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

 6 months to
5 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 62 151
Rank change year-on-year +36 +89 +8
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,194 1,066 687
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.72% 3.64% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.95% 4.00% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,182 711 481
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £432 £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 £741 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £506 £525
% change year-on-year -1.14% -3.67% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 18 36
10th Percentile £25.00 £22.97 £18.35
25th Percentile £48.50 £31.26 £27.81
Median hourly rate £69.18 £48.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +42.64% +34.87% +75.41%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.13 £57.33
90th Percentile £97.25 £77.79 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.50 £57.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +41.74% +1.79% +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 40,158 26,632 37,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.47% 90.92% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,255 17,168 24,015
10th Percentile £320 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +1.46% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,399 1,080 2,442
10th Percentile £14.95 £14.63 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.94 £29.00 £35.83
Median % change year-on-year +44.62% -19.06% -0.47%
75th Percentile £67.25 £61.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.88 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.57 £37.50
% change year-on-year +59.59% -26.48% +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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +33 2,743 £525 - 959
UK excluding London +40 1,522 £500 -1.14% 710
London +39 1,274 £550 - 389
Work from Home +45 968 £525 +0.48% 425
North of England +34 390 £480 -4.00% 171
South East +24 355 £525 +5.00% 211
Midlands +29 322 £500 - 121
West Midlands +28 222 £492 -6.29% 82
North West +34 197 £475 -4.71% 84
South West +19 194 £519 -5.68% 98
Yorkshire +17 151 £500 - 63
Scotland +32 112 £473 -14.09% 49
East of England +20 104 £575 +15.00% 54
East Midlands +15 95 £500 +17.65% 39
North East +14 47 £450 -29.82% 27
Wales +14 43 £436 +27.37% 14
Northern Ireland +14 17 £450 -20.00% 8

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
1 187 (5.85%) Confluence
2 97 (3.04%) SharePoint
3 21 (0.66%) SAS
4 20 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.38%) CMS
7 9 (0.28%) Apache
8 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.094%) Appian
9 3 (0.094%) Drupal
9 3 (0.094%) OpenEdge
10 2 (0.063%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.063%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.063%) Camunda
10 2 (0.063%) nginx
10 2 (0.063%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.063%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.063%) WordPress
Applications
1 154 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
3 65 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 63 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
5 54 (1.69%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.13%) Sketch
7 4 (0.13%) Trello
8 3 (0.094%) Notion
9 2 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.063%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.063%) InVision
9 2 (0.063%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.063%) Windchill
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.031%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.031%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 130 (4.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.44%) Teamcenter
5 11 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 11 (0.34%) SAP PP
6 10 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 9 (0.28%) NEC Housing
7 9 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.28%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.25%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
8 8 (0.25%) SAP QM
8 8 (0.25%) Workday HCM
9 6 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 6 (0.19%) Loan IQ
9 6 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.19%) Primavera
9 6 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 604 (18.91%) Azure
2 423 (13.24%) AWS
3 291 (9.11%) Power Platform
4 162 (5.07%) GCP
5 130 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
6 108 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
8 98 (3.07%) SaaS
9 92 (2.88%) Entra ID
10 66 (2.07%) GitHub
11 48 (1.50%) Serverless
12 44 (1.38%) Microsoft Copilot
13 41 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
14 40 (1.25%) PaaS
15 35 (1.10%) Power Automate
16 34 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
16 34 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
17 33 (1.03%) PowerApps
18 32 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
18 32 (1.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.57%) Firewall
2 41 (1.28%) Network Security
3 33 (1.03%) DNS
4 27 (0.85%) VPN
5 24 (0.75%) WAN
6 23 (0.72%) LAN
7 16 (0.50%) Internet
8 13 (0.41%) SD-WAN
9 12 (0.38%) BGP
9 12 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (0.38%) Wireless
10 11 (0.34%) DHCP
11 10 (0.31%) VLAN
12 9 (0.28%) TCP/IP
13 8 (0.25%) Intranet
13 8 (0.25%) MPLS
13 8 (0.25%) OSPF
13 8 (0.25%) SSL
13 8 (0.25%) VSAN
14 7 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (7.73%) Power BI
2 69 (2.16%) Metadata
3 58 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (1.25%) Tableau
5 30 (0.94%) Data Lake
6 28 (0.88%) SQL Server
7 26 (0.81%) Relational Database
8 23 (0.72%) Power Query
9 21 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
11 15 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
12 14 (0.44%) DynamoDB
13 13 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
13 13 (0.41%) MySQL
14 12 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (0.38%) Big Data
14 12 (0.38%) NoSQL
15 11 (0.34%) Data Vault
16 10 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 295 (9.24%) JIRA
2 53 (1.66%) Git
3 51 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.53%) GitLab
5 28 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
6 25 (0.78%) Selenium
7 24 (0.75%) Postman
8 18 (0.56%) Cucumber
9 16 (0.50%) JMeter
10 14 (0.44%) Hudson
11 11 (0.34%) JUnit
12 9 (0.28%) WebDriver
13 8 (0.25%) MLflow
13 8 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.19%) LoadRunner
15 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.19%) TestRail
16 5 (0.16%) ERwin
17 4 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
General
1 1,527 (47.81%) Social Skills
2 956 (29.93%) Finance
3 507 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
4 495 (15.50%) Public Sector
5 196 (6.14%) Banking
6 136 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
7 124 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
8 118 (3.69%) Legal
9 90 (2.82%) Retail
10 88 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
11 79 (2.47%) Manufacturing
12 76 (2.38%) Law
13 64 (2.00%) Local Government
14 62 (1.94%) Aerospace
15 60 (1.88%) Telecoms
16 58 (1.82%) Marketing
17 55 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
18 40 (1.25%) Military
19 32 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 31 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 577 (18.07%) Analyst
2 465 (14.56%) Architect
3 420 (13.15%) Lead
4 411 (12.87%) Business Analyst
5 298 (9.33%) Project Manager
6 285 (8.92%) Senior
7 231 (7.23%) Consultant
8 121 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
9 94 (2.94%) Delivery Manager
10 89 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
11 85 (2.66%) Programme Manager
12 84 (2.63%) Change Manager
13 76 (2.38%) Developer
14 72 (2.25%) Senior Manager
15 70 (2.19%) Data Analyst
16 65 (2.04%) Designer
16 65 (2.04%) Senior Business Analyst
17 58 (1.82%) IT Manager
18 54 (1.69%) Product Manager
19 53 (1.66%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (3.41%) REST
2 59 (1.85%) SOAP
3 54 (1.69%) LDAP
4 48 (1.50%) Middleware
5 41 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
6 36 (1.13%) Spring
7 32 (1.00%) OpenID
8 30 (0.94%) .NET
8 30 (0.94%) React
9 28 (0.88%) OAuth
9 28 (0.88%) Spring Boot
10 27 (0.85%) SailPoint
11 25 (0.78%) Node.js
12 24 (0.75%) Kafka
13 21 (0.66%) AngularJS
14 20 (0.63%) SAML
15 18 (0.56%) JSON
15 18 (0.56%) RESTful
16 17 (0.53%) ADO
16 17 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 213 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 152 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 120 (3.76%) Cloud Native
4 82 (2.57%) Management Information System
5 79 (2.47%) Data Structures
6 71 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
8 64 (2.00%) Operational Technology
9 62 (1.94%) Security Posture
10 58 (1.82%) Data Centre
11 53 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
11 53 (1.66%) NHS
12 46 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
13 41 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
14 39 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
15 36 (1.13%) AI Agents
15 36 (1.13%) CMDB
16 35 (1.10%) PMI
16 35 (1.10%) Virtual Team
17 29 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 82 (2.57%) Windows
2 45 (1.41%) Linux
3 17 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (0.44%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.41%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.31%) Unix
7 8 (0.25%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.22%) VMS
9 5 (0.16%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.13%) Android
11 3 (0.094%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 867 (27.14%) Agile
2 625 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 623 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 475 (14.87%) Migration
5 452 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
6 435 (13.62%) Roadmaps
7 430 (13.46%) Change Management
8 407 (12.74%) Decision-Making
9 386 (12.09%) Workshop Facilitation
10 345 (10.80%) Project Management
11 341 (10.68%) DevOps
12 323 (10.11%) Analytics
13 305 (9.55%) AI
14 303 (9.49%) Risk Management
15 298 (9.33%) ERP
16 290 (9.08%) Business Intelligence
17 265 (8.30%) Project Delivery
18 259 (8.11%) CI/CD
19 250 (7.83%) User Acceptance Testing
20 249 (7.80%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 248 (7.76%) Python
2 242 (7.58%) SQL
3 104 (3.26%) Java
4 80 (2.50%) PowerShell
5 45 (1.41%) JavaScript
6 35 (1.10%) C#
7 34 (1.06%) TypeScript
8 27 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 25 (0.78%) Bash
10 18 (0.56%) Bicep
10 18 (0.56%) VBA
11 14 (0.44%) R
12 10 (0.31%) Kotlin
12 10 (0.31%) PHP
12 10 (0.31%) Scala
13 9 (0.28%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.25%) Korn
15 7 (0.22%) ABAP
15 7 (0.22%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 782 (24.48%) Security Cleared
2 620 (19.41%) SC Cleared
3 273 (8.55%) Degree
4 120 (3.76%) PMI Certification
5 118 (3.69%) DV Cleared
6 114 (3.57%) PMP
7 108 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 66 (2.07%) CISSP
9 46 (1.44%) CISM
10 42 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 40 (1.25%) Azure Certification
11 40 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (1.25%) Master's Degree
12 30 (0.94%) ACCA
12 30 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 29 (0.91%) CIMA
14 24 (0.75%) AWS Certification
15 22 (0.69%) IIBA
15 22 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
15 22 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (6.29%) Data Quality
2 170 (5.32%) QA
3 160 (5.01%) PMO
4 135 (4.23%) NIST
5 133 (4.16%) GDPR
6 130 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 83 (2.60%) Accessibility
8 55 (1.72%) GRC
9 32 (1.00%) PCI DSS
10 30 (0.94%) SLA
11 27 (0.85%) NCSC
12 26 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
13 23 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
14 17 (0.53%) WCAG
15 16 (0.50%) SOC 2
16 14 (0.44%) Basel III
17 13 (0.41%) ISO 20022
18 12 (0.38%) COBIT
18 12 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 11 (0.34%) Def Stans
System Software
1 105 (3.29%) Active Directory
2 63 (1.97%) Docker
3 24 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.53%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.38%) vSphere
6 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.094%) NFS
9 3 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.063%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.031%) Firmware
11 1 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 117 (3.66%) Terraform
2 105 (3.29%) Kubernetes
3 30 (0.94%) Ansible
4 26 (0.81%) Grafana
4 26 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.75%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.44%) HP ALM
6 14 (0.44%) SCCM
7 8 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.16%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.16%) vRealize
9 4 (0.13%) Istio
9 4 (0.13%) Podman
10 3 (0.094%) EMC VPLEX
10 3 (0.094%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 3 (0.094%) vMotion
10 3 (0.094%) WSUS
11 2 (0.063%) Nessus
11 2 (0.063%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 467 (14.62%) Microsoft
2 255 (7.98%) SAP
3 183 (5.73%) ServiceNow
4 148 (4.63%) Oracle
5 90 (2.82%) Salesforce
6 72 (2.25%) Databricks
7 64 (2.00%) Google
8 48 (1.50%) CyberArk
9 45 (1.41%) VMware
10 40 (1.25%) Cisco
10 40 (1.25%) IBM
11 39 (1.22%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.10%) Splunk
13 34 (1.06%) Centrify
13 34 (1.06%) Workday
14 20 (0.63%) Zscaler
15 19 (0.59%) Adobe
15 19 (0.59%) Dynatrace
15 19 (0.59%) Palo Alto
15 19 (0.59%) Sparx
1,078 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide