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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 95 156
Rank change year-on-year +73 +61 0
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,950 813 704
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.41% 2.62% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.51% 2.93% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,040 498 485
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £436 £451 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £647 £650
90th Percentile £738 £751 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 12 41
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.43 £27.81
25th Percentile £19.18 £26.44 £32.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £48.50 £50.39
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% -3.75% +145.80%
75th Percentile £65.07 £65.45 £57.33
90th Percentile £94.50 £82.75 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.53 £47.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -2.04% -15.91% +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 34,652 27,713 38,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.01% 89.46% 87.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,939 16,970 25,283
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -4.06% -0.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,087 853 2,111
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.28
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.51 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.18% -9.97% +9.38%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 12 February 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 +70 2,564 £525 -3.06% 609
UK excluding London +60 1,376 £500 -4.76% 515
London +80 1,216 £550 - 227
Work from Home +84 837 £525 -4.55% 300
North of England +41 343 £500 - 106
South East +43 341 £500 -8.26% 198
Midlands +27 275 £496 -5.52% 99
South West +45 194 £506 -15.71% 47
West Midlands +28 180 £500 -9.09% 69
North West +29 153 £475 -5.00% 62
Yorkshire +23 152 £525 +5.00% 34
East Midlands +19 93 £463 +8.82% 30
Scotland +52 92 £450 -14.89% 28
East of England +28 91 £536 +7.25% 31
North East +17 41 £450 -32.46% 11
Wales +26 33 £400 -33.33% 10
Northern Ireland +10 14 £475 - 4
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
1 157 (5.32%) Confluence
2 122 (4.14%) SharePoint
3 29 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.58%) SAS
5 12 (0.41%) CMS
6 11 (0.37%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.27%) Apache
8 7 (0.24%) Appian
8 7 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.14%) Drupal
10 4 (0.14%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.14%) MQSeries
10 4 (0.14%) WordPress
11 3 (0.10%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.10%) nginx
11 3 (0.10%) Smallworld
12 2 (0.068%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.068%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.068%) WebLogic
Applications
1 164 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 85 (2.88%) Microsoft Project
3 67 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
5 57 (1.93%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.17%) Trello
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.14%) ProjectWise
9 4 (0.14%) PTC Creo
10 3 (0.10%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.10%) Notion
10 3 (0.10%) Revit
11 2 (0.068%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.068%) Camtasia
11 2 (0.068%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.068%) Sketch
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 120 (4.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
4 18 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 17 (0.58%) SAP PP
6 15 (0.51%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.44%) SAP MM
8 12 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.41%) SAP ERP
9 11 (0.37%) Teamcenter
9 11 (0.37%) Workday HCM
10 9 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
10 9 (0.31%) SAP HR
11 8 (0.27%) Loan IQ
11 8 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
11 8 (0.27%) SAP CO
12 7 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 7 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
12 7 (0.24%) SAP EWM
12 7 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 530 (17.97%) Azure
2 336 (11.39%) AWS
3 233 (7.90%) Power Platform
4 142 (4.81%) GCP
5 129 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
6 111 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (3.36%) SaaS
8 85 (2.88%) Entra ID
9 68 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
10 58 (1.97%) GitHub
11 52 (1.76%) OCI
12 48 (1.63%) Serverless
13 39 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (1.22%) Power Automate
15 32 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
15 32 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
15 32 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
16 29 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
17 28 (0.95%) PowerApps
18 27 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 65 (2.20%) Firewall
2 47 (1.59%) Network Security
3 27 (0.92%) DNS
3 27 (0.92%) WAN
4 25 (0.85%) LAN
5 23 (0.78%) VPN
6 15 (0.51%) SD-WAN
7 14 (0.47%) BGP
7 14 (0.47%) MPLS
8 10 (0.34%) DHCP
9 9 (0.31%) Internet
9 9 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.31%) Wireless
10 8 (0.27%) VLAN
11 7 (0.24%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (0.20%) OSPF
12 6 (0.20%) VSAN
12 6 (0.20%) WLAN
13 5 (0.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (6.27%) Power BI
2 68 (2.31%) Metadata
3 54 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (1.49%) Tableau
5 43 (1.46%) SQL Server
6 27 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 21 (0.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 20 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
9 18 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
10 16 (0.54%) Relational Database
11 15 (0.51%) MySQL
11 15 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
11 15 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
12 14 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (0.47%) Power Query
13 13 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (0.41%) Data Vault
14 12 (0.41%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (0.37%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 262 (8.88%) JIRA
2 46 (1.56%) GitLab
3 39 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.02%) Git
5 18 (0.61%) Selenium
6 15 (0.51%) Cucumber
7 14 (0.47%) Postman
8 11 (0.37%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.27%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.24%) JUnit
10 7 (0.24%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.20%) ERwin
11 6 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
11 6 (0.20%) TestRail
12 5 (0.17%) JMeter
13 4 (0.14%) Gatling
13 4 (0.14%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.14%) MLflow
13 4 (0.14%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1,545 (52.37%) Social Skills
2 837 (28.37%) Finance
3 481 (16.31%) Public Sector
4 466 (15.80%) Analytical Skills
5 207 (7.02%) Banking
6 144 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
7 123 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
8 101 (3.42%) Legal
9 82 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
10 76 (2.58%) Manufacturing
11 71 (2.41%) Telecoms
12 70 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
12 70 (2.37%) Retail
13 67 (2.27%) Marketing
14 54 (1.83%) Local Government
15 48 (1.63%) Financial Institution
16 34 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
17 31 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 30 (1.02%) Law
19 28 (0.95%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 552 (18.71%) Analyst
2 400 (13.56%) Business Analyst
3 396 (13.42%) Architect
4 360 (12.20%) Lead
5 283 (9.59%) Consultant
6 253 (8.58%) Project Manager
7 242 (8.20%) Senior
8 139 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
9 92 (3.12%) Developer
10 91 (3.08%) Programme Manager
11 84 (2.85%) Senior Analyst
12 77 (2.61%) Change Manager
13 69 (2.34%) Senior Business Analyst
14 59 (2.00%) Data Analyst
15 55 (1.86%) Designer
16 50 (1.69%) Delivery Manager
17 48 (1.63%) SAP Consultant
18 46 (1.56%) Technical Manager
19 45 (1.53%) Data Engineer
20 43 (1.46%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (3.76%) REST
2 59 (2.00%) SOAP
3 54 (1.83%) LDAP
4 45 (1.53%) .NET
5 36 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
6 35 (1.19%) OAuth
6 35 (1.19%) OpenID
7 31 (1.05%) Middleware
8 28 (0.95%) XML
9 27 (0.92%) Node.js
10 23 (0.78%) Kafka
11 22 (0.75%) React
11 22 (0.75%) SAP Fiori
12 21 (0.71%) RESTful
12 21 (0.71%) Spring
13 20 (0.68%) SAML
13 20 (0.68%) Spring Boot
14 18 (0.61%) CSS
14 18 (0.61%) HTML
15 17 (0.58%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 177 (6.00%) Product Ownership
2 141 (4.78%) Onboarding
3 94 (3.19%) Cloud Native
4 91 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
5 68 (2.31%) Management Information System
6 65 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 65 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
7 64 (2.17%) Security Posture
8 58 (1.97%) Data Structures
9 55 (1.86%) NHS
10 49 (1.66%) Data Centre
11 42 (1.42%) PMI
12 40 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
13 38 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
14 37 (1.25%) AI Agents
14 37 (1.25%) Operational Technology
15 36 (1.22%) CMDB
16 25 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
16 25 (0.85%) Virtual Team
17 19 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 75 (2.54%) Windows
2 37 (1.25%) Linux
3 21 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.54%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.17%) VMS
6 4 (0.14%) Unix
7 3 (0.10%) Android
7 3 (0.10%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.068%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.034%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (25.42%) Agile
2 582 (19.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 468 (15.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 465 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
5 440 (14.92%) Migration
6 410 (13.90%) Roadmaps
7 404 (13.69%) Change Management
8 351 (11.90%) Project Management
9 343 (11.63%) Workshop Facilitation
10 329 (11.15%) Decision-Making
11 305 (10.34%) Analytics
12 283 (9.59%) DevOps
13 270 (9.15%) Risk Management
14 249 (8.44%) Business Intelligence
15 246 (8.34%) Requirements Gathering
16 236 (8.00%) AI
17 229 (7.76%) Project Delivery
18 227 (7.69%) ERP
19 209 (7.08%) Business Analysis
19 209 (7.08%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 233 (7.90%) SQL
2 220 (7.46%) Python
3 112 (3.80%) PowerShell
4 76 (2.58%) Java
5 61 (2.07%) JavaScript
6 39 (1.32%) C#
7 30 (1.02%) Bash
7 30 (1.02%) TypeScript
8 28 (0.95%) Bicep
9 19 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (0.54%) R
11 12 (0.41%) ABAP
12 11 (0.37%) PHP
13 10 (0.34%) Korn
13 10 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.20%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.20%) VBA
16 5 (0.17%) C++
17 4 (0.14%) RPG
Qualifications
1 629 (21.32%) Security Cleared
2 517 (17.53%) SC Cleared
3 271 (9.19%) Degree
4 105 (3.56%) PMI Certification
5 94 (3.19%) PMP
6 88 (2.98%) DV Cleared
7 78 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 57 (1.93%) Master's Degree
9 49 (1.66%) CISSP
10 46 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
11 37 (1.25%) Azure Certification
12 35 (1.19%) CISM
13 32 (1.08%) ACCA
14 29 (0.98%) CIMA
15 25 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
16 23 (0.78%) CBAP
17 22 (0.75%) AWS Certification
18 21 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
19 20 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
19 20 (0.68%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (5.22%) QA
2 150 (5.08%) GDPR
3 145 (4.92%) Data Quality
4 116 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 106 (3.59%) NIST
6 98 (3.32%) PMO
7 77 (2.61%) Accessibility
8 56 (1.90%) GRC
9 44 (1.49%) PCI DSS
10 30 (1.02%) NCSC
11 28 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 24 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
13 18 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
14 17 (0.58%) Basel III
15 16 (0.54%) SLA
16 14 (0.47%) PSD2
17 12 (0.41%) WCAG
18 10 (0.34%) COBIT
18 10 (0.34%) HIPAA
18 10 (0.34%) HL7
System Software
1 110 (3.73%) Active Directory
2 71 (2.41%) Docker
3 28 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.47%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.37%) vSphere
6 9 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.17%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.10%) NFS
9 3 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.034%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.034%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 120 (4.07%) Terraform
2 99 (3.36%) Kubernetes
3 36 (1.22%) Ansible
4 25 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (0.54%) SCCM
7 11 (0.37%) Grafana
8 10 (0.34%) HP ALM
9 9 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (0.27%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.20%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.14%) Argo
12 4 (0.14%) Control-M
12 4 (0.14%) Istio
13 3 (0.10%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.10%) Nessus
13 3 (0.10%) Podman
13 3 (0.10%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.10%) vMotion
13 3 (0.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 423 (14.34%) Microsoft
2 267 (9.05%) SAP
3 164 (5.56%) Oracle
4 163 (5.53%) ServiceNow
5 96 (3.25%) Salesforce
6 76 (2.58%) Google
7 69 (2.34%) Cisco
8 57 (1.93%) Databricks
9 51 (1.73%) CyberArk
10 50 (1.69%) Workday
11 45 (1.53%) VMware
12 38 (1.29%) BeyondTrust
13 35 (1.19%) Aruba
13 35 (1.19%) Centrify
14 24 (0.81%) Palo Alto
15 23 (0.78%) IBM
15 23 (0.78%) OpenAI
15 23 (0.78%) Red Hat
15 23 (0.78%) Splunk
16 20 (0.68%) Adobe