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

 6 months to
18 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 41 155
Rank change year-on-year +16 +114 +9
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,923 1,567 670
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.42% 4.81% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.71% 5.33% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,637 1,048 464
10th Percentile £368 £360 £363
25th Percentile £450 £440 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -4.55% +4.07%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £500 £516
% change year-on-year +3.50% -3.15% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 28 25
10th Percentile £25.00 £24.51 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £29.51 £24.75
Median hourly rate £74.50 £46.16 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.40% -7.69% -6.83%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.31 £61.06
90th Percentile - £76.67 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £59.00 £56.97
% change year-on-year +35.59% +3.57% +6.15%

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 45,026 29,407 35,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.11% 90.34% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,974 18,494 23,016
10th Percentile £325 £300 £301
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,654 1,554 2,302
10th Percentile £14.87 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.37 £16.71
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.50 £51.55 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.46 £70.00 £73.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.33 £38.20
% change year-on-year +84.96% -36.30% -4.51%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +17 3,333 £540 +1.89% 788
UK excluding London +23 1,859 £518 +3.50% 570
London +16 1,596 £550 - 343
Work from Home +22 1,276 £533 +6.50% 387
North of England +18 496 £500 - 135
South East +24 474 £550 +2.42% 221
Midlands +12 329 £513 +2.50% 78
North West +18 248 £500 -0.40% 64
West Midlands +4 241 £509 +4.47% 52
South West +12 197 £535 -2.73% 68
Yorkshire -2 193 £507 +6.79% 53
Scotland +31 192 £475 -5.00% 17
East of England +32 125 £533 +6.50% 45
East Midlands +24 83 £525 +10.53% 26
North East +12 63 £450 -11.33% 20
Wales +16 51 £500 +31.58% 13
Northern Ireland +13 17 £447 -20.53% 5
Channel Islands +1 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 (4.59%) Confluence
2 128 (3.26%) SharePoint
3 32 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 26 (0.66%) SAS
6 24 (0.61%) Apache
6 24 (0.61%) CMS
7 22 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.15%) WordPress
9 4 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.10%) Drupal
9 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.10%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.076%) Kentico
10 3 (0.076%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.051%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.051%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.051%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.051%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.051%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 182 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 65 (1.66%) MS Visio
5 64 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.13%) Trello
8 3 (0.076%) PTC Creo
8 3 (0.076%) Sketch
9 2 (0.051%) InDesign
9 2 (0.051%) InVision
10 1 (0.025%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.025%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.025%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.025%) CATIA
10 1 (0.025%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.025%) Revit
10 1 (0.025%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.025%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 156 (3.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.48%) Workday HCM
4 15 (0.38%) SAP FI
5 14 (0.36%) Teamcenter
6 13 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 12 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 12 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.31%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.28%) Maximo
8 11 (0.28%) Primavera
9 10 (0.25%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.23%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 9 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
11 8 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
11 8 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
12 7 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
12 7 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 744 (18.97%) Azure
2 493 (12.57%) AWS
3 383 (9.76%) Power Platform
4 175 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
5 172 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
6 158 (4.03%) GCP
7 122 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
8 119 (3.03%) Entra ID
9 100 (2.55%) SaaS
10 80 (2.04%) GitHub
11 65 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
12 62 (1.58%) Serverless
13 61 (1.55%) Power Automate
14 53 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
15 52 (1.33%) PowerApps
16 51 (1.30%) Amazon S3
16 51 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
17 49 (1.25%) PaaS
18 48 (1.22%) Snowflake
19 42 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 66 (1.68%) Network Security
2 61 (1.55%) Firewall
3 50 (1.27%) DNS
4 36 (0.92%) VPN
5 33 (0.84%) WAN
6 30 (0.76%) LAN
7 24 (0.61%) TCP/IP
8 21 (0.54%) DHCP
9 19 (0.48%) Wireless
10 15 (0.38%) Internet
10 15 (0.38%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.38%) VLAN
11 13 (0.33%) 5G
11 13 (0.33%) BGP
11 13 (0.33%) Intranet
12 12 (0.31%) OSPF
12 12 (0.31%) SSL
13 10 (0.25%) NGFW
13 10 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.23%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 315 (8.03%) Power BI
2 100 (2.55%) Metadata
3 82 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (1.63%) Data Lake
5 56 (1.43%) SQL Server
6 43 (1.10%) Tableau
7 31 (0.79%) Relational Database
8 29 (0.74%) Power Query
9 26 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (0.54%) DynamoDB
11 20 (0.51%) Big Data
12 18 (0.46%) Oracle Database
13 17 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (0.43%) BigQuery
14 16 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
14 16 (0.41%) NoSQL
15 15 (0.38%) Data Vault
16 14 (0.36%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 14 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 285 (7.26%) JIRA
2 70 (1.78%) Git
3 54 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.25%) GitLab
5 33 (0.84%) Selenium
6 31 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
7 27 (0.69%) Postman
8 18 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.46%) Hudson
8 18 (0.46%) WebDriver
9 16 (0.41%) JMeter
10 15 (0.38%) JUnit
11 14 (0.36%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.31%) ERwin
13 9 (0.23%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (0.15%) MLflow
14 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.13%) Gradle
15 5 (0.13%) Snyk
General
1 1,799 (45.86%) Social Skills
2 1,138 (29.01%) Finance
3 692 (17.64%) Public Sector
4 627 (15.98%) Analytical Skills
5 213 (5.43%) Banking
6 192 (4.89%) Influencing Skills
7 153 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
7 153 (3.90%) Legal
8 136 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
9 128 (3.26%) Retail
10 93 (2.37%) Manufacturing
11 87 (2.22%) Law
12 81 (2.06%) Marketing
13 80 (2.04%) Telecoms
14 79 (2.01%) Local Government
15 74 (1.89%) Aerospace
16 73 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 54 (1.38%) Military
18 52 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
19 40 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 716 (18.25%) Analyst
2 570 (14.53%) Architect
3 497 (12.67%) Lead
4 433 (11.04%) Business Analyst
5 389 (9.92%) Senior
6 304 (7.75%) Project Manager
7 275 (7.01%) Consultant
8 167 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
9 156 (3.98%) Developer
10 121 (3.08%) Data Analyst
11 103 (2.63%) Change Manager
12 100 (2.55%) Delivery Manager
13 98 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
14 84 (2.14%) Data Architect
14 84 (2.14%) Senior Manager
15 77 (1.96%) Designer
15 77 (1.96%) Programme Manager
15 77 (1.96%) Security Architect
16 73 (1.86%) Product Manager
17 71 (1.81%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (2.55%) REST
2 58 (1.48%) Middleware
3 49 (1.25%) JSON
4 47 (1.20%) Spring
5 45 (1.15%) React
6 44 (1.12%) Kafka
7 42 (1.07%) SOAP
8 41 (1.05%) .NET
9 38 (0.97%) Spring Boot
10 37 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
10 37 (0.94%) XML
11 36 (0.92%) PySpark
12 28 (0.71%) OAuth
12 28 (0.71%) SailPoint
13 26 (0.66%) SAML
14 25 (0.64%) OpenID
15 24 (0.61%) Web Services
16 22 (0.56%) RESTful
17 21 (0.54%) HTML
17 21 (0.54%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 278 (7.09%) Product Ownership
2 207 (5.28%) Onboarding
3 163 (4.15%) Cloud Native
4 106 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 104 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 78 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
7 74 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
8 72 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
9 69 (1.76%) Operational Technology
10 65 (1.66%) NHS
11 63 (1.61%) Data Centre
12 60 (1.53%) Virtual Team
13 57 (1.45%) CMDB
14 47 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
15 46 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
16 45 (1.15%) AI Agents
17 41 (1.05%) Security Posture
18 40 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
19 37 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
20 33 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 113 (2.88%) Windows
2 56 (1.43%) Linux
3 26 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 14 (0.36%) Unix
6 10 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.20%) VMS
8 6 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.10%) Android
10 3 (0.076%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.076%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.076%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.076%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.025%) AIX
11 1 (0.025%) HPUX
11 1 (0.025%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.025%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,143 (29.14%) Agile
2 856 (21.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 843 (21.49%) Continuous Improvement
4 580 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
5 565 (14.40%) Migration
6 553 (14.10%) Decision-Making
7 507 (12.92%) Roadmaps
8 486 (12.39%) DevOps
9 474 (12.08%) Change Management
10 464 (11.83%) Workshop Facilitation
11 450 (11.47%) AI
12 421 (10.73%) Analytics
13 388 (9.89%) Risk Management
14 387 (9.86%) CI/CD
15 356 (9.07%) Business Intelligence
16 349 (8.90%) Cybersecurity
17 342 (8.72%) Project Delivery
18 333 (8.49%) ERP
19 318 (8.11%) Data Modelling
20 316 (8.06%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 331 (8.44%) SQL
2 273 (6.96%) Python
3 119 (3.03%) Java
4 74 (1.89%) JavaScript
5 63 (1.61%) PowerShell
6 55 (1.40%) C#
7 43 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 42 (1.07%) TypeScript
9 36 (0.92%) Bash
10 24 (0.61%) Bicep
11 19 (0.48%) VBA
12 16 (0.41%) Apex Code
13 14 (0.36%) Scala
14 13 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.31%) T-SQL
16 11 (0.28%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.23%) Korn
18 7 (0.18%) ABAP
18 7 (0.18%) R
19 5 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,007 (25.67%) Security Cleared
2 766 (19.53%) SC Cleared
3 277 (7.06%) Degree
4 165 (4.21%) DV Cleared
5 140 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 125 (3.19%) PMI Certification
7 114 (2.91%) PMP
8 107 (2.73%) CISSP
9 74 (1.89%) Azure Certification
10 70 (1.78%) CISM
11 64 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
12 43 (1.10%) AWS Certification
13 42 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
14 39 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
15 33 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 31 (0.79%) Master's Degree
16 31 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
17 30 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 23 (0.59%) CIMA
18 23 (0.59%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 298 (7.60%) Data Quality
2 199 (5.07%) PMO
3 184 (4.69%) QA
4 169 (4.31%) GDPR
5 160 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 157 (4.00%) NIST
7 104 (2.65%) Accessibility
8 88 (2.24%) GRC
9 55 (1.40%) NCSC
10 47 (1.20%) SLA
11 30 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
12 29 (0.74%) WCAG
13 24 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
14 20 (0.51%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.46%) SOC 2
16 16 (0.41%) ISO 20022
17 15 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 13 (0.33%) COBIT
19 12 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 12 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 109 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 82 (2.09%) Docker
3 45 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.48%) vSphere
5 18 (0.46%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.076%) NFS
12 1 (0.025%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.025%) Firmware
12 1 (0.025%) FreeRADIUS
12 1 (0.025%) IAG
12 1 (0.025%) KVM
Systems Management
1 157 (4.00%) Terraform
2 143 (3.65%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.15%) Ansible
4 35 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (0.87%) Grafana
6 31 (0.79%) Prometheus
7 30 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.33%) SCCM
9 10 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 9 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.18%) NetBackup
12 6 (0.15%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.13%) vRealize
14 4 (0.10%) Podman
15 3 (0.076%) EMC VPLEX
15 3 (0.076%) Istio
15 3 (0.076%) Network Intrusion Detection System
15 3 (0.076%) vCenter Server
15 3 (0.076%) vMotion
15 3 (0.076%) VxRail
Vendors
1 673 (17.16%) Microsoft
2 279 (7.11%) SAP
3 235 (5.99%) ServiceNow
4 179 (4.56%) Oracle
5 119 (3.03%) Databricks
6 114 (2.91%) Salesforce
7 72 (1.84%) Google
8 56 (1.43%) VMware
9 55 (1.40%) Cisco
10 54 (1.38%) IBM
11 46 (1.17%) Workday
12 42 (1.07%) Splunk
13 30 (0.76%) CyberArk
14 25 (0.64%) MuleSoft
15 23 (0.59%) Palo Alto
16 22 (0.56%) Zscaler
17 21 (0.54%) Ariba
18 20 (0.51%) Citrix
18 20 (0.51%) IFS
18 20 (0.51%) Okta
864 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide