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

 6 months to
17 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 53 152
Rank change year-on-year +27 +99 +6
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,497 1,258 688
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.95% 4.24% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.19% 4.66% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,369 842 474
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £447 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 22 38
10th Percentile £25.00 £23.22 £18.35
25th Percentile £49.00 £27.41 £27.81
Median hourly rate £64.09 £46.16 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.85% +26.46% -7.01%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.94 £59.05
90th Percentile - £75.09 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.09 £45.53 £56.91
% change year-on-year +40.78% -20.01% +44.99%

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 42,679 27,009 37,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 91.00% 85.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,607 17,137 23,609
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,567 1,242 2,598
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £16.03
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.27 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +67.37% -29.66% +6.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +17.29%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +27 2,965 £538 +2.38% 1,098
UK excluding London +33 1,660 £510 +2.00% 904
London +30 1,404 £550 - 417
Work from Home +35 1,134 £530 +5.89% 682
North of England +30 443 £500 +4.44% 210
South East +20 378 £540 +8.00% 277
Midlands +18 320 £504 +0.75% 131
North West +26 226 £500 +1.57% 121
West Midlands +16 226 £500 -0.15% 70
South West +19 193 £525 -4.55% 115
Yorkshire +9 175 £514 +8.21% 66
Scotland +30 163 £475 -9.52% 59
East of England +34 121 £559 +11.70% 59
East Midlands +20 89 £525 +16.67% 60
North East +7 48 £453 -4.13% 25
Wales +16 46 £500 +53.85% 31
Northern Ireland +15 16 £449 -22.84% 42
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
1 183 (5.23%) Confluence
2 96 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 31 (0.89%) SAS
4 29 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (0.57%) Apache
6 19 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 19 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 18 (0.51%) CMS
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.11%) OpenEdge
8 4 (0.11%) WordPress
9 3 (0.086%) Appian
9 3 (0.086%) Drupal
9 3 (0.086%) Kentico
10 2 (0.057%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.057%) Camunda
10 2 (0.057%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.057%) WebLogic
Applications
1 160 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 64 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
4 63 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
4 63 (1.80%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.11%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.11%) Sketch
8 2 (0.057%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.057%) InVision
8 2 (0.057%) Trello
9 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.029%) CATIA
9 1 (0.029%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.029%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.029%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 135 (3.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.43%) Teamcenter
4 13 (0.37%) Workday HCM
5 12 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 11 (0.31%) Maximo
6 11 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 10 (0.29%) Primavera
7 10 (0.29%) SAP FI
8 8 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.23%) SAP QM
9 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.17%) Finacle
10 6 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 6 (0.17%) Sage X3
10 6 (0.17%) SAP CO
10 6 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 668 (19.10%) Azure
2 468 (13.38%) AWS
3 331 (9.47%) Power Platform
4 158 (4.52%) GCP
5 135 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
6 128 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
7 104 (2.97%) Entra ID
8 99 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
9 97 (2.77%) SaaS
10 65 (1.86%) GitHub
11 54 (1.54%) Serverless
12 49 (1.40%) Microsoft Copilot
13 46 (1.32%) PaaS
14 42 (1.20%) Power Automate
15 41 (1.17%) Amazon S3
15 41 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
16 39 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
16 39 (1.12%) PowerApps
17 36 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
17 36 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 60 (1.72%) Network Security
2 56 (1.60%) Firewall
3 35 (1.00%) DNS
4 24 (0.69%) VPN
4 24 (0.69%) WAN
5 20 (0.57%) LAN
6 16 (0.46%) Wireless
7 14 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 12 (0.34%) Internet
8 12 (0.34%) VLAN
9 11 (0.31%) BGP
10 10 (0.29%) DHCP
10 10 (0.29%) NGFW
10 10 (0.29%) OSPF
10 10 (0.29%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.29%) SSL
11 9 (0.26%) 5G
11 9 (0.26%) Intranet
11 9 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.23%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (7.98%) Power BI
2 83 (2.37%) Metadata
3 76 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (1.14%) Data Lake
5 39 (1.12%) Tableau
6 32 (0.92%) Power Query
7 29 (0.83%) SQL Server
8 27 (0.77%) Relational Database
9 25 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.54%) NoSQL
11 18 (0.51%) DynamoDB
12 17 (0.49%) Snowflake Schema
13 16 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
14 15 (0.43%) Big Data
15 14 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (0.40%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 13 (0.37%) Data Vault
16 13 (0.37%) SAS Visual Analytics
17 12 (0.34%) Oracle Database
17 12 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 279 (7.98%) JIRA
2 58 (1.66%) Jenkins
3 57 (1.63%) Git
4 49 (1.40%) GitLab
5 31 (0.89%) Rational DOORS
6 27 (0.77%) Postman
7 22 (0.63%) Selenium
8 19 (0.54%) JMeter
9 18 (0.51%) Hudson
10 15 (0.43%) Cucumber
11 13 (0.37%) WebDriver
12 11 (0.31%) JUnit
13 9 (0.26%) ERwin
14 8 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (0.20%) LoadRunner
15 7 (0.20%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.17%) Cypress.io
16 6 (0.17%) MLflow
17 5 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
18 4 (0.11%) NeoLoad
General
1 1,596 (45.64%) Social Skills
2 1,003 (28.68%) Finance
3 576 (16.47%) Public Sector
4 550 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
5 198 (5.66%) Banking
6 142 (4.06%) Documentation Skills
6 142 (4.06%) Influencing Skills
7 129 (3.69%) Legal
8 105 (3.00%) Retail
9 95 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
10 83 (2.37%) Law
10 83 (2.37%) Manufacturing
11 73 (2.09%) Aerospace
12 69 (1.97%) Local Government
13 63 (1.80%) Telecoms
14 61 (1.74%) Marketing
15 52 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 46 (1.32%) Military
17 38 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
18 33 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 651 (18.62%) Analyst
2 526 (15.04%) Architect
3 455 (13.01%) Lead
4 413 (11.81%) Business Analyst
5 331 (9.47%) Senior
6 279 (7.98%) Project Manager
7 262 (7.49%) Consultant
8 142 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
9 110 (3.15%) Developer
10 99 (2.83%) Data Analyst
11 96 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
12 91 (2.60%) Change Manager
12 91 (2.60%) Delivery Manager
13 79 (2.26%) Programme Manager
14 76 (2.17%) Designer
15 69 (1.97%) Senior Manager
16 67 (1.92%) Security Architect
17 66 (1.89%) Data Architect
18 65 (1.86%) Data Engineer
18 65 (1.86%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (3.12%) REST
2 54 (1.54%) Middleware
3 52 (1.49%) SOAP
4 45 (1.29%) LDAP
5 41 (1.17%) Spring
6 37 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
7 36 (1.03%) Kafka
7 36 (1.03%) React
8 35 (1.00%) JSON
9 33 (0.94%) Spring Boot
10 32 (0.92%) OAuth
11 31 (0.89%) OpenID
12 28 (0.80%) XML
13 27 (0.77%) SailPoint
14 25 (0.71%) PySpark
14 25 (0.71%) SAML
15 23 (0.66%) .NET
15 23 (0.66%) CSS
16 22 (0.63%) HTML
17 20 (0.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 239 (6.83%) Product Ownership
2 166 (4.75%) Onboarding
3 151 (4.32%) Cloud Native
4 86 (2.46%) Data Structures
5 84 (2.40%) Management Information System
6 75 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 74 (2.12%) Operational Technology
8 68 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
9 65 (1.86%) Security Posture
10 59 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
11 56 (1.60%) Data Centre
12 53 (1.52%) NHS
13 50 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
14 49 (1.40%) CMDB
15 47 (1.34%) Virtual Team
16 44 (1.26%) AI Agents
17 43 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
18 35 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
19 31 (0.89%) Public Cloud
20 26 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 89 (2.55%) Windows
2 45 (1.29%) Linux
3 21 (0.60%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.34%) Unix
5 10 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.23%) VMS
7 7 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.11%) Android
11 3 (0.086%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.086%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.029%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 956 (27.34%) Agile
2 703 (20.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 689 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 524 (14.98%) Migration
5 491 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
6 475 (13.58%) Decision-Making
7 455 (13.01%) Roadmaps
8 437 (12.50%) Change Management
9 408 (11.67%) DevOps
10 396 (11.32%) Workshop Facilitation
11 362 (10.35%) Analytics
12 349 (9.98%) AI
13 339 (9.69%) Risk Management
14 319 (9.12%) Business Intelligence
15 304 (8.69%) ERP
16 300 (8.58%) CI/CD
16 300 (8.58%) Cybersecurity
17 291 (8.32%) Project Management
18 290 (8.29%) Project Delivery
19 282 (8.06%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 285 (8.15%) SQL
2 244 (6.98%) Python
3 109 (3.12%) Java
4 70 (2.00%) PowerShell
5 53 (1.52%) JavaScript
6 40 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 36 (1.03%) TypeScript
8 35 (1.00%) C#
9 28 (0.80%) Bash
10 20 (0.57%) VBA
11 18 (0.51%) Bicep
12 14 (0.40%) Scala
13 11 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.29%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.29%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.23%) Korn
16 7 (0.20%) R
16 7 (0.20%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.17%) ABAP
18 4 (0.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 895 (25.59%) Security Cleared
2 706 (20.19%) SC Cleared
3 254 (7.26%) Degree
4 132 (3.77%) DV Cleared
5 113 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 103 (2.95%) PMI Certification
7 99 (2.83%) PMP
8 88 (2.52%) CISSP
9 64 (1.83%) CISM
10 51 (1.46%) Azure Certification
11 47 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 38 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
13 34 (0.97%) AWS Certification
14 27 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 26 (0.74%) ACCA
15 26 (0.74%) Master's Degree
15 26 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
16 25 (0.71%) CIMA
17 22 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (7.18%) Data Quality
2 177 (5.06%) PMO
3 167 (4.78%) QA
4 151 (4.32%) NIST
5 145 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 135 (3.86%) GDPR
7 85 (2.43%) Accessibility
8 83 (2.37%) GRC
9 42 (1.20%) NCSC
10 31 (0.89%) SLA
11 26 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
12 25 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
12 25 (0.71%) PCI DSS
13 24 (0.69%) WCAG
14 18 (0.51%) SOC 2
15 17 (0.49%) ISO 20022
16 13 (0.37%) COBIT
17 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 11 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 11 (0.31%) Def Stans
System Software
1 98 (2.80%) Active Directory
2 63 (1.80%) Docker
3 23 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.26%) VMware NSX
4 9 (0.26%) vSphere
5 5 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.086%) NFS
7 3 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.029%) Firmware
8 1 (0.029%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.029%) KVM
Systems Management
1 125 (3.57%) Terraform
2 114 (3.26%) Kubernetes
3 40 (1.14%) Ansible
4 32 (0.92%) Grafana
5 28 (0.80%) Prometheus
5 28 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 26 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.31%) HP ALM
7 11 (0.31%) SCCM
8 10 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.17%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.14%) vRealize
11 4 (0.11%) Podman
12 3 (0.086%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.086%) Istio
12 3 (0.086%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.086%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 3 (0.086%) vMotion
12 3 (0.086%) WSUS
13 2 (0.057%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 537 (15.36%) Microsoft
2 255 (7.29%) SAP
3 197 (5.63%) ServiceNow
4 158 (4.52%) Oracle
5 96 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 94 (2.69%) Databricks
7 59 (1.69%) Google
8 48 (1.37%) IBM
9 47 (1.34%) Cisco
10 42 (1.20%) CyberArk
11 40 (1.14%) Splunk
12 38 (1.09%) Workday
13 36 (1.03%) VMware
14 28 (0.80%) BeyondTrust
15 24 (0.69%) Centrify
16 20 (0.57%) MuleSoft
16 20 (0.57%) Zscaler
17 19 (0.54%) Dynatrace
17 19 (0.54%) IFS
17 19 (0.54%) Palo Alto
1,270 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide