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

 6 months to
7 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 60 148
Rank change year-on-year +34 +88 +13
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,189 1,077 688
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.69% 3.68% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.92% 4.04% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,179 713 482
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £431 £450 £420
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 £506 £525
% change year-on-year -1.14% -3.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 18 36
10th Percentile £25.00 £22.97 £18.35
25th Percentile £47.50 £31.26 £27.81
Median hourly rate £68.75 £48.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +41.75% +34.87% +75.41%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.13 £57.33
90th Percentile £96.75 £77.79 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.00 £57.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +35.65% +1.79% +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 40,275 26,638 37,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.44% 90.95% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,293 17,157 24,168
10th Percentile £320 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.56% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,413 1,083 2,449
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.63 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.75 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -19.35% -0.11%
75th Percentile £67.25 £61.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £27.94 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.37% -25.49% +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 7 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 7 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 7 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 2,738 £525 - 939
UK excluding London +40 1,526 £500 -1.14% 731
London +34 1,264 £550 - 363
Work from Home +46 972 £525 +0.96% 486
North of England +38 394 £478 -4.50% 168
South East +28 356 £525 +5.00% 219
Midlands +20 319 £500 - 116
West Midlands +27 218 £492 -6.29% 74
North West +32 197 £475 -5.00% 86
South West +21 194 £525 -5.62% 94
Yorkshire +20 155 £500 - 61
Scotland +41 115 £470 -11.74% 56
East of England +27 106 £575 +15.00% 55
East Midlands +16 96 £500 +17.65% 42
North East +19 48 £450 -29.82% 22
Wales +10 40 £475 +38.69% 18
Northern Ireland +17 17 £450 -20.00% 16

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
1 182 (5.71%) Confluence
2 95 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 21 (0.66%) SAS
4 19 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.38%) CMS
8 11 (0.34%) Apache
9 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.094%) Appian
10 3 (0.094%) Drupal
10 3 (0.094%) OpenEdge
11 2 (0.063%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.063%) Camunda
11 2 (0.063%) nginx
11 2 (0.063%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.063%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.063%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.063%) WordPress
Applications
1 153 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
3 66 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
5 54 (1.69%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.13%) Sketch
7 4 (0.13%) Trello
8 3 (0.094%) Notion
9 2 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.063%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.063%) InVision
9 2 (0.063%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.063%) Windchill
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.031%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.031%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 129 (4.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.44%) Teamcenter
5 11 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 11 (0.34%) SAP PP
6 9 (0.28%) NEC Housing
6 9 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.28%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.25%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.25%) SAP ERP
7 8 (0.25%) SAP QM
7 8 (0.25%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
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
1 603 (18.91%) Azure
2 423 (13.26%) AWS
3 292 (9.16%) Power Platform
4 161 (5.05%) GCP
5 130 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
6 107 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
7 102 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
8 98 (3.07%) SaaS
9 91 (2.85%) Entra ID
10 67 (2.10%) GitHub
11 48 (1.51%) Serverless
12 42 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
12 42 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
13 40 (1.25%) PaaS
14 37 (1.16%) Power Automate
15 34 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
15 34 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
15 34 (1.07%) PowerApps
16 33 (1.03%) OCI
17 31 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.57%) Firewall
2 41 (1.29%) Network Security
3 34 (1.07%) DNS
4 28 (0.88%) VPN
5 24 (0.75%) WAN
6 23 (0.72%) LAN
7 15 (0.47%) Internet
8 13 (0.41%) SD-WAN
9 12 (0.38%) BGP
9 12 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (0.38%) Wireless
10 11 (0.34%) DHCP
11 10 (0.31%) VLAN
12 9 (0.28%) TCP/IP
13 8 (0.25%) Intranet
13 8 (0.25%) MPLS
13 8 (0.25%) OSPF
13 8 (0.25%) SSL
13 8 (0.25%) VSAN
14 7 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (7.75%) Power BI
2 68 (2.13%) Metadata
3 59 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (1.22%) Tableau
5 29 (0.91%) Data Lake
6 28 (0.88%) SQL Server
7 26 (0.82%) Relational Database
8 22 (0.69%) Power Query
9 21 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
11 15 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
12 14 (0.44%) DynamoDB
13 13 (0.41%) Big Data
13 13 (0.41%) MySQL
14 12 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
14 12 (0.38%) NoSQL
15 11 (0.34%) Data Vault
16 10 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 287 (9.00%) JIRA
2 54 (1.69%) Git
3 52 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.54%) GitLab
5 28 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
6 25 (0.78%) Selenium
7 24 (0.75%) Postman
8 18 (0.56%) Cucumber
9 16 (0.50%) JMeter
10 15 (0.47%) Hudson
11 11 (0.34%) JUnit
12 9 (0.28%) WebDriver
13 8 (0.25%) MLflow
13 8 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.19%) LoadRunner
15 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.19%) TestRail
16 5 (0.16%) ERwin
17 4 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
General
1 1,511 (47.38%) Social Skills
2 952 (29.85%) Finance
3 501 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
4 493 (15.46%) Public Sector
5 195 (6.11%) Banking
6 135 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
7 125 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
8 117 (3.67%) Legal
9 87 (2.73%) Retail
10 86 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
11 78 (2.45%) Manufacturing
12 76 (2.38%) Law
13 63 (1.98%) Local Government
14 62 (1.94%) Aerospace
15 59 (1.85%) Telecoms
16 58 (1.82%) Marketing
17 55 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
18 40 (1.25%) Military
19 32 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 31 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 583 (18.28%) Analyst
2 464 (14.55%) Architect
3 420 (13.17%) Lead
4 413 (12.95%) Business Analyst
5 290 (9.09%) Project Manager
6 285 (8.94%) Senior
7 228 (7.15%) Consultant
8 117 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
9 93 (2.92%) Delivery Manager
10 89 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
11 83 (2.60%) Change Manager
12 82 (2.57%) Programme Manager
13 77 (2.41%) Developer
14 72 (2.26%) Data Analyst
15 71 (2.23%) Senior Manager
16 66 (2.07%) Senior Business Analyst
17 65 (2.04%) Designer
18 59 (1.85%) IT Manager
19 55 (1.72%) Product Manager
20 54 (1.69%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (3.39%) REST
2 59 (1.85%) SOAP
3 54 (1.69%) LDAP
4 47 (1.47%) Middleware
5 41 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
6 36 (1.13%) Spring
7 31 (0.97%) OpenID
8 30 (0.94%) .NET
9 29 (0.91%) React
10 28 (0.88%) Spring Boot
11 27 (0.85%) SailPoint
12 26 (0.82%) OAuth
13 25 (0.78%) Node.js
14 24 (0.75%) Kafka
15 22 (0.69%) AngularJS
16 19 (0.60%) PySpark
16 19 (0.60%) SAML
17 17 (0.53%) ADO
17 17 (0.53%) JSON
17 17 (0.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 215 (6.74%) Product Ownership
2 150 (4.70%) Onboarding
3 120 (3.76%) Cloud Native
4 81 (2.54%) Data Structures
5 78 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 70 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
7 69 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (2.07%) Operational Technology
9 62 (1.94%) Security Posture
10 57 (1.79%) Data Centre
11 54 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
12 51 (1.60%) NHS
13 47 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
14 41 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
15 39 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
16 37 (1.16%) AI Agents
16 37 (1.16%) Virtual Team
17 35 (1.10%) CMDB
18 34 (1.07%) PMI
19 29 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 82 (2.57%) Windows
2 44 (1.38%) Linux
3 17 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (0.44%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.41%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.28%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.28%) Unix
7 7 (0.22%) VMS
8 5 (0.16%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.13%) Android
10 3 (0.094%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 868 (27.22%) Agile
2 623 (19.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 615 (19.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 470 (14.74%) Migration
5 443 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
6 425 (13.33%) Change Management
6 425 (13.33%) Roadmaps
7 408 (12.79%) Decision-Making
8 385 (12.07%) Workshop Facilitation
9 344 (10.79%) DevOps
10 334 (10.47%) Project Management
11 319 (10.00%) Analytics
12 301 (9.44%) AI
13 299 (9.38%) Risk Management
14 298 (9.34%) ERP
15 289 (9.06%) Business Intelligence
16 261 (8.18%) CI/CD
17 260 (8.15%) Project Delivery
18 253 (7.93%) Cybersecurity
19 249 (7.81%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 251 (7.87%) Python
2 247 (7.75%) SQL
3 103 (3.23%) Java
4 78 (2.45%) PowerShell
5 45 (1.41%) JavaScript
6 35 (1.10%) C#
7 33 (1.03%) TypeScript
8 27 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 25 (0.78%) Bash
10 18 (0.56%) Bicep
10 18 (0.56%) VBA
11 14 (0.44%) R
12 12 (0.38%) Scala
13 10 (0.31%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.31%) PHP
14 9 (0.28%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.28%) Korn
15 8 (0.25%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.19%) ABAP
17 4 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 786 (24.65%) Security Cleared
2 623 (19.54%) SC Cleared
3 264 (8.28%) Degree
4 123 (3.86%) DV Cleared
5 117 (3.67%) PMI Certification
6 112 (3.51%) PMP
7 109 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 69 (2.16%) CISSP
9 48 (1.51%) CISM
10 40 (1.25%) Azure Certification
10 40 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
11 38 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
12 37 (1.16%) Master's Degree
13 33 (1.03%) ACCA
14 32 (1.00%) CIMA
15 30 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 25 (0.78%) AWS Certification
17 22 (0.69%) IIBA
17 22 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
17 22 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (6.33%) Data Quality
2 167 (5.24%) QA
3 161 (5.05%) PMO
4 137 (4.30%) NIST
5 133 (4.17%) GDPR
5 133 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 83 (2.60%) Accessibility
7 56 (1.76%) GRC
8 32 (1.00%) PCI DSS
9 30 (0.94%) SLA
10 27 (0.85%) NCSC
11 26 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
12 23 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
13 18 (0.56%) WCAG
14 16 (0.50%) SOC 2
15 14 (0.44%) Basel III
15 14 (0.44%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.38%) COBIT
16 12 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.34%) Def Stans
System Software
1 103 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 63 (1.98%) Docker
3 24 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.50%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.34%) vSphere
6 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.094%) NFS
9 3 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.063%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.031%) Firmware
11 1 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 119 (3.73%) Terraform
2 108 (3.39%) Kubernetes
3 30 (0.94%) Ansible
4 27 (0.85%) Grafana
5 26 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.44%) SCCM
9 13 (0.41%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.16%) vRealize
12 4 (0.13%) Istio
12 4 (0.13%) Podman
13 3 (0.094%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.094%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 3 (0.094%) vMotion
13 3 (0.094%) WSUS
14 2 (0.063%) Nessus
14 2 (0.063%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 468 (14.68%) Microsoft
2 253 (7.93%) SAP
3 181 (5.68%) ServiceNow
4 149 (4.67%) Oracle
5 89 (2.79%) Salesforce
6 72 (2.26%) Databricks
7 63 (1.98%) Google
8 48 (1.51%) CyberArk
9 45 (1.41%) VMware
10 42 (1.32%) IBM
11 41 (1.29%) Cisco
12 39 (1.22%) BeyondTrust
13 37 (1.16%) Splunk
14 34 (1.07%) Centrify
15 33 (1.03%) Workday
16 21 (0.66%) Adobe
17 20 (0.63%) Dynatrace
18 19 (0.60%) Palo Alto
18 19 (0.60%) Sparx
18 19 (0.60%) Zscaler
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