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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 80 150
Rank change year-on-year +55 +70 +2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,192 891 708
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.18% 3.07% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.37% 3.39% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,185 596 480
10th Percentile £363 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £527 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -1.91% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £742 £748 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 14 37
10th Percentile £17.50 £23.98 £18.35
25th Percentile £37.00 £28.38 £27.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £49.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +31.31% +37.66% +75.41%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.98 £57.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.20 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 £54.65 £56.49
% change year-on-year +36.33% -3.27% +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 38,117 26,296 38,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.75% 90.49% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,146 17,083 24,839
10th Percentile £313 £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 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 956 2,346
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.12 £12.84
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.47 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.35 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.25 £31.64 £31.80
% change year-on-year -1.23% -0.50% -11.67%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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 +52 2,784 £525 - 871
UK excluding London +54 1,517 £500 -3.85% 633
London +63 1,306 £550 - 341
Work from Home +56 917 £525 -3.67% 428
South East +34 389 £500 -8.26% 209
North of England +44 375 £500 - 154
Midlands +25 308 £500 - 124
West Midlands +27 205 £496 -5.52% 78
South West +39 198 £525 -12.50% 68
North West +46 196 £483 -3.50% 71
Yorkshire +11 139 £513 +7.89% 63
East of England +27 107 £525 +5.00% 46
East Midlands +9 98 £494 +12.86% 45
Scotland +32 95 £450 -18.07% 21
North East +19 43 £450 -11.33% 21
Wales +11 33 £411 -21.67% 15
Northern Ireland +16 20 £450 - 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
1 175 (5.48%) Confluence
2 112 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 30 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.63%) SAS
5 13 (0.41%) CMS
6 9 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.22%) Apache
7 7 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.13%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.094%) WordPress
10 2 (0.063%) Camunda
10 2 (0.063%) Drupal
10 2 (0.063%) nginx
10 2 (0.063%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.063%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.063%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 164 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (2.51%) Microsoft Project
3 61 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 61 (1.91%) MS Visio
4 58 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.16%) Trello
8 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.094%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.094%) Notion
9 3 (0.094%) Sketch
10 2 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.063%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.063%) Windchill
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.031%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.031%) CATIA
11 1 (0.031%) InVision
Business Applications
1 135 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.53%) SAP PP
5 16 (0.50%) SAP FI
6 15 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
7 11 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
7 11 (0.34%) SAP HR
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%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 8 (0.25%) NEC Housing
10 8 (0.25%) SAP CO
11 7 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 7 (0.22%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
11 7 (0.22%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 587 (18.39%) Azure
2 377 (11.81%) AWS
3 284 (8.90%) Power Platform
4 158 (4.95%) GCP
5 134 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
6 119 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
7 98 (3.07%) SaaS
8 92 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
9 91 (2.85%) Entra ID
10 65 (2.04%) GitHub
11 44 (1.38%) OCI
12 42 (1.32%) Serverless
13 41 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
14 39 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
15 38 (1.19%) PaaS
16 37 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
17 32 (1.00%) Power Automate
18 31 (0.97%) PowerApps
19 29 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
20 28 (0.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.85%) Firewall
2 48 (1.50%) Network Security
3 33 (1.03%) DNS
4 31 (0.97%) WAN
5 29 (0.91%) LAN
6 27 (0.85%) VPN
7 18 (0.56%) SD-WAN
8 17 (0.53%) BGP
9 14 (0.44%) MPLS
10 13 (0.41%) Internet
11 12 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.38%) Wireless
12 10 (0.31%) DHCP
12 10 (0.31%) VLAN
12 10 (0.31%) VSAN
13 9 (0.28%) OSPF
14 8 (0.25%) WLAN
15 7 (0.22%) 5G
15 7 (0.22%) Intranet
16 6 (0.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (7.36%) Power BI
2 70 (2.19%) Metadata
3 62 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (1.50%) Tableau
5 38 (1.19%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.78%) Data Lake
7 24 (0.75%) Power Query
8 22 (0.69%) Relational Database
9 20 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
10 19 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
11 16 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 16 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
12 15 (0.47%) MySQL
13 14 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (0.41%) Data Vault
14 13 (0.41%) Delta Lake
15 11 (0.34%) DynamoDB
16 10 (0.31%) Big Data
16 10 (0.31%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 284 (8.90%) JIRA
2 46 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 44 (1.38%) GitLab
4 40 (1.25%) Git
5 29 (0.91%) Rational DOORS
6 24 (0.75%) Selenium
7 19 (0.60%) Postman
8 16 (0.50%) Cucumber
9 15 (0.47%) JMeter
10 11 (0.34%) JUnit
11 9 (0.28%) Hudson
12 8 (0.25%) ERwin
12 8 (0.25%) WebDriver
13 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
13 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.19%) TestRail
15 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
15 5 (0.16%) MLflow
15 5 (0.16%) SonarQube
16 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1,570 (49.19%) Social Skills
2 940 (29.45%) Finance
3 524 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
4 516 (16.17%) Public Sector
5 207 (6.48%) Banking
6 157 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
7 142 (4.45%) Documentation Skills
8 122 (3.82%) Legal
9 87 (2.73%) Retail
10 83 (2.60%) Manufacturing
10 83 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
11 69 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
12 68 (2.13%) Law
13 67 (2.10%) Telecoms
14 63 (1.97%) Marketing
15 62 (1.94%) Local Government
16 57 (1.79%) Aerospace
17 38 (1.19%) Financial Institution
18 33 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
19 31 (0.97%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 601 (18.83%) Analyst
2 471 (14.76%) Architect
3 436 (13.66%) Business Analyst
4 398 (12.47%) Lead
5 294 (9.21%) Project Manager
6 286 (8.96%) Consultant
7 259 (8.11%) Senior
8 149 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
9 92 (2.88%) Senior Analyst
10 88 (2.76%) Programme Manager
11 87 (2.73%) Developer
12 86 (2.69%) Change Manager
13 85 (2.66%) Delivery Manager
14 76 (2.38%) Data Analyst
15 69 (2.16%) Senior Business Analyst
16 59 (1.85%) Product Manager
17 55 (1.72%) Lead Architect
18 52 (1.63%) Designer
18 52 (1.63%) SAP Consultant
18 52 (1.63%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (3.54%) REST
2 59 (1.85%) SOAP
3 53 (1.66%) LDAP
4 47 (1.47%) Middleware
5 46 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
6 35 (1.10%) .NET
7 32 (1.00%) OpenID
8 31 (0.97%) OAuth
9 29 (0.91%) Spring
10 28 (0.88%) Node.js
11 26 (0.81%) React
12 25 (0.78%) SailPoint
13 23 (0.72%) Kafka
14 21 (0.66%) SAP Fiori
14 21 (0.66%) Spring Boot
15 19 (0.60%) RESTful
16 18 (0.56%) AngularJS
16 18 (0.56%) SAML
16 18 (0.56%) TensorFlow
17 17 (0.53%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 218 (6.83%) Product Ownership
2 148 (4.64%) Onboarding
3 103 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 78 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 77 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 76 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 68 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 61 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 61 (1.91%) Security Posture
9 54 (1.69%) NHS
10 52 (1.63%) Data Centre
11 50 (1.57%) Operational Technology
12 44 (1.38%) PMI
13 43 (1.35%) CMDB
14 40 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
15 38 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
16 36 (1.13%) AI Agents
17 34 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
17 34 (1.07%) Virtual Team
18 26 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (2.47%) Windows
2 43 (1.35%) Linux
3 22 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (0.50%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.19%) Unix
6 6 (0.19%) VMS
7 5 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.094%) Android
9 3 (0.094%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.094%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.031%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 816 (25.56%) Agile
2 632 (19.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 594 (18.61%) Continuous Improvement
4 511 (16.01%) Migration
5 482 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
6 451 (14.13%) Roadmaps
7 437 (13.69%) Change Management
8 401 (12.56%) Workshop Facilitation
9 366 (11.47%) Decision-Making
10 352 (11.03%) Project Management
11 334 (10.46%) Analytics
12 316 (9.90%) DevOps
13 301 (9.43%) Business Intelligence
14 290 (9.09%) Risk Management
15 287 (8.99%) AI
16 274 (8.58%) ERP
17 261 (8.18%) Project Delivery
18 256 (8.02%) User Acceptance Testing
19 248 (7.77%) Requirements Gathering
20 229 (7.17%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 251 (7.86%) SQL
2 244 (7.64%) Python
3 97 (3.04%) PowerShell
4 93 (2.91%) Java
5 43 (1.35%) JavaScript
6 37 (1.16%) C#
7 29 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 27 (0.85%) TypeScript
9 24 (0.75%) Bash
10 18 (0.56%) R
11 17 (0.53%) VBA
12 16 (0.50%) Bicep
13 15 (0.47%) ABAP
14 11 (0.34%) PHP
15 10 (0.31%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.28%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.28%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.25%) Korn
18 7 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
19 4 (0.13%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 761 (23.84%) Security Cleared
2 605 (18.95%) SC Cleared
3 279 (8.74%) Degree
4 124 (3.88%) PMI Certification
5 110 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 110 (3.45%) PMP
6 97 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 58 (1.82%) CISSP
8 49 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 44 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 42 (1.32%) CISM
11 40 (1.25%) Azure Certification
12 31 (0.97%) AWS Certification
13 27 (0.85%) ACCA
13 27 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
13 27 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
14 25 (0.78%) CIMA
14 25 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
15 23 (0.72%) IIBA
16 22 (0.69%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (5.86%) Data Quality
2 178 (5.58%) QA
3 142 (4.45%) GDPR
4 133 (4.17%) PMO
5 125 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 124 (3.88%) NIST
7 75 (2.35%) Accessibility
8 56 (1.75%) GRC
9 38 (1.19%) PCI DSS
10 32 (1.00%) NCSC
11 26 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
12 25 (0.78%) SLA
13 20 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 16 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
15 14 (0.44%) Basel III
16 13 (0.41%) PSD2
16 13 (0.41%) SOC 2
17 12 (0.38%) ISO 20022
18 11 (0.34%) HL7
18 11 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 116 (3.63%) Active Directory
2 65 (2.04%) Docker
3 31 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.60%) 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 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.094%) NFS
10 3 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.031%) Firmware
11 1 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 104 (3.26%) Terraform
2 103 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 29 (0.91%) Ansible
4 25 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (0.53%) Grafana
7 16 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.44%) HP ALM
9 13 (0.41%) SCCM
10 12 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.16%) Podman
13 4 (0.13%) Istio
14 3 (0.094%) Argo
14 3 (0.094%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.094%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.094%) vMotion
14 3 (0.094%) vRealize
14 3 (0.094%) WSUS
15 2 (0.063%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 457 (14.32%) Microsoft
2 280 (8.77%) SAP
3 169 (5.29%) ServiceNow
4 164 (5.14%) Oracle
5 95 (2.98%) Salesforce
6 69 (2.16%) Cisco
7 67 (2.10%) Google
8 64 (2.01%) Databricks
9 54 (1.69%) CyberArk
10 48 (1.50%) VMware
11 43 (1.35%) IBM
12 42 (1.32%) BeyondTrust
13 41 (1.28%) Workday
14 39 (1.22%) Aruba
15 35 (1.10%) Centrify
16 25 (0.78%) Splunk
17 23 (0.72%) Palo Alto
17 23 (0.72%) Red Hat
18 20 (0.63%) OpenAI
19 19 (0.60%) Sparx
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