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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 46 150
Rank change year-on-year +20 +104 +11
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,629 1,373 693
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.12% 4.49% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.37% 4.94% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,447 912 475
10th Percentile £367 £358 £363
25th Percentile £448 £447 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £524
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.53% -0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 28 34
10th Percentile £25.04 £24.51 £18.35
25th Percentile £50.00 £29.51 £27.81
Median hourly rate £67.70 £49.50 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year +36.75% +32.89% -23.20%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.31 £59.85
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% +16.47%

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 43,357 27,782 37,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.94% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,993 17,554 23,597
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -4.05% -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 2,598 1,350 2,559
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +2.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.45 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.00% -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 28 June 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 28 June 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 28 June 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 3,074 £538 +2.38% 891
UK excluding London +27 1,719 £513 +2.50% 704
London +22 1,462 £550 - 351
Work from Home +28 1,174 £525 +5.00% 491
North of England +25 456 £500 +0.30% 173
South East +22 417 £540 +5.68% 248
Midlands +16 315 £510 +4.72% 108
North West +25 233 £500 - 101
West Midlands +12 225 £500 +2.67% 61
South West +18 194 £525 -4.55% 86
Yorkshire +4 181 £514 +8.21% 50
Scotland +28 169 £475 -5.00% 20
East of England +35 124 £550 +10.00% 39
East Midlands +22 85 £525 +16.67% 46
North East +5 48 £453 +0.56% 26
Wales +14 47 £500 +38.89% 20
Northern Ireland +14 17 £447 -23.10% 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
1 180 (4.96%) Confluence
2 109 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 31 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (0.77%) SAS
5 23 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 22 (0.61%) Apache
7 21 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
8 18 (0.50%) CMS
9 5 (0.14%) WordPress
10 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.11%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.083%) Appian
11 3 (0.083%) Drupal
11 3 (0.083%) Kentico
12 2 (0.055%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.055%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.055%) Camunda
12 2 (0.055%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.055%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 168 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 67 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
4 63 (1.74%) MS Visio
5 61 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.083%) Sketch
10 2 (0.055%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.055%) InVision
10 2 (0.055%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.055%) Trello
11 1 (0.028%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.028%) CATIA
11 1 (0.028%) InDesign
11 1 (0.028%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.028%) Notion
11 1 (0.028%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.028%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 138 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.47%) Workday HCM
4 15 (0.41%) Teamcenter
5 13 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 12 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 11 (0.30%) Primavera
7 11 (0.30%) SAP QM
8 10 (0.28%) Maximo
8 10 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 9 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
10 8 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 8 (0.22%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.19%) NetSuite
11 7 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
11 7 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
11 7 (0.19%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
12 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
12 6 (0.17%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 684 (18.85%) Azure
2 475 (13.09%) AWS
3 347 (9.56%) Power Platform
4 152 (4.19%) GCP
5 150 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
6 142 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
7 110 (3.03%) Entra ID
8 99 (2.73%) SaaS
9 98 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
10 70 (1.93%) GitHub
11 57 (1.57%) Serverless
12 56 (1.54%) Microsoft Copilot
13 47 (1.30%) PaaS
14 46 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
14 46 (1.27%) Power Automate
15 45 (1.24%) Amazon S3
15 45 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
16 39 (1.07%) PowerApps
17 37 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
18 36 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.79%) Network Security
2 61 (1.68%) Firewall
3 41 (1.13%) DNS
4 31 (0.85%) VPN
5 29 (0.80%) WAN
6 25 (0.69%) LAN
7 17 (0.47%) TCP/IP
7 17 (0.47%) Wireless
8 14 (0.39%) VLAN
9 13 (0.36%) SD-WAN
10 12 (0.33%) 5G
10 12 (0.33%) BGP
10 12 (0.33%) DHCP
10 12 (0.33%) Internet
11 11 (0.30%) OSPF
11 11 (0.30%) SSL
12 10 (0.28%) Intranet
12 10 (0.28%) NGFW
13 9 (0.25%) MPLS
14 8 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (8.05%) Power BI
2 91 (2.51%) Metadata
3 76 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (1.38%) Data Lake
5 43 (1.18%) Tableau
6 39 (1.07%) SQL Server
7 32 (0.88%) Relational Database
8 30 (0.83%) Power Query
9 27 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (0.58%) NoSQL
11 19 (0.52%) DynamoDB
12 17 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
13 16 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
14 15 (0.41%) Big Data
15 14 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (0.39%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 13 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (0.36%) Data Vault
16 13 (0.36%) Oracle Database
16 13 (0.36%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 280 (7.72%) JIRA
2 61 (1.68%) Git
3 60 (1.65%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.38%) GitLab
5 31 (0.85%) Rational DOORS
6 28 (0.77%) Postman
7 26 (0.72%) Selenium
8 20 (0.55%) JMeter
9 18 (0.50%) Hudson
10 16 (0.44%) Cucumber
11 15 (0.41%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.36%) JUnit
13 12 (0.33%) ERwin
14 10 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.22%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.22%) LoadRunner
15 8 (0.22%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.17%) MLflow
17 5 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
17 5 (0.14%) Snyk
General
1 1,651 (45.49%) Social Skills
2 1,043 (28.74%) Finance
3 611 (16.84%) Public Sector
4 564 (15.54%) Analytical Skills
5 202 (5.57%) Banking
6 164 (4.52%) Influencing Skills
7 140 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
8 135 (3.72%) Legal
9 115 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
10 112 (3.09%) Retail
11 85 (2.34%) Manufacturing
12 83 (2.29%) Law
13 74 (2.04%) Local Government
14 73 (2.01%) Aerospace
15 70 (1.93%) Marketing
15 70 (1.93%) Telecoms
16 58 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 47 (1.30%) Military
18 43 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
19 33 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 668 (18.41%) Analyst
2 540 (14.88%) Architect
3 475 (13.09%) Lead
4 411 (11.33%) Business Analyst
5 354 (9.75%) Senior
6 279 (7.69%) Project Manager
7 270 (7.44%) Consultant
8 150 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
9 127 (3.50%) Developer
10 108 (2.98%) Data Analyst
11 98 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
12 96 (2.65%) Change Manager
13 94 (2.59%) Delivery Manager
14 76 (2.09%) Data Architect
15 75 (2.07%) Designer
16 74 (2.04%) Programme Manager
17 73 (2.01%) Senior Manager
18 69 (1.90%) Security Architect
19 66 (1.82%) Technical Architect
20 65 (1.79%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (2.78%) REST
2 58 (1.60%) Middleware
3 46 (1.27%) Spring
4 42 (1.16%) SOAP
5 40 (1.10%) Kafka
6 39 (1.07%) JSON
6 39 (1.07%) React
7 36 (0.99%) Spring Boot
8 35 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
9 33 (0.91%) OpenID
10 32 (0.88%) XML
11 31 (0.85%) OAuth
11 31 (0.85%) SailPoint
12 30 (0.83%) .NET
12 30 (0.83%) LDAP
12 30 (0.83%) PySpark
13 26 (0.72%) SAML
14 21 (0.58%) CSS
14 21 (0.58%) HTML
14 21 (0.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 251 (6.92%) Product Ownership
2 179 (4.93%) Onboarding
3 157 (4.33%) Cloud Native
4 94 (2.59%) Management Information System
5 88 (2.42%) Data Structures
6 73 (2.01%) Operational Technology
7 69 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 65 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 65 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
9 63 (1.74%) Data Centre
10 57 (1.57%) CMDB
10 57 (1.57%) NHS
11 51 (1.41%) Virtual Team
12 50 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
13 49 (1.35%) Security Posture
14 46 (1.27%) AI Agents
15 44 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
16 35 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
17 33 (0.91%) Public Cloud
18 30 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 95 (2.62%) Windows
2 46 (1.27%) Linux
3 23 (0.63%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.36%) Unix
5 10 (0.28%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.22%) VMS
8 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.11%) Android
11 3 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.083%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.083%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.083%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.028%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,025 (28.24%) Agile
2 753 (20.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 732 (20.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 529 (14.58%) Migration
5 513 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
6 505 (13.92%) Decision-Making
7 478 (13.17%) Roadmaps
8 444 (12.23%) Change Management
9 429 (11.82%) DevOps
10 411 (11.33%) Workshop Facilitation
11 389 (10.72%) AI
12 388 (10.69%) Analytics
13 363 (10.00%) Risk Management
14 330 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
15 329 (9.07%) CI/CD
16 313 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
17 306 (8.43%) ERP
17 306 (8.43%) Project Delivery
18 295 (8.13%) Project Management
19 289 (7.96%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 306 (8.43%) SQL
2 251 (6.92%) Python
3 117 (3.22%) Java
4 61 (1.68%) JavaScript
5 57 (1.57%) PowerShell
6 45 (1.24%) C#
7 41 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 41 (1.13%) TypeScript
8 27 (0.74%) Bash
9 20 (0.55%) Bicep
9 20 (0.55%) VBA
10 14 (0.39%) Scala
11 13 (0.36%) Apex Code
12 10 (0.28%) Kotlin
12 10 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.25%) Korn
13 9 (0.25%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.19%) R
15 6 (0.17%) ABAP
16 4 (0.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 915 (25.21%) Security Cleared
2 713 (19.65%) SC Cleared
3 263 (7.25%) Degree
4 142 (3.91%) DV Cleared
5 118 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 109 (3.00%) PMI Certification
7 98 (2.70%) PMP
8 93 (2.56%) CISSP
9 66 (1.82%) CISM
10 59 (1.63%) Azure Certification
11 57 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
12 39 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
13 37 (1.02%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
14 29 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 28 (0.77%) Master's Degree
16 25 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 24 (0.66%) ACCA
18 23 (0.63%) CIMA
18 23 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (7.30%) Data Quality
2 186 (5.13%) PMO
3 168 (4.63%) QA
4 156 (4.30%) NIST
5 154 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 147 (4.05%) GDPR
7 89 (2.45%) Accessibility
8 87 (2.40%) GRC
9 49 (1.35%) NCSC
10 34 (0.94%) SLA
11 26 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
11 26 (0.72%) PCI DSS
12 25 (0.69%) WCAG
13 24 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
14 18 (0.50%) SOC 2
15 17 (0.47%) ISO 20022
16 13 (0.36%) COBIT
16 13 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.30%) NIST 800
18 10 (0.28%) JSP 440
System Software
1 92 (2.54%) Active Directory
2 70 (1.93%) Docker
3 28 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.33%) vSphere
5 11 (0.30%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.14%) Hyper-V
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 (0.083%) NFS
10 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.028%) Firmware
10 1 (0.028%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.028%) KVM
Systems Management
1 131 (3.61%) Terraform
2 124 (3.42%) Kubernetes
3 41 (1.13%) Ansible
4 32 (0.88%) Grafana
5 30 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 29 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (0.77%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.33%) SCCM
9 11 (0.30%) HP ALM
10 10 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.17%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.14%) vRealize
13 4 (0.11%) Podman
14 3 (0.083%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.083%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.083%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.083%) vMotion
14 3 (0.083%) WSUS
15 2 (0.055%) CA Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.055%) Nessus
Vendors
1 576 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 259 (7.14%) SAP
3 219 (6.03%) ServiceNow
4 161 (4.44%) Oracle
5 107 (2.95%) Salesforce
6 103 (2.84%) Databricks
7 63 (1.74%) Google
8 53 (1.46%) Cisco
9 50 (1.38%) IBM
10 43 (1.18%) Workday
11 41 (1.13%) VMware
12 40 (1.10%) Splunk
13 27 (0.74%) CyberArk
14 24 (0.66%) MuleSoft
15 21 (0.58%) Palo Alto
16 20 (0.55%) Adobe
16 20 (0.55%) Dynatrace
16 20 (0.55%) Zscaler
17 19 (0.52%) IFS
18 17 (0.47%) Fortinet
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