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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
7 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 131
Rank change year-on-year +2 +104 +41
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,228 2,221 688
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.70% 6.73% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.10% 7.43% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,869 1,490 426
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -3.82% -
75th Percentile £644 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -0.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 40 10
10th Percentile £24.50 £21.30 £21.93
25th Percentile £40.75 £28.16 £26.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.25 £54.02
Median % change year-on-year +37.57% -12.54% -4.37%
75th Percentile £80.00 £65.04 £60.44
90th Percentile £87.78 £74.13 £61.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.70 £32.74 £58.17
% change year-on-year +106.80% -43.73% +2.98%

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 46,438 29,893 32,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.57% 90.54% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,948 18,567 19,512
10th Percentile £325 £295 £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 £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,331 1,864 1,314
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.08 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.87 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.56% -39.40% -2.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.20 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.13 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +70.85% -48.10% +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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 +1 3,542 £550 +2.33% 2,994
UK excluding London +6 1,946 £525 - 1,843
London -1 1,763 £555 +0.91% 1,355
Work from Home +5 1,444 £525 - 1,420
South East +9 502 £563 +4.17% 506
North of England +3 500 £500 -3.85% 416
Midlands +7 342 £500 -4.76% 291
West Midlands +3 278 £500 -4.76% 198
South West -4 235 £550 +2.33% 240
North West +6 228 £514 +0.29% 235
Scotland +24 223 £500 +11.11% 165
Yorkshire -8 201 £500 -4.76% 136
East of England +13 112 £505 -16.42% 148
North East +10 80 £453 -4.63% 47
East Midlands 0 63 £525 +16.67% 93
Wales +18 58 £525 +27.27% 43
Northern Ireland 0 6 £413 -24.14% 48
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
1 176 (4.16%) SharePoint
2 170 (4.02%) Confluence
3 36 (0.85%) CMS
4 35 (0.83%) Apache
4 35 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 34 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 27 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 21 (0.50%) SAS
8 10 (0.24%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.14%) WordPress
10 4 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.071%) Drupal
11 3 (0.071%) IIS
11 3 (0.071%) Kentico
12 2 (0.047%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.047%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.047%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.047%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 197 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 90 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 56 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
5 54 (1.28%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.21%) AutoCAD
7 9 (0.21%) Navisworks
7 9 (0.21%) Revit
8 8 (0.19%) ProjectWise
9 7 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.17%) Trello
10 3 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.071%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.047%) InDesign
11 2 (0.047%) Sketch
12 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
12 1 (0.024%) Notion
Business Applications
1 124 (2.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 62 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.57%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 14 (0.33%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.31%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 13 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.28%) Maximo
8 12 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.26%) Primavera
10 10 (0.24%) iTrent
10 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 10 (0.24%) SAP QM
11 9 (0.21%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 790 (18.68%) Azure
2 545 (12.89%) AWS
3 438 (10.36%) Power Platform
4 222 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
5 208 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
6 183 (4.33%) GCP
7 137 (3.24%) Entra ID
8 118 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
9 101 (2.39%) Power Automate
9 101 (2.39%) SaaS
10 93 (2.20%) GitHub
11 82 (1.94%) Snowflake
12 80 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
13 76 (1.80%) PowerApps
14 74 (1.75%) Serverless
15 73 (1.73%) Microsoft Purview
16 64 (1.51%) Amazon S3
17 57 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
18 55 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
19 48 (1.14%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 71 (1.68%) Network Security
2 66 (1.56%) Firewall
3 46 (1.09%) DNS
4 38 (0.90%) WAN
5 37 (0.88%) VPN
6 28 (0.66%) LAN
7 27 (0.64%) DHCP
8 22 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 16 (0.38%) Internet
9 16 (0.38%) SD-WAN
9 16 (0.38%) VLAN
10 15 (0.35%) Wireless
11 14 (0.33%) 5G
12 12 (0.28%) BGP
12 12 (0.28%) VoIP
13 11 (0.26%) Kerberos
14 10 (0.24%) HTTP
14 10 (0.24%) Intranet
14 10 (0.24%) OSPF
14 10 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 331 (7.83%) Power BI
2 168 (3.97%) Metadata
3 102 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
4 95 (2.25%) Data Lake
5 73 (1.73%) SQL Server
6 50 (1.18%) Tableau
7 35 (0.83%) Relational Database
8 33 (0.78%) Power Query
9 29 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
10 28 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (0.59%) BigQuery
11 25 (0.59%) DynamoDB
12 23 (0.54%) Star Schema
13 22 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
14 21 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
14 21 (0.50%) NoSQL
15 19 (0.45%) Big Data
15 19 (0.45%) MongoDB
15 19 (0.45%) Oracle Database
16 18 (0.43%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 265 (6.27%) JIRA
2 95 (2.25%) Git
3 64 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.35%) GitLab
5 32 (0.76%) Selenium
6 28 (0.66%) Postman
7 19 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
10 12 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (0.21%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.21%) ERwin
11 9 (0.21%) JUnit
12 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.19%) REST Assured
12 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.17%) Hudson
13 7 (0.17%) JMeter
13 7 (0.17%) Maven
General
1 1,982 (46.88%) Social Skills
2 1,113 (26.32%) Finance
3 910 (21.52%) Public Sector
4 697 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
5 264 (6.24%) Influencing Skills
6 232 (5.49%) Banking
7 189 (4.47%) Documentation Skills
8 184 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
9 145 (3.43%) Legal
10 124 (2.93%) Retail
11 121 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 119 (2.81%) Manufacturing
13 114 (2.70%) Local Government
14 88 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
15 86 (2.03%) Military
16 84 (1.99%) Marketing
17 77 (1.82%) Telecoms
18 69 (1.63%) Aerospace
19 55 (1.30%) Law
20 46 (1.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 707 (16.72%) Analyst
2 612 (14.47%) Architect
3 505 (11.94%) Lead
4 448 (10.60%) Senior
5 419 (9.91%) Business Analyst
6 295 (6.98%) Consultant
7 288 (6.81%) Project Manager
8 237 (5.61%) Developer
9 183 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
10 128 (3.03%) Data Architect
11 121 (2.86%) Change Manager
12 119 (2.81%) Data Analyst
13 108 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
14 89 (2.11%) Designer
15 87 (2.06%) Data Engineer
15 87 (2.06%) Technical Architect
16 85 (2.01%) Senior Manager
17 84 (1.99%) Delivery Manager
18 77 (1.82%) IT Manager
19 76 (1.80%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (4.30%) Terraform
2 126 (2.98%) REST
3 68 (1.61%) .NET
4 59 (1.40%) JSON
5 57 (1.35%) Kafka
6 51 (1.21%) SOAP
7 48 (1.14%) Spring
8 47 (1.11%) PySpark
8 47 (1.11%) XML
9 46 (1.09%) Middleware
10 45 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
11 43 (1.02%) React
11 43 (1.02%) Spring Boot
12 35 (0.83%) Web Services
13 34 (0.80%) OAuth
13 34 (0.80%) RESTful
14 28 (0.66%) LDAP
14 28 (0.66%) Node.js
15 27 (0.64%) HTML
16 26 (0.61%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 285 (6.74%) Product Ownership
2 246 (5.82%) Onboarding
3 198 (4.68%) Cloud Native
4 150 (3.55%) Management Information System
5 101 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
6 94 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 91 (2.15%) Data Structures
8 85 (2.01%) AI Agents
9 75 (1.77%) NHS
10 73 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
11 72 (1.70%) Operational Technology
12 69 (1.63%) Data Centre
13 60 (1.42%) Security Posture
14 56 (1.32%) Virtual Team
15 54 (1.28%) CMDB
16 52 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
17 51 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
18 40 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
19 32 (0.76%) Taxonomies
20 30 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 125 (2.96%) Windows
2 79 (1.87%) Linux
3 37 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (0.33%) Unix
5 9 (0.21%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.14%) Android
6 6 (0.14%) VMS
7 5 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.095%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.071%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.047%) AIX
10 2 (0.047%) HPUX
10 2 (0.047%) Solaris
11 1 (0.024%) CentOS
11 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.024%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,282 (30.32%) Agile
2 1,164 (27.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 942 (22.28%) Continuous Improvement
4 695 (16.44%) Decision-Making
5 661 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
6 610 (14.43%) Roadmaps
7 584 (13.81%) Workshop Facilitation
8 566 (13.39%) AI
9 553 (13.08%) Migration
10 534 (12.63%) DevOps
11 487 (11.52%) Analytics
11 487 (11.52%) Change Management
12 443 (10.48%) CI/CD
13 429 (10.15%) Risk Management
14 412 (9.74%) Project Delivery
15 387 (9.15%) Business Intelligence
16 382 (9.04%) Data Governance
17 379 (8.96%) Cybersecurity
18 370 (8.75%) Data Modelling
19 362 (8.56%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 411 (9.72%) SQL
2 304 (7.19%) Python
3 128 (3.03%) Java
4 105 (2.48%) JavaScript
5 97 (2.29%) PowerShell
6 89 (2.11%) C#
7 55 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 52 (1.23%) Bash
9 42 (0.99%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.64%) Bicep
11 21 (0.50%) Scala
12 16 (0.38%) T-SQL
13 13 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.24%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.24%) Korn
15 9 (0.21%) Groovy
16 7 (0.17%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.14%) VBA
18 4 (0.095%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,227 (29.02%) Security Cleared
2 958 (22.66%) SC Cleared
3 255 (6.03%) Degree
4 200 (4.73%) DV Cleared
5 183 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 112 (2.65%) PMI Certification
7 110 (2.60%) CISSP
8 107 (2.53%) PMP
9 68 (1.61%) CISM
10 66 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
11 65 (1.54%) Azure Certification
12 60 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
13 41 (0.97%) AWS Certification
14 34 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 33 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
16 31 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 30 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
18 26 (0.61%) ACCA
18 26 (0.61%) APMG
18 26 (0.61%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 373 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 189 (4.47%) PMO
3 188 (4.45%) QA
4 168 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 163 (3.86%) GDPR
6 161 (3.81%) NIST
7 139 (3.29%) Accessibility
8 98 (2.32%) GRC
9 85 (2.01%) NCSC
10 52 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
11 39 (0.92%) WCAG
12 38 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
13 35 (0.83%) SLA
14 18 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 15 (0.35%) NIST 800
15 15 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.33%) JSP 440
17 13 (0.31%) PCI DSS
18 12 (0.28%) GxP
18 12 (0.28%) ITGC
System Software
1 124 (2.93%) Active Directory
2 107 (2.53%) Docker
3 56 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.45%) VMware NSX
5 18 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.33%) vSphere
7 12 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.071%) 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
1 172 (4.07%) Kubernetes
2 51 (1.21%) Ansible
3 41 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (0.73%) Grafana
5 27 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
8 10 (0.24%) SCCM
9 6 (0.14%) VxRail
10 5 (0.12%) QRadar
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 4 (0.095%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.095%) Istio
11 4 (0.095%) vRealize
12 3 (0.071%) Argo
12 3 (0.071%) McAfee ePO
12 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.071%) Puppet
12 3 (0.071%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 839 (19.84%) Microsoft
2 248 (5.87%) SAP
3 220 (5.20%) ServiceNow
4 184 (4.35%) Oracle
5 154 (3.64%) Databricks
6 100 (2.37%) Google
6 100 (2.37%) Salesforce
7 76 (1.80%) VMware
8 63 (1.49%) Cisco
9 54 (1.28%) Workday
10 52 (1.23%) Splunk
11 42 (0.99%) IBM
12 32 (0.76%) Ariba
13 30 (0.71%) CyberArk
14 27 (0.64%) MuleSoft
15 24 (0.57%) OpenAI
16 23 (0.54%) Palo Alto
17 22 (0.52%) Dynatrace
17 22 (0.52%) Okta
18 21 (0.50%) Informatica
3,423 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide