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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 95 155
Rank change year-on-year +71 +60 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,986 812 708
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.29% 2.69% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.40% 2.99% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,058 503 480
10th Percentile £364 £400 £363
25th Percentile £438 £456 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £659
90th Percentile £738 £751 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 11 37
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 -
25th Percentile £19.21 £26.88 £27.81
Median hourly rate £54.00 £49.51 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.08% +30.28% +85.37%
75th Percentile £69.52 £68.22 £56.49
90th Percentile £94.25 £83.75 £59.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.61 £54.65 £56.49
% change year-on-year +1.76% -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 35,552 27,150 38,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.77% 89.86% 87.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,564 16,816 25,267
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £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 £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 854 2,192
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £33.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.91% -2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £60.90 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.43 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 24 February 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 +69 2,599 £525 -4.11% 631
UK excluding London +66 1,395 £500 -4.76% 515
London +72 1,226 £550 - 240
Work from Home +72 854 £525 -4.55% 268
North of England +42 346 £500 - 122
South East +43 342 £500 -8.68% 187
Midlands +41 286 £500 -4.76% 105
South West +46 196 £524 -12.67% 45
West Midlands +32 186 £500 -11.11% 65
North West +35 161 £475 -4.43% 63
Yorkshire +22 150 £523 -0.48% 47
East Midlands +19 99 £475 +11.76% 39
East of England +35 96 £525 +5.00% 30
Scotland +43 93 £450 -16.86% 18
North East +14 38 £450 -32.46% 15
Wales +19 30 £400 -33.33% 10
Northern Ireland +11 13 £475 - 2
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
1 163 (5.46%) Confluence
2 116 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.50%) SAS
5 12 (0.40%) CMS
6 10 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.23%) Apache
8 6 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.17%) Appian
10 4 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.13%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.10%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.10%) Drupal
11 3 (0.10%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.10%) Smallworld
11 3 (0.10%) WordPress
12 2 (0.067%) Moodle
12 2 (0.067%) nginx
12 2 (0.067%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 176 (5.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 82 (2.75%) Microsoft Project
3 67 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 63 (2.11%) MS Visio
5 60 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.33%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.10%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.10%) Notion
9 3 (0.10%) Revit
9 3 (0.10%) Trello
10 2 (0.067%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.067%) Camtasia
10 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.067%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.067%) Sketch
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.033%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 130 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.57%) SAP PP
5 15 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.50%) SAP FI
6 13 (0.44%) SAP MM
7 12 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 11 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
8 11 (0.37%) SAP ERP
9 10 (0.33%) Teamcenter
10 9 (0.30%) SAP HR
10 9 (0.30%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.27%) NEC Housing
11 8 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
11 8 (0.27%) SAP CO
12 7 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 7 (0.23%) OpenText VIM for SAP
12 7 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
13 6 (0.20%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 547 (18.32%) Azure
2 339 (11.35%) AWS
3 247 (8.27%) Power Platform
4 145 (4.86%) GCP
5 139 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
6 111 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
7 105 (3.52%) SaaS
8 89 (2.98%) Entra ID
9 69 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
10 60 (2.01%) GitHub
11 49 (1.64%) OCI
12 47 (1.57%) Serverless
13 40 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
15 35 (1.17%) Power Automate
16 33 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
17 31 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
17 31 (1.04%) PaaS
18 30 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
18 30 (1.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.21%) Firewall
2 45 (1.51%) Network Security
3 27 (0.90%) DNS
3 27 (0.90%) WAN
4 25 (0.84%) LAN
5 22 (0.74%) VPN
6 15 (0.50%) SD-WAN
7 14 (0.47%) BGP
7 14 (0.47%) MPLS
8 10 (0.33%) DHCP
9 9 (0.30%) Internet
9 9 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.30%) Wireless
10 8 (0.27%) VLAN
11 7 (0.23%) Kerberos
11 7 (0.23%) VSAN
12 6 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (0.20%) OSPF
12 6 (0.20%) WLAN
13 5 (0.17%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (6.50%) Power BI
2 69 (2.31%) Metadata
3 58 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (1.47%) Tableau
5 41 (1.37%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.84%) Data Lake
7 20 (0.67%) Power Query
8 18 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
8 18 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
9 17 (0.57%) Relational Database
10 16 (0.54%) MySQL
10 16 (0.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 16 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
11 15 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
12 13 (0.44%) Data Vault
13 12 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (0.40%) Big Data
13 12 (0.40%) Delta Lake
13 12 (0.40%) DynamoDB
14 11 (0.37%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 265 (8.87%) JIRA
2 45 (1.51%) GitLab
3 41 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.00%) Git
5 20 (0.67%) Selenium
6 15 (0.50%) Cucumber
7 14 (0.47%) Postman
8 8 (0.27%) JUnit
8 8 (0.27%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.23%) JMeter
9 7 (0.23%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.20%) ERwin
10 6 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.20%) TestRail
11 4 (0.13%) Gatling
11 4 (0.13%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.13%) MLflow
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.13%) Robot Framework
General
1 1,537 (51.47%) Social Skills
2 853 (28.57%) Finance
3 480 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
4 479 (16.04%) Public Sector
5 198 (6.63%) Banking
6 151 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
7 133 (4.45%) Documentation Skills
8 108 (3.62%) Legal
9 85 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
10 78 (2.61%) Manufacturing
11 70 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
12 69 (2.31%) Retail
13 66 (2.21%) Telecoms
14 64 (2.14%) Marketing
15 55 (1.84%) Local Government
16 46 (1.54%) Financial Institution
17 32 (1.07%) Aerospace
17 32 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
18 31 (1.04%) Law
19 29 (0.97%) Military
Job Titles
1 572 (19.16%) Analyst
2 418 (14.00%) Business Analyst
3 404 (13.53%) Architect
4 365 (12.22%) Lead
5 275 (9.21%) Consultant
6 256 (8.57%) Project Manager
7 251 (8.41%) Senior
8 142 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
9 91 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
10 89 (2.98%) Developer
10 89 (2.98%) Programme Manager
11 79 (2.65%) Change Manager
12 70 (2.34%) Senior Business Analyst
13 65 (2.18%) Data Analyst
14 58 (1.94%) Designer
15 52 (1.74%) Delivery Manager
16 48 (1.61%) Data Engineer
17 46 (1.54%) SAP Consultant
18 43 (1.44%) Senior Manager
19 42 (1.41%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (3.72%) REST
2 59 (1.98%) SOAP
3 54 (1.81%) LDAP
4 44 (1.47%) .NET
5 38 (1.27%) Middleware
5 38 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
6 36 (1.21%) OAuth
7 34 (1.14%) OpenID
8 26 (0.87%) Node.js
8 26 (0.87%) XML
9 22 (0.74%) React
9 22 (0.74%) SAP Fiori
9 22 (0.74%) Spring
10 20 (0.67%) Kafka
10 20 (0.67%) RESTful
11 19 (0.64%) CSS
11 19 (0.64%) SailPoint
11 19 (0.64%) SAML
11 19 (0.64%) Spring Boot
12 18 (0.60%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 181 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 142 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 95 (3.18%) Cloud Native
4 88 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
5 65 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
5 65 (2.18%) Management Information System
6 64 (2.14%) Security Posture
7 61 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
8 52 (1.74%) Data Structures
8 52 (1.74%) NHS
9 49 (1.64%) Data Centre
10 43 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
11 41 (1.37%) PMI
12 37 (1.24%) AI Agents
12 37 (1.24%) CMDB
12 37 (1.24%) Operational Technology
13 35 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
14 28 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
15 27 (0.90%) Virtual Team
16 21 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 76 (2.55%) Windows
2 37 (1.24%) Linux
3 21 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.17%) Unix
6 5 (0.17%) VMS
7 3 (0.10%) Android
7 3 (0.10%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.033%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 761 (25.49%) Agile
2 600 (20.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 496 (16.61%) Continuous Improvement
4 468 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
5 445 (14.90%) Migration
6 420 (14.07%) Roadmaps
7 410 (13.73%) Change Management
8 350 (11.72%) Project Management
9 346 (11.59%) Workshop Facilitation
10 343 (11.49%) Decision-Making
11 313 (10.48%) Analytics
12 291 (9.75%) DevOps
13 277 (9.28%) Risk Management
14 256 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
15 249 (8.34%) Requirements Gathering
16 247 (8.27%) AI
17 237 (7.94%) ERP
18 226 (7.57%) Project Delivery
19 220 (7.37%) Data Governance
20 210 (7.03%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 237 (7.94%) SQL
2 222 (7.43%) Python
3 110 (3.68%) PowerShell
4 75 (2.51%) Java
5 57 (1.91%) JavaScript
6 42 (1.41%) C#
7 31 (1.04%) TypeScript
8 29 (0.97%) Bash
9 27 (0.90%) Bicep
10 23 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 18 (0.60%) R
12 13 (0.44%) ABAP
13 11 (0.37%) PHP
13 11 (0.37%) VBA
14 10 (0.33%) Korn
14 10 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.20%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.17%) C++
18 4 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 650 (21.77%) Security Cleared
2 536 (17.95%) SC Cleared
3 271 (9.08%) Degree
4 101 (3.38%) PMI Certification
5 96 (3.22%) DV Cleared
6 93 (3.11%) PMP
7 83 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 57 (1.91%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.74%) CISSP
10 44 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 37 (1.24%) CISM
12 34 (1.14%) Azure Certification
13 32 (1.07%) ACCA
14 30 (1.00%) CIMA
15 25 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
16 22 (0.74%) AWS Certification
16 22 (0.74%) CBAP
16 22 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
17 20 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
17 20 (0.67%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (5.43%) QA
2 161 (5.39%) Data Quality
3 147 (4.92%) GDPR
4 119 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 108 (3.62%) NIST
6 106 (3.55%) PMO
7 79 (2.65%) Accessibility
8 58 (1.94%) GRC
9 44 (1.47%) PCI DSS
10 30 (1.00%) NCSC
11 28 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 27 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
13 18 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
14 17 (0.57%) Basel III
15 16 (0.54%) SLA
16 14 (0.47%) PSD2
17 11 (0.37%) COBIT
17 11 (0.37%) WCAG
18 10 (0.33%) ISO 20022
18 10 (0.33%) JSP 440
System Software
1 113 (3.78%) Active Directory
2 70 (2.34%) Docker
3 29 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.50%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.40%) vSphere
6 8 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.17%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.10%) NFS
9 3 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.033%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.033%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 118 (3.95%) Terraform
2 99 (3.32%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.11%) Ansible
4 27 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (0.50%) SCCM
6 13 (0.44%) Grafana
7 10 (0.33%) HP ALM
7 10 (0.33%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.20%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.13%) Control-M
10 4 (0.13%) Istio
10 4 (0.13%) Podman
11 3 (0.10%) Argo
11 3 (0.10%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.10%) Nessus
11 3 (0.10%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.10%) vMotion
11 3 (0.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 437 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 272 (9.11%) SAP
3 161 (5.39%) ServiceNow
4 154 (5.16%) Oracle
5 100 (3.35%) Salesforce
6 74 (2.48%) Google
7 68 (2.28%) Cisco
8 58 (1.94%) Databricks
9 53 (1.77%) CyberArk
10 47 (1.57%) VMware
10 47 (1.57%) Workday
11 39 (1.31%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.17%) Aruba
12 35 (1.17%) Centrify
13 25 (0.84%) IBM
14 24 (0.80%) Palo Alto
15 23 (0.77%) Red Hat
15 23 (0.77%) Splunk
16 21 (0.70%) OpenAI
17 20 (0.67%) Adobe