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

 6 months to
6 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 56 156
Rank change year-on-year +30 +100 +3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,384 1,176 676
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.85% 4.05% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.09% 4.45% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,288 777 474
10th Percentile £368 £366 £363
25th Percentile £445 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £509 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.75% -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 19 37
10th Percentile £25.27 £29.40 £18.35
25th Percentile £47.50 £33.53 £27.81
Median hourly rate £68.00 £49.51 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.36% +35.63% +62.22%
75th Percentile £88.00 £72.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £89.35 £76.94 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 £67.50 £57.33
% change year-on-year +10.37% +17.74% +161.78%

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 41,843 26,418 36,777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.98% 85.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,135 16,804 23,539
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 2,505 1,141 2,540
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.76 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.36% -23.95% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.78 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +82.03% -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 6 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 6 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 6 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 2,885 £537 +2.29% 1,276
UK excluding London +37 1,605 £509 +1.75% 913
London +27 1,364 £550 - 529
Work from Home +42 1,066 £530 +5.89% 683
North of England +25 431 £498 +1.58% 229
South East +27 363 £540 +12.50% 288
Midlands +33 318 £500 -0.10% 133
West Midlands +21 220 £500 -2.53% 88
North West +26 215 £475 -5.00% 130
South West +20 193 £525 -4.55% 116
Yorkshire +7 176 £515 +8.32% 74
Scotland +32 145 £475 -10.29% 54
East of England +30 115 £575 +15.00% 46
East Midlands +23 93 £525 +16.67% 44
North East +6 44 £453 -10.84% 26
Wales +11 41 £475 +46.15% 27
Northern Ireland +17 16 £449 -22.84% 30
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 (5.14%) Confluence
2 90 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 30 (0.89%) SAS
4 25 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.50%) CMS
5 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.44%) Apache
6 15 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.12%) WordPress
8 3 (0.089%) Appian
8 3 (0.089%) Drupal
8 3 (0.089%) Kentico
9 2 (0.059%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.059%) Camunda
9 2 (0.059%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.059%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 154 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 61 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
4 59 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
4 59 (1.74%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 4 (0.12%) Sketch
7 2 (0.059%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.059%) InVision
7 2 (0.059%) Trello
8 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.030%) CATIA
8 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.030%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.030%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 134 (3.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.44%) Teamcenter
4 13 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.33%) Workday HCM
6 10 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.27%) Maximo
7 9 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.27%) SAP ERP
7 9 (0.27%) SAP FI
7 9 (0.27%) SAP QM
8 8 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (0.24%) Primavera
8 8 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
9 7 (0.21%) NEC Housing
9 7 (0.21%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.18%) Finacle
10 6 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.18%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 658 (19.44%) Azure
2 458 (13.53%) AWS
3 310 (9.16%) Power Platform
4 165 (4.88%) GCP
5 129 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
6 118 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (2.98%) Entra ID
7 101 (2.98%) SaaS
8 94 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
9 66 (1.95%) GitHub
10 52 (1.54%) Serverless
11 46 (1.36%) PaaS
12 45 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
13 41 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (1.09%) Amazon S3
15 35 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
15 35 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (1.03%) Power Automate
16 34 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
17 33 (0.98%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 54 (1.60%) Firewall
2 52 (1.54%) Network Security
3 35 (1.03%) DNS
4 22 (0.65%) VPN
4 22 (0.65%) WAN
5 19 (0.56%) LAN
6 14 (0.41%) Wireless
7 13 (0.38%) Internet
7 13 (0.38%) TCP/IP
8 10 (0.30%) BGP
8 10 (0.30%) DHCP
8 10 (0.30%) VLAN
9 9 (0.27%) NGFW
9 9 (0.27%) OSPF
9 9 (0.27%) SSL
9 9 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.24%) 5G
10 8 (0.24%) Intranet
10 8 (0.24%) SAN
10 8 (0.24%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (7.83%) Power BI
2 77 (2.28%) Metadata
3 62 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (1.00%) Tableau
5 32 (0.95%) Data Lake
6 30 (0.89%) Power Query
7 29 (0.86%) SQL Server
8 27 (0.80%) Relational Database
9 26 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (0.50%) DynamoDB
10 17 (0.50%) NoSQL
10 17 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
11 15 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
12 14 (0.41%) Big Data
12 14 (0.41%) MySQL
12 14 (0.41%) SAS Enterprise Guide
13 13 (0.38%) Oracle Database
13 13 (0.38%) SAS Visual Analytics
14 12 (0.35%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 285 (8.42%) JIRA
2 61 (1.80%) Jenkins
3 55 (1.63%) GitLab
4 54 (1.60%) Git
5 31 (0.92%) Rational DOORS
6 29 (0.86%) Postman
7 28 (0.83%) Selenium
8 21 (0.62%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.53%) Hudson
9 18 (0.53%) JMeter
10 12 (0.35%) WebDriver
11 11 (0.33%) JUnit
12 9 (0.27%) REST Assured
13 8 (0.24%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.21%) LoadRunner
15 6 (0.18%) ERwin
15 6 (0.18%) MLflow
15 6 (0.18%) TestRail
16 5 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 1,560 (46.10%) Social Skills
2 970 (28.66%) Finance
3 541 (15.99%) Public Sector
4 521 (15.40%) Analytical Skills
5 196 (5.79%) Banking
6 139 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
7 131 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
8 123 (3.63%) Legal
9 101 (2.98%) Retail
10 92 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
11 86 (2.54%) Law
12 80 (2.36%) Manufacturing
13 70 (2.07%) Aerospace
14 68 (2.01%) Local Government
15 60 (1.77%) Telecoms
16 57 (1.68%) Marketing
17 48 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 44 (1.30%) Military
19 38 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
20 34 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 624 (18.44%) Analyst
2 518 (15.31%) Architect
3 444 (13.12%) Lead
4 409 (12.09%) Business Analyst
5 307 (9.07%) Senior
6 278 (8.22%) Project Manager
7 253 (7.48%) Consultant
8 132 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
9 95 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
10 94 (2.78%) Change Manager
11 93 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
12 90 (2.66%) Developer
13 89 (2.63%) Data Analyst
14 80 (2.36%) Programme Manager
15 73 (2.16%) Designer
16 71 (2.10%) Senior Manager
17 67 (1.98%) Senior Business Analyst
18 61 (1.80%) Data Architect
19 59 (1.74%) IT Manager
19 59 (1.74%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (3.61%) REST
2 59 (1.74%) SOAP
3 58 (1.71%) LDAP
4 54 (1.60%) Middleware
5 39 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
6 37 (1.09%) Spring
7 34 (1.00%) OpenID
7 34 (1.00%) React
8 33 (0.98%) Kafka
8 33 (0.98%) SailPoint
9 31 (0.92%) OAuth
10 29 (0.86%) JSON
10 29 (0.86%) Spring Boot
11 26 (0.77%) .NET
12 23 (0.68%) XML
13 21 (0.62%) CSS
13 21 (0.62%) SAML
14 20 (0.59%) HTML
14 20 (0.59%) PySpark
15 19 (0.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 235 (6.94%) Product Ownership
2 154 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 145 (4.28%) Cloud Native
4 84 (2.48%) Data Structures
5 81 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
6 77 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 73 (2.16%) Operational Technology
8 72 (2.13%) Security Posture
9 66 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
10 56 (1.65%) Data Centre
11 54 (1.60%) NHS
12 53 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
13 50 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
14 44 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
15 42 (1.24%) Virtual Team
16 40 (1.18%) CMDB
17 36 (1.06%) AI Agents
18 34 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
19 31 (0.92%) Public Cloud
20 26 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 96 (2.84%) Windows
2 48 (1.42%) Linux
3 22 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (0.35%) Unix
5 12 (0.35%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.24%) VMS
8 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.12%) Android
10 3 (0.089%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.089%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 911 (26.92%) Agile
2 666 (19.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 644 (19.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 504 (14.89%) Migration
5 466 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
6 448 (13.24%) Decision-Making
7 438 (12.94%) Roadmaps
8 426 (12.59%) Change Management
9 388 (11.47%) DevOps
9 388 (11.47%) Workshop Facilitation
10 340 (10.05%) Analytics
11 324 (9.57%) AI
12 319 (9.43%) Risk Management
13 306 (9.04%) Business Intelligence
14 301 (8.89%) ERP
15 295 (8.72%) Project Management
16 283 (8.36%) Cybersecurity
17 282 (8.33%) CI/CD
18 272 (8.04%) Project Delivery
19 271 (8.01%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 258 (7.62%) SQL
2 253 (7.48%) Python
3 114 (3.37%) Java
4 85 (2.51%) PowerShell
5 52 (1.54%) JavaScript
6 37 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 37 (1.09%) TypeScript
7 34 (1.00%) C#
8 33 (0.98%) Bash
9 19 (0.56%) VBA
10 18 (0.53%) Bicep
11 14 (0.41%) Scala
12 11 (0.33%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.30%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.30%) PHP
14 8 (0.24%) Korn
14 8 (0.24%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.24%) R
15 5 (0.15%) ABAP
16 4 (0.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 861 (25.44%) Security Cleared
2 684 (20.21%) SC Cleared
3 253 (7.48%) Degree
4 124 (3.66%) DV Cleared
5 109 (3.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 104 (3.07%) PMI Certification
7 101 (2.98%) PMP
8 86 (2.54%) CISSP
9 62 (1.83%) CISM
10 46 (1.36%) Azure Certification
11 45 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
13 32 (0.95%) AWS Certification
14 27 (0.80%) Master's Degree
15 26 (0.77%) ACCA
16 25 (0.74%) CIMA
16 25 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
16 25 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 24 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
18 21 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (6.59%) Data Quality
2 168 (4.96%) QA
3 167 (4.93%) PMO
4 147 (4.34%) NIST
5 140 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 131 (3.87%) GDPR
7 83 (2.45%) Accessibility
8 68 (2.01%) GRC
9 34 (1.00%) NCSC
10 30 (0.89%) SLA
11 26 (0.77%) PCI DSS
12 25 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
12 25 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
13 20 (0.59%) 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 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 103 (3.04%) Active Directory
2 63 (1.86%) Docker
3 28 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.33%) VMware NSX
4 11 (0.33%) vSphere
5 5 (0.15%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.089%) NFS
7 3 (0.089%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.030%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.030%) Firmware
8 1 (0.030%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.030%) KVM
Systems Management
1 118 (3.49%) Terraform
2 111 (3.28%) Kubernetes
3 39 (1.15%) Ansible
4 31 (0.92%) Grafana
5 28 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 27 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 25 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.44%) SCCM
9 13 (0.38%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.24%) 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 (0.089%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.089%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.089%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.089%) vMotion
14 3 (0.089%) WSUS
15 2 (0.059%) Nessus
Vendors
1 503 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 256 (7.57%) SAP
3 189 (5.59%) ServiceNow
4 162 (4.79%) Oracle
5 93 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 87 (2.57%) Databricks
7 61 (1.80%) Google
8 53 (1.57%) CyberArk
9 47 (1.39%) IBM
10 44 (1.30%) Splunk
10 44 (1.30%) VMware
11 43 (1.27%) Cisco
12 38 (1.12%) BeyondTrust
13 36 (1.06%) Workday
14 34 (1.00%) Centrify
15 20 (0.59%) Dynatrace
15 20 (0.59%) Zscaler
16 19 (0.56%) Adobe
16 19 (0.56%) IFS
16 19 (0.56%) Palo Alto
1,466 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide