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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 90 157
Rank change year-on-year +65 +67 -7
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,050 834 709
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.19% 2.82% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.35% 3.12% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,097 541 478
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £447 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £536
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 13 39
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.20 £18.35
25th Percentile £27.25 £26.25 £27.81
Median hourly rate £60.00 £49.51 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.20% +35.63% +78.05%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.75 £56.49
90th Percentile - £82.05 £65.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.50 £54.65 £56.49
% change year-on-year +16.20% -3.27% +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 36,537 26,694 38,745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.12% 90.29% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,174 17,018 25,183
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.28% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,160 902 2,347
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.51 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £77.10 £71.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.55 £31.76 £31.80
% change year-on-year -16.40% -0.13% -9.14%

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 10 March 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 10 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Top 18 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 10 March 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 +64 2,653 £525 -4.55% 843
UK excluding London +59 1,439 £500 -4.76% 650
London +70 1,249 £550 - 241
Work from Home +62 868 £525 -4.55% 391
South East +47 370 £500 -9.09% 204
North of England +45 347 £500 - 153
Midlands +31 294 £500 - 139
West Midlands +29 196 £500 -9.09% 77
South West +42 194 £525 -12.50% 75
North West +38 166 £475 -4.71% 78
Yorkshire +17 143 £523 +4.50% 57
East of England +24 97 £525 +5.00% 35
East Midlands +8 96 £475 +11.76% 61
Scotland +39 92 £450 -18.18% 26
North East +16 41 £454 -10.59% 19
Wales +22 32 £400 -33.33% 19
Northern Ireland +15 20 £475 - 5
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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
1 170 (5.57%) Confluence
2 116 (3.80%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.56%) SAS
5 12 (0.39%) CMS
6 9 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.20%) Apache
9 5 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.13%) Appian
10 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.098%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.098%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.098%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.098%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.098%) Smallworld
11 3 (0.098%) WordPress
12 2 (0.066%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.066%) Oracle Service Bus
12 2 (0.066%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 163 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (2.59%) Microsoft Project
3 62 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
5 58 (1.90%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.16%) Trello
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
10 3 (0.098%) Notion
10 3 (0.098%) Sketch
11 2 (0.066%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.066%) Camtasia
11 2 (0.066%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.033%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.033%) CATIA
12 1 (0.033%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.033%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 127 (4.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.52%) SAP PP
5 15 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.49%) SAP FI
6 12 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
7 11 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 11 (0.36%) SAP MM
8 9 (0.30%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 9 (0.30%) SAP HR
8 9 (0.30%) Teamcenter
9 8 (0.26%) NEC Housing
9 8 (0.26%) SAP CO
9 8 (0.26%) Workday HCM
10 7 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 7 (0.23%) Primavera
10 7 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
10 7 (0.23%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 583 (19.11%) Azure
2 368 (12.07%) AWS
3 259 (8.49%) Power Platform
4 157 (5.15%) GCP
5 141 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
6 117 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
7 108 (3.54%) SaaS
8 94 (3.08%) Entra ID
9 72 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
10 61 (2.00%) GitHub
11 48 (1.57%) OCI
12 47 (1.54%) Serverless
13 41 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
14 40 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
16 35 (1.15%) Power Automate
17 33 (1.08%) PaaS
18 32 (1.05%) PowerApps
19 31 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
20 28 (0.92%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (2.20%) Firewall
2 47 (1.54%) Network Security
3 30 (0.98%) DNS
3 30 (0.98%) WAN
4 28 (0.92%) LAN
4 28 (0.92%) VPN
5 17 (0.56%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.49%) BGP
7 14 (0.46%) MPLS
8 11 (0.36%) Internet
9 10 (0.33%) DHCP
9 10 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.30%) VSAN
10 9 (0.30%) Wireless
11 8 (0.26%) VLAN
12 6 (0.20%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (0.20%) NAS
12 6 (0.20%) OSPF
12 6 (0.20%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (6.69%) Power BI
2 67 (2.20%) Metadata
3 62 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (1.44%) Tableau
5 39 (1.28%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.82%) Data Lake
7 22 (0.72%) Power Query
8 20 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
9 18 (0.59%) Relational Database
10 17 (0.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 17 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
11 16 (0.52%) MySQL
12 15 (0.49%) Snowflake Schema
13 14 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (0.46%) Data Vault
14 12 (0.39%) Big Data
14 12 (0.39%) DynamoDB
14 12 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
15 10 (0.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 275 (9.02%) JIRA
2 44 (1.44%) GitLab
2 44 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 32 (1.05%) Git
4 23 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
5 22 (0.72%) Selenium
6 16 (0.52%) Cucumber
6 16 (0.52%) Postman
7 11 (0.36%) JMeter
8 9 (0.30%) JUnit
9 8 (0.26%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.23%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.20%) ERwin
11 6 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
11 6 (0.20%) TestRail
12 5 (0.16%) Hudson
12 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
12 5 (0.16%) WebDriver
13 4 (0.13%) MLflow
13 4 (0.13%) NeoLoad
General
1 1,545 (50.66%) Social Skills
2 871 (28.56%) Finance
3 498 (16.33%) Public Sector
4 489 (16.03%) Analytical Skills
5 198 (6.49%) Banking
6 154 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
7 137 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
8 113 (3.70%) Legal
9 82 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
10 81 (2.66%) Manufacturing
11 75 (2.46%) Retail
12 70 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
13 65 (2.13%) Marketing
14 59 (1.93%) Telecoms
15 58 (1.90%) Local Government
16 52 (1.70%) Aerospace
17 44 (1.44%) Financial Institution
18 37 (1.21%) Law
19 33 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
20 29 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 579 (18.98%) Analyst
2 429 (14.07%) Business Analyst
3 413 (13.54%) Architect
4 369 (12.10%) Lead
5 277 (9.08%) Consultant
6 273 (8.95%) Project Manager
7 262 (8.59%) Senior
8 137 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
9 93 (3.05%) Developer
9 93 (3.05%) Programme Manager
10 91 (2.98%) Senior Analyst
11 80 (2.62%) Change Manager
12 76 (2.49%) Delivery Manager
13 70 (2.30%) Senior Business Analyst
14 68 (2.23%) Data Analyst
15 55 (1.80%) Designer
15 55 (1.80%) Product Manager
16 46 (1.51%) Data Engineer
17 45 (1.48%) Senior Manager
18 44 (1.44%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (3.64%) REST
2 58 (1.90%) SOAP
3 51 (1.67%) LDAP
4 45 (1.48%) .NET
5 40 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
6 39 (1.28%) Middleware
7 32 (1.05%) OAuth
7 32 (1.05%) OpenID
8 26 (0.85%) Node.js
9 24 (0.79%) SAP Fiori
9 24 (0.79%) Spring
10 23 (0.75%) XML
11 22 (0.72%) React
12 20 (0.66%) Kafka
12 20 (0.66%) RESTful
13 19 (0.62%) Spring Boot
14 18 (0.59%) OAuth2
14 18 (0.59%) SailPoint
14 18 (0.59%) SAML
15 16 (0.52%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 205 (6.72%) Product Ownership
2 150 (4.92%) Onboarding
3 96 (3.15%) Cloud Native
4 81 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
5 67 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
6 65 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 65 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 64 (2.10%) Security Posture
8 61 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 55 (1.80%) NHS
10 53 (1.74%) Data Centre
11 44 (1.44%) Operational Technology
12 43 (1.41%) PMI
13 41 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
14 40 (1.31%) CMDB
15 38 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
16 37 (1.21%) AI Agents
17 28 (0.92%) Virtual Team
18 26 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
19 22 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 81 (2.66%) Windows
2 41 (1.34%) Linux
3 21 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.59%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.20%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.16%) Unix
6 5 (0.16%) VMS
7 3 (0.098%) Android
7 3 (0.098%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.098%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.066%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.066%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.033%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 795 (26.07%) Agile
2 618 (20.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 541 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
4 479 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
5 467 (15.31%) Migration
6 443 (14.52%) Roadmaps
7 413 (13.54%) Change Management
8 371 (12.16%) Workshop Facilitation
9 353 (11.57%) Project Management
10 337 (11.05%) Decision-Making
11 324 (10.62%) Analytics
12 307 (10.07%) DevOps
13 281 (9.21%) Risk Management
14 270 (8.85%) Business Intelligence
15 262 (8.59%) AI
16 252 (8.26%) Requirements Gathering
17 243 (7.97%) ERP
18 236 (7.74%) Project Delivery
19 220 (7.21%) ITIL
20 213 (6.98%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 249 (8.16%) SQL
2 233 (7.64%) Python
3 104 (3.41%) PowerShell
4 83 (2.72%) Java
5 53 (1.74%) JavaScript
6 43 (1.41%) C#
7 30 (0.98%) TypeScript
8 29 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 27 (0.89%) Bash
10 20 (0.66%) Bicep
11 17 (0.56%) R
12 14 (0.46%) ABAP
13 13 (0.43%) VBA
14 11 (0.36%) PHP
15 9 (0.30%) Korn
16 8 (0.26%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.26%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.23%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
18 4 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 703 (23.05%) Security Cleared
2 562 (18.43%) SC Cleared
3 283 (9.28%) Degree
4 110 (3.61%) PMI Certification
5 101 (3.31%) DV Cleared
6 100 (3.28%) PMP
7 89 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 55 (1.80%) CISSP
9 53 (1.74%) Master's Degree
10 44 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 41 (1.34%) Azure Certification
12 40 (1.31%) CISM
13 31 (1.02%) ACCA
14 30 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.95%) AWS Certification
15 29 (0.95%) CIMA
16 23 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
16 23 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
17 21 (0.69%) CBAP
18 20 (0.66%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (5.70%) Data Quality
2 171 (5.61%) QA
3 145 (4.75%) GDPR
4 123 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 116 (3.80%) NIST
6 110 (3.61%) PMO
7 79 (2.59%) Accessibility
8 55 (1.80%) GRC
9 42 (1.38%) PCI DSS
10 30 (0.98%) NCSC
11 29 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
12 25 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 25 (0.82%) SLA
13 17 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
14 15 (0.49%) Basel III
14 15 (0.49%) PSD2
15 12 (0.39%) COBIT
16 10 (0.33%) ISO 20022
16 10 (0.33%) JSP 440
16 10 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 116 (3.80%) Active Directory
2 67 (2.20%) Docker
3 32 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 15 (0.49%) vSphere
6 7 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.098%) NFS
9 3 (0.098%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.098%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.033%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.033%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 113 (3.70%) Terraform
2 98 (3.21%) Kubernetes
3 34 (1.11%) Ansible
4 27 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.49%) SCCM
7 14 (0.46%) Grafana
8 13 (0.43%) HP ALM
9 11 (0.36%) Prometheus
10 9 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.23%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.13%) Istio
12 4 (0.13%) Podman
13 3 (0.098%) Argo
13 3 (0.098%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.098%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.098%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.098%) vMotion
13 3 (0.098%) vRealize
13 3 (0.098%) VxRail
Vendors
1 436 (14.30%) Microsoft
2 266 (8.72%) SAP
3 163 (5.34%) ServiceNow
4 157 (5.15%) Oracle
5 90 (2.95%) Salesforce
6 76 (2.49%) Google
7 70 (2.30%) Cisco
8 58 (1.90%) Databricks
9 53 (1.74%) CyberArk
10 50 (1.64%) VMware
11 43 (1.41%) Workday
12 41 (1.34%) IBM
13 40 (1.31%) BeyondTrust
14 37 (1.21%) Aruba
15 35 (1.15%) Centrify
16 24 (0.79%) Palo Alto
16 24 (0.79%) Splunk
17 23 (0.75%) Red Hat
18 21 (0.69%) OpenAI
18 21 (0.69%) Zscaler