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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
9 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 55 156
Rank change year-on-year +29 +101 +2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,414 1,193 680
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.87% 4.08% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.11% 4.48% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,309 790 475
10th Percentile £364 £363 £363
25th Percentile £444 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 20 38
10th Percentile £25.34 £25.89 £18.35
25th Percentile £48.50 £32.05 £27.81
Median hourly rate £68.20 £49.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.76% +35.62% +39.05%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.88 £59.05
90th Percentile £88.45 £76.09 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 £63.25 £57.33
% change year-on-year +17.79% +10.33% +118.40%

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 42,104 26,621 36,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.75% 90.94% 85.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,283 16,896 23,594
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £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 2,537 1,167 2,565
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%
75th Percentile £67.89 £56.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +28 2,904 £537 +2.33% 998
UK excluding London +37 1,615 £510 +2.00% 755
London +32 1,377 £550 - 395
Work from Home +39 1,081 £535 +6.86% 565
North of England +28 434 £500 +2.09% 183
South East +24 367 £540 +11.63% 252
Midlands +30 318 £500 -0.10% 123
West Midlands +19 221 £500 -2.53% 79
North West +26 215 £490 -2.00% 94
South West +17 187 £525 -4.55% 85
Yorkshire +11 178 £515 +8.32% 66
Scotland +35 151 £475 -10.55% 34
East of England +27 118 £575 +15.00% 42
East Midlands +20 92 £525 +16.67% 43
North East +5 45 £453 -10.84% 24
Wales +18 41 £475 +46.15% 19
Northern Ireland +15 16 £449 -22.84% 25
Channel Islands -1 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
1 178 (5.21%) Confluence
2 91 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 30 (0.88%) SAS
4 27 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.53%) Apache
5 18 (0.53%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 16 (0.47%) CMS
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
8 4 (0.12%) WordPress
9 3 (0.088%) Appian
9 3 (0.088%) Drupal
9 3 (0.088%) Kentico
10 2 (0.059%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.059%) Camunda
10 2 (0.059%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.059%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 157 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 60 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
3 60 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
3 60 (1.76%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.12%) PTC Creo
5 4 (0.12%) Sketch
6 2 (0.059%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.059%) InVision
6 2 (0.059%) Trello
7 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.029%) CATIA
7 1 (0.029%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.029%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.029%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 135 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.44%) Teamcenter
4 11 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.32%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.29%) Maximo
5 10 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 9 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.26%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.26%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (0.23%) Primavera
7 8 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.21%) NEC Housing
8 7 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.21%) SAP QM
9 6 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 6 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 6 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 664 (19.45%) Azure
2 465 (13.62%) AWS
3 316 (9.26%) Power Platform
4 172 (5.04%) GCP
5 128 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
6 120 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
7 103 (3.02%) Entra ID
8 102 (2.99%) SaaS
9 95 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
10 67 (1.96%) GitHub
11 52 (1.52%) Serverless
12 46 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
12 46 (1.35%) PaaS
13 42 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
14 39 (1.14%) Amazon S3
15 35 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
15 35 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (1.03%) Power Automate
15 35 (1.03%) PowerApps
16 34 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 56 (1.64%) Firewall
1 56 (1.64%) Network Security
2 35 (1.03%) DNS
3 24 (0.70%) VPN
4 23 (0.67%) WAN
5 19 (0.56%) LAN
6 14 (0.41%) TCP/IP
6 14 (0.41%) Wireless
7 13 (0.38%) Internet
8 12 (0.35%) VLAN
9 11 (0.32%) BGP
10 10 (0.29%) DHCP
10 10 (0.29%) NGFW
10 10 (0.29%) OSPF
10 10 (0.29%) SSL
11 9 (0.26%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.23%) 5G
12 8 (0.23%) Intranet
12 8 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 269 (7.88%) Power BI
2 77 (2.26%) Metadata
3 66 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (1.05%) Tableau
5 35 (1.03%) Data Lake
6 31 (0.91%) Power Query
6 31 (0.91%) SQL Server
7 27 (0.79%) Relational Database
8 26 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (0.53%) DynamoDB
10 17 (0.50%) NoSQL
10 17 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
11 15 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (0.44%) Big Data
11 15 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
12 14 (0.41%) MySQL
12 14 (0.41%) SAS Enterprise Guide
13 13 (0.38%) Data Vault
13 13 (0.38%) Oracle Database
13 13 (0.38%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 287 (8.41%) JIRA
2 61 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 55 (1.61%) GitLab
4 54 (1.58%) Git
5 31 (0.91%) Rational DOORS
6 29 (0.85%) Postman
7 28 (0.82%) Selenium
8 21 (0.62%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.53%) Hudson
9 18 (0.53%) JMeter
10 12 (0.35%) WebDriver
11 11 (0.32%) JUnit
12 9 (0.26%) REST Assured
13 8 (0.23%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.21%) ERwin
14 7 (0.21%) LoadRunner
15 6 (0.18%) MLflow
15 6 (0.18%) TestRail
16 5 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 1,572 (46.05%) Social Skills
2 975 (28.56%) Finance
3 543 (15.91%) Public Sector
4 527 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
5 198 (5.80%) Banking
6 139 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
7 135 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
8 123 (3.60%) Legal
9 100 (2.93%) Retail
10 92 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
11 85 (2.49%) Law
12 83 (2.43%) Manufacturing
13 71 (2.08%) Aerospace
14 67 (1.96%) Local Government
15 61 (1.79%) Telecoms
16 57 (1.67%) Marketing
17 50 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 45 (1.32%) Military
19 39 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
20 34 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 632 (18.51%) Analyst
2 522 (15.29%) Architect
3 448 (13.12%) Lead
4 411 (12.04%) Business Analyst
5 316 (9.26%) Senior
6 275 (8.06%) Project Manager
7 255 (7.47%) Consultant
8 134 (3.93%) Solutions Architect
9 96 (2.81%) Developer
10 95 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
11 93 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
12 91 (2.67%) Change Manager
12 91 (2.67%) Data Analyst
13 79 (2.31%) Programme Manager
14 74 (2.17%) Designer
15 71 (2.08%) Senior Manager
16 67 (1.96%) Senior Business Analyst
17 62 (1.82%) Data Architect
18 61 (1.79%) Security Architect
19 59 (1.73%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (3.66%) REST
2 61 (1.79%) LDAP
2 61 (1.79%) SOAP
3 53 (1.55%) Middleware
4 40 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
5 37 (1.08%) OpenID
5 37 (1.08%) Spring
6 34 (1.00%) OAuth
6 34 (1.00%) React
7 33 (0.97%) Kafka
7 33 (0.97%) SailPoint
8 32 (0.94%) JSON
9 29 (0.85%) Spring Boot
10 27 (0.79%) .NET
11 26 (0.76%) XML
12 24 (0.70%) SAML
13 23 (0.67%) PySpark
14 22 (0.64%) CSS
15 21 (0.62%) HTML
16 19 (0.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 237 (6.94%) Product Ownership
2 160 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 147 (4.31%) Cloud Native
4 85 (2.49%) Data Structures
5 82 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
6 78 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 74 (2.17%) Operational Technology
8 73 (2.14%) Security Posture
9 67 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
10 58 (1.70%) Data Centre
11 55 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
12 53 (1.55%) NHS
13 51 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
14 44 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
15 43 (1.26%) CMDB
15 43 (1.26%) Virtual Team
16 37 (1.08%) AI Agents
17 35 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
18 31 (0.91%) Public Cloud
19 26 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 94 (2.75%) Windows
2 47 (1.38%) Linux
3 22 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (0.35%) Unix
5 12 (0.35%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.23%) VMS
8 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.12%) Android
10 3 (0.088%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.088%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.029%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 920 (26.95%) Agile
2 670 (19.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 649 (19.01%) Continuous Improvement
4 510 (14.94%) Migration
5 478 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
6 453 (13.27%) Decision-Making
7 444 (13.01%) Roadmaps
8 425 (12.45%) Change Management
9 398 (11.66%) DevOps
10 388 (11.36%) Workshop Facilitation
11 345 (10.11%) Analytics
12 329 (9.64%) AI
13 324 (9.49%) Risk Management
14 310 (9.08%) Business Intelligence
15 305 (8.93%) ERP
16 296 (8.67%) Project Management
17 290 (8.49%) CI/CD
18 288 (8.44%) Cybersecurity
19 275 (8.06%) Project Delivery
20 270 (7.91%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 264 (7.73%) SQL
2 256 (7.50%) Python
3 115 (3.37%) Java
4 83 (2.43%) PowerShell
5 55 (1.61%) JavaScript
6 39 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 37 (1.08%) TypeScript
8 34 (1.00%) C#
9 33 (0.97%) Bash
10 19 (0.56%) VBA
11 18 (0.53%) Bicep
12 14 (0.41%) Scala
13 11 (0.32%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.29%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.29%) PHP
15 9 (0.26%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.23%) Korn
16 8 (0.23%) R
17 6 (0.18%) T-SQL
18 5 (0.15%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 868 (25.42%) Security Cleared
2 690 (20.21%) SC Cleared
3 253 (7.41%) Degree
4 124 (3.63%) DV Cleared
5 111 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 101 (2.96%) PMI Certification
7 98 (2.87%) PMP
8 87 (2.55%) CISSP
9 63 (1.85%) CISM
10 48 (1.41%) Azure Certification
11 46 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 33 (0.97%) AWS Certification
14 26 (0.76%) ACCA
14 26 (0.76%) Master's Degree
15 25 (0.73%) CIMA
15 25 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
15 25 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
15 25 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 21 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (6.74%) Data Quality
2 172 (5.04%) PMO
3 167 (4.89%) QA
4 150 (4.39%) NIST
5 145 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 135 (3.95%) GDPR
7 84 (2.46%) Accessibility
8 77 (2.26%) GRC
9 37 (1.08%) NCSC
10 30 (0.88%) SLA
11 26 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
11 26 (0.76%) PCI DSS
12 25 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
13 21 (0.62%) WCAG
14 18 (0.53%) SOC 2
15 16 (0.47%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.35%) COBIT
16 12 (0.35%) Def Stans
16 12 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 105 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 63 (1.85%) Docker
3 27 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.32%) VMware NSX
4 11 (0.32%) vSphere
5 5 (0.15%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.088%) NFS
8 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.029%) Firmware
8 1 (0.029%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.029%) KVM
Systems Management
1 120 (3.51%) Terraform
2 111 (3.25%) Kubernetes
3 39 (1.14%) Ansible
4 31 (0.91%) Grafana
5 28 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 26 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 25 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.44%) SCCM
9 13 (0.38%) HP ALM
10 10 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.18%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.15%) Istio
12 5 (0.15%) vRealize
13 4 (0.12%) Podman
14 3 (0.088%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.088%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.088%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.088%) vMotion
14 3 (0.088%) WSUS
15 2 (0.059%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 511 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 251 (7.35%) SAP
3 198 (5.80%) ServiceNow
4 161 (4.72%) Oracle
5 93 (2.72%) Salesforce
6 89 (2.61%) Databricks
7 62 (1.82%) Google
8 53 (1.55%) CyberArk
9 47 (1.38%) IBM
10 45 (1.32%) Cisco
11 43 (1.26%) Splunk
11 43 (1.26%) VMware
12 38 (1.11%) BeyondTrust
13 35 (1.03%) Workday
14 34 (1.00%) Centrify
15 20 (0.59%) Dynatrace
15 20 (0.59%) Zscaler
16 19 (0.56%) IFS
16 19 (0.56%) MuleSoft
16 19 (0.56%) Palo Alto
1,140 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide