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

 6 months to
23 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 57 149
Rank change year-on-year +31 +92 +6
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,221 1,103 688
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.63% 3.86% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.85% 4.24% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,183 733 485
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% +1.45%
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 £68.75 £48.50 £36.23
Median % change year-on-year +41.75% +33.87% +73.35%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.88 £57.37
90th Percentile £94.25 £74.49 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 £67.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +10.37% +19.49% +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 41,015 26,042 36,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.42% 91.03% 86.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,698 16,721 23,544
10th Percentile £325 £303 £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 £497 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.59% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,419 1,056 2,449
10th Percentile £14.79 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.97 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.98% -22.42% -2.58%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.70 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +76.94% -33.82% +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 23 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 23 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 23 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 2,765 £533 +1.52% 1,111
UK excluding London +37 1,546 £500 - 812
London +29 1,280 £550 - 466
Work from Home +40 996 £525 +4.17% 573
North of England +31 410 £498 +0.10% 187
South East +20 354 £539 +12.83% 250
Midlands +26 318 £500 -0.10% 128
West Midlands +26 216 £492 -4.09% 88
North West +34 198 £475 -4.43% 102
South West +21 189 £525 -4.55% 104
Yorkshire +15 174 £515 +6.74% 58
Scotland +41 125 £475 -9.52% 49
East of England +28 110 £575 +15.00% 51
East Midlands +19 97 £523 +16.11% 37
North East +7 44 £450 -11.33% 28
Wales +16 41 £475 +46.15% 22
Northern Ireland +13 15 £450 -22.58% 32

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
1 182 (5.65%) Confluence
2 90 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 23 (0.71%) SAS
4 19 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.43%) CMS
5 14 (0.43%) 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
1 151 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
3 64 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 60 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
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
9 3 (0.093%) Trello
10 2 (0.062%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.062%) InVision
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.031%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.031%) CATIA
11 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.031%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.031%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 132 (4.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.47%) Teamcenter
4 12 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 11 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 10 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 9 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (0.25%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.25%) Workday HCM
9 7 (0.22%) NEC Housing
9 7 (0.22%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 7 (0.22%) SAP QM
10 6 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
10 6 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.19%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 606 (18.81%) Azure
2 423 (13.13%) AWS
3 301 (9.34%) Power Platform
4 158 (4.91%) GCP
5 118 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
6 106 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
7 97 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
7 97 (3.01%) Entra ID
8 96 (2.98%) SaaS
9 63 (1.96%) GitHub
10 47 (1.46%) Serverless
11 42 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
12 40 (1.24%) PaaS
13 39 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
14 34 (1.06%) Amazon S3
15 32 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
15 32 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
16 31 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
16 31 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
16 31 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.52%) Firewall
2 43 (1.33%) Network Security
3 32 (0.99%) DNS
4 21 (0.65%) WAN
5 20 (0.62%) VPN
6 17 (0.53%) LAN
7 12 (0.37%) 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%) OSPF
10 8 (0.25%) VSAN
11 7 (0.22%) NAS
11 7 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (8.01%) Power BI
2 73 (2.27%) Metadata
3 61 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (1.18%) Tableau
5 32 (0.99%) Data Lake
6 29 (0.90%) SQL Server
7 26 (0.81%) Power Query
7 26 (0.81%) Relational Database
8 23 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
10 15 (0.47%) NoSQL
11 14 (0.43%) Big Data
11 14 (0.43%) MySQL
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
14 11 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
15 9 (0.28%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 288 (8.94%) JIRA
2 55 (1.71%) Jenkins
3 52 (1.61%) Git
4 51 (1.58%) GitLab
5 31 (0.96%) 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 1,491 (46.29%) Social Skills
2 941 (29.21%) Finance
3 494 (15.34%) Analytical Skills
4 485 (15.06%) Public Sector
5 196 (6.09%) Banking
6 139 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
7 117 (3.63%) Legal
8 116 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
9 92 (2.86%) Retail
10 85 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
11 81 (2.51%) Law
12 78 (2.42%) Manufacturing
13 67 (2.08%) Aerospace
14 59 (1.83%) Local Government
15 57 (1.77%) Marketing
16 54 (1.68%) Telecoms
17 44 (1.37%) Military
18 43 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
19 36 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 33 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 596 (18.50%) Analyst
2 477 (14.81%) Architect
3 418 (12.98%) Lead
4 405 (12.57%) Business Analyst
5 286 (8.88%) Senior
6 273 (8.48%) Project Manager
7 242 (7.51%) Consultant
8 125 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
9 91 (2.83%) Change Manager
10 90 (2.79%) Delivery Manager
11 85 (2.64%) Senior Analyst
12 84 (2.61%) Data Analyst
13 82 (2.55%) Developer
13 82 (2.55%) Programme Manager
14 73 (2.27%) Senior Manager
15 66 (2.05%) Designer
16 62 (1.92%) Senior Business Analyst
17 58 (1.80%) IT Manager
17 58 (1.80%) Product Manager
18 54 (1.68%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (3.57%) REST
2 60 (1.86%) SOAP
3 57 (1.77%) LDAP
4 51 (1.58%) Middleware
5 37 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
6 33 (1.02%) OpenID
6 33 (1.02%) React
6 33 (1.02%) Spring
7 31 (0.96%) SailPoint
8 29 (0.90%) Kafka
9 28 (0.87%) .NET
10 27 (0.84%) OAuth
11 25 (0.78%) Spring Boot
12 20 (0.62%) JSON
12 20 (0.62%) Node.js
12 20 (0.62%) PySpark
12 20 (0.62%) SAML
12 20 (0.62%) XML
13 18 (0.56%) CSS
13 18 (0.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 224 (6.95%) Product Ownership
2 148 (4.59%) Onboarding
3 125 (3.88%) Cloud Native
4 87 (2.70%) 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 60 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
10 55 (1.71%) Data Centre
11 50 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
12 49 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
13 47 (1.46%) NHS
14 42 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
15 41 (1.27%) Virtual Team
16 36 (1.12%) CMDB
17 32 (0.99%) AI Agents
17 32 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
18 29 (0.90%) Public Cloud
19 26 (0.81%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 84 (2.61%) Windows
2 37 (1.15%) Linux
3 16 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 11 (0.34%) Unix
6 9 (0.28%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.25%) VMS
8 3 (0.093%) Android
8 3 (0.093%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.093%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 864 (26.82%) Agile
2 617 (19.16%) Continuous Improvement
3 616 (19.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 474 (14.72%) Migration
5 441 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
6 433 (13.44%) Decision-Making
7 424 (13.16%) Roadmaps
8 419 (13.01%) Change Management
9 385 (11.95%) Workshop Facilitation
10 349 (10.84%) DevOps
11 321 (9.97%) Analytics
12 311 (9.66%) Project Management
13 310 (9.62%) AI
14 307 (9.53%) ERP
15 306 (9.50%) Risk Management
16 299 (9.28%) Business Intelligence
17 263 (8.17%) Cybersecurity
18 261 (8.10%) CI/CD
18 261 (8.10%) Project Delivery
19 253 (7.85%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 247 (7.67%) SQL
2 235 (7.30%) Python
3 103 (3.20%) Java
4 73 (2.27%) PowerShell
5 47 (1.46%) JavaScript
6 35 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 33 (1.02%) TypeScript
8 32 (0.99%) C#
9 27 (0.84%) Bash
10 19 (0.59%) VBA
11 15 (0.47%) Bicep
12 14 (0.43%) 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%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 799 (24.81%) Security Cleared
2 635 (19.71%) SC Cleared
3 257 (7.98%) Degree
4 126 (3.91%) DV Cleared
5 109 (3.38%) PMI Certification
6 108 (3.35%) PMP
7 107 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 71 (2.20%) CISSP
9 53 (1.65%) CISM
10 40 (1.24%) Azure Certification
11 38 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
11 38 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
12 30 (0.93%) Master's Degree
13 29 (0.90%) ACCA
14 28 (0.87%) CIMA
15 26 (0.81%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 23 (0.71%) IIBA
16 23 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
17 22 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (6.43%) Data Quality
2 162 (5.03%) QA
3 159 (4.94%) PMO
4 136 (4.22%) NIST
5 128 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 124 (3.85%) GDPR
7 76 (2.36%) Accessibility
8 61 (1.89%) GRC
9 32 (0.99%) NCSC
10 31 (0.96%) SLA
11 26 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
12 25 (0.78%) PCI DSS
13 22 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
14 17 (0.53%) WCAG
15 16 (0.50%) SOC 2
16 15 (0.47%) ISO 20022
17 12 (0.37%) COBIT
17 12 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 11 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 10 (0.31%) Def Stans
System Software
1 101 (3.14%) Active Directory
2 56 (1.74%) Docker
3 28 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.40%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.37%) vSphere
6 7 (0.22%) 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
1 106 (3.29%) Kubernetes
2 105 (3.26%) Terraform
3 32 (0.99%) 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 9 (0.28%) 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%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.093%) vMotion
14 3 (0.093%) WSUS
15 2 (0.062%) CA Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.062%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 470 (14.59%) Microsoft
2 258 (8.01%) SAP
3 183 (5.68%) ServiceNow
4 142 (4.41%) Oracle
5 91 (2.83%) Salesforce
6 81 (2.51%) Databricks
7 53 (1.65%) Google
8 50 (1.55%) CyberArk
9 46 (1.43%) VMware
10 45 (1.40%) IBM
11 39 (1.21%) BeyondTrust
12 37 (1.15%) Cisco
13 35 (1.09%) Splunk
14 34 (1.06%) Centrify
15 33 (1.02%) Workday
16 21 (0.65%) Adobe
17 20 (0.62%) Dynatrace
17 20 (0.62%) Zscaler
18 19 (0.59%) IFS
19 18 (0.56%) Palo Alto
1,291 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide