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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 58 150
Rank change year-on-year +32 +92 +8
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,216 1,112 685
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.62% 3.89% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.84% 4.27% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,182 742 484
10th Percentile £368 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 16 40
10th Percentile £28.68 £27.00 £18.35
25th Percentile £49.50 £32.05 £27.81
Median hourly rate £70.50 £48.50 £36.23
Median % change year-on-year +45.36% +33.87% +70.09%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.88 £57.37
90th Percentile £94.25 £74.49 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.50 £67.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +20.74% +19.49% +170.29%

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 40,998 26,034 36,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.45% 91.02% 85.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,676 16,714 23,582
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.74% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,064 2,485
10th Percentile £14.80 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.01 £74.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.35 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +76.32% -32.93% +7.14%

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 26 May 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 26 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Top 17 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 26 May 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 +28 2,759 £535 +1.90% 1,169
UK excluding London +40 1,544 £500 - 819
London +28 1,279 £550 - 503
Work from Home +40 994 £525 +3.45% 591
North of England +30 407 £500 +0.60% 195
South East +22 353 £540 +13.09% 261
Midlands +28 318 £500 -0.15% 128
West Midlands +24 217 £480 -8.57% 89
North West +33 200 £475 -4.43% 108
South West +20 191 £525 -4.55% 104
Yorkshire +11 171 £518 +7.34% 61
Scotland +39 126 £475 -9.52% 46
East of England +25 110 £575 +15.00% 52
East Midlands +20 96 £523 +16.11% 37
North East +8 42 £450 -11.33% 26
Wales +15 41 £475 +46.15% 28
Northern Ireland +14 15 £450 -22.58% 16

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
1 179 (5.57%) Confluence
2 89 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 23 (0.72%) SAS
4 19 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.44%) CMS
5 14 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.37%) Apache
7 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
8 3 (0.093%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.093%) Appian
8 3 (0.093%) Drupal
8 3 (0.093%) WordPress
9 2 (0.062%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.062%) Camunda
9 2 (0.062%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.062%) Oracle Service Bus
9 2 (0.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.062%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 148 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
3 62 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
4 61 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 58 (1.80%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.12%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.12%) Sketch
9 3 (0.093%) Notion
10 2 (0.062%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.062%) InVision
10 2 (0.062%) Trello
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.031%) CATIA
11 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.031%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.031%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 131 (4.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.47%) Teamcenter
4 11 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 10 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.31%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.28%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (0.25%) SAP QM
7 8 (0.25%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.22%) Maximo
8 7 (0.22%) NEC Housing
8 7 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.22%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.19%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 607 (18.87%) Azure
2 424 (13.18%) AWS
3 301 (9.36%) Power Platform
4 158 (4.91%) GCP
5 116 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
6 107 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 97 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
8 96 (2.99%) Entra ID
8 96 (2.99%) SaaS
9 63 (1.96%) GitHub
10 47 (1.46%) Serverless
11 44 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
12 40 (1.24%) PaaS
13 39 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
14 34 (1.06%) Amazon S3
15 32 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 32 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
15 32 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
16 31 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
16 31 (0.96%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.49%) Firewall
2 43 (1.34%) Network Security
3 32 (1.00%) DNS
4 20 (0.62%) WAN
5 19 (0.59%) VPN
6 16 (0.50%) LAN
7 11 (0.34%) Internet
8 10 (0.31%) TCP/IP
8 10 (0.31%) VLAN
8 10 (0.31%) Wireless
9 9 (0.28%) BGP
9 9 (0.28%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.28%) SSL
9 9 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.25%) DHCP
10 8 (0.25%) Intranet
10 8 (0.25%) NAS
10 8 (0.25%) OSPF
10 8 (0.25%) SAN
10 8 (0.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (7.99%) Power BI
2 72 (2.24%) Metadata
3 61 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (1.15%) Tableau
5 33 (1.03%) Data Lake
6 29 (0.90%) SQL Server
7 27 (0.84%) Power Query
8 26 (0.81%) Relational Database
9 23 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (0.50%) NoSQL
10 16 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
11 14 (0.44%) Big Data
11 14 (0.44%) MySQL
12 13 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
12 13 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
13 12 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (0.34%) Data Vault
14 11 (0.34%) DynamoDB
15 9 (0.28%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 284 (8.83%) JIRA
2 56 (1.74%) Jenkins
3 52 (1.62%) Git
4 51 (1.59%) GitLab
5 32 (1.00%) Rational DOORS
6 27 (0.84%) Postman
7 25 (0.78%) Selenium
8 19 (0.59%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.53%) Hudson
9 17 (0.53%) JMeter
10 11 (0.34%) JUnit
11 10 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (0.28%) WebDriver
13 8 (0.25%) MLflow
13 8 (0.25%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.22%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.19%) ERwin
15 6 (0.19%) LoadRunner
15 6 (0.19%) TestRail
16 5 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 1,488 (46.27%) Social Skills
2 936 (29.10%) Finance
3 491 (15.27%) Analytical Skills
4 484 (15.05%) Public Sector
5 195 (6.06%) Banking
6 137 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
7 116 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
7 116 (3.61%) Legal
8 91 (2.83%) Retail
9 87 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
10 82 (2.55%) Law
11 79 (2.46%) Manufacturing
12 67 (2.08%) Aerospace
13 61 (1.90%) Local Government
14 57 (1.77%) Marketing
15 54 (1.68%) Telecoms
16 45 (1.40%) Military
17 40 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
18 36 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 34 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 592 (18.41%) Analyst
2 482 (14.99%) Architect
3 417 (12.97%) Lead
4 403 (12.53%) Business Analyst
5 290 (9.02%) Senior
6 266 (8.27%) Project Manager
7 246 (7.65%) Consultant
8 125 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
9 93 (2.89%) Change Manager
10 89 (2.77%) Delivery Manager
11 86 (2.67%) Data Analyst
11 86 (2.67%) Senior Analyst
12 83 (2.58%) Programme Manager
13 82 (2.55%) Developer
14 72 (2.24%) Senior Manager
15 67 (2.08%) Designer
16 63 (1.96%) Senior Business Analyst
17 58 (1.80%) Product Manager
18 56 (1.74%) IT Manager
19 55 (1.71%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (3.61%) REST
2 60 (1.87%) SOAP
3 57 (1.77%) LDAP
4 51 (1.59%) Middleware
5 37 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
6 33 (1.03%) React
6 33 (1.03%) Spring
7 32 (1.00%) SailPoint
8 31 (0.96%) OpenID
9 30 (0.93%) Kafka
10 29 (0.90%) .NET
11 25 (0.78%) OAuth
11 25 (0.78%) Spring Boot
12 21 (0.65%) XML
13 20 (0.62%) JSON
13 20 (0.62%) Node.js
13 20 (0.62%) PySpark
14 18 (0.56%) CSS
14 18 (0.56%) RESTful
14 18 (0.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 223 (6.93%) Product Ownership
2 147 (4.57%) Onboarding
3 125 (3.89%) Cloud Native
4 85 (2.64%) Data Structures
5 74 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (2.24%) Management Information System
7 67 (2.08%) Operational Technology
8 66 (2.05%) Security Posture
9 59 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
10 55 (1.71%) Data Centre
11 50 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
11 50 (1.55%) NHS
12 49 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
13 42 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
14 40 (1.24%) Virtual Team
15 36 (1.12%) CMDB
16 33 (1.03%) AI Agents
17 32 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
18 29 (0.90%) Public Cloud
19 26 (0.81%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 87 (2.71%) Windows
2 39 (1.21%) Linux
3 16 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.37%) Unix
4 12 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 9 (0.28%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.25%) VMS
7 3 (0.093%) Android
7 3 (0.093%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.093%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 860 (26.74%) Agile
2 617 (19.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 616 (19.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 468 (14.55%) Migration
5 444 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
6 431 (13.40%) Decision-Making
7 420 (13.06%) Roadmaps
8 418 (13.00%) Change Management
9 384 (11.94%) Workshop Facilitation
10 353 (10.98%) DevOps
11 322 (10.01%) Analytics
12 310 (9.64%) AI
13 302 (9.39%) ERP
13 302 (9.39%) Risk Management
14 299 (9.30%) Project Management
15 296 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
16 263 (8.18%) CI/CD
17 262 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
18 258 (8.02%) Project Delivery
19 254 (7.90%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 250 (7.77%) SQL
2 239 (7.43%) Python
3 105 (3.26%) Java
4 74 (2.30%) PowerShell
5 47 (1.46%) JavaScript
6 35 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 33 (1.03%) TypeScript
8 32 (1.00%) C#
9 27 (0.84%) Bash
10 19 (0.59%) VBA
11 15 (0.47%) Bicep
12 14 (0.44%) Scala
13 10 (0.31%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.31%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.31%) PHP
14 9 (0.28%) R
15 8 (0.25%) Korn
16 6 (0.19%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.16%) ABAP
18 4 (0.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 802 (24.94%) Security Cleared
2 640 (19.90%) SC Cleared
3 256 (7.96%) Degree
4 125 (3.89%) DV Cleared
5 107 (3.33%) PMI Certification
6 105 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 105 (3.26%) PMP
7 75 (2.33%) CISSP
8 55 (1.71%) CISM
9 41 (1.27%) Azure Certification
10 39 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
11 38 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (0.90%) Master's Degree
13 28 (0.87%) ACCA
14 27 (0.84%) CIMA
15 26 (0.81%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 23 (0.72%) IIBA
16 23 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (6.50%) Data Quality
2 162 (5.04%) QA
3 155 (4.82%) PMO
4 136 (4.23%) NIST
5 129 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 126 (3.92%) GDPR
7 77 (2.39%) Accessibility
8 63 (1.96%) GRC
9 32 (1.00%) SLA
10 31 (0.96%) NCSC
11 26 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
11 26 (0.81%) PCI DSS
12 22 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
13 18 (0.56%) WCAG
14 16 (0.50%) SOC 2
15 15 (0.47%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.34%) COBIT
17 11 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 10 (0.31%) Def Stans
System Software
1 100 (3.11%) Active Directory
2 57 (1.77%) Docker
3 28 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.40%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.37%) vSphere
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.093%) NFS
10 1 (0.031%) Firmware
10 1 (0.031%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.031%) KVM
10 1 (0.031%) SRDF
10 1 (0.031%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 108 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 107 (3.33%) Terraform
3 32 (1.00%) Ansible
4 30 (0.93%) Grafana
5 28 (0.87%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.47%) SCCM
9 13 (0.40%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.16%) Istio
12 5 (0.16%) vRealize
13 4 (0.12%) Podman
14 3 (0.093%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.093%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.093%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.093%) vMotion
14 3 (0.093%) WSUS
15 2 (0.062%) Nessus
Vendors
1 469 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 254 (7.90%) SAP
3 181 (5.63%) ServiceNow
4 144 (4.48%) Oracle
5 91 (2.83%) Salesforce
6 81 (2.52%) Databricks
7 53 (1.65%) Google
8 51 (1.59%) CyberArk
9 46 (1.43%) IBM
9 46 (1.43%) VMware
10 39 (1.21%) BeyondTrust
11 37 (1.15%) Cisco
12 35 (1.09%) Splunk
13 34 (1.06%) Centrify
13 34 (1.06%) Workday
14 20 (0.62%) Adobe
14 20 (0.62%) Dynatrace
14 20 (0.62%) Zscaler
15 19 (0.59%) IFS
16 18 (0.56%) Palo Alto
1,326 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide