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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 61 149
Rank change year-on-year +35 +88 +11
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,138 1,092 683
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.54% 3.72% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.76% 4.08% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,127 733 482
10th Percentile £367 £381 £363
25th Percentile £437 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £503 £525
% change year-on-year -0.50% -4.29% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 17 37
10th Percentile £32.00 £22.96 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.21 £32.05 £27.81
Median hourly rate £72.50 £49.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +46.46% +37.65% +72.06%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.75 £57.33
90th Percentile £97.50 £78.64 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.50 £67.50 £52.00
% change year-on-year +20.74% +29.82% +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 40,423 26,734 36,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.29% 90.97% 86.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,371 17,185 23,631
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.68% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,395 1,096 2,442
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.72 £18.22 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +50.82% -21.77% +1.04%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.23 £37.50
% change year-on-year +78.39% -32.73% +7.14%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +33 2,697 £525 -0.94% 1,018
UK excluding London +41 1,516 £500 -0.50% 755
London +32 1,235 £550 - 426
Work from Home +44 960 £525 +3.45% 520
North of England +35 396 £490 -2.10% 165
South East +23 352 £525 +6.33% 248
Midlands +26 314 £500 -0.15% 119
West Midlands +29 214 £492 -6.29% 79
North West +36 196 £475 -5.00% 77
South West +27 191 £525 -5.62% 87
Yorkshire +17 165 £514 +2.80% 62
Scotland +44 117 £475 -10.55% 71
East of England +31 107 £575 +15.00% 49
East Midlands +15 95 £523 +16.11% 38
North East +9 41 £450 -29.82% 28
Wales +15 40 £475 +46.15% 17
Northern Ireland +14 15 £450 -22.58% 10

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
1 181 (5.77%) Confluence
2 89 (2.84%) SharePoint
3 20 (0.64%) SAS
4 16 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.38%) CMS
8 11 (0.35%) Apache
9 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.13%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.096%) Appian
10 3 (0.096%) Drupal
11 2 (0.064%) Camunda
11 2 (0.064%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.064%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.064%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.064%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.064%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.064%) WordPress
Applications
1 152 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 67 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
3 61 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
4 58 (1.85%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
6 4 (0.13%) Sketch
7 3 (0.096%) Notion
7 3 (0.096%) Trello
8 2 (0.064%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.064%) InVision
9 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.032%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.032%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.032%) CATIA
9 1 (0.032%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.032%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 131 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.48%) Teamcenter
4 13 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 11 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.29%) NEC Housing
6 9 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.29%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.25%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.25%) SAP QM
7 8 (0.25%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.22%) SAP PP
9 6 (0.19%) Finacle
9 6 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 6 (0.19%) Loan IQ
9 6 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.19%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 590 (18.80%) Azure
2 415 (13.22%) AWS
3 297 (9.46%) Power Platform
4 157 (5.00%) GCP
5 116 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
6 101 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
8 96 (3.06%) SaaS
9 87 (2.77%) Entra ID
10 58 (1.85%) GitHub
11 44 (1.40%) Serverless
12 40 (1.27%) PaaS
13 39 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
14 36 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
15 33 (1.05%) Amazon S3
16 32 (1.02%) Power Automate
17 31 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
17 31 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
18 30 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
19 29 (0.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.43%) Firewall
2 40 (1.27%) Network Security
3 32 (1.02%) DNS
4 23 (0.73%) WAN
5 21 (0.67%) VPN
6 20 (0.64%) LAN
7 14 (0.45%) Internet
8 11 (0.35%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (0.35%) Wireless
9 10 (0.32%) BGP
9 10 (0.32%) VLAN
10 9 (0.29%) TCP/IP
11 8 (0.25%) DHCP
11 8 (0.25%) Intranet
11 8 (0.25%) OSPF
11 8 (0.25%) SSL
11 8 (0.25%) VSAN
12 7 (0.22%) NAS
12 7 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 255 (8.13%) Power BI
2 69 (2.20%) Metadata
3 57 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (1.18%) Tableau
5 30 (0.96%) SQL Server
6 29 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 25 (0.80%) Relational Database
8 24 (0.76%) Power Query
9 22 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (0.45%) MySQL
10 14 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
10 14 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
11 13 (0.41%) Big Data
12 12 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
12 12 (0.38%) NoSQL
13 11 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (0.32%) DynamoDB
15 9 (0.29%) Data Vault
15 9 (0.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 286 (9.11%) JIRA
2 52 (1.66%) Jenkins
3 50 (1.59%) Git
4 48 (1.53%) GitLab
5 30 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
6 26 (0.83%) Postman
7 25 (0.80%) Selenium
8 19 (0.61%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.54%) Hudson
10 16 (0.51%) JMeter
11 11 (0.35%) JUnit
12 9 (0.29%) WebDriver
13 8 (0.25%) MLflow
13 8 (0.25%) REST Assured
13 8 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (0.19%) LoadRunner
14 6 (0.19%) TestRail
15 5 (0.16%) ERwin
15 5 (0.16%) SonarQube
16 4 (0.13%) NeoLoad
General
1 1,461 (46.56%) Social Skills
2 922 (29.38%) Finance
3 476 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
4 470 (14.98%) Public Sector
5 191 (6.09%) Banking
6 135 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
7 118 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
8 113 (3.60%) Legal
9 89 (2.84%) Retail
10 83 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
11 77 (2.45%) Manufacturing
12 75 (2.39%) Law
13 63 (2.01%) Aerospace
14 58 (1.85%) Local Government
15 56 (1.78%) Marketing
16 53 (1.69%) Telecoms
17 48 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
18 42 (1.34%) Military
19 33 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 32 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 583 (18.58%) Analyst
2 457 (14.56%) Architect
3 420 (13.38%) Lead
4 399 (12.72%) Business Analyst
5 282 (8.99%) Senior
6 269 (8.57%) Project Manager
7 235 (7.49%) Consultant
8 119 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
9 93 (2.96%) Delivery Manager
10 87 (2.77%) Senior Analyst
11 85 (2.71%) Change Manager
12 82 (2.61%) Programme Manager
13 80 (2.55%) Data Analyst
14 71 (2.26%) Developer
14 71 (2.26%) Senior Manager
15 65 (2.07%) Designer
16 62 (1.98%) Senior Business Analyst
17 58 (1.85%) IT Manager
18 57 (1.82%) Product Manager
19 51 (1.63%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (3.51%) REST
2 60 (1.91%) SOAP
3 56 (1.78%) LDAP
4 49 (1.56%) Middleware
5 36 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
6 32 (1.02%) OpenID
6 32 (1.02%) Spring
7 29 (0.92%) React
7 29 (0.92%) SailPoint
8 27 (0.86%) .NET
9 26 (0.83%) Kafka
10 25 (0.80%) OAuth
11 24 (0.76%) Spring Boot
12 19 (0.61%) Node.js
12 19 (0.61%) PySpark
13 18 (0.57%) JSON
13 18 (0.57%) SAML
13 18 (0.57%) XML
14 17 (0.54%) ADO
14 17 (0.54%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 217 (6.92%) Product Ownership
2 141 (4.49%) Onboarding
3 120 (3.82%) Cloud Native
4 83 (2.64%) Data Structures
5 72 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
5 72 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 65 (2.07%) Operational Technology
7 64 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 60 (1.91%) Security Posture
9 53 (1.69%) Data Centre
10 47 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
11 46 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
12 45 (1.43%) NHS
13 40 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
13 40 (1.27%) Virtual Team
14 36 (1.15%) CMDB
15 34 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
16 32 (1.02%) AI Agents
17 28 (0.89%) PMI
17 28 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (2.52%) Windows
2 37 (1.18%) Linux
3 13 (0.41%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 11 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.32%) Unix
7 9 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.19%) VMS
9 4 (0.13%) Android
9 4 (0.13%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.096%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 841 (26.80%) Agile
2 604 (19.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 600 (19.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 464 (14.79%) Migration
5 433 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
6 426 (13.58%) Roadmaps
7 420 (13.38%) Change Management
8 419 (13.35%) Decision-Making
9 381 (12.14%) Workshop Facilitation
10 335 (10.68%) DevOps
11 315 (10.04%) Project Management
12 311 (9.91%) Analytics
13 302 (9.62%) ERP
14 299 (9.53%) AI
15 297 (9.46%) Risk Management
16 293 (9.34%) Business Intelligence
17 249 (7.93%) CI/CD
17 249 (7.93%) User Acceptance Testing
18 247 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
19 245 (7.81%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 237 (7.55%) SQL
2 230 (7.33%) Python
3 99 (3.15%) Java
4 69 (2.20%) PowerShell
5 47 (1.50%) JavaScript
6 33 (1.05%) C#
7 32 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 31 (0.99%) TypeScript
9 26 (0.83%) Bash
10 18 (0.57%) VBA
11 17 (0.54%) Bicep
12 12 (0.38%) R
12 12 (0.38%) Scala
13 10 (0.32%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.32%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.32%) PHP
14 8 (0.25%) Korn
14 8 (0.25%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.16%) ABAP
16 4 (0.13%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 776 (24.73%) Security Cleared
2 613 (19.53%) SC Cleared
3 254 (8.09%) Degree
4 122 (3.89%) DV Cleared
5 113 (3.60%) PMI Certification
6 111 (3.54%) PMP
7 106 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 66 (2.10%) CISSP
9 48 (1.53%) CISM
10 40 (1.27%) Azure Certification
11 37 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
12 34 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
13 30 (0.96%) ACCA
13 30 (0.96%) Master's Degree
14 29 (0.92%) CIMA
15 27 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 25 (0.80%) AWS Certification
17 22 (0.70%) IIBA
17 22 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
18 21 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (6.50%) Data Quality
2 160 (5.10%) QA
3 157 (5.00%) PMO
4 134 (4.27%) NIST
5 122 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 120 (3.82%) GDPR
7 75 (2.39%) Accessibility
8 60 (1.91%) GRC
9 31 (0.99%) SLA
10 26 (0.83%) NCSC
11 25 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
12 24 (0.76%) PCI DSS
13 20 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
14 17 (0.54%) WCAG
15 16 (0.51%) SOC 2
16 15 (0.48%) ISO 20022
17 13 (0.41%) COBIT
18 12 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 10 (0.32%) Basel III
19 10 (0.32%) Def Stans
System Software
1 98 (3.12%) Active Directory
2 54 (1.72%) Docker
3 24 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.41%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.32%) vSphere
6 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.096%) NFS
9 3 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.032%) Firmware
10 1 (0.032%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.032%) SRDF
10 1 (0.032%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 101 (3.22%) Terraform
2 98 (3.12%) Kubernetes
3 27 (0.86%) Grafana
4 25 (0.80%) Ansible
4 25 (0.80%) Prometheus
5 22 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.45%) SCCM
8 13 (0.41%) HP ALM
9 9 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.16%) vRealize
11 4 (0.13%) Istio
11 4 (0.13%) Podman
12 3 (0.096%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.096%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 3 (0.096%) vMotion
12 3 (0.096%) WSUS
13 2 (0.064%) CA Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.064%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 459 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 258 (8.22%) SAP
3 183 (5.83%) ServiceNow
4 140 (4.46%) Oracle
5 90 (2.87%) Salesforce
6 81 (2.58%) Databricks
7 59 (1.88%) Google
8 46 (1.47%) CyberArk
9 42 (1.34%) IBM
9 42 (1.34%) VMware
10 39 (1.24%) BeyondTrust
11 36 (1.15%) Cisco
12 34 (1.08%) Centrify
12 34 (1.08%) Splunk
13 33 (1.05%) Workday
14 21 (0.67%) Adobe
15 20 (0.64%) Dynatrace
16 18 (0.57%) IFS
16 18 (0.57%) Zscaler
17 17 (0.54%) Palo Alto
1,168 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide