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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 104 155
Rank change year-on-year +82 +51 +3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,821 762 692
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.62% 2.36% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.67% 2.67% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,958 468 479
10th Percentile £364 £400 £367
25th Percentile £438 £455 £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 £541 £525
% change year-on-year -7.62% +3.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 8 37
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.90 £30.80
25th Percentile £19.10 £25.19 £33.75
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 £57.33
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 32,541 28,533 37,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.91% 88.47% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,569 17,345 24,861
10th Percentile £304 £308 £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 2,000 921 1,535
10th Percentile £14.74 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.76% -32.33% +55.17%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +80 2,473 £525 -4.55% 703
UK excluding London +64 1,288 £500 -7.62% 571
London +92 1,199 £550 - 232
Work from Home +93 822 £536 -5.13% 348
South East +49 332 £500 -9.09% 173
North of England +49 315 £500 -1.48% 120
Midlands +35 243 £500 -4.76% 116
South West +49 193 £524 -12.67% 71
West Midlands +28 171 £500 -9.09% 81
North West +30 146 £518 +0.49% 53
Yorkshire +28 132 £513 +2.50% 58
East of England +39 91 £565 +32.01% 56
Scotland +39 86 £450 -18.92% 23
East Midlands +17 71 £431 +2.62% 35
North East +22 40 £454 -45.82% 11
Wales +20 25 £463 -22.92% 20
Northern Ireland +4 12 £500 - 5
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
1 148 (5.25%) Confluence
2 124 (4.40%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.71%) SAS
5 13 (0.46%) CMS
6 12 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.21%) Apache
8 6 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.21%) Appian
9 4 (0.14%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.14%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.11%) Smallworld
10 3 (0.11%) WordPress
11 2 (0.071%) Drupal
11 2 (0.071%) nginx
11 2 (0.071%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.071%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 153 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (3.08%) Microsoft Project
3 67 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 55 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
5 53 (1.88%) 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 15 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
5 15 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
5 15 (0.53%) SAP FI
6 14 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 13 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.43%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.43%) SAP MM
9 11 (0.39%) Workday HCM
10 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
10 9 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
10 9 (0.32%) SAP HR
10 9 (0.32%) Teamcenter
11 8 (0.28%) Maximo
11 8 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
11 8 (0.28%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 511 (18.11%) Azure
2 321 (11.38%) AWS
3 222 (7.87%) Power Platform
4 146 (5.18%) GCP
5 128 (4.54%) Microsoft 365
6 107 (3.79%) 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 47 (1.67%) Serverless
13 40 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
14 35 (1.24%) Power Automate
15 33 (1.17%) PowerApps
16 32 (1.13%) Azure Logic Apps
17 30 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
18 29 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
18 29 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
18 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 (6.20%) Power BI
2 73 (2.59%) Metadata
3 51 (1.81%) Tableau
4 48 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
5 43 (1.52%) 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 14 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (0.50%) Big Data
11 13 (0.46%) Data Vault
11 13 (0.46%) MySQL
12 12 (0.43%) Relational Database
13 11 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (0.39%) DynamoDB
13 11 (0.39%) Oracle Database
14 10 (0.35%) Delta Lake
14 10 (0.35%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 260 (9.22%) JIRA
2 39 (1.38%) GitLab
3 33 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.13%) Git
5 24 (0.85%) Selenium
6 14 (0.50%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.35%) Postman
8 10 (0.35%) REST Assured
9 7 (0.25%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.25%) TestRail
10 5 (0.18%) JUnit
10 5 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.14%) ERwin
11 4 (0.14%) Hudson
11 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
12 3 (0.11%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.11%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 2 (0.071%) Maven
General
1 1,495 (53.00%) Social Skills
2 784 (27.79%) Finance
3 490 (17.37%) Public Sector
4 434 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 197 (6.98%) Banking
6 123 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
7 111 (3.93%) Legal
8 109 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
9 93 (3.30%) Manufacturing
10 79 (2.80%) Marketing
11 76 (2.69%) Telecoms
12 73 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
13 72 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
14 60 (2.13%) Retail
15 57 (2.02%) Local Government
16 46 (1.63%) Financial Institution
17 36 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 35 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
19 34 (1.21%) Investment Banking
20 32 (1.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 506 (17.94%) Analyst
2 385 (13.65%) Architect
3 366 (12.97%) Business Analyst
4 315 (11.17%) Lead
5 308 (10.92%) Consultant
6 268 (9.50%) Project Manager
7 227 (8.05%) Senior
8 135 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
9 92 (3.26%) Developer
10 73 (2.59%) Change Manager
11 72 (2.55%) Programme Manager
12 65 (2.30%) Senior Analyst
13 57 (2.02%) Senior Business Analyst
14 55 (1.95%) Designer
15 54 (1.91%) SAP Consultant
16 48 (1.70%) Data Analyst
16 48 (1.70%) Technical Manager
17 47 (1.67%) Senior Manager
18 45 (1.60%) Delivery Manager
19 41 (1.45%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (3.83%) REST
2 65 (2.30%) SOAP
3 54 (1.91%) 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 27 (0.96%) XML
10 25 (0.89%) Node.js
11 23 (0.82%) SAML
11 23 (0.82%) SAP Fiori
12 22 (0.78%) HTML
13 19 (0.67%) AngularJS
13 19 (0.67%) JSON
13 19 (0.67%) Kafka
14 18 (0.64%) CSS
14 18 (0.64%) LangChain
14 18 (0.64%) RESTful
15 17 (0.60%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 183 (6.49%) Product Ownership
2 147 (5.21%) Onboarding
3 98 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
4 90 (3.19%) Cloud Native
5 75 (2.66%) Management Information System
6 66 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 66 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
7 56 (1.99%) Security Posture
8 55 (1.95%) NHS
9 52 (1.84%) Data Structures
10 46 (1.63%) Data Centre
11 42 (1.49%) PMI
12 37 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
13 34 (1.21%) AI Agents
13 34 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
14 33 (1.17%) Operational Technology
15 32 (1.13%) CMDB
16 29 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
17 26 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
18 19 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 70 (2.48%) Windows
2 31 (1.10%) Linux
3 19 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (0.67%) Windows 10
3 19 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.25%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.21%) Android
6 5 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.18%) VMS
7 3 (0.11%) Unix
7 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.071%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.035%) AIX
9 1 (0.035%) CentOS
9 1 (0.035%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.035%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 771 (27.33%) Agile
2 549 (19.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 450 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
4 443 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 413 (14.64%) Migration
6 375 (13.29%) Roadmaps
7 366 (12.97%) Change Management
8 361 (12.80%) Project Management
9 303 (10.74%) Workshop Facilitation
10 294 (10.42%) Decision-Making
11 287 (10.17%) Analytics
12 285 (10.10%) DevOps
13 256 (9.07%) Risk Management
14 247 (8.76%) Business Intelligence
15 233 (8.26%) Requirements Gathering
16 230 (8.15%) Project Delivery
17 218 (7.73%) ERP
18 211 (7.48%) Data Governance
19 205 (7.27%) CI/CD
20 200 (7.09%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 207 (7.34%) SQL
2 195 (6.91%) 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%) Bicep
8 26 (0.92%) Bash
9 21 (0.74%) R
9 21 (0.74%) TypeScript
10 17 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (0.43%) ABAP
11 12 (0.43%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.32%) PHP
13 8 (0.28%) Korn
14 6 (0.21%) C++
14 6 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.18%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.18%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 584 (20.70%) Security Cleared
2 472 (16.73%) 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 61 (2.16%) 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 17 (0.60%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (5.42%) GDPR
2 145 (5.14%) QA
3 128 (4.54%) Data Quality
4 117 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 108 (3.83%) PMO
6 101 (3.58%) NIST
7 77 (2.73%) Accessibility
8 43 (1.52%) 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
16 13 (0.46%) WCAG
17 12 (0.43%) COBIT
System Software
1 116 (4.11%) 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 32 (1.13%) Ansible
4 28 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
5 27 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (0.53%) 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%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.071%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.035%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 412 (14.60%) Microsoft
2 260 (9.22%) SAP
3 173 (6.13%) Oracle
4 163 (5.78%) ServiceNow
5 90 (3.19%) Salesforce
6 70 (2.48%) Google
7 66 (2.34%) Cisco
8 55 (1.95%) Workday
9 54 (1.91%) CyberArk
10 50 (1.77%) Databricks
11 43 (1.52%) VMware
12 40 (1.42%) BeyondTrust
13 35 (1.24%) Centrify
14 34 (1.21%) Aruba
15 28 (0.99%) Adobe
16 23 (0.82%) IBM
17 22 (0.78%) Palo Alto
18 21 (0.74%) OpenAI
19 19 (0.67%) Red Hat
20 18 (0.64%) Splunk