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

 6 months to
3 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 46 155
Rank change year-on-year +21 +109 +11
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,716 1,418 690
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.21% 4.53% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.48% 4.99% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,499 935 472
10th Percentile £367 £360 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £642 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £500 £524
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.53% -0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 28 33
10th Percentile £25.00 £24.51 £18.35
25th Percentile £50.00 £29.51 £27.81
Median hourly rate £68.50 £49.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.38% +35.62% -28.55%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.31 £59.95
90th Percentile £88.35 £76.67 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 £59.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +26.27% +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 43,799 28,390 37,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.78% 85.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,227 17,909 23,638
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,638 1,396 2,532
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.21 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.26% -35.31% +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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +21 3,154 £540 +2.27% 1,212
UK excluding London +27 1,751 £515 +3.00% 819
London +20 1,510 £550 - 532
Work from Home +28 1,210 £537 +7.40% 666
North of England +17 460 £500 +0.30% 212
South East +20 435 £550 +3.58% 285
Midlands +18 322 £514 +5.54% 132
North West +21 236 £500 -0.79% 121
West Midlands +10 230 £509 +4.47% 65
South West +22 194 £525 -4.55% 91
Yorkshire -4 179 £514 +8.21% 64
Scotland +30 171 £475 -5.09% 32
East of England +33 123 £536 +7.25% 37
East Midlands +23 87 £525 +16.67% 67
North East +5 51 £451 +0.28% 31
Wales +13 49 £500 +38.89% 21
Northern Ireland +15 17 £447 -20.53% 23
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
1 178 (4.79%) Confluence
2 116 (3.12%) SharePoint
3 32 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (0.70%) SAS
5 24 (0.65%) Apache Spark
6 23 (0.62%) Apache
7 21 (0.57%) CMS
7 21 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.13%) WordPress
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.11%) Drupal
9 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.11%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.081%) Appian
10 3 (0.081%) Kentico
11 2 (0.054%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.054%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.054%) Camunda
11 2 (0.054%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.054%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 174 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
3 68 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 68 (1.83%) MS Visio
4 62 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.11%) PTC Creo
8 3 (0.081%) Sketch
9 2 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.054%) InVision
9 2 (0.054%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.054%) Trello
10 1 (0.027%) Adobe XD
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
1 143 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.48%) Workday HCM
4 15 (0.40%) Teamcenter
5 13 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 12 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 12 (0.32%) Primavera
7 11 (0.30%) SAP FI
7 11 (0.30%) SAP QM
8 10 (0.27%) Maximo
9 9 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 9 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
10 8 (0.22%) NetSuite
10 8 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
11 7 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
11 7 (0.19%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.19%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
12 6 (0.16%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 699 (18.81%) Azure
2 475 (12.78%) AWS
3 362 (9.74%) Power Platform
4 160 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
5 151 (4.06%) GCP
6 150 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
7 115 (3.09%) Entra ID
8 98 (2.64%) Dynamics 365
8 98 (2.64%) SaaS
9 74 (1.99%) GitHub
10 59 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
11 57 (1.53%) Serverless
12 49 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
13 48 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
13 48 (1.29%) PaaS
13 48 (1.29%) Power Automate
14 46 (1.24%) Amazon S3
15 43 (1.16%) PowerApps
16 40 (1.08%) Snowflake
17 37 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 67 (1.80%) Network Security
2 62 (1.67%) Firewall
3 43 (1.16%) DNS
4 31 (0.83%) VPN
5 30 (0.81%) WAN
6 26 (0.70%) LAN
7 18 (0.48%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.46%) Wireless
9 15 (0.40%) DHCP
10 14 (0.38%) VLAN
11 13 (0.35%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.32%) 5G
12 12 (0.32%) BGP
12 12 (0.32%) Internet
13 11 (0.30%) OSPF
13 11 (0.30%) SSL
14 10 (0.27%) NGFW
15 9 (0.24%) Intranet
15 9 (0.24%) MPLS
16 8 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 302 (8.13%) Power BI
2 92 (2.48%) Metadata
3 79 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (1.40%) Data Lake
5 44 (1.18%) Tableau
6 42 (1.13%) SQL Server
7 33 (0.89%) Relational Database
8 29 (0.78%) Power Query
9 27 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.54%) NoSQL
11 18 (0.48%) DynamoDB
12 17 (0.46%) Big Data
13 16 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
13 16 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
14 15 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (0.40%) Oracle Database
15 14 (0.38%) Data Vault
15 14 (0.38%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 13 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
16 13 (0.35%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 279 (7.51%) JIRA
2 66 (1.78%) Git
3 59 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.35%) GitLab
5 31 (0.83%) Rational DOORS
6 28 (0.75%) Postman
7 27 (0.73%) Selenium
8 20 (0.54%) JMeter
9 18 (0.48%) Hudson
10 17 (0.46%) Cucumber
11 15 (0.40%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.35%) JUnit
13 12 (0.32%) 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 (0.13%) NeoLoad
17 5 (0.13%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,692 (45.53%) Social Skills
2 1,071 (28.82%) Finance
3 632 (17.01%) Public Sector
4 593 (15.96%) Analytical Skills
5 202 (5.44%) Banking
6 175 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
7 147 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
8 144 (3.88%) Legal
9 118 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
10 112 (3.01%) Retail
11 89 (2.40%) Manufacturing
12 84 (2.26%) Law
13 75 (2.02%) Local Government
14 74 (1.99%) Aerospace
15 70 (1.88%) Marketing
15 70 (1.88%) Telecoms
16 59 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 51 (1.37%) Military
18 44 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
19 34 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 681 (18.33%) Analyst
2 547 (14.72%) Architect
3 471 (12.67%) Lead
4 421 (11.33%) Business Analyst
5 367 (9.88%) Senior
6 280 (7.53%) Project Manager
7 274 (7.37%) Consultant
8 155 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
9 134 (3.61%) Developer
10 111 (2.99%) Data Analyst
11 102 (2.74%) Change Manager
12 97 (2.61%) Senior Analyst
13 93 (2.50%) Delivery Manager
14 79 (2.13%) Data Architect
14 79 (2.13%) Senior Manager
15 75 (2.02%) Programme Manager
16 73 (1.96%) Designer
17 70 (1.88%) Security Architect
18 67 (1.80%) Technical Architect
19 66 (1.78%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (2.66%) REST
2 61 (1.64%) Middleware
3 45 (1.21%) Spring
4 43 (1.16%) SOAP
5 41 (1.10%) JSON
5 41 (1.10%) Kafka
6 39 (1.05%) React
7 35 (0.94%) Spring Boot
8 34 (0.91%) .NET
9 33 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
9 33 (0.89%) XML
10 32 (0.86%) PySpark
11 31 (0.83%) OpenID
11 31 (0.83%) SailPoint
12 29 (0.78%) OAuth
13 27 (0.73%) LDAP
14 26 (0.70%) SAML
15 22 (0.59%) RESTful
16 20 (0.54%) HTML
17 19 (0.51%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 250 (6.73%) Product Ownership
2 189 (5.09%) Onboarding
3 160 (4.31%) Cloud Native
4 96 (2.58%) Management Information System
5 90 (2.42%) Data Structures
6 72 (1.94%) Operational Technology
7 68 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
7 68 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 66 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 62 (1.67%) Data Centre
10 61 (1.64%) CMDB
11 60 (1.61%) NHS
12 53 (1.43%) Virtual Team
13 51 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
14 45 (1.21%) AI Agents
15 44 (1.18%) Security Posture
16 42 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
17 37 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
18 33 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
18 33 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 105 (2.83%) Windows
2 54 (1.45%) Linux
3 25 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.40%) Unix
5 12 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.22%) VMS
8 6 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.11%) Android
11 3 (0.081%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.081%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.081%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.081%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.027%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,045 (28.12%) Agile
2 790 (21.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 769 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 535 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
5 534 (14.37%) Migration
6 523 (14.07%) Decision-Making
7 490 (13.19%) Roadmaps
8 451 (12.14%) Change Management
9 448 (12.06%) DevOps
10 429 (11.54%) Workshop Facilitation
11 397 (10.68%) AI
12 392 (10.55%) Analytics
13 370 (9.96%) Risk Management
14 344 (9.26%) CI/CD
15 342 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
16 323 (8.69%) Cybersecurity
17 317 (8.53%) Project Delivery
18 314 (8.45%) ERP
19 305 (8.21%) Data Modelling
20 297 (7.99%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 313 (8.42%) SQL
2 258 (6.94%) Python
3 120 (3.23%) Java
4 62 (1.67%) JavaScript
4 62 (1.67%) PowerShell
5 47 (1.26%) C#
6 42 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 41 (1.10%) TypeScript
8 35 (0.94%) Bash
9 20 (0.54%) Bicep
9 20 (0.54%) VBA
10 16 (0.43%) Scala
11 13 (0.35%) Apex Code
12 11 (0.30%) PL/SQL
12 11 (0.30%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.27%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.24%) Korn
15 7 (0.19%) ABAP
15 7 (0.19%) R
16 4 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 942 (25.35%) Security Cleared
2 728 (19.59%) SC Cleared
3 274 (7.37%) Degree
4 146 (3.93%) DV Cleared
5 126 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 113 (3.04%) PMI Certification
7 101 (2.72%) PMP
8 93 (2.50%) CISSP
9 65 (1.75%) CISM
10 62 (1.67%) Azure Certification
11 58 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
13 37 (1.00%) AWS Certification
14 30 (0.81%) Master's Degree
15 29 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 25 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 25 (0.67%) ACCA
17 24 (0.65%) CIMA
18 23 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (7.32%) Data Quality
2 190 (5.11%) PMO
3 171 (4.60%) QA
4 160 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 155 (4.17%) NIST
6 151 (4.06%) GDPR
7 91 (2.45%) Accessibility
8 87 (2.34%) GRC
9 52 (1.40%) NCSC
10 41 (1.10%) SLA
11 29 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
12 24 (0.65%) PCI DSS
12 24 (0.65%) WCAG
13 23 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
14 18 (0.48%) SOC 2
15 17 (0.46%) ISO 20022
16 13 (0.35%) COBIT
16 13 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 11 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 96 (2.58%) Active Directory
2 75 (2.02%) Docker
3 36 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.38%) vSphere
5 12 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.081%) NFS
10 1 (0.027%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.027%) Firmware
10 1 (0.027%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.027%) KVM
Systems Management
1 140 (3.77%) Terraform
2 129 (3.47%) Kubernetes
3 43 (1.16%) Ansible
4 33 (0.89%) Grafana
4 33 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 29 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.40%) SCCM
7 11 (0.30%) HP ALM
8 10 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.16%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.16%) NetBackup
9 6 (0.16%) vRealize
10 4 (0.11%) Podman
11 3 (0.081%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.081%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 3 (0.081%) SCOM
11 3 (0.081%) vMotion
11 3 (0.081%) VxRail
11 3 (0.081%) WSUS
Vendors
1 608 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 266 (7.16%) SAP
3 228 (6.14%) ServiceNow
4 173 (4.66%) Oracle
5 110 (2.96%) Salesforce
6 108 (2.91%) Databricks
7 67 (1.80%) Google
8 54 (1.45%) Cisco
9 50 (1.35%) IBM
10 48 (1.29%) VMware
11 44 (1.18%) Workday
12 42 (1.13%) Splunk
13 28 (0.75%) CyberArk
14 25 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 21 (0.57%) Palo Alto
16 20 (0.54%) Dynatrace
16 20 (0.54%) Zscaler
17 19 (0.51%) Citrix
17 19 (0.51%) IFS
18 18 (0.48%) Adobe
1,399 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide