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

 6 months to
18 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 53 154
Rank change year-on-year +27 +101 +5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,515 1,273 692
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.97% 4.28% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.22% 4.70% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,375 851 476
10th Percentile £363 £360 £363
25th Percentile £447 £449 £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 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 22 38
10th Percentile £25.00 £23.22 £18.35
25th Percentile £47.50 £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 £59.05
90th Percentile - £75.09 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.09 £45.53 £56.91
% change year-on-year +40.78% -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 42,754 27,087 37,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.83% 91.00% 85.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,630 17,192 23,755
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -3.79% -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 2,570 1,249 2,608
10th Percentile £14.80 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.02 £17.87 £16.02
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.21 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +67.72% -29.51% +6.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.32 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +28 2,982 £537 +2.33% 874
UK excluding London +34 1,667 £510 +2.00% 734
London +27 1,417 £550 - 346
Work from Home +35 1,140 £525 +4.95% 503
North of England +26 443 £500 +3.09% 167
South East +20 385 £540 +9.37% 239
Midlands +19 320 £508 +1.50% 112
North West +28 226 £497 -0.35% 99
West Midlands +15 226 £500 -0.15% 56
South West +20 194 £525 -4.55% 84
Yorkshire +3 175 £514 +8.21% 47
Scotland +31 163 £475 -6.59% 29
East of England +35 121 £559 +11.70% 42
East Midlands +21 89 £525 +16.67% 55
North East +3 48 £453 -4.18% 22
Wales +14 45 £500 +53.85% 26
Northern Ireland +13 16 £449 -22.84% 48
Channel Islands 0 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
1 182 (5.18%) Confluence
2 97 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 31 (0.88%) SAS
4 29 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (0.60%) 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
1 162 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 64 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
4 62 (1.76%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.11%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.11%) Sketch
8 2 (0.057%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.057%) InVision
8 2 (0.057%) Trello
9 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.028%) CATIA
9 1 (0.028%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.028%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.028%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 134 (3.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.43%) 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 (0.26%) SAP FI
8 9 (0.26%) 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
11 6 (0.17%) Finacle
11 6 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.17%) Sage X3
11 6 (0.17%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 676 (19.23%) Azure
2 472 (13.43%) AWS
3 338 (9.62%) Power Platform
4 160 (4.55%) GCP
5 137 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
6 132 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
7 105 (2.99%) Entra ID
8 98 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
9 96 (2.73%) SaaS
10 66 (1.88%) GitHub
11 55 (1.56%) Serverless
12 51 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
13 46 (1.31%) PaaS
14 43 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
15 42 (1.19%) Power Automate
16 41 (1.17%) Amazon S3
17 39 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
17 39 (1.11%) PowerApps
18 36 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
18 36 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.79%) Network Security
2 59 (1.68%) Firewall
3 36 (1.02%) DNS
4 26 (0.74%) VPN
5 25 (0.71%) WAN
6 21 (0.60%) LAN
7 17 (0.48%) Wireless
8 14 (0.40%) TCP/IP
9 12 (0.34%) Internet
9 12 (0.34%) VLAN
10 11 (0.31%) BGP
11 10 (0.28%) 5G
11 10 (0.28%) DHCP
11 10 (0.28%) NGFW
11 10 (0.28%) OSPF
11 10 (0.28%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.28%) SSL
12 9 (0.26%) Intranet
12 9 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (0.20%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 284 (8.08%) Power BI
2 86 (2.45%) Metadata
3 75 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (1.19%) Data Lake
5 40 (1.14%) Tableau
6 32 (0.91%) Power Query
7 31 (0.88%) SQL Server
8 28 (0.80%) Relational Database
9 26 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.57%) NoSQL
11 18 (0.51%) DynamoDB
12 16 (0.46%) Big Data
12 16 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
12 16 (0.46%) Snowflake Schema
13 14 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (0.40%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 13 (0.37%) Data Vault
14 13 (0.37%) SAS Visual Analytics
15 12 (0.34%) MongoDB
15 12 (0.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 278 (7.91%) JIRA
2 59 (1.68%) Jenkins
3 58 (1.65%) Git
4 50 (1.42%) GitLab
5 31 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
6 26 (0.74%) Postman
7 22 (0.63%) Selenium
8 19 (0.54%) JMeter
9 18 (0.51%) Hudson
10 15 (0.43%) Cucumber
11 13 (0.37%) WebDriver
12 11 (0.31%) JUnit
13 10 (0.28%) ERwin
14 8 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (0.20%) LoadRunner
15 7 (0.20%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.17%) Cypress.io
16 6 (0.17%) MLflow
17 5 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
18 4 (0.11%) NeoLoad
General
1 1,611 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 1,011 (28.76%) Finance
3 583 (16.59%) Public Sector
4 551 (15.68%) Analytical Skills
5 199 (5.66%) Banking
6 143 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
6 143 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
7 131 (3.73%) Legal
8 105 (2.99%) Retail
9 99 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
10 83 (2.36%) Law
10 83 (2.36%) Manufacturing
11 73 (2.08%) Aerospace
12 70 (1.99%) Local Government
13 65 (1.85%) Telecoms
14 61 (1.74%) Marketing
15 52 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 48 (1.37%) Military
17 39 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
18 34 (0.97%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 645 (18.35%) Analyst
2 529 (15.05%) Architect
3 455 (12.94%) Lead
4 406 (11.55%) Business Analyst
5 330 (9.39%) Senior
6 280 (7.97%) Project Manager
7 264 (7.51%) Consultant
8 144 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
9 114 (3.24%) Developer
10 98 (2.79%) Data Analyst
11 96 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
12 91 (2.59%) Change Manager
12 91 (2.59%) Delivery Manager
13 77 (2.19%) Programme Manager
14 75 (2.13%) Designer
15 69 (1.96%) Data Architect
16 68 (1.93%) Security Architect
17 67 (1.91%) Senior Manager
18 65 (1.85%) Senior Business Analyst
19 63 (1.79%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (3.07%) REST
2 55 (1.56%) Middleware
3 50 (1.42%) SOAP
4 43 (1.22%) LDAP
5 41 (1.17%) Spring
6 38 (1.08%) Kafka
7 37 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
7 37 (1.05%) React
8 35 (1.00%) JSON
9 33 (0.94%) Spring Boot
10 32 (0.91%) OpenID
11 31 (0.88%) OAuth
12 28 (0.80%) SailPoint
13 27 (0.77%) PySpark
13 27 (0.77%) XML
14 25 (0.71%) SAML
15 24 (0.68%) .NET
16 22 (0.63%) CSS
17 21 (0.60%) HTML
18 19 (0.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 239 (6.80%) Product Ownership
2 167 (4.75%) Onboarding
3 152 (4.32%) Cloud Native
4 88 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 84 (2.39%) Management Information System
6 74 (2.11%) Operational Technology
7 73 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
8 68 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
9 63 (1.79%) Security Posture
10 60 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
11 58 (1.65%) Data Centre
12 55 (1.56%) NHS
13 52 (1.48%) CMDB
14 50 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
15 48 (1.37%) Virtual Team
16 45 (1.28%) AI Agents
17 43 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
18 35 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
19 30 (0.85%) Public Cloud
20 29 (0.83%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 90 (2.56%) Windows
2 46 (1.31%) Linux
3 21 (0.60%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.34%) Unix
5 10 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.23%) VMS
7 7 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.11%) Android
11 3 (0.085%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.085%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.085%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.028%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 963 (27.40%) Agile
2 708 (20.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 695 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 525 (14.94%) Migration
5 494 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
6 477 (13.57%) Decision-Making
7 461 (13.12%) Roadmaps
8 438 (12.46%) Change Management
9 414 (11.78%) DevOps
10 398 (11.32%) Workshop Facilitation
11 371 (10.55%) Analytics
12 359 (10.21%) AI
13 345 (9.82%) Risk Management
14 323 (9.19%) Business Intelligence
15 308 (8.76%) CI/CD
16 305 (8.68%) ERP
17 302 (8.59%) Cybersecurity
18 292 (8.31%) Project Delivery
19 290 (8.25%) Project Management
20 280 (7.97%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 290 (8.25%) SQL
2 245 (6.97%) Python
3 110 (3.13%) Java
4 68 (1.93%) PowerShell
5 54 (1.54%) JavaScript
6 40 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 37 (1.05%) C#
8 36 (1.02%) TypeScript
9 27 (0.77%) Bash
10 20 (0.57%) VBA
11 19 (0.54%) Bicep
12 14 (0.40%) Scala
13 10 (0.28%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.28%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.23%) Korn
15 7 (0.20%) R
15 7 (0.20%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.17%) ABAP
17 4 (0.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 899 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 709 (20.17%) SC Cleared
3 252 (7.17%) Degree
4 135 (3.84%) DV Cleared
5 114 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 106 (3.02%) PMI Certification
7 98 (2.79%) PMP
8 89 (2.53%) CISSP
9 65 (1.85%) CISM
10 54 (1.54%) Azure Certification
11 50 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
12 37 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
13 35 (1.00%) AWS Certification
14 27 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 26 (0.74%) ACCA
15 26 (0.74%) Master's Degree
15 26 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
16 25 (0.71%) CIMA
17 22 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 22 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (7.23%) Data Quality
2 180 (5.12%) PMO
3 168 (4.78%) QA
4 153 (4.35%) NIST
5 147 (4.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 136 (3.87%) GDPR
7 84 (2.39%) Accessibility
8 83 (2.36%) GRC
9 43 (1.22%) NCSC
10 31 (0.88%) SLA
11 27 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
12 25 (0.71%) PCI DSS
13 24 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
13 24 (0.68%) WCAG
14 18 (0.51%) SOC 2
15 16 (0.46%) ISO 20022
16 13 (0.37%) COBIT
17 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 11 (0.31%) Def Stans
18 11 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 98 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 63 (1.79%) Docker
3 24 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.28%) vSphere
5 9 (0.26%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 4 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
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
1 126 (3.58%) Terraform
2 115 (3.27%) Kubernetes
3 41 (1.17%) Ansible
4 32 (0.91%) Grafana
5 28 (0.80%) Prometheus
5 28 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.77%) 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
1 540 (15.36%) Microsoft
2 255 (7.25%) SAP
3 203 (5.78%) ServiceNow
4 158 (4.50%) Oracle
5 98 (2.79%) Salesforce
6 97 (2.76%) Databricks
7 59 (1.68%) Google
8 50 (1.42%) Cisco
9 48 (1.37%) IBM
10 40 (1.14%) CyberArk
10 40 (1.14%) Splunk
11 38 (1.08%) Workday
12 37 (1.05%) VMware
13 26 (0.74%) BeyondTrust
14 22 (0.63%) 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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