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 3 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 3 months to
12 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 49 132
Rank change year-on-year +23 +83 +23
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 1,688 682 350
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.57% 4.32% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.80% 4.74% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,134 445 240
10th Percentile £368 £363 £363
25th Percentile £438 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £633 £638 £675
90th Percentile £748 £733 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 10 12
10th Percentile £34.90 £22.99 £18.35
25th Percentile £55.00 £31.26 £33.09
Median hourly rate £82.50 £37.43 £63.92
Median % change year-on-year +120.40% -41.43% +67.54%
75th Percentile £88.00 £66.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £97.00 £73.90 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £84.25 £49.78 £63.92
% change year-on-year +69.26% -22.12% +200.07%

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 21,648 14,399 17,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.27% 91.16% 86.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,435 9,053 11,441
10th Percentile £331 £305 £304
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £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 1,329 656 1,155
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £16.50 £18.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -9.47%
75th Percentile £69.50 £56.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.75 £71.88 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.43 £22.14 £43.00
% change year-on-year +136.79% -48.51% +1.18%

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 3 months to 12 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 3 months to 12 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 3 months to 12 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
England +26 1,449 £525 - 901
UK excluding London +38 837 £513 +1.99% 662
London +22 648 £550 - 373
Work from Home +33 535 £525 +5.00% 451
South East +18 216 £575 +19.79% 211
North of England +32 207 £488 -2.35% 150
Midlands +19 154 £510 +1.90% 106
West Midlands +11 118 £510 +7.37% 71
North West +28 109 £488 -3.85% 79
South West +9 101 £510 -7.27% 89
Yorkshire +15 73 £500 +5.26% 52
Scotland +27 72 £475 -13.40% 48
East of England +29 66 £575 +1.41% 47
East Midlands +9 32 £500 - 33
North East +8 29 £450 -25.77% 20
Wales +4 21 £500 +63.40% 16
Northern Ireland +15 10 £449 -22.84% 7

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
1 183 (5.82%) Confluence
2 92 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 21 (0.67%) SAS
4 18 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.45%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.38%) CMS
8 11 (0.35%) Apache
9 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.13%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.095%) Appian
10 3 (0.095%) Drupal
11 2 (0.064%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.064%) Camunda
11 2 (0.064%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.064%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.064%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.064%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.064%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 153 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
3 67 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 63 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
5 56 (1.78%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.13%) Sketch
7 4 (0.13%) Trello
8 3 (0.095%) Notion
9 2 (0.064%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.064%) InVision
10 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.032%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.032%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.032%) CATIA
10 1 (0.032%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.032%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 133 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.45%) Teamcenter
5 10 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.32%) SAP PP
6 9 (0.29%) NEC Housing
6 9 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.29%) SAP FI
6 9 (0.29%) SAP QM
7 8 (0.25%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.25%) SAP ERP
7 8 (0.25%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 6 (0.19%) Finacle
9 6 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 6 (0.19%) Loan IQ
9 6 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.19%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 590 (18.76%) Azure
2 413 (13.13%) AWS
3 295 (9.38%) Power Platform
4 158 (5.02%) GCP
5 121 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
6 103 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
8 98 (3.12%) SaaS
9 89 (2.83%) Entra ID
10 61 (1.94%) GitHub
11 41 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
11 41 (1.30%) Serverless
12 40 (1.27%) PaaS
13 37 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (1.05%) Power Automate
15 31 (0.99%) OCI
16 30 (0.95%) Amazon S3
16 30 (0.95%) PowerApps
17 29 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
17 29 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.56%) Firewall
2 39 (1.24%) Network Security
3 34 (1.08%) DNS
4 25 (0.79%) VPN
5 23 (0.73%) WAN
6 21 (0.67%) LAN
7 15 (0.48%) Internet
8 12 (0.38%) SD-WAN
8 12 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.38%) Wireless
9 11 (0.35%) BGP
10 10 (0.32%) DHCP
10 10 (0.32%) VLAN
11 9 (0.29%) TCP/IP
12 8 (0.25%) Intranet
12 8 (0.25%) OSPF
12 8 (0.25%) SSL
12 8 (0.25%) VSAN
13 7 (0.22%) MPLS
13 7 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (8.04%) Power BI
2 68 (2.16%) Metadata
3 59 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (1.24%) Tableau
5 29 (0.92%) Data Lake
6 28 (0.89%) SQL Server
7 25 (0.79%) Relational Database
8 24 (0.76%) Power Query
9 21 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
10 15 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
11 14 (0.45%) Big Data
12 13 (0.41%) MySQL
13 12 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
13 12 (0.38%) NoSQL
14 10 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.32%) Data Vault
14 10 (0.32%) DynamoDB
15 9 (0.29%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 285 (9.06%) JIRA
2 51 (1.62%) Git
2 51 (1.62%) Jenkins
3 47 (1.49%) GitLab
4 30 (0.95%) Rational DOORS
5 25 (0.79%) Postman
5 25 (0.79%) Selenium
6 18 (0.57%) Cucumber
7 16 (0.51%) JMeter
8 15 (0.48%) Hudson
9 11 (0.35%) JUnit
10 9 (0.29%) WebDriver
11 8 (0.25%) MLflow
11 8 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.19%) LoadRunner
13 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.19%) TestRail
14 5 (0.16%) ERwin
15 4 (0.13%) NeoLoad
General
1 1,478 (47.00%) Social Skills
2 936 (29.76%) Finance
3 489 (15.55%) Analytical Skills
4 480 (15.26%) Public Sector
5 193 (6.14%) Banking
6 136 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
7 118 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
8 114 (3.62%) Legal
9 89 (2.83%) Retail
10 85 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
11 78 (2.48%) Manufacturing
12 73 (2.32%) Law
13 63 (2.00%) Aerospace
14 61 (1.94%) Local Government
15 56 (1.78%) Marketing
16 55 (1.75%) Telecoms
17 52 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
18 41 (1.30%) Military
19 33 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 33 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 581 (18.47%) Analyst
2 457 (14.53%) Architect
3 410 (13.04%) Lead
4 405 (12.88%) Business Analyst
5 283 (9.00%) Senior
6 282 (8.97%) Project Manager
7 226 (7.19%) Consultant
8 117 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
9 93 (2.96%) Delivery Manager
10 89 (2.83%) Senior Analyst
11 85 (2.70%) Programme Manager
12 83 (2.64%) Change Manager
13 75 (2.38%) Data Analyst
14 71 (2.26%) Senior Manager
15 70 (2.23%) Developer
16 65 (2.07%) Senior Business Analyst
17 63 (2.00%) Designer
18 59 (1.88%) IT Manager
19 55 (1.75%) Product Manager
20 52 (1.65%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (3.31%) REST
2 58 (1.84%) SOAP
3 54 (1.72%) LDAP
4 48 (1.53%) Middleware
5 38 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
6 33 (1.05%) Spring
7 30 (0.95%) OpenID
8 29 (0.92%) SailPoint
9 27 (0.86%) .NET
9 27 (0.86%) React
10 25 (0.79%) Spring Boot
11 24 (0.76%) Kafka
11 24 (0.76%) OAuth
12 19 (0.60%) Node.js
12 19 (0.60%) PySpark
13 17 (0.54%) ADO
13 17 (0.54%) AngularJS
13 17 (0.54%) JSON
13 17 (0.54%) RESTful
13 17 (0.54%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 212 (6.74%) Product Ownership
2 145 (4.61%) Onboarding
3 119 (3.78%) Cloud Native
4 82 (2.61%) Data Structures
5 76 (2.42%) Management Information System
6 69 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
7 67 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 65 (2.07%) Operational Technology
9 61 (1.94%) Security Posture
10 56 (1.78%) Data Centre
11 52 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
12 46 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
13 45 (1.43%) NHS
14 40 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
15 39 (1.24%) Virtual Team
16 38 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
17 33 (1.05%) AI Agents
17 33 (1.05%) CMDB
18 31 (0.99%) PMI
19 27 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 83 (2.64%) Windows
2 41 (1.30%) Linux
3 16 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (0.41%) Windows 10
4 13 (0.41%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.29%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.29%) Unix
6 8 (0.25%) VMS
7 5 (0.16%) Android
7 5 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.095%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 854 (27.15%) Agile
2 607 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
3 602 (19.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 462 (14.69%) Migration
5 433 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
6 422 (13.42%) Change Management
7 416 (13.23%) Decision-Making
7 416 (13.23%) Roadmaps
8 379 (12.05%) Workshop Facilitation
9 328 (10.43%) DevOps
9 328 (10.43%) Project Management
10 310 (9.86%) Analytics
11 298 (9.48%) ERP
12 296 (9.41%) Risk Management
13 294 (9.35%) AI
14 293 (9.32%) Business Intelligence
15 251 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
16 250 (7.95%) Project Delivery
17 245 (7.79%) User Acceptance Testing
18 244 (7.76%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 241 (7.66%) SQL
2 234 (7.44%) Python
3 100 (3.18%) Java
4 73 (2.32%) PowerShell
5 44 (1.40%) JavaScript
6 33 (1.05%) C#
7 30 (0.95%) TypeScript
8 29 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 24 (0.76%) Bash
10 18 (0.57%) VBA
11 16 (0.51%) Bicep
12 14 (0.45%) R
13 12 (0.38%) Scala
14 11 (0.35%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.32%) PHP
16 9 (0.29%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.29%) Korn
17 7 (0.22%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.19%) ABAP
19 4 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 773 (24.58%) Security Cleared
2 609 (19.36%) SC Cleared
3 257 (8.17%) Degree
4 121 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 118 (3.75%) PMI Certification
6 115 (3.66%) PMP
7 107 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 68 (2.16%) CISSP
9 48 (1.53%) CISM
10 40 (1.27%) Azure Certification
11 39 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
12 35 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
13 32 (1.02%) Master's Degree
14 31 (0.99%) ACCA
15 30 (0.95%) CIMA
16 29 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 25 (0.79%) AWS Certification
18 23 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
18 23 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
19 22 (0.70%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (6.30%) Data Quality
2 162 (5.15%) QA
3 159 (5.06%) PMO
4 134 (4.26%) NIST
5 126 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 124 (3.94%) GDPR
7 79 (2.51%) Accessibility
8 58 (1.84%) GRC
9 31 (0.99%) SLA
10 27 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
11 26 (0.83%) NCSC
11 26 (0.83%) PCI DSS
12 21 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.54%) WCAG
14 16 (0.51%) SOC 2
15 14 (0.45%) ISO 20022
16 13 (0.41%) Basel III
16 13 (0.41%) COBIT
17 12 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 10 (0.32%) Def Stans
System Software
1 100 (3.18%) Active Directory
2 56 (1.78%) Docker
3 23 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.32%) vSphere
6 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.095%) NFS
9 3 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.032%) Firmware
10 1 (0.032%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.032%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 102 (3.24%) Terraform
2 99 (3.15%) Kubernetes
3 27 (0.86%) Grafana
4 26 (0.83%) Ansible
5 25 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.45%) SCCM
9 13 (0.41%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.16%) vRealize
12 4 (0.13%) Istio
12 4 (0.13%) Podman
13 3 (0.095%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.095%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 3 (0.095%) vMotion
13 3 (0.095%) WSUS
14 2 (0.064%) CA Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.064%) Nessus
Vendors
1 456 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 254 (8.08%) SAP
3 176 (5.60%) ServiceNow
4 141 (4.48%) Oracle
5 88 (2.80%) Salesforce
6 74 (2.35%) Databricks
7 61 (1.94%) Google
8 47 (1.49%) CyberArk
9 44 (1.40%) IBM
10 43 (1.37%) VMware
11 39 (1.24%) BeyondTrust
12 38 (1.21%) Cisco
13 37 (1.18%) Splunk
14 34 (1.08%) Centrify
15 31 (0.99%) Workday
16 21 (0.67%) Adobe
17 20 (0.64%) Dynatrace
17 20 (0.64%) Zscaler
18 19 (0.60%) Palo Alto
19 17 (0.54%) IFS
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