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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
24 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 51 150
Rank change year-on-year +26 +99 +10
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,594 1,306 689
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.06% 4.35% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.31% 4.78% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,432 867 473
10th Percentile £367 £357 £363
25th Percentile £447 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.26% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 26 35
10th Percentile £25.04 £24.08 £18.35
25th Percentile £48.50 £27.41 £27.81
Median hourly rate £65.80 £49.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.91% +35.62% -28.55%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.94 £59.76
90th Percentile - £77.62 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.70 £59.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +14.74% +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 43,234 27,342 36,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.93% 91.04% 85.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,976 17,315 23,545
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £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 2,595 1,301 2,587
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.65
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.79 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.08 £38.12
% change year-on-year +77.47% -34.22% +17.29%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +26 3,043 £537 +2.29% 988
UK excluding London +31 1,704 £511 +2.26% 757
London +24 1,445 £550 - 410
Work from Home +30 1,166 £530 +6.00% 541
North of England +23 454 £500 +2.56% 190
South East +23 403 £540 +8.00% 248
Midlands +18 318 £504 +0.75% 118
North West +21 233 £500 - 113
West Midlands +13 225 £500 -0.05% 61
South West +19 194 £525 -4.55% 89
Yorkshire +9 179 £514 +8.21% 55
Scotland +29 166 £475 -5.05% 29
East of England +37 126 £550 +10.00% 38
East Midlands +25 88 £525 +16.67% 56
North East +4 48 £453 +0.56% 24
Wales +16 46 £500 +53.85% 25
Northern Ireland +13 17 £447 -23.10% 32
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
1 183 (5.09%) Confluence
2 104 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 30 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (0.81%) SAS
5 23 (0.64%) Apache Spark
6 22 (0.61%) Apache
7 20 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 18 (0.50%) CMS
9 5 (0.14%) WordPress
10 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.11%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.083%) Appian
11 3 (0.083%) Drupal
11 3 (0.083%) Kentico
12 2 (0.056%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.056%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.056%) Camunda
12 2 (0.056%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.056%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 162 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 65 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
4 62 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
4 62 (1.73%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.11%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.11%) Sketch
8 2 (0.056%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.056%) InVision
8 2 (0.056%) Trello
9 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.028%) CATIA
9 1 (0.028%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.028%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.028%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 139 (3.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.42%) Teamcenter
3 15 (0.42%) Workday HCM
4 13 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 12 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 11 (0.31%) Primavera
7 10 (0.28%) Maximo
7 10 (0.28%) SAP FI
7 10 (0.28%) SAP QM
8 9 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 8 (0.22%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.19%) NetSuite
10 7 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.17%) Sage X3
11 6 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.17%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 682 (18.98%) Azure
2 476 (13.24%) AWS
3 347 (9.65%) Power Platform
4 158 (4.40%) GCP
5 145 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
6 140 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
7 108 (3.01%) Entra ID
8 99 (2.75%) SaaS
9 97 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
10 68 (1.89%) GitHub
11 56 (1.56%) Serverless
12 55 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
13 47 (1.31%) PaaS
14 46 (1.28%) Power Automate
15 45 (1.25%) Amazon S3
16 44 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
17 43 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
18 39 (1.09%) PowerApps
19 37 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
20 36 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.75%) Network Security
2 60 (1.67%) Firewall
3 39 (1.09%) DNS
4 29 (0.81%) VPN
5 28 (0.78%) WAN
6 24 (0.67%) LAN
7 16 (0.45%) Wireless
8 15 (0.42%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.36%) VLAN
10 12 (0.33%) Internet
10 12 (0.33%) SD-WAN
11 11 (0.31%) 5G
11 11 (0.31%) BGP
11 11 (0.31%) DHCP
11 11 (0.31%) SSL
12 10 (0.28%) NGFW
12 10 (0.28%) OSPF
13 9 (0.25%) Intranet
14 8 (0.22%) MPLS
14 8 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 291 (8.10%) Power BI
2 88 (2.45%) Metadata
3 76 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (1.31%) Data Lake
5 42 (1.17%) Tableau
6 36 (1.00%) SQL Server
7 31 (0.86%) Power Query
7 31 (0.86%) Relational Database
8 27 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (0.56%) NoSQL
10 19 (0.53%) DynamoDB
11 16 (0.45%) Big Data
11 16 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
11 16 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
12 14 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (0.39%) SAS Enterprise Guide
13 13 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (0.36%) Data Vault
13 13 (0.36%) Oracle Database
13 13 (0.36%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 281 (7.82%) JIRA
2 60 (1.67%) Git
2 60 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 50 (1.39%) GitLab
4 31 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
5 28 (0.78%) Postman
6 24 (0.67%) Selenium
7 19 (0.53%) JMeter
8 18 (0.50%) Hudson
9 16 (0.45%) Cucumber
10 15 (0.42%) WebDriver
11 13 (0.36%) JUnit
12 12 (0.33%) ERwin
13 9 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.22%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.22%) SonarQube
15 7 (0.19%) LoadRunner
16 6 (0.17%) MLflow
17 5 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
17 5 (0.14%) Snyk
General
1 1,639 (45.60%) Social Skills
2 1,030 (28.66%) Finance
3 604 (16.81%) Public Sector
4 559 (15.55%) Analytical Skills
5 205 (5.70%) Banking
6 153 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
7 141 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
8 133 (3.70%) Legal
9 108 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
9 108 (3.01%) Retail
10 85 (2.37%) Manufacturing
11 82 (2.28%) Law
12 75 (2.09%) Local Government
13 73 (2.03%) Aerospace
14 69 (1.92%) Telecoms
15 67 (1.86%) Marketing
16 56 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 47 (1.31%) Military
18 42 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
19 33 (0.92%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 664 (18.48%) Analyst
2 535 (14.89%) Architect
3 470 (13.08%) Lead
4 411 (11.44%) Business Analyst
5 344 (9.57%) Senior
6 285 (7.93%) Project Manager
7 266 (7.40%) Consultant
8 148 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
9 119 (3.31%) Developer
10 105 (2.92%) Data Analyst
11 99 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
12 95 (2.64%) Change Manager
13 90 (2.50%) Delivery Manager
14 77 (2.14%) Designer
15 74 (2.06%) Programme Manager
16 71 (1.98%) Data Architect
17 70 (1.95%) Senior Manager
18 68 (1.89%) Security Architect
19 66 (1.84%) Data Engineer
20 65 (1.81%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (2.98%) REST
2 56 (1.56%) Middleware
3 47 (1.31%) SOAP
4 43 (1.20%) Spring
5 39 (1.09%) JSON
5 39 (1.09%) Kafka
5 39 (1.09%) React
6 37 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
7 36 (1.00%) LDAP
8 35 (0.97%) Spring Boot
9 33 (0.92%) OpenID
10 32 (0.89%) XML
11 31 (0.86%) OAuth
12 29 (0.81%) PySpark
12 29 (0.81%) SailPoint
13 26 (0.72%) .NET
13 26 (0.72%) SAML
14 22 (0.61%) CSS
14 22 (0.61%) HTML
15 20 (0.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 248 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 174 (4.84%) Onboarding
3 152 (4.23%) Cloud Native
4 91 (2.53%) Management Information System
5 88 (2.45%) Data Structures
6 71 (1.98%) Operational Technology
7 69 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 68 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
9 62 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
10 61 (1.70%) Data Centre
11 57 (1.59%) Security Posture
12 56 (1.56%) NHS
13 55 (1.53%) CMDB
14 52 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
15 49 (1.36%) Virtual Team
16 47 (1.31%) AI Agents
17 45 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
18 36 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
19 32 (0.89%) Public Cloud
20 29 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 93 (2.59%) Windows
2 45 (1.25%) Linux
3 23 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.33%) Unix
5 9 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.25%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.22%) VMS
7 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.11%) Android
10 3 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.083%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.083%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.083%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.028%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,002 (27.88%) Agile
2 736 (20.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 723 (20.12%) Continuous Improvement
4 530 (14.75%) Migration
5 505 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
6 498 (13.86%) Decision-Making
7 466 (12.97%) Roadmaps
8 446 (12.41%) Change Management
9 424 (11.80%) DevOps
10 407 (11.32%) Workshop Facilitation
11 389 (10.82%) Analytics
12 374 (10.41%) AI
13 354 (9.85%) Risk Management
14 329 (9.15%) Business Intelligence
15 320 (8.90%) CI/CD
16 309 (8.60%) Cybersecurity
17 307 (8.54%) ERP
18 299 (8.32%) Project Delivery
19 292 (8.12%) Project Management
20 283 (7.87%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 299 (8.32%) SQL
2 254 (7.07%) Python
3 115 (3.20%) Java
4 63 (1.75%) PowerShell
5 60 (1.67%) JavaScript
6 42 (1.17%) C#
7 40 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 40 (1.11%) TypeScript
8 27 (0.75%) Bash
9 20 (0.56%) Bicep
9 20 (0.56%) VBA
10 14 (0.39%) Scala
11 11 (0.31%) Apex Code
12 10 (0.28%) Kotlin
12 10 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.25%) Korn
14 7 (0.19%) R
14 7 (0.19%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.17%) ABAP
16 4 (0.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 907 (25.24%) Security Cleared
2 710 (19.76%) SC Cleared
3 256 (7.12%) Degree
4 138 (3.84%) DV Cleared
5 120 (3.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 108 (3.01%) PMI Certification
7 99 (2.75%) PMP
8 93 (2.59%) CISSP
9 66 (1.84%) CISM
10 58 (1.61%) Azure Certification
11 55 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
12 38 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
13 37 (1.03%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
15 27 (0.75%) Master's Degree
15 27 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 25 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 24 (0.67%) ACCA
18 23 (0.64%) CIMA
18 23 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 261 (7.26%) Data Quality
2 181 (5.04%) PMO
3 169 (4.70%) QA
4 155 (4.31%) NIST
5 153 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 142 (3.95%) GDPR
7 89 (2.48%) Accessibility
8 88 (2.45%) GRC
9 47 (1.31%) NCSC
10 32 (0.89%) SLA
11 26 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
11 26 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 26 (0.72%) WCAG
12 24 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
13 18 (0.50%) SOC 2
14 17 (0.47%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.36%) COBIT
16 12 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.31%) NIST 800
18 10 (0.28%) Def Stans
System Software
1 95 (2.64%) Active Directory
2 65 (1.81%) Docker
3 27 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.33%) vSphere
5 10 (0.28%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.083%) NFS
10 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.028%) Firmware
10 1 (0.028%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.028%) KVM
Systems Management
1 130 (3.62%) Terraform
2 118 (3.28%) Kubernetes
3 41 (1.14%) Ansible
4 32 (0.89%) Grafana
5 29 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
6 28 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 28 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.33%) SCCM
8 11 (0.31%) HP ALM
9 10 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.17%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.14%) vRealize
12 4 (0.11%) Podman
13 3 (0.083%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.083%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.083%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 3 (0.083%) vMotion
13 3 (0.083%) WSUS
14 2 (0.056%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.056%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 563 (15.66%) Microsoft
2 259 (7.21%) SAP
3 211 (5.87%) ServiceNow
4 162 (4.51%) Oracle
5 105 (2.92%) Salesforce
6 100 (2.78%) Databricks
7 61 (1.70%) Google
8 51 (1.42%) Cisco
8 51 (1.42%) IBM
9 40 (1.11%) Splunk
9 40 (1.11%) Workday
10 39 (1.09%) VMware
11 33 (0.92%) CyberArk
12 21 (0.58%) MuleSoft
13 20 (0.56%) Palo Alto
13 20 (0.56%) Zscaler
14 19 (0.53%) Dynatrace
14 19 (0.53%) IFS
15 18 (0.50%) Adobe
15 18 (0.50%) BeyondTrust
1,111 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide