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

 6 months to
22 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 40 149
Rank change year-on-year +15 +109 +21
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,907 1,594 674
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.41% 4.89% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.72% 5.41% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,628 1,065 462
10th Percentile £370 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £435 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% +4.36%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £739 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £521
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.08% -0.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 29 25
10th Percentile £25.00 £22.98 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £26.21 £24.75
Median hourly rate £74.50 £42.82 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.00% -14.37% -2.12%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.25 £61.06
90th Percentile - £76.19 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £45.87 £56.97
% change year-on-year +74.42% -19.48% +11.52%

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 44,825 29,480 35,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.35% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,802 18,519 22,641
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,641 1,572 2,187
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.06
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.44 £16.86
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%
75th Percentile £68.50 £50.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £68.75 £73.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.88% -39.15% -1.95%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +16 3,328 £548 +2.34% 1,103
UK excluding London +24 1,839 £525 +5.00% 692
London +15 1,604 £550 - 539
Work from Home +20 1,271 £537 +7.29% 557
North of England +20 491 £500 - 170
South East +24 486 £565 +3.67% 241
Midlands +10 318 £515 +2.90% 93
North West +22 244 £500 -1.38% 82
West Midlands +3 237 £510 +2.00% 63
South West +6 193 £538 -2.27% 93
Yorkshire +3 190 £501 +5.37% 62
Scotland +32 188 £475 -5.00% 33
East of England +28 121 £533 +6.50% 54
East Midlands +20 77 £526 +10.79% 30
North East +11 65 £450 -11.33% 28
Wales +16 50 £500 +31.58% 12
Northern Ireland +12 14 £449 -17.52% 7
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
1 174 (4.45%) Confluence
2 127 (3.25%) SharePoint
3 32 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 27 (0.69%) Apache
6 26 (0.67%) SAS
7 25 (0.64%) CMS
8 24 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.18%) WordPress
10 4 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.10%) Drupal
10 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.10%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.077%) Kentico
11 3 (0.077%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.077%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.051%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.051%) Appian
12 2 (0.051%) Camunda
12 2 (0.051%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 178 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
5 63 (1.61%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.077%) Sketch
10 2 (0.051%) InDesign
10 2 (0.051%) InVision
10 2 (0.051%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.026%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.026%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.026%) CATIA
11 1 (0.026%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.026%) Revit
11 1 (0.026%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.026%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 155 (3.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.51%) Workday HCM
4 15 (0.38%) SAP FI
5 14 (0.36%) Primavera
6 13 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 12 (0.31%) SAP QM
7 12 (0.31%) Teamcenter
8 11 (0.28%) Maximo
8 11 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 11 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
9 10 (0.26%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
9 10 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 9 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
11 8 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
11 8 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
12 7 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 752 (19.25%) Azure
2 498 (12.75%) AWS
3 382 (9.78%) Power Platform
4 177 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
5 171 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
6 162 (4.15%) GCP
7 123 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
8 122 (3.12%) Entra ID
9 99 (2.53%) SaaS
10 80 (2.05%) GitHub
11 64 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
12 61 (1.56%) Power Automate
12 61 (1.56%) Serverless
13 54 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
14 52 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
14 52 (1.33%) PowerApps
15 51 (1.31%) Amazon S3
16 49 (1.25%) PaaS
17 47 (1.20%) Snowflake
18 45 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 66 (1.69%) Network Security
2 62 (1.59%) Firewall
3 50 (1.28%) DNS
4 37 (0.95%) VPN
5 34 (0.87%) WAN
6 30 (0.77%) LAN
7 25 (0.64%) TCP/IP
8 22 (0.56%) DHCP
9 18 (0.46%) Wireless
10 15 (0.38%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.38%) VLAN
11 14 (0.36%) BGP
11 14 (0.36%) Internet
12 13 (0.33%) 5G
12 13 (0.33%) OSPF
13 12 (0.31%) Intranet
13 12 (0.31%) SSL
14 10 (0.26%) MPLS
14 10 (0.26%) NGFW
14 10 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 315 (8.06%) Power BI
2 101 (2.59%) Metadata
3 84 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (1.74%) Data Lake
5 57 (1.46%) SQL Server
6 42 (1.07%) Tableau
7 29 (0.74%) Power Query
7 29 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 28 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (0.54%) DynamoDB
10 20 (0.51%) Big Data
11 18 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (0.46%) Oracle Database
12 17 (0.44%) BigQuery
13 16 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
13 16 (0.41%) NoSQL
14 15 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.38%) Data Vault
15 14 (0.36%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 14 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 280 (7.17%) JIRA
2 72 (1.84%) Git
3 56 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.28%) GitLab
5 33 (0.84%) Selenium
6 31 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
7 27 (0.69%) Postman
8 18 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.46%) Hudson
8 18 (0.46%) WebDriver
9 16 (0.41%) JMeter
10 15 (0.38%) JUnit
11 14 (0.36%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.31%) ERwin
13 11 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (0.23%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.15%) MLflow
15 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.15%) Zephyr
16 5 (0.13%) Gradle
General
1 1,782 (45.61%) Social Skills
2 1,124 (28.77%) Finance
3 696 (17.81%) Public Sector
4 634 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
5 208 (5.32%) Banking
6 192 (4.91%) Influencing Skills
7 155 (3.97%) Legal
8 148 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
9 133 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
10 125 (3.20%) Retail
11 93 (2.38%) Manufacturing
12 88 (2.25%) Law
13 82 (2.10%) Telecoms
14 80 (2.05%) Local Government
14 80 (2.05%) Marketing
15 75 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 73 (1.87%) Aerospace
17 54 (1.38%) Military
18 49 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
19 40 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 708 (18.12%) Analyst
2 569 (14.56%) Architect
3 490 (12.54%) Lead
4 423 (10.83%) Business Analyst
5 392 (10.03%) Senior
6 299 (7.65%) Project Manager
7 275 (7.04%) Consultant
8 166 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
9 156 (3.99%) Developer
10 121 (3.10%) Data Analyst
11 101 (2.59%) Delivery Manager
12 99 (2.53%) Change Manager
12 99 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
13 88 (2.25%) Data Architect
14 85 (2.18%) Senior Manager
15 77 (1.97%) Security Architect
16 76 (1.95%) Programme Manager
17 74 (1.89%) Designer
18 72 (1.84%) Product Manager
19 71 (1.82%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (2.64%) REST
2 55 (1.41%) Middleware
3 51 (1.31%) JSON
4 46 (1.18%) Spring
5 45 (1.15%) Kafka
5 45 (1.15%) React
5 45 (1.15%) SOAP
6 42 (1.07%) .NET
7 39 (1.00%) PySpark
7 39 (1.00%) XML
8 37 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
8 37 (0.95%) Spring Boot
9 28 (0.72%) SailPoint
10 27 (0.69%) OAuth
11 26 (0.67%) SAML
12 24 (0.61%) OpenID
13 23 (0.59%) HTML
13 23 (0.59%) Web Services
14 22 (0.56%) LDAP
15 21 (0.54%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 280 (7.17%) Product Ownership
2 207 (5.30%) Onboarding
3 166 (4.25%) Cloud Native
4 109 (2.79%) Data Structures
5 108 (2.76%) Management Information System
6 78 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 76 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
8 73 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
9 69 (1.77%) Operational Technology
10 66 (1.69%) NHS
11 61 (1.56%) Data Centre
12 58 (1.48%) Virtual Team
13 55 (1.41%) CMDB
14 47 (1.20%) AI Agents
14 47 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
14 47 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
15 40 (1.02%) Security Posture
16 39 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
17 38 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
18 33 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 113 (2.89%) Windows
2 57 (1.46%) Linux
3 27 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.38%) Unix
4 15 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 10 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.18%) VMS
7 6 (0.15%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.10%) Android
9 3 (0.077%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.077%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.077%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.077%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.026%) AIX
10 1 (0.026%) HPUX
10 1 (0.026%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.026%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,145 (29.31%) Agile
2 853 (21.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 849 (21.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 576 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
5 565 (14.46%) Migration
6 554 (14.18%) Decision-Making
7 508 (13.00%) Roadmaps
8 490 (12.54%) DevOps
9 470 (12.03%) Change Management
10 464 (11.88%) Workshop Facilitation
11 459 (11.75%) AI
12 426 (10.90%) Analytics
13 386 (9.88%) CI/CD
14 385 (9.85%) Risk Management
15 359 (9.19%) Business Intelligence
16 344 (8.80%) Cybersecurity
16 344 (8.80%) Project Delivery
17 330 (8.45%) ERP
18 319 (8.16%) Data Modelling
19 312 (7.99%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 332 (8.50%) SQL
2 276 (7.06%) Python
3 119 (3.05%) Java
4 76 (1.95%) JavaScript
5 65 (1.66%) PowerShell
6 57 (1.46%) C#
7 42 (1.07%) TypeScript
8 41 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 38 (0.97%) Bash
10 25 (0.64%) Bicep
11 18 (0.46%) VBA
12 14 (0.36%) Apex Code
12 14 (0.36%) Scala
13 13 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.31%) T-SQL
15 11 (0.28%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.26%) Korn
17 7 (0.18%) ABAP
17 7 (0.18%) Groovy
17 7 (0.18%) R
Qualifications
1 1,013 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 775 (19.84%) SC Cleared
3 270 (6.91%) Degree
4 165 (4.22%) DV Cleared
5 135 (3.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 117 (2.99%) PMI Certification
7 110 (2.82%) PMP
8 105 (2.69%) CISSP
9 74 (1.89%) Azure Certification
10 67 (1.71%) CISM
11 63 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
12 44 (1.13%) AWS Certification
13 42 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
14 36 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
15 34 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 29 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 29 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 29 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
17 23 (0.59%) ISTQB
18 22 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 302 (7.73%) Data Quality
2 200 (5.12%) PMO
3 180 (4.61%) QA
4 170 (4.35%) GDPR
5 163 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 155 (3.97%) NIST
7 105 (2.69%) Accessibility
8 89 (2.28%) GRC
9 55 (1.41%) NCSC
10 47 (1.20%) SLA
11 31 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
12 30 (0.77%) WCAG
13 27 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
14 21 (0.54%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.46%) SOC 2
16 14 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 13 (0.33%) COBIT
17 13 (0.33%) ISO 20022
18 12 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 111 (2.84%) Active Directory
2 85 (2.18%) Docker
3 46 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.49%) VMware NSX
4 19 (0.49%) vSphere
5 11 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.077%) NFS
11 1 (0.026%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.026%) Firmware
11 1 (0.026%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.026%) IAG
11 1 (0.026%) KVM
Systems Management
1 159 (4.07%) Terraform
2 147 (3.76%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.15%) Ansible
4 37 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (0.90%) Grafana
6 32 (0.82%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.33%) SCCM
9 10 (0.26%) HP ALM
10 9 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.18%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.13%) vRealize
13 4 (0.10%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.10%) Podman
14 3 (0.077%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.077%) QRadar
14 3 (0.077%) SCOM
14 3 (0.077%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.077%) vMotion
14 3 (0.077%) WSUS
Vendors
1 678 (17.35%) Microsoft
2 279 (7.14%) SAP
3 232 (5.94%) ServiceNow
4 181 (4.63%) Oracle
5 122 (3.12%) Databricks
6 113 (2.89%) Salesforce
7 73 (1.87%) Google
8 57 (1.46%) VMware
9 56 (1.43%) Cisco
10 54 (1.38%) IBM
11 46 (1.18%) Workday
12 43 (1.10%) Splunk
13 30 (0.77%) CyberArk
14 26 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 24 (0.61%) Palo Alto
16 22 (0.56%) Zscaler
17 20 (0.51%) Ariba
17 20 (0.51%) Citrix
17 20 (0.51%) IFS
17 20 (0.51%) Okta
1,238 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide