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

 6 months to
9 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 76 144
Rank change year-on-year +50 +68 +11
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,225 935 715
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.05% 3.20% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.25% 3.53% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,220 625 484
10th Percentile £363 £385 £363
25th Percentile £448 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% +2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 15 37
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.94 £18.35
25th Percentile £37.00 £29.25 £27.81
Median hourly rate £68.00 £47.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +43.16% +32.09% +16.00%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.00 £57.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.35 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.50 £39.78 £56.49
% change year-on-year +104.90% -29.59% +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 39,074 26,483 37,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.36% 90.62% 86.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,751 17,195 24,633
10th Percentile £315 £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 £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 997 2,379
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.79
25th Percentile £19.34 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.70 £31.64 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +15.99% -4.31% -8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.91
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.80 £70.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.71 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +22.37% -9.09% -8.08%

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 9 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 9 April 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 9 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 +49 2,805 £525 - 871
UK excluding London +50 1,555 £500 -3.85% 633
London +55 1,297 £550 - 341
Work from Home +54 950 £525 - 428
South East +37 397 £500 -7.62% 209
North of England +36 378 £500 - 154
Midlands +29 319 £492 -1.60% 124
West Midlands +29 218 £492 -6.29% 78
North West +49 204 £491 -2.58% 71
South West +38 202 £525 -8.70% 68
Yorkshire +2 133 £519 +9.21% 63
East of England +32 113 £533 +6.50% 46
Scotland +41 105 £458 -16.82% 21
East Midlands +14 96 £494 +16.18% 45
North East +17 47 £450 -11.33% 21
Wales +13 36 £460 -12.38% 15
Northern Ireland +16 19 £450 -20.00% 7
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
1 180 (5.58%) Confluence
2 109 (3.38%) SharePoint
3 30 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.71%) SAS
5 16 (0.50%) CMS
6 10 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.19%) Apache
9 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.093%) Drupal
10 3 (0.093%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.093%) WordPress
11 2 (0.062%) Camunda
11 2 (0.062%) nginx
11 2 (0.062%) OpenEdge
11 2 (0.062%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.062%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 163 (5.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (2.36%) Microsoft Project
3 65 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 63 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
5 61 (1.89%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.12%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.12%) Sketch
8 4 (0.12%) Trello
9 3 (0.093%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.093%) Notion
10 2 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.062%) InVision
10 2 (0.062%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.062%) 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
1 133 (4.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.53%) SAP FI
5 15 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
6 14 (0.43%) SAP PP
7 11 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
7 11 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
8 10 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
8 10 (0.31%) SAP MM
8 10 (0.31%) Teamcenter
8 10 (0.31%) Workday HCM
9 9 (0.28%) NEC Housing
9 9 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 9 (0.28%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.25%) SAP ERP
10 8 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.25%) SAP HR
11 7 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 7 (0.22%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 588 (18.23%) Azure
2 399 (12.37%) AWS
3 286 (8.87%) Power Platform
4 160 (4.96%) GCP
5 132 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
6 114 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
8 98 (3.04%) SaaS
9 97 (3.01%) Entra ID
10 68 (2.11%) GitHub
11 45 (1.40%) Serverless
12 43 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
13 42 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
13 42 (1.30%) OCI
14 41 (1.27%) PaaS
15 35 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
16 32 (0.99%) Power Automate
17 31 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
18 30 (0.93%) PowerApps
19 29 (0.90%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.92%) Firewall
2 49 (1.52%) Network Security
3 36 (1.12%) DNS
4 31 (0.96%) VPN
5 30 (0.93%) WAN
6 28 (0.87%) LAN
7 20 (0.62%) SD-WAN
8 17 (0.53%) BGP
9 15 (0.47%) Internet
10 14 (0.43%) MPLS
11 13 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (0.40%) Wireless
12 12 (0.37%) DHCP
13 11 (0.34%) VLAN
14 10 (0.31%) VSAN
15 9 (0.28%) OSPF
16 8 (0.25%) Intranet
16 8 (0.25%) SSL
16 8 (0.25%) WLAN
17 7 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (7.41%) Power BI
2 72 (2.23%) Metadata
3 63 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (1.43%) Tableau
5 36 (1.12%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.78%) Data Lake
6 25 (0.78%) Power Query
7 22 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
8 21 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
8 21 (0.65%) Relational Database
9 17 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
9 17 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
10 14 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (0.40%) Data Vault
11 13 (0.40%) DynamoDB
11 13 (0.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 12 (0.37%) MySQL
13 11 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (0.34%) Delta Lake
13 11 (0.34%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 285 (8.84%) JIRA
2 47 (1.46%) GitLab
2 47 (1.46%) Jenkins
3 45 (1.40%) Git
4 29 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
5 26 (0.81%) Selenium
6 22 (0.68%) Postman
7 16 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.47%) JMeter
9 13 (0.40%) Hudson
10 11 (0.34%) JUnit
11 8 (0.25%) ERwin
11 8 (0.25%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
12 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.22%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.19%) MLflow
13 6 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (0.19%) TestRail
14 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,572 (48.74%) Social Skills
2 943 (29.24%) Finance
3 536 (16.62%) Public Sector
4 523 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
5 204 (6.33%) Banking
6 149 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
7 141 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
8 121 (3.75%) Legal
9 93 (2.88%) Retail
10 84 (2.60%) Manufacturing
10 84 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
11 76 (2.36%) Law
12 66 (2.05%) Local Government
12 66 (2.05%) Marketing
13 64 (1.98%) Telecoms
14 62 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
15 59 (1.83%) Aerospace
16 35 (1.09%) Military
17 34 (1.05%) Financial Institution
17 34 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 604 (18.73%) Analyst
2 480 (14.88%) Architect
3 437 (13.55%) Business Analyst
4 395 (12.25%) Lead
5 301 (9.33%) Project Manager
6 279 (8.65%) Consultant
7 274 (8.50%) Senior
8 144 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
9 93 (2.88%) Delivery Manager
10 92 (2.85%) Senior Analyst
11 85 (2.64%) Change Manager
11 85 (2.64%) Programme Manager
12 81 (2.51%) Developer
13 79 (2.45%) Data Analyst
14 69 (2.14%) Senior Business Analyst
15 67 (2.08%) Senior Manager
16 60 (1.86%) Lead Architect
17 57 (1.77%) Designer
17 57 (1.77%) Product Manager
18 52 (1.61%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (3.29%) REST
2 57 (1.77%) SOAP
3 54 (1.67%) LDAP
4 48 (1.49%) Middleware
5 44 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
6 35 (1.09%) OpenID
7 34 (1.05%) .NET
8 33 (1.02%) OAuth
9 31 (0.96%) Node.js
10 30 (0.93%) React
10 30 (0.93%) Spring
11 26 (0.81%) SailPoint
12 24 (0.74%) Kafka
13 23 (0.71%) SAML
14 22 (0.68%) Spring Boot
15 21 (0.65%) AngularJS
16 18 (0.56%) SAP Fiori
16 18 (0.56%) TensorFlow
17 17 (0.53%) PyTorch
17 17 (0.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 216 (6.70%) Product Ownership
2 152 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 109 (3.38%) Cloud Native
4 81 (2.51%) Data Structures
5 77 (2.39%) Management Information System
6 73 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
6 73 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
7 61 (1.89%) Security Posture
8 60 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 60 (1.86%) NHS
9 55 (1.71%) Operational Technology
10 54 (1.67%) Data Centre
11 42 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
11 42 (1.30%) PMI
12 40 (1.24%) CMDB
12 40 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
13 39 (1.21%) AI Agents
14 37 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
15 32 (0.99%) Virtual Team
16 27 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 78 (2.42%) Windows
2 40 (1.24%) Linux
3 20 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (0.56%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.53%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.19%) Unix
7 6 (0.19%) VMS
8 4 (0.12%) Android
8 4 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.093%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 834 (25.86%) Agile
2 623 (19.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 618 (19.16%) Continuous Improvement
4 515 (15.97%) Migration
5 483 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
6 457 (14.17%) Roadmaps
7 442 (13.71%) Change Management
8 396 (12.28%) Workshop Facilitation
9 376 (11.66%) Decision-Making
10 352 (10.91%) Project Management
11 336 (10.42%) Analytics
12 328 (10.17%) DevOps
13 295 (9.15%) Business Intelligence
14 291 (9.02%) AI
15 285 (8.84%) ERP
16 280 (8.68%) Risk Management
17 265 (8.22%) Project Delivery
18 259 (8.03%) User Acceptance Testing
19 241 (7.47%) CI/CD
20 240 (7.44%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 244 (7.57%) SQL
2 233 (7.22%) Python
3 92 (2.85%) PowerShell
4 91 (2.82%) Java
5 44 (1.36%) JavaScript
6 39 (1.21%) C#
7 33 (1.02%) TypeScript
8 29 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 22 (0.68%) Bash
10 19 (0.59%) Bicep
11 17 (0.53%) ABAP
11 17 (0.53%) R
11 17 (0.53%) VBA
12 10 (0.31%) Kotlin
12 10 (0.31%) PHP
12 10 (0.31%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.28%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.22%) Korn
15 6 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.12%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 787 (24.40%) Security Cleared
2 628 (19.47%) SC Cleared
3 278 (8.62%) Degree
4 123 (3.81%) PMI Certification
5 116 (3.60%) DV Cleared
6 112 (3.47%) PMP
7 103 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 58 (1.80%) CISSP
9 44 (1.36%) Azure Certification
10 43 (1.33%) Master's Degree
11 40 (1.24%) CISM
11 40 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
12 31 (0.96%) AWS Certification
13 28 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
14 27 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
15 25 (0.78%) ACCA
16 24 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 24 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
17 23 (0.71%) CIMA
17 23 (0.71%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (6.02%) Data Quality
2 176 (5.46%) QA
3 143 (4.43%) GDPR
4 138 (4.28%) PMO
5 128 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 128 (3.97%) NIST
6 76 (2.36%) Accessibility
7 56 (1.74%) GRC
8 37 (1.15%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.96%) NCSC
10 29 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
11 27 (0.84%) SLA
12 16 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 15 (0.47%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.43%) Basel III
15 13 (0.40%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.40%) WCAG
16 12 (0.37%) COBIT
16 12 (0.37%) PSD2
System Software
1 112 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 65 (2.02%) Docker
3 30 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.65%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.50%) vSphere
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.093%) NFS
10 3 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.062%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.031%) Firmware
12 1 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 116 (3.60%) Terraform
2 105 (3.26%) Kubernetes
3 28 (0.87%) Ansible
4 26 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (0.53%) Grafana
7 16 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.47%) HP ALM
9 14 (0.43%) SCCM
10 11 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.16%) Podman
13 4 (0.12%) Istio
13 4 (0.12%) vRealize
14 3 (0.093%) Argo
14 3 (0.093%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.093%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.093%) vMotion
14 3 (0.093%) WSUS
15 2 (0.062%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 468 (14.51%) Microsoft
2 272 (8.43%) SAP
3 189 (5.86%) ServiceNow
4 165 (5.12%) Oracle
5 98 (3.04%) Salesforce
6 66 (2.05%) Databricks
7 64 (1.98%) Google
8 63 (1.95%) Cisco
9 52 (1.61%) CyberArk
10 48 (1.49%) VMware
11 43 (1.33%) IBM
12 41 (1.27%) BeyondTrust
12 41 (1.27%) Workday
13 35 (1.09%) Aruba
14 34 (1.05%) Centrify
15 26 (0.81%) Splunk
16 24 (0.74%) Palo Alto
17 22 (0.68%) Red Hat
18 21 (0.65%) OpenAI
19 20 (0.62%) Adobe
981 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide