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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 29 137
Rank change year-on-year +4 +108 +25
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,120 2,014 684
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.61% 6.16% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.02% 6.81% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,786 1,348 442
10th Percentile £363 £360 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £528 £548
Median % change year-on-year +2.32% -3.61% -0.45%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 33 12
10th Percentile £25.80 £25.36 £26.28
25th Percentile £42.25 £30.11 £44.13
Median hourly rate £65.98 £47.00 £59.45
Median % change year-on-year +40.38% -20.94% +5.24%
75th Percentile £83.75 £63.75 £71.54
90th Percentile £94.63 £73.30 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.70 £32.74 £60.60
% change year-on-year +106.80% -45.98% +7.28%

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 45,698 29,594 32,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.42% 90.53% 85.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,784 18,388 20,318
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £726 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,048 1,782 1,485
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.44 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £66.95 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +82.22% -47.67% +7.50%

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 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 14 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 14 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 +3 3,478 £550 +2.33% 2,824
UK excluding London +7 1,910 £525 - 1,724
London +3 1,729 £550 - 1,403
Work from Home +8 1,402 £525 - 1,333
South East +10 491 £568 +5.43% 491
North of England +8 488 £500 -2.21% 395
Midlands +7 332 £500 -4.76% 269
West Midlands +5 260 £500 -2.91% 181
North West -4 228 £513 +0.03% 221
South West -1 225 £550 - 238
Scotland +29 222 £500 +11.11% 142
Yorkshire +1 195 £500 - 122
East of England +19 120 £533 -9.67% 123
North East +9 73 £453 +0.61% 55
East Midlands +15 69 £525 -16.00% 87
Wales +15 55 £525 +23.53% 23
Northern Ireland +1 7 £413 -21.43% 55
Channel Islands -3 4 £588 +27.03% 3

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
1 165 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 164 (3.98%) Confluence
3 37 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (0.87%) Apache
5 35 (0.85%) CMS
6 34 (0.83%) Apache Spark
7 27 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 26 (0.63%) SAS
9 8 (0.19%) Headless CMS
10 6 (0.15%) WordPress
11 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.097%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.097%) OpenEdge
12 4 (0.097%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.073%) Drupal
13 3 (0.073%) IIS
13 3 (0.073%) Kentico
13 3 (0.073%) SharePoint 2013
14 2 (0.049%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.049%) GeoServer
Applications
1 187 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 90 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
3 85 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 56 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
5 55 (1.33%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.17%) Navisworks
8 7 (0.17%) ProjectWise
8 7 (0.17%) Revit
8 7 (0.17%) Trello
9 3 (0.073%) Sketch
10 2 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.049%) InDesign
10 2 (0.049%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Notion
11 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 129 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (0.56%) Workday HCM
4 18 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (0.32%) NetSuite
6 13 (0.32%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.29%) Maximo
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (0.27%) Primavera
8 11 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 9 (0.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 9 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
10 9 (0.22%) SAP CO
10 9 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.22%) SAP SD
11 8 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 791 (19.20%) Azure
2 540 (13.11%) AWS
3 432 (10.49%) Power Platform
4 206 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 202 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
6 181 (4.39%) GCP
7 146 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
8 135 (3.28%) Entra ID
9 97 (2.35%) Power Automate
9 97 (2.35%) SaaS
10 88 (2.14%) GitHub
11 73 (1.77%) Microsoft Copilot
12 72 (1.75%) Snowflake
13 71 (1.72%) PowerApps
14 70 (1.70%) Serverless
15 69 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
16 60 (1.46%) Amazon S3
17 59 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
18 55 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
19 47 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.65%) Network Security
2 66 (1.60%) Firewall
3 48 (1.17%) DNS
4 38 (0.92%) WAN
5 36 (0.87%) VPN
6 30 (0.73%) LAN
7 26 (0.63%) DHCP
8 23 (0.56%) TCP/IP
9 17 (0.41%) 5G
9 17 (0.41%) SD-WAN
9 17 (0.41%) Wireless
10 16 (0.39%) Internet
11 15 (0.36%) VLAN
12 13 (0.32%) BGP
13 12 (0.29%) OSPF
13 12 (0.29%) VoIP
13 12 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (0.27%) Intranet
14 11 (0.27%) Kerberos
14 11 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 337 (8.18%) Power BI
2 149 (3.62%) Metadata
3 96 (2.33%) Data Lake
4 93 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
5 74 (1.80%) SQL Server
6 39 (0.95%) Tableau
7 34 (0.83%) Relational Database
8 33 (0.80%) Power Query
9 31 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (0.58%) DynamoDB
11 23 (0.56%) Oracle Database
12 22 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
13 21 (0.51%) BigQuery
14 20 (0.49%) NoSQL
14 20 (0.49%) Semantic Layer
15 19 (0.46%) Big Data
16 18 (0.44%) Data Vault
16 18 (0.44%) Looker
17 17 (0.41%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 262 (6.36%) JIRA
2 94 (2.28%) Git
3 60 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 56 (1.36%) GitLab
5 28 (0.68%) Postman
6 27 (0.66%) Selenium
7 16 (0.39%) Cypress.io
7 16 (0.39%) WebDriver
8 15 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 14 (0.34%) Hudson
10 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (0.24%) ERwin
12 9 (0.22%) JMeter
13 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
13 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
14 7 (0.17%) JUnit
14 7 (0.17%) Zephyr
15 6 (0.15%) Bitbucket
15 6 (0.15%) Rational Rhapsody
15 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 1,921 (46.63%) Social Skills
2 1,138 (27.62%) Finance
3 824 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 683 (16.58%) Analytical Skills
5 242 (5.87%) Influencing Skills
6 228 (5.53%) Banking
7 176 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
8 168 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
9 146 (3.54%) Legal
10 134 (3.25%) Retail
11 118 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 111 (2.69%) Local Government
13 101 (2.45%) Manufacturing
14 84 (2.04%) Marketing
15 83 (2.01%) Law
15 83 (2.01%) Telecoms
16 78 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
17 75 (1.82%) Military
18 58 (1.41%) Aerospace
19 40 (0.97%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 694 (16.84%) Analyst
2 623 (15.12%) Architect
3 511 (12.40%) Lead
4 426 (10.34%) Senior
5 401 (9.73%) Business Analyst
6 296 (7.18%) Consultant
7 291 (7.06%) Project Manager
8 224 (5.44%) Developer
9 185 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
10 123 (2.99%) Data Architect
11 118 (2.86%) Data Analyst
12 111 (2.69%) Change Manager
13 99 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
14 90 (2.18%) Senior Manager
15 87 (2.11%) Data Engineer
16 84 (2.04%) Designer
17 83 (2.01%) Delivery Manager
18 82 (1.99%) Technical Architect
19 78 (1.89%) IT Manager
20 73 (1.77%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (4.39%) Terraform
2 120 (2.91%) REST
3 68 (1.65%) .NET
4 59 (1.43%) JSON
5 54 (1.31%) Kafka
6 49 (1.19%) PySpark
6 49 (1.19%) SOAP
7 48 (1.17%) Middleware
8 46 (1.12%) XML
9 45 (1.09%) React
9 45 (1.09%) Spring
10 41 (1.00%) Spring Boot
11 40 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
12 38 (0.92%) OAuth
13 35 (0.85%) SAML
13 35 (0.85%) Web Services
14 34 (0.83%) RESTful
15 32 (0.78%) OpenID
16 30 (0.73%) LDAP
17 27 (0.66%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 283 (6.87%) Product Ownership
2 239 (5.80%) Onboarding
3 186 (4.51%) Cloud Native
4 144 (3.50%) Management Information System
5 96 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 93 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
7 86 (2.09%) Data Structures
8 76 (1.84%) AI Agents
9 72 (1.75%) NHS
10 70 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
11 68 (1.65%) Data Centre
12 67 (1.63%) Operational Technology
13 61 (1.48%) Virtual Team
14 54 (1.31%) CMDB
14 54 (1.31%) Security Posture
15 53 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
16 46 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
16 46 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
17 30 (0.73%) PKI
18 26 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 128 (3.11%) Windows
2 78 (1.89%) Linux
3 35 (0.85%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.39%) Unix
5 14 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.19%) Android
8 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.17%) VMS
9 5 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.049%) AIX
11 2 (0.049%) HPUX
11 2 (0.049%) Solaris
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,244 (30.19%) Agile
2 1,050 (25.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 948 (23.01%) Continuous Improvement
4 664 (16.12%) Decision-Making
5 636 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
6 574 (13.93%) Migration
7 570 (13.83%) Roadmaps
8 532 (12.91%) DevOps
9 530 (12.86%) Workshop Facilitation
10 518 (12.57%) AI
11 481 (11.67%) Change Management
12 471 (11.43%) Analytics
13 446 (10.83%) CI/CD
14 414 (10.05%) Risk Management
15 404 (9.81%) Project Delivery
16 388 (9.42%) Business Intelligence
17 367 (8.91%) Cybersecurity
18 351 (8.52%) Data Governance
19 348 (8.45%) Data Modelling
20 328 (7.96%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 386 (9.37%) SQL
2 298 (7.23%) Python
3 128 (3.11%) Java
4 100 (2.43%) JavaScript
5 88 (2.14%) C#
5 88 (2.14%) PowerShell
6 52 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 50 (1.21%) Bash
8 46 (1.12%) TypeScript
9 27 (0.66%) Bicep
10 21 (0.51%) Scala
11 15 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
12 12 (0.29%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.24%) Korn
14 9 (0.22%) Groovy
14 9 (0.22%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.19%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.19%) VBA
16 5 (0.12%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,162 (28.20%) Security Cleared
2 896 (21.75%) SC Cleared
3 249 (6.04%) Degree
4 199 (4.83%) DV Cleared
5 159 (3.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 116 (2.82%) PMI Certification
7 110 (2.67%) CISSP
8 109 (2.65%) PMP
9 71 (1.72%) CISM
10 68 (1.65%) Azure Certification
11 67 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
12 57 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (1.07%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 34 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
16 32 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 32 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 28 (0.68%) Master's Degree
18 26 (0.63%) APMG
18 26 (0.63%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 338 (8.20%) Data Quality
2 205 (4.98%) PMO
3 182 (4.42%) QA
4 175 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 171 (4.15%) GDPR
6 160 (3.88%) NIST
7 122 (2.96%) Accessibility
8 94 (2.28%) GRC
9 73 (1.77%) NCSC
10 36 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
10 36 (0.87%) WCAG
11 33 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
11 33 (0.80%) SLA
12 18 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 16 (0.39%) PCI DSS
13 16 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.32%) JSP 440
14 13 (0.32%) NIST 800
15 12 (0.29%) ISO 20022
15 12 (0.29%) ITGC
System Software
1 126 (3.06%) Active Directory
2 100 (2.43%) Docker
3 51 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.46%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.39%) vSphere
6 12 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.097%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.049%) Firmware
9 2 (0.049%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.024%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.024%) IAG
10 1 (0.024%) KVM
10 1 (0.024%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 157 (3.81%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.19%) Ansible
3 39 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (0.80%) Grafana
5 31 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (0.70%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (0.27%) SCCM
9 9 (0.22%) NetBackup
10 6 (0.15%) VxRail
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
12 4 (0.097%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.097%) Istio
12 4 (0.097%) QRadar
12 4 (0.097%) vRealize
13 3 (0.073%) Argo
13 3 (0.073%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.073%) Puppet
14 2 (0.049%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.049%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 813 (19.73%) Microsoft
2 261 (6.33%) SAP
3 231 (5.61%) ServiceNow
4 189 (4.59%) Oracle
5 159 (3.86%) Databricks
6 108 (2.62%) Salesforce
7 89 (2.16%) Google
8 68 (1.65%) VMware
9 59 (1.43%) Cisco
10 52 (1.26%) Workday
11 51 (1.24%) Splunk
12 40 (0.97%) IBM
13 33 (0.80%) CyberArk
14 28 (0.68%) MuleSoft
15 25 (0.61%) Ariba
16 24 (0.58%) Informatica
17 23 (0.56%) Dynatrace
18 22 (0.53%) Palo Alto
19 21 (0.51%) Okta
20 20 (0.49%) Adobe