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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 30 136
Rank change year-on-year +5 +106 +24
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,194 1,977 671
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.70% 6.04% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.10% 6.68% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,837 1,326 442
10th Percentile £363 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £427 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £529 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.61% -1.58% -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £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 118 33 13
10th Percentile £23.56 £25.36 £26.30
25th Percentile £46.50 £30.11 £50.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £47.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +43.62% -19.38% +3.20%
75th Percentile £85.00 £63.75 £70.39
90th Percentile £95.00 £73.30 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.61 £32.74 £59.45
% change year-on-year +109.58% -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 46,106 29,609 32,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.64% 90.43% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,135 18,363 20,196
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
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 2,994 1,772 1,501
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.23 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.03 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.17% -41.51% +1.96%
75th Percentile £67.84 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £22.60 £43.00
% change year-on-year +85.18% -47.44% +7.50%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 3,547 £550 - 2,146
UK excluding London +7 1,956 £525 - 1,355
London +3 1,747 £550 - 1,060
Work from Home +10 1,428 £525 - 1,100
South East +14 513 £572 +4.00% 387
North of England +7 501 £500 -2.21% 295
Midlands +5 341 £500 -4.76% 224
West Midlands +7 263 £500 -2.91% 151
North West +7 241 £506 -3.69% 163
South West +2 230 £550 - 205
Scotland +28 217 £500 +11.11% 100
Yorkshire +2 196 £500 +3.09% 86
East of England +25 121 £533 -11.84% 93
East Midlands +18 73 £525 +5.00% 73
North East +8 72 £453 +0.61% 48
Wales +12 54 £525 +20.00% 15
Northern Ireland +3 9 £413 -20.48% 47
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
1 166 (3.96%) Confluence
2 163 (3.89%) SharePoint
3 37 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (0.86%) Apache
4 36 (0.86%) CMS
5 35 (0.83%) 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 (0.095%) OpenEdge
10 4 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.072%) Adobe Experience Manager
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%) GeoServer
Applications
1 187 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 90 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 85 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (1.38%) MS Visio
5 57 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.17%) Trello
8 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.14%) Navisworks
8 6 (0.14%) ProjectWise
8 6 (0.14%) Revit
9 4 (0.095%) Sketch
10 2 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.048%) InDesign
10 2 (0.048%) InVision
10 2 (0.048%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 136 (3.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.57%) Workday HCM
4 20 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.33%) SAP FI
6 13 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 13 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
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
1 806 (19.22%) Azure
2 550 (13.11%) AWS
3 441 (10.52%) Power Platform
4 206 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
5 205 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
6 185 (4.41%) GCP
7 152 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
8 141 (3.36%) Entra ID
9 95 (2.27%) SaaS
10 93 (2.22%) Power Automate
11 91 (2.17%) GitHub
12 72 (1.72%) Serverless
12 72 (1.72%) Snowflake
13 70 (1.67%) PowerApps
14 68 (1.62%) Microsoft Purview
15 67 (1.60%) Microsoft Copilot
16 61 (1.45%) Amazon S3
17 58 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
18 57 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
19 47 (1.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 70 (1.67%) Network Security
2 68 (1.62%) Firewall
3 52 (1.24%) DNS
4 41 (0.98%) WAN
5 37 (0.88%) VPN
6 33 (0.79%) LAN
7 27 (0.64%) DHCP
8 24 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 20 (0.48%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.43%) Wireless
11 17 (0.41%) 5G
11 17 (0.41%) Internet
12 16 (0.38%) VLAN
13 14 (0.33%) BGP
13 14 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (0.31%) Intranet
14 13 (0.31%) OSPF
15 12 (0.29%) SSL
15 12 (0.29%) VoIP
16 11 (0.26%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 349 (8.32%) Power BI
2 154 (3.67%) Metadata
3 96 (2.29%) Data Lake
4 95 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
5 73 (1.74%) SQL Server
6 44 (1.05%) Tableau
7 36 (0.86%) Relational Database
8 34 (0.81%) Power Query
9 33 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (0.57%) DynamoDB
11 23 (0.55%) Oracle Database
12 22 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
13 21 (0.50%) NoSQL
14 20 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
15 19 (0.45%) Big Data
15 19 (0.45%) BigQuery
16 18 (0.43%) Data Vault
17 16 (0.38%) Delta Lake
17 16 (0.38%) Looker
Development Applications
1 268 (6.39%) JIRA
2 97 (2.31%) Git
3 63 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 58 (1.38%) GitLab
5 31 (0.74%) Selenium
6 29 (0.69%) Postman
7 18 (0.43%) WebDriver
8 17 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 16 (0.38%) Hudson
10 15 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.29%) JMeter
11 12 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
11 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (0.26%) ERwin
13 10 (0.24%) JUnit
14 9 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
15 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.19%) Zephyr
16 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
17 6 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,931 (46.04%) Social Skills
2 1,167 (27.83%) Finance
3 822 (19.60%) Public Sector
4 694 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
5 236 (5.63%) Influencing Skills
6 233 (5.56%) Banking
7 178 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
8 170 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
9 152 (3.62%) Legal
10 139 (3.31%) Retail
11 116 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 109 (2.60%) Local Government
13 98 (2.34%) Manufacturing
14 89 (2.12%) Law
14 89 (2.12%) Telecoms
15 85 (2.03%) Marketing
16 74 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
17 71 (1.69%) Military
18 65 (1.55%) Aerospace
19 40 (0.95%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 711 (16.95%) Analyst
2 642 (15.31%) Architect
3 524 (12.49%) Lead
4 434 (10.35%) Senior
5 409 (9.75%) Business Analyst
6 302 (7.20%) Consultant
7 296 (7.06%) Project Manager
8 217 (5.17%) Developer
9 186 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
10 125 (2.98%) Data Architect
11 121 (2.89%) Data Analyst
12 110 (2.62%) Change Manager
13 100 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
14 94 (2.24%) Senior Manager
15 90 (2.15%) Delivery Manager
16 89 (2.12%) Data Engineer
17 85 (2.03%) Technical Architect
18 81 (1.93%) Designer
19 75 (1.79%) Security Architect
20 73 (1.74%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (4.27%) Terraform
2 116 (2.77%) REST
3 67 (1.60%) .NET
4 60 (1.43%) JSON
5 55 (1.31%) Kafka
6 51 (1.22%) Middleware
6 51 (1.22%) PySpark
7 50 (1.19%) SOAP
8 47 (1.12%) Spring
9 46 (1.10%) React
9 46 (1.10%) XML
10 41 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
11 40 (0.95%) Spring Boot
12 38 (0.91%) OAuth
13 35 (0.83%) SAML
14 34 (0.81%) Web Services
15 33 (0.79%) RESTful
16 31 (0.74%) OpenID
17 30 (0.72%) LDAP
18 28 (0.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 292 (6.96%) Product Ownership
2 240 (5.72%) Onboarding
3 187 (4.46%) Cloud Native
4 148 (3.53%) Management Information System
5 97 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
6 96 (2.29%) Data Structures
7 92 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
8 74 (1.76%) AI Agents
8 74 (1.76%) NHS
9 70 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
10 69 (1.65%) Data Centre
11 66 (1.57%) Operational Technology
12 61 (1.45%) Virtual Team
13 58 (1.38%) CMDB
14 53 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
15 52 (1.24%) Security Posture
16 48 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
17 47 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
18 31 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
19 27 (0.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.08%) Windows
2 78 (1.86%) Linux
3 35 (0.83%) 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
7 8 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
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 1,260 (30.04%) Agile
2 1,047 (24.96%) Stakeholder Management
3 959 (22.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 660 (15.74%) Decision-Making
5 643 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
6 596 (14.21%) Migration
7 573 (13.66%) Roadmaps
8 542 (12.92%) Workshop Facilitation
9 531 (12.66%) DevOps
10 518 (12.35%) AI
11 491 (11.71%) Change Management
12 476 (11.35%) Analytics
13 452 (10.78%) CI/CD
14 415 (9.90%) Risk Management
15 411 (9.80%) Project Delivery
16 401 (9.56%) Business Intelligence
17 369 (8.80%) Cybersecurity
18 356 (8.49%) Data Modelling
19 355 (8.46%) Data Governance
20 334 (7.96%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 391 (9.32%) SQL
2 305 (7.27%) Python
3 127 (3.03%) Java
4 98 (2.34%) JavaScript
5 85 (2.03%) PowerShell
6 84 (2.00%) C#
7 53 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 49 (1.17%) Bash
9 44 (1.05%) 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%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,171 (27.92%) Security Cleared
2 894 (21.32%) SC Cleared
3 253 (6.03%) Degree
4 198 (4.72%) DV Cleared
5 160 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 120 (2.86%) PMI Certification
7 114 (2.72%) PMP
8 112 (2.67%) CISSP
9 73 (1.74%) CISM
10 72 (1.72%) Azure Certification
11 68 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
12 56 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
13 46 (1.10%) AWS Certification
14 38 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 34 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
15 34 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
16 31 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 28 (0.67%) Master's Degree
18 26 (0.62%) APMG
18 26 (0.62%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 341 (8.13%) Data Quality
2 212 (5.05%) PMO
3 188 (4.48%) QA
4 178 (4.24%) GDPR
4 178 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 166 (3.96%) NIST
6 122 (2.91%) Accessibility
7 94 (2.24%) GRC
8 70 (1.67%) NCSC
9 35 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
9 35 (0.83%) WCAG
10 34 (0.81%) SLA
11 32 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
12 17 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 17 (0.41%) PCI DSS
12 17 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 14 (0.33%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.31%) ITGC
14 13 (0.31%) JSP 440
14 13 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 129 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 99 (2.36%) Docker
3 51 (1.22%) 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 7 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.024%) Firmware
10 1 (0.024%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.024%) IAG
10 1 (0.024%) KVM
10 1 (0.024%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 157 (3.74%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.17%) Ansible
3 39 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (0.83%) Grafana
5 33 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (0.26%) SCCM
9 9 (0.21%) NetBackup
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
10 5 (0.12%) VxRail
11 4 (0.095%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.095%) Istio
11 4 (0.095%) QRadar
11 4 (0.095%) vRealize
12 3 (0.072%) Argo
12 3 (0.072%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.072%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.072%) Puppet
13 2 (0.048%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 808 (19.27%) Microsoft
2 273 (6.51%) SAP
3 234 (5.58%) ServiceNow
4 192 (4.58%) Oracle
5 164 (3.91%) Databricks
6 111 (2.65%) Salesforce
7 89 (2.12%) Google
8 68 (1.62%) VMware
9 61 (1.45%) Cisco
10 52 (1.24%) Workday
11 49 (1.17%) Splunk
12 45 (1.07%) IBM
13 33 (0.79%) CyberArk
14 28 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 27 (0.64%) Ariba
16 26 (0.62%) Informatica
17 23 (0.55%) Dynatrace
17 23 (0.55%) Palo Alto
18 20 (0.48%) Adobe
18 20 (0.48%) Okta