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

 6 months to
31 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 39 153
Rank change year-on-year +13 +114 +14
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,947 1,667 646
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.43% 5.08% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.75% 5.62% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,667 1,112 443
10th Percentile £371 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% +1.01%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £511 £516
% change year-on-year +1.76% -1.02% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 28 21
10th Percentile £25.04 £22.97 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £26.21 £26.25
Median hourly rate £74.50 £41.16 £57.44
Median % change year-on-year +81.01% -28.35% +7.03%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.31 £70.39
90th Percentile - £76.67 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £45.87 £57.74
% change year-on-year +74.42% -20.57% +7.60%

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 45,107 29,668 33,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.95% 90.46% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,893 18,635 21,816
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £736 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,744 1,629 1,969
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.66 £17.35 £17.72
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £40.33
% change year-on-year +83.17% -40.48% +0.81%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +13 3,369 £540 +0.47% 1,103
UK excluding London +19 1,856 £520 +1.76% 751
London +12 1,630 £550 - 501
Work from Home +20 1,310 £525 +2.44% 567
South East +21 497 £550 - 265
North of England +22 493 £500 -0.40% 170
Midlands +10 322 £500 -0.05% 114
North West +17 249 £500 -2.21% 80
West Midlands +3 248 £500 -0.15% 80
South West +7 202 £540 -1.82% 105
Yorkshire -3 186 £500 +3.63% 63
Scotland +28 185 £500 - 29
East of England +30 120 £533 +6.39% 58
East Midlands +19 70 £500 +5.26% 34
North East +11 66 £450 -7.22% 28
Wales +15 50 £500 +31.58% 11
Northern Ireland +5 12 £430 -18.14% 14
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
1 172 (4.36%) Confluence
2 136 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 35 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 30 (0.76%) Apache
6 26 (0.66%) SAS
7 25 (0.63%) CMS
8 22 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.13%) WordPress
10 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.10%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.076%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.076%) Kentico
11 3 (0.076%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.076%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.051%) Drupal
12 2 (0.051%) IIS
12 2 (0.051%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.051%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 183 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
5 60 (1.52%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.13%) Trello
9 4 (0.10%) Sketch
10 2 (0.051%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.051%) InDesign
10 2 (0.051%) InVision
10 2 (0.051%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.051%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.051%) Revit
11 1 (0.025%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.025%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.025%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.025%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.025%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 150 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.53%) Workday HCM
4 16 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.38%) Primavera
5 15 (0.38%) SAP FI
6 12 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 12 (0.30%) SAP QM
7 11 (0.28%) Maximo
7 11 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
8 10 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 10 (0.25%) SAP CO
8 10 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
8 10 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 10 (0.25%) Teamcenter
9 9 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 9 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 8 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 8 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
10 8 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 788 (19.96%) Azure
2 508 (12.87%) AWS
3 415 (10.51%) Power Platform
4 186 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
5 181 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
6 175 (4.43%) GCP
7 136 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
8 125 (3.17%) Entra ID
9 97 (2.46%) SaaS
10 83 (2.10%) GitHub
11 76 (1.93%) Power Automate
12 65 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
13 64 (1.62%) PowerApps
14 62 (1.57%) Serverless
15 59 (1.49%) Snowflake
16 55 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
16 55 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
17 52 (1.32%) Amazon S3
17 52 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
18 46 (1.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.55%) Network Security
2 60 (1.52%) Firewall
3 50 (1.27%) DNS
4 36 (0.91%) WAN
5 35 (0.89%) VPN
6 32 (0.81%) LAN
7 24 (0.61%) TCP/IP
8 22 (0.56%) DHCP
9 18 (0.46%) Wireless
10 16 (0.41%) Internet
11 15 (0.38%) SD-WAN
12 14 (0.35%) VLAN
13 13 (0.33%) 5G
14 12 (0.30%) BGP
14 12 (0.30%) Intranet
14 12 (0.30%) SSL
15 11 (0.28%) OSPF
16 9 (0.23%) Cisco Nexus
16 9 (0.23%) VSAN
16 9 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 342 (8.66%) Power BI
2 109 (2.76%) Metadata
3 93 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
4 71 (1.80%) Data Lake
5 66 (1.67%) SQL Server
6 45 (1.14%) Tableau
7 35 (0.89%) Power Query
8 28 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (0.63%) Relational Database
10 21 (0.53%) DynamoDB
11 20 (0.51%) Big Data
12 19 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (0.48%) BigQuery
12 19 (0.48%) Data Vault
13 16 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
13 16 (0.41%) NoSQL
13 16 (0.41%) Oracle Database
14 15 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 273 (6.92%) JIRA
2 77 (1.95%) Git
3 59 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 53 (1.34%) GitLab
5 34 (0.86%) Selenium
6 31 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
7 28 (0.71%) Postman
8 19 (0.48%) WebDriver
9 18 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.46%) Hudson
10 16 (0.41%) JMeter
11 15 (0.38%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.33%) ERwin
12 13 (0.33%) JUnit
13 12 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (0.23%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.20%) Bitbucket
16 7 (0.18%) Zephyr
17 6 (0.15%) MLflow
17 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 1,795 (45.48%) Social Skills
2 1,128 (28.58%) Finance
3 718 (18.19%) Public Sector
4 653 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
5 206 (5.22%) Banking
6 198 (5.02%) Influencing Skills
7 154 (3.90%) Legal
8 147 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
9 136 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
10 132 (3.34%) Retail
11 90 (2.28%) Local Government
11 90 (2.28%) Manufacturing
12 88 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 88 (2.23%) Law
13 80 (2.03%) Marketing
14 79 (2.00%) Telecoms
15 71 (1.80%) Aerospace
16 56 (1.42%) Military
17 54 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
18 40 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 717 (18.17%) Analyst
2 578 (14.64%) Architect
3 494 (12.52%) Lead
4 427 (10.82%) Business Analyst
5 412 (10.44%) Senior
6 293 (7.42%) Project Manager
7 284 (7.20%) Consultant
8 178 (4.51%) Developer
9 169 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
10 122 (3.09%) Data Analyst
11 104 (2.63%) Change Manager
12 102 (2.58%) Senior Analyst
13 100 (2.53%) Delivery Manager
14 97 (2.46%) Data Architect
15 86 (2.18%) Senior Manager
16 78 (1.98%) Security Architect
17 75 (1.90%) Designer
17 75 (1.90%) Product Manager
18 74 (1.87%) Data Engineer
19 72 (1.82%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (2.66%) REST
2 54 (1.37%) JSON
2 54 (1.37%) Middleware
3 50 (1.27%) .NET
4 46 (1.17%) Kafka
4 46 (1.17%) SOAP
4 46 (1.17%) Spring
5 45 (1.14%) React
6 43 (1.09%) PySpark
7 39 (0.99%) XML
8 38 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
9 37 (0.94%) Spring Boot
10 31 (0.79%) OAuth
11 28 (0.71%) OpenID
11 28 (0.71%) SailPoint
11 28 (0.71%) SAML
12 25 (0.63%) Web Services
13 23 (0.58%) HTML
13 23 (0.58%) RESTful
14 22 (0.56%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 294 (7.45%) Product Ownership
2 215 (5.45%) Onboarding
3 171 (4.33%) Cloud Native
4 114 (2.89%) Management Information System
5 113 (2.86%) Data Structures
6 78 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
7 77 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
8 70 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
8 70 (1.77%) NHS
9 68 (1.72%) Operational Technology
10 57 (1.44%) Virtual Team
11 56 (1.42%) CMDB
11 56 (1.42%) Data Centre
12 50 (1.27%) AI Agents
12 50 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
13 49 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
14 40 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
15 38 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
16 36 (0.91%) Security Posture
17 34 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 115 (2.91%) Windows
2 60 (1.52%) Linux
3 28 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.38%) Unix
4 15 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 11 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.18%) VMS
7 6 (0.15%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.10%) Android
9 3 (0.076%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.076%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.076%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.076%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.025%) AIX
10 1 (0.025%) HPUX
10 1 (0.025%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.025%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,183 (29.97%) Agile
2 883 (22.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 870 (22.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 585 (14.82%) Problem-Solving
5 568 (14.39%) Decision-Making
6 564 (14.29%) Migration
7 512 (12.97%) Roadmaps
8 503 (12.74%) DevOps
9 475 (12.03%) Workshop Facilitation
10 474 (12.01%) Change Management
11 472 (11.96%) AI
12 460 (11.65%) Analytics
13 417 (10.56%) CI/CD
14 390 (9.88%) Business Intelligence
15 382 (9.68%) Risk Management
16 354 (8.97%) Project Delivery
17 348 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
18 344 (8.72%) Data Modelling
19 327 (8.28%) ERP
20 318 (8.06%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 347 (8.79%) SQL
2 281 (7.12%) Python
3 121 (3.07%) Java
4 81 (2.05%) JavaScript
5 71 (1.80%) PowerShell
6 65 (1.65%) C#
7 49 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 43 (1.09%) TypeScript
9 39 (0.99%) Bash
10 25 (0.63%) Bicep
11 18 (0.46%) VBA
12 15 (0.38%) Scala
13 14 (0.35%) Apex Code
13 14 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 13 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.30%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.23%) Groovy
17 8 (0.20%) Korn
18 7 (0.18%) ABAP
19 6 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 1,041 (26.37%) Security Cleared
2 790 (20.02%) SC Cleared
3 256 (6.49%) Degree
4 181 (4.59%) DV Cleared
5 141 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 121 (3.07%) PMI Certification
7 112 (2.84%) PMP
8 101 (2.56%) CISSP
9 73 (1.85%) Azure Certification
10 64 (1.62%) CISM
11 61 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
12 50 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (1.11%) AWS Certification
14 35 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 33 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
16 30 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
17 29 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 26 (0.66%) Master's Degree
19 23 (0.58%) APMG
19 23 (0.58%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 314 (7.96%) Data Quality
2 207 (5.24%) PMO
3 179 (4.54%) QA
4 173 (4.38%) GDPR
5 162 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 152 (3.85%) NIST
7 110 (2.79%) Accessibility
8 83 (2.10%) GRC
9 53 (1.34%) NCSC
10 47 (1.19%) SLA
11 32 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
12 30 (0.76%) WCAG
13 25 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.48%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.46%) SOC 2
16 14 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 12 (0.30%) ISO 20022
17 12 (0.30%) NIST 800
18 10 (0.25%) COBIT
System Software
1 115 (2.91%) Active Directory
2 88 (2.23%) Docker
3 43 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.53%) VMware NSX
5 20 (0.51%) vSphere
6 12 (0.30%) 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 1 (0.025%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.025%) Firmware
11 1 (0.025%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.025%) IAG
11 1 (0.025%) KVM
Systems Management
1 161 (4.08%) Terraform
2 150 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.14%) Ansible
4 38 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (0.91%) Grafana
6 33 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 33 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.35%) SCCM
8 11 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (0.20%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.18%) NetBackup
11 5 (0.13%) vRealize
12 4 (0.10%) Podman
12 4 (0.10%) VxRail
13 3 (0.076%) Argo
13 3 (0.076%) Istio
13 3 (0.076%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 3 (0.076%) QRadar
13 3 (0.076%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.076%) WSUS
Vendors
1 713 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 276 (6.99%) SAP
3 233 (5.90%) ServiceNow
4 177 (4.48%) Oracle
5 140 (3.55%) Databricks
6 113 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 73 (1.85%) Google
8 56 (1.42%) IBM
9 55 (1.39%) VMware
10 54 (1.37%) Cisco
11 48 (1.22%) Workday
12 41 (1.04%) Splunk
13 31 (0.79%) CyberArk
14 27 (0.68%) MuleSoft
15 23 (0.58%) Zscaler
16 22 (0.56%) Ariba
17 20 (0.51%) Dynatrace
17 20 (0.51%) IFS
17 20 (0.51%) Okta
17 20 (0.51%) Palo Alto
1,222 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide