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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
21 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 59 150
Rank change year-on-year +33 +91 +7
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,177 1,103 681
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.58% 3.79% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.81% 4.16% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,153 737 479
10th Percentile £369 £381 £363
25th Percentile £438 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 17 38
10th Percentile £31.53 £22.96 £18.35
25th Percentile £50.00 £32.05 £27.81
Median hourly rate £68.75 £47.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% +32.09% +72.06%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.25 £57.33
90th Percentile £95.25 £74.35 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.75 £67.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +6.30% +19.49% +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 40,694 26,498 36,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.34% 91.04% 86.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,533 17,004 23,615
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,106 2,441
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.79% -23.29% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.50 £59.98 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -33.82% +8.57%

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 21 May 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 21 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Top 17 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 21 May 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 +28 2,724 £528 +0.48% 949
UK excluding London +41 1,530 £500 - 775
London +31 1,253 £550 - 361
Work from Home +40 984 £525 +3.45% 482
North of England +32 402 £493 -1.45% 174
South East +25 350 £533 +11.04% 240
Midlands +25 318 £500 -0.10% 122
West Midlands +25 216 £492 -6.29% 87
North West +35 193 £475 -5.00% 96
South West +20 187 £525 -5.62% 88
Yorkshire +19 171 £514 +2.80% 51
Scotland +42 123 £475 -9.52% 53
East of England +32 110 £575 +15.00% 57
East Midlands +18 97 £523 +16.11% 33
North East +11 44 £450 -11.33% 27
Wales +17 41 £475 +46.15% 24
Northern Ireland +11 15 £450 -22.58% 30

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
1 182 (5.73%) Confluence
2 89 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 23 (0.72%) SAS
4 18 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.44%) CMS
6 13 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.38%) Apache
8 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.13%) OpenEdge
9 3 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.094%) Appian
9 3 (0.094%) Drupal
10 2 (0.063%) Camunda
10 2 (0.063%) OpenStack
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
10 2 (0.063%) WordPress
Applications
1 148 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
3 64 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 60 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
5 58 (1.83%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.13%) Sketch
8 3 (0.094%) Notion
8 3 (0.094%) Trello
9 2 (0.063%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.063%) InVision
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.031%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.031%) CATIA
10 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.031%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.031%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 133 (4.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.47%) Teamcenter
4 13 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 11 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 10 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 9 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.25%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.25%) Workday HCM
9 7 (0.22%) NEC Housing
9 7 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 7 (0.22%) SAP QM
10 6 (0.19%) Aladdin
10 6 (0.19%) Finacle
10 6 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.19%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 596 (18.76%) Azure
2 414 (13.03%) AWS
3 295 (9.29%) Power Platform
4 156 (4.91%) GCP
5 116 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
6 103 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (3.12%) Dynamics 365
8 97 (3.05%) SaaS
9 95 (2.99%) Entra ID
10 62 (1.95%) GitHub
11 46 (1.45%) Serverless
12 41 (1.29%) PaaS
13 40 (1.26%) Microsoft Copilot
14 38 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
15 34 (1.07%) Amazon S3
16 32 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
17 31 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
17 31 (0.98%) Microsoft Purview
18 30 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
18 30 (0.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.54%) Firewall
2 43 (1.35%) Network Security
3 32 (1.01%) DNS
4 21 (0.66%) VPN
4 21 (0.66%) WAN
5 18 (0.57%) LAN
6 12 (0.38%) Internet
7 10 (0.31%) BGP
7 10 (0.31%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.31%) VLAN
7 10 (0.31%) Wireless
8 9 (0.28%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.28%) SSL
8 9 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.25%) DHCP
9 8 (0.25%) Intranet
9 8 (0.25%) OSPF
9 8 (0.25%) VSAN
10 7 (0.22%) NAS
10 7 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 255 (8.03%) Power BI
2 71 (2.23%) Metadata
3 59 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (1.16%) Tableau
5 31 (0.98%) Data Lake
6 29 (0.91%) SQL Server
7 25 (0.79%) Power Query
7 25 (0.79%) Relational Database
8 23 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (0.47%) NoSQL
10 14 (0.44%) Big Data
10 14 (0.44%) MySQL
10 14 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
11 13 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
12 12 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
13 11 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (0.35%) DynamoDB
14 9 (0.28%) Data Vault
14 9 (0.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 286 (9.00%) JIRA
2 55 (1.73%) Jenkins
3 52 (1.64%) Git
4 51 (1.61%) GitLab
5 31 (0.98%) Rational DOORS
6 27 (0.85%) Postman
7 25 (0.79%) Selenium
8 19 (0.60%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.57%) Hudson
10 17 (0.54%) JMeter
11 11 (0.35%) JUnit
12 10 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (0.28%) WebDriver
14 8 (0.25%) MLflow
14 8 (0.25%) REST Assured
15 7 (0.22%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.19%) ERwin
16 6 (0.19%) LoadRunner
16 6 (0.19%) TestRail
17 5 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 1,477 (46.49%) Social Skills
2 929 (29.24%) Finance
3 481 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
4 477 (15.01%) Public Sector
5 190 (5.98%) Banking
6 136 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
7 114 (3.59%) Legal
8 113 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
9 93 (2.93%) Retail
10 84 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
11 80 (2.52%) Manufacturing
12 78 (2.46%) Law
13 65 (2.05%) Aerospace
14 57 (1.79%) Marketing
15 56 (1.76%) Local Government
16 53 (1.67%) Telecoms
17 43 (1.35%) Military
17 43 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
18 36 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 33 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 584 (18.38%) Analyst
2 471 (14.83%) Architect
3 415 (13.06%) Lead
4 402 (12.65%) Business Analyst
5 283 (8.91%) Senior
6 271 (8.53%) Project Manager
7 243 (7.65%) Consultant
8 122 (3.84%) Solutions Architect
9 90 (2.83%) Delivery Manager
10 89 (2.80%) Change Manager
11 85 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
12 83 (2.61%) Programme Manager
13 80 (2.52%) Data Analyst
14 76 (2.39%) Developer
15 71 (2.23%) Senior Manager
16 66 (2.08%) Designer
17 62 (1.95%) Senior Business Analyst
18 59 (1.86%) IT Manager
19 58 (1.83%) Product Manager
20 55 (1.73%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (3.56%) REST
2 60 (1.89%) SOAP
3 56 (1.76%) LDAP
4 51 (1.61%) Middleware
5 36 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
6 33 (1.04%) React
6 33 (1.04%) Spring
7 32 (1.01%) OpenID
8 30 (0.94%) SailPoint
9 28 (0.88%) Kafka
10 27 (0.85%) .NET
11 26 (0.82%) OAuth
12 25 (0.79%) Spring Boot
13 20 (0.63%) JSON
13 20 (0.63%) Node.js
13 20 (0.63%) XML
14 19 (0.60%) PySpark
14 19 (0.60%) SAML
15 18 (0.57%) RESTful
16 17 (0.54%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 220 (6.92%) Product Ownership
2 141 (4.44%) Onboarding
3 122 (3.84%) Cloud Native
4 86 (2.71%) Data Structures
5 73 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
6 71 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 67 (2.11%) Operational Technology
8 64 (2.01%) Security Posture
9 61 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
10 53 (1.67%) Data Centre
11 49 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
12 48 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
13 46 (1.45%) NHS
14 41 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
15 40 (1.26%) Virtual Team
16 36 (1.13%) CMDB
17 32 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
18 31 (0.98%) AI Agents
19 29 (0.91%) Public Cloud
20 28 (0.88%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 82 (2.58%) Windows
2 36 (1.13%) Linux
3 16 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 11 (0.35%) Unix
6 9 (0.28%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.25%) VMS
8 3 (0.094%) Android
8 3 (0.094%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.094%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 854 (26.88%) Agile
2 607 (19.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 605 (19.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 471 (14.83%) Migration
5 431 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
6 425 (13.38%) Decision-Making
7 420 (13.22%) Roadmaps
8 417 (13.13%) Change Management
9 382 (12.02%) Workshop Facilitation
10 345 (10.86%) DevOps
11 313 (9.85%) Analytics
12 311 (9.79%) Project Management
13 304 (9.57%) ERP
14 303 (9.54%) AI
14 303 (9.54%) Risk Management
15 295 (9.29%) Business Intelligence
16 260 (8.18%) CI/CD
17 255 (8.03%) Cybersecurity
18 250 (7.87%) Project Delivery
19 247 (7.77%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 239 (7.52%) SQL
2 230 (7.24%) Python
3 103 (3.24%) Java
4 71 (2.23%) PowerShell
5 46 (1.45%) JavaScript
6 35 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 33 (1.04%) TypeScript
8 32 (1.01%) C#
9 26 (0.82%) Bash
10 18 (0.57%) VBA
11 15 (0.47%) Bicep
12 13 (0.41%) Scala
13 10 (0.31%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.31%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.31%) PHP
14 9 (0.28%) R
15 8 (0.25%) Korn
16 6 (0.19%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.16%) ABAP
18 4 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 787 (24.77%) Security Cleared
2 622 (19.58%) SC Cleared
3 257 (8.09%) Degree
4 126 (3.97%) DV Cleared
5 111 (3.49%) PMI Certification
6 108 (3.40%) PMP
7 107 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 67 (2.11%) CISSP
9 50 (1.57%) CISM
10 40 (1.26%) Azure Certification
11 38 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
11 38 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (0.91%) ACCA
12 29 (0.91%) Master's Degree
13 28 (0.88%) CIMA
14 27 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 25 (0.79%) AWS Certification
16 23 (0.72%) IIBA
16 23 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (6.42%) Data Quality
2 162 (5.10%) QA
3 157 (4.94%) PMO
4 134 (4.22%) NIST
5 123 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 121 (3.81%) GDPR
7 75 (2.36%) Accessibility
8 60 (1.89%) GRC
9 31 (0.98%) SLA
10 30 (0.94%) NCSC
11 25 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
12 24 (0.76%) PCI DSS
13 21 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
14 17 (0.54%) WCAG
15 16 (0.50%) SOC 2
16 15 (0.47%) ISO 20022
17 12 (0.38%) COBIT
17 12 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 10 (0.31%) Basel III
18 10 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 100 (3.15%) Active Directory
2 55 (1.73%) Docker
3 27 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.41%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.35%) vSphere
6 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.094%) NFS
10 1 (0.031%) Firmware
10 1 (0.031%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.031%) SRDF
10 1 (0.031%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 105 (3.31%) Kubernetes
2 103 (3.24%) Terraform
3 31 (0.98%) Ansible
4 30 (0.94%) Grafana
5 28 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.47%) SCCM
9 13 (0.41%) HP ALM
10 9 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.16%) vRealize
13 4 (0.13%) Istio
13 4 (0.13%) Podman
14 3 (0.094%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.094%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.094%) vMotion
14 3 (0.094%) WSUS
15 2 (0.063%) CA Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.063%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 466 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 259 (8.15%) SAP
3 182 (5.73%) ServiceNow
4 139 (4.38%) Oracle
5 88 (2.77%) Salesforce
6 80 (2.52%) Databricks
7 53 (1.67%) Google
8 48 (1.51%) CyberArk
9 45 (1.42%) VMware
10 44 (1.38%) IBM
11 39 (1.23%) BeyondTrust
12 38 (1.20%) Cisco
13 34 (1.07%) Centrify
14 33 (1.04%) Splunk
14 33 (1.04%) Workday
15 21 (0.66%) Adobe
16 20 (0.63%) Dynatrace
16 20 (0.63%) IFS
16 20 (0.63%) Zscaler
17 18 (0.57%) Palo Alto
1,095 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide