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

 6 months to
24 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 80 151
Rank change year-on-year +55 +71 +4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,160 881 705
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.21% 3.02% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.40% 3.34% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,169 584 475
10th Percentile £363 £391 £363
25th Percentile £445 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -1.22% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £653
90th Percentile £738 £749 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 14 37
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.30 £18.35
25th Percentile £35.72 £26.56 £27.81
Median hourly rate £64.25 £49.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +29.79% +37.66% +75.41%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.98 £57.33
90th Percentile £94.75 £81.20 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.75 £54.65 £56.49
% change year-on-year +31.30% -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 37,633 26,370 38,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.88% 90.52% 86.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,862 17,096 24,871
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.28% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,214 936 2,338
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.20 £12.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £57.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.35 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.61 £31.76 £31.25
% change year-on-year -6.77% +1.63% -13.19%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +52 2,761 £525 - 884
UK excluding London +50 1,507 £500 -3.85% 655
London +65 1,290 £550 - 341
Work from Home +57 903 £525 -4.55% 432
South East +39 394 £500 -8.26% 219
North of England +46 368 £500 - 157
Midlands +32 305 £500 - 132
West Midlands +26 203 £500 -4.76% 87
South West +41 201 £523 -12.83% 67
North West +45 192 £475 -5.00% 71
Yorkshire +5 137 £513 +7.89% 65
East of England +33 105 £533 +6.50% 46
East Midlands +10 98 £488 +11.43% 44
Scotland +32 91 £450 -17.96% 21
North East +13 42 £450 -11.33% 22
Wales +15 31 £405 -22.86% 17
Northern Ireland +15 20 £450 - 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
1 177 (5.60%) Confluence
2 111 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (0.57%) SAS
5 13 (0.41%) CMS
6 9 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.19%) Apache
7 6 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.095%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.095%) Smallworld
9 3 (0.095%) WordPress
10 2 (0.063%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.063%) nginx
10 2 (0.063%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.063%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.063%) WebLogic
Applications
1 159 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (2.53%) Microsoft Project
3 61 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 60 (1.90%) MS Visio
5 56 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
6 11 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.16%) Trello
9 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
10 3 (0.095%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.095%) Notion
10 3 (0.095%) Sketch
11 2 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.063%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.032%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.032%) CATIA
12 1 (0.032%) InVision
12 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 133 (4.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.51%) SAP FI
5 16 (0.51%) SAP PP
6 11 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 11 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
6 11 (0.35%) SAP HR
7 10 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
7 10 (0.32%) SAP MM
7 10 (0.32%) Workday HCM
8 9 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 9 (0.28%) Teamcenter
9 8 (0.25%) NEC Housing
9 8 (0.25%) SAP CO
10 7 (0.22%) Aladdin
10 7 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 7 (0.22%) Primavera
10 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 601 (19.02%) Azure
2 382 (12.09%) AWS
3 285 (9.02%) Power Platform
4 162 (5.13%) GCP
5 139 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
6 118 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (3.13%) SaaS
8 93 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
9 91 (2.88%) Entra ID
10 64 (2.03%) GitHub
11 49 (1.55%) OCI
12 45 (1.42%) Serverless
13 40 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
14 37 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
15 36 (1.14%) PaaS
16 34 (1.08%) Power Automate
17 33 (1.04%) PowerApps
18 29 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
19 28 (0.89%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.93%) Firewall
2 49 (1.55%) Network Security
3 33 (1.04%) DNS
4 31 (0.98%) WAN
5 29 (0.92%) LAN
6 27 (0.85%) VPN
7 18 (0.57%) SD-WAN
8 16 (0.51%) BGP
9 14 (0.44%) MPLS
10 13 (0.41%) Internet
11 12 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (0.35%) Wireless
13 10 (0.32%) DHCP
13 10 (0.32%) VSAN
14 9 (0.28%) VLAN
15 8 (0.25%) OSPF
15 8 (0.25%) WLAN
16 6 (0.19%) Cisco ASA
16 6 (0.19%) Intranet
16 6 (0.19%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (7.34%) Power BI
2 73 (2.31%) Metadata
3 63 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (1.52%) Tableau
5 38 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 26 (0.82%) Data Lake
7 23 (0.73%) Power Query
8 20 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
8 20 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (0.57%) Electronic Patient Records
10 17 (0.54%) Relational Database
11 16 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 16 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
12 15 (0.47%) MySQL
13 14 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (0.44%) Data Vault
14 13 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
15 12 (0.38%) Delta Lake
16 11 (0.35%) Big Data
16 11 (0.35%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 285 (9.02%) JIRA
2 47 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 45 (1.42%) GitLab
4 37 (1.17%) Git
5 29 (0.92%) Rational DOORS
6 24 (0.76%) Selenium
7 19 (0.60%) Postman
8 16 (0.51%) Cucumber
9 14 (0.44%) JMeter
10 12 (0.38%) JUnit
11 8 (0.25%) ERwin
11 8 (0.25%) Hudson
11 8 (0.25%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
12 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.19%) TestRail
14 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
14 5 (0.16%) SonarQube
15 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
15 4 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,563 (49.46%) Social Skills
2 916 (28.99%) Finance
3 512 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
4 511 (16.17%) Public Sector
5 199 (6.30%) Banking
6 156 (4.94%) Influencing Skills
7 140 (4.43%) Documentation Skills
8 121 (3.83%) Legal
9 83 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
10 81 (2.56%) Retail
11 80 (2.53%) Manufacturing
12 69 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
13 65 (2.06%) Marketing
14 64 (2.03%) Telecoms
15 63 (1.99%) Law
16 62 (1.96%) Local Government
17 56 (1.77%) Aerospace
18 40 (1.27%) Financial Institution
19 34 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
20 29 (0.92%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 592 (18.73%) Analyst
2 465 (14.72%) Architect
3 434 (13.73%) Business Analyst
4 391 (12.37%) Lead
5 289 (9.15%) Project Manager
6 284 (8.99%) Consultant
7 266 (8.42%) Senior
8 146 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
9 93 (2.94%) Programme Manager
10 92 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
11 88 (2.78%) Developer
12 86 (2.72%) Change Manager
13 83 (2.63%) Delivery Manager
14 73 (2.31%) Data Analyst
15 70 (2.22%) Senior Business Analyst
16 59 (1.87%) Product Manager
17 53 (1.68%) Designer
18 52 (1.65%) Lead Architect
18 52 (1.65%) SAP Consultant
19 50 (1.58%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (3.45%) REST
2 57 (1.80%) SOAP
3 50 (1.58%) LDAP
4 46 (1.46%) Middleware
5 45 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
6 39 (1.23%) .NET
7 31 (0.98%) OpenID
8 30 (0.95%) OAuth
9 29 (0.92%) Spring
10 27 (0.85%) Node.js
11 26 (0.82%) React
12 23 (0.73%) Kafka
13 21 (0.66%) SailPoint
13 21 (0.66%) SAP Fiori
13 21 (0.66%) Spring Boot
14 18 (0.57%) AngularJS
14 18 (0.57%) OAuth2
15 17 (0.54%) RESTful
15 17 (0.54%) SAML
15 17 (0.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 216 (6.84%) Product Ownership
2 147 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 102 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 80 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
5 78 (2.47%) Data Structures
6 77 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 67 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 61 (1.93%) Security Posture
9 60 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 53 (1.68%) NHS
11 51 (1.61%) Data Centre
12 49 (1.55%) Operational Technology
13 43 (1.36%) PMI
14 42 (1.33%) CMDB
15 39 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
16 37 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
17 36 (1.14%) AI Agents
18 31 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
19 30 (0.95%) Virtual Team
20 27 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (2.50%) Windows
2 43 (1.36%) Linux
3 22 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (0.51%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.19%) VMS
7 5 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.16%) Unix
8 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.095%) Android
9 3 (0.095%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.095%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.032%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 811 (25.66%) Agile
2 626 (19.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 577 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 512 (16.20%) Migration
5 479 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
6 447 (14.15%) Roadmaps
7 435 (13.77%) Change Management
8 396 (12.53%) Workshop Facilitation
9 357 (11.30%) Decision-Making
10 347 (10.98%) Project Management
11 331 (10.47%) Analytics
12 309 (9.78%) DevOps
13 297 (9.40%) Business Intelligence
14 289 (9.15%) Risk Management
15 279 (8.83%) AI
16 267 (8.45%) ERP
17 257 (8.13%) Project Delivery
18 249 (7.88%) User Acceptance Testing
19 248 (7.85%) Requirements Gathering
20 227 (7.18%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 249 (7.88%) SQL
2 243 (7.69%) Python
3 102 (3.23%) PowerShell
4 91 (2.88%) Java
5 44 (1.39%) JavaScript
6 40 (1.27%) C#
7 28 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 28 (0.89%) TypeScript
8 25 (0.79%) Bash
9 17 (0.54%) Bicep
9 17 (0.54%) R
10 16 (0.51%) VBA
11 15 (0.47%) ABAP
12 11 (0.35%) PHP
13 9 (0.28%) Korn
13 9 (0.28%) Kotlin
13 9 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.22%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 741 (23.45%) Security Cleared
2 588 (18.61%) SC Cleared
3 279 (8.83%) Degree
4 120 (3.80%) PMI Certification
5 110 (3.48%) DV Cleared
6 108 (3.42%) PMP
7 94 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 57 (1.80%) CISSP
9 48 (1.52%) Master's Degree
10 43 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
11 42 (1.33%) Azure Certification
12 40 (1.27%) CISM
13 30 (0.95%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.89%) ACCA
15 27 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
15 27 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 27 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
16 26 (0.82%) CIMA
17 22 (0.70%) CBAP
17 22 (0.70%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (6.01%) Data Quality
2 179 (5.66%) QA
3 151 (4.78%) GDPR
4 128 (4.05%) PMO
5 124 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 123 (3.89%) NIST
7 75 (2.37%) Accessibility
8 54 (1.71%) GRC
9 41 (1.30%) PCI DSS
10 33 (1.04%) NCSC
11 26 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
11 26 (0.82%) SLA
12 24 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 17 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
14 16 (0.51%) PSD2
15 14 (0.44%) Basel III
16 13 (0.41%) SOC 2
17 12 (0.38%) COBIT
18 11 (0.35%) HL7
18 11 (0.35%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 112 (3.54%) Active Directory
2 65 (2.06%) Docker
3 31 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.57%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.51%) vSphere
6 9 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.095%) NFS
10 3 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.032%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 106 (3.35%) Terraform
2 103 (3.26%) Kubernetes
3 30 (0.95%) Ansible
4 28 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (0.51%) Grafana
7 15 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.44%) HP ALM
9 13 (0.41%) SCCM
10 9 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.16%) Podman
13 4 (0.13%) Istio
14 3 (0.095%) Argo
14 3 (0.095%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.095%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.095%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.095%) vMotion
14 3 (0.095%) vRealize
14 3 (0.095%) VxRail
Vendors
1 456 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 277 (8.77%) SAP
3 164 (5.19%) Oracle
4 160 (5.06%) ServiceNow
5 92 (2.91%) Salesforce
6 74 (2.34%) Google
7 69 (2.18%) Cisco
8 62 (1.96%) Databricks
9 52 (1.65%) CyberArk
10 48 (1.52%) VMware
11 45 (1.42%) IBM
12 40 (1.27%) BeyondTrust
12 40 (1.27%) Workday
13 39 (1.23%) Aruba
14 35 (1.11%) Centrify
15 24 (0.76%) Palo Alto
15 24 (0.76%) Splunk
16 23 (0.73%) Red Hat
17 20 (0.63%) OpenAI
17 20 (0.63%) Zscaler
992 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide