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

 6 months to
17 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 42 151
Rank change year-on-year +17 +109 +15
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,894 1,554 671
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.39% 4.78% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.69% 5.29% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,620 1,040 463
10th Percentile £369 £360 £363
25th Percentile £450 £445 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -4.55% +3.04%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 29 25
10th Percentile £25.00 £24.72 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £30.61 £24.75
Median hourly rate £74.50 £49.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.51% -1.00% -2.12%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.25 £61.06
90th Percentile - £76.19 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £59.00 £56.97
% change year-on-year +35.59% +3.57% +11.52%

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 44,805 29,397 36,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.38% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,846 18,489 23,062
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,636 1,550 2,325
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.34 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.50 £51.65 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.75 £70.00 £73.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.33 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.96% -36.18% -4.70%

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 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 17 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 17 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 +19 3,310 £540 +2.08% 789
UK excluding London +24 1,848 £520 +4.00% 560
London +15 1,582 £550 - 346
Work from Home +24 1,267 £530 +6.00% 394
North of England +19 494 £500 - 133
South East +22 472 £550 +4.56% 215
Midlands +13 326 £513 +4.00% 81
North West +22 247 £500 -0.40% 64
West Midlands +6 238 £510 +4.72% 55
South West +12 196 £536 -2.50% 69
Yorkshire 0 193 £507 +6.79% 52
Scotland +32 189 £475 -5.00% 15
East of England +32 125 £533 +6.50% 40
East Midlands +20 83 £525 +16.67% 26
North East +10 62 £450 -11.33% 19
Wales +18 51 £500 +31.58% 11
Northern Ireland +13 17 £447 -20.53% 6
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
1 181 (4.65%) Confluence
2 128 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 32 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (0.67%) Apache Spark
4 26 (0.67%) SAS
5 24 (0.62%) CMS
6 23 (0.59%) Apache
7 22 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.15%) WordPress
9 4 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.10%) Drupal
9 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.10%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.077%) Kentico
10 3 (0.077%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.051%) Appian
11 2 (0.051%) Camunda
11 2 (0.051%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.051%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.051%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 181 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 65 (1.67%) MS Visio
5 64 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.13%) Trello
8 3 (0.077%) PTC Creo
8 3 (0.077%) Sketch
9 2 (0.051%) InDesign
9 2 (0.051%) InVision
10 1 (0.026%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.026%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.026%) CATIA
10 1 (0.026%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.026%) Revit
10 1 (0.026%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.026%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 153 (3.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 15 (0.39%) SAP FI
5 14 (0.36%) Teamcenter
6 13 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 12 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 12 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.31%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.28%) Maximo
8 11 (0.28%) Primavera
9 10 (0.26%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.23%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 9 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
11 8 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
11 8 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
12 7 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
12 7 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 736 (18.90%) Azure
2 491 (12.61%) AWS
3 378 (9.71%) Power Platform
4 172 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
5 171 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
6 158 (4.06%) GCP
7 119 (3.06%) Entra ID
8 118 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
9 100 (2.57%) SaaS
10 78 (2.00%) GitHub
11 65 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
12 59 (1.52%) Serverless
13 57 (1.46%) Power Automate
14 51 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
14 51 (1.31%) Microsoft Purview
15 49 (1.26%) Amazon S3
15 49 (1.26%) PowerApps
16 47 (1.21%) PaaS
17 45 (1.16%) Snowflake
18 41 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 66 (1.69%) Network Security
2 61 (1.57%) Firewall
3 50 (1.28%) DNS
4 36 (0.92%) VPN
5 33 (0.85%) WAN
6 30 (0.77%) LAN
7 24 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 21 (0.54%) DHCP
9 19 (0.49%) Wireless
10 15 (0.39%) Internet
10 15 (0.39%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.39%) VLAN
11 13 (0.33%) 5G
11 13 (0.33%) BGP
11 13 (0.33%) Intranet
12 12 (0.31%) OSPF
12 12 (0.31%) SSL
13 10 (0.26%) NGFW
13 10 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.23%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 311 (7.99%) Power BI
2 100 (2.57%) Metadata
3 83 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (1.64%) Data Lake
5 55 (1.41%) SQL Server
6 42 (1.08%) Tableau
7 31 (0.80%) Relational Database
8 29 (0.74%) Power Query
9 24 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.51%) Big Data
11 19 (0.49%) DynamoDB
12 18 (0.46%) Oracle Database
13 17 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (0.44%) BigQuery
13 17 (0.44%) NoSQL
14 16 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
15 14 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (0.36%) Data Vault
15 14 (0.36%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 14 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 284 (7.29%) JIRA
2 69 (1.77%) Git
3 54 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.26%) GitLab
5 32 (0.82%) Selenium
6 31 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
7 26 (0.67%) Postman
8 18 (0.46%) Hudson
9 17 (0.44%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.44%) WebDriver
10 16 (0.41%) JMeter
11 15 (0.39%) JUnit
12 13 (0.33%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.31%) ERwin
14 9 (0.23%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (0.15%) MLflow
15 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
16 5 (0.13%) Gradle
16 5 (0.13%) Snyk
General
1 1,780 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 1,127 (28.94%) Finance
3 688 (17.67%) Public Sector
4 624 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
5 211 (5.42%) Banking
6 189 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
7 153 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
8 149 (3.83%) Legal
9 135 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
10 126 (3.24%) Retail
11 93 (2.39%) Manufacturing
12 86 (2.21%) Law
13 81 (2.08%) Marketing
14 80 (2.05%) Telecoms
15 79 (2.03%) Local Government
16 74 (1.90%) Aerospace
17 71 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 54 (1.39%) Military
19 52 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
20 40 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 709 (18.21%) Analyst
2 568 (14.59%) Architect
3 492 (12.63%) Lead
4 431 (11.07%) Business Analyst
5 384 (9.86%) Senior
6 300 (7.70%) Project Manager
7 274 (7.04%) Consultant
8 166 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
9 154 (3.95%) Developer
10 121 (3.11%) Data Analyst
11 102 (2.62%) Change Manager
12 100 (2.57%) Delivery Manager
13 96 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
14 83 (2.13%) Data Architect
14 83 (2.13%) Senior Manager
15 77 (1.98%) Designer
15 77 (1.98%) Security Architect
16 76 (1.95%) Programme Manager
17 73 (1.87%) Product Manager
18 70 (1.80%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (2.57%) REST
2 58 (1.49%) Middleware
3 48 (1.23%) JSON
4 47 (1.21%) Spring
5 44 (1.13%) Kafka
5 44 (1.13%) React
6 42 (1.08%) SOAP
7 41 (1.05%) .NET
8 38 (0.98%) Spring Boot
8 38 (0.98%) XML
9 37 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
10 35 (0.90%) PySpark
11 28 (0.72%) OAuth
11 28 (0.72%) SailPoint
12 26 (0.67%) SAML
13 25 (0.64%) OpenID
14 24 (0.62%) Web Services
15 22 (0.56%) RESTful
16 21 (0.54%) LDAP
17 20 (0.51%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 273 (7.01%) Product Ownership
2 207 (5.32%) Onboarding
3 163 (4.19%) Cloud Native
4 103 (2.65%) Data Structures
4 103 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 77 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
6 74 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
7 72 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 69 (1.77%) Operational Technology
9 64 (1.64%) NHS
10 63 (1.62%) Data Centre
11 59 (1.52%) Virtual Team
12 58 (1.49%) CMDB
13 48 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
14 46 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
15 45 (1.16%) AI Agents
16 41 (1.05%) Security Posture
17 40 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
18 37 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
19 33 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 113 (2.90%) Windows
2 56 (1.44%) Linux
3 26 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.39%) Windows 10
5 14 (0.36%) Unix
6 10 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.21%) VMS
8 6 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.10%) Android
10 3 (0.077%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.077%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.077%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.077%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.026%) AIX
11 1 (0.026%) HPUX
11 1 (0.026%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.026%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,134 (29.12%) Agile
2 847 (21.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 836 (21.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 576 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
5 562 (14.43%) Migration
6 551 (14.15%) Decision-Making
7 507 (13.02%) Roadmaps
8 479 (12.30%) DevOps
9 468 (12.02%) Change Management
10 457 (11.74%) Workshop Facilitation
11 445 (11.43%) AI
12 417 (10.71%) Analytics
13 383 (9.84%) CI/CD
13 383 (9.84%) Risk Management
14 350 (8.99%) Business Intelligence
15 347 (8.91%) Cybersecurity
16 341 (8.76%) Project Delivery
17 327 (8.40%) ERP
18 316 (8.12%) Data Modelling
19 313 (8.04%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 330 (8.47%) SQL
2 271 (6.96%) Python
3 119 (3.06%) Java
4 72 (1.85%) JavaScript
5 63 (1.62%) PowerShell
6 53 (1.36%) C#
7 43 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 41 (1.05%) TypeScript
9 36 (0.92%) Bash
10 24 (0.62%) Bicep
11 19 (0.49%) VBA
12 16 (0.41%) Apex Code
13 14 (0.36%) Scala
14 13 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.31%) T-SQL
16 11 (0.28%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.23%) Korn
18 7 (0.18%) ABAP
18 7 (0.18%) R
19 5 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,002 (25.73%) Security Cleared
2 761 (19.54%) SC Cleared
3 277 (7.11%) Degree
4 164 (4.21%) DV Cleared
5 140 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 123 (3.16%) PMI Certification
7 112 (2.88%) PMP
8 106 (2.72%) CISSP
9 74 (1.90%) Azure Certification
10 69 (1.77%) CISM
11 64 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
12 42 (1.08%) AWS Certification
13 39 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
13 39 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
14 33 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 31 (0.80%) Master's Degree
15 31 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
16 30 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 23 (0.59%) ACCA
17 23 (0.59%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (7.60%) Data Quality
2 198 (5.08%) PMO
3 180 (4.62%) QA
4 168 (4.31%) GDPR
5 160 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 156 (4.01%) NIST
7 101 (2.59%) Accessibility
8 88 (2.26%) GRC
9 55 (1.41%) NCSC
10 47 (1.21%) SLA
11 29 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
12 26 (0.67%) WCAG
13 23 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
14 20 (0.51%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.46%) SOC 2
16 16 (0.41%) ISO 20022
17 15 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 13 (0.33%) COBIT
19 12 (0.31%) NIST 800
20 11 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 107 (2.75%) Active Directory
2 82 (2.11%) Docker
3 45 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.49%) vSphere
5 18 (0.46%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.28%) 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 3 (0.077%) NFS
12 1 (0.026%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.026%) Firmware
12 1 (0.026%) FreeRADIUS
12 1 (0.026%) IAG
12 1 (0.026%) KVM
Systems Management
1 153 (3.93%) Terraform
2 143 (3.67%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.16%) Ansible
4 35 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (0.82%) Grafana
6 30 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (0.74%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.33%) SCCM
9 10 (0.26%) HP ALM
10 9 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.18%) NetBackup
12 6 (0.15%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.13%) vRealize
14 4 (0.10%) Podman
15 3 (0.077%) Istio
15 3 (0.077%) Network Intrusion Detection System
15 3 (0.077%) SCOM
15 3 (0.077%) vCenter Server
15 3 (0.077%) VxRail
15 3 (0.077%) WSUS
Vendors
1 667 (17.13%) Microsoft
2 275 (7.06%) SAP
3 234 (6.01%) ServiceNow
4 179 (4.60%) Oracle
5 119 (3.06%) Databricks
6 114 (2.93%) Salesforce
7 71 (1.82%) Google
8 56 (1.44%) VMware
9 55 (1.41%) Cisco
10 54 (1.39%) IBM
11 46 (1.18%) Workday
12 42 (1.08%) Splunk
13 30 (0.77%) CyberArk
14 25 (0.64%) MuleSoft
15 23 (0.59%) Palo Alto
16 22 (0.56%) Zscaler
17 21 (0.54%) Ariba
18 20 (0.51%) Citrix
18 20 (0.51%) IFS
19 19 (0.49%) Informatica
862 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide