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

 6 months to
27 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 28 131
Rank change year-on-year +3 +103 +32
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,161 2,151 694
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.61% 6.51% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.03% 7.19% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,832 1,444 436
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -2.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 36 10
10th Percentile £25.15 £24.03 £25.75
25th Percentile £40.75 £28.16 £32.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.00 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +38.30% -19.21% +2.98%
75th Percentile £82.88 £64.66 £60.95
90th Percentile £89.80 £73.75 £70.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £45.12 £58.30
% change year-on-year +49.61% -22.61% +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 46,089 29,922 32,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.33% 90.54% 85.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,886 18,587 19,900
10th Percentile £325 £295 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £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 3,201 1,858 1,386
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.29 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.23 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.88 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.78% -47.67% +1.18%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 27 September 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 +2 3,493 £550 - 2,688
UK excluding London +4 1,925 £525 - 1,760
London -2 1,733 £550 - 1,184
Work from Home +7 1,416 £525 - 1,364
South East +7 500 £550 +2.52% 469
North of England +3 492 £500 -3.85% 415
Midlands +8 337 £500 -6.93% 282
West Midlands +5 270 £500 -6.93% 197
South West -3 231 £550 - 211
Scotland +22 223 £500 +11.11% 158
North West +1 223 £525 - 243
Yorkshire -3 202 £500 -4.31% 122
East of England +17 113 £510 -17.07% 140
North East +8 75 £450 -5.26% 51
East Midlands +5 65 £525 +17.98% 85
Wales +16 57 £525 +27.27% 29
Northern Ireland -3 6 £413 -21.43% 71
Channel Islands -2 4 £588 +27.03% 2

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
1 173 (4.16%) SharePoint
2 168 (4.04%) Confluence
3 38 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (0.89%) CMS
5 36 (0.87%) Apache
6 35 (0.84%) Apache Spark
7 27 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
8 25 (0.60%) SAS
9 10 (0.24%) Headless CMS
10 6 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.14%) WordPress
11 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.096%) OpenEdge
12 4 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.072%) Drupal
13 3 (0.072%) IIS
13 3 (0.072%) Kentico
14 2 (0.048%) GeoServer
14 2 (0.048%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.048%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 190 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 94 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 89 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (1.37%) MS Visio
5 52 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.19%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.19%) Navisworks
7 8 (0.19%) ProjectWise
7 8 (0.19%) Revit
8 7 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.17%) Trello
9 3 (0.072%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.072%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.072%) Sketch
10 2 (0.048%) InDesign
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Notion
Business Applications
1 121 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.60%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 14 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.31%) SAP FI
8 12 (0.29%) Maximo
8 12 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.26%) Primavera
9 11 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 10 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 10 (0.24%) SAP QM
11 9 (0.22%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.22%) SAP SD
12 8 (0.19%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 793 (19.06%) Azure
2 543 (13.05%) AWS
3 427 (10.26%) Power Platform
4 217 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
5 202 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
6 185 (4.45%) GCP
7 139 (3.34%) Entra ID
8 130 (3.12%) Dynamics 365
9 102 (2.45%) Power Automate
10 101 (2.43%) SaaS
11 90 (2.16%) GitHub
12 81 (1.95%) Snowflake
13 79 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
14 74 (1.78%) PowerApps
15 73 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
15 73 (1.75%) Serverless
16 64 (1.54%) Amazon S3
17 58 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
18 55 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
19 47 (1.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 73 (1.75%) Network Security
2 69 (1.66%) Firewall
3 50 (1.20%) DNS
4 40 (0.96%) VPN
4 40 (0.96%) WAN
5 30 (0.72%) DHCP
5 30 (0.72%) LAN
6 24 (0.58%) TCP/IP
7 18 (0.43%) Internet
7 18 (0.43%) SD-WAN
8 17 (0.41%) VLAN
9 16 (0.38%) Wireless
10 14 (0.34%) 5G
11 12 (0.29%) BGP
11 12 (0.29%) Kerberos
11 12 (0.29%) VoIP
12 11 (0.26%) Intranet
12 11 (0.26%) SSL
12 11 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (0.24%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 324 (7.79%) Power BI
2 168 (4.04%) Metadata
3 95 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
4 94 (2.26%) Data Lake
5 73 (1.75%) SQL Server
6 44 (1.06%) Tableau
7 32 (0.77%) Relational Database
8 29 (0.70%) Power Query
9 28 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (0.65%) DynamoDB
11 25 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (0.60%) BigQuery
12 23 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 22 (0.53%) Oracle Database
13 22 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
14 21 (0.50%) MongoDB
15 20 (0.48%) NoSQL
16 19 (0.46%) Big Data
17 18 (0.43%) Data Vault
17 18 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 261 (6.27%) JIRA
2 89 (2.14%) Git
3 60 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.37%) GitLab
5 29 (0.70%) Postman
6 28 (0.67%) Selenium
7 17 (0.41%) Cucumber
7 17 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
9 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
10 11 (0.26%) Hudson
11 9 (0.22%) ERwin
12 8 (0.19%) JMeter
12 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.17%) JUnit
13 7 (0.17%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.17%) Zephyr
14 6 (0.14%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.14%) Maven
General
1 1,951 (46.89%) Social Skills
2 1,103 (26.51%) Finance
3 867 (20.84%) Public Sector
4 678 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
5 254 (6.10%) Influencing Skills
6 227 (5.46%) Banking
7 181 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
8 175 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
9 142 (3.41%) Legal
10 131 (3.15%) Retail
11 123 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 114 (2.74%) Local Government
13 111 (2.67%) Manufacturing
14 85 (2.04%) Marketing
15 84 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
16 80 (1.92%) Military
17 77 (1.85%) Telecoms
18 63 (1.51%) Aerospace
19 62 (1.49%) Law
20 41 (0.99%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 694 (16.68%) Analyst
2 610 (14.66%) Architect
3 494 (11.87%) Lead
4 442 (10.62%) Senior
5 405 (9.73%) Business Analyst
6 302 (7.26%) Consultant
7 291 (6.99%) Project Manager
8 228 (5.48%) Developer
9 183 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
10 125 (3.00%) Data Architect
11 117 (2.81%) Data Analyst
12 112 (2.69%) Change Manager
13 107 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
14 90 (2.16%) Designer
15 88 (2.11%) Senior Manager
16 86 (2.07%) Data Engineer
17 85 (2.04%) Delivery Manager
18 84 (2.02%) Technical Architect
19 79 (1.90%) IT Manager
20 74 (1.78%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (4.42%) Terraform
2 123 (2.96%) REST
3 67 (1.61%) .NET
4 59 (1.42%) JSON
5 57 (1.37%) Kafka
6 52 (1.25%) SOAP
7 47 (1.13%) PySpark
7 47 (1.13%) XML
8 46 (1.11%) Middleware
9 45 (1.08%) Spring
10 44 (1.06%) React
11 42 (1.01%) Spring Boot
12 40 (0.96%) OAuth
12 40 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
13 34 (0.82%) SAML
14 32 (0.77%) LDAP
14 32 (0.77%) OpenID
14 32 (0.77%) RESTful
14 32 (0.77%) Web Services
15 28 (0.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 282 (6.78%) Product Ownership
2 244 (5.86%) Onboarding
3 188 (4.52%) Cloud Native
4 144 (3.46%) Management Information System
5 97 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 94 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
7 88 (2.11%) Data Structures
8 78 (1.87%) AI Agents
9 74 (1.78%) NHS
10 72 (1.73%) Operational Technology
11 71 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
12 69 (1.66%) Data Centre
13 59 (1.42%) Security Posture
14 56 (1.35%) CMDB
15 55 (1.32%) Virtual Team
16 50 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
16 50 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
17 42 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
18 32 (0.77%) PKI
19 30 (0.72%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 130 (3.12%) Windows
2 80 (1.92%) Linux
3 37 (0.89%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.36%) Unix
5 14 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.17%) Android
7 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.14%) VMS
9 4 (0.096%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.072%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.048%) AIX
11 2 (0.048%) HPUX
11 2 (0.048%) Solaris
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.024%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,267 (30.45%) Agile
2 1,107 (26.60%) Stakeholder Management
3 939 (22.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 673 (16.17%) Decision-Making
5 649 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
6 592 (14.23%) Roadmaps
7 563 (13.53%) Migration
8 549 (13.19%) Workshop Facilitation
9 538 (12.93%) AI
10 529 (12.71%) DevOps
11 482 (11.58%) Change Management
12 480 (11.54%) Analytics
13 440 (10.57%) CI/CD
14 423 (10.17%) Risk Management
15 397 (9.54%) Project Delivery
16 379 (9.11%) Cybersecurity
17 373 (8.96%) Business Intelligence
18 370 (8.89%) Data Governance
19 355 (8.53%) Data Modelling
20 342 (8.22%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 396 (9.52%) SQL
2 293 (7.04%) Python
3 126 (3.03%) Java
4 104 (2.50%) JavaScript
5 94 (2.26%) PowerShell
6 88 (2.11%) C#
7 52 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 51 (1.23%) Bash
9 46 (1.11%) TypeScript
10 28 (0.67%) Bicep
11 21 (0.50%) Scala
12 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 13 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.24%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.24%) Korn
15 9 (0.22%) Groovy
16 8 (0.19%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.12%) VBA
19 4 (0.096%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,202 (28.89%) Security Cleared
2 930 (22.35%) SC Cleared
3 254 (6.10%) Degree
4 201 (4.83%) DV Cleared
5 163 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 110 (2.64%) CISSP
6 110 (2.64%) PMI Certification
7 105 (2.52%) PMP
8 69 (1.66%) Azure Certification
9 68 (1.63%) CISM
10 66 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
11 60 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 41 (0.99%) AWS Certification
13 34 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 34 (0.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 31 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
14 31 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
15 27 (0.65%) ISTQB
16 25 (0.60%) ACCA
17 24 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 360 (8.65%) Data Quality
2 188 (4.52%) PMO
3 180 (4.33%) QA
4 171 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 165 (3.97%) GDPR
6 164 (3.94%) NIST
7 129 (3.10%) Accessibility
8 102 (2.45%) GRC
9 82 (1.97%) NCSC
10 43 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
11 39 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
12 37 (0.89%) WCAG
13 33 (0.79%) SLA
14 18 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 15 (0.36%) PCI DSS
15 15 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.34%) JSP 440
16 14 (0.34%) NIST 800
17 12 (0.29%) ITGC
18 11 (0.26%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 129 (3.10%) Active Directory
2 99 (2.38%) Docker
3 54 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.46%) VMware NSX
5 18 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.34%) vSphere
7 12 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.072%) 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%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 158 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 51 (1.23%) Ansible
3 43 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (0.75%) Grafana
5 30 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (0.26%) SCCM
9 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
10 6 (0.14%) VxRail
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
12 4 (0.096%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.096%) Istio
12 4 (0.096%) QRadar
12 4 (0.096%) vRealize
13 3 (0.072%) Argo
13 3 (0.072%) Kibana
13 3 (0.072%) McAfee ePO
13 3 (0.072%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.072%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 829 (19.92%) Microsoft
2 246 (5.91%) SAP
3 227 (5.46%) ServiceNow
4 185 (4.45%) Oracle
5 159 (3.82%) Databricks
6 102 (2.45%) Salesforce
7 95 (2.28%) Google
8 72 (1.73%) VMware
9 63 (1.51%) Cisco
10 55 (1.32%) Workday
11 53 (1.27%) Splunk
12 43 (1.03%) IBM
13 31 (0.75%) CyberArk
14 27 (0.65%) Ariba
14 27 (0.65%) MuleSoft
15 24 (0.58%) Dynatrace
16 23 (0.55%) Informatica
16 23 (0.55%) Palo Alto
17 21 (0.50%) Adobe
17 21 (0.50%) Okta
3,127 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide