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

 6 months to
8 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 62 148
Rank change year-on-year +36 +86 +7
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,167 1,077 682
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.67% 3.70% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.90% 4.07% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,169 714 478
10th Percentile £363 £375 £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 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 18 36
10th Percentile £25.38 £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 40,077 26,470 37,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.45% 90.96% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,204 17,026 23,967
10th Percentile £321 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +1.77% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,387 1,075 2,431
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £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 £60.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.35 £37.50
% change year-on-year +60.88% -27.07% +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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +34 2,720 £525 - 866
UK excluding London +39 1,517 £500 -1.48% 645
London +36 1,251 £550 - 360
Work from Home +42 964 £525 +0.96% 443
North of England +36 391 £475 -5.38% 158
South East +22 354 £525 +5.00% 200
Midlands +24 319 £500 - 105
West Midlands +28 217 £492 -6.29% 70
South West +20 195 £519 -6.74% 85
North West +32 194 £475 -5.00% 82
Yorkshire +20 154 £500 - 57
Scotland +35 112 £473 -11.27% 50
East of England +27 106 £575 +15.00% 34
East Midlands +17 97 £500 +17.65% 35
North East +15 49 £450 -29.82% 20
Wales +14 39 £475 +38.69% 15
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 (5.84%) Confluence
2 94 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 21 (0.66%) SAS
4 18 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.38%) CMS
8 11 (0.35%) Apache
9 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.095%) Appian
10 3 (0.095%) Drupal
10 3 (0.095%) OpenEdge
11 2 (0.063%) nginx
11 2 (0.063%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.063%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.063%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.063%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.063%) WordPress
Applications
1 152 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (2.18%) Microsoft Project
3 66 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
5 55 (1.74%) 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 (0.095%) Notion
10 2 (0.063%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.063%) InVision
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.032%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.032%) CATIA
11 1 (0.032%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.032%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 130 (4.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 13 (0.41%) Teamcenter
5 10 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.32%) 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 (18.88%) Azure
2 421 (13.29%) AWS
3 291 (9.19%) Power Platform
4 161 (5.08%) GCP
5 126 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
6 104 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
7 102 (3.22%) Dynamics 365
8 96 (3.03%) SaaS
9 91 (2.87%) Entra ID
10 65 (2.05%) GitHub
11 43 (1.36%) Serverless
12 42 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
13 40 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (1.26%) PaaS
14 35 (1.11%) Power Automate
15 32 (1.01%) OCI
15 32 (1.01%) PowerApps
16 31 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
17 30 (0.95%) Amazon S3
17 30 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.55%) Firewall
2 41 (1.29%) Network Security
3 33 (1.04%) DNS
4 26 (0.82%) VPN
5 23 (0.73%) WAN
6 22 (0.69%) LAN
7 16 (0.51%) 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 (0.32%) DHCP
9 10 (0.32%) 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
1 248 (7.83%) Power BI
2 68 (2.15%) Metadata
3 59 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (1.23%) Tableau
5 29 (0.92%) Data Lake
6 27 (0.85%) SQL Server
7 26 (0.82%) Relational Database
8 22 (0.69%) Power Query
9 21 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (0.51%) 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 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
16 10 (0.32%) Oracle Database
17 9 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 288 (9.09%) JIRA
2 52 (1.64%) Git
2 52 (1.64%) Jenkins
3 49 (1.55%) GitLab
4 29 (0.92%) Rational DOORS
5 25 (0.79%) Selenium
6 24 (0.76%) Postman
7 18 (0.57%) Cucumber
8 16 (0.51%) 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 1,497 (47.27%) Social Skills
2 943 (29.78%) Finance
3 498 (15.72%) Analytical Skills
4 487 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 196 (6.19%) Banking
6 137 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
7 123 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
8 114 (3.60%) Legal
9 89 (2.81%) Retail
10 85 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
11 76 (2.40%) Manufacturing
12 74 (2.34%) Law
13 62 (1.96%) Aerospace
14 61 (1.93%) Local Government
15 57 (1.80%) Telecoms
16 55 (1.74%) Marketing
17 52 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
18 40 (1.26%) Military
19 33 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
20 32 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 588 (18.57%) Analyst
2 464 (14.65%) Architect
3 415 (13.10%) Business Analyst
3 415 (13.10%) Lead
4 286 (9.03%) Senior
5 285 (9.00%) Project Manager
6 224 (7.07%) Consultant
7 116 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
8 94 (2.97%) Delivery Manager
9 90 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
10 83 (2.62%) Programme Manager
11 82 (2.59%) Change Manager
12 76 (2.40%) Developer
13 73 (2.31%) Data Analyst
14 70 (2.21%) Senior Manager
15 67 (2.12%) Senior Business Analyst
16 64 (2.02%) Designer
17 59 (1.86%) IT Manager
18 55 (1.74%) Product Manager
19 54 (1.71%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (3.35%) REST
2 59 (1.86%) SOAP
3 54 (1.71%) LDAP
4 48 (1.52%) Middleware
5 38 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
6 36 (1.14%) Spring
7 31 (0.98%) OpenID
8 30 (0.95%) .NET
9 29 (0.92%) React
10 28 (0.88%) SailPoint
10 28 (0.88%) Spring Boot
11 26 (0.82%) OAuth
12 24 (0.76%) Kafka
13 22 (0.69%) AngularJS
13 22 (0.69%) Node.js
14 19 (0.60%) PySpark
14 19 (0.60%) SAML
15 17 (0.54%) ADO
15 17 (0.54%) RESTful
15 17 (0.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 214 (6.76%) Product Ownership
2 150 (4.74%) Onboarding
3 122 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 81 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 78 (2.46%) Management Information System
6 70 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
6 70 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 66 (2.08%) Operational Technology
8 61 (1.93%) Security Posture
9 57 (1.80%) Data Centre
10 53 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 48 (1.52%) NHS
12 46 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
13 41 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
14 39 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
15 37 (1.17%) AI Agents
15 37 (1.17%) Virtual Team
16 35 (1.11%) CMDB
17 33 (1.04%) PMI
18 29 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 82 (2.59%) Windows
2 43 (1.36%) Linux
3 17 (0.54%) 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%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.13%) Android
9 3 (0.095%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 865 (27.31%) Agile
2 610 (19.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 609 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 464 (14.65%) Migration
5 441 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
6 422 (13.32%) Change Management
7 421 (13.29%) Roadmaps
8 412 (13.01%) Decision-Making
9 383 (12.09%) Workshop Facilitation
10 336 (10.61%) DevOps
11 328 (10.36%) Project Management
12 315 (9.95%) Analytics
13 302 (9.54%) AI
14 298 (9.41%) Risk Management
15 296 (9.35%) ERP
16 288 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
17 256 (8.08%) CI/CD
17 256 (8.08%) Project Delivery
18 254 (8.02%) Cybersecurity
19 249 (7.86%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 246 (7.77%) SQL
2 245 (7.74%) Python
3 103 (3.25%) Java
4 74 (2.34%) PowerShell
5 45 (1.42%) JavaScript
6 35 (1.11%) C#
7 33 (1.04%) TypeScript
8 27 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 24 (0.76%) Bash
10 18 (0.57%) Bicep
10 18 (0.57%) VBA
11 14 (0.44%) R
12 12 (0.38%) Scala
13 10 (0.32%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.32%) PHP
14 9 (0.28%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.28%) Korn
15 8 (0.25%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.19%) ABAP
17 4 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 786 (24.82%) Security Cleared
2 623 (19.67%) SC Cleared
3 260 (8.21%) Degree
4 122 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 117 (3.69%) PMI Certification
6 112 (3.54%) PMP
7 108 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 68 (2.15%) CISSP
9 48 (1.52%) CISM
10 41 (1.29%) Azure Certification
11 40 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
12 38 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
13 36 (1.14%) Master's Degree
14 31 (0.98%) ACCA
15 30 (0.95%) CIMA
16 29 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 25 (0.79%) AWS Certification
18 23 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
18 23 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
19 22 (0.69%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (6.32%) Data Quality
2 168 (5.30%) QA
3 159 (5.02%) PMO
4 138 (4.36%) NIST
5 130 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 128 (4.04%) GDPR
7 80 (2.53%) Accessibility
8 58 (1.83%) GRC
9 30 (0.95%) SLA
10 28 (0.88%) PCI DSS
11 27 (0.85%) NCSC
12 26 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
13 21 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
14 17 (0.54%) WCAG
15 16 (0.51%) SOC 2
16 14 (0.44%) ISO 20022
17 13 (0.41%) Basel III
17 13 (0.41%) COBIT
18 12 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 11 (0.35%) Def Stans
System Software
1 101 (3.19%) Active Directory
2 63 (1.99%) Docker
3 24 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.51%) 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 (0.095%) NFS
9 3 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.063%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.032%) Firmware
11 1 (0.032%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 112 (3.54%) Terraform
2 108 (3.41%) Kubernetes
3 27 (0.85%) Ansible
3 27 (0.85%) Grafana
4 25 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (0.73%) 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 (0.095%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.095%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 3 (0.095%) vMotion
12 3 (0.095%) WSUS
13 2 (0.063%) Nessus
13 2 (0.063%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 463 (14.62%) Microsoft
2 251 (7.93%) SAP
3 177 (5.59%) ServiceNow
4 143 (4.52%) Oracle
5 87 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 75 (2.37%) Databricks
7 64 (2.02%) Google
8 49 (1.55%) CyberArk
9 45 (1.42%) VMware
10 42 (1.33%) IBM
11 39 (1.23%) BeyondTrust
11 39 (1.23%) Cisco
12 37 (1.17%) Splunk
13 34 (1.07%) Centrify
14 32 (1.01%) 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
1,030 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide