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

 6 months to
22 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 58 152
Rank change year-on-year +32 +94 +7
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,198 1,101 688
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.62% 3.82% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.84% 4.20% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,168 734 485
10th Percentile £368 £377 £363
25th Percentile £438 £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 £734 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 16 39
10th Percentile £32.44 £27.00 £18.35
25th Percentile £50.00 £32.05 £27.81
Median hourly rate £69.00 £48.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +42.27% +34.87% +72.06%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.88 £57.33
90th Percentile £94.50 £74.49 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.00 £67.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +15.56% +19.49% +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 40,767 26,234 36,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.37% 91.05% 86.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,562 16,839 23,562
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.66% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,395 1,067 2,440
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.36 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.96 £18.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +50.82% -21.82% +0.13%
75th Percentile £67.50 £59.95 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -33.82% +8.57%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +29 2,747 £531 +1.19% 1,128
UK excluding London +40 1,537 £500 - 823
London +33 1,268 £550 - 477
Work from Home +40 989 £525 +4.90% 585
North of England +34 407 £500 +0.30% 192
South East +21 352 £539 +12.24% 252
Midlands +21 318 £500 -0.10% 126
West Midlands +29 216 £492 -6.29% 88
North West +32 195 £475 -4.71% 106
South West +23 189 £525 -5.62% 103
Yorkshire +22 174 £515 +6.74% 58
Scotland +39 122 £475 -9.52% 51
East of England +30 109 £575 +15.00% 54
East Midlands +18 97 £523 +16.11% 36
North East +6 44 £450 -11.33% 28
Wales +13 41 £475 +46.15% 21
Northern Ireland +12 15 £450 -22.58% 34

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
1 181 (5.66%) Confluence
2 89 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 23 (0.72%) SAS
4 18 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.44%) CMS
6 13 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.38%) Apache
8 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.13%) OpenEdge
9 3 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.094%) Appian
9 3 (0.094%) Drupal
9 3 (0.094%) WordPress
10 2 (0.063%) Camunda
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
Applications
1 150 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
3 64 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 60 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
5 58 (1.81%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.13%) Sketch
9 3 (0.094%) Notion
9 3 (0.094%) Trello
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 (4.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.47%) Teamcenter
4 12 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 11 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 10 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 9 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.25%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.25%) Workday HCM
9 7 (0.22%) NEC Housing
9 7 (0.22%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 7 (0.22%) SAP QM
10 6 (0.19%) Finacle
10 6 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.19%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 600 (18.76%) Azure
2 419 (13.10%) AWS
3 298 (9.32%) Power Platform
4 157 (4.91%) GCP
5 117 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
6 103 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
7 97 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
8 96 (3.00%) Entra ID
8 96 (3.00%) SaaS
9 62 (1.94%) GitHub
10 47 (1.47%) Serverless
11 41 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
12 40 (1.25%) PaaS
13 38 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
14 34 (1.06%) Amazon S3
15 32 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
16 31 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
16 31 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
16 31 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
16 31 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.53%) Firewall
2 43 (1.34%) Network Security
3 32 (1.00%) DNS
4 21 (0.66%) VPN
4 21 (0.66%) WAN
5 18 (0.56%) LAN
6 12 (0.38%) Internet
7 10 (0.31%) BGP
7 10 (0.31%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.31%) VLAN
7 10 (0.31%) Wireless
8 9 (0.28%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.28%) SSL
8 9 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.25%) DHCP
9 8 (0.25%) Intranet
9 8 (0.25%) OSPF
9 8 (0.25%) VSAN
10 7 (0.22%) NAS
10 7 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (8.01%) Power BI
2 72 (2.25%) Metadata
3 59 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (1.19%) Tableau
5 31 (0.97%) Data Lake
6 29 (0.91%) SQL Server
7 26 (0.81%) Relational Database
8 25 (0.78%) Power Query
9 23 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (0.47%) NoSQL
10 15 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
11 14 (0.44%) Big Data
11 14 (0.44%) MySQL
12 13 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
13 12 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (0.34%) DynamoDB
14 11 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
15 10 (0.31%) Data Vault
16 9 (0.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 286 (8.94%) JIRA
2 55 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 52 (1.63%) Git
4 51 (1.59%) GitLab
5 31 (0.97%) Rational DOORS
6 27 (0.84%) Postman
7 25 (0.78%) Selenium
8 19 (0.59%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.53%) Hudson
9 17 (0.53%) JMeter
10 11 (0.34%) JUnit
11 10 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (0.28%) WebDriver
13 8 (0.25%) MLflow
13 8 (0.25%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.22%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.19%) ERwin
15 6 (0.19%) LoadRunner
15 6 (0.19%) TestRail
16 5 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 1,475 (46.12%) Social Skills
2 935 (29.24%) Finance
3 487 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
4 480 (15.01%) Public Sector
5 192 (6.00%) Banking
6 136 (4.25%) Influencing Skills
7 114 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
7 114 (3.56%) Legal
8 92 (2.88%) Retail
9 84 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
10 79 (2.47%) Law
11 78 (2.44%) Manufacturing
12 67 (2.10%) Aerospace
13 59 (1.84%) Local Government
14 57 (1.78%) Marketing
15 54 (1.69%) Telecoms
16 43 (1.34%) Military
16 43 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
17 36 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 33 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 585 (18.29%) Analyst
2 476 (14.88%) Architect
3 417 (13.04%) Lead
4 402 (12.57%) Business Analyst
5 284 (8.88%) Senior
6 269 (8.41%) Project Manager
7 242 (7.57%) Consultant
8 125 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
9 91 (2.85%) Change Manager
10 90 (2.81%) Delivery Manager
11 85 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
12 83 (2.60%) Programme Manager
13 81 (2.53%) Data Analyst
14 80 (2.50%) Developer
15 72 (2.25%) Senior Manager
16 66 (2.06%) Designer
17 62 (1.94%) Senior Business Analyst
18 58 (1.81%) IT Manager
18 58 (1.81%) Product Manager
19 54 (1.69%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (3.56%) REST
2 60 (1.88%) SOAP
3 57 (1.78%) LDAP
4 51 (1.59%) Middleware
5 36 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
6 33 (1.03%) OpenID
6 33 (1.03%) React
6 33 (1.03%) Spring
7 31 (0.97%) SailPoint
8 28 (0.88%) .NET
8 28 (0.88%) Kafka
9 27 (0.84%) OAuth
10 25 (0.78%) Spring Boot
11 20 (0.63%) JSON
11 20 (0.63%) Node.js
11 20 (0.63%) PySpark
11 20 (0.63%) SAML
11 20 (0.63%) XML
12 18 (0.56%) RESTful
13 17 (0.53%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 221 (6.91%) Product Ownership
2 144 (4.50%) Onboarding
3 125 (3.91%) Cloud Native
4 87 (2.72%) Data Structures
5 74 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (2.25%) Management Information System
7 67 (2.10%) Operational Technology
8 65 (2.03%) Security Posture
9 59 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
10 54 (1.69%) Data Centre
11 50 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
12 48 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
13 47 (1.47%) NHS
14 42 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
15 40 (1.25%) Virtual Team
16 36 (1.13%) CMDB
17 32 (1.00%) AI Agents
17 32 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
18 29 (0.91%) Public Cloud
19 27 (0.84%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 83 (2.60%) Windows
2 36 (1.13%) Linux
3 16 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 11 (0.34%) Unix
6 9 (0.28%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.25%) VMS
8 3 (0.094%) Android
8 3 (0.094%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.094%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 859 (26.86%) Agile
2 612 (19.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 610 (19.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 474 (14.82%) Migration
5 432 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
6 430 (13.45%) Decision-Making
7 421 (13.16%) Roadmaps
8 417 (13.04%) Change Management
9 383 (11.98%) Workshop Facilitation
10 346 (10.82%) DevOps
11 316 (9.88%) Analytics
12 308 (9.63%) AI
12 308 (9.63%) Project Management
13 305 (9.54%) ERP
13 305 (9.54%) Risk Management
14 296 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
15 261 (8.16%) CI/CD
15 261 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
16 254 (7.94%) Project Delivery
17 249 (7.79%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 243 (7.60%) SQL
2 234 (7.32%) Python
3 103 (3.22%) Java
4 72 (2.25%) PowerShell
5 46 (1.44%) JavaScript
6 35 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 33 (1.03%) TypeScript
8 32 (1.00%) C#
9 26 (0.81%) Bash
10 18 (0.56%) VBA
11 15 (0.47%) Bicep
12 14 (0.44%) Scala
13 10 (0.31%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.31%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.31%) PHP
14 9 (0.28%) R
15 8 (0.25%) Korn
16 6 (0.19%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.16%) ABAP
18 4 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 794 (24.83%) Security Cleared
2 631 (19.73%) SC Cleared
3 255 (7.97%) Degree
4 128 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 110 (3.44%) PMI Certification
6 108 (3.38%) PMP
7 106 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 71 (2.22%) CISSP
9 53 (1.66%) CISM
10 40 (1.25%) Azure Certification
11 39 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
12 38 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
13 29 (0.91%) ACCA
13 29 (0.91%) Master's Degree
14 28 (0.88%) CIMA
15 27 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 26 (0.81%) AWS Certification
17 23 (0.72%) IIBA
17 23 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (6.41%) Data Quality
2 162 (5.07%) QA
3 156 (4.88%) PMO
4 137 (4.28%) NIST
5 128 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 124 (3.88%) GDPR
7 76 (2.38%) Accessibility
8 61 (1.91%) GRC
9 32 (1.00%) NCSC
10 31 (0.97%) SLA
11 25 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
11 25 (0.78%) PCI DSS
12 22 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.53%) WCAG
14 16 (0.50%) SOC 2
15 15 (0.47%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.38%) COBIT
16 12 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 10 (0.31%) Basel III
System Software
1 100 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 56 (1.75%) Docker
3 28 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.41%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.38%) vSphere
6 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.094%) 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
1 106 (3.31%) Kubernetes
2 104 (3.25%) Terraform
3 32 (1.00%) Ansible
4 30 (0.94%) Grafana
5 28 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.47%) SCCM
9 13 (0.41%) HP ALM
10 9 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.16%) Istio
12 5 (0.16%) vRealize
13 4 (0.13%) Podman
14 3 (0.094%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.094%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.094%) vMotion
14 3 (0.094%) WSUS
15 2 (0.063%) CA Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.063%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 465 (14.54%) Microsoft
2 256 (8.01%) SAP
3 182 (5.69%) ServiceNow
4 140 (4.38%) Oracle
5 90 (2.81%) Salesforce
6 81 (2.53%) Databricks
7 52 (1.63%) Google
8 50 (1.56%) CyberArk
9 46 (1.44%) VMware
10 44 (1.38%) IBM
11 39 (1.22%) BeyondTrust
12 38 (1.19%) Cisco
13 34 (1.06%) Centrify
14 33 (1.03%) Splunk
14 33 (1.03%) Workday
15 21 (0.66%) Adobe
16 20 (0.63%) Dynatrace
16 20 (0.63%) Zscaler
17 19 (0.59%) IFS
18 18 (0.56%) Palo Alto
1,306 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide