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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 60 152
Rank change year-on-year +34 +92 +2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,112 1,067 689
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.59% 3.68% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.82% 4.05% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,116 714 488
10th Percentile £367 £381 £363
25th Percentile £436 £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 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 17 36
10th Percentile £31.53 £22.96 £18.35
25th Percentile £50.91 £32.05 £27.81
Median hourly rate £70.75 £49.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +42.93% +37.65% +75.41%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.75 £57.33
90th Percentile £97.50 £78.64 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.50 £67.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +20.74% +19.49% +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 39,805 26,361 36,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.33% 90.96% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,996 16,941 23,723
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -1.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +2.71% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,368 1,073 2,431
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.41 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.90 £18.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.60 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.60% -21.64% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.31 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.78 £38.00
% change year-on-year +74.59% -32.17% +8.57%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +35 2,673 £525 - 973
UK excluding London +37 1,503 £500 -1.96% 715
London +38 1,218 £550 - 392
Work from Home +40 944 £525 +1.45% 484
North of England +36 385 £488 -2.89% 165
South East +23 357 £525 +6.33% 217
Midlands +27 315 £500 -0.20% 124
West Midlands +26 214 £492 -6.29% 81
North West +37 194 £475 -5.38% 78
South West +19 189 £525 -4.55% 93
Yorkshire +20 156 £500 - 63
Scotland +43 112 £475 -10.55% 54
East of England +26 106 £575 +15.00% 49
East Midlands +18 96 £510 +13.33% 41
North East +10 41 £450 -29.82% 25
Wales +13 38 £475 +38.69% 15
Northern Ireland +15 15 £450 -22.58% 10

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 (5.85%) Confluence
2 91 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 21 (0.67%) SAS
4 18 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.39%) CMS
8 10 (0.32%) Apache
9 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.13%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.096%) Appian
10 3 (0.096%) Drupal
11 2 (0.064%) Camunda
11 2 (0.064%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.064%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.064%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.064%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.064%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.064%) WordPress
Applications
1 149 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
3 66 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
5 57 (1.83%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.13%) Sketch
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.096%) Notion
10 2 (0.064%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.064%) InVision
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.032%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.032%) CATIA
11 1 (0.032%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.032%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 129 (4.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.48%) Teamcenter
4 14 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 10 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.29%) NEC Housing
6 9 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.29%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.26%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.26%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.22%) SAP ERP
8 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.22%) SAP PP
8 7 (0.22%) SAP QM
9 6 (0.19%) Finacle
9 6 (0.19%) Loan IQ
9 6 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.19%) Primavera
9 6 (0.19%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 588 (18.89%) Azure
2 415 (13.34%) AWS
3 293 (9.42%) Power Platform
4 158 (5.08%) GCP
5 119 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
6 103 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
8 96 (3.08%) SaaS
9 89 (2.86%) Entra ID
10 60 (1.93%) GitHub
11 44 (1.41%) Serverless
12 41 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
13 39 (1.25%) PaaS
14 36 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
15 33 (1.06%) Amazon S3
15 33 (1.06%) Power Automate
16 31 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
17 30 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
17 30 (0.96%) OCI
17 30 (0.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.51%) Firewall
2 39 (1.25%) Network Security
3 34 (1.09%) DNS
4 25 (0.80%) VPN
5 23 (0.74%) WAN
6 21 (0.67%) LAN
7 15 (0.48%) Internet
8 12 (0.39%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.35%) BGP
9 11 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (0.35%) Wireless
10 10 (0.32%) DHCP
10 10 (0.32%) VLAN
11 9 (0.29%) TCP/IP
12 8 (0.26%) Intranet
12 8 (0.26%) OSPF
12 8 (0.26%) SSL
12 8 (0.26%) VSAN
13 7 (0.22%) MPLS
13 7 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (8.07%) Power BI
2 70 (2.25%) Metadata
3 58 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (1.19%) Tableau
5 29 (0.93%) SQL Server
6 28 (0.90%) Data Lake
7 25 (0.80%) Relational Database
8 24 (0.77%) Power Query
9 21 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
10 15 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
11 14 (0.45%) Big Data
12 13 (0.42%) MySQL
13 12 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
13 12 (0.39%) NoSQL
14 11 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (0.35%) DynamoDB
15 10 (0.32%) Data Vault
16 9 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 284 (9.13%) JIRA
2 51 (1.64%) Jenkins
3 50 (1.61%) Git
4 47 (1.51%) GitLab
5 30 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
6 25 (0.80%) Postman
6 25 (0.80%) Selenium
7 18 (0.58%) Cucumber
8 16 (0.51%) JMeter
9 15 (0.48%) Hudson
10 11 (0.35%) JUnit
11 9 (0.29%) WebDriver
12 8 (0.26%) MLflow
12 8 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.19%) LoadRunner
14 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.19%) TestRail
15 5 (0.16%) ERwin
16 4 (0.13%) NeoLoad
General
1 1,450 (46.59%) Social Skills
2 931 (29.92%) Finance
3 476 (15.30%) Analytical Skills
4 466 (14.97%) Public Sector
5 192 (6.17%) Banking
6 131 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
7 115 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
8 112 (3.60%) Legal
9 90 (2.89%) Retail
10 82 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
11 75 (2.41%) Manufacturing
12 73 (2.35%) Law
13 62 (1.99%) Aerospace
14 58 (1.86%) Local Government
15 56 (1.80%) Marketing
16 54 (1.74%) Telecoms
17 49 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
18 41 (1.32%) Military
19 34 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 30 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 573 (18.41%) Analyst
2 451 (14.49%) Architect
3 413 (13.27%) Lead
4 398 (12.79%) Business Analyst
5 281 (9.03%) Senior
6 273 (8.77%) Project Manager
7 228 (7.33%) Consultant
8 114 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
9 93 (2.99%) Delivery Manager
10 88 (2.83%) Senior Analyst
11 85 (2.73%) Programme Manager
12 83 (2.67%) Change Manager
13 75 (2.41%) Data Analyst
14 71 (2.28%) Senior Manager
15 70 (2.25%) Developer
16 64 (2.06%) Senior Business Analyst
17 63 (2.02%) Designer
18 56 (1.80%) IT Manager
19 55 (1.77%) Product Manager
20 52 (1.67%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (3.34%) REST
2 58 (1.86%) SOAP
3 54 (1.74%) LDAP
4 48 (1.54%) Middleware
5 37 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
6 32 (1.03%) Spring
7 30 (0.96%) OpenID
8 29 (0.93%) SailPoint
9 28 (0.90%) React
10 27 (0.87%) .NET
11 24 (0.77%) Kafka
11 24 (0.77%) OAuth
11 24 (0.77%) Spring Boot
12 18 (0.58%) Node.js
12 18 (0.58%) PySpark
13 17 (0.55%) ADO
13 17 (0.55%) JSON
13 17 (0.55%) RESTful
13 17 (0.55%) SAML
13 17 (0.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 213 (6.84%) Product Ownership
2 137 (4.40%) Onboarding
3 119 (3.82%) Cloud Native
4 82 (2.63%) Data Structures
5 75 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 70 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 65 (2.09%) Operational Technology
8 63 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 61 (1.96%) Security Posture
10 55 (1.77%) Data Centre
11 50 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
12 45 (1.45%) NHS
13 44 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
14 40 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
15 39 (1.25%) Virtual Team
16 35 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
17 34 (1.09%) CMDB
18 33 (1.06%) AI Agents
19 30 (0.96%) PMI
20 26 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 82 (2.63%) Windows
2 41 (1.32%) Linux
3 16 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.39%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.29%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.29%) Unix
7 5 (0.16%) Android
7 5 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.16%) VMS
8 3 (0.096%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 845 (27.15%) Agile
2 598 (19.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 588 (18.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 455 (14.62%) Migration
5 428 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
6 418 (13.43%) Change Management
7 413 (13.27%) Roadmaps
8 412 (13.24%) Decision-Making
9 379 (12.18%) Workshop Facilitation
10 328 (10.54%) DevOps
11 324 (10.41%) Project Management
12 307 (9.87%) Analytics
13 297 (9.54%) Risk Management
14 295 (9.48%) ERP
15 291 (9.35%) AI
15 291 (9.35%) Business Intelligence
16 247 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
17 246 (7.90%) User Acceptance Testing
18 245 (7.87%) Project Delivery
19 243 (7.81%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 237 (7.62%) SQL
2 232 (7.46%) Python
3 98 (3.15%) Java
4 73 (2.35%) PowerShell
5 44 (1.41%) JavaScript
6 33 (1.06%) C#
7 31 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 31 (1.00%) TypeScript
8 24 (0.77%) Bash
9 18 (0.58%) VBA
10 16 (0.51%) Bicep
11 14 (0.45%) R
12 12 (0.39%) Scala
13 11 (0.35%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.32%) PHP
15 9 (0.29%) Korn
16 8 (0.26%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.26%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.19%) ABAP
18 4 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 764 (24.55%) Security Cleared
2 599 (19.25%) SC Cleared
3 254 (8.16%) Degree
4 122 (3.92%) DV Cleared
5 116 (3.73%) PMI Certification
6 113 (3.63%) PMP
7 107 (3.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 68 (2.19%) CISSP
9 49 (1.57%) CISM
10 39 (1.25%) Azure Certification
10 39 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
12 31 (1.00%) Master's Degree
13 30 (0.96%) ACCA
14 29 (0.93%) CIMA
14 29 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 24 (0.77%) AWS Certification
16 23 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
17 22 (0.71%) IIBA
17 22 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (6.36%) Data Quality
2 159 (5.11%) PMO
3 158 (5.08%) QA
4 134 (4.31%) NIST
5 125 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 119 (3.82%) GDPR
7 77 (2.47%) Accessibility
8 59 (1.90%) GRC
9 31 (1.00%) SLA
10 26 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
11 25 (0.80%) NCSC
12 24 (0.77%) PCI DSS
13 21 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
14 17 (0.55%) WCAG
15 16 (0.51%) SOC 2
16 14 (0.45%) ISO 20022
17 13 (0.42%) COBIT
18 12 (0.39%) Basel III
19 11 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
20 10 (0.32%) Def Stans
System Software
1 99 (3.18%) Active Directory
2 55 (1.77%) Docker
3 24 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.48%) 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%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.032%) Firmware
10 1 (0.032%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.032%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 100 (3.21%) Terraform
2 96 (3.08%) Kubernetes
3 27 (0.87%) Grafana
4 26 (0.84%) Ansible
5 25 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.45%) SCCM
8 13 (0.42%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.16%) vRealize
11 4 (0.13%) Istio
11 4 (0.13%) Podman
12 3 (0.096%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.096%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 3 (0.096%) vMotion
12 3 (0.096%) WSUS
13 2 (0.064%) CA Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.064%) Nessus
Vendors
1 453 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 252 (8.10%) SAP
3 177 (5.69%) ServiceNow
4 141 (4.53%) Oracle
5 85 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 76 (2.44%) Databricks
7 61 (1.96%) Google
8 46 (1.48%) CyberArk
9 44 (1.41%) VMware
10 42 (1.35%) IBM
11 39 (1.25%) BeyondTrust
12 38 (1.22%) Cisco
13 37 (1.19%) Splunk
14 34 (1.09%) Centrify
15 32 (1.03%) Workday
16 21 (0.67%) Adobe
17 20 (0.64%) Dynatrace
17 20 (0.64%) Zscaler
18 19 (0.61%) Palo Alto
19 17 (0.55%) IFS