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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 33 140
Rank change year-on-year +8 +107 +23
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,124 1,871 663
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.66% 5.70% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.04% 6.30% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,797 1,249 456
10th Percentile £363 £354 £363
25th Percentile £450 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.65% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 34 18
10th Percentile £25.50 £23.65 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £29.12 £26.31
Median hourly rate £74.50 £44.91 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +65.90% -22.80% +2.98%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.38 £73.85
90th Percentile £89.75 £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 45,595 29,691 33,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.49% 85.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,992 18,509 21,072
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% -3.58%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,871 1,749 1,744
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.87
25th Percentile £18.27 £17.30 £18.00
Median hourly rate £41.92 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.68% -37.90% -2.41%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -44.58% +10.67%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +6 3,496 £540 -1.82% 1,027
UK excluding London +9 1,945 £525 - 771
London +4 1,700 £550 - 432
Work from Home +14 1,391 £525 - 524
South East +14 517 £550 - 252
North of England +12 500 £500 -2.34% 175
Midlands +8 336 £500 -2.15% 121
West Midlands +4 258 £498 -3.40% 91
North West +12 245 £500 -4.99% 101
South West +1 229 £550 - 120
Scotland +29 202 £500 +6.38% 28
Yorkshire -1 194 £500 +1.78% 54
East of England +22 122 £525 -13.22% 61
East Midlands +17 73 £525 +20.00% 30
North East +8 69 £453 -2.11% 22
Wales +10 55 £513 +20.59% 21
Northern Ireland +6 13 £430 -17.16% 14
Channel Islands 0 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 (4.24%) Confluence
2 155 (3.76%) SharePoint
3 36 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 31 (0.75%) Apache
5 31 (0.75%) CMS
6 29 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 27 (0.65%) SAS
8 6 (0.15%) WordPress
9 4 (0.097%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.097%) OpenEdge
9 4 (0.097%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.073%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.073%) Drupal
10 3 (0.073%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.073%) IIS
10 3 (0.073%) Kentico
10 3 (0.073%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.048%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.048%) Appian
Applications
1 181 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 84 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 77 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
5 52 (1.26%) 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 (0.048%) InDesign
10 2 (0.048%) 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
1 136 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 62 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.58%) Workday HCM
4 20 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.36%) Primavera
6 14 (0.34%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 12 (0.29%) NetSuite
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%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 8 (0.19%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 825 (20.00%) Azure
2 560 (13.58%) AWS
3 445 (10.79%) Power Platform
4 210 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
5 198 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
6 192 (4.66%) GCP
7 154 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
8 145 (3.52%) Entra ID
9 96 (2.33%) SaaS
10 92 (2.23%) Power Automate
11 91 (2.21%) GitHub
12 72 (1.75%) PowerApps
12 72 (1.75%) Serverless
13 69 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
14 65 (1.58%) Snowflake
15 62 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
16 59 (1.43%) Amazon S3
17 58 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
18 57 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
19 44 (1.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 66 (1.60%) Firewall
2 63 (1.53%) Network Security
3 54 (1.31%) DNS
4 41 (0.99%) VPN
5 40 (0.97%) WAN
6 34 (0.82%) LAN
7 27 (0.65%) DHCP
8 24 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 19 (0.46%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.44%) Wireless
11 17 (0.41%) Internet
12 15 (0.36%) VLAN
13 14 (0.34%) 5G
13 14 (0.34%) BGP
14 12 (0.29%) Intranet
14 12 (0.29%) OSPF
14 12 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (0.27%) Kerberos
15 11 (0.27%) SSL
16 9 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 356 (8.63%) Power BI
2 123 (2.98%) Metadata
3 94 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
4 89 (2.16%) Data Lake
5 69 (1.67%) SQL Server
6 46 (1.12%) Tableau
7 34 (0.82%) Power Query
7 34 (0.82%) Relational Database
8 30 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (0.58%) DynamoDB
10 22 (0.53%) Oracle Database
11 21 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (0.48%) BigQuery
13 19 (0.46%) Big Data
13 19 (0.46%) NoSQL
13 19 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
14 17 (0.41%) Data Vault
15 15 (0.36%) Looker
15 15 (0.36%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 277 (6.72%) JIRA
2 94 (2.28%) Git
3 65 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.31%) GitLab
5 33 (0.80%) Selenium
6 31 (0.75%) Postman
7 29 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
8 19 (0.46%) WebDriver
9 18 (0.44%) Cucumber
10 17 (0.41%) Hudson
11 15 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.36%) JMeter
12 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (0.27%) ERwin
13 11 (0.27%) JUnit
14 9 (0.22%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.22%) Zephyr
15 8 (0.19%) Bitbucket
16 7 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
17 6 (0.15%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,880 (45.59%) Social Skills
2 1,144 (27.74%) Finance
3 792 (19.20%) Public Sector
4 668 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
5 217 (5.26%) Banking
6 213 (5.16%) Influencing Skills
7 173 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
8 154 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
9 150 (3.64%) Legal
10 142 (3.44%) Retail
11 112 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 100 (2.42%) Local Government
13 94 (2.28%) Manufacturing
14 93 (2.26%) Law
15 87 (2.11%) Marketing
16 83 (2.01%) Telecoms
17 77 (1.87%) Aerospace
18 61 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
19 59 (1.43%) Military
20 40 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 705 (17.10%) Analyst
2 623 (15.11%) Architect
3 514 (12.46%) Lead
4 417 (10.11%) Senior
5 415 (10.06%) Business Analyst
6 303 (7.35%) Consultant
7 302 (7.32%) Project Manager
8 207 (5.02%) Developer
9 174 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
10 125 (3.03%) Data Analyst
11 113 (2.74%) Data Architect
12 105 (2.55%) Change Manager
13 98 (2.38%) Delivery Manager
14 94 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
15 92 (2.23%) Senior Manager
16 85 (2.06%) Data Engineer
17 81 (1.96%) Technical Architect
18 80 (1.94%) Designer
19 76 (1.84%) IT Manager
20 75 (1.82%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (4.34%) Terraform
2 108 (2.62%) REST
3 65 (1.58%) .NET
4 58 (1.41%) JSON
5 53 (1.29%) Kafka
6 52 (1.26%) Middleware
7 47 (1.14%) PySpark
7 47 (1.14%) React
8 46 (1.12%) Spring
9 43 (1.04%) SOAP
10 42 (1.02%) XML
11 41 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
12 39 (0.95%) Spring Boot
13 36 (0.87%) OAuth
14 34 (0.82%) SAML
15 33 (0.80%) Web Services
16 29 (0.70%) LDAP
16 29 (0.70%) OpenID
16 29 (0.70%) RESTful
17 28 (0.68%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 308 (7.47%) Product Ownership
2 229 (5.55%) Onboarding
3 186 (4.51%) Cloud Native
4 138 (3.35%) Management Information System
5 111 (2.69%) Data Structures
6 92 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
7 82 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
8 77 (1.87%) NHS
9 71 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 68 (1.65%) AI Agents
11 65 (1.58%) Data Centre
11 65 (1.58%) Operational Technology
12 58 (1.41%) CMDB
13 57 (1.38%) Virtual Team
14 50 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
15 49 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
16 45 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
17 44 (1.07%) Security Posture
18 34 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
19 29 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 132 (3.20%) Windows
2 78 (1.89%) Linux
3 35 (0.85%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.39%) Unix
5 13 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.17%) Android
7 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.17%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.17%) VMS
8 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.048%) AIX
10 2 (0.048%) HPUX
10 2 (0.048%) Solaris
11 1 (0.024%) CentOS
11 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,261 (30.58%) Agile
2 970 (23.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 940 (22.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 615 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
5 609 (14.77%) Decision-Making
6 596 (14.45%) Migration
7 550 (13.34%) Roadmaps
8 538 (13.05%) DevOps
9 524 (12.71%) Workshop Facilitation
10 501 (12.15%) AI
11 474 (11.49%) Analytics
11 474 (11.49%) Change Management
12 450 (10.91%) CI/CD
13 409 (9.92%) Business Intelligence
14 405 (9.82%) Risk Management
15 402 (9.75%) Project Delivery
16 365 (8.85%) Cybersecurity
17 344 (8.34%) Data Modelling
18 333 (8.07%) User Acceptance Testing
19 325 (7.88%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 384 (9.31%) SQL
2 305 (7.40%) Python
3 133 (3.23%) Java
4 92 (2.23%) JavaScript
5 82 (1.99%) C#
6 81 (1.96%) PowerShell
7 55 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 47 (1.14%) TypeScript
9 46 (1.12%) Bash
10 27 (0.65%) Bicep
11 20 (0.48%) Scala
12 15 (0.36%) Kotlin
12 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 13 (0.32%) Apex Code
15 12 (0.29%) VBA
16 10 (0.24%) Korn
17 9 (0.22%) Groovy
18 7 (0.17%) R
18 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,139 (27.62%) Security Cleared
2 851 (20.64%) SC Cleared
3 264 (6.40%) Degree
4 193 (4.68%) DV Cleared
5 147 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 123 (2.98%) PMI Certification
7 114 (2.76%) PMP
8 108 (2.62%) CISSP
9 75 (1.82%) Azure Certification
10 71 (1.72%) CISM
11 67 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
12 59 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 49 (1.19%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 36 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
16 32 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 30 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 28 (0.68%) APMG
19 27 (0.65%) ISTQB
20 25 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (8.03%) Data Quality
2 210 (5.09%) PMO
3 185 (4.49%) QA
4 175 (4.24%) GDPR
5 174 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 162 (3.93%) NIST
7 120 (2.91%) Accessibility
8 88 (2.13%) GRC
9 66 (1.60%) NCSC
10 44 (1.07%) SLA
11 35 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
12 32 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
12 32 (0.78%) WCAG
13 19 (0.46%) PCI DSS
14 17 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 16 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 16 (0.39%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.29%) JSP 440
16 12 (0.29%) NIST 800
17 11 (0.27%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 134 (3.25%) Active Directory
2 93 (2.26%) Docker
3 52 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 19 (0.46%) vSphere
6 17 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.32%) 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%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 156 (3.78%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.19%) Ansible
3 40 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.82%) Grafana
5 33 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 14 (0.34%) SCCM
9 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.17%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 5 (0.12%) vRealize
12 4 (0.097%) Istio
12 4 (0.097%) QRadar
12 4 (0.097%) VxRail
13 3 (0.073%) Argo
13 3 (0.073%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.073%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.073%) Puppet
13 3 (0.073%) WSUS
Vendors
1 782 (18.96%) Microsoft
2 270 (6.55%) SAP
3 232 (5.63%) ServiceNow
4 187 (4.53%) Oracle
5 152 (3.69%) Databricks
6 110 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 88 (2.13%) Google
8 67 (1.62%) VMware
9 59 (1.43%) Cisco
9 59 (1.43%) IBM
10 50 (1.21%) Workday
11 44 (1.07%) Splunk
12 34 (0.82%) CyberArk
13 29 (0.70%) MuleSoft
14 25 (0.61%) Zscaler
15 23 (0.56%) Ariba
15 23 (0.56%) Palo Alto
16 22 (0.53%) Dynatrace
16 22 (0.53%) Okta
17 20 (0.48%) Informatica