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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 134
Rank change year-on-year +2 +107 +29
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,190 2,213 695
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.67% 6.67% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.08% 7.36% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,841 1,488 433
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £640 £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 124 39 10
10th Percentile £24.80 £22.58 £21.93
25th Percentile £40.94 £27.52 £26.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.00 £54.02
Median % change year-on-year +38.30% -13.00% -4.37%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.82 £60.44
90th Percentile £87.82 £74.50 £61.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.70 £32.74 £58.17
% change year-on-year +106.80% -43.73% +2.98%

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 46,144 30,062 32,646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.46% 90.58% 85.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,776 18,666 19,743
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 £634 £625 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,300 1,877 1,341
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.33 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.62 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.57% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.06 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £65.18 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.77% -48.10% +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 4 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 4 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 4 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 3,514 £550 +1.38% 3,119
UK excluding London +4 1,927 £525 - 1,953
London 0 1,751 £550 - 1,415
Work from Home +5 1,428 £525 - 1,535
South East +8 496 £550 - 522
North of England +2 496 £500 -3.15% 446
Midlands +8 339 £500 -4.76% 305
West Midlands +2 275 £500 -4.76% 211
South West -2 231 £550 - 266
North West +1 224 £525 +2.44% 256
Scotland +22 222 £500 +11.11% 172
Yorkshire -7 203 £495 -5.71% 141
East of England +17 114 £501 -17.20% 166
North East +7 78 £451 -5.00% 51
East Midlands +10 63 £525 +16.67% 94
Wales +14 57 £525 +27.27% 42
Northern Ireland -2 6 £413 -24.14% 50
Channel Islands -2 4 £588 +27.03% 3

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
1 173 (4.13%) SharePoint
2 170 (4.06%) Confluence
3 36 (0.86%) CMS
4 35 (0.84%) Apache
4 35 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 34 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
6 26 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 22 (0.53%) 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 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.072%) Drupal
12 3 (0.072%) IIS
12 3 (0.072%) Kentico
12 3 (0.072%) OpenEdge
13 2 (0.048%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.048%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.048%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 192 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 89 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 56 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
5 55 (1.31%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.45%) 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 3 (0.072%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.072%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.048%) InDesign
11 2 (0.048%) Sketch
12 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
12 1 (0.024%) Notion
Business Applications
1 121 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 66 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.57%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 14 (0.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 14 (0.33%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.29%) Maximo
8 12 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 11 (0.26%) iTrent
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%) 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 SD
Cloud Services
1 786 (18.76%) Azure
2 541 (12.91%) AWS
3 433 (10.33%) Power Platform
4 217 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
5 208 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
6 181 (4.32%) GCP
7 133 (3.17%) Entra ID
8 123 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
9 101 (2.41%) Power Automate
9 101 (2.41%) SaaS
10 92 (2.20%) GitHub
11 82 (1.96%) Snowflake
12 80 (1.91%) Microsoft Copilot
13 75 (1.79%) PowerApps
14 73 (1.74%) Serverless
15 72 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
16 64 (1.53%) Amazon S3
17 57 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
18 54 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
19 47 (1.12%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 71 (1.69%) Network Security
2 66 (1.58%) Firewall
3 46 (1.10%) DNS
4 38 (0.91%) WAN
5 37 (0.88%) VPN
6 28 (0.67%) LAN
7 27 (0.64%) DHCP
8 22 (0.53%) TCP/IP
9 16 (0.38%) Internet
9 16 (0.38%) SD-WAN
9 16 (0.38%) VLAN
10 15 (0.36%) Wireless
11 14 (0.33%) 5G
12 12 (0.29%) BGP
12 12 (0.29%) VoIP
13 11 (0.26%) Kerberos
14 10 (0.24%) HTTP
14 10 (0.24%) Intranet
14 10 (0.24%) OSPF
14 10 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 329 (7.85%) Power BI
2 168 (4.01%) Metadata
3 97 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
4 95 (2.27%) Data Lake
5 74 (1.77%) SQL Server
6 47 (1.12%) Tableau
7 34 (0.81%) Relational Database
8 31 (0.74%) Power Query
9 29 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
11 26 (0.62%) DynamoDB
12 25 (0.60%) BigQuery
13 22 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
14 21 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
15 20 (0.48%) MongoDB
15 20 (0.48%) NoSQL
16 19 (0.45%) Big Data
16 19 (0.45%) Oracle Database
16 19 (0.45%) Star Schema
17 18 (0.43%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 264 (6.30%) JIRA
2 93 (2.22%) Git
3 62 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 58 (1.38%) GitLab
5 30 (0.72%) Selenium
6 28 (0.67%) Postman
7 19 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
10 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (0.21%) ERwin
11 9 (0.21%) JUnit
12 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.19%) REST Assured
12 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.17%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.17%) Hudson
13 7 (0.17%) JMeter
13 7 (0.17%) Maven
General
1 1,967 (46.95%) Social Skills
2 1,104 (26.35%) Finance
3 892 (21.29%) Public Sector
4 691 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
5 259 (6.18%) Influencing Skills
6 230 (5.49%) Banking
7 189 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
8 184 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
9 145 (3.46%) Legal
10 124 (2.96%) Retail
11 122 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 118 (2.82%) Manufacturing
13 115 (2.74%) Local Government
14 86 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
15 84 (2.00%) Military
16 83 (1.98%) Marketing
17 76 (1.81%) Telecoms
18 68 (1.62%) Aerospace
19 55 (1.31%) Law
20 45 (1.07%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 708 (16.90%) Analyst
2 608 (14.51%) Architect
3 496 (11.84%) Lead
4 443 (10.57%) Senior
5 417 (9.95%) Business Analyst
6 295 (7.04%) Consultant
7 286 (6.83%) Project Manager
8 230 (5.49%) Developer
9 182 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
10 127 (3.03%) Data Architect
11 120 (2.86%) Change Manager
12 119 (2.84%) Data Analyst
13 107 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
14 89 (2.12%) Designer
15 87 (2.08%) Data Engineer
16 86 (2.05%) Delivery Manager
16 86 (2.05%) Senior Manager
16 86 (2.05%) Technical Architect
17 76 (1.81%) IT Manager
18 75 (1.79%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (4.30%) Terraform
2 125 (2.98%) REST
3 67 (1.60%) .NET
4 59 (1.41%) JSON
5 56 (1.34%) Kafka
6 51 (1.22%) SOAP
7 47 (1.12%) Middleware
7 47 (1.12%) PySpark
7 47 (1.12%) Spring
7 47 (1.12%) XML
8 45 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
9 42 (1.00%) React
9 42 (1.00%) Spring Boot
10 35 (0.84%) OAuth
10 35 (0.84%) Web Services
11 34 (0.81%) RESTful
12 29 (0.69%) LDAP
13 28 (0.67%) Node.js
14 27 (0.64%) OpenID
14 27 (0.64%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 284 (6.78%) Product Ownership
2 247 (5.89%) Onboarding
3 188 (4.49%) Cloud Native
4 149 (3.56%) Management Information System
5 98 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
6 91 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 89 (2.12%) Data Structures
8 85 (2.03%) AI Agents
9 74 (1.77%) NHS
10 72 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 72 (1.72%) Operational Technology
11 67 (1.60%) Data Centre
12 58 (1.38%) Security Posture
13 56 (1.34%) Virtual Team
14 54 (1.29%) CMDB
15 50 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
15 50 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
16 40 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
17 32 (0.76%) Taxonomies
18 29 (0.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 124 (2.96%) Windows
2 80 (1.91%) Linux
3 37 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.36%) 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 (0.072%) 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 1,275 (30.43%) Agile
2 1,150 (27.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 939 (22.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 690 (16.47%) Decision-Making
5 658 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
6 603 (14.39%) Roadmaps
7 571 (13.63%) Workshop Facilitation
8 558 (13.32%) AI
9 549 (13.10%) Migration
10 529 (12.63%) DevOps
11 492 (11.74%) Change Management
12 484 (11.55%) Analytics
13 435 (10.38%) CI/CD
14 430 (10.26%) Risk Management
15 412 (9.83%) Project Delivery
16 383 (9.14%) Business Intelligence
17 379 (9.05%) Cybersecurity
18 378 (9.02%) Data Governance
19 363 (8.66%) Data Modelling
20 358 (8.54%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 406 (9.69%) SQL
2 302 (7.21%) Python
3 126 (3.01%) Java
4 105 (2.51%) JavaScript
5 94 (2.24%) PowerShell
6 88 (2.10%) C#
7 54 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 51 (1.22%) Bash
9 43 (1.03%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.62%) Bicep
11 21 (0.50%) Scala
12 15 (0.36%) 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 7 (0.17%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.12%) VBA
18 4 (0.095%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,215 (29.00%) Security Cleared
2 946 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 252 (6.01%) Degree
4 201 (4.80%) DV Cleared
5 178 (4.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 112 (2.67%) PMI Certification
7 110 (2.63%) CISSP
8 107 (2.55%) PMP
9 68 (1.62%) CISM
10 66 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
11 65 (1.55%) Azure Certification
12 60 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 42 (1.00%) AWS Certification
14 34 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 32 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
16 31 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 30 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
18 26 (0.62%) APMG
18 26 (0.62%) ISTQB
19 25 (0.60%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 374 (8.93%) Data Quality
2 190 (4.53%) PMO
3 185 (4.42%) QA
4 167 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 161 (3.84%) GDPR
5 161 (3.84%) NIST
6 134 (3.20%) Accessibility
7 98 (2.34%) GRC
8 83 (1.98%) NCSC
9 49 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 39 (0.93%) WCAG
11 37 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
12 34 (0.81%) SLA
13 18 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 15 (0.36%) NIST 800
15 14 (0.33%) JSP 440
15 14 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 13 (0.31%) PCI DSS
17 12 (0.29%) ITGC
18 11 (0.26%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 123 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 103 (2.46%) Docker
3 55 (1.31%) 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 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.095%) 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
1 161 (3.84%) Kubernetes
2 51 (1.22%) Ansible
3 41 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (0.74%) Grafana
5 27 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.29%) 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
11 4 (0.095%) vRealize
12 3 (0.072%) Argo
12 3 (0.072%) McAfee ePO
12 3 (0.072%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.072%) Puppet
12 3 (0.072%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 837 (19.98%) Microsoft
2 245 (5.85%) SAP
3 217 (5.18%) ServiceNow
4 187 (4.46%) Oracle
5 154 (3.68%) Databricks
6 101 (2.41%) Salesforce
7 98 (2.34%) Google
8 73 (1.74%) VMware
9 63 (1.50%) Cisco
10 55 (1.31%) Workday
11 54 (1.29%) Splunk
12 42 (1.00%) IBM
13 31 (0.74%) CyberArk
14 29 (0.69%) Ariba
15 27 (0.64%) MuleSoft
16 24 (0.57%) OpenAI
17 23 (0.55%) Palo Alto
18 22 (0.53%) Adobe
18 22 (0.53%) Dynatrace
18 22 (0.53%) Okta