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

 6 months to
1 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 136
Rank change year-on-year +2 +109 +27
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,200 2,179 693
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.65% 6.59% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.06% 7.27% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,858 1,468 431
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -2.73% -
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% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 38 10
10th Percentile £24.90 £22.42 £21.93
25th Percentile £40.75 £26.89 £26.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.00 £54.02
Median % change year-on-year +38.30% -13.00% -4.37%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.31 £60.44
90th Percentile £87.98 £73.75 £61.99
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 46,382 29,970 32,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.48% 90.66% 85.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,008 18,622 19,630
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 £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £733 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,245 1,858 1,349
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.19 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.64 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.01% -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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +2 3,522 £550 - 2,590
UK excluding London +4 1,941 £525 - 1,622
London -1 1,745 £550 - 1,140
Work from Home +7 1,436 £525 - 1,308
South East +7 502 £550 +2.14% 398
North of England +2 496 £500 -3.85% 398
Midlands +2 342 £500 -4.76% 257
West Midlands +4 278 £500 -5.84% 183
South West -3 235 £550 +1.15% 217
Scotland +24 224 £500 +11.11% 152
North West -4 221 £525 - 229
Yorkshire -2 206 £500 -4.76% 128
East of England +12 114 £510 -15.70% 127
North East +11 79 £453 -4.74% 42
East Midlands +4 63 £525 +17.32% 74
Wales +14 57 £525 +27.27% 39
Northern Ireland +1 6 £413 -24.14% 46
Channel Islands -2 4 £588 +27.03% 4

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
1 177 (4.21%) SharePoint
2 172 (4.10%) Confluence
3 37 (0.88%) CMS
4 36 (0.86%) Apache
4 36 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 27 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 23 (0.55%) 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%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.071%) Drupal
12 3 (0.071%) IIS
12 3 (0.071%) Kentico
12 3 (0.071%) OpenEdge
13 2 (0.048%) GeoServer
13 2 (0.048%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.048%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 193 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 94 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
3 92 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (1.38%) MS Visio
5 55 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.45%) 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 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.071%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.071%) 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
1 121 (2.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 66 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.60%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 15 (0.36%) SAP FI
7 14 (0.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 14 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.29%) Maximo
8 12 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 11 (0.26%) iTrent
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.26%) Primavera
10 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 10 (0.24%) SAP CO
10 10 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.24%) SAP QM
11 9 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 797 (18.98%) Azure
2 546 (13.00%) AWS
3 435 (10.36%) Power Platform
4 222 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
5 211 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
6 186 (4.43%) GCP
7 137 (3.26%) Entra ID
8 125 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
9 102 (2.43%) SaaS
10 101 (2.40%) Power Automate
11 90 (2.14%) GitHub
12 81 (1.93%) Snowflake
13 80 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
14 75 (1.79%) PowerApps
15 73 (1.74%) Microsoft Purview
15 73 (1.74%) Serverless
16 64 (1.52%) Amazon S3
17 58 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
18 55 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
19 47 (1.12%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 73 (1.74%) Network Security
2 69 (1.64%) Firewall
3 49 (1.17%) DNS
4 40 (0.95%) VPN
4 40 (0.95%) WAN
5 30 (0.71%) LAN
6 29 (0.69%) DHCP
7 24 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 18 (0.43%) Internet
8 18 (0.43%) SD-WAN
9 17 (0.40%) VLAN
10 16 (0.38%) Wireless
11 14 (0.33%) 5G
12 12 (0.29%) BGP
12 12 (0.29%) VoIP
13 11 (0.26%) Kerberos
13 11 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.24%) HTTP
14 10 (0.24%) Intranet
14 10 (0.24%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 331 (7.88%) Power BI
2 166 (3.95%) Metadata
3 96 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
4 95 (2.26%) Data Lake
5 71 (1.69%) SQL Server
6 46 (1.10%) Tableau
7 32 (0.76%) Relational Database
8 30 (0.71%) Power Query
9 28 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
10 26 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
10 26 (0.62%) DynamoDB
11 25 (0.60%) BigQuery
12 23 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 22 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
14 20 (0.48%) MongoDB
14 20 (0.48%) NoSQL
14 20 (0.48%) Oracle Database
15 19 (0.45%) Big Data
16 18 (0.43%) Data Vault
16 18 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 268 (6.38%) JIRA
2 92 (2.19%) Git
3 61 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 58 (1.38%) GitLab
5 30 (0.71%) Selenium
6 29 (0.69%) Postman
7 19 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
10 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (0.21%) ERwin
11 9 (0.21%) Hudson
11 9 (0.21%) JUnit
11 9 (0.21%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.19%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.17%) JMeter
13 7 (0.17%) Zephyr
14 6 (0.14%) Maven
14 6 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,972 (46.95%) Social Skills
2 1,114 (26.52%) Finance
3 885 (21.07%) Public Sector
4 685 (16.31%) Analytical Skills
5 259 (6.17%) Influencing Skills
6 230 (5.48%) Banking
7 188 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
8 184 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
9 142 (3.38%) Legal
10 125 (2.98%) Retail
11 123 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 114 (2.71%) Local Government
13 112 (2.67%) Manufacturing
14 86 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
15 85 (2.02%) Marketing
16 82 (1.95%) Military
17 75 (1.79%) Telecoms
18 66 (1.57%) Aerospace
19 56 (1.33%) Law
20 43 (1.02%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 712 (16.95%) Analyst
2 610 (14.52%) Architect
3 493 (11.74%) Lead
4 443 (10.55%) Senior
5 416 (9.90%) Business Analyst
6 299 (7.12%) Consultant
7 294 (7.00%) Project Manager
8 229 (5.45%) Developer
9 183 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
10 126 (3.00%) Data Architect
11 120 (2.86%) Data Analyst
12 116 (2.76%) Change Manager
13 106 (2.52%) Senior Analyst
14 92 (2.19%) Designer
15 89 (2.12%) Senior Manager
16 87 (2.07%) Data Engineer
17 86 (2.05%) Delivery Manager
17 86 (2.05%) Technical Architect
18 77 (1.83%) IT Manager
19 74 (1.76%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (4.36%) Terraform
2 125 (2.98%) REST
3 67 (1.60%) .NET
4 59 (1.40%) JSON
5 57 (1.36%) Kafka
6 52 (1.24%) SOAP
7 47 (1.12%) PySpark
7 47 (1.12%) Spring
7 47 (1.12%) XML
8 46 (1.10%) Middleware
9 44 (1.05%) React
10 43 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
11 42 (1.00%) Spring Boot
12 37 (0.88%) OAuth
13 35 (0.83%) Web Services
14 33 (0.79%) RESTful
15 31 (0.74%) SAML
16 29 (0.69%) LDAP
16 29 (0.69%) OpenID
17 27 (0.64%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 286 (6.81%) Product Ownership
2 248 (5.90%) Onboarding
3 189 (4.50%) Cloud Native
4 150 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 99 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
6 92 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
7 87 (2.07%) Data Structures
8 83 (1.98%) AI Agents
9 74 (1.76%) NHS
10 72 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
11 71 (1.69%) Operational Technology
12 69 (1.64%) Data Centre
13 59 (1.40%) Security Posture
14 56 (1.33%) Virtual Team
15 55 (1.31%) CMDB
16 51 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
17 50 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
18 42 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
19 32 (0.76%) PKI
20 30 (0.71%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.07%) Windows
2 80 (1.90%) Linux
3 37 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.36%) 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 (0.071%) 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 1,284 (30.57%) Agile
2 1,136 (27.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 941 (22.40%) Continuous Improvement
4 689 (16.40%) Decision-Making
5 658 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
6 602 (14.33%) Roadmaps
7 565 (13.45%) Workshop Facilitation
8 556 (13.24%) Migration
9 552 (13.14%) AI
10 534 (12.71%) DevOps
11 488 (11.62%) Analytics
12 486 (11.57%) Change Management
13 439 (10.45%) CI/CD
14 425 (10.12%) Risk Management
15 408 (9.71%) Project Delivery
16 387 (9.21%) Cybersecurity
17 381 (9.07%) Business Intelligence
18 375 (8.93%) Data Governance
19 360 (8.57%) Data Modelling
20 355 (8.45%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 403 (9.60%) SQL
2 299 (7.12%) Python
3 127 (3.02%) Java
4 105 (2.50%) JavaScript
5 93 (2.21%) PowerShell
6 88 (2.10%) C#
7 53 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 51 (1.21%) Bash
9 46 (1.10%) TypeScript
10 28 (0.67%) Bicep
11 21 (0.50%) Scala
12 15 (0.36%) 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 8 (0.19%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.12%) VBA
19 4 (0.095%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,220 (29.05%) Security Cleared
2 946 (22.52%) SC Cleared
3 258 (6.14%) Degree
4 202 (4.81%) DV Cleared
5 174 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 113 (2.69%) PMI Certification
7 108 (2.57%) CISSP
7 108 (2.57%) PMP
8 69 (1.64%) Azure Certification
9 66 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
9 66 (1.57%) CISM
10 61 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 41 (0.98%) AWS Certification
12 35 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 34 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 33 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
15 31 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
16 27 (0.64%) ISTQB
17 25 (0.60%) ACCA
18 24 (0.57%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 367 (8.74%) Data Quality
2 190 (4.52%) PMO
3 181 (4.31%) QA
4 168 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 162 (3.86%) GDPR
5 162 (3.86%) NIST
6 136 (3.24%) Accessibility
7 99 (2.36%) GRC
8 83 (1.98%) NCSC
9 50 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
10 39 (0.93%) WCAG
11 38 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
12 33 (0.79%) SLA
13 18 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 15 (0.36%) PCI DSS
14 15 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 14 (0.33%) JSP 440
15 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
16 12 (0.29%) ITGC
17 11 (0.26%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 126 (3.00%) Active Directory
2 102 (2.43%) Docker
3 55 (1.31%) 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 (0.071%) 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
1 161 (3.83%) Kubernetes
2 51 (1.21%) Ansible
3 43 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (0.74%) Grafana
5 27 (0.64%) Prometheus
5 27 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 11 (0.26%) SCCM
8 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
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%) Kibana
12 3 (0.071%) McAfee ePO
12 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.071%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 835 (19.88%) Microsoft
2 244 (5.81%) SAP
3 226 (5.38%) ServiceNow
4 188 (4.48%) Oracle
5 157 (3.74%) Databricks
6 101 (2.40%) Salesforce
7 98 (2.33%) Google
8 73 (1.74%) VMware
9 63 (1.50%) Cisco
10 56 (1.33%) Workday
11 55 (1.31%) Splunk
12 43 (1.02%) IBM
13 31 (0.74%) CyberArk
14 28 (0.67%) Ariba
15 27 (0.64%) MuleSoft
16 24 (0.57%) OpenAI
17 23 (0.55%) Dynatrace
17 23 (0.55%) Palo Alto
18 22 (0.52%) Adobe
18 22 (0.52%) Informatica
3,043 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide