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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
22 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 70 147
Rank change year-on-year +44 +77 +8
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,187 1,006 697
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.87% 3.41% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.10% 3.76% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,183 669 483
10th Percentile £363 £380 £363
25th Percentile £443 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £657
90th Percentile £750 £738 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 17 37
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.96 £18.35
25th Percentile £37.12 £31.00 £27.81
Median hourly rate £68.50 £49.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +38.38% +37.65% +37.51%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.75 £57.33
90th Percentile £94.00 £78.64 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.50 £57.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +41.74% +1.79% +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 39,324 26,741 37,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.82% 90.76% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,807 17,298 24,232
10th Percentile £318 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -0.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.09% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,359 1,048 2,416
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.88 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.31 £75.00 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.54 £28.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.01% -17.86% -6.67%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +38 2,756 £525 - 969
UK excluding London +48 1,510 £500 -2.91% 738
London +42 1,284 £550 - 359
Work from Home +55 944 £525 +0.96% 446
North of England +35 380 £497 -1.05% 177
South East +33 376 £520 -0.95% 212
Midlands +26 313 £500 - 149
West Midlands +27 216 £492 -6.29% 92
North West +38 199 £491 -2.19% 81
South West +26 192 £525 -6.67% 102
Yorkshire +11 138 £508 +1.62% 73
East of England +31 107 £565 +13.00% 56
Scotland +39 104 £450 -18.18% 33
East Midlands +13 92 £500 +17.65% 57
North East +16 49 £450 -29.82% 28
Wales +17 36 £460 +27.78% 15
Northern Ireland +16 18 £450 -20.00% 12

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
1 182 (5.71%) Confluence
2 101 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 25 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (0.66%) SAS
5 15 (0.47%) CMS
6 13 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.19%) Apache
9 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.094%) Appian
10 3 (0.094%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.094%) Drupal
10 3 (0.094%) WordPress
11 2 (0.063%) Camunda
11 2 (0.063%) nginx
11 2 (0.063%) OpenEdge
11 2 (0.063%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.063%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.063%) WebLogic
Applications
1 160 (5.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (2.29%) Microsoft Project
3 69 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 63 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
5 58 (1.82%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.13%) Sketch
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.094%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.094%) Notion
10 2 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.063%) InVision
10 2 (0.063%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.063%) Windchill
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.031%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.031%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 130 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.53%) SAP FI
5 13 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.41%) SAP PP
6 12 (0.38%) Teamcenter
7 10 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 10 (0.31%) SAP MM
7 10 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 9 (0.28%) NEC Housing
8 9 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 9 (0.28%) SAP CO
9 8 (0.25%) SAP ERP
9 8 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
10 7 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 7 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
10 7 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
10 7 (0.22%) SAP HR
10 7 (0.22%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 595 (18.67%) Azure
2 415 (13.02%) AWS
3 283 (8.88%) Power Platform
4 166 (5.21%) GCP
5 131 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
6 112 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
7 102 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
8 98 (3.07%) SaaS
9 95 (2.98%) Entra ID
10 67 (2.10%) GitHub
11 46 (1.44%) Serverless
12 44 (1.38%) Microsoft Copilot
13 42 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
14 39 (1.22%) PaaS
15 38 (1.19%) OCI
16 33 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
17 32 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
18 31 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
18 31 (0.97%) Power Automate
19 30 (0.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 55 (1.73%) Firewall
2 47 (1.47%) Network Security
3 31 (0.97%) DNS
4 28 (0.88%) VPN
5 26 (0.82%) WAN
6 25 (0.78%) LAN
7 18 (0.56%) BGP
8 17 (0.53%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.47%) Internet
10 13 (0.41%) Wireless
11 12 (0.38%) VLAN
11 12 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (0.35%) DHCP
12 11 (0.35%) MPLS
13 10 (0.31%) OSPF
13 10 (0.31%) VSAN
14 8 (0.25%) SSL
14 8 (0.25%) WLAN
15 7 (0.22%) Intranet
15 7 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (7.41%) Power BI
2 77 (2.42%) Metadata
3 62 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (1.44%) Tableau
5 33 (1.04%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.78%) Data Lake
6 25 (0.78%) Relational Database
7 24 (0.75%) Power Query
8 21 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
10 16 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
11 15 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
12 13 (0.41%) DynamoDB
12 13 (0.41%) NoSQL
13 12 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (0.38%) Data Vault
13 12 (0.38%) MySQL
14 10 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
14 10 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 293 (9.19%) JIRA
2 46 (1.44%) GitLab
2 46 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 45 (1.41%) Git
4 28 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
5 24 (0.75%) Selenium
6 23 (0.72%) Postman
7 16 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.47%) JMeter
9 14 (0.44%) Hudson
10 10 (0.31%) JUnit
11 8 (0.25%) ERwin
11 8 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (0.25%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
12 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.19%) MLflow
13 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.19%) TestRail
14 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,536 (48.20%) Social Skills
2 948 (29.75%) Finance
3 514 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 508 (15.94%) Public Sector
5 195 (6.12%) Banking
6 144 (4.52%) Influencing Skills
7 132 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
8 118 (3.70%) Legal
9 92 (2.89%) Retail
10 85 (2.67%) Manufacturing
11 84 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
12 74 (2.32%) Law
13 64 (2.01%) Local Government
14 63 (1.98%) Marketing
15 60 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
15 60 (1.88%) Telecoms
16 59 (1.85%) Aerospace
17 39 (1.22%) Military
18 32 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
19 30 (0.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 576 (18.07%) Analyst
2 475 (14.90%) Architect
3 411 (12.90%) Business Analyst
4 402 (12.61%) Lead
5 298 (9.35%) Project Manager
6 272 (8.53%) Senior
7 265 (8.32%) Consultant
8 133 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
9 94 (2.95%) Delivery Manager
10 91 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
11 89 (2.79%) Change Manager
12 85 (2.67%) Programme Manager
13 75 (2.35%) Data Analyst
13 75 (2.35%) Developer
14 67 (2.10%) Senior Business Analyst
14 67 (2.10%) Senior Manager
15 58 (1.82%) Designer
15 58 (1.82%) Product Manager
16 56 (1.76%) Lead Architect
17 55 (1.73%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (3.29%) REST
2 59 (1.85%) SOAP
3 54 (1.69%) LDAP
4 46 (1.44%) Middleware
5 41 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
6 36 (1.13%) .NET
7 32 (1.00%) OpenID
8 31 (0.97%) React
9 30 (0.94%) Node.js
9 30 (0.94%) OAuth
9 30 (0.94%) Spring
10 27 (0.85%) SailPoint
11 25 (0.78%) Kafka
12 22 (0.69%) AngularJS
12 22 (0.69%) Spring Boot
13 20 (0.63%) SAML
14 19 (0.60%) XML
15 18 (0.56%) RESTful
15 18 (0.56%) TensorFlow
16 17 (0.53%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 205 (6.43%) Product Ownership
2 150 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 113 (3.55%) Cloud Native
4 82 (2.57%) Management Information System
5 78 (2.45%) Data Structures
6 77 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 74 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
8 61 (1.91%) Security Posture
9 59 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 58 (1.82%) Data Centre
11 57 (1.79%) Operational Technology
12 52 (1.63%) NHS
13 42 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
14 40 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
15 39 (1.22%) CMDB
16 38 (1.19%) AI Agents
17 37 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
18 36 (1.13%) PMI
19 31 (0.97%) Virtual Team
20 29 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 72 (2.26%) Windows
2 41 (1.29%) Linux
3 20 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 14 (0.44%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.25%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.19%) Unix
7 6 (0.19%) VMS
8 5 (0.16%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.13%) Android
10 3 (0.094%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 838 (26.29%) Agile
2 622 (19.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 621 (19.49%) Continuous Improvement
4 498 (15.63%) Migration
5 460 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
6 443 (13.90%) Roadmaps
7 440 (13.81%) Change Management
8 384 (12.05%) Decision-Making
9 382 (11.99%) Workshop Facilitation
10 347 (10.89%) Project Management
11 330 (10.35%) DevOps
12 328 (10.29%) Analytics
13 303 (9.51%) AI
14 296 (9.29%) ERP
15 289 (9.07%) Risk Management
16 283 (8.88%) Business Intelligence
17 259 (8.13%) Project Delivery
18 255 (8.00%) User Acceptance Testing
19 246 (7.72%) CI/CD
20 239 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 245 (7.69%) SQL
2 235 (7.37%) Python
3 95 (2.98%) Java
4 85 (2.67%) PowerShell
5 45 (1.41%) JavaScript
6 41 (1.29%) C#
7 33 (1.04%) TypeScript
8 27 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 21 (0.66%) Bash
10 20 (0.63%) Bicep
11 17 (0.53%) ABAP
11 17 (0.53%) VBA
12 16 (0.50%) R
13 10 (0.31%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.31%) PHP
14 9 (0.28%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.28%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.25%) Korn
16 6 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 779 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 619 (19.42%) SC Cleared
3 279 (8.75%) Degree
4 119 (3.73%) PMI Certification
5 113 (3.55%) PMP
6 112 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 106 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 61 (1.91%) CISSP
9 43 (1.35%) Azure Certification
10 42 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 42 (1.32%) Master's Degree
11 40 (1.26%) CISM
12 29 (0.91%) ACCA
12 29 (0.91%) AWS Certification
12 29 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
12 29 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 28 (0.88%) CIMA
14 24 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
15 23 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
16 21 (0.66%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 173 (5.43%) QA
3 147 (4.61%) PMO
4 140 (4.39%) GDPR
5 132 (4.14%) NIST
6 131 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 78 (2.45%) Accessibility
8 55 (1.73%) GRC
9 33 (1.04%) PCI DSS
10 30 (0.94%) NCSC
11 26 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
12 25 (0.78%) SLA
13 16 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
13 16 (0.50%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.44%) Basel III
15 13 (0.41%) COBIT
15 13 (0.41%) WCAG
16 12 (0.38%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.38%) NIST 800
17 11 (0.35%) Def Stans
System Software
1 106 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 69 (2.17%) Docker
3 29 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 15 (0.47%) vSphere
6 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.094%) NFS
9 3 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.063%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.031%) Firmware
11 1 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 114 (3.58%) Terraform
2 106 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 28 (0.88%) Ansible
4 24 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.56%) Grafana
7 17 (0.53%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.47%) HP ALM
9 14 (0.44%) SCCM
10 8 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.16%) Podman
12 5 (0.16%) vRealize
13 4 (0.13%) Istio
14 3 (0.094%) Argo
14 3 (0.094%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.094%) vMotion
14 3 (0.094%) WSUS
15 2 (0.063%) CA Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.063%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 465 (14.59%) Microsoft
2 271 (8.50%) SAP
3 195 (6.12%) ServiceNow
4 159 (4.99%) Oracle
5 93 (2.92%) Salesforce
6 67 (2.10%) Google
7 63 (1.98%) Databricks
8 54 (1.69%) Cisco
9 50 (1.57%) CyberArk
10 49 (1.54%) VMware
11 42 (1.32%) IBM
12 41 (1.29%) BeyondTrust
12 41 (1.29%) Workday
13 34 (1.07%) Centrify
14 28 (0.88%) Splunk
15 26 (0.82%) Aruba
16 23 (0.72%) Palo Alto
17 22 (0.69%) Red Hat
18 21 (0.66%) OpenAI
18 21 (0.66%) Sparx
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