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

 6 months to
25 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 68 152
Rank change year-on-year +42 +84 -1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,189 1,042 702
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.84% 3.53% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.07% 3.89% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,192 701 490
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £660
90th Percentile £750 £738 £767
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £510 £513
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.49% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 18 37
10th Percentile £18.30 £22.97 £18.35
25th Percentile £37.25 £31.26 £27.81
Median hourly rate £68.00 £48.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +40.21% +34.87% +37.51%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.13 £57.33
90th Percentile £93.75 £77.79 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.00 £57.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +35.65% +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 39,506 26,799 37,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.73% 90.79% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,946 17,322 24,335
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% -0.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -0.36% -2.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,068 2,432
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.24 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £28.00 £35.58
% change year-on-year +49.48% -21.29% -4.62%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +37 2,748 £525 - 768
UK excluding London +41 1,517 £500 -1.96% 646
London +42 1,282 £550 - 253
Work from Home +50 950 £525 +0.48% 361
North of England +37 381 £484 -3.25% 160
South East +27 371 £520 +4.00% 200
Midlands +24 314 £496 -0.80% 119
West Midlands +26 215 £492 -6.29% 76
South West +17 196 £519 -5.68% 90
North West +34 193 £475 -5.00% 73
Yorkshire +7 144 £500 - 65
Scotland +43 108 £465 -15.45% 22
East of England +22 106 £570 +14.00% 50
East Midlands +12 94 £500 +17.65% 43
North East +16 49 £450 -29.82% 25
Wales +17 40 £460 +27.78% 10
Northern Ireland +17 17 £449 -20.27% 13

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 (5.71%) Confluence
2 96 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 22 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (0.69%) SAS
4 14 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.41%) CMS
6 11 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.28%) Apache
8 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.094%) Appian
9 3 (0.094%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.094%) Drupal
9 3 (0.094%) WordPress
10 2 (0.063%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.063%) Camunda
10 2 (0.063%) nginx
10 2 (0.063%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.063%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.063%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 156 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (2.29%) Microsoft Project
3 67 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
5 57 (1.79%) 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%) Notion
10 2 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.063%) Adobe XD
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
1 124 (3.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 12 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 12 (0.38%) SAP FI
4 12 (0.38%) SAP PP
4 12 (0.38%) Teamcenter
5 10 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (0.28%) NEC Housing
6 9 (0.28%) SAP CO
6 9 (0.28%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.25%) SAP ERP
7 8 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 7 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.22%) SAP QM
9 6 (0.19%) Finacle
9 6 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
9 6 (0.19%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 595 (18.66%) Azure
2 423 (13.26%) AWS
3 278 (8.72%) Power Platform
4 165 (5.17%) GCP
5 121 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
6 111 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
7 103 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
8 99 (3.10%) SaaS
9 93 (2.92%) Entra ID
10 68 (2.13%) GitHub
11 46 (1.44%) Serverless
12 43 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
12 43 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
13 38 (1.19%) PaaS
14 34 (1.07%) Power Automate
15 33 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
15 33 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
16 32 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
16 32 (1.00%) OCI
16 32 (1.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.57%) Firewall
2 42 (1.32%) Network Security
3 31 (0.97%) DNS
4 27 (0.85%) VPN
5 24 (0.75%) WAN
6 22 (0.69%) LAN
7 15 (0.47%) Internet
8 14 (0.44%) SD-WAN
9 13 (0.41%) Wireless
10 12 (0.38%) BGP
10 12 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.34%) DHCP
12 10 (0.31%) VSAN
13 9 (0.28%) VLAN
14 8 (0.25%) MPLS
14 8 (0.25%) OSPF
14 8 (0.25%) SSL
14 8 (0.25%) TCP/IP
15 7 (0.22%) Intranet
16 6 (0.19%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (7.31%) Power BI
2 73 (2.29%) Metadata
3 61 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (1.32%) Tableau
5 32 (1.00%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.78%) Data Lake
6 25 (0.78%) Relational Database
7 24 (0.75%) Power Query
8 21 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
10 16 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
11 15 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
12 14 (0.44%) Data Vault
13 13 (0.41%) DynamoDB
13 13 (0.41%) MySQL
13 13 (0.41%) NoSQL
14 12 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
15 11 (0.34%) Big Data
16 10 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 292 (9.16%) JIRA
2 50 (1.57%) Git
3 47 (1.47%) GitLab
4 46 (1.44%) Jenkins
5 28 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
6 24 (0.75%) Selenium
7 23 (0.72%) Postman
8 17 (0.53%) Cucumber
9 15 (0.47%) JMeter
10 14 (0.44%) Hudson
11 10 (0.31%) JUnit
12 9 (0.28%) WebDriver
13 8 (0.25%) ERwin
13 8 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
14 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.19%) MLflow
15 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.19%) TestRail
16 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,536 (48.17%) Social Skills
2 947 (29.70%) Finance
3 509 (15.96%) Public Sector
4 505 (15.84%) Analytical Skills
5 192 (6.02%) Banking
6 142 (4.45%) Influencing Skills
7 128 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
8 120 (3.76%) Legal
9 93 (2.92%) Retail
10 86 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
11 82 (2.57%) Manufacturing
12 75 (2.35%) Law
13 63 (1.98%) Local Government
14 60 (1.88%) Marketing
15 59 (1.85%) Aerospace
15 59 (1.85%) Telecoms
16 58 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
17 38 (1.19%) Military
18 31 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
19 30 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 576 (18.06%) Analyst
2 472 (14.80%) Architect
3 414 (12.98%) Business Analyst
4 399 (12.51%) Lead
5 298 (9.34%) Project Manager
6 272 (8.53%) Senior
7 254 (7.96%) Consultant
8 129 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
9 94 (2.95%) Delivery Manager
10 90 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
11 89 (2.79%) Change Manager
12 82 (2.57%) Programme Manager
13 78 (2.45%) Developer
14 71 (2.23%) Data Analyst
15 67 (2.10%) Senior Business Analyst
16 66 (2.07%) Senior Manager
17 65 (2.04%) Designer
18 57 (1.79%) Product Manager
19 56 (1.76%) IT Manager
20 55 (1.72%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (3.29%) REST
2 58 (1.82%) SOAP
3 54 (1.69%) LDAP
4 47 (1.47%) Middleware
5 40 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
6 35 (1.10%) .NET
7 33 (1.03%) Spring
8 32 (1.00%) OpenID
9 31 (0.97%) React
10 29 (0.91%) Node.js
10 29 (0.91%) OAuth
11 27 (0.85%) SailPoint
12 25 (0.78%) Kafka
12 25 (0.78%) Spring Boot
13 22 (0.69%) AngularJS
14 20 (0.63%) SAML
15 19 (0.60%) XML
16 18 (0.56%) RESTful
16 18 (0.56%) TensorFlow
17 17 (0.53%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 207 (6.49%) Product Ownership
2 151 (4.74%) Onboarding
3 118 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 81 (2.54%) Management Information System
5 76 (2.38%) Data Structures
6 75 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 74 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
8 63 (1.98%) Security Posture
9 58 (1.82%) Operational Technology
10 57 (1.79%) Data Centre
11 55 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 55 (1.72%) NHS
12 47 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
13 40 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
14 39 (1.22%) AI Agents
15 38 (1.19%) CMDB
15 38 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
16 36 (1.13%) PMI
17 33 (1.03%) Virtual Team
18 29 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 72 (2.26%) Windows
2 39 (1.22%) Linux
3 18 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (0.41%) Windows 10
4 13 (0.41%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.25%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.19%) Unix
6 6 (0.19%) VMS
7 5 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.13%) Android
9 3 (0.094%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 853 (26.75%) Agile
2 622 (19.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 614 (19.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 486 (15.24%) Migration
5 458 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
6 443 (13.89%) Roadmaps
7 440 (13.80%) Change Management
8 396 (12.42%) Decision-Making
9 385 (12.07%) Workshop Facilitation
10 345 (10.82%) Project Management
11 338 (10.60%) DevOps
12 326 (10.22%) Analytics
13 307 (9.63%) AI
14 296 (9.28%) ERP
15 291 (9.13%) Risk Management
16 279 (8.75%) Business Intelligence
17 260 (8.15%) Project Delivery
18 253 (7.93%) User Acceptance Testing
19 250 (7.84%) CI/CD
20 235 (7.37%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 245 (7.68%) SQL
2 242 (7.59%) Python
3 99 (3.10%) Java
4 82 (2.57%) PowerShell
5 46 (1.44%) JavaScript
6 40 (1.25%) C#
7 33 (1.03%) TypeScript
8 27 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 23 (0.72%) Bash
10 20 (0.63%) Bicep
11 17 (0.53%) VBA
12 16 (0.50%) R
13 12 (0.38%) ABAP
14 10 (0.31%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.31%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.31%) PHP
15 9 (0.28%) Scala
16 8 (0.25%) Korn
16 8 (0.25%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 783 (24.55%) Security Cleared
2 622 (19.50%) SC Cleared
3 277 (8.69%) Degree
4 119 (3.73%) PMI Certification
5 114 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 112 (3.51%) PMP
7 106 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 59 (1.85%) CISSP
9 42 (1.32%) Master's Degree
10 41 (1.29%) Azure Certification
10 41 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
11 40 (1.25%) CISM
12 30 (0.94%) ACCA
12 30 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
13 29 (0.91%) CIMA
13 29 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 27 (0.85%) AWS Certification
15 24 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
16 22 (0.69%) IIBA
16 22 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (6.24%) Data Quality
2 171 (5.36%) QA
3 152 (4.77%) PMO
4 136 (4.26%) GDPR
5 128 (4.01%) NIST
6 125 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 81 (2.54%) Accessibility
8 55 (1.72%) GRC
9 32 (1.00%) PCI DSS
10 27 (0.85%) NCSC
10 27 (0.85%) SLA
11 26 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
12 17 (0.53%) WCAG
13 16 (0.50%) SOC 2
14 15 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
15 14 (0.44%) Basel III
16 13 (0.41%) COBIT
17 12 (0.38%) ISO 20022
18 11 (0.34%) Def Stans
18 11 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 105 (3.29%) Active Directory
2 67 (2.10%) Docker
3 29 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.63%) VMware NSX
5 15 (0.47%) vSphere
6 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.094%) NFS
10 2 (0.063%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.031%) Firmware
11 1 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 119 (3.73%) Terraform
2 107 (3.36%) Kubernetes
3 31 (0.97%) Ansible
4 24 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (0.72%) Grafana
5 23 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
6 22 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.44%) HP ALM
7 14 (0.44%) SCCM
8 8 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.16%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.16%) Podman
9 5 (0.16%) vRealize
10 4 (0.13%) Istio
11 3 (0.094%) Argo
11 3 (0.094%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.094%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 3 (0.094%) vMotion
11 3 (0.094%) WSUS
12 2 (0.063%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 463 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 255 (8.00%) SAP
3 186 (5.83%) ServiceNow
4 150 (4.70%) Oracle
5 92 (2.88%) Salesforce
6 67 (2.10%) Google
7 66 (2.07%) Databricks
8 52 (1.63%) Cisco
9 50 (1.57%) VMware
10 49 (1.54%) CyberArk
11 43 (1.35%) IBM
12 41 (1.29%) BeyondTrust
13 35 (1.10%) Workday
14 34 (1.07%) Centrify
15 33 (1.03%) Splunk
16 23 (0.72%) Aruba
17 21 (0.66%) Palo Alto
17 21 (0.66%) Sparx
18 20 (0.63%) OpenAI
18 20 (0.63%) Red Hat
850 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide