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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 100 147
Rank change year-on-year +78 +47 +10
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,925 800 706
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.60% 2.54% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.70% 2.85% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,027 488 488
10th Percentile £363 £399 £363
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £641 £663
90th Percentile £738 £751 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 9 41
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.93 £27.81
25th Percentile £19.18 £26.25 £33.65
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +67.86% -50.43% +175.56%
75th Percentile £65.07 £56.25 £57.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £69.15 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.53 £28.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +66.19% -50.43% +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 33,625 28,045 38,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.37% 89.09% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,290 17,011 25,209
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £640
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -3.86% -0.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,022 880 1,958
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.62% +10.65%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.45 £37.18
% change year-on-year -18.85% -18.10% +39.38%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +71 2,542 £525 -4.55% 651
UK excluding London +62 1,369 £500 -4.76% 586
London +82 1,207 £550 - 206
Work from Home +86 850 £525 -6.29% 336
South East +42 343 £500 -9.09% 213
North of England +36 332 £500 - 114
Midlands +26 272 £500 -4.76% 119
South West +50 198 £513 -14.58% 47
West Midlands +34 180 £500 -12.74% 82
North West +25 154 £500 +0.30% 56
Yorkshire +21 141 £513 +7.89% 46
Scotland +41 94 £450 -10.09% 28
East of England +38 92 £550 +22.22% 50
East Midlands +21 90 £475 +11.76% 36
North East +17 40 £450 -32.46% 14
Wales +20 30 £425 -29.17% 16
Northern Ireland +11 15 £488 - 9
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
1 158 (5.40%) Confluence
2 121 (4.14%) SharePoint
3 28 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.68%) SAS
5 12 (0.41%) CMS
6 11 (0.38%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.27%) Apache
8 7 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.24%) Appian
9 6 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.14%) Drupal
10 4 (0.14%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.14%) MQSeries
10 4 (0.14%) WordPress
11 3 (0.10%) nginx
11 3 (0.10%) Smallworld
12 2 (0.068%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.068%) Oracle Service Bus
12 2 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.068%) WebLogic
Applications
1 157 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 84 (2.87%) Microsoft Project
3 61 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
5 55 (1.88%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.38%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.21%) ProjectWise
8 5 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.17%) Trello
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.10%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.10%) Notion
10 3 (0.10%) PTC Creo
10 3 (0.10%) Revit
11 2 (0.068%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.068%) Camtasia
11 2 (0.068%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.068%) Sketch
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 118 (4.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
4 18 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 17 (0.58%) SAP PP
6 14 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
6 14 (0.48%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.44%) SAP MM
8 12 (0.41%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.41%) Teamcenter
9 11 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
9 11 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
9 11 (0.38%) Workday HCM
10 10 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
11 9 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
11 9 (0.31%) SAP HR
12 8 (0.27%) Loan IQ
12 8 (0.27%) NEC Housing
12 8 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
12 8 (0.27%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 532 (18.19%) Azure
2 338 (11.56%) AWS
3 232 (7.93%) Power Platform
4 145 (4.96%) GCP
5 134 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
6 115 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
7 97 (3.32%) SaaS
8 90 (3.08%) Entra ID
9 73 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
10 56 (1.91%) GitHub
11 52 (1.78%) OCI
12 48 (1.64%) Serverless
13 38 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
14 35 (1.20%) Power Automate
15 33 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
16 32 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
17 31 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
18 29 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
19 28 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
20 27 (0.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (2.12%) Firewall
2 41 (1.40%) Network Security
3 25 (0.85%) WAN
4 24 (0.82%) DNS
5 23 (0.79%) LAN
5 23 (0.79%) VPN
6 20 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 14 (0.48%) BGP
7 14 (0.48%) MPLS
8 10 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.31%) DHCP
9 9 (0.31%) Internet
9 9 (0.31%) Wireless
10 8 (0.27%) VLAN
11 7 (0.24%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.21%) OSPF
12 6 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
12 6 (0.21%) VSAN
12 6 (0.21%) WLAN
13 5 (0.17%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (6.26%) Power BI
2 68 (2.32%) Metadata
3 51 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (1.57%) Tableau
5 41 (1.40%) SQL Server
6 27 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 22 (0.75%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 20 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
9 17 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
10 15 (0.51%) MySQL
10 15 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (0.51%) Relational Database
11 14 (0.48%) Power Query
12 13 (0.44%) DynamoDB
13 12 (0.41%) Big Data
13 12 (0.41%) Data Vault
13 12 (0.41%) NoSQL
13 12 (0.41%) Oracle Database
13 12 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
14 11 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 267 (9.13%) JIRA
2 47 (1.61%) GitLab
3 40 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.06%) Git
5 21 (0.72%) Selenium
6 16 (0.55%) Cucumber
7 15 (0.51%) Postman
8 11 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.31%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.24%) JUnit
10 7 (0.24%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.21%) JMeter
11 6 (0.21%) TestRail
12 5 (0.17%) Gatling
12 5 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
13 4 (0.14%) ERwin
13 4 (0.14%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.14%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
14 3 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,549 (52.96%) Social Skills
2 827 (28.27%) Finance
3 488 (16.68%) Public Sector
4 450 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 202 (6.91%) Banking
6 134 (4.58%) Influencing Skills
7 121 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
8 102 (3.49%) Legal
9 85 (2.91%) Manufacturing
10 77 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
11 74 (2.53%) Marketing
12 73 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
12 73 (2.50%) Telecoms
13 70 (2.39%) Retail
14 59 (2.02%) Local Government
15 44 (1.50%) Financial Institution
16 35 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
17 33 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 32 (1.09%) Law
19 28 (0.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 535 (18.29%) Analyst
2 397 (13.57%) Business Analyst
3 395 (13.50%) Architect
4 346 (11.83%) Lead
5 295 (10.09%) Consultant
6 261 (8.92%) Project Manager
7 231 (7.90%) Senior
8 142 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
9 93 (3.18%) Developer
10 84 (2.87%) Programme Manager
11 78 (2.67%) Change Manager
12 74 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
13 62 (2.12%) Senior Business Analyst
14 54 (1.85%) Designer
15 53 (1.81%) Data Analyst
16 50 (1.71%) SAP Consultant
17 49 (1.68%) Delivery Manager
18 48 (1.64%) Senior Manager
19 47 (1.61%) Technical Manager
20 43 (1.47%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (3.90%) REST
2 59 (2.02%) SOAP
3 55 (1.88%) LDAP
4 45 (1.54%) .NET
5 39 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
6 36 (1.23%) OAuth
7 35 (1.20%) OpenID
8 34 (1.16%) Middleware
9 28 (0.96%) XML
10 27 (0.92%) Node.js
11 23 (0.79%) SAP Fiori
12 21 (0.72%) Kafka
12 21 (0.72%) RESTful
13 20 (0.68%) SAML
14 19 (0.65%) CSS
14 19 (0.65%) HTML
14 19 (0.65%) OAuth2
14 19 (0.65%) React
14 19 (0.65%) SailPoint
14 19 (0.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 180 (6.15%) Product Ownership
2 148 (5.06%) Onboarding
3 100 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
4 93 (3.18%) Cloud Native
5 70 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
5 70 (2.39%) Management Information System
6 65 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 62 (2.12%) Security Posture
8 54 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 51 (1.74%) NHS
10 47 (1.61%) Data Centre
11 44 (1.50%) PMI
12 39 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
13 38 (1.30%) AI Agents
14 37 (1.26%) CMDB
14 37 (1.26%) Operational Technology
15 32 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
16 27 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
17 22 (0.75%) Virtual Team
18 21 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 76 (2.60%) Windows
2 37 (1.26%) Linux
3 21 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (0.65%) Windows 10
4 19 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.24%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.21%) VMS
7 5 (0.17%) Unix
8 4 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.10%) Android
9 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.068%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.068%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.034%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 762 (26.05%) Agile
2 584 (19.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 464 (15.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 459 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
5 437 (14.94%) Migration
6 399 (13.64%) Change Management
7 396 (13.54%) Roadmaps
8 364 (12.44%) Project Management
9 326 (11.15%) Workshop Facilitation
10 318 (10.87%) Decision-Making
11 303 (10.36%) Analytics
12 296 (10.12%) DevOps
13 270 (9.23%) Risk Management
14 251 (8.58%) Business Intelligence
15 245 (8.38%) Requirements Gathering
16 232 (7.93%) Project Delivery
17 230 (7.86%) ERP
18 229 (7.83%) AI
19 213 (7.28%) Data Governance
20 210 (7.18%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 225 (7.69%) SQL
2 207 (7.08%) Python
3 114 (3.90%) PowerShell
4 73 (2.50%) Java
5 61 (2.09%) JavaScript
6 38 (1.30%) C#
7 31 (1.06%) Bash
8 27 (0.92%) Bicep
8 27 (0.92%) TypeScript
9 19 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 18 (0.62%) R
11 12 (0.41%) ABAP
12 11 (0.38%) PHP
12 11 (0.38%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.34%) Korn
14 7 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.21%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.17%) C++
17 4 (0.14%) RPG
17 4 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 620 (21.20%) Security Cleared
2 509 (17.40%) SC Cleared
3 274 (9.37%) Degree
4 111 (3.79%) PMI Certification
5 94 (3.21%) PMP
6 87 (2.97%) DV Cleared
7 79 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 57 (1.95%) Master's Degree
9 49 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 47 (1.61%) CISSP
11 36 (1.23%) Azure Certification
12 33 (1.13%) ACCA
13 32 (1.09%) CISM
14 29 (0.99%) CIMA
15 27 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
16 24 (0.82%) AWS Certification
16 24 (0.82%) CBAP
17 23 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
18 22 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
19 20 (0.68%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (5.26%) QA
2 148 (5.06%) GDPR
3 135 (4.62%) Data Quality
4 117 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 103 (3.52%) NIST
6 100 (3.42%) PMO
7 75 (2.56%) Accessibility
8 52 (1.78%) GRC
9 45 (1.54%) PCI DSS
10 30 (1.03%) NCSC
11 28 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 22 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
13 20 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
14 16 (0.55%) Basel III
15 15 (0.51%) PSD2
16 12 (0.41%) ISO 19650
16 12 (0.41%) SLA
16 12 (0.41%) WCAG
17 10 (0.34%) COBIT
17 10 (0.34%) HIPAA
System Software
1 116 (3.97%) Active Directory
2 69 (2.36%) Docker
3 27 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.38%) vSphere
6 9 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.17%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.068%) NFS
11 1 (0.034%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.034%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 119 (4.07%) Terraform
2 95 (3.25%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.20%) Ansible
4 27 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.58%) SCCM
7 10 (0.34%) Grafana
8 9 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (0.27%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.27%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.14%) Argo
10 4 (0.14%) Control-M
10 4 (0.14%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.14%) Istio
11 3 (0.10%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.10%) VxRail
12 2 (0.068%) Cisco UCCE
12 2 (0.068%) Nessus
12 2 (0.068%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.068%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 424 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 270 (9.23%) SAP
3 177 (6.05%) Oracle
4 162 (5.54%) ServiceNow
5 96 (3.28%) Salesforce
6 76 (2.60%) Google
7 69 (2.36%) Cisco
8 54 (1.85%) Workday
9 53 (1.81%) CyberArk
9 53 (1.81%) Databricks
10 46 (1.57%) VMware
11 40 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.20%) Aruba
12 35 (1.20%) Centrify
13 25 (0.85%) IBM
14 23 (0.79%) OpenAI
14 23 (0.79%) Palo Alto
14 23 (0.79%) Red Hat
15 22 (0.75%) Splunk
16 21 (0.72%) Adobe