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

 6 months to
7 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 91 158
Rank change year-on-year +66 +67 -8
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,078 857 709
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.21% 2.80% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.35% 3.10% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,110 545 480
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £442 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £536
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £633 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £751 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +3.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 12 38
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.10 £22.83
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.44 £27.81
Median hourly rate £60.00 £48.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.70% +32.88% +78.05%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.45 £56.49
90th Percentile - £82.75 £59.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £47.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +26.32% -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 36,884 27,639 38,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.36% 90.19% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,378 17,377 25,379
10th Percentile £313 £306 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -2.58% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,184 915 2,310
10th Percentile £14.72 £15.62 £13.16
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.03 £16.06
Median hourly rate £28.00 £32.81 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.66% +0.95% -7.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £58.64
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.95 £71.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £32.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year -21.30% -0.77% -7.14%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +67 2,677 £525 -3.67% 863
UK excluding London +58 1,448 £500 -4.76% 689
London +68 1,261 £550 - 315
Work from Home +62 873 £525 -4.55% 381
South East +46 365 £500 -9.09% 223
North of England +39 351 £500 - 161
Midlands +36 298 £500 -0.10% 145
South West +40 198 £524 -12.67% 78
West Midlands +35 197 £500 -9.09% 78
North West +39 165 £475 -4.71% 84
Yorkshire +14 148 £516 +0.73% 60
East Midlands +17 100 £475 +8.57% 65
East of England +32 98 £525 +5.00% 37
Scotland +45 94 £450 -18.18% 25
North East +17 41 £454 -10.59% 19
Wales +22 32 £400 -33.33% 21
Northern Ireland +14 19 £475 - 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
1 173 (5.62%) Confluence
2 120 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.55%) SAS
5 12 (0.39%) CMS
6 9 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.19%) Apache
9 5 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.13%) Appian
10 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.13%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.097%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.097%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.097%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.097%) Smallworld
11 3 (0.097%) WordPress
12 2 (0.065%) Moodle
12 2 (0.065%) nginx
12 2 (0.065%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 170 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
3 63 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (1.98%) MS Visio
5 59 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
6 11 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.16%) Trello
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
10 3 (0.097%) Notion
11 2 (0.065%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.065%) Camtasia
11 2 (0.065%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.065%) Sketch
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.032%) CATIA
12 1 (0.032%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 130 (4.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.52%) SAP PP
5 15 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.49%) SAP FI
6 12 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
7 11 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 11 (0.36%) SAP ERP
7 11 (0.36%) SAP MM
8 9 (0.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 9 (0.29%) SAP HR
8 9 (0.29%) Teamcenter
9 8 (0.26%) NEC Housing
9 8 (0.26%) Primavera
9 8 (0.26%) SAP CO
9 8 (0.26%) Workday HCM
10 7 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 7 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
10 7 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 587 (19.07%) Azure
2 372 (12.09%) AWS
3 262 (8.51%) Power Platform
4 158 (5.13%) GCP
5 143 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
6 117 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
7 111 (3.61%) SaaS
8 94 (3.05%) Entra ID
9 72 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
10 62 (2.01%) GitHub
11 48 (1.56%) OCI
11 48 (1.56%) Serverless
12 41 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
13 40 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
15 35 (1.14%) Power Automate
16 33 (1.07%) PaaS
17 32 (1.04%) PowerApps
18 31 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
19 28 (0.91%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.21%) Firewall
2 45 (1.46%) Network Security
3 28 (0.91%) DNS
3 28 (0.91%) WAN
4 27 (0.88%) VPN
5 26 (0.84%) LAN
6 15 (0.49%) BGP
6 15 (0.49%) SD-WAN
7 14 (0.45%) MPLS
8 10 (0.32%) Internet
9 9 (0.29%) DHCP
9 9 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.29%) Wireless
10 8 (0.26%) VLAN
10 8 (0.26%) VSAN
11 6 (0.19%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 6 (0.19%) NAS
11 6 (0.19%) OSPF
11 6 (0.19%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (6.73%) Power BI
2 71 (2.31%) Metadata
3 64 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (1.46%) Tableau
5 41 (1.33%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.81%) Data Lake
7 23 (0.75%) Power Query
8 20 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
9 18 (0.58%) Relational Database
10 17 (0.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 17 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
11 16 (0.52%) MySQL
12 15 (0.49%) Snowflake Schema
13 14 (0.45%) Data Vault
14 13 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
15 12 (0.39%) Big Data
15 12 (0.39%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.36%) Delta Lake
16 11 (0.36%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 278 (9.03%) JIRA
2 44 (1.43%) GitLab
2 44 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 32 (1.04%) Git
4 21 (0.68%) Selenium
5 19 (0.62%) Rational DOORS
6 16 (0.52%) Postman
7 15 (0.49%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.32%) JMeter
9 9 (0.29%) JUnit
10 8 (0.26%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.23%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.19%) ERwin
12 6 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
12 6 (0.19%) TestRail
13 5 (0.16%) Hudson
13 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.13%) MLflow
14 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
14 4 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 1,566 (50.88%) Social Skills
2 883 (28.69%) Finance
3 505 (16.41%) Public Sector
4 486 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 201 (6.53%) Banking
6 155 (5.04%) Influencing Skills
7 138 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
8 109 (3.54%) Legal
9 83 (2.70%) Manufacturing
9 83 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
10 74 (2.40%) Retail
11 73 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
12 65 (2.11%) Marketing
13 61 (1.98%) Telecoms
14 59 (1.92%) Local Government
15 47 (1.53%) Aerospace
16 45 (1.46%) Financial Institution
17 37 (1.20%) Law
18 33 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
19 30 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 589 (19.14%) Analyst
2 431 (14.00%) Business Analyst
3 417 (13.55%) Architect
4 372 (12.09%) Lead
5 281 (9.13%) Consultant
6 271 (8.80%) Project Manager
7 262 (8.51%) Senior
8 139 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
9 96 (3.12%) Programme Manager
10 95 (3.09%) Developer
11 92 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
12 80 (2.60%) Change Manager
13 72 (2.34%) Delivery Manager
14 71 (2.31%) Senior Business Analyst
15 70 (2.27%) Data Analyst
16 56 (1.82%) Designer
17 51 (1.66%) Product Manager
18 47 (1.53%) Data Engineer
19 44 (1.43%) Business Manager
19 44 (1.43%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (3.64%) REST
2 58 (1.88%) SOAP
3 53 (1.72%) LDAP
4 45 (1.46%) .NET
5 41 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
6 38 (1.23%) Middleware
7 34 (1.10%) OAuth
7 34 (1.10%) OpenID
8 26 (0.84%) Node.js
9 24 (0.78%) React
9 24 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
9 24 (0.78%) Spring
9 24 (0.78%) XML
10 21 (0.68%) Kafka
11 20 (0.65%) RESTful
11 20 (0.65%) Spring Boot
12 19 (0.62%) SAML
13 18 (0.58%) CSS
13 18 (0.58%) OAuth2
13 18 (0.58%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 204 (6.63%) Product Ownership
2 149 (4.84%) Onboarding
3 99 (3.22%) Cloud Native
4 84 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
5 66 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 64 (2.08%) Security Posture
7 63 (2.05%) Data Structures
8 62 (2.01%) Management Information System
9 60 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
10 55 (1.79%) NHS
11 52 (1.69%) Data Centre
12 43 (1.40%) PMI
13 42 (1.36%) Operational Technology
14 41 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
15 38 (1.23%) CMDB
16 37 (1.20%) AI Agents
16 37 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
17 28 (0.91%) Virtual Team
18 26 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
18 26 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 80 (2.60%) Windows
2 40 (1.30%) Linux
3 21 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.62%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.16%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.16%) Unix
6 5 (0.16%) VMS
7 3 (0.097%) Android
7 3 (0.097%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.032%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.032%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 799 (25.96%) Agile
2 620 (20.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 539 (17.51%) Continuous Improvement
4 481 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
5 471 (15.30%) Migration
6 445 (14.46%) Roadmaps
7 416 (13.52%) Change Management
8 371 (12.05%) Workshop Facilitation
9 356 (11.57%) Project Management
10 350 (11.37%) Decision-Making
11 327 (10.62%) Analytics
12 306 (9.94%) DevOps
13 287 (9.32%) Risk Management
14 275 (8.93%) Business Intelligence
15 260 (8.45%) AI
16 253 (8.22%) Requirements Gathering
17 250 (8.12%) ERP
18 239 (7.76%) Project Delivery
19 221 (7.18%) ITIL
20 216 (7.02%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 250 (8.12%) SQL
2 234 (7.60%) Python
3 107 (3.48%) PowerShell
4 85 (2.76%) Java
5 55 (1.79%) JavaScript
6 43 (1.40%) C#
7 32 (1.04%) TypeScript
8 30 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 28 (0.91%) Bash
10 21 (0.68%) Bicep
11 18 (0.58%) R
12 14 (0.45%) ABAP
13 13 (0.42%) VBA
14 11 (0.36%) PHP
15 9 (0.29%) Korn
16 8 (0.26%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.26%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.23%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
18 4 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 698 (22.68%) Security Cleared
2 561 (18.23%) SC Cleared
3 285 (9.26%) Degree
4 109 (3.54%) PMI Certification
5 100 (3.25%) DV Cleared
6 98 (3.18%) PMP
7 89 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 54 (1.75%) CISSP
8 54 (1.75%) Master's Degree
9 44 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 39 (1.27%) Azure Certification
10 39 (1.27%) CISM
11 32 (1.04%) ACCA
12 30 (0.97%) CIMA
12 30 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
13 29 (0.94%) AWS Certification
14 23 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
14 23 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (0.68%) CBAP
16 20 (0.65%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (5.69%) Data Quality
2 173 (5.62%) QA
3 144 (4.68%) GDPR
4 127 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 117 (3.80%) NIST
6 107 (3.48%) PMO
7 77 (2.50%) Accessibility
8 59 (1.92%) GRC
9 45 (1.46%) PCI DSS
10 31 (1.01%) NCSC
11 29 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
12 28 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 24 (0.78%) SLA
14 17 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
15 16 (0.52%) Basel III
16 15 (0.49%) PSD2
17 12 (0.39%) COBIT
18 10 (0.32%) ISO 20022
18 10 (0.32%) JSP 440
18 10 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 116 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 68 (2.21%) Docker
3 31 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.52%) VMware NSX
5 14 (0.45%) vSphere
6 7 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.097%) NFS
8 3 (0.097%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.032%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.032%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 114 (3.70%) Terraform
2 99 (3.22%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.14%) Ansible
4 30 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.58%) SCCM
7 14 (0.45%) Grafana
7 14 (0.45%) HP ALM
8 11 (0.36%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.23%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.13%) Control-M
11 4 (0.13%) Istio
11 4 (0.13%) Podman
12 3 (0.097%) Argo
12 3 (0.097%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.097%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.097%) vMotion
12 3 (0.097%) vRealize
12 3 (0.097%) VxRail
Vendors
1 443 (14.39%) Microsoft
2 271 (8.80%) SAP
3 167 (5.43%) ServiceNow
4 158 (5.13%) Oracle
5 92 (2.99%) Salesforce
6 76 (2.47%) Google
7 70 (2.27%) Cisco
8 58 (1.88%) Databricks
9 53 (1.72%) CyberArk
10 49 (1.59%) VMware
11 45 (1.46%) Workday
12 40 (1.30%) BeyondTrust
13 39 (1.27%) IBM
14 36 (1.17%) Aruba
15 35 (1.14%) Centrify
16 25 (0.81%) Palo Alto
16 25 (0.81%) Splunk
17 23 (0.75%) Red Hat
18 21 (0.68%) OpenAI
19 20 (0.65%) Adobe
979 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide