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

 6 months to
6 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 63 155
Rank change year-on-year +37 +92 +6
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,191 1,068 687
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.70% 3.64% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.94% 4.01% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,179 712 481
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £431 £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 £740 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £503 £525
% change year-on-year -0.50% -4.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 18 36
10th Percentile £25.00 £22.97 £18.35
25th Percentile £47.50 £31.26 £27.81
Median hourly rate £68.75 £48.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +41.75% +34.87% +75.41%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.13 £57.33
90th Percentile £96.75 £77.79 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.00 £57.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +35.65% +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 40,206 26,654 37,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.43% 90.92% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,270 17,186 24,018
10th Percentile £320 £307 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £482 £500
% change year-on-year +1.09% -3.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,084 2,441
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.64 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.88 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.95
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -19.33% +0.42%
75th Percentile £67.25 £61.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.70 £37.50
% change year-on-year +58.84% -26.13% +7.14%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +35 2,744 £525 - 957
UK excluding London +41 1,522 £500 -0.50% 752
London +39 1,269 £550 - 367
Work from Home +45 972 £525 +0.96% 496
North of England +38 393 £480 -4.00% 173
South East +28 354 £525 +5.00% 232
Midlands +23 320 £496 -0.80% 119
West Midlands +27 219 £492 -6.29% 78
North West +33 198 £475 -5.00% 88
South West +20 196 £525 -4.55% 93
Yorkshire +11 153 £500 -2.44% 63
Scotland +40 111 £475 -13.52% 54
East of England +29 106 £575 +15.00% 59
East Midlands +16 96 £500 +17.65% 41
North East +16 47 £450 -29.82% 24
Wales +10 40 £475 +38.69% 17
Northern Ireland +16 17 £450 -20.00% 17

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
1 184 (5.77%) Confluence
2 96 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 21 (0.66%) SAS
4 19 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.38%) CMS
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%) Drupal
9 3 (0.094%) OpenEdge
10 2 (0.063%) Camunda
10 2 (0.063%) nginx
10 2 (0.063%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.063%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.063%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.063%) WordPress
Applications
1 154 (4.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
3 65 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
5 54 (1.69%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.13%) Sketch
7 4 (0.13%) Trello
8 3 (0.094%) Notion
9 2 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.063%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.063%) InVision
9 2 (0.063%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.063%) Windchill
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.031%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.031%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 130 (4.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.44%) Teamcenter
5 11 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 11 (0.34%) SAP PP
6 10 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 9 (0.28%) NEC Housing
7 9 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.28%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.25%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
8 8 (0.25%) SAP QM
8 8 (0.25%) Workday HCM
9 6 (0.19%) Finacle
9 6 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 6 (0.19%) Loan IQ
9 6 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.19%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 605 (18.96%) Azure
2 427 (13.38%) AWS
3 292 (9.15%) Power Platform
4 161 (5.05%) GCP
5 130 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
6 108 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
8 99 (3.10%) SaaS
9 91 (2.85%) Entra ID
10 66 (2.07%) GitHub
11 48 (1.50%) Serverless
12 42 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
13 41 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
14 40 (1.25%) PaaS
15 36 (1.13%) Power Automate
16 34 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
16 34 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
17 33 (1.03%) PowerApps
18 32 (1.00%) OCI
19 31 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.54%) Firewall
2 41 (1.28%) Network Security
3 33 (1.03%) DNS
4 27 (0.85%) VPN
5 24 (0.75%) WAN
6 23 (0.72%) LAN
7 15 (0.47%) Internet
8 13 (0.41%) SD-WAN
9 12 (0.38%) BGP
9 12 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (0.38%) Wireless
10 11 (0.34%) DHCP
11 10 (0.31%) VLAN
12 9 (0.28%) TCP/IP
13 8 (0.25%) Intranet
13 8 (0.25%) MPLS
13 8 (0.25%) OSPF
13 8 (0.25%) SSL
13 8 (0.25%) VSAN
14 7 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (7.74%) Power BI
2 69 (2.16%) Metadata
3 59 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (1.25%) Tableau
5 29 (0.91%) Data Lake
6 28 (0.88%) SQL Server
7 26 (0.81%) Relational Database
8 23 (0.72%) Power Query
9 21 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
11 15 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
12 14 (0.44%) DynamoDB
13 13 (0.41%) MySQL
14 12 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (0.38%) Big Data
14 12 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
14 12 (0.38%) NoSQL
15 11 (0.34%) Data Vault
16 10 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 292 (9.15%) JIRA
2 53 (1.66%) Git
3 51 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.54%) GitLab
5 28 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
6 25 (0.78%) Selenium
7 24 (0.75%) Postman
8 18 (0.56%) Cucumber
9 16 (0.50%) JMeter
10 14 (0.44%) Hudson
11 11 (0.34%) JUnit
12 9 (0.28%) WebDriver
13 8 (0.25%) MLflow
13 8 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.19%) LoadRunner
15 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.19%) TestRail
16 5 (0.16%) ERwin
17 4 (0.13%) Gatling
General
1 1,520 (47.63%) Social Skills
2 953 (29.87%) Finance
3 505 (15.83%) Analytical Skills
4 493 (15.45%) Public Sector
5 194 (6.08%) Banking
6 135 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
7 125 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
8 118 (3.70%) Legal
9 88 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
9 88 (2.76%) Retail
10 79 (2.48%) Manufacturing
11 78 (2.44%) Law
12 63 (1.97%) Local Government
13 62 (1.94%) Aerospace
14 60 (1.88%) Telecoms
15 59 (1.85%) Marketing
16 55 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
17 40 (1.25%) Military
18 32 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 31 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 582 (18.24%) Analyst
2 466 (14.60%) Architect
3 422 (13.22%) Lead
4 414 (12.97%) Business Analyst
5 292 (9.15%) Project Manager
6 286 (8.96%) Senior
7 228 (7.15%) Consultant
8 119 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
9 93 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
10 89 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
11 84 (2.63%) Change Manager
12 83 (2.60%) Programme Manager
13 76 (2.38%) Developer
14 72 (2.26%) Senior Manager
15 70 (2.19%) Data Analyst
16 66 (2.07%) Senior Business Analyst
17 65 (2.04%) Designer
18 59 (1.85%) IT Manager
19 54 (1.69%) Product Manager
19 54 (1.69%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (3.38%) REST
2 59 (1.85%) SOAP
3 54 (1.69%) LDAP
4 48 (1.50%) Middleware
5 41 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
6 36 (1.13%) Spring
7 31 (0.97%) OpenID
8 30 (0.94%) .NET
8 30 (0.94%) React
9 28 (0.88%) Spring Boot
10 27 (0.85%) SailPoint
11 26 (0.81%) OAuth
12 25 (0.78%) Node.js
13 24 (0.75%) Kafka
14 21 (0.66%) AngularJS
15 19 (0.60%) SAML
16 18 (0.56%) RESTful
17 17 (0.53%) ADO
17 17 (0.53%) JSON
17 17 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 215 (6.74%) Product Ownership
2 152 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 120 (3.76%) Cloud Native
4 81 (2.54%) Data Structures
5 80 (2.51%) Management Information System
6 71 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (2.07%) Operational Technology
9 62 (1.94%) Security Posture
10 57 (1.79%) Data Centre
11 54 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
12 51 (1.60%) NHS
13 47 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
14 41 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
15 39 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
16 37 (1.16%) AI Agents
17 36 (1.13%) CMDB
18 35 (1.10%) Virtual Team
19 34 (1.07%) PMI
20 29 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 83 (2.60%) Windows
2 45 (1.41%) Linux
3 17 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (0.44%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.41%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.31%) Unix
7 9 (0.28%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.22%) VMS
9 5 (0.16%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.13%) Android
11 3 (0.094%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 866 (27.14%) Agile
2 625 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
3 620 (19.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 470 (14.73%) Migration
5 445 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
6 431 (13.51%) Roadmaps
7 430 (13.48%) Change Management
8 407 (12.75%) Decision-Making
9 386 (12.10%) Workshop Facilitation
10 342 (10.72%) DevOps
10 342 (10.72%) Project Management
11 322 (10.09%) Analytics
12 303 (9.50%) AI
13 300 (9.40%) Risk Management
14 297 (9.31%) ERP
15 290 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
16 265 (8.30%) Project Delivery
17 260 (8.15%) CI/CD
18 253 (7.93%) Cybersecurity
19 249 (7.80%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 248 (7.77%) Python
2 244 (7.65%) SQL
3 103 (3.23%) Java
4 78 (2.44%) PowerShell
5 46 (1.44%) JavaScript
6 35 (1.10%) C#
7 34 (1.07%) TypeScript
8 27 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 25 (0.78%) Bash
10 18 (0.56%) Bicep
10 18 (0.56%) VBA
11 14 (0.44%) R
12 10 (0.31%) Kotlin
12 10 (0.31%) PHP
12 10 (0.31%) Scala
13 9 (0.28%) Apex Code
13 9 (0.28%) Korn
14 7 (0.22%) ABAP
14 7 (0.22%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 784 (24.57%) Security Cleared
2 620 (19.43%) SC Cleared
3 268 (8.40%) Degree
4 121 (3.79%) DV Cleared
5 118 (3.70%) PMI Certification
6 113 (3.54%) PMP
7 109 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 69 (2.16%) CISSP
9 48 (1.50%) CISM
10 40 (1.25%) Azure Certification
10 40 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
10 40 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
11 38 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 32 (1.00%) ACCA
13 31 (0.97%) CIMA
14 30 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 25 (0.78%) AWS Certification
16 22 (0.69%) IIBA
16 22 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
17 21 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (6.27%) Data Quality
2 169 (5.30%) QA
3 162 (5.08%) PMO
4 137 (4.29%) NIST
5 133 (4.17%) GDPR
5 133 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 83 (2.60%) Accessibility
7 55 (1.72%) GRC
8 32 (1.00%) PCI DSS
9 30 (0.94%) SLA
10 27 (0.85%) NCSC
11 25 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
12 23 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.53%) WCAG
14 16 (0.50%) SOC 2
15 14 (0.44%) Basel III
16 13 (0.41%) ISO 20022
17 12 (0.38%) COBIT
17 12 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 11 (0.34%) Def Stans
System Software
1 103 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 63 (1.97%) Docker
3 24 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.50%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.34%) 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
9 3 (0.094%) NFS
9 3 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.063%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.031%) Firmware
11 1 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 116 (3.64%) Terraform
2 105 (3.29%) Kubernetes
3 30 (0.94%) Ansible
4 26 (0.81%) Grafana
4 26 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.44%) HP ALM
7 14 (0.44%) SCCM
8 8 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.16%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.16%) vRealize
10 4 (0.13%) Istio
10 4 (0.13%) Podman
11 3 (0.094%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.094%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 3 (0.094%) vMotion
11 3 (0.094%) WSUS
12 2 (0.063%) Nessus
12 2 (0.063%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 466 (14.60%) Microsoft
2 254 (7.96%) SAP
3 182 (5.70%) ServiceNow
4 148 (4.64%) Oracle
5 89 (2.79%) Salesforce
6 72 (2.26%) Databricks
7 63 (1.97%) Google
8 48 (1.50%) CyberArk
9 45 (1.41%) VMware
10 42 (1.32%) IBM
11 41 (1.28%) Cisco
12 39 (1.22%) BeyondTrust
13 35 (1.10%) Splunk
14 34 (1.07%) Centrify
14 34 (1.07%) Workday
15 19 (0.60%) Adobe
15 19 (0.60%) Dynatrace
15 19 (0.60%) Palo Alto
15 19 (0.60%) Sparx
15 19 (0.60%) Zscaler
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