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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 46 156
Rank change year-on-year +20 +110 +11
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,801 1,454 684
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.29% 4.55% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.56% 5.02% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,558 964 468
10th Percentile £366 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £747 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £500 £524
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.53% -0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 28 30
10th Percentile £24.88 £24.51 £18.35
25th Percentile £50.31 £29.51 £26.64
Median hourly rate £70.50 £49.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.42% +30.27% -25.61%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.31 £60.44
90th Percentile £88.18 £76.67 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.25 £59.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +30.93% +4.44% +10.59%

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 44,398 28,953 36,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.10% 90.63% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,615 18,257 23,517
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,640 1,439 2,494
10th Percentile £14.80 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.70 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% +1.65%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +20 3,225 £540 +1.79% 1,085
UK excluding London +25 1,800 £514 +2.80% 734
London +21 1,536 £550 - 491
Work from Home +26 1,235 £530 +5.89% 584
North of England +20 478 £500 - 172
South East +19 455 £550 +1.85% 272
Midlands +17 326 £514 +5.54% 102
North West +20 241 £500 -1.38% 98
West Midlands +11 236 £510 +4.72% 49
South West +18 197 £525 -4.55% 90
Yorkshire +2 187 £501 +5.37% 53
Scotland +29 174 £475 -5.05% 26
East of England +32 123 £533 +6.45% 46
East Midlands +23 85 £525 +16.67% 52
North East +8 56 £450 - 24
Wales +14 50 £500 +31.58% 16
Northern Ireland +16 17 £447 -20.53% 21
Channel Islands 0 1 £575 +24.32%

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
1 179 (4.71%) Confluence
2 120 (3.16%) SharePoint
3 33 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (0.68%) SAS
5 25 (0.66%) Apache Spark
6 24 (0.63%) Apache
7 21 (0.55%) CMS
7 21 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.13%) WordPress
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.11%) Drupal
9 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.11%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.079%) Appian
10 3 (0.079%) Kentico
11 2 (0.053%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.053%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.053%) Camunda
11 2 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.053%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 181 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 68 (1.79%) MS Visio
5 65 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.11%) PTC Creo
8 3 (0.079%) Sketch
9 2 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.053%) InVision
9 2 (0.053%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.053%) Trello
10 1 (0.026%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.026%) CATIA
10 1 (0.026%) InDesign
10 1 (0.026%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.026%) Notion
10 1 (0.026%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.026%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 147 (3.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.47%) Workday HCM
4 15 (0.39%) Teamcenter
5 13 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 12 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 12 (0.32%) SAP FI
6 12 (0.32%) SAP QM
7 11 (0.29%) Primavera
8 10 (0.26%) Maximo
8 10 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
8 10 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
9 9 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 9 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
10 8 (0.21%) NetSuite
11 7 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
11 7 (0.18%) SAP CO
11 7 (0.18%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
11 7 (0.18%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 709 (18.65%) Azure
2 484 (12.73%) AWS
3 368 (9.68%) Power Platform
4 166 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
5 160 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
6 150 (3.95%) GCP
7 116 (3.05%) Entra ID
8 102 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
9 99 (2.60%) SaaS
10 78 (2.05%) GitHub
11 62 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
12 58 (1.53%) Serverless
13 52 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
14 49 (1.29%) Power Automate
15 48 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
15 48 (1.26%) PaaS
16 46 (1.21%) Amazon S3
17 44 (1.16%) PowerApps
18 40 (1.05%) Snowflake
19 37 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.79%) Network Security
2 62 (1.63%) Firewall
3 46 (1.21%) DNS
4 33 (0.87%) VPN
5 31 (0.82%) WAN
6 27 (0.71%) LAN
7 20 (0.53%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.45%) DHCP
8 17 (0.45%) Wireless
9 14 (0.37%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.37%) VLAN
10 13 (0.34%) Internet
11 12 (0.32%) 5G
11 12 (0.32%) BGP
11 12 (0.32%) SSL
12 11 (0.29%) OSPF
13 10 (0.26%) NGFW
14 9 (0.24%) Intranet
14 9 (0.24%) MPLS
15 8 (0.21%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 305 (8.02%) Power BI
2 91 (2.39%) Metadata
3 79 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (1.37%) Data Lake
5 47 (1.24%) SQL Server
6 45 (1.18%) Tableau
7 33 (0.87%) Relational Database
8 29 (0.76%) Power Query
9 27 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.50%) NoSQL
11 18 (0.47%) Big Data
11 18 (0.47%) DynamoDB
12 16 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
12 16 (0.42%) Oracle Database
13 15 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
14 14 (0.37%) BigQuery
14 14 (0.37%) Data Vault
14 14 (0.37%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 13 (0.34%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 282 (7.42%) JIRA
2 68 (1.79%) Git
3 61 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 53 (1.39%) GitLab
5 31 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
6 28 (0.74%) Postman
6 28 (0.74%) Selenium
7 20 (0.53%) JMeter
8 18 (0.47%) Hudson
9 17 (0.45%) Cucumber
10 15 (0.39%) WebDriver
11 14 (0.37%) JUnit
12 12 (0.32%) ERwin
13 10 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.21%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.21%) LoadRunner
14 8 (0.21%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.16%) MLflow
16 5 (0.13%) Snyk
16 5 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 1,731 (45.54%) Social Skills
2 1,094 (28.78%) Finance
3 655 (17.23%) Public Sector
4 606 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
5 208 (5.47%) Banking
6 184 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
7 152 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
8 145 (3.81%) Legal
9 121 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
10 118 (3.10%) Retail
11 90 (2.37%) Manufacturing
12 86 (2.26%) Law
13 77 (2.03%) Local Government
14 75 (1.97%) Marketing
15 74 (1.95%) Aerospace
16 73 (1.92%) Telecoms
17 63 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 52 (1.37%) Military
19 45 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
20 36 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 695 (18.28%) Analyst
2 564 (14.84%) Architect
3 481 (12.65%) Lead
4 428 (11.26%) Business Analyst
5 373 (9.81%) Senior
6 292 (7.68%) Project Manager
7 273 (7.18%) Consultant
8 161 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
9 140 (3.68%) Developer
10 113 (2.97%) Data Analyst
11 103 (2.71%) Change Manager
12 97 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
13 93 (2.45%) Delivery Manager
14 82 (2.16%) Senior Manager
15 79 (2.08%) Data Architect
16 76 (2.00%) Programme Manager
17 75 (1.97%) Security Architect
18 73 (1.92%) Designer
19 70 (1.84%) Technical Architect
20 69 (1.82%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (2.66%) REST
2 61 (1.60%) Middleware
3 48 (1.26%) Spring
4 43 (1.13%) JSON
5 42 (1.10%) Kafka
5 42 (1.10%) React
6 40 (1.05%) SOAP
7 38 (1.00%) Spring Boot
8 37 (0.97%) .NET
9 36 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
10 33 (0.87%) PySpark
10 33 (0.87%) XML
11 31 (0.82%) OpenID
11 31 (0.82%) SailPoint
12 29 (0.76%) OAuth
13 27 (0.71%) SAML
14 24 (0.63%) LDAP
15 22 (0.58%) RESTful
16 20 (0.53%) AngularJS
16 20 (0.53%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 254 (6.68%) Product Ownership
2 202 (5.31%) Onboarding
3 167 (4.39%) Cloud Native
4 98 (2.58%) Management Information System
5 90 (2.37%) Data Structures
6 72 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 71 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
7 71 (1.87%) Operational Technology
8 68 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
9 62 (1.63%) Data Centre
9 62 (1.63%) NHS
10 61 (1.60%) CMDB
11 57 (1.50%) Virtual Team
12 49 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
13 44 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
14 43 (1.13%) AI Agents
15 42 (1.10%) Security Posture
16 38 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
17 34 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
18 33 (0.87%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 109 (2.87%) Windows
2 54 (1.42%) Linux
3 27 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.39%) Unix
5 13 (0.34%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.21%) VMS
8 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.11%) Android
10 3 (0.079%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.079%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.079%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.079%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.026%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,071 (28.18%) Agile
2 808 (21.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 792 (20.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 548 (14.42%) Migration
4 548 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
5 540 (14.21%) Decision-Making
6 504 (13.26%) Roadmaps
7 466 (12.26%) DevOps
8 461 (12.13%) Change Management
9 438 (11.52%) Workshop Facilitation
10 414 (10.89%) AI
11 402 (10.58%) Analytics
12 379 (9.97%) Risk Management
13 361 (9.50%) CI/CD
14 345 (9.08%) Business Intelligence
15 333 (8.76%) Cybersecurity
16 325 (8.55%) Project Delivery
17 322 (8.47%) ERP
18 308 (8.10%) Data Modelling
19 303 (7.97%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 320 (8.42%) SQL
2 260 (6.84%) Python
3 123 (3.24%) Java
4 66 (1.74%) JavaScript
5 59 (1.55%) PowerShell
6 52 (1.37%) C#
7 43 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 43 (1.13%) TypeScript
8 35 (0.92%) Bash
9 21 (0.55%) Bicep
9 21 (0.55%) VBA
10 16 (0.42%) Scala
11 14 (0.37%) Apex Code
12 12 (0.32%) PL/SQL
12 12 (0.32%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.26%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.24%) Korn
15 7 (0.18%) ABAP
15 7 (0.18%) R
16 4 (0.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 971 (25.55%) Security Cleared
2 740 (19.47%) SC Cleared
3 278 (7.31%) Degree
4 155 (4.08%) DV Cleared
5 131 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 116 (3.05%) PMI Certification
7 105 (2.76%) PMP
8 98 (2.58%) CISSP
9 66 (1.74%) Azure Certification
10 65 (1.71%) CISM
11 58 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
13 38 (1.00%) AWS Certification
14 30 (0.79%) Master's Degree
14 30 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 28 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
17 25 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 25 (0.66%) ACCA
18 24 (0.63%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (7.29%) Data Quality
2 194 (5.10%) PMO
3 175 (4.60%) QA
4 161 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 154 (4.05%) GDPR
5 154 (4.05%) NIST
6 94 (2.47%) Accessibility
7 89 (2.34%) GRC
8 53 (1.39%) NCSC
9 42 (1.10%) SLA
10 28 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
11 25 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
12 24 (0.63%) PCI DSS
13 23 (0.61%) WCAG
14 18 (0.47%) SOC 2
15 17 (0.45%) ISO 20022
16 13 (0.34%) COBIT
16 13 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.29%) NIST 800
18 10 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 96 (2.53%) Active Directory
2 83 (2.18%) Docker
3 39 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.42%) vSphere
5 13 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.079%) NFS
11 1 (0.026%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.026%) Firmware
11 1 (0.026%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.026%) KVM
Systems Management
1 146 (3.84%) Terraform
2 138 (3.63%) Kubernetes
3 44 (1.16%) Ansible
4 33 (0.87%) Grafana
4 33 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 30 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.39%) SCCM
7 11 (0.29%) HP ALM
8 10 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.18%) vRealize
10 6 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.16%) NetBackup
11 4 (0.11%) Podman
12 3 (0.079%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.079%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 3 (0.079%) SCOM
12 3 (0.079%) vMotion
12 3 (0.079%) VxRail
12 3 (0.079%) WSUS
Vendors
1 630 (16.57%) Microsoft
2 268 (7.05%) SAP
3 233 (6.13%) ServiceNow
4 180 (4.74%) Oracle
5 113 (2.97%) Salesforce
6 109 (2.87%) Databricks
7 68 (1.79%) Google
8 54 (1.42%) Cisco
9 51 (1.34%) IBM
10 50 (1.32%) VMware
11 45 (1.18%) Workday
12 42 (1.10%) Splunk
13 27 (0.71%) MuleSoft
14 26 (0.68%) CyberArk
15 21 (0.55%) Dynatrace
15 21 (0.55%) Palo Alto
15 21 (0.55%) Zscaler
16 20 (0.53%) Citrix
17 19 (0.50%) IFS
18 18 (0.47%) Adobe