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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 84 155
Rank change year-on-year +59 +71 +3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,121 851 705
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.21% 2.90% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.39% 3.21% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,140 563 479
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £443 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.28% +2.05% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +3.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 14 39
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.30 £18.35
25th Percentile £30.71 £26.56 £27.81
Median hourly rate £61.50 £49.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.24% +35.62% +78.05%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.98 £56.91
90th Percentile £92.05 £81.20 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £54.65 £56.49
% change year-on-year +18.95% -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 37,207 26,505 38,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 90.41% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,564 17,019 25,049
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £744 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,206 924 2,336
10th Percentile £14.93 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.99 £16.05
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.52 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.41 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.64 £31.50
% change year-on-year -13.08% +0.44% -10.00%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +60 2,722 £525 - 828
UK excluding London +59 1,485 £500 -4.76% 636
London +65 1,275 £550 - 324
Work from Home +62 892 £525 -4.55% 383
South East +42 388 £500 -8.68% 205
North of England +44 360 £500 - 153
Midlands +33 299 £500 - 131
West Midlands +32 200 £500 -4.76% 78
South West +45 198 £525 -12.50% 71
North West +45 180 £475 -5.00% 73
Yorkshire +11 141 £513 +5.13% 60
East of England +36 104 £533 +6.50% 37
East Midlands +5 96 £475 +8.57% 53
Scotland +40 91 £450 -18.18% 30
North East +17 42 £450 -11.33% 22
Wales +17 31 £405 -22.86% 16
Northern Ireland +18 21 £450 - 4
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
1 175 (5.61%) Confluence
2 117 (3.75%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (0.58%) SAS
5 13 (0.42%) CMS
6 9 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.19%) Apache
7 6 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.096%) Appian
10 3 (0.096%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.096%) Smallworld
10 3 (0.096%) WordPress
11 2 (0.064%) Drupal
11 2 (0.064%) Moodle
11 2 (0.064%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.064%) nginx
Applications
1 159 (5.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
3 62 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.89%) MS Visio
5 58 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.38%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.16%) Trello
9 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
10 3 (0.096%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.096%) Notion
10 3 (0.096%) Sketch
11 2 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.064%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.032%) CATIA
12 1 (0.032%) InVision
12 1 (0.032%) Revit
12 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 131 (4.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.51%) SAP FI
5 16 (0.51%) SAP PP
6 11 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 11 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 10 (0.32%) SAP HR
7 10 (0.32%) SAP MM
7 10 (0.32%) Workday HCM
8 9 (0.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 9 (0.29%) Teamcenter
9 8 (0.26%) NEC Housing
9 8 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.26%) SAP CO
10 7 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 7 (0.22%) Primavera
10 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
11 6 (0.19%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 599 (19.19%) Azure
2 382 (12.24%) AWS
3 273 (8.75%) Power Platform
4 164 (5.25%) GCP
5 140 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
6 115 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
7 102 (3.27%) SaaS
8 96 (3.08%) Entra ID
9 85 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
10 61 (1.95%) GitHub
11 50 (1.60%) OCI
12 46 (1.47%) Serverless
13 40 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
14 38 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
15 36 (1.15%) Power Automate
16 35 (1.12%) PaaS
17 34 (1.09%) PowerApps
18 29 (0.93%) IaaS
19 28 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 64 (2.05%) Firewall
2 48 (1.54%) Network Security
3 32 (1.03%) DNS
4 31 (0.99%) WAN
5 29 (0.93%) LAN
6 28 (0.90%) VPN
7 18 (0.58%) SD-WAN
8 16 (0.51%) BGP
9 14 (0.45%) MPLS
10 12 (0.38%) Internet
11 11 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.32%) DHCP
12 10 (0.32%) VSAN
12 10 (0.32%) Wireless
13 9 (0.29%) VLAN
14 7 (0.22%) OSPF
14 7 (0.22%) WLAN
15 6 (0.19%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (0.19%) Intranet
15 6 (0.19%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (7.02%) Power BI
2 75 (2.40%) Metadata
3 65 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (1.51%) Tableau
5 38 (1.22%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.80%) Data Lake
7 22 (0.70%) Power Query
8 20 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
9 19 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
10 18 (0.58%) Relational Database
11 17 (0.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 16 (0.51%) MySQL
12 16 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
13 14 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (0.45%) Data Vault
14 13 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
15 12 (0.38%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.35%) Big Data
16 11 (0.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 283 (9.07%) JIRA
2 48 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 47 (1.51%) GitLab
4 35 (1.12%) Git
5 29 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
6 25 (0.80%) Selenium
7 18 (0.58%) Postman
8 17 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.42%) JMeter
10 11 (0.35%) JUnit
11 7 (0.22%) ERwin
11 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
11 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.22%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.22%) WebDriver
12 6 (0.19%) Hudson
12 6 (0.19%) TestRail
13 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
14 4 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,558 (49.92%) Social Skills
2 906 (29.03%) Finance
3 506 (16.21%) Analytical Skills
4 503 (16.12%) Public Sector
5 199 (6.38%) Banking
6 155 (4.97%) Influencing Skills
7 140 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
8 112 (3.59%) Legal
9 82 (2.63%) Manufacturing
10 81 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
11 79 (2.53%) Retail
12 69 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
13 65 (2.08%) Marketing
13 65 (2.08%) Telecoms
14 59 (1.89%) Local Government
15 57 (1.83%) Aerospace
16 50 (1.60%) Law
17 41 (1.31%) Financial Institution
18 36 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
19 28 (0.90%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 581 (18.62%) Analyst
2 446 (14.29%) Architect
3 426 (13.65%) Business Analyst
4 379 (12.14%) Lead
5 286 (9.16%) Consultant
6 285 (9.13%) Project Manager
7 260 (8.33%) Senior
8 145 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
9 93 (2.98%) Programme Manager
10 91 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
11 90 (2.88%) Developer
12 83 (2.66%) Change Manager
13 81 (2.60%) Delivery Manager
14 74 (2.37%) Data Analyst
15 70 (2.24%) Senior Business Analyst
16 58 (1.86%) Product Manager
17 53 (1.70%) Designer
18 50 (1.60%) SAP Consultant
19 49 (1.57%) Data Engineer
20 47 (1.51%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (3.52%) REST
2 59 (1.89%) SOAP
3 51 (1.63%) LDAP
4 42 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
5 41 (1.31%) Middleware
6 40 (1.28%) .NET
7 32 (1.03%) OpenID
8 31 (0.99%) OAuth
9 27 (0.87%) Node.js
9 27 (0.87%) Spring
10 26 (0.83%) React
11 23 (0.74%) Kafka
12 21 (0.67%) SAP Fiori
13 20 (0.64%) Spring Boot
13 20 (0.64%) XML
14 18 (0.58%) OAuth2
14 18 (0.58%) SailPoint
14 18 (0.58%) SAML
15 17 (0.54%) AngularJS
15 17 (0.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 218 (6.98%) Product Ownership
2 148 (4.74%) Onboarding
3 97 (3.11%) Cloud Native
4 81 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
5 77 (2.47%) Data Structures
6 70 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
6 70 (2.24%) Management Information System
7 64 (2.05%) Security Posture
8 60 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 53 (1.70%) NHS
10 51 (1.63%) Data Centre
11 46 (1.47%) Operational Technology
12 44 (1.41%) PMI
13 42 (1.35%) CMDB
14 40 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
15 37 (1.19%) AI Agents
15 37 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
16 29 (0.93%) Virtual Team
17 27 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
18 25 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 80 (2.56%) Windows
2 43 (1.38%) Linux
3 22 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (0.54%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.16%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.16%) Unix
6 5 (0.16%) VMS
7 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.096%) Android
8 3 (0.096%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.096%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.032%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 807 (25.86%) Agile
2 622 (19.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 562 (18.01%) Continuous Improvement
4 495 (15.86%) Migration
5 485 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
6 447 (14.32%) Roadmaps
7 428 (13.71%) Change Management
8 388 (12.43%) Workshop Facilitation
9 352 (11.28%) Project Management
10 344 (11.02%) Decision-Making
11 329 (10.54%) Analytics
12 303 (9.71%) DevOps
13 286 (9.16%) Business Intelligence
14 278 (8.91%) Risk Management
15 268 (8.59%) AI
16 256 (8.20%) ERP
17 252 (8.07%) Project Delivery
18 251 (8.04%) Requirements Gathering
19 237 (7.59%) User Acceptance Testing
20 220 (7.05%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 252 (8.07%) SQL
2 242 (7.75%) Python
3 103 (3.30%) PowerShell
4 87 (2.79%) Java
5 49 (1.57%) JavaScript
6 41 (1.31%) C#
7 29 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 28 (0.90%) TypeScript
9 26 (0.83%) Bash
10 17 (0.54%) Bicep
10 17 (0.54%) R
11 15 (0.48%) ABAP
12 14 (0.45%) VBA
13 11 (0.35%) PHP
14 9 (0.29%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.29%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.26%) Korn
16 7 (0.22%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 725 (23.23%) Security Cleared
2 573 (18.36%) SC Cleared
3 283 (9.07%) Degree
4 116 (3.72%) PMI Certification
5 106 (3.40%) DV Cleared
6 105 (3.36%) PMP
7 92 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 56 (1.79%) CISSP
9 50 (1.60%) Master's Degree
10 44 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 41 (1.31%) Azure Certification
12 40 (1.28%) CISM
13 31 (0.99%) AWS Certification
14 30 (0.96%) ACCA
15 28 (0.90%) CIMA
16 27 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
17 26 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
18 25 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
19 23 (0.74%) CBAP
20 22 (0.70%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (6.09%) Data Quality
2 176 (5.64%) QA
3 145 (4.65%) GDPR
4 120 (3.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 120 (3.84%) PMO
5 115 (3.68%) NIST
6 77 (2.47%) Accessibility
7 52 (1.67%) GRC
8 39 (1.25%) PCI DSS
9 30 (0.96%) NCSC
10 28 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
11 25 (0.80%) SLA
12 23 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 18 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
14 16 (0.51%) PSD2
15 14 (0.45%) Basel III
16 12 (0.38%) COBIT
17 11 (0.35%) HL7
17 11 (0.35%) ISO 20022
17 11 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 114 (3.65%) Active Directory
2 64 (2.05%) Docker
3 32 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.58%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.51%) vSphere
6 9 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.096%) NFS
10 3 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.032%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.032%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 108 (3.46%) Terraform
2 100 (3.20%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.06%) Ansible
4 26 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (0.51%) Grafana
6 14 (0.45%) HP ALM
6 14 (0.45%) SCCM
7 13 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.22%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.16%) Podman
11 4 (0.13%) Istio
12 3 (0.096%) Argo
12 3 (0.096%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.096%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.096%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.096%) vMotion
12 3 (0.096%) vRealize
12 3 (0.096%) VxRail
Vendors
1 448 (14.35%) Microsoft
2 279 (8.94%) SAP
3 167 (5.35%) ServiceNow
4 162 (5.19%) Oracle
5 92 (2.95%) Salesforce
6 76 (2.44%) Google
7 71 (2.27%) Cisco
8 59 (1.89%) Databricks
9 52 (1.67%) CyberArk
10 49 (1.57%) VMware
11 46 (1.47%) IBM
12 45 (1.44%) Workday
13 40 (1.28%) BeyondTrust
14 38 (1.22%) Aruba
15 35 (1.12%) Centrify
16 25 (0.80%) Palo Alto
17 24 (0.77%) Splunk
18 23 (0.74%) Red Hat
19 20 (0.64%) Adobe
19 20 (0.64%) Zscaler