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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 106 162
Rank change year-on-year +84 +56 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,820 770 690
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.62% 2.36% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.65% 2.67% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,960 474 481
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £438 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £751 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 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 £66.20 £52.23 £61.77
90th Percentile £95.00 £72.38 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.53 £28.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +66.19% -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 32,583 28,827 37,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.04% 88.40% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,591 17,520 25,247
10th Percentile £304 £306 £305
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 £720 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,019 938 1,537
10th Percentile £14.73 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.49 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.71% +25.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £74.79 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.78 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.60% -31.60% +50.70%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +81 2,471 £525 -4.55% 921
UK excluding London +66 1,290 £500 -6.98% 719
London +92 1,195 £550 - 311
Work from Home +89 827 £536 -4.33% 344
South East +53 338 £500 -9.09% 213
North of England +46 316 £500 - 160
Midlands +30 239 £500 -4.76% 147
South West +46 194 £523 -12.83% 71
West Midlands +30 170 £500 -9.09% 91
North West +29 147 £518 +1.97% 71
Yorkshire +30 132 £513 +2.50% 77
East of England +38 89 £550 +28.50% 82
Scotland +38 86 £450 -18.92% 31
East Midlands +14 68 £431 +2.62% 52
North East +24 40 £454 -45.82% 13
Wales +19 25 £463 -22.92% 18
Northern Ireland +1 12 £500 - 9
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
1 147 (5.21%) Confluence
2 123 (4.36%) 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
1 153 (5.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (3.09%) Microsoft Project
3 66 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 55 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
5 52 (1.84%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.32%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.28%) ProjectWise
8 7 (0.25%) Trello
9 6 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.11%) Navisworks
11 3 (0.11%) Notion
11 3 (0.11%) Revit
12 2 (0.071%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.071%) Sketch
13 1 (0.035%) Adobe Captivate
13 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.035%) Oracle Smart View
13 1 (0.035%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.035%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 108 (3.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 48 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.60%) SAP PP
5 16 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
6 15 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
6 15 (0.53%) SAP FI
7 14 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 13 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
9 12 (0.43%) Maximo
9 12 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
9 12 (0.43%) SAP ERP
9 12 (0.43%) SAP MM
10 11 (0.39%) Workday HCM
11 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
11 9 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
11 9 (0.32%) SAP HR
11 9 (0.32%) Teamcenter
12 8 (0.28%) SAP CO
12 8 (0.28%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 510 (18.09%) Azure
2 321 (11.38%) AWS
3 222 (7.87%) Power Platform
4 146 (5.18%) GCP
5 129 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
6 109 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
7 95 (3.37%) SaaS
8 86 (3.05%) Entra ID
9 79 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
10 57 (2.02%) GitHub
11 54 (1.91%) OCI
12 49 (1.74%) Serverless
13 40 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
14 35 (1.24%) Power Automate
15 33 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
15 33 (1.17%) PowerApps
16 30 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
17 29 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
17 29 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
17 29 (1.03%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 58 (2.06%) Firewall
2 38 (1.35%) Network Security
3 26 (0.92%) WAN
4 23 (0.82%) LAN
4 23 (0.82%) VPN
5 21 (0.74%) SD-WAN
6 19 (0.67%) DNS
7 12 (0.43%) BGP
7 12 (0.43%) MPLS
8 10 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.28%) DHCP
9 8 (0.28%) Internet
10 7 (0.25%) Kerberos
10 7 (0.25%) VSAN
10 7 (0.25%) Wireless
11 6 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
11 6 (0.21%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.21%) VLAN
12 5 (0.18%) Intranet
12 5 (0.18%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (6.21%) Power BI
2 72 (2.55%) Metadata
3 51 (1.81%) Tableau
4 48 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
5 44 (1.56%) SQL Server
6 23 (0.82%) Data Lake
7 22 (0.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 18 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
9 17 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
9 17 (0.60%) Power Query
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
1 261 (9.26%) 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%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,498 (53.12%) Social Skills
2 783 (27.77%) Finance
3 491 (17.41%) Public Sector
4 434 (15.39%) Analytical Skills
5 196 (6.95%) Banking
6 124 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
7 112 (3.97%) Legal
8 109 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
9 94 (3.33%) Manufacturing
10 79 (2.80%) Marketing
11 76 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
11 76 (2.70%) Telecoms
12 74 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
13 61 (2.16%) Retail
14 57 (2.02%) Local Government
15 46 (1.63%) Financial Institution
16 37 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 35 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
18 34 (1.21%) Investment Banking
19 32 (1.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 501 (17.77%) Analyst
2 387 (13.72%) Architect
3 363 (12.87%) Business Analyst
4 314 (11.13%) Lead
5 307 (10.89%) Consultant
6 270 (9.57%) Project Manager
7 226 (8.01%) 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 63 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
13 55 (1.95%) Designer
13 55 (1.95%) Senior Business Analyst
14 54 (1.91%) SAP Consultant
15 48 (1.70%) Data Analyst
16 47 (1.67%) Senior Manager
16 47 (1.67%) Technical Manager
17 44 (1.56%) Delivery Manager
18 41 (1.45%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (3.79%) REST
2 64 (2.27%) SOAP
3 53 (1.88%) LDAP
4 46 (1.63%) .NET
5 36 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
6 35 (1.24%) OAuth
7 29 (1.03%) OpenID
8 28 (0.99%) Middleware
9 26 (0.92%) XML
10 25 (0.89%) Node.js
11 23 (0.82%) SAML
11 23 (0.82%) SAP Fiori
12 22 (0.78%) HTML
13 20 (0.71%) Kafka
14 19 (0.67%) AngularJS
14 19 (0.67%) JSON
15 18 (0.64%) CSS
15 18 (0.64%) RESTful
16 17 (0.60%) OAuth2
16 17 (0.60%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 182 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 146 (5.18%) Onboarding
3 102 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
4 91 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 76 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 65 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 65 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
7 55 (1.95%) NHS
7 55 (1.95%) Security Posture
8 52 (1.84%) Data Structures
9 46 (1.63%) Data Centre
10 42 (1.49%) PMI
11 37 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 34 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
13 33 (1.17%) AI Agents
14 32 (1.13%) CMDB
14 32 (1.13%) Operational Technology
15 29 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
16 26 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
17 19 (0.67%) 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
1 771 (27.34%) Agile
2 550 (19.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 450 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
4 440 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 416 (14.75%) Migration
6 378 (13.40%) Roadmaps
7 364 (12.91%) Change Management
8 358 (12.70%) Project Management
9 303 (10.74%) Workshop Facilitation
10 292 (10.35%) Decision-Making
11 288 (10.21%) Analytics
11 288 (10.21%) DevOps
12 258 (9.15%) Risk Management
13 247 (8.76%) Business Intelligence
14 233 (8.26%) Requirements Gathering
15 230 (8.16%) Project Delivery
16 219 (7.77%) ERP
17 211 (7.48%) Data Governance
18 207 (7.34%) CI/CD
19 199 (7.06%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 208 (7.38%) SQL
2 196 (6.95%) Python
3 108 (3.83%) PowerShell
4 63 (2.23%) Java
5 60 (2.13%) JavaScript
6 37 (1.31%) C#
7 27 (0.96%) Bash
7 27 (0.96%) Bicep
8 21 (0.74%) R
8 21 (0.74%) TypeScript
9 17 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (0.43%) ABAP
10 12 (0.43%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.32%) PHP
12 8 (0.28%) Korn
13 6 (0.21%) C++
13 6 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.18%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.18%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 581 (20.60%) Security Cleared
2 468 (16.60%) SC Cleared
3 258 (9.15%) Degree
4 114 (4.04%) PMI Certification
5 99 (3.51%) PMP
6 84 (2.98%) DV Cleared
7 62 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 53 (1.88%) Master's Degree
9 46 (1.63%) CISSP
10 40 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 36 (1.28%) Azure Certification
12 32 (1.13%) CISM
13 30 (1.06%) ACCA
14 27 (0.96%) CIMA
14 27 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
15 23 (0.82%) AWS Certification
16 22 (0.78%) CBAP
17 19 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
18 18 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
19 16 (0.57%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (5.46%) GDPR
2 145 (5.14%) QA
3 130 (4.61%) Data Quality
4 119 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 105 (3.72%) PMO
6 101 (3.58%) NIST
7 76 (2.70%) Accessibility
8 44 (1.56%) PCI DSS
9 42 (1.49%) GRC
10 31 (1.10%) NCSC
11 30 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 25 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
13 19 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
14 15 (0.53%) Basel III
14 15 (0.53%) ISO 19650
14 15 (0.53%) SLA
15 14 (0.50%) PSD2
16 13 (0.46%) JSP 440
17 12 (0.43%) COBIT
17 12 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 115 (4.08%) 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 8 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 8 (0.28%) HP ALM
8 8 (0.28%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.14%) Control-M
10 3 (0.11%) Argo
10 3 (0.11%) Istio
10 3 (0.11%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.071%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.071%) Cisco UCCE
11 2 (0.071%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.071%) Nessus
11 2 (0.071%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.071%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 414 (14.68%) Microsoft
2 262 (9.29%) SAP
3 172 (6.10%) Oracle
4 164 (5.82%) ServiceNow
5 90 (3.19%) Salesforce
6 71 (2.52%) Google
7 66 (2.34%) Cisco
8 55 (1.95%) Workday
9 53 (1.88%) CyberArk
10 51 (1.81%) Databricks
11 42 (1.49%) VMware
12 39 (1.38%) BeyondTrust
13 34 (1.21%) Aruba
13 34 (1.21%) Centrify
14 28 (0.99%) Adobe
15 27 (0.96%) IBM
16 22 (0.78%) Palo Alto
17 21 (0.74%) OpenAI
18 19 (0.67%) Red Hat
19 18 (0.64%) Splunk