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

 6 months to
3 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 30 142
Rank change year-on-year +5 +112 +20
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,133 1,932 669
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.71% 5.94% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.11% 6.57% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,798 1,301 448
10th Percentile £363 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £427 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £530 £541
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -2.08% -1.59%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £504
% change year-on-year - +4.22% -4.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 33 16
10th Percentile £23.75 £25.36 £19.80
25th Percentile £48.00 £30.11 £26.44
Median hourly rate £67.50 £47.00 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +43.62% -19.21% +2.98%
75th Percentile £86.11 £63.75 £71.54
90th Percentile £95.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.00 £45.12 £58.30
% change year-on-year +52.93% -22.61% +3.20%

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 45,377 29,398 32,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,769 18,279 20,543
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.49%
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 2,906 1,760 1,592
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.73 £17.30 £18.69
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.03 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.58 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +88.14% -47.37% +14.67%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 +4 3,500 £546 -0.73% 2,278
UK excluding London +6 1,935 £525 - 1,455
London +3 1,719 £550 - 1,135
Work from Home +11 1,406 £525 - 1,169
South East +14 510 £568 +3.23% 390
North of England +8 494 £500 -2.44% 307
Midlands +7 340 £505 -2.88% 207
West Midlands +7 262 £500 -2.91% 148
North West +4 240 £506 -3.69% 183
South West +1 226 £550 - 230
Scotland +29 213 £500 +8.70% 120
Yorkshire +1 196 £500 - 76
East of England +23 121 £533 -11.91% 127
East Midlands +17 73 £525 +20.00% 59
North East +7 66 £450 - 51
Wales +10 54 £525 +23.53% 22
Northern Ireland +3 9 £413 -20.48% 65
Channel Islands -2 2 £563 +21.62% 2

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
1 172 (4.16%) Confluence
2 161 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 36 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (0.85%) Apache
4 35 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 35 (0.85%) CMS
5 28 (0.68%) SAS
6 27 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.19%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.15%) WordPress
9 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.097%) OpenEdge
10 4 (0.097%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.073%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.073%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.073%) Drupal
11 3 (0.073%) IIS
11 3 (0.073%) Kentico
11 3 (0.073%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.048%) Anypoint
Applications
1 185 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 83 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (1.40%) MS Visio
5 57 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.17%) Trello
9 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.15%) Navisworks
9 6 (0.15%) ProjectWise
9 6 (0.15%) Revit
10 4 (0.097%) Sketch
11 2 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.048%) InDesign
11 2 (0.048%) InVision
11 2 (0.048%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 135 (3.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 66 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.58%) Workday HCM
4 20 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 13 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.27%) Maximo
8 11 (0.27%) Primavera
8 11 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 9 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
9 9 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 9 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 9 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
9 9 (0.22%) SAP CO
9 9 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 802 (19.40%) Azure
2 546 (13.21%) AWS
3 442 (10.69%) Power Platform
4 204 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
5 201 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
6 182 (4.40%) GCP
7 154 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
8 141 (3.41%) Entra ID
9 95 (2.30%) SaaS
10 92 (2.23%) Power Automate
11 89 (2.15%) GitHub
12 72 (1.74%) Serverless
13 70 (1.69%) PowerApps
13 70 (1.69%) Snowflake
14 68 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
15 64 (1.55%) Microsoft Purview
16 61 (1.48%) Amazon S3
17 57 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
18 56 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
19 45 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.65%) Firewall
1 68 (1.65%) Network Security
2 52 (1.26%) DNS
3 41 (0.99%) WAN
4 39 (0.94%) VPN
5 33 (0.80%) LAN
6 27 (0.65%) DHCP
7 24 (0.58%) TCP/IP
8 20 (0.48%) SD-WAN
9 18 (0.44%) Wireless
10 17 (0.41%) Internet
11 16 (0.39%) 5G
11 16 (0.39%) VLAN
12 14 (0.34%) BGP
12 14 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (0.31%) Intranet
13 13 (0.31%) OSPF
14 12 (0.29%) SSL
14 12 (0.29%) VoIP
15 11 (0.27%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 350 (8.47%) Power BI
2 144 (3.48%) Metadata
3 94 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 93 (2.25%) Data Lake
5 71 (1.72%) SQL Server
6 44 (1.06%) Tableau
7 35 (0.85%) Relational Database
8 33 (0.80%) Power Query
9 31 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (0.58%) DynamoDB
11 23 (0.56%) Oracle Database
12 21 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 20 (0.48%) NoSQL
14 19 (0.46%) Big Data
14 19 (0.46%) BigQuery
14 19 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
15 17 (0.41%) Data Vault
16 16 (0.39%) Looker
17 15 (0.36%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 271 (6.56%) JIRA
2 95 (2.30%) Git
3 61 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 56 (1.35%) GitLab
5 31 (0.75%) Selenium
6 29 (0.70%) Postman
7 18 (0.44%) WebDriver
8 17 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 16 (0.39%) Hudson
10 15 (0.36%) Cypress.io
10 15 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
11 12 (0.29%) JMeter
11 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (0.27%) ERwin
13 10 (0.24%) JUnit
14 9 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
15 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.19%) Zephyr
16 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
17 6 (0.15%) MLflow
General
1 1,902 (46.02%) Social Skills
2 1,146 (27.73%) Finance
3 809 (19.57%) Public Sector
4 683 (16.53%) Analytical Skills
5 231 (5.59%) Influencing Skills
6 227 (5.49%) Banking
7 175 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
8 165 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
9 150 (3.63%) Legal
10 139 (3.36%) Retail
11 117 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 108 (2.61%) Local Government
13 90 (2.18%) Manufacturing
14 88 (2.13%) Law
14 88 (2.13%) Telecoms
15 85 (2.06%) Marketing
16 67 (1.62%) Military
16 67 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
17 63 (1.52%) Aerospace
18 40 (0.97%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 702 (16.99%) Analyst
2 632 (15.29%) Architect
3 517 (12.51%) Lead
4 425 (10.28%) Senior
5 403 (9.75%) Business Analyst
6 303 (7.33%) Consultant
7 296 (7.16%) Project Manager
8 212 (5.13%) Developer
9 182 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
10 121 (2.93%) Data Architect
11 120 (2.90%) Data Analyst
12 110 (2.66%) Change Manager
13 98 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
14 94 (2.27%) Senior Manager
15 88 (2.13%) Data Engineer
16 87 (2.11%) Delivery Manager
16 87 (2.11%) Technical Architect
17 80 (1.94%) Designer
18 74 (1.79%) Security Architect
19 72 (1.74%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (4.26%) Terraform
2 113 (2.73%) REST
3 66 (1.60%) .NET
4 59 (1.43%) JSON
5 53 (1.28%) Kafka
6 51 (1.23%) Middleware
6 51 (1.23%) PySpark
7 49 (1.19%) SOAP
8 45 (1.09%) React
8 45 (1.09%) Spring
8 45 (1.09%) XML
9 40 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
10 38 (0.92%) OAuth
10 38 (0.92%) Spring Boot
11 35 (0.85%) SAML
12 34 (0.82%) Web Services
13 32 (0.77%) RESTful
14 31 (0.75%) OpenID
15 30 (0.73%) LDAP
16 28 (0.68%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 290 (7.02%) Product Ownership
2 232 (5.61%) Onboarding
3 183 (4.43%) Cloud Native
4 144 (3.48%) Management Information System
5 98 (2.37%) Data Structures
6 96 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
7 88 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
8 75 (1.81%) NHS
9 71 (1.72%) AI Agents
10 69 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
11 67 (1.62%) Data Centre
12 62 (1.50%) Operational Technology
13 58 (1.40%) CMDB
14 56 (1.35%) Virtual Team
15 52 (1.26%) Security Posture
16 50 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
17 48 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
18 46 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
19 31 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
20 26 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 128 (3.10%) Windows
2 77 (1.86%) Linux
3 36 (0.87%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.39%) Unix
5 13 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.19%) Android
7 8 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.17%) VMS
9 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.048%) AIX
11 2 (0.048%) HPUX
11 2 (0.048%) Solaris
11 2 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,248 (30.20%) Agile
2 1,024 (24.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 941 (22.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 640 (15.49%) Decision-Making
5 633 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
6 592 (14.32%) Migration
7 558 (13.50%) Roadmaps
8 533 (12.90%) Workshop Facilitation
9 530 (12.82%) DevOps
10 509 (12.32%) AI
11 489 (11.83%) Change Management
12 466 (11.28%) Analytics
13 447 (10.82%) CI/CD
14 409 (9.90%) Project Delivery
14 409 (9.90%) Risk Management
15 400 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
16 366 (8.86%) Cybersecurity
17 347 (8.40%) Data Modelling
18 342 (8.27%) Data Governance
19 331 (8.01%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 383 (9.27%) SQL
2 304 (7.36%) Python
3 128 (3.10%) Java
4 97 (2.35%) JavaScript
5 85 (2.06%) PowerShell
6 83 (2.01%) C#
7 52 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 48 (1.16%) Bash
9 44 (1.06%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.63%) Bicep
11 20 (0.48%) Scala
12 15 (0.36%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 13 (0.31%) Apex Code
14 12 (0.29%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.24%) Korn
16 9 (0.22%) Groovy
16 9 (0.22%) VBA
17 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,158 (28.02%) Security Cleared
2 879 (21.27%) SC Cleared
3 249 (6.02%) Degree
4 195 (4.72%) DV Cleared
5 152 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 119 (2.88%) PMI Certification
7 112 (2.71%) CISSP
7 112 (2.71%) PMP
8 73 (1.77%) Azure Certification
8 73 (1.77%) CISM
9 69 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
10 56 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (1.14%) AWS Certification
12 38 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 35 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
14 33 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
15 32 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 27 (0.65%) Master's Degree
17 26 (0.63%) APMG
17 26 (0.63%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (8.01%) Data Quality
2 210 (5.08%) PMO
3 186 (4.50%) QA
4 176 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 175 (4.23%) GDPR
6 165 (3.99%) NIST
7 121 (2.93%) Accessibility
8 94 (2.27%) GRC
9 68 (1.65%) NCSC
10 36 (0.87%) SLA
11 35 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
11 35 (0.85%) WCAG
12 30 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
13 18 (0.44%) PCI DSS
14 17 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 16 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.34%) SOC 2
17 13 (0.31%) ITGC
17 13 (0.31%) NIST 800
18 12 (0.29%) JSP 440
System Software
1 128 (3.10%) Active Directory
2 95 (2.30%) Docker
3 51 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 17 (0.41%) vSphere
6 16 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.024%) Firmware
11 1 (0.024%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.024%) IAG
11 1 (0.024%) KVM
11 1 (0.024%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 153 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 48 (1.16%) Ansible
3 39 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (0.85%) Grafana
5 33 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (0.27%) SCCM
9 9 (0.22%) NetBackup
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 4 (0.097%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.097%) Istio
11 4 (0.097%) QRadar
11 4 (0.097%) vRealize
11 4 (0.097%) VxRail
12 3 (0.073%) Argo
12 3 (0.073%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.073%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.073%) Puppet
13 2 (0.048%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 795 (19.24%) Microsoft
2 271 (6.56%) SAP
3 236 (5.71%) ServiceNow
4 188 (4.55%) Oracle
5 160 (3.87%) Databricks
6 111 (2.69%) Salesforce
7 87 (2.11%) Google
8 68 (1.65%) VMware
9 60 (1.45%) Cisco
10 52 (1.26%) Workday
11 48 (1.16%) Splunk
12 46 (1.11%) IBM
13 33 (0.80%) CyberArk
14 30 (0.73%) MuleSoft
15 27 (0.65%) Ariba
16 23 (0.56%) Dynatrace
16 23 (0.56%) Palo Alto
17 22 (0.53%) Informatica
18 20 (0.48%) Okta
19 19 (0.46%) Adobe
2,621 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide