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

 6 months to
25 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 40 154
Rank change year-on-year +15 +114 +12
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,953 1,617 659
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.46% 4.94% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.77% 5.47% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,661 1,078 454
10th Percentile £369 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £441 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £501 £516
% change year-on-year +3.90% -3.05% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 29 23
10th Percentile £25.00 £22.98 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £26.21 £23.00
Median hourly rate £74.50 £42.82 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +74.00% -24.21% +10.59%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.25 £65.73
90th Percentile - £76.19 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £45.87 £56.97
% change year-on-year +74.42% -19.48% +11.52%

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 45,072 29,587 34,698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.43% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,942 18,578 22,301
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £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 2,665 1,596 2,086
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £17.33 £17.31
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.80 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +83.17% -40.00% -1.45%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +15 3,374 £540 +0.51% 990
UK excluding London +23 1,865 £520 +3.90% 670
London +14 1,626 £550 - 466
Work from Home +22 1,298 £530 +5.16% 486
North of England +20 499 £500 - 165
South East +26 493 £565 +4.92% 236
Midlands +10 323 £508 +1.50% 93
North West +14 248 £500 -2.21% 76
West Midlands +6 246 £500 - 63
South West +9 200 £538 -2.27% 85
Yorkshire -1 192 £501 +4.54% 63
Scotland +30 187 £488 - 23
East of England +31 123 £533 +6.39% 55
East Midlands +19 73 £513 +2.50% 30
North East +10 67 £450 -7.22% 27
Wales +16 51 £500 +31.58% 14
Northern Ireland +11 14 £449 -17.52% 9
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
1 177 (4.48%) Confluence
2 129 (3.26%) SharePoint
3 34 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 29 (0.73%) Apache
6 26 (0.66%) SAS
7 25 (0.63%) CMS
8 23 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.18%) WordPress
10 4 (0.10%) Drupal
10 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.10%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.076%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.076%) Kentico
11 3 (0.076%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.076%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.051%) IIS
12 2 (0.051%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.051%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 176 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 66 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
5 62 (1.57%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.076%) Sketch
10 2 (0.051%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.051%) InDesign
10 2 (0.051%) InVision
10 2 (0.051%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.051%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.051%) PTC Creo
10 2 (0.051%) Revit
11 1 (0.025%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.025%) CATIA
11 1 (0.025%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.025%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 154 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 52 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.53%) Workday HCM
4 16 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.38%) SAP FI
6 14 (0.35%) Primavera
7 12 (0.30%) NetSuite
7 12 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.30%) SAP QM
7 12 (0.30%) Teamcenter
8 11 (0.28%) Maximo
9 10 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
9 10 (0.25%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
9 10 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 9 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
11 8 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 8 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 770 (19.48%) Azure
2 503 (12.72%) AWS
3 399 (10.09%) Power Platform
4 185 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
5 176 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
6 167 (4.22%) GCP
7 134 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
8 121 (3.06%) Entra ID
9 99 (2.50%) SaaS
10 81 (2.05%) GitHub
11 69 (1.75%) Power Automate
12 65 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
13 62 (1.57%) Serverless
14 57 (1.44%) PowerApps
15 54 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
16 52 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
16 52 (1.32%) Snowflake
17 51 (1.29%) Amazon S3
18 48 (1.21%) PaaS
19 47 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.64%) Network Security
2 60 (1.52%) Firewall
3 49 (1.24%) DNS
4 36 (0.91%) VPN
5 35 (0.89%) WAN
6 31 (0.78%) LAN
7 24 (0.61%) TCP/IP
8 21 (0.53%) DHCP
9 18 (0.46%) 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
12 12 (0.30%) Intranet
12 12 (0.30%) OSPF
13 11 (0.28%) SSL
14 10 (0.25%) NGFW
14 10 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.23%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 326 (8.25%) Power BI
2 105 (2.66%) Metadata
3 89 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
4 72 (1.82%) Data Lake
5 59 (1.49%) SQL Server
6 45 (1.14%) Tableau
7 30 (0.76%) Power Query
8 29 (0.73%) Relational Database
9 27 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (0.53%) DynamoDB
11 20 (0.51%) Big Data
12 19 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (0.46%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.46%) Oracle Database
14 16 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
14 16 (0.40%) NoSQL
15 15 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.38%) Data Vault
15 15 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
16 14 (0.35%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 280 (7.08%) JIRA
2 76 (1.92%) Git
3 56 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.24%) GitLab
5 34 (0.86%) Selenium
6 31 (0.78%) Rational DOORS
7 28 (0.71%) Postman
8 19 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 19 (0.48%) WebDriver
9 18 (0.46%) Hudson
10 16 (0.40%) JMeter
11 15 (0.38%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.38%) JUnit
12 12 (0.30%) ERwin
13 11 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (0.23%) SonarQube
15 7 (0.18%) Bitbucket
16 6 (0.15%) MLflow
16 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 1,800 (45.54%) Social Skills
2 1,132 (28.64%) Finance
3 713 (18.04%) Public Sector
4 644 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
5 209 (5.29%) Banking
6 199 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
7 156 (3.95%) Legal
8 149 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
9 133 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
10 127 (3.21%) Retail
11 93 (2.35%) Manufacturing
12 89 (2.25%) Law
13 85 (2.15%) Local Government
14 83 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 83 (2.10%) Telecoms
15 80 (2.02%) Marketing
16 73 (1.85%) Aerospace
17 55 (1.39%) Military
18 50 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
19 40 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 724 (18.32%) Analyst
2 571 (14.44%) Architect
3 497 (12.57%) Lead
4 436 (11.03%) Business Analyst
5 400 (10.12%) Senior
6 296 (7.49%) Project Manager
7 279 (7.06%) Consultant
8 167 (4.22%) Developer
8 167 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
9 125 (3.16%) Data Analyst
10 102 (2.58%) Change Manager
10 102 (2.58%) Senior Analyst
11 101 (2.56%) Delivery Manager
12 89 (2.25%) Data Architect
13 85 (2.15%) Senior Manager
14 80 (2.02%) Security Architect
15 74 (1.87%) Designer
15 74 (1.87%) Product Manager
16 72 (1.82%) Data Engineer
17 71 (1.80%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (2.63%) REST
2 55 (1.39%) Middleware
3 53 (1.34%) JSON
4 47 (1.19%) .NET
5 46 (1.16%) React
5 46 (1.16%) SOAP
5 46 (1.16%) Spring
6 45 (1.14%) Kafka
7 41 (1.04%) PySpark
8 40 (1.01%) XML
9 39 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
10 37 (0.94%) Spring Boot
11 28 (0.71%) OAuth
11 28 (0.71%) SailPoint
12 26 (0.66%) SAML
13 25 (0.63%) OpenID
13 25 (0.63%) Web Services
14 23 (0.58%) HTML
15 22 (0.56%) LDAP
15 22 (0.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 289 (7.31%) Product Ownership
2 211 (5.34%) Onboarding
3 165 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 113 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 112 (2.83%) Data Structures
6 77 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
6 77 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
7 72 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
8 70 (1.77%) NHS
9 69 (1.75%) Operational Technology
10 59 (1.49%) Data Centre
11 58 (1.47%) Virtual Team
12 56 (1.42%) CMDB
13 48 (1.21%) AI Agents
14 47 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
15 46 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
16 39 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
16 39 (0.99%) Security Posture
16 39 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
17 34 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 112 (2.83%) Windows
2 56 (1.42%) Linux
3 27 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.38%) Unix
4 15 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 10 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.18%) VMS
7 6 (0.15%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.10%) Android
9 3 (0.076%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.076%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.076%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.076%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.025%) AIX
10 1 (0.025%) HPUX
10 1 (0.025%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.025%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,169 (29.57%) Agile
2 868 (21.96%) Stakeholder Management
3 865 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 583 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
5 574 (14.52%) Migration
6 563 (14.24%) Decision-Making
7 516 (13.05%) Roadmaps
8 501 (12.67%) DevOps
9 474 (11.99%) Change Management
10 471 (11.92%) Workshop Facilitation
11 460 (11.64%) AI
12 439 (11.11%) Analytics
13 399 (10.09%) CI/CD
14 384 (9.71%) Risk Management
15 374 (9.46%) Business Intelligence
16 348 (8.80%) Cybersecurity
17 346 (8.75%) Project Delivery
18 336 (8.50%) ERP
19 330 (8.35%) Data Modelling
20 319 (8.07%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 341 (8.63%) SQL
2 281 (7.11%) Python
3 118 (2.99%) Java
4 81 (2.05%) JavaScript
5 66 (1.67%) PowerShell
6 64 (1.62%) C#
7 44 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 43 (1.09%) TypeScript
9 38 (0.96%) Bash
10 26 (0.66%) Bicep
11 18 (0.46%) VBA
12 14 (0.35%) Apex Code
12 14 (0.35%) Scala
13 13 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.30%) T-SQL
15 11 (0.28%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.25%) Korn
17 8 (0.20%) Groovy
18 7 (0.18%) ABAP
18 7 (0.18%) R
Qualifications
1 1,035 (26.18%) Security Cleared
2 795 (20.11%) SC Cleared
3 267 (6.75%) Degree
4 173 (4.38%) DV Cleared
5 139 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 120 (3.04%) PMI Certification
7 113 (2.86%) PMP
8 104 (2.63%) CISSP
9 75 (1.90%) Azure Certification
10 66 (1.67%) CISM
11 62 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
12 48 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (1.11%) AWS Certification
14 36 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
15 35 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 29 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 29 (0.73%) Master's Degree
16 29 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
17 24 (0.61%) ISTQB
18 23 (0.58%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 310 (7.84%) Data Quality
2 204 (5.16%) PMO
3 186 (4.71%) QA
4 172 (4.35%) GDPR
5 164 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 155 (3.92%) NIST
7 107 (2.71%) Accessibility
8 89 (2.25%) GRC
9 55 (1.39%) NCSC
10 47 (1.19%) SLA
11 31 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
12 30 (0.76%) WCAG
13 27 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
14 21 (0.53%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.46%) SOC 2
16 14 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 13 (0.33%) COBIT
18 12 (0.30%) ISO 20022
18 12 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 110 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 87 (2.20%) Docker
3 45 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.48%) VMware NSX
4 19 (0.48%) vSphere
5 11 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.051%) NFS
11 1 (0.025%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.025%) Firmware
11 1 (0.025%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.025%) IAG
11 1 (0.025%) KVM
Systems Management
1 162 (4.10%) Terraform
2 150 (3.79%) Kubernetes
3 44 (1.11%) Ansible
4 36 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (0.89%) Grafana
6 32 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.78%) 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 5 (0.13%) vRealize
13 4 (0.10%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.10%) Podman
14 3 (0.076%) Istio
14 3 (0.076%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.076%) QRadar
14 3 (0.076%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.076%) VxRail
14 3 (0.076%) WSUS
Vendors
1 696 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 278 (7.03%) SAP
3 233 (5.89%) ServiceNow
4 183 (4.63%) Oracle
5 129 (3.26%) Databricks
6 112 (2.83%) Salesforce
7 74 (1.87%) Google
8 56 (1.42%) Cisco
8 56 (1.42%) VMware
9 55 (1.39%) IBM
10 48 (1.21%) Workday
11 43 (1.09%) Splunk
12 30 (0.76%) CyberArk
13 25 (0.63%) MuleSoft
14 23 (0.58%) Palo Alto
15 22 (0.56%) Zscaler
16 21 (0.53%) Ariba
17 20 (0.51%) IFS
17 20 (0.51%) Okta
18 19 (0.48%) Dynatrace
1,098 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide