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

 6 months to
30 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 81 148
Rank change year-on-year +56 +67 +6
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,177 898 708
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.16% 3.07% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.36% 3.39% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,174 600 480
10th Percentile £365 £386 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £544
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -2.57% -1.14%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £652
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £523
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.48% +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 14 37
10th Percentile £17.50 £23.98 £18.35
25th Percentile £37.00 £28.38 £27.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £49.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +31.31% +37.66% +75.41%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.98 £57.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.20 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 £54.65 £56.49
% change year-on-year +36.33% -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 38,014 26,489 38,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.62% 90.44% 86.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,062 17,216 24,858
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.72% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 972 2,349
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.00 £12.84
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.26 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £70.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £31.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% - -12.26%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +55 2,771 £525 - 871
UK excluding London +49 1,509 £500 -3.85% 633
London +63 1,301 £550 - 341
Work from Home +54 910 £525 -2.28% 428
South East +39 389 £500 -8.26% 209
North of England +44 373 £500 - 154
Midlands +26 304 £500 - 124
West Midlands +27 202 £500 -4.76% 78
North West +42 197 £483 -3.50% 71
South West +39 196 £525 -10.64% 68
Yorkshire +6 136 £513 +7.89% 63
East of England +25 107 £525 +5.00% 46
East Midlands +11 97 £500 +14.29% 45
Scotland +38 95 £450 -18.07% 21
North East +17 43 £450 -11.33% 21
Wales +13 33 £411 -21.67% 15
Northern Ireland +18 20 £450 - 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
1 174 (5.48%) Confluence
2 110 (3.46%) SharePoint
3 30 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.63%) SAS
5 13 (0.41%) CMS
6 8 (0.25%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.19%) Apache
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.094%) WordPress
11 2 (0.063%) Drupal
11 2 (0.063%) nginx
11 2 (0.063%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.063%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.063%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.063%) WebLogic
Applications
1 163 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (2.49%) Microsoft Project
3 61 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 61 (1.92%) MS Visio
4 57 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.16%) Trello
8 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.094%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.094%) Notion
9 3 (0.094%) Sketch
10 2 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.063%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.063%) Windchill
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.031%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.031%) CATIA
11 1 (0.031%) InVision
Business Applications
1 134 (4.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.54%) SAP PP
5 16 (0.50%) SAP FI
6 15 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
7 11 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 11 (0.35%) SAP HR
8 10 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
8 10 (0.31%) SAP MM
8 10 (0.31%) Teamcenter
8 10 (0.31%) Workday HCM
9 9 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 8 (0.25%) NEC Housing
10 8 (0.25%) SAP CO
11 7 (0.22%) Aladdin
11 7 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 7 (0.22%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 582 (18.32%) Azure
2 376 (11.84%) AWS
3 288 (9.07%) Power Platform
4 158 (4.97%) GCP
5 132 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
6 118 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
7 98 (3.08%) SaaS
8 95 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
9 90 (2.83%) Entra ID
10 65 (2.05%) GitHub
11 44 (1.38%) OCI
12 42 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
12 42 (1.32%) Serverless
13 39 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (1.20%) PaaS
15 37 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
16 32 (1.01%) Power Automate
17 30 (0.94%) PowerApps
18 29 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
19 28 (0.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (1.83%) Firewall
2 48 (1.51%) Network Security
3 33 (1.04%) DNS
4 30 (0.94%) WAN
5 28 (0.88%) LAN
6 27 (0.85%) VPN
7 18 (0.57%) SD-WAN
8 17 (0.54%) BGP
9 14 (0.44%) MPLS
10 13 (0.41%) Internet
11 12 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.38%) Wireless
12 10 (0.31%) DHCP
12 10 (0.31%) VLAN
12 10 (0.31%) VSAN
13 9 (0.28%) OSPF
14 8 (0.25%) WLAN
15 7 (0.22%) 5G
15 7 (0.22%) Intranet
16 6 (0.19%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (7.52%) Power BI
2 70 (2.20%) Metadata
3 63 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (1.51%) Tableau
5 39 (1.23%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.79%) Power Query
7 24 (0.76%) Data Lake
8 22 (0.69%) Relational Database
9 20 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
10 19 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
11 16 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 16 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
12 14 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (0.44%) MySQL
13 13 (0.41%) Data Vault
13 13 (0.41%) Delta Lake
14 11 (0.35%) DynamoDB
15 10 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
15 10 (0.31%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 282 (8.88%) JIRA
2 46 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 44 (1.38%) GitLab
4 39 (1.23%) Git
5 29 (0.91%) Rational DOORS
6 24 (0.76%) Selenium
7 19 (0.60%) Postman
8 16 (0.50%) Cucumber
9 15 (0.47%) JMeter
10 11 (0.35%) JUnit
11 9 (0.28%) Hudson
12 8 (0.25%) ERwin
12 8 (0.25%) WebDriver
13 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
13 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.19%) TestRail
15 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
15 5 (0.16%) MLflow
15 5 (0.16%) SonarQube
16 4 (0.13%) NeoLoad
General
1 1,559 (49.07%) Social Skills
2 939 (29.56%) Finance
3 522 (16.43%) Analytical Skills
4 510 (16.05%) Public Sector
5 205 (6.45%) Banking
6 151 (4.75%) Influencing Skills
7 140 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
8 122 (3.84%) Legal
9 87 (2.74%) Retail
10 82 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
11 81 (2.55%) Manufacturing
12 71 (2.23%) Law
13 69 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
14 64 (2.01%) Telecoms
15 62 (1.95%) Local Government
15 62 (1.95%) Marketing
16 57 (1.79%) Aerospace
17 38 (1.20%) Financial Institution
18 32 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
19 31 (0.98%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 597 (18.79%) Analyst
2 475 (14.95%) Architect
3 434 (13.66%) Business Analyst
4 398 (12.53%) Lead
5 294 (9.25%) Project Manager
6 285 (8.97%) Consultant
7 259 (8.15%) Senior
8 150 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
9 92 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
10 88 (2.77%) Programme Manager
11 85 (2.68%) Developer
12 84 (2.64%) Delivery Manager
13 83 (2.61%) Change Manager
14 76 (2.39%) Data Analyst
15 69 (2.17%) Senior Business Analyst
16 58 (1.83%) Lead Architect
16 58 (1.83%) Product Manager
17 53 (1.67%) Senior Manager
18 52 (1.64%) Designer
18 52 (1.64%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (3.49%) REST
2 58 (1.83%) SOAP
3 52 (1.64%) LDAP
4 47 (1.48%) Middleware
5 46 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
6 34 (1.07%) .NET
7 31 (0.98%) OpenID
8 30 (0.94%) OAuth
9 29 (0.91%) Spring
10 28 (0.88%) Node.js
11 26 (0.82%) React
12 24 (0.76%) SailPoint
13 23 (0.72%) Kafka
14 21 (0.66%) SAP Fiori
14 21 (0.66%) Spring Boot
15 18 (0.57%) AngularJS
15 18 (0.57%) TensorFlow
16 17 (0.54%) PyTorch
16 17 (0.54%) RESTful
16 17 (0.54%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 216 (6.80%) Product Ownership
2 147 (4.63%) Onboarding
3 103 (3.24%) Cloud Native
4 79 (2.49%) Data Structures
5 77 (2.42%) Management Information System
6 75 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
7 68 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
8 61 (1.92%) Security Posture
9 59 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
10 54 (1.70%) NHS
11 52 (1.64%) Data Centre
12 50 (1.57%) Operational Technology
13 44 (1.38%) PMI
14 43 (1.35%) CMDB
15 39 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
16 38 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
17 37 (1.16%) AI Agents
18 34 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
18 34 (1.07%) Virtual Team
19 25 (0.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 76 (2.39%) Windows
2 41 (1.29%) Linux
3 20 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (0.63%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.50%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.19%) Unix
5 6 (0.19%) VMS
6 5 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.094%) Android
8 3 (0.094%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.094%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 812 (25.56%) Agile
2 627 (19.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 592 (18.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 512 (16.12%) Migration
5 481 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
6 450 (14.16%) Roadmaps
7 434 (13.66%) Change Management
8 398 (12.53%) Workshop Facilitation
9 365 (11.49%) Decision-Making
10 350 (11.02%) Project Management
11 332 (10.45%) Analytics
12 315 (9.92%) DevOps
13 304 (9.57%) Business Intelligence
14 289 (9.10%) Risk Management
15 286 (9.00%) AI
16 277 (8.72%) ERP
17 261 (8.22%) Project Delivery
18 255 (8.03%) User Acceptance Testing
19 247 (7.77%) Requirements Gathering
20 229 (7.21%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 251 (7.90%) SQL
2 241 (7.59%) Python
3 95 (2.99%) PowerShell
4 91 (2.86%) Java
5 42 (1.32%) JavaScript
6 37 (1.16%) C#
7 30 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 27 (0.85%) TypeScript
9 24 (0.76%) Bash
10 18 (0.57%) R
11 17 (0.54%) VBA
12 16 (0.50%) ABAP
12 16 (0.50%) Bicep
13 10 (0.31%) PHP
13 10 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.28%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.28%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.22%) Korn
15 7 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 755 (23.76%) Security Cleared
2 601 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 278 (8.75%) Degree
4 124 (3.90%) PMI Certification
5 110 (3.46%) PMP
6 108 (3.40%) DV Cleared
7 97 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 57 (1.79%) CISSP
9 49 (1.54%) Master's Degree
10 43 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 42 (1.32%) CISM
12 40 (1.26%) Azure Certification
13 31 (0.98%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.88%) ACCA
15 27 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
15 27 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
16 26 (0.82%) CIMA
17 25 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
18 23 (0.72%) IIBA
19 22 (0.69%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (5.92%) Data Quality
2 178 (5.60%) QA
3 140 (4.41%) GDPR
4 133 (4.19%) PMO
5 123 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 123 (3.87%) NIST
6 74 (2.33%) Accessibility
7 57 (1.79%) GRC
8 38 (1.20%) PCI DSS
9 32 (1.01%) NCSC
10 26 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
11 25 (0.79%) SLA
12 18 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 16 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
14 14 (0.44%) Basel III
15 13 (0.41%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.38%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.38%) PSD2
17 11 (0.35%) HL7
17 11 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 112 (3.53%) Active Directory
2 64 (2.01%) Docker
3 29 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.60%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.50%) vSphere
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.094%) NFS
10 3 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.063%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.031%) Firmware
12 1 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 104 (3.27%) Terraform
2 103 (3.24%) Kubernetes
3 28 (0.88%) Ansible
4 24 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.54%) Grafana
7 16 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.44%) HP ALM
9 13 (0.41%) SCCM
10 12 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.16%) Podman
13 4 (0.13%) Istio
14 3 (0.094%) Argo
14 3 (0.094%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.094%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.094%) vMotion
14 3 (0.094%) vRealize
14 3 (0.094%) WSUS
15 2 (0.063%) Nessus
Vendors
1 455 (14.32%) Microsoft
2 278 (8.75%) SAP
3 170 (5.35%) ServiceNow
4 164 (5.16%) Oracle
5 95 (2.99%) Salesforce
6 69 (2.17%) Cisco
7 67 (2.11%) Google
8 63 (1.98%) Databricks
9 53 (1.67%) CyberArk
10 46 (1.45%) VMware
11 43 (1.35%) IBM
12 41 (1.29%) BeyondTrust
12 41 (1.29%) Workday
13 39 (1.23%) Aruba
14 35 (1.10%) Centrify
15 24 (0.76%) Splunk
16 23 (0.72%) Palo Alto
17 22 (0.69%) Red Hat
18 20 (0.63%) OpenAI
19 19 (0.60%) Sparx
981 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide