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

 6 months to
11 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 45 155
Rank change year-on-year +19 +110 +9
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,884 1,506 681
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.34% 4.64% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.62% 5.13% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,616 1,004 468
10th Percentile £363 £358 £363
25th Percentile £447 £440 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% -4.55% +0.55%
75th Percentile £640 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £740 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +3.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 28 29
10th Percentile £24.75 £24.51 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £29.51 £26.25
Median hourly rate £74.00 £49.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.49% +30.27% -25.61%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.31 £60.60
90th Percentile - £76.67 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.50 £59.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +31.36% +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 45,068 29,357 36,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 90.46% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,042 18,505 23,449
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £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 2,667 1,497 2,458
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.45 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -2.91%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +20 3,295 £540 +2.86% 1,021
UK excluding London +26 1,846 £515 +3.00% 692
London +20 1,566 £550 - 475
Work from Home +26 1,261 £536 +7.20% 525
North of England +19 497 £500 - 156
South East +22 464 £550 +2.14% 268
Midlands +13 335 £513 +5.24% 92
North West +26 252 £500 -0.79% 83
West Midlands +7 242 £510 +6.03% 48
South West +15 198 £530 -3.64% 90
Yorkshire 0 193 £514 +8.21% 54
Scotland +37 182 £475 -5.05% 25
East of England +31 123 £533 +6.50% 41
East Midlands +20 88 £525 +16.67% 44
North East +12 60 £450 -6.01% 23
Wales +17 52 £500 +31.58% 15
Northern Ireland +16 17 £447 -20.53% 17
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
1 182 (4.69%) Confluence
2 125 (3.22%) SharePoint
3 33 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (0.70%) SAS
5 25 (0.64%) Apache Spark
6 24 (0.62%) Apache
7 23 (0.59%) CMS
8 22 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.15%) WordPress
10 4 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.10%) Drupal
10 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.10%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.077%) Appian
11 3 (0.077%) Kentico
11 3 (0.077%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.051%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.051%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.051%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.051%) WebLogic
Applications
1 183 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 68 (1.75%) MS Visio
5 65 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.10%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.077%) Sketch
10 2 (0.051%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.051%) InVision
10 2 (0.051%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.051%) Trello
11 1 (0.026%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.026%) CATIA
11 1 (0.026%) InDesign
11 1 (0.026%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.026%) Revit
11 1 (0.026%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.026%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 151 (3.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 15 (0.39%) Teamcenter
5 13 (0.33%) SAP FI
5 13 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 12 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 12 (0.31%) SAP QM
7 11 (0.28%) Maximo
7 11 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (0.28%) Primavera
8 10 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
9 9 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 9 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
10 8 (0.21%) NetSuite
10 8 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (0.21%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
11 7 (0.18%) SAP HR
11 7 (0.18%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 722 (18.59%) Azure
2 494 (12.72%) AWS
3 377 (9.71%) Power Platform
4 170 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
5 168 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
6 153 (3.94%) GCP
7 118 (3.04%) Entra ID
8 107 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
9 101 (2.60%) SaaS
10 78 (2.01%) GitHub
11 63 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
12 60 (1.54%) Serverless
13 54 (1.39%) Power Automate
14 51 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
15 49 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
16 48 (1.24%) Amazon S3
16 48 (1.24%) PaaS
16 48 (1.24%) PowerApps
17 41 (1.06%) Snowflake
18 39 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.75%) Network Security
2 63 (1.62%) Firewall
3 47 (1.21%) DNS
4 33 (0.85%) VPN
5 32 (0.82%) WAN
6 29 (0.75%) LAN
7 21 (0.54%) TCP/IP
8 18 (0.46%) DHCP
8 18 (0.46%) Wireless
9 15 (0.39%) Internet
9 15 (0.39%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.39%) VLAN
10 13 (0.33%) 5G
10 13 (0.33%) BGP
11 12 (0.31%) OSPF
11 12 (0.31%) SSL
12 11 (0.28%) NGFW
13 10 (0.26%) Intranet
14 9 (0.23%) MPLS
14 9 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 313 (8.06%) Power BI
2 99 (2.55%) Metadata
3 82 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (1.49%) Data Lake
5 49 (1.26%) SQL Server
6 45 (1.16%) Tableau
7 34 (0.88%) Relational Database
8 29 (0.75%) Power Query
9 27 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.49%) Big Data
10 19 (0.49%) DynamoDB
11 18 (0.46%) NoSQL
12 17 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (0.44%) Oracle Database
13 16 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
14 15 (0.39%) BigQuery
14 15 (0.39%) Data Vault
14 15 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
15 14 (0.36%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 13 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 287 (7.39%) JIRA
2 70 (1.80%) Git
3 60 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 53 (1.36%) GitLab
5 31 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
6 30 (0.77%) Postman
6 30 (0.77%) Selenium
7 21 (0.54%) JMeter
8 18 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.46%) Hudson
9 16 (0.41%) WebDriver
10 15 (0.39%) JUnit
11 12 (0.31%) ERwin
12 10 (0.26%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (0.23%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.21%) LoadRunner
15 6 (0.15%) MLflow
15 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
16 5 (0.13%) Snyk
General
1 1,776 (45.73%) Social Skills
2 1,120 (28.84%) Finance
3 672 (17.30%) Public Sector
4 620 (15.96%) Analytical Skills
5 213 (5.48%) Banking
6 184 (4.74%) Influencing Skills
7 156 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
8 147 (3.78%) Legal
9 127 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
9 127 (3.27%) Retail
10 92 (2.37%) Manufacturing
11 86 (2.21%) Law
12 79 (2.03%) Local Government
12 79 (2.03%) Marketing
13 76 (1.96%) Telecoms
14 74 (1.91%) Aerospace
15 69 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 52 (1.34%) Military
17 47 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
18 37 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 709 (18.25%) Analyst
2 572 (14.73%) Architect
3 492 (12.67%) Lead
4 438 (11.28%) Business Analyst
5 383 (9.86%) Senior
6 295 (7.60%) Project Manager
7 274 (7.05%) Consultant
8 163 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
9 147 (3.78%) Developer
10 119 (3.06%) Data Analyst
11 103 (2.65%) Change Manager
12 98 (2.52%) Delivery Manager
13 96 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
14 84 (2.16%) Senior Manager
15 81 (2.09%) Data Architect
16 78 (2.01%) Programme Manager
17 77 (1.98%) Security Architect
18 76 (1.96%) Designer
19 72 (1.85%) Product Manager
20 71 (1.83%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (2.68%) REST
2 61 (1.57%) Middleware
3 49 (1.26%) Spring
4 46 (1.18%) React
5 45 (1.16%) JSON
6 43 (1.11%) Kafka
7 41 (1.06%) SOAP
8 39 (1.00%) Spring Boot
9 38 (0.98%) .NET
10 36 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
11 35 (0.90%) PySpark
11 35 (0.90%) XML
12 31 (0.80%) SailPoint
13 29 (0.75%) OpenID
14 28 (0.72%) OAuth
15 27 (0.70%) SAML
16 23 (0.59%) LDAP
17 22 (0.57%) RESTful
18 21 (0.54%) HTML
19 20 (0.51%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 262 (6.75%) Product Ownership
2 206 (5.30%) Onboarding
3 166 (4.27%) Cloud Native
4 103 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 100 (2.57%) Data Structures
6 75 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
7 74 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
8 73 (1.88%) Operational Technology
9 70 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
10 63 (1.62%) Data Centre
10 63 (1.62%) NHS
11 61 (1.57%) CMDB
12 59 (1.52%) Virtual Team
13 49 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
14 46 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
15 43 (1.11%) AI Agents
15 43 (1.11%) Security Posture
16 39 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
17 35 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
18 33 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 111 (2.86%) Windows
2 54 (1.39%) Linux
3 27 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.41%) Unix
5 13 (0.33%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.21%) VMS
8 6 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.10%) Android
10 3 (0.077%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.077%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.077%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.077%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.026%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,110 (28.58%) Agile
2 828 (21.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 817 (21.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 562 (14.47%) Migration
5 561 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
6 550 (14.16%) Decision-Making
7 512 (13.18%) Roadmaps
8 480 (12.36%) DevOps
9 469 (12.08%) Change Management
10 450 (11.59%) Workshop Facilitation
11 429 (11.05%) AI
12 409 (10.53%) Analytics
13 387 (9.96%) Risk Management
14 377 (9.71%) CI/CD
15 353 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
16 343 (8.83%) Cybersecurity
17 334 (8.60%) Project Delivery
18 326 (8.39%) ERP
19 320 (8.24%) Data Modelling
20 314 (8.08%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 330 (8.50%) SQL
2 272 (7.00%) Python
3 128 (3.30%) Java
4 72 (1.85%) JavaScript
5 61 (1.57%) PowerShell
6 54 (1.39%) C#
7 46 (1.18%) TypeScript
8 44 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 35 (0.90%) Bash
10 21 (0.54%) Bicep
11 20 (0.51%) VBA
12 17 (0.44%) Scala
13 16 (0.41%) Apex Code
14 13 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.31%) T-SQL
16 11 (0.28%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.23%) Korn
18 7 (0.18%) ABAP
18 7 (0.18%) R
19 5 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 988 (25.44%) Security Cleared
2 751 (19.34%) SC Cleared
3 281 (7.23%) Degree
4 157 (4.04%) DV Cleared
5 137 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 118 (3.04%) PMI Certification
7 105 (2.70%) PMP
8 101 (2.60%) CISSP
9 69 (1.78%) Azure Certification
10 65 (1.67%) CISM
11 60 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
12 42 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
13 41 (1.06%) AWS Certification
14 35 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
15 32 (0.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 31 (0.80%) Master's Degree
16 31 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
17 26 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 24 (0.62%) ACCA
18 24 (0.62%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (7.52%) Data Quality
2 197 (5.07%) PMO
3 179 (4.61%) QA
4 160 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 159 (4.09%) GDPR
6 157 (4.04%) NIST
7 103 (2.65%) Accessibility
8 89 (2.29%) GRC
9 56 (1.44%) NCSC
10 45 (1.16%) SLA
11 28 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
12 25 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
12 25 (0.64%) WCAG
13 23 (0.59%) PCI DSS
14 18 (0.46%) SOC 2
15 17 (0.44%) ISO 20022
16 14 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 13 (0.33%) COBIT
18 12 (0.31%) NIST 800
19 10 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 100 (2.57%) Active Directory
2 83 (2.14%) Docker
3 40 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.44%) vSphere
5 15 (0.39%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.10%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.077%) NFS
10 1 (0.026%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.026%) Firmware
10 1 (0.026%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.026%) KVM
Systems Management
1 149 (3.84%) Terraform
2 140 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 44 (1.13%) Ansible
4 33 (0.85%) Grafana
4 33 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 30 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.39%) SCCM
7 11 (0.28%) HP ALM
8 10 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.18%) vRealize
10 6 (0.15%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.15%) NetBackup
11 4 (0.10%) Podman
11 4 (0.10%) VxRail
12 3 (0.077%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.077%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 3 (0.077%) SCOM
12 3 (0.077%) vMotion
12 3 (0.077%) WSUS
Vendors
1 644 (16.58%) Microsoft
2 273 (7.03%) SAP
3 238 (6.13%) ServiceNow
4 181 (4.66%) Oracle
5 117 (3.01%) Salesforce
6 113 (2.91%) Databricks
7 70 (1.80%) Google
8 56 (1.44%) Cisco
9 52 (1.34%) IBM
9 52 (1.34%) VMware
10 48 (1.24%) Workday
11 42 (1.08%) Splunk
12 29 (0.75%) CyberArk
13 27 (0.70%) MuleSoft
14 22 (0.57%) Palo Alto
15 21 (0.54%) Dynatrace
15 21 (0.54%) Zscaler
16 20 (0.51%) Ariba
16 20 (0.51%) Citrix
16 20 (0.51%) IFS
1,142 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide