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

 6 months to
15 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 61 152
Rank change year-on-year +35 +91 +8
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,137 1,074 688
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.58% 3.70% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.80% 4.06% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,132 716 487
10th Percentile £368 £381 £363
25th Percentile £437 £450 £425
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 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 17 36
10th Percentile £31.53 £22.96 £18.35
25th Percentile £50.91 £32.05 £27.81
Median hourly rate £70.75 £49.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +42.93% +37.65% +75.41%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.75 £57.33
90th Percentile £97.50 £78.64 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.50 £67.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +20.74% +19.49% +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 40,228 26,443 36,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.35% 90.98% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,265 17,000 23,677
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,380 1,081 2,436
10th Percentile £14.89 £14.42 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% -21.23% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.31 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +69.81% -30.26% +8.57%

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 May 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 May 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 15 May 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 +32 2,698 £525 -1.41% 949
UK excluding London +37 1,507 £500 -1.48% 687
London +34 1,239 £550 - 391
Work from Home +44 959 £525 +1.94% 471
North of England +32 393 £489 -2.20% 157
South East +23 353 £525 +7.69% 224
Midlands +26 315 £500 -0.20% 113
West Midlands +26 212 £492 -6.29% 74
North West +35 195 £475 -5.38% 77
South West +20 189 £519 -6.74% 87
Yorkshire +21 163 £514 +2.80% 57
Scotland +39 112 £475 -10.80% 44
East of England +24 106 £575 +15.00% 46
East Midlands +16 98 £523 +16.11% 37
North East +9 41 £450 -29.82% 24
Wales +17 40 £475 +46.15% 15
Northern Ireland +11 15 £450 -22.58% 9

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
1 183 (5.83%) Confluence
2 90 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 20 (0.64%) SAS
4 17 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.38%) CMS
8 11 (0.35%) Apache
9 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.13%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.096%) Appian
10 3 (0.096%) Drupal
11 2 (0.064%) Camunda
11 2 (0.064%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.064%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.064%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.064%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.064%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.064%) WordPress
Applications
1 150 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
3 66 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
5 58 (1.85%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.13%) Sketch
7 4 (0.13%) Trello
8 3 (0.096%) Notion
9 2 (0.064%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.064%) InVision
10 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.032%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.032%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.032%) CATIA
10 1 (0.032%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.032%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 131 (4.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.48%) Teamcenter
4 13 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 11 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 10 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.29%) NEC Housing
7 9 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
7 9 (0.29%) SAP FI
8 8 (0.26%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.26%) SAP QM
8 8 (0.26%) Workday HCM
9 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 7 (0.22%) SAP PP
10 6 (0.19%) Finacle
10 6 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 6 (0.19%) Loan IQ
10 6 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 6 (0.19%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 593 (18.90%) Azure
2 419 (13.36%) AWS
3 300 (9.56%) Power Platform
4 158 (5.04%) GCP
5 119 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
6 101 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
8 96 (3.06%) SaaS
9 89 (2.84%) Entra ID
10 60 (1.91%) GitHub
11 45 (1.43%) Serverless
12 41 (1.31%) Microsoft Copilot
13 39 (1.24%) PaaS
14 36 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
15 33 (1.05%) Amazon S3
15 33 (1.05%) Power Automate
16 31 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
16 31 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
17 30 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (0.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.50%) Firewall
2 40 (1.28%) Network Security
3 35 (1.12%) DNS
4 24 (0.77%) WAN
5 23 (0.73%) VPN
6 22 (0.70%) LAN
7 15 (0.48%) Internet
8 12 (0.38%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.35%) BGP
9 11 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (0.35%) Wireless
10 10 (0.32%) DHCP
10 10 (0.32%) VLAN
11 9 (0.29%) TCP/IP
12 8 (0.26%) Intranet
12 8 (0.26%) OSPF
12 8 (0.26%) SSL
12 8 (0.26%) VSAN
13 7 (0.22%) MPLS
13 7 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (8.22%) Power BI
2 72 (2.30%) Metadata
3 58 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (1.18%) Tableau
5 30 (0.96%) SQL Server
6 29 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 25 (0.80%) Relational Database
8 24 (0.77%) Power Query
9 22 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
10 15 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
11 14 (0.45%) Big Data
11 14 (0.45%) MySQL
12 12 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
12 12 (0.38%) NoSQL
13 11 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (0.32%) Data Vault
14 10 (0.32%) DynamoDB
15 9 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 286 (9.12%) JIRA
2 52 (1.66%) Jenkins
3 50 (1.59%) Git
4 48 (1.53%) GitLab
5 30 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
6 26 (0.83%) Postman
7 25 (0.80%) Selenium
8 19 (0.61%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.54%) Hudson
10 16 (0.51%) JMeter
11 11 (0.35%) JUnit
12 9 (0.29%) WebDriver
13 8 (0.26%) MLflow
13 8 (0.26%) REST Assured
13 8 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (0.19%) LoadRunner
14 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.19%) TestRail
15 5 (0.16%) ERwin
16 4 (0.13%) NeoLoad
General
1 1,456 (46.41%) Social Skills
2 931 (29.68%) Finance
3 478 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
4 470 (14.98%) Public Sector
5 197 (6.28%) Banking
6 133 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
7 117 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
8 112 (3.57%) Legal
9 89 (2.84%) Retail
10 84 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
11 77 (2.45%) Manufacturing
12 73 (2.33%) Law
13 63 (2.01%) Aerospace
14 58 (1.85%) Local Government
15 57 (1.82%) Marketing
16 54 (1.72%) Telecoms
17 49 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
18 41 (1.31%) Military
19 33 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 32 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 584 (18.62%) Analyst
2 458 (14.60%) Architect
3 416 (13.26%) Lead
4 401 (12.78%) Business Analyst
5 287 (9.15%) Senior
6 271 (8.64%) Project Manager
7 233 (7.43%) Consultant
8 120 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
9 93 (2.96%) Delivery Manager
10 89 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
11 84 (2.68%) Change Manager
11 84 (2.68%) Programme Manager
12 79 (2.52%) Data Analyst
13 72 (2.30%) Senior Manager
14 70 (2.23%) Developer
15 64 (2.04%) Designer
15 64 (2.04%) Senior Business Analyst
16 58 (1.85%) IT Manager
17 56 (1.79%) Product Manager
18 52 (1.66%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (3.41%) REST
2 60 (1.91%) SOAP
3 56 (1.79%) LDAP
4 50 (1.59%) Middleware
5 36 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
6 32 (1.02%) OpenID
6 32 (1.02%) Spring
7 29 (0.92%) React
7 29 (0.92%) SailPoint
8 27 (0.86%) .NET
9 25 (0.80%) Kafka
9 25 (0.80%) OAuth
10 24 (0.77%) Spring Boot
11 19 (0.61%) Node.js
11 19 (0.61%) PySpark
11 19 (0.61%) XML
12 18 (0.57%) JSON
12 18 (0.57%) SAML
13 17 (0.54%) ADO
13 17 (0.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 215 (6.85%) Product Ownership
2 140 (4.46%) Onboarding
3 121 (3.86%) Cloud Native
4 84 (2.68%) Data Structures
5 75 (2.39%) Management Information System
6 72 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
7 65 (2.07%) Operational Technology
8 63 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
9 60 (1.91%) Security Posture
10 53 (1.69%) Data Centre
11 49 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
12 45 (1.43%) NHS
13 44 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
14 40 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
15 39 (1.24%) Virtual Team
16 36 (1.15%) CMDB
17 34 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
18 33 (1.05%) AI Agents
19 29 (0.92%) PMI
20 28 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (2.52%) Windows
2 38 (1.21%) Linux
3 13 (0.41%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 9 (0.29%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.29%) Unix
6 5 (0.16%) VMS
7 4 (0.13%) Android
7 4 (0.13%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.096%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 846 (26.97%) Agile
2 600 (19.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 596 (19.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 466 (14.85%) Migration
5 434 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
6 422 (13.45%) Roadmaps
7 421 (13.42%) Change Management
8 415 (13.23%) Decision-Making
9 384 (12.24%) Workshop Facilitation
10 334 (10.65%) DevOps
11 320 (10.20%) Project Management
12 316 (10.07%) Analytics
13 300 (9.56%) ERP
14 299 (9.53%) AI
15 297 (9.47%) Business Intelligence
16 295 (9.40%) Risk Management
17 247 (7.87%) User Acceptance Testing
18 246 (7.84%) CI/CD
19 244 (7.78%) Cybersecurity
20 243 (7.75%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 240 (7.65%) SQL
2 231 (7.36%) Python
3 99 (3.16%) Java
4 71 (2.26%) PowerShell
5 46 (1.47%) JavaScript
6 34 (1.08%) C#
7 32 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 32 (1.02%) TypeScript
8 26 (0.83%) Bash
9 18 (0.57%) VBA
10 16 (0.51%) Bicep
11 13 (0.41%) R
12 12 (0.38%) Scala
13 10 (0.32%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.32%) PHP
14 9 (0.29%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.29%) Korn
15 8 (0.26%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.19%) ABAP
17 4 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 769 (24.51%) Security Cleared
2 606 (19.32%) SC Cleared
3 259 (8.26%) Degree
4 121 (3.86%) DV Cleared
5 115 (3.67%) PMI Certification
6 112 (3.57%) PMP
7 107 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 67 (2.14%) CISSP
9 48 (1.53%) CISM
10 39 (1.24%) Azure Certification
10 39 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
12 32 (1.02%) Master's Degree
13 30 (0.96%) ACCA
14 29 (0.92%) CIMA
14 29 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 25 (0.80%) AWS Certification
16 22 (0.70%) IIBA
16 22 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
17 21 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (6.44%) Data Quality
2 161 (5.13%) QA
3 156 (4.97%) PMO
4 134 (4.27%) NIST
5 125 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 119 (3.79%) GDPR
7 77 (2.45%) Accessibility
8 58 (1.85%) GRC
9 31 (0.99%) SLA
10 26 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
11 25 (0.80%) NCSC
12 24 (0.77%) PCI DSS
13 21 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
14 17 (0.54%) WCAG
15 16 (0.51%) SOC 2
16 15 (0.48%) ISO 20022
17 13 (0.41%) COBIT
18 12 (0.38%) Basel III
19 11 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
20 10 (0.32%) Def Stans
System Software
1 100 (3.19%) Active Directory
2 55 (1.75%) Docker
3 24 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.41%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.32%) vSphere
6 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.096%) NFS
9 3 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.032%) Firmware
10 1 (0.032%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.032%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 100 (3.19%) Terraform
2 97 (3.09%) Kubernetes
3 27 (0.86%) Grafana
4 25 (0.80%) Ansible
4 25 (0.80%) Prometheus
5 23 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.45%) SCCM
8 13 (0.41%) HP ALM
9 9 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.16%) vRealize
11 4 (0.13%) Istio
11 4 (0.13%) Podman
12 3 (0.096%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.096%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 3 (0.096%) vMotion
12 3 (0.096%) WSUS
13 2 (0.064%) CA Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.064%) Nessus
Vendors
1 458 (14.60%) Microsoft
2 257 (8.19%) SAP
3 182 (5.80%) ServiceNow
4 143 (4.56%) Oracle
5 88 (2.81%) Salesforce
6 81 (2.58%) Databricks
7 60 (1.91%) Google
8 46 (1.47%) CyberArk
9 42 (1.34%) IBM
9 42 (1.34%) VMware
10 39 (1.24%) BeyondTrust
11 38 (1.21%) Cisco
12 34 (1.08%) Centrify
13 33 (1.05%) Splunk
14 31 (0.99%) Workday
15 21 (0.67%) Adobe
16 20 (0.64%) Dynatrace
17 18 (0.57%) IFS
17 18 (0.57%) Zscaler
18 17 (0.54%) Palo Alto
1,065 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide