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

 6 months to
9 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 96 154
Rank change year-on-year +74 +58 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,911 799 722
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.47% 2.59% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.58% 2.89% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,017 491 501
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £436 £450 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
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 42
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.97 £27.81
25th Percentile £19.18 £26.31 £32.37
Median hourly rate £41.86 £37.75 £53.44
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% -29.36% +160.68%
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 33,920 27,613 39,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.99% 89.40% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,498 16,798 25,769
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 £718 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -3.92% -0.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,057 854 2,142
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.66 £34.36
Median % change year-on-year -22.98% -4.95% +5.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% +11.93%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 2,536 £525 -4.55% 600
UK excluding London +63 1,353 £500 -4.76% 515
London +81 1,208 £550 -1.12% 220
Work from Home +85 823 £525 -5.23% 286
South East +47 341 £500 -8.26% 189
North of England +38 330 £500 - 109
Midlands +30 268 £496 -5.52% 104
South West +51 196 £506 -15.71% 50
West Midlands +26 176 £500 -9.09% 71
North West +28 148 £475 -5.00% 62
Yorkshire +21 144 £523 +7.18% 39
Scotland +51 91 £450 -14.29% 27
East of England +36 90 £545 +14.74% 30
East Midlands +17 90 £450 +5.88% 33
North East +19 41 £450 -32.46% 10
Wales +21 30 £406 -32.29% 9
Northern Ireland +10 14 £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
1 157 (5.39%) Confluence
2 121 (4.16%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (0.62%) SAS
5 12 (0.41%) CMS
6 10 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.27%) Apache
8 7 (0.24%) Appian
8 7 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
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 (0.069%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.069%) Oracle Service Bus
12 2 (0.069%) WebLogic
Applications
1 160 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 84 (2.89%) Microsoft Project
3 66 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
5 56 (1.92%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.38%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.17%) Trello
8 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.14%) ProjectWise
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 (0.069%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.069%) Camtasia
10 2 (0.069%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.069%) Sketch
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 119 (4.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
4 18 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 17 (0.58%) SAP PP
6 15 (0.52%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.45%) SAP MM
8 12 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.41%) SAP ERP
9 11 (0.38%) Teamcenter
9 11 (0.38%) Workday HCM
10 9 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
10 9 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
10 9 (0.31%) SAP HR
11 8 (0.27%) Loan IQ
11 8 (0.27%) SAP CO
12 7 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 7 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
12 7 (0.24%) SAP EWM
12 7 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 528 (18.14%) Azure
2 336 (11.54%) AWS
3 227 (7.80%) Power Platform
4 143 (4.91%) GCP
5 131 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
6 111 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
7 97 (3.33%) SaaS
8 87 (2.99%) Entra ID
9 68 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
10 56 (1.92%) GitHub
11 52 (1.79%) OCI
12 48 (1.65%) Serverless
13 38 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
14 35 (1.20%) Power Automate
15 33 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
16 32 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
16 32 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
17 29 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
18 27 (0.93%) Google Workspace
18 27 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 65 (2.23%) Firewall
2 45 (1.55%) Network Security
3 27 (0.93%) DNS
4 26 (0.89%) WAN
5 24 (0.82%) LAN
6 23 (0.79%) VPN
7 15 (0.52%) SD-WAN
8 14 (0.48%) BGP
8 14 (0.48%) MPLS
9 10 (0.34%) DHCP
10 9 (0.31%) Internet
10 9 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.31%) Wireless
11 8 (0.27%) VLAN
12 7 (0.24%) Kerberos
13 6 (0.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 6 (0.21%) OSPF
13 6 (0.21%) VSAN
13 6 (0.21%) WLAN
14 5 (0.17%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (6.18%) Power BI
2 64 (2.20%) Metadata
3 50 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (1.48%) Tableau
5 42 (1.44%) SQL Server
6 27 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 21 (0.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 19 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
9 18 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
10 16 (0.55%) Relational Database
11 15 (0.52%) MySQL
12 14 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
13 13 (0.45%) Power Query
13 13 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
14 12 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (0.41%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (0.38%) Big Data
15 11 (0.38%) Data Vault
15 11 (0.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 264 (9.07%) JIRA
2 46 (1.58%) GitLab
3 39 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 29 (1.00%) Git
5 18 (0.62%) Selenium
6 15 (0.52%) Cucumber
7 14 (0.48%) Postman
8 11 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.27%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.24%) JUnit
10 7 (0.24%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.21%) TestRail
12 5 (0.17%) JMeter
13 4 (0.14%) ERwin
13 4 (0.14%) Gatling
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 1,526 (52.42%) Social Skills
2 827 (28.41%) Finance
3 483 (16.59%) Public Sector
4 455 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
5 206 (7.08%) Banking
6 143 (4.91%) Influencing Skills
7 122 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
8 99 (3.40%) Legal
9 81 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
10 76 (2.61%) Manufacturing
11 72 (2.47%) Telecoms
12 71 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
13 68 (2.34%) Retail
14 66 (2.27%) Marketing
15 54 (1.86%) Local Government
16 47 (1.61%) Financial Institution
17 33 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
18 31 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 30 (1.03%) Law
20 28 (0.96%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 538 (18.48%) Analyst
2 393 (13.50%) Business Analyst
3 389 (13.36%) Architect
4 360 (12.37%) Lead
5 282 (9.69%) Consultant
6 253 (8.69%) Project Manager
7 240 (8.24%) Senior
8 137 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
9 92 (3.16%) Developer
10 87 (2.99%) Programme Manager
11 83 (2.85%) Senior Analyst
12 77 (2.65%) Change Manager
13 68 (2.34%) Senior Business Analyst
14 56 (1.92%) Data Analyst
15 55 (1.89%) Designer
16 50 (1.72%) Delivery Manager
17 48 (1.65%) SAP Consultant
18 45 (1.55%) Data Engineer
18 45 (1.55%) Technical Manager
19 44 (1.51%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (3.88%) REST
2 61 (2.10%) SOAP
3 54 (1.86%) LDAP
4 44 (1.51%) .NET
5 37 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
6 34 (1.17%) OAuth
6 34 (1.17%) OpenID
7 32 (1.10%) Middleware
8 28 (0.96%) XML
9 27 (0.93%) Node.js
10 23 (0.79%) Kafka
11 22 (0.76%) React
11 22 (0.76%) SAP Fiori
12 21 (0.72%) Spring
13 20 (0.69%) SAML
13 20 (0.69%) Spring Boot
14 19 (0.65%) RESTful
15 18 (0.62%) CSS
15 18 (0.62%) HTML
16 17 (0.58%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 176 (6.05%) Product Ownership
2 140 (4.81%) Onboarding
3 93 (3.19%) Cloud Native
4 90 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
5 68 (2.34%) Management Information System
6 66 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 64 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
7 64 (2.20%) Security Posture
8 56 (1.92%) Data Structures
9 54 (1.86%) NHS
10 47 (1.61%) Data Centre
11 44 (1.51%) PMI
12 39 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
13 38 (1.31%) AI Agents
13 38 (1.31%) CMDB
14 36 (1.24%) Operational Technology
15 35 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
16 25 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
16 25 (0.86%) Virtual Team
17 19 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 77 (2.65%) Windows
2 37 (1.27%) Linux
3 21 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (0.72%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.62%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.24%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.17%) VMS
7 4 (0.14%) Unix
8 3 (0.10%) Android
8 3 (0.10%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.034%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 740 (25.42%) Agile
2 577 (19.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 462 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 458 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
5 433 (14.87%) Migration
6 400 (13.74%) Roadmaps
7 396 (13.60%) Change Management
8 352 (12.09%) Project Management
9 337 (11.58%) Workshop Facilitation
10 324 (11.13%) Decision-Making
11 301 (10.34%) Analytics
12 284 (9.76%) DevOps
13 261 (8.97%) Risk Management
14 245 (8.42%) Requirements Gathering
15 244 (8.38%) Business Intelligence
16 230 (7.90%) AI
16 230 (7.90%) Project Delivery
17 227 (7.80%) ERP
18 207 (7.11%) ITIL
19 205 (7.04%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 226 (7.76%) SQL
2 212 (7.28%) Python
3 113 (3.88%) PowerShell
4 72 (2.47%) Java
5 63 (2.16%) JavaScript
6 38 (1.31%) C#
7 32 (1.10%) Bash
8 30 (1.03%) TypeScript
9 28 (0.96%) Bicep
10 18 (0.62%) 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++
17 5 (0.17%) VBA
18 4 (0.14%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 622 (21.37%) Security Cleared
2 512 (17.59%) SC Cleared
3 272 (9.34%) Degree
4 106 (3.64%) PMI Certification
5 94 (3.23%) PMP
6 84 (2.89%) DV Cleared
7 78 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 58 (1.99%) Master's Degree
9 49 (1.68%) CISSP
10 47 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 36 (1.24%) Azure Certification
12 35 (1.20%) CISM
13 32 (1.10%) ACCA
14 29 (1.00%) CIMA
15 25 (0.86%) CBAP
15 25 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
16 23 (0.79%) AWS Certification
17 22 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
18 20 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
18 20 (0.69%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (5.36%) QA
2 149 (5.12%) GDPR
3 140 (4.81%) Data Quality
4 115 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 103 (3.54%) NIST
6 97 (3.33%) PMO
7 77 (2.65%) Accessibility
8 55 (1.89%) GRC
9 44 (1.51%) PCI DSS
10 30 (1.03%) NCSC
11 28 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 24 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
13 18 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
14 17 (0.58%) Basel III
15 15 (0.52%) PSD2
15 15 (0.52%) SLA
16 12 (0.41%) WCAG
17 10 (0.34%) COBIT
17 10 (0.34%) HIPAA
17 10 (0.34%) HL7
System Software
1 112 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 68 (2.34%) Docker
3 29 (1.00%) 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
1 117 (4.02%) Terraform
2 94 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 36 (1.24%) Ansible
4 26 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.62%) 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 (0.21%) 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 (0.069%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.069%) vRealize
Vendors
1 423 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 266 (9.14%) SAP
3 165 (5.67%) ServiceNow
4 164 (5.63%) Oracle
5 97 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 76 (2.61%) Google
7 69 (2.37%) Cisco
8 55 (1.89%) Databricks
9 51 (1.75%) CyberArk
10 50 (1.72%) Workday
11 47 (1.61%) VMware
12 38 (1.31%) BeyondTrust
13 35 (1.20%) Aruba
13 35 (1.20%) Centrify
14 24 (0.82%) Palo Alto
15 23 (0.79%) IBM
15 23 (0.79%) OpenAI
15 23 (0.79%) Red Hat
15 23 (0.79%) Splunk
16 19 (0.65%) Adobe
673 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide