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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
27 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 59 152
Rank change year-on-year +33 +93 +8
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,247 1,116 685
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.66% 3.91% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.88% 4.29% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,199 743 484
10th Percentile £369 £375 £363
25th Percentile £440 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 16 40
10th Percentile £26.50 £27.00 £18.35
25th Percentile £47.00 £32.05 £27.81
Median hourly rate £68.50 £48.50 £36.23
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% +33.87% +70.09%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.88 £57.37
90th Percentile £93.50 £74.49 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.00 £67.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +15.56% +19.49% +170.29%

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 41,181 26,010 36,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 91.03% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,765 16,696 23,578
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,066 2,486
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.73 £17.92 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £37.75
% change year-on-year +69.72% -33.38% +7.86%

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 27 May 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 27 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Top 17 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 27 May 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 +28 2,785 £535 +1.90% 1,162
UK excluding London +38 1,560 £500 - 809
London +29 1,294 £550 - 508
Work from Home +40 1,012 £525 +3.45% 603
North of England +27 412 £494 -0.70% 191
South East +27 359 £538 +12.57% 259
Midlands +24 318 £500 -0.10% 126
West Midlands +22 217 £486 -5.26% 88
North West +34 202 £475 -4.43% 104
South West +20 192 £525 -4.55% 104
Yorkshire +15 175 £517 +7.11% 63
Scotland +40 130 £475 -9.52% 46
East of England +27 111 £575 +15.00% 50
East Midlands +20 96 £523 +16.11% 36
Wales +14 42 £475 +50.55% 28
North East +6 41 £450 -11.33% 24
Northern Ireland +14 15 £450 -22.58% 15

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 (5.45%) Confluence
2 90 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 23 (0.71%) SAS
4 19 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 14 (0.43%) CMS
6 14 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.40%) Apache
8 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
8 4 (0.12%) WordPress
9 3 (0.092%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.092%) Appian
9 3 (0.092%) Drupal
10 2 (0.062%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.062%) Camunda
10 2 (0.062%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.062%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.062%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 151 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (2.03%) Microsoft Project
3 62 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
4 61 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (1.88%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.12%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.12%) Sketch
8 3 (0.092%) Notion
9 2 (0.062%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.062%) InVision
9 2 (0.062%) Trello
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.031%) CATIA
10 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.031%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.031%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 131 (4.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.46%) Teamcenter
4 11 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 10 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.31%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.28%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.25%) NEC Housing
7 8 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (0.25%) SAP QM
7 8 (0.25%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.22%) Maximo
8 7 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.22%) Primavera
8 7 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 6 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 620 (19.09%) Azure
2 431 (13.27%) AWS
3 308 (9.49%) Power Platform
4 160 (4.93%) GCP
5 118 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
6 106 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (3.05%) SaaS
8 98 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
9 95 (2.93%) Entra ID
10 63 (1.94%) GitHub
11 49 (1.51%) Serverless
12 43 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
13 40 (1.23%) PaaS
14 39 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (1.11%) Amazon S3
16 34 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
16 34 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
17 33 (1.02%) Power Automate
18 32 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
18 32 (0.99%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.57%) Firewall
2 44 (1.36%) Network Security
3 35 (1.08%) DNS
4 23 (0.71%) WAN
5 21 (0.65%) VPN
6 19 (0.59%) LAN
7 11 (0.34%) Internet
7 11 (0.34%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.34%) Wireless
8 10 (0.31%) BGP
8 10 (0.31%) VLAN
9 9 (0.28%) DHCP
9 9 (0.28%) OSPF
9 9 (0.28%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.28%) SSL
9 9 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.25%) Intranet
10 8 (0.25%) NAS
10 8 (0.25%) SAN
10 8 (0.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (8.10%) Power BI
2 75 (2.31%) Metadata
3 63 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (1.14%) Tableau
5 34 (1.05%) Data Lake
6 30 (0.92%) SQL Server
7 29 (0.89%) Power Query
8 26 (0.80%) Relational Database
9 23 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (0.52%) NoSQL
10 17 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
11 14 (0.43%) Big Data
11 14 (0.43%) MySQL
12 13 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
12 13 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
13 12 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.37%) Data Vault
14 11 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (0.34%) DynamoDB
15 9 (0.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 285 (8.78%) JIRA
2 56 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 52 (1.60%) Git
4 51 (1.57%) GitLab
5 32 (0.99%) Rational DOORS
6 27 (0.83%) Postman
7 25 (0.77%) Selenium
8 19 (0.59%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.52%) Hudson
9 17 (0.52%) JMeter
10 11 (0.34%) JUnit
11 9 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (0.28%) WebDriver
12 8 (0.25%) MLflow
12 8 (0.25%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.22%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.18%) ERwin
14 6 (0.18%) LoadRunner
14 6 (0.18%) TestRail
15 5 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 1,497 (46.10%) Social Skills
2 949 (29.23%) Finance
3 495 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
4 491 (15.12%) Public Sector
5 199 (6.13%) Banking
6 136 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
7 119 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
8 118 (3.63%) Legal
9 92 (2.83%) Retail
10 88 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
11 83 (2.56%) Law
12 77 (2.37%) Manufacturing
13 67 (2.06%) Aerospace
14 63 (1.94%) Local Government
15 56 (1.72%) Marketing
16 53 (1.63%) Telecoms
17 46 (1.42%) Military
18 40 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
19 38 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 34 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 598 (18.42%) Analyst
2 490 (15.09%) Architect
3 421 (12.97%) Lead
4 405 (12.47%) Business Analyst
5 291 (8.96%) Senior
6 267 (8.22%) Project Manager
7 250 (7.70%) Consultant
8 125 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
9 93 (2.86%) Change Manager
10 90 (2.77%) Delivery Manager
11 88 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
12 86 (2.65%) Data Analyst
12 86 (2.65%) Developer
13 81 (2.49%) Programme Manager
14 70 (2.16%) Senior Manager
15 66 (2.03%) Designer
16 64 (1.97%) Senior Business Analyst
17 59 (1.82%) Data Architect
18 56 (1.72%) Technical Architect
19 55 (1.69%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (3.63%) REST
2 61 (1.88%) SOAP
3 58 (1.79%) LDAP
4 53 (1.63%) Middleware
5 38 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
6 33 (1.02%) React
6 33 (1.02%) Spring
7 32 (0.99%) SailPoint
8 31 (0.95%) Kafka
8 31 (0.95%) OpenID
9 29 (0.89%) .NET
10 25 (0.77%) OAuth
10 25 (0.77%) Spring Boot
11 22 (0.68%) XML
12 21 (0.65%) JSON
13 20 (0.62%) PySpark
14 19 (0.59%) Node.js
14 19 (0.59%) RESTful
15 18 (0.55%) CSS
15 18 (0.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 221 (6.81%) Product Ownership
2 149 (4.59%) Onboarding
3 130 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 85 (2.62%) Data Structures
5 76 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
6 73 (2.25%) Management Information System
7 68 (2.09%) Operational Technology
8 66 (2.03%) Security Posture
9 60 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
10 56 (1.72%) Data Centre
11 50 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
11 50 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
12 49 (1.51%) NHS
13 43 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
14 40 (1.23%) Virtual Team
15 37 (1.14%) CMDB
16 33 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
17 32 (0.99%) AI Agents
18 29 (0.89%) Public Cloud
19 28 (0.86%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 90 (2.77%) Windows
2 41 (1.26%) Linux
3 18 (0.55%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.37%) Unix
4 12 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 9 (0.28%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.25%) VMS
7 4 (0.12%) Android
8 3 (0.092%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.092%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.092%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.092%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 864 (26.61%) Agile
2 626 (19.28%) Continuous Improvement
3 622 (19.16%) Stakeholder Management
4 474 (14.60%) Migration
5 443 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
6 438 (13.49%) Decision-Making
7 424 (13.06%) Roadmaps
8 420 (12.94%) Change Management
9 384 (11.83%) Workshop Facilitation
10 357 (10.99%) DevOps
11 327 (10.07%) Analytics
12 312 (9.61%) AI
13 306 (9.42%) Risk Management
14 305 (9.39%) ERP
15 301 (9.27%) Business Intelligence
16 296 (9.12%) Project Management
17 267 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
18 265 (8.16%) CI/CD
19 262 (8.07%) Project Delivery
20 255 (7.85%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 253 (7.79%) SQL
2 242 (7.45%) Python
3 107 (3.30%) Java
4 76 (2.34%) PowerShell
5 48 (1.48%) JavaScript
6 37 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 35 (1.08%) TypeScript
8 32 (0.99%) C#
9 29 (0.89%) Bash
10 19 (0.59%) VBA
11 15 (0.46%) Bicep
12 14 (0.43%) Scala
13 10 (0.31%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.31%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.31%) PHP
14 9 (0.28%) R
15 8 (0.25%) Korn
16 6 (0.18%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.15%) ABAP
18 4 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 808 (24.88%) Security Cleared
2 646 (19.90%) SC Cleared
3 260 (8.01%) Degree
4 125 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 107 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 107 (3.30%) PMI Certification
6 103 (3.17%) PMP
7 77 (2.37%) CISSP
8 56 (1.72%) CISM
9 41 (1.26%) Azure Certification
10 40 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
11 38 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (0.89%) Master's Degree
13 28 (0.86%) ACCA
14 27 (0.83%) CIMA
14 27 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 26 (0.80%) AWS Certification
16 23 (0.71%) IIBA
16 23 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (6.59%) Data Quality
2 161 (4.96%) QA
3 156 (4.80%) PMO
4 138 (4.25%) NIST
5 133 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 129 (3.97%) GDPR
7 78 (2.40%) Accessibility
8 64 (1.97%) GRC
9 32 (0.99%) NCSC
9 32 (0.99%) SLA
10 28 (0.86%) PCI DSS
11 26 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
12 24 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
13 18 (0.55%) WCAG
14 16 (0.49%) SOC 2
15 15 (0.46%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.34%) COBIT
17 11 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 10 (0.31%) Basel III
System Software
1 101 (3.11%) Active Directory
2 59 (1.82%) Docker
3 28 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.40%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.37%) vSphere
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.15%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.092%) NFS
10 1 (0.031%) Firmware
10 1 (0.031%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.031%) KVM
10 1 (0.031%) SRDF
10 1 (0.031%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 109 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 108 (3.33%) Terraform
3 33 (1.02%) Ansible
4 30 (0.92%) Grafana
5 28 (0.86%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.46%) SCCM
9 13 (0.40%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.18%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.15%) Istio
12 5 (0.15%) vRealize
13 4 (0.12%) Podman
14 3 (0.092%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.092%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.092%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.092%) vMotion
14 3 (0.092%) WSUS
15 2 (0.062%) Nessus
Vendors
1 479 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 253 (7.79%) SAP
3 181 (5.57%) ServiceNow
4 149 (4.59%) Oracle
5 94 (2.89%) Salesforce
6 83 (2.56%) Databricks
7 54 (1.66%) Google
8 53 (1.63%) CyberArk
9 46 (1.42%) IBM
9 46 (1.42%) VMware
10 40 (1.23%) Cisco
11 39 (1.20%) BeyondTrust
12 37 (1.14%) Splunk
13 34 (1.05%) Centrify
13 34 (1.05%) Workday
14 20 (0.62%) Adobe
14 20 (0.62%) Dynatrace
14 20 (0.62%) Zscaler
15 19 (0.59%) IFS
15 19 (0.59%) Palo Alto
1,325 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide