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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 45 155
Rank change year-on-year +19 +110 +7
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,861 1,524 672
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.33% 4.66% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.61% 5.16% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,602 1,015 461
10th Percentile £363 £358 £363
25th Percentile £447 £439 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £643 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £746 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +3.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 28 29
10th Percentile £24.75 £24.51 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £29.51 £26.25
Median hourly rate £74.00 £49.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.49% +30.27% -25.61%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.31 £60.60
90th Percentile - £76.67 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.50 £59.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +31.36% +4.44% +10.59%

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 44,845 29,559 36,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.12% 90.45% 85.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,888 18,632 23,279
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,665 1,513 2,446
10th Percentile £14.90 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.61 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +82.48% -35.31% +0.51%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +19 3,275 £540 +2.86% 1,259
UK excluding London +26 1,832 £515 +3.00% 833
London +18 1,561 £550 - 607
Work from Home +26 1,253 £536 +7.20% 614
North of England +22 494 £500 - 174
South East +18 461 £550 +2.14% 300
Midlands +13 331 £513 +5.24% 113
North West +19 251 £500 -0.40% 93
West Midlands +6 239 £510 +6.03% 63
South West +14 195 £538 -2.27% 142
Yorkshire 0 191 £514 +8.21% 59
Scotland +30 182 £475 -5.05% 25
East of England +28 122 £533 +6.50% 50
East Midlands +24 87 £525 +16.67% 49
North East +12 60 £450 -6.01% 24
Wales +17 52 £500 +31.58% 15
Northern Ireland +14 17 £447 -20.53% 26
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
1 181 (4.69%) Confluence
2 125 (3.24%) SharePoint
3 33 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (0.67%) SAS
5 25 (0.65%) Apache Spark
6 23 (0.60%) Apache
6 23 (0.60%) CMS
7 22 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.16%) WordPress
9 4 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.10%) Drupal
9 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.10%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.078%) Kentico
10 3 (0.078%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.052%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.052%) IIS
11 2 (0.052%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.052%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.052%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 182 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 68 (1.76%) MS Visio
5 65 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.10%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.078%) Sketch
10 2 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.052%) InVision
10 2 (0.052%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.052%) Trello
11 1 (0.026%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.026%) CATIA
11 1 (0.026%) InDesign
11 1 (0.026%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.026%) Revit
11 1 (0.026%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.026%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 151 (3.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 15 (0.39%) Teamcenter
5 13 (0.34%) SAP FI
5 13 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 12 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 12 (0.31%) SAP QM
7 11 (0.28%) Maximo
7 11 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (0.28%) Primavera
8 9 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 9 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.21%) NetSuite
9 8 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
9 8 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
9 8 (0.21%) SAP CO
9 8 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
10 7 (0.18%) SAP HR
10 7 (0.18%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 721 (18.67%) Azure
2 490 (12.69%) AWS
3 376 (9.74%) Power Platform
4 171 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
5 167 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
6 153 (3.96%) GCP
7 118 (3.06%) Entra ID
8 107 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
9 98 (2.54%) SaaS
10 77 (1.99%) GitHub
11 63 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
12 60 (1.55%) Serverless
13 54 (1.40%) Power Automate
14 50 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
15 49 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
16 48 (1.24%) Amazon S3
16 48 (1.24%) PowerApps
17 46 (1.19%) PaaS
18 41 (1.06%) Snowflake
19 39 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.76%) Network Security
2 63 (1.63%) Firewall
3 48 (1.24%) DNS
4 34 (0.88%) VPN
5 32 (0.83%) WAN
6 29 (0.75%) LAN
7 22 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 19 (0.49%) DHCP
9 18 (0.47%) Wireless
10 15 (0.39%) Internet
10 15 (0.39%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.39%) VLAN
11 13 (0.34%) 5G
11 13 (0.34%) BGP
12 12 (0.31%) OSPF
12 12 (0.31%) SSL
13 11 (0.28%) NGFW
14 10 (0.26%) Intranet
15 9 (0.23%) MPLS
15 9 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 312 (8.08%) Power BI
2 98 (2.54%) Metadata
3 82 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (1.48%) Data Lake
5 49 (1.27%) SQL Server
6 45 (1.17%) Tableau
7 32 (0.83%) Relational Database
8 29 (0.75%) Power Query
9 26 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.49%) Big Data
10 19 (0.49%) DynamoDB
11 18 (0.47%) NoSQL
12 17 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (0.44%) Oracle Database
13 16 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
14 15 (0.39%) BigQuery
14 15 (0.39%) Data Vault
14 15 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
15 14 (0.36%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 13 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 286 (7.41%) JIRA
2 69 (1.79%) Git
3 60 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 53 (1.37%) GitLab
5 31 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
6 30 (0.78%) Postman
6 30 (0.78%) Selenium
7 21 (0.54%) JMeter
8 18 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.47%) Hudson
9 16 (0.41%) WebDriver
10 15 (0.39%) JUnit
11 12 (0.31%) ERwin
12 10 (0.26%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (0.23%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.21%) LoadRunner
15 6 (0.16%) MLflow
15 6 (0.16%) REST Assured
16 5 (0.13%) Gatling
General
1 1,767 (45.77%) Social Skills
2 1,116 (28.90%) Finance
3 669 (17.33%) Public Sector
4 618 (16.01%) Analytical Skills
5 211 (5.46%) Banking
6 184 (4.77%) Influencing Skills
7 155 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
8 147 (3.81%) Legal
9 127 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
10 124 (3.21%) Retail
11 92 (2.38%) Manufacturing
12 87 (2.25%) Law
13 79 (2.05%) Marketing
14 78 (2.02%) Local Government
15 74 (1.92%) Telecoms
16 73 (1.89%) Aerospace
17 67 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 52 (1.35%) Military
19 47 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
20 37 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 704 (18.23%) Analyst
2 567 (14.69%) Architect
3 488 (12.64%) Lead
4 433 (11.21%) Business Analyst
5 381 (9.87%) Senior
6 293 (7.59%) Project Manager
7 272 (7.04%) Consultant
8 163 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
9 147 (3.81%) Developer
10 119 (3.08%) Data Analyst
11 103 (2.67%) Change Manager
12 97 (2.51%) Delivery Manager
13 96 (2.49%) Senior Analyst
14 83 (2.15%) Senior Manager
15 80 (2.07%) Data Architect
16 77 (1.99%) Programme Manager
16 77 (1.99%) Security Architect
17 76 (1.97%) Designer
18 72 (1.86%) Product Manager
19 70 (1.81%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (2.67%) REST
2 59 (1.53%) Middleware
3 48 (1.24%) Spring
4 46 (1.19%) React
5 45 (1.17%) JSON
6 43 (1.11%) Kafka
7 41 (1.06%) SOAP
8 38 (0.98%) Spring Boot
9 37 (0.96%) .NET
10 36 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
11 35 (0.91%) PySpark
11 35 (0.91%) XML
12 31 (0.80%) SailPoint
13 29 (0.75%) OpenID
14 28 (0.73%) OAuth
15 27 (0.70%) SAML
16 23 (0.60%) LDAP
17 22 (0.57%) RESTful
18 21 (0.54%) HTML
19 20 (0.52%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 259 (6.71%) Product Ownership
2 203 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 164 (4.25%) Cloud Native
4 100 (2.59%) Management Information System
5 98 (2.54%) Data Structures
6 73 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
6 73 (1.89%) Operational Technology
7 72 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
8 70 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
9 63 (1.63%) NHS
10 61 (1.58%) Data Centre
11 59 (1.53%) CMDB
12 58 (1.50%) Virtual Team
13 49 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
14 46 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
15 42 (1.09%) AI Agents
15 42 (1.09%) Security Posture
16 39 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
17 35 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
18 33 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 111 (2.87%) Windows
2 53 (1.37%) Linux
3 27 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.39%) Unix
5 14 (0.36%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.21%) VMS
8 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.10%) Android
10 3 (0.078%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.078%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.078%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.026%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,107 (28.67%) Agile
2 820 (21.24%) Stakeholder Management
3 815 (21.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 560 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
5 557 (14.43%) Migration
6 542 (14.04%) Decision-Making
7 506 (13.11%) Roadmaps
8 477 (12.35%) DevOps
9 465 (12.04%) Change Management
10 448 (11.60%) Workshop Facilitation
11 428 (11.09%) AI
12 405 (10.49%) Analytics
13 383 (9.92%) Risk Management
14 374 (9.69%) CI/CD
15 352 (9.12%) Business Intelligence
16 341 (8.83%) Cybersecurity
17 334 (8.65%) Project Delivery
18 326 (8.44%) ERP
19 315 (8.16%) Data Modelling
20 313 (8.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 328 (8.50%) SQL
2 271 (7.02%) Python
3 127 (3.29%) Java
4 71 (1.84%) JavaScript
5 61 (1.58%) PowerShell
6 52 (1.35%) C#
7 46 (1.19%) TypeScript
8 44 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 35 (0.91%) Bash
10 21 (0.54%) Bicep
11 20 (0.52%) VBA
12 17 (0.44%) Scala
13 16 (0.41%) Apex Code
14 13 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.31%) T-SQL
16 11 (0.28%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.23%) Korn
18 7 (0.18%) ABAP
18 7 (0.18%) R
19 5 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 978 (25.33%) Security Cleared
2 741 (19.19%) SC Cleared
3 279 (7.23%) Degree
4 157 (4.07%) DV Cleared
5 137 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 118 (3.06%) PMI Certification
7 105 (2.72%) PMP
8 101 (2.62%) CISSP
9 69 (1.79%) Azure Certification
10 65 (1.68%) CISM
11 60 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
12 42 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
13 41 (1.06%) AWS Certification
14 35 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
15 32 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 30 (0.78%) Master's Degree
16 30 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 26 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 24 (0.62%) ACCA
18 24 (0.62%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (7.46%) Data Quality
2 197 (5.10%) PMO
3 178 (4.61%) QA
4 159 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 158 (4.09%) GDPR
6 156 (4.04%) NIST
7 102 (2.64%) Accessibility
8 88 (2.28%) GRC
9 56 (1.45%) NCSC
10 45 (1.17%) SLA
11 28 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
12 25 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
12 25 (0.65%) WCAG
13 23 (0.60%) PCI DSS
14 18 (0.47%) SOC 2
15 17 (0.44%) ISO 20022
16 14 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 13 (0.34%) COBIT
18 12 (0.31%) NIST 800
19 10 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 101 (2.62%) Active Directory
2 81 (2.10%) Docker
3 40 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.44%) vSphere
5 15 (0.39%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.10%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.078%) NFS
10 1 (0.026%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.026%) Firmware
10 1 (0.026%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.026%) KVM
Systems Management
1 148 (3.83%) Terraform
2 139 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 43 (1.11%) Ansible
4 33 (0.85%) Grafana
4 33 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 30 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (0.34%) SCCM
7 11 (0.28%) HP ALM
8 10 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.18%) vRealize
10 6 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.16%) NetBackup
11 4 (0.10%) Podman
11 4 (0.10%) VxRail
12 3 (0.078%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.078%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 3 (0.078%) SCOM
12 3 (0.078%) vMotion
12 3 (0.078%) WSUS
Vendors
1 645 (16.71%) Microsoft
2 273 (7.07%) SAP
3 237 (6.14%) ServiceNow
4 180 (4.66%) Oracle
5 114 (2.95%) Salesforce
6 113 (2.93%) Databricks
7 69 (1.79%) Google
8 56 (1.45%) Cisco
9 52 (1.35%) IBM
9 52 (1.35%) VMware
10 48 (1.24%) Workday
11 42 (1.09%) Splunk
12 29 (0.75%) CyberArk
13 27 (0.70%) MuleSoft
14 22 (0.57%) Palo Alto
15 21 (0.54%) Zscaler
16 20 (0.52%) Ariba
16 20 (0.52%) Citrix
16 20 (0.52%) IFS
17 18 (0.47%) Adobe