Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in England

Stakeholder Engagement
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 26 136
Rank change year-on-year +1 +110 +22
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,528 1,941 599
As % of all contract jobs in England 7.63% 6.91% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.00% 7.60% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,390 1,326 368
10th Percentile £363 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £440 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £649 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 36 9
10th Percentile £24.43 £19.38 £21.85
25th Percentile £40.75 £29.78 £26.25
Median hourly rate £65.20 £52.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year +25.38% -10.41% +2.75%
75th Percentile £80.00 £66.25 £60.60
90th Percentile £87.96 £75.63 £61.39
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £48.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -2.50% -11.49%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,199 25,531 28,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.87% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,678 16,181 17,100
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,975 1,587 1,157
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.79 £20.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.92
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -8.31%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in England

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in England over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in England

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in England over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in England

Stakeholder Engagement
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
London +1 1,765 £560 +1.82% 1,463
South East +7 504 £550 +1.85% 419
North of England +3 492 £500 -3.85% 452
Midlands +5 335 £500 -5.84% 292
West Midlands +5 270 £500 -5.84% 195
South West -3 234 £550 +4.76% 263
North West +4 225 £514 +0.29% 274
Yorkshire -5 197 £492 -6.29% 133
East of England +9 111 £505 -16.49% 142
North East +4 77 £453 -4.68% 46
East Midlands 0 64 £525 +16.67% 97
Stakeholder Engagement
UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 145 (4.11%) SharePoint
2 131 (3.71%) Confluence
3 33 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 32 (0.91%) CMS
5 31 (0.88%) Apache
5 31 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
6 22 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 19 (0.54%) SAS
8 10 (0.28%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.17%) WordPress
10 4 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.085%) IIS
11 3 (0.085%) Kentico
12 2 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.057%) Drupal
12 2 (0.057%) OpenEdge
12 2 (0.057%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.057%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.057%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.057%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 164 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
2 78 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 53 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
4 39 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.20%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.20%) Navisworks
6 7 (0.20%) ProjectWise
6 7 (0.20%) Revit
7 6 (0.17%) Trello
8 3 (0.085%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.085%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.057%) InDesign
10 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.028%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.028%) Notion
Business Applications
1 102 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 48 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.57%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.45%) NetSuite
6 12 (0.34%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 12 (0.34%) Maximo
6 12 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
7 11 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
7 11 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
8 10 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 10 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 9 (0.26%) iTrent
9 9 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
9 9 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
9 9 (0.26%) SAP QM
10 8 (0.23%) Primavera
11 7 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (0.20%) SAP PP
12 6 (0.17%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 655 (18.57%) Azure
2 430 (12.19%) AWS
3 379 (10.74%) Power Platform
4 177 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
4 177 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
5 150 (4.25%) GCP
6 114 (3.23%) Entra ID
7 97 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
8 91 (2.58%) Power Automate
9 86 (2.44%) SaaS
10 73 (2.07%) GitHub
10 73 (2.07%) Snowflake
11 68 (1.93%) PowerApps
12 65 (1.84%) Serverless
13 63 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
14 62 (1.76%) Microsoft Purview
15 55 (1.56%) Amazon S3
15 55 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
16 42 (1.19%) dbt
17 41 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.50%) Network Security
2 52 (1.47%) Firewall
3 36 (1.02%) DNS
4 32 (0.91%) VPN
5 31 (0.88%) WAN
6 22 (0.62%) LAN
7 20 (0.57%) DHCP
7 20 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 18 (0.51%) Internet
9 16 (0.45%) VLAN
10 14 (0.40%) BGP
11 13 (0.37%) 5G
11 13 (0.37%) SD-WAN
11 13 (0.37%) Wireless
12 12 (0.34%) OSPF
13 11 (0.31%) VoIP
14 9 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
14 9 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.23%) PSTN
15 8 (0.23%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (8.16%) Power BI
2 145 (4.11%) Metadata
3 89 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (1.87%) SQL Server
5 64 (1.81%) Data Lake
6 41 (1.16%) Tableau
7 31 (0.88%) Power Query
8 30 (0.85%) Relational Database
9 24 (0.68%) Star Schema
10 23 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
10 23 (0.65%) BigQuery
11 19 (0.54%) NoSQL
11 19 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 18 (0.51%) Big Data
12 18 (0.51%) DynamoDB
12 18 (0.51%) Oracle Database
13 15 (0.43%) Delta Lake
13 15 (0.43%) Looker
14 14 (0.40%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 211 (5.98%) JIRA
2 74 (2.10%) Git
3 49 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 47 (1.33%) GitLab
5 30 (0.85%) Selenium
6 26 (0.74%) Postman
7 18 (0.51%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.43%) Cypress.io
8 15 (0.43%) WebDriver
9 9 (0.26%) ERwin
9 9 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (0.23%) Claude Code
10 8 (0.23%) JUnit
10 8 (0.23%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.20%) JMeter
11 7 (0.20%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.17%) Hudson
12 6 (0.17%) Rational Rhapsody
12 6 (0.17%) Zephyr
General
1 1,684 (47.73%) Social Skills
2 969 (27.47%) Finance
3 732 (20.75%) Public Sector
4 601 (17.04%) Analytical Skills
5 240 (6.80%) Influencing Skills
6 209 (5.92%) Banking
7 157 (4.45%) Organisational Skills
8 146 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
9 124 (3.51%) Legal
10 114 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 108 (3.06%) Retail
12 103 (2.92%) Manufacturing
13 100 (2.83%) Local Government
14 78 (2.21%) Military
15 73 (2.07%) Marketing
16 68 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
17 67 (1.90%) Aerospace
18 64 (1.81%) Telecoms
19 50 (1.42%) Law
20 39 (1.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 582 (16.50%) Analyst
2 496 (14.06%) Architect
3 438 (12.41%) Lead
4 376 (10.66%) Senior
5 338 (9.58%) Business Analyst
6 236 (6.69%) Consultant
7 227 (6.43%) Project Manager
8 182 (5.16%) Developer
9 149 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
10 118 (3.34%) Data Architect
11 99 (2.81%) Change Manager
12 91 (2.58%) Senior Analyst
13 82 (2.32%) Data Engineer
14 79 (2.24%) Data Analyst
15 70 (1.98%) Designer
16 69 (1.96%) Delivery Manager
16 69 (1.96%) IT Manager
17 65 (1.84%) Senior Manager
18 59 (1.67%) Senior Business Analyst
18 59 (1.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (4.05%) Terraform
2 106 (3.00%) REST
3 48 (1.36%) .NET
4 46 (1.30%) PySpark
5 45 (1.28%) JSON
6 43 (1.22%) SOAP
7 40 (1.13%) Kafka
8 38 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
8 38 (1.08%) React
9 37 (1.05%) Middleware
10 35 (0.99%) Spring
11 32 (0.91%) XML
12 30 (0.85%) Spring Boot
13 27 (0.77%) OAuth
13 27 (0.77%) Web Services
14 25 (0.71%) LDAP
15 24 (0.68%) RESTful
16 22 (0.62%) HTML
16 22 (0.62%) OpenID
17 21 (0.60%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 230 (6.52%) Product Ownership
2 223 (6.32%) Onboarding
3 155 (4.39%) Cloud Native
4 130 (3.68%) Management Information System
5 86 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 81 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
7 76 (2.15%) Data Structures
8 69 (1.96%) AI Agents
9 60 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
10 56 (1.59%) Operational Technology
11 55 (1.56%) NHS
12 54 (1.53%) Data Centre
13 53 (1.50%) Virtual Team
14 52 (1.47%) Security Posture
15 49 (1.39%) CMDB
16 41 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
17 39 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
18 35 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
19 31 (0.88%) Taxonomies
20 27 (0.77%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 101 (2.86%) Windows
2 68 (1.93%) Linux
3 30 (0.85%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (0.37%) Unix
5 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.17%) VMS
7 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.085%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.085%) Android
10 2 (0.057%) AIX
10 2 (0.057%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.057%) HPUX
10 2 (0.057%) Solaris
11 1 (0.028%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.028%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.028%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,032 (29.25%) Agile
2 1,009 (28.60%) Stakeholder Management
3 809 (22.93%) Continuous Improvement
4 612 (17.35%) Decision-Making
5 574 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
6 545 (15.45%) Roadmaps
7 501 (14.20%) AI
8 477 (13.52%) Workshop Facilitation
9 457 (12.95%) Migration
10 449 (12.73%) DevOps
11 437 (12.39%) Analytics
12 418 (11.85%) Change Management
13 364 (10.32%) Risk Management
14 359 (10.18%) CI/CD
15 352 (9.98%) Project Delivery
16 342 (9.69%) Business Intelligence
17 332 (9.41%) Cybersecurity
18 329 (9.33%) Data Governance
19 326 (9.24%) Data Modelling
20 291 (8.25%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 352 (9.98%) SQL
2 273 (7.74%) Python
3 99 (2.81%) Java
4 82 (2.32%) JavaScript
5 79 (2.24%) PowerShell
6 67 (1.90%) C#
7 55 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 41 (1.16%) Bash
9 32 (0.91%) TypeScript
10 18 (0.51%) Bicep
11 16 (0.45%) T-SQL
12 15 (0.43%) Scala
13 10 (0.28%) Korn
14 9 (0.26%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.26%) Groovy
15 8 (0.23%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.20%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.17%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.17%) VBA
18 4 (0.11%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,041 (29.51%) Security Cleared
2 826 (23.41%) SC Cleared
3 238 (6.75%) Degree
4 183 (5.19%) DV Cleared
5 146 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 103 (2.92%) PMI Certification
7 102 (2.89%) CISSP
8 97 (2.75%) PMP
9 59 (1.67%) CISM
10 54 (1.53%) Azure Certification
11 53 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 50 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
13 35 (0.99%) AWS Certification
14 30 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
15 28 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 28 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
16 26 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 25 (0.71%) ISTQB
18 24 (0.68%) APMG
19 23 (0.65%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 322 (9.13%) Data Quality
2 162 (4.59%) PMO
3 161 (4.56%) QA
4 144 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 137 (3.88%) NIST
6 136 (3.85%) GDPR
7 121 (3.43%) Accessibility
8 84 (2.38%) GRC
9 72 (2.04%) NCSC
10 43 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 35 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
12 33 (0.94%) WCAG
13 25 (0.71%) SLA
14 17 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 15 (0.43%) NIST 800
16 13 (0.37%) PCI DSS
17 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 11 (0.31%) JSP 440
19 10 (0.28%) ISO 19650
19 10 (0.28%) ITGC
System Software
1 104 (2.95%) Active Directory
2 78 (2.21%) Docker
3 43 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.40%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.31%) vSphere
6 10 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.085%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.085%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.028%) Firmware
10 1 (0.028%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.028%) KVM
10 1 (0.028%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 138 (3.91%) Kubernetes
2 47 (1.33%) Ansible
3 36 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (0.71%) Grafana
5 22 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.17%) VxRail
9 5 (0.14%) QRadar
10 4 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.11%) Istio
10 4 (0.11%) SCCM
11 3 (0.085%) Argo
11 3 (0.085%) Kibana
11 3 (0.085%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (0.085%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.085%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.085%) Puppet
11 3 (0.085%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.057%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 709 (20.10%) Microsoft
2 212 (6.01%) SAP
3 179 (5.07%) ServiceNow
4 149 (4.22%) Oracle
5 147 (4.17%) Databricks
6 90 (2.55%) Google
7 86 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 61 (1.73%) VMware
9 45 (1.28%) Workday
10 42 (1.19%) Cisco
11 41 (1.16%) IBM
12 38 (1.08%) Splunk
13 28 (0.79%) CyberArk
14 20 (0.57%) Informatica
15 19 (0.54%) Adobe
15 19 (0.54%) Ariba
16 18 (0.51%) Dynatrace
16 18 (0.51%) Okta
17 16 (0.45%) MuleSoft
17 16 (0.45%) Palo Alto