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

 6 months to
24 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 28 133
Rank change year-on-year +3 +105 +32
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,213 2,085 693
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.67% 6.32% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% 6.99% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,867 1,398 438
10th Percentile £363 £364 £363
25th Percentile £450 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.65% -2.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 36 10
10th Percentile £26.21 £24.03 £25.75
25th Percentile £41.00 £28.16 £32.38
Median hourly rate £65.20 £44.91 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +45.19% -22.80% +2.98%
75th Percentile £83.06 £64.66 £60.95
90th Percentile £89.83 £73.75 £70.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.70 £32.74 £58.30
% change year-on-year +106.80% -43.85% +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 46,342 29,835 32,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.41% 90.50% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,074 18,533 19,873
10th Percentile £325 £300 £309
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,192 1,836 1,405
10th Percentile £13.74 £14.31 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.32 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -
75th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +79.25% -48.10% +1.18%

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 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 24 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 24 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 3,535 £550 - 2,935
UK excluding London +7 1,936 £525 - 1,903
London +2 1,764 £550 - 1,313
Work from Home +7 1,438 £525 - 1,455
South East +9 499 £560 +3.99% 511
North of England +5 495 £500 -3.85% 444
Midlands +7 337 £500 -6.93% 284
West Midlands +6 269 £500 -5.84% 195
South West -2 231 £550 - 243
Scotland +25 228 £500 +8.70% 157
North West +4 226 £525 - 253
Yorkshire -2 200 £500 -4.31% 139
East of England +11 116 £525 -13.22% 150
North East +7 77 £450 -5.26% 55
East Midlands +6 66 £525 -4.55% 89
Wales +18 58 £525 +27.27% 37
Northern Ireland -1 6 £413 -21.43% 93
Channel Islands -3 4 £588 +27.03% 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 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 168 (3.99%) Confluence
3 37 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (0.85%) Apache
4 36 (0.85%) CMS
5 35 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 26 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 26 (0.62%) SAS
7 10 (0.24%) Headless CMS
8 7 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.14%) WordPress
10 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.095%) OpenEdge
11 4 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.071%) Drupal
12 3 (0.071%) IIS
12 3 (0.071%) Kentico
13 2 (0.047%) GeoServer
13 2 (0.047%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.047%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 190 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
3 88 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.40%) MS Visio
5 53 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.19%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.19%) Navisworks
7 8 (0.19%) ProjectWise
7 8 (0.19%) Revit
8 7 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.17%) Trello
9 3 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.071%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.071%) Sketch
10 2 (0.047%) InDesign
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Notion
11 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 125 (2.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.59%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 15 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.28%) Maximo
7 12 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
8 11 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
8 11 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (0.26%) Primavera
8 11 (0.26%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 10 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 9 (0.21%) SAP CO
10 9 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.21%) SAP SD
11 8 (0.19%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 796 (18.89%) Azure
2 551 (13.08%) AWS
3 432 (10.25%) Power Platform
4 215 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
5 202 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
6 187 (4.44%) GCP
7 141 (3.35%) Entra ID
8 132 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
9 103 (2.44%) SaaS
10 100 (2.37%) Power Automate
11 92 (2.18%) GitHub
12 79 (1.88%) Snowflake
13 78 (1.85%) Microsoft Copilot
14 74 (1.76%) Serverless
15 73 (1.73%) Microsoft Purview
15 73 (1.73%) PowerApps
16 65 (1.54%) Amazon S3
17 59 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
18 56 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
19 47 (1.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 72 (1.71%) Network Security
2 68 (1.61%) Firewall
3 49 (1.16%) DNS
4 40 (0.95%) WAN
5 39 (0.93%) VPN
6 30 (0.71%) LAN
7 29 (0.69%) DHCP
8 24 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 18 (0.43%) Internet
9 18 (0.43%) SD-WAN
10 17 (0.40%) VLAN
10 17 (0.40%) Wireless
11 16 (0.38%) 5G
12 13 (0.31%) BGP
13 12 (0.28%) Kerberos
13 12 (0.28%) VoIP
14 11 (0.26%) Intranet
14 11 (0.26%) OSPF
14 11 (0.26%) SSL
14 11 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 330 (7.83%) Power BI
2 166 (3.94%) Metadata
3 96 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
4 93 (2.21%) Data Lake
5 74 (1.76%) SQL Server
6 44 (1.04%) Tableau
7 36 (0.85%) Relational Database
8 30 (0.71%) Power Query
9 29 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (0.64%) DynamoDB
11 25 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (0.59%) BigQuery
12 23 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 22 (0.52%) Oracle Database
13 22 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
14 20 (0.47%) MongoDB
14 20 (0.47%) NoSQL
15 19 (0.45%) Big Data
16 18 (0.43%) Data Vault
16 18 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 264 (6.27%) JIRA
2 92 (2.18%) Git
3 60 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.35%) GitLab
5 29 (0.69%) Postman
6 28 (0.66%) Selenium
7 17 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 17 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
9 12 (0.28%) Hudson
9 12 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (0.21%) ERwin
11 8 (0.19%) JMeter
11 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
11 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.17%) JUnit
12 7 (0.17%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.17%) Zephyr
13 6 (0.14%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,966 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 1,132 (26.87%) Finance
3 868 (20.60%) Public Sector
4 686 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
5 254 (6.03%) Influencing Skills
6 235 (5.58%) Banking
7 184 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
8 175 (4.15%) Organisational Skills
9 143 (3.39%) Legal
10 132 (3.13%) Retail
11 121 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 115 (2.73%) Local Government
13 111 (2.63%) Manufacturing
14 85 (2.02%) Marketing
15 83 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
16 80 (1.90%) Telecoms
17 79 (1.88%) Military
18 67 (1.59%) Law
19 63 (1.50%) Aerospace
20 43 (1.02%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 707 (16.78%) Analyst
2 623 (14.79%) Architect
3 507 (12.03%) Lead
4 438 (10.40%) Senior
5 411 (9.76%) Business Analyst
6 307 (7.29%) Consultant
7 297 (7.05%) Project Manager
8 230 (5.46%) Developer
9 192 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
10 125 (2.97%) Data Architect
11 119 (2.82%) Data Analyst
12 112 (2.66%) Change Manager
13 107 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
14 90 (2.14%) Designer
15 89 (2.11%) Delivery Manager
15 89 (2.11%) Senior Manager
16 88 (2.09%) Data Engineer
17 82 (1.95%) Technical Architect
18 80 (1.90%) IT Manager
19 74 (1.76%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (4.41%) Terraform
2 127 (3.01%) REST
3 66 (1.57%) .NET
4 61 (1.45%) JSON
5 58 (1.38%) Kafka
6 53 (1.26%) SOAP
7 48 (1.14%) PySpark
8 47 (1.12%) XML
9 46 (1.09%) Spring
10 45 (1.07%) Middleware
11 44 (1.04%) React
12 43 (1.02%) Spring Boot
13 42 (1.00%) OAuth
14 40 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
15 37 (0.88%) RESTful
16 36 (0.85%) SAML
16 36 (0.85%) Web Services
17 34 (0.81%) OpenID
18 32 (0.76%) LDAP
19 29 (0.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 284 (6.74%) Product Ownership
2 249 (5.91%) Onboarding
3 190 (4.51%) Cloud Native
4 145 (3.44%) Management Information System
5 99 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
6 94 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
7 87 (2.07%) Data Structures
8 78 (1.85%) AI Agents
9 76 (1.80%) NHS
10 73 (1.73%) Operational Technology
11 71 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
12 68 (1.61%) Data Centre
13 59 (1.40%) Security Posture
13 59 (1.40%) Virtual Team
14 55 (1.31%) CMDB
15 52 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
16 50 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
17 45 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
18 32 (0.76%) PKI
19 29 (0.69%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.06%) Windows
2 80 (1.90%) Linux
3 36 (0.85%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.38%) Unix
5 14 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.17%) Android
7 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.14%) VMS
9 4 (0.095%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.071%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.047%) AIX
11 2 (0.047%) HPUX
11 2 (0.047%) Solaris
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.024%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,275 (30.26%) Agile
2 1,108 (26.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 951 (22.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 681 (16.16%) Decision-Making
5 653 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
6 595 (14.12%) Roadmaps
7 567 (13.46%) Migration
8 551 (13.08%) Workshop Facilitation
9 539 (12.79%) AI
10 535 (12.70%) DevOps
11 485 (11.51%) Change Management
12 484 (11.49%) Analytics
13 446 (10.59%) CI/CD
14 425 (10.09%) Risk Management
15 401 (9.52%) Project Delivery
16 382 (9.07%) Cybersecurity
17 381 (9.04%) Business Intelligence
18 374 (8.88%) Data Governance
19 357 (8.47%) Data Modelling
20 344 (8.17%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 401 (9.52%) SQL
2 300 (7.12%) Python
3 128 (3.04%) Java
4 104 (2.47%) JavaScript
5 94 (2.23%) PowerShell
6 87 (2.07%) C#
7 53 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 51 (1.21%) Bash
9 46 (1.09%) TypeScript
10 28 (0.66%) Bicep
11 21 (0.50%) Scala
12 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.28%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.24%) Korn
16 9 (0.21%) Groovy
17 8 (0.19%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.19%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.14%) VBA
19 4 (0.095%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,204 (28.58%) Security Cleared
2 932 (22.12%) SC Cleared
3 259 (6.15%) Degree
4 199 (4.72%) DV Cleared
5 162 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 113 (2.68%) PMI Certification
7 110 (2.61%) CISSP
8 106 (2.52%) PMP
9 69 (1.64%) Azure Certification
9 69 (1.64%) CISM
10 67 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
11 59 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 44 (1.04%) AWS Certification
13 37 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 36 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
15 34 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 31 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
17 28 (0.66%) Master's Degree
18 27 (0.64%) ISTQB
19 25 (0.59%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 358 (8.50%) Data Quality
2 192 (4.56%) PMO
3 179 (4.25%) QA
4 176 (4.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 168 (3.99%) NIST
6 164 (3.89%) GDPR
7 129 (3.06%) Accessibility
8 103 (2.44%) GRC
9 81 (1.92%) NCSC
10 43 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
11 39 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
12 37 (0.88%) WCAG
13 34 (0.81%) SLA
14 18 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 15 (0.36%) PCI DSS
15 15 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.33%) JSP 440
16 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
17 12 (0.28%) ITGC
18 11 (0.26%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 131 (3.11%) Active Directory
2 100 (2.37%) Docker
3 52 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.45%) VMware NSX
5 17 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.36%) vSphere
7 12 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.047%) Firmware
12 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.024%) FreeRADIUS
12 1 (0.024%) IAG
12 1 (0.024%) KVM
12 1 (0.024%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 159 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 51 (1.21%) Ansible
3 42 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (0.76%) Grafana
5 30 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 28 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (0.26%) SCCM
9 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
10 6 (0.14%) VxRail
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
12 4 (0.095%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.095%) Istio
12 4 (0.095%) QRadar
12 4 (0.095%) vRealize
13 3 (0.071%) Argo
13 3 (0.071%) Kibana
13 3 (0.071%) McAfee ePO
13 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.071%) Puppet
Vendors
1 832 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 251 (5.96%) SAP
3 232 (5.51%) ServiceNow
4 190 (4.51%) Oracle
5 160 (3.80%) Databricks
6 106 (2.52%) Salesforce
7 95 (2.25%) Google
8 71 (1.69%) VMware
9 64 (1.52%) Cisco
10 56 (1.33%) Workday
11 54 (1.28%) Splunk
12 42 (1.00%) IBM
13 34 (0.81%) CyberArk
14 28 (0.66%) Ariba
15 27 (0.64%) MuleSoft
16 24 (0.57%) Dynatrace
16 24 (0.57%) Palo Alto
17 23 (0.55%) Informatica
18 21 (0.50%) Adobe
18 21 (0.50%) Okta
3,430 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide