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

 6 months to
28 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 59 148
Rank change year-on-year +33 +89 +11
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,274 1,121 686
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.70% 3.91% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.93% 4.30% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,221 744 489
10th Percentile £369 £377 £363
25th Percentile £445 £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 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 16 38
10th Percentile £26.50 £27.00 £18.35
25th Percentile £47.00 £32.05 £27.81
Median hourly rate £68.50 £48.50 £36.23
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% +33.87% +70.09%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.88 £57.45
90th Percentile £93.50 £74.49 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.00 £67.50 £57.33
% change year-on-year +15.56% +17.74% +174.31%

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 41,286 26,078 36,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.54% 91.02% 85.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,818 16,706 23,627
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £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 2,472 1,084 2,486
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.08 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.28 £27.52 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.64% -23.57% -1.09%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.84 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.19 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -32.93% +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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +27 2,805 £535 +1.90% 978
UK excluding London +39 1,562 £500 - 740
London +28 1,310 £550 - 410
Work from Home +42 1,029 £525 +3.45% 506
North of England +27 416 £491 -1.80% 173
South East +26 359 £538 +11.98% 251
Midlands +25 318 £500 - 115
West Midlands +25 216 £492 -1.75% 82
North West +32 202 £475 -5.00% 96
South West +22 190 £525 -4.55% 87
Yorkshire +14 177 £515 +6.74% 55
Scotland +39 130 £475 -8.79% 45
East of England +27 112 £575 +15.00% 43
East Midlands +24 97 £520 +15.56% 31
North East +4 43 £450 -11.33% 22
Wales +12 40 £475 +50.55% 24
Northern Ireland +16 16 £449 -22.84% 11

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
1 177 (5.41%) Confluence
2 90 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 23 (0.70%) SAS
4 19 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.46%) CMS
5 15 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.43%) Apache
7 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.12%) WordPress
8 3 (0.092%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.092%) Appian
8 3 (0.092%) Drupal
9 2 (0.061%) Camunda
9 2 (0.061%) Kentico
9 2 (0.061%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.061%) Oracle Service Bus
9 2 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.061%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 151 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
3 63 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (1.86%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.12%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.12%) Sketch
8 3 (0.092%) Notion
9 2 (0.061%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.061%) InVision
9 2 (0.061%) Trello
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.031%) CATIA
10 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.031%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.031%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 130 (3.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.46%) Teamcenter
4 11 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 10 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.31%) SAP ERP
5 10 (0.31%) SAP FI
6 9 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 8 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 8 (0.24%) SAP QM
7 8 (0.24%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.21%) Maximo
8 7 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.21%) Primavera
9 6 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.18%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 630 (19.24%) Azure
2 440 (13.44%) AWS
3 311 (9.50%) Power Platform
4 161 (4.92%) GCP
5 120 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
6 112 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (3.05%) SaaS
8 99 (3.02%) Entra ID
9 98 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
10 66 (2.02%) GitHub
11 53 (1.62%) Serverless
12 43 (1.31%) Microsoft Copilot
13 42 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
14 40 (1.22%) PaaS
15 37 (1.13%) Amazon S3
16 36 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
17 35 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
18 34 (1.04%) Power Automate
19 33 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
19 33 (1.01%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.62%) Firewall
2 46 (1.41%) Network Security
3 36 (1.10%) DNS
4 24 (0.73%) VPN
4 24 (0.73%) WAN
5 20 (0.61%) LAN
6 14 (0.43%) Wireless
7 13 (0.40%) Internet
8 12 (0.37%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.31%) BGP
9 10 (0.31%) DHCP
9 10 (0.31%) VLAN
9 10 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.27%) OSPF
10 9 (0.27%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.27%) SSL
11 8 (0.24%) Intranet
11 8 (0.24%) NGFW
11 8 (0.24%) SAN
11 8 (0.24%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (8.12%) Power BI
2 75 (2.29%) Metadata
3 62 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (1.13%) Tableau
5 34 (1.04%) Data Lake
6 30 (0.92%) SQL Server
7 29 (0.89%) Power Query
8 26 (0.79%) Relational Database
9 25 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (0.52%) NoSQL
10 17 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
11 14 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (0.43%) Big Data
11 14 (0.43%) MySQL
12 13 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
12 13 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
13 12 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (0.37%) Data Vault
13 12 (0.37%) DynamoDB
14 9 (0.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 286 (8.74%) JIRA
2 60 (1.83%) Jenkins
3 54 (1.65%) GitLab
4 53 (1.62%) Git
5 32 (0.98%) Rational DOORS
6 27 (0.82%) Postman
6 27 (0.82%) Selenium
7 21 (0.64%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.52%) Hudson
8 17 (0.52%) JMeter
9 11 (0.34%) JUnit
9 11 (0.34%) WebDriver
10 9 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (0.24%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.21%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.18%) ERwin
13 6 (0.18%) LoadRunner
13 6 (0.18%) MLflow
13 6 (0.18%) TestRail
14 5 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 1,511 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 955 (29.17%) Finance
3 506 (15.46%) Public Sector
4 499 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
5 197 (6.02%) Banking
6 133 (4.06%) Influencing Skills
7 123 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
8 118 (3.60%) Legal
9 92 (2.81%) Retail
10 88 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
11 83 (2.54%) Law
12 77 (2.35%) Manufacturing
13 67 (2.05%) Aerospace
13 67 (2.05%) Local Government
14 58 (1.77%) Marketing
15 55 (1.68%) Telecoms
16 46 (1.41%) Military
17 39 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 38 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
19 35 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 604 (18.45%) Analyst
2 495 (15.12%) Architect
3 428 (13.07%) Lead
4 409 (12.49%) Business Analyst
5 296 (9.04%) Senior
6 272 (8.31%) Project Manager
7 249 (7.61%) Consultant
8 127 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
9 95 (2.90%) Change Manager
10 91 (2.78%) Delivery Manager
11 89 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
12 86 (2.63%) Data Analyst
12 86 (2.63%) Developer
13 81 (2.47%) Programme Manager
14 72 (2.20%) Senior Manager
15 66 (2.02%) Designer
16 65 (1.99%) Senior Business Analyst
17 59 (1.80%) Data Architect
18 57 (1.74%) Technical Architect
19 56 (1.71%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (3.57%) REST
2 60 (1.83%) SOAP
3 58 (1.77%) LDAP
4 53 (1.62%) Middleware
5 38 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
6 35 (1.07%) Spring
7 34 (1.04%) React
8 32 (0.98%) Kafka
8 32 (0.98%) OpenID
8 32 (0.98%) SailPoint
9 29 (0.89%) .NET
10 27 (0.82%) OAuth
10 27 (0.82%) Spring Boot
11 22 (0.67%) XML
12 21 (0.64%) JSON
13 19 (0.58%) Node.js
13 19 (0.58%) RESTful
13 19 (0.58%) SAML
14 18 (0.55%) CSS
14 18 (0.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 224 (6.84%) Product Ownership
2 149 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 140 (4.28%) Cloud Native
4 84 (2.57%) Data Structures
5 77 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
6 75 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 68 (2.08%) Operational Technology
8 67 (2.05%) Security Posture
9 63 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
10 57 (1.74%) Data Centre
11 51 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
12 50 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
13 48 (1.47%) NHS
14 43 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
15 41 (1.25%) Virtual Team
16 36 (1.10%) CMDB
17 33 (1.01%) AI Agents
17 33 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
18 29 (0.89%) Public Cloud
19 28 (0.86%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 92 (2.81%) Windows
2 45 (1.37%) Linux
3 20 (0.61%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (0.37%) Unix
4 12 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 9 (0.27%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.21%) VMS
7 5 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.12%) Android
9 3 (0.092%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.092%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.092%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.061%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 878 (26.82%) Agile
2 634 (19.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 633 (19.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 481 (14.69%) Migration
5 451 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
6 443 (13.53%) Decision-Making
7 428 (13.07%) Roadmaps
8 421 (12.86%) Change Management
9 382 (11.67%) Workshop Facilitation
10 371 (11.33%) DevOps
11 331 (10.11%) Analytics
12 315 (9.62%) AI
13 312 (9.53%) Risk Management
14 304 (9.29%) Business Intelligence
15 302 (9.22%) ERP
16 300 (9.16%) Project Management
17 270 (8.25%) CI/CD
17 270 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
18 269 (8.22%) Project Delivery
19 259 (7.91%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 255 (7.79%) SQL
2 247 (7.54%) Python
3 111 (3.39%) Java
4 81 (2.47%) PowerShell
5 48 (1.47%) JavaScript
6 38 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 37 (1.13%) TypeScript
8 32 (0.98%) Bash
8 32 (0.98%) C#
9 20 (0.61%) Bicep
10 19 (0.58%) VBA
11 14 (0.43%) Scala
12 11 (0.34%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.31%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.31%) PHP
14 9 (0.27%) R
15 8 (0.24%) Korn
16 6 (0.18%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.15%) ABAP
18 4 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 818 (24.98%) Security Cleared
2 649 (19.82%) SC Cleared
3 261 (7.97%) Degree
4 126 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 109 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 109 (3.33%) PMI Certification
6 105 (3.21%) PMP
7 79 (2.41%) CISSP
8 58 (1.77%) CISM
9 44 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 41 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (0.89%) AWS Certification
12 29 (0.89%) Master's Degree
13 27 (0.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 26 (0.79%) ACCA
15 25 (0.76%) CIMA
16 24 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
17 23 (0.70%) IIBA
17 23 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (6.63%) Data Quality
2 164 (5.01%) QA
3 157 (4.80%) PMO
4 140 (4.28%) NIST
5 134 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 128 (3.91%) GDPR
7 78 (2.38%) Accessibility
8 64 (1.95%) GRC
9 32 (0.98%) NCSC
10 31 (0.95%) SLA
11 28 (0.86%) PCI DSS
12 26 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
13 25 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
14 18 (0.55%) SOC 2
14 18 (0.55%) WCAG
15 15 (0.46%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.34%) COBIT
17 11 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 10 (0.31%) Basel III
System Software
1 103 (3.15%) Active Directory
2 63 (1.92%) Docker
3 28 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.40%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.37%) vSphere
6 8 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.15%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.092%) NFS
10 1 (0.031%) Firmware
10 1 (0.031%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.031%) KVM
10 1 (0.031%) SRDF
10 1 (0.031%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 116 (3.54%) Terraform
2 113 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 36 (1.10%) Ansible
4 30 (0.92%) Grafana
5 28 (0.86%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.46%) SCCM
9 13 (0.40%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.18%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.15%) Istio
12 5 (0.15%) vRealize
13 4 (0.12%) Podman
14 3 (0.092%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.092%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.092%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.092%) vMotion
14 3 (0.092%) WSUS
15 2 (0.061%) Nessus
Vendors
1 487 (14.87%) Microsoft
2 253 (7.73%) SAP
3 179 (5.47%) ServiceNow
4 152 (4.64%) Oracle
5 93 (2.84%) Salesforce
6 83 (2.54%) Databricks
7 57 (1.74%) Google
8 53 (1.62%) CyberArk
9 46 (1.41%) IBM
9 46 (1.41%) VMware
10 41 (1.25%) Cisco
11 39 (1.19%) BeyondTrust
11 39 (1.19%) Splunk
12 34 (1.04%) Centrify
12 34 (1.04%) Workday
13 20 (0.61%) Adobe
13 20 (0.61%) Dynatrace
13 20 (0.61%) Zscaler
14 19 (0.58%) IFS
14 19 (0.58%) Palo Alto
1,104 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide