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

 6 months to
4 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 46 155
Rank change year-on-year +20 +109 +7
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,735 1,432 687
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.24% 4.54% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.51% 5.00% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,511 947 468
10th Percentile £367 £360 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 28 33
10th Percentile £25.00 £24.51 £18.35
25th Percentile £50.94 £29.51 £27.81
Median hourly rate £70.50 £49.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.42% +35.62% -28.55%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.31 £59.95
90th Percentile £88.53 £76.67 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.25 £59.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +30.93% +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 43,890 28,628 37,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.04% 90.75% 85.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,271 18,064 23,618
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,636 1,406 2,527
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.46 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% +8.91%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +21 3,170 £540 +2.08% 1,212
UK excluding London +24 1,764 £515 +3.00% 819
London +22 1,515 £550 - 532
Work from Home +27 1,214 £530 +5.95% 666
North of England +19 460 £500 - 212
South East +22 443 £550 +5.77% 285
Midlands +18 325 £514 +5.54% 132
North West +23 236 £500 -0.79% 121
West Midlands +8 233 £509 +4.47% 65
South West +21 194 £525 -4.55% 91
Yorkshire -4 179 £514 +8.21% 64
Scotland +28 172 £475 -5.09% 32
East of England +33 123 £536 +7.25% 37
East Midlands +22 87 £525 +16.67% 67
North East +7 51 £451 +0.28% 31
Wales +16 50 £500 +31.58% 21
Northern Ireland +13 17 £447 -20.53% 23
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
1 175 (4.69%) Confluence
2 119 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 32 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (0.70%) SAS
5 24 (0.64%) Apache Spark
6 23 (0.62%) Apache
7 21 (0.56%) CMS
7 21 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.13%) WordPress
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.11%) Drupal
9 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.11%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.080%) Appian
10 3 (0.080%) Kentico
11 2 (0.054%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.054%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.054%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.054%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.054%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 176 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 68 (1.82%) MS Visio
5 62 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.080%) Sketch
10 2 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.054%) InVision
10 2 (0.054%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.054%) Trello
11 1 (0.027%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.027%) CATIA
11 1 (0.027%) InDesign
11 1 (0.027%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.027%) Notion
11 1 (0.027%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.027%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 143 (3.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.48%) Workday HCM
4 15 (0.40%) Teamcenter
5 13 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 12 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 12 (0.32%) Primavera
7 11 (0.29%) SAP FI
7 11 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 10 (0.27%) Maximo
9 9 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 9 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
9 9 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 8 (0.21%) NetSuite
10 8 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
11 7 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
11 7 (0.19%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.19%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
12 6 (0.16%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 699 (18.71%) Azure
2 476 (12.74%) AWS
3 365 (9.77%) Power Platform
4 165 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
5 153 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
6 149 (3.99%) GCP
7 116 (3.11%) Entra ID
8 100 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
9 98 (2.62%) SaaS
10 75 (2.01%) GitHub
11 62 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
12 57 (1.53%) Serverless
13 50 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
14 49 (1.31%) Microsoft Purview
14 49 (1.31%) Power Automate
15 48 (1.29%) PaaS
16 46 (1.23%) Amazon S3
17 44 (1.18%) PowerApps
18 40 (1.07%) Snowflake
19 37 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.82%) Network Security
2 62 (1.66%) Firewall
3 45 (1.20%) DNS
4 32 (0.86%) VPN
5 31 (0.83%) WAN
6 27 (0.72%) LAN
7 19 (0.51%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.46%) Wireless
9 16 (0.43%) DHCP
10 14 (0.37%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.37%) VLAN
11 13 (0.35%) Internet
12 12 (0.32%) 5G
12 12 (0.32%) BGP
12 12 (0.32%) SSL
13 11 (0.29%) OSPF
14 10 (0.27%) NGFW
15 9 (0.24%) Intranet
15 9 (0.24%) MPLS
16 8 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 302 (8.09%) Power BI
2 92 (2.46%) Metadata
3 79 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (1.39%) Data Lake
5 44 (1.18%) Tableau
6 42 (1.12%) SQL Server
7 33 (0.88%) Relational Database
8 29 (0.78%) Power Query
9 27 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.54%) NoSQL
11 18 (0.48%) DynamoDB
12 17 (0.46%) Big Data
13 16 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
13 16 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
14 15 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (0.40%) Oracle Database
15 14 (0.37%) BigQuery
15 14 (0.37%) Data Vault
15 14 (0.37%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 13 (0.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 276 (7.39%) JIRA
2 66 (1.77%) Git
3 59 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.37%) GitLab
5 31 (0.83%) Rational DOORS
6 28 (0.75%) Postman
7 27 (0.72%) Selenium
8 20 (0.54%) JMeter
9 18 (0.48%) Hudson
10 17 (0.46%) Cucumber
11 15 (0.40%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.35%) JUnit
13 12 (0.32%) ERwin
14 10 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.21%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.21%) LoadRunner
15 8 (0.21%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.16%) MLflow
17 5 (0.13%) Snyk
17 5 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 1,701 (45.54%) Social Skills
2 1,079 (28.89%) Finance
3 635 (17.00%) Public Sector
4 594 (15.90%) Analytical Skills
5 202 (5.41%) Banking
6 177 (4.74%) Influencing Skills
7 148 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
8 145 (3.88%) Legal
9 119 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
10 112 (3.00%) Retail
11 89 (2.38%) Manufacturing
12 85 (2.28%) Law
13 76 (2.03%) Local Government
14 74 (1.98%) Aerospace
15 71 (1.90%) Marketing
16 70 (1.87%) Telecoms
17 61 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 52 (1.39%) Military
19 44 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
20 34 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 687 (18.39%) Analyst
2 548 (14.67%) Architect
3 472 (12.64%) Lead
4 421 (11.27%) Business Analyst
5 369 (9.88%) Senior
6 283 (7.58%) Project Manager
7 273 (7.31%) Consultant
8 156 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
9 135 (3.61%) Developer
10 111 (2.97%) Data Analyst
11 102 (2.73%) Change Manager
12 97 (2.60%) Senior Analyst
13 94 (2.52%) Delivery Manager
14 80 (2.14%) Senior Manager
15 79 (2.12%) Data Architect
16 76 (2.03%) Programme Manager
17 73 (1.95%) Designer
18 70 (1.87%) Security Architect
19 68 (1.82%) Technical Architect
20 66 (1.77%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (2.62%) REST
2 61 (1.63%) Middleware
3 46 (1.23%) Spring
4 42 (1.12%) JSON
5 41 (1.10%) Kafka
5 41 (1.10%) SOAP
6 39 (1.04%) React
7 36 (0.96%) Spring Boot
8 34 (0.91%) .NET
8 34 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
9 33 (0.88%) XML
10 32 (0.86%) PySpark
11 31 (0.83%) OpenID
11 31 (0.83%) SailPoint
12 29 (0.78%) OAuth
13 27 (0.72%) SAML
14 25 (0.67%) LDAP
15 22 (0.59%) RESTful
16 20 (0.54%) HTML
17 19 (0.51%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 250 (6.69%) Product Ownership
2 191 (5.11%) Onboarding
3 161 (4.31%) Cloud Native
4 96 (2.57%) Management Information System
5 90 (2.41%) Data Structures
6 72 (1.93%) Operational Technology
7 68 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 68 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
8 66 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
9 62 (1.66%) Data Centre
10 61 (1.63%) CMDB
11 60 (1.61%) NHS
12 54 (1.45%) Virtual Team
13 50 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
14 44 (1.18%) AI Agents
15 43 (1.15%) Security Posture
16 42 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
17 38 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
18 33 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
18 33 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 107 (2.86%) Windows
2 54 (1.45%) Linux
3 26 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.40%) Unix
5 12 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.21%) VMS
8 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.11%) Android
10 3 (0.080%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.080%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.080%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.080%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.027%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,050 (28.11%) Agile
2 795 (21.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 776 (20.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 536 (14.35%) Migration
5 535 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
6 529 (14.16%) Decision-Making
7 492 (13.17%) Roadmaps
8 453 (12.13%) Change Management
9 452 (12.10%) DevOps
10 429 (11.49%) Workshop Facilitation
11 398 (10.66%) AI
12 392 (10.50%) Analytics
13 371 (9.93%) Risk Management
14 348 (9.32%) CI/CD
15 342 (9.16%) Business Intelligence
16 324 (8.67%) Cybersecurity
17 321 (8.59%) Project Delivery
18 314 (8.41%) ERP
19 305 (8.17%) Data Modelling
20 298 (7.98%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 314 (8.41%) SQL
2 257 (6.88%) Python
3 121 (3.24%) Java
4 63 (1.69%) JavaScript
5 60 (1.61%) PowerShell
6 48 (1.29%) C#
7 42 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 41 (1.10%) TypeScript
9 35 (0.94%) Bash
10 21 (0.56%) VBA
11 20 (0.54%) Bicep
12 16 (0.43%) Scala
13 13 (0.35%) Apex Code
14 11 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 11 (0.29%) T-SQL
15 10 (0.27%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.24%) Korn
17 7 (0.19%) ABAP
17 7 (0.19%) R
18 4 (0.11%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 949 (25.41%) Security Cleared
2 731 (19.57%) SC Cleared
3 274 (7.34%) Degree
4 149 (3.99%) DV Cleared
5 126 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 113 (3.03%) PMI Certification
7 102 (2.73%) PMP
8 93 (2.49%) CISSP
9 65 (1.74%) CISM
10 64 (1.71%) Azure Certification
11 58 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
13 37 (0.99%) AWS Certification
14 30 (0.80%) Master's Degree
14 30 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 25 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 25 (0.67%) ACCA
17 24 (0.64%) CIMA
18 23 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (7.28%) Data Quality
2 193 (5.17%) PMO
3 172 (4.61%) QA
4 161 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 155 (4.15%) NIST
6 152 (4.07%) GDPR
7 95 (2.54%) Accessibility
8 88 (2.36%) GRC
9 52 (1.39%) NCSC
10 41 (1.10%) SLA
11 29 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
12 24 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
12 24 (0.64%) PCI DSS
12 24 (0.64%) WCAG
13 18 (0.48%) SOC 2
14 17 (0.46%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.35%) COBIT
15 13 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 11 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 11 (0.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 95 (2.54%) Active Directory
2 76 (2.03%) Docker
3 38 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.40%) vSphere
5 12 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.080%) NFS
11 1 (0.027%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.027%) Firmware
11 1 (0.027%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.027%) KVM
Systems Management
1 141 (3.78%) Terraform
2 130 (3.48%) Kubernetes
3 43 (1.15%) Ansible
4 33 (0.88%) Grafana
4 33 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.40%) SCCM
8 11 (0.29%) HP ALM
9 10 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.16%) NetBackup
10 6 (0.16%) vRealize
11 4 (0.11%) Podman
12 3 (0.080%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.080%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 3 (0.080%) SCOM
12 3 (0.080%) vMotion
12 3 (0.080%) VxRail
12 3 (0.080%) WSUS
Vendors
1 615 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 264 (7.07%) SAP
3 229 (6.13%) ServiceNow
4 174 (4.66%) Oracle
5 111 (2.97%) Salesforce
6 108 (2.89%) Databricks
7 67 (1.79%) Google
8 54 (1.45%) Cisco
9 50 (1.34%) IBM
9 50 (1.34%) VMware
10 44 (1.18%) Workday
11 42 (1.12%) Splunk
12 26 (0.70%) CyberArk
13 25 (0.67%) MuleSoft
14 21 (0.56%) Palo Alto
14 21 (0.56%) Zscaler
15 20 (0.54%) Citrix
15 20 (0.54%) Dynatrace
16 19 (0.51%) IFS
17 18 (0.48%) Adobe
1,399 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide