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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 75 152
Rank change year-on-year +49 +77 +3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,203 930 713
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.08% 3.18% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.29% 3.51% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,204 621 481
10th Percentile £363 £387 £363
25th Percentile £449 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% +2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 14 37
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.93 £18.35
25th Percentile £37.00 £26.56 £27.81
Median hourly rate £66.25 £48.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +36.60% +34.87% +37.51%
75th Percentile £88.00 £69.38 £57.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.20 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 £47.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +56.84% -15.91% +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 38,628 26,479 37,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.41% 90.55% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,477 17,189 24,572
10th Percentile £314 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,295 988 2,354
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £19.99 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.91 £31.58 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.71% -2.83% -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.73 £70.27
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.55 £30.00 £32.12
% change year-on-year +18.50% -6.59% -13.90%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +48 2,792 £525 - 871
UK excluding London +46 1,542 £500 -3.85% 633
London +53 1,295 £550 - 341
Work from Home +57 940 £525 - 428
South East +38 396 £500 -7.62% 209
North of England +33 373 £500 - 154
Midlands +25 313 £500 - 124
West Midlands +33 211 £492 -6.29% 78
North West +43 204 £491 -2.58% 71
South West +41 204 £525 -8.70% 68
Yorkshire +9 128 £513 +7.89% 63
East of England +33 112 £533 +6.50% 46
Scotland +37 101 £450 -18.18% 21
East Midlands +13 97 £494 +12.86% 45
North East +16 45 £450 -11.33% 21
Wales +13 36 £460 -12.38% 15
Northern Ireland +14 19 £450 - 7
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
1 172 (5.37%) Confluence
2 109 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 31 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (0.69%) SAS
5 14 (0.44%) CMS
6 10 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.25%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.22%) Apache
9 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.094%) WordPress
11 2 (0.062%) Camunda
11 2 (0.062%) Drupal
11 2 (0.062%) nginx
11 2 (0.062%) OpenEdge
11 2 (0.062%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.062%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.062%) WebLogic
Applications
1 161 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (2.37%) Microsoft Project
3 63 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 63 (1.97%) MS Visio
4 60 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.12%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.12%) Sketch
7 4 (0.12%) Trello
8 3 (0.094%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.094%) Notion
9 2 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.062%) InVision
9 2 (0.062%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.062%) Windchill
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.031%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.031%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 134 (4.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.53%) SAP FI
5 16 (0.50%) SAP PP
6 15 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
7 12 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
8 11 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
9 10 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
9 10 (0.31%) SAP MM
9 10 (0.31%) Teamcenter
9 10 (0.31%) Workday HCM
10 9 (0.28%) NEC Housing
10 9 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 9 (0.28%) SAP CO
11 8 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
11 8 (0.25%) SAP HR
12 7 (0.22%) Aladdin
12 7 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 7 (0.22%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 587 (18.33%) Azure
2 390 (12.18%) AWS
3 290 (9.05%) Power Platform
4 160 (5.00%) GCP
5 132 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
6 118 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
7 102 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
8 99 (3.09%) SaaS
9 94 (2.93%) Entra ID
10 67 (2.09%) GitHub
11 45 (1.40%) Serverless
12 42 (1.31%) Microsoft Copilot
12 42 (1.31%) PaaS
13 41 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
13 41 (1.28%) OCI
14 36 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
15 32 (1.00%) Power Automate
16 30 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
16 30 (0.94%) IaaS
16 30 (0.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.90%) Firewall
2 48 (1.50%) Network Security
3 36 (1.12%) DNS
4 31 (0.97%) WAN
5 30 (0.94%) VPN
6 29 (0.91%) LAN
7 20 (0.62%) SD-WAN
8 17 (0.53%) BGP
9 15 (0.47%) Internet
10 14 (0.44%) MPLS
11 13 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (0.41%) Wireless
12 12 (0.37%) DHCP
13 11 (0.34%) VLAN
14 10 (0.31%) VSAN
15 9 (0.28%) OSPF
16 8 (0.25%) SSL
16 8 (0.25%) WLAN
17 7 (0.22%) Intranet
17 7 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (7.52%) Power BI
2 71 (2.22%) Metadata
3 63 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (1.47%) Tableau
5 38 (1.19%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.78%) Power Query
7 24 (0.75%) Data Lake
8 22 (0.69%) Relational Database
9 21 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
10 20 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
11 18 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
12 16 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
13 14 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (0.44%) MySQL
13 14 (0.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 13 (0.41%) Data Vault
14 13 (0.41%) Delta Lake
14 13 (0.41%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
16 10 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 276 (8.62%) JIRA
2 45 (1.40%) GitLab
2 45 (1.40%) Jenkins
3 38 (1.19%) Git
4 29 (0.91%) Rational DOORS
5 25 (0.78%) Selenium
6 20 (0.62%) Postman
7 16 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.47%) JMeter
9 13 (0.41%) Hudson
10 11 (0.34%) JUnit
11 8 (0.25%) ERwin
11 8 (0.25%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
12 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.19%) MLflow
13 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.19%) TestRail
14 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
15 4 (0.12%) Gatling
General
1 1,570 (49.02%) Social Skills
2 940 (29.35%) Finance
3 526 (16.42%) Public Sector
4 522 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
5 204 (6.37%) Banking
6 150 (4.68%) Influencing Skills
7 141 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
8 122 (3.81%) Legal
9 90 (2.81%) Retail
10 85 (2.65%) Manufacturing
10 85 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
11 74 (2.31%) Law
12 65 (2.03%) Marketing
12 65 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
12 65 (2.03%) Telecoms
13 63 (1.97%) Local Government
14 58 (1.81%) Aerospace
15 33 (1.03%) Financial Institution
15 33 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
16 31 (0.97%) Military
Job Titles
1 600 (18.73%) Analyst
2 476 (14.86%) Architect
3 435 (13.58%) Business Analyst
4 391 (12.21%) Lead
5 300 (9.37%) Project Manager
6 279 (8.71%) Consultant
7 263 (8.21%) Senior
8 148 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
9 88 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
10 87 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
11 86 (2.68%) Change Manager
11 86 (2.68%) Programme Manager
12 83 (2.59%) Developer
13 76 (2.37%) Data Analyst
14 66 (2.06%) Senior Business Analyst
15 61 (1.90%) Senior Manager
16 59 (1.84%) Lead Architect
17 56 (1.75%) Product Manager
18 55 (1.72%) Designer
19 51 (1.59%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (3.25%) REST
2 54 (1.69%) SOAP
3 53 (1.65%) LDAP
4 49 (1.53%) Middleware
5 44 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
6 34 (1.06%) OpenID
7 33 (1.03%) .NET
8 32 (1.00%) OAuth
9 31 (0.97%) Node.js
10 30 (0.94%) Spring
11 29 (0.91%) React
12 26 (0.81%) SailPoint
13 24 (0.75%) Kafka
14 22 (0.69%) SAML
14 22 (0.69%) Spring Boot
15 20 (0.62%) SAP Fiori
16 18 (0.56%) RESTful
16 18 (0.56%) TensorFlow
17 17 (0.53%) AngularJS
17 17 (0.53%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 212 (6.62%) Product Ownership
2 150 (4.68%) Onboarding
3 105 (3.28%) Cloud Native
4 81 (2.53%) Data Structures
5 79 (2.47%) Management Information System
6 73 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
7 71 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 62 (1.94%) Security Posture
9 59 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 59 (1.84%) NHS
10 54 (1.69%) Operational Technology
11 52 (1.62%) Data Centre
12 42 (1.31%) PMI
13 41 (1.28%) CMDB
14 40 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
14 40 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
15 38 (1.19%) AI Agents
16 36 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
17 32 (1.00%) Virtual Team
18 26 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 78 (2.44%) Windows
2 41 (1.28%) Linux
3 20 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (0.56%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.53%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.19%) Unix
7 6 (0.19%) VMS
8 4 (0.12%) Android
8 4 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.094%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 820 (25.60%) Agile
2 615 (19.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 609 (19.01%) Continuous Improvement
4 514 (16.05%) Migration
5 481 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
6 452 (14.11%) Roadmaps
7 444 (13.86%) Change Management
8 399 (12.46%) Workshop Facilitation
9 370 (11.55%) Decision-Making
10 351 (10.96%) Project Management
11 332 (10.37%) Analytics
12 322 (10.05%) DevOps
13 299 (9.33%) Business Intelligence
14 291 (9.09%) AI
15 283 (8.84%) ERP
15 283 (8.84%) Risk Management
16 267 (8.34%) Project Delivery
17 253 (7.90%) User Acceptance Testing
18 240 (7.49%) Requirements Gathering
19 235 (7.34%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 246 (7.68%) SQL
2 235 (7.34%) Python
3 93 (2.90%) PowerShell
4 92 (2.87%) Java
5 40 (1.25%) JavaScript
6 37 (1.16%) C#
7 32 (1.00%) TypeScript
8 29 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 23 (0.72%) Bash
10 18 (0.56%) Bicep
11 17 (0.53%) VBA
12 16 (0.50%) ABAP
12 16 (0.50%) R
13 10 (0.31%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.31%) PHP
13 10 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.28%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.22%) Korn
15 7 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.12%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 774 (24.16%) Security Cleared
2 615 (19.20%) SC Cleared
3 277 (8.65%) Degree
4 122 (3.81%) PMI Certification
5 114 (3.56%) DV Cleared
6 110 (3.43%) PMP
7 100 (3.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 58 (1.81%) CISSP
9 45 (1.40%) Master's Degree
10 43 (1.34%) Azure Certification
11 41 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
12 40 (1.25%) CISM
13 32 (1.00%) AWS Certification
14 27 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 26 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
16 25 (0.78%) ACCA
16 25 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 23 (0.72%) APMG
17 23 (0.72%) CIMA
17 23 (0.72%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (5.96%) Data Quality
2 175 (5.46%) QA
3 141 (4.40%) GDPR
4 138 (4.31%) PMO
5 130 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 129 (4.03%) NIST
7 75 (2.34%) Accessibility
8 57 (1.78%) GRC
9 39 (1.22%) PCI DSS
10 33 (1.03%) NCSC
11 29 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
12 25 (0.78%) SLA
13 17 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
14 16 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 15 (0.47%) SOC 2
16 14 (0.44%) Basel III
17 12 (0.37%) COBIT
17 12 (0.37%) ISO 20022
17 12 (0.37%) PSD2
18 11 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 112 (3.50%) Active Directory
2 64 (2.00%) Docker
3 29 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.59%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.50%) vSphere
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.094%) NFS
10 3 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.062%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.031%) Firmware
12 1 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 109 (3.40%) Terraform
2 105 (3.28%) Kubernetes
3 28 (0.87%) Ansible
4 25 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.53%) Grafana
6 16 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.47%) HP ALM
8 14 (0.44%) SCCM
9 12 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.16%) Podman
12 4 (0.12%) Istio
13 3 (0.094%) Argo
13 3 (0.094%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.094%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.094%) vMotion
13 3 (0.094%) vRealize
13 3 (0.094%) WSUS
14 2 (0.062%) Nessus
Vendors
1 463 (14.46%) Microsoft
2 272 (8.49%) SAP
3 177 (5.53%) ServiceNow
4 166 (5.18%) Oracle
5 100 (3.12%) Salesforce
6 66 (2.06%) Databricks
7 65 (2.03%) Cisco
7 65 (2.03%) Google
8 53 (1.65%) CyberArk
9 46 (1.44%) VMware
10 43 (1.34%) IBM
11 41 (1.28%) BeyondTrust
12 39 (1.22%) Workday
13 37 (1.16%) Aruba
14 34 (1.06%) Centrify
15 26 (0.81%) Splunk
16 22 (0.69%) Palo Alto
16 22 (0.69%) Red Hat
17 20 (0.62%) Adobe
17 20 (0.62%) OpenAI