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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 140
Rank change year-on-year +2 +113 +27
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,225 2,272 692
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.74% 6.86% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.15% 7.58% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,869 1,519 426
10th Percentile £363 £365 £375
25th Percentile £450 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% -3.18% -
75th Percentile £645 £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 121 40 11
10th Percentile £24.50 £20.88 £22.00
25th Percentile £41.00 £26.24 £26.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £48.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -2.50% -11.49%
75th Percentile £80.00 £65.04 £60.28
90th Percentile £87.96 £74.13 £61.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.49 £58.25 £58.05
% change year-on-year +15.85% +0.35% +2.75%

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 46,195 29,974 32,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.49% 86.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,749 18,609 19,667
10th Percentile £325 £294 £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 £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,350 1,884 1,294
10th Percentile £13.54 £14.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.03
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.16
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.38% -8.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £73.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £41.50
% change year-on-year +68.43% -46.35% -2.35%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 3,536 £550 +1.38% 3,174
UK excluding London +3 1,939 £525 - 1,910
London 0 1,771 £560 +1.82% 1,448
Work from Home +5 1,428 £525 -1.18% 1,533
South East +8 504 £550 +0.92% 436
North of England +1 491 £500 -3.15% 465
Midlands +4 335 £500 -5.84% 297
West Midlands +5 270 £500 -5.84% 199
South West -4 237 £550 +5.16% 267
North West +1 226 £507 -1.07% 280
Scotland +26 223 £488 +8.33% 195
Yorkshire -2 195 £492 -6.29% 137
East of England +6 113 £510 -15.70% 150
North East +5 77 £453 -4.63% 49
East Midlands +4 64 £525 +16.67% 98
Wales +18 59 £525 +23.53% 47
Northern Ireland +3 8 £438 -16.67% 63
Channel Islands -3 4 £588 +27.03% 1

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 (4.19%) SharePoint
2 166 (3.93%) Confluence
3 37 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 36 (0.85%) CMS
5 35 (0.83%) Apache
6 32 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
7 28 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 19 (0.45%) SAS
9 10 (0.24%) Headless CMS
10 6 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.14%) WordPress
11 4 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.071%) IIS
12 3 (0.071%) Kentico
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.047%) OpenEdge
13 2 (0.047%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.047%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.047%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 202 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 88 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
4 57 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
5 55 (1.30%) 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 4 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.095%) 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%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.024%) Notion
Business Applications
1 125 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (1.40%) 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
7 13 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 12 (0.28%) Maximo
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 PP
Cloud Services
1 777 (18.39%) Azure
2 528 (12.50%) AWS
3 442 (10.46%) Power Platform
4 221 (5.23%) Microsoft 365
5 208 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
6 182 (4.31%) GCP
7 136 (3.22%) Entra ID
8 119 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
9 102 (2.41%) Power Automate
10 99 (2.34%) SaaS
11 93 (2.20%) GitHub
12 81 (1.92%) Snowflake
13 78 (1.85%) Microsoft Copilot
14 77 (1.82%) PowerApps
15 75 (1.78%) Microsoft Purview
16 73 (1.73%) Serverless
17 63 (1.49%) Amazon S3
18 55 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
19 54 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
20 45 (1.07%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 70 (1.66%) Network Security
2 65 (1.54%) Firewall
3 47 (1.11%) DNS
4 38 (0.90%) WAN
5 36 (0.85%) VPN
6 28 (0.66%) LAN
7 27 (0.64%) DHCP
8 22 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 19 (0.45%) Internet
10 16 (0.38%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.38%) VLAN
11 15 (0.36%) BGP
11 15 (0.36%) Wireless
12 14 (0.33%) 5G
13 13 (0.31%) OSPF
14 12 (0.28%) VoIP
15 11 (0.26%) Kerberos
16 10 (0.24%) HTTP
16 10 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
16 10 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (7.93%) Power BI
2 169 (4.00%) Metadata
3 102 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
4 94 (2.22%) Data Lake
5 74 (1.75%) SQL Server
6 51 (1.21%) Tableau
7 35 (0.83%) Relational Database
8 34 (0.80%) Power Query
9 29 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
10 28 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
11 26 (0.62%) BigQuery
12 25 (0.59%) DynamoDB
12 25 (0.59%) Star Schema
13 23 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
14 21 (0.50%) Big Data
15 20 (0.47%) NoSQL
16 19 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
16 19 (0.45%) MongoDB
16 19 (0.45%) Oracle Database
17 18 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 256 (6.06%) JIRA
2 85 (2.01%) Git
3 61 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.28%) GitLab
5 31 (0.73%) Selenium
6 26 (0.62%) Postman
7 19 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
10 9 (0.21%) Claude Code
10 9 (0.21%) ERwin
10 9 (0.21%) JUnit
10 9 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (0.19%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
11 8 (0.19%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.17%) Hudson
12 7 (0.17%) JMeter
12 7 (0.17%) Maven
12 7 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 1,991 (47.12%) Social Skills
2 1,116 (26.41%) Finance
3 909 (21.51%) Public Sector
4 707 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
5 272 (6.44%) Influencing Skills
6 235 (5.56%) Banking
7 195 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
8 185 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
9 147 (3.48%) Legal
10 123 (2.91%) Retail
11 122 (2.89%) Manufacturing
12 120 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 112 (2.65%) Local Government
14 91 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
15 84 (1.99%) Marketing
16 83 (1.96%) Military
17 78 (1.85%) Telecoms
18 71 (1.68%) Aerospace
19 54 (1.28%) Law
20 45 (1.07%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 702 (16.62%) Analyst
2 607 (14.37%) Architect
3 511 (12.09%) Lead
4 439 (10.39%) Senior
5 415 (9.82%) Business Analyst
6 295 (6.98%) Consultant
7 286 (6.77%) Project Manager
8 237 (5.61%) Developer
9 184 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
10 126 (2.98%) Data Architect
11 121 (2.86%) Change Manager
12 117 (2.77%) Data Analyst
13 103 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
14 87 (2.06%) Designer
15 85 (2.01%) Data Engineer
15 85 (2.01%) Technical Architect
16 81 (1.92%) Delivery Manager
17 79 (1.87%) Senior Manager
18 77 (1.82%) IT Manager
19 72 (1.70%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (4.09%) Terraform
2 128 (3.03%) REST
3 66 (1.56%) .NET
4 59 (1.40%) Kafka
5 58 (1.37%) JSON
6 50 (1.18%) SOAP
7 48 (1.14%) Spring
8 46 (1.09%) Middleware
8 46 (1.09%) PySpark
9 45 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
10 44 (1.04%) XML
11 43 (1.02%) Spring Boot
12 42 (0.99%) React
13 35 (0.83%) RESTful
13 35 (0.83%) Web Services
14 33 (0.78%) OAuth
15 29 (0.69%) LDAP
16 27 (0.64%) Node.js
17 26 (0.62%) OpenID
18 25 (0.59%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 285 (6.75%) Product Ownership
2 250 (5.92%) Onboarding
3 192 (4.54%) Cloud Native
4 149 (3.53%) Management Information System
5 100 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
6 99 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
7 90 (2.13%) Data Structures
8 86 (2.04%) AI Agents
9 77 (1.82%) NHS
10 72 (1.70%) Operational Technology
11 69 (1.63%) Data Centre
12 67 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
13 61 (1.44%) Security Posture
14 56 (1.33%) CMDB
14 56 (1.33%) Virtual Team
15 52 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
16 49 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
17 39 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
18 32 (0.76%) PKI
18 32 (0.76%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 126 (2.98%) Windows
2 82 (1.94%) Linux
3 37 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.38%) Unix
5 14 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.21%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.14%) Android
7 6 (0.14%) VMS
8 5 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.12%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.095%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.071%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.047%) AIX
11 2 (0.047%) HPUX
11 2 (0.047%) Solaris
12 1 (0.024%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.024%) SUSE
12 1 (0.024%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,266 (29.96%) Agile
2 1,189 (28.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 945 (22.37%) Continuous Improvement
4 702 (16.62%) Decision-Making
5 676 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 619 (14.65%) Roadmaps
7 596 (14.11%) Workshop Facilitation
8 567 (13.42%) AI
9 546 (12.92%) Migration
10 523 (12.38%) DevOps
11 496 (11.74%) Change Management
12 485 (11.48%) Analytics
13 428 (10.13%) CI/CD
14 425 (10.06%) Risk Management
15 423 (10.01%) Project Delivery
16 394 (9.33%) Business Intelligence
17 384 (9.09%) Data Governance
18 377 (8.92%) Cybersecurity
19 372 (8.80%) Data Modelling
20 366 (8.66%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 410 (9.70%) SQL
2 308 (7.29%) Python
3 127 (3.01%) Java
4 101 (2.39%) JavaScript
5 99 (2.34%) PowerShell
6 85 (2.01%) C#
7 57 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 53 (1.25%) 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 8 (0.19%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.17%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.14%) VBA
19 4 (0.095%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,224 (28.97%) Security Cleared
2 956 (22.63%) SC Cleared
3 253 (5.99%) Degree
4 200 (4.73%) DV Cleared
5 181 (4.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 111 (2.63%) PMI Certification
7 106 (2.51%) CISSP
8 105 (2.49%) PMP
9 66 (1.56%) CISM
10 64 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
11 63 (1.49%) Azure Certification
12 59 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
13 42 (0.99%) AWS Certification
14 33 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
15 32 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 30 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
17 29 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 28 (0.66%) APMG
19 26 (0.62%) ISTQB
20 25 (0.59%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 378 (8.95%) Data Quality
2 194 (4.59%) PMO
3 184 (4.36%) QA
4 161 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 158 (3.74%) GDPR
6 153 (3.62%) NIST
7 140 (3.31%) Accessibility
8 96 (2.27%) GRC
9 85 (2.01%) NCSC
10 55 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 38 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
11 38 (0.90%) WCAG
12 34 (0.80%) SLA
13 18 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 16 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 15 (0.36%) NIST 800
16 14 (0.33%) JSP 440
17 12 (0.28%) GxP
17 12 (0.28%) ISO 19650
17 12 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 128 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 104 (2.46%) Docker
3 55 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.40%) VMware NSX
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
1 169 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 54 (1.28%) Ansible
3 41 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (0.73%) Grafana
5 28 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.64%) Prometheus
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
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%) Puppet
12 3 (0.071%) vRealize
Vendors
1 849 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 252 (5.96%) SAP
3 205 (4.85%) ServiceNow
4 186 (4.40%) Oracle
5 154 (3.64%) Databricks
6 103 (2.44%) Google
7 100 (2.37%) Salesforce
8 74 (1.75%) VMware
9 63 (1.49%) Cisco
10 52 (1.23%) Workday
11 51 (1.21%) Splunk
12 45 (1.07%) IBM
13 35 (0.83%) Ariba
14 33 (0.78%) CyberArk
15 28 (0.66%) MuleSoft
16 25 (0.59%) Okta
17 24 (0.57%) OpenAI
18 22 (0.52%) Dynatrace
19 21 (0.50%) Informatica
19 21 (0.50%) Palo Alto