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

 6 months to
30 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 46 151
Rank change year-on-year +20 +105 +15
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,651 1,373 687
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.11% 4.49% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.37% 4.94% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,462 912 472
10th Percentile £367 £358 £363
25th Percentile £447 £447 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £524
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.53% -0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 28 33
10th Percentile £25.00 £24.51 £18.35
25th Percentile £49.00 £29.51 £27.81
Median hourly rate £67.50 £49.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +35.62% -28.55%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.31 £59.95
90th Percentile - £76.67 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.89 £59.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +15.07% +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 43,613 27,816 36,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.98% 90.91% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,139 17,565 23,448
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -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 2,612 1,364 2,554
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.00% -34.42% +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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +21 3,094 £538 +2.38% 855
UK excluding London +28 1,734 £513 +2.50% 677
London +22 1,466 £550 - 350
Work from Home +28 1,185 £530 +6.00% 469
North of England +23 463 £500 +0.30% 165
South East +19 420 £540 +5.68% 247
Midlands +16 323 £509 +4.47% 102
North West +24 237 £500 - 97
West Midlands +11 227 £500 +2.67% 54
South West +21 194 £525 -4.55% 73
Yorkshire +2 184 £514 +8.21% 48
Scotland +25 169 £475 -5.00% 19
East of England +35 121 £551 +10.20% 33
East Midlands +23 91 £525 +16.67% 47
North East +5 48 £453 +0.56% 24
Wales +15 47 £500 +38.89% 22
Northern Ireland +14 17 £447 -23.10% 28
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
1 180 (4.93%) Confluence
2 110 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 32 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (0.79%) SAS
5 24 (0.66%) Apache Spark
6 23 (0.63%) Apache
7 21 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 19 (0.52%) CMS
9 5 (0.14%) WordPress
10 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.11%) Drupal
10 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.11%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.082%) Appian
11 3 (0.082%) Kentico
12 2 (0.055%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.055%) Camunda
12 2 (0.055%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.055%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.055%) WebLogic
Applications
1 170 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 64 (1.75%) MS Visio
4 60 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.11%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.11%) Sketch
8 2 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.055%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.055%) InVision
8 2 (0.055%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.055%) Trello
9 1 (0.027%) CATIA
9 1 (0.027%) InDesign
9 1 (0.027%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.027%) Notion
9 1 (0.027%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.027%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 139 (3.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.47%) Workday HCM
4 15 (0.41%) Teamcenter
5 13 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 12 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 12 (0.33%) Primavera
7 11 (0.30%) SAP QM
8 10 (0.27%) Maximo
8 10 (0.27%) SAP FI
9 9 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
10 8 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 8 (0.22%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.19%) NetSuite
11 7 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
11 7 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
11 7 (0.19%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
12 6 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
12 6 (0.16%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 688 (18.84%) Azure
2 475 (13.01%) AWS
3 353 (9.67%) Power Platform
4 151 (4.14%) GCP
4 151 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
5 145 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
6 111 (3.04%) Entra ID
7 100 (2.74%) SaaS
8 98 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
9 69 (1.89%) GitHub
10 58 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
11 57 (1.56%) Serverless
12 47 (1.29%) PaaS
13 46 (1.26%) Amazon S3
13 46 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
13 46 (1.26%) Power Automate
14 45 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
15 41 (1.12%) PowerApps
16 37 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
17 36 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.78%) Network Security
2 61 (1.67%) Firewall
3 42 (1.15%) DNS
4 31 (0.85%) VPN
5 30 (0.82%) WAN
6 26 (0.71%) LAN
7 18 (0.49%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.47%) Wireless
9 14 (0.38%) VLAN
10 13 (0.36%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.33%) 5G
11 12 (0.33%) BGP
11 12 (0.33%) DHCP
11 12 (0.33%) Internet
12 11 (0.30%) OSPF
12 11 (0.30%) SSL
13 10 (0.27%) NGFW
14 9 (0.25%) Intranet
14 9 (0.25%) MPLS
15 8 (0.22%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 295 (8.08%) Power BI
2 91 (2.49%) Metadata
3 78 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (1.37%) Data Lake
5 43 (1.18%) Tableau
6 41 (1.12%) SQL Server
7 32 (0.88%) Relational Database
8 30 (0.82%) Power Query
9 28 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
10 22 (0.60%) NoSQL
11 19 (0.52%) DynamoDB
12 17 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
13 16 (0.44%) Big Data
13 16 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
14 14 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (0.38%) Data Vault
14 14 (0.38%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 13 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (0.36%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 279 (7.64%) JIRA
2 62 (1.70%) Git
3 60 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.37%) GitLab
5 31 (0.85%) Rational DOORS
6 28 (0.77%) Postman
7 26 (0.71%) Selenium
8 20 (0.55%) JMeter
9 18 (0.49%) Hudson
10 16 (0.44%) Cucumber
11 15 (0.41%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.36%) JUnit
13 12 (0.33%) ERwin
14 10 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.22%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.22%) LoadRunner
15 8 (0.22%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.16%) MLflow
17 5 (0.14%) NeoLoad
17 5 (0.14%) Snyk
General
1 1,665 (45.60%) Social Skills
2 1,050 (28.76%) Finance
3 617 (16.90%) Public Sector
4 570 (15.61%) Analytical Skills
5 203 (5.56%) Banking
6 165 (4.52%) Influencing Skills
7 142 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
8 136 (3.73%) Legal
9 117 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
10 113 (3.10%) Retail
11 90 (2.47%) Manufacturing
12 83 (2.27%) Law
13 73 (2.00%) Aerospace
14 70 (1.92%) Local Government
15 69 (1.89%) Marketing
15 69 (1.89%) Telecoms
16 58 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 47 (1.29%) Military
18 44 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
19 34 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 671 (18.38%) Analyst
2 544 (14.90%) Architect
3 470 (12.87%) Lead
4 414 (11.34%) Business Analyst
5 356 (9.75%) Senior
6 280 (7.67%) Project Manager
7 269 (7.37%) Consultant
8 150 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
9 129 (3.53%) Developer
10 108 (2.96%) Data Analyst
11 97 (2.66%) Change Manager
11 97 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
12 94 (2.57%) Delivery Manager
13 78 (2.14%) Data Architect
14 77 (2.11%) Designer
15 74 (2.03%) Senior Manager
16 73 (2.00%) Programme Manager
17 70 (1.92%) Security Architect
18 67 (1.84%) Technical Architect
19 66 (1.81%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (2.79%) REST
2 58 (1.59%) Middleware
3 46 (1.26%) Spring
4 42 (1.15%) SOAP
5 41 (1.12%) Kafka
6 39 (1.07%) JSON
6 39 (1.07%) React
7 36 (0.99%) Spring Boot
8 35 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
9 33 (0.90%) OpenID
10 32 (0.88%) .NET
10 32 (0.88%) XML
11 31 (0.85%) OAuth
11 31 (0.85%) PySpark
11 31 (0.85%) SailPoint
12 30 (0.82%) LDAP
13 26 (0.71%) SAML
14 21 (0.58%) CSS
14 21 (0.58%) HTML
14 21 (0.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 246 (6.74%) Product Ownership
2 178 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 157 (4.30%) Cloud Native
4 94 (2.57%) Management Information System
5 89 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 73 (2.00%) Operational Technology
7 69 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
8 66 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
9 64 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
10 63 (1.73%) Data Centre
11 58 (1.59%) CMDB
12 57 (1.56%) NHS
13 51 (1.40%) Virtual Team
14 50 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
15 48 (1.31%) Security Posture
16 46 (1.26%) AI Agents
17 44 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
18 35 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
19 33 (0.90%) Public Cloud
20 31 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 96 (2.63%) Windows
2 46 (1.26%) Linux
3 24 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.36%) Unix
5 10 (0.27%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.22%) VMS
8 6 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.11%) Android
11 3 (0.082%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.082%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.082%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.082%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.027%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,028 (28.16%) Agile
2 766 (20.98%) Stakeholder Management
3 742 (20.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 531 (14.54%) Migration
5 514 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
6 507 (13.89%) Decision-Making
7 482 (13.20%) Roadmaps
8 443 (12.13%) Change Management
9 435 (11.91%) DevOps
10 418 (11.45%) Workshop Facilitation
11 392 (10.74%) Analytics
12 390 (10.68%) AI
13 362 (9.92%) Risk Management
14 333 (9.12%) Business Intelligence
15 330 (9.04%) CI/CD
16 314 (8.60%) Cybersecurity
17 310 (8.49%) Project Delivery
18 308 (8.44%) ERP
19 298 (8.16%) Data Modelling
19 298 (8.16%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 310 (8.49%) SQL
2 252 (6.90%) Python
3 118 (3.23%) Java
4 61 (1.67%) JavaScript
5 56 (1.53%) PowerShell
6 46 (1.26%) C#
7 41 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 41 (1.12%) TypeScript
8 27 (0.74%) Bash
9 20 (0.55%) Bicep
9 20 (0.55%) VBA
10 16 (0.44%) Scala
11 13 (0.36%) Apex Code
12 10 (0.27%) Kotlin
12 10 (0.27%) PL/SQL
12 10 (0.27%) T-SQL
13 9 (0.25%) Korn
14 7 (0.19%) R
15 6 (0.16%) ABAP
16 4 (0.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 924 (25.31%) Security Cleared
2 716 (19.61%) SC Cleared
3 267 (7.31%) Degree
4 145 (3.97%) DV Cleared
5 120 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 111 (3.04%) PMI Certification
7 100 (2.74%) PMP
8 93 (2.55%) CISSP
9 66 (1.81%) CISM
10 61 (1.67%) Azure Certification
11 57 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
12 39 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
13 37 (1.01%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.79%) Master's Degree
14 29 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
14 29 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 25 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 24 (0.66%) ACCA
17 23 (0.63%) CIMA
17 23 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (7.40%) Data Quality
2 187 (5.12%) PMO
3 170 (4.66%) QA
4 156 (4.27%) NIST
5 155 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 149 (4.08%) GDPR
7 92 (2.52%) Accessibility
8 87 (2.38%) GRC
9 50 (1.37%) NCSC
10 37 (1.01%) SLA
11 26 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
11 26 (0.71%) PCI DSS
11 26 (0.71%) WCAG
12 24 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
13 18 (0.49%) SOC 2
14 17 (0.47%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.36%) COBIT
15 13 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 11 (0.30%) NIST 800
17 10 (0.27%) Def Stans
System Software
1 93 (2.55%) Active Directory
2 70 (1.92%) Docker
3 31 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.38%) vSphere
5 12 (0.33%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.082%) NFS
10 1 (0.027%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.027%) Firmware
10 1 (0.027%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.027%) KVM
Systems Management
1 132 (3.62%) Terraform
2 125 (3.42%) Kubernetes
3 41 (1.12%) Ansible
4 31 (0.85%) Grafana
5 30 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 29 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (0.77%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.33%) SCCM
9 11 (0.30%) HP ALM
10 10 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.16%) vRealize
12 4 (0.11%) Podman
13 3 (0.082%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.082%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.082%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 3 (0.082%) vMotion
13 3 (0.082%) VxRail
13 3 (0.082%) WSUS
14 2 (0.055%) Nessus
Vendors
1 585 (16.02%) Microsoft
2 261 (7.15%) SAP
3 221 (6.05%) ServiceNow
4 164 (4.49%) Oracle
5 107 (2.93%) Salesforce
6 104 (2.85%) Databricks
7 64 (1.75%) Google
8 53 (1.45%) Cisco
9 50 (1.37%) IBM
10 44 (1.21%) VMware
11 43 (1.18%) Workday
12 39 (1.07%) Splunk
13 26 (0.71%) CyberArk
14 24 (0.66%) MuleSoft
15 21 (0.58%) Palo Alto
16 20 (0.55%) Dynatrace
16 20 (0.55%) Zscaler
17 19 (0.52%) Adobe
17 19 (0.52%) IFS
18 17 (0.47%) Ariba
957 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide