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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 28 131
Rank change year-on-year +3 +103 +33
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,186 2,135 699
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.63% 6.45% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.04% 7.13% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,852 1,437 440
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 35 10
10th Percentile £25.15 £23.80 £25.75
25th Percentile £40.88 £27.52 £32.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.00 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +38.30% -19.21% +2.98%
75th Percentile £82.88 £64.82 £60.95
90th Percentile £89.80 £73.75 £70.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £32.74 £58.30
% change year-on-year +106.20% -43.85% +3.20%

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 46,293 29,942 32,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.37% 90.52% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,017 18,609 19,950
10th Percentile £325 £300 £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 £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,198 1,849 1,396
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.23 £17.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £66.00 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.78% -47.67% +1.18%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +2 3,516 £550 - 2,813
UK excluding London +6 1,932 £525 - 1,799
London +1 1,750 £550 - 1,265
Work from Home +9 1,424 £525 - 1,411
South East +6 502 £550 +2.61% 477
North of England +6 493 £500 -3.85% 430
Midlands +6 338 £500 -7.19% 286
West Midlands +5 271 £500 -6.98% 202
South West -4 232 £550 - 220
Scotland +20 225 £500 +11.11% 161
North West +1 224 £525 - 255
Yorkshire -2 202 £500 -4.31% 126
East of England +6 113 £510 -17.07% 147
North East +7 75 £450 -5.26% 52
East Midlands +6 65 £525 +7.69% 84
Wales +17 57 £525 +27.27% 29
Northern Ireland -5 6 £413 -21.43% 66
Channel Islands -2 4 £588 +27.03% 2

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
1 174 (4.16%) SharePoint
2 169 (4.04%) Confluence
3 38 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (0.88%) Apache
4 37 (0.88%) CMS
5 36 (0.86%) Apache Spark
6 27 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
7 26 (0.62%) SAS
8 10 (0.24%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.14%) WordPress
10 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.096%) OpenEdge
11 4 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.072%) Drupal
12 3 (0.072%) IIS
12 3 (0.072%) Kentico
13 2 (0.048%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.048%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.048%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 191 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 89 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (1.36%) MS Visio
5 51 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.19%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.19%) Navisworks
7 8 (0.19%) ProjectWise
7 8 (0.19%) Revit
8 7 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.17%) Trello
9 3 (0.072%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.072%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.072%) Sketch
10 2 (0.048%) InDesign
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Notion
Business Applications
1 122 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.60%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 14 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.31%) SAP FI
8 12 (0.29%) Maximo
8 12 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.26%) Primavera
9 11 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 10 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 10 (0.24%) SAP QM
11 9 (0.22%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.22%) SAP SD
12 8 (0.19%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 795 (18.99%) Azure
2 548 (13.09%) AWS
3 431 (10.30%) Power Platform
4 217 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
5 203 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
6 187 (4.47%) GCP
7 139 (3.32%) Entra ID
8 132 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
9 102 (2.44%) Power Automate
9 102 (2.44%) SaaS
10 91 (2.17%) GitHub
11 81 (1.94%) Snowflake
12 80 (1.91%) Microsoft Copilot
13 74 (1.77%) Microsoft Purview
13 74 (1.77%) PowerApps
14 73 (1.74%) Serverless
15 64 (1.53%) Amazon S3
16 59 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
17 56 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
18 47 (1.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 73 (1.74%) Network Security
2 69 (1.65%) Firewall
3 50 (1.19%) DNS
4 40 (0.96%) VPN
4 40 (0.96%) WAN
5 30 (0.72%) DHCP
5 30 (0.72%) LAN
6 24 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 18 (0.43%) Internet
7 18 (0.43%) SD-WAN
8 17 (0.41%) VLAN
9 16 (0.38%) Wireless
10 14 (0.33%) 5G
11 12 (0.29%) BGP
11 12 (0.29%) Kerberos
11 12 (0.29%) VoIP
12 11 (0.26%) Intranet
12 11 (0.26%) SSL
12 11 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (0.24%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 328 (7.84%) Power BI
2 168 (4.01%) Metadata
3 96 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
4 94 (2.25%) Data Lake
5 73 (1.74%) SQL Server
6 44 (1.05%) Tableau
7 35 (0.84%) Relational Database
8 30 (0.72%) Power Query
9 28 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (0.65%) DynamoDB
11 25 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (0.60%) BigQuery
12 23 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 22 (0.53%) Oracle Database
13 22 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
14 21 (0.50%) MongoDB
15 20 (0.48%) NoSQL
16 19 (0.45%) Big Data
17 18 (0.43%) Data Vault
17 18 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 262 (6.26%) JIRA
2 89 (2.13%) Git
3 60 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.36%) GitLab
5 29 (0.69%) Postman
6 28 (0.67%) Selenium
7 17 (0.41%) Cucumber
7 17 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
9 12 (0.29%) Hudson
9 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (0.22%) ERwin
11 8 (0.19%) JMeter
11 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
11 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.17%) JUnit
12 7 (0.17%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.17%) Zephyr
13 6 (0.14%) Maven
13 6 (0.14%) MLflow
General
1 1,962 (46.87%) Social Skills
2 1,115 (26.64%) Finance
3 868 (20.74%) Public Sector
4 681 (16.27%) Analytical Skills
5 255 (6.09%) Influencing Skills
6 232 (5.54%) Banking
7 182 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
8 174 (4.16%) Organisational Skills
9 142 (3.39%) Legal
10 131 (3.13%) Retail
11 123 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 115 (2.75%) Local Government
13 111 (2.65%) Manufacturing
14 85 (2.03%) Marketing
15 84 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
16 80 (1.91%) Military
17 77 (1.84%) Telecoms
18 64 (1.53%) Law
19 62 (1.48%) Aerospace
20 41 (0.98%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 700 (16.72%) Analyst
2 618 (14.76%) Architect
3 498 (11.90%) Lead
4 442 (10.56%) Senior
5 408 (9.75%) Business Analyst
6 304 (7.26%) Consultant
7 294 (7.02%) Project Manager
8 229 (5.47%) Developer
9 187 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
10 126 (3.01%) Data Architect
11 118 (2.82%) Data Analyst
12 111 (2.65%) Change Manager
13 107 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
14 90 (2.15%) Designer
15 88 (2.10%) Data Engineer
15 88 (2.10%) Senior Manager
16 85 (2.03%) Delivery Manager
17 84 (2.01%) Technical Architect
18 79 (1.89%) IT Manager
19 74 (1.77%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (4.42%) Terraform
2 126 (3.01%) REST
3 67 (1.60%) .NET
4 59 (1.41%) JSON
5 58 (1.39%) Kafka
6 52 (1.24%) SOAP
7 48 (1.15%) PySpark
8 47 (1.12%) XML
9 46 (1.10%) Middleware
10 45 (1.08%) Spring
11 44 (1.05%) React
12 42 (1.00%) Spring Boot
13 40 (0.96%) OAuth
13 40 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
14 35 (0.84%) RESTful
14 35 (0.84%) Web Services
15 34 (0.81%) SAML
16 32 (0.76%) LDAP
16 32 (0.76%) OpenID
17 28 (0.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 285 (6.81%) Product Ownership
2 244 (5.83%) Onboarding
3 189 (4.52%) Cloud Native
4 147 (3.51%) Management Information System
5 98 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
6 95 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 89 (2.13%) Data Structures
8 79 (1.89%) AI Agents
9 75 (1.79%) NHS
10 72 (1.72%) Operational Technology
11 71 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
12 69 (1.65%) Data Centre
13 59 (1.41%) Security Posture
14 56 (1.34%) CMDB
14 56 (1.34%) Virtual Team
15 50 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
15 50 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
16 42 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
17 32 (0.76%) PKI
18 30 (0.72%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 130 (3.11%) Windows
2 80 (1.91%) Linux
3 37 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.38%) Unix
5 14 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.17%) Android
7 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.14%) VMS
9 4 (0.096%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.072%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.048%) AIX
11 2 (0.048%) HPUX
11 2 (0.048%) Solaris
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.024%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,272 (30.39%) Agile
2 1,112 (26.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 946 (22.60%) Continuous Improvement
4 678 (16.20%) Decision-Making
5 651 (15.55%) Problem-Solving
6 593 (14.17%) Roadmaps
7 567 (13.55%) Migration
8 552 (13.19%) Workshop Facilitation
9 544 (13.00%) AI
10 533 (12.73%) DevOps
11 485 (11.59%) Analytics
12 484 (11.56%) Change Management
13 441 (10.54%) CI/CD
14 424 (10.13%) Risk Management
15 403 (9.63%) Project Delivery
16 382 (9.13%) Cybersecurity
17 378 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
18 374 (8.93%) Data Governance
19 358 (8.55%) Data Modelling
20 342 (8.17%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 400 (9.56%) SQL
2 296 (7.07%) Python
3 126 (3.01%) Java
4 104 (2.48%) JavaScript
5 94 (2.25%) PowerShell
6 88 (2.10%) C#
7 53 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 51 (1.22%) Bash
9 46 (1.10%) TypeScript
10 28 (0.67%) Bicep
11 21 (0.50%) Scala
12 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.24%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.24%) Korn
15 9 (0.22%) Groovy
16 8 (0.19%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.19%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.12%) VBA
18 4 (0.096%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,206 (28.81%) Security Cleared
2 934 (22.31%) SC Cleared
3 259 (6.19%) Degree
4 201 (4.80%) DV Cleared
5 163 (3.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 112 (2.68%) CISSP
7 111 (2.65%) PMI Certification
8 106 (2.53%) PMP
9 70 (1.67%) CISM
10 69 (1.65%) Azure Certification
11 66 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
12 60 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (1.05%) AWS Certification
14 36 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 35 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
16 34 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 31 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
18 27 (0.65%) ISTQB
18 27 (0.65%) Master's Degree
19 25 (0.60%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 361 (8.62%) Data Quality
2 191 (4.56%) PMO
3 180 (4.30%) QA
4 173 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 166 (3.97%) NIST
6 165 (3.94%) GDPR
7 129 (3.08%) Accessibility
8 103 (2.46%) GRC
9 82 (1.96%) NCSC
10 43 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
11 39 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
12 37 (0.88%) WCAG
13 34 (0.81%) SLA
14 18 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 15 (0.36%) PCI DSS
15 15 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.33%) JSP 440
16 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
17 12 (0.29%) ITGC
18 11 (0.26%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 129 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 99 (2.37%) Docker
3 54 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.45%) VMware NSX
5 18 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.33%) vSphere
7 12 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.072%) 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
1 158 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 51 (1.22%) Ansible
3 43 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (0.74%) Grafana
5 30 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (0.26%) SCCM
9 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
10 6 (0.14%) VxRail
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
12 4 (0.096%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.096%) Istio
12 4 (0.096%) QRadar
12 4 (0.096%) vRealize
13 3 (0.072%) Argo
13 3 (0.072%) McAfee ePO
13 3 (0.072%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.072%) Puppet
13 3 (0.072%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 833 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 247 (5.90%) SAP
3 228 (5.45%) ServiceNow
4 185 (4.42%) Oracle
5 160 (3.82%) Databricks
6 103 (2.46%) Salesforce
7 95 (2.27%) Google
8 72 (1.72%) VMware
9 63 (1.51%) Cisco
10 56 (1.34%) Workday
11 53 (1.27%) Splunk
12 43 (1.03%) IBM
13 31 (0.74%) CyberArk
14 27 (0.65%) Ariba
14 27 (0.65%) MuleSoft
15 24 (0.57%) Dynatrace
16 23 (0.55%) Informatica
16 23 (0.55%) Palo Alto
17 21 (0.50%) Adobe
17 21 (0.50%) Okta
3,254 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide