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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 77 152
Rank change year-on-year +52 +75 +5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,226 929 716
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.14% 3.18% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.35% 3.51% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,216 620 484
10th Percentile £363 £386 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £635 £638 £652
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £518 £513
% change year-on-year -3.38% +0.98% +1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 14 37
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.93 £18.35
25th Percentile £37.00 £26.56 £27.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £48.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +34.02% +34.87% +37.51%
75th Percentile £88.00 £69.38 £57.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.20 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 £47.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +56.84% -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 38,631 26,466 38,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.54% 90.55% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,504 17,183 24,720
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 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,266 983 2,350
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.96 £31.52 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.07% -4.48% -11.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.83
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.10 £70.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.55 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +18.50% -7.69% -12.87%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 4 April 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 +50 2,812 £525 - 871
UK excluding London +49 1,546 £500 -3.38% 633
London +53 1,310 £550 - 341
Work from Home +54 944 £525 - 428
South East +38 399 £500 -7.62% 209
North of England +35 373 £500 - 154
Midlands +25 315 £500 - 124
West Midlands +32 212 £492 -6.29% 78
North West +42 203 £491 -2.58% 71
South West +37 203 £525 -6.67% 68
Yorkshire +10 129 £513 +7.89% 63
East of England +31 111 £533 +6.50% 46
Scotland +41 102 £450 -18.18% 21
East Midlands +13 98 £494 +12.86% 45
North East +17 45 £450 -11.33% 21
Wales +13 36 £460 -12.38% 15
Northern Ireland +14 19 £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 (5.39%) Confluence
2 112 (3.47%) SharePoint
3 31 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (0.68%) SAS
5 14 (0.43%) CMS
6 10 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.25%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.22%) Apache
9 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.093%) WordPress
11 2 (0.062%) Camunda
11 2 (0.062%) Drupal
11 2 (0.062%) nginx
11 2 (0.062%) OpenEdge
11 2 (0.062%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.062%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.062%) WebLogic
Applications
1 162 (5.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (2.36%) Microsoft Project
3 63 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 63 (1.95%) MS Visio
4 60 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.12%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.12%) Sketch
7 4 (0.12%) Trello
8 3 (0.093%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.093%) Notion
9 2 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.062%) InVision
9 2 (0.062%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.062%) Windchill
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.031%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.031%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 135 (4.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.53%) SAP FI
4 17 (0.53%) SAP PP
5 15 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 11 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
7 11 (0.34%) 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%) NEC Housing
9 9 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 9 (0.28%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
11 7 (0.22%) Aladdin
11 7 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 7 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 594 (18.41%) Azure
2 392 (12.15%) AWS
3 294 (9.11%) Power Platform
4 160 (4.96%) GCP
5 136 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
6 120 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
7 102 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
8 100 (3.10%) SaaS
9 95 (2.94%) Entra ID
10 67 (2.08%) GitHub
11 46 (1.43%) Serverless
12 43 (1.33%) OCI
13 42 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
13 42 (1.30%) PaaS
14 41 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
15 38 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
16 32 (0.99%) Power Automate
17 30 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
17 30 (0.93%) IaaS
17 30 (0.93%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.89%) Firewall
2 48 (1.49%) Network Security
3 36 (1.12%) DNS
4 31 (0.96%) WAN
5 30 (0.93%) VPN
6 29 (0.90%) LAN
7 20 (0.62%) SD-WAN
8 17 (0.53%) BGP
9 15 (0.46%) Internet
10 14 (0.43%) MPLS
11 13 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (0.40%) Wireless
12 12 (0.37%) DHCP
13 11 (0.34%) VLAN
14 10 (0.31%) VSAN
15 9 (0.28%) OSPF
16 8 (0.25%) SSL
16 8 (0.25%) WLAN
17 7 (0.22%) Intranet
17 7 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (7.56%) Power BI
2 72 (2.23%) Metadata
3 63 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (1.46%) Tableau
5 38 (1.18%) SQL Server
6 26 (0.81%) Power Query
7 25 (0.77%) Data Lake
8 22 (0.68%) Relational Database
9 21 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
10 20 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
12 16 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
13 14 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (0.43%) MySQL
13 14 (0.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 13 (0.40%) Data Vault
14 13 (0.40%) Delta Lake
14 13 (0.40%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
16 10 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 279 (8.65%) JIRA
2 45 (1.39%) GitLab
2 45 (1.39%) Jenkins
3 39 (1.21%) Git
4 29 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
5 25 (0.77%) Selenium
6 20 (0.62%) Postman
7 16 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.46%) JMeter
9 13 (0.40%) Hudson
10 11 (0.34%) JUnit
11 8 (0.25%) ERwin
11 8 (0.25%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
12 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.19%) MLflow
13 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.19%) TestRail
14 5 (0.15%) LoadRunner
15 4 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1,577 (48.88%) Social Skills
2 952 (29.51%) Finance
3 529 (16.40%) Analytical Skills
4 528 (16.37%) Public Sector
5 207 (6.42%) Banking
6 150 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
7 142 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
8 123 (3.81%) Legal
9 90 (2.79%) Retail
10 86 (2.67%) Manufacturing
11 85 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
12 73 (2.26%) Law
13 66 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
14 65 (2.01%) Marketing
14 65 (2.01%) Telecoms
15 64 (1.98%) Local Government
16 58 (1.80%) Aerospace
17 36 (1.12%) Financial Institution
18 33 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
19 31 (0.96%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 608 (18.85%) Analyst
2 479 (14.85%) Architect
3 439 (13.61%) Business Analyst
4 393 (12.18%) Lead
5 299 (9.27%) Project Manager
6 282 (8.74%) Consultant
7 263 (8.15%) Senior
8 151 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
9 88 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
9 88 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
10 86 (2.67%) Change Manager
10 86 (2.67%) Programme Manager
11 84 (2.60%) Developer
12 78 (2.42%) Data Analyst
13 66 (2.05%) Senior Business Analyst
14 60 (1.86%) Lead Architect
15 59 (1.83%) Senior Manager
16 56 (1.74%) Product Manager
17 55 (1.70%) Designer
18 52 (1.61%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (3.25%) REST
2 54 (1.67%) SOAP
3 53 (1.64%) LDAP
4 48 (1.49%) Middleware
5 44 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
6 34 (1.05%) OpenID
7 33 (1.02%) .NET
8 32 (0.99%) OAuth
9 31 (0.96%) Node.js
10 30 (0.93%) Spring
11 29 (0.90%) React
12 26 (0.81%) SailPoint
13 24 (0.74%) Kafka
14 22 (0.68%) SAML
14 22 (0.68%) Spring Boot
15 21 (0.65%) SAP Fiori
16 18 (0.56%) RESTful
16 18 (0.56%) TensorFlow
17 17 (0.53%) AngularJS
17 17 (0.53%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 213 (6.60%) Product Ownership
2 148 (4.59%) Onboarding
3 107 (3.32%) Cloud Native
4 81 (2.51%) Data Structures
5 79 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 72 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
7 70 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 62 (1.92%) Security Posture
9 59 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
9 59 (1.83%) NHS
10 54 (1.67%) Operational Technology
11 53 (1.64%) Data Centre
12 42 (1.30%) PMI
13 41 (1.27%) CMDB
14 40 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
14 40 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
15 37 (1.15%) AI Agents
16 36 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
17 32 (0.99%) Virtual Team
18 26 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (2.45%) Windows
2 41 (1.27%) Linux
3 20 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.53%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.19%) Unix
7 6 (0.19%) VMS
8 4 (0.12%) Android
8 4 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.093%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 822 (25.48%) Agile
2 620 (19.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 609 (18.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 517 (16.03%) Migration
5 486 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
6 453 (14.04%) Roadmaps
7 444 (13.76%) Change Management
8 404 (12.52%) Workshop Facilitation
9 371 (11.50%) Decision-Making
10 352 (10.91%) Project Management
11 335 (10.38%) Analytics
12 325 (10.07%) DevOps
13 302 (9.36%) Business Intelligence
14 289 (8.96%) AI
15 288 (8.93%) ERP
16 287 (8.90%) Risk Management
17 266 (8.25%) Project Delivery
18 255 (7.90%) User Acceptance Testing
19 240 (7.44%) Requirements Gathering
20 236 (7.32%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 248 (7.69%) SQL
2 236 (7.32%) Python
3 93 (2.88%) Java
3 93 (2.88%) PowerShell
4 40 (1.24%) JavaScript
5 37 (1.15%) C#
6 32 (0.99%) TypeScript
7 30 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 23 (0.71%) Bash
9 18 (0.56%) Bicep
10 17 (0.53%) R
10 17 (0.53%) VBA
11 16 (0.50%) ABAP
12 10 (0.31%) Kotlin
12 10 (0.31%) PHP
12 10 (0.31%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.28%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.22%) Korn
14 7 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 778 (24.12%) Security Cleared
2 618 (19.16%) SC Cleared
3 279 (8.65%) Degree
4 122 (3.78%) PMI Certification
5 114 (3.53%) DV Cleared
6 110 (3.41%) PMP
7 100 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 59 (1.83%) CISSP
9 47 (1.46%) Master's Degree
10 43 (1.33%) Azure Certification
11 41 (1.27%) CISM
11 41 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
12 32 (0.99%) AWS Certification
13 27 (0.84%) ACCA
13 27 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 26 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
14 26 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
15 25 (0.77%) CIMA
16 23 (0.71%) APMG
16 23 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (5.89%) Data Quality
2 177 (5.49%) QA
3 142 (4.40%) GDPR
4 139 (4.31%) PMO
5 130 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 129 (4.00%) NIST
7 75 (2.32%) Accessibility
8 59 (1.83%) GRC
9 39 (1.21%) PCI DSS
10 33 (1.02%) NCSC
11 29 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
12 25 (0.77%) SLA
13 17 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 15 (0.46%) SOC 2
15 14 (0.43%) Basel III
16 12 (0.37%) COBIT
16 12 (0.37%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.37%) PSD2
17 11 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 113 (3.50%) Active Directory
2 64 (1.98%) Docker
3 29 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.59%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.50%) vSphere
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.15%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.093%) NFS
10 3 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.062%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.031%) Firmware
12 1 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 109 (3.38%) Terraform
2 105 (3.25%) Kubernetes
3 28 (0.87%) Ansible
4 26 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.53%) Grafana
7 16 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.46%) HP ALM
9 14 (0.43%) SCCM
10 12 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.15%) Podman
13 4 (0.12%) Istio
14 3 (0.093%) Argo
14 3 (0.093%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.093%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.093%) vMotion
14 3 (0.093%) vRealize
14 3 (0.093%) WSUS
15 2 (0.062%) Nessus
Vendors
1 467 (14.48%) Microsoft
2 275 (8.52%) SAP
3 178 (5.52%) ServiceNow
4 168 (5.21%) Oracle
5 100 (3.10%) Salesforce
6 67 (2.08%) Cisco
6 67 (2.08%) Databricks
7 65 (2.01%) Google
8 54 (1.67%) CyberArk
9 46 (1.43%) VMware
10 44 (1.36%) IBM
11 41 (1.27%) BeyondTrust
12 40 (1.24%) Workday
13 39 (1.21%) Aruba
14 35 (1.08%) Centrify
15 26 (0.81%) Splunk
16 22 (0.68%) Palo Alto
16 22 (0.68%) Red Hat
17 20 (0.62%) Adobe
17 20 (0.62%) OpenAI