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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 104 155
Rank change year-on-year +82 +51 +6
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,787 757 697
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.62% 2.41% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.67% 2.72% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,925 460 482
10th Percentile £368 £400 £368
25th Percentile £445 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 8 38
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.90 £31.10
25th Percentile £19.18 £25.19 £33.75
Median hourly rate £41.86 £27.75 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +50.83% -50.88% +175.56%
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 32,128 27,808 37,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.80% 88.68% 87.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,262 16,883 24,972
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 £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £743 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,977 884 1,589
10th Percentile £14.52 £15.62 £14.17
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.16
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.69 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.64% -21.75% +15.71%
75th Percentile £56.00 £61.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.39 £74.66 £76.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -20.58% -31.43% +51.38%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +76 2,440 £525 -4.55% 692
UK excluding London +63 1,281 £500 -4.76% 610
London +88 1,172 £550 - 197
Work from Home +95 812 £536 -5.13% 345
South East +49 339 £500 -9.09% 210
North of England +46 311 £502 +0.37% 116
Midlands +34 239 £500 -4.76% 122
South West +44 192 £518 -13.71% 59
West Midlands +32 165 £500 -9.09% 82
North West +36 144 £525 +3.45% 50
Yorkshire +26 131 £513 +2.50% 56
East of England +37 86 £550 +28.50% 65
Scotland +45 84 £450 -14.29% 21
East Midlands +20 73 £441 +3.65% 40
North East +23 39 £450 -46.27% 14
Wales +17 25 £463 -22.92% 25
Northern Ireland +7 12 £500 - 6
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
1 142 (5.10%) Confluence
2 121 (4.34%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (0.75%) SAS
5 12 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.43%) CMS
6 7 (0.25%) Apache
6 7 (0.25%) Appian
6 7 (0.25%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.14%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.14%) MQSeries
9 3 (0.11%) Smallworld
10 2 (0.072%) Drupal
10 2 (0.072%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.072%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.072%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.072%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.072%) WordPress
Applications
1 151 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 86 (3.09%) Microsoft Project
3 63 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
5 50 (1.79%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.32%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.29%) ProjectWise
8 6 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.22%) Trello
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
10 3 (0.11%) Revit
11 2 (0.072%) Camtasia
11 2 (0.072%) Sketch
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.036%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.036%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.036%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 109 (3.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.61%) SAP PP
5 15 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
5 15 (0.54%) SAP FI
6 14 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
6 14 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 13 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
8 12 (0.43%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.43%) SAP MM
9 11 (0.39%) Workday HCM
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
10 9 (0.32%) Teamcenter
11 8 (0.29%) Maximo
11 8 (0.29%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 506 (18.16%) Azure
2 322 (11.55%) AWS
3 215 (7.71%) Power Platform
4 144 (5.17%) GCP
5 127 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
6 107 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
7 96 (3.44%) SaaS
8 85 (3.05%) Entra ID
9 75 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
10 59 (2.12%) GitHub
11 53 (1.90%) OCI
12 47 (1.69%) Serverless
13 43 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (1.18%) Power Automate
15 32 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
16 30 (1.08%) PowerApps
17 29 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
17 29 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
17 29 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
18 26 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 56 (2.01%) Firewall
2 35 (1.26%) Network Security
3 23 (0.83%) WAN
4 22 (0.79%) LAN
5 21 (0.75%) VPN
6 20 (0.72%) DNS
7 18 (0.65%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.39%) BGP
8 11 (0.39%) MPLS
9 9 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.29%) DHCP
11 7 (0.25%) Internet
11 7 (0.25%) Kerberos
11 7 (0.25%) Wireless
12 6 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
12 6 (0.22%) VLAN
12 6 (0.22%) VSAN
13 5 (0.18%) Intranet
13 5 (0.18%) IPsec
13 5 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (6.14%) Power BI
2 74 (2.66%) Metadata
3 49 (1.76%) Tableau
4 47 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (1.47%) SQL Server
6 23 (0.83%) Data Lake
7 22 (0.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 18 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
8 18 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
9 16 (0.57%) Power Query
10 14 (0.50%) Big Data
10 14 (0.50%) MySQL
11 13 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (0.47%) Data Vault
11 13 (0.47%) Relational Database
12 12 (0.43%) DynamoDB
13 11 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (0.39%) Oracle Database
13 11 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
14 10 (0.36%) GIS
Development Applications
1 249 (8.93%) JIRA
2 42 (1.51%) GitLab
3 36 (1.29%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.15%) Git
5 24 (0.86%) Selenium
6 14 (0.50%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.36%) Postman
8 10 (0.36%) REST Assured
9 7 (0.25%) Robot Framework
10 6 (0.22%) TestRail
11 5 (0.18%) JUnit
11 5 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (0.14%) ERwin
12 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
13 3 (0.11%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.11%) Hudson
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
13 3 (0.11%) Visual Website Optimizer
14 2 (0.072%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1,476 (52.96%) Social Skills
2 771 (27.66%) Finance
3 480 (17.22%) Public Sector
4 425 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
5 196 (7.03%) Banking
6 124 (4.45%) Influencing Skills
7 111 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
8 104 (3.73%) Legal
9 91 (3.27%) Manufacturing
10 75 (2.69%) Marketing
11 74 (2.66%) Telecoms
12 71 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
13 68 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
14 63 (2.26%) Retail
15 58 (2.08%) Local Government
16 41 (1.47%) Financial Institution
17 37 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 35 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
19 34 (1.22%) Investment Banking
20 32 (1.15%) Law
Job Titles
1 501 (17.98%) Analyst
2 372 (13.35%) Architect
3 364 (13.06%) Business Analyst
4 319 (11.45%) Lead
5 302 (10.84%) Consultant
6 262 (9.40%) Project Manager
7 221 (7.93%) Senior
8 127 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
9 90 (3.23%) Developer
10 74 (2.66%) Programme Manager
11 72 (2.58%) Change Manager
12 67 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
13 58 (2.08%) Senior Business Analyst
14 54 (1.94%) SAP Consultant
15 50 (1.79%) Designer
16 48 (1.72%) Data Analyst
17 47 (1.69%) Senior Manager
18 46 (1.65%) Delivery Manager
18 46 (1.65%) Technical Manager
19 41 (1.47%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (3.80%) REST
2 61 (2.19%) SOAP
3 52 (1.87%) LDAP
4 46 (1.65%) .NET
5 36 (1.29%) OAuth
5 36 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
6 31 (1.11%) OpenID
7 29 (1.04%) Middleware
8 26 (0.93%) Node.js
8 26 (0.93%) XML
9 23 (0.83%) SAP Fiori
10 21 (0.75%) Kafka
11 20 (0.72%) SAML
12 19 (0.68%) HTML
12 19 (0.68%) LangChain
13 18 (0.65%) CSS
13 18 (0.65%) OAuth2
13 18 (0.65%) RESTful
14 16 (0.57%) AngularJS
14 16 (0.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 183 (6.57%) Product Ownership
2 149 (5.35%) Onboarding
3 98 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
4 90 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 78 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 67 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 65 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 56 (2.01%) Security Posture
9 55 (1.97%) Data Structures
10 53 (1.90%) NHS
11 42 (1.51%) Data Centre
11 42 (1.51%) PMI
12 36 (1.29%) AI Agents
13 34 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
14 33 (1.18%) CMDB
14 33 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
15 31 (1.11%) Operational Technology
16 27 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
17 23 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
18 19 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 68 (2.44%) Windows
2 32 (1.15%) Linux
3 20 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (0.68%) Windows 10
4 19 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.25%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.18%) VMS
7 4 (0.14%) Android
7 4 (0.14%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.14%) Unix
8 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.072%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.036%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 744 (26.70%) Agile
2 550 (19.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 444 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
4 443 (15.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 414 (14.85%) Migration
6 370 (13.28%) Roadmaps
7 368 (13.20%) Change Management
8 354 (12.70%) Project Management
9 298 (10.69%) Workshop Facilitation
10 293 (10.51%) Decision-Making
11 288 (10.33%) Analytics
12 284 (10.19%) DevOps
13 252 (9.04%) Risk Management
14 242 (8.68%) Business Intelligence
15 232 (8.32%) Requirements Gathering
16 224 (8.04%) Project Delivery
17 217 (7.79%) ERP
18 211 (7.57%) Data Governance
19 209 (7.50%) CI/CD
20 199 (7.14%) AI
Programming Languages
1 207 (7.43%) SQL
2 195 (7.00%) Python
3 109 (3.91%) PowerShell
4 64 (2.30%) Java
5 57 (2.05%) JavaScript
6 38 (1.36%) C#
7 27 (0.97%) Bash
7 27 (0.97%) Bicep
8 21 (0.75%) TypeScript
9 20 (0.72%) R
10 16 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (0.43%) ABAP
11 12 (0.43%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.32%) PHP
13 8 (0.29%) Korn
14 6 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.18%) C++
15 5 (0.18%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.14%) RPG
16 4 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 583 (20.92%) Security Cleared
2 473 (16.97%) SC Cleared
3 256 (9.19%) Degree
4 109 (3.91%) PMI Certification
5 95 (3.41%) PMP
6 85 (3.05%) DV Cleared
7 61 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 54 (1.94%) Master's Degree
9 44 (1.58%) CISSP
10 40 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 35 (1.26%) Azure Certification
12 32 (1.15%) ACCA
13 31 (1.11%) CISM
14 28 (1.00%) CIMA
15 26 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
16 22 (0.79%) AWS Certification
16 22 (0.79%) CBAP
17 18 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
17 18 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
18 17 (0.61%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (5.35%) GDPR
2 145 (5.20%) QA
3 130 (4.66%) Data Quality
4 119 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 102 (3.66%) PMO
6 98 (3.52%) NIST
7 74 (2.66%) Accessibility
8 44 (1.58%) PCI DSS
9 42 (1.51%) GRC
10 30 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 29 (1.04%) NCSC
12 21 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
13 19 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
14 15 (0.54%) Basel III
14 15 (0.54%) ISO 19650
15 14 (0.50%) PSD2
16 13 (0.47%) WCAG
17 12 (0.43%) SLA
18 11 (0.39%) JSP 440
19 10 (0.36%) HIPAA
System Software
1 116 (4.16%) Active Directory
2 70 (2.51%) Docker
3 26 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.50%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.39%) vSphere
6 9 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.036%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.036%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.036%) Firmware
9 1 (0.036%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 119 (4.27%) Terraform
2 86 (3.09%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.18%) Ansible
4 27 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.61%) SCCM
7 11 (0.39%) Grafana
8 9 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.22%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.14%) Argo
11 4 (0.14%) Control-M
11 4 (0.14%) Istio
12 3 (0.11%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.072%) Cisco UCCE
13 2 (0.072%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.072%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.072%) vCenter Server
14 1 (0.036%) Cisco CUCM
14 1 (0.036%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 399 (14.32%) Microsoft
2 258 (9.26%) SAP
3 174 (6.24%) Oracle
4 158 (5.67%) ServiceNow
5 93 (3.34%) Salesforce
6 69 (2.48%) Google
7 64 (2.30%) Cisco
8 54 (1.94%) CyberArk
9 53 (1.90%) Workday
10 50 (1.79%) Databricks
11 42 (1.51%) VMware
12 40 (1.44%) BeyondTrust
13 35 (1.26%) Centrify
14 34 (1.22%) Aruba
15 24 (0.86%) Adobe
16 23 (0.83%) IBM
17 21 (0.75%) OpenAI
17 21 (0.75%) Red Hat
18 20 (0.72%) Palo Alto
19 18 (0.65%) Splunk