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

 6 months to
16 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 74 147
Rank change year-on-year +48 +73 +12
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,202 969 712
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.97% 3.31% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.20% 3.65% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,193 644 492
10th Percentile £364 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £638 £656
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 15 37
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.94 £18.35
25th Percentile £37.12 £29.25 £27.81
Median hourly rate £68.50 £47.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +44.21% +32.09% +37.51%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.00 £57.33
90th Percentile £94.00 £80.35 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.50 £39.78 £56.49
% change year-on-year +104.90% -29.59% +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 39,056 26,574 37,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.05% 90.71% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,707 17,203 24,522
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year - -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,310 1,024 2,401
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.93 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.54 £18.51 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.16 £30.45 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +22.04% -9.24% -7.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £57.83
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £29.00 £33.07
% change year-on-year +31.90% -12.29% -8.47%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 +45 2,783 £525 - 860
UK excluding London +46 1,538 £500 -3.85% 642
London +49 1,284 £550 - 341
Work from Home +55 943 £525 +0.48% 413
South East +33 385 £500 -5.88% 196
North of England +41 384 £500 - 155
Midlands +27 315 £496 -2.84% 129
West Midlands +27 220 £492 -6.29% 83
North West +41 205 £497 -1.05% 75
South West +32 201 £525 -8.70% 86
Yorkshire +5 135 £525 +10.53% 59
East of England +28 110 £545 +9.00% 55
Scotland +38 104 £465 -15.45% 21
East Midlands +11 90 £500 +17.65% 46
North East +18 50 £450 -29.82% 24
Wales +11 36 £460 +27.78% 14
Northern Ireland +15 18 £450 -20.00% 4

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
1 181 (5.65%) Confluence
2 106 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 28 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (0.75%) SAS
5 16 (0.50%) CMS
6 13 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.19%) Apache
9 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.094%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.094%) Drupal
10 3 (0.094%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.094%) WordPress
11 2 (0.062%) nginx
11 2 (0.062%) OpenEdge
11 2 (0.062%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.062%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.062%) WebLogic
Applications
1 160 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (2.31%) Microsoft Project
3 65 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
5 58 (1.81%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.12%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.12%) Sketch
8 4 (0.12%) Trello
9 3 (0.094%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.094%) Notion
10 2 (0.062%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.062%) InVision
10 2 (0.062%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.062%) Windchill
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.031%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.031%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 130 (4.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.53%) SAP FI
5 13 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.41%) SAP PP
6 10 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
6 10 (0.31%) SAP MM
6 10 (0.31%) Teamcenter
6 10 (0.31%) Workday HCM
7 9 (0.28%) NEC Housing
7 9 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 9 (0.28%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.25%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
8 8 (0.25%) SAP HR
9 7 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 7 (0.22%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 591 (18.46%) Azure
2 407 (12.71%) AWS
3 286 (8.93%) Power Platform
4 165 (5.15%) GCP
5 131 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
6 114 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
7 103 (3.22%) Dynamics 365
8 100 (3.12%) SaaS
9 98 (3.06%) Entra ID
10 67 (2.09%) GitHub
11 45 (1.41%) Serverless
12 44 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
13 42 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
14 41 (1.28%) PaaS
15 38 (1.19%) OCI
16 35 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
17 33 (1.03%) Power Automate
18 31 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
18 31 (0.97%) PowerApps
19 30 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.91%) Firewall
2 49 (1.53%) Network Security
3 35 (1.09%) DNS
4 29 (0.91%) VPN
4 29 (0.91%) WAN
5 27 (0.84%) LAN
6 19 (0.59%) SD-WAN
7 17 (0.53%) BGP
8 15 (0.47%) Internet
9 13 (0.41%) MPLS
9 13 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (0.41%) Wireless
10 11 (0.34%) DHCP
10 11 (0.34%) VLAN
11 10 (0.31%) VSAN
12 9 (0.28%) OSPF
13 8 (0.25%) Intranet
13 8 (0.25%) SSL
13 8 (0.25%) WLAN
14 7 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (7.46%) Power BI
2 77 (2.40%) Metadata
3 63 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (1.44%) Tableau
5 34 (1.06%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.78%) Data Lake
7 24 (0.75%) Power Query
8 21 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
8 21 (0.66%) Relational Database
9 17 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
9 17 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
10 15 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
11 14 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (0.41%) Data Vault
12 13 (0.41%) DynamoDB
13 12 (0.37%) MySQL
13 12 (0.37%) NoSQL
14 10 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
14 10 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 288 (8.99%) JIRA
2 48 (1.50%) GitLab
2 48 (1.50%) Jenkins
3 47 (1.47%) Git
4 29 (0.91%) Rational DOORS
5 26 (0.81%) Selenium
6 23 (0.72%) Postman
7 16 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.47%) JMeter
9 13 (0.41%) Hudson
10 11 (0.34%) JUnit
11 8 (0.25%) ERwin
11 8 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (0.25%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
12 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.22%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.19%) MLflow
13 6 (0.19%) TestRail
14 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,548 (48.34%) Social Skills
2 938 (29.29%) Finance
3 518 (16.18%) Public Sector
4 516 (16.11%) Analytical Skills
5 197 (6.15%) Banking
6 147 (4.59%) Influencing Skills
7 137 (4.28%) Documentation Skills
8 119 (3.72%) Legal
9 93 (2.90%) Retail
10 84 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
11 83 (2.59%) Manufacturing
12 74 (2.31%) Law
13 65 (2.03%) Marketing
14 64 (2.00%) Local Government
15 61 (1.91%) Telecoms
16 59 (1.84%) Aerospace
17 58 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
18 35 (1.09%) Military
19 32 (1.00%) Financial Institution
19 32 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 586 (18.30%) Analyst
2 479 (14.96%) Architect
3 418 (13.05%) Business Analyst
4 399 (12.46%) Lead
5 294 (9.18%) Project Manager
6 272 (8.49%) Senior
7 271 (8.46%) Consultant
8 141 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
9 94 (2.94%) Delivery Manager
10 92 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
11 89 (2.78%) Change Manager
12 86 (2.69%) Programme Manager
13 79 (2.47%) Data Analyst
14 78 (2.44%) Developer
15 69 (2.15%) Senior Business Analyst
16 64 (2.00%) Senior Manager
17 60 (1.87%) Designer
18 57 (1.78%) Lead Architect
19 56 (1.75%) Product Manager
20 52 (1.62%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (3.31%) REST
2 57 (1.78%) SOAP
3 54 (1.69%) LDAP
4 48 (1.50%) Middleware
5 40 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
6 35 (1.09%) OpenID
7 33 (1.03%) OAuth
8 32 (1.00%) .NET
9 31 (0.97%) Node.js
9 31 (0.97%) React
9 31 (0.97%) Spring
10 27 (0.84%) SailPoint
11 25 (0.78%) Kafka
12 23 (0.72%) SAML
12 23 (0.72%) Spring Boot
13 21 (0.66%) AngularJS
14 18 (0.56%) TensorFlow
15 17 (0.53%) PyTorch
15 17 (0.53%) RESTful
15 17 (0.53%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 209 (6.53%) Product Ownership
2 149 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 110 (3.44%) Cloud Native
4 81 (2.53%) Data Structures
5 78 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 74 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
7 73 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
8 62 (1.94%) Security Posture
9 59 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 55 (1.72%) Data Centre
10 55 (1.72%) Operational Technology
11 54 (1.69%) NHS
12 41 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
13 39 (1.22%) AI Agents
13 39 (1.22%) CMDB
14 38 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
15 37 (1.16%) PMI
15 37 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
16 31 (0.97%) Virtual Team
17 28 (0.87%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 76 (2.37%) Windows
2 39 (1.22%) Linux
3 20 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 15 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.19%) Unix
7 6 (0.19%) VMS
8 4 (0.12%) Android
8 4 (0.12%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.094%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 828 (25.86%) Agile
2 621 (19.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 615 (19.21%) Continuous Improvement
4 507 (15.83%) Migration
5 468 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
6 446 (13.93%) Roadmaps
7 441 (13.77%) Change Management
8 388 (12.12%) Workshop Facilitation
9 376 (11.74%) Decision-Making
10 345 (10.77%) Project Management
11 338 (10.56%) Analytics
12 335 (10.46%) DevOps
13 299 (9.34%) AI
14 290 (9.06%) Business Intelligence
15 287 (8.96%) ERP
16 284 (8.87%) Risk Management
17 259 (8.09%) Project Delivery
18 253 (7.90%) User Acceptance Testing
19 247 (7.71%) CI/CD
20 238 (7.43%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 249 (7.78%) SQL
2 235 (7.34%) Python
3 94 (2.94%) Java
4 90 (2.81%) PowerShell
5 45 (1.41%) JavaScript
6 38 (1.19%) C#
7 34 (1.06%) TypeScript
8 28 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 21 (0.66%) Bash
10 19 (0.59%) Bicep
11 17 (0.53%) ABAP
11 17 (0.53%) R
11 17 (0.53%) VBA
12 10 (0.31%) Kotlin
12 10 (0.31%) PHP
12 10 (0.31%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.28%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.22%) Korn
15 6 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 790 (24.67%) Security Cleared
2 633 (19.77%) SC Cleared
3 278 (8.68%) Degree
4 118 (3.69%) PMI Certification
5 114 (3.56%) DV Cleared
6 111 (3.47%) PMP
7 106 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 60 (1.87%) CISSP
9 44 (1.37%) Azure Certification
10 42 (1.31%) Master's Degree
11 41 (1.28%) CISM
11 41 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
12 31 (0.97%) AWS Certification
13 28 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
14 27 (0.84%) ACCA
14 27 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 26 (0.81%) CIMA
15 26 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 24 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
17 23 (0.72%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (6.15%) Data Quality
2 173 (5.40%) QA
3 142 (4.43%) PMO
4 140 (4.37%) GDPR
5 131 (4.09%) NIST
6 130 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 78 (2.44%) Accessibility
8 55 (1.72%) GRC
9 33 (1.03%) PCI DSS
10 32 (1.00%) NCSC
11 26 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
12 25 (0.78%) SLA
13 16 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
13 16 (0.50%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.44%) Basel III
15 13 (0.41%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 13 (0.41%) WCAG
16 12 (0.37%) COBIT
17 11 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 112 (3.50%) Active Directory
2 67 (2.09%) Docker
3 31 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.69%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.50%) vSphere
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.094%) NFS
10 3 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.062%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.031%) Firmware
12 1 (0.031%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 117 (3.65%) Terraform
2 107 (3.34%) Kubernetes
3 28 (0.87%) Ansible
4 26 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (0.53%) Grafana
7 16 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.47%) HP ALM
9 14 (0.44%) SCCM
10 11 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.16%) Podman
12 5 (0.16%) vRealize
13 4 (0.12%) Istio
14 3 (0.094%) Argo
14 3 (0.094%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.094%) vMotion
14 3 (0.094%) WSUS
15 2 (0.062%) Nessus
15 2 (0.062%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 465 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 274 (8.56%) SAP
3 192 (6.00%) ServiceNow
4 160 (5.00%) Oracle
5 98 (3.06%) Salesforce
6 66 (2.06%) Google
7 63 (1.97%) Databricks
8 58 (1.81%) Cisco
9 52 (1.62%) CyberArk
10 50 (1.56%) VMware
11 42 (1.31%) IBM
12 41 (1.28%) BeyondTrust
12 41 (1.28%) Workday
13 34 (1.06%) Centrify
14 31 (0.97%) Aruba
15 28 (0.87%) Splunk
16 24 (0.75%) Palo Alto
17 22 (0.69%) Red Hat
18 21 (0.66%) Adobe
18 21 (0.66%) OpenAI
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