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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 105 148
Rank change year-on-year +83 +43 +13
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,845 769 698
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.65% 2.41% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.71% 2.72% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,971 466 485
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £751 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 8 39
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.90 £28.76
25th Percentile £19.18 £25.19 £33.70
Median hourly rate £41.86 £27.75 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +50.83% -50.88% +119.38%
75th Percentile £67.25 £52.23 £57.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £72.38 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £28.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +49.48% -50.43% +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 32,654 28,287 37,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.81% 88.79% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,662 17,217 24,715
10th Percentile £304 £306 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,980 898 1,602
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%
75th Percentile £56.06 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.80 £74.91 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £43.83
% change year-on-year -21.76% -30.52% +51.12%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +78 2,485 £525 -4.55% 775
UK excluding London +67 1,312 £500 -4.76% 714
London +90 1,187 £550 - 202
Work from Home +89 830 £534 -4.29% 428
South East +47 340 £500 -9.09% 239
North of England +49 323 £504 -0.74% 133
Midlands +30 248 £500 -4.76% 142
South West +55 201 £523 -12.83% 65
West Midlands +24 172 £500 -10.79% 95
North West +36 149 £525 +1.94% 57
Yorkshire +26 138 £516 +8.68% 60
East of England +34 84 £550 +28.50% 84
Scotland +43 83 £450 -12.24% 31
East Midlands +17 75 £441 +3.65% 46
North East +16 39 £450 -45.45% 20
Wales +23 28 £450 -25.00% 30
Northern Ireland +9 12 £500 - 10
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
1 147 (5.17%) Confluence
2 123 (4.32%) SharePoint
3 28 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (0.74%) SAS
5 13 (0.46%) CMS
6 12 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.28%) Apache
8 7 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.25%) Appian
8 7 (0.25%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.14%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.14%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.11%) nginx
10 3 (0.11%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.070%) Drupal
11 2 (0.070%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.070%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.070%) WordPress
Applications
1 153 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 86 (3.02%) Microsoft Project
3 62 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 52 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
4 52 (1.83%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.28%) ProjectWise
7 6 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.21%) Trello
8 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.11%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.11%) Notion
9 3 (0.11%) Revit
10 2 (0.070%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.070%) Camtasia
10 2 (0.070%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.070%) Sketch
11 1 (0.035%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 112 (3.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.60%) SAP PP
5 15 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
5 15 (0.53%) SAP FI
6 14 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
6 14 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 13 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.42%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.42%) SAP MM
8 12 (0.42%) Workday HCM
9 10 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
9 10 (0.35%) Teamcenter
10 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
10 9 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
10 9 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
10 9 (0.32%) SAP HR
11 8 (0.28%) Maximo
11 8 (0.28%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 519 (18.24%) Azure
2 333 (11.70%) AWS
3 222 (7.80%) Power Platform
4 150 (5.27%) GCP
5 129 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
6 109 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (3.48%) SaaS
8 89 (3.13%) Entra ID
9 74 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
10 60 (2.11%) GitHub
11 54 (1.90%) OCI
12 46 (1.62%) Serverless
13 42 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
14 34 (1.20%) Power Automate
15 32 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
15 32 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
16 29 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
16 29 (1.02%) PowerApps
17 28 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
18 26 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 57 (2.00%) Firewall
2 36 (1.27%) Network Security
3 24 (0.84%) WAN
4 23 (0.81%) LAN
5 22 (0.77%) DNS
6 21 (0.74%) VPN
7 19 (0.67%) SD-WAN
8 12 (0.42%) BGP
9 11 (0.39%) MPLS
10 10 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.28%) DHCP
11 8 (0.28%) Internet
11 8 (0.28%) Wireless
12 7 (0.25%) Kerberos
12 7 (0.25%) VLAN
13 6 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
13 6 (0.21%) VSAN
14 5 (0.18%) IPsec
14 5 (0.18%) SMS
14 5 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (6.19%) Power BI
2 76 (2.67%) Metadata
3 49 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (1.72%) Tableau
4 41 (1.44%) SQL Server
5 23 (0.81%) Data Lake
6 22 (0.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 19 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
8 18 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
9 15 (0.53%) MySQL
9 15 (0.53%) Power Query
10 14 (0.49%) Data Vault
10 14 (0.49%) Relational Database
11 13 (0.46%) Big Data
12 12 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.42%) DynamoDB
12 12 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
13 11 (0.39%) NoSQL
13 11 (0.39%) Oracle Database
13 11 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 255 (8.96%) JIRA
2 46 (1.62%) GitLab
3 39 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.16%) Git
5 25 (0.88%) Selenium
6 15 (0.53%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.53%) Postman
7 11 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.35%) REST Assured
9 7 (0.25%) Robot Framework
10 6 (0.21%) JMeter
10 6 (0.21%) TestRail
11 5 (0.18%) Gatling
11 5 (0.18%) JUnit
11 5 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (0.14%) ERwin
12 4 (0.14%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.14%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,500 (52.72%) Social Skills
2 778 (27.35%) Finance
3 484 (17.01%) Public Sector
4 436 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
5 196 (6.89%) Banking
6 123 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
7 115 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
8 105 (3.69%) Legal
9 89 (3.13%) Manufacturing
10 75 (2.64%) Marketing
11 74 (2.60%) Telecoms
12 72 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
13 66 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
14 65 (2.28%) Retail
15 59 (2.07%) Local Government
16 40 (1.41%) Financial Institution
17 37 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 35 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
19 33 (1.16%) Investment Banking
19 33 (1.16%) Law
Job Titles
1 507 (17.82%) Analyst
2 381 (13.39%) Architect
3 374 (13.15%) Business Analyst
4 326 (11.46%) Lead
5 307 (10.79%) Consultant
6 261 (9.17%) Project Manager
7 229 (8.05%) Senior
8 130 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
9 91 (3.20%) Developer
10 76 (2.67%) Change Manager
11 73 (2.57%) Programme Manager
12 69 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
13 61 (2.14%) Senior Business Analyst
14 55 (1.93%) SAP Consultant
15 51 (1.79%) Designer
16 47 (1.65%) Data Analyst
16 47 (1.65%) Senior Manager
17 46 (1.62%) Delivery Manager
17 46 (1.62%) Technical Manager
18 43 (1.51%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (3.90%) REST
2 61 (2.14%) SOAP
3 55 (1.93%) LDAP
4 48 (1.69%) .NET
5 37 (1.30%) OAuth
6 36 (1.27%) OpenID
6 36 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
7 30 (1.05%) Middleware
8 27 (0.95%) XML
9 26 (0.91%) Node.js
10 23 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
11 21 (0.74%) Kafka
12 20 (0.70%) RESTful
12 20 (0.70%) SailPoint
12 20 (0.70%) SAML
13 19 (0.67%) CSS
13 19 (0.67%) HTML
13 19 (0.67%) LangChain
13 19 (0.67%) OAuth2
14 18 (0.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 185 (6.50%) Product Ownership
2 151 (5.31%) Onboarding
3 98 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
4 93 (3.27%) Cloud Native
5 81 (2.85%) Management Information System
6 69 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
7 65 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
8 57 (2.00%) Security Posture
9 54 (1.90%) Data Structures
9 54 (1.90%) NHS
10 43 (1.51%) Data Centre
10 43 (1.51%) PMI
11 37 (1.30%) AI Agents
12 35 (1.23%) Operational Technology
13 34 (1.20%) CMDB
14 33 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
15 32 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
16 27 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
17 23 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
18 19 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 71 (2.50%) Windows
2 34 (1.20%) Linux
3 20 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 19 (0.67%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.25%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.18%) Unix
6 5 (0.18%) VMS
7 4 (0.14%) Android
7 4 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.070%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.070%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.035%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 754 (26.50%) Agile
2 562 (19.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 449 (15.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 446 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
5 416 (14.62%) Migration
6 379 (13.32%) Change Management
7 378 (13.29%) Roadmaps
8 356 (12.51%) Project Management
9 309 (10.86%) Workshop Facilitation
10 299 (10.51%) Decision-Making
11 293 (10.30%) Analytics
12 289 (10.16%) DevOps
13 256 (9.00%) Risk Management
14 248 (8.72%) Business Intelligence
15 241 (8.47%) Requirements Gathering
16 229 (8.05%) Project Delivery
17 221 (7.77%) ERP
18 218 (7.66%) CI/CD
18 218 (7.66%) Data Governance
19 208 (7.31%) AI
Programming Languages
1 213 (7.49%) SQL
2 200 (7.03%) Python
3 111 (3.90%) PowerShell
4 68 (2.39%) Java
5 58 (2.04%) JavaScript
6 38 (1.34%) C#
7 28 (0.98%) Bash
8 27 (0.95%) Bicep
9 26 (0.91%) TypeScript
10 19 (0.67%) R
11 17 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (0.42%) ABAP
13 11 (0.39%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.32%) PHP
15 8 (0.28%) Korn
16 6 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.18%) C++
17 5 (0.18%) Scala
18 4 (0.14%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.14%) RPG
Qualifications
1 606 (21.30%) Security Cleared
2 491 (17.26%) SC Cleared
3 258 (9.07%) Degree
4 109 (3.83%) PMI Certification
5 94 (3.30%) PMP
6 89 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 65 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 53 (1.86%) Master's Degree
9 45 (1.58%) CISSP
10 43 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 34 (1.20%) Azure Certification
12 33 (1.16%) ACCA
13 31 (1.09%) CISM
14 29 (1.02%) CIMA
15 27 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
16 22 (0.77%) AWS Certification
16 22 (0.77%) CBAP
17 20 (0.70%) APMG
17 20 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
18 19 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (5.24%) GDPR
2 148 (5.20%) QA
3 135 (4.75%) Data Quality
4 121 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 105 (3.69%) PMO
6 101 (3.55%) NIST
7 75 (2.64%) Accessibility
8 48 (1.69%) GRC
9 45 (1.58%) PCI DSS
10 30 (1.05%) NCSC
10 30 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 21 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.56%) Basel III
13 15 (0.53%) ISO 19650
13 15 (0.53%) PSD2
14 13 (0.46%) WCAG
15 12 (0.42%) SLA
16 11 (0.39%) JSP 440
17 10 (0.35%) HIPAA
System Software
1 117 (4.11%) Active Directory
2 73 (2.57%) Docker
3 26 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.49%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.39%) vSphere
6 9 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.18%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.035%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.035%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 120 (4.22%) Terraform
2 91 (3.20%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.16%) Ansible
4 27 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.60%) SCCM
7 11 (0.39%) Grafana
8 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 9 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.14%) Argo
10 4 (0.14%) Control-M
10 4 (0.14%) Istio
11 3 (0.11%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.11%) VxRail
12 2 (0.070%) Cisco UCCE
12 2 (0.070%) Nessus
12 2 (0.070%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.070%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.070%) vRealize
Vendors
1 403 (14.17%) Microsoft
2 264 (9.28%) SAP
3 178 (6.26%) Oracle
4 161 (5.66%) ServiceNow
5 93 (3.27%) Salesforce
6 73 (2.57%) Google
7 65 (2.28%) Cisco
8 57 (2.00%) Workday
9 53 (1.86%) CyberArk
10 51 (1.79%) Databricks
11 44 (1.55%) VMware
12 40 (1.41%) BeyondTrust
13 35 (1.23%) Aruba
13 35 (1.23%) Centrify
14 24 (0.84%) IBM
15 23 (0.81%) Adobe
16 22 (0.77%) OpenAI
16 22 (0.77%) Red Hat
17 21 (0.74%) Palo Alto
18 18 (0.63%) Splunk
877 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide