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

 6 months to
18 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 102 156
Rank change year-on-year +80 +54 +5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,830 777 708
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.62% 2.45% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.69% 2.75% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,962 469 490
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £438 £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 £750 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 9 41
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.93 £27.81
25th Percentile £19.21 £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 £66.20 £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 32,565 28,230 37,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.70% 88.92% 87.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,598 17,153 25,051
10th Percentile £304 £308 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £743 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,982 906 1,726
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.15
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.80 £17.54
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -18.75% +17.96%
75th Percentile £56.69 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.81 £75.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £30.78 £40.28
% change year-on-year -22.03% -23.58% +46.45%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +76 2,471 £525 -4.55% 787
UK excluding London +66 1,306 £500 -4.76% 721
London +86 1,179 £550 - 200
Work from Home +91 822 £525 -6.67% 413
South East +51 338 £500 -9.09% 241
North of England +46 322 £500 -1.48% 131
Midlands +30 247 £500 -4.76% 139
South West +56 200 £523 -10.98% 68
West Midlands +29 168 £500 -12.43% 89
North West +30 148 £515 - 57
Yorkshire +25 138 £520 +9.47% 58
East of England +35 84 £550 +28.50% 90
Scotland +41 82 £450 -12.24% 28
East Midlands +21 78 £431 +1.29% 50
North East +17 39 £450 -45.45% 21
Wales +22 28 £450 -25.00% 33
Northern Ireland +7 12 £500 - 12
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
1 148 (5.23%) Confluence
2 121 (4.28%) SharePoint
3 27 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.71%) SAS
5 12 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.42%) CMS
6 8 (0.28%) Apache
7 7 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.25%) Appian
7 7 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.14%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.14%) MQSeries
9 3 (0.11%) nginx
9 3 (0.11%) Smallworld
10 2 (0.071%) Drupal
10 2 (0.071%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.071%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.071%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 153 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (3.07%) Microsoft Project
3 61 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
4 53 (1.87%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.28%) ProjectWise
7 6 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.18%) Trello
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
10 3 (0.11%) Revit
11 2 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.071%) Camtasia
11 2 (0.071%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.071%) Sketch
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 112 (3.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 30 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.60%) SAP PP
5 15 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
5 15 (0.53%) SAP FI
6 14 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
6 14 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
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 10 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
8 10 (0.35%) Teamcenter
9 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
9 9 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
9 9 (0.32%) SAP HR
10 8 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
10 8 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
10 8 (0.28%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 518 (18.30%) Azure
2 333 (11.77%) AWS
3 220 (7.77%) Power Platform
4 150 (5.30%) GCP
5 128 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
6 109 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 97 (3.43%) SaaS
8 88 (3.11%) Entra ID
9 74 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
10 59 (2.08%) GitHub
11 53 (1.87%) OCI
12 46 (1.63%) Serverless
13 41 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (1.17%) Power Automate
15 32 (1.13%) Azure Logic Apps
16 31 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
17 30 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
18 27 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
19 26 (0.92%) PowerApps
19 26 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 58 (2.05%) Firewall
2 36 (1.27%) Network Security
3 24 (0.85%) WAN
4 23 (0.81%) LAN
5 22 (0.78%) DNS
6 21 (0.74%) VPN
7 19 (0.67%) SD-WAN
8 12 (0.42%) BGP
9 11 (0.39%) MPLS
10 10 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.28%) DHCP
11 8 (0.28%) Internet
11 8 (0.28%) Wireless
12 7 (0.25%) Kerberos
12 7 (0.25%) VLAN
13 6 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
13 6 (0.21%) VSAN
14 5 (0.18%) IPsec
14 5 (0.18%) Unified Communications
14 5 (0.18%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (6.22%) Power BI
2 71 (2.51%) Metadata
3 49 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (1.63%) Tableau
5 39 (1.38%) SQL Server
6 24 (0.85%) Data Lake
7 22 (0.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 19 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
9 17 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
10 15 (0.53%) MySQL
11 14 (0.49%) Power Query
12 13 (0.46%) Big Data
12 13 (0.46%) DynamoDB
13 12 (0.42%) Data Vault
13 12 (0.42%) NoSQL
13 12 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (0.42%) Relational Database
13 12 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
14 11 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 257 (9.08%) JIRA
2 46 (1.63%) GitLab
3 40 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.13%) Git
5 24 (0.85%) Selenium
6 15 (0.53%) Cucumber
6 15 (0.53%) Postman
7 11 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.35%) REST Assured
9 7 (0.25%) Robot Framework
10 6 (0.21%) JMeter
10 6 (0.21%) TestRail
11 5 (0.18%) Gatling
11 5 (0.18%) JUnit
11 5 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (0.14%) ERwin
12 4 (0.14%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.14%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,490 (52.65%) Social Skills
2 776 (27.42%) Finance
3 480 (16.96%) Public Sector
4 437 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
5 195 (6.89%) Banking
6 125 (4.42%) Influencing Skills
7 114 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
8 104 (3.67%) Legal
9 88 (3.11%) Manufacturing
10 75 (2.65%) Marketing
11 74 (2.61%) Telecoms
12 70 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
13 65 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
13 65 (2.30%) Retail
14 59 (2.08%) Local Government
15 39 (1.38%) Financial Institution
16 36 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 35 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
18 32 (1.13%) Law
19 31 (1.10%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 507 (17.92%) Analyst
2 377 (13.32%) Architect
3 375 (13.25%) Business Analyst
4 330 (11.66%) Lead
5 305 (10.78%) Consultant
6 255 (9.01%) Project Manager
7 229 (8.09%) Senior
8 130 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
9 89 (3.14%) Developer
10 75 (2.65%) Change Manager
11 71 (2.51%) Senior Analyst
12 70 (2.47%) Programme Manager
13 62 (2.19%) Senior Business Analyst
14 55 (1.94%) SAP Consultant
15 51 (1.80%) Designer
16 50 (1.77%) Data Analyst
17 47 (1.66%) Delivery Manager
17 47 (1.66%) Senior Manager
18 45 (1.59%) Technical Manager
19 43 (1.52%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (3.96%) REST
2 61 (2.16%) SOAP
3 55 (1.94%) LDAP
4 47 (1.66%) .NET
5 36 (1.27%) OAuth
5 36 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
6 35 (1.24%) OpenID
7 30 (1.06%) Middleware
8 28 (0.99%) XML
9 26 (0.92%) Node.js
10 22 (0.78%) Kafka
10 22 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
11 20 (0.71%) RESTful
11 20 (0.71%) SAML
12 19 (0.67%) CSS
12 19 (0.67%) HTML
12 19 (0.67%) LangChain
12 19 (0.67%) OAuth2
12 19 (0.67%) SailPoint
13 18 (0.64%) React
Miscellaneous
1 184 (6.50%) Product Ownership
2 149 (5.27%) Onboarding
3 96 (3.39%) Cloud Native
4 95 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
5 77 (2.72%) Management Information System
6 69 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
7 64 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 57 (2.01%) Security Posture
9 54 (1.91%) Data Structures
10 50 (1.77%) NHS
11 43 (1.52%) Data Centre
11 43 (1.52%) PMI
12 37 (1.31%) AI Agents
13 35 (1.24%) CMDB
13 35 (1.24%) Operational Technology
14 34 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
15 32 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
16 27 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
17 21 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
18 20 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 70 (2.47%) Windows
2 35 (1.24%) Linux
3 20 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (0.67%) Windows 10
4 19 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.25%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.18%) Unix
6 5 (0.18%) VMS
7 4 (0.14%) Android
7 4 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.071%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.035%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 751 (26.54%) Agile
2 564 (19.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 448 (15.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 443 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
5 417 (14.73%) Migration
6 379 (13.39%) Roadmaps
7 375 (13.25%) Change Management
8 354 (12.51%) Project Management
9 311 (10.99%) Workshop Facilitation
10 301 (10.64%) Decision-Making
11 291 (10.28%) Analytics
12 288 (10.18%) DevOps
13 253 (8.94%) Risk Management
14 245 (8.66%) Business Intelligence
15 239 (8.45%) Requirements Gathering
16 227 (8.02%) Project Delivery
17 220 (7.77%) ERP
18 215 (7.60%) CI/CD
19 214 (7.56%) Data Governance
20 209 (7.39%) AI
Programming Languages
1 208 (7.35%) SQL
2 199 (7.03%) Python
3 110 (3.89%) PowerShell
4 70 (2.47%) Java
5 57 (2.01%) JavaScript
6 38 (1.34%) C#
7 28 (0.99%) Bash
8 27 (0.95%) Bicep
8 27 (0.95%) TypeScript
9 18 (0.64%) R
10 17 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (0.42%) ABAP
12 11 (0.39%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.32%) PHP
14 8 (0.28%) Korn
15 6 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.18%) C++
16 5 (0.18%) Scala
17 4 (0.14%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.14%) RPG
Qualifications
1 602 (21.27%) Security Cleared
2 492 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 259 (9.15%) Degree
4 108 (3.82%) PMI Certification
5 93 (3.29%) PMP
6 87 (3.07%) DV Cleared
7 68 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 53 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 45 (1.59%) CISSP
10 43 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 34 (1.20%) Azure Certification
12 33 (1.17%) ACCA
13 31 (1.10%) CISM
14 29 (1.02%) CIMA
15 27 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
16 24 (0.85%) AWS Certification
17 22 (0.78%) CBAP
18 20 (0.71%) APMG
19 19 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
19 19 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (5.23%) GDPR
2 146 (5.16%) QA
3 133 (4.70%) Data Quality
4 120 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 103 (3.64%) PMO
6 101 (3.57%) NIST
7 76 (2.69%) Accessibility
8 49 (1.73%) GRC
9 46 (1.63%) PCI DSS
10 30 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 29 (1.02%) NCSC
12 21 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
12 21 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
13 16 (0.57%) Basel III
13 16 (0.57%) PSD2
14 15 (0.53%) ISO 19650
15 12 (0.42%) SLA
15 12 (0.42%) WCAG
16 11 (0.39%) JSP 440
17 10 (0.35%) HIPAA
System Software
1 116 (4.10%) Active Directory
2 74 (2.61%) Docker
3 25 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.49%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.39%) vSphere
6 9 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.18%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.035%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.035%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 121 (4.28%) Terraform
2 92 (3.25%) Kubernetes
3 34 (1.20%) Ansible
4 26 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.60%) SCCM
7 10 (0.35%) Grafana
8 9 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (0.28%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.25%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.14%) Argo
11 4 (0.14%) Control-M
11 4 (0.14%) Istio
12 3 (0.11%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.11%) VxRail
13 2 (0.071%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.071%) Nessus
13 2 (0.071%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.071%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.071%) vRealize
Vendors
1 401 (14.17%) Microsoft
2 265 (9.36%) SAP
3 174 (6.15%) Oracle
4 159 (5.62%) ServiceNow
5 93 (3.29%) Salesforce
6 72 (2.54%) Google
7 65 (2.30%) Cisco
8 57 (2.01%) Workday
9 53 (1.87%) CyberArk
10 51 (1.80%) Databricks
11 43 (1.52%) VMware
12 40 (1.41%) BeyondTrust
13 35 (1.24%) Aruba
13 35 (1.24%) Centrify
14 24 (0.85%) IBM
15 22 (0.78%) OpenAI
15 22 (0.78%) Red Hat
16 21 (0.74%) Adobe
16 21 (0.74%) Palo Alto
17 18 (0.64%) Splunk
888 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide