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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
2 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 77 153
Rank change year-on-year +52 +76 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,196 898 705
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.14% 3.09% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.34% 3.41% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,190 601 479
10th Percentile £364 £387 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £637 £638 £653
90th Percentile £745 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £510 £521
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.16% +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 14 36
10th Percentile £17.50 £23.98 £18.35
25th Percentile £37.00 £28.38 £27.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £49.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +31.31% +37.66% +75.41%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.98 £57.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.20 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.75 £54.65 £52.00
% change year-on-year +31.30% +5.10% +153.63%

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 38,313 26,307 38,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.58% 90.51% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,289 17,086 24,815
10th Percentile £313 £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 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 967 2,341
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.00 £12.82
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.24 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.85 £31.08 £31.65
% change year-on-year +12.13% -1.80% -12.39%

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 2 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 2 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
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 Engagement within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +52 2,791 £525 - 871
UK excluding London +50 1,528 £500 -1.96% 633
London +60 1,303 £550 - 341
Work from Home +59 923 £525 - 428
South East +36 400 £500 -6.98% 209
North of England +44 371 £500 - 154
Midlands +32 308 £500 - 124
West Midlands +30 204 £500 -2.53% 78
South West +36 201 £525 -8.70% 68
North West +51 200 £492 -1.99% 71
Yorkshire +7 131 £513 +8.01% 63
East of England +30 108 £540 +8.00% 46
East Midlands +14 99 £500 +14.29% 45
Scotland +40 97 £450 -18.07% 21
North East +17 44 £450 -11.33% 21
Wales +13 33 £411 -21.67% 15
Northern Ireland +18 19 £450 - 7
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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
1 174 (5.44%) Confluence
2 111 (3.47%) SharePoint
3 31 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (0.66%) SAS
5 14 (0.44%) CMS
6 10 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.25%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.22%) Apache
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.094%) WordPress
11 2 (0.063%) Camunda
11 2 (0.063%) Drupal
11 2 (0.063%) nginx
11 2 (0.063%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.063%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.063%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 166 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
3 64 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 64 (2.00%) MS Visio
4 59 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.16%) Trello
8 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.094%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.094%) Notion
9 3 (0.094%) Sketch
10 2 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.063%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.063%) Windchill
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.031%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.031%) CATIA
11 1 (0.031%) InVision
Business Applications
1 135 (4.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.53%) SAP FI
4 17 (0.53%) SAP PP
5 15 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
6 11 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
6 11 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 11 (0.34%) SAP HR
6 11 (0.34%) Workday HCM
7 10 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
7 10 (0.31%) SAP MM
7 10 (0.31%) Teamcenter
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 FI/CO
10 7 (0.22%) Aladdin
10 7 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 7 (0.22%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 587 (18.37%) Azure
2 383 (11.98%) AWS
3 292 (9.14%) Power Platform
4 158 (4.94%) GCP
5 134 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
6 118 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (3.10%) SaaS
8 98 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
9 91 (2.85%) Entra ID
10 67 (2.10%) GitHub
11 44 (1.38%) Serverless
12 43 (1.35%) OCI
13 42 (1.31%) Microsoft Copilot
13 42 (1.31%) PaaS
14 41 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
16 32 (1.00%) Power Automate
17 30 (0.94%) IaaS
17 30 (0.94%) PowerApps
18 29 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.85%) Firewall
2 46 (1.44%) Network Security
3 33 (1.03%) DNS
4 29 (0.91%) WAN
5 27 (0.84%) LAN
5 27 (0.84%) VPN
6 18 (0.56%) SD-WAN
7 17 (0.53%) BGP
8 14 (0.44%) MPLS
9 13 (0.41%) Internet
10 12 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (0.38%) Wireless
11 10 (0.31%) DHCP
11 10 (0.31%) VLAN
11 10 (0.31%) VSAN
12 9 (0.28%) OSPF
13 8 (0.25%) WLAN
14 7 (0.22%) 5G
14 7 (0.22%) Intranet
15 6 (0.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (7.57%) Power BI
2 71 (2.22%) Metadata
3 63 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (1.50%) Tableau
5 37 (1.16%) SQL Server
6 26 (0.81%) Power Query
7 23 (0.72%) Data Lake
8 22 (0.69%) Relational Database
9 20 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
9 20 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
11 16 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
12 14 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (0.44%) MySQL
12 14 (0.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 13 (0.41%) Data Vault
13 13 (0.41%) Delta Lake
14 12 (0.38%) DynamoDB
15 10 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
15 10 (0.31%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 280 (8.76%) JIRA
2 45 (1.41%) Jenkins
3 44 (1.38%) GitLab
4 39 (1.22%) Git
5 29 (0.91%) Rational DOORS
6 25 (0.78%) Selenium
7 20 (0.63%) Postman
8 16 (0.50%) Cucumber
9 15 (0.47%) JMeter
10 13 (0.41%) Hudson
11 11 (0.34%) JUnit
12 8 (0.25%) ERwin
12 8 (0.25%) WebDriver
13 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
13 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.19%) MLflow
14 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.19%) TestRail
15 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
16 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1,563 (48.90%) Social Skills
2 939 (29.38%) Finance
3 527 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 515 (16.11%) Public Sector
5 206 (6.45%) Banking
6 149 (4.66%) Influencing Skills
7 141 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
8 123 (3.85%) Legal
9 87 (2.72%) Retail
10 86 (2.69%) Manufacturing
10 86 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
11 73 (2.28%) Law
12 68 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
13 66 (2.07%) Telecoms
14 65 (2.03%) Marketing
15 62 (1.94%) Local Government
16 58 (1.81%) Aerospace
17 36 (1.13%) Financial Institution
18 34 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
19 31 (0.97%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 603 (18.87%) Analyst
2 472 (14.77%) Architect
3 439 (13.74%) Business Analyst
4 391 (12.23%) Lead
5 297 (9.29%) Project Manager
6 282 (8.82%) Consultant
7 262 (8.20%) Senior
8 148 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
9 89 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
10 86 (2.69%) Delivery Manager
10 86 (2.69%) Programme Manager
11 84 (2.63%) Change Manager
12 83 (2.60%) Developer
13 77 (2.41%) Data Analyst
14 66 (2.07%) Senior Business Analyst
15 59 (1.85%) Lead Architect
16 56 (1.75%) Product Manager
16 56 (1.75%) Senior Manager
17 54 (1.69%) Designer
18 53 (1.66%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (3.32%) REST
2 55 (1.72%) SOAP
3 52 (1.63%) LDAP
4 49 (1.53%) Middleware
5 43 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
6 34 (1.06%) .NET
7 33 (1.03%) OpenID
8 31 (0.97%) OAuth
9 30 (0.94%) Spring
10 29 (0.91%) Node.js
11 28 (0.88%) React
12 25 (0.78%) SailPoint
13 24 (0.75%) Kafka
14 22 (0.69%) Spring Boot
15 21 (0.66%) SAP Fiori
16 19 (0.59%) SAML
17 18 (0.56%) RESTful
17 18 (0.56%) TensorFlow
18 17 (0.53%) AngularJS
18 17 (0.53%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 212 (6.63%) Product Ownership
2 149 (4.66%) Onboarding
3 105 (3.29%) Cloud Native
4 79 (2.47%) Data Structures
5 77 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 70 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
6 70 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
7 61 (1.91%) Security Posture
8 59 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 57 (1.78%) NHS
10 54 (1.69%) Operational Technology
11 53 (1.66%) Data Centre
12 43 (1.35%) CMDB
12 43 (1.35%) PMI
13 39 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
14 38 (1.19%) AI Agents
14 38 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
15 36 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
16 33 (1.03%) Virtual Team
17 25 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 76 (2.38%) Windows
2 40 (1.25%) Linux
3 20 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.53%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.19%) VMS
7 5 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.16%) Unix
8 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.094%) Android
9 3 (0.094%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.094%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 818 (25.59%) Agile
2 619 (19.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 601 (18.80%) Continuous Improvement
4 513 (16.05%) Migration
5 485 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
6 452 (14.14%) Roadmaps
7 437 (13.67%) Change Management
8 405 (12.67%) Workshop Facilitation
9 365 (11.42%) Decision-Making
10 350 (10.95%) Project Management
11 329 (10.29%) Analytics
12 320 (10.01%) DevOps
13 302 (9.45%) Business Intelligence
14 289 (9.04%) Risk Management
15 288 (9.01%) AI
16 282 (8.82%) ERP
17 266 (8.32%) Project Delivery
18 256 (8.01%) User Acceptance Testing
19 243 (7.60%) Requirements Gathering
20 234 (7.32%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 246 (7.70%) SQL
2 236 (7.38%) Python
3 93 (2.91%) PowerShell
4 92 (2.88%) Java
5 41 (1.28%) JavaScript
6 37 (1.16%) C#
7 30 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 30 (0.94%) TypeScript
8 24 (0.75%) Bash
9 17 (0.53%) Bicep
9 17 (0.53%) R
9 17 (0.53%) VBA
10 16 (0.50%) ABAP
11 10 (0.31%) PHP
11 10 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.28%) Apex Code
12 9 (0.28%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.22%) Korn
13 7 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 760 (23.78%) Security Cleared
2 602 (18.84%) SC Cleared
3 280 (8.76%) Degree
4 122 (3.82%) PMI Certification
5 112 (3.50%) DV Cleared
6 109 (3.41%) PMP
7 99 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 58 (1.81%) CISSP
9 47 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 42 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 41 (1.28%) CISM
12 40 (1.25%) Azure Certification
13 31 (0.97%) AWS Certification
14 27 (0.84%) ACCA
14 27 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 26 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
15 26 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
16 25 (0.78%) CIMA
17 23 (0.72%) APMG
17 23 (0.72%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (5.94%) Data Quality
2 178 (5.57%) QA
3 141 (4.41%) GDPR
4 137 (4.29%) PMO
5 129 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 128 (4.01%) NIST
7 73 (2.28%) Accessibility
8 59 (1.85%) GRC
9 38 (1.19%) PCI DSS
10 33 (1.03%) NCSC
11 29 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
12 25 (0.78%) SLA
13 16 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
13 16 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 15 (0.47%) SOC 2
15 14 (0.44%) Basel III
16 12 (0.38%) COBIT
16 12 (0.38%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.38%) PSD2
17 11 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 111 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 64 (2.00%) Docker
3 29 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.59%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.50%) vSphere
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.094%) NFS
10 3 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.063%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.031%) Firmware
12 1 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 108 (3.38%) Terraform
2 104 (3.25%) Kubernetes
3 28 (0.88%) Ansible
4 25 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.53%) Grafana
7 16 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.47%) HP ALM
9 14 (0.44%) SCCM
10 12 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.16%) Podman
13 4 (0.13%) Istio
14 3 (0.094%) Argo
14 3 (0.094%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.094%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.094%) vMotion
14 3 (0.094%) vRealize
14 3 (0.094%) WSUS
15 2 (0.063%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 461 (14.42%) Microsoft
2 276 (8.64%) SAP
3 177 (5.54%) ServiceNow
4 164 (5.13%) Oracle
5 97 (3.04%) Salesforce
6 67 (2.10%) Cisco
6 67 (2.10%) Google
7 65 (2.03%) Databricks
8 53 (1.66%) CyberArk
9 46 (1.44%) VMware
10 43 (1.35%) IBM
11 41 (1.28%) BeyondTrust
11 41 (1.28%) Workday
12 39 (1.22%) Aruba
13 35 (1.10%) Centrify
14 24 (0.75%) Splunk
15 22 (0.69%) Palo Alto
15 22 (0.69%) Red Hat
16 19 (0.59%) Ariba
16 19 (0.59%) Sparx
981 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide