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

 6 months to
10 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 55 153
Rank change year-on-year +29 +98 +7
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,420 1,213 688
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.91% 4.13% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.16% 4.54% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,309 802 481
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £445 £450 £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 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £509 £500 £521
% change year-on-year +1.75% -4.08% -0.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 22 38
10th Percentile £27.37 £23.22 £18.35
25th Percentile £50.00 £31.26 £27.81
Median hourly rate £65.80 £48.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.66% +32.88% +21.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.94 £59.05
90th Percentile - £75.09 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £53.25 £57.33
% change year-on-year +26.76% -7.12% +91.10%

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 41,920 26,731 37,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.71% 91.01% 85.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,154 16,984 23,772
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,513 1,182 2,587
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.00 £61.16
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% +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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +27 2,913 £538 +2.38% 984
UK excluding London +38 1,621 £509 +1.75% 746
London +29 1,381 £550 - 392
Work from Home +35 1,086 £532 +6.36% 561
North of England +27 438 £500 +0.60% 178
South East +23 364 £540 +11.63% 258
Midlands +23 317 £500 -0.05% 125
West Midlands +23 222 £500 -2.53% 81
North West +23 218 £491 -1.80% 92
South West +20 190 £525 -4.55% 85
Yorkshire +9 178 £515 +8.32% 67
Scotland +32 152 £475 -10.55% 30
East of England +31 119 £575 +15.00% 41
East Midlands +18 90 £525 +16.67% 43
North East +8 46 £453 -4.18% 20
Wales +14 42 £475 +46.15% 16
Northern Ireland +15 16 £449 -22.84% 23
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
1 178 (5.20%) Confluence
2 91 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 30 (0.88%) SAS
4 27 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.53%) Apache
5 18 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.50%) CMS
7 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.12%) WordPress
8 3 (0.088%) Appian
8 3 (0.088%) Drupal
8 3 (0.088%) Kentico
9 2 (0.058%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.058%) Camunda
9 2 (0.058%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.058%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 156 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 60 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 60 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
3 60 (1.75%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 4 (0.12%) Sketch
7 2 (0.058%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.058%) InVision
7 2 (0.058%) Trello
8 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.029%) CATIA
8 1 (0.029%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.029%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.029%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 133 (3.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.44%) Teamcenter
4 11 (0.32%) Maximo
4 11 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (0.32%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.26%) Primavera
5 9 (0.26%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 8 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.23%) SAP QM
7 7 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 6 (0.18%) Sage X3
8 6 (0.18%) SAP CO
8 6 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 663 (19.39%) Azure
2 469 (13.71%) AWS
3 317 (9.27%) Power Platform
4 169 (4.94%) GCP
5 130 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
6 118 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 103 (3.01%) Entra ID
8 101 (2.95%) SaaS
9 95 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
10 66 (1.93%) GitHub
11 54 (1.58%) Serverless
12 47 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
12 47 (1.37%) PaaS
13 41 (1.20%) Amazon S3
13 41 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
15 35 (1.02%) Power Automate
15 35 (1.02%) PowerApps
16 34 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 56 (1.64%) Network Security
2 55 (1.61%) Firewall
3 35 (1.02%) DNS
4 24 (0.70%) VPN
5 22 (0.64%) WAN
6 18 (0.53%) LAN
7 14 (0.41%) TCP/IP
7 14 (0.41%) Wireless
8 13 (0.38%) Internet
9 12 (0.35%) VLAN
10 11 (0.32%) BGP
11 10 (0.29%) DHCP
11 10 (0.29%) NGFW
11 10 (0.29%) OSPF
11 10 (0.29%) SSL
12 9 (0.26%) Intranet
12 9 (0.26%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.23%) 5G
13 8 (0.23%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 270 (7.89%) Power BI
2 78 (2.28%) Metadata
3 69 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (1.08%) Data Lake
4 37 (1.08%) Tableau
5 31 (0.91%) Power Query
5 31 (0.91%) SQL Server
6 26 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (0.76%) Relational Database
7 18 (0.53%) DynamoDB
8 17 (0.50%) NoSQL
8 17 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
9 16 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
10 15 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (0.44%) Big Data
11 14 (0.41%) SAS Enterprise Guide
12 13 (0.38%) Data Vault
12 13 (0.38%) MySQL
12 13 (0.38%) SAS Visual Analytics
13 12 (0.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 282 (8.25%) JIRA
2 61 (1.78%) Jenkins
3 54 (1.58%) Git
3 54 (1.58%) GitLab
4 31 (0.91%) Rational DOORS
5 30 (0.88%) Postman
6 28 (0.82%) Selenium
7 21 (0.61%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.53%) Hudson
8 18 (0.53%) JMeter
9 12 (0.35%) WebDriver
10 11 (0.32%) JUnit
11 9 (0.26%) REST Assured
12 8 (0.23%) ERwin
12 8 (0.23%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.20%) LoadRunner
14 6 (0.18%) MLflow
14 6 (0.18%) TestRail
15 5 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 1,564 (45.73%) Social Skills
2 978 (28.60%) Finance
3 545 (15.94%) Public Sector
4 528 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
5 198 (5.79%) Banking
6 140 (4.09%) Influencing Skills
7 135 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
8 124 (3.63%) Legal
9 101 (2.95%) Retail
10 92 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
11 85 (2.49%) Law
12 83 (2.43%) Manufacturing
13 72 (2.11%) Aerospace
14 67 (1.96%) Local Government
15 61 (1.78%) Telecoms
16 58 (1.70%) Marketing
17 50 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 45 (1.32%) Military
19 39 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
20 34 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 633 (18.51%) Analyst
2 524 (15.32%) Architect
3 448 (13.10%) Lead
4 411 (12.02%) Business Analyst
5 317 (9.27%) Senior
6 278 (8.13%) Project Manager
7 256 (7.49%) Consultant
8 137 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
9 96 (2.81%) Developer
10 95 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
11 92 (2.69%) Delivery Manager
12 91 (2.66%) Data Analyst
13 89 (2.60%) Change Manager
14 79 (2.31%) Programme Manager
15 74 (2.16%) Designer
16 71 (2.08%) Senior Manager
17 67 (1.96%) Senior Business Analyst
18 63 (1.84%) Data Architect
19 62 (1.81%) Security Architect
20 60 (1.75%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (3.60%) REST
2 61 (1.78%) LDAP
3 60 (1.75%) SOAP
4 52 (1.52%) Middleware
5 40 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
6 38 (1.11%) OpenID
7 37 (1.08%) Spring
8 35 (1.02%) OAuth
9 34 (0.99%) React
10 33 (0.96%) JSON
10 33 (0.96%) Kafka
10 33 (0.96%) SailPoint
11 29 (0.85%) Spring Boot
12 27 (0.79%) XML
13 26 (0.76%) .NET
13 26 (0.76%) SAML
14 23 (0.67%) PySpark
15 22 (0.64%) CSS
16 21 (0.61%) HTML
17 19 (0.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 235 (6.87%) Product Ownership
2 160 (4.68%) Onboarding
3 147 (4.30%) Cloud Native
4 85 (2.49%) Data Structures
5 81 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
6 78 (2.28%) Management Information System
6 78 (2.28%) Operational Technology
7 72 (2.11%) Security Posture
8 69 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 57 (1.67%) Data Centre
10 55 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
11 53 (1.55%) NHS
12 51 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
13 44 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
13 44 (1.29%) Virtual Team
14 43 (1.26%) CMDB
15 39 (1.14%) AI Agents
16 35 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
17 31 (0.91%) Public Cloud
18 26 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 92 (2.69%) Windows
2 46 (1.35%) Linux
3 21 (0.61%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.35%) Unix
5 11 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.23%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.23%) VMS
7 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.12%) Android
9 3 (0.088%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.088%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.029%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 919 (26.87%) Agile
2 669 (19.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 654 (19.12%) Continuous Improvement
4 509 (14.88%) Migration
5 476 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
6 455 (13.30%) Decision-Making
7 445 (13.01%) Roadmaps
8 426 (12.46%) Change Management
9 397 (11.61%) DevOps
10 389 (11.37%) Workshop Facilitation
11 347 (10.15%) Analytics
12 333 (9.74%) AI
13 325 (9.50%) Risk Management
14 313 (9.15%) Business Intelligence
15 303 (8.86%) ERP
16 294 (8.60%) Cybersecurity
16 294 (8.60%) Project Management
17 292 (8.54%) CI/CD
18 277 (8.10%) Project Delivery
19 272 (7.95%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 265 (7.75%) SQL
2 255 (7.46%) Python
3 114 (3.33%) Java
4 79 (2.31%) PowerShell
5 55 (1.61%) JavaScript
6 39 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 37 (1.08%) TypeScript
8 33 (0.96%) C#
9 32 (0.94%) Bash
10 18 (0.53%) Bicep
10 18 (0.53%) VBA
11 14 (0.41%) Scala
12 11 (0.32%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.29%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.29%) PHP
14 9 (0.26%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.23%) Korn
15 8 (0.23%) R
16 6 (0.18%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.15%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 874 (25.56%) Security Cleared
2 697 (20.38%) SC Cleared
3 253 (7.40%) Degree
4 122 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 109 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 103 (3.01%) PMI Certification
7 99 (2.89%) PMP
8 87 (2.54%) CISSP
9 63 (1.84%) CISM
10 49 (1.43%) Azure Certification
11 45 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 33 (0.96%) AWS Certification
14 26 (0.76%) ACCA
14 26 (0.76%) Master's Degree
15 25 (0.73%) CIMA
15 25 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
15 25 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
15 25 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 21 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 172 (5.03%) PMO
3 166 (4.85%) QA
4 152 (4.44%) NIST
5 146 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 134 (3.92%) GDPR
7 83 (2.43%) Accessibility
8 80 (2.34%) GRC
9 38 (1.11%) NCSC
10 30 (0.88%) SLA
11 26 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
11 26 (0.76%) PCI DSS
12 25 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
13 22 (0.64%) WCAG
14 18 (0.53%) SOC 2
15 17 (0.50%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.35%) COBIT
16 12 (0.35%) Def Stans
16 12 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 105 (3.07%) Active Directory
2 62 (1.81%) Docker
3 27 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.32%) VMware NSX
4 11 (0.32%) vSphere
5 5 (0.15%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.088%) NFS
8 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.029%) Firmware
8 1 (0.029%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.029%) KVM
Systems Management
1 121 (3.54%) Terraform
2 111 (3.25%) Kubernetes
3 39 (1.14%) Ansible
4 31 (0.91%) Grafana
5 28 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 27 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 25 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.41%) SCCM
9 11 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 11 (0.32%) HP ALM
10 6 (0.18%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.15%) Istio
11 5 (0.15%) vRealize
12 4 (0.12%) Podman
13 3 (0.088%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.088%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.088%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 3 (0.088%) vMotion
13 3 (0.088%) WSUS
14 2 (0.058%) Nessus
Vendors
1 513 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 250 (7.31%) SAP
3 197 (5.76%) ServiceNow
4 158 (4.62%) Oracle
5 94 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 89 (2.60%) Databricks
7 58 (1.70%) Google
8 51 (1.49%) CyberArk
9 48 (1.40%) IBM
10 44 (1.29%) Cisco
11 43 (1.26%) VMware
12 42 (1.23%) Splunk
13 37 (1.08%) BeyondTrust
14 36 (1.05%) Workday
15 33 (0.96%) Centrify
16 20 (0.58%) Dynatrace
16 20 (0.58%) Zscaler
17 19 (0.56%) IFS
17 19 (0.56%) MuleSoft
18 18 (0.53%) Palo Alto
1,113 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide