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

 6 months to
28 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 69 153
Rank change year-on-year +43 +84 +1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,186 1,036 694
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.78% 3.53% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.02% 3.89% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,187 698 486
10th Percentile £363 £379 £363
25th Percentile £438 £450 £413
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 £510 £513
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.49% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 18 36
10th Percentile £19.10 £22.97 £18.35
25th Percentile £37.25 £31.26 £27.81
Median hourly rate £67.50 £48.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +39.18% +34.87% +37.51%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.13 £57.33
90th Percentile £93.50 £77.79 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.75 £57.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +24.78% +1.79% +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 39,735 26,655 37,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.81% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,044 17,231 24,097
10th Percentile £319 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £631 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,400 1,068 2,424
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.98 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.25 £29.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.08% -16.71% -6.27%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.24 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.00 £28.00 £35.98
% change year-on-year +50.00% -22.17% -0.07%

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 28 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 28 April 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 28 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 +39 2,745 £525 - 806
UK excluding London +44 1,516 £500 -1.96% 696
London +40 1,280 £550 - 303
Work from Home +48 953 £525 +0.48% 424
North of England +39 383 £480 -4.38% 163
South East +27 365 £525 +5.00% 251
Midlands +24 317 £500 - 112
West Midlands +27 216 £492 -6.29% 79
North West +40 196 £475 -5.00% 93
South West +21 196 £519 -5.68% 86
Yorkshire +3 143 £500 - 52
Scotland +38 109 £458 -16.82% 27
East of England +28 106 £565 +13.00% 38
East Midlands +13 96 £500 +17.65% 33
North East +13 49 £450 -29.82% 21
Wales +16 40 £460 +34.31% 24
Northern Ireland +18 16 £450 -20.00% 12

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
1 181 (5.68%) Confluence
2 96 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 22 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (0.69%) SAS
4 14 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.41%) CMS
6 11 (0.35%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.28%) Apache
8 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.094%) Appian
9 3 (0.094%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.094%) Drupal
9 3 (0.094%) WordPress
10 2 (0.063%) Camunda
10 2 (0.063%) nginx
10 2 (0.063%) OpenEdge
10 2 (0.063%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.063%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.063%) WebLogic
Applications
1 156 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (2.29%) Microsoft Project
3 66 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 63 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
5 55 (1.73%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.13%) Sketch
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.094%) Notion
10 2 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.063%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.063%) InVision
10 2 (0.063%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.063%) Windchill
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.031%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.031%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 126 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 13 (0.41%) SAP FI
4 13 (0.41%) Teamcenter
5 12 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.38%) SAP PP
6 10 (0.31%) SAP CO
7 9 (0.28%) NEC Housing
7 9 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
7 9 (0.28%) Workday HCM
8 8 (0.25%) SAP ERP
9 7 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 7 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
9 7 (0.22%) SAP QM
10 6 (0.19%) Finacle
10 6 (0.19%) Loan IQ
10 6 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 6 (0.19%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 596 (18.71%) Azure
2 426 (13.37%) AWS
3 280 (8.79%) Power Platform
4 165 (5.18%) GCP
5 124 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
6 111 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
7 103 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
8 99 (3.11%) SaaS
9 92 (2.89%) Entra ID
10 67 (2.10%) GitHub
11 45 (1.41%) Serverless
12 43 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
13 42 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (1.19%) PaaS
15 34 (1.07%) Power Automate
16 33 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
16 33 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
17 32 (1.00%) OCI
17 32 (1.00%) PowerApps
18 31 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.57%) Firewall
2 41 (1.29%) Network Security
3 32 (1.00%) DNS
4 27 (0.85%) VPN
5 24 (0.75%) WAN
6 22 (0.69%) LAN
7 15 (0.47%) Internet
8 14 (0.44%) SD-WAN
9 13 (0.41%) Wireless
10 12 (0.38%) BGP
10 12 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.35%) DHCP
12 10 (0.31%) VSAN
13 9 (0.28%) VLAN
14 8 (0.25%) MPLS
14 8 (0.25%) OSPF
14 8 (0.25%) SSL
14 8 (0.25%) TCP/IP
15 7 (0.22%) Intranet
16 6 (0.19%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (7.38%) Power BI
2 73 (2.29%) Metadata
3 61 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (1.32%) Tableau
5 31 (0.97%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.78%) Data Lake
6 25 (0.78%) Relational Database
7 23 (0.72%) Power Query
8 21 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
10 16 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
12 14 (0.44%) Data Vault
12 14 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
13 13 (0.41%) DynamoDB
13 13 (0.41%) MySQL
13 13 (0.41%) NoSQL
14 12 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
15 11 (0.35%) Big Data
16 10 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 292 (9.17%) JIRA
2 50 (1.57%) Git
3 47 (1.48%) GitLab
4 46 (1.44%) Jenkins
5 28 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
6 24 (0.75%) Selenium
7 23 (0.72%) Postman
8 17 (0.53%) Cucumber
9 15 (0.47%) JMeter
10 14 (0.44%) Hudson
11 10 (0.31%) JUnit
12 9 (0.28%) WebDriver
13 8 (0.25%) ERwin
13 8 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
14 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.19%) MLflow
15 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.19%) TestRail
16 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,531 (48.05%) Social Skills
2 952 (29.88%) Finance
3 511 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
4 505 (15.85%) Public Sector
5 190 (5.96%) Banking
6 142 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
7 129 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
8 120 (3.77%) Legal
9 94 (2.95%) Retail
10 88 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
11 82 (2.57%) Manufacturing
12 74 (2.32%) Law
13 62 (1.95%) Local Government
14 60 (1.88%) Marketing
15 59 (1.85%) Aerospace
15 59 (1.85%) Telecoms
16 56 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
17 39 (1.22%) Military
18 31 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
19 30 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 577 (18.11%) Analyst
2 471 (14.78%) Architect
3 412 (12.93%) Business Analyst
4 401 (12.59%) Lead
5 299 (9.38%) Project Manager
6 274 (8.60%) Senior
7 248 (7.78%) Consultant
8 128 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
9 94 (2.95%) Delivery Manager
10 89 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
11 87 (2.73%) Change Manager
12 83 (2.61%) Programme Manager
13 77 (2.42%) Developer
14 71 (2.23%) Data Analyst
15 67 (2.10%) Senior Manager
16 66 (2.07%) Senior Business Analyst
17 65 (2.04%) Designer
18 57 (1.79%) IT Manager
19 56 (1.76%) Product Manager
20 54 (1.69%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (3.30%) REST
2 58 (1.82%) SOAP
3 54 (1.69%) LDAP
4 47 (1.48%) Middleware
5 40 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
6 34 (1.07%) .NET
7 33 (1.04%) Spring
8 32 (1.00%) OpenID
9 30 (0.94%) React
10 29 (0.91%) OAuth
11 28 (0.88%) Node.js
12 27 (0.85%) SailPoint
13 25 (0.78%) Kafka
13 25 (0.78%) Spring Boot
14 21 (0.66%) AngularJS
15 20 (0.63%) SAML
16 19 (0.60%) XML
17 18 (0.56%) RESTful
18 17 (0.53%) TensorFlow
19 16 (0.50%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 208 (6.53%) Product Ownership
2 151 (4.74%) Onboarding
3 118 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 82 (2.57%) Management Information System
5 76 (2.39%) Data Structures
6 74 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
6 74 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
7 63 (1.98%) Security Posture
8 58 (1.82%) Operational Technology
9 57 (1.79%) Data Centre
10 55 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
11 54 (1.69%) NHS
12 47 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
13 41 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
14 39 (1.22%) AI Agents
14 39 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
15 37 (1.16%) CMDB
16 35 (1.10%) PMI
17 33 (1.04%) Virtual Team
18 29 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 72 (2.26%) Windows
2 39 (1.22%) Linux
3 18 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (0.41%) Windows 10
4 13 (0.41%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.25%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.19%) Unix
6 6 (0.19%) VMS
7 5 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.13%) Android
9 3 (0.094%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 853 (26.77%) Agile
2 620 (19.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 617 (19.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 482 (15.13%) Migration
5 457 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
6 436 (13.68%) Change Management
6 436 (13.68%) Roadmaps
7 398 (12.49%) Decision-Making
8 384 (12.05%) Workshop Facilitation
9 346 (10.86%) Project Management
10 338 (10.61%) DevOps
11 320 (10.04%) Analytics
12 306 (9.60%) AI
13 296 (9.29%) Risk Management
14 295 (9.26%) ERP
15 279 (8.76%) Business Intelligence
16 262 (8.22%) Project Delivery
17 253 (7.94%) User Acceptance Testing
18 249 (7.82%) CI/CD
19 236 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 244 (7.66%) SQL
2 241 (7.56%) Python
3 100 (3.14%) Java
4 81 (2.54%) PowerShell
5 45 (1.41%) JavaScript
6 39 (1.22%) C#
7 33 (1.04%) TypeScript
8 26 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 22 (0.69%) Bash
10 19 (0.60%) Bicep
11 17 (0.53%) VBA
12 16 (0.50%) R
13 12 (0.38%) ABAP
14 10 (0.31%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.31%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.31%) PHP
15 9 (0.28%) Scala
16 8 (0.25%) Korn
16 8 (0.25%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 777 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 615 (19.30%) SC Cleared
3 273 (8.57%) Degree
4 118 (3.70%) PMI Certification
5 115 (3.61%) DV Cleared
6 112 (3.52%) PMP
7 107 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 59 (1.85%) CISSP
9 41 (1.29%) Azure Certification
9 41 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (1.29%) Master's Degree
10 40 (1.26%) CISM
11 31 (0.97%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 30 (0.94%) ACCA
12 30 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
13 29 (0.91%) CIMA
14 27 (0.85%) AWS Certification
15 23 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
16 22 (0.69%) IIBA
16 22 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (6.28%) Data Quality
2 171 (5.37%) QA
3 153 (4.80%) PMO
4 136 (4.27%) GDPR
5 129 (4.05%) NIST
6 126 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 81 (2.54%) Accessibility
8 56 (1.76%) GRC
9 32 (1.00%) PCI DSS
10 29 (0.91%) SLA
11 27 (0.85%) NCSC
12 26 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (0.53%) WCAG
14 16 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
14 16 (0.50%) SOC 2
15 14 (0.44%) Basel III
15 14 (0.44%) COBIT
16 13 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.38%) ISO 20022
18 11 (0.35%) Def Stans
System Software
1 104 (3.26%) Active Directory
2 66 (2.07%) Docker
3 29 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.63%) VMware NSX
5 15 (0.47%) vSphere
6 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.094%) NFS
10 2 (0.063%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.031%) Firmware
11 1 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 118 (3.70%) Terraform
2 106 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 31 (0.97%) Ansible
4 25 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.75%) Grafana
6 23 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.47%) HP ALM
8 14 (0.44%) SCCM
9 8 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.16%) Podman
10 5 (0.16%) vRealize
11 4 (0.13%) Istio
12 3 (0.094%) Argo
12 3 (0.094%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.094%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 3 (0.094%) vMotion
12 3 (0.094%) WSUS
13 2 (0.063%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 462 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 255 (8.00%) SAP
3 186 (5.84%) ServiceNow
4 149 (4.68%) Oracle
5 92 (2.89%) Salesforce
6 66 (2.07%) Google
7 65 (2.04%) Databricks
8 50 (1.57%) VMware
9 49 (1.54%) CyberArk
10 48 (1.51%) Cisco
11 43 (1.35%) IBM
12 41 (1.29%) BeyondTrust
13 35 (1.10%) Workday
14 34 (1.07%) Centrify
15 33 (1.04%) Splunk
16 21 (0.66%) Palo Alto
16 21 (0.66%) Sparx
17 20 (0.63%) Red Hat
18 19 (0.60%) Adobe
18 19 (0.60%) Aruba
907 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide