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

 6 months to
16 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 42 152
Rank change year-on-year +16 +110 +13
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,874 1,542 674
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.36% 4.75% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.65% 5.25% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,611 1,027 463
10th Percentile £367 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £447 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £517 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +3.36% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 29 28
10th Percentile £25.00 £24.72 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £30.61 £25.88
Median hourly rate £74.50 £49.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.51% +12.50% -13.86%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.25 £60.72
90th Percentile - £76.19 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £59.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +35.59% +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 44,779 29,366 36,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.09% 90.39% 85.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,858 18,449 23,259
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
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 2,648 1,547 2,431
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.22 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.21 £17.45 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%
75th Percentile £68.50 £52.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.65 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.34 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.88% -36.15% -3.74%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +19 3,292 £540 +2.32% 856
UK excluding London +24 1,836 £517 +3.36% 623
London +18 1,572 £550 - 369
Work from Home +24 1,257 £530 +6.00% 481
North of England +19 495 £500 - 143
South East +23 470 £550 +0.92% 248
Midlands +11 325 £513 +6.55% 83
North West +19 248 £500 - 72
West Midlands +6 234 £510 +7.37% 57
Yorkshire -2 193 £507 +6.79% 52
South West +17 191 £530 -3.64% 75
Scotland +26 185 £475 -5.00% 14
East of England +29 124 £533 +6.50% 38
East Midlands +21 86 £525 +16.67% 26
North East +9 62 £450 -11.33% 21
Wales +20 51 £500 +31.58% 17
Northern Ireland +13 17 £447 -20.53% 17
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
1 182 (4.70%) Confluence
2 127 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 32 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (0.67%) SAS
5 25 (0.65%) Apache Spark
6 24 (0.62%) CMS
7 22 (0.57%) Apache
7 22 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.15%) WordPress
9 4 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.10%) Drupal
9 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.10%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.077%) Kentico
10 3 (0.077%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.052%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.052%) Appian
11 2 (0.052%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.052%) Camunda
11 2 (0.052%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 183 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 66 (1.70%) MS Visio
5 65 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.077%) PTC Creo
7 3 (0.077%) Sketch
7 3 (0.077%) Trello
8 2 (0.052%) InDesign
8 2 (0.052%) InVision
9 1 (0.026%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.026%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.026%) CATIA
9 1 (0.026%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.026%) Revit
9 1 (0.026%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.026%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 155 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.46%) Workday HCM
4 15 (0.39%) SAP FI
5 14 (0.36%) Teamcenter
6 13 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 12 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 12 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.31%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.28%) Maximo
8 11 (0.28%) Primavera
9 10 (0.26%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.23%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 9 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
11 8 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
11 8 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
12 7 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
12 7 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 729 (18.82%) Azure
2 487 (12.57%) AWS
3 379 (9.78%) Power Platform
4 172 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
5 169 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
6 155 (4.00%) GCP
7 119 (3.07%) Entra ID
8 115 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
9 100 (2.58%) SaaS
10 79 (2.04%) GitHub
11 65 (1.68%) Microsoft Copilot
12 60 (1.55%) Serverless
13 57 (1.47%) Power Automate
14 52 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
15 49 (1.26%) Amazon S3
15 49 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
15 49 (1.26%) PowerApps
16 48 (1.24%) PaaS
17 42 (1.08%) Snowflake
18 40 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.68%) Network Security
2 61 (1.57%) Firewall
3 49 (1.26%) DNS
4 36 (0.93%) VPN
5 32 (0.83%) WAN
6 29 (0.75%) LAN
7 23 (0.59%) TCP/IP
8 20 (0.52%) DHCP
9 18 (0.46%) Wireless
10 15 (0.39%) Internet
10 15 (0.39%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.39%) VLAN
11 13 (0.34%) 5G
11 13 (0.34%) BGP
11 13 (0.34%) Intranet
12 12 (0.31%) OSPF
12 12 (0.31%) SSL
13 10 (0.26%) NGFW
14 9 (0.23%) MPLS
14 9 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 314 (8.11%) Power BI
2 98 (2.53%) Metadata
3 81 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (1.63%) Data Lake
5 55 (1.42%) SQL Server
6 43 (1.11%) Tableau
7 31 (0.80%) Relational Database
8 29 (0.75%) Power Query
9 25 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.52%) Big Data
10 20 (0.52%) DynamoDB
11 18 (0.46%) Oracle Database
12 17 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (0.44%) BigQuery
12 17 (0.44%) NoSQL
13 16 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
14 14 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (0.36%) Data Vault
14 14 (0.36%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 14 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 287 (7.41%) JIRA
2 68 (1.76%) Git
3 56 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.32%) GitLab
5 32 (0.83%) Selenium
6 31 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
7 26 (0.67%) Postman
8 18 (0.46%) Hudson
9 17 (0.44%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.44%) WebDriver
10 16 (0.41%) JMeter
11 15 (0.39%) JUnit
12 13 (0.34%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.31%) ERwin
14 9 (0.23%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (0.15%) MLflow
15 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
16 5 (0.13%) Gradle
16 5 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 1,775 (45.82%) Social Skills
2 1,121 (28.94%) Finance
3 685 (17.68%) Public Sector
4 621 (16.03%) Analytical Skills
5 210 (5.42%) Banking
6 190 (4.90%) Influencing Skills
7 153 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
8 150 (3.87%) Legal
9 132 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
10 125 (3.23%) Retail
11 92 (2.37%) Manufacturing
12 86 (2.22%) Law
13 82 (2.12%) Marketing
14 81 (2.09%) Local Government
15 79 (2.04%) Telecoms
16 74 (1.91%) Aerospace
17 70 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 54 (1.39%) Military
19 51 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
20 39 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 706 (18.22%) Analyst
2 565 (14.58%) Architect
3 490 (12.65%) Lead
4 428 (11.05%) Business Analyst
5 379 (9.78%) Senior
6 298 (7.69%) Project Manager
7 273 (7.05%) Consultant
8 163 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
9 153 (3.95%) Developer
10 122 (3.15%) Data Analyst
11 100 (2.58%) Change Manager
11 100 (2.58%) Delivery Manager
12 94 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
13 83 (2.14%) Senior Manager
14 80 (2.07%) Data Architect
15 77 (1.99%) Programme Manager
15 77 (1.99%) Security Architect
16 76 (1.96%) Designer
17 73 (1.88%) Product Manager
18 69 (1.78%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (2.58%) REST
2 58 (1.50%) Middleware
3 47 (1.21%) JSON
4 46 (1.19%) Spring
5 45 (1.16%) React
6 43 (1.11%) Kafka
7 42 (1.08%) SOAP
8 41 (1.06%) .NET
9 38 (0.98%) XML
10 37 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
10 37 (0.96%) Spring Boot
11 35 (0.90%) PySpark
12 28 (0.72%) OAuth
13 27 (0.70%) SailPoint
14 26 (0.67%) SAML
15 25 (0.65%) OpenID
16 21 (0.54%) LDAP
16 21 (0.54%) RESTful
16 21 (0.54%) Web Services
17 20 (0.52%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 268 (6.92%) Product Ownership
2 206 (5.32%) Onboarding
3 164 (4.23%) Cloud Native
4 101 (2.61%) Data Structures
5 100 (2.58%) Management Information System
6 76 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
7 73 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
7 73 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
8 69 (1.78%) Operational Technology
9 63 (1.63%) NHS
10 61 (1.57%) Data Centre
11 59 (1.52%) CMDB
11 59 (1.52%) Virtual Team
12 48 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
13 47 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
14 45 (1.16%) AI Agents
15 41 (1.06%) Security Posture
16 39 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
17 35 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
18 34 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 112 (2.89%) Windows
2 54 (1.39%) Linux
3 26 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.39%) Windows 10
5 14 (0.36%) Unix
6 10 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.21%) VMS
8 6 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.10%) Android
10 3 (0.077%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.077%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.077%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.077%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.026%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,125 (29.04%) Agile
2 840 (21.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 828 (21.37%) Continuous Improvement
4 573 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
5 564 (14.56%) Migration
6 544 (14.04%) Decision-Making
7 508 (13.11%) Roadmaps
8 478 (12.34%) DevOps
9 465 (12.00%) Change Management
10 453 (11.69%) Workshop Facilitation
11 443 (11.44%) AI
12 413 (10.66%) Analytics
13 382 (9.86%) Risk Management
14 381 (9.83%) CI/CD
15 353 (9.11%) Business Intelligence
16 345 (8.91%) Cybersecurity
17 338 (8.72%) Project Delivery
18 324 (8.36%) ERP
19 315 (8.13%) Data Modelling
20 311 (8.03%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 328 (8.47%) SQL
2 269 (6.94%) Python
3 120 (3.10%) Java
4 72 (1.86%) JavaScript
5 62 (1.60%) PowerShell
6 54 (1.39%) C#
7 43 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 42 (1.08%) TypeScript
9 35 (0.90%) Bash
10 24 (0.62%) Bicep
11 20 (0.52%) VBA
12 16 (0.41%) Apex Code
13 14 (0.36%) Scala
14 13 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.31%) T-SQL
16 11 (0.28%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.23%) Korn
18 7 (0.18%) ABAP
18 7 (0.18%) R
19 5 (0.13%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 988 (25.50%) Security Cleared
2 750 (19.36%) SC Cleared
3 276 (7.12%) Degree
4 159 (4.10%) DV Cleared
5 141 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 122 (3.15%) PMI Certification
7 110 (2.84%) PMP
8 106 (2.74%) CISSP
9 74 (1.91%) Azure Certification
10 69 (1.78%) CISM
11 64 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
12 44 (1.14%) AWS Certification
13 39 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
14 38 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
15 34 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 31 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
17 30 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 30 (0.77%) Master's Degree
18 23 (0.59%) ACCA
18 23 (0.59%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (7.51%) Data Quality
2 197 (5.09%) PMO
3 180 (4.65%) QA
4 165 (4.26%) GDPR
5 160 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 156 (4.03%) NIST
7 102 (2.63%) Accessibility
8 89 (2.30%) GRC
9 55 (1.42%) NCSC
10 47 (1.21%) SLA
11 29 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
12 26 (0.67%) WCAG
13 23 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
14 21 (0.54%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.46%) SOC 2
16 16 (0.41%) ISO 20022
17 14 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 13 (0.34%) COBIT
19 12 (0.31%) NIST 800
20 11 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 106 (2.74%) Active Directory
2 80 (2.07%) Docker
3 44 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.44%) vSphere
5 16 (0.41%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.26%) 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 3 (0.077%) NFS
12 1 (0.026%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.026%) Firmware
12 1 (0.026%) FreeRADIUS
12 1 (0.026%) IAG
12 1 (0.026%) KVM
Systems Management
1 153 (3.95%) Terraform
2 139 (3.59%) Kubernetes
3 44 (1.14%) Ansible
4 35 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (0.83%) Grafana
6 30 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (0.75%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.34%) SCCM
9 10 (0.26%) HP ALM
10 9 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.15%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.13%) vRealize
13 4 (0.10%) Podman
14 3 (0.077%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.077%) Istio
14 3 (0.077%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.077%) SCOM
14 3 (0.077%) vMotion
14 3 (0.077%) WSUS
Vendors
1 663 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 277 (7.15%) SAP
3 235 (6.07%) ServiceNow
4 179 (4.62%) Oracle
5 118 (3.05%) Databricks
6 114 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 69 (1.78%) Google
8 56 (1.45%) Cisco
9 54 (1.39%) VMware
10 53 (1.37%) IBM
11 45 (1.16%) Workday
12 42 (1.08%) Splunk
13 29 (0.75%) CyberArk
14 26 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 22 (0.57%) Palo Alto
15 22 (0.57%) Zscaler
16 21 (0.54%) Ariba
17 20 (0.52%) Citrix
17 20 (0.52%) IFS
18 19 (0.49%) Adobe
944 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide