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

 6 months to
1 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 46 151
Rank change year-on-year +20 +105 +12
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,671 1,383 687
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.14% 4.50% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.41% 4.95% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,472 919 472
10th Percentile £365 £360 £363
25th Percentile £448 £450 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £524
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.53% -0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 28 33
10th Percentile £25.00 £24.51 £18.35
25th Percentile £49.50 £29.51 £27.81
Median hourly rate £67.70 £49.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.75% +35.62% -28.55%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.31 £59.95
90th Percentile - £76.67 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.89 £59.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +15.07% +4.44% +10.59%

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 43,674 27,949 36,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.97% 90.88% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,163 17,650 23,450
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.79% -4.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £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 2,623 1,373 2,554
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.86 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.84% -34.42% +8.91%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +22 3,111 £538 +2.38% 1,284
UK excluding London +29 1,741 £513 +2.50% 886
London +20 1,479 £550 - 557
Work from Home +26 1,191 £535 +7.00% 689
North of England +17 464 £500 - 230
South East +21 422 £550 +6.80% 295
Midlands +15 322 £510 +4.72% 141
North West +26 236 £500 -0.79% 131
West Midlands +13 226 £500 +2.67% 71
South West +20 196 £525 -4.55% 96
Yorkshire +4 185 £514 +8.21% 69
Scotland +32 171 £475 -5.00% 34
East of England +36 121 £536 +7.25% 43
East Midlands +26 91 £525 +16.67% 70
North East +7 49 £453 +0.56% 33
Wales +16 47 £500 +38.89% 35
Northern Ireland +14 17 £447 -20.53% 26
Channel Islands 0 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 (4.93%) Confluence
2 113 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 32 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (0.74%) SAS
5 24 (0.65%) Apache Spark
6 23 (0.63%) Apache
7 21 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 20 (0.54%) CMS
9 5 (0.14%) WordPress
10 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.11%) Drupal
10 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.11%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.082%) Appian
11 3 (0.082%) Kentico
12 2 (0.054%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.054%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.054%) Camunda
12 2 (0.054%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.054%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 172 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
3 68 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 66 (1.80%) MS Visio
5 62 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.11%) Sketch
9 2 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.054%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.054%) InVision
9 2 (0.054%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.054%) Trello
10 1 (0.027%) CATIA
10 1 (0.027%) InDesign
10 1 (0.027%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.027%) Notion
10 1 (0.027%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.027%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 139 (3.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.46%) Workday HCM
4 15 (0.41%) Teamcenter
5 13 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 12 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 12 (0.33%) Primavera
7 11 (0.30%) SAP QM
8 10 (0.27%) Maximo
8 10 (0.27%) SAP FI
9 9 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
10 8 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 7 (0.19%) NetSuite
11 7 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
11 7 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
11 7 (0.19%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.19%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
12 6 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
12 6 (0.16%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 693 (18.88%) Azure
2 472 (12.86%) AWS
3 358 (9.75%) Power Platform
4 155 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
5 150 (4.09%) GCP
6 148 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
7 114 (3.11%) Entra ID
8 99 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
8 99 (2.70%) SaaS
9 70 (1.91%) GitHub
10 60 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
11 56 (1.53%) Serverless
12 47 (1.28%) PaaS
12 47 (1.28%) Power Automate
13 46 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
14 45 (1.23%) Amazon S3
14 45 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
15 42 (1.14%) PowerApps
16 38 (1.04%) Snowflake
17 37 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 66 (1.80%) Network Security
2 61 (1.66%) Firewall
3 42 (1.14%) DNS
4 31 (0.84%) VPN
5 30 (0.82%) WAN
6 26 (0.71%) LAN
7 18 (0.49%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.46%) Wireless
9 14 (0.38%) DHCP
9 14 (0.38%) VLAN
10 13 (0.35%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.33%) 5G
11 12 (0.33%) BGP
11 12 (0.33%) Internet
12 11 (0.30%) OSPF
12 11 (0.30%) SSL
13 10 (0.27%) NGFW
14 9 (0.25%) Intranet
14 9 (0.25%) MPLS
15 8 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 299 (8.14%) Power BI
2 91 (2.48%) Metadata
3 79 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (1.36%) Data Lake
5 44 (1.20%) Tableau
6 41 (1.12%) SQL Server
7 33 (0.90%) Relational Database
8 30 (0.82%) Power Query
9 26 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.54%) NoSQL
11 17 (0.46%) DynamoDB
11 17 (0.46%) Snowflake Schema
12 16 (0.44%) Big Data
12 16 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
13 14 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (0.38%) Data Vault
13 14 (0.38%) Oracle Database
13 14 (0.38%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 13 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (0.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 280 (7.63%) JIRA
2 65 (1.77%) Git
3 59 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.33%) GitLab
5 31 (0.84%) Rational DOORS
6 28 (0.76%) Postman
7 26 (0.71%) Selenium
8 20 (0.54%) JMeter
9 18 (0.49%) Hudson
10 16 (0.44%) Cucumber
11 15 (0.41%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.35%) JUnit
13 12 (0.33%) ERwin
14 10 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.22%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.22%) LoadRunner
15 8 (0.22%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.16%) MLflow
17 5 (0.14%) NeoLoad
17 5 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,677 (45.68%) Social Skills
2 1,060 (28.87%) Finance
3 618 (16.83%) Public Sector
4 579 (15.77%) Analytical Skills
5 202 (5.50%) Banking
6 169 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
7 145 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
8 140 (3.81%) Legal
9 119 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
10 111 (3.02%) Retail
11 89 (2.42%) Manufacturing
12 84 (2.29%) Law
13 71 (1.93%) Aerospace
14 70 (1.91%) Local Government
14 70 (1.91%) Marketing
15 69 (1.88%) Telecoms
16 57 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 48 (1.31%) Military
18 44 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
19 34 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 673 (18.33%) Analyst
2 544 (14.82%) Architect
3 470 (12.80%) Lead
4 416 (11.33%) Business Analyst
5 357 (9.72%) Senior
6 281 (7.65%) Project Manager
7 273 (7.44%) Consultant
8 152 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
9 128 (3.49%) Developer
10 109 (2.97%) Data Analyst
11 98 (2.67%) Change Manager
12 96 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
13 93 (2.53%) Delivery Manager
14 79 (2.15%) Data Architect
15 76 (2.07%) Designer
16 74 (2.02%) Senior Manager
17 73 (1.99%) Programme Manager
18 70 (1.91%) Security Architect
19 67 (1.83%) Data Engineer
20 66 (1.80%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (2.70%) REST
2 58 (1.58%) Middleware
3 44 (1.20%) Spring
4 42 (1.14%) SOAP
5 41 (1.12%) Kafka
6 40 (1.09%) JSON
7 38 (1.04%) React
8 35 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
9 34 (0.93%) Spring Boot
10 32 (0.87%) .NET
10 32 (0.87%) XML
11 31 (0.84%) OpenID
11 31 (0.84%) PySpark
11 31 (0.84%) SailPoint
12 29 (0.79%) LDAP
12 29 (0.79%) OAuth
13 26 (0.71%) SAML
14 20 (0.54%) CSS
14 20 (0.54%) HTML
15 19 (0.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 246 (6.70%) Product Ownership
2 181 (4.93%) Onboarding
3 158 (4.30%) Cloud Native
4 94 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 89 (2.42%) Data Structures
6 71 (1.93%) Operational Technology
7 68 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 67 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
8 67 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
9 63 (1.72%) Data Centre
10 59 (1.61%) CMDB
11 57 (1.55%) NHS
12 51 (1.39%) Virtual Team
13 50 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
14 47 (1.28%) Security Posture
15 45 (1.23%) AI Agents
16 42 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
17 36 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
18 33 (0.90%) Public Cloud
19 31 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 101 (2.75%) Windows
2 50 (1.36%) Linux
3 24 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.38%) Unix
5 12 (0.33%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.22%) VMS
8 6 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.11%) Android
11 3 (0.082%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.082%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.082%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.082%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.027%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,034 (28.17%) Agile
2 769 (20.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 756 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
4 533 (14.52%) Migration
5 524 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
6 512 (13.95%) Decision-Making
7 483 (13.16%) Roadmaps
8 446 (12.15%) Change Management
9 437 (11.90%) DevOps
10 426 (11.60%) Workshop Facilitation
11 396 (10.79%) AI
12 392 (10.68%) Analytics
13 365 (9.94%) Risk Management
14 338 (9.21%) Business Intelligence
15 336 (9.15%) CI/CD
16 314 (8.55%) Cybersecurity
17 313 (8.53%) Project Delivery
18 310 (8.44%) ERP
19 303 (8.25%) Data Modelling
20 300 (8.17%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 312 (8.50%) SQL
2 254 (6.92%) Python
3 116 (3.16%) Java
4 60 (1.63%) JavaScript
4 60 (1.63%) PowerShell
5 46 (1.25%) C#
6 41 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 40 (1.09%) TypeScript
8 32 (0.87%) Bash
9 20 (0.54%) Bicep
9 20 (0.54%) VBA
10 16 (0.44%) Scala
11 13 (0.35%) Apex Code
12 10 (0.27%) Korn
12 10 (0.27%) Kotlin
12 10 (0.27%) PL/SQL
12 10 (0.27%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.19%) R
14 6 (0.16%) ABAP
15 4 (0.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 922 (25.12%) Security Cleared
2 710 (19.34%) SC Cleared
3 272 (7.41%) Degree
4 146 (3.98%) DV Cleared
5 122 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 112 (3.05%) PMI Certification
7 101 (2.75%) PMP
8 91 (2.48%) CISSP
9 64 (1.74%) CISM
10 61 (1.66%) Azure Certification
11 57 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
13 37 (1.01%) AWS Certification
14 31 (0.84%) Master's Degree
15 29 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 25 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 24 (0.65%) ACCA
18 23 (0.63%) CIMA
18 23 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 188 (5.12%) PMO
3 172 (4.69%) QA
4 154 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 151 (4.11%) NIST
6 148 (4.03%) GDPR
7 92 (2.51%) Accessibility
8 87 (2.37%) GRC
9 50 (1.36%) NCSC
10 40 (1.09%) SLA
11 27 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
12 25 (0.68%) WCAG
13 24 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
13 24 (0.65%) PCI DSS
14 18 (0.49%) SOC 2
15 17 (0.46%) ISO 20022
16 13 (0.35%) COBIT
16 13 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.30%) NIST 800
18 10 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 96 (2.62%) Active Directory
2 70 (1.91%) Docker
3 33 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.38%) vSphere
5 12 (0.33%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.19%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.082%) NFS
11 1 (0.027%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.027%) Firmware
11 1 (0.027%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.027%) KVM
Systems Management
1 134 (3.65%) Terraform
2 125 (3.41%) Kubernetes
3 42 (1.14%) Ansible
4 32 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (0.84%) Grafana
6 29 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (0.76%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.38%) SCCM
9 11 (0.30%) HP ALM
10 10 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.16%) vRealize
12 5 (0.14%) NetBackup
13 4 (0.11%) Podman
14 3 (0.082%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.082%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.082%) vMotion
14 3 (0.082%) VxRail
14 3 (0.082%) WSUS
15 2 (0.054%) QRadar
Vendors
1 595 (16.21%) Microsoft
2 261 (7.11%) SAP
3 223 (6.07%) ServiceNow
4 169 (4.60%) Oracle
5 108 (2.94%) Salesforce
6 106 (2.89%) Databricks
7 65 (1.77%) Google
8 53 (1.44%) Cisco
9 50 (1.36%) IBM
10 45 (1.23%) VMware
11 43 (1.17%) Workday
12 41 (1.12%) Splunk
13 28 (0.76%) CyberArk
14 24 (0.65%) MuleSoft
15 21 (0.57%) Palo Alto
16 20 (0.54%) Dynatrace
16 20 (0.54%) Zscaler
17 19 (0.52%) Adobe
17 19 (0.52%) IFS
18 17 (0.46%) Citrix
1,482 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide