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

 6 months to
13 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 86 154
Rank change year-on-year +61 +68 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,082 842 708
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.20% 2.86% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.36% 3.16% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,118 552 477
10th Percentile £366 £400 £363
25th Percentile £447 £455 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £635 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 13 39
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.20 £18.35
25th Percentile £27.00 £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 £65.00 £54.65 £56.49
% change year-on-year +18.95% -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 36,854 26,627 38,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 90.37% 86.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,339 16,995 25,088
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 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,197 898 2,338
10th Percentile £14.82 £15.48 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.36 £32.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year -15.82% +3.17% -10.00%

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 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 13 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 13 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 +59 2,679 £525 -4.55% 839
UK excluding London +53 1,461 £500 -4.76% 646
London +66 1,256 £550 - 335
Work from Home +65 876 £525 -4.55% 390
South East +46 380 £500 -9.09% 211
North of England +38 354 £500 +0.30% 146
Midlands +31 298 £500 -0.10% 139
West Midlands +30 198 £500 -9.09% 81
South West +46 194 £525 -8.70% 76
North West +40 173 £475 -4.71% 76
Yorkshire +12 143 £525 +10.53% 54
East of England +30 100 £525 +5.00% 34
East Midlands +11 98 £475 +11.76% 58
Scotland +38 91 £450 -18.18% 25
North East +16 41 £454 -10.59% 18
Wales +14 32 £400 -23.81% 17
Northern Ireland +15 19 £463 - 4
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
1 173 (5.61%) Confluence
2 118 (3.83%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (0.58%) SAS
5 13 (0.42%) CMS
6 9 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.19%) Apache
7 6 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.097%) Appian
10 3 (0.097%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.097%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.097%) Smallworld
10 3 (0.097%) WordPress
11 2 (0.065%) Moodle
11 2 (0.065%) nginx
11 2 (0.065%) WebLogic
Applications
1 164 (5.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (2.53%) Microsoft Project
3 62 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
5 57 (1.85%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.16%) Trello
9 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
10 3 (0.097%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.097%) Notion
10 3 (0.097%) Sketch
11 2 (0.065%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.065%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.032%) CATIA
12 1 (0.032%) InVision
12 1 (0.032%) Revit
12 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 130 (4.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
4 16 (0.52%) SAP FI
4 16 (0.52%) SAP PP
5 12 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 11 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 11 (0.36%) SAP MM
7 9 (0.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 9 (0.29%) SAP HR
7 9 (0.29%) Workday HCM
8 8 (0.26%) NEC Housing
8 8 (0.26%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.26%) Teamcenter
9 7 (0.23%) Primavera
9 7 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
9 7 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 7 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
10 6 (0.19%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 590 (19.14%) Azure
2 378 (12.26%) AWS
3 266 (8.63%) Power Platform
4 160 (5.19%) GCP
5 141 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
6 117 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
7 106 (3.44%) SaaS
8 93 (3.02%) Entra ID
9 76 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
10 64 (2.08%) GitHub
11 49 (1.59%) OCI
12 48 (1.56%) Serverless
13 41 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
13 41 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
14 37 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
15 35 (1.14%) Power Automate
16 34 (1.10%) PaaS
16 34 (1.10%) PowerApps
17 31 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
18 28 (0.91%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (2.11%) Firewall
2 47 (1.52%) Network Security
3 32 (1.04%) DNS
4 30 (0.97%) WAN
5 28 (0.91%) LAN
5 28 (0.91%) VPN
6 17 (0.55%) SD-WAN
7 15 (0.49%) BGP
8 14 (0.45%) MPLS
9 11 (0.36%) Internet
10 10 (0.32%) DHCP
10 10 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.29%) VSAN
11 9 (0.29%) Wireless
12 8 (0.26%) VLAN
13 7 (0.23%) Intranet
14 6 (0.19%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.19%) NAS
14 6 (0.19%) OSPF
14 6 (0.19%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (6.85%) Power BI
2 74 (2.40%) Metadata
3 64 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (1.56%) Tableau
5 38 (1.23%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.81%) Data Lake
7 21 (0.68%) Power Query
8 20 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
9 19 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (0.62%) Relational Database
10 18 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
11 17 (0.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 16 (0.52%) MySQL
12 16 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
13 14 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (0.45%) Data Vault
14 12 (0.39%) DynamoDB
14 12 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
15 11 (0.36%) Big Data
15 11 (0.36%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 279 (9.05%) JIRA
2 47 (1.52%) Jenkins
3 46 (1.49%) GitLab
4 35 (1.14%) Git
5 27 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
6 25 (0.81%) Selenium
7 18 (0.58%) Postman
8 17 (0.55%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.42%) JMeter
10 11 (0.36%) JUnit
11 7 (0.23%) ERwin
11 7 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
11 7 (0.23%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.23%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.23%) WebDriver
12 6 (0.19%) Hudson
12 6 (0.19%) TestRail
13 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.13%) Gatling
14 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1,538 (49.90%) Social Skills
2 882 (28.62%) Finance
3 500 (16.22%) Public Sector
4 497 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
5 197 (6.39%) Banking
6 156 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
7 138 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
8 114 (3.70%) Legal
9 83 (2.69%) Manufacturing
10 82 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
11 79 (2.56%) Retail
12 70 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
13 65 (2.11%) Marketing
14 63 (2.04%) Telecoms
15 60 (1.95%) Local Government
16 56 (1.82%) Aerospace
17 43 (1.40%) Financial Institution
18 42 (1.36%) Law
19 34 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
20 29 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 585 (18.98%) Analyst
2 431 (13.98%) Business Analyst
3 427 (13.85%) Architect
4 374 (12.13%) Lead
5 282 (9.15%) Consultant
6 279 (9.05%) Project Manager
7 264 (8.57%) Senior
8 140 (4.54%) Solutions Architect
9 93 (3.02%) Programme Manager
10 92 (2.99%) Developer
11 91 (2.95%) Senior Analyst
12 79 (2.56%) Delivery Manager
13 77 (2.50%) Change Manager
14 72 (2.34%) Data Analyst
15 70 (2.27%) Senior Business Analyst
16 59 (1.91%) Product Manager
17 52 (1.69%) Designer
18 47 (1.52%) Data Engineer
18 47 (1.52%) Senior Manager
19 45 (1.46%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (3.60%) REST
2 59 (1.91%) SOAP
3 51 (1.65%) LDAP
4 44 (1.43%) .NET
5 41 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
6 39 (1.27%) Middleware
7 32 (1.04%) OAuth
7 32 (1.04%) OpenID
8 26 (0.84%) Node.js
8 26 (0.84%) Spring
9 24 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
10 23 (0.75%) React
11 22 (0.71%) Kafka
12 21 (0.68%) XML
13 20 (0.65%) RESTful
14 19 (0.62%) Spring Boot
15 18 (0.58%) OAuth2
15 18 (0.58%) SailPoint
15 18 (0.58%) SAML
16 17 (0.55%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 211 (6.85%) Product Ownership
2 152 (4.93%) Onboarding
3 99 (3.21%) Cloud Native
4 82 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
5 72 (2.34%) Data Structures
6 69 (2.24%) Management Information System
7 67 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
8 64 (2.08%) Security Posture
9 60 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
10 56 (1.82%) NHS
11 49 (1.59%) Data Centre
12 45 (1.46%) Operational Technology
13 43 (1.40%) PMI
14 41 (1.33%) CMDB
15 39 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
16 37 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
17 36 (1.17%) AI Agents
18 29 (0.94%) Virtual Team
19 26 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
20 25 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 79 (2.56%) Windows
2 41 (1.33%) Linux
3 21 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.55%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.16%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.16%) Unix
5 5 (0.16%) VMS
6 3 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.065%) Android
7 2 (0.065%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.065%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.065%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.032%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 802 (26.02%) Agile
2 621 (20.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 551 (17.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 483 (15.67%) Migration
5 481 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
6 442 (14.34%) Roadmaps
7 412 (13.37%) Change Management
8 378 (12.26%) Workshop Facilitation
9 352 (11.42%) Project Management
10 340 (11.03%) Decision-Making
11 330 (10.71%) Analytics
12 306 (9.93%) DevOps
13 278 (9.02%) Business Intelligence
13 278 (9.02%) Risk Management
14 266 (8.63%) AI
15 254 (8.24%) Requirements Gathering
16 252 (8.18%) ERP
17 240 (7.79%) Project Delivery
18 224 (7.27%) User Acceptance Testing
19 218 (7.07%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 255 (8.27%) SQL
2 237 (7.69%) Python
3 103 (3.34%) PowerShell
4 83 (2.69%) Java
5 53 (1.72%) JavaScript
6 42 (1.36%) C#
7 30 (0.97%) TypeScript
8 28 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 26 (0.84%) Bash
10 20 (0.65%) Bicep
11 17 (0.55%) R
12 14 (0.45%) ABAP
12 14 (0.45%) VBA
13 11 (0.36%) PHP
14 9 (0.29%) Korn
15 8 (0.26%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.26%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.23%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 713 (23.13%) Security Cleared
2 564 (18.30%) SC Cleared
3 284 (9.21%) Degree
4 114 (3.70%) PMI Certification
5 103 (3.34%) PMP
6 101 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 92 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 55 (1.78%) CISSP
9 54 (1.75%) Master's Degree
10 44 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 40 (1.30%) Azure Certification
11 40 (1.30%) CISM
12 30 (0.97%) ACCA
12 30 (0.97%) AWS Certification
12 30 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
13 28 (0.91%) CIMA
14 24 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
15 23 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
16 22 (0.71%) CBAP
17 20 (0.65%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (5.91%) Data Quality
2 173 (5.61%) QA
3 148 (4.80%) GDPR
4 121 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 115 (3.73%) NIST
6 110 (3.57%) PMO
7 77 (2.50%) Accessibility
8 53 (1.72%) GRC
9 39 (1.27%) PCI DSS
10 30 (0.97%) NCSC
11 29 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
12 25 (0.81%) SLA
13 24 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 17 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
15 15 (0.49%) PSD2
16 14 (0.45%) Basel III
17 12 (0.39%) COBIT
18 10 (0.32%) HL7
18 10 (0.32%) JSP 440
18 10 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 115 (3.73%) Active Directory
2 66 (2.14%) Docker
3 30 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.55%) VMware NSX
5 15 (0.49%) vSphere
6 7 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.097%) NFS
10 3 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.032%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.032%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 113 (3.67%) Terraform
2 102 (3.31%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.07%) Ansible
4 26 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (0.52%) Grafana
6 14 (0.45%) HP ALM
6 14 (0.45%) SCCM
7 13 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.16%) Podman
11 4 (0.13%) Istio
12 3 (0.097%) Argo
12 3 (0.097%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.097%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.097%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.097%) vMotion
12 3 (0.097%) vRealize
12 3 (0.097%) VxRail
Vendors
1 445 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 272 (8.83%) SAP
3 164 (5.32%) ServiceNow
4 159 (5.16%) Oracle
5 90 (2.92%) Salesforce
6 76 (2.47%) Google
7 69 (2.24%) Cisco
8 60 (1.95%) Databricks
9 53 (1.72%) CyberArk
10 48 (1.56%) VMware
11 44 (1.43%) IBM
11 44 (1.43%) Workday
12 40 (1.30%) BeyondTrust
13 37 (1.20%) Aruba
14 35 (1.14%) Centrify
15 24 (0.78%) Palo Alto
15 24 (0.78%) Splunk
16 23 (0.75%) Red Hat
17 21 (0.68%) OpenAI
17 21 (0.68%) Zscaler
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