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

 6 months to
1 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 101 151
Rank change year-on-year +79 +50 +5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,920 798 725
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.58% 2.54% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.69% 2.85% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,019 490 501
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £438 £451 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £658
90th Percentile £738 £769 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 10 43
10th Percentile £17.40 £21.97 £27.81
25th Percentile £19.10 £26.31 £33.48
Median hourly rate £44.43 £37.75 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +17.69% -33.17% +175.56%
75th Percentile £65.04 £54.98 £57.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £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 33,610 27,994 39,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.22% 89.12% 87.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,285 16,989 25,814
10th Percentile £305 £307 £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 £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,025 871 2,057
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £58.65 £62.50 £61.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.78 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.72% -14.50% +24.57%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +73 2,538 £525 -4.55% 783
UK excluding London +63 1,358 £500 -4.76% 595
London +85 1,209 £550 -2.22% 325
Work from Home +86 841 £525 -6.67% 401
South East +47 339 £500 -9.09% 219
North of England +39 329 £500 - 123
Midlands +30 267 £500 -4.76% 127
South West +42 198 £513 -14.58% 48
West Midlands +31 176 £500 -12.43% 94
North West +27 149 £500 - 66
Yorkshire +22 142 £520 +4.00% 45
Scotland +48 94 £450 -10.09% 29
East of England +38 93 £550 +15.79% 37
East Midlands +21 89 £463 +8.82% 33
North East +17 41 £450 -32.46% 14
Wales +22 30 £425 -29.17% 12
Northern Ireland +14 15 £475 - 9
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
1 156 (5.34%) Confluence
2 120 (4.11%) SharePoint
3 29 (0.99%) 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
9 6 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.14%) Drupal
10 4 (0.14%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.14%) MQSeries
10 4 (0.14%) WordPress
11 3 (0.10%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.10%) nginx
11 3 (0.10%) Smallworld
12 2 (0.068%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.068%) Oracle Service Bus
12 2 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 158 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 86 (2.95%) Microsoft Project
3 63 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
5 56 (1.92%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.38%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.17%) ProjectWise
7 5 (0.17%) Trello
8 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.10%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.10%) Notion
9 3 (0.10%) PTC Creo
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
1 117 (4.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
4 18 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 17 (0.58%) SAP PP
6 14 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
6 14 (0.48%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.45%) SAP MM
8 12 (0.41%) SAP ERP
9 11 (0.38%) Teamcenter
9 11 (0.38%) Workday HCM
10 9 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
10 9 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
10 9 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
10 9 (0.31%) SAP HR
11 8 (0.27%) Loan IQ
11 8 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
11 8 (0.27%) SAP EWM
12 7 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 7 (0.24%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 529 (18.12%) Azure
2 341 (11.68%) AWS
3 227 (7.77%) Power Platform
4 144 (4.93%) GCP
5 132 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
6 114 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
7 96 (3.29%) SaaS
8 90 (3.08%) Entra ID
9 70 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
10 56 (1.92%) GitHub
11 52 (1.78%) OCI
12 49 (1.68%) Serverless
13 38 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (1.23%) Power Automate
15 33 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
16 32 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
17 31 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
18 30 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
19 28 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
20 27 (0.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 64 (2.19%) Firewall
2 45 (1.54%) Network Security
3 25 (0.86%) DNS
4 24 (0.82%) WAN
5 23 (0.79%) LAN
5 23 (0.79%) VPN
6 19 (0.65%) SD-WAN
7 14 (0.48%) BGP
7 14 (0.48%) MPLS
8 10 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.31%) DHCP
9 9 (0.31%) Internet
9 9 (0.31%) Wireless
10 8 (0.27%) VLAN
11 7 (0.24%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.21%) OSPF
12 6 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
12 6 (0.21%) VSAN
12 6 (0.21%) WLAN
13 5 (0.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (6.13%) Power BI
2 66 (2.26%) Metadata
3 50 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (1.54%) Tableau
5 41 (1.40%) SQL Server
6 27 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 21 (0.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 19 (0.65%) 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 (0.45%) 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 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 264 (9.04%) JIRA
2 47 (1.61%) GitLab
3 40 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.06%) Git
5 21 (0.72%) Selenium
6 16 (0.55%) Cucumber
7 15 (0.51%) Postman
8 11 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.31%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.24%) JUnit
10 7 (0.24%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.21%) JMeter
11 6 (0.21%) 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%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 1,533 (52.50%) Social Skills
2 820 (28.08%) Finance
3 489 (16.75%) Public Sector
4 450 (15.41%) Analytical Skills
5 205 (7.02%) Banking
6 139 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
7 121 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
8 101 (3.46%) Legal
9 80 (2.74%) Manufacturing
10 79 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
11 76 (2.60%) Telecoms
12 73 (2.50%) Marketing
13 72 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
14 70 (2.40%) Retail
15 57 (1.95%) Local Government
16 44 (1.51%) Financial Institution
17 33 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
18 32 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 32 (1.10%) Law
19 28 (0.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 531 (18.18%) Analyst
2 393 (13.46%) Business Analyst
3 392 (13.42%) Architect
4 356 (12.19%) Lead
5 292 (10.00%) Consultant
6 258 (8.84%) Project Manager
7 232 (7.95%) Senior
8 140 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
9 92 (3.15%) Developer
10 85 (2.91%) Programme Manager
11 76 (2.60%) Change Manager
12 75 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
13 63 (2.16%) Senior Business Analyst
14 56 (1.92%) Data Analyst
15 53 (1.82%) Designer
16 50 (1.71%) SAP Consultant
17 49 (1.68%) Delivery Manager
18 46 (1.58%) Technical Manager
19 45 (1.54%) Senior Manager
20 44 (1.51%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (3.90%) REST
2 59 (2.02%) SOAP
3 55 (1.88%) LDAP
4 45 (1.54%) .NET
5 37 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
6 35 (1.20%) OAuth
7 34 (1.16%) Middleware
7 34 (1.16%) OpenID
8 28 (0.96%) XML
9 27 (0.92%) Node.js
10 23 (0.79%) SAP Fiori
11 21 (0.72%) Kafka
12 20 (0.68%) React
12 20 (0.68%) RESTful
12 20 (0.68%) SAML
13 19 (0.65%) CSS
13 19 (0.65%) HTML
13 19 (0.65%) SailPoint
13 19 (0.65%) Spring
14 18 (0.62%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 175 (5.99%) Product Ownership
2 147 (5.03%) Onboarding
3 99 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
4 93 (3.18%) Cloud Native
5 69 (2.36%) Management Information System
6 68 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 64 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
8 63 (2.16%) Security Posture
9 55 (1.88%) Data Structures
10 53 (1.82%) NHS
11 49 (1.68%) Data Centre
12 44 (1.51%) PMI
13 40 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
14 38 (1.30%) AI Agents
14 38 (1.30%) Operational Technology
15 37 (1.27%) CMDB
16 32 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
17 25 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
18 23 (0.79%) Virtual Team
19 20 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 78 (2.67%) Windows
2 38 (1.30%) Linux
3 21 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.65%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.21%) 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
1 756 (25.89%) Agile
2 576 (19.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 466 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 458 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
5 440 (15.07%) Migration
6 393 (13.46%) Roadmaps
7 392 (13.42%) Change Management
8 359 (12.29%) Project Management
9 328 (11.23%) Workshop Facilitation
10 317 (10.86%) Decision-Making
11 300 (10.27%) Analytics
12 296 (10.14%) DevOps
13 267 (9.14%) Risk Management
14 247 (8.46%) Business Intelligence
15 243 (8.32%) Requirements Gathering
16 229 (7.84%) ERP
16 229 (7.84%) Project Delivery
17 228 (7.81%) AI
18 212 (7.26%) CI/CD
19 207 (7.09%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 226 (7.74%) SQL
2 208 (7.12%) Python
3 113 (3.87%) PowerShell
4 73 (2.50%) Java
5 61 (2.09%) JavaScript
6 38 (1.30%) C#
7 31 (1.06%) Bash
8 28 (0.96%) TypeScript
9 27 (0.92%) Bicep
10 19 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 17 (0.58%) R
12 12 (0.41%) ABAP
13 11 (0.38%) PHP
14 10 (0.34%) Korn
14 10 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.21%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.17%) C++
18 4 (0.14%) RPG
18 4 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 620 (21.23%) Security Cleared
2 508 (17.40%) SC Cleared
3 274 (9.38%) Degree
4 108 (3.70%) PMI Certification
5 94 (3.22%) PMP
6 86 (2.95%) DV Cleared
7 80 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 57 (1.95%) Master's Degree
9 50 (1.71%) CISSP
10 47 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 35 (1.20%) Azure Certification
12 34 (1.16%) CISM
13 31 (1.06%) ACCA
14 28 (0.96%) CIMA
15 26 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
16 24 (0.82%) AWS Certification
16 24 (0.82%) CBAP
17 23 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
18 22 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
19 19 (0.65%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (5.34%) QA
2 149 (5.10%) GDPR
3 137 (4.69%) Data Quality
4 118 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 105 (3.60%) NIST
6 102 (3.49%) PMO
7 75 (2.57%) Accessibility
8 56 (1.92%) GRC
9 46 (1.58%) PCI DSS
10 31 (1.06%) NCSC
11 28 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 24 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
13 19 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
14 16 (0.55%) Basel III
15 15 (0.51%) PSD2
16 12 (0.41%) SLA
16 12 (0.41%) WCAG
17 11 (0.38%) ISO 19650
18 10 (0.34%) COBIT
18 10 (0.34%) HIPAA
System Software
1 116 (3.97%) Active Directory
2 69 (2.36%) Docker
3 29 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.38%) 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 (4.08%) Terraform
2 95 (3.25%) Kubernetes
3 36 (1.23%) Ansible
4 27 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.58%) SCCM
7 10 (0.34%) Grafana
8 9 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 9 (0.31%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.27%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.17%) 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
1 423 (14.49%) Microsoft
2 268 (9.18%) SAP
3 173 (5.92%) Oracle
4 162 (5.55%) ServiceNow
5 97 (3.32%) Salesforce
6 76 (2.60%) Google
7 69 (2.36%) Cisco
8 53 (1.82%) CyberArk
8 53 (1.82%) Databricks
9 52 (1.78%) Workday
10 48 (1.64%) VMware
11 40 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.20%) Aruba
12 35 (1.20%) Centrify
13 24 (0.82%) IBM
13 24 (0.82%) Palo Alto
13 24 (0.82%) Red Hat
14 23 (0.79%) OpenAI
15 22 (0.75%) Splunk
16 20 (0.68%) Adobe
880 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide