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

 6 months to
30 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 39 152
Rank change year-on-year +13 +113 +12
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,945 1,653 642
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.45% 5.04% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.77% 5.57% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,663 1,103 441
10th Percentile £371 £357 £363
25th Percentile £450 £436 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £510 £513
% change year-on-year +1.96% -0.49% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 28 21
10th Percentile £25.00 £22.97 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £26.21 £26.25
Median hourly rate £74.50 £41.16 £57.44
Median % change year-on-year +81.01% -28.35% +7.03%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.31 £70.39
90th Percentile - £76.67 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £45.87 £57.74
% change year-on-year +74.42% -20.57% +7.60%

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 45,002 29,684 34,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.96% 90.46% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,855 18,648 21,888
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,714 1,621 1,980
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.89 £17.33 £17.74
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.55% -41.56% -

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 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 30 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 30 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 +13 3,367 £540 +0.51% 1,048
UK excluding London +19 1,859 £520 +1.96% 723
London +13 1,623 £550 - 468
Work from Home +19 1,303 £525 +2.94% 548
South East +23 496 £550 - 250
North of England +18 495 £500 -0.40% 171
Midlands +8 322 £500 - 110
North West +18 249 £500 -2.21% 81
West Midlands +3 248 £500 -0.10% 78
South West +5 203 £540 -1.86% 100
Yorkshire 0 189 £500 +3.68% 63
Scotland +26 185 £496 -0.75% 28
East of England +31 121 £533 +6.39% 55
East Midlands +22 70 £500 +5.26% 32
North East +7 65 £450 -7.22% 28
Wales +17 50 £500 +31.58% 8
Northern Ireland +4 12 £430 -18.14% 13
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 (4.36%) Confluence
2 136 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 34 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 29 (0.74%) Apache
6 26 (0.66%) SAS
7 25 (0.63%) CMS
8 22 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.13%) WordPress
10 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.10%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.076%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.076%) Kentico
11 3 (0.076%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.076%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.051%) Drupal
12 2 (0.051%) IIS
12 2 (0.051%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.051%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 182 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 65 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
5 61 (1.55%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.13%) Trello
9 4 (0.10%) Sketch
10 2 (0.051%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.051%) InDesign
10 2 (0.051%) InVision
10 2 (0.051%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.051%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.051%) Revit
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
1 150 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.53%) Workday HCM
4 16 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.38%) Primavera
5 15 (0.38%) SAP FI
6 12 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 12 (0.30%) SAP QM
7 11 (0.28%) Maximo
7 11 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
8 10 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 10 (0.25%) SAP CO
8 10 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
8 10 (0.25%) Teamcenter
9 9 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 9 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
9 9 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 8 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 8 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
10 8 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 787 (19.95%) Azure
2 508 (12.88%) AWS
3 413 (10.47%) Power Platform
4 184 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
5 181 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
6 174 (4.41%) GCP
7 136 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
8 125 (3.17%) Entra ID
9 97 (2.46%) SaaS
10 82 (2.08%) GitHub
11 76 (1.93%) Power Automate
12 65 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
13 63 (1.60%) PowerApps
14 62 (1.57%) Serverless
15 58 (1.47%) Snowflake
16 54 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
16 54 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
17 52 (1.32%) Amazon S3
18 50 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
19 46 (1.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.60%) Network Security
2 62 (1.57%) Firewall
3 50 (1.27%) DNS
4 36 (0.91%) WAN
5 35 (0.89%) VPN
6 32 (0.81%) LAN
7 24 (0.61%) TCP/IP
8 22 (0.56%) DHCP
9 18 (0.46%) Wireless
10 16 (0.41%) Internet
11 15 (0.38%) SD-WAN
12 14 (0.35%) VLAN
13 13 (0.33%) 5G
14 12 (0.30%) BGP
14 12 (0.30%) Intranet
14 12 (0.30%) SSL
15 11 (0.28%) OSPF
16 10 (0.25%) NGFW
17 9 (0.23%) VSAN
17 9 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 340 (8.62%) Power BI
2 106 (2.69%) Metadata
3 91 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (1.77%) Data Lake
5 66 (1.67%) SQL Server
6 44 (1.12%) Tableau
7 35 (0.89%) Power Query
8 27 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
8 27 (0.68%) Relational Database
9 21 (0.53%) DynamoDB
10 20 (0.51%) Big Data
11 19 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (0.48%) BigQuery
12 17 (0.43%) Data Vault
13 16 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
13 16 (0.41%) Oracle Database
14 15 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.38%) NoSQL
14 15 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 273 (6.92%) JIRA
2 76 (1.93%) Git
3 58 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 52 (1.32%) GitLab
5 34 (0.86%) Selenium
6 31 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
7 28 (0.71%) Postman
8 19 (0.48%) WebDriver
9 18 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.46%) Hudson
10 16 (0.41%) JMeter
11 15 (0.38%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.33%) JUnit
13 12 (0.30%) ERwin
13 12 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (0.23%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.20%) Bitbucket
16 7 (0.18%) Zephyr
17 6 (0.15%) MLflow
17 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 1,788 (45.32%) Social Skills
2 1,127 (28.57%) Finance
3 713 (18.07%) Public Sector
4 649 (16.45%) Analytical Skills
5 204 (5.17%) Banking
6 200 (5.07%) Influencing Skills
7 155 (3.93%) Legal
8 147 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
9 138 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
10 132 (3.35%) Retail
11 90 (2.28%) Manufacturing
12 88 (2.23%) Law
12 88 (2.23%) Local Government
13 87 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 80 (2.03%) Marketing
15 79 (2.00%) Telecoms
16 71 (1.80%) Aerospace
17 56 (1.42%) Military
18 51 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
19 40 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 718 (18.20%) Analyst
2 576 (14.60%) Architect
3 496 (12.57%) Lead
4 429 (10.87%) Business Analyst
5 410 (10.39%) Senior
6 293 (7.43%) Project Manager
7 284 (7.20%) Consultant
8 175 (4.44%) Developer
9 168 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
10 123 (3.12%) Data Analyst
11 104 (2.64%) Change Manager
12 103 (2.61%) Senior Analyst
13 100 (2.53%) Delivery Manager
14 95 (2.41%) Data Architect
15 84 (2.13%) Senior Manager
16 78 (1.98%) Security Architect
17 76 (1.93%) Product Manager
18 75 (1.90%) Data Engineer
19 74 (1.88%) Designer
20 71 (1.80%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (2.66%) REST
2 54 (1.37%) JSON
2 54 (1.37%) Middleware
3 50 (1.27%) .NET
4 46 (1.17%) Kafka
4 46 (1.17%) SOAP
5 45 (1.14%) React
5 45 (1.14%) Spring
6 42 (1.06%) PySpark
7 39 (0.99%) XML
8 38 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
9 36 (0.91%) Spring Boot
10 31 (0.79%) OAuth
11 28 (0.71%) OpenID
11 28 (0.71%) SailPoint
11 28 (0.71%) SAML
12 25 (0.63%) Web Services
13 23 (0.58%) HTML
13 23 (0.58%) RESTful
14 22 (0.56%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 292 (7.40%) Product Ownership
2 215 (5.45%) Onboarding
3 168 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 113 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 111 (2.81%) Data Structures
6 78 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
6 78 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
7 72 (1.83%) NHS
8 71 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
9 68 (1.72%) Operational Technology
10 59 (1.50%) Data Centre
11 58 (1.47%) Virtual Team
12 57 (1.44%) CMDB
13 50 (1.27%) AI Agents
14 49 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
15 48 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
16 40 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
17 39 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
18 38 (0.96%) Security Posture
19 34 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 115 (2.92%) Windows
2 60 (1.52%) Linux
3 28 (0.71%) 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 4 (0.10%) Android
9 3 (0.076%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.076%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.076%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.076%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.025%) AIX
10 1 (0.025%) HPUX
10 1 (0.025%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.025%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,176 (29.81%) Agile
2 880 (22.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 869 (22.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 581 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
5 564 (14.30%) Decision-Making
5 564 (14.30%) Migration
6 511 (12.95%) Roadmaps
7 502 (12.72%) DevOps
8 475 (12.04%) Workshop Facilitation
9 473 (11.99%) Change Management
10 467 (11.84%) AI
11 451 (11.43%) Analytics
12 414 (10.49%) CI/CD
13 387 (9.81%) Business Intelligence
14 381 (9.66%) Risk Management
15 355 (9.00%) Project Delivery
16 346 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
17 343 (8.69%) Data Modelling
18 329 (8.34%) ERP
19 317 (8.04%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 346 (8.77%) SQL
2 278 (7.05%) Python
3 121 (3.07%) Java
4 81 (2.05%) JavaScript
5 71 (1.80%) PowerShell
6 65 (1.65%) C#
7 49 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 43 (1.09%) TypeScript
9 38 (0.96%) Bash
10 25 (0.63%) Bicep
11 18 (0.46%) VBA
12 14 (0.35%) Apex Code
12 14 (0.35%) Scala
12 14 (0.35%) T-SQL
13 13 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.30%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.23%) Groovy
16 8 (0.20%) Korn
17 7 (0.18%) ABAP
18 6 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 1,040 (26.36%) Security Cleared
2 790 (20.03%) SC Cleared
3 255 (6.46%) Degree
4 180 (4.56%) DV Cleared
5 139 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 121 (3.07%) PMI Certification
7 112 (2.84%) PMP
8 101 (2.56%) CISSP
9 74 (1.88%) Azure Certification
10 64 (1.62%) CISM
11 61 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
12 50 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (1.12%) AWS Certification
14 35 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 33 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
16 30 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
17 29 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 27 (0.68%) Master's Degree
19 23 (0.58%) ISTQB
20 22 (0.56%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 312 (7.91%) Data Quality
2 205 (5.20%) PMO
3 182 (4.61%) QA
4 173 (4.39%) GDPR
5 165 (4.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 155 (3.93%) NIST
7 109 (2.76%) Accessibility
8 85 (2.15%) GRC
9 54 (1.37%) NCSC
10 47 (1.19%) SLA
11 32 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
12 30 (0.76%) WCAG
13 27 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
14 21 (0.53%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.46%) SOC 2
16 14 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 12 (0.30%) ISO 20022
17 12 (0.30%) NIST 800
18 10 (0.25%) COBIT
System Software
1 115 (2.92%) Active Directory
2 87 (2.21%) Docker
3 43 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.53%) VMware NSX
5 20 (0.51%) vSphere
6 12 (0.30%) 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
1 160 (4.06%) Terraform
2 148 (3.75%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.14%) Ansible
4 38 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (0.91%) Grafana
6 33 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 33 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.35%) SCCM
8 11 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (0.20%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.18%) NetBackup
11 5 (0.13%) vRealize
12 4 (0.10%) Podman
12 4 (0.10%) VxRail
13 3 (0.076%) Argo
13 3 (0.076%) Istio
13 3 (0.076%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 3 (0.076%) QRadar
13 3 (0.076%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.076%) WSUS
Vendors
1 712 (18.05%) Microsoft
2 277 (7.02%) SAP
3 234 (5.93%) ServiceNow
4 179 (4.54%) Oracle
5 138 (3.50%) Databricks
6 114 (2.89%) Salesforce
7 73 (1.85%) Google
8 55 (1.39%) IBM
8 55 (1.39%) VMware
9 54 (1.37%) Cisco
10 48 (1.22%) Workday
11 41 (1.04%) Splunk
12 31 (0.79%) CyberArk
13 27 (0.68%) MuleSoft
14 23 (0.58%) Zscaler
15 22 (0.56%) Palo Alto
16 21 (0.53%) Ariba
17 20 (0.51%) Dynatrace
17 20 (0.51%) IFS
17 20 (0.51%) Okta
1,159 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide