Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends

Stakeholder Engagement
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 74 149
Rank change year-on-year +48 +75 +9
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,237 940 716
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.06% 3.22% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.27% 3.55% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,231 628 484
10th Percentile £363 £386 £363
25th Percentile £448 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £633 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% +2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 15 37
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.94 £18.35
25th Percentile £37.00 £29.25 £27.81
Median hourly rate £68.00 £47.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +43.16% +32.09% +16.00%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.00 £57.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.35 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.50 £39.78 £56.49
% change year-on-year +104.90% -29.59% +175.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Stakeholder Engagement 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 39,137 26,475 37,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.32% 90.62% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,793 17,183 24,611
10th Percentile £315 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.05% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 1,000 2,387
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.81
25th Percentile £19.34 £19.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.71 £31.04 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +18.27% -6.12% -8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.28 £70.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.71 £29.23 £33.07
% change year-on-year +25.59% -11.60% -7.64%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Top 17 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 Engagement within the UK over the 6 months to 10 April 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 +47 2,818 £525 - 871
UK excluding London +52 1,562 £500 -3.85% 633
London +55 1,299 £550 - 341
Work from Home +55 951 £525 - 428
South East +37 400 £500 -6.98% 209
North of England +40 382 £500 - 154
Midlands +31 321 £492 -1.60% 124
West Midlands +23 220 £492 -6.29% 78
North West +52 205 £491 -2.58% 71
South West +33 203 £525 -8.70% 68
Yorkshire +6 135 £519 +9.21% 63
East of England +31 113 £533 +6.50% 46
Scotland +40 104 £458 -16.82% 21
East Midlands +13 96 £494 +16.18% 45
North East +16 48 £450 -11.33% 21
Wales +12 35 £436 -16.90% 15
Northern Ireland +15 19 £450 -20.00% 7

Stakeholder Engagement
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
1 180 (5.56%) Confluence
2 109 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 30 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.71%) SAS
5 16 (0.49%) CMS
6 12 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.19%) Apache
9 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.093%) Drupal
10 3 (0.093%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.093%) WordPress
11 2 (0.062%) Camunda
11 2 (0.062%) nginx
11 2 (0.062%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.062%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.062%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 161 (4.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
3 64 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 63 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
5 60 (1.85%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.12%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.12%) Sketch
8 4 (0.12%) Trello
9 3 (0.093%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.093%) Notion
10 2 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.062%) InVision
10 2 (0.062%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.062%) Windchill
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.031%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.031%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 132 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.53%) SAP FI
5 14 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.43%) SAP PP
6 11 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
7 10 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 10 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
7 10 (0.31%) SAP MM
7 10 (0.31%) Teamcenter
7 10 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 9 (0.28%) NEC Housing
8 9 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 9 (0.28%) SAP CO
9 8 (0.25%) SAP ERP
9 8 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
9 8 (0.25%) SAP HR
10 7 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 7 (0.22%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 594 (18.35%) Azure
2 408 (12.60%) AWS
3 289 (8.93%) Power Platform
4 163 (5.04%) GCP
5 134 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
6 115 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (3.12%) Dynamics 365
7 101 (3.12%) SaaS
8 98 (3.03%) Entra ID
9 68 (2.10%) GitHub
10 45 (1.39%) Serverless
11 43 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
12 42 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
13 41 (1.27%) OCI
13 41 (1.27%) PaaS
14 35 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
15 32 (0.99%) Power Automate
16 31 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
17 30 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (0.93%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.92%) Firewall
2 50 (1.54%) Network Security
3 35 (1.08%) DNS
4 31 (0.96%) VPN
5 30 (0.93%) WAN
6 28 (0.86%) LAN
7 20 (0.62%) SD-WAN
8 17 (0.53%) BGP
9 15 (0.46%) Internet
10 14 (0.43%) MPLS
11 13 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (0.40%) Wireless
12 11 (0.34%) DHCP
12 11 (0.34%) VLAN
13 10 (0.31%) VSAN
14 9 (0.28%) OSPF
15 8 (0.25%) Intranet
15 8 (0.25%) SSL
15 8 (0.25%) WLAN
16 7 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (7.48%) Power BI
2 75 (2.32%) Metadata
3 64 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (1.42%) Tableau
5 36 (1.11%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.77%) Data Lake
6 25 (0.77%) Power Query
7 22 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
8 21 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
8 21 (0.65%) Relational Database
9 17 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
9 17 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
10 14 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
11 13 (0.40%) Data Vault
11 13 (0.40%) DynamoDB
11 13 (0.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 12 (0.37%) MySQL
13 11 (0.34%) Delta Lake
13 11 (0.34%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 285 (8.80%) JIRA
2 48 (1.48%) GitLab
2 48 (1.48%) Jenkins
3 47 (1.45%) Git
4 29 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
5 26 (0.80%) Selenium
6 22 (0.68%) Postman
7 16 (0.49%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.46%) JMeter
9 13 (0.40%) Hudson
10 11 (0.34%) JUnit
11 8 (0.25%) ERwin
11 8 (0.25%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
12 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.22%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.19%) MLflow
13 6 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (0.19%) TestRail
14 5 (0.15%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,572 (48.56%) Social Skills
2 947 (29.26%) Finance
3 537 (16.59%) Public Sector
4 527 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
5 203 (6.27%) Banking
6 149 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
7 142 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
8 123 (3.80%) Legal
9 93 (2.87%) Retail
10 86 (2.66%) Manufacturing
11 84 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
12 76 (2.35%) Law
13 67 (2.07%) Local Government
14 66 (2.04%) Marketing
15 64 (1.98%) Telecoms
16 60 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
17 59 (1.82%) Aerospace
18 36 (1.11%) Military
19 34 (1.05%) Financial Institution
20 33 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 605 (18.69%) Analyst
2 482 (14.89%) Architect
3 438 (13.53%) Business Analyst
4 398 (12.30%) Lead
5 301 (9.30%) Project Manager
6 279 (8.62%) Consultant
7 275 (8.50%) Senior
8 143 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
9 94 (2.90%) Delivery Manager
10 93 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
11 85 (2.63%) Programme Manager
12 84 (2.59%) Change Manager
13 81 (2.50%) Developer
14 79 (2.44%) Data Analyst
15 70 (2.16%) Senior Business Analyst
16 66 (2.04%) Senior Manager
17 60 (1.85%) Lead Architect
18 59 (1.82%) Designer
19 58 (1.79%) Product Manager
20 52 (1.61%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (3.27%) REST
2 57 (1.76%) SOAP
3 54 (1.67%) LDAP
4 48 (1.48%) Middleware
5 44 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
6 35 (1.08%) OpenID
7 34 (1.05%) .NET
8 33 (1.02%) OAuth
9 31 (0.96%) Node.js
10 30 (0.93%) React
10 30 (0.93%) Spring
11 26 (0.80%) SailPoint
12 24 (0.74%) Kafka
13 23 (0.71%) SAML
14 22 (0.68%) Spring Boot
15 21 (0.65%) AngularJS
16 18 (0.56%) SAP Fiori
16 18 (0.56%) TensorFlow
17 17 (0.53%) PyTorch
17 17 (0.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 215 (6.64%) Product Ownership
2 153 (4.73%) Onboarding
3 111 (3.43%) Cloud Native
4 82 (2.53%) Data Structures
5 79 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 76 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 73 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
8 63 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 61 (1.88%) Security Posture
10 59 (1.82%) NHS
11 56 (1.73%) Operational Technology
12 55 (1.70%) Data Centre
13 41 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
13 41 (1.27%) PMI
14 40 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
15 39 (1.20%) AI Agents
15 39 (1.20%) CMDB
16 37 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
17 32 (0.99%) Virtual Team
18 29 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 78 (2.41%) Windows
2 39 (1.20%) Linux
3 20 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (0.53%) Windows 10
4 17 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.19%) Unix
6 6 (0.19%) VMS
7 4 (0.12%) Android
7 4 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.093%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 834 (25.76%) Agile
2 625 (19.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 617 (19.06%) Continuous Improvement
4 517 (15.97%) Migration
5 478 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
6 457 (14.12%) Roadmaps
7 441 (13.62%) Change Management
8 399 (12.33%) Workshop Facilitation
9 379 (11.71%) Decision-Making
10 351 (10.84%) Project Management
11 339 (10.47%) Analytics
12 333 (10.29%) DevOps
13 298 (9.21%) Business Intelligence
14 295 (9.11%) AI
15 286 (8.84%) Risk Management
16 284 (8.77%) ERP
17 262 (8.09%) Project Delivery
18 259 (8.00%) User Acceptance Testing
19 248 (7.66%) CI/CD
20 239 (7.38%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 249 (7.69%) SQL
2 236 (7.29%) Python
3 93 (2.87%) Java
4 91 (2.81%) PowerShell
5 44 (1.36%) JavaScript
6 40 (1.24%) C#
7 33 (1.02%) TypeScript
8 29 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 22 (0.68%) Bash
10 19 (0.59%) Bicep
11 17 (0.53%) ABAP
11 17 (0.53%) R
11 17 (0.53%) VBA
12 10 (0.31%) Kotlin
12 10 (0.31%) PHP
12 10 (0.31%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.28%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.22%) Korn
15 6 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 791 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 630 (19.46%) SC Cleared
3 279 (8.62%) Degree
4 123 (3.80%) PMI Certification
5 116 (3.58%) DV Cleared
6 113 (3.49%) PMP
7 104 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 61 (1.88%) CISSP
9 45 (1.39%) Azure Certification
10 43 (1.33%) Master's Degree
11 42 (1.30%) CISM
12 41 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
13 31 (0.96%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
15 26 (0.80%) ACCA
16 25 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 24 (0.74%) CIMA
17 24 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
18 23 (0.71%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (6.05%) Data Quality
2 176 (5.44%) QA
3 143 (4.42%) GDPR
4 138 (4.26%) PMO
5 133 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 132 (4.08%) NIST
7 76 (2.35%) Accessibility
8 57 (1.76%) GRC
9 38 (1.17%) PCI DSS
10 31 (0.96%) NCSC
11 29 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
12 27 (0.83%) SLA
13 16 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
13 16 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 16 (0.49%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.43%) Basel III
15 13 (0.40%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.40%) WCAG
16 12 (0.37%) COBIT
16 12 (0.37%) PSD2
System Software
1 112 (3.46%) Active Directory
2 66 (2.04%) Docker
3 30 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.65%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.49%) vSphere
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.15%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.093%) NFS
10 3 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.062%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.031%) Firmware
12 1 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 118 (3.65%) Terraform
2 107 (3.31%) Kubernetes
3 28 (0.86%) Ansible
4 26 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (0.53%) Grafana
7 16 (0.49%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.46%) HP ALM
9 14 (0.43%) SCCM
10 11 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.15%) Podman
13 4 (0.12%) Istio
13 4 (0.12%) vRealize
14 3 (0.093%) Argo
14 3 (0.093%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.093%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.093%) vMotion
14 3 (0.093%) WSUS
15 2 (0.062%) Nessus
Vendors
1 468 (14.46%) Microsoft
2 275 (8.50%) SAP
3 193 (5.96%) ServiceNow
4 164 (5.07%) Oracle
5 99 (3.06%) Salesforce
6 66 (2.04%) Databricks
7 65 (2.01%) Google
8 63 (1.95%) Cisco
9 52 (1.61%) CyberArk
10 48 (1.48%) VMware
11 43 (1.33%) IBM
12 42 (1.30%) Workday
13 41 (1.27%) BeyondTrust
14 35 (1.08%) Aruba
15 34 (1.05%) Centrify
16 27 (0.83%) Splunk
17 24 (0.74%) Palo Alto
18 22 (0.68%) Red Hat
19 21 (0.65%) Adobe
19 21 (0.65%) OpenAI