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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 30 135
Rank change year-on-year +5 +105 +27
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,188 2,000 685
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.67% 6.06% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.06% 6.70% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,831 1,342 447
10th Percentile £363 £359 £363
25th Percentile £450 £427 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £528 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% -1.77% -2.27%
75th Percentile £642 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £506
% change year-on-year - +3.81% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 33 13
10th Percentile £24.45 £25.36 £26.30
25th Percentile £43.50 £30.11 £50.00
Median hourly rate £66.56 £47.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +41.62% -19.38% +3.20%
75th Percentile £84.38 £63.75 £70.39
90th Percentile £94.50 £73.30 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.89 £32.74 £59.45
% change year-on-year +107.39% -44.94% +5.24%

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 46,202 29,871 32,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.62% 90.47% 85.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,118 18,549 20,447
10th Percentile £325 £300 £311
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,059 1,786 1,512
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.71
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.30 £20.09
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +76.76% -47.37% +8.72%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +4 3,538 £547 +1.30% 1,488
UK excluding London +6 1,947 £525 - 1,011
London +3 1,752 £550 - 680
Work from Home +10 1,416 £525 - 780
South East +10 504 £568 +3.23% 317
North of England +5 496 £500 -2.21% 213
Midlands +5 339 £500 -4.76% 173
West Midlands +5 263 £500 -2.91% 121
North West +2 234 £513 -2.35% 116
South West -2 232 £550 - 146
Scotland +31 223 £500 +13.64% 62
Yorkshire -4 196 £500 +1.27% 61
East of England +20 121 £533 -9.67% 66
North East +9 74 £453 +0.56% 37
East Midlands +21 72 £525 -8.70% 52
Wales +13 54 £525 +23.53% 16
Northern Ireland +1 8 £319 -38.55% 25
Channel Islands -1 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
1 169 (4.04%) Confluence
2 165 (3.94%) SharePoint
3 37 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (0.86%) Apache
4 36 (0.86%) CMS
5 35 (0.84%) Apache Spark
6 27 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 27 (0.64%) SAS
7 8 (0.19%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.14%) WordPress
9 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.096%) OpenEdge
10 4 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.072%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.072%) Drupal
11 3 (0.072%) IIS
11 3 (0.072%) Kentico
11 3 (0.072%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.048%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.048%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 190 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 87 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.41%) MS Visio
5 56 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.17%) Navisworks
8 7 (0.17%) ProjectWise
8 7 (0.17%) Revit
8 7 (0.17%) Trello
9 3 (0.072%) Sketch
10 2 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.048%) InDesign
10 2 (0.048%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 131 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (0.55%) Workday HCM
4 20 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 13 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.29%) Maximo
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.26%) Primavera
8 11 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 10 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 9 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
10 9 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
10 9 (0.21%) SAP CO
10 9 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 803 (19.17%) Azure
2 549 (13.11%) AWS
3 442 (10.55%) Power Platform
4 205 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
5 204 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
6 183 (4.37%) GCP
7 151 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
8 138 (3.30%) Entra ID
9 96 (2.29%) SaaS
10 95 (2.27%) Power Automate
11 92 (2.20%) GitHub
12 73 (1.74%) Snowflake
13 71 (1.70%) PowerApps
13 71 (1.70%) Serverless
14 70 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
15 68 (1.62%) Microsoft Purview
16 61 (1.46%) Amazon S3
17 59 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
18 57 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
19 48 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 69 (1.65%) Network Security
2 67 (1.60%) Firewall
3 50 (1.19%) DNS
4 39 (0.93%) WAN
5 36 (0.86%) VPN
6 31 (0.74%) LAN
7 26 (0.62%) DHCP
8 23 (0.55%) TCP/IP
9 18 (0.43%) 5G
9 18 (0.43%) SD-WAN
9 18 (0.43%) Wireless
10 17 (0.41%) Internet
11 16 (0.38%) VLAN
12 14 (0.33%) BGP
13 13 (0.31%) OSPF
13 13 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (0.29%) Intranet
14 12 (0.29%) VoIP
15 11 (0.26%) Kerberos
15 11 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 349 (8.33%) Power BI
2 155 (3.70%) Metadata
3 96 (2.29%) Data Lake
3 96 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
4 73 (1.74%) SQL Server
5 45 (1.07%) Tableau
6 36 (0.86%) Relational Database
7 33 (0.79%) Power Query
8 31 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (0.57%) DynamoDB
10 23 (0.55%) Oracle Database
11 22 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (0.50%) BigQuery
13 20 (0.48%) Big Data
13 20 (0.48%) NoSQL
13 20 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
14 18 (0.43%) Data Vault
14 18 (0.43%) Looker
15 16 (0.38%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 268 (6.40%) JIRA
2 95 (2.27%) Git
3 62 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 58 (1.38%) GitLab
5 29 (0.69%) Postman
5 29 (0.69%) Selenium
6 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
7 15 (0.36%) Cucumber
7 15 (0.36%) Cypress.io
7 15 (0.36%) Hudson
8 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 11 (0.26%) ERwin
10 10 (0.24%) JMeter
11 8 (0.19%) JUnit
11 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
11 8 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
11 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.19%) Zephyr
12 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,943 (46.39%) Social Skills
2 1,160 (27.70%) Finance
3 829 (19.79%) Public Sector
4 693 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
5 239 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
6 233 (5.56%) Banking
7 179 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
8 170 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
9 146 (3.49%) Legal
10 138 (3.30%) Retail
11 117 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 112 (2.67%) Local Government
13 102 (2.44%) Manufacturing
14 89 (2.13%) Law
15 85 (2.03%) Marketing
15 85 (2.03%) Telecoms
16 77 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
17 75 (1.79%) Military
18 62 (1.48%) Aerospace
19 41 (0.98%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 709 (16.93%) Analyst
2 640 (15.28%) Architect
3 520 (12.42%) Lead
4 430 (10.27%) Senior
5 407 (9.72%) Business Analyst
6 300 (7.16%) Consultant
7 295 (7.04%) Project Manager
8 221 (5.28%) Developer
9 190 (4.54%) Solutions Architect
10 123 (2.94%) Data Analyst
10 123 (2.94%) Data Architect
11 113 (2.70%) Change Manager
12 100 (2.39%) Senior Analyst
13 91 (2.17%) Senior Manager
14 90 (2.15%) Data Engineer
15 85 (2.03%) Delivery Manager
16 83 (1.98%) Designer
16 83 (1.98%) Technical Architect
17 79 (1.89%) IT Manager
18 76 (1.81%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (4.35%) Terraform
2 119 (2.84%) REST
3 68 (1.62%) .NET
4 60 (1.43%) JSON
5 53 (1.27%) Kafka
6 51 (1.22%) PySpark
7 49 (1.17%) Middleware
7 49 (1.17%) SOAP
8 46 (1.10%) XML
9 45 (1.07%) React
9 45 (1.07%) Spring
10 41 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
11 40 (0.96%) Spring Boot
12 38 (0.91%) OAuth
13 35 (0.84%) SAML
14 34 (0.81%) Web Services
15 33 (0.79%) RESTful
16 32 (0.76%) OpenID
17 30 (0.72%) LDAP
18 28 (0.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 289 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 241 (5.75%) Onboarding
3 186 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 146 (3.49%) Management Information System
5 96 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 94 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
7 90 (2.15%) Data Structures
8 75 (1.79%) AI Agents
9 74 (1.77%) NHS
10 71 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
11 69 (1.65%) Data Centre
12 68 (1.62%) Operational Technology
13 62 (1.48%) Virtual Team
14 55 (1.31%) CMDB
15 54 (1.29%) Security Posture
16 51 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
17 47 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
18 46 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
19 30 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
19 30 (0.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.08%) Windows
2 79 (1.89%) Linux
3 35 (0.84%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.38%) Unix
5 14 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.19%) Android
8 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.17%) VMS
9 5 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.12%) 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%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,259 (30.06%) Agile
2 1,054 (25.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 955 (22.80%) Continuous Improvement
4 668 (15.95%) Decision-Making
5 645 (15.40%) Problem-Solving
6 591 (14.11%) Migration
7 574 (13.71%) Roadmaps
8 542 (12.94%) Workshop Facilitation
9 533 (12.73%) DevOps
10 519 (12.39%) AI
11 492 (11.75%) Change Management
12 478 (11.41%) Analytics
13 450 (10.74%) CI/CD
14 419 (10.00%) Risk Management
15 412 (9.84%) Project Delivery
16 402 (9.60%) Business Intelligence
17 371 (8.86%) Cybersecurity
18 357 (8.52%) Data Modelling
19 355 (8.48%) Data Governance
20 330 (7.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 395 (9.43%) SQL
2 307 (7.33%) Python
3 127 (3.03%) Java
4 98 (2.34%) JavaScript
5 87 (2.08%) C#
6 86 (2.05%) PowerShell
7 52 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 50 (1.19%) Bash
9 45 (1.07%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.64%) Bicep
11 21 (0.50%) Scala
12 15 (0.36%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 12 (0.29%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.24%) Korn
15 9 (0.21%) Groovy
15 9 (0.21%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.21%) VBA
16 8 (0.19%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.12%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,177 (28.10%) Security Cleared
2 902 (21.54%) SC Cleared
3 255 (6.09%) Degree
4 203 (4.85%) DV Cleared
5 159 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 120 (2.87%) PMI Certification
7 113 (2.70%) CISSP
7 113 (2.70%) PMP
8 73 (1.74%) CISM
9 71 (1.70%) Azure Certification
10 69 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
11 56 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
12 46 (1.10%) AWS Certification
13 38 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 34 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
15 33 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
16 32 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 29 (0.69%) Master's Degree
18 26 (0.62%) APMG
18 26 (0.62%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 345 (8.24%) Data Quality
2 209 (4.99%) PMO
3 187 (4.47%) QA
4 177 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 174 (4.15%) GDPR
6 165 (3.94%) NIST
7 121 (2.89%) Accessibility
8 94 (2.24%) GRC
9 72 (1.72%) NCSC
10 36 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
11 35 (0.84%) WCAG
12 33 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
12 33 (0.79%) SLA
13 18 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 17 (0.41%) PCI DSS
15 16 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
17 13 (0.31%) JSP 440
18 12 (0.29%) ISO 20022
18 12 (0.29%) ITGC
System Software
1 126 (3.01%) Active Directory
2 99 (2.36%) Docker
3 52 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.45%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.38%) vSphere
6 15 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.048%) Firmware
9 2 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.024%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.024%) IAG
10 1 (0.024%) KVM
10 1 (0.024%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 156 (3.72%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.17%) Ansible
3 39 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (0.79%) Grafana
5 31 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (0.26%) SCCM
9 9 (0.21%) NetBackup
10 6 (0.14%) VxRail
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
12 4 (0.096%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.096%) Istio
12 4 (0.096%) QRadar
12 4 (0.096%) vRealize
13 3 (0.072%) Argo
13 3 (0.072%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.072%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.072%) Puppet
14 2 (0.048%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 816 (19.48%) Microsoft
2 268 (6.40%) SAP
3 231 (5.52%) ServiceNow
4 193 (4.61%) Oracle
5 164 (3.92%) Databricks
6 110 (2.63%) Salesforce
7 91 (2.17%) Google
8 69 (1.65%) VMware
9 61 (1.46%) Cisco
10 51 (1.22%) Splunk
10 51 (1.22%) Workday
11 43 (1.03%) IBM
12 33 (0.79%) CyberArk
13 28 (0.67%) MuleSoft
14 27 (0.64%) Ariba
15 26 (0.62%) Informatica
16 23 (0.55%) Dynatrace
16 23 (0.55%) Palo Alto
17 21 (0.50%) Okta
18 20 (0.48%) Adobe