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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 103 148
Rank change year-on-year +81 +45 +14
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,838 767 694
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.65% 2.41% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.71% 2.71% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,966 467 482
10th Percentile £363 £400 £368
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 8 38
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.90 £31.10
25th Percentile £19.18 £25.19 £33.75
Median hourly rate £41.86 £27.75 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +50.83% -50.88% +119.38%
75th Percentile £67.25 £52.23 £57.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £72.38 £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 32,585 28,260 37,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.84% 88.76% 87.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,582 17,185 24,531
10th Percentile £304 £306 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £742 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,992 898 1,578
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.17
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.56 £18.04
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%
75th Percentile £55.89 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £43.33
% change year-on-year -21.76% -29.73% +46.88%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +79 2,481 £525 -4.55% 763
UK excluding London +59 1,313 £500 -4.76% 699
London +89 1,186 £550 - 200
Work from Home +92 825 £535 -4.83% 424
South East +47 339 £500 -9.09% 231
North of England +53 323 £504 +0.74% 131
Midlands +34 246 £500 -4.76% 140
South West +47 201 £523 -12.83% 64
West Midlands +34 170 £500 -10.79% 92
North West +37 149 £525 +3.45% 56
Yorkshire +26 138 £516 +3.25% 60
Scotland +42 87 £450 -12.24% 27
East of England +35 85 £550 +28.50% 84
East Midlands +18 75 £441 +3.65% 48
North East +20 39 £450 -45.45% 19
Wales +20 27 £456 -23.96% 30
Northern Ireland +7 12 £500 - 10
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
1 145 (5.11%) Confluence
2 121 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 28 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (0.74%) SAS
5 12 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.42%) CMS
6 8 (0.28%) Apache
7 7 (0.25%) Appian
7 7 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.14%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.14%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.11%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.070%) Drupal
11 2 (0.070%) nginx
11 2 (0.070%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.070%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.070%) WordPress
Applications
1 151 (5.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 85 (3.00%) Microsoft Project
3 61 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
5 52 (1.83%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.32%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.28%) ProjectWise
8 6 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.21%) Trello
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
10 3 (0.11%) Revit
11 2 (0.070%) Camtasia
11 2 (0.070%) Sketch
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.035%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.035%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.035%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 111 (3.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.60%) SAP PP
5 15 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
5 15 (0.53%) SAP FI
6 14 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
6 14 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 13 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.42%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.42%) SAP MM
8 12 (0.42%) Workday HCM
9 11 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
10 10 (0.35%) Teamcenter
11 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
11 9 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
11 9 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
11 9 (0.32%) SAP HR
12 8 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
12 8 (0.28%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 516 (18.18%) Azure
2 332 (11.70%) AWS
3 217 (7.65%) Power Platform
4 149 (5.25%) GCP
5 127 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
6 109 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (3.49%) SaaS
8 88 (3.10%) Entra ID
9 74 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
10 58 (2.04%) GitHub
11 54 (1.90%) OCI
12 46 (1.62%) Serverless
13 42 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (1.16%) Power Automate
15 32 (1.13%) Azure Logic Apps
15 32 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
16 30 (1.06%) PowerApps
17 29 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
18 28 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
19 26 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 58 (2.04%) Firewall
2 37 (1.30%) Network Security
3 23 (0.81%) WAN
4 22 (0.78%) DNS
4 22 (0.78%) LAN
5 21 (0.74%) VPN
6 18 (0.63%) SD-WAN
7 11 (0.39%) BGP
7 11 (0.39%) MPLS
8 9 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.28%) DHCP
10 7 (0.25%) Internet
10 7 (0.25%) Kerberos
10 7 (0.25%) Wireless
11 6 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
11 6 (0.21%) VLAN
11 6 (0.21%) VSAN
12 5 (0.18%) IPsec
12 5 (0.18%) SMS
12 5 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (6.13%) Power BI
2 75 (2.64%) Metadata
3 50 (1.76%) Tableau
4 47 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (1.44%) SQL Server
6 23 (0.81%) Data Lake
7 22 (0.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 19 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
9 18 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
10 16 (0.56%) Power Query
11 14 (0.49%) Big Data
11 14 (0.49%) MySQL
11 14 (0.49%) Relational Database
12 13 (0.46%) Data Vault
13 12 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.42%) DynamoDB
14 11 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (0.39%) Oracle Database
14 11 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 255 (8.99%) JIRA
2 46 (1.62%) GitLab
3 39 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.13%) Git
5 25 (0.88%) Selenium
6 15 (0.53%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.53%) Postman
7 11 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.35%) REST Assured
9 7 (0.25%) Robot Framework
10 6 (0.21%) JMeter
10 6 (0.21%) TestRail
11 5 (0.18%) Gatling
11 5 (0.18%) JUnit
11 5 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (0.14%) ERwin
12 4 (0.14%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.14%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,499 (52.82%) Social Skills
2 782 (27.55%) Finance
3 483 (17.02%) Public Sector
4 432 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
5 199 (7.01%) Banking
6 124 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
7 114 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
8 106 (3.74%) Legal
9 89 (3.14%) Manufacturing
10 75 (2.64%) Telecoms
11 74 (2.61%) Marketing
12 72 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
13 66 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
14 64 (2.26%) Retail
15 58 (2.04%) Local Government
16 40 (1.41%) Financial Institution
17 37 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 35 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
19 34 (1.20%) Investment Banking
20 33 (1.16%) Law
Job Titles
1 509 (17.94%) Analyst
2 382 (13.46%) Architect
3 375 (13.21%) Business Analyst
4 326 (11.49%) Lead
5 304 (10.71%) Consultant
6 262 (9.23%) Project Manager
7 227 (8.00%) Senior
8 130 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
9 89 (3.14%) Developer
10 74 (2.61%) Change Manager
10 74 (2.61%) Programme Manager
11 70 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
12 62 (2.18%) Senior Business Analyst
13 54 (1.90%) SAP Consultant
14 51 (1.80%) Designer
15 47 (1.66%) Data Analyst
15 47 (1.66%) Senior Manager
16 46 (1.62%) Delivery Manager
16 46 (1.62%) Technical Manager
17 42 (1.48%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (3.91%) REST
2 61 (2.15%) SOAP
3 56 (1.97%) LDAP
4 48 (1.69%) .NET
5 37 (1.30%) OAuth
6 36 (1.27%) OpenID
6 36 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
7 30 (1.06%) Middleware
8 26 (0.92%) Node.js
8 26 (0.92%) XML
9 23 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
10 21 (0.74%) Kafka
10 21 (0.74%) SAML
11 20 (0.70%) RESTful
11 20 (0.70%) SailPoint
12 19 (0.67%) HTML
12 19 (0.67%) LangChain
12 19 (0.67%) OAuth2
13 18 (0.63%) CSS
13 18 (0.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 183 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 152 (5.36%) Onboarding
3 98 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 93 (3.28%) Cloud Native
5 82 (2.89%) Management Information System
6 68 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 65 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
8 57 (2.01%) Security Posture
9 54 (1.90%) Data Structures
10 53 (1.87%) NHS
11 43 (1.52%) Data Centre
11 43 (1.52%) PMI
12 36 (1.27%) AI Agents
13 34 (1.20%) CMDB
13 34 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
14 32 (1.13%) Operational Technology
14 32 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
15 27 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
16 23 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
17 19 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 71 (2.50%) Windows
2 33 (1.16%) Linux
3 20 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 19 (0.67%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.25%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.18%) Unix
6 5 (0.18%) VMS
7 4 (0.14%) Android
7 4 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.070%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.070%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.035%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (26.74%) Agile
2 561 (19.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 447 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
4 446 (15.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 415 (14.62%) Migration
6 376 (13.25%) Change Management
6 376 (13.25%) Roadmaps
7 357 (12.58%) Project Management
8 308 (10.85%) Workshop Facilitation
9 296 (10.43%) Decision-Making
10 290 (10.22%) Analytics
10 290 (10.22%) DevOps
11 259 (9.13%) Risk Management
12 245 (8.63%) Business Intelligence
13 241 (8.49%) Requirements Gathering
14 228 (8.03%) Project Delivery
15 222 (7.82%) ERP
16 217 (7.65%) CI/CD
17 216 (7.61%) Data Governance
18 206 (7.26%) AI
Programming Languages
1 213 (7.51%) SQL
2 199 (7.01%) Python
3 110 (3.88%) PowerShell
4 68 (2.40%) Java
5 58 (2.04%) JavaScript
6 39 (1.37%) C#
7 27 (0.95%) Bash
7 27 (0.95%) Bicep
8 26 (0.92%) TypeScript
9 20 (0.70%) R
10 16 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (0.42%) ABAP
12 11 (0.39%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.28%) Korn
13 8 (0.28%) PHP
14 6 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.21%) Scala
15 5 (0.18%) C++
16 4 (0.14%) Cypher
16 4 (0.14%) RPG
Qualifications
1 600 (21.14%) Security Cleared
2 486 (17.12%) SC Cleared
3 257 (9.06%) Degree
4 110 (3.88%) PMI Certification
5 95 (3.35%) PMP
6 89 (3.14%) DV Cleared
7 65 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 53 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 43 (1.52%) CISSP
9 43 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 35 (1.23%) Azure Certification
11 33 (1.16%) ACCA
12 31 (1.09%) CISM
13 29 (1.02%) CIMA
14 27 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
15 22 (0.78%) AWS Certification
15 22 (0.78%) CBAP
16 20 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
17 19 (0.67%) APMG
18 18 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (5.32%) GDPR
2 148 (5.21%) QA
3 133 (4.69%) Data Quality
4 120 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 103 (3.63%) PMO
6 99 (3.49%) NIST
7 75 (2.64%) Accessibility
8 46 (1.62%) GRC
9 45 (1.59%) PCI DSS
10 30 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 29 (1.02%) NCSC
12 21 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
13 20 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
14 16 (0.56%) Basel III
15 15 (0.53%) ISO 19650
15 15 (0.53%) PSD2
16 13 (0.46%) WCAG
17 11 (0.39%) JSP 440
17 11 (0.39%) SLA
18 10 (0.35%) HIPAA
System Software
1 117 (4.12%) Active Directory
2 72 (2.54%) Docker
3 26 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.49%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.39%) vSphere
6 9 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.18%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.035%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.035%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 119 (4.19%) Terraform
2 91 (3.21%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.16%) Ansible
4 27 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.60%) SCCM
7 11 (0.39%) Grafana
8 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 9 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.14%) Argo
10 4 (0.14%) Control-M
10 4 (0.14%) Istio
11 3 (0.11%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.11%) VxRail
12 2 (0.070%) Cisco UCCE
12 2 (0.070%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.070%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.070%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.070%) vRealize
Vendors
1 403 (14.20%) Microsoft
2 263 (9.27%) SAP
3 178 (6.27%) Oracle
4 161 (5.67%) ServiceNow
5 93 (3.28%) Salesforce
6 72 (2.54%) Google
7 64 (2.26%) Cisco
8 57 (2.01%) Workday
9 53 (1.87%) CyberArk
10 51 (1.80%) Databricks
11 44 (1.55%) VMware
12 40 (1.41%) BeyondTrust
13 35 (1.23%) Centrify
14 34 (1.20%) Aruba
15 24 (0.85%) IBM
16 23 (0.81%) Adobe
17 22 (0.78%) Red Hat
18 21 (0.74%) OpenAI
18 21 (0.74%) Palo Alto
19 18 (0.63%) Splunk
861 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide