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

 6 months to
19 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 84 152
Rank change year-on-year +59 +68 +7
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,121 860 706
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.20% 2.94% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.38% 3.25% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,144 570 478
10th Percentile £363 £399 £363
25th Percentile £443 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 14 39
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.30 £18.35
25th Percentile £30.71 £26.56 £27.81
Median hourly rate £61.50 £49.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.24% +35.62% +78.05%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.98 £56.91
90th Percentile £92.05 £81.20 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £54.65 £56.49
% change year-on-year +18.95% -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 37,265 26,485 38,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.97% 90.43% 86.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 17,037 25,025
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 £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,203 922 2,327
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.20% -8.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.52 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.76 £30.91
% change year-on-year -13.41% +2.74% -11.68%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +61 2,723 £525 - 821
UK excluding London +57 1,482 £500 -4.76% 629
London +65 1,278 £550 - 321
Work from Home +57 896 £525 -4.55% 391
South East +44 388 £500 -8.68% 207
North of England +39 358 £500 - 144
Midlands +28 299 £500 - 123
West Midlands +34 201 £500 -4.76% 77
South West +45 197 £525 -12.50% 68
North West +49 181 £475 -5.00% 71
Yorkshire +12 137 £513 +5.13% 55
East of England +34 105 £536 +7.25% 42
East Midlands +7 95 £475 +8.57% 46
Scotland +36 90 £450 -18.18% 33
North East +20 43 £454 -10.59% 20
Wales +13 31 £405 -22.86% 19
Northern Ireland +16 21 £450 - 5
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
1 176 (5.64%) Confluence
2 115 (3.68%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (0.58%) SAS
5 14 (0.45%) CMS
6 9 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.19%) Apache
7 6 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.096%) Appian
9 3 (0.096%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.096%) Smallworld
9 3 (0.096%) WordPress
10 2 (0.064%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.064%) nginx
10 2 (0.064%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.064%) WebLogic
Applications
1 160 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
3 62 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 60 (1.92%) MS Visio
5 58 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.38%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.16%) Trello
9 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
10 3 (0.096%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.096%) Notion
10 3 (0.096%) Sketch
11 2 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.064%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.032%) CATIA
12 1 (0.032%) InVision
12 1 (0.032%) Revit
12 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 131 (4.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.51%) SAP FI
5 16 (0.51%) SAP PP
6 11 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 11 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 10 (0.32%) SAP HR
7 10 (0.32%) SAP MM
7 10 (0.32%) Workday HCM
8 9 (0.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 9 (0.29%) Teamcenter
9 8 (0.26%) NEC Housing
9 8 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.26%) SAP CO
10 7 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 7 (0.22%) Primavera
10 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
11 6 (0.19%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 596 (19.10%) Azure
2 382 (12.24%) AWS
3 274 (8.78%) Power Platform
4 165 (5.29%) GCP
5 139 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
6 116 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (3.24%) SaaS
8 92 (2.95%) Entra ID
9 86 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
10 62 (1.99%) GitHub
11 49 (1.57%) OCI
12 45 (1.44%) Serverless
13 40 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
14 39 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
14 39 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
15 35 (1.12%) PaaS
15 35 (1.12%) Power Automate
16 34 (1.09%) PowerApps
17 29 (0.93%) IaaS
18 28 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 64 (2.05%) Firewall
2 48 (1.54%) Network Security
3 33 (1.06%) DNS
4 31 (0.99%) WAN
5 29 (0.93%) LAN
6 28 (0.90%) VPN
7 18 (0.58%) SD-WAN
8 16 (0.51%) BGP
9 14 (0.45%) MPLS
10 12 (0.38%) Internet
11 11 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.32%) DHCP
12 10 (0.32%) VSAN
12 10 (0.32%) Wireless
13 9 (0.29%) VLAN
14 7 (0.22%) OSPF
14 7 (0.22%) WLAN
15 6 (0.19%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (0.19%) Intranet
15 6 (0.19%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (7.08%) Power BI
2 74 (2.37%) Metadata
3 65 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (1.51%) Tableau
5 39 (1.25%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.80%) Data Lake
7 22 (0.70%) Power Query
8 21 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
10 18 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
10 18 (0.58%) Relational Database
11 16 (0.51%) MySQL
11 16 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 16 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
12 14 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (0.45%) Data Vault
13 13 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
14 12 (0.38%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.35%) Big Data
15 11 (0.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 284 (9.10%) JIRA
2 48 (1.54%) GitLab
2 48 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 35 (1.12%) Git
4 29 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
5 26 (0.83%) Selenium
6 19 (0.61%) Postman
7 18 (0.58%) Cucumber
8 14 (0.45%) JMeter
9 12 (0.38%) JUnit
10 8 (0.26%) ERwin
10 8 (0.26%) WebDriver
11 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
11 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.22%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.19%) Hudson
12 6 (0.19%) TestRail
13 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
14 4 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,557 (49.89%) Social Skills
2 904 (28.97%) Finance
3 505 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
3 505 (16.18%) Public Sector
4 196 (6.28%) Banking
5 153 (4.90%) Influencing Skills
6 137 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
7 113 (3.62%) Legal
8 83 (2.66%) Manufacturing
9 80 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
9 80 (2.56%) Retail
10 69 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
11 66 (2.11%) Marketing
12 65 (2.08%) Telecoms
13 59 (1.89%) Local Government
14 57 (1.83%) Aerospace
15 51 (1.63%) Law
16 41 (1.31%) Financial Institution
17 37 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
18 28 (0.90%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 587 (18.81%) Analyst
2 452 (14.48%) Architect
3 432 (13.84%) Business Analyst
4 380 (12.18%) Lead
5 288 (9.23%) Project Manager
6 283 (9.07%) Consultant
7 260 (8.33%) Senior
8 147 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
9 92 (2.95%) Programme Manager
10 91 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
11 90 (2.88%) Developer
12 83 (2.66%) Change Manager
13 81 (2.60%) Delivery Manager
14 73 (2.34%) Data Analyst
15 70 (2.24%) Senior Business Analyst
16 58 (1.86%) Product Manager
17 53 (1.70%) Designer
18 49 (1.57%) SAP Consultant
19 48 (1.54%) Data Engineer
19 48 (1.54%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (3.59%) REST
2 59 (1.89%) SOAP
3 51 (1.63%) LDAP
4 44 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
5 43 (1.38%) Middleware
6 39 (1.25%) .NET
7 32 (1.03%) OpenID
8 31 (0.99%) OAuth
9 29 (0.93%) Spring
10 27 (0.87%) Node.js
11 26 (0.83%) React
12 23 (0.74%) Kafka
13 21 (0.67%) SAP Fiori
13 21 (0.67%) Spring Boot
14 20 (0.64%) XML
15 18 (0.58%) AngularJS
15 18 (0.58%) OAuth2
15 18 (0.58%) SailPoint
15 18 (0.58%) SAML
16 17 (0.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 219 (7.02%) Product Ownership
2 148 (4.74%) Onboarding
3 98 (3.14%) Cloud Native
4 81 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
5 78 (2.50%) Data Structures
6 72 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 66 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
8 64 (2.05%) Security Posture
9 62 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
10 53 (1.70%) NHS
11 52 (1.67%) Data Centre
12 47 (1.51%) Operational Technology
13 44 (1.41%) PMI
14 42 (1.35%) CMDB
15 39 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
16 37 (1.19%) AI Agents
16 37 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
17 29 (0.93%) Virtual Team
18 27 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
18 27 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (2.53%) Windows
2 43 (1.38%) Linux
3 22 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.67%) 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 (0.096%) Android
9 3 (0.096%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.096%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.032%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 806 (25.83%) Agile
2 617 (19.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 559 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 498 (15.96%) Migration
5 480 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 443 (14.19%) Roadmaps
7 428 (13.71%) Change Management
8 392 (12.56%) Workshop Facilitation
9 349 (11.18%) Project Management
10 344 (11.02%) Decision-Making
11 330 (10.57%) Analytics
12 307 (9.84%) DevOps
13 287 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
14 280 (8.97%) Risk Management
15 272 (8.72%) AI
16 254 (8.14%) ERP
17 251 (8.04%) Requirements Gathering
18 249 (7.98%) Project Delivery
19 237 (7.59%) User Acceptance Testing
20 218 (6.98%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 249 (7.98%) SQL
2 242 (7.75%) Python
3 103 (3.30%) PowerShell
4 88 (2.82%) Java
5 48 (1.54%) JavaScript
6 40 (1.28%) C#
7 29 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 28 (0.90%) TypeScript
9 25 (0.80%) Bash
10 17 (0.54%) Bicep
10 17 (0.54%) R
11 15 (0.48%) ABAP
12 14 (0.45%) VBA
13 11 (0.35%) PHP
14 9 (0.29%) Korn
14 9 (0.29%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.29%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.22%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 728 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 575 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 282 (9.04%) Degree
4 117 (3.75%) PMI Certification
5 106 (3.40%) DV Cleared
6 105 (3.36%) PMP
7 92 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 56 (1.79%) CISSP
9 50 (1.60%) Master's Degree
10 43 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
11 41 (1.31%) Azure Certification
12 40 (1.28%) CISM
13 31 (0.99%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.93%) ACCA
15 27 (0.87%) CIMA
15 27 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
16 26 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
16 26 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
17 23 (0.74%) CBAP
18 22 (0.70%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (6.02%) Data Quality
2 176 (5.64%) QA
3 147 (4.71%) GDPR
4 125 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 121 (3.88%) PMO
6 119 (3.81%) NIST
7 76 (2.44%) Accessibility
8 52 (1.67%) GRC
9 39 (1.25%) PCI DSS
10 30 (0.96%) NCSC
11 28 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
12 25 (0.80%) SLA
13 23 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 18 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
15 16 (0.51%) PSD2
16 14 (0.45%) Basel III
17 12 (0.38%) COBIT
18 11 (0.35%) HL7
18 11 (0.35%) ISO 20022
18 11 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 113 (3.62%) Active Directory
2 65 (2.08%) Docker
3 32 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.58%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.51%) vSphere
6 9 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.096%) NFS
10 3 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.032%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 107 (3.43%) Terraform
2 100 (3.20%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.06%) Ansible
4 26 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.54%) Grafana
6 14 (0.45%) HP ALM
6 14 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.45%) SCCM
7 9 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (0.22%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.16%) Podman
10 4 (0.13%) Istio
11 3 (0.096%) Argo
11 3 (0.096%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.096%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.096%) vMotion
11 3 (0.096%) vRealize
11 3 (0.096%) VxRail
11 3 (0.096%) WSUS
Vendors
1 451 (14.45%) Microsoft
2 279 (8.94%) SAP
3 164 (5.25%) Oracle
4 160 (5.13%) ServiceNow
5 92 (2.95%) Salesforce
6 75 (2.40%) Google
7 71 (2.27%) Cisco
8 60 (1.92%) Databricks
9 52 (1.67%) CyberArk
10 49 (1.57%) VMware
11 45 (1.44%) IBM
12 42 (1.35%) Workday
13 40 (1.28%) BeyondTrust
14 38 (1.22%) Aruba
15 35 (1.12%) Centrify
16 25 (0.80%) Palo Alto
17 24 (0.77%) Splunk
18 23 (0.74%) Red Hat
19 20 (0.64%) Adobe
19 20 (0.64%) Zscaler
936 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide