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

 6 months to
28 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 30 140
Rank change year-on-year +5 +110 +26
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,124 1,926 663
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.67% 5.89% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.07% 6.51% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,792 1,290 455
10th Percentile £363 £356 £363
25th Percentile £450 £426 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% -3.68% -
75th Percentile £644 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 33 18
10th Percentile £25.05 £25.36 £18.35
25th Percentile £50.00 £30.11 £26.31
Median hourly rate £72.50 £47.00 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +54.26% -19.21% +2.98%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.75 £73.85
90th Percentile £94.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.50 £45.12 £58.30
% change year-on-year +71.77% -22.61% +3.20%

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 45,469 29,582 33,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 90.43% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,813 18,412 20,921
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,891 1,754 1,674
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.92 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.80% -46.07% +6.25%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 3,497 £540 -1.82% 2,013
UK excluding London +7 1,938 £525 - 1,265
London +5 1,712 £550 - 1,017
Work from Home +8 1,393 £525 - 1,006
South East +13 516 £550 +0.92% 368
North of England +8 493 £500 -2.21% 286
Midlands +7 337 £500 -2.15% 178
West Midlands +2 258 £500 -2.15% 131
North West +9 241 £500 -4.76% 166
South West +5 228 £550 - 210
Scotland +28 210 £500 +11.11% 87
Yorkshire 0 191 £500 +3.63% 78
East of England +24 122 £529 -14.02% 100
East Midlands +21 74 £525 +23.53% 47
North East +8 69 £453 +0.61% 45
Wales +10 53 £525 +23.53% 19
Northern Ireland +5 10 £380 -26.75% 38
Channel Islands -1 2 £563 +21.62%

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
1 175 (4.24%) Confluence
2 157 (3.81%) SharePoint
3 37 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 32 (0.78%) Apache
5 32 (0.78%) CMS
6 29 (0.70%) SAS
7 27 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.15%) WordPress
9 4 (0.097%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.097%) OpenEdge
9 4 (0.097%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.073%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.073%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.073%) Drupal
10 3 (0.073%) IIS
10 3 (0.073%) Kentico
10 3 (0.073%) SharePoint 2013
10 3 (0.073%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.048%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 184 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 81 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
5 55 (1.33%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.15%) Navisworks
8 6 (0.15%) ProjectWise
8 6 (0.15%) Revit
8 6 (0.15%) Trello
9 4 (0.097%) Sketch
10 2 (0.048%) InDesign
10 2 (0.048%) InVision
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 139 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.58%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.34%) Primavera
5 14 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 13 (0.32%) NetSuite
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 11 (0.27%) Maximo
8 11 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 9 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 9 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 9 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
9 9 (0.22%) SAP CO
9 9 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.19%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 815 (19.76%) Azure
2 555 (13.46%) AWS
3 447 (10.84%) Power Platform
4 206 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 199 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
6 187 (4.53%) GCP
7 155 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
8 143 (3.47%) Entra ID
9 91 (2.21%) Power Automate
9 91 (2.21%) SaaS
10 89 (2.16%) GitHub
11 72 (1.75%) Serverless
12 70 (1.70%) PowerApps
13 69 (1.67%) Snowflake
14 67 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
15 61 (1.48%) Microsoft Purview
16 60 (1.45%) Amazon S3
17 58 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
18 55 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
19 43 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 67 (1.62%) Firewall
2 66 (1.60%) Network Security
3 54 (1.31%) DNS
4 42 (1.02%) VPN
5 41 (0.99%) WAN
6 34 (0.82%) LAN
7 27 (0.65%) DHCP
8 24 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 19 (0.46%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.44%) Wireless
11 17 (0.41%) Internet
12 15 (0.36%) 5G
12 15 (0.36%) VLAN
13 14 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (0.32%) BGP
14 13 (0.32%) Intranet
15 12 (0.29%) OSPF
15 12 (0.29%) VoIP
16 11 (0.27%) Kerberos
16 11 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 359 (8.71%) Power BI
2 128 (3.10%) Metadata
3 97 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
4 90 (2.18%) Data Lake
5 70 (1.70%) SQL Server
6 47 (1.14%) Tableau
7 35 (0.85%) Power Query
7 35 (0.85%) Relational Database
8 29 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (0.58%) DynamoDB
10 22 (0.53%) Oracle Database
11 21 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (0.48%) NoSQL
13 19 (0.46%) Big Data
13 19 (0.46%) BigQuery
13 19 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
14 17 (0.41%) Data Vault
14 17 (0.41%) Star Schema
15 16 (0.39%) Looker
Development Applications
1 272 (6.60%) JIRA
2 93 (2.26%) Git
3 62 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 53 (1.29%) GitLab
5 32 (0.78%) Selenium
6 30 (0.73%) Postman
7 25 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
8 18 (0.44%) WebDriver
9 17 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.41%) Hudson
10 15 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 13 (0.32%) JMeter
12 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (0.27%) ERwin
14 10 (0.24%) JUnit
15 9 (0.22%) Zephyr
16 8 (0.19%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
17 6 (0.15%) MLflow
17 6 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,891 (45.85%) Social Skills
2 1,147 (27.81%) Finance
3 802 (19.45%) Public Sector
4 681 (16.51%) Analytical Skills
5 223 (5.41%) Banking
6 216 (5.24%) Influencing Skills
7 171 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
8 159 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
9 150 (3.64%) Legal
10 141 (3.42%) Retail
11 113 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 107 (2.59%) Local Government
13 93 (2.26%) Law
14 89 (2.16%) Manufacturing
15 86 (2.09%) Marketing
15 86 (2.09%) Telecoms
16 73 (1.77%) Aerospace
17 66 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
18 63 (1.53%) Military
19 39 (0.95%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 707 (17.14%) Analyst
2 624 (15.13%) Architect
3 514 (12.46%) Lead
4 421 (10.21%) Senior
5 408 (9.89%) Business Analyst
6 303 (7.35%) Consultant
7 301 (7.30%) Project Manager
8 213 (5.16%) Developer
9 178 (4.32%) Solutions Architect
10 123 (2.98%) Data Analyst
11 112 (2.72%) Data Architect
12 105 (2.55%) Change Manager
13 95 (2.30%) Senior Analyst
14 92 (2.23%) Delivery Manager
14 92 (2.23%) Senior Manager
15 87 (2.11%) Data Engineer
16 83 (2.01%) Technical Architect
17 81 (1.96%) Designer
18 75 (1.82%) IT Manager
19 73 (1.77%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (4.29%) Terraform
2 113 (2.74%) REST
3 64 (1.55%) .NET
4 58 (1.41%) JSON
5 52 (1.26%) Kafka
5 52 (1.26%) Middleware
6 49 (1.19%) PySpark
7 48 (1.16%) SOAP
8 47 (1.14%) React
9 45 (1.09%) Spring
10 42 (1.02%) XML
11 41 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
12 38 (0.92%) OAuth
12 38 (0.92%) Spring Boot
13 35 (0.85%) SAML
14 33 (0.80%) Web Services
15 31 (0.75%) OpenID
15 31 (0.75%) RESTful
16 29 (0.70%) LDAP
17 28 (0.68%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 301 (7.30%) Product Ownership
2 231 (5.60%) Onboarding
3 182 (4.41%) Cloud Native
4 140 (3.39%) Management Information System
5 108 (2.62%) Data Structures
6 93 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
7 85 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
8 78 (1.89%) NHS
9 74 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
10 67 (1.62%) AI Agents
10 67 (1.62%) Data Centre
11 60 (1.45%) Operational Technology
12 58 (1.41%) CMDB
13 54 (1.31%) Virtual Team
14 49 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
15 47 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
16 46 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
17 45 (1.09%) Security Posture
18 34 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
19 28 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 132 (3.20%) Windows
2 79 (1.92%) Linux
3 36 (0.87%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.36%) Unix
5 13 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.29%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.17%) Android
8 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.17%) VMS
9 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,257 (30.48%) Agile
2 994 (24.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 941 (22.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 630 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
5 626 (15.18%) Decision-Making
6 601 (14.57%) Migration
7 554 (13.43%) Roadmaps
8 532 (12.90%) DevOps
9 525 (12.73%) Workshop Facilitation
10 503 (12.20%) AI
11 479 (11.61%) Change Management
12 475 (11.52%) Analytics
13 445 (10.79%) CI/CD
14 410 (9.94%) Risk Management
15 408 (9.89%) Business Intelligence
16 403 (9.77%) Project Delivery
17 362 (8.78%) Cybersecurity
18 344 (8.34%) Data Modelling
19 332 (8.05%) User Acceptance Testing
20 330 (8.00%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 386 (9.36%) SQL
2 310 (7.52%) Python
3 131 (3.18%) Java
4 97 (2.35%) JavaScript
5 83 (2.01%) PowerShell
6 82 (1.99%) C#
7 56 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 48 (1.16%) Bash
9 46 (1.12%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.63%) Bicep
11 20 (0.48%) Scala
12 16 (0.39%) Kotlin
13 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
14 14 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 13 (0.32%) Apex Code
16 11 (0.27%) VBA
17 10 (0.24%) Korn
18 9 (0.22%) Groovy
19 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
20 5 (0.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,154 (27.98%) Security Cleared
2 863 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 259 (6.28%) Degree
4 195 (4.73%) DV Cleared
5 149 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 122 (2.96%) PMI Certification
7 114 (2.76%) PMP
8 110 (2.67%) CISSP
9 76 (1.84%) Azure Certification
10 71 (1.72%) CISM
11 69 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
12 58 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
13 48 (1.16%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 35 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
16 32 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 31 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
18 28 (0.68%) APMG
19 27 (0.65%) ISTQB
20 26 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 330 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 211 (5.12%) PMO
3 185 (4.49%) QA
4 174 (4.22%) GDPR
5 173 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 162 (3.93%) NIST
7 120 (2.91%) Accessibility
8 90 (2.18%) GRC
9 66 (1.60%) NCSC
10 39 (0.95%) SLA
11 35 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
12 32 (0.78%) WCAG
13 30 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.46%) PCI DSS
15 17 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 15 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 15 (0.36%) SOC 2
17 12 (0.29%) JSP 440
17 12 (0.29%) NIST 800
18 11 (0.27%) ITGC
System Software
1 130 (3.15%) Active Directory
2 93 (2.26%) Docker
3 53 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 19 (0.46%) vSphere
6 17 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.048%) 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
11 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 153 (3.71%) Kubernetes
2 48 (1.16%) Ansible
3 41 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (0.80%) Grafana
4 33 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
5 30 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 15 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 12 (0.29%) SCCM
8 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
9 5 (0.12%) SCOM
9 5 (0.12%) vRealize
10 4 (0.097%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.097%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.097%) Istio
10 4 (0.097%) QRadar
10 4 (0.097%) VxRail
11 3 (0.073%) Argo
11 3 (0.073%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.073%) Puppet
11 3 (0.073%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 793 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 272 (6.60%) SAP
3 238 (5.77%) ServiceNow
4 186 (4.51%) Oracle
5 157 (3.81%) Databricks
6 110 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 88 (2.13%) Google
8 70 (1.70%) VMware
9 58 (1.41%) Cisco
10 56 (1.36%) IBM
11 51 (1.24%) Workday
12 48 (1.16%) Splunk
13 33 (0.80%) CyberArk
14 30 (0.73%) MuleSoft
15 27 (0.65%) Ariba
16 23 (0.56%) Palo Alto
16 23 (0.56%) Zscaler
17 22 (0.53%) Dynatrace
18 21 (0.51%) Informatica
19 20 (0.48%) Okta
2,288 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide