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

 6 months to
14 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 36 143
Rank change year-on-year +11 +107 +25
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,077 1,801 650
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.64% 5.47% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.00% 6.05% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,765 1,194 445
10th Percentile £363 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £436 £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 £520 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -0.95% +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 28 19
10th Percentile £25.49 £22.97 £18.35
25th Percentile £52.50 £26.21 £32.13
Median hourly rate £74.75 £37.25 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year +100.67% -35.83% +5.54%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.31 £72.70
90th Percentile £90.28 £74.20 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £32.05 £58.17
% change year-on-year +149.61% -44.91% +2.98%

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 45,278 29,786 33,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.80% 90.49% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,840 18,586 21,275
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £423 £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 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,823 1,710 1,832
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.31 £18.46
Median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £74.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +8 3,462 £540 -1.82% 1,748
UK excluding London +12 1,923 £520 -0.95% 1,049
London +7 1,677 £550 - 918
Work from Home +17 1,374 £525 - 841
South East +17 518 £550 - 318
North of England +13 493 £500 -2.34% 228
Midlands +8 335 £500 -2.15% 150
West Midlands +6 257 £500 -2.91% 103
North West +18 243 £500 -4.99% 124
South West 0 220 £550 - 142
Scotland +29 198 £500 +5.26% 75
Yorkshire 0 190 £500 +5.26% 69
East of England +27 119 £525 -13.08% 89
East Midlands +17 74 £525 +20.00% 47
North East +8 68 £453 -4.68% 38
Wales +13 52 £500 +17.65% 26
Northern Ireland +11 13 £430 -18.14% 35
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
1 173 (4.24%) Confluence
2 144 (3.53%) SharePoint
3 35 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 31 (0.76%) Apache
6 30 (0.74%) CMS
7 26 (0.64%) SAS
8 24 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.15%) WordPress
10 4 (0.098%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.098%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.074%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.074%) Drupal
11 3 (0.074%) Kentico
11 3 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.074%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.049%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.049%) Appian
12 2 (0.049%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.049%) Jupyter
Applications
1 182 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
5 52 (1.28%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.34%) 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 (0.098%) Sketch
10 2 (0.049%) InDesign
10 2 (0.049%) 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 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 60 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.54%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.37%) Primavera
6 14 (0.34%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 12 (0.29%) NetSuite
7 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.27%) Maximo
8 11 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
8 11 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 10 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
9 10 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
9 10 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
10 9 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
10 9 (0.22%) SAP CO
10 9 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.22%) Teamcenter
11 8 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 828 (20.31%) Azure
2 542 (13.29%) AWS
3 438 (10.74%) Power Platform
4 202 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
5 196 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
6 189 (4.64%) GCP
7 148 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
8 136 (3.34%) Entra ID
9 99 (2.43%) SaaS
10 91 (2.23%) GitHub
11 86 (2.11%) Power Automate
12 70 (1.72%) Serverless
13 69 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
13 69 (1.69%) PowerApps
14 63 (1.55%) Snowflake
15 61 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
16 59 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
17 57 (1.40%) Amazon S3
18 55 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
19 42 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 66 (1.62%) Firewall
2 62 (1.52%) Network Security
3 52 (1.28%) DNS
4 39 (0.96%) VPN
5 38 (0.93%) WAN
6 33 (0.81%) LAN
7 25 (0.61%) DHCP
8 24 (0.59%) TCP/IP
9 18 (0.44%) SD-WAN
9 18 (0.44%) Wireless
10 16 (0.39%) Internet
11 15 (0.37%) VLAN
12 14 (0.34%) BGP
13 13 (0.32%) 5G
14 12 (0.29%) Intranet
14 12 (0.29%) OSPF
15 11 (0.27%) SSL
15 11 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
16 9 (0.22%) Kerberos
16 9 (0.22%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 354 (8.68%) Power BI
2 117 (2.87%) Metadata
3 94 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
4 82 (2.01%) Data Lake
5 68 (1.67%) SQL Server
6 44 (1.08%) Tableau
7 35 (0.86%) Power Query
8 32 (0.78%) Relational Database
9 29 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
10 23 (0.56%) DynamoDB
11 22 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (0.52%) Oracle Database
13 20 (0.49%) Big Data
14 19 (0.47%) BigQuery
15 18 (0.44%) NoSQL
15 18 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
16 17 (0.42%) Data Vault
17 15 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
17 15 (0.37%) Looker
Development Applications
1 275 (6.75%) JIRA
2 93 (2.28%) Git
3 66 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.40%) GitLab
5 36 (0.88%) Selenium
6 32 (0.78%) Postman
7 30 (0.74%) Rational DOORS
8 21 (0.52%) WebDriver
9 20 (0.49%) Cucumber
10 18 (0.44%) Hudson
11 17 (0.42%) JMeter
12 16 (0.39%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.32%) JUnit
14 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (0.27%) ERwin
16 9 (0.22%) SonarQube
16 9 (0.22%) Zephyr
17 8 (0.20%) Bitbucket
18 6 (0.15%) Rational Rhapsody
18 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 1,850 (45.38%) Social Skills
2 1,134 (27.81%) Finance
3 764 (18.74%) Public Sector
4 667 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
5 213 (5.22%) Banking
6 207 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
7 162 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
8 154 (3.78%) Legal
9 145 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
10 136 (3.34%) Retail
11 103 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 101 (2.48%) Local Government
13 96 (2.35%) Manufacturing
14 90 (2.21%) Law
15 88 (2.16%) Marketing
16 81 (1.99%) Telecoms
17 74 (1.82%) Aerospace
18 58 (1.42%) Military
18 58 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
19 40 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 713 (17.49%) Analyst
2 605 (14.84%) Architect
3 505 (12.39%) Lead
4 427 (10.47%) Business Analyst
5 424 (10.40%) Senior
6 300 (7.36%) Project Manager
7 296 (7.26%) Consultant
8 196 (4.81%) Developer
9 175 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
10 128 (3.14%) Data Analyst
11 105 (2.58%) Change Manager
11 105 (2.58%) Data Architect
12 100 (2.45%) Delivery Manager
13 99 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
14 90 (2.21%) Senior Manager
15 85 (2.08%) Data Engineer
16 79 (1.94%) Designer
17 77 (1.89%) Security Architect
18 75 (1.84%) IT Manager
19 74 (1.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (2.60%) REST
2 60 (1.47%) .NET
3 58 (1.42%) Middleware
4 57 (1.40%) JSON
5 49 (1.20%) Kafka
6 46 (1.13%) React
6 46 (1.13%) Spring
7 44 (1.08%) PySpark
8 43 (1.05%) SOAP
9 40 (0.98%) XML
10 37 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
10 37 (0.91%) Spring Boot
11 32 (0.78%) OAuth
12 31 (0.76%) SAML
13 30 (0.74%) Web Services
14 28 (0.69%) OpenID
15 27 (0.66%) RESTful
16 26 (0.64%) HTML
16 26 (0.64%) SailPoint
17 24 (0.59%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 306 (7.51%) Product Ownership
2 224 (5.49%) Onboarding
3 179 (4.39%) Cloud Native
4 132 (3.24%) Management Information System
5 112 (2.75%) Data Structures
6 88 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 81 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
8 74 (1.82%) NHS
9 73 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
10 65 (1.59%) Operational Technology
11 61 (1.50%) Data Centre
12 60 (1.47%) AI Agents
13 57 (1.40%) CMDB
13 57 (1.40%) Virtual Team
14 51 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
15 50 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
16 47 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
17 41 (1.01%) Security Posture
18 34 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
19 30 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 128 (3.14%) Windows
2 73 (1.79%) Linux
3 31 (0.76%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.37%) Unix
4 15 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 13 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.20%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.17%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.17%) VMS
8 6 (0.15%) Android
8 6 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.098%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.074%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.049%) AIX
11 2 (0.049%) HPUX
11 2 (0.049%) Solaris
12 1 (0.025%) CentOS
12 1 (0.025%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,245 (30.54%) Agile
2 933 (22.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 932 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 607 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
5 594 (14.57%) Decision-Making
6 592 (14.52%) Migration
7 537 (13.17%) DevOps
7 537 (13.17%) Roadmaps
8 506 (12.41%) Workshop Facilitation
9 498 (12.21%) AI
10 473 (11.60%) Analytics
11 471 (11.55%) Change Management
12 449 (11.01%) CI/CD
13 406 (9.96%) Business Intelligence
14 397 (9.74%) Risk Management
15 379 (9.30%) Project Delivery
16 350 (8.58%) Data Modelling
17 349 (8.56%) Cybersecurity
18 328 (8.05%) ERP
19 326 (8.00%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 374 (9.17%) SQL
2 304 (7.46%) Python
3 128 (3.14%) Java
4 92 (2.26%) JavaScript
5 80 (1.96%) C#
6 77 (1.89%) PowerShell
7 55 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 45 (1.10%) Bash
9 44 (1.08%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.64%) Bicep
11 19 (0.47%) Scala
12 16 (0.39%) VBA
13 14 (0.34%) Apex Code
13 14 (0.34%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.34%) T-SQL
14 13 (0.32%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.25%) Korn
16 9 (0.22%) Groovy
17 7 (0.17%) ABAP
17 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,104 (27.08%) Security Cleared
2 828 (20.31%) SC Cleared
3 261 (6.40%) Degree
4 190 (4.66%) DV Cleared
5 142 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 122 (2.99%) PMI Certification
7 114 (2.80%) PMP
8 106 (2.60%) CISSP
9 75 (1.84%) Azure Certification
10 68 (1.67%) CISM
11 65 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
12 54 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 50 (1.23%) AWS Certification
14 36 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
14 36 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 32 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
16 30 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 25 (0.61%) ISTQB
17 25 (0.61%) Master's Degree
18 24 (0.59%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (8.12%) Data Quality
2 212 (5.20%) PMO
3 189 (4.64%) QA
4 181 (4.44%) GDPR
5 173 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 157 (3.85%) NIST
7 119 (2.92%) Accessibility
8 85 (2.08%) GRC
9 59 (1.45%) NCSC
10 43 (1.05%) SLA
11 33 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
12 32 (0.78%) WCAG
13 30 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.47%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.44%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 15 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 12 (0.29%) ISO 20022
19 11 (0.27%) JSP 440
19 11 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 129 (3.16%) Active Directory
2 94 (2.31%) Docker
3 50 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 20 (0.49%) vSphere
6 17 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 12 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.049%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.049%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.025%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.025%) Firmware
11 1 (0.025%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.025%) IAG
11 1 (0.025%) KVM
Systems Management
1 172 (4.22%) Terraform
2 156 (3.83%) Kubernetes
3 49 (1.20%) Ansible
4 42 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (0.86%) Grafana
5 35 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.37%) SCCM
8 13 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 10 (0.25%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.17%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 5 (0.12%) vRealize
12 4 (0.098%) Istio
12 4 (0.098%) QRadar
12 4 (0.098%) VxRail
13 3 (0.074%) Argo
13 3 (0.074%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.074%) Puppet
13 3 (0.074%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 767 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 272 (6.67%) SAP
3 234 (5.74%) ServiceNow
4 181 (4.44%) Oracle
5 145 (3.56%) Databricks
6 116 (2.85%) Salesforce
7 85 (2.08%) Google
8 65 (1.59%) VMware
9 60 (1.47%) IBM
10 58 (1.42%) Cisco
11 49 (1.20%) Workday
12 44 (1.08%) Splunk
13 33 (0.81%) CyberArk
14 29 (0.71%) MuleSoft
15 25 (0.61%) Ariba
15 25 (0.61%) Zscaler
16 23 (0.56%) Palo Alto
17 22 (0.54%) Dynatrace
18 21 (0.52%) Adobe
18 21 (0.52%) Okta
2,022 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide