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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 86 158
Rank change year-on-year +61 +72 0
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,124 855 706
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.22% 2.88% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.40% 3.18% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,139 560 478
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £444 £452 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £536
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £632 £646 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +2.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 13 39
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.20 £18.35
25th Percentile £27.25 £26.25 £27.81
Median hourly rate £60.00 £49.51 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.20% +35.63% +78.05%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.75 £56.49
90th Percentile - £82.05 £65.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £54.65 £56.49
% change year-on-year +18.95% -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 37,209 26,860 38,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 90.36% 86.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,562 17,174 25,055
10th Percentile £313 £306 £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 £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,222 913 2,330
10th Percentile £14.91 £15.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.88 £31.50
% change year-on-year -13.74% +1.21% -10.00%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +62 2,717 £525 -4.11% 797
UK excluding London +57 1,483 £500 -4.76% 612
London +65 1,273 £550 - 323
Work from Home +59 890 £525 -4.55% 366
South East +47 388 £500 -8.26% 207
North of England +39 360 £500 - 139
Midlands +34 300 £500 -0.10% 129
West Midlands +30 199 £500 -6.98% 76
South West +40 198 £525 -12.50% 68
North West +45 178 £483 -3.50% 74
Yorkshire +15 143 £525 +10.53% 49
East of England +32 100 £525 +5.00% 33
East Midlands +10 98 £475 +8.57% 53
Scotland +42 92 £450 -18.18% 24
North East +18 42 £450 -11.33% 18
Wales +11 32 £400 -23.81% 15
Northern Ireland +16 20 £450 - 4
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 (5.57%) Confluence
2 118 (3.78%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (0.58%) SAS
5 13 (0.42%) CMS
6 9 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.19%) Apache
7 6 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.096%) Appian
10 3 (0.096%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.096%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.096%) Smallworld
10 3 (0.096%) WordPress
11 2 (0.064%) Drupal
11 2 (0.064%) Moodle
11 2 (0.064%) nginx
Applications
1 163 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (2.46%) Microsoft Project
3 62 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 60 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
5 59 (1.89%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.16%) Trello
9 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
10 3 (0.096%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.096%) Notion
10 3 (0.096%) Sketch
11 2 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.064%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.032%) CATIA
12 1 (0.032%) InVision
12 1 (0.032%) Revit
12 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 131 (4.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.51%) SAP FI
5 16 (0.51%) SAP PP
6 12 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
7 11 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
7 11 (0.35%) SAP MM
8 9 (0.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 9 (0.29%) SAP HR
8 9 (0.29%) Teamcenter
8 9 (0.29%) Workday HCM
9 8 (0.26%) NEC Housing
9 8 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.26%) SAP CO
10 7 (0.22%) Primavera
10 7 (0.22%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
11 6 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 596 (19.08%) Azure
2 380 (12.16%) AWS
3 270 (8.64%) Power Platform
4 160 (5.12%) GCP
5 141 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
6 118 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
7 106 (3.39%) SaaS
8 96 (3.07%) Entra ID
9 80 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
10 65 (2.08%) GitHub
11 50 (1.60%) OCI
12 49 (1.57%) Serverless
13 42 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
14 40 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
15 37 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
16 35 (1.12%) Power Automate
17 34 (1.09%) PaaS
17 34 (1.09%) PowerApps
18 31 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
19 28 (0.90%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.11%) Firewall
2 48 (1.54%) Network Security
3 32 (1.02%) DNS
4 31 (0.99%) WAN
5 29 (0.93%) LAN
6 28 (0.90%) VPN
7 18 (0.58%) SD-WAN
8 16 (0.51%) BGP
9 14 (0.45%) MPLS
10 12 (0.38%) Internet
11 11 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.32%) DHCP
12 10 (0.32%) Wireless
13 9 (0.29%) VLAN
13 9 (0.29%) VSAN
14 7 (0.22%) Intranet
14 7 (0.22%) OSPF
14 7 (0.22%) WLAN
15 6 (0.19%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (0.19%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (6.88%) Power BI
2 74 (2.37%) Metadata
3 64 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (1.54%) Tableau
5 38 (1.22%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.80%) Data Lake
7 21 (0.67%) Power Query
8 20 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
9 19 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
9 19 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (0.61%) Relational Database
10 17 (0.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 16 (0.51%) MySQL
11 16 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
12 14 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (0.45%) Data Vault
13 12 (0.38%) DynamoDB
13 12 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
14 11 (0.35%) Big Data
14 11 (0.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 281 (8.99%) JIRA
2 48 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 47 (1.50%) GitLab
4 35 (1.12%) Git
5 29 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
6 25 (0.80%) Selenium
7 18 (0.58%) Postman
8 17 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.42%) JMeter
10 11 (0.35%) JUnit
11 7 (0.22%) ERwin
11 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
11 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.22%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.22%) WebDriver
12 6 (0.19%) Hudson
12 6 (0.19%) TestRail
13 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
14 4 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,553 (49.71%) Social Skills
2 894 (28.62%) Finance
3 503 (16.10%) Public Sector
4 501 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
5 200 (6.40%) Banking
6 156 (4.99%) Influencing Skills
7 139 (4.45%) Documentation Skills
8 115 (3.68%) Legal
9 83 (2.66%) Manufacturing
9 83 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
10 79 (2.53%) Retail
11 70 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
12 65 (2.08%) Marketing
13 63 (2.02%) Telecoms
14 60 (1.92%) Local Government
15 58 (1.86%) Aerospace
16 47 (1.50%) Law
17 43 (1.38%) Financial Institution
18 36 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
19 29 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 589 (18.85%) Analyst
2 441 (14.12%) Architect
3 436 (13.96%) Business Analyst
4 380 (12.16%) Lead
5 284 (9.09%) Consultant
6 282 (9.03%) Project Manager
7 267 (8.55%) Senior
8 144 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
9 93 (2.98%) Programme Manager
9 93 (2.98%) Senior Analyst
10 92 (2.94%) Developer
11 81 (2.59%) Delivery Manager
12 79 (2.53%) Change Manager
13 72 (2.30%) Data Analyst
13 72 (2.30%) Senior Business Analyst
14 61 (1.95%) Product Manager
15 52 (1.66%) Designer
16 48 (1.54%) Data Engineer
16 48 (1.54%) Senior Manager
17 47 (1.50%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (3.55%) REST
2 59 (1.89%) SOAP
3 51 (1.63%) LDAP
4 44 (1.41%) .NET
5 42 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
6 39 (1.25%) Middleware
7 32 (1.02%) OAuth
7 32 (1.02%) OpenID
8 27 (0.86%) Node.js
9 26 (0.83%) Spring
10 24 (0.77%) React
10 24 (0.77%) SAP Fiori
11 22 (0.70%) Kafka
12 21 (0.67%) XML
13 20 (0.64%) RESTful
14 19 (0.61%) Spring Boot
15 18 (0.58%) OAuth2
15 18 (0.58%) SailPoint
15 18 (0.58%) SAML
16 17 (0.54%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 217 (6.95%) Product Ownership
2 152 (4.87%) Onboarding
3 99 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 82 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
5 73 (2.34%) Data Structures
6 71 (2.27%) Management Information System
7 67 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
8 64 (2.05%) Security Posture
9 60 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
10 57 (1.82%) NHS
11 50 (1.60%) Data Centre
12 46 (1.47%) Operational Technology
13 44 (1.41%) PMI
14 42 (1.34%) CMDB
15 40 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
16 37 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
17 36 (1.15%) AI Agents
18 28 (0.90%) Virtual Team
19 27 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
20 25 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 80 (2.56%) Windows
2 42 (1.34%) Linux
3 21 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.54%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.16%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.16%) Unix
5 5 (0.16%) VMS
6 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.064%) Android
7 2 (0.064%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.064%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.032%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 811 (25.96%) Agile
2 627 (20.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 559 (17.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 490 (15.69%) Migration
5 484 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
6 446 (14.28%) Roadmaps
7 420 (13.44%) Change Management
8 383 (12.26%) Workshop Facilitation
9 352 (11.27%) Project Management
10 341 (10.92%) Decision-Making
11 331 (10.60%) Analytics
12 307 (9.83%) DevOps
13 283 (9.06%) Risk Management
14 282 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
15 267 (8.55%) AI
16 257 (8.23%) ERP
17 255 (8.16%) Requirements Gathering
18 244 (7.81%) Project Delivery
19 229 (7.33%) User Acceptance Testing
20 219 (7.01%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 255 (8.16%) SQL
2 239 (7.65%) Python
3 103 (3.30%) PowerShell
4 84 (2.69%) Java
5 53 (1.70%) JavaScript
6 42 (1.34%) C#
7 30 (0.96%) TypeScript
8 28 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 26 (0.83%) Bash
10 20 (0.64%) Bicep
11 17 (0.54%) R
12 14 (0.45%) ABAP
12 14 (0.45%) VBA
13 11 (0.35%) PHP
14 9 (0.29%) Korn
15 8 (0.26%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.26%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.22%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.13%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 726 (23.24%) Security Cleared
2 572 (18.31%) SC Cleared
3 286 (9.15%) Degree
4 116 (3.71%) PMI Certification
5 105 (3.36%) PMP
6 104 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 92 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 57 (1.82%) CISSP
9 54 (1.73%) Master's Degree
10 44 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 43 (1.38%) Azure Certification
12 41 (1.31%) CISM
13 31 (0.99%) AWS Certification
14 30 (0.96%) ACCA
14 30 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
15 28 (0.90%) CIMA
16 25 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
16 25 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
17 22 (0.70%) CBAP
18 21 (0.67%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (5.89%) Data Quality
2 173 (5.54%) QA
3 149 (4.77%) GDPR
4 123 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 119 (3.81%) NIST
6 113 (3.62%) PMO
7 77 (2.46%) Accessibility
8 53 (1.70%) GRC
9 40 (1.28%) PCI DSS
10 30 (0.96%) NCSC
11 29 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
12 25 (0.80%) SLA
13 24 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 17 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
15 15 (0.48%) PSD2
16 14 (0.45%) Basel III
17 12 (0.38%) COBIT
18 11 (0.35%) HL7
19 10 (0.32%) Solvency II
19 10 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 115 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 67 (2.14%) Docker
3 31 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 15 (0.48%) vSphere
6 10 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.096%) NFS
10 3 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.032%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.032%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 114 (3.65%) Terraform
2 103 (3.30%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.06%) Ansible
4 26 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (0.51%) Grafana
6 14 (0.45%) HP ALM
6 14 (0.45%) SCCM
7 13 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.22%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.16%) Podman
11 4 (0.13%) Istio
12 3 (0.096%) Argo
12 3 (0.096%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.096%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.096%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.096%) vMotion
12 3 (0.096%) vRealize
12 3 (0.096%) VxRail
Vendors
1 448 (14.34%) Microsoft
2 275 (8.80%) SAP
3 164 (5.25%) ServiceNow
4 161 (5.15%) Oracle
5 91 (2.91%) Salesforce
6 76 (2.43%) Google
7 71 (2.27%) Cisco
8 62 (1.98%) Databricks
9 53 (1.70%) CyberArk
10 49 (1.57%) VMware
11 46 (1.47%) IBM
12 44 (1.41%) Workday
13 40 (1.28%) BeyondTrust
14 38 (1.22%) Aruba
15 35 (1.12%) Centrify
16 25 (0.80%) Palo Alto
17 24 (0.77%) Splunk
18 23 (0.74%) Red Hat
19 21 (0.67%) OpenAI
19 21 (0.67%) Zscaler