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

 6 months to
26 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 80 148
Rank change year-on-year +56 +68 +8
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,166 882 710
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.20% 3.03% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.39% 3.35% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,166 585 481
10th Percentile £363 £392 £363
25th Percentile £449 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -3.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 15 37
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.40 £18.35
25th Percentile £35.72 £26.88 £27.81
Median hourly rate £64.25 £49.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +29.80% +37.65% +75.41%
75th Percentile £88.00 £68.22 £57.33
90th Percentile £94.75 £80.35 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.75 £54.65 £56.49
% change year-on-year +31.30% -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 37,733 26,318 38,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.81% 90.56% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,910 17,091 24,889
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,221 949 2,344
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.19 £12.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.45 £16.00
Median hourly rate £34.50 £32.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% -1.54% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £58.69
90th Percentile £76.00 £76.25 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £31.52 £31.80
% change year-on-year -4.82% -0.88% -12.28%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 +54 2,761 £525 - 871
UK excluding London +52 1,504 £500 -3.85% 633
London +62 1,293 £550 - 341
Work from Home +53 911 £525 -4.55% 428
South East +41 389 £500 -8.26% 209
North of England +44 370 £500 +0.30% 154
Midlands +34 304 £500 - 124
West Midlands +31 202 £492 -6.29% 78
South West +41 199 £525 -12.50% 68
North West +46 193 £475 -4.71% 71
Yorkshire +12 138 £513 +7.89% 63
East of England +29 105 £525 +5.00% 46
East Midlands +9 98 £488 +11.43% 45
Scotland +37 92 £450 -18.07% 21
North East +17 42 £450 -11.33% 21
Wales +12 32 £410 -21.90% 15
Northern Ireland +14 20 £450 - 7
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
1 175 (5.53%) Confluence
2 112 (3.54%) SharePoint
3 31 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (0.57%) SAS
5 13 (0.41%) CMS
6 8 (0.25%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.19%) Apache
7 6 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.13%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.095%) Smallworld
9 3 (0.095%) WordPress
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%) WebLogic
Applications
1 161 (5.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
3 62 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (1.93%) MS Visio
5 58 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.32%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.16%) Trello
9 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
10 3 (0.095%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.095%) Notion
10 3 (0.095%) Sketch
11 2 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.063%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.063%) Windchill
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.032%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.032%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.032%) CATIA
12 1 (0.032%) InVision
Business Applications
1 132 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.54%) SAP PP
5 16 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.51%) SAP FI
6 11 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 11 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
6 11 (0.35%) SAP HR
6 11 (0.35%) Workday HCM
7 10 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
7 10 (0.32%) SAP MM
7 10 (0.32%) Teamcenter
8 9 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 8 (0.25%) NEC Housing
9 8 (0.25%) SAP CO
10 7 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 7 (0.22%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
10 7 (0.22%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 586 (18.51%) Azure
2 374 (11.81%) AWS
3 279 (8.81%) Power Platform
4 156 (4.93%) GCP
5 136 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
6 118 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
7 98 (3.10%) SaaS
8 89 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
8 89 (2.81%) Entra ID
9 63 (1.99%) GitHub
10 46 (1.45%) OCI
11 44 (1.39%) Serverless
12 40 (1.26%) Microsoft Copilot
13 38 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (1.17%) PaaS
15 36 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
16 32 (1.01%) Power Automate
17 31 (0.98%) PowerApps
18 28 (0.88%) IaaS
19 27 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.86%) Firewall
2 49 (1.55%) Network Security
3 32 (1.01%) DNS
4 31 (0.98%) WAN
5 29 (0.92%) LAN
6 27 (0.85%) VPN
7 18 (0.57%) SD-WAN
8 17 (0.54%) BGP
9 14 (0.44%) MPLS
10 13 (0.41%) Internet
11 12 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.38%) Wireless
12 10 (0.32%) VLAN
12 10 (0.32%) VSAN
13 9 (0.28%) DHCP
13 9 (0.28%) OSPF
14 8 (0.25%) WLAN
15 7 (0.22%) 5G
16 6 (0.19%) Cisco ASA
16 6 (0.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (7.26%) Power BI
2 72 (2.27%) Metadata
3 61 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (1.55%) Tableau
5 37 (1.17%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.79%) Data Lake
7 23 (0.73%) Power Query
8 20 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
8 20 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (0.60%) Relational Database
10 18 (0.57%) Electronic Patient Records
11 16 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 16 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
12 15 (0.47%) MySQL
13 14 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (0.41%) Data Vault
14 13 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
15 12 (0.38%) Delta Lake
16 11 (0.35%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.35%) GIS
Development Applications
1 285 (9.00%) JIRA
2 46 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 44 (1.39%) GitLab
4 40 (1.26%) Git
5 29 (0.92%) Rational DOORS
6 24 (0.76%) Selenium
7 19 (0.60%) Postman
8 16 (0.51%) Cucumber
9 14 (0.44%) JMeter
10 11 (0.35%) JUnit
11 8 (0.25%) ERwin
11 8 (0.25%) Hudson
11 8 (0.25%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
12 7 (0.22%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.19%) TestRail
14 5 (0.16%) LoadRunner
14 5 (0.16%) SonarQube
15 4 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
15 4 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,561 (49.31%) Social Skills
2 924 (29.19%) Finance
3 519 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
4 512 (16.17%) Public Sector
5 200 (6.32%) Banking
6 156 (4.93%) Influencing Skills
7 141 (4.45%) Documentation Skills
8 122 (3.85%) Legal
9 84 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
9 84 (2.65%) Retail
10 82 (2.59%) Manufacturing
11 69 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
12 67 (2.12%) Telecoms
13 66 (2.08%) Law
14 64 (2.02%) Marketing
15 60 (1.90%) Local Government
16 57 (1.80%) Aerospace
17 38 (1.20%) Financial Institution
18 32 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
19 31 (0.98%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 595 (18.79%) Analyst
2 468 (14.78%) Architect
3 434 (13.71%) Business Analyst
4 391 (12.35%) Lead
5 291 (9.19%) Project Manager
6 282 (8.91%) Consultant
7 259 (8.18%) Senior
8 146 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
9 91 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
10 90 (2.84%) Programme Manager
11 88 (2.78%) Change Manager
11 88 (2.78%) Developer
12 86 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
13 75 (2.37%) Data Analyst
14 69 (2.18%) Senior Business Analyst
15 59 (1.86%) Product Manager
16 53 (1.67%) Designer
17 52 (1.64%) Lead Architect
18 51 (1.61%) SAP Consultant
19 50 (1.58%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (3.51%) REST
2 59 (1.86%) SOAP
3 50 (1.58%) LDAP
4 46 (1.45%) Middleware
4 46 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
5 37 (1.17%) .NET
6 31 (0.98%) OpenID
7 30 (0.95%) OAuth
8 29 (0.92%) Spring
9 28 (0.88%) Node.js
10 26 (0.82%) React
11 24 (0.76%) SailPoint
12 22 (0.69%) Kafka
13 21 (0.66%) SAP Fiori
13 21 (0.66%) Spring Boot
14 18 (0.57%) AngularJS
15 17 (0.54%) RESTful
15 17 (0.54%) SAML
15 17 (0.54%) TensorFlow
16 16 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 216 (6.82%) Product Ownership
2 150 (4.74%) Onboarding
3 102 (3.22%) Cloud Native
4 79 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 77 (2.43%) Management Information System
6 76 (2.40%) Data Structures
7 67 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 61 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
9 60 (1.90%) Security Posture
10 52 (1.64%) NHS
11 51 (1.61%) Data Centre
12 50 (1.58%) Operational Technology
13 44 (1.39%) PMI
14 42 (1.33%) CMDB
15 39 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
16 37 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
17 35 (1.11%) AI Agents
18 34 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
19 33 (1.04%) Virtual Team
20 26 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 78 (2.46%) Windows
2 43 (1.36%) Linux
3 22 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (0.51%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.19%) VMS
7 5 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.16%) Unix
8 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.095%) Android
9 3 (0.095%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.095%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.032%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 817 (25.81%) Agile
2 626 (19.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 584 (18.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 505 (15.95%) Migration
5 483 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
6 449 (14.18%) Roadmaps
7 435 (13.74%) Change Management
8 397 (12.54%) Workshop Facilitation
9 363 (11.47%) Decision-Making
10 351 (11.09%) Project Management
11 328 (10.36%) Analytics
12 311 (9.82%) DevOps
13 295 (9.32%) Business Intelligence
14 289 (9.13%) Risk Management
15 281 (8.88%) AI
16 271 (8.56%) ERP
17 257 (8.12%) Project Delivery
18 255 (8.05%) User Acceptance Testing
19 249 (7.86%) Requirements Gathering
20 226 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 246 (7.77%) SQL
2 243 (7.68%) Python
3 97 (3.06%) PowerShell
4 92 (2.91%) Java
5 43 (1.36%) JavaScript
6 38 (1.20%) C#
7 27 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 27 (0.85%) TypeScript
8 24 (0.76%) Bash
9 17 (0.54%) R
9 17 (0.54%) VBA
10 16 (0.51%) Bicep
11 15 (0.47%) ABAP
12 11 (0.35%) PHP
13 9 (0.28%) Apex Code
13 9 (0.28%) Korn
13 9 (0.28%) Kotlin
13 9 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.13%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 753 (23.78%) Security Cleared
2 597 (18.86%) SC Cleared
3 278 (8.78%) Degree
4 123 (3.89%) PMI Certification
5 110 (3.47%) DV Cleared
6 109 (3.44%) PMP
7 96 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 55 (1.74%) CISSP
9 49 (1.55%) Master's Degree
10 44 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
11 41 (1.30%) Azure Certification
12 38 (1.20%) CISM
13 29 (0.92%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
15 27 (0.85%) ACCA
15 27 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
16 26 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
17 25 (0.79%) CIMA
18 23 (0.73%) IIBA
19 22 (0.69%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (6.00%) Data Quality
2 177 (5.59%) QA
3 144 (4.55%) GDPR
4 130 (4.11%) PMO
5 124 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 121 (3.82%) NIST
7 75 (2.37%) Accessibility
8 53 (1.67%) GRC
9 40 (1.26%) PCI DSS
10 32 (1.01%) NCSC
11 26 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
12 25 (0.79%) SLA
13 21 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 16 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
15 14 (0.44%) Basel III
15 14 (0.44%) PSD2
16 12 (0.38%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.38%) SOC 2
17 11 (0.35%) HL7
17 11 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 113 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 66 (2.08%) Docker
3 31 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.60%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.51%) vSphere
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.095%) NFS
10 3 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.032%) Firmware
11 1 (0.032%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 104 (3.28%) Kubernetes
1 104 (3.28%) Terraform
2 29 (0.92%) Ansible
3 24 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 24 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (0.54%) Grafana
5 16 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.44%) HP ALM
7 13 (0.41%) SCCM
8 10 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.16%) Podman
11 4 (0.13%) Istio
12 3 (0.095%) Argo
12 3 (0.095%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.095%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.095%) vMotion
12 3 (0.095%) vRealize
12 3 (0.095%) WSUS
13 2 (0.063%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 451 (14.25%) Microsoft
2 278 (8.78%) SAP
3 166 (5.24%) Oracle
4 165 (5.21%) ServiceNow
5 95 (3.00%) Salesforce
6 69 (2.18%) Cisco
7 68 (2.15%) Google
8 62 (1.96%) Databricks
9 55 (1.74%) CyberArk
10 48 (1.52%) VMware
11 43 (1.36%) IBM
12 42 (1.33%) BeyondTrust
13 41 (1.30%) Workday
14 39 (1.23%) Aruba
15 35 (1.11%) Centrify
16 25 (0.79%) Splunk
17 23 (0.73%) Palo Alto
17 23 (0.73%) Red Hat
18 20 (0.63%) OpenAI
19 19 (0.60%) Sparx
981 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide