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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 43 159
Rank change year-on-year +17 +116 +8
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,850 1,533 672
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.32% 4.72% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.60% 5.22% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,593 1,019 461
10th Percentile £365 £362 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +3.50% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 29 29
10th Percentile £25.00 £24.72 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £30.61 £26.25
Median hourly rate £74.50 £49.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.51% +30.26% -25.61%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.25 £60.60
90th Percentile - £76.19 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £59.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +35.59% +4.44% +10.59%

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 44,765 29,340 36,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.42% 85.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,853 18,476 23,295
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £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 2,647 1,521 2,449
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.61 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.50 £52.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.70 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.25 £24.64 £38.12
% change year-on-year +83.64% -35.36% -0.99%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +19 3,267 £540 +2.27% 900
UK excluding London +24 1,823 £518 +3.50% 674
London +18 1,563 £550 - 386
Work from Home +23 1,246 £537 +7.40% 543
North of England +21 485 £500 - 156
South East +24 468 £550 +0.92% 258
Midlands +15 327 £513 +6.55% 90
North West +19 247 £500 -0.40% 79
West Midlands +4 235 £510 +7.37% 57
South West +16 188 £536 -2.50% 73
Scotland +33 185 £475 -5.00% 24
Yorkshire -3 185 £514 +8.21% 56
East of England +30 124 £533 +6.50% 47
East Midlands +25 87 £525 +16.67% 33
North East +10 61 £450 -11.33% 23
Wales +17 51 £500 +31.58% 18
Northern Ireland +14 17 £447 -20.53% 22
Channel Islands 0 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
1 178 (4.62%) Confluence
2 127 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 33 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (0.68%) SAS
5 25 (0.65%) Apache Spark
6 24 (0.62%) CMS
7 22 (0.57%) Apache
7 22 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.16%) WordPress
9 4 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.10%) Drupal
9 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.10%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.078%) Kentico
10 3 (0.078%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.052%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.052%) IIS
11 2 (0.052%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.052%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.052%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 184 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 65 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
4 65 (1.69%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.078%) PTC Creo
6 3 (0.078%) Sketch
7 2 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.052%) InDesign
7 2 (0.052%) InVision
7 2 (0.052%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.052%) Trello
8 1 (0.026%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.026%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.026%) CATIA
8 1 (0.026%) Revit
8 1 (0.026%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.026%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 155 (4.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.47%) Workday HCM
4 15 (0.39%) SAP FI
5 14 (0.36%) Teamcenter
6 13 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 12 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.31%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.29%) Maximo
8 11 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
8 11 (0.29%) Primavera
9 10 (0.26%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 9 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
11 8 (0.21%) NetSuite
11 8 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
11 8 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
12 7 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
12 7 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 722 (18.75%) Azure
2 484 (12.57%) AWS
3 381 (9.90%) Power Platform
4 172 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
5 167 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
6 150 (3.90%) GCP
7 116 (3.01%) Entra ID
8 114 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
9 96 (2.49%) SaaS
10 79 (2.05%) GitHub
11 65 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
12 60 (1.56%) Serverless
13 57 (1.48%) Power Automate
14 51 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
15 48 (1.25%) Amazon S3
15 48 (1.25%) PowerApps
16 47 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
17 45 (1.17%) PaaS
18 42 (1.09%) Snowflake
19 40 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.69%) Network Security
2 61 (1.58%) Firewall
3 47 (1.22%) DNS
4 34 (0.88%) VPN
5 32 (0.83%) WAN
6 29 (0.75%) LAN
7 23 (0.60%) TCP/IP
8 20 (0.52%) DHCP
9 18 (0.47%) Wireless
10 15 (0.39%) Internet
10 15 (0.39%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.39%) VLAN
11 13 (0.34%) 5G
11 13 (0.34%) BGP
12 12 (0.31%) OSPF
12 12 (0.31%) SSL
13 11 (0.29%) Intranet
14 10 (0.26%) NGFW
15 9 (0.23%) MPLS
15 9 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 315 (8.18%) Power BI
2 98 (2.55%) Metadata
3 83 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
4 59 (1.53%) Data Lake
5 53 (1.38%) SQL Server
6 44 (1.14%) Tableau
7 31 (0.81%) Relational Database
8 29 (0.75%) Power Query
9 25 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.49%) Big Data
10 19 (0.49%) DynamoDB
11 17 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (0.44%) NoSQL
11 17 (0.44%) Oracle Database
12 16 (0.42%) BigQuery
12 16 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
13 15 (0.39%) Data Vault
13 15 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
14 14 (0.36%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 13 (0.34%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 280 (7.27%) JIRA
2 69 (1.79%) Git
3 56 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.27%) GitLab
5 31 (0.81%) Rational DOORS
5 31 (0.81%) Selenium
6 26 (0.68%) Postman
7 18 (0.47%) Hudson
8 17 (0.44%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.44%) WebDriver
9 16 (0.42%) JMeter
10 15 (0.39%) JUnit
11 12 (0.31%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.31%) ERwin
12 9 (0.23%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (0.16%) MLflow
13 6 (0.16%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.13%) Rational Rhapsody
14 5 (0.13%) Snyk
General
1 1,768 (45.92%) Social Skills
2 1,115 (28.96%) Finance
3 677 (17.58%) Public Sector
4 618 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
5 210 (5.45%) Banking
6 189 (4.91%) Influencing Skills
7 151 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
8 147 (3.82%) Legal
9 131 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
10 125 (3.25%) Retail
11 93 (2.42%) Manufacturing
12 86 (2.23%) Law
13 81 (2.10%) Local Government
13 81 (2.10%) Marketing
14 74 (1.92%) Aerospace
14 74 (1.92%) Telecoms
15 69 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 53 (1.38%) Military
17 49 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
18 39 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 702 (18.23%) Analyst
2 560 (14.55%) Architect
3 487 (12.65%) Lead
4 424 (11.01%) Business Analyst
5 378 (9.82%) Senior
6 296 (7.69%) Project Manager
7 272 (7.06%) Consultant
8 163 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
9 153 (3.97%) Developer
10 122 (3.17%) Data Analyst
11 101 (2.62%) Change Manager
12 99 (2.57%) Delivery Manager
13 92 (2.39%) Senior Analyst
14 82 (2.13%) Senior Manager
15 79 (2.05%) Data Architect
16 76 (1.97%) Designer
16 76 (1.97%) Programme Manager
17 73 (1.90%) Product Manager
17 73 (1.90%) Security Architect
18 69 (1.79%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (2.60%) REST
2 58 (1.51%) Middleware
3 46 (1.19%) JSON
3 46 (1.19%) Spring
4 45 (1.17%) React
5 43 (1.12%) Kafka
6 42 (1.09%) SOAP
7 40 (1.04%) .NET
8 37 (0.96%) Spring Boot
8 37 (0.96%) XML
9 36 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
10 35 (0.91%) PySpark
11 27 (0.70%) OAuth
11 27 (0.70%) SailPoint
12 26 (0.68%) SAML
13 24 (0.62%) OpenID
14 21 (0.55%) HTML
14 21 (0.55%) LDAP
15 20 (0.52%) AngularJS
15 20 (0.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 264 (6.86%) Product Ownership
2 203 (5.27%) Onboarding
3 162 (4.21%) Cloud Native
4 101 (2.62%) Data Structures
5 97 (2.52%) Management Information System
6 75 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
7 73 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 72 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
8 72 (1.87%) Operational Technology
9 64 (1.66%) NHS
10 61 (1.58%) Data Centre
11 59 (1.53%) CMDB
11 59 (1.53%) Virtual Team
12 49 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
13 47 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
14 44 (1.14%) AI Agents
15 41 (1.06%) Security Posture
16 39 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
17 35 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
18 34 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 111 (2.88%) Windows
2 55 (1.43%) Linux
3 26 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.36%) Unix
4 14 (0.36%) Windows 10
5 10 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.21%) VMS
7 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.16%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.10%) Android
9 3 (0.078%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.078%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.078%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.026%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,111 (28.86%) Agile
2 828 (21.51%) Stakeholder Management
3 821 (21.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 569 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
5 558 (14.49%) Migration
6 544 (14.13%) Decision-Making
7 508 (13.19%) Roadmaps
8 473 (12.29%) DevOps
9 464 (12.05%) Change Management
10 446 (11.58%) Workshop Facilitation
11 434 (11.27%) AI
12 412 (10.70%) Analytics
13 380 (9.87%) Risk Management
14 371 (9.64%) CI/CD
15 355 (9.22%) Business Intelligence
16 342 (8.88%) Cybersecurity
17 335 (8.70%) Project Delivery
18 324 (8.42%) ERP
19 316 (8.21%) Data Modelling
20 308 (8.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 326 (8.47%) SQL
2 269 (6.99%) Python
3 121 (3.14%) Java
4 72 (1.87%) JavaScript
5 62 (1.61%) PowerShell
6 53 (1.38%) C#
7 44 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 41 (1.06%) TypeScript
9 36 (0.94%) Bash
10 21 (0.55%) Bicep
11 20 (0.52%) VBA
12 16 (0.42%) Apex Code
13 14 (0.36%) Scala
14 13 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.31%) T-SQL
16 11 (0.29%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.23%) Korn
18 7 (0.18%) ABAP
18 7 (0.18%) R
19 5 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 977 (25.38%) Security Cleared
2 739 (19.19%) SC Cleared
3 277 (7.19%) Degree
4 159 (4.13%) DV Cleared
5 139 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 121 (3.14%) PMI Certification
7 110 (2.86%) PMP
8 103 (2.68%) CISSP
9 70 (1.82%) Azure Certification
10 65 (1.69%) CISM
11 61 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
12 43 (1.12%) AWS Certification
13 39 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
14 35 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
15 34 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 30 (0.78%) Master's Degree
16 30 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 27 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 23 (0.60%) ACCA
18 23 (0.60%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (7.48%) Data Quality
2 199 (5.17%) PMO
3 176 (4.57%) QA
4 161 (4.18%) GDPR
5 157 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 154 (4.00%) NIST
7 102 (2.65%) Accessibility
8 88 (2.29%) GRC
9 55 (1.43%) NCSC
10 46 (1.19%) SLA
11 28 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
12 26 (0.68%) WCAG
13 24 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
14 21 (0.55%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.47%) SOC 2
16 16 (0.42%) ISO 20022
17 14 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 13 (0.34%) COBIT
19 12 (0.31%) NIST 800
20 10 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 102 (2.65%) Active Directory
2 81 (2.10%) Docker
3 44 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.44%) vSphere
5 16 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.078%) NFS
12 1 (0.026%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.026%) Firmware
12 1 (0.026%) FreeRADIUS
12 1 (0.026%) IAG
12 1 (0.026%) KVM
Systems Management
1 149 (3.87%) Terraform
2 137 (3.56%) Kubernetes
3 44 (1.14%) Ansible
4 34 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (0.83%) Grafana
6 30 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (0.75%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.34%) SCCM
9 10 (0.26%) HP ALM
10 9 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.16%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.13%) vRealize
13 4 (0.10%) Podman
14 3 (0.078%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.078%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.078%) SCOM
14 3 (0.078%) vMotion
14 3 (0.078%) WSUS
15 2 (0.052%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 656 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 276 (7.17%) SAP
3 234 (6.08%) ServiceNow
4 176 (4.57%) Oracle
5 113 (2.94%) Databricks
5 113 (2.94%) Salesforce
6 67 (1.74%) Google
7 56 (1.45%) Cisco
8 54 (1.40%) VMware
9 51 (1.32%) IBM
10 44 (1.14%) Workday
11 42 (1.09%) Splunk
12 29 (0.75%) CyberArk
13 26 (0.68%) MuleSoft
14 22 (0.57%) Palo Alto
14 22 (0.57%) Zscaler
15 21 (0.55%) Ariba
16 20 (0.52%) Citrix
16 20 (0.52%) IFS
17 19 (0.49%) Adobe
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