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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 75 149
Rank change year-on-year +49 +74 +7
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,219 932 713
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.04% 3.19% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.24% 3.52% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,213 622 482
10th Percentile £363 £388 £363
25th Percentile £448 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £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 16 37
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.95 £18.35
25th Percentile £37.00 £27.19 £27.81
Median hourly rate £66.25 £39.78 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +66.56% +10.61% +16.00%
75th Percentile £88.00 £60.63 £57.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £79.49 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.00 £32.05 £56.49
% change year-on-year +143.37% -43.26% +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 39,061 26,469 37,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.38% 90.57% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,736 17,183 24,573
10th Percentile £314 £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 £636 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,329 996 2,365
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.77
25th Percentile £19.10 £19.99 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.51 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.25% -4.52% -11.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.38 £70.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +20.00% -7.69% -10.34%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +50 2,802 £525 - 871
UK excluding London +49 1,547 £500 -3.85% 633
London +55 1,302 £550 - 341
Work from Home +59 947 £525 - 428
South East +37 398 £500 -7.62% 209
North of England +39 375 £500 - 154
Midlands +30 311 £492 -1.60% 124
West Midlands +25 210 £492 -6.29% 78
North West +47 205 £492 -2.38% 71
South West +33 203 £525 -8.70% 68
Yorkshire +5 129 £513 +7.89% 63
East of England +33 112 £525 +5.00% 46
Scotland +37 105 £458 -16.82% 21
East Midlands +13 96 £494 +12.86% 45
North East +14 45 £450 -11.33% 21
Wales +17 36 £460 -12.38% 15
Northern Ireland +14 19 £450 -20.00% 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 (5.41%) Confluence
2 111 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 31 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (0.68%) SAS
5 15 (0.47%) CMS
6 10 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.25%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.22%) Apache
9 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.093%) WordPress
11 2 (0.062%) Drupal
11 2 (0.062%) nginx
11 2 (0.062%) OpenEdge
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
1 164 (5.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (2.36%) Microsoft Project
3 65 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 63 (1.96%) MS Visio
5 62 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.22%) 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
1 134 (4.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.53%) SAP FI
5 15 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.47%) SAP PP
6 12 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 11 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
8 10 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
8 10 (0.31%) SAP MM
8 10 (0.31%) Teamcenter
8 10 (0.31%) Workday HCM
9 9 (0.28%) NEC Housing
9 9 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 9 (0.28%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.25%) SAP ERP
10 8 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.25%) SAP HR
11 7 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 7 (0.22%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 588 (18.27%) Azure
2 391 (12.15%) AWS
3 289 (8.98%) Power Platform
4 160 (4.97%) GCP
5 134 (4.16%) Microsoft 365
6 118 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
7 102 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
8 100 (3.11%) SaaS
9 95 (2.95%) Entra ID
10 67 (2.08%) GitHub
11 45 (1.40%) Serverless
12 44 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
13 42 (1.30%) OCI
13 42 (1.30%) PaaS
14 41 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
16 32 (0.99%) Power Automate
17 31 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
18 30 (0.93%) IaaS
18 30 (0.93%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.93%) Firewall
2 48 (1.49%) Network Security
3 36 (1.12%) DNS
4 31 (0.96%) VPN
4 31 (0.96%) WAN
5 29 (0.90%) LAN
6 20 (0.62%) SD-WAN
7 17 (0.53%) BGP
8 15 (0.47%) Internet
9 14 (0.43%) MPLS
10 13 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.40%) Wireless
11 12 (0.37%) DHCP
12 11 (0.34%) VLAN
13 10 (0.31%) VSAN
14 9 (0.28%) OSPF
15 8 (0.25%) SSL
15 8 (0.25%) WLAN
16 7 (0.22%) Intranet
16 7 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (7.46%) Power BI
2 72 (2.24%) Metadata
3 62 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (1.43%) Tableau
5 37 (1.15%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.78%) Data Lake
6 25 (0.78%) Power Query
7 22 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
7 22 (0.68%) Relational Database
8 21 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
10 16 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
11 14 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (0.40%) Data Vault
12 13 (0.40%) DynamoDB
12 13 (0.40%) MySQL
12 13 (0.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 12 (0.37%) Delta Lake
14 11 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (0.34%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 276 (8.57%) JIRA
2 45 (1.40%) GitLab
2 45 (1.40%) Jenkins
3 38 (1.18%) Git
4 29 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
5 26 (0.81%) Selenium
6 22 (0.68%) Postman
7 16 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.47%) 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
13 6 (0.19%) MLflow
13 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.19%) TestRail
14 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
15 4 (0.12%) Gatling
General
1 1,570 (48.77%) Social Skills
2 942 (29.26%) Finance
3 530 (16.46%) Public Sector
4 521 (16.19%) Analytical Skills
5 204 (6.34%) Banking
6 150 (4.66%) Influencing Skills
7 143 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
8 123 (3.82%) Legal
9 91 (2.83%) Retail
10 85 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
11 84 (2.61%) Manufacturing
12 76 (2.36%) Law
13 66 (2.05%) Marketing
14 65 (2.02%) Telecoms
15 64 (1.99%) Local Government
15 64 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
16 58 (1.80%) Aerospace
17 34 (1.06%) Financial Institution
17 34 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
18 32 (0.99%) Military
Job Titles
1 600 (18.64%) Analyst
2 478 (14.85%) Architect
3 436 (13.54%) Business Analyst
4 393 (12.21%) Lead
5 301 (9.35%) Project Manager
6 283 (8.79%) Consultant
7 266 (8.26%) Senior
8 146 (4.54%) Solutions Architect
9 90 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
10 87 (2.70%) Change Manager
10 87 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
11 85 (2.64%) Programme Manager
12 82 (2.55%) Developer
13 77 (2.39%) Data Analyst
14 67 (2.08%) Senior Business Analyst
15 62 (1.93%) Senior Manager
16 59 (1.83%) Lead Architect
17 57 (1.77%) Product Manager
18 56 (1.74%) Designer
19 52 (1.62%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (3.23%) REST
2 55 (1.71%) SOAP
3 53 (1.65%) LDAP
4 49 (1.52%) Middleware
5 44 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
6 34 (1.06%) .NET
6 34 (1.06%) OpenID
7 32 (0.99%) OAuth
8 30 (0.93%) Node.js
8 30 (0.93%) Spring
9 29 (0.90%) React
10 27 (0.84%) SailPoint
11 24 (0.75%) Kafka
12 22 (0.68%) SAML
12 22 (0.68%) Spring Boot
13 19 (0.59%) SAP Fiori
14 18 (0.56%) AngularJS
14 18 (0.56%) TensorFlow
15 17 (0.53%) PyTorch
15 17 (0.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 213 (6.62%) Product Ownership
2 150 (4.66%) Onboarding
3 104 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 80 (2.49%) Data Structures
5 79 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 73 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
6 73 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 62 (1.93%) Security Posture
8 60 (1.86%) NHS
9 59 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 55 (1.71%) Operational Technology
11 53 (1.65%) Data Centre
12 42 (1.30%) PMI
13 40 (1.24%) CMDB
13 40 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
13 40 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
14 39 (1.21%) AI Agents
15 37 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
16 32 (0.99%) Virtual Team
17 26 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 78 (2.42%) Windows
2 40 (1.24%) Linux
3 20 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (0.56%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.53%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.19%) Unix
7 6 (0.19%) VMS
8 4 (0.12%) Android
8 4 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.093%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 825 (25.63%) Agile
2 618 (19.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 612 (19.01%) Continuous Improvement
4 513 (15.94%) Migration
5 482 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
6 455 (14.13%) Roadmaps
7 445 (13.82%) Change Management
8 401 (12.46%) Workshop Facilitation
9 372 (11.56%) Decision-Making
10 353 (10.97%) Project Management
11 333 (10.34%) Analytics
12 324 (10.07%) DevOps
13 296 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
14 291 (9.04%) AI
15 285 (8.85%) ERP
16 280 (8.70%) Risk Management
17 269 (8.36%) Project Delivery
18 256 (7.95%) User Acceptance Testing
19 241 (7.49%) Requirements Gathering
20 239 (7.42%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 246 (7.64%) SQL
2 236 (7.33%) Python
3 94 (2.92%) PowerShell
4 91 (2.83%) Java
5 41 (1.27%) JavaScript
6 40 (1.24%) C#
7 32 (0.99%) TypeScript
8 29 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 23 (0.71%) Bash
10 19 (0.59%) Bicep
11 17 (0.53%) R
11 17 (0.53%) VBA
12 16 (0.50%) ABAP
13 10 (0.31%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.31%) PHP
13 10 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.28%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.22%) Korn
15 7 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.12%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 783 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 624 (19.38%) SC Cleared
3 280 (8.70%) Degree
4 123 (3.82%) PMI Certification
5 116 (3.60%) DV Cleared
6 112 (3.48%) PMP
7 100 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 58 (1.80%) CISSP
9 45 (1.40%) Master's Degree
10 43 (1.34%) Azure Certification
11 41 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
12 40 (1.24%) CISM
13 31 (0.96%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
15 26 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
16 25 (0.78%) ACCA
16 25 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 24 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 23 (0.71%) CIMA
18 23 (0.71%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (6.00%) Data Quality
2 173 (5.37%) QA
3 142 (4.41%) GDPR
4 139 (4.32%) PMO
5 130 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 130 (4.04%) NIST
6 75 (2.33%) Accessibility
7 57 (1.77%) GRC
8 37 (1.15%) PCI DSS
9 33 (1.03%) NCSC
10 29 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
11 27 (0.84%) SLA
12 17 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
13 16 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 15 (0.47%) SOC 2
15 14 (0.43%) Basel III
16 13 (0.40%) ISO 20022
17 12 (0.37%) COBIT
17 12 (0.37%) PSD2
17 12 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 113 (3.51%) Active Directory
2 64 (1.99%) Docker
3 29 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.62%) 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 (0.12%) 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
1 111 (3.45%) Terraform
2 104 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 28 (0.87%) Ansible
4 26 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (0.53%) Grafana
7 16 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.47%) HP ALM
9 14 (0.43%) SCCM
10 12 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.16%) Podman
13 4 (0.12%) Istio
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%) vRealize
14 3 (0.093%) WSUS
15 2 (0.062%) Nessus
Vendors
1 470 (14.60%) Microsoft
2 272 (8.45%) SAP
3 182 (5.65%) ServiceNow
4 166 (5.16%) Oracle
5 99 (3.08%) Salesforce
6 65 (2.02%) Cisco
6 65 (2.02%) Databricks
6 65 (2.02%) Google
7 52 (1.62%) CyberArk
8 47 (1.46%) VMware
9 43 (1.34%) IBM
10 41 (1.27%) BeyondTrust
11 39 (1.21%) Workday
12 37 (1.15%) Aruba
13 34 (1.06%) Centrify
14 26 (0.81%) Splunk
15 24 (0.75%) Palo Alto
16 22 (0.68%) Red Hat
17 20 (0.62%) Adobe
17 20 (0.62%) OpenAI