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

 6 months to
25 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 83 154
Rank change year-on-year +58 +71 +1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,166 885 706
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.21% 3.04% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.40% 3.36% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,171 584 476
10th Percentile £363 £391 £363
25th Percentile £448 £450 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £652
90th Percentile £738 £749 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 15 37
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.40 £18.35
25th Percentile £35.72 £26.88 £27.81
Median hourly rate £64.25 £49.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +29.80% +37.65% +75.41%
75th Percentile £88.00 £68.22 £57.33
90th Percentile £94.75 £80.35 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.75 £54.65 £56.49
% change year-on-year +31.30% -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 37,704 26,329 38,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 90.53% 86.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,901 17,073 24,878
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 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.13% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,218 942 2,338
10th Percentile £14.94 £15.20 £12.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.31 £57.75
90th Percentile £75.12 £77.10 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £31.76 £31.50
% change year-on-year -5.54% +0.83% -12.50%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +54 2,766 £525 - 871
UK excluding London +48 1,507 £500 -4.31% 633
London +64 1,292 £550 - 341
Work from Home +57 912 £525 -4.55% 428
South East +39 392 £500 -8.26% 209
North of England +41 368 £500 - 154
Midlands +27 308 £500 - 124
West Midlands +35 205 £500 -4.76% 78
South West +44 200 £525 -12.50% 68
North West +50 194 £475 -5.00% 71
Yorkshire +10 137 £513 +7.89% 63
East of England +28 104 £529 +5.75% 46
East Midlands +10 99 £488 +11.43% 45
Scotland +37 91 £450 -17.96% 21
North East +16 40 £450 -11.33% 21
Wales +15 32 £410 -21.90% 15
Northern Ireland +16 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
1 178 (5.62%) Confluence
2 113 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (0.57%) SAS
5 13 (0.41%) CMS
6 8 (0.25%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.19%) Apache
7 6 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.13%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.095%) Smallworld
9 3 (0.095%) WordPress
10 2 (0.063%) nginx
10 2 (0.063%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.063%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.063%) WebLogic
Applications
1 159 (5.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 82 (2.59%) Microsoft Project
3 61 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 61 (1.93%) MS Visio
4 57 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.16%) Trello
8 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.095%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.095%) Notion
9 3 (0.095%) Sketch
10 2 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.063%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.063%) Windchill
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.032%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.032%) CATIA
11 1 (0.032%) InVision
Business Applications
1 131 (4.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.54%) SAP PP
5 16 (0.51%) SAP FI
6 11 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 11 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
6 11 (0.35%) SAP HR
6 11 (0.35%) Workday HCM
7 10 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
7 10 (0.32%) SAP MM
7 10 (0.32%) Teamcenter
8 9 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 8 (0.25%) NEC Housing
9 8 (0.25%) SAP CO
10 7 (0.22%) Primavera
10 7 (0.22%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
10 7 (0.22%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 593 (18.73%) Azure
2 375 (11.84%) AWS
3 283 (8.94%) Power Platform
4 157 (4.96%) GCP
5 137 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
6 118 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (3.13%) SaaS
8 91 (2.87%) Entra ID
9 90 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
10 63 (1.99%) GitHub
11 49 (1.55%) OCI
12 45 (1.42%) Serverless
13 40 (1.26%) Microsoft Copilot
14 38 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (1.17%) PaaS
16 36 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
17 34 (1.07%) Power Automate
18 32 (1.01%) PowerApps
19 28 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
19 28 (0.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (1.90%) Firewall
2 49 (1.55%) Network Security
3 32 (1.01%) DNS
4 31 (0.98%) WAN
5 29 (0.92%) LAN
6 27 (0.85%) VPN
7 18 (0.57%) SD-WAN
8 16 (0.51%) BGP
9 14 (0.44%) MPLS
10 13 (0.41%) Internet
11 12 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (0.35%) Wireless
13 10 (0.32%) VSAN
14 9 (0.28%) DHCP
14 9 (0.28%) VLAN
15 8 (0.25%) OSPF
15 8 (0.25%) WLAN
16 7 (0.22%) 5G
17 6 (0.19%) Cisco ASA
17 6 (0.19%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (7.33%) Power BI
2 72 (2.27%) Metadata
3 61 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (1.55%) Tableau
5 36 (1.14%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.79%) Data Lake
7 23 (0.73%) Power Query
8 20 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
9 19 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (0.57%) Electronic Patient Records
11 17 (0.54%) Relational Database
12 16 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 16 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
13 15 (0.47%) MySQL
14 14 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (0.41%) Data Vault
15 13 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
16 12 (0.38%) Delta Lake
17 11 (0.35%) DynamoDB
17 11 (0.35%) GIS
Development Applications
1 289 (9.13%) JIRA
2 46 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 44 (1.39%) GitLab
4 39 (1.23%) Git
5 29 (0.92%) Rational DOORS
6 24 (0.76%) Selenium
7 19 (0.60%) Postman
8 16 (0.51%) Cucumber
9 14 (0.44%) JMeter
10 11 (0.35%) JUnit
11 8 (0.25%) ERwin
11 8 (0.25%) Hudson
11 8 (0.25%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
12 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.19%) TestRail
14 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
14 5 (0.16%) SonarQube
15 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
15 4 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,566 (49.46%) Social Skills
2 922 (29.12%) Finance
3 514 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
3 514 (16.23%) Public Sector
4 198 (6.25%) Banking
5 156 (4.93%) Influencing Skills
6 140 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
7 122 (3.85%) Legal
8 84 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
8 84 (2.65%) Retail
9 82 (2.59%) Manufacturing
10 69 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
11 66 (2.08%) Telecoms
12 65 (2.05%) Law
13 64 (2.02%) Marketing
14 61 (1.93%) Local Government
15 57 (1.80%) Aerospace
16 38 (1.20%) Financial Institution
17 31 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
18 29 (0.92%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 596 (18.83%) Analyst
2 465 (14.69%) Architect
3 438 (13.83%) Business Analyst
4 391 (12.35%) Lead
5 289 (9.13%) Project Manager
6 281 (8.88%) Consultant
7 262 (8.28%) Senior
8 144 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
9 93 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
10 91 (2.87%) Programme Manager
11 89 (2.81%) Developer
12 88 (2.78%) Change Manager
13 85 (2.68%) Delivery Manager
14 75 (2.37%) Data Analyst
15 71 (2.24%) Senior Business Analyst
16 59 (1.86%) Product Manager
17 53 (1.67%) Designer
18 51 (1.61%) Lead Architect
19 50 (1.58%) SAP Consultant
19 50 (1.58%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (3.44%) REST
2 59 (1.86%) SOAP
3 50 (1.58%) LDAP
4 46 (1.45%) Middleware
5 45 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
6 39 (1.23%) .NET
7 33 (1.04%) OpenID
8 32 (1.01%) OAuth
9 28 (0.88%) Spring
10 27 (0.85%) Node.js
11 25 (0.79%) React
12 24 (0.76%) SailPoint
13 21 (0.66%) Kafka
13 21 (0.66%) SAP Fiori
14 20 (0.63%) Spring Boot
15 19 (0.60%) SAML
16 18 (0.57%) OAuth2
17 17 (0.54%) AngularJS
17 17 (0.54%) RESTful
17 17 (0.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 215 (6.79%) Product Ownership
2 149 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 101 (3.19%) Cloud Native
4 80 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
5 78 (2.46%) Data Structures
6 76 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 67 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 60 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 60 (1.90%) Security Posture
9 54 (1.71%) NHS
10 51 (1.61%) Data Centre
10 51 (1.61%) Operational Technology
11 44 (1.39%) PMI
12 42 (1.33%) CMDB
13 39 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
14 37 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
15 36 (1.14%) AI Agents
16 33 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
16 33 (1.04%) Virtual Team
17 27 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 78 (2.46%) Windows
2 43 (1.36%) Linux
3 22 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (0.51%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.19%) VMS
7 5 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.16%) Unix
8 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.095%) Android
9 3 (0.095%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.095%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.032%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 816 (25.77%) Agile
2 626 (19.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 579 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 509 (16.08%) Migration
5 482 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
6 453 (14.31%) Roadmaps
7 435 (13.74%) Change Management
8 397 (12.54%) Workshop Facilitation
9 361 (11.40%) Decision-Making
10 349 (11.02%) Project Management
11 327 (10.33%) Analytics
12 311 (9.82%) DevOps
13 297 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
14 290 (9.16%) Risk Management
15 279 (8.81%) AI
16 271 (8.56%) ERP
17 257 (8.12%) Project Delivery
18 252 (7.96%) User Acceptance Testing
19 249 (7.86%) Requirements Gathering
20 227 (7.17%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 247 (7.80%) SQL
2 243 (7.68%) Python
3 99 (3.13%) PowerShell
4 90 (2.84%) Java
5 43 (1.36%) JavaScript
6 40 (1.26%) C#
7 28 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 27 (0.85%) TypeScript
9 24 (0.76%) Bash
10 17 (0.54%) R
11 16 (0.51%) Bicep
11 16 (0.51%) VBA
12 15 (0.47%) ABAP
13 11 (0.35%) PHP
14 9 (0.28%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.28%) Korn
14 9 (0.28%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.28%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.13%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 745 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 590 (18.64%) SC Cleared
3 279 (8.81%) Degree
4 122 (3.85%) PMI Certification
5 109 (3.44%) DV Cleared
6 108 (3.41%) PMP
7 94 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 56 (1.77%) CISSP
9 48 (1.52%) Master's Degree
10 43 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
11 41 (1.30%) Azure Certification
12 39 (1.23%) CISM
13 28 (0.88%) AWS Certification
13 28 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
14 27 (0.85%) ACCA
14 27 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 26 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
16 25 (0.79%) CIMA
17 23 (0.73%) IIBA
18 22 (0.69%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (6.03%) Data Quality
2 177 (5.59%) QA
3 149 (4.71%) GDPR
4 131 (4.14%) PMO
5 124 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 122 (3.85%) NIST
7 75 (2.37%) Accessibility
8 53 (1.67%) GRC
9 40 (1.26%) PCI DSS
10 32 (1.01%) NCSC
11 26 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
11 26 (0.82%) SLA
12 23 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 17 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
14 16 (0.51%) PSD2
15 14 (0.44%) Basel III
16 12 (0.38%) SOC 2
17 11 (0.35%) COBIT
17 11 (0.35%) NIST 800
17 11 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 112 (3.54%) Active Directory
2 64 (2.02%) Docker
3 31 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.60%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.51%) 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%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.095%) NFS
10 3 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.032%) Firmware
11 1 (0.032%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 104 (3.28%) Terraform
2 102 (3.22%) Kubernetes
3 29 (0.92%) Ansible
4 26 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (0.51%) Grafana
7 15 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.44%) HP ALM
9 13 (0.41%) SCCM
10 10 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.16%) Podman
13 4 (0.13%) Istio
14 3 (0.095%) Argo
14 3 (0.095%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.095%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.095%) vMotion
14 3 (0.095%) vRealize
14 3 (0.095%) WSUS
15 2 (0.063%) Nessus
Vendors
1 453 (14.31%) Microsoft
2 276 (8.72%) SAP
3 166 (5.24%) Oracle
4 163 (5.15%) ServiceNow
5 94 (2.97%) Salesforce
6 70 (2.21%) Google
7 69 (2.18%) Cisco
8 61 (1.93%) Databricks
9 55 (1.74%) CyberArk
10 48 (1.52%) VMware
11 44 (1.39%) IBM
12 42 (1.33%) BeyondTrust
13 41 (1.30%) Workday
14 39 (1.23%) Aruba
15 35 (1.11%) Centrify
16 25 (0.79%) Splunk
17 23 (0.73%) Palo Alto
17 23 (0.73%) Red Hat
18 20 (0.63%) OpenAI
19 19 (0.60%) Zscaler
981 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide