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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 100 159
Rank change year-on-year +78 +59 0
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,947 792 714
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.55% 2.56% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.66% 2.87% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,036 487 495
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £436 £450 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £656
90th Percentile £738 £751 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 10 41
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.97 £27.81
25th Percentile £19.18 £26.31 £33.48
Median hourly rate £41.86 £37.75 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% -33.17% +175.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £54.98 £57.33
90th Percentile £94.50 £65.92 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £28.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +49.48% -50.43% +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 34,038 27,619 38,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.15% 89.27% 87.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,556 16,812 25,649
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £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 £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -3.34% -0.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 864 2,107
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.40
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £61.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £31.29 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.10% -10.60% +20.69%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 4 February 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 +68 2,560 £525 -4.55% 651
UK excluding London +62 1,372 £500 -4.76% 557
London +78 1,218 £550 - 243
Work from Home +84 844 £525 -5.91% 331
South East +44 342 £500 -8.68% 219
North of England +39 332 £500 - 119
Midlands +30 271 £500 -4.76% 115
South West +50 199 £512 -14.67% 44
West Midlands +30 179 £500 -9.09% 83
North West +24 151 £496 -0.80% 64
Yorkshire +23 143 £523 +4.50% 45
Scotland +50 95 £450 -10.04% 20
East of England +34 95 £550 +15.79% 32
East Midlands +19 90 £450 +5.88% 32
North East +18 41 £450 -32.46% 13
Wales +27 30 £425 -29.17% 10
Northern Ireland +13 15 £475 - 7
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
1 157 (5.33%) Confluence
2 122 (4.14%) SharePoint
3 29 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.68%) SAS
5 12 (0.41%) CMS
6 10 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.27%) Apache
8 7 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.24%) Appian
8 7 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.14%) Drupal
9 4 (0.14%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.14%) MQSeries
9 4 (0.14%) WordPress
10 3 (0.10%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.10%) nginx
10 3 (0.10%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.068%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.068%) WebLogic
Applications
1 162 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 83 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
3 66 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
5 58 (1.97%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.17%) ProjectWise
7 5 (0.17%) Trello
8 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.14%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.10%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.10%) Notion
9 3 (0.10%) Revit
10 2 (0.068%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.068%) Camtasia
10 2 (0.068%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.068%) Sketch
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 122 (4.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
4 18 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 17 (0.58%) SAP PP
6 14 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
6 14 (0.48%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.44%) SAP MM
8 12 (0.41%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.41%) Teamcenter
8 12 (0.41%) Workday HCM
9 9 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
9 9 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
9 9 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
9 9 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
9 9 (0.31%) SAP HR
10 8 (0.27%) Loan IQ
10 8 (0.27%) SAP EWM
11 7 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
11 7 (0.24%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 533 (18.09%) Azure
2 343 (11.64%) AWS
3 228 (7.74%) Power Platform
4 145 (4.92%) GCP
5 132 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
6 114 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
7 97 (3.29%) SaaS
8 91 (3.09%) Entra ID
9 71 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
10 56 (1.90%) GitHub
11 53 (1.80%) OCI
12 49 (1.66%) Serverless
13 38 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (1.22%) Power Automate
15 34 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
16 32 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
17 31 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
18 30 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
19 28 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
19 28 (0.95%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (2.21%) Firewall
2 46 (1.56%) Network Security
3 27 (0.92%) DNS
4 24 (0.81%) WAN
5 23 (0.78%) LAN
5 23 (0.78%) VPN
6 19 (0.64%) SD-WAN
7 14 (0.48%) BGP
7 14 (0.48%) MPLS
8 10 (0.34%) DHCP
8 10 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.31%) Internet
9 9 (0.31%) Wireless
10 8 (0.27%) VLAN
11 7 (0.24%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (0.20%) OSPF
12 6 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
12 6 (0.20%) VSAN
12 6 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (6.11%) Power BI
2 65 (2.21%) Metadata
3 51 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (1.53%) Tableau
5 41 (1.39%) SQL Server
6 27 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 21 (0.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 19 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
9 17 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
9 17 (0.58%) Relational Database
10 15 (0.51%) MySQL
10 15 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
11 14 (0.48%) Power Query
12 13 (0.44%) DynamoDB
13 12 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (0.41%) Data Vault
13 12 (0.41%) NoSQL
13 12 (0.41%) Oracle Database
13 12 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
14 11 (0.37%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 265 (8.99%) JIRA
2 47 (1.59%) GitLab
3 40 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.05%) Git
5 21 (0.71%) Selenium
6 16 (0.54%) Cucumber
7 15 (0.51%) Postman
8 11 (0.37%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.31%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.24%) JUnit
10 7 (0.24%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.20%) JMeter
11 6 (0.20%) TestRail
12 5 (0.17%) Gatling
13 4 (0.14%) ERwin
13 4 (0.14%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.14%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
13 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
14 3 (0.10%) Mockito
General
1 1,541 (52.29%) Social Skills
2 829 (28.13%) Finance
3 489 (16.59%) Public Sector
4 456 (15.47%) Analytical Skills
5 205 (6.96%) Banking
6 141 (4.78%) Influencing Skills
7 122 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
8 99 (3.36%) Legal
9 79 (2.68%) Manufacturing
9 79 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
10 74 (2.51%) Telecoms
11 73 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
12 71 (2.41%) Marketing
13 70 (2.38%) Retail
14 57 (1.93%) Local Government
15 45 (1.53%) Financial Institution
16 33 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
17 32 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 32 (1.09%) Law
18 28 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 539 (18.29%) Analyst
2 398 (13.51%) Business Analyst
3 396 (13.44%) Architect
4 362 (12.28%) Lead
5 295 (10.01%) Consultant
6 258 (8.75%) Project Manager
7 235 (7.97%) Senior
8 140 (4.75%) Solutions Architect
9 92 (3.12%) Developer
10 86 (2.92%) Programme Manager
11 78 (2.65%) Senior Analyst
12 77 (2.61%) Change Manager
13 66 (2.24%) Senior Business Analyst
14 56 (1.90%) Data Analyst
15 54 (1.83%) Designer
16 51 (1.73%) Delivery Manager
16 51 (1.73%) SAP Consultant
17 46 (1.56%) Technical Manager
18 45 (1.53%) Senior Manager
19 44 (1.49%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (3.97%) REST
2 61 (2.07%) SOAP
3 55 (1.87%) LDAP
4 45 (1.53%) .NET
5 38 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
6 35 (1.19%) OAuth
7 34 (1.15%) Middleware
7 34 (1.15%) OpenID
8 28 (0.95%) XML
9 27 (0.92%) Node.js
10 23 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
11 21 (0.71%) Kafka
12 20 (0.68%) React
12 20 (0.68%) RESTful
12 20 (0.68%) SAML
13 19 (0.64%) CSS
13 19 (0.64%) HTML
13 19 (0.64%) Spring
14 18 (0.61%) OAuth2
14 18 (0.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 178 (6.04%) Product Ownership
2 149 (5.06%) Onboarding
3 99 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
4 93 (3.16%) Cloud Native
5 69 (2.34%) Management Information System
6 67 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 64 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 64 (2.17%) Security Posture
8 55 (1.87%) Data Structures
9 53 (1.80%) NHS
10 49 (1.66%) Data Centre
11 43 (1.46%) PMI
12 40 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
13 38 (1.29%) AI Agents
13 38 (1.29%) CMDB
13 38 (1.29%) Operational Technology
14 32 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
15 26 (0.88%) Virtual Team
16 25 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
17 20 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 80 (2.71%) Windows
2 38 (1.29%) Linux
3 21 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.64%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.20%) VMS
8 4 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.14%) Unix
9 3 (0.10%) Android
9 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.068%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.068%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.034%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 758 (25.72%) Agile
2 582 (19.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 468 (15.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 463 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
5 444 (15.07%) Migration
6 400 (13.57%) Roadmaps
7 399 (13.54%) Change Management
8 358 (12.15%) Project Management
9 337 (11.44%) Workshop Facilitation
10 321 (10.89%) Decision-Making
11 303 (10.28%) Analytics
12 296 (10.04%) DevOps
13 268 (9.09%) Risk Management
14 247 (8.38%) Requirements Gathering
15 246 (8.35%) Business Intelligence
16 234 (7.94%) ERP
17 233 (7.91%) Project Delivery
18 228 (7.74%) AI
19 210 (7.13%) CI/CD
20 209 (7.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 227 (7.70%) SQL
2 209 (7.09%) Python
3 113 (3.83%) PowerShell
4 73 (2.48%) Java
5 63 (2.14%) JavaScript
6 38 (1.29%) C#
7 31 (1.05%) Bash
8 28 (0.95%) TypeScript
9 27 (0.92%) Bicep
10 19 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 17 (0.58%) R
12 12 (0.41%) ABAP
13 11 (0.37%) PHP
14 10 (0.34%) Korn
14 10 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.20%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.17%) C++
17 5 (0.17%) VBA
18 4 (0.14%) RPG
Qualifications
1 622 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 510 (17.31%) SC Cleared
3 274 (9.30%) Degree
4 106 (3.60%) PMI Certification
5 92 (3.12%) PMP
6 85 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 82 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 57 (1.93%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.73%) CISSP
10 47 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 35 (1.19%) Azure Certification
11 35 (1.19%) CISM
12 32 (1.09%) ACCA
13 29 (0.98%) CIMA
14 26 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
15 25 (0.85%) CBAP
16 24 (0.81%) AWS Certification
17 23 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
18 22 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
19 20 (0.68%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (5.33%) QA
2 149 (5.06%) GDPR
3 141 (4.78%) Data Quality
4 118 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 104 (3.53%) NIST
6 99 (3.36%) PMO
7 76 (2.58%) Accessibility
8 56 (1.90%) GRC
9 46 (1.56%) PCI DSS
10 31 (1.05%) NCSC
11 28 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 24 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
13 19 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
14 17 (0.58%) Basel III
15 15 (0.51%) PSD2
16 13 (0.44%) SLA
17 12 (0.41%) WCAG
18 11 (0.37%) ISO 19650
19 10 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
19 10 (0.34%) COBIT
System Software
1 116 (3.94%) Active Directory
2 69 (2.34%) Docker
3 29 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.37%) vSphere
6 9 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.17%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.10%) NFS
9 3 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.034%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.034%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 119 (4.04%) Terraform
2 95 (3.22%) Kubernetes
3 37 (1.26%) Ansible
4 27 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.61%) SCCM
7 10 (0.34%) Grafana
7 10 (0.34%) HP ALM
8 9 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (0.27%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.20%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.14%) Argo
11 4 (0.14%) Control-M
11 4 (0.14%) Istio
12 3 (0.10%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.10%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.10%) vMotion
12 3 (0.10%) VxRail
13 2 (0.068%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.068%) vRealize
Vendors
1 430 (14.59%) Microsoft
2 274 (9.30%) SAP
3 175 (5.94%) Oracle
4 165 (5.60%) ServiceNow
5 97 (3.29%) Salesforce
6 76 (2.58%) Google
7 69 (2.34%) Cisco
8 54 (1.83%) Databricks
9 53 (1.80%) CyberArk
9 53 (1.80%) Workday
10 48 (1.63%) VMware
11 40 (1.36%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.19%) Aruba
12 35 (1.19%) Centrify
13 24 (0.81%) IBM
13 24 (0.81%) Palo Alto
13 24 (0.81%) Red Hat
14 23 (0.78%) OpenAI
15 22 (0.75%) Splunk
16 20 (0.68%) Adobe