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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 28 138
Rank change year-on-year +3 +110 +25
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,191 2,116 695
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.64% 6.41% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.05% 7.08% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,856 1,422 439
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -2.64% -
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 118 35 10
10th Percentile £26.21 £23.80 £25.75
25th Percentile £41.00 £27.52 £32.38
Median hourly rate £65.20 £47.00 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +38.72% -19.21% +2.98%
75th Percentile £83.06 £64.82 £60.95
90th Percentile £89.83 £73.75 £70.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.70 £32.74 £58.30
% change year-on-year +106.80% -43.85% +3.20%

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 46,295 29,870 32,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.37% 90.52% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,040 18,573 20,019
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £627 £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 3,185 1,844 1,407
10th Percentile £13.72 £14.33 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.91% -47.67% +1.18%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +3 3,517 £550 - 2,807
UK excluding London +6 1,933 £525 - 1,814
London 0 1,752 £550 - 1,255
Work from Home +9 1,429 £525 - 1,416
South East +8 499 £550 +2.61% 488
North of England +4 494 £500 -3.15% 426
Midlands +5 337 £500 -6.93% 284
West Midlands +7 270 £500 -5.84% 196
South West -4 232 £550 - 224
Scotland +23 227 £500 +8.70% 158
North West 0 223 £525 - 243
Yorkshire -1 202 £500 -4.31% 129
East of England +7 115 £518 -15.85% 137
North East +7 77 £450 -5.26% 56
East Midlands +9 65 £525 -4.55% 88
Wales +16 57 £525 +27.27% 30
Northern Ireland -2 6 £413 -21.43% 82
Channel Islands -3 4 £588 +27.03% 2

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
1 172 (4.10%) SharePoint
2 168 (4.01%) Confluence
3 38 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (0.88%) Apache
5 36 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 36 (0.86%) CMS
6 27 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 26 (0.62%) SAS
8 10 (0.24%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.14%) WordPress
10 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.095%) OpenEdge
11 4 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.072%) Drupal
12 3 (0.072%) IIS
12 3 (0.072%) Kentico
13 2 (0.048%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.048%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.048%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 190 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 88 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (1.38%) MS Visio
5 51 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.19%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.19%) Navisworks
7 8 (0.19%) ProjectWise
7 8 (0.19%) Revit
8 7 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.17%) Trello
9 3 (0.072%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.072%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.072%) Sketch
10 2 (0.048%) InDesign
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Notion
Business Applications
1 123 (2.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.57%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 15 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.29%) Maximo
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
8 11 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
8 11 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (0.26%) Primavera
8 11 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 10 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
9 10 (0.24%) SAP QM
10 9 (0.21%) SAP CO
10 9 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.21%) SAP SD
11 8 (0.19%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 794 (18.95%) Azure
2 552 (13.17%) AWS
3 430 (10.26%) Power Platform
4 216 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
5 202 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
6 188 (4.49%) GCP
7 139 (3.32%) Entra ID
8 132 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
9 102 (2.43%) SaaS
10 100 (2.39%) Power Automate
11 91 (2.17%) GitHub
12 80 (1.91%) Snowflake
13 78 (1.86%) Microsoft Copilot
14 74 (1.77%) Microsoft Purview
14 74 (1.77%) Serverless
15 73 (1.74%) PowerApps
16 65 (1.55%) Amazon S3
17 59 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
18 56 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
19 47 (1.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 73 (1.74%) Network Security
2 69 (1.65%) Firewall
3 50 (1.19%) DNS
4 40 (0.95%) VPN
4 40 (0.95%) WAN
5 30 (0.72%) DHCP
5 30 (0.72%) LAN
6 24 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 18 (0.43%) Internet
7 18 (0.43%) SD-WAN
7 18 (0.43%) VLAN
8 17 (0.41%) Wireless
9 14 (0.33%) 5G
10 13 (0.31%) BGP
11 12 (0.29%) Kerberos
11 12 (0.29%) VoIP
12 11 (0.26%) Intranet
12 11 (0.26%) OSPF
12 11 (0.26%) SSL
12 11 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 328 (7.83%) Power BI
2 167 (3.98%) Metadata
3 96 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
4 93 (2.22%) Data Lake
5 74 (1.77%) SQL Server
6 44 (1.05%) Tableau
7 37 (0.88%) Relational Database
8 30 (0.72%) Power Query
9 29 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (0.64%) DynamoDB
11 25 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (0.60%) BigQuery
12 23 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 22 (0.52%) Oracle Database
13 22 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
14 20 (0.48%) MongoDB
14 20 (0.48%) NoSQL
15 19 (0.45%) Big Data
16 18 (0.43%) Data Vault
16 18 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 261 (6.23%) JIRA
2 90 (2.15%) Git
3 60 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.36%) GitLab
5 29 (0.69%) Postman
6 28 (0.67%) Selenium
7 17 (0.41%) Cucumber
7 17 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
9 12 (0.29%) Hudson
9 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (0.21%) ERwin
11 8 (0.19%) JMeter
11 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
11 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.17%) JUnit
12 7 (0.17%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.17%) Zephyr
13 6 (0.14%) Maven
13 6 (0.14%) MLflow
General
1 1,962 (46.81%) Social Skills
2 1,120 (26.72%) Finance
3 865 (20.64%) Public Sector
4 684 (16.32%) Analytical Skills
5 255 (6.08%) Influencing Skills
6 235 (5.61%) Banking
7 183 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
8 174 (4.15%) Organisational Skills
9 141 (3.36%) Legal
10 131 (3.13%) Retail
11 123 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 115 (2.74%) Local Government
13 110 (2.62%) Manufacturing
14 85 (2.03%) Marketing
15 83 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
16 79 (1.88%) Military
17 78 (1.86%) Telecoms
18 65 (1.55%) Law
19 62 (1.48%) Aerospace
20 43 (1.03%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 701 (16.73%) Analyst
2 621 (14.82%) Architect
3 503 (12.00%) Lead
4 441 (10.52%) Senior
5 408 (9.74%) Business Analyst
6 307 (7.33%) Consultant
7 295 (7.04%) Project Manager
8 229 (5.46%) Developer
9 189 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
10 126 (3.01%) Data Architect
11 117 (2.79%) Data Analyst
12 111 (2.65%) Change Manager
13 106 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
14 90 (2.15%) Designer
15 88 (2.10%) Data Engineer
15 88 (2.10%) Senior Manager
16 86 (2.05%) Delivery Manager
17 82 (1.96%) Technical Architect
18 80 (1.91%) IT Manager
19 74 (1.77%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (4.44%) Terraform
2 125 (2.98%) REST
3 67 (1.60%) .NET
4 60 (1.43%) JSON
4 60 (1.43%) Kafka
5 51 (1.22%) SOAP
6 48 (1.15%) PySpark
7 47 (1.12%) XML
8 46 (1.10%) Spring
9 45 (1.07%) Middleware
9 45 (1.07%) React
10 43 (1.03%) Spring Boot
11 40 (0.95%) OAuth
11 40 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
12 37 (0.88%) RESTful
13 36 (0.86%) Web Services
14 34 (0.81%) SAML
15 32 (0.76%) LDAP
15 32 (0.76%) OpenID
16 29 (0.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 285 (6.80%) Product Ownership
2 245 (5.85%) Onboarding
3 191 (4.56%) Cloud Native
4 147 (3.51%) Management Information System
5 99 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
6 94 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
7 88 (2.10%) Data Structures
8 78 (1.86%) AI Agents
9 75 (1.79%) NHS
10 71 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
10 71 (1.69%) Operational Technology
11 68 (1.62%) Data Centre
12 59 (1.41%) Security Posture
13 56 (1.34%) Virtual Team
14 55 (1.31%) CMDB
15 52 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
16 50 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
17 44 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
18 32 (0.76%) PKI
19 29 (0.69%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 130 (3.10%) Windows
2 80 (1.91%) Linux
3 37 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.38%) Unix
5 14 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.17%) Android
7 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.14%) VMS
9 4 (0.095%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.072%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.048%) AIX
11 2 (0.048%) HPUX
11 2 (0.048%) Solaris
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.024%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,271 (30.33%) Agile
2 1,110 (26.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 945 (22.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 676 (16.13%) Decision-Making
5 650 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
6 590 (14.08%) Roadmaps
7 564 (13.46%) Migration
8 549 (13.10%) Workshop Facilitation
9 544 (12.98%) AI
10 533 (12.72%) DevOps
11 485 (11.57%) Analytics
12 482 (11.50%) Change Management
13 442 (10.55%) CI/CD
14 422 (10.07%) Risk Management
15 402 (9.59%) Project Delivery
16 380 (9.07%) Cybersecurity
17 379 (9.04%) Business Intelligence
18 373 (8.90%) Data Governance
19 358 (8.54%) Data Modelling
20 341 (8.14%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 399 (9.52%) SQL
2 297 (7.09%) Python
3 127 (3.03%) Java
4 104 (2.48%) JavaScript
5 94 (2.24%) PowerShell
6 88 (2.10%) C#
7 53 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 51 (1.22%) Bash
9 46 (1.10%) TypeScript
10 28 (0.67%) Bicep
11 21 (0.50%) Scala
12 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.24%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.24%) Korn
15 9 (0.21%) Groovy
16 8 (0.19%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.19%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.14%) VBA
18 4 (0.095%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,210 (28.87%) Security Cleared
2 939 (22.41%) SC Cleared
3 260 (6.20%) Degree
4 200 (4.77%) DV Cleared
5 162 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 111 (2.65%) CISSP
6 111 (2.65%) PMI Certification
7 106 (2.53%) PMP
8 69 (1.65%) Azure Certification
8 69 (1.65%) CISM
9 66 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
10 59 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 44 (1.05%) AWS Certification
12 37 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 36 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
14 34 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 31 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
16 28 (0.67%) Master's Degree
17 27 (0.64%) ISTQB
18 25 (0.60%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 357 (8.52%) Data Quality
2 191 (4.56%) PMO
3 179 (4.27%) QA
4 173 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 165 (3.94%) NIST
6 163 (3.89%) GDPR
7 129 (3.08%) Accessibility
8 103 (2.46%) GRC
9 81 (1.93%) NCSC
10 43 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
11 39 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
12 37 (0.88%) WCAG
13 34 (0.81%) SLA
14 18 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 15 (0.36%) PCI DSS
15 15 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.33%) JSP 440
16 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
17 12 (0.29%) ITGC
18 11 (0.26%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 130 (3.10%) Active Directory
2 100 (2.39%) Docker
3 54 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.45%) VMware NSX
5 18 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.33%) vSphere
7 12 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.072%) 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%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 159 (3.79%) Kubernetes
2 51 (1.22%) Ansible
3 43 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (0.76%) Grafana
5 30 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
6 28 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (0.26%) SCCM
9 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
10 6 (0.14%) VxRail
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
12 4 (0.095%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.095%) Istio
12 4 (0.095%) QRadar
12 4 (0.095%) vRealize
13 3 (0.072%) Argo
13 3 (0.072%) Kibana
13 3 (0.072%) McAfee ePO
13 3 (0.072%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.072%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 829 (19.78%) Microsoft
2 248 (5.92%) SAP
3 229 (5.46%) ServiceNow
4 188 (4.49%) Oracle
5 160 (3.82%) Databricks
6 104 (2.48%) Salesforce
7 95 (2.27%) Google
8 72 (1.72%) VMware
9 64 (1.53%) Cisco
10 55 (1.31%) Workday
11 53 (1.26%) Splunk
12 42 (1.00%) IBM
13 31 (0.74%) CyberArk
14 28 (0.67%) Ariba
15 27 (0.64%) MuleSoft
16 24 (0.57%) Dynatrace
16 24 (0.57%) Palo Alto
17 23 (0.55%) Informatica
18 21 (0.50%) Adobe
18 21 (0.50%) Okta
3,262 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide