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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 107 158
Rank change year-on-year +84 +51 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,821 772 683
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.60% 2.33% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.63% 2.63% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,956 474 473
10th Percentile £363 £400 £375
25th Percentile £438 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £751 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 8 34
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.90 £32.44
25th Percentile £19.10 £25.19 £49.31
Median hourly rate £41.86 £27.75 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +50.83% -50.88% +175.56%
75th Percentile £67.25 £52.23 £61.77
90th Percentile £95.00 £72.38 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.21 £28.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +82.89% -50.43% +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 32,670 29,303 37,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.06% 88.34% 87.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,630 17,837 25,180
10th Percentile £304 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,024 946 1,523
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.98
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +27.14%
75th Percentile £52.72 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.60 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £30.45 £45.21
% change year-on-year -22.58% -32.65% +44.86%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +82 2,469 £525 -4.55% 789
UK excluding London +66 1,291 £500 -4.76% 580
London +92 1,190 £550 - 303
Work from Home +99 829 £536 -4.33% 388
South East +52 342 £500 -9.09% 204
North of England +51 315 £504 -0.01% 136
Midlands +37 238 £500 -4.76% 115
South West +50 193 £524 -10.81% 54
West Midlands +36 171 £500 -9.09% 79
North West +30 146 £521 +2.71% 64
Yorkshire +28 132 £516 +3.25% 63
East of England +39 88 £550 +28.50% 40
Scotland +48 86 £450 -18.92% 19
East Midlands +18 66 £431 +2.62% 35
North East +23 40 £454 -45.82% 9
Wales +20 26 £456 -23.96% 18
Northern Ireland +5 12 £500 - 6
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
1 145 (5.14%) Confluence
2 125 (4.43%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.71%) SAS
5 13 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.46%) CMS
6 11 (0.39%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.21%) Apache
7 6 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.21%) Appian
8 4 (0.14%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.14%) MQSeries
9 3 (0.11%) Smallworld
9 3 (0.11%) WordPress
10 2 (0.071%) Drupal
10 2 (0.071%) nginx
10 2 (0.071%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.071%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 155 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 86 (3.05%) Microsoft Project
3 66 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
5 53 (1.88%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.32%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.28%) ProjectWise
7 8 (0.28%) Trello
8 6 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
10 3 (0.11%) Revit
11 2 (0.071%) Camtasia
11 2 (0.071%) Sketch
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.035%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.035%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.035%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 108 (3.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (1.21%) Oracle EBS
4 18 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
5 17 (0.60%) SAP PP
6 16 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
6 16 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
7 15 (0.53%) SAP FI
7 15 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 12 (0.43%) Maximo
8 12 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
8 12 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.43%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.43%) SAP MM
9 11 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
9 11 (0.39%) Workday HCM
10 9 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
10 9 (0.32%) SAP HR
10 9 (0.32%) Teamcenter
11 8 (0.28%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 509 (18.04%) Azure
2 319 (11.31%) AWS
3 219 (7.76%) Power Platform
4 143 (5.07%) GCP
5 131 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
6 111 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
7 95 (3.37%) SaaS
8 86 (3.05%) Entra ID
9 79 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
10 56 (1.99%) GitHub
11 55 (1.95%) OCI
12 49 (1.74%) Serverless
13 40 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (1.28%) Power Automate
15 33 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
15 33 (1.17%) PowerApps
16 30 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
16 30 (1.06%) SuccessFactors
17 29 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
17 29 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 59 (2.09%) Firewall
2 39 (1.38%) Network Security
3 27 (0.96%) WAN
4 23 (0.82%) LAN
4 23 (0.82%) VPN
5 22 (0.78%) SD-WAN
6 19 (0.67%) DNS
7 13 (0.46%) BGP
8 12 (0.43%) MPLS
9 10 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.28%) DHCP
10 8 (0.28%) Internet
11 7 (0.25%) Kerberos
11 7 (0.25%) VSAN
11 7 (0.25%) Wireless
12 6 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
12 6 (0.21%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.21%) VLAN
13 5 (0.18%) Intranet
13 5 (0.18%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (6.13%) Power BI
2 73 (2.59%) Metadata
3 53 (1.88%) Tableau
4 49 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
5 44 (1.56%) SQL Server
6 23 (0.82%) Data Lake
6 23 (0.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 18 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
8 17 (0.60%) Power Query
9 16 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
10 15 (0.53%) Big Data
11 14 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (0.50%) Data Vault
11 14 (0.50%) MySQL
12 13 (0.46%) Relational Database
13 12 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (0.39%) DynamoDB
14 11 (0.39%) GIS
14 11 (0.39%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 262 (9.29%) JIRA
2 39 (1.38%) GitLab
3 33 (1.17%) Git
3 33 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 24 (0.85%) Selenium
5 14 (0.50%) Cucumber
6 11 (0.39%) SonarQube
7 10 (0.35%) Postman
7 10 (0.35%) REST Assured
8 7 (0.25%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.25%) TestRail
9 5 (0.18%) JUnit
9 5 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.14%) ERwin
10 4 (0.14%) Hudson
10 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
11 3 (0.11%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.11%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 2 (0.071%) MLflow
General
1 1,497 (53.07%) Social Skills
2 785 (27.83%) Finance
3 496 (17.58%) Public Sector
4 436 (15.46%) Analytical Skills
5 196 (6.95%) Banking
6 124 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
7 113 (4.01%) Legal
8 109 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
9 95 (3.37%) Manufacturing
10 79 (2.80%) Marketing
11 77 (2.73%) Telecoms
12 76 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
13 73 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
14 61 (2.16%) Retail
15 58 (2.06%) Local Government
16 47 (1.67%) Financial Institution
17 37 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 35 (1.24%) Investment Banking
18 35 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
19 33 (1.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 499 (17.69%) Analyst
2 384 (13.61%) Architect
3 360 (12.76%) Business Analyst
4 314 (11.13%) Lead
5 309 (10.95%) Consultant
6 266 (9.43%) Project Manager
7 229 (8.12%) Senior
8 137 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
9 93 (3.30%) Developer
10 73 (2.59%) Programme Manager
11 72 (2.55%) Change Manager
12 62 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
13 55 (1.95%) Designer
14 54 (1.91%) Senior Business Analyst
15 53 (1.88%) SAP Consultant
16 49 (1.74%) Data Analyst
17 48 (1.70%) Delivery Manager
17 48 (1.70%) Senior Manager
18 46 (1.63%) Technical Manager
19 41 (1.45%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (3.69%) REST
2 61 (2.16%) SOAP
3 50 (1.77%) LDAP
4 46 (1.63%) .NET
5 35 (1.24%) OAuth
5 35 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
6 29 (1.03%) OpenID
7 28 (0.99%) Middleware
8 26 (0.92%) XML
9 24 (0.85%) Node.js
10 23 (0.82%) SAML
10 23 (0.82%) SAP Fiori
11 22 (0.78%) HTML
12 20 (0.71%) Kafka
13 19 (0.67%) AngularJS
13 19 (0.67%) JSON
14 18 (0.64%) CSS
14 18 (0.64%) RESTful
15 17 (0.60%) OAuth2
15 17 (0.60%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 183 (6.49%) Product Ownership
2 147 (5.21%) Onboarding
3 103 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
4 90 (3.19%) Cloud Native
5 76 (2.69%) Management Information System
6 64 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 62 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
8 56 (1.99%) NHS
9 52 (1.84%) Data Structures
10 51 (1.81%) Security Posture
11 47 (1.67%) Data Centre
12 41 (1.45%) PMI
13 36 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
14 35 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
15 32 (1.13%) AI Agents
15 32 (1.13%) CMDB
15 32 (1.13%) Operational Technology
16 29 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
17 27 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
18 20 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 71 (2.52%) Windows
2 32 (1.13%) Linux
3 20 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 19 (0.67%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.28%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.21%) Android
7 5 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.18%) VMS
8 3 (0.11%) Unix
8 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.071%) CentOS
9 2 (0.071%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.035%) AIX
10 1 (0.035%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.035%) Solaris
10 1 (0.035%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 779 (27.61%) Agile
2 549 (19.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 448 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
4 437 (15.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 413 (14.64%) Migration
6 380 (13.47%) Roadmaps
7 362 (12.83%) Change Management
8 359 (12.73%) Project Management
9 301 (10.67%) Workshop Facilitation
10 292 (10.35%) Decision-Making
11 289 (10.24%) DevOps
12 285 (10.10%) Analytics
13 258 (9.15%) Risk Management
14 247 (8.76%) Business Intelligence
15 233 (8.26%) Project Delivery
16 229 (8.12%) Requirements Gathering
17 216 (7.66%) ERP
18 212 (7.52%) Data Governance
19 205 (7.27%) CI/CD
20 199 (7.05%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 206 (7.30%) SQL
2 193 (6.84%) Python
3 105 (3.72%) PowerShell
4 62 (2.20%) Java
5 59 (2.09%) JavaScript
6 36 (1.28%) C#
7 27 (0.96%) Bash
7 27 (0.96%) Bicep
8 21 (0.74%) R
9 20 (0.71%) TypeScript
10 16 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 13 (0.46%) ABAP
12 12 (0.43%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.32%) PHP
14 7 (0.25%) Korn
15 6 (0.21%) C++
15 6 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.18%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.18%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 580 (20.56%) Security Cleared
2 465 (16.48%) SC Cleared
3 257 (9.11%) Degree
4 114 (4.04%) PMI Certification
5 99 (3.51%) PMP
6 85 (3.01%) DV Cleared
7 60 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 53 (1.88%) Master's Degree
9 46 (1.63%) CISSP
10 42 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
11 36 (1.28%) Azure Certification
12 32 (1.13%) CISM
13 29 (1.03%) ACCA
14 28 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
15 26 (0.92%) CIMA
16 23 (0.82%) AWS Certification
17 22 (0.78%) CBAP
18 19 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
19 18 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
20 16 (0.57%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (5.49%) GDPR
2 142 (5.03%) QA
3 131 (4.64%) Data Quality
4 121 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 105 (3.72%) PMO
6 103 (3.65%) NIST
7 78 (2.76%) Accessibility
8 44 (1.56%) PCI DSS
9 40 (1.42%) GRC
10 31 (1.10%) NCSC
11 30 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 25 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
13 18 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
14 16 (0.57%) SLA
15 15 (0.53%) Basel III
15 15 (0.53%) ISO 19650
16 14 (0.50%) PSD2
17 13 (0.46%) COBIT
17 13 (0.46%) JSP 440
18 12 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 112 (3.97%) Active Directory
2 68 (2.41%) Docker
3 27 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.53%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.43%) vSphere
6 9 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.071%) Firmware
10 1 (0.035%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.035%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.035%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 116 (4.11%) Terraform
2 82 (2.91%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.17%) Ansible
4 28 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
5 27 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (0.57%) SCCM
7 10 (0.35%) Grafana
8 9 (0.32%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (0.28%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.14%) Control-M
11 3 (0.11%) Argo
11 3 (0.11%) Istio
11 3 (0.11%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.071%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.071%) Cisco UCCE
12 2 (0.071%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.071%) Nessus
12 2 (0.071%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.071%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 414 (14.68%) Microsoft
2 262 (9.29%) SAP
3 175 (6.20%) Oracle
4 168 (5.96%) ServiceNow
5 90 (3.19%) Salesforce
6 71 (2.52%) Google
7 68 (2.41%) Cisco
8 55 (1.95%) Workday
9 51 (1.81%) Databricks
10 50 (1.77%) CyberArk
11 42 (1.49%) VMware
12 36 (1.28%) BeyondTrust
13 34 (1.21%) Aruba
14 31 (1.10%) Centrify
15 28 (0.99%) Adobe
16 26 (0.92%) IBM
17 23 (0.82%) Palo Alto
18 21 (0.74%) OpenAI
19 18 (0.64%) Red Hat
19 18 (0.64%) Splunk