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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 30 141
Rank change year-on-year +5 +111 +16
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,133 1,934 662
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.70% 5.99% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.10% 6.62% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,796 1,300 443
10th Percentile £363 £357 £363
25th Percentile £450 £427 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 34 15
10th Percentile £23.62 £25.47 £23.25
25th Percentile £47.00 £30.24 £38.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £47.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +43.62% -19.38% +3.20%
75th Percentile £85.56 £64.79 £72.70
90th Percentile £95.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.00 £45.12 £59.45
% change year-on-year +52.93% -24.11% +5.24%

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 45,398 29,222 32,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.44% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,773 18,158 20,413
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 2,911 1,744 1,558
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.20 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.84 £46.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.18 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +87.80% -47.37% +12.13%

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 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 4 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 4 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 +4 3,497 £549 -0.23% 2,331
UK excluding London +7 1,930 £525 - 1,482
London +2 1,721 £550 - 1,161
Work from Home +11 1,408 £525 - 1,204
South East +12 508 £569 +3.45% 402
North of England +7 494 £500 -2.23% 313
Midlands +8 335 £500 -4.76% 215
West Midlands +10 257 £500 -3.85% 152
North West +7 240 £506 -3.69% 188
South West +1 227 £550 - 236
Scotland +30 214 £500 +11.11% 117
Yorkshire +2 196 £500 - 78
East of England +25 121 £533 -11.91% 127
East Midlands +19 73 £525 +23.53% 63
North East +10 66 £450 - 50
Wales +11 54 £525 +20.00% 25
Northern Ireland +4 9 £413 -20.48% 60
Channel Islands -2 2 £563 +21.62% 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
1 165 (3.99%) Confluence
2 158 (3.82%) SharePoint
3 36 (0.87%) Apache
3 36 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 35 (0.85%) CMS
5 27 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (0.65%) SAS
6 8 (0.19%) Headless CMS
7 6 (0.15%) WordPress
8 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.097%) OpenEdge
9 4 (0.097%) Sitecore CMS
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
11 2 (0.048%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 185 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 83 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (1.40%) MS Visio
5 57 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.17%) Trello
8 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.15%) Navisworks
8 6 (0.15%) ProjectWise
8 6 (0.15%) Revit
9 4 (0.097%) Sketch
10 2 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.048%) InDesign
10 2 (0.048%) InVision
10 2 (0.048%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 135 (3.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.58%) Workday HCM
4 20 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 13 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 13 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.27%) Maximo
8 11 (0.27%) Primavera
8 11 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 10 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 9 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
10 9 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
10 9 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
10 9 (0.22%) SAP CO
10 9 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
11 8 (0.19%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 802 (19.40%) Azure
2 544 (13.16%) AWS
3 439 (10.62%) Power Platform
4 206 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
5 202 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
6 182 (4.40%) GCP
7 152 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
8 141 (3.41%) Entra ID
9 94 (2.27%) SaaS
10 92 (2.23%) Power Automate
11 90 (2.18%) GitHub
12 72 (1.74%) Serverless
13 70 (1.69%) PowerApps
13 70 (1.69%) Snowflake
14 66 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
15 65 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
16 61 (1.48%) Amazon S3
17 58 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
18 57 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
19 46 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.65%) Firewall
1 68 (1.65%) Network Security
2 52 (1.26%) DNS
3 41 (0.99%) WAN
4 37 (0.90%) VPN
5 33 (0.80%) LAN
6 27 (0.65%) DHCP
7 24 (0.58%) TCP/IP
8 20 (0.48%) SD-WAN
9 18 (0.44%) Wireless
10 17 (0.41%) 5G
10 17 (0.41%) Internet
11 16 (0.39%) VLAN
12 14 (0.34%) BGP
12 14 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (0.31%) Intranet
13 13 (0.31%) OSPF
14 12 (0.29%) SSL
14 12 (0.29%) VoIP
15 11 (0.27%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 348 (8.42%) Power BI
2 149 (3.61%) Metadata
3 95 (2.30%) Data Lake
4 94 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
5 71 (1.72%) SQL Server
6 43 (1.04%) Tableau
7 35 (0.85%) Relational Database
8 34 (0.82%) Power Query
9 31 (0.75%) 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 (0.48%) NoSQL
14 19 (0.46%) Big Data
14 19 (0.46%) BigQuery
14 19 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
15 18 (0.44%) Data Vault
16 16 (0.39%) Delta Lake
16 16 (0.39%) Looker
Development Applications
1 267 (6.46%) JIRA
2 95 (2.30%) Git
3 62 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.38%) GitLab
5 31 (0.75%) Selenium
6 29 (0.70%) Postman
7 18 (0.44%) WebDriver
8 17 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 16 (0.39%) Hudson
10 15 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 14 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
12 12 (0.29%) JMeter
12 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (0.27%) ERwin
14 10 (0.24%) JUnit
15 9 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
16 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
16 8 (0.19%) Zephyr
17 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
18 6 (0.15%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,906 (46.12%) Social Skills
2 1,145 (27.70%) Finance
3 808 (19.55%) Public Sector
4 684 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
5 231 (5.59%) Influencing Skills
6 227 (5.49%) Banking
7 176 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
8 165 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
9 149 (3.61%) Legal
10 138 (3.34%) Retail
11 116 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 107 (2.59%) Local Government
13 92 (2.23%) Manufacturing
14 89 (2.15%) Telecoms
15 87 (2.11%) Law
16 84 (2.03%) Marketing
17 72 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
18 68 (1.65%) Military
19 63 (1.52%) Aerospace
20 39 (0.94%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 703 (17.01%) Analyst
2 631 (15.27%) Architect
3 518 (12.53%) Lead
4 428 (10.36%) Senior
5 404 (9.77%) Business Analyst
6 301 (7.28%) Consultant
7 293 (7.09%) Project Manager
8 213 (5.15%) Developer
9 184 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
10 121 (2.93%) Data Architect
11 119 (2.88%) Data Analyst
12 110 (2.66%) Change Manager
13 100 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
14 94 (2.27%) Senior Manager
15 89 (2.15%) Data Engineer
16 86 (2.08%) Delivery Manager
17 85 (2.06%) Technical Architect
18 80 (1.94%) Designer
19 75 (1.81%) Security Architect
20 72 (1.74%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (4.31%) Terraform
2 115 (2.78%) REST
3 66 (1.60%) .NET
4 60 (1.45%) JSON
5 54 (1.31%) Kafka
6 51 (1.23%) Middleware
6 51 (1.23%) PySpark
7 50 (1.21%) SOAP
8 46 (1.11%) React
8 46 (1.11%) XML
9 45 (1.09%) Spring
10 41 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
11 38 (0.92%) OAuth
11 38 (0.92%) Spring Boot
12 35 (0.85%) SAML
13 34 (0.82%) Web Services
14 33 (0.80%) RESTful
15 31 (0.75%) OpenID
16 30 (0.73%) LDAP
17 28 (0.68%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 290 (7.02%) Product Ownership
2 236 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 183 (4.43%) Cloud Native
4 145 (3.51%) Management Information System
5 97 (2.35%) Data Structures
6 96 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
7 88 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
8 74 (1.79%) NHS
9 71 (1.72%) AI Agents
10 69 (1.67%) Data Centre
10 69 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
11 63 (1.52%) Operational Technology
12 58 (1.40%) CMDB
13 57 (1.38%) Virtual Team
14 52 (1.26%) Security Posture
15 50 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
16 48 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
17 47 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
18 31 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
19 26 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 128 (3.10%) Windows
2 77 (1.86%) Linux
3 36 (0.87%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.39%) Unix
5 13 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.19%) Android
7 8 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.17%) VMS
9 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.048%) AIX
11 2 (0.048%) HPUX
11 2 (0.048%) Solaris
11 2 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,248 (30.20%) Agile
2 1,028 (24.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 942 (22.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 640 (15.49%) Decision-Making
5 632 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
6 588 (14.23%) Migration
7 556 (13.45%) Roadmaps
8 536 (12.97%) Workshop Facilitation
9 528 (12.78%) DevOps
10 511 (12.36%) AI
11 487 (11.78%) Change Management
12 468 (11.32%) Analytics
13 447 (10.82%) CI/CD
14 410 (9.92%) Risk Management
15 409 (9.90%) Project Delivery
16 399 (9.65%) Business Intelligence
17 365 (8.83%) Cybersecurity
18 348 (8.42%) Data Modelling
19 347 (8.40%) Data Governance
20 332 (8.03%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 384 (9.29%) SQL
2 303 (7.33%) Python
3 125 (3.02%) Java
4 98 (2.37%) JavaScript
5 85 (2.06%) PowerShell
6 83 (2.01%) C#
7 53 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 49 (1.19%) Bash
9 44 (1.06%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.65%) Bicep
11 21 (0.51%) Scala
12 15 (0.36%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 12 (0.29%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.24%) Korn
15 9 (0.22%) Groovy
15 9 (0.22%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.22%) VBA
16 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.12%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,155 (27.95%) Security Cleared
2 879 (21.27%) SC Cleared
3 249 (6.02%) Degree
4 196 (4.74%) DV Cleared
5 154 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 119 (2.88%) PMI Certification
7 112 (2.71%) PMP
8 111 (2.69%) CISSP
9 72 (1.74%) Azure Certification
9 72 (1.74%) CISM
10 68 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
11 56 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 46 (1.11%) AWS Certification
13 38 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 34 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
15 33 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
16 31 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 28 (0.68%) Master's Degree
18 26 (0.63%) APMG
18 26 (0.63%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 334 (8.08%) Data Quality
2 210 (5.08%) PMO
3 185 (4.48%) QA
4 176 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 175 (4.23%) GDPR
6 164 (3.97%) NIST
7 121 (2.93%) Accessibility
8 94 (2.27%) GRC
9 69 (1.67%) NCSC
10 35 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
10 35 (0.85%) WCAG
11 34 (0.82%) SLA
12 31 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 17 (0.41%) PCI DSS
13 17 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (0.34%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.31%) ITGC
15 13 (0.31%) JSP 440
15 13 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 129 (3.12%) Active Directory
2 97 (2.35%) Docker
3 51 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 17 (0.41%) vSphere
6 16 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.048%) 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
1 155 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 48 (1.16%) Ansible
3 39 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (0.85%) Grafana
5 33 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (0.27%) SCCM
9 9 (0.22%) NetBackup
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 4 (0.097%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.097%) Istio
11 4 (0.097%) QRadar
11 4 (0.097%) vRealize
11 4 (0.097%) VxRail
12 3 (0.073%) Argo
12 3 (0.073%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.073%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.073%) Puppet
13 2 (0.048%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 799 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 271 (6.56%) SAP
3 234 (5.66%) ServiceNow
4 189 (4.57%) Oracle
5 161 (3.90%) Databricks
6 110 (2.66%) Salesforce
7 87 (2.11%) Google
8 68 (1.65%) VMware
9 60 (1.45%) Cisco
10 52 (1.26%) Workday
11 48 (1.16%) Splunk
12 46 (1.11%) IBM
13 33 (0.80%) CyberArk
14 28 (0.68%) MuleSoft
15 27 (0.65%) Ariba
16 24 (0.58%) Informatica
17 23 (0.56%) Dynatrace
17 23 (0.56%) Palo Alto
18 20 (0.48%) Okta
19 19 (0.46%) Adobe