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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 42 149
Rank change year-on-year +17 +107 +19
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,900 1,586 676
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.39% 4.84% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.69% 5.35% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,619 1,062 464
10th Percentile £369 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £441 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £749 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +3.90% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 29 25
10th Percentile £23.88 £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% -6.83%
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% +6.15%

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 44,857 29,633 35,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.35% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,817 18,625 22,863
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.02%
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 2,658 1,571 2,253
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.44 £16.82
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%
75th Percentile £68.50 £51.05 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.41 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +87.50% -37.04% -6.09%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 3,317 £540 +0.93% 802
UK excluding London +24 1,843 £520 +3.90% 571
London +15 1,592 £550 - 352
Work from Home +21 1,272 £530 +5.89% 393
North of England +20 492 £500 - 136
South East +23 477 £550 +2.42% 222
Midlands +13 321 £510 +2.00% 77
North West +22 246 £500 -0.40% 64
West Midlands +3 235 £504 +0.75% 51
South West +10 197 £535 -2.73% 68
Yorkshire -2 191 £507 +6.79% 54
Scotland +29 190 £475 -5.00% 17
East of England +34 122 £533 +6.50% 45
East Midlands +23 82 £525 +10.53% 26
North East +9 63 £450 -11.33% 20
Wales +16 50 £500 +31.58% 12
Northern Ireland +14 16 £449 -20.27% 5
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
1 177 (4.54%) Confluence
2 128 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 32 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 26 (0.67%) SAS
6 24 (0.62%) Apache
6 24 (0.62%) CMS
7 23 (0.59%) 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 (0.051%) Appian
11 2 (0.051%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.051%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.051%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.051%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 180 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
5 63 (1.62%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.13%) Trello
8 3 (0.077%) Sketch
9 2 (0.051%) InDesign
9 2 (0.051%) InVision
9 2 (0.051%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.026%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.026%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.026%) CATIA
10 1 (0.026%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.026%) Revit
10 1 (0.026%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.026%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 153 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 15 (0.38%) SAP FI
5 13 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 12 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 12 (0.31%) SAP QM
6 12 (0.31%) Teamcenter
7 11 (0.28%) Maximo
7 11 (0.28%) Primavera
8 10 (0.26%) SAP CO
8 10 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
9 9 (0.23%) NetSuite
9 9 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 9 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
10 8 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
11 7 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 7 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 740 (18.97%) Azure
2 490 (12.56%) AWS
3 382 (9.79%) Power Platform
4 174 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
5 170 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
6 157 (4.03%) GCP
7 122 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
8 121 (3.10%) Entra ID
9 100 (2.56%) SaaS
10 80 (2.05%) GitHub
11 65 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
12 62 (1.59%) Serverless
13 59 (1.51%) Power Automate
14 53 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
14 53 (1.36%) Microsoft Purview
15 51 (1.31%) Amazon S3
15 51 (1.31%) PowerApps
16 49 (1.26%) PaaS
17 48 (1.23%) Snowflake
18 42 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 64 (1.64%) Network Security
2 61 (1.56%) Firewall
3 50 (1.28%) DNS
4 36 (0.92%) VPN
5 32 (0.82%) WAN
6 29 (0.74%) LAN
7 24 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 21 (0.54%) DHCP
9 18 (0.46%) Wireless
10 15 (0.38%) VLAN
11 14 (0.36%) Internet
11 14 (0.36%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.33%) 5G
12 13 (0.33%) BGP
12 13 (0.33%) Intranet
13 12 (0.31%) OSPF
13 12 (0.31%) SSL
14 10 (0.26%) NGFW
14 10 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.21%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 316 (8.10%) Power BI
2 100 (2.56%) Metadata
3 83 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 65 (1.67%) Data Lake
5 57 (1.46%) SQL Server
6 43 (1.10%) Tableau
7 31 (0.79%) Relational Database
8 29 (0.74%) Power Query
9 26 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (0.54%) DynamoDB
11 20 (0.51%) Big Data
12 18 (0.46%) Oracle Database
13 17 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (0.44%) BigQuery
14 16 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
14 16 (0.41%) NoSQL
15 15 (0.38%) Data Vault
16 14 (0.36%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 14 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 282 (7.23%) JIRA
2 70 (1.79%) Git
3 54 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.26%) GitLab
5 33 (0.85%) 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 9 (0.23%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (0.15%) MLflow
14 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.13%) Snyk
15 5 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 1,787 (45.82%) Social Skills
2 1,128 (28.92%) Finance
3 689 (17.67%) Public Sector
4 628 (16.10%) Analytical Skills
5 207 (5.31%) Banking
6 189 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
7 155 (3.97%) Legal
8 153 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
9 135 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
10 125 (3.21%) Retail
11 93 (2.38%) Manufacturing
12 88 (2.26%) Law
13 82 (2.10%) Telecoms
14 81 (2.08%) Marketing
15 79 (2.03%) Local Government
16 74 (1.90%) Aerospace
17 73 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 54 (1.38%) Military
19 52 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
20 40 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 713 (18.28%) Analyst
2 566 (14.51%) Architect
3 490 (12.56%) Lead
4 430 (11.03%) Business Analyst
5 389 (9.97%) Senior
6 300 (7.69%) Project Manager
7 274 (7.03%) Consultant
8 161 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
9 155 (3.97%) Developer
10 121 (3.10%) Data Analyst
11 103 (2.64%) Change Manager
12 100 (2.56%) Delivery Manager
13 98 (2.51%) Senior Analyst
14 84 (2.15%) Data Architect
14 84 (2.15%) Senior Manager
15 78 (2.00%) Security Architect
16 77 (1.97%) Programme Manager
17 74 (1.90%) Designer
18 72 (1.85%) IT Manager
18 72 (1.85%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (2.54%) REST
2 56 (1.44%) Middleware
3 49 (1.26%) JSON
4 46 (1.18%) Spring
5 45 (1.15%) React
6 44 (1.13%) Kafka
7 42 (1.08%) SOAP
8 41 (1.05%) .NET
9 37 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
9 37 (0.95%) Spring Boot
9 37 (0.95%) XML
10 36 (0.92%) PySpark
11 28 (0.72%) SailPoint
12 27 (0.69%) OAuth
13 26 (0.67%) SAML
14 24 (0.62%) OpenID
15 23 (0.59%) Web Services
16 21 (0.54%) HTML
16 21 (0.54%) LDAP
16 21 (0.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 277 (7.10%) Product Ownership
2 207 (5.31%) Onboarding
3 164 (4.21%) Cloud Native
4 105 (2.69%) Data Structures
5 104 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 78 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 73 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
7 73 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
8 69 (1.77%) Operational Technology
9 65 (1.67%) NHS
10 63 (1.62%) Data Centre
11 60 (1.54%) Virtual Team
12 57 (1.46%) CMDB
13 47 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
14 46 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
15 44 (1.13%) AI Agents
16 40 (1.03%) Security Posture
17 39 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
18 37 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
19 33 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 111 (2.85%) Windows
2 56 (1.44%) Linux
3 26 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 14 (0.36%) Unix
6 10 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.18%) 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%) AIX
11 1 (0.026%) HPUX
11 1 (0.026%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.026%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,136 (29.13%) Agile
2 853 (21.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 842 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
4 582 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
5 564 (14.46%) Migration
6 551 (14.13%) Decision-Making
7 505 (12.95%) Roadmaps
8 486 (12.46%) DevOps
9 470 (12.05%) Change Management
10 461 (11.82%) Workshop Facilitation
11 448 (11.49%) AI
12 419 (10.74%) Analytics
13 389 (9.97%) Risk Management
14 386 (9.90%) CI/CD
15 356 (9.13%) Business Intelligence
16 347 (8.90%) Cybersecurity
17 341 (8.74%) Project Delivery
18 331 (8.49%) ERP
19 317 (8.13%) Data Modelling
20 313 (8.03%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 330 (8.46%) SQL
2 271 (6.95%) Python
3 118 (3.03%) Java
4 74 (1.90%) JavaScript
5 63 (1.62%) PowerShell
6 55 (1.41%) C#
7 42 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 42 (1.08%) TypeScript
8 36 (0.92%) Bash
9 24 (0.62%) Bicep
10 19 (0.49%) VBA
11 16 (0.41%) 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 9 (0.23%) Korn
17 7 (0.18%) ABAP
17 7 (0.18%) R
18 5 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,006 (25.79%) Security Cleared
2 764 (19.59%) SC Cleared
3 275 (7.05%) Degree
4 166 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 139 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 124 (3.18%) PMI Certification
7 114 (2.92%) PMP
8 106 (2.72%) CISSP
9 74 (1.90%) Azure Certification
10 68 (1.74%) CISM
11 63 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
12 43 (1.10%) AWS Certification
13 42 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
14 36 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
15 33 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 31 (0.79%) Master's Degree
17 30 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 29 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
19 23 (0.59%) CIMA
19 23 (0.59%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 297 (7.62%) Data Quality
2 199 (5.10%) PMO
3 183 (4.69%) QA
4 171 (4.38%) GDPR
5 162 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 156 (4.00%) NIST
7 104 (2.67%) Accessibility
8 89 (2.28%) GRC
9 55 (1.41%) NCSC
10 47 (1.21%) SLA
11 32 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
12 29 (0.74%) WCAG
13 25 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
14 21 (0.54%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.46%) SOC 2
16 15 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 14 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 13 (0.33%) COBIT
18 13 (0.33%) ISO 20022
19 12 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 110 (2.82%) Active Directory
2 82 (2.10%) Docker
3 45 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.49%) vSphere
5 18 (0.46%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.28%) 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
1 157 (4.03%) Terraform
2 144 (3.69%) Kubernetes
3 43 (1.10%) Ansible
4 36 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (0.87%) Grafana
6 31 (0.79%) Prometheus
7 30 (0.77%) 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%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.13%) vRealize
13 4 (0.10%) Podman
14 3 (0.077%) Istio
14 3 (0.077%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.077%) QRadar
14 3 (0.077%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.077%) vMotion
14 3 (0.077%) VxRail
Vendors
1 669 (17.15%) Microsoft
2 276 (7.08%) SAP
3 234 (6.00%) ServiceNow
4 180 (4.62%) Oracle
5 119 (3.05%) Databricks
6 114 (2.92%) Salesforce
7 72 (1.85%) Google
8 56 (1.44%) VMware
9 54 (1.38%) Cisco
9 54 (1.38%) IBM
10 45 (1.15%) Workday
11 43 (1.10%) Splunk
12 30 (0.77%) CyberArk
13 25 (0.64%) MuleSoft
14 23 (0.59%) Palo Alto
15 22 (0.56%) Zscaler
16 21 (0.54%) Ariba
17 20 (0.51%) Citrix
17 20 (0.51%) IFS
17 20 (0.51%) Okta