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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 106 154
Rank change year-on-year +84 +48 +5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,800 757 691
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.63% 2.37% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.68% 2.68% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,939 464 478
10th Percentile £368 £400 £366
25th Percentile £442 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £544
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.15% -1.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £531 £525
% change year-on-year -5.88% +1.19% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 8 37
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.90 £30.80
25th Percentile £19.10 £25.19 £33.75
Median hourly rate £41.86 £27.75 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +50.83% -50.88% +175.56%
75th Percentile £65.14 £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 32,247 28,287 37,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.87% 88.55% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,360 17,181 24,724
10th Percentile £304 £308 £305
25th Percentile £406 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,986 908 1,544
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.92
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +22.16%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £74.79 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.11 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.86% -33.10% +65.14%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +78 2,450 £525 -4.55% 756
UK excluding London +64 1,280 £500 -5.88% 680
London +95 1,184 £550 - 192
Work from Home +90 819 £536 -5.55% 379
South East +48 330 £500 -9.09% 213
North of England +52 315 £502 +0.37% 135
Midlands +38 241 £500 -4.76% 135
South West +51 192 £518 -11.87% 77
West Midlands +28 168 £500 -9.09% 85
North West +29 146 £521 +2.71% 58
Yorkshire +30 132 £513 +2.50% 63
East of England +32 89 £565 +32.01% 75
Scotland +35 85 £450 -18.92% 21
East Midlands +18 72 £436 +3.93% 49
North East +21 40 £454 -45.82% 16
Wales +19 25 £463 -22.92% 29
Northern Ireland +5 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
1 146 (5.21%) Confluence
2 122 (4.36%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.71%) SAS
5 12 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.43%) CMS
6 7 (0.25%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.21%) Apache
7 6 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.21%) Appian
8 4 (0.14%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.14%) MQSeries
9 3 (0.11%) Smallworld
10 2 (0.071%) Drupal
10 2 (0.071%) nginx
10 2 (0.071%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.071%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.071%) WordPress
Applications
1 153 (5.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (3.11%) Microsoft Project
3 66 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 55 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
5 52 (1.86%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.32%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.29%) ProjectWise
8 7 (0.25%) Trello
9 6 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.11%) Navisworks
11 3 (0.11%) Notion
11 3 (0.11%) Revit
12 2 (0.071%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.071%) Sketch
13 1 (0.036%) Adobe Captivate
13 1 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.036%) Oracle Smart View
13 1 (0.036%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.036%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 109 (3.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 48 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (1.07%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.61%) SAP PP
5 15 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
5 15 (0.54%) SAP FI
6 14 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
6 14 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 13 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.43%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.43%) SAP MM
9 11 (0.39%) Workday HCM
10 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
10 9 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
10 9 (0.32%) SAP HR
10 9 (0.32%) Teamcenter
11 8 (0.29%) Maximo
11 8 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
11 8 (0.29%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 508 (18.14%) Azure
2 319 (11.39%) AWS
3 222 (7.93%) Power Platform
4 146 (5.21%) GCP
5 128 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
6 107 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
7 95 (3.39%) SaaS
8 86 (3.07%) Entra ID
9 80 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
10 57 (2.04%) GitHub
11 53 (1.89%) OCI
12 46 (1.64%) Serverless
13 40 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
14 35 (1.25%) Power Automate
15 33 (1.18%) PowerApps
16 32 (1.14%) Azure Logic Apps
17 29 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
17 29 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
18 28 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
18 28 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 58 (2.07%) Firewall
2 37 (1.32%) Network Security
3 24 (0.86%) WAN
4 22 (0.79%) LAN
4 22 (0.79%) VPN
5 20 (0.71%) SD-WAN
6 19 (0.68%) DNS
7 12 (0.43%) BGP
8 11 (0.39%) MPLS
9 9 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.29%) DHCP
10 8 (0.29%) Internet
11 7 (0.25%) Kerberos
11 7 (0.25%) Wireless
12 6 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
12 6 (0.21%) VLAN
12 6 (0.21%) VSAN
13 5 (0.18%) Intranet
13 5 (0.18%) IPsec
13 5 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (6.21%) Power BI
2 73 (2.61%) Metadata
3 51 (1.82%) Tableau
4 48 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
5 43 (1.54%) SQL Server
6 23 (0.82%) Data Lake
7 22 (0.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 18 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
8 18 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
9 16 (0.57%) Power Query
10 14 (0.50%) Big Data
11 13 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (0.46%) Data Vault
11 13 (0.46%) MySQL
12 12 (0.43%) Relational Database
13 11 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (0.39%) DynamoDB
13 11 (0.39%) Oracle Database
13 11 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
14 10 (0.36%) GIS
Development Applications
1 256 (9.14%) JIRA
2 39 (1.39%) GitLab
3 33 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.14%) Git
5 24 (0.86%) Selenium
6 14 (0.50%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.36%) Postman
8 10 (0.36%) REST Assured
9 7 (0.25%) Robot Framework
10 6 (0.21%) TestRail
11 5 (0.18%) JUnit
11 5 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (0.14%) ERwin
12 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
13 3 (0.11%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.11%) Hudson
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
13 3 (0.11%) Visual Website Optimizer
14 2 (0.071%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1,488 (53.14%) Social Skills
2 780 (27.86%) Finance
3 481 (17.18%) Public Sector
4 431 (15.39%) Analytical Skills
5 195 (6.96%) Banking
6 125 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
7 110 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
8 108 (3.86%) Legal
9 92 (3.29%) Manufacturing
10 77 (2.75%) Marketing
11 75 (2.68%) Telecoms
12 71 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
13 69 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
14 59 (2.11%) Retail
15 57 (2.04%) Local Government
16 45 (1.61%) Financial Institution
17 35 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 35 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
18 34 (1.21%) Investment Banking
19 31 (1.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 500 (17.86%) Analyst
2 375 (13.39%) Architect
3 362 (12.93%) Business Analyst
4 314 (11.21%) Lead
5 308 (11.00%) Consultant
6 266 (9.50%) Project Manager
7 223 (7.96%) Senior
8 131 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
9 91 (3.25%) Developer
10 73 (2.61%) Change Manager
10 73 (2.61%) Programme Manager
11 65 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
12 57 (2.04%) Senior Business Analyst
13 54 (1.93%) SAP Consultant
14 53 (1.89%) Designer
15 48 (1.71%) Data Analyst
16 47 (1.68%) Senior Manager
16 47 (1.68%) Technical Manager
17 45 (1.61%) Delivery Manager
18 41 (1.46%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (3.82%) REST
2 64 (2.29%) SOAP
3 53 (1.89%) LDAP
4 46 (1.64%) .NET
5 36 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
6 35 (1.25%) OAuth
7 29 (1.04%) OpenID
8 27 (0.96%) Middleware
8 27 (0.96%) XML
9 25 (0.89%) Node.js
10 23 (0.82%) SAP Fiori
11 22 (0.79%) HTML
11 22 (0.79%) SAML
12 19 (0.68%) CSS
12 19 (0.68%) Kafka
13 18 (0.64%) AngularJS
13 18 (0.64%) JSON
13 18 (0.64%) LangChain
14 17 (0.61%) OAuth2
14 17 (0.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 183 (6.54%) Product Ownership
2 145 (5.18%) Onboarding
3 97 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
4 88 (3.14%) Cloud Native
5 75 (2.68%) Management Information System
6 67 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
7 66 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
8 56 (2.00%) Security Posture
9 54 (1.93%) NHS
10 52 (1.86%) Data Structures
11 46 (1.64%) Data Centre
12 42 (1.50%) PMI
13 36 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
14 34 (1.21%) AI Agents
14 34 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
15 33 (1.18%) Operational Technology
16 31 (1.11%) CMDB
17 28 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
18 26 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
19 18 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 70 (2.50%) Windows
2 31 (1.11%) Linux
3 19 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (0.68%) Windows 10
3 19 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.25%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.21%) Android
6 5 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.18%) VMS
7 3 (0.11%) Unix
7 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.071%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.036%) AIX
9 1 (0.036%) CentOS
9 1 (0.036%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.036%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 762 (27.21%) Agile
2 550 (19.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 448 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 443 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 412 (14.71%) Migration
6 375 (13.39%) Roadmaps
7 366 (13.07%) Change Management
8 359 (12.82%) Project Management
9 301 (10.75%) Workshop Facilitation
10 289 (10.32%) Decision-Making
11 284 (10.14%) Analytics
12 283 (10.11%) DevOps
13 256 (9.14%) Risk Management
14 245 (8.75%) Business Intelligence
15 232 (8.29%) Requirements Gathering
16 229 (8.18%) Project Delivery
17 219 (7.82%) ERP
18 209 (7.46%) Data Governance
19 203 (7.25%) CI/CD
20 195 (6.96%) AI
Programming Languages
1 207 (7.39%) SQL
2 195 (6.96%) Python
3 108 (3.86%) PowerShell
4 63 (2.25%) Java
5 59 (2.11%) JavaScript
6 37 (1.32%) C#
7 27 (0.96%) Bicep
8 26 (0.93%) Bash
9 21 (0.75%) R
9 21 (0.75%) TypeScript
10 16 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (0.43%) ABAP
11 12 (0.43%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.32%) PHP
13 8 (0.29%) Korn
14 6 (0.21%) C++
14 6 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.18%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.14%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 577 (20.61%) Security Cleared
2 467 (16.68%) SC Cleared
3 256 (9.14%) Degree
4 114 (4.07%) PMI Certification
5 99 (3.54%) PMP
6 83 (2.96%) DV Cleared
7 62 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 53 (1.89%) Master's Degree
9 45 (1.61%) CISSP
10 40 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 36 (1.29%) Azure Certification
12 31 (1.11%) ACCA
12 31 (1.11%) CISM
13 28 (1.00%) CIMA
14 27 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
15 23 (0.82%) AWS Certification
16 22 (0.79%) CBAP
17 18 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
17 18 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
18 17 (0.61%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (5.43%) GDPR
2 146 (5.21%) QA
3 126 (4.50%) Data Quality
4 116 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 107 (3.82%) PMO
6 100 (3.57%) NIST
7 75 (2.68%) Accessibility
8 43 (1.54%) PCI DSS
9 41 (1.46%) GRC
10 30 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 29 (1.04%) NCSC
12 24 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
13 19 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
14 15 (0.54%) Basel III
14 15 (0.54%) ISO 19650
14 15 (0.54%) SLA
15 14 (0.50%) PSD2
16 13 (0.46%) WCAG
17 12 (0.43%) COBIT
18 11 (0.39%) JSP 440
System Software
1 116 (4.14%) Active Directory
2 67 (2.39%) Docker
3 26 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.50%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.39%) vSphere
6 9 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.036%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.036%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.036%) Firmware
9 1 (0.036%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 114 (4.07%) Terraform
2 81 (2.89%) Kubernetes
3 32 (1.14%) Ansible
4 27 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (0.54%) SCCM
6 10 (0.36%) Grafana
7 8 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (0.29%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.21%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.14%) Control-M
10 3 (0.11%) Argo
10 3 (0.11%) Istio
10 3 (0.11%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.071%) Cisco UCCE
11 2 (0.071%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.071%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.071%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.036%) Cisco UCCX
12 1 (0.036%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 409 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 260 (9.29%) SAP
3 173 (6.18%) Oracle
4 161 (5.75%) ServiceNow
5 90 (3.21%) Salesforce
6 70 (2.50%) Google
7 65 (2.32%) Cisco
8 54 (1.93%) CyberArk
8 54 (1.93%) Workday
9 50 (1.79%) Databricks
10 42 (1.50%) VMware
11 40 (1.43%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.25%) Centrify
13 34 (1.21%) Aruba
14 27 (0.96%) Adobe
15 23 (0.82%) IBM
16 21 (0.75%) OpenAI
16 21 (0.75%) Palo Alto
17 19 (0.68%) Red Hat
18 18 (0.64%) Splunk