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

 6 months to
2 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 45 152
Rank change year-on-year +19 +107 +13
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,700 1,401 693
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.19% 4.52% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.46% 4.98% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,491 928 476
10th Percentile £367 £360 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £438
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 £514 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.31% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 28 33
10th Percentile £25.00 £24.51 £18.35
25th Percentile £49.50 £29.51 £27.81
Median hourly rate £67.70 £49.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.75% +35.62% -28.55%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.31 £59.95
90th Percentile - £76.67 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.89 £59.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +15.07% +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 43,739 28,136 37,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.86% 85.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,189 17,763 23,600
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -3.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £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 2,627 1,381 2,550
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.84% -34.42% +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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +22 3,140 £540 +2.56% 1,257
UK excluding London +23 1,748 £514 +2.80% 851
London +22 1,498 £550 - 551
Work from Home +28 1,203 £537 +7.40% 685
North of England +18 462 £500 - 225
South East +20 430 £550 +4.76% 293
Midlands +17 323 £513 +5.39% 136
North West +21 236 £500 -0.79% 130
West Midlands +12 229 £508 +4.21% 70
South West +21 195 £525 -4.55% 96
Yorkshire +2 183 £514 +8.21% 66
Scotland +29 170 £475 -5.09% 33
East of England +39 121 £536 +7.25% 37
East Midlands +22 89 £525 +16.67% 66
Wales +15 49 £500 +38.89% 20
North East +9 49 £453 +0.56% 33
Northern Ireland +13 17 £447 -20.53% 25
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
1 179 (4.84%) Confluence
2 116 (3.14%) SharePoint
3 32 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (0.70%) SAS
5 24 (0.65%) Apache Spark
6 23 (0.62%) Apache
7 21 (0.57%) CMS
7 21 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.14%) 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 (0.081%) Appian
10 3 (0.081%) Kentico
11 2 (0.054%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.054%) Camunda
11 2 (0.054%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.054%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.054%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 173 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 68 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 67 (1.81%) MS Visio
5 62 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.081%) 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
1 142 (3.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 15 (0.41%) Teamcenter
5 13 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 12 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 12 (0.32%) Primavera
7 11 (0.30%) SAP FI
7 11 (0.30%) SAP QM
8 10 (0.27%) Maximo
9 9 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 9 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
10 8 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
11 7 (0.19%) NetSuite
11 7 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
11 7 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
11 7 (0.19%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.19%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.16%) SAP CO
12 6 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 697 (18.84%) Azure
2 473 (12.78%) AWS
3 365 (9.86%) Power Platform
4 159 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
5 151 (4.08%) GCP
6 150 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
7 114 (3.08%) Entra ID
8 98 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
8 98 (2.65%) SaaS
9 71 (1.92%) GitHub
10 60 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
11 57 (1.54%) Serverless
12 48 (1.30%) Power Automate
13 47 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
13 47 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
13 47 (1.27%) PaaS
14 46 (1.24%) Amazon S3
15 43 (1.16%) PowerApps
16 39 (1.05%) Snowflake
17 37 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 67 (1.81%) Network Security
2 60 (1.62%) Firewall
3 43 (1.16%) DNS
4 31 (0.84%) VPN
5 30 (0.81%) WAN
6 26 (0.70%) LAN
7 18 (0.49%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.46%) Wireless
9 15 (0.41%) DHCP
10 14 (0.38%) VLAN
11 13 (0.35%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.32%) 5G
12 12 (0.32%) BGP
12 12 (0.32%) Internet
13 11 (0.30%) OSPF
13 11 (0.30%) SSL
14 10 (0.27%) NGFW
15 9 (0.24%) Intranet
15 9 (0.24%) MPLS
16 8 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 304 (8.22%) Power BI
2 92 (2.49%) Metadata
3 79 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (1.38%) Data Lake
5 44 (1.19%) Tableau
6 41 (1.11%) SQL Server
7 33 (0.89%) Relational Database
8 30 (0.81%) Power Query
9 26 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.54%) NoSQL
11 18 (0.49%) DynamoDB
12 17 (0.46%) Big Data
13 16 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
13 16 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
14 14 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (0.38%) Data Vault
14 14 (0.38%) Oracle Database
14 14 (0.38%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 13 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
15 13 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 278 (7.51%) JIRA
2 65 (1.76%) Git
3 58 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.32%) GitLab
5 31 (0.84%) Rational DOORS
6 28 (0.76%) Postman
7 27 (0.73%) Selenium
8 20 (0.54%) JMeter
9 18 (0.49%) Hudson
10 17 (0.46%) Cucumber
11 15 (0.41%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.35%) JUnit
13 12 (0.32%) ERwin
14 10 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.22%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.22%) LoadRunner
15 8 (0.22%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.16%) MLflow
17 5 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
17 5 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 1,688 (45.62%) Social Skills
2 1,074 (29.03%) Finance
3 626 (16.92%) Public Sector
4 589 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
5 203 (5.49%) Banking
6 174 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
7 148 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
8 142 (3.84%) Legal
9 118 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
10 111 (3.00%) Retail
11 89 (2.41%) Manufacturing
12 84 (2.27%) Law
13 73 (1.97%) Aerospace
13 73 (1.97%) Local Government
14 70 (1.89%) Marketing
14 70 (1.89%) Telecoms
15 57 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 47 (1.27%) Military
17 44 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
18 34 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 678 (18.32%) Analyst
2 547 (14.78%) Architect
3 471 (12.73%) Lead
4 420 (11.35%) Business Analyst
5 361 (9.76%) Senior
6 282 (7.62%) Project Manager
7 274 (7.41%) Consultant
8 155 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
9 131 (3.54%) Developer
10 109 (2.95%) Data Analyst
11 100 (2.70%) Change Manager
12 96 (2.59%) Senior Analyst
13 93 (2.51%) Delivery Manager
14 79 (2.14%) Data Architect
15 75 (2.03%) Senior Manager
16 74 (2.00%) Programme Manager
17 73 (1.97%) Designer
18 70 (1.89%) Security Architect
19 65 (1.76%) Product Manager
19 65 (1.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (2.65%) REST
2 59 (1.59%) Middleware
3 44 (1.19%) Spring
4 42 (1.14%) SOAP
5 41 (1.11%) Kafka
6 40 (1.08%) JSON
6 40 (1.08%) React
7 34 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
7 34 (0.92%) Spring Boot
8 33 (0.89%) .NET
9 32 (0.86%) XML
10 31 (0.84%) OpenID
10 31 (0.84%) PySpark
10 31 (0.84%) SailPoint
11 29 (0.78%) OAuth
12 28 (0.76%) LDAP
13 26 (0.70%) SAML
14 21 (0.57%) RESTful
15 20 (0.54%) HTML
16 19 (0.51%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 249 (6.73%) Product Ownership
2 184 (4.97%) Onboarding
3 160 (4.32%) Cloud Native
4 96 (2.59%) Management Information System
5 90 (2.43%) Data Structures
6 71 (1.92%) Operational Technology
7 68 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
7 68 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
8 67 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
9 63 (1.70%) Data Centre
10 61 (1.65%) CMDB
11 59 (1.59%) NHS
12 51 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
12 51 (1.38%) Virtual Team
13 46 (1.24%) Security Posture
14 45 (1.22%) AI Agents
15 43 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
16 38 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
17 33 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
17 33 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 104 (2.81%) Windows
2 54 (1.46%) Linux
3 24 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.38%) Unix
5 12 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.22%) VMS
8 6 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.11%) Android
11 3 (0.081%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.081%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.081%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.081%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.027%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,040 (28.11%) Agile
2 783 (21.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 767 (20.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 538 (14.54%) Migration
5 532 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
6 517 (13.97%) Decision-Making
7 486 (13.14%) Roadmaps
8 452 (12.22%) Change Management
9 446 (12.05%) DevOps
10 430 (11.62%) Workshop Facilitation
11 396 (10.70%) AI
12 393 (10.62%) Analytics
13 368 (9.95%) Risk Management
14 344 (9.30%) Business Intelligence
15 341 (9.22%) CI/CD
16 316 (8.54%) ERP
17 315 (8.51%) Cybersecurity
18 313 (8.46%) Project Delivery
19 305 (8.24%) Data Modelling
20 298 (8.05%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 314 (8.49%) SQL
2 258 (6.97%) Python
3 119 (3.22%) Java
4 63 (1.70%) PowerShell
5 61 (1.65%) JavaScript
6 47 (1.27%) C#
7 43 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 42 (1.14%) TypeScript
9 34 (0.92%) Bash
10 20 (0.54%) Bicep
10 20 (0.54%) VBA
11 16 (0.43%) Scala
12 13 (0.35%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.27%) Korn
13 10 (0.27%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.27%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.27%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.19%) R
15 6 (0.16%) ABAP
16 4 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 929 (25.11%) Security Cleared
2 715 (19.32%) SC Cleared
3 272 (7.35%) Degree
4 146 (3.95%) DV Cleared
5 126 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 114 (3.08%) PMI Certification
7 102 (2.76%) PMP
8 91 (2.46%) CISSP
9 64 (1.73%) CISM
10 62 (1.68%) Azure Certification
11 58 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
13 37 (1.00%) AWS Certification
14 31 (0.84%) Master's Degree
15 29 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 25 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 25 (0.68%) ACCA
17 24 (0.65%) CIMA
18 23 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (7.32%) Data Quality
2 190 (5.14%) PMO
3 172 (4.65%) QA
4 154 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 151 (4.08%) NIST
6 146 (3.95%) GDPR
7 90 (2.43%) Accessibility
8 87 (2.35%) GRC
9 51 (1.38%) NCSC
10 41 (1.11%) SLA
11 27 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
12 24 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
12 24 (0.65%) PCI DSS
12 24 (0.65%) WCAG
13 18 (0.49%) SOC 2
14 17 (0.46%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.35%) COBIT
15 13 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 11 (0.30%) NIST 800
17 10 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 96 (2.59%) Active Directory
2 71 (1.92%) Docker
3 35 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.38%) vSphere
5 12 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.081%) NFS
10 1 (0.027%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.027%) Firmware
10 1 (0.027%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.027%) KVM
Systems Management
1 136 (3.68%) Terraform
2 125 (3.38%) Kubernetes
3 44 (1.19%) Ansible
4 32 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (0.84%) Grafana
6 29 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (0.76%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.41%) SCCM
9 11 (0.30%) HP ALM
10 10 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.16%) NetBackup
11 6 (0.16%) vRealize
12 4 (0.11%) Podman
13 3 (0.081%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.081%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 3 (0.081%) SCOM
13 3 (0.081%) vMotion
13 3 (0.081%) VxRail
13 3 (0.081%) WSUS
Vendors
1 602 (16.27%) Microsoft
2 264 (7.14%) SAP
3 226 (6.11%) ServiceNow
4 173 (4.68%) Oracle
5 109 (2.95%) Salesforce
6 108 (2.92%) Databricks
7 67 (1.81%) Google
8 54 (1.46%) Cisco
9 51 (1.38%) IBM
10 47 (1.27%) VMware
11 44 (1.19%) Workday
12 42 (1.14%) Splunk
13 29 (0.78%) CyberArk
14 24 (0.65%) MuleSoft
15 21 (0.57%) Palo Alto
16 20 (0.54%) Dynatrace
16 20 (0.54%) Zscaler
17 19 (0.51%) IFS
18 18 (0.49%) Ariba
18 18 (0.49%) Citrix
1,449 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide