lake
11 56 (0.66%) MongoDB
12 55 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
13 51 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
14 45 (0.53%) Oracle Database
15 43 (0.51%) Looker
16 37 (0.43%) NoSQL
17 34 (0.40%) DynamoDB
18 31 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
19 30 (0.35%) Semantic Layer
20 28 (0.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 764 (8.98%) JIRA
2 165 (1.94%) Git
3 114 (1.34%) GitLab
4 106 (1.25%) Jenkins
5 73 (0.86%) Selenium
6 50 (0.59%) Cucumber
7 43 (0.51%) JUnit
8 36 (0.42%) Gatling
8 36 (0.42%) Postman
9 32 (0.38%) SonarQube
10 25 (0.29%) Zephyr
11 22 (0.26%) Cypress.io
12 17 (0.20%) JMeter
13 14 (0.16%) LoadRunner
13 14 (0.16%) Maven
14 13 (0.15%) Claude Code
14 13 (0.15%) ERwin
14 13 (0.15%) WebDriver
15 11 (0.13%) MSI
16 10 (0.12%) Bitbucket
General
1 4,517 (53.09%) Social Skills
2 2,778 (32.65%) Finance
3 1,388 (16.31%) Analytical Skills
4 1,188 (13.96%) Public Sector
5 834 (9.80%) Banking
6 505 (5.94%) Influencing Skills
7 427 (5.02%) Retail
8 397 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
9 375 (4.41%) Legal
10 323 (3.80%) Manufacturing
11 286 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
12 265 (3.11%) Marketing
13 222 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
14 208 (2.44%) Telecoms
15 161 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 151 (1.77%) Aerospace
17 128 (1.50%) Local Government
18 124 (1.46%) Front Office
19 113 (1.33%) Billing
19 113 (1.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,242 (14.60%) Analyst
2 1,180 (13.87%) Architect
3 1,113 (13.08%) Lead
4 898 (10.55%) Senior
5 894 (10.51%) Project Manager
6 808 (9.50%) Business Analyst
7 600 (7.05%) Consultant
8 408 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
9 280 (3.29%) Senior Manager
10 241 (2.83%) Delivery Manager
11 213 (2.50%) Product Manager
12 212 (2.49%) Developer
13 210 (2.47%) Programme Manager
14 208 (2.44%) IT Manager
15 160 (1.88%) Data Analyst
16 157 (1.85%) Senior Analyst
16 157 (1.85%) Technical Manager
17 151 (1.77%) Product Owner
18 137 (1.61%) Designer
19 136 (1.60%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (3.47%) Terraform
2 234 (2.75%) REST
3 168 (1.97%) Middleware
4 122 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
5 113 (1.33%) .NET
6 98 (1.15%) Kafka
7 90 (1.06%) SOAP
8 86 (1.01%) JSON
9 82 (0.96%) PySpark
10 78 (0.92%) OAuth
11 75 (0.88%) Spring
12 73 (0.86%) React
13 60 (0.71%) HTML
13 60 (0.71%) XML
14 58 (0.68%) Web Services
15 57 (0.67%) Playwright
16 52 (0.61%) LDAP
17 51 (0.60%) Spring Boot
18 49 (0.58%) CSS
18 49 (0.58%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 655 (7.70%) Product Ownership
2 496 (5.83%) Onboarding
3 341 (4.01%) Cloud Native
4 293 (3.44%) Management Information System
5 234 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
6 199 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
7 188 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
8 159 (1.87%) Data Centre
9 157 (1.85%) AI Agents
10 143 (1.68%) Data Structures
11 137 (1.61%) Operational Technology
12 124 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
13 120 (1.41%) Virtual Team
14 115 (1.35%) CMDB
15 107 (1.26%) NHS
16 103 (1.21%) Security Posture
17 93 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
18 92 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
19 90 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
19 90 (1.06%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 267 (3.14%) Windows
2 169 (1.99%) Linux
3 84 (0.99%) Windows Server
4 58 (0.68%) Unix
5 27 (0.32%) Android
6 26 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 25 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 15 (0.18%) VMS
10 13 (0.15%) zOS
11 10 (0.12%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.082%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.059%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.047%) AIX
14 4 (0.047%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.047%) Solaris
14 4 (0.047%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.047%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.035%) CentOS
16 2 (0.024%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,649 (31.14%) Agile
2 1,532 (18.01%) Continuous Improvement
3 1,444 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
4 1,383 (16.26%) Roadmaps
5 1,217 (14.30%) Migration
6 1,145 (13.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1,128 (13.26%) Decision-Making
8 1,094 (12.86%) AI
9 997 (11.72%) Project Delivery
10 967 (11.37%) DevOps
11 960 (11.28%) Analytics
12 923 (10.85%) Workshop Facilitation
13 913 (10.73%) Project Management
14 821 (9.65%) Change Management
15 807 (9.49%) Risk Management
16 800 (9.40%) CI/CD
17 741 (8.71%) User Acceptance Testing
18 722 (8.49%) Requirements Gathering
19 698 (8.20%) Validation
20 687 (8.07%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 780 (9.17%) SQL
2 531 (6.24%) Python
3 262 (3.08%) Java
4 163 (1.92%) JavaScript
5 162 (1.90%) PowerShell
6 97 (1.14%) C#
7 82 (0.96%) Bash
8 70 (0.82%) TypeScript
9 54 (0.63%) ABAP
10 48 (0.56%) Bicep
11 37 (0.43%) Korn
12 32 (0.38%) PL/SQL
13 29 (0.34%) R
14 28 (0.33%) T-SQL
15 23 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 20 (0.24%) Go
16 20 (0.24%) Shell Script
17 16 (0.19%) Apex Code
18 13 (0.15%) JCL
18 13 (0.15%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,692 (19.89%) Security Cleared
2 1,271 (14.94%) SC Cleared
3 552 (6.49%) Degree
4 339 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 334 (3.93%) PMP
6 302 (3.55%) PMI Certification
7 282 (3.31%) DV Cleared
8 174 (2.05%) CISSP
9 140 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 133 (1.56%) CISM
11 103 (1.21%) AWS Certification
12 102 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
13 86 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
14 83 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
15 65 (0.76%) ACCA
16 62 (0.73%) CIMA
17 61 (0.72%) Master's Degree
18 57 (0.67%) ISTQB
19 51 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 50 (0.59%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 660 (7.76%) Data Quality
2 475 (5.58%) QA
3 365 (4.29%) PMO
4 249 (2.93%) GDPR
5 237 (2.79%) Accessibility
6 229 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 191 (2.24%) NIST
8 161 (1.89%) GRC
9 109 (1.28%) SLA
10 89 (1.05%) WCAG
11 82 (0.96%) NCSC
12 51 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
13 42 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
14 37 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 31 (0.36%) GxP
16 30 (0.35%) ISO 20022
17 29 (0.34%) PCI DSS
18 28 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 27 (0.32%) IFRS
20 24 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 223 (2.62%) Active Directory
2 183 (2.15%) Docker
3 82 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.38%) vSphere
5 31 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (0.29%) VMware NSX
8 19 (0.22%) Hyper-V
9 16 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.11%) NFS
11 8 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (0.082%) Time Sharing Option
13 5 (0.059%) IAG
13 5 (0.059%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.047%) Firmware
14 4 (0.047%) FreeRADIUS
14 4 (0.047%) KVM
14 4 (0.047%) Postfix
14 4 (0.047%) RACF
15 3 (0.035%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 292 (3.43%) Kubernetes
2 112 (1.32%) Ansible
3 68 (0.80%) Grafana
4 58 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 36 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 33 (0.39%) SCCM
8 21 (0.25%) Argo
9 16 (0.19%) Control-M
10 12 (0.14%) Kibana
11 10 (0.12%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.11%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.094%) Tivoli
13 8 (0.094%) WMI
14 7 (0.082%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.082%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 6 (0.071%) Jamf Pro
15 6 (0.071%) Puppet
15 6 (0.071%) Tivoli Monitoring
16 5 (0.059%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1,425 (16.75%) Microsoft
2 754 (8.86%) SAP
3 482 (5.67%) Oracle
4 429 (5.04%) ServiceNow
5 288 (3.39%) Salesforce
6 258 (3.03%) Databricks
7 199 (2.34%) Google
8 134 (1.57%) Workday
9 117 (1.38%) Cisco
10 114 (1.34%) VMware
11 90 (1.06%) Ariba
12 85 (1.00%) IBM
13 81 (0.95%) CyberArk
14 74 (0.87%) Splunk
15 69 (0.81%) Adobe
16 63 (0.74%) MuleSoft
17 43 (0.51%) Informatica
18 40 (0.47%) OpenAI
19 39 (0.46%) Fortinet
20 35 (0.41%) Foundry