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

 6 months to
30 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 136
Rank change year-on-year +2 +109 +32
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,180 2,160 690
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.62% 6.58% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.02% 7.25% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,853 1,450 430
10th Percentile £363 £363 £374
25th Percentile £450 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 38 10
10th Percentile £24.43 £22.42 £21.93
25th Percentile £40.75 £26.89 £26.31
Median hourly rate £64.55 £47.00 £54.02
Median % change year-on-year +37.33% -13.00% -4.37%
75th Percentile £82.31 £64.31 £60.44
90th Percentile £88.18 £73.75 £61.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £32.74 £58.17
% change year-on-year +106.20% -43.73% +2.98%

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 46,343 29,774 32,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.43% 90.67% 85.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,026 18,502 19,486
10th Percentile £325 £296 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,222 1,849 1,345
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.29 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.19 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.86 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.51% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £74.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.27 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +75.98% -48.10% +1.18%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +2 3,506 £550 - 2,495
UK excluding London +4 1,931 £525 - 1,536
London -1 1,739 £550 - 1,093
Work from Home +8 1,419 £525 - 1,262
South East +6 500 £550 +2.42% 377
North of England +3 494 £500 -3.85% 382
Midlands +4 340 £500 -5.84% 251
West Midlands +3 275 £500 -6.89% 178
South West -3 232 £550 +1.15% 204
Scotland +25 224 £500 +11.11% 142
North West -1 221 £525 - 222
Yorkshire -5 204 £500 -4.76% 121
East of England +14 113 £510 -17.07% 113
North East +10 79 £453 -4.74% 40
East Midlands +2 64 £525 +17.32% 73
Wales +17 57 £525 +27.27% 29
Northern Ireland -2 6 £413 -21.43% 49
Channel Islands -2 4 £588 +27.03% 4

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 (4.16%) SharePoint
2 167 (4.00%) Confluence
3 37 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (0.89%) CMS
4 36 (0.86%) Apache
5 35 (0.84%) Apache Spark
6 27 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
7 24 (0.57%) SAS
8 10 (0.24%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.14%) WordPress
10 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.072%) Drupal
12 3 (0.072%) IIS
12 3 (0.072%) Kentico
12 3 (0.072%) OpenEdge
13 2 (0.048%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.048%) Appian
13 2 (0.048%) GeoServer
Applications
1 191 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 94 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 90 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (1.36%) MS Visio
5 52 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.19%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.19%) Navisworks
7 8 (0.19%) ProjectWise
7 8 (0.19%) Revit
8 7 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.17%) Trello
9 3 (0.072%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.072%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.072%) Sketch
10 2 (0.048%) InDesign
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Notion
Business Applications
1 121 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.60%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 15 (0.36%) SAP FI
7 14 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.29%) Maximo
8 12 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
9 11 (0.26%) iTrent
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.26%) Primavera
9 11 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 10 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 10 (0.24%) SAP CO
10 10 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.24%) SAP QM
11 9 (0.22%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 794 (19.00%) Azure
2 549 (13.13%) AWS
3 427 (10.22%) Power Platform
4 219 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
5 205 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
6 185 (4.43%) GCP
7 136 (3.25%) Entra ID
8 126 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
9 102 (2.44%) SaaS
10 101 (2.42%) Power Automate
11 91 (2.18%) GitHub
12 82 (1.96%) Snowflake
13 79 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
14 74 (1.77%) PowerApps
14 74 (1.77%) Serverless
15 73 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
16 65 (1.56%) Amazon S3
17 58 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
18 56 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
19 47 (1.12%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 73 (1.75%) Network Security
2 69 (1.65%) Firewall
3 49 (1.17%) DNS
4 40 (0.96%) VPN
4 40 (0.96%) WAN
5 30 (0.72%) LAN
6 29 (0.69%) DHCP
7 24 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 18 (0.43%) Internet
8 18 (0.43%) SD-WAN
9 17 (0.41%) VLAN
10 16 (0.38%) Wireless
11 14 (0.33%) 5G
12 12 (0.29%) BGP
12 12 (0.29%) VoIP
13 11 (0.26%) Kerberos
13 11 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.24%) HTTP
14 10 (0.24%) Intranet
14 10 (0.24%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 324 (7.75%) Power BI
2 166 (3.97%) Metadata
3 96 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
4 95 (2.27%) Data Lake
5 71 (1.70%) SQL Server
6 47 (1.12%) Tableau
7 32 (0.77%) Relational Database
8 31 (0.74%) Power Query
9 28 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (0.65%) DynamoDB
11 26 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
12 25 (0.60%) BigQuery
13 23 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
14 22 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
15 21 (0.50%) Oracle Database
16 20 (0.48%) MongoDB
16 20 (0.48%) NoSQL
17 19 (0.45%) Big Data
18 18 (0.43%) Data Vault
18 18 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 261 (6.24%) JIRA
2 92 (2.20%) Git
3 61 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 58 (1.39%) GitLab
5 30 (0.72%) Selenium
6 29 (0.69%) Postman
7 19 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
10 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
11 11 (0.26%) Hudson
12 9 (0.22%) ERwin
12 9 (0.22%) JUnit
12 9 (0.22%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
13 8 (0.19%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.17%) JMeter
14 7 (0.17%) Zephyr
15 6 (0.14%) Bitbucket
15 6 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,959 (46.87%) Social Skills
2 1,106 (26.46%) Finance
3 880 (21.05%) Public Sector
4 681 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
5 258 (6.17%) Influencing Skills
6 230 (5.50%) Banking
7 187 (4.47%) Documentation Skills
8 180 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
9 140 (3.35%) Legal
10 127 (3.04%) Retail
11 123 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 113 (2.70%) Local Government
13 112 (2.68%) Manufacturing
14 86 (2.06%) Marketing
14 86 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
15 80 (1.91%) Military
16 77 (1.84%) Telecoms
17 63 (1.51%) Aerospace
18 57 (1.36%) Law
19 43 (1.03%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 700 (16.75%) Analyst
2 611 (14.62%) Architect
3 488 (11.67%) Lead
4 440 (10.53%) Senior
5 407 (9.74%) Business Analyst
6 300 (7.18%) Consultant
7 293 (7.01%) Project Manager
8 229 (5.48%) Developer
9 184 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
10 126 (3.01%) Data Architect
11 118 (2.82%) Data Analyst
12 116 (2.78%) Change Manager
13 106 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
14 90 (2.15%) Designer
15 87 (2.08%) Technical Architect
16 86 (2.06%) Data Engineer
16 86 (2.06%) Senior Manager
17 85 (2.03%) Delivery Manager
18 77 (1.84%) IT Manager
19 74 (1.77%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (4.43%) Terraform
2 125 (2.99%) REST
3 67 (1.60%) .NET
4 59 (1.41%) JSON
5 57 (1.36%) Kafka
6 52 (1.24%) SOAP
7 47 (1.12%) Middleware
7 47 (1.12%) PySpark
7 47 (1.12%) XML
8 46 (1.10%) Spring
9 45 (1.08%) React
10 43 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
11 42 (1.00%) Spring Boot
12 37 (0.89%) OAuth
13 35 (0.84%) Web Services
14 34 (0.81%) RESTful
15 31 (0.74%) SAML
16 29 (0.69%) LDAP
16 29 (0.69%) OpenID
17 28 (0.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 285 (6.82%) Product Ownership
2 246 (5.89%) Onboarding
3 191 (4.57%) Cloud Native
4 146 (3.49%) Management Information System
5 98 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
6 94 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 86 (2.06%) Data Structures
8 83 (1.99%) AI Agents
9 73 (1.75%) NHS
10 72 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 72 (1.72%) Operational Technology
11 69 (1.65%) Data Centre
12 59 (1.41%) Security Posture
13 55 (1.32%) CMDB
13 55 (1.32%) Virtual Team
14 52 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
15 50 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
16 42 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
17 32 (0.77%) PKI
18 30 (0.72%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.09%) Windows
2 80 (1.91%) Linux
3 37 (0.89%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.36%) Unix
5 14 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.17%) Android
7 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.14%) VMS
9 4 (0.096%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.072%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.048%) AIX
11 2 (0.048%) HPUX
11 2 (0.048%) Solaris
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.024%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,276 (30.53%) Agile
2 1,121 (26.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 937 (22.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 683 (16.34%) Decision-Making
5 653 (15.62%) Problem-Solving
6 598 (14.31%) Roadmaps
7 557 (13.33%) Migration
8 553 (13.23%) Workshop Facilitation
9 547 (13.09%) AI
10 530 (12.68%) DevOps
11 485 (11.60%) Analytics
12 481 (11.51%) Change Management
13 442 (10.57%) CI/CD
14 423 (10.12%) Risk Management
15 399 (9.55%) Project Delivery
16 383 (9.16%) Cybersecurity
17 374 (8.95%) Business Intelligence
18 370 (8.85%) Data Governance
19 357 (8.54%) Data Modelling
20 348 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 402 (9.62%) SQL
2 298 (7.13%) Python
3 126 (3.01%) Java
4 105 (2.51%) JavaScript
5 93 (2.22%) PowerShell
6 88 (2.11%) C#
7 53 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 51 (1.22%) Bash
9 47 (1.12%) TypeScript
10 28 (0.67%) Bicep
11 21 (0.50%) Scala
12 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 13 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.24%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.24%) Korn
15 9 (0.22%) Groovy
16 8 (0.19%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.12%) VBA
19 4 (0.096%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,208 (28.90%) Security Cleared
2 935 (22.37%) SC Cleared
3 256 (6.12%) Degree
4 202 (4.83%) DV Cleared
5 172 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 110 (2.63%) PMI Certification
7 108 (2.58%) CISSP
8 105 (2.51%) PMP
9 69 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 66 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
10 66 (1.58%) CISM
11 61 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 41 (0.98%) AWS Certification
13 34 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 34 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 33 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
15 31 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
16 27 (0.65%) ISTQB
17 25 (0.60%) ACCA
17 25 (0.60%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 362 (8.66%) Data Quality
2 188 (4.50%) PMO
3 180 (4.31%) QA
4 170 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 163 (3.90%) NIST
6 162 (3.88%) GDPR
7 131 (3.13%) Accessibility
8 99 (2.37%) GRC
9 82 (1.96%) NCSC
10 49 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
11 39 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
12 38 (0.91%) WCAG
13 33 (0.79%) SLA
14 18 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 15 (0.36%) PCI DSS
15 15 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.33%) JSP 440
16 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
17 12 (0.29%) ITGC
18 11 (0.26%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 126 (3.01%) Active Directory
2 102 (2.44%) Docker
3 55 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.45%) VMware NSX
5 18 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.33%) vSphere
7 12 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.024%) Firmware
11 1 (0.024%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.024%) IAG
11 1 (0.024%) KVM
11 1 (0.024%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 162 (3.88%) Kubernetes
2 51 (1.22%) Ansible
3 43 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (0.74%) Grafana
5 27 (0.65%) Prometheus
5 27 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 11 (0.26%) SCCM
8 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
9 6 (0.14%) VxRail
10 5 (0.12%) QRadar
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 4 (0.096%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.096%) Istio
11 4 (0.096%) vRealize
12 3 (0.072%) Argo
12 3 (0.072%) Kibana
12 3 (0.072%) McAfee ePO
12 3 (0.072%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.072%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 826 (19.76%) Microsoft
2 245 (5.86%) SAP
3 224 (5.36%) ServiceNow
4 189 (4.52%) Oracle
5 158 (3.78%) Databricks
6 102 (2.44%) Salesforce
7 97 (2.32%) Google
8 73 (1.75%) VMware
9 63 (1.51%) Cisco
10 56 (1.34%) Workday
11 55 (1.32%) Splunk
12 43 (1.03%) IBM
13 31 (0.74%) CyberArk
14 28 (0.67%) Ariba
15 27 (0.65%) MuleSoft
16 24 (0.57%) OpenAI
17 23 (0.55%) Dynatrace
17 23 (0.55%) Palo Alto
18 22 (0.53%) Adobe
18 22 (0.53%) Informatica
2,908 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide