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

 6 months to
19 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 70 149
Rank change year-on-year +44 +79 +5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,197 997 708
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.92% 3.39% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.15% 3.73% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,194 665 493
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £656
90th Percentile £750 £739 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £511 £513
% change year-on-year -2.21% -0.24% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 16 37
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.95 £18.35
25th Percentile £37.12 £30.13 £27.81
Median hourly rate £68.50 £48.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% +34.87% +37.51%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.75 £57.33
90th Percentile £94.00 £79.49 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.50 £47.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +71.58% -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 39,218 26,699 37,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.74% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,782 17,291 24,442
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +0.41% -3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,336 1,037 2,416
10th Percentile £14.93 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.74 £18.51 £15.91
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £65.33 £62.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.13 £75.00 £71.81
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £28.88 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.53% -17.50% -

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 19 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 19 April 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 19 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 +39 2,771 £525 - 909
UK excluding London +45 1,527 £500 -2.21% 700
London +47 1,285 £550 - 337
Work from Home +53 940 £525 +0.96% 417
North of England +35 383 £500 - 176
South East +39 377 £520 +1.46% 201
Midlands +26 319 £500 - 137
West Midlands +26 222 £492 -6.29% 85
North West +41 203 £493 -1.84% 83
South West +32 198 £525 -6.67% 96
Yorkshire +8 137 £513 +2.50% 71
East of England +29 108 £565 +13.00% 57
Scotland +39 103 £458 -16.82% 29
East Midlands +14 92 £500 +17.65% 52
North East +18 49 £450 -29.82% 28
Wales +17 37 £436 +21.18% 16
Northern Ireland +18 18 £450 -20.00% 8

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
1 182 (5.69%) Confluence
2 104 (3.25%) SharePoint
3 26 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (0.75%) SAS
5 15 (0.47%) CMS
6 13 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.19%) Apache
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.094%) Appian
10 3 (0.094%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.094%) Drupal
10 3 (0.094%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.094%) WordPress
11 2 (0.063%) Camunda
11 2 (0.063%) nginx
11 2 (0.063%) OpenEdge
11 2 (0.063%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.063%) WebLogic
Applications
1 158 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (2.28%) Microsoft Project
3 67 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 63 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
5 58 (1.81%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.13%) Sketch
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.094%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.094%) Notion
10 2 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.063%) InVision
10 2 (0.063%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.063%) Windchill
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.031%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.031%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 129 (4.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.53%) SAP FI
5 13 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.41%) SAP PP
6 12 (0.38%) Teamcenter
7 10 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 10 (0.31%) SAP MM
7 10 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 9 (0.28%) NEC Housing
8 9 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 9 (0.28%) SAP CO
9 8 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.25%) SAP ERP
9 8 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
10 7 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 7 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
10 7 (0.22%) SAP HR
10 7 (0.22%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 596 (18.64%) Azure
2 414 (12.95%) AWS
3 284 (8.88%) Power Platform
4 167 (5.22%) GCP
5 130 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
6 112 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
7 103 (3.22%) Dynamics 365
8 100 (3.13%) SaaS
9 95 (2.97%) Entra ID
10 67 (2.10%) GitHub
11 47 (1.47%) Serverless
12 43 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
13 42 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
14 41 (1.28%) PaaS
15 38 (1.19%) OCI
16 33 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
17 32 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
17 32 (1.00%) Power Automate
18 31 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
19 30 (0.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.85%) Firewall
2 47 (1.47%) Network Security
3 34 (1.06%) DNS
4 29 (0.91%) VPN
5 28 (0.88%) WAN
6 26 (0.81%) LAN
7 18 (0.56%) BGP
7 18 (0.56%) SD-WAN
8 15 (0.47%) Internet
9 13 (0.41%) Wireless
10 12 (0.38%) MPLS
10 12 (0.38%) VLAN
10 12 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.34%) DHCP
12 10 (0.31%) OSPF
12 10 (0.31%) VSAN
13 8 (0.25%) Intranet
13 8 (0.25%) SSL
13 8 (0.25%) WLAN
14 7 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (7.44%) Power BI
2 80 (2.50%) Metadata
3 63 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (1.44%) Tableau
5 32 (1.00%) SQL Server
6 27 (0.84%) Data Lake
7 25 (0.78%) Relational Database
8 24 (0.75%) Power Query
9 21 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
10 17 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
11 15 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
12 13 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (0.41%) Data Vault
12 13 (0.41%) DynamoDB
12 13 (0.41%) NoSQL
13 12 (0.38%) MySQL
14 10 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 10 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 290 (9.07%) JIRA
2 47 (1.47%) Git
2 47 (1.47%) GitLab
2 47 (1.47%) Jenkins
3 28 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
4 26 (0.81%) Selenium
5 23 (0.72%) Postman
6 16 (0.50%) Cucumber
7 15 (0.47%) JMeter
8 14 (0.44%) Hudson
9 11 (0.34%) JUnit
10 8 (0.25%) ERwin
10 8 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (0.25%) WebDriver
11 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
11 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.19%) MLflow
12 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.19%) TestRail
13 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,539 (48.14%) Social Skills
2 948 (29.65%) Finance
3 516 (16.14%) Analytical Skills
4 513 (16.05%) Public Sector
5 196 (6.13%) Banking
6 145 (4.54%) Influencing Skills
7 136 (4.25%) Documentation Skills
8 118 (3.69%) Legal
9 93 (2.91%) Retail
10 84 (2.63%) Manufacturing
10 84 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
11 74 (2.31%) Law
12 64 (2.00%) Local Government
13 63 (1.97%) Marketing
14 60 (1.88%) Telecoms
15 59 (1.85%) Aerospace
15 59 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
16 38 (1.19%) Military
17 32 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
18 31 (0.97%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 580 (18.14%) Analyst
2 478 (14.95%) Architect
3 414 (12.95%) Business Analyst
4 402 (12.57%) Lead
5 296 (9.26%) Project Manager
6 272 (8.51%) Senior
7 267 (8.35%) Consultant
8 137 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
9 94 (2.94%) Delivery Manager
10 92 (2.88%) Senior Analyst
11 88 (2.75%) Change Manager
12 86 (2.69%) Programme Manager
13 78 (2.44%) Developer
14 75 (2.35%) Data Analyst
15 68 (2.13%) Senior Business Analyst
16 66 (2.06%) Senior Manager
17 58 (1.81%) Designer
18 57 (1.78%) Product Manager
19 56 (1.75%) Lead Architect
20 53 (1.66%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (3.35%) REST
2 58 (1.81%) SOAP
3 54 (1.69%) LDAP
4 48 (1.50%) Middleware
5 41 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
6 35 (1.09%) .NET
6 35 (1.09%) OpenID
7 33 (1.03%) OAuth
8 31 (0.97%) Node.js
8 31 (0.97%) React
9 30 (0.94%) Spring
10 27 (0.84%) SailPoint
11 25 (0.78%) Kafka
12 23 (0.72%) SAML
13 22 (0.69%) Spring Boot
14 21 (0.66%) AngularJS
15 18 (0.56%) RESTful
15 18 (0.56%) TensorFlow
15 18 (0.56%) XML
16 17 (0.53%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 207 (6.47%) Product Ownership
2 149 (4.66%) Onboarding
3 112 (3.50%) Cloud Native
4 79 (2.47%) Management Information System
5 78 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 75 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 73 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
8 60 (1.88%) Security Posture
9 59 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 58 (1.81%) Data Centre
11 55 (1.72%) Operational Technology
12 52 (1.63%) NHS
13 42 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
14 40 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
15 39 (1.22%) AI Agents
15 39 (1.22%) CMDB
16 37 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
17 36 (1.13%) PMI
18 31 (0.97%) Virtual Team
19 29 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 75 (2.35%) Windows
2 39 (1.22%) Linux
3 20 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 15 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.25%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.19%) Unix
7 6 (0.19%) VMS
8 5 (0.16%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.13%) Android
10 3 (0.094%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 833 (26.06%) Agile
2 621 (19.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 620 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 500 (15.64%) Migration
5 466 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
6 444 (13.89%) Roadmaps
7 440 (13.76%) Change Management
8 384 (12.01%) Workshop Facilitation
9 383 (11.98%) Decision-Making
10 344 (10.76%) Project Management
11 336 (10.51%) DevOps
12 331 (10.35%) Analytics
13 301 (9.42%) AI
14 293 (9.16%) ERP
15 288 (9.01%) Risk Management
16 286 (8.95%) Business Intelligence
17 259 (8.10%) Project Delivery
18 255 (7.98%) User Acceptance Testing
19 251 (7.85%) CI/CD
20 238 (7.44%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 248 (7.76%) SQL
2 236 (7.38%) Python
3 95 (2.97%) Java
4 89 (2.78%) PowerShell
5 44 (1.38%) JavaScript
6 40 (1.25%) C#
7 33 (1.03%) TypeScript
8 28 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 21 (0.66%) Bash
10 19 (0.59%) Bicep
11 17 (0.53%) ABAP
11 17 (0.53%) VBA
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
16 6 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 783 (24.49%) Security Cleared
2 624 (19.52%) SC Cleared
3 278 (8.70%) Degree
4 119 (3.72%) PMI Certification
5 113 (3.53%) PMP
6 111 (3.47%) DV Cleared
7 106 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 61 (1.91%) CISSP
9 44 (1.38%) Azure Certification
10 42 (1.31%) Master's Degree
11 41 (1.28%) CISM
11 41 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
12 30 (0.94%) AWS Certification
13 29 (0.91%) ACCA
13 29 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (0.88%) CIMA
14 28 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 26 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
16 24 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
17 22 (0.69%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (6.10%) Data Quality
2 174 (5.44%) QA
3 144 (4.50%) PMO
4 139 (4.35%) GDPR
5 131 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 131 (4.10%) NIST
6 77 (2.41%) Accessibility
7 56 (1.75%) GRC
8 33 (1.03%) PCI DSS
9 30 (0.94%) NCSC
10 26 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
11 25 (0.78%) SLA
12 16 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.50%) SOC 2
13 14 (0.44%) Basel III
14 13 (0.41%) ISO 20022
14 13 (0.41%) WCAG
15 12 (0.38%) COBIT
15 12 (0.38%) NIST 800
15 12 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 110 (3.44%) Active Directory
2 68 (2.13%) Docker
3 30 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.69%) 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 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.094%) NFS
10 3 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.063%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.031%) Firmware
12 1 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 115 (3.60%) Terraform
2 106 (3.32%) Kubernetes
3 28 (0.88%) Ansible
4 26 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (0.53%) Grafana
7 16 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.47%) HP ALM
9 14 (0.44%) SCCM
10 11 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.16%) Podman
12 5 (0.16%) vRealize
13 4 (0.13%) Istio
14 3 (0.094%) Argo
14 3 (0.094%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.094%) vMotion
14 3 (0.094%) WSUS
15 2 (0.063%) Nessus
15 2 (0.063%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 467 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 271 (8.48%) SAP
3 193 (6.04%) ServiceNow
4 159 (4.97%) Oracle
5 92 (2.88%) Salesforce
6 66 (2.06%) Google
7 63 (1.97%) Databricks
8 57 (1.78%) Cisco
9 52 (1.63%) CyberArk
10 50 (1.56%) VMware
11 42 (1.31%) IBM
12 41 (1.28%) BeyondTrust
13 40 (1.25%) Workday
14 34 (1.06%) Centrify
15 28 (0.88%) Aruba
15 28 (0.88%) Splunk
16 23 (0.72%) Palo Alto
17 22 (0.69%) OpenAI
17 22 (0.69%) Red Hat
18 21 (0.66%) Sparx
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