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

 6 months to
9 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 60 147
Rank change year-on-year +34 +87 +8
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,183 1,079 684
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.67% 3.70% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.89% 4.07% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,176 718 481
10th Percentile £363 £374 £363
25th Percentile £431 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 18 36
10th Percentile £27.25 £22.97 £18.35
25th Percentile £50.00 £31.26 £27.81
Median hourly rate £69.36 £48.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +43.01% +34.87% +75.41%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.13 £57.33
90th Percentile £97.50 £77.79 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.50 £57.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +41.74% +1.79% +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 40,321 26,530 37,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.49% 90.95% 86.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,358 17,078 23,948
10th Percentile £321 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -1.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +2.30% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,401 1,077 2,439
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.47 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.25 £61.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.13 £37.50
% change year-on-year +62.21% -27.67% +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 9 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 6 months to 9 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 6 months to 9 May 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 +33 2,734 £525 - 893
UK excluding London +40 1,524 £500 -1.96% 664
London +34 1,260 £550 - 372
Work from Home +43 969 £525 +0.48% 443
North of England +35 394 £475 -5.75% 157
South East +21 356 £525 +5.00% 213
Midlands +29 318 £500 -0.10% 110
West Midlands +28 217 £492 -6.29% 77
South West +23 196 £525 -4.55% 86
North West +33 195 £475 -5.38% 80
Yorkshire +18 156 £500 - 57
Scotland +37 114 £473 -11.02% 45
East of England +23 106 £575 +15.00% 43
East Midlands +13 96 £500 +11.11% 32
North East +14 49 £450 -29.82% 21
Wales +13 39 £475 +38.69% 14
Northern Ireland +18 16 £450 -20.00% 9

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
1 185 (5.81%) Confluence
2 94 (2.95%) SharePoint
3 21 (0.66%) SAS
4 18 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.35%) Apache
7 11 (0.35%) CMS
8 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.094%) Appian
9 3 (0.094%) Drupal
9 3 (0.094%) OpenEdge
10 2 (0.063%) nginx
10 2 (0.063%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.063%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.063%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.063%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.063%) WordPress
Applications
1 153 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
3 66 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
5 55 (1.73%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.13%) Sketch
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.094%) Notion
10 2 (0.063%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.063%) InVision
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.031%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.031%) CATIA
11 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.031%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.031%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 132 (4.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.44%) Teamcenter
5 10 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.31%) SAP PP
6 9 (0.28%) NEC Housing
6 9 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.28%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.25%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.25%) SAP ERP
7 8 (0.25%) SAP QM
7 8 (0.25%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
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
9 6 (0.19%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 598 (18.79%) Azure
2 421 (13.23%) AWS
3 292 (9.17%) Power Platform
4 161 (5.06%) GCP
5 124 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
6 106 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 102 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
8 97 (3.05%) SaaS
9 89 (2.80%) Entra ID
10 65 (2.04%) GitHub
11 42 (1.32%) Serverless
12 41 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
13 40 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (1.26%) PaaS
14 34 (1.07%) Power Automate
15 32 (1.01%) OCI
16 31 (0.97%) PowerApps
17 30 (0.94%) Amazon S3
17 30 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
17 30 (0.94%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.57%) Firewall
2 41 (1.29%) Network Security
3 34 (1.07%) DNS
4 26 (0.82%) VPN
5 23 (0.72%) WAN
6 22 (0.69%) LAN
7 16 (0.50%) Internet
8 12 (0.38%) BGP
8 12 (0.38%) SD-WAN
8 12 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.38%) Wireless
9 10 (0.31%) DHCP
9 10 (0.31%) VLAN
10 9 (0.28%) TCP/IP
11 8 (0.25%) Intranet
11 8 (0.25%) MPLS
11 8 (0.25%) OSPF
11 8 (0.25%) SSL
11 8 (0.25%) VSAN
12 7 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (7.85%) Power BI
2 68 (2.14%) Metadata
3 59 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (1.23%) Tableau
5 29 (0.91%) Data Lake
6 27 (0.85%) SQL Server
7 26 (0.82%) Relational Database
8 24 (0.75%) Power Query
9 21 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
12 14 (0.44%) Big Data
12 14 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
13 13 (0.41%) MySQL
14 12 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
14 12 (0.38%) NoSQL
15 11 (0.35%) DynamoDB
16 10 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
16 10 (0.31%) Oracle Database
17 9 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 288 (9.05%) JIRA
2 52 (1.63%) Git
2 52 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 49 (1.54%) GitLab
4 30 (0.94%) Rational DOORS
5 25 (0.79%) Selenium
6 24 (0.75%) Postman
7 18 (0.57%) Cucumber
8 16 (0.50%) JMeter
9 15 (0.47%) Hudson
10 11 (0.35%) JUnit
11 9 (0.28%) WebDriver
12 8 (0.25%) MLflow
12 8 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.19%) LoadRunner
14 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.19%) TestRail
15 5 (0.16%) ERwin
16 4 (0.13%) NeoLoad
General
1 1,504 (47.25%) Social Skills
2 949 (29.81%) Finance
3 501 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
4 493 (15.49%) Public Sector
5 198 (6.22%) Banking
6 137 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
7 123 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
8 116 (3.64%) Legal
9 90 (2.83%) Retail
10 85 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
11 76 (2.39%) Manufacturing
12 74 (2.32%) Law
13 62 (1.95%) Aerospace
14 61 (1.92%) Local Government
15 57 (1.79%) Telecoms
16 56 (1.76%) Marketing
17 52 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
18 41 (1.29%) Military
19 33 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
20 32 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 590 (18.54%) Analyst
2 465 (14.61%) Architect
3 416 (13.07%) Business Analyst
4 415 (13.04%) Lead
5 287 (9.02%) Project Manager
6 286 (8.99%) Senior
7 227 (7.13%) Consultant
8 116 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
9 94 (2.95%) Delivery Manager
10 90 (2.83%) Senior Analyst
11 86 (2.70%) Programme Manager
12 83 (2.61%) Change Manager
13 77 (2.42%) Developer
14 74 (2.32%) Data Analyst
15 71 (2.23%) Senior Manager
16 67 (2.10%) Senior Business Analyst
17 63 (1.98%) Designer
18 59 (1.85%) IT Manager
19 55 (1.73%) Product Manager
20 54 (1.70%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (3.30%) REST
2 59 (1.85%) SOAP
3 54 (1.70%) LDAP
4 48 (1.51%) Middleware
5 38 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
6 36 (1.13%) Spring
7 31 (0.97%) OpenID
8 30 (0.94%) .NET
9 29 (0.91%) React
9 29 (0.91%) SailPoint
10 28 (0.88%) Spring Boot
11 25 (0.79%) OAuth
12 24 (0.75%) Kafka
13 22 (0.69%) AngularJS
13 22 (0.69%) Node.js
14 19 (0.60%) PySpark
15 18 (0.57%) SAML
16 17 (0.53%) ADO
16 17 (0.53%) JSON
16 17 (0.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 214 (6.72%) Product Ownership
2 150 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 122 (3.83%) Cloud Native
4 81 (2.54%) Data Structures
5 78 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 71 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
7 69 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (2.07%) Operational Technology
9 61 (1.92%) Security Posture
10 57 (1.79%) Data Centre
11 53 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
12 48 (1.51%) NHS
13 46 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
14 41 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
15 39 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
16 38 (1.19%) Virtual Team
17 37 (1.16%) AI Agents
18 35 (1.10%) CMDB
19 34 (1.07%) PMI
20 29 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 83 (2.61%) Windows
2 43 (1.35%) Linux
3 17 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (0.41%) Windows 10
4 13 (0.41%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.28%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.28%) Unix
6 7 (0.22%) VMS
7 5 (0.16%) Android
7 5 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.094%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 871 (27.36%) Agile
2 612 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
2 612 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 466 (14.64%) Migration
4 444 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
5 426 (13.38%) Change Management
6 422 (13.26%) Roadmaps
7 414 (13.01%) Decision-Making
8 384 (12.06%) Workshop Facilitation
9 337 (10.59%) DevOps
10 331 (10.40%) Project Management
11 314 (9.86%) Analytics
12 302 (9.49%) AI
13 299 (9.39%) Risk Management
14 297 (9.33%) ERP
15 290 (9.11%) Business Intelligence
16 257 (8.07%) CI/CD
17 256 (8.04%) Project Delivery
18 255 (8.01%) Cybersecurity
19 250 (7.85%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 248 (7.79%) SQL
2 244 (7.67%) Python
3 105 (3.30%) Java
4 75 (2.36%) PowerShell
5 45 (1.41%) JavaScript
6 36 (1.13%) C#
7 33 (1.04%) TypeScript
8 29 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 24 (0.75%) Bash
10 19 (0.60%) Bicep
11 18 (0.57%) VBA
12 14 (0.44%) R
13 12 (0.38%) Scala
14 11 (0.35%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.31%) PHP
16 9 (0.28%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.28%) Korn
17 8 (0.25%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.19%) ABAP
19 4 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 789 (24.79%) Security Cleared
2 624 (19.60%) SC Cleared
3 261 (8.20%) Degree
4 123 (3.86%) DV Cleared
5 120 (3.77%) PMI Certification
6 114 (3.58%) PMP
7 108 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 68 (2.14%) CISSP
9 48 (1.51%) CISM
10 40 (1.26%) Azure Certification
10 40 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
11 38 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
12 36 (1.13%) Master's Degree
13 31 (0.97%) ACCA
14 30 (0.94%) CIMA
15 29 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 25 (0.79%) AWS Certification
17 23 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
17 23 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
18 22 (0.69%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (6.28%) Data Quality
2 167 (5.25%) QA
3 160 (5.03%) PMO
4 140 (4.40%) NIST
5 132 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 128 (4.02%) GDPR
7 80 (2.51%) Accessibility
8 58 (1.82%) GRC
9 30 (0.94%) SLA
10 28 (0.88%) PCI DSS
11 27 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
11 27 (0.85%) NCSC
12 21 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.53%) WCAG
14 16 (0.50%) SOC 2
15 14 (0.44%) ISO 20022
16 13 (0.41%) Basel III
16 13 (0.41%) COBIT
17 12 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 11 (0.35%) Def Stans
System Software
1 100 (3.14%) Active Directory
2 63 (1.98%) Docker
3 24 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.50%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.35%) 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 (0.094%) NFS
9 3 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.063%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.031%) Firmware
11 1 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 112 (3.52%) Terraform
2 108 (3.39%) Kubernetes
3 27 (0.85%) Ansible
3 27 (0.85%) Grafana
4 25 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.44%) SCCM
8 13 (0.41%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.16%) vRealize
11 4 (0.13%) Istio
11 4 (0.13%) Podman
12 3 (0.094%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.094%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 3 (0.094%) vMotion
12 3 (0.094%) WSUS
13 2 (0.063%) CA Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.063%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 462 (14.51%) Microsoft
2 253 (7.95%) SAP
3 177 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 144 (4.52%) Oracle
5 88 (2.76%) Salesforce
6 75 (2.36%) Databricks
7 64 (2.01%) Google
8 49 (1.54%) CyberArk
9 45 (1.41%) VMware
10 43 (1.35%) IBM
11 39 (1.23%) BeyondTrust
11 39 (1.23%) Cisco
12 37 (1.16%) Splunk
13 34 (1.07%) Centrify
14 31 (0.97%) Workday
15 21 (0.66%) Adobe
16 20 (0.63%) Dynatrace
16 20 (0.63%) Zscaler
17 19 (0.60%) Palo Alto
18 18 (0.57%) Sparx
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