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

 6 months to
10 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 36 147
Rank change year-on-year +11 +111 +20
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,027 1,775 639
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.55% 5.35% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.90% 5.92% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,730 1,175 440
10th Percentile £365 £360 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -2.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 30 19
10th Percentile £25.49 £22.99 £18.35
25th Percentile £52.50 £26.86 £32.13
Median hourly rate £74.50 £41.16 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year +81.01% -29.09% +5.54%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.94 £72.70
90th Percentile £88.18 £75.71 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £32.74 £58.17
% change year-on-year +144.39% -43.73% +5.77%

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 45,268 29,990 33,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.86% 90.46% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,853 18,764 21,291
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £729 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,826 1,696 1,837
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.89 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -3.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £42.50
% change year-on-year +94.26% -46.75% +13.33%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +9 3,430 £540 -1.82% 2,072
UK excluding London +15 1,907 £525 - 1,280
London +9 1,657 £550 - 1,032
Work from Home +17 1,350 £525 - 1,042
South East +23 512 £565 +2.73% 345
North of England +17 499 £500 -2.21% 293
Midlands +12 327 £510 +0.99% 191
West Midlands +6 250 £500 -2.15% 138
North West +14 246 £500 -3.61% 158
South West +2 212 £550 - 187
Scotland +28 197 £500 - 100
Yorkshire 0 192 £500 +4.44% 88
East of England +31 122 £533 -1.62% 103
East Midlands +25 73 £519 +15.28% 53
North East +11 69 £451 -6.96% 50
Wales +13 50 £500 +21.21% 29
Northern Ireland +11 13 £430 -18.14% 45
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
1 171 (4.25%) Confluence
2 138 (3.43%) SharePoint
3 36 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 31 (0.77%) Apache
6 29 (0.72%) CMS
7 26 (0.65%) SAS
8 24 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.15%) WordPress
10 4 (0.099%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.099%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.099%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.074%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.074%) Kentico
11 3 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.074%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.050%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.050%) Drupal
12 2 (0.050%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.050%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 185 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 63 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
5 58 (1.44%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.40%) 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 (0.099%) Sketch
10 2 (0.050%) InDesign
10 2 (0.050%) InVision
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
1 142 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 61 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.55%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.37%) Primavera
6 14 (0.35%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.32%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 12 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 12 (0.30%) SAP QM
9 11 (0.27%) Maximo
9 11 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
9 11 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 10 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
11 9 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
11 9 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
11 9 (0.22%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.22%) Teamcenter
12 8 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 8 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 814 (20.21%) Azure
2 528 (13.11%) AWS
3 433 (10.75%) Power Platform
4 200 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
5 190 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
6 182 (4.52%) GCP
7 146 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
8 135 (3.35%) Entra ID
9 98 (2.43%) SaaS
10 89 (2.21%) GitHub
11 84 (2.09%) Power Automate
12 69 (1.71%) Serverless
13 68 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
13 68 (1.69%) PowerApps
14 63 (1.56%) Snowflake
15 59 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
16 57 (1.42%) Amazon S3
16 57 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
17 55 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
18 46 (1.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.61%) Firewall
2 62 (1.54%) Network Security
3 50 (1.24%) DNS
4 38 (0.94%) WAN
5 37 (0.92%) VPN
6 33 (0.82%) LAN
7 23 (0.57%) DHCP
7 23 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 18 (0.45%) Wireless
9 17 (0.42%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.40%) Internet
11 14 (0.35%) VLAN
12 13 (0.32%) 5G
13 12 (0.30%) BGP
13 12 (0.30%) Intranet
13 12 (0.30%) SSL
14 11 (0.27%) OSPF
14 11 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (0.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 351 (8.72%) Power BI
2 116 (2.88%) Metadata
3 94 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 80 (1.99%) Data Lake
5 66 (1.64%) SQL Server
6 46 (1.14%) Tableau
7 34 (0.84%) Power Query
8 31 (0.77%) Relational Database
9 29 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
10 22 (0.55%) DynamoDB
11 21 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (0.50%) Big Data
12 20 (0.50%) Oracle Database
13 19 (0.47%) BigQuery
14 17 (0.42%) Data Vault
14 17 (0.42%) NoSQL
15 16 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
16 15 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
16 15 (0.37%) Looker
Development Applications
1 272 (6.75%) JIRA
2 88 (2.19%) Git
3 65 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 56 (1.39%) GitLab
5 35 (0.87%) Selenium
6 31 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
7 29 (0.72%) Postman
8 20 (0.50%) WebDriver
9 19 (0.47%) Cucumber
10 18 (0.45%) Hudson
11 17 (0.42%) JMeter
12 16 (0.40%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.32%) JUnit
14 12 (0.30%) ERwin
14 12 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
15 9 (0.22%) SonarQube
16 8 (0.20%) Bitbucket
17 7 (0.17%) Zephyr
18 6 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
18 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 1,829 (45.42%) Social Skills
2 1,128 (28.01%) Finance
3 745 (18.50%) Public Sector
4 666 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
5 207 (5.14%) Banking
6 200 (4.97%) Influencing Skills
7 157 (3.90%) Legal
8 154 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
9 146 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
10 136 (3.38%) Retail
11 101 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 99 (2.46%) Local Government
13 90 (2.23%) Manufacturing
14 89 (2.21%) Law
15 88 (2.19%) Marketing
16 82 (2.04%) Telecoms
17 73 (1.81%) Aerospace
18 58 (1.44%) Military
18 58 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
19 40 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 713 (17.71%) Analyst
2 590 (14.65%) Architect
3 503 (12.49%) Lead
4 424 (10.53%) Business Analyst
5 420 (10.43%) Senior
6 299 (7.42%) Project Manager
7 289 (7.18%) Consultant
8 190 (4.72%) Developer
9 171 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
10 126 (3.13%) Data Analyst
11 104 (2.58%) Change Manager
11 104 (2.58%) Data Architect
12 99 (2.46%) Delivery Manager
12 99 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
13 88 (2.19%) Senior Manager
14 83 (2.06%) Data Engineer
15 79 (1.96%) Designer
16 78 (1.94%) Security Architect
17 74 (1.84%) Product Manager
18 72 (1.79%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (2.61%) REST
2 58 (1.44%) .NET
3 56 (1.39%) JSON
3 56 (1.39%) Middleware
4 48 (1.19%) Kafka
5 46 (1.14%) Spring
6 45 (1.12%) React
7 44 (1.09%) PySpark
7 44 (1.09%) SOAP
8 40 (0.99%) XML
9 39 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
10 37 (0.92%) Spring Boot
11 33 (0.82%) OAuth
12 30 (0.74%) SAML
13 29 (0.72%) OpenID
13 29 (0.72%) Web Services
14 27 (0.67%) RESTful
14 27 (0.67%) SailPoint
15 25 (0.62%) HTML
16 23 (0.57%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 297 (7.38%) Product Ownership
2 221 (5.49%) Onboarding
3 176 (4.37%) Cloud Native
4 125 (3.10%) Management Information System
5 112 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 86 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 79 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
8 72 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 72 (1.79%) NHS
9 65 (1.61%) Operational Technology
10 60 (1.49%) Data Centre
11 56 (1.39%) AI Agents
12 54 (1.34%) CMDB
12 54 (1.34%) Virtual Team
13 51 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
14 49 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
15 46 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
16 42 (1.04%) Security Posture
17 34 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
18 33 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 121 (3.00%) Windows
2 67 (1.66%) Linux
3 30 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.37%) Unix
4 15 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 11 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.20%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.17%) VMS
8 6 (0.15%) Android
8 6 (0.15%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.099%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.074%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.050%) AIX
11 2 (0.050%) HPUX
11 2 (0.050%) Solaris
12 1 (0.025%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,222 (30.35%) Agile
2 914 (22.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 911 (22.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 603 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
5 585 (14.53%) Decision-Making
6 582 (14.45%) Migration
7 533 (13.24%) DevOps
8 523 (12.99%) Roadmaps
9 492 (12.22%) Workshop Facilitation
10 489 (12.14%) AI
11 476 (11.82%) Change Management
12 467 (11.60%) Analytics
13 443 (11.00%) CI/CD
14 400 (9.93%) Business Intelligence
14 400 (9.93%) Risk Management
15 370 (9.19%) Project Delivery
16 352 (8.74%) Cybersecurity
17 350 (8.69%) Data Modelling
18 325 (8.07%) ERP
19 322 (8.00%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 366 (9.09%) SQL
2 292 (7.25%) Python
3 125 (3.10%) Java
4 88 (2.19%) JavaScript
5 76 (1.89%) C#
6 74 (1.84%) PowerShell
7 51 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 43 (1.07%) Bash
9 42 (1.04%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.65%) Bicep
11 18 (0.45%) Scala
12 16 (0.40%) VBA
13 14 (0.35%) Apex Code
13 14 (0.35%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.30%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.22%) Groovy
16 8 (0.20%) Korn
17 7 (0.17%) ABAP
18 6 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 1,074 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 813 (20.19%) SC Cleared
3 263 (6.53%) Degree
4 186 (4.62%) DV Cleared
5 141 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 123 (3.05%) PMI Certification
7 113 (2.81%) PMP
8 105 (2.61%) CISSP
9 74 (1.84%) Azure Certification
10 66 (1.64%) CISM
11 61 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
12 53 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 48 (1.19%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
15 36 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 32 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
17 29 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 25 (0.62%) Master's Degree
19 24 (0.60%) APMG
20 23 (0.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 329 (8.17%) Data Quality
2 218 (5.41%) PMO
3 188 (4.67%) QA
4 179 (4.44%) GDPR
5 169 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 154 (3.82%) NIST
7 114 (2.83%) Accessibility
8 86 (2.14%) GRC
9 57 (1.42%) NCSC
10 44 (1.09%) SLA
11 33 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
12 32 (0.79%) WCAG
13 27 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.47%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.45%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 15 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 12 (0.30%) ISO 20022
18 12 (0.30%) NIST 800
19 11 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 124 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 93 (2.31%) Docker
3 48 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.52%) VMware NSX
5 20 (0.50%) vSphere
6 16 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.099%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.050%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.025%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.025%) Firmware
12 1 (0.025%) FreeRADIUS
12 1 (0.025%) IAG
12 1 (0.025%) KVM
Systems Management
1 168 (4.17%) Terraform
2 156 (3.87%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.12%) Ansible
4 42 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
6 35 (0.87%) Grafana
7 33 (0.82%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.37%) SCCM
9 11 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.25%) NetBackup
11 7 (0.17%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.12%) SCOM
12 5 (0.12%) vRealize
13 4 (0.099%) Istio
13 4 (0.099%) Podman
13 4 (0.099%) VxRail
14 3 (0.074%) Argo
14 3 (0.074%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.074%) QRadar
14 3 (0.074%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 746 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 269 (6.68%) SAP
3 231 (5.74%) ServiceNow
4 179 (4.44%) Oracle
5 146 (3.63%) Databricks
6 115 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 81 (2.01%) Google
8 61 (1.51%) VMware
9 56 (1.39%) Cisco
9 56 (1.39%) IBM
10 49 (1.22%) Workday
11 42 (1.04%) Splunk
12 34 (0.84%) CyberArk
13 29 (0.72%) MuleSoft
14 24 (0.60%) Zscaler
15 23 (0.57%) Ariba
16 22 (0.55%) Palo Alto
17 21 (0.52%) Citrix
17 21 (0.52%) Dynatrace
17 21 (0.52%) Okta
2,386 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide