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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 29 134
Rank change year-on-year +4 +105 +30
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,202 2,040 692
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.69% 6.19% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.10% 6.84% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,850 1,363 440
10th Percentile £363 £361 £363
25th Percentile £450 £426 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £639 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 34 11
10th Percentile £26.10 £25.47 £26.25
25th Percentile £41.00 £29.12 £38.25
Median hourly rate £66.56 £44.91 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +48.22% -22.97% +3.20%
75th Percentile £83.75 £64.79 £65.73
90th Percentile £91.50 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.89 £32.74 £59.45
% change year-on-year +107.39% -44.94% +5.24%

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 46,183 29,816 32,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 90.52% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,080 18,531 20,147
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
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 £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,092 1,799 1,460
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.25 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.42 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.68 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +84.31% -47.37% +5.81%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +4 3,542 £550 +1.62% 3,405
UK excluding London +7 1,943 £525 - 2,080
London +2 1,757 £550 - 1,640
Work from Home +12 1,435 £525 - 1,704
South East +11 501 £566 +3.90% 545
North of England +7 501 £500 -2.21% 513
Midlands +7 342 £500 -5.84% 303
West Midlands +4 269 £500 -4.76% 210
North West +2 232 £520 +0.14% 312
South West -1 231 £550 - 266
Scotland +26 222 £500 +11.11% 191
Yorkshire -5 198 £500 - 142
East of England +14 118 £525 -10.94% 146
North East +12 79 £450 - 63
East Midlands +20 70 £525 -12.50% 93
Wales +15 55 £525 +27.27% 36
Northern Ireland -1 6 £413 -21.43% 93
Channel Islands -3 4 £588 +27.03% 3

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
1 168 (4.00%) Confluence
1 168 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 37 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (0.86%) Apache
4 35 (0.83%) CMS
5 34 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 27 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 26 (0.62%) SAS
8 8 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.14%) WordPress
10 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.095%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.095%) OpenEdge
11 4 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.071%) Drupal
12 3 (0.071%) IIS
12 3 (0.071%) Kentico
12 3 (0.071%) SharePoint 2013
13 2 (0.048%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.048%) Appian
Applications
1 189 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 91 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 86 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.40%) MS Visio
5 55 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.17%) AutoCAD
7 7 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.17%) Navisworks
7 7 (0.17%) ProjectWise
7 7 (0.17%) Revit
7 7 (0.17%) Trello
8 3 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.071%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.071%) Sketch
9 2 (0.048%) InDesign
10 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.024%) Notion
10 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 131 (3.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (0.55%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 14 (0.33%) NetSuite
7 13 (0.31%) SAP FI
8 12 (0.29%) Maximo
8 12 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.26%) Primavera
9 11 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 10 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
10 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
11 9 (0.21%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 9 (0.21%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.21%) SAP SD
12 8 (0.19%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 799 (19.01%) Azure
2 552 (13.14%) AWS
3 433 (10.30%) Power Platform
4 211 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
5 201 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
6 184 (4.38%) GCP
7 142 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
8 139 (3.31%) Entra ID
9 101 (2.40%) SaaS
10 99 (2.36%) Power Automate
11 90 (2.14%) GitHub
12 74 (1.76%) Microsoft Copilot
13 73 (1.74%) Snowflake
14 72 (1.71%) PowerApps
15 71 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
15 71 (1.69%) Serverless
16 63 (1.50%) Amazon S3
17 59 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
18 55 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
19 46 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 70 (1.67%) Network Security
2 67 (1.59%) Firewall
3 49 (1.17%) DNS
4 39 (0.93%) WAN
5 37 (0.88%) VPN
6 30 (0.71%) LAN
7 27 (0.64%) DHCP
8 24 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 18 (0.43%) Internet
9 18 (0.43%) VLAN
9 18 (0.43%) Wireless
10 17 (0.40%) 5G
10 17 (0.40%) SD-WAN
11 13 (0.31%) BGP
12 12 (0.29%) OSPF
12 12 (0.29%) VoIP
12 12 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (0.26%) Intranet
13 11 (0.26%) Kerberos
13 11 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 336 (8.00%) Power BI
2 158 (3.76%) Metadata
3 95 (2.26%) Data Lake
3 95 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
4 74 (1.76%) SQL Server
5 41 (0.98%) Tableau
6 36 (0.86%) Relational Database
7 32 (0.76%) Power Query
8 31 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (0.62%) DynamoDB
10 24 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (0.57%) BigQuery
11 23 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
12 22 (0.52%) Oracle Database
13 20 (0.48%) NoSQL
13 20 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
14 19 (0.45%) Big Data
14 19 (0.45%) MongoDB
15 18 (0.43%) Data Vault
15 18 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 266 (6.33%) JIRA
2 96 (2.28%) Git
3 60 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.36%) GitLab
5 29 (0.69%) Postman
6 27 (0.64%) Selenium
7 16 (0.38%) Cucumber
7 16 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
8 14 (0.33%) Hudson
9 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
10 10 (0.24%) ERwin
11 9 (0.21%) JMeter
12 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.17%) JUnit
13 7 (0.17%) Zephyr
14 6 (0.14%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.14%) Maven
14 6 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,955 (46.53%) Social Skills
2 1,148 (27.32%) Finance
3 849 (20.20%) Public Sector
4 697 (16.59%) Analytical Skills
5 251 (5.97%) Influencing Skills
6 231 (5.50%) Banking
7 185 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
8 175 (4.16%) Organisational Skills
9 151 (3.59%) Legal
10 136 (3.24%) Retail
11 118 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 116 (2.76%) Local Government
13 104 (2.48%) Manufacturing
14 85 (2.02%) Marketing
15 82 (1.95%) Telecoms
16 79 (1.88%) Law
16 79 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
17 76 (1.81%) Military
18 59 (1.40%) Aerospace
19 42 (1.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 711 (16.92%) Analyst
2 628 (14.95%) Architect
3 514 (12.23%) Lead
4 433 (10.30%) Senior
5 413 (9.83%) Business Analyst
6 305 (7.26%) Consultant
7 297 (7.07%) Project Manager
8 229 (5.45%) Developer
9 189 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
10 124 (2.95%) Data Architect
11 120 (2.86%) Data Analyst
12 112 (2.67%) Change Manager
13 101 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
14 91 (2.17%) Senior Manager
15 89 (2.12%) Data Engineer
16 88 (2.09%) Designer
17 85 (2.02%) Delivery Manager
18 83 (1.98%) Technical Architect
19 77 (1.83%) IT Manager
20 75 (1.78%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (4.36%) Terraform
2 125 (2.97%) REST
3 66 (1.57%) .NET
4 61 (1.45%) JSON
5 55 (1.31%) Kafka
6 53 (1.26%) SOAP
7 49 (1.17%) Middleware
7 49 (1.17%) PySpark
8 47 (1.12%) Spring
8 47 (1.12%) XML
9 43 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
9 43 (1.02%) React
9 43 (1.02%) Spring Boot
10 40 (0.95%) OAuth
11 36 (0.86%) Web Services
12 35 (0.83%) RESTful
12 35 (0.83%) SAML
13 33 (0.79%) OpenID
14 31 (0.74%) LDAP
15 29 (0.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 284 (6.76%) Product Ownership
2 249 (5.93%) Onboarding
3 190 (4.52%) Cloud Native
4 145 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 96 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
5 96 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
6 86 (2.05%) Data Structures
7 77 (1.83%) AI Agents
8 75 (1.78%) NHS
9 72 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
9 72 (1.71%) Operational Technology
10 68 (1.62%) Data Centre
11 62 (1.48%) Virtual Team
12 56 (1.33%) CMDB
12 56 (1.33%) Security Posture
13 55 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
14 47 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
15 46 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
16 31 (0.74%) PKI
17 27 (0.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 127 (3.02%) Windows
2 77 (1.83%) Linux
3 34 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.38%) 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
7 7 (0.17%) VMS
8 6 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.095%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.071%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,270 (30.22%) Agile
2 1,084 (25.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 956 (22.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 678 (16.14%) Decision-Making
5 650 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
6 582 (13.85%) Roadmaps
7 575 (13.68%) Migration
8 544 (12.95%) Workshop Facilitation
9 536 (12.76%) DevOps
10 523 (12.45%) AI
11 484 (11.52%) Change Management
12 477 (11.35%) Analytics
13 448 (10.66%) CI/CD
14 423 (10.07%) Risk Management
15 410 (9.76%) Project Delivery
16 395 (9.40%) Cybersecurity
17 387 (9.21%) Business Intelligence
18 360 (8.57%) Data Governance
19 356 (8.47%) Data Modelling
20 337 (8.02%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 395 (9.40%) SQL
2 299 (7.12%) Python
3 132 (3.14%) Java
4 102 (2.43%) JavaScript
5 91 (2.17%) PowerShell
6 86 (2.05%) C#
7 51 (1.21%) Bash
7 51 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 45 (1.07%) TypeScript
9 27 (0.64%) Bicep
10 21 (0.50%) Scala
11 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
12 14 (0.33%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.29%) Apex Code
14 11 (0.26%) Korn
15 9 (0.21%) Groovy
16 8 (0.19%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.19%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.19%) VBA
17 4 (0.095%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,187 (28.25%) Security Cleared
2 917 (21.82%) SC Cleared
3 258 (6.14%) Degree
4 200 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 156 (3.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 118 (2.81%) PMI Certification
7 113 (2.69%) CISSP
8 111 (2.64%) PMP
9 73 (1.74%) CISM
10 69 (1.64%) Azure Certification
10 69 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
11 58 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 45 (1.07%) AWS Certification
13 37 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
13 37 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 33 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 33 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
15 28 (0.67%) Master's Degree
16 26 (0.62%) ISTQB
17 25 (0.59%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 349 (8.31%) Data Quality
2 202 (4.81%) PMO
3 184 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 181 (4.31%) QA
5 176 (4.19%) NIST
6 172 (4.09%) GDPR
7 124 (2.95%) Accessibility
8 104 (2.48%) GRC
9 82 (1.95%) NCSC
10 40 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
11 38 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
12 35 (0.83%) WCAG
13 33 (0.79%) SLA
14 20 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 16 (0.38%) PCI DSS
15 16 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
17 13 (0.31%) JSP 440
18 12 (0.29%) ITGC
19 11 (0.26%) GxP
System Software
1 128 (3.05%) Active Directory
2 101 (2.40%) Docker
3 51 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.43%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.38%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.36%) vSphere
7 12 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.048%) Firmware
10 2 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.024%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.024%) IAG
11 1 (0.024%) KVM
11 1 (0.024%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 159 (3.78%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.17%) Ansible
3 41 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.81%) Grafana
5 31 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (0.26%) SCCM
9 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
10 6 (0.14%) VxRail
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
12 4 (0.095%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.095%) Istio
12 4 (0.095%) QRadar
12 4 (0.095%) vRealize
13 3 (0.071%) Argo
13 3 (0.071%) Kibana
13 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.071%) Puppet
14 2 (0.048%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 823 (19.59%) Microsoft
2 262 (6.24%) SAP
3 231 (5.50%) ServiceNow
4 194 (4.62%) Oracle
5 159 (3.78%) Databricks
6 108 (2.57%) Salesforce
7 92 (2.19%) Google
8 68 (1.62%) VMware
9 62 (1.48%) Cisco
10 54 (1.29%) Workday
11 53 (1.26%) Splunk
12 40 (0.95%) IBM
13 34 (0.81%) CyberArk
14 28 (0.67%) Ariba
14 28 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 24 (0.57%) Dynatrace
15 24 (0.57%) Informatica
16 22 (0.52%) Palo Alto
17 21 (0.50%) Okta
18 20 (0.48%) Adobe