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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
12 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 54 154
Rank change year-on-year +28 +100 +6
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,463 1,225 686
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.93% 4.16% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.17% 4.57% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,344 812 479
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £445 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 22 39
10th Percentile £28.03 £23.22 £18.35
25th Percentile £50.00 £31.26 £27.81
Median hourly rate £64.09 £48.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.14% +32.88% +21.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.94 £58.53
90th Percentile - £75.09 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.80 £53.25 £57.33
% change year-on-year +23.56% -7.12% +91.10%

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 42,365 26,787 37,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.77% 91.01% 85.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,429 17,005 23,768
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,540 1,187 2,585
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.21 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.56% -25.45% +4.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +15.02%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +28 2,948 £537 +2.29% 950
UK excluding London +36 1,635 £510 +2.00% 720
London +31 1,404 £550 - 374
Work from Home +32 1,106 £530 +5.95% 527
North of England +29 443 £500 +3.63% 175
South East +22 370 £540 +10.77% 243
Midlands +26 315 £508 +1.40% 120
North West +30 223 £491 -1.50% 96
West Midlands +22 222 £500 -4.76% 70
South West +17 190 £525 -4.55% 86
Yorkshire +8 176 £515 +8.42% 60
Scotland +34 155 £475 -9.52% 27
East of England +33 121 £575 +15.00% 46
East Midlands +19 88 £525 +16.67% 49
North East +1 48 £453 -4.13% 21
Wales +13 43 £488 +50.00% 13
Northern Ireland +14 16 £449 -22.84% 24
Channel Islands -1 1 £575 +24.32%

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
1 180 (5.20%) Confluence
2 92 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 30 (0.87%) SAS
4 28 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.55%) Apache
5 19 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 18 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 17 (0.49%) CMS
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
8 4 (0.12%) WordPress
9 3 (0.087%) Appian
9 3 (0.087%) Drupal
9 3 (0.087%) Kentico
10 2 (0.058%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.058%) Camunda
10 2 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.058%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.058%) WebLogic
Applications
1 160 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 61 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
3 61 (1.76%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 4 (0.12%) Sketch
7 2 (0.058%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.058%) InVision
7 2 (0.058%) Trello
8 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.029%) CATIA
8 1 (0.029%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.029%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.029%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 132 (3.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.43%) Teamcenter
4 12 (0.35%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.32%) Maximo
5 11 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 9 (0.26%) Primavera
6 9 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.26%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
7 8 (0.23%) SAP QM
8 7 (0.20%) NEC Housing
8 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.17%) Finacle
9 6 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
9 6 (0.17%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 667 (19.26%) Azure
2 472 (13.63%) AWS
3 323 (9.33%) Power Platform
4 168 (4.85%) GCP
5 130 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
6 120 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
7 104 (3.00%) Entra ID
8 100 (2.89%) SaaS
9 97 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
10 64 (1.85%) GitHub
11 55 (1.59%) Serverless
12 49 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
13 46 (1.33%) PaaS
14 43 (1.24%) Amazon S3
15 41 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
16 38 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
16 38 (1.10%) Power Automate
17 36 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
17 36 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
17 36 (1.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.70%) Network Security
2 56 (1.62%) Firewall
3 35 (1.01%) DNS
4 24 (0.69%) VPN
4 24 (0.69%) WAN
5 20 (0.58%) LAN
6 16 (0.46%) Wireless
7 14 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.38%) Internet
9 12 (0.35%) VLAN
10 11 (0.32%) BGP
11 10 (0.29%) DHCP
11 10 (0.29%) NGFW
11 10 (0.29%) OSPF
11 10 (0.29%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.29%) SSL
12 9 (0.26%) Intranet
12 9 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.23%) NAS
13 8 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 274 (7.91%) Power BI
2 82 (2.37%) Metadata
3 71 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (1.10%) Data Lake
4 38 (1.10%) Tableau
5 32 (0.92%) Power Query
6 30 (0.87%) SQL Server
7 26 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (0.75%) Relational Database
8 19 (0.55%) DynamoDB
9 18 (0.52%) NoSQL
10 17 (0.49%) Snowflake Schema
11 16 (0.46%) Big Data
11 16 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
12 15 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (0.40%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 13 (0.38%) Data Vault
14 13 (0.38%) SAS Visual Analytics
15 12 (0.35%) Oracle Database
15 12 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 283 (8.17%) JIRA
2 59 (1.70%) Jenkins
3 56 (1.62%) Git
4 52 (1.50%) GitLab
5 31 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
6 28 (0.81%) Postman
7 25 (0.72%) Selenium
8 18 (0.52%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.52%) Hudson
8 18 (0.52%) JMeter
9 12 (0.35%) WebDriver
10 11 (0.32%) JUnit
11 8 (0.23%) ERwin
11 8 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (0.20%) LoadRunner
13 6 (0.17%) MLflow
13 6 (0.17%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.17%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
14 5 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 1,584 (45.74%) Social Skills
2 985 (28.44%) Finance
3 554 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 536 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
5 198 (5.72%) Banking
6 140 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
7 137 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
8 126 (3.64%) Legal
9 105 (3.03%) Retail
10 94 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
11 85 (2.45%) Law
12 82 (2.37%) Manufacturing
13 72 (2.08%) Aerospace
14 69 (1.99%) Local Government
15 62 (1.79%) Telecoms
16 60 (1.73%) Marketing
17 50 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 45 (1.30%) Military
19 39 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
20 33 (0.95%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 643 (18.57%) Analyst
2 528 (15.25%) Architect
3 451 (13.02%) Lead
4 414 (11.95%) Business Analyst
5 329 (9.50%) Senior
6 275 (7.94%) Project Manager
7 262 (7.57%) Consultant
8 139 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
9 103 (2.97%) Developer
10 98 (2.83%) Senior Analyst
11 94 (2.71%) Data Analyst
12 93 (2.69%) Delivery Manager
13 90 (2.60%) Change Manager
14 79 (2.28%) Programme Manager
15 75 (2.17%) Designer
16 71 (2.05%) Senior Manager
17 68 (1.96%) Senior Business Analyst
18 64 (1.85%) Security Architect
19 63 (1.82%) Data Architect
20 60 (1.73%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (3.52%) REST
2 60 (1.73%) SOAP
3 59 (1.70%) LDAP
4 54 (1.56%) Middleware
5 40 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
6 38 (1.10%) Spring
7 37 (1.07%) OpenID
8 35 (1.01%) OAuth
8 35 (1.01%) React
9 34 (0.98%) JSON
9 34 (0.98%) Kafka
10 32 (0.92%) SailPoint
11 30 (0.87%) Spring Boot
12 28 (0.81%) XML
13 26 (0.75%) SAML
14 25 (0.72%) .NET
15 24 (0.69%) PySpark
16 22 (0.64%) CSS
17 21 (0.61%) HTML
18 19 (0.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 237 (6.84%) Product Ownership
2 163 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 148 (4.27%) Cloud Native
4 85 (2.45%) Data Structures
5 80 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
6 79 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 76 (2.19%) Operational Technology
8 71 (2.05%) Security Posture
9 68 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
10 57 (1.65%) Data Centre
11 55 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
12 53 (1.53%) NHS
13 50 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
14 49 (1.41%) CMDB
15 45 (1.30%) Virtual Team
16 44 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
17 42 (1.21%) AI Agents
18 34 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
19 31 (0.90%) Public Cloud
20 26 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 89 (2.57%) Windows
2 45 (1.30%) Linux
3 21 (0.61%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.35%) Unix
5 10 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.23%) VMS
6 8 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.12%) Android
10 3 (0.087%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.087%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.029%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 934 (26.97%) Agile
2 682 (19.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 668 (19.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 519 (14.99%) Migration
5 483 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
6 462 (13.34%) Decision-Making
7 449 (12.97%) Roadmaps
8 431 (12.45%) Change Management
9 399 (11.52%) DevOps
10 389 (11.23%) Workshop Facilitation
11 352 (10.16%) Analytics
12 340 (9.82%) AI
13 330 (9.53%) Risk Management
14 318 (9.18%) Business Intelligence
15 305 (8.81%) ERP
16 294 (8.49%) CI/CD
16 294 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
17 293 (8.46%) Project Management
18 280 (8.09%) Project Delivery
19 279 (8.06%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 273 (7.88%) SQL
2 254 (7.33%) Python
3 110 (3.18%) Java
4 77 (2.22%) PowerShell
5 53 (1.53%) JavaScript
6 39 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 36 (1.04%) TypeScript
8 33 (0.95%) C#
9 29 (0.84%) Bash
10 18 (0.52%) Bicep
10 18 (0.52%) VBA
11 14 (0.40%) Scala
12 11 (0.32%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.29%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.23%) Korn
14 8 (0.23%) PHP
14 8 (0.23%) R
15 7 (0.20%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.17%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 888 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 708 (20.44%) SC Cleared
3 251 (7.25%) Degree
4 126 (3.64%) DV Cleared
5 112 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 102 (2.95%) PMI Certification
7 99 (2.86%) PMP
8 87 (2.51%) CISSP
9 63 (1.82%) CISM
10 49 (1.41%) Azure Certification
11 47 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
12 38 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
13 33 (0.95%) AWS Certification
14 27 (0.78%) Master's Degree
15 26 (0.75%) ACCA
15 26 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
15 26 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 25 (0.72%) CIMA
16 25 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
17 21 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (6.96%) Data Quality
2 175 (5.05%) PMO
3 167 (4.82%) QA
4 152 (4.39%) NIST
5 144 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 131 (3.78%) GDPR
7 82 (2.37%) Accessibility
7 82 (2.37%) GRC
8 39 (1.13%) NCSC
9 30 (0.87%) SLA
10 26 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
10 26 (0.75%) PCI DSS
11 25 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
12 22 (0.64%) WCAG
13 18 (0.52%) SOC 2
14 17 (0.49%) ISO 20022
15 12 (0.35%) COBIT
15 12 (0.35%) Def Stans
15 12 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 11 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 106 (3.06%) Active Directory
2 61 (1.76%) Docker
3 23 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.26%) VMware NSX
4 9 (0.26%) vSphere
5 5 (0.14%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 5 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.087%) NFS
7 3 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.029%) Firmware
8 1 (0.029%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.029%) KVM
Systems Management
1 124 (3.58%) Terraform
2 111 (3.21%) Kubernetes
3 40 (1.16%) Ansible
4 32 (0.92%) Grafana
5 28 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 26 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 11 (0.32%) HP ALM
7 11 (0.32%) SCCM
8 6 (0.17%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.14%) vRealize
10 4 (0.12%) Istio
10 4 (0.12%) Podman
11 3 (0.087%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.087%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.087%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 3 (0.087%) vMotion
11 3 (0.087%) WSUS
12 2 (0.058%) Nessus
Vendors
1 525 (15.16%) Microsoft
2 250 (7.22%) SAP
3 203 (5.86%) ServiceNow
4 161 (4.65%) Oracle
5 95 (2.74%) Salesforce
6 94 (2.71%) Databricks
7 57 (1.65%) Google
8 50 (1.44%) CyberArk
9 48 (1.39%) IBM
10 46 (1.33%) Cisco
11 42 (1.21%) Splunk
12 38 (1.10%) VMware
13 37 (1.07%) Workday
14 36 (1.04%) BeyondTrust
15 32 (0.92%) Centrify
16 20 (0.58%) MuleSoft
16 20 (0.58%) Zscaler
17 19 (0.55%) Dynatrace
17 19 (0.55%) IFS
18 18 (0.52%) Palo Alto
1,065 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide