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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 102 152
Rank change year-on-year +80 +50 +5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,878 778 704
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.61% 2.45% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.69% 2.76% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,995 472 491
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £436 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £751 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +2.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 9 40
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.93 £27.81
25th Percentile £19.10 £26.25 £33.65
Median hourly rate £41.86 £28.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +49.48% -50.43% +119.38%
75th Percentile £65.14 £56.25 £57.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £69.15 £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 33,128 28,199 37,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.64% 88.95% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,004 17,123 24,892
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £645
90th Percentile £720 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,016 901 1,818
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £17.08
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -13.33% +17.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £30.78 £40.00
% change year-on-year -22.03% -23.05% +53.85%

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 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 22 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 22 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 +80 2,506 £525 -4.55% 737
UK excluding London +56 1,349 £500 -4.76% 641
London +81 1,181 £550 - 232
Work from Home +96 835 £525 -7.49% 436
South East +48 340 £500 -8.26% 233
North of England +40 334 £500 - 115
Midlands +29 260 £500 -4.76% 124
South West +48 201 £513 -14.58% 56
West Midlands +31 175 £500 -12.74% 89
North West +28 156 £500 - 49
Yorkshire +22 142 £523 +10.00% 47
East of England +36 90 £550 +28.50% 69
Scotland +39 88 £450 -12.24% 24
East Midlands +21 83 £424 -0.29% 35
North East +19 39 £450 -45.45% 22
Wales +18 29 £425 -29.17% 27
Northern Ireland +8 14 £500 - 9
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
1 153 (5.32%) Confluence
2 122 (4.24%) SharePoint
3 27 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.69%) SAS
5 12 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.42%) CMS
6 8 (0.28%) Apache
7 7 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.24%) Appian
7 7 (0.24%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.14%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.14%) MQSeries
9 3 (0.10%) nginx
9 3 (0.10%) Smallworld
10 2 (0.069%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.069%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.069%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.069%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.069%) WordPress
Applications
1 156 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (3.02%) Microsoft Project
3 60 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 55 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
5 54 (1.88%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.24%) ProjectWise
8 6 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.17%) Trello
10 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.10%) Navisworks
11 3 (0.10%) Notion
11 3 (0.10%) Revit
12 2 (0.069%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.069%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.069%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.069%) PTC Creo
12 2 (0.069%) Sketch
13 1 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 114 (3.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.59%) SAP PP
4 17 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 15 (0.52%) SAP FI
6 14 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
7 12 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
7 12 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.42%) SAP ERP
7 12 (0.42%) SAP MM
7 12 (0.42%) Workday HCM
8 11 (0.38%) Teamcenter
9 10 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
9 10 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
10 9 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
10 9 (0.31%) SAP HR
11 8 (0.28%) Maximo
11 8 (0.28%) SAP CO
11 8 (0.28%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 525 (18.24%) Azure
2 336 (11.67%) AWS
3 226 (7.85%) Power Platform
4 150 (5.21%) GCP
5 133 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
6 112 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
7 96 (3.34%) SaaS
8 90 (3.13%) Entra ID
9 72 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
10 59 (2.05%) GitHub
11 53 (1.84%) OCI
12 47 (1.63%) Serverless
13 41 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
14 35 (1.22%) Power Automate
15 33 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
16 32 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
17 30 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
18 28 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
19 27 (0.94%) PowerApps
20 26 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.08%) Firewall
2 39 (1.36%) Network Security
3 25 (0.87%) WAN
4 24 (0.83%) LAN
5 23 (0.80%) DNS
6 21 (0.73%) VPN
7 20 (0.69%) SD-WAN
8 12 (0.42%) BGP
8 12 (0.42%) MPLS
9 10 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.31%) Internet
10 9 (0.31%) Wireless
11 8 (0.28%) DHCP
12 7 (0.24%) Kerberos
12 7 (0.24%) VLAN
13 6 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
13 6 (0.21%) VSAN
13 6 (0.21%) WLAN
14 5 (0.17%) IPsec
14 5 (0.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (6.25%) Power BI
2 71 (2.47%) Metadata
3 50 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (1.60%) Tableau
5 39 (1.36%) SQL Server
6 24 (0.83%) Data Lake
7 22 (0.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 20 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
9 17 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
10 15 (0.52%) MySQL
11 14 (0.49%) Power Query
11 14 (0.49%) Relational Database
12 13 (0.45%) Big Data
12 13 (0.45%) DynamoDB
13 12 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.42%) Data Vault
13 12 (0.42%) NoSQL
13 12 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
14 11 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 262 (9.10%) JIRA
2 47 (1.63%) GitLab
3 40 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.11%) Git
5 24 (0.83%) Selenium
6 15 (0.52%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.52%) Postman
7 11 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.35%) REST Assured
9 7 (0.24%) Robot Framework
10 6 (0.21%) JMeter
10 6 (0.21%) TestRail
11 5 (0.17%) Gatling
11 5 (0.17%) JUnit
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (0.14%) ERwin
12 4 (0.14%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.14%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
13 3 (0.10%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 1,521 (52.85%) Social Skills
2 799 (27.76%) Finance
3 488 (16.96%) Public Sector
4 439 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
5 201 (6.98%) Banking
6 133 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
7 118 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
8 105 (3.65%) Legal
9 86 (2.99%) Manufacturing
10 74 (2.57%) Marketing
11 73 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
12 72 (2.50%) Telecoms
13 70 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
14 68 (2.36%) Retail
15 58 (2.02%) Local Government
16 41 (1.42%) Financial Institution
17 35 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 35 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
18 32 (1.11%) Law
19 28 (0.97%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 520 (18.07%) Analyst
2 387 (13.45%) Business Analyst
3 386 (13.41%) Architect
4 341 (11.85%) Lead
5 302 (10.49%) Consultant
6 258 (8.96%) Project Manager
7 232 (8.06%) Senior
8 136 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
9 91 (3.16%) Developer
10 78 (2.71%) Change Manager
11 73 (2.54%) Programme Manager
11 73 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
12 63 (2.19%) Senior Business Analyst
13 54 (1.88%) Designer
13 54 (1.88%) SAP Consultant
14 51 (1.77%) Data Analyst
15 49 (1.70%) Delivery Manager
16 46 (1.60%) Senior Manager
16 46 (1.60%) Technical Manager
17 43 (1.49%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (3.89%) REST
2 60 (2.08%) SOAP
3 55 (1.91%) LDAP
4 47 (1.63%) .NET
5 37 (1.29%) OAuth
5 37 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
6 36 (1.25%) OpenID
7 34 (1.18%) Middleware
8 27 (0.94%) Node.js
8 27 (0.94%) XML
9 22 (0.76%) Kafka
9 22 (0.76%) SAP Fiori
10 21 (0.73%) RESTful
11 20 (0.69%) OAuth2
11 20 (0.69%) SAML
12 19 (0.66%) CSS
12 19 (0.66%) HTML
12 19 (0.66%) LangChain
12 19 (0.66%) SailPoint
13 18 (0.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 183 (6.36%) Product Ownership
2 148 (5.14%) Onboarding
3 96 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
4 95 (3.30%) Cloud Native
5 75 (2.61%) Management Information System
6 69 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 63 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
8 58 (2.02%) Security Posture
9 55 (1.91%) Data Structures
10 50 (1.74%) NHS
11 46 (1.60%) PMI
12 44 (1.53%) Data Centre
13 38 (1.32%) AI Agents
14 37 (1.29%) CMDB
15 36 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
16 35 (1.22%) Operational Technology
16 35 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
17 26 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
18 21 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
18 21 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 74 (2.57%) Windows
2 36 (1.25%) Linux
3 21 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (0.66%) Windows 10
4 19 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.24%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.21%) VMS
7 5 (0.17%) Unix
8 4 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.10%) Android
9 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.069%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.035%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 763 (26.51%) Agile
2 574 (19.94%) Stakeholder Management
3 456 (15.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 447 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
5 420 (14.59%) Migration
6 387 (13.45%) Change Management
6 387 (13.45%) Roadmaps
7 360 (12.51%) Project Management
8 318 (11.05%) Workshop Facilitation
9 307 (10.67%) Decision-Making
10 298 (10.35%) Analytics
11 293 (10.18%) DevOps
12 260 (9.03%) Risk Management
13 249 (8.65%) Business Intelligence
14 241 (8.37%) Requirements Gathering
15 232 (8.06%) Project Delivery
16 224 (7.78%) ERP
17 222 (7.71%) CI/CD
18 213 (7.40%) AI
19 212 (7.37%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 213 (7.40%) SQL
2 202 (7.02%) Python
3 112 (3.89%) PowerShell
4 69 (2.40%) Java
5 58 (2.02%) JavaScript
6 38 (1.32%) C#
7 28 (0.97%) Bash
8 26 (0.90%) Bicep
8 26 (0.90%) TypeScript
9 19 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 17 (0.59%) R
11 12 (0.42%) ABAP
12 11 (0.38%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.31%) PHP
14 8 (0.28%) Korn
15 7 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.21%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.17%) C++
17 5 (0.17%) Scala
18 4 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 609 (21.16%) Security Cleared
2 498 (17.30%) SC Cleared
3 264 (9.17%) Degree
4 113 (3.93%) PMI Certification
5 95 (3.30%) PMP
6 86 (2.99%) DV Cleared
7 74 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 55 (1.91%) Master's Degree
9 48 (1.67%) CISSP
10 46 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 34 (1.18%) ACCA
11 34 (1.18%) CISM
12 33 (1.15%) Azure Certification
13 30 (1.04%) CIMA
14 27 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
15 25 (0.87%) AWS Certification
16 23 (0.80%) CBAP
17 21 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
17 21 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
18 20 (0.69%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (5.28%) QA
2 149 (5.18%) GDPR
3 133 (4.62%) Data Quality
4 120 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 105 (3.65%) NIST
6 102 (3.54%) PMO
7 76 (2.64%) Accessibility
8 51 (1.77%) GRC
9 46 (1.60%) PCI DSS
10 30 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 28 (0.97%) NCSC
12 22 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
13 21 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
14 16 (0.56%) Basel III
14 16 (0.56%) PSD2
15 13 (0.45%) ISO 19650
16 12 (0.42%) SLA
16 12 (0.42%) WCAG
17 10 (0.35%) HIPAA
17 10 (0.35%) JSP 440
System Software
1 116 (4.03%) Active Directory
2 72 (2.50%) Docker
3 25 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.49%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.38%) 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%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.035%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.035%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 119 (4.13%) Terraform
2 91 (3.16%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.22%) Ansible
4 26 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.59%) SCCM
7 10 (0.35%) Grafana
8 9 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (0.28%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.24%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.14%) Argo
11 4 (0.14%) Control-M
11 4 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.14%) Istio
12 3 (0.10%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.10%) VxRail
13 2 (0.069%) Nessus
13 2 (0.069%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.069%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.069%) vRealize
Vendors
1 414 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 265 (9.21%) SAP
3 174 (6.05%) Oracle
4 163 (5.66%) ServiceNow
5 95 (3.30%) Salesforce
6 72 (2.50%) Google
7 66 (2.29%) Cisco
8 56 (1.95%) Workday
9 53 (1.84%) CyberArk
10 51 (1.77%) Databricks
11 43 (1.49%) VMware
12 40 (1.39%) BeyondTrust
13 35 (1.22%) Aruba
13 35 (1.22%) Centrify
14 25 (0.87%) IBM
15 23 (0.80%) OpenAI
15 23 (0.80%) Red Hat
16 21 (0.73%) Adobe
16 21 (0.73%) Palo Alto
17 19 (0.66%) Splunk