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

 6 months to
21 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 81 152
Rank change year-on-year +56 +71 +6
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,163 874 711
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.22% 2.98% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.39% 3.29% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,170 578 480
10th Percentile £363 £386 £363
25th Percentile £445 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £652
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +4.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 14 38
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.30 £18.35
25th Percentile £37.00 £26.56 £27.81
Median hourly rate £63.50 £49.50 £36.23
Median % change year-on-year +28.28% +36.63% +76.73%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.98 £56.49
90th Percentile £94.50 £81.20 £66.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.00 £54.65 £56.49
% change year-on-year +26.27% -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 37,710 26,528 38,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.02% 90.44% 86.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,926 17,086 24,905
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 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.28% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 926 2,329
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £12.98
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.32 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.51 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.72 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £31.76 £31.25
% change year-on-year -10.26% +1.63% -10.71%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +55 2,763 £525 - 881
UK excluding London +56 1,502 £500 -3.85% 653
London +61 1,295 £550 - 338
Work from Home +61 907 £525 -4.55% 435
South East +41 389 £500 -8.26% 213
North of England +46 370 £500 - 156
Midlands +30 305 £500 - 132
West Midlands +27 204 £500 -4.76% 87
South West +47 199 £524 -12.67% 68
North West +49 191 £475 -5.00% 74
Yorkshire +12 139 £525 +10.53% 60
East of England +38 106 £540 +8.00% 45
East Midlands +9 97 £488 +11.43% 44
Scotland +36 90 £450 -17.96% 25
North East +14 43 £454 -10.59% 23
Wales +15 31 £405 -22.86% 20
Northern Ireland +17 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
2 114 (3.60%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (0.57%) SAS
5 14 (0.44%) 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%) Appian
9 3 (0.095%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.095%) Smallworld
9 3 (0.095%) WordPress
10 2 (0.063%) Camunda
10 2 (0.063%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.063%) nginx
10 2 (0.063%) WebLogic
Applications
1 161 (5.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
3 61 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 60 (1.90%) MS Visio
5 59 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.38%) 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%) CATIA
12 1 (0.032%) InVision
12 1 (0.032%) Revit
12 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 134 (4.24%) 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
7 10 (0.32%) SAP HR
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%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.25%) SAP CO
10 7 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 7 (0.22%) Primavera
10 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
11 6 (0.19%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 600 (18.97%) Azure
2 381 (12.05%) AWS
3 279 (8.82%) Power Platform
4 162 (5.12%) GCP
5 138 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
6 118 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
7 103 (3.26%) SaaS
8 92 (2.91%) Entra ID
9 89 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
10 63 (1.99%) GitHub
11 50 (1.58%) OCI
12 46 (1.45%) Serverless
13 40 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (1.26%) Microsoft Copilot
14 37 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
15 36 (1.14%) PaaS
16 35 (1.11%) Power Automate
17 34 (1.07%) PowerApps
18 29 (0.92%) IaaS
19 28 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.93%) Firewall
2 49 (1.55%) Network Security
3 34 (1.07%) DNS
4 32 (1.01%) WAN
5 30 (0.95%) LAN
6 27 (0.85%) VPN
7 19 (0.60%) SD-WAN
8 17 (0.54%) 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%) VLAN
13 10 (0.32%) VSAN
14 8 (0.25%) OSPF
14 8 (0.25%) WLAN
15 6 (0.19%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (0.19%) Intranet
15 6 (0.19%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (7.15%) Power BI
2 74 (2.34%) Metadata
3 65 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (1.49%) 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
9 18 (0.57%) Relational Database
10 16 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 16 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
11 15 (0.47%) MySQL
12 14 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (0.44%) Data Vault
13 13 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
14 12 (0.38%) Delta Lake
15 11 (0.35%) Big Data
15 11 (0.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 285 (9.01%) JIRA
2 49 (1.55%) GitLab
2 49 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 36 (1.14%) Git
4 29 (0.92%) Rational DOORS
5 26 (0.82%) Selenium
6 19 (0.60%) Postman
7 18 (0.57%) Cucumber
8 14 (0.44%) JMeter
9 12 (0.38%) JUnit
10 8 (0.25%) ERwin
10 8 (0.25%) WebDriver
11 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
11 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.22%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.19%) Hudson
12 6 (0.19%) TestRail
13 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.13%) Gatling
14 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1,567 (49.54%) Social Skills
2 911 (28.80%) Finance
3 513 (16.22%) Public Sector
4 510 (16.12%) Analytical Skills
5 197 (6.23%) Banking
6 155 (4.90%) Influencing Skills
7 141 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
8 118 (3.73%) Legal
9 83 (2.62%) Manufacturing
10 81 (2.56%) Retail
11 80 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
12 69 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
13 66 (2.09%) Telecoms
14 65 (2.06%) Marketing
15 61 (1.93%) Local Government
16 57 (1.80%) Law
17 56 (1.77%) Aerospace
18 41 (1.30%) Financial Institution
19 37 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
20 29 (0.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 593 (18.75%) Analyst
2 458 (14.48%) Architect
3 435 (13.75%) Business Analyst
4 389 (12.30%) Lead
5 291 (9.20%) Project Manager
6 284 (8.98%) Consultant
7 263 (8.31%) Senior
8 147 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
9 93 (2.94%) Programme Manager
10 92 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
11 90 (2.85%) Developer
12 85 (2.69%) Change Manager
13 83 (2.62%) Delivery Manager
14 73 (2.31%) Data Analyst
15 70 (2.21%) Senior Business Analyst
16 59 (1.87%) Product Manager
17 54 (1.71%) Designer
18 50 (1.58%) SAP Consultant
19 48 (1.52%) Security Architect
19 48 (1.52%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (3.54%) REST
2 59 (1.87%) SOAP
3 51 (1.61%) LDAP
4 45 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
5 43 (1.36%) Middleware
6 39 (1.23%) .NET
7 32 (1.01%) OpenID
8 31 (0.98%) OAuth
9 29 (0.92%) Spring
10 27 (0.85%) Node.js
11 26 (0.82%) React
12 22 (0.70%) Kafka
13 21 (0.66%) SailPoint
13 21 (0.66%) SAP Fiori
13 21 (0.66%) Spring Boot
14 20 (0.63%) XML
15 18 (0.57%) AngularJS
15 18 (0.57%) OAuth2
15 18 (0.57%) SAML
16 17 (0.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 217 (6.86%) Product Ownership
2 150 (4.74%) Onboarding
3 101 (3.19%) Cloud Native
4 82 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
5 78 (2.47%) Data Structures
6 76 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 67 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 62 (1.96%) Security Posture
9 61 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 53 (1.68%) NHS
11 51 (1.61%) Data Centre
12 47 (1.49%) Operational Technology
13 44 (1.39%) PMI
14 42 (1.33%) CMDB
15 39 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
16 38 (1.20%) AI Agents
17 37 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
18 30 (0.95%) Virtual Team
19 28 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
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
1 816 (25.80%) Agile
2 626 (19.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 571 (18.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 508 (16.06%) Migration
5 481 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
6 449 (14.20%) Roadmaps
7 435 (13.75%) Change Management
8 396 (12.52%) Workshop Facilitation
9 358 (11.32%) Decision-Making
10 350 (11.07%) Project Management
11 335 (10.59%) Analytics
12 311 (9.83%) DevOps
13 292 (9.23%) Business Intelligence
14 288 (9.11%) Risk Management
15 278 (8.79%) AI
16 260 (8.22%) ERP
17 259 (8.19%) Project Delivery
18 253 (8.00%) Requirements Gathering
19 242 (7.65%) User Acceptance Testing
20 225 (7.11%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 248 (7.84%) SQL
2 243 (7.68%) Python
3 104 (3.29%) PowerShell
4 88 (2.78%) Java
5 48 (1.52%) JavaScript
6 40 (1.26%) C#
7 29 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 28 (0.89%) TypeScript
9 26 (0.82%) Bash
10 17 (0.54%) Bicep
10 17 (0.54%) R
11 15 (0.47%) ABAP
11 15 (0.47%) VBA
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 (23.43%) Security Cleared
2 588 (18.59%) SC Cleared
3 279 (8.82%) Degree
4 121 (3.83%) PMI Certification
5 108 (3.41%) PMP
6 107 (3.38%) DV Cleared
7 93 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 57 (1.80%) CISSP
9 49 (1.55%) Master's Degree
10 43 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
11 42 (1.33%) Azure Certification
12 41 (1.30%) CISM
13 30 (0.95%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.92%) ACCA
15 27 (0.85%) CIMA
15 27 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
15 27 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 27 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
16 23 (0.73%) CBAP
17 22 (0.70%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (5.98%) Data Quality
2 178 (5.63%) QA
3 150 (4.74%) GDPR
4 125 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 125 (3.95%) PMO
5 123 (3.89%) NIST
6 76 (2.40%) Accessibility
7 54 (1.71%) GRC
8 40 (1.26%) PCI DSS
9 33 (1.04%) NCSC
10 26 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
11 25 (0.79%) 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 12 (0.38%) COBIT
17 11 (0.35%) HL7
17 11 (0.35%) NIST 800
17 11 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 112 (3.54%) Active Directory
2 67 (2.12%) Docker
3 32 (1.01%) 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
8 5 (0.16%) 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
1 109 (3.45%) Terraform
2 102 (3.22%) Kubernetes
3 32 (1.01%) Ansible
4 27 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
5 26 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (0.57%) Grafana
7 15 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.44%) HP ALM
8 14 (0.44%) SCCM
9 9 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.22%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.16%) Podman
12 4 (0.13%) Istio
13 3 (0.095%) Argo
13 3 (0.095%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.095%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.095%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.095%) vMotion
13 3 (0.095%) vRealize
13 3 (0.095%) VxRail
Vendors
1 453 (14.32%) Microsoft
2 278 (8.79%) SAP
3 164 (5.18%) Oracle
4 163 (5.15%) ServiceNow
5 93 (2.94%) Salesforce
6 74 (2.34%) Google
7 72 (2.28%) Cisco
8 61 (1.93%) Databricks
9 52 (1.64%) CyberArk
10 49 (1.55%) VMware
11 45 (1.42%) IBM
12 41 (1.30%) Workday
13 40 (1.26%) BeyondTrust
14 39 (1.23%) Aruba
15 35 (1.11%) Centrify
16 25 (0.79%) Palo Alto
17 24 (0.76%) Splunk
18 23 (0.73%) Red Hat
19 20 (0.63%) Adobe
19 20 (0.63%) Zscaler
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