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

 6 months to
20 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 34 139
Rank change year-on-year +9 +105 +26
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,098 1,848 656
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.66% 5.63% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.04% 6.22% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,783 1,232 452
10th Percentile £363 £354 £363
25th Percentile £450 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.37% -2.36% -
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 131 30 17
10th Percentile £25.50 £22.99 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £26.86 £26.25
Median hourly rate £74.50 £41.16 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +81.01% -29.40% +3.20%
75th Percentile £88.00 £68.44 £75.00
90th Percentile £89.75 £73.90 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £32.74 £59.45
% change year-on-year +144.39% -44.94% +5.24%

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 45,331 29,700 33,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.46% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,838 18,524 21,130
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% -3.58%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,836 1,729 1,767
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.33 £18.14
Median hourly rate £41.63 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +65.54% -38.57% -0.24%
75th Percentile £67.99 £49.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +83.17% -43.53% +17.65%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +6 3,474 £540 -1.82% 1,136
UK excluding London +11 1,931 £525 - 811
London +6 1,687 £550 - 490
Work from Home +15 1,381 £525 - 573
South East +12 517 £555 +0.91% 272
North of England +12 495 £500 -2.25% 176
Midlands +11 334 £500 -1.38% 126
West Midlands +5 255 £500 -2.91% 87
North West +14 242 £500 -4.99% 101
South West +2 226 £550 - 122
Scotland +29 200 £500 +5.26% 31
Yorkshire -1 192 £500 +3.63% 50
East of England +28 120 £529 -12.53% 61
East Midlands +21 75 £525 +20.00% 39
North East +9 69 £453 -2.11% 26
Wales +12 54 £525 +23.53% 22
Northern Ireland +10 13 £430 -17.16% 15
Channel Islands -1 2 £563 +21.62%

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
1 170 (4.15%) Confluence
2 153 (3.73%) SharePoint
3 36 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 31 (0.76%) Apache
5 31 (0.76%) CMS
6 28 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
7 27 (0.66%) SAS
8 6 (0.15%) WordPress
9 4 (0.098%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.098%) OpenEdge
9 4 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.073%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.073%) Drupal
10 3 (0.073%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.073%) IIS
10 3 (0.073%) Kentico
10 3 (0.073%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.049%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.049%) Appian
Applications
1 181 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 83 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 76 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
5 52 (1.27%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.39%) 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 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 141 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 61 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.59%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.46%) 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%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.27%) Maximo
8 11 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
8 11 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
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 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 8 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 824 (20.11%) Azure
2 554 (13.52%) AWS
3 440 (10.74%) Power Platform
4 208 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
5 197 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
6 192 (4.69%) GCP
7 150 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
8 143 (3.49%) Entra ID
9 97 (2.37%) SaaS
10 90 (2.20%) GitHub
10 90 (2.20%) Power Automate
11 71 (1.73%) PowerApps
11 71 (1.73%) Serverless
12 68 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
13 63 (1.54%) Snowflake
14 61 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
15 59 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
16 58 (1.42%) Amazon S3
17 57 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
18 44 (1.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 66 (1.61%) Firewall
2 63 (1.54%) Network Security
3 54 (1.32%) DNS
4 40 (0.98%) VPN
5 39 (0.95%) WAN
6 34 (0.83%) LAN
7 27 (0.66%) DHCP
8 24 (0.59%) TCP/IP
9 19 (0.46%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.44%) Wireless
11 17 (0.41%) Internet
12 15 (0.37%) VLAN
13 14 (0.34%) 5G
13 14 (0.34%) BGP
14 12 (0.29%) Intranet
14 12 (0.29%) OSPF
14 12 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (0.27%) Kerberos
15 11 (0.27%) SSL
16 9 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 353 (8.61%) Power BI
2 120 (2.93%) Metadata
3 95 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
4 87 (2.12%) Data Lake
5 69 (1.68%) SQL Server
6 43 (1.05%) Tableau
7 35 (0.85%) Power Query
8 34 (0.83%) Relational Database
9 29 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (0.59%) DynamoDB
11 22 (0.54%) Oracle Database
12 21 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 20 (0.49%) Big Data
13 20 (0.49%) BigQuery
14 19 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
15 18 (0.44%) NoSQL
16 17 (0.41%) Data Vault
17 15 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
17 15 (0.37%) Looker
Development Applications
1 274 (6.69%) JIRA
2 94 (2.29%) Git
3 65 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.32%) GitLab
5 35 (0.85%) Selenium
6 32 (0.78%) Postman
7 29 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
8 19 (0.46%) WebDriver
9 18 (0.44%) Cucumber
10 17 (0.41%) Hudson
11 16 (0.39%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.37%) JMeter
13 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (0.27%) ERwin
14 11 (0.27%) JUnit
15 9 (0.22%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.22%) Zephyr
16 8 (0.20%) Bitbucket
17 7 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
18 6 (0.15%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,866 (45.53%) Social Skills
2 1,136 (27.72%) Finance
3 779 (19.01%) Public Sector
4 665 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
5 214 (5.22%) Banking
6 211 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
7 170 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
8 150 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
9 148 (3.61%) Legal
10 139 (3.39%) Retail
11 110 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 101 (2.46%) Local Government
13 96 (2.34%) Manufacturing
14 92 (2.24%) Law
15 87 (2.12%) Marketing
16 83 (2.03%) Telecoms
17 77 (1.88%) Aerospace
18 61 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
19 58 (1.42%) Military
20 40 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 704 (17.18%) Analyst
2 618 (15.08%) Architect
3 511 (12.47%) Lead
4 419 (10.22%) Senior
5 415 (10.13%) Business Analyst
6 300 (7.32%) Project Manager
7 299 (7.30%) Consultant
8 202 (4.93%) Developer
9 174 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
10 125 (3.05%) Data Analyst
11 109 (2.66%) Data Architect
12 107 (2.61%) Change Manager
13 97 (2.37%) Delivery Manager
14 96 (2.34%) Senior Analyst
15 92 (2.24%) Senior Manager
16 85 (2.07%) Data Engineer
17 78 (1.90%) Designer
17 78 (1.90%) Technical Architect
18 75 (1.83%) Security Architect
19 74 (1.81%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (4.32%) Terraform
2 108 (2.64%) REST
3 65 (1.59%) .NET
4 57 (1.39%) JSON
5 54 (1.32%) Middleware
6 51 (1.24%) Kafka
7 47 (1.15%) React
8 46 (1.12%) PySpark
9 45 (1.10%) Spring
10 43 (1.05%) SOAP
11 42 (1.02%) XML
12 40 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
13 38 (0.93%) Spring Boot
14 35 (0.85%) OAuth
15 34 (0.83%) Web Services
16 33 (0.81%) SAML
17 29 (0.71%) RESTful
18 28 (0.68%) LDAP
18 28 (0.68%) OpenID
19 27 (0.66%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 308 (7.52%) Product Ownership
2 227 (5.54%) Onboarding
3 185 (4.51%) Cloud Native
4 137 (3.34%) Management Information System
5 111 (2.71%) Data Structures
6 92 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
7 82 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
8 77 (1.88%) NHS
9 71 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
10 66 (1.61%) AI Agents
11 64 (1.56%) Operational Technology
12 63 (1.54%) Data Centre
13 58 (1.42%) CMDB
14 57 (1.39%) Virtual Team
15 50 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
16 49 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
17 47 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
18 44 (1.07%) Security Posture
19 34 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
20 29 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 131 (3.20%) Windows
2 77 (1.88%) Linux
3 34 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.39%) Unix
5 14 (0.34%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.17%) VMS
9 6 (0.15%) Android
9 6 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.049%) AIX
12 2 (0.049%) HPUX
12 2 (0.049%) Solaris
13 1 (0.024%) CentOS
13 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,252 (30.55%) Agile
2 964 (23.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 936 (22.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 608 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
5 605 (14.76%) Decision-Making
6 594 (14.49%) Migration
7 548 (13.37%) Roadmaps
8 537 (13.10%) DevOps
9 517 (12.62%) Workshop Facilitation
10 495 (12.08%) AI
11 475 (11.59%) Analytics
11 475 (11.59%) Change Management
12 450 (10.98%) CI/CD
13 406 (9.91%) Business Intelligence
14 398 (9.71%) Risk Management
15 393 (9.59%) Project Delivery
16 359 (8.76%) Cybersecurity
17 342 (8.35%) Data Modelling
18 330 (8.05%) User Acceptance Testing
19 328 (8.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 382 (9.32%) SQL
2 307 (7.49%) Python
3 133 (3.25%) Java
4 91 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 85 (2.07%) C#
6 80 (1.95%) PowerShell
7 55 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 46 (1.12%) TypeScript
9 45 (1.10%) Bash
10 27 (0.66%) Bicep
11 20 (0.49%) Scala
12 15 (0.37%) Kotlin
12 15 (0.37%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 13 (0.32%) Apex Code
14 13 (0.32%) VBA
15 10 (0.24%) Korn
16 9 (0.22%) Groovy
17 7 (0.17%) R
17 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,125 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 838 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 259 (6.32%) Degree
4 192 (4.69%) DV Cleared
5 145 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 124 (3.03%) PMI Certification
7 115 (2.81%) PMP
8 107 (2.61%) CISSP
9 75 (1.83%) Azure Certification
10 70 (1.71%) CISM
11 67 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
12 57 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 49 (1.20%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 36 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
16 32 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 30 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 27 (0.66%) APMG
18 27 (0.66%) ISTQB
19 25 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 326 (7.96%) Data Quality
2 210 (5.12%) PMO
3 185 (4.51%) QA
4 177 (4.32%) GDPR
5 174 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 161 (3.93%) NIST
7 118 (2.88%) Accessibility
8 86 (2.10%) GRC
9 64 (1.56%) NCSC
10 42 (1.02%) SLA
11 34 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
12 32 (0.78%) WCAG
13 29 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.46%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.44%) SOC 2
16 16 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 16 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.29%) JSP 440
18 11 (0.27%) ISO 20022
18 11 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 133 (3.25%) Active Directory
2 92 (2.24%) Docker
3 52 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 20 (0.49%) vSphere
6 17 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.32%) 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%) 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%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 155 (3.78%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.20%) Ansible
3 40 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.83%) Grafana
4 34 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
5 32 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 15 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 14 (0.34%) SCCM
8 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
9 7 (0.17%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
10 5 (0.12%) vRealize
11 4 (0.098%) Istio
11 4 (0.098%) QRadar
11 4 (0.098%) VxRail
12 3 (0.073%) Argo
12 3 (0.073%) Cisco CUCM
12 3 (0.073%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.073%) Puppet
12 3 (0.073%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 778 (18.98%) Microsoft
2 277 (6.76%) SAP
3 234 (5.71%) ServiceNow
4 188 (4.59%) Oracle
5 149 (3.64%) Databricks
6 113 (2.76%) Salesforce
7 88 (2.15%) Google
8 67 (1.63%) VMware
9 59 (1.44%) Cisco
9 59 (1.44%) IBM
10 53 (1.29%) Workday
11 44 (1.07%) Splunk
12 34 (0.83%) CyberArk
13 29 (0.71%) MuleSoft
14 25 (0.61%) Zscaler
15 24 (0.59%) Ariba
16 23 (0.56%) Palo Alto
17 22 (0.54%) Dynatrace
18 21 (0.51%) Okta
19 19 (0.46%) Citrix
1,277 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide