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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 95 154
Rank change year-on-year +74 +59 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,985 823 704
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.33% 2.67% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.44% 2.98% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,059 511 483
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £437 £450 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £751 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 12 41
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.43 £27.81
25th Percentile £23.56 £26.44 £32.00
Median hourly rate £52.61 £48.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.46% +2.11% +131.71%
75th Percentile £69.52 £65.45 £57.33
90th Percentile £93.25 £82.75 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £47.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +21.05% -15.91% +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 35,377 27,631 38,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.89% 89.70% 87.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,416 17,028 25,083
10th Percentile £311 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £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 £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 844 2,147
10th Percentile £14.58 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.32
90th Percentile £70.36 £75.00 £73.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.85% -12.53% +5.26%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 19 February 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 +72 2,598 £525 -0.94% 815
UK excluding London +62 1,391 £500 -4.76% 598
London +75 1,229 £550 - 351
Work from Home +74 853 £525 -4.55% 341
North of England +35 352 £500 - 147
South East +43 338 £500 -6.98% 215
Midlands +32 281 £496 -5.52% 104
South West +49 198 £513 -14.58% 56
West Midlands +28 185 £500 -9.09% 66
North West +29 160 £483 -2.92% 88
Yorkshire +23 154 £516 +3.25% 47
East Midlands +20 94 £475 +11.76% 38
Scotland +44 93 £450 -14.29% 35
East of England +26 93 £525 +5.00% 32
North East +16 41 £450 -32.46% 14
Wales +18 30 £400 -33.33% 11
Northern Ireland +11 13 £475 - 3
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
1 167 (5.59%) Confluence
2 117 (3.92%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.50%) SAS
5 12 (0.40%) CMS
6 10 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.23%) Apache
7 7 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.20%) Appian
9 5 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.13%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.10%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.10%) Drupal
11 3 (0.10%) nginx
11 3 (0.10%) Smallworld
11 3 (0.10%) WordPress
12 2 (0.067%) Moodle
12 2 (0.067%) Oracle Service Bus
12 2 (0.067%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 171 (5.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 83 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
3 68 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (2.08%) MS Visio
5 60 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.34%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.10%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.10%) Notion
9 3 (0.10%) ProjectWise
9 3 (0.10%) Revit
10 2 (0.067%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.067%) Camtasia
10 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.067%) Sketch
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 126 (4.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.57%) SAP PP
5 15 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.50%) SAP FI
6 13 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
6 13 (0.44%) SAP MM
7 11 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 11 (0.37%) SAP ERP
7 11 (0.37%) Teamcenter
8 9 (0.30%) SAP HR
8 9 (0.30%) Workday HCM
9 8 (0.27%) NEC Housing
9 8 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.27%) SAP CO
10 7 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 7 (0.23%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 7 (0.23%) SAP EWM
10 7 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 548 (18.36%) Azure
2 338 (11.32%) AWS
3 243 (8.14%) Power Platform
4 147 (4.92%) GCP
5 135 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
6 112 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (3.35%) SaaS
8 87 (2.91%) Entra ID
9 70 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
10 61 (2.04%) GitHub
11 49 (1.64%) Serverless
12 47 (1.57%) OCI
13 41 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (1.21%) Power Automate
15 33 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
16 32 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
16 32 (1.07%) Azure Logic Apps
17 31 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
17 31 (1.04%) PaaS
18 29 (0.97%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 67 (2.24%) Firewall
2 46 (1.54%) Network Security
3 27 (0.90%) DNS
3 27 (0.90%) WAN
4 25 (0.84%) LAN
5 23 (0.77%) VPN
6 15 (0.50%) SD-WAN
7 14 (0.47%) BGP
7 14 (0.47%) MPLS
8 10 (0.34%) DHCP
9 9 (0.30%) Internet
9 9 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.30%) Wireless
10 8 (0.27%) VLAN
11 7 (0.23%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (0.20%) OSPF
12 6 (0.20%) VSAN
12 6 (0.20%) WLAN
13 5 (0.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (6.40%) Power BI
2 70 (2.35%) Metadata
3 57 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (1.54%) Tableau
5 42 (1.41%) SQL Server
6 26 (0.87%) Data Lake
7 18 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
8 17 (0.57%) Electronic Patient Records
9 16 (0.54%) MySQL
9 16 (0.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 16 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (0.54%) Relational Database
10 15 (0.50%) Power Query
11 14 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
12 12 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (0.40%) Data Vault
12 12 (0.40%) Delta Lake
12 12 (0.40%) DynamoDB
13 11 (0.37%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 265 (8.88%) JIRA
2 47 (1.57%) GitLab
3 41 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.04%) Git
5 19 (0.64%) Selenium
6 16 (0.54%) Cucumber
7 13 (0.44%) Postman
8 10 (0.34%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.27%) JUnit
10 7 (0.23%) JMeter
10 7 (0.23%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.20%) ERwin
11 6 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
11 6 (0.20%) TestRail
12 5 (0.17%) Robot Framework
13 4 (0.13%) Gatling
13 4 (0.13%) MLflow
13 4 (0.13%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
13 4 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1,550 (51.93%) Social Skills
2 854 (28.61%) Finance
3 486 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
3 486 (16.28%) Public Sector
4 205 (6.87%) Banking
5 149 (4.99%) Influencing Skills
6 130 (4.36%) Documentation Skills
7 106 (3.55%) Legal
8 86 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
9 75 (2.51%) Manufacturing
10 71 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 71 (2.38%) Telecoms
11 69 (2.31%) Retail
12 67 (2.24%) Marketing
13 58 (1.94%) Local Government
14 47 (1.57%) Financial Institution
15 32 (1.07%) Aerospace
15 32 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
16 31 (1.04%) Military
17 30 (1.01%) Law
Job Titles
1 572 (19.16%) Analyst
2 420 (14.07%) Business Analyst
3 405 (13.57%) Architect
4 361 (12.09%) Lead
5 279 (9.35%) Consultant
6 256 (8.58%) Project Manager
7 251 (8.41%) Senior
8 142 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
9 90 (3.02%) Programme Manager
10 89 (2.98%) Developer
11 88 (2.95%) Senior Analyst
12 76 (2.55%) Change Manager
13 73 (2.45%) Senior Business Analyst
14 65 (2.18%) Data Analyst
15 56 (1.88%) Designer
16 50 (1.68%) Delivery Manager
17 47 (1.57%) Data Engineer
17 47 (1.57%) SAP Consultant
17 47 (1.57%) Technical Manager
18 43 (1.44%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (3.69%) REST
2 59 (1.98%) SOAP
3 54 (1.81%) LDAP
4 46 (1.54%) .NET
5 40 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
6 36 (1.21%) OAuth
7 35 (1.17%) OpenID
8 33 (1.11%) Middleware
9 28 (0.94%) XML
10 27 (0.90%) Node.js
11 23 (0.77%) Kafka
12 22 (0.74%) React
12 22 (0.74%) SAP Fiori
12 22 (0.74%) Spring
13 20 (0.67%) RESTful
13 20 (0.67%) SAML
14 19 (0.64%) CSS
14 19 (0.64%) Spring Boot
15 18 (0.60%) OAuth2
15 18 (0.60%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 181 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 142 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 93 (3.12%) Cloud Native
4 89 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
5 67 (2.24%) Management Information System
6 65 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
7 64 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 64 (2.14%) Security Posture
8 55 (1.84%) NHS
9 52 (1.74%) Data Structures
10 50 (1.68%) Data Centre
11 42 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
12 41 (1.37%) PMI
13 40 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
14 37 (1.24%) AI Agents
14 37 (1.24%) Operational Technology
15 36 (1.21%) CMDB
16 25 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
16 25 (0.84%) Virtual Team
17 20 (0.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 75 (2.51%) Windows
2 37 (1.24%) Linux
3 21 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.50%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.17%) VMS
6 4 (0.13%) Unix
7 3 (0.10%) Android
7 3 (0.10%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.034%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 758 (25.39%) Agile
2 597 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 485 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 477 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
5 449 (15.04%) Migration
6 412 (13.80%) Roadmaps
7 409 (13.70%) Change Management
8 353 (11.83%) Project Management
9 351 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation
10 345 (11.56%) Decision-Making
11 309 (10.35%) Analytics
12 289 (9.68%) DevOps
13 279 (9.35%) Risk Management
14 254 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
15 251 (8.41%) Requirements Gathering
16 244 (8.17%) AI
17 237 (7.94%) ERP
18 225 (7.54%) Project Delivery
19 215 (7.20%) Data Governance
20 211 (7.07%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 240 (8.04%) SQL
2 222 (7.44%) Python
3 111 (3.72%) PowerShell
4 73 (2.45%) Java
5 59 (1.98%) JavaScript
6 39 (1.31%) C#
7 30 (1.01%) Bash
7 30 (1.01%) TypeScript
8 28 (0.94%) Bicep
9 20 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (0.54%) R
11 12 (0.40%) ABAP
12 11 (0.37%) PHP
13 10 (0.34%) Korn
13 10 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.27%) VBA
15 7 (0.23%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.17%) C++
16 5 (0.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 647 (21.68%) Security Cleared
2 534 (17.89%) SC Cleared
3 278 (9.31%) Degree
4 103 (3.45%) PMI Certification
5 95 (3.18%) PMP
6 93 (3.12%) DV Cleared
7 82 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 57 (1.91%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.74%) CISSP
10 45 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 37 (1.24%) Azure Certification
11 37 (1.24%) CISM
12 32 (1.07%) ACCA
13 30 (1.01%) CIMA
14 24 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
15 23 (0.77%) AWS Certification
16 22 (0.74%) CBAP
16 22 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
17 20 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
17 20 (0.67%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (5.33%) QA
2 156 (5.23%) Data Quality
3 145 (4.86%) GDPR
4 117 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 107 (3.58%) NIST
6 104 (3.48%) PMO
7 78 (2.61%) Accessibility
8 57 (1.91%) GRC
9 44 (1.47%) PCI DSS
10 30 (1.01%) NCSC
11 28 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
11 28 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 18 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.57%) Basel III
14 16 (0.54%) SLA
15 15 (0.50%) PSD2
16 13 (0.44%) WCAG
17 11 (0.37%) COBIT
18 10 (0.34%) HL7
18 10 (0.34%) JSP 440
System Software
1 110 (3.69%) Active Directory
2 72 (2.41%) Docker
3 29 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.47%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.37%) vSphere
6 9 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.17%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.10%) NFS
9 3 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.067%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.034%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.034%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 120 (4.02%) Terraform
2 102 (3.42%) Kubernetes
3 34 (1.14%) Ansible
4 26 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (0.47%) SCCM
6 13 (0.44%) Grafana
7 10 (0.34%) HP ALM
7 10 (0.34%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.20%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.13%) Control-M
10 4 (0.13%) Istio
11 3 (0.10%) Argo
11 3 (0.10%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.10%) Nessus
11 3 (0.10%) Podman
11 3 (0.10%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.10%) vMotion
11 3 (0.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 432 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 267 (8.94%) SAP
3 161 (5.39%) ServiceNow
4 158 (5.29%) Oracle
5 100 (3.35%) Salesforce
6 75 (2.51%) Google
7 69 (2.31%) Cisco
8 60 (2.01%) Databricks
9 52 (1.74%) CyberArk
10 47 (1.57%) VMware
11 46 (1.54%) Workday
12 38 (1.27%) BeyondTrust
13 35 (1.17%) Aruba
13 35 (1.17%) Centrify
14 25 (0.84%) IBM
15 24 (0.80%) Palo Alto
16 23 (0.77%) OpenAI
16 23 (0.77%) Splunk
17 22 (0.74%) Red Hat
18 21 (0.70%) Adobe