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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 39 152
Rank change year-on-year +13 +113 +12
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,913 1,653 642
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.45% 5.04% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.77% 5.57% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,637 1,103 441
10th Percentile £371 £357 £363
25th Percentile £450 £436 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £510 £513
% change year-on-year +1.96% -0.49% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 28 21
10th Percentile £25.00 £22.97 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £26.21 £26.25
Median hourly rate £74.50 £41.16 £57.44
Median % change year-on-year +81.01% -28.35% +7.03%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.31 £70.39
90th Percentile - £76.67 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £45.87 £57.74
% change year-on-year +74.42% -20.57% +7.60%

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 44,620 29,684 34,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.46% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,627 18,648 21,888
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,682 1,621 1,980
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.73 £17.33 £17.74
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.35 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.55% -41.56% -

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +12 3,339 £540 +0.51% 1,026
UK excluding London +19 1,846 £520 +1.96% 707
London +13 1,608 £550 - 464
Work from Home +20 1,289 £530 +3.92% 532
North of England +18 494 £500 -0.40% 171
South East +23 492 £555 +0.91% 242
Midlands +10 318 £504 +0.75% 108
North West +19 249 £500 -2.21% 80
West Midlands +4 244 £500 -0.10% 77
South West +5 200 £540 -1.91% 98
Yorkshire 0 188 £501 +3.73% 64
Scotland +26 184 £493 -1.50% 28
East of England +31 121 £533 +6.39% 54
East Midlands +20 70 £500 +5.26% 31
North East +7 65 £450 -7.22% 28
Wales +17 50 £500 +31.58% 10
Northern Ireland +5 12 £430 -18.14% 12
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
1 171 (4.37%) Confluence
2 133 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 34 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 29 (0.74%) Apache
6 26 (0.66%) SAS
7 25 (0.64%) CMS
8 22 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.13%) WordPress
10 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.10%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.077%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.077%) Kentico
11 3 (0.077%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.077%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.051%) Drupal
12 2 (0.051%) IIS
12 2 (0.051%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.051%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 179 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 65 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
5 61 (1.56%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.13%) Trello
9 4 (0.10%) Sketch
10 2 (0.051%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.051%) InDesign
10 2 (0.051%) InVision
10 2 (0.051%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.051%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.051%) Revit
11 1 (0.026%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.026%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.026%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.026%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 150 (3.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.54%) Workday HCM
4 16 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.38%) SAP FI
6 14 (0.36%) Primavera
7 12 (0.31%) NetSuite
7 12 (0.31%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.28%) Maximo
8 11 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
9 10 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
9 10 (0.26%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
9 10 (0.26%) Teamcenter
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 9 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 8 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 8 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
11 8 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 779 (19.91%) Azure
2 504 (12.88%) AWS
3 409 (10.45%) Power Platform
4 184 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
5 178 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
6 173 (4.42%) GCP
7 136 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
8 125 (3.19%) Entra ID
9 97 (2.48%) SaaS
10 81 (2.07%) GitHub
11 73 (1.87%) Power Automate
12 64 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
13 62 (1.58%) Serverless
14 60 (1.53%) PowerApps
15 55 (1.41%) Snowflake
16 54 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
17 52 (1.33%) Amazon S3
17 52 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
18 48 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
19 46 (1.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.61%) Network Security
2 60 (1.53%) Firewall
3 49 (1.25%) DNS
4 36 (0.92%) WAN
5 35 (0.89%) VPN
6 32 (0.82%) LAN
7 24 (0.61%) TCP/IP
8 22 (0.56%) DHCP
9 18 (0.46%) Wireless
10 16 (0.41%) Internet
11 15 (0.38%) SD-WAN
12 14 (0.36%) VLAN
13 13 (0.33%) 5G
14 12 (0.31%) BGP
14 12 (0.31%) Intranet
14 12 (0.31%) SSL
15 11 (0.28%) OSPF
16 10 (0.26%) NGFW
17 9 (0.23%) VSAN
17 9 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 336 (8.59%) Power BI
2 105 (2.68%) Metadata
3 88 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (1.79%) Data Lake
5 64 (1.64%) SQL Server
6 44 (1.12%) Tableau
7 33 (0.84%) Power Query
8 27 (0.69%) Relational Database
9 26 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (0.54%) DynamoDB
11 20 (0.51%) Big Data
12 19 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (0.49%) BigQuery
13 16 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
13 16 (0.41%) Oracle Database
14 15 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.38%) Data Vault
14 15 (0.38%) NoSQL
14 15 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
15 14 (0.36%) Looker
Development Applications
1 272 (6.95%) JIRA
2 76 (1.94%) Git
3 58 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.30%) GitLab
5 34 (0.87%) Selenium
6 31 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
7 28 (0.72%) Postman
8 19 (0.49%) WebDriver
9 18 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.46%) Hudson
10 16 (0.41%) JMeter
11 15 (0.38%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.33%) JUnit
13 12 (0.31%) ERwin
13 12 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (0.23%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.20%) Bitbucket
16 7 (0.18%) Zephyr
17 6 (0.15%) MLflow
17 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 1,770 (45.23%) Social Skills
2 1,117 (28.55%) Finance
3 706 (18.04%) Public Sector
4 645 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
5 201 (5.14%) Banking
6 198 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
7 153 (3.91%) Legal
8 146 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
9 137 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
10 129 (3.30%) Retail
11 89 (2.27%) Manufacturing
12 88 (2.25%) Law
13 87 (2.22%) Local Government
14 86 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 80 (2.04%) Marketing
16 79 (2.02%) Telecoms
17 71 (1.81%) Aerospace
18 56 (1.43%) Military
19 50 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
20 40 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 713 (18.22%) Analyst
2 568 (14.52%) Architect
3 494 (12.62%) Lead
4 426 (10.89%) Business Analyst
5 405 (10.35%) Senior
6 291 (7.44%) Project Manager
7 282 (7.21%) Consultant
8 173 (4.42%) Developer
9 166 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
10 123 (3.14%) Data Analyst
11 103 (2.63%) Change Manager
12 102 (2.61%) Senior Analyst
13 99 (2.53%) Delivery Manager
14 92 (2.35%) Data Architect
15 82 (2.10%) Senior Manager
16 77 (1.97%) Security Architect
17 74 (1.89%) Data Engineer
17 74 (1.89%) Designer
17 74 (1.89%) Product Manager
18 71 (1.81%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (2.68%) REST
2 54 (1.38%) JSON
2 54 (1.38%) Middleware
3 50 (1.28%) .NET
4 46 (1.18%) Kafka
4 46 (1.18%) SOAP
5 45 (1.15%) React
6 44 (1.12%) Spring
7 42 (1.07%) PySpark
8 39 (1.00%) XML
9 38 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
10 35 (0.89%) Spring Boot
11 30 (0.77%) OAuth
12 28 (0.72%) SailPoint
13 27 (0.69%) OpenID
13 27 (0.69%) SAML
14 25 (0.64%) Web Services
15 23 (0.59%) HTML
16 22 (0.56%) LDAP
16 22 (0.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 288 (7.36%) Product Ownership
2 213 (5.44%) Onboarding
3 165 (4.22%) Cloud Native
4 111 (2.84%) Management Information System
5 110 (2.81%) Data Structures
6 78 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
6 78 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
7 70 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (1.79%) NHS
8 67 (1.71%) Operational Technology
9 59 (1.51%) Data Centre
10 58 (1.48%) Virtual Team
11 56 (1.43%) CMDB
12 48 (1.23%) AI Agents
12 48 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
13 46 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
14 39 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
14 39 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
15 37 (0.95%) Security Posture
16 34 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 113 (2.89%) Windows
2 59 (1.51%) Linux
3 27 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.38%) Unix
4 15 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 11 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.18%) VMS
7 6 (0.15%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.10%) Android
9 3 (0.077%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.077%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.077%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.077%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.026%) AIX
10 1 (0.026%) HPUX
10 1 (0.026%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.026%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,166 (29.80%) Agile
2 867 (22.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 862 (22.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 576 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
5 562 (14.36%) Migration
6 561 (14.34%) Decision-Making
7 506 (12.93%) Roadmaps
8 496 (12.68%) DevOps
9 471 (12.04%) Change Management
10 469 (11.99%) Workshop Facilitation
11 460 (11.76%) AI
12 445 (11.37%) Analytics
13 408 (10.43%) CI/CD
14 383 (9.79%) Business Intelligence
15 376 (9.61%) Risk Management
16 349 (8.92%) Project Delivery
17 345 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
18 337 (8.61%) Data Modelling
19 327 (8.36%) ERP
20 315 (8.05%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 340 (8.69%) SQL
2 278 (7.10%) Python
3 119 (3.04%) Java
4 81 (2.07%) JavaScript
5 68 (1.74%) PowerShell
6 65 (1.66%) C#
7 47 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 42 (1.07%) TypeScript
9 38 (0.97%) Bash
10 25 (0.64%) Bicep
11 18 (0.46%) VBA
12 14 (0.36%) Apex Code
12 14 (0.36%) Scala
13 13 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.31%) T-SQL
15 11 (0.28%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.23%) Groovy
17 8 (0.20%) Korn
18 7 (0.18%) ABAP
19 6 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 1,032 (26.37%) Security Cleared
2 786 (20.09%) SC Cleared
3 253 (6.47%) Degree
4 178 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 138 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 121 (3.09%) PMI Certification
7 112 (2.86%) PMP
8 101 (2.58%) CISSP
9 74 (1.89%) Azure Certification
10 64 (1.64%) CISM
11 61 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
12 49 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (1.12%) AWS Certification
14 35 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 33 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
16 30 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
17 29 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 27 (0.69%) Master's Degree
19 23 (0.59%) ISTQB
20 21 (0.54%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 309 (7.90%) Data Quality
2 204 (5.21%) PMO
3 180 (4.60%) QA
4 170 (4.34%) GDPR
5 163 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 152 (3.88%) NIST
7 108 (2.76%) Accessibility
8 85 (2.17%) GRC
9 54 (1.38%) NCSC
10 47 (1.20%) SLA
11 31 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
12 30 (0.77%) WCAG
13 27 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
14 21 (0.54%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.46%) SOC 2
16 14 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 12 (0.31%) ISO 20022
17 12 (0.31%) NIST 800
18 10 (0.26%) COBIT
System Software
1 113 (2.89%) Active Directory
2 86 (2.20%) Docker
3 43 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.51%) VMware NSX
4 20 (0.51%) vSphere
5 12 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.026%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.026%) Firmware
10 1 (0.026%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.026%) IAG
10 1 (0.026%) KVM
Systems Management
1 159 (4.06%) Terraform
2 147 (3.76%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.15%) Ansible
4 38 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (0.92%) Grafana
6 33 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 32 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.36%) SCCM
9 9 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (0.20%) HP ALM
11 7 (0.18%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.13%) vRealize
13 4 (0.10%) Podman
13 4 (0.10%) VxRail
14 3 (0.077%) Argo
14 3 (0.077%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.077%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.077%) Puppet
14 3 (0.077%) QRadar
14 3 (0.077%) SCOM
Vendors
1 703 (17.97%) Microsoft
2 276 (7.05%) SAP
3 233 (5.95%) ServiceNow
4 179 (4.57%) Oracle
5 135 (3.45%) Databricks
6 113 (2.89%) Salesforce
7 73 (1.87%) Google
8 55 (1.41%) IBM
9 54 (1.38%) Cisco
9 54 (1.38%) VMware
10 48 (1.23%) Workday
11 41 (1.05%) Splunk
12 31 (0.79%) CyberArk
13 27 (0.69%) MuleSoft
14 23 (0.59%) Zscaler
15 22 (0.56%) Palo Alto
16 21 (0.54%) Ariba
17 20 (0.51%) Dynatrace
17 20 (0.51%) IFS
17 20 (0.51%) Okta