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

 6 months to
19 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 60 144
Rank change year-on-year +34 +84 +14
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,141 1,088 683
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.54% 3.73% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.76% 4.09% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,135 729 482
10th Percentile £367 £381 £363
25th Percentile £437 £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 -0.15% -4.62% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 17 37
10th Percentile £30.58 £22.96 £18.35
25th Percentile £50.30 £32.05 £27.81
Median hourly rate £68.75 £49.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% +37.65% +72.06%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.75 £57.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.64 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 £67.50 £52.00
% change year-on-year +10.37% +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 40,493 26,571 36,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.28% 90.99% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,428 17,064 23,633
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,382 1,097 2,442
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.26 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.72 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.40 £28.18 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +50.46% -21.77% +0.06%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.23 £37.50
% change year-on-year +78.39% -32.73% +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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +32 2,696 £525 -0.47% 1,022
UK excluding London +40 1,519 £500 -0.15% 759
London +31 1,232 £550 - 424
Work from Home +44 965 £525 +3.45% 528
North of England +35 398 £493 -1.45% 168
South East +21 350 £525 +7.69% 255
Midlands +27 316 £500 -0.10% 121
West Midlands +28 215 £492 -6.29% 81
North West +34 193 £475 -5.00% 81
South West +22 191 £525 -5.62% 89
Yorkshire +21 169 £514 +2.80% 61
Scotland +40 119 £473 -11.02% 65
East of England +31 107 £575 +15.00% 50
East Midlands +15 96 £520 +15.56% 38
North East +10 42 £450 -29.82% 27
Wales +14 39 £475 +46.15% 17
Northern Ireland +11 15 £450 -22.58% 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
1 179 (5.70%) Confluence
2 90 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 20 (0.64%) SAS
4 16 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.41%) CMS
5 13 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.35%) Apache
7 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.13%) OpenEdge
8 3 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.096%) Appian
8 3 (0.096%) Drupal
9 2 (0.064%) Camunda
9 2 (0.064%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.064%) Oracle Service Bus
9 2 (0.064%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.064%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.064%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.064%) WordPress
Applications
1 150 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
3 66 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
5 58 (1.85%) 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 (0.096%) Notion
8 3 (0.096%) 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
1 132 (4.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.02%) 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
6 9 (0.29%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.25%) SAP CO
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%) Primavera
9 6 (0.19%) Sage X3
9 6 (0.19%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 590 (18.78%) Azure
2 410 (13.05%) AWS
3 292 (9.30%) Power Platform
4 156 (4.97%) GCP
5 115 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
6 103 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
8 97 (3.09%) SaaS
9 88 (2.80%) Entra ID
10 58 (1.85%) GitHub
11 45 (1.43%) Serverless
12 41 (1.31%) PaaS
13 40 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
14 36 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
15 33 (1.05%) Amazon S3
16 31 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
16 31 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
17 30 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (0.96%) Power Automate
17 30 (0.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.46%) Firewall
2 40 (1.27%) Network Security
3 32 (1.02%) DNS
4 22 (0.70%) WAN
5 21 (0.67%) VPN
6 19 (0.60%) LAN
7 13 (0.41%) Internet
8 10 (0.32%) BGP
8 10 (0.32%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.32%) VLAN
8 10 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (0.32%) Wireless
9 9 (0.29%) TCP/IP
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 (8.05%) Power BI
2 69 (2.20%) Metadata
3 58 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (1.18%) Tableau
5 29 (0.92%) Data Lake
5 29 (0.92%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.80%) Relational Database
7 24 (0.76%) Power Query
8 22 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (0.45%) MySQL
9 14 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
9 14 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
10 13 (0.41%) Big Data
11 12 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
11 12 (0.38%) NoSQL
12 11 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (0.32%) DynamoDB
14 9 (0.29%) Data Vault
14 9 (0.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 282 (8.98%) JIRA
2 53 (1.69%) Jenkins
3 50 (1.59%) Git
4 48 (1.53%) GitLab
5 31 (0.99%) Rational DOORS
6 27 (0.86%) Postman
7 25 (0.80%) 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%) LoadRunner
14 6 (0.19%) TestRail
15 5 (0.16%) ERwin
15 5 (0.16%) SonarQube
16 4 (0.13%) Gatling
General
1 1,459 (46.45%) Social Skills
2 919 (29.26%) Finance
3 478 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
4 469 (14.93%) Public Sector
5 191 (6.08%) Banking
6 136 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
7 119 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
8 116 (3.69%) Legal
9 91 (2.90%) Retail
10 84 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
11 77 (2.45%) Law
12 75 (2.39%) Manufacturing
13 63 (2.01%) Aerospace
14 57 (1.81%) Local Government
14 57 (1.81%) Marketing
15 53 (1.69%) Telecoms
16 46 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
17 43 (1.37%) Military
18 34 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 31 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 585 (18.62%) Analyst
2 459 (14.61%) Architect
3 417 (13.28%) Lead
4 401 (12.77%) Business Analyst
5 280 (8.91%) Senior
6 268 (8.53%) Project Manager
7 238 (7.58%) Consultant
8 120 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
9 90 (2.87%) Delivery Manager
10 85 (2.71%) Change Manager
10 85 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
11 83 (2.64%) Programme Manager
12 81 (2.58%) Data Analyst
13 72 (2.29%) Developer
14 70 (2.23%) Senior Manager
15 65 (2.07%) Designer
16 62 (1.97%) Senior Business Analyst
17 58 (1.85%) IT Manager
18 57 (1.81%) Product Manager
19 51 (1.62%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (3.53%) REST
2 60 (1.91%) SOAP
3 56 (1.78%) LDAP
4 49 (1.56%) Middleware
5 36 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
6 32 (1.02%) OpenID
6 32 (1.02%) Spring
7 30 (0.96%) React
8 29 (0.92%) SailPoint
9 26 (0.83%) .NET
9 26 (0.83%) Kafka
9 26 (0.83%) OAuth
10 24 (0.76%) Spring Boot
11 20 (0.64%) JSON
11 20 (0.64%) XML
12 19 (0.60%) PySpark
13 18 (0.57%) Node.js
13 18 (0.57%) SAML
14 17 (0.54%) ADO
14 17 (0.54%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 217 (6.91%) Product Ownership
2 138 (4.39%) Onboarding
3 118 (3.76%) Cloud Native
4 83 (2.64%) Data Structures
5 72 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
5 72 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 66 (2.10%) Operational Technology
7 63 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
8 62 (1.97%) Security Posture
9 53 (1.69%) Data Centre
10 47 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
11 46 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
12 45 (1.43%) NHS
13 40 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
14 39 (1.24%) Virtual Team
15 36 (1.15%) CMDB
16 33 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
17 31 (0.99%) AI Agents
18 29 (0.92%) PMI
19 28 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 78 (2.48%) Windows
2 36 (1.15%) Linux
3 13 (0.41%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 10 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.32%) Unix
6 9 (0.29%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.22%) VMS
8 4 (0.13%) Android
8 4 (0.13%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.096%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 843 (26.84%) Agile
2 603 (19.20%) Continuous Improvement
3 598 (19.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 462 (14.71%) Migration
5 428 (13.63%) Problem-Solving
6 421 (13.40%) Decision-Making
6 421 (13.40%) Roadmaps
7 418 (13.31%) Change Management
8 382 (12.16%) Workshop Facilitation
9 336 (10.70%) DevOps
10 314 (10.00%) Project Management
11 312 (9.93%) Analytics
12 301 (9.58%) ERP
13 300 (9.55%) AI
14 295 (9.39%) Risk Management
15 293 (9.33%) Business Intelligence
16 250 (7.96%) Cybersecurity
17 249 (7.93%) CI/CD
18 248 (7.90%) User Acceptance Testing
19 246 (7.83%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 236 (7.51%) SQL
2 227 (7.23%) Python
3 100 (3.18%) Java
4 69 (2.20%) PowerShell
5 46 (1.46%) JavaScript
6 32 (1.02%) C#
6 32 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 32 (1.02%) TypeScript
7 26 (0.83%) Bash
8 18 (0.57%) VBA
9 16 (0.51%) Bicep
10 13 (0.41%) Scala
11 11 (0.35%) R
12 10 (0.32%) Apex Code
12 10 (0.32%) Kotlin
12 10 (0.32%) PHP
13 8 (0.25%) Korn
13 8 (0.25%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.16%) ABAP
15 4 (0.13%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 777 (24.74%) Security Cleared
2 613 (19.52%) SC Cleared
3 254 (8.09%) Degree
4 123 (3.92%) DV Cleared
5 113 (3.60%) PMI Certification
6 110 (3.50%) PMP
7 106 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 66 (2.10%) CISSP
9 48 (1.53%) CISM
10 40 (1.27%) Azure Certification
11 37 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
12 34 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
13 30 (0.96%) ACCA
13 30 (0.96%) Master's Degree
14 29 (0.92%) CIMA
15 27 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 25 (0.80%) AWS Certification
17 23 (0.73%) IIBA
18 21 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (6.49%) Data Quality
2 161 (5.13%) QA
3 158 (5.03%) PMO
4 136 (4.33%) NIST
5 124 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 120 (3.82%) GDPR
7 76 (2.42%) Accessibility
8 60 (1.91%) GRC
9 31 (0.99%) SLA
10 27 (0.86%) NCSC
11 26 (0.83%) 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%) Def Stans
System Software
1 96 (3.06%) Active Directory
2 53 (1.69%) Docker
3 24 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.41%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.32%) vSphere
6 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.096%) NFS
9 3 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.032%) Firmware
10 1 (0.032%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.032%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.032%) SRDF
10 1 (0.032%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 101 (3.22%) Terraform
2 98 (3.12%) Kubernetes
3 28 (0.89%) Grafana
4 26 (0.83%) Prometheus
5 25 (0.80%) Ansible
6 23 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.45%) SCCM
9 13 (0.41%) HP ALM
10 9 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.16%) vRealize
13 4 (0.13%) Istio
13 4 (0.13%) Podman
14 3 (0.096%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.096%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.096%) vMotion
14 3 (0.096%) WSUS
15 2 (0.064%) CA Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.064%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 455 (14.49%) Microsoft
2 259 (8.25%) SAP
3 180 (5.73%) ServiceNow
4 140 (4.46%) Oracle
5 89 (2.83%) Salesforce
6 79 (2.52%) Databricks
7 56 (1.78%) Google
8 46 (1.46%) CyberArk
9 42 (1.34%) IBM
9 42 (1.34%) VMware
10 39 (1.24%) BeyondTrust
11 37 (1.18%) Cisco
12 34 (1.08%) Centrify
12 34 (1.08%) Workday
13 33 (1.05%) Splunk
14 21 (0.67%) Adobe
15 20 (0.64%) Dynatrace
16 19 (0.60%) IFS
17 18 (0.57%) Zscaler
18 17 (0.54%) Palo Alto
1,163 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide