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

 6 months to
21 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 33 143
Rank change year-on-year +8 +110 +27
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,095 1,867 664
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.65% 5.70% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.03% 6.29% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,778 1,244 456
10th Percentile £363 £356 £363
25th Percentile £450 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.37% -2.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £516
% change year-on-year - +1.69% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 34 18
10th Percentile £25.50 £23.65 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £29.12 £26.31
Median hourly rate £74.50 £44.91 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +65.90% -22.80% +2.98%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.38 £73.85
90th Percentile £89.75 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £32.74 £58.30
% change year-on-year +144.39% -43.85% +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 45,356 29,667 33,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.68% 90.51% 85.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,834 18,495 21,131
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% -3.58%
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 2,855 1,741 1,763
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.33 £18.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -37.90% -1.22%
75th Percentile £67.94 £49.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year +83.17% -42.17% +12.54%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +6 3,472 £540 -1.82% 991
UK excluding London +10 1,931 £525 - 767
London +5 1,689 £550 - 391
Work from Home +15 1,378 £525 - 513
South East +14 513 £550 - 258
North of England +11 497 £500 -2.34% 170
Midlands +10 334 £500 -1.38% 129
West Midlands +5 257 £500 -2.91% 94
North West +14 243 £500 -4.99% 96
South West 0 228 £550 - 115
Scotland +31 202 £500 +6.38% 27
Yorkshire 0 193 £500 +1.78% 52
East of England +28 119 £533 -11.91% 53
East Midlands +19 73 £525 +20.00% 34
North East +10 69 £453 -2.11% 26
Wales +12 54 £525 +23.53% 25
Northern Ireland +6 13 £430 -17.16% 12
Channel Islands 0 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
1 174 (4.25%) Confluence
2 155 (3.79%) SharePoint
3 36 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 31 (0.76%) Apache
5 31 (0.76%) CMS
6 29 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 27 (0.66%) SAS
8 6 (0.15%) WordPress
9 4 (0.098%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.098%) OpenEdge
9 4 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.073%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.073%) Drupal
10 3 (0.073%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.073%) IIS
10 3 (0.073%) Kentico
10 3 (0.073%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.049%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.049%) Appian
Applications
1 179 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 83 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 76 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
5 52 (1.27%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.20%) 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 (0.098%) Sketch
10 2 (0.049%) InDesign
10 2 (0.049%) 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
1 136 (3.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 62 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.59%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.37%) Primavera
6 14 (0.34%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 12 (0.29%) NetSuite
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.27%) Maximo
8 11 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
8 11 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
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 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 8 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 825 (20.15%) Azure
2 558 (13.63%) AWS
3 442 (10.79%) Power Platform
4 210 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
5 198 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
6 192 (4.69%) GCP
7 154 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
8 145 (3.54%) Entra ID
9 96 (2.34%) SaaS
10 92 (2.25%) Power Automate
11 91 (2.22%) GitHub
12 72 (1.76%) PowerApps
13 71 (1.73%) Serverless
14 68 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
15 65 (1.59%) Snowflake
16 61 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
17 58 (1.42%) Amazon S3
17 58 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
18 57 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
19 44 (1.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 66 (1.61%) Firewall
2 63 (1.54%) Network Security
3 54 (1.32%) DNS
4 41 (1.00%) VPN
5 40 (0.98%) WAN
6 34 (0.83%) LAN
7 27 (0.66%) DHCP
8 24 (0.59%) TCP/IP
9 19 (0.46%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.44%) Wireless
11 17 (0.42%) Internet
12 15 (0.37%) VLAN
13 14 (0.34%) 5G
13 14 (0.34%) BGP
14 12 (0.29%) Intranet
14 12 (0.29%) OSPF
14 12 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (0.27%) Kerberos
15 11 (0.27%) SSL
16 9 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 353 (8.62%) Power BI
2 121 (2.95%) Metadata
3 94 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
4 89 (2.17%) Data Lake
5 69 (1.68%) SQL Server
6 45 (1.10%) Tableau
7 34 (0.83%) Power Query
8 33 (0.81%) Relational Database
9 29 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (0.59%) DynamoDB
11 22 (0.54%) Oracle Database
12 21 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 20 (0.49%) BigQuery
14 19 (0.46%) Big Data
14 19 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
15 18 (0.44%) NoSQL
16 17 (0.42%) Data Vault
17 15 (0.37%) Looker
17 15 (0.37%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 276 (6.74%) JIRA
2 94 (2.30%) Git
3 65 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.32%) GitLab
5 33 (0.81%) Selenium
6 31 (0.76%) Postman
7 29 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
8 19 (0.46%) WebDriver
9 18 (0.44%) Cucumber
10 17 (0.42%) Hudson
11 15 (0.37%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.37%) JMeter
12 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (0.27%) ERwin
13 11 (0.27%) JUnit
14 9 (0.22%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.22%) Zephyr
15 8 (0.20%) Bitbucket
16 7 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
17 6 (0.15%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,865 (45.54%) Social Skills
2 1,137 (27.77%) Finance
3 783 (19.12%) Public Sector
4 662 (16.17%) Analytical Skills
5 214 (5.23%) Banking
6 211 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
7 169 (4.13%) Documentation Skills
8 150 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
9 148 (3.61%) Legal
10 142 (3.47%) Retail
11 112 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 100 (2.44%) Local Government
13 94 (2.30%) Manufacturing
14 92 (2.25%) Law
15 87 (2.12%) Marketing
16 83 (2.03%) Telecoms
17 77 (1.88%) Aerospace
18 60 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
19 58 (1.42%) Military
20 40 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 700 (17.09%) Analyst
2 620 (15.14%) Architect
3 511 (12.48%) Lead
4 416 (10.16%) Senior
5 412 (10.06%) Business Analyst
6 301 (7.35%) Project Manager
7 300 (7.33%) Consultant
8 203 (4.96%) Developer
9 174 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
10 125 (3.05%) Data Analyst
11 111 (2.71%) Data Architect
12 104 (2.54%) Change Manager
13 97 (2.37%) Delivery Manager
14 94 (2.30%) Senior Analyst
15 91 (2.22%) Senior Manager
16 84 (2.05%) Data Engineer
17 80 (1.95%) Technical Architect
18 79 (1.93%) Designer
19 76 (1.86%) IT Manager
20 75 (1.83%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (4.35%) Terraform
2 107 (2.61%) REST
3 65 (1.59%) .NET
4 58 (1.42%) JSON
5 52 (1.27%) Middleware
6 51 (1.25%) Kafka
7 47 (1.15%) PySpark
7 47 (1.15%) React
8 45 (1.10%) Spring
9 42 (1.03%) SOAP
9 42 (1.03%) XML
10 40 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
11 38 (0.93%) Spring Boot
12 36 (0.88%) OAuth
13 34 (0.83%) SAML
14 33 (0.81%) Web Services
15 29 (0.71%) OpenID
15 29 (0.71%) RESTful
16 28 (0.68%) LDAP
17 27 (0.66%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 307 (7.50%) Product Ownership
2 226 (5.52%) Onboarding
3 185 (4.52%) Cloud Native
4 137 (3.35%) Management Information System
5 111 (2.71%) Data Structures
6 92 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 82 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
8 76 (1.86%) NHS
9 71 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
10 67 (1.64%) AI Agents
11 65 (1.59%) Data Centre
12 64 (1.56%) Operational Technology
13 58 (1.42%) CMDB
14 57 (1.39%) Virtual Team
15 50 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
16 49 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
17 45 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
18 44 (1.07%) Security Posture
19 34 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
20 28 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 130 (3.17%) Windows
2 77 (1.88%) Linux
3 34 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.39%) Unix
5 13 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.20%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.17%) Android
7 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.17%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.17%) VMS
8 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.049%) AIX
10 2 (0.049%) HPUX
10 2 (0.049%) Solaris
11 1 (0.024%) CentOS
11 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,254 (30.62%) Agile
2 962 (23.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 937 (22.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 609 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
5 605 (14.77%) Decision-Making
6 594 (14.51%) Migration
7 548 (13.38%) Roadmaps
8 538 (13.14%) DevOps
9 517 (12.63%) Workshop Facilitation
10 499 (12.19%) AI
11 473 (11.55%) Analytics
12 469 (11.45%) Change Management
13 450 (10.99%) CI/CD
14 406 (9.91%) Business Intelligence
15 400 (9.77%) Risk Management
16 398 (9.72%) Project Delivery
17 359 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
18 340 (8.30%) Data Modelling
19 330 (8.06%) User Acceptance Testing
20 324 (7.91%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 380 (9.28%) SQL
2 304 (7.42%) Python
3 132 (3.22%) Java
4 92 (2.25%) JavaScript
5 82 (2.00%) C#
6 81 (1.98%) PowerShell
7 53 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 46 (1.12%) TypeScript
9 45 (1.10%) Bash
10 27 (0.66%) Bicep
11 20 (0.49%) Scala
12 15 (0.37%) Kotlin
12 15 (0.37%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 13 (0.32%) Apex Code
15 12 (0.29%) VBA
16 10 (0.24%) Korn
17 9 (0.22%) Groovy
18 7 (0.17%) R
18 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,127 (27.52%) Security Cleared
2 840 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 261 (6.37%) Degree
4 191 (4.66%) DV Cleared
5 146 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 123 (3.00%) PMI Certification
7 114 (2.78%) PMP
8 107 (2.61%) CISSP
9 75 (1.83%) Azure Certification
10 70 (1.71%) CISM
11 67 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
12 59 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
13 49 (1.20%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 36 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
16 32 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 30 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 27 (0.66%) APMG
18 27 (0.66%) ISTQB
19 25 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 327 (7.99%) Data Quality
2 209 (5.10%) PMO
3 183 (4.47%) QA
4 175 (4.27%) GDPR
5 173 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 162 (3.96%) NIST
7 118 (2.88%) Accessibility
8 86 (2.10%) GRC
9 66 (1.61%) NCSC
10 43 (1.05%) SLA
11 35 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
12 32 (0.78%) WCAG
13 29 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.46%) PCI DSS
15 17 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 16 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.39%) SOC 2
17 12 (0.29%) JSP 440
17 12 (0.29%) NIST 800
18 11 (0.27%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 133 (3.25%) Active Directory
2 92 (2.25%) Docker
3 52 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 19 (0.46%) vSphere
6 17 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.049%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.049%) 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%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 155 (3.79%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.20%) Ansible
3 40 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.83%) Grafana
5 33 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 14 (0.34%) SCCM
9 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.17%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 5 (0.12%) vRealize
12 4 (0.098%) Istio
12 4 (0.098%) QRadar
12 4 (0.098%) VxRail
13 3 (0.073%) Argo
13 3 (0.073%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.073%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.073%) Puppet
13 3 (0.073%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 776 (18.95%) Microsoft
2 269 (6.57%) SAP
3 232 (5.67%) ServiceNow
4 185 (4.52%) Oracle
5 151 (3.69%) Databricks
6 110 (2.69%) Salesforce
7 88 (2.15%) Google
8 67 (1.64%) VMware
9 59 (1.44%) Cisco
9 59 (1.44%) IBM
10 50 (1.22%) Workday
11 44 (1.07%) Splunk
12 34 (0.83%) CyberArk
13 29 (0.71%) MuleSoft
14 25 (0.61%) Zscaler
15 23 (0.56%) Ariba
15 23 (0.56%) Palo Alto
16 22 (0.54%) Dynatrace
16 22 (0.54%) Okta
17 19 (0.46%) Citrix
1,130 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide