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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 95 154
Rank change year-on-year +71 +59 0
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,967 827 710
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.28% 2.69% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.39% 2.99% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,050 510 484
10th Percentile £365 £400 £363
25th Percentile £438 £456 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £652
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +4.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 11 41
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £27.81
25th Percentile £19.18 £26.88 £32.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £49.51 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.08% +4.22% +131.71%
75th Percentile £69.68 £68.22 £57.33
90th Percentile £94.50 £83.75 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.61 £54.65 £56.49
% change year-on-year +1.76% -3.27% +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 35,362 27,619 38,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.73% 89.84% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,416 17,059 25,415
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £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 £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.34% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 859 2,186
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £32.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.46% -6.26% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.30 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +69 2,579 £525 -3.67% 628
UK excluding London +60 1,387 £500 -4.76% 507
London +73 1,215 £550 - 254
Work from Home +75 848 £525 -4.55% 270
North of England +43 348 £500 - 115
South East +44 339 £500 -8.26% 191
Midlands +44 284 £496 -5.52% 97
South West +44 192 £523 -12.83% 44
West Midlands +31 184 £500 -9.09% 60
North West +36 162 £483 -3.21% 63
Yorkshire +14 149 £520 -0.95% 42
East Midlands +18 98 £475 +11.76% 37
Scotland +34 94 £450 -16.86% 25
East of England +32 94 £525 +5.00% 30
North East +12 40 £450 -32.46% 13
Wales +20 30 £400 -33.33% 8
Northern Ireland +9 13 £475 - 2
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
1 163 (5.49%) Confluence
2 116 (3.91%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.51%) SAS
5 12 (0.40%) CMS
6 10 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.24%) Apache
8 6 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.17%) Appian
10 4 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.13%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.10%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.10%) Drupal
11 3 (0.10%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.10%) Smallworld
11 3 (0.10%) WordPress
12 2 (0.067%) Moodle
12 2 (0.067%) nginx
12 2 (0.067%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 173 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
3 68 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 63 (2.12%) MS Visio
5 60 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.34%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.10%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.10%) Notion
9 3 (0.10%) Revit
10 2 (0.067%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.067%) Camtasia
10 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.067%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.067%) Sketch
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 130 (4.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.57%) SAP PP
5 15 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.51%) SAP FI
6 13 (0.44%) SAP MM
7 12 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 11 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
8 11 (0.37%) SAP ERP
9 10 (0.34%) Teamcenter
10 9 (0.30%) SAP HR
10 9 (0.30%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.27%) NEC Housing
11 8 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
11 8 (0.27%) SAP CO
12 7 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 7 (0.24%) OpenText VIM for SAP
12 7 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
13 6 (0.20%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 545 (18.37%) Azure
2 338 (11.39%) AWS
3 242 (8.16%) Power Platform
4 146 (4.92%) GCP
5 139 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
6 110 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
7 103 (3.47%) SaaS
8 88 (2.97%) Entra ID
9 70 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
10 60 (2.02%) GitHub
11 49 (1.65%) OCI
12 48 (1.62%) Serverless
13 40 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
14 34 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
14 34 (1.15%) Power Automate
15 32 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
16 31 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
16 31 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
16 31 (1.04%) PaaS
17 29 (0.98%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.22%) Firewall
2 45 (1.52%) Network Security
3 27 (0.91%) DNS
3 27 (0.91%) WAN
4 25 (0.84%) LAN
5 22 (0.74%) VPN
6 15 (0.51%) SD-WAN
7 14 (0.47%) BGP
7 14 (0.47%) MPLS
8 10 (0.34%) DHCP
9 9 (0.30%) Internet
9 9 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.30%) Wireless
10 8 (0.27%) VLAN
11 7 (0.24%) Kerberos
11 7 (0.24%) VSAN
12 6 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (0.20%) OSPF
12 6 (0.20%) WLAN
13 5 (0.17%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (6.40%) Power BI
2 70 (2.36%) Metadata
3 59 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (1.45%) Tableau
5 41 (1.38%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.84%) Data Lake
7 18 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
7 18 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
8 17 (0.57%) Power Query
8 17 (0.57%) Relational Database
9 16 (0.54%) MySQL
9 16 (0.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 16 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
11 13 (0.44%) Data Vault
12 12 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (0.40%) Big Data
12 12 (0.40%) Delta Lake
12 12 (0.40%) DynamoDB
13 11 (0.37%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 264 (8.90%) JIRA
2 45 (1.52%) GitLab
3 40 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.01%) Git
5 20 (0.67%) Selenium
6 15 (0.51%) Cucumber
7 14 (0.47%) Postman
8 8 (0.27%) JUnit
8 8 (0.27%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.24%) JMeter
9 7 (0.24%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.20%) ERwin
10 6 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.20%) TestRail
11 4 (0.13%) Gatling
11 4 (0.13%) Hudson
11 4 (0.13%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.13%) MLflow
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1,529 (51.53%) Social Skills
2 849 (28.61%) Finance
3 478 (16.11%) Public Sector
4 475 (16.01%) Analytical Skills
5 197 (6.64%) Banking
6 149 (5.02%) Influencing Skills
7 132 (4.45%) Documentation Skills
8 108 (3.64%) Legal
9 84 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
10 75 (2.53%) Manufacturing
11 70 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
12 68 (2.29%) Retail
13 65 (2.19%) Marketing
13 65 (2.19%) Telecoms
14 56 (1.89%) Local Government
15 46 (1.55%) Financial Institution
16 31 (1.04%) Aerospace
16 31 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
17 30 (1.01%) Law
17 30 (1.01%) Military
Job Titles
1 573 (19.31%) Analyst
2 419 (14.12%) Business Analyst
3 405 (13.65%) Architect
4 364 (12.27%) Lead
5 273 (9.20%) Consultant
6 255 (8.59%) Project Manager
7 251 (8.46%) Senior
8 142 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
9 92 (3.10%) Senior Analyst
10 89 (3.00%) Developer
11 87 (2.93%) Programme Manager
12 78 (2.63%) Change Manager
13 72 (2.43%) Senior Business Analyst
14 64 (2.16%) Data Analyst
15 57 (1.92%) Designer
16 51 (1.72%) Delivery Manager
17 47 (1.58%) Data Engineer
18 46 (1.55%) SAP Consultant
19 43 (1.45%) Senior Manager
20 42 (1.42%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (3.74%) REST
2 59 (1.99%) SOAP
3 54 (1.82%) LDAP
4 45 (1.52%) .NET
5 38 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
6 37 (1.25%) Middleware
7 36 (1.21%) OAuth
8 34 (1.15%) OpenID
9 27 (0.91%) Node.js
10 26 (0.88%) XML
11 22 (0.74%) React
11 22 (0.74%) SAP Fiori
11 22 (0.74%) Spring
12 21 (0.71%) Kafka
13 20 (0.67%) RESTful
14 19 (0.64%) CSS
14 19 (0.64%) SAML
14 19 (0.64%) Spring Boot
15 18 (0.61%) HTML
15 18 (0.61%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 178 (6.00%) Product Ownership
2 143 (4.82%) Onboarding
3 93 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 88 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
5 66 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 64 (2.16%) Management Information System
6 64 (2.16%) Security Posture
7 62 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
8 56 (1.89%) NHS
9 51 (1.72%) Data Structures
10 49 (1.65%) Data Centre
11 43 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
12 41 (1.38%) PMI
13 38 (1.28%) Operational Technology
14 37 (1.25%) AI Agents
15 36 (1.21%) CMDB
16 35 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
17 27 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
18 24 (0.81%) Virtual Team
19 21 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 75 (2.53%) Windows
2 37 (1.25%) Linux
3 21 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.17%) VMS
7 4 (0.13%) Unix
8 3 (0.10%) Android
8 3 (0.10%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.034%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 753 (25.38%) Agile
2 594 (20.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 492 (16.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 467 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
5 446 (15.03%) Migration
6 417 (14.05%) Roadmaps
7 409 (13.78%) Change Management
8 350 (11.80%) Project Management
9 342 (11.53%) Workshop Facilitation
10 341 (11.49%) Decision-Making
11 310 (10.45%) Analytics
12 292 (9.84%) DevOps
13 277 (9.34%) Risk Management
14 251 (8.46%) Business Intelligence
15 247 (8.32%) Requirements Gathering
16 244 (8.22%) AI
17 237 (7.99%) ERP
18 223 (7.52%) Project Delivery
19 220 (7.41%) Data Governance
20 209 (7.04%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 235 (7.92%) SQL
2 221 (7.45%) Python
3 110 (3.71%) PowerShell
4 76 (2.56%) Java
5 57 (1.92%) JavaScript
6 42 (1.42%) C#
7 30 (1.01%) TypeScript
8 29 (0.98%) Bash
9 27 (0.91%) Bicep
10 22 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (0.54%) R
12 13 (0.44%) ABAP
13 11 (0.37%) PHP
14 10 (0.34%) Korn
14 10 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.34%) VBA
15 7 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.20%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.17%) C++
18 4 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 644 (21.71%) Security Cleared
2 532 (17.93%) SC Cleared
3 271 (9.13%) Degree
4 101 (3.40%) PMI Certification
5 93 (3.13%) DV Cleared
5 93 (3.13%) PMP
6 83 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 57 (1.92%) Master's Degree
8 51 (1.72%) CISSP
9 44 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 36 (1.21%) CISM
11 35 (1.18%) Azure Certification
12 32 (1.08%) ACCA
13 30 (1.01%) CIMA
14 25 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 22 (0.74%) AWS Certification
15 22 (0.74%) CBAP
15 22 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
16 20 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
16 20 (0.67%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (5.36%) QA
2 156 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 147 (4.95%) GDPR
4 119 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 109 (3.67%) NIST
6 104 (3.51%) PMO
7 79 (2.66%) Accessibility
8 58 (1.95%) GRC
9 44 (1.48%) PCI DSS
10 30 (1.01%) NCSC
11 28 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 27 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
13 18 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
14 17 (0.57%) Basel III
15 16 (0.54%) SLA
16 14 (0.47%) PSD2
17 12 (0.40%) WCAG
18 11 (0.37%) COBIT
19 10 (0.34%) HL7
19 10 (0.34%) JSP 440
System Software
1 112 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 71 (2.39%) Docker
3 29 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.40%) vSphere
6 8 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.17%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.10%) NFS
9 3 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.034%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.034%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 117 (3.94%) Terraform
2 101 (3.40%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.11%) Ansible
4 27 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.51%) SCCM
7 13 (0.44%) Grafana
8 10 (0.34%) HP ALM
8 10 (0.34%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.20%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.13%) Control-M
11 4 (0.13%) Istio
11 4 (0.13%) Podman
12 3 (0.10%) Argo
12 3 (0.10%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.10%) Nessus
12 3 (0.10%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.10%) vMotion
12 3 (0.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 434 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 272 (9.17%) SAP
3 161 (5.43%) ServiceNow
4 155 (5.22%) Oracle
5 101 (3.40%) Salesforce
6 73 (2.46%) Google
7 68 (2.29%) Cisco
8 60 (2.02%) Databricks
9 52 (1.75%) CyberArk
10 47 (1.58%) VMware
10 47 (1.58%) Workday
11 39 (1.31%) BeyondTrust
12 35 (1.18%) Aruba
12 35 (1.18%) Centrify
13 25 (0.84%) IBM
14 24 (0.81%) Palo Alto
15 23 (0.78%) Splunk
16 22 (0.74%) OpenAI
16 22 (0.74%) Red Hat
17 21 (0.71%) Adobe