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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 37 151
Rank change year-on-year +12 +114 +15
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,972 1,702 641
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.52% 5.17% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.85% 5.72% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,689 1,135 438
10th Percentile £370 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £640 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £515 £523
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.44% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 28 20
10th Percentile £25.50 £22.97 £18.35
25th Percentile £52.50 £26.21 £25.00
Median hourly rate £74.50 £41.16 £57.74
Median % change year-on-year +81.01% -28.72% +4.99%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.31 £71.54
90th Percentile - £76.67 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £45.87 £58.05
% change year-on-year +74.42% -20.98% +5.54%

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 44,879 29,748 33,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.93% 90.41% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,704 18,653 21,488
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,741 1,659 1,873
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.30 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.05 £40.94
% change year-on-year +90.72% -43.70% +3.38%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +11 3,390 £540 -1.82% 1,451
UK excluding London +18 1,869 £520 +0.97% 943
London +11 1,643 £550 - 676
Work from Home +19 1,331 £525 +1.94% 758
South East +23 504 £563 +2.27% 306
North of England +15 495 £500 -2.21% 209
Midlands +8 321 £500 -0.60% 153
North West +17 247 £500 -2.44% 100
West Midlands +4 246 £500 -1.19% 107
South West +2 204 £550 - 125
Scotland +30 190 £500 - 46
Yorkshire -1 189 £500 +4.44% 74
East of England +31 118 £533 +3.85% 73
East Midlands +21 71 £500 +5.26% 45
North East +12 67 £450 -7.22% 36
Wales +17 50 £500 +31.58% 17
Northern Ireland +10 12 £430 -18.14% 28
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
1 172 (4.33%) Confluence
2 135 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 36 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 31 (0.78%) Apache
6 26 (0.65%) CMS
6 26 (0.65%) SAS
7 22 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.15%) WordPress
9 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.10%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.076%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.076%) Kentico
10 3 (0.076%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.076%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.050%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.050%) Appian
11 2 (0.050%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.050%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 181 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 68 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
5 58 (1.46%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.15%) Trello
9 4 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.10%) Navisworks
9 4 (0.10%) ProjectWise
9 4 (0.10%) Revit
9 4 (0.10%) Sketch
10 2 (0.050%) InDesign
10 2 (0.050%) InVision
11 1 (0.025%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.025%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.025%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.025%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.025%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 143 (3.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 57 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.55%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.38%) Primavera
6 14 (0.35%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.30%) NetSuite
7 12 (0.30%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.28%) Maximo
8 11 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
9 10 (0.25%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 10 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
9 10 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 9 (0.23%) SAP CO
10 9 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.23%) Teamcenter
11 8 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 8 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
11 8 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 803 (20.22%) Azure
2 518 (13.04%) AWS
3 424 (10.67%) Power Platform
4 194 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
5 181 (4.56%) GCP
5 181 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
6 141 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
7 128 (3.22%) Entra ID
8 98 (2.47%) SaaS
9 85 (2.14%) GitHub
10 79 (1.99%) Power Automate
11 66 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
11 66 (1.66%) Serverless
12 65 (1.64%) PowerApps
13 62 (1.56%) Snowflake
14 56 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
14 56 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
15 53 (1.33%) Amazon S3
15 53 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
16 46 (1.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.56%) Network Security
2 59 (1.49%) Firewall
3 50 (1.26%) DNS
4 35 (0.88%) VPN
4 35 (0.88%) WAN
5 31 (0.78%) LAN
6 23 (0.58%) DHCP
6 23 (0.58%) TCP/IP
7 18 (0.45%) Wireless
8 16 (0.40%) Internet
9 15 (0.38%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.35%) VLAN
11 13 (0.33%) 5G
12 12 (0.30%) BGP
12 12 (0.30%) Intranet
12 12 (0.30%) SSL
13 11 (0.28%) OSPF
14 9 (0.23%) Cisco Nexus
14 9 (0.23%) VSAN
14 9 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 347 (8.74%) Power BI
2 111 (2.79%) Metadata
3 93 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (1.89%) Data Lake
5 66 (1.66%) SQL Server
6 46 (1.16%) Tableau
7 35 (0.88%) Power Query
8 28 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (0.68%) Relational Database
10 21 (0.53%) DynamoDB
11 20 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (0.50%) Big Data
12 19 (0.48%) BigQuery
12 19 (0.48%) Data Vault
12 19 (0.48%) Oracle Database
13 16 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (0.40%) NoSQL
13 16 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
14 15 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 274 (6.90%) JIRA
2 82 (2.06%) Git
3 61 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.36%) GitLab
5 35 (0.88%) Selenium
6 31 (0.78%) Rational DOORS
7 29 (0.73%) Postman
8 20 (0.50%) WebDriver
9 19 (0.48%) Cucumber
10 18 (0.45%) Hudson
11 17 (0.43%) JMeter
12 16 (0.40%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.33%) ERwin
13 13 (0.33%) JUnit
14 12 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
15 9 (0.23%) SonarQube
16 8 (0.20%) Bitbucket
17 7 (0.18%) Zephyr
18 6 (0.15%) MLflow
18 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 1,806 (45.47%) Social Skills
2 1,134 (28.55%) Finance
3 731 (18.40%) Public Sector
4 657 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
5 210 (5.29%) Banking
6 200 (5.04%) Influencing Skills
7 154 (3.88%) Legal
8 151 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
9 141 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
10 131 (3.30%) Retail
11 97 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 91 (2.29%) Local Government
13 88 (2.22%) Law
13 88 (2.22%) Manufacturing
14 82 (2.06%) Marketing
15 80 (2.01%) Telecoms
16 71 (1.79%) Aerospace
17 56 (1.41%) Military
18 53 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
19 40 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 718 (18.08%) Analyst
2 582 (14.65%) Architect
3 499 (12.56%) Lead
4 429 (10.80%) Business Analyst
5 415 (10.45%) Senior
6 293 (7.38%) Project Manager
7 285 (7.18%) Consultant
8 185 (4.66%) Developer
9 171 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
10 125 (3.15%) Data Analyst
11 103 (2.59%) Change Manager
12 100 (2.52%) Data Architect
13 99 (2.49%) Senior Analyst
14 98 (2.47%) Delivery Manager
15 86 (2.17%) Senior Manager
16 80 (2.01%) Security Architect
17 78 (1.96%) Data Engineer
18 74 (1.86%) Designer
18 74 (1.86%) Product Manager
19 71 (1.79%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (2.62%) REST
2 55 (1.38%) JSON
2 55 (1.38%) Middleware
3 53 (1.33%) .NET
4 47 (1.18%) Kafka
5 46 (1.16%) React
5 46 (1.16%) Spring
6 44 (1.11%) PySpark
6 44 (1.11%) SOAP
7 40 (1.01%) XML
8 38 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
9 37 (0.93%) Spring Boot
10 33 (0.83%) OAuth
11 30 (0.76%) SAML
12 29 (0.73%) OpenID
13 28 (0.70%) SailPoint
14 27 (0.68%) Web Services
15 24 (0.60%) HTML
15 24 (0.60%) RESTful
16 22 (0.55%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 294 (7.40%) Product Ownership
2 217 (5.46%) Onboarding
3 173 (4.36%) Cloud Native
4 117 (2.95%) Management Information System
5 113 (2.84%) Data Structures
6 80 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
7 78 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
8 71 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 69 (1.74%) NHS
10 68 (1.71%) Operational Technology
11 57 (1.44%) Data Centre
12 55 (1.38%) CMDB
13 54 (1.36%) Virtual Team
14 51 (1.28%) AI Agents
14 51 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
15 49 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
16 41 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
17 38 (0.96%) Security Posture
18 37 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
19 34 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 116 (2.92%) Windows
2 64 (1.61%) Linux
3 28 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.38%) Unix
4 15 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 11 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.18%) VMS
7 6 (0.15%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.13%) Android
9 4 (0.10%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.076%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.076%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.076%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.050%) AIX
11 2 (0.050%) HPUX
11 2 (0.050%) Solaris
12 1 (0.025%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,204 (30.31%) Agile
2 897 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 884 (22.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 591 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
5 574 (14.45%) Decision-Making
6 568 (14.30%) Migration
7 518 (13.04%) Roadmaps
8 515 (12.97%) DevOps
9 477 (12.01%) AI
10 475 (11.96%) Change Management
10 475 (11.96%) Workshop Facilitation
11 464 (11.68%) Analytics
12 432 (10.88%) CI/CD
13 398 (10.02%) Business Intelligence
14 389 (9.79%) Risk Management
15 360 (9.06%) Project Delivery
16 351 (8.84%) Cybersecurity
17 346 (8.71%) Data Modelling
18 323 (8.13%) ERP
19 317 (7.98%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 359 (9.04%) SQL
2 289 (7.28%) Python
3 123 (3.10%) Java
4 83 (2.09%) JavaScript
5 74 (1.86%) PowerShell
6 70 (1.76%) C#
7 50 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 44 (1.11%) TypeScript
9 42 (1.06%) Bash
10 27 (0.68%) Bicep
11 17 (0.43%) VBA
12 16 (0.40%) Scala
13 14 (0.35%) Apex Code
13 14 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 13 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.30%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.23%) Groovy
17 8 (0.20%) Korn
18 7 (0.18%) ABAP
19 6 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 1,055 (26.56%) Security Cleared
2 798 (20.09%) SC Cleared
3 257 (6.47%) Degree
4 184 (4.63%) DV Cleared
5 138 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 120 (3.02%) PMI Certification
7 112 (2.82%) PMP
8 103 (2.59%) CISSP
9 74 (1.86%) Azure Certification
10 65 (1.64%) CISM
11 61 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
12 52 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
13 46 (1.16%) AWS Certification
14 35 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 33 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
16 32 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
17 29 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 27 (0.68%) Master's Degree
19 23 (0.58%) APMG
19 23 (0.58%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 319 (8.03%) Data Quality
2 209 (5.26%) PMO
3 183 (4.61%) QA
4 178 (4.48%) GDPR
5 168 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 155 (3.90%) NIST
7 113 (2.84%) Accessibility
8 86 (2.17%) GRC
9 54 (1.36%) NCSC
10 46 (1.16%) SLA
11 33 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
12 32 (0.81%) WCAG
13 26 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.48%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.45%) SOC 2
16 15 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 12 (0.30%) ISO 20022
17 12 (0.30%) NIST 800
18 11 (0.28%) COBIT
System Software
1 120 (3.02%) Active Directory
2 93 (2.34%) Docker
3 45 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.53%) VMware NSX
5 20 (0.50%) vSphere
6 14 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.025%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.025%) Firmware
11 1 (0.025%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.025%) IAG
11 1 (0.025%) KVM
Systems Management
1 163 (4.10%) Terraform
2 155 (3.90%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.13%) Ansible
4 39 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (0.91%) Grafana
6 33 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 33 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.38%) SCCM
8 11 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 10 (0.25%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.18%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.13%) SCOM
11 5 (0.13%) vRealize
12 4 (0.10%) Podman
12 4 (0.10%) VxRail
13 3 (0.076%) Argo
13 3 (0.076%) Puppet
13 3 (0.076%) QRadar
13 3 (0.076%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.076%) WSUS
Vendors
1 720 (18.13%) Microsoft
2 267 (6.72%) SAP
3 233 (5.87%) ServiceNow
4 178 (4.48%) Oracle
5 142 (3.58%) Databricks
6 115 (2.90%) Salesforce
7 75 (1.89%) Google
8 57 (1.44%) VMware
9 56 (1.41%) IBM
10 54 (1.36%) Cisco
11 49 (1.23%) Workday
12 42 (1.06%) Splunk
13 34 (0.86%) CyberArk
14 28 (0.70%) MuleSoft
15 24 (0.60%) Zscaler
16 22 (0.55%) Ariba
17 21 (0.53%) Citrix
18 20 (0.50%) Dynatrace
18 20 (0.50%) Okta
18 20 (0.50%) Palo Alto
1,679 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide