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

 6 months to
10 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 46 153
Rank change year-on-year +20 +107 +11
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,849 1,489 686
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.31% 4.60% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.59% 5.09% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,597 990 471
10th Percentile £363 £357 £363
25th Percentile £447 £442 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £640 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.31% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 28 29
10th Percentile £24.63 £24.51 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £29.51 £26.25
Median hourly rate £73.50 £49.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.48% +30.27% -25.61%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.31 £60.60
90th Percentile £88.53 £76.67 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £59.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +35.59% +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 44,833 29,276 36,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.19% 90.47% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,910 18,456 23,540
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -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 2,660 1,489 2,488
10th Percentile £14.95 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.50 £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% -3.62%

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 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 10 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 10 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 3,266 £540 +2.27% 1,193
UK excluding London +28 1,825 £514 +2.80% 826
London +20 1,555 £550 - 540
Work from Home +25 1,251 £535 +7.00% 567
North of England +19 486 £500 - 178
South East +22 459 £550 +2.14% 284
Midlands +11 333 £513 +5.24% 108
North West +23 246 £500 -0.79% 100
West Midlands +5 240 £510 +4.72% 59
South West +17 197 £530 -3.64% 151
Yorkshire +4 189 £507 +6.79% 53
Scotland +32 179 £475 -5.05% 27
East of England +27 123 £533 +6.50% 50
East Midlands +24 88 £525 +16.67% 48
North East +7 57 £450 - 27
Wales +18 52 £500 +31.58% 16
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
1 182 (4.73%) Confluence
2 124 (3.22%) SharePoint
3 33 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (0.70%) SAS
5 25 (0.65%) Apache Spark
6 24 (0.62%) Apache
7 21 (0.55%) CMS
7 21 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.13%) WordPress
9 4 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.10%) Drupal
9 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.10%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.078%) Appian
10 3 (0.078%) Kentico
10 3 (0.078%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.052%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.052%) Camunda
11 2 (0.052%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.052%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 181 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 68 (1.77%) MS Visio
5 64 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.10%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.078%) Sketch
10 2 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.052%) InVision
10 2 (0.052%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.052%) Trello
11 1 (0.026%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.026%) CATIA
11 1 (0.026%) InDesign
11 1 (0.026%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.026%) Notion
11 1 (0.026%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.026%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 150 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.47%) Workday HCM
4 15 (0.39%) Teamcenter
5 13 (0.34%) SAP FI
5 13 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 12 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 12 (0.31%) SAP QM
7 11 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (0.29%) Primavera
8 10 (0.26%) Maximo
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
1 719 (18.68%) Azure
2 490 (12.73%) AWS
3 373 (9.69%) Power Platform
4 169 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
5 167 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
6 151 (3.92%) GCP
7 117 (3.04%) Entra ID
8 107 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
9 99 (2.57%) SaaS
10 77 (2.00%) GitHub
11 63 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
12 59 (1.53%) Serverless
13 54 (1.40%) Power Automate
14 51 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
15 49 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
16 48 (1.25%) PaaS
16 48 (1.25%) PowerApps
17 47 (1.22%) Amazon S3
18 41 (1.07%) Snowflake
19 38 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.77%) Network Security
2 62 (1.61%) Firewall
3 47 (1.22%) DNS
4 33 (0.86%) VPN
5 31 (0.81%) WAN
6 28 (0.73%) LAN
7 21 (0.55%) TCP/IP
8 18 (0.47%) DHCP
8 18 (0.47%) Wireless
9 15 (0.39%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.39%) VLAN
10 14 (0.36%) Internet
11 13 (0.34%) 5G
11 13 (0.34%) BGP
12 12 (0.31%) OSPF
12 12 (0.31%) SSL
13 10 (0.26%) Intranet
13 10 (0.26%) NGFW
14 9 (0.23%) MPLS
14 9 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 309 (8.03%) Power BI
2 97 (2.52%) Metadata
3 80 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (1.48%) Data Lake
5 49 (1.27%) SQL Server
6 45 (1.17%) 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 (0.47%) NoSQL
12 17 (0.44%) Oracle Database
13 16 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
14 15 (0.39%) Data Vault
14 15 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
15 14 (0.36%) BigQuery
15 14 (0.36%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 13 (0.34%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 287 (7.46%) JIRA
2 70 (1.82%) Git
3 61 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.40%) GitLab
5 31 (0.81%) Rational DOORS
6 30 (0.78%) Postman
6 30 (0.78%) Selenium
7 21 (0.55%) JMeter
8 18 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.47%) Hudson
9 16 (0.42%) 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 (0.16%) MLflow
15 6 (0.16%) REST Assured
16 5 (0.13%) Snyk
General
1 1,756 (45.62%) Social Skills
2 1,110 (28.84%) Finance
3 665 (17.28%) Public Sector
4 612 (15.90%) Analytical Skills
5 210 (5.46%) Banking
6 183 (4.75%) Influencing Skills
7 156 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
8 146 (3.79%) Legal
9 123 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
9 123 (3.20%) Retail
10 92 (2.39%) Manufacturing
11 86 (2.23%) Law
12 79 (2.05%) Local Government
13 78 (2.03%) Marketing
14 76 (1.97%) Telecoms
15 74 (1.92%) Aerospace
16 65 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 52 (1.35%) Military
18 46 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
19 37 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 703 (18.26%) Analyst
2 566 (14.71%) Architect
3 487 (12.65%) Lead
4 434 (11.28%) Business Analyst
5 378 (9.82%) Senior
6 292 (7.59%) Project Manager
7 272 (7.07%) Consultant
8 162 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
9 146 (3.79%) Developer
10 116 (3.01%) Data Analyst
11 103 (2.68%) Change Manager
12 97 (2.52%) Delivery Manager
13 95 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
14 83 (2.16%) Senior Manager
15 80 (2.08%) Data Architect
16 78 (2.03%) Programme Manager
17 76 (1.97%) Security Architect
18 75 (1.95%) Designer
19 72 (1.87%) Product Manager
20 70 (1.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (2.68%) REST
2 61 (1.58%) Middleware
3 49 (1.27%) Spring
4 46 (1.20%) React
5 45 (1.17%) JSON
6 43 (1.12%) Kafka
7 40 (1.04%) SOAP
8 39 (1.01%) Spring Boot
9 37 (0.96%) .NET
10 36 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
11 35 (0.91%) XML
12 34 (0.88%) PySpark
13 31 (0.81%) SailPoint
14 30 (0.78%) OpenID
15 28 (0.73%) OAuth
16 27 (0.70%) SAML
17 24 (0.62%) LDAP
18 22 (0.57%) RESTful
19 20 (0.52%) AngularJS
19 20 (0.52%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 261 (6.78%) Product Ownership
2 204 (5.30%) Onboarding
3 166 (4.31%) Cloud Native
4 99 (2.57%) Management Information System
5 98 (2.55%) Data Structures
6 73 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
7 72 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
7 72 (1.87%) Operational Technology
8 70 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
9 63 (1.64%) Data Centre
10 62 (1.61%) NHS
11 61 (1.58%) CMDB
12 58 (1.51%) Virtual Team
13 49 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
14 46 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
15 43 (1.12%) AI Agents
15 43 (1.12%) Security Posture
16 39 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
17 34 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
18 33 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 111 (2.88%) Windows
2 55 (1.43%) Linux
3 27 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.42%) Unix
5 13 (0.34%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.21%) VMS
8 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.10%) Android
10 3 (0.078%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.078%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.078%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.026%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,099 (28.55%) Agile
2 820 (21.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 809 (21.02%) Continuous Improvement
4 557 (14.47%) Migration
5 554 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
6 546 (14.19%) Decision-Making
7 506 (13.15%) Roadmaps
8 478 (12.42%) DevOps
9 466 (12.11%) Change Management
10 445 (11.56%) Workshop Facilitation
11 425 (11.04%) AI
12 404 (10.50%) Analytics
13 385 (10.00%) Risk Management
14 374 (9.72%) CI/CD
15 349 (9.07%) Business Intelligence
16 338 (8.78%) Cybersecurity
17 331 (8.60%) Project Delivery
18 323 (8.39%) ERP
19 316 (8.21%) Data Modelling
20 309 (8.03%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 324 (8.42%) SQL
2 268 (6.96%) Python
3 127 (3.30%) Java
4 71 (1.84%) JavaScript
5 61 (1.58%) PowerShell
6 54 (1.40%) C#
7 45 (1.17%) TypeScript
8 44 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 35 (0.91%) Bash
10 21 (0.55%) Bicep
11 20 (0.52%) VBA
12 17 (0.44%) Scala
13 16 (0.42%) Apex Code
14 13 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.31%) T-SQL
16 10 (0.26%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.23%) Korn
18 7 (0.18%) ABAP
18 7 (0.18%) R
19 5 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 980 (25.46%) Security Cleared
2 747 (19.41%) SC Cleared
3 278 (7.22%) Degree
4 153 (3.98%) DV Cleared
5 134 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 118 (3.07%) PMI Certification
7 105 (2.73%) PMP
8 100 (2.60%) CISSP
9 66 (1.71%) Azure Certification
10 65 (1.69%) CISM
11 60 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (1.04%) AWS Certification
12 40 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
13 34 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 31 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 30 (0.78%) Master's Degree
16 29 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
17 26 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 24 (0.62%) ACCA
18 24 (0.62%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (7.40%) Data Quality
2 194 (5.04%) PMO
3 177 (4.60%) QA
4 160 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 156 (4.05%) GDPR
6 154 (4.00%) NIST
7 101 (2.62%) Accessibility
8 89 (2.31%) GRC
9 53 (1.38%) NCSC
10 44 (1.14%) SLA
11 28 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
12 25 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
13 24 (0.62%) WCAG
14 23 (0.60%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.47%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.44%) ISO 20022
17 14 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 13 (0.34%) COBIT
19 11 (0.29%) NIST 800
20 10 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 99 (2.57%) Active Directory
2 83 (2.16%) Docker
3 40 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.44%) vSphere
5 14 (0.36%) 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 (0.078%) 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 (3.87%) Terraform
2 141 (3.66%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.17%) Ansible
4 34 (0.88%) Grafana
5 33 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 31 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 31 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.39%) SCCM
8 11 (0.29%) HP ALM
9 10 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.18%) vRealize
11 6 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.16%) NetBackup
12 4 (0.10%) Podman
12 4 (0.10%) VxRail
13 3 (0.078%) Argo
13 3 (0.078%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.078%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 3 (0.078%) vMotion
13 3 (0.078%) WSUS
Vendors
1 639 (16.60%) Microsoft
2 272 (7.07%) SAP
3 235 (6.11%) ServiceNow
4 181 (4.70%) Oracle
5 117 (3.04%) Salesforce
6 112 (2.91%) Databricks
7 67 (1.74%) Google
8 55 (1.43%) Cisco
9 51 (1.33%) IBM
9 51 (1.33%) VMware
10 47 (1.22%) Workday
11 42 (1.09%) Splunk
12 29 (0.75%) CyberArk
13 27 (0.70%) MuleSoft
14 21 (0.55%) Dynatrace
14 21 (0.55%) Palo Alto
14 21 (0.55%) Zscaler
15 20 (0.52%) Ariba
15 20 (0.52%) Citrix
16 19 (0.49%) IFS
1,327 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide