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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 31 140
Rank change year-on-year +6 +109 +23
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,114 1,913 663
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.66% 5.84% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.06% 6.46% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,787 1,283 457
10th Percentile £363 £356 £363
25th Percentile £450 £426 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £639 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £523 £513
% change year-on-year +0.48% +1.95% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 34 18
10th Percentile £25.46 £23.65 £18.35
25th Percentile £50.94 £29.12 £26.31
Median hourly rate £74.25 £44.91 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +65.34% -22.80% +2.98%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.38 £73.85
90th Percentile £94.13 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £32.74 £58.30
% change year-on-year +144.39% -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 45,399 29,629 33,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.55% 90.46% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,782 18,436 20,950
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,881 1,773 1,687
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +6.25%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 +5 3,489 £540 -1.82% 1,383
UK excluding London +8 1,935 £525 +0.48% 895
London +5 1,705 £550 - 635
Work from Home +11 1,394 £525 - 723
South East +12 513 £550 - 183
North of England +11 496 £500 -2.08% 223
Midlands +9 337 £500 -2.91% 136
West Midlands +5 258 £500 -2.91% 97
North West +6 242 £500 -4.76% 125
South West +3 228 £550 - 180
Scotland +30 207 £500 +8.70% 72
Yorkshire -2 193 £500 +3.63% 67
East of England +19 120 £529 -14.02% 79
East Midlands +23 74 £525 +20.00% 39
North East +7 69 £453 +2.03% 34
Wales +9 53 £513 +20.59% 18
Northern Ireland +2 10 £380 -26.75% 28
Channel Islands -1 2 £563 +21.62%

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 (4.25%) Confluence
2 156 (3.79%) SharePoint
3 37 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 32 (0.78%) Apache
5 32 (0.78%) CMS
6 29 (0.70%) SAS
7 27 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.15%) WordPress
9 4 (0.097%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.097%) OpenEdge
9 4 (0.097%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.073%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.073%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.073%) Drupal
10 3 (0.073%) IIS
10 3 (0.073%) Kentico
10 3 (0.073%) SharePoint 2013
10 3 (0.073%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.049%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 183 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
3 80 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
5 54 (1.31%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.15%) Navisworks
8 6 (0.15%) ProjectWise
8 6 (0.15%) Revit
8 6 (0.15%) Trello
9 4 (0.097%) Sketch
10 2 (0.049%) InDesign
10 2 (0.049%) InVision
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 141 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.58%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.34%) Primavera
5 14 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 13 (0.32%) NetSuite
7 12 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.27%) Maximo
8 11 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
8 11 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 9 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 9 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
9 9 (0.22%) SAP CO
9 9 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.19%) SAP HR
10 8 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 815 (19.81%) Azure
2 553 (13.44%) AWS
3 448 (10.89%) Power Platform
4 207 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
5 199 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
6 186 (4.52%) GCP
7 155 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
8 143 (3.48%) Entra ID
9 91 (2.21%) Power Automate
9 91 (2.21%) SaaS
10 88 (2.14%) GitHub
11 72 (1.75%) Serverless
12 70 (1.70%) PowerApps
13 69 (1.68%) Snowflake
14 67 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
15 60 (1.46%) Amazon S3
15 60 (1.46%) Microsoft Purview
16 58 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
17 55 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
18 44 (1.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.65%) Firewall
2 65 (1.58%) Network Security
3 54 (1.31%) DNS
4 42 (1.02%) VPN
5 41 (1.00%) WAN
6 34 (0.83%) LAN
7 27 (0.66%) DHCP
8 24 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 19 (0.46%) SD-WAN
9 19 (0.46%) Wireless
10 18 (0.44%) Internet
11 15 (0.36%) 5G
11 15 (0.36%) VLAN
12 14 (0.34%) BGP
12 14 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (0.32%) Intranet
14 12 (0.29%) OSPF
15 11 (0.27%) Kerberos
15 11 (0.27%) SSL
15 11 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 360 (8.75%) Power BI
2 126 (3.06%) Metadata
3 97 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
4 90 (2.19%) Data Lake
5 70 (1.70%) SQL Server
6 47 (1.14%) Tableau
7 35 (0.85%) Relational Database
8 34 (0.83%) Power Query
9 29 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (0.58%) DynamoDB
11 22 (0.53%) Oracle Database
12 21 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 20 (0.49%) NoSQL
14 19 (0.46%) Big Data
14 19 (0.46%) BigQuery
14 19 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
15 17 (0.41%) Data Vault
16 16 (0.39%) Looker
16 16 (0.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 272 (6.61%) JIRA
2 92 (2.24%) Git
3 61 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 52 (1.26%) GitLab
5 32 (0.78%) Selenium
6 31 (0.75%) Postman
7 26 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
8 18 (0.44%) WebDriver
9 17 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.41%) Hudson
10 15 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 14 (0.34%) JMeter
12 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (0.27%) ERwin
14 10 (0.24%) JUnit
15 9 (0.22%) Zephyr
16 8 (0.19%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
17 6 (0.15%) MLflow
17 6 (0.15%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,884 (45.79%) Social Skills
2 1,148 (27.90%) Finance
3 796 (19.35%) Public Sector
4 673 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
5 223 (5.42%) Banking
6 217 (5.27%) Influencing Skills
7 171 (4.16%) Documentation Skills
8 159 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
9 149 (3.62%) Legal
10 141 (3.43%) Retail
11 113 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 106 (2.58%) Local Government
13 93 (2.26%) Law
14 90 (2.19%) Manufacturing
15 86 (2.09%) Marketing
16 85 (2.07%) Telecoms
17 73 (1.77%) Aerospace
18 63 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
19 62 (1.51%) Military
20 38 (0.92%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 703 (17.09%) Analyst
2 622 (15.12%) Architect
3 516 (12.54%) Lead
4 420 (10.21%) Senior
5 411 (9.99%) Business Analyst
6 306 (7.44%) Consultant
7 301 (7.32%) Project Manager
8 212 (5.15%) Developer
9 177 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
10 122 (2.97%) Data Analyst
11 112 (2.72%) Data Architect
12 104 (2.53%) Change Manager
13 95 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
14 93 (2.26%) Delivery Manager
15 92 (2.24%) Senior Manager
16 86 (2.09%) Data Engineer
17 83 (2.02%) Technical Architect
18 81 (1.97%) Designer
19 74 (1.80%) IT Manager
20 72 (1.75%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (4.25%) Terraform
2 113 (2.75%) REST
3 64 (1.56%) .NET
4 58 (1.41%) JSON
5 52 (1.26%) Kafka
5 52 (1.26%) Middleware
6 48 (1.17%) PySpark
6 48 (1.17%) SOAP
7 47 (1.14%) React
8 45 (1.09%) Spring
9 42 (1.02%) XML
10 40 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
11 38 (0.92%) OAuth
11 38 (0.92%) Spring Boot
12 35 (0.85%) SAML
13 33 (0.80%) Web Services
14 31 (0.75%) OpenID
14 31 (0.75%) RESTful
15 29 (0.70%) LDAP
16 28 (0.68%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 304 (7.39%) Product Ownership
2 229 (5.57%) Onboarding
3 181 (4.40%) Cloud Native
4 137 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 109 (2.65%) Data Structures
6 94 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
7 85 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
8 79 (1.92%) NHS
9 74 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 68 (1.65%) Data Centre
11 67 (1.63%) AI Agents
12 59 (1.43%) Operational Technology
13 57 (1.39%) CMDB
14 52 (1.26%) Virtual Team
15 49 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
16 46 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
16 46 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
17 44 (1.07%) Security Posture
18 34 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
19 28 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 132 (3.21%) Windows
2 79 (1.92%) Linux
3 36 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.36%) Unix
5 13 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.29%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.17%) Android
8 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.17%) VMS
9 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.049%) AIX
11 2 (0.049%) HPUX
11 2 (0.049%) Solaris
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,258 (30.58%) Agile
2 988 (24.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 935 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 623 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
5 618 (15.02%) Decision-Making
6 603 (14.66%) Migration
7 548 (13.32%) Roadmaps
8 531 (12.91%) DevOps
9 527 (12.81%) Workshop Facilitation
10 498 (12.11%) AI
11 477 (11.59%) Change Management
12 473 (11.50%) Analytics
13 444 (10.79%) CI/CD
14 410 (9.97%) Business Intelligence
15 403 (9.80%) Risk Management
16 401 (9.75%) Project Delivery
17 358 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
18 345 (8.39%) Data Modelling
19 335 (8.14%) User Acceptance Testing
20 329 (8.00%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 387 (9.41%) SQL
2 307 (7.46%) Python
3 132 (3.21%) Java
4 97 (2.36%) JavaScript
5 82 (1.99%) C#
5 82 (1.99%) PowerShell
6 56 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 47 (1.14%) Bash
8 46 (1.12%) TypeScript
9 26 (0.63%) Bicep
10 20 (0.49%) Scala
11 16 (0.39%) Kotlin
12 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 13 (0.32%) Apex Code
15 11 (0.27%) VBA
16 10 (0.24%) Korn
17 9 (0.22%) Groovy
18 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
19 6 (0.15%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,144 (27.81%) Security Cleared
2 853 (20.73%) SC Cleared
3 258 (6.27%) Degree
4 193 (4.69%) DV Cleared
5 150 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 121 (2.94%) PMI Certification
7 113 (2.75%) PMP
8 106 (2.58%) CISSP
9 74 (1.80%) Azure Certification
10 69 (1.68%) CISM
11 67 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
12 56 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
13 47 (1.14%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 35 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
16 31 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
17 30 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 28 (0.68%) APMG
19 27 (0.66%) ISTQB
20 26 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 329 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 211 (5.13%) PMO
3 181 (4.40%) QA
4 173 (4.21%) GDPR
5 171 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 160 (3.89%) NIST
7 120 (2.92%) Accessibility
8 87 (2.11%) GRC
9 65 (1.58%) NCSC
10 40 (0.97%) SLA
11 35 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
12 32 (0.78%) WCAG
13 30 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.46%) PCI DSS
15 17 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 16 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 15 (0.36%) SOC 2
18 12 (0.29%) JSP 440
18 12 (0.29%) NIST 800
19 11 (0.27%) ITGC
System Software
1 130 (3.16%) Active Directory
2 91 (2.21%) Docker
3 53 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 19 (0.46%) vSphere
6 17 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.049%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.049%) 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
11 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 151 (3.67%) Kubernetes
2 48 (1.17%) Ansible
3 41 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (0.80%) Grafana
4 33 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
5 30 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 15 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 12 (0.29%) SCCM
8 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
9 5 (0.12%) SCOM
9 5 (0.12%) vRealize
10 4 (0.097%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.097%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.097%) Istio
10 4 (0.097%) QRadar
10 4 (0.097%) VxRail
11 3 (0.073%) Argo
11 3 (0.073%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.073%) Puppet
11 3 (0.073%) WSUS
Vendors
1 791 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 274 (6.66%) SAP
3 240 (5.83%) ServiceNow
4 185 (4.50%) Oracle
5 157 (3.82%) Databricks
6 110 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 88 (2.14%) Google
8 70 (1.70%) VMware
9 60 (1.46%) Cisco
10 57 (1.39%) IBM
11 51 (1.24%) Workday
12 45 (1.09%) Splunk
13 33 (0.80%) CyberArk
14 30 (0.73%) MuleSoft
15 27 (0.66%) Ariba
16 25 (0.61%) Zscaler
17 23 (0.56%) Palo Alto
18 22 (0.53%) Dynatrace
19 20 (0.49%) Informatica
19 20 (0.49%) Okta