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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 94 154
Rank change year-on-year +69 +60 +2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,999 833 708
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.20% 2.72% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.31% 3.03% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,063 520 481
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £439 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £656
90th Percentile £738 £752 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 12 35
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.10 -
25th Percentile £25.00 £25.44 £27.81
Median hourly rate £59.00 £48.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.64% +32.88% +78.05%
75th Percentile £76.75 £65.45 £56.49
90th Percentile £93.00 £82.75 £57.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £47.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +26.32% -15.91% +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 36,087 27,535 38,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.65% 89.98% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,916 17,126 25,279
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £412 £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 £723 £739 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -1.83% -1.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,149 888 2,215
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -2.99% -4.29%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.75 £59.47
90th Percentile £72.71 £75.08 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 2,608 £525 -4.55% 597
UK excluding London +59 1,405 £500 -4.76% 511
London +69 1,233 £550 - 221
Work from Home +68 859 £525 -4.55% 272
North of England +46 347 £500 -0.40% 127
South East +46 343 £500 -9.09% 173
Midlands +37 288 £500 -4.76% 102
South West +39 196 £523 -9.04% 53
West Midlands +39 188 £500 -11.11% 65
North West +31 161 £490 -1.71% 67
Yorkshire +18 151 £523 -0.48% 46
East Midlands +20 99 £475 +8.57% 36
East of England +31 97 £525 +5.00% 24
Scotland +41 93 £450 -18.18% 20
North East +16 38 £450 -11.33% 16
Wales +19 32 £400 -33.33% 10
Northern Ireland +11 16 £475 - 6
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
1 166 (5.54%) Confluence
2 118 (3.93%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.50%) SAS
5 11 (0.37%) CMS
6 9 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.20%) Apache
7 6 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.17%) Appian
9 4 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.13%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.10%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.10%) Smallworld
10 3 (0.10%) WordPress
11 2 (0.067%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.067%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.067%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 173 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 82 (2.73%) Microsoft Project
3 64 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (2.07%) MS Visio
5 59 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.33%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.10%) Notion
10 2 (0.067%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.067%) Camtasia
10 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.067%) Sketch
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.033%) CATIA
11 1 (0.033%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.033%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 127 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.53%) SAP PP
5 15 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.50%) SAP FI
6 12 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
7 11 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 11 (0.37%) SAP ERP
7 11 (0.37%) SAP MM
8 9 (0.30%) SAP HR
8 9 (0.30%) Teamcenter
9 8 (0.27%) NEC Housing
9 8 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 8 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.27%) SAP CO
9 8 (0.27%) Workday HCM
10 7 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 7 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
11 6 (0.20%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 562 (18.74%) Azure
2 345 (11.50%) AWS
3 248 (8.27%) Power Platform
4 151 (5.04%) GCP
5 141 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
6 116 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
7 106 (3.53%) SaaS
8 93 (3.10%) Entra ID
9 69 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
10 62 (2.07%) GitHub
11 48 (1.60%) OCI
11 48 (1.60%) Serverless
12 42 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
14 35 (1.17%) Power Automate
15 34 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
16 31 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
16 31 (1.03%) PaaS
16 31 (1.03%) PowerApps
17 29 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.20%) Firewall
2 44 (1.47%) Network Security
3 27 (0.90%) DNS
3 27 (0.90%) WAN
4 25 (0.83%) LAN
5 22 (0.73%) VPN
6 15 (0.50%) BGP
6 15 (0.50%) SD-WAN
7 14 (0.47%) MPLS
8 10 (0.33%) DHCP
8 10 (0.33%) Internet
9 9 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.30%) Wireless
10 8 (0.27%) VLAN
11 7 (0.23%) Kerberos
11 7 (0.23%) VSAN
12 6 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (0.20%) OSPF
12 6 (0.20%) SMS
12 6 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (6.47%) Power BI
2 70 (2.33%) Metadata
3 60 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (1.37%) SQL Server
4 41 (1.37%) Tableau
5 24 (0.80%) Data Lake
6 20 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
6 20 (0.67%) Power Query
7 17 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (0.57%) Relational Database
8 16 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
8 16 (0.53%) MySQL
8 16 (0.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 15 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
10 14 (0.47%) Data Vault
11 13 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (0.40%) Big Data
12 12 (0.40%) DynamoDB
13 11 (0.37%) Delta Lake
13 11 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 274 (9.14%) JIRA
2 47 (1.57%) GitLab
3 44 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.07%) Git
5 21 (0.70%) Selenium
6 16 (0.53%) Cucumber
7 15 (0.50%) Postman
8 9 (0.30%) JMeter
8 9 (0.30%) JUnit
8 9 (0.30%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
10 7 (0.23%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.20%) ERwin
11 6 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
11 6 (0.20%) TestRail
12 5 (0.17%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.13%) Gatling
13 4 (0.13%) Hudson
13 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
13 4 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 1,545 (51.52%) Social Skills
2 865 (28.84%) Finance
3 478 (15.94%) Public Sector
4 476 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
5 198 (6.60%) Banking
6 154 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
7 135 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
8 108 (3.60%) Legal
9 85 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
10 80 (2.67%) Manufacturing
11 70 (2.33%) Retail
12 69 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
13 63 (2.10%) Marketing
14 62 (2.07%) Telecoms
15 55 (1.83%) Local Government
16 47 (1.57%) Financial Institution
17 34 (1.13%) Aerospace
18 31 (1.03%) Law
19 30 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 30 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 574 (19.14%) Analyst
2 420 (14.00%) Business Analyst
3 408 (13.60%) Architect
4 367 (12.24%) Lead
5 273 (9.10%) Consultant
6 256 (8.54%) Project Manager
7 255 (8.50%) Senior
8 142 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
9 92 (3.07%) Programme Manager
10 91 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
11 90 (3.00%) Developer
12 78 (2.60%) Change Manager
13 70 (2.33%) Senior Business Analyst
14 66 (2.20%) Data Analyst
15 59 (1.97%) Delivery Manager
16 57 (1.90%) Designer
17 48 (1.60%) Data Engineer
18 44 (1.47%) Senior Manager
19 43 (1.43%) Business Manager
19 43 (1.43%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (3.67%) REST
2 57 (1.90%) SOAP
3 54 (1.80%) LDAP
4 45 (1.50%) .NET
5 39 (1.30%) Middleware
5 39 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
6 34 (1.13%) OAuth
6 34 (1.13%) OpenID
7 26 (0.87%) Node.js
8 25 (0.83%) XML
9 24 (0.80%) SAP Fiori
9 24 (0.80%) Spring
10 22 (0.73%) React
11 20 (0.67%) Kafka
11 20 (0.67%) RESTful
11 20 (0.67%) SailPoint
11 20 (0.67%) Spring Boot
12 19 (0.63%) CSS
12 19 (0.63%) SAML
13 18 (0.60%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 187 (6.24%) Product Ownership
2 144 (4.80%) Onboarding
3 96 (3.20%) Cloud Native
4 82 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
5 65 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 64 (2.13%) Security Posture
7 63 (2.10%) Management Information System
8 62 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 52 (1.73%) Data Structures
9 52 (1.73%) NHS
10 51 (1.70%) Data Centre
11 42 (1.40%) Operational Technology
12 41 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
12 41 (1.37%) PMI
13 38 (1.27%) AI Agents
13 38 (1.27%) CMDB
14 37 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
15 28 (0.93%) Virtual Team
16 27 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
17 22 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (2.57%) Windows
2 37 (1.23%) Linux
3 21 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.60%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.17%) Unix
6 5 (0.17%) VMS
7 3 (0.10%) Android
7 3 (0.10%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.033%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 771 (25.71%) Agile
2 603 (20.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 509 (16.97%) Continuous Improvement
4 471 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
5 450 (15.01%) Migration
6 424 (14.14%) Roadmaps
7 407 (13.57%) Change Management
8 357 (11.90%) Workshop Facilitation
9 355 (11.84%) Project Management
10 340 (11.34%) Decision-Making
11 309 (10.30%) Analytics
12 300 (10.00%) DevOps
13 278 (9.27%) Risk Management
14 260 (8.67%) Business Intelligence
15 251 (8.37%) AI
16 246 (8.20%) Requirements Gathering
17 240 (8.00%) ERP
18 228 (7.60%) Project Delivery
19 211 (7.04%) Business Analysis
20 210 (7.00%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 239 (7.97%) SQL
2 223 (7.44%) Python
3 110 (3.67%) PowerShell
4 77 (2.57%) Java
5 57 (1.90%) JavaScript
6 42 (1.40%) C#
7 31 (1.03%) TypeScript
8 29 (0.97%) Bash
9 25 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 24 (0.80%) Bicep
11 18 (0.60%) R
12 14 (0.47%) ABAP
13 11 (0.37%) PHP
13 11 (0.37%) VBA
14 10 (0.33%) Korn
15 8 (0.27%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.20%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.13%) RPG
18 4 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 660 (22.01%) Security Cleared
2 544 (18.14%) SC Cleared
3 271 (9.04%) Degree
4 104 (3.47%) PMI Certification
5 96 (3.20%) DV Cleared
6 94 (3.13%) PMP
7 85 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 53 (1.77%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.70%) CISSP
10 42 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 36 (1.20%) CISM
12 34 (1.13%) Azure Certification
13 32 (1.07%) ACCA
14 30 (1.00%) CIMA
15 27 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
16 24 (0.80%) AWS Certification
17 23 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
18 20 (0.67%) CBAP
18 20 (0.67%) IIBA
19 19 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (5.60%) QA
2 164 (5.47%) Data Quality
3 143 (4.77%) GDPR
4 123 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 112 (3.73%) NIST
6 105 (3.50%) PMO
7 77 (2.57%) Accessibility
8 57 (1.90%) GRC
9 43 (1.43%) PCI DSS
10 31 (1.03%) NCSC
11 29 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
12 28 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 19 (0.63%) SLA
14 17 (0.57%) Basel III
14 17 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
15 15 (0.50%) PSD2
16 10 (0.33%) COBIT
16 10 (0.33%) ISO 20022
16 10 (0.33%) JSP 440
16 10 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 116 (3.87%) Active Directory
2 71 (2.37%) Docker
3 28 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.50%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.40%) vSphere
6 8 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.17%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.10%) NFS
9 3 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.033%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.033%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 116 (3.87%) Terraform
2 102 (3.40%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.17%) Ansible
4 28 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.57%) SCCM
7 15 (0.50%) Grafana
8 13 (0.43%) HP ALM
9 12 (0.40%) Prometheus
10 9 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.23%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.13%) Control-M
12 4 (0.13%) Istio
12 4 (0.13%) Podman
13 3 (0.10%) Argo
13 3 (0.10%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.10%) Nessus
13 3 (0.10%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.10%) vMotion
13 3 (0.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 438 (14.60%) Microsoft
2 268 (8.94%) SAP
3 163 (5.44%) ServiceNow
4 154 (5.14%) Oracle
5 94 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 74 (2.47%) Google
7 69 (2.30%) Cisco
8 57 (1.90%) Databricks
9 53 (1.77%) CyberArk
10 46 (1.53%) VMware
10 46 (1.53%) Workday
11 40 (1.33%) BeyondTrust
12 36 (1.20%) Aruba
13 35 (1.17%) Centrify
14 28 (0.93%) IBM
15 24 (0.80%) Palo Alto
15 24 (0.80%) Splunk
16 23 (0.77%) Red Hat
17 22 (0.73%) OpenAI
18 20 (0.67%) Adobe