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

 6 months to
20 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 58 149
Rank change year-on-year +32 +91 +6
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,149 1,100 683
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.54% 3.77% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.76% 4.14% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,135 736 482
10th Percentile £368 £381 £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 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 17 37
10th Percentile £30.58 £22.96 £18.35
25th Percentile £50.00 £32.05 £27.81
Median hourly rate £68.00 £49.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +37.37% +37.65% +72.06%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.75 £57.33
90th Percentile £93.25 £78.64 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.25 £67.50 £52.00
% change year-on-year +1.11% +29.82% +153.63%

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 40,582 26,548 36,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.29% 91.02% 86.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,477 17,040 23,631
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,387 1,106 2,443
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.80 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.17 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +50.90% -21.86% +0.13%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.70 £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 20 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 20 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 20 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 2,700 £525 - 958
UK excluding London +44 1,521 £500 -0.10% 760
London +33 1,236 £550 - 368
Work from Home +41 973 £525 +3.45% 477
North of England +35 402 £492 -1.60% 169
South East +20 346 £533 +9.33% 235
Midlands +24 315 £500 -0.10% 123
West Midlands +32 214 £492 -6.29% 84
North West +35 195 £475 -5.00% 90
South West +15 189 £525 -5.62% 96
Yorkshire +19 170 £514 +2.80% 53
Scotland +37 120 £473 -10.38% 60
East of England +32 109 £575 +15.00% 55
East Midlands +18 96 £520 +15.56% 37
North East +8 43 £450 -29.82% 26
Wales +17 41 £475 +46.15% 22
Northern Ireland +10 15 £450 -22.58% 14

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
1 180 (5.72%) Confluence
2 88 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 20 (0.64%) SAS
4 16 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.41%) CMS
6 13 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.38%) Apache
8 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.13%) OpenEdge
9 3 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.095%) Appian
9 3 (0.095%) Drupal
10 2 (0.064%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.064%) Camunda
10 2 (0.064%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.064%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.064%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.064%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.064%) WordPress
Applications
1 147 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
3 64 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
5 58 (1.84%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.13%) Sketch
8 3 (0.095%) Notion
8 3 (0.095%) Trello
9 2 (0.064%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.064%) InVision
10 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.032%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.032%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.032%) CATIA
10 1 (0.032%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.032%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 133 (4.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.48%) Teamcenter
4 13 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 11 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.29%) NEC Housing
6 9 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.29%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.25%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.25%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.22%) SAP QM
9 6 (0.19%) Finacle
9 6 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 6 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.19%) Primavera
9 6 (0.19%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 589 (18.70%) Azure
2 407 (12.92%) AWS
3 292 (9.27%) Power Platform
4 155 (4.92%) GCP
5 115 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
6 103 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
8 96 (3.05%) SaaS
9 89 (2.83%) Entra ID
10 59 (1.87%) GitHub
11 45 (1.43%) Serverless
12 41 (1.30%) PaaS
13 40 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
14 36 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
15 33 (1.05%) Amazon S3
16 31 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
16 31 (0.98%) Microsoft Purview
17 30 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (0.95%) Power Automate
17 30 (0.95%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.49%) Firewall
2 40 (1.27%) Network Security
3 32 (1.02%) DNS
4 21 (0.67%) WAN
5 20 (0.64%) VPN
6 18 (0.57%) LAN
7 12 (0.38%) Internet
8 10 (0.32%) BGP
8 10 (0.32%) VLAN
9 9 (0.29%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.29%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.29%) Wireless
10 8 (0.25%) DHCP
10 8 (0.25%) Intranet
10 8 (0.25%) OSPF
10 8 (0.25%) SSL
10 8 (0.25%) VSAN
11 7 (0.22%) NAS
11 7 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (8.03%) Power BI
2 70 (2.22%) Metadata
3 59 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (1.17%) Tableau
5 31 (0.98%) Data Lake
6 29 (0.92%) SQL Server
7 25 (0.79%) Power Query
7 25 (0.79%) Relational Database
8 23 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (0.48%) NoSQL
10 14 (0.44%) Big Data
10 14 (0.44%) MySQL
10 14 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
10 14 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
11 12 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
12 11 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (0.35%) DynamoDB
13 9 (0.29%) Data Vault
13 9 (0.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 283 (8.99%) JIRA
2 53 (1.68%) Jenkins
3 52 (1.65%) Git
4 49 (1.56%) GitLab
5 31 (0.98%) Rational DOORS
6 27 (0.86%) Postman
7 25 (0.79%) Selenium
8 19 (0.60%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.54%) Hudson
10 16 (0.51%) JMeter
11 11 (0.35%) JUnit
12 9 (0.29%) WebDriver
13 8 (0.25%) MLflow
13 8 (0.25%) REST Assured
13 8 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (0.19%) ERwin
14 6 (0.19%) LoadRunner
14 6 (0.19%) TestRail
15 5 (0.16%) SonarQube
15 5 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 1,464 (46.49%) Social Skills
2 925 (29.37%) Finance
3 476 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
4 468 (14.86%) Public Sector
5 190 (6.03%) Banking
6 133 (4.22%) Influencing Skills
7 114 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
8 113 (3.59%) Legal
9 91 (2.89%) Retail
10 84 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
11 78 (2.48%) Manufacturing
12 77 (2.45%) Law
13 63 (2.00%) Aerospace
14 57 (1.81%) Local Government
14 57 (1.81%) Marketing
15 53 (1.68%) Telecoms
16 45 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
17 43 (1.37%) Military
18 35 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 33 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 582 (18.48%) Analyst
2 462 (14.67%) Architect
3 414 (13.15%) Lead
4 400 (12.70%) Business Analyst
5 280 (8.89%) Senior
6 266 (8.45%) Project Manager
7 241 (7.65%) Consultant
8 119 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
9 90 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
10 86 (2.73%) Change Manager
11 85 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
12 84 (2.67%) Programme Manager
13 80 (2.54%) Data Analyst
14 75 (2.38%) Developer
15 69 (2.19%) Senior Manager
16 65 (2.06%) Designer
17 62 (1.97%) Senior Business Analyst
18 58 (1.84%) IT Manager
19 57 (1.81%) Product Manager
20 53 (1.68%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (3.56%) REST
2 60 (1.91%) SOAP
3 56 (1.78%) LDAP
4 51 (1.62%) Middleware
5 37 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
6 33 (1.05%) React
6 33 (1.05%) Spring
7 32 (1.02%) OpenID
8 29 (0.92%) SailPoint
9 28 (0.89%) Kafka
10 27 (0.86%) .NET
11 26 (0.83%) OAuth
12 25 (0.79%) Spring Boot
13 20 (0.64%) JSON
13 20 (0.64%) XML
14 19 (0.60%) Node.js
14 19 (0.60%) PySpark
15 18 (0.57%) RESTful
15 18 (0.57%) SAML
16 17 (0.54%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 217 (6.89%) Product Ownership
2 139 (4.41%) Onboarding
3 118 (3.75%) Cloud Native
4 85 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 73 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 65 (2.06%) Operational Technology
8 62 (1.97%) Security Posture
9 61 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
10 52 (1.65%) Data Centre
11 49 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
12 46 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
12 46 (1.46%) NHS
13 40 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
13 40 (1.27%) Virtual Team
14 36 (1.14%) CMDB
15 33 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
16 31 (0.98%) AI Agents
17 28 (0.89%) PMI
17 28 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 81 (2.57%) Windows
2 36 (1.14%) Linux
3 15 (0.48%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 11 (0.35%) Unix
6 9 (0.29%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.25%) VMS
8 4 (0.13%) Android
8 4 (0.13%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.095%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 841 (26.71%) Agile
2 604 (19.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 598 (18.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 465 (14.77%) Migration
5 432 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
6 424 (13.46%) Decision-Making
7 415 (13.18%) Roadmaps
8 413 (13.12%) Change Management
9 381 (12.10%) Workshop Facilitation
10 338 (10.73%) DevOps
11 310 (9.84%) Analytics
12 309 (9.81%) Project Management
13 303 (9.62%) ERP
14 299 (9.50%) AI
15 297 (9.43%) Risk Management
16 293 (9.30%) Business Intelligence
17 253 (8.03%) CI/CD
18 249 (7.91%) Cybersecurity
19 248 (7.88%) User Acceptance Testing
20 247 (7.84%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 242 (7.68%) SQL
2 228 (7.24%) Python
3 102 (3.24%) Java
4 71 (2.25%) PowerShell
5 46 (1.46%) JavaScript
6 34 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 33 (1.05%) TypeScript
8 32 (1.02%) C#
9 26 (0.83%) Bash
10 18 (0.57%) VBA
11 15 (0.48%) Bicep
12 13 (0.41%) Scala
13 10 (0.32%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.32%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.32%) PHP
14 9 (0.29%) R
15 8 (0.25%) Korn
15 8 (0.25%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.16%) ABAP
17 4 (0.13%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 774 (24.58%) Security Cleared
2 609 (19.34%) SC Cleared
3 255 (8.10%) Degree
4 124 (3.94%) DV Cleared
5 111 (3.52%) PMI Certification
6 108 (3.43%) PMP
7 107 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 65 (2.06%) CISSP
9 48 (1.52%) CISM
10 40 (1.27%) Azure Certification
11 38 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
12 34 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
13 29 (0.92%) ACCA
13 29 (0.92%) Master's Degree
14 28 (0.89%) CIMA
15 27 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 24 (0.76%) AWS Certification
17 23 (0.73%) IIBA
18 21 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
19 20 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (6.48%) Data Quality
2 162 (5.14%) QA
3 155 (4.92%) PMO
4 134 (4.26%) NIST
5 123 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 120 (3.81%) GDPR
7 75 (2.38%) Accessibility
8 60 (1.91%) GRC
9 31 (0.98%) SLA
10 27 (0.86%) NCSC
11 25 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
12 24 (0.76%) PCI DSS
13 21 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
14 17 (0.54%) WCAG
15 16 (0.51%) SOC 2
16 15 (0.48%) ISO 20022
17 13 (0.41%) COBIT
18 12 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 10 (0.32%) Basel III
19 10 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 98 (3.11%) Active Directory
2 55 (1.75%) Docker
3 27 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.41%) 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%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.095%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.095%) NFS
10 1 (0.032%) Firmware
10 1 (0.032%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.032%) SRDF
10 1 (0.032%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 100 (3.18%) Terraform
2 99 (3.14%) Kubernetes
3 28 (0.89%) Ansible
3 28 (0.89%) Grafana
4 26 (0.83%) Prometheus
5 23 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.44%) SCCM
8 13 (0.41%) HP ALM
9 9 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.16%) vRealize
12 4 (0.13%) Istio
12 4 (0.13%) Podman
13 3 (0.095%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.095%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 3 (0.095%) vMotion
13 3 (0.095%) WSUS
14 2 (0.064%) OpenVAS
14 2 (0.064%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 459 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 260 (8.26%) SAP
3 178 (5.65%) ServiceNow
4 140 (4.45%) Oracle
5 88 (2.79%) Salesforce
6 78 (2.48%) Databricks
7 52 (1.65%) Google
8 47 (1.49%) CyberArk
9 45 (1.43%) VMware
10 42 (1.33%) IBM
11 39 (1.24%) BeyondTrust
12 37 (1.17%) Cisco
13 34 (1.08%) Centrify
14 33 (1.05%) Splunk
14 33 (1.05%) Workday
15 21 (0.67%) Adobe
16 20 (0.64%) Dynatrace
16 20 (0.64%) IFS
17 18 (0.57%) Zscaler
18 17 (0.54%) Palo Alto
1,091 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide