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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 95 155
Rank change year-on-year +71 +60 +2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,004 819 705
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.27% 2.69% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.38% 2.99% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,072 508 479
10th Percentile £365 £400 £363
25th Percentile £438 £456 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £660
90th Percentile £738 £751 £752
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +4.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 11 35
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 -
25th Percentile £19.21 £26.88 £27.81
Median hourly rate £54.00 £49.51 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.08% +35.63% +78.05%
75th Percentile £69.52 £68.22 £56.49
90th Percentile £94.25 £83.75 £57.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.61 £54.65 £56.49
% change year-on-year +1.76% -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 35,855 27,377 38,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.81% 89.88% 87.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 16,975 25,075
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £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 £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.28% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,138 862 2,184
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.94 £33.00 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% -0.20% -5.53%
75th Percentile £61.18 £63.75 £59.93
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.23 £71.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.41% -8.57% -

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 +71 2,614 £525 -4.55% 638
UK excluding London +67 1,403 £500 -4.76% 524
London +70 1,233 £550 - 245
Work from Home +74 864 £525 -4.55% 269
North of England +47 350 £494 -1.30% 121
South East +39 344 £500 -9.09% 192
Midlands +37 286 £500 -4.76% 104
South West +45 197 £523 -12.83% 52
West Midlands +31 186 £500 -11.11% 65
North West +32 164 £475 -4.71% 62
Yorkshire +21 151 £523 -0.48% 47
East Midlands +21 99 £475 +11.76% 38
East of England +33 96 £525 +5.00% 28
Scotland +39 93 £450 -16.86% 19
North East +13 38 £450 -32.46% 14
Wales +22 31 £400 -33.33% 10
Northern Ireland +9 13 £475 - 3
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
1 164 (5.46%) Confluence
2 117 (3.89%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.50%) SAS
5 12 (0.40%) CMS
6 10 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.23%) Apache
8 6 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.17%) Appian
10 4 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.13%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.100%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.100%) Drupal
11 3 (0.100%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.100%) Smallworld
11 3 (0.100%) WordPress
12 2 (0.067%) Moodle
12 2 (0.067%) nginx
12 2 (0.067%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 176 (5.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 82 (2.73%) Microsoft Project
3 67 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (2.13%) MS Visio
5 61 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.33%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.100%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.100%) Notion
9 3 (0.100%) Revit
9 3 (0.100%) Trello
10 2 (0.067%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.067%) Camtasia
10 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.067%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.067%) Sketch
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.033%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 131 (4.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.57%) SAP PP
5 16 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (0.50%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.43%) SAP MM
8 12 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
9 11 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
9 11 (0.37%) SAP ERP
10 10 (0.33%) Teamcenter
11 9 (0.30%) SAP HR
11 9 (0.30%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.27%) NEC Housing
12 8 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
12 8 (0.27%) SAP CO
13 7 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
13 7 (0.23%) OpenText VIM for SAP
13 7 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
14 6 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 547 (18.21%) Azure
2 340 (11.32%) AWS
3 247 (8.22%) Power Platform
4 145 (4.83%) GCP
5 139 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
6 111 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 106 (3.53%) SaaS
8 89 (2.96%) Entra ID
9 69 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
10 60 (2.00%) GitHub
11 50 (1.66%) OCI
12 47 (1.56%) Serverless
13 40 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
15 35 (1.17%) Power Automate
16 33 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
17 31 (1.03%) Azure Logic Apps
17 31 (1.03%) PaaS
18 30 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
18 30 (1.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.20%) Firewall
2 45 (1.50%) Network Security
3 27 (0.90%) DNS
3 27 (0.90%) WAN
4 25 (0.83%) LAN
5 22 (0.73%) VPN
6 15 (0.50%) SD-WAN
7 14 (0.47%) BGP
7 14 (0.47%) MPLS
8 10 (0.33%) DHCP
9 9 (0.30%) Internet
9 9 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.30%) Wireless
10 8 (0.27%) VLAN
11 7 (0.23%) Kerberos
11 7 (0.23%) VSAN
12 6 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (0.20%) OSPF
12 6 (0.20%) WLAN
13 5 (0.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (6.46%) Power BI
2 71 (2.36%) Metadata
3 59 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (1.46%) Tableau
5 41 (1.36%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.83%) Data Lake
7 20 (0.67%) Power Query
8 19 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
9 18 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
10 17 (0.57%) Relational Database
11 16 (0.53%) MySQL
11 16 (0.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 16 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
12 14 (0.47%) Data Vault
13 12 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (0.40%) Big Data
13 12 (0.40%) Delta Lake
13 12 (0.40%) DynamoDB
14 11 (0.37%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 266 (8.85%) JIRA
2 45 (1.50%) GitLab
3 41 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.00%) Git
5 20 (0.67%) Selenium
6 15 (0.50%) Cucumber
7 14 (0.47%) Postman
8 8 (0.27%) JUnit
8 8 (0.27%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.23%) JMeter
9 7 (0.23%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.20%) ERwin
10 6 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.20%) TestRail
11 4 (0.13%) Gatling
11 4 (0.13%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.13%) MLflow
11 4 (0.13%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.13%) Robot Framework
General
1 1,548 (51.53%) Social Skills
2 861 (28.66%) Finance
3 487 (16.21%) Analytical Skills
4 482 (16.05%) Public Sector
5 200 (6.66%) Banking
6 152 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
7 135 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
8 110 (3.66%) Legal
9 86 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
10 81 (2.70%) Manufacturing
11 71 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
12 70 (2.33%) Retail
13 66 (2.20%) Telecoms
14 65 (2.16%) Marketing
15 55 (1.83%) Local Government
16 46 (1.53%) Financial Institution
17 32 (1.07%) Aerospace
17 32 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
18 31 (1.03%) Law
19 29 (0.97%) Military
Job Titles
1 578 (19.24%) Analyst
2 423 (14.08%) Business Analyst
3 405 (13.48%) Architect
4 365 (12.15%) Lead
5 276 (9.19%) Consultant
6 260 (8.66%) Project Manager
7 255 (8.49%) Senior
8 142 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
9 93 (3.10%) Senior Analyst
10 89 (2.96%) Developer
10 89 (2.96%) Programme Manager
11 79 (2.63%) Change Manager
12 72 (2.40%) Senior Business Analyst
13 66 (2.20%) Data Analyst
14 58 (1.93%) Designer
15 52 (1.73%) Delivery Manager
16 48 (1.60%) Data Engineer
17 46 (1.53%) SAP Consultant
18 44 (1.46%) Senior Manager
19 42 (1.40%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (3.70%) REST
2 59 (1.96%) SOAP
3 54 (1.80%) LDAP
4 44 (1.46%) .NET
5 39 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
6 38 (1.26%) Middleware
7 36 (1.20%) OAuth
8 34 (1.13%) OpenID
9 26 (0.87%) Node.js
9 26 (0.87%) XML
10 22 (0.73%) React
10 22 (0.73%) SAP Fiori
10 22 (0.73%) Spring
11 20 (0.67%) Kafka
11 20 (0.67%) RESTful
12 19 (0.63%) CSS
12 19 (0.63%) SailPoint
12 19 (0.63%) SAML
12 19 (0.63%) Spring Boot
13 18 (0.60%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 182 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 143 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 96 (3.20%) Cloud Native
4 88 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
5 68 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 65 (2.16%) Management Information System
7 64 (2.13%) Security Posture
8 61 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
9 53 (1.76%) Data Structures
10 52 (1.73%) NHS
11 49 (1.63%) Data Centre
12 43 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
13 42 (1.40%) PMI
14 40 (1.33%) Operational Technology
15 37 (1.23%) AI Agents
15 37 (1.23%) CMDB
15 37 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
16 28 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
16 28 (0.93%) Virtual Team
17 21 (0.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 76 (2.53%) Windows
2 37 (1.23%) Linux
3 21 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.17%) Unix
6 5 (0.17%) VMS
7 3 (0.100%) Android
7 3 (0.100%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.033%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 768 (25.57%) Agile
2 604 (20.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 499 (16.61%) Continuous Improvement
4 473 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
5 448 (14.91%) Migration
6 421 (14.01%) Roadmaps
7 412 (13.72%) Change Management
8 355 (11.82%) Project Management
9 353 (11.75%) Workshop Facilitation
10 345 (11.48%) Decision-Making
11 315 (10.49%) Analytics
12 292 (9.72%) DevOps
13 278 (9.25%) Risk Management
14 257 (8.56%) Business Intelligence
15 250 (8.32%) Requirements Gathering
16 247 (8.22%) AI
17 240 (7.99%) ERP
18 229 (7.62%) Project Delivery
19 221 (7.36%) Data Governance
20 215 (7.16%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 238 (7.92%) SQL
2 222 (7.39%) Python
3 110 (3.66%) PowerShell
4 75 (2.50%) Java
5 57 (1.90%) JavaScript
6 42 (1.40%) C#
7 31 (1.03%) TypeScript
8 29 (0.97%) Bash
9 27 (0.90%) Bicep
10 23 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 18 (0.60%) R
12 13 (0.43%) ABAP
13 11 (0.37%) PHP
13 11 (0.37%) VBA
14 10 (0.33%) Korn
14 10 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.20%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.17%) C++
18 4 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 652 (21.70%) Security Cleared
2 538 (17.91%) SC Cleared
3 272 (9.05%) Degree
4 104 (3.46%) PMI Certification
5 96 (3.20%) DV Cleared
6 95 (3.16%) PMP
7 84 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 57 (1.90%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.73%) CISSP
10 44 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 37 (1.23%) CISM
12 34 (1.13%) Azure Certification
13 32 (1.07%) ACCA
14 30 (1.00%) CIMA
15 25 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
16 23 (0.77%) AWS Certification
17 22 (0.73%) CBAP
17 22 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
18 21 (0.70%) IIBA
19 20 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (5.46%) QA
2 162 (5.39%) Data Quality
3 148 (4.93%) GDPR
4 122 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 110 (3.66%) NIST
6 106 (3.53%) PMO
7 79 (2.63%) Accessibility
8 58 (1.93%) GRC
9 44 (1.46%) PCI DSS
10 30 (1.00%) NCSC
11 28 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 27 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
13 18 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
14 17 (0.57%) Basel III
14 17 (0.57%) SLA
15 14 (0.47%) PSD2
16 11 (0.37%) COBIT
16 11 (0.37%) WCAG
17 10 (0.33%) ISO 20022
17 10 (0.33%) JSP 440
System Software
1 113 (3.76%) Active Directory
2 70 (2.33%) Docker
3 29 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.50%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.40%) vSphere
6 8 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.17%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.100%) NFS
9 3 (0.100%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.100%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.033%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.033%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 118 (3.93%) Terraform
2 99 (3.30%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.10%) Ansible
4 27 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (0.50%) SCCM
6 13 (0.43%) Grafana
7 10 (0.33%) HP ALM
7 10 (0.33%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.20%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.13%) Control-M
10 4 (0.13%) Istio
10 4 (0.13%) Podman
11 3 (0.100%) Argo
11 3 (0.100%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.100%) Nessus
11 3 (0.100%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.100%) vMotion
11 3 (0.100%) VxRail
Vendors
1 438 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 273 (9.09%) SAP
3 161 (5.36%) ServiceNow
4 157 (5.23%) Oracle
5 100 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 74 (2.46%) Google
7 68 (2.26%) Cisco
8 58 (1.93%) Databricks
9 53 (1.76%) CyberArk
10 47 (1.56%) VMware
10 47 (1.56%) Workday
11 39 (1.30%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.17%) Aruba
12 35 (1.17%) Centrify
13 25 (0.83%) IBM
14 24 (0.80%) Palo Alto
15 23 (0.77%) Red Hat
15 23 (0.77%) Splunk
16 21 (0.70%) OpenAI
17 20 (0.67%) Adobe