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

 6 months to
19 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 52 152
Rank change year-on-year +26 +100 +7
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,538 1,284 694
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.00% 4.31% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.25% 4.73% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,388 857 476
10th Percentile £366 £358 £363
25th Percentile £447 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 22 39
10th Percentile £25.00 £23.22 £18.35
25th Percentile £48.00 £27.41 £27.81
Median hourly rate £64.09 £46.16 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.85% +26.46% -7.01%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.94 £58.53
90th Percentile - £75.09 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £45.53 £56.91
% change year-on-year +48.27% -20.01% +44.99%

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 42,883 27,154 37,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.85% 91.05% 85.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,719 17,238 23,736
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,572 1,254 2,607
10th Percentile £14.70 £14.20 £12.70
25th Percentile £20.07 £17.79 £16.04
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.40 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.07% -32.27% +7.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.19 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.08 £38.12
% change year-on-year +79.46% -34.22% +17.29%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +27 3,001 £538 +2.38% 854
UK excluding London +34 1,680 £510 +2.00% 685
London +24 1,426 £550 - 342
Work from Home +31 1,149 £528 +5.45% 472
North of England +28 447 £500 +1.57% 168
South East +19 390 £540 +10.77% 231
Midlands +18 320 £509 +1.75% 110
North West +28 229 £500 - 100
West Midlands +10 225 £500 -0.15% 55
South West +17 193 £525 -4.55% 81
Yorkshire +3 176 £514 +8.21% 49
Scotland +31 163 £475 -5.09% 25
East of England +37 125 £570 +14.00% 40
East Midlands +23 90 £525 +16.67% 54
North East +5 48 £453 -4.18% 21
Wales +14 46 £500 +53.85% 23
Northern Ireland +13 16 £449 -22.84% 22
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
1 183 (5.17%) Confluence
2 97 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 31 (0.88%) SAS
4 29 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 20 (0.57%) Apache
6 20 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 18 (0.51%) CMS
8 5 (0.14%) WordPress
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.11%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.085%) Appian
10 3 (0.085%) Drupal
10 3 (0.085%) Kentico
11 2 (0.057%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.057%) Camunda
11 2 (0.057%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.057%) WebLogic
Applications
1 161 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 64 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
4 63 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
5 60 (1.70%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.11%) Sketch
9 2 (0.057%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.057%) InVision
9 2 (0.057%) Trello
10 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.028%) CATIA
10 1 (0.028%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.028%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.028%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 133 (3.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.42%) Teamcenter
4 13 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 13 (0.37%) Workday HCM
5 12 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
6 11 (0.31%) Maximo
7 10 (0.28%) Primavera
8 9 (0.25%) SAP FI
8 9 (0.25%) SAP QM
9 8 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 8 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
10 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.17%) Finacle
11 6 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.17%) Sage X3
11 6 (0.17%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 679 (19.19%) Azure
2 477 (13.48%) AWS
3 338 (9.55%) Power Platform
4 161 (4.55%) GCP
5 140 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
6 134 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
7 105 (2.97%) Entra ID
8 98 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
9 96 (2.71%) SaaS
10 67 (1.89%) GitHub
11 55 (1.55%) Serverless
12 53 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
13 46 (1.30%) PaaS
14 44 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
15 43 (1.22%) Amazon S3
16 41 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
16 41 (1.16%) Power Automate
17 37 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
17 37 (1.05%) PowerApps
18 36 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 64 (1.81%) Network Security
2 59 (1.67%) Firewall
3 37 (1.05%) DNS
4 28 (0.79%) VPN
5 26 (0.73%) WAN
6 22 (0.62%) LAN
7 17 (0.48%) Wireless
8 15 (0.42%) TCP/IP
9 12 (0.34%) Internet
9 12 (0.34%) VLAN
10 11 (0.31%) BGP
10 11 (0.31%) DHCP
11 10 (0.28%) 5G
11 10 (0.28%) NGFW
11 10 (0.28%) OSPF
11 10 (0.28%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.28%) SSL
12 9 (0.25%) Intranet
12 9 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (0.20%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 284 (8.03%) Power BI
2 86 (2.43%) Metadata
3 75 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (1.24%) Data Lake
5 41 (1.16%) Tableau
6 31 (0.88%) Power Query
6 31 (0.88%) SQL Server
7 30 (0.85%) Relational Database
8 26 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (0.57%) NoSQL
10 18 (0.51%) DynamoDB
11 16 (0.45%) Big Data
11 16 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
11 16 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
12 14 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (0.40%) SAS Enterprise Guide
13 13 (0.37%) Data Vault
13 13 (0.37%) SAS Visual Analytics
14 12 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (0.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 281 (7.94%) JIRA
2 59 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 58 (1.64%) Git
4 50 (1.41%) GitLab
5 31 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
6 26 (0.73%) Postman
7 22 (0.62%) Selenium
8 19 (0.54%) JMeter
9 18 (0.51%) Hudson
10 15 (0.42%) Cucumber
11 13 (0.37%) WebDriver
12 11 (0.31%) ERwin
12 11 (0.31%) JUnit
13 8 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.20%) LoadRunner
14 7 (0.20%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.17%) Cypress.io
15 6 (0.17%) MLflow
16 5 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
16 5 (0.14%) Snyk
General
1 1,614 (45.62%) Social Skills
2 1,015 (28.69%) Finance
3 589 (16.65%) Public Sector
4 549 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
5 200 (5.65%) Banking
6 145 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
7 143 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
8 132 (3.73%) Legal
9 107 (3.02%) Retail
10 101 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
11 83 (2.35%) Manufacturing
12 82 (2.32%) Law
13 73 (2.06%) Aerospace
14 71 (2.01%) Local Government
15 66 (1.87%) Telecoms
16 61 (1.72%) Marketing
17 52 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 48 (1.36%) Military
19 40 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
20 34 (0.96%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 644 (18.20%) Analyst
2 534 (15.09%) Architect
3 460 (13.00%) Lead
4 404 (11.42%) Business Analyst
5 334 (9.44%) Senior
6 280 (7.91%) Project Manager
7 262 (7.41%) Consultant
8 146 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
9 116 (3.28%) Developer
10 100 (2.83%) Data Analyst
11 97 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
12 92 (2.60%) Change Manager
13 91 (2.57%) Delivery Manager
14 78 (2.20%) Programme Manager
15 76 (2.15%) Designer
16 70 (1.98%) Data Architect
17 69 (1.95%) Security Architect
18 68 (1.92%) Senior Manager
19 65 (1.84%) Senior Business Analyst
20 64 (1.81%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (3.05%) REST
2 56 (1.58%) Middleware
3 50 (1.41%) SOAP
4 42 (1.19%) LDAP
5 41 (1.16%) Spring
6 38 (1.07%) JSON
6 38 (1.07%) Kafka
7 37 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
7 37 (1.05%) React
8 33 (0.93%) Spring Boot
9 32 (0.90%) OpenID
10 31 (0.88%) OAuth
11 30 (0.85%) XML
12 28 (0.79%) PySpark
12 28 (0.79%) SailPoint
13 25 (0.71%) SAML
14 24 (0.68%) .NET
15 22 (0.62%) CSS
16 21 (0.59%) HTML
17 19 (0.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 245 (6.92%) Product Ownership
2 170 (4.80%) Onboarding
3 153 (4.32%) Cloud Native
4 86 (2.43%) Data Structures
5 84 (2.37%) Management Information System
6 74 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
7 72 (2.04%) Operational Technology
8 69 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
9 61 (1.72%) Security Posture
10 60 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
11 58 (1.64%) Data Centre
12 55 (1.55%) NHS
13 53 (1.50%) CMDB
14 52 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
15 48 (1.36%) Virtual Team
16 45 (1.27%) AI Agents
17 44 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
18 35 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
19 30 (0.85%) Public Cloud
20 29 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 91 (2.57%) Windows
2 46 (1.30%) Linux
3 21 (0.59%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.34%) Unix
5 10 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.23%) VMS
6 8 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.11%) Android
10 3 (0.085%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.085%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.085%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.028%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 975 (27.56%) Agile
2 716 (20.24%) Stakeholder Management
3 703 (19.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 528 (14.92%) Migration
5 494 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
6 484 (13.68%) Decision-Making
7 464 (13.11%) Roadmaps
8 440 (12.44%) Change Management
9 416 (11.76%) DevOps
10 399 (11.28%) Workshop Facilitation
11 376 (10.63%) Analytics
12 362 (10.23%) AI
13 348 (9.84%) Risk Management
14 323 (9.13%) Business Intelligence
15 310 (8.76%) CI/CD
16 304 (8.59%) ERP
17 303 (8.56%) Cybersecurity
18 294 (8.31%) Project Delivery
19 287 (8.11%) Project Management
20 279 (7.89%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 292 (8.25%) SQL
2 248 (7.01%) Python
3 112 (3.17%) Java
4 67 (1.89%) PowerShell
5 56 (1.58%) JavaScript
6 39 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 38 (1.07%) C#
7 38 (1.07%) TypeScript
8 27 (0.76%) Bash
9 20 (0.57%) VBA
10 19 (0.54%) Bicep
11 14 (0.40%) Scala
12 10 (0.28%) Apex Code
12 10 (0.28%) Kotlin
12 10 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.25%) Korn
14 7 (0.20%) R
14 7 (0.20%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.17%) ABAP
16 4 (0.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 905 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 714 (20.18%) SC Cleared
3 252 (7.12%) Degree
4 135 (3.82%) DV Cleared
5 116 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 106 (3.00%) PMI Certification
7 98 (2.77%) PMP
8 91 (2.57%) CISSP
9 66 (1.87%) CISM
10 56 (1.58%) Azure Certification
11 51 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
12 37 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
13 36 (1.02%) AWS Certification
14 27 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 26 (0.73%) Master's Degree
15 26 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
16 25 (0.71%) ACCA
17 24 (0.68%) CIMA
18 23 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 22 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 255 (7.21%) Data Quality
2 178 (5.03%) PMO
3 167 (4.72%) QA
4 154 (4.35%) NIST
5 150 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 136 (3.84%) GDPR
7 85 (2.40%) GRC
8 84 (2.37%) Accessibility
9 43 (1.22%) NCSC
10 31 (0.88%) SLA
11 27 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
12 25 (0.71%) PCI DSS
13 24 (0.68%) WCAG
14 23 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
15 18 (0.51%) SOC 2
16 16 (0.45%) ISO 20022
17 13 (0.37%) COBIT
18 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 11 (0.31%) NIST 800
20 10 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 98 (2.77%) Active Directory
2 64 (1.81%) Docker
3 24 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.31%) vSphere
5 9 (0.25%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 4 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.085%) NFS
9 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.028%) Firmware
9 1 (0.028%) FreeRADIUS
9 1 (0.028%) KVM
Systems Management
1 128 (3.62%) Terraform
2 116 (3.28%) Kubernetes
3 41 (1.16%) Ansible
4 32 (0.90%) Grafana
5 28 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 28 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.31%) HP ALM
7 11 (0.31%) SCCM
8 10 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.17%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.14%) vRealize
11 4 (0.11%) Podman
12 3 (0.085%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.085%) Istio
12 3 (0.085%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.085%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 3 (0.085%) vMotion
12 3 (0.085%) WSUS
13 2 (0.057%) Nessus
Vendors
1 545 (15.40%) Microsoft
2 252 (7.12%) SAP
3 205 (5.79%) ServiceNow
4 158 (4.47%) Oracle
5 100 (2.83%) Salesforce
6 96 (2.71%) Databricks
7 59 (1.67%) Google
8 50 (1.41%) Cisco
8 50 (1.41%) IBM
9 40 (1.13%) Splunk
10 39 (1.10%) CyberArk
11 38 (1.07%) Workday
12 36 (1.02%) VMware
13 25 (0.71%) BeyondTrust
14 21 (0.59%) Centrify
15 20 (0.57%) MuleSoft
15 20 (0.57%) Zscaler
16 19 (0.54%) Dynatrace
16 19 (0.54%) IFS
16 19 (0.54%) Palo Alto
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