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

 6 months to
11 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 36 149
Rank change year-on-year +12 +113 +18
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,038 1,765 640
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.56% 5.36% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.91% 5.93% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,735 1,170 440
10th Percentile £367 £360 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% -2.36% -
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 130 30 19
10th Percentile £25.49 £22.99 £18.35
25th Percentile £52.50 £26.86 £32.13
Median hourly rate £74.50 £41.16 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year +81.01% -29.09% +5.54%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.94 £72.70
90th Percentile £88.18 £75.71 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £32.74 £58.17
% change year-on-year +144.39% -43.73% +5.77%

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 45,312 29,789 33,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.84% 90.47% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,886 18,626 21,285
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £404 £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 £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 2,829 1,693 1,837
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.36% -46.51% +17.24%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +9 3,430 £540 -1.82% 1,443
UK excluding London +15 1,911 £525 - 935
London +10 1,658 £550 - 684
Work from Home +16 1,361 £525 - 707
South East +22 512 £565 +2.73% 283
North of England +14 496 £500 -2.21% 212
Midlands +11 331 £500 -0.99% 157
West Midlands +6 255 £500 -2.15% 113
North West +16 243 £500 -3.61% 114
South West +4 213 £550 - 125
Scotland +27 198 £500 - 57
Yorkshire -1 192 £500 +5.26% 67
East of England +27 121 £529 -6.21% 66
East Midlands +21 72 £513 +13.89% 44
North East +10 69 £451 -6.96% 34
Wales +16 52 £500 +21.21% 26
Northern Ireland +11 13 £430 -18.14% 23
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
1 171 (4.23%) Confluence
2 138 (3.42%) SharePoint
3 35 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 31 (0.77%) Apache
6 29 (0.72%) CMS
7 26 (0.64%) SAS
8 24 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.15%) WordPress
10 4 (0.099%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.099%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.074%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.074%) Kentico
11 3 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.074%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.050%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.050%) Drupal
12 2 (0.050%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.050%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.050%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 182 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
5 57 (1.41%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.20%) 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 (0.099%) Sketch
10 2 (0.050%) InDesign
10 2 (0.050%) InVision
11 1 (0.025%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.025%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.025%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.025%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.025%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 145 (3.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 61 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.54%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.37%) Primavera
5 15 (0.37%) SAP FI
6 13 (0.32%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 12 (0.30%) NetSuite
7 12 (0.30%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.27%) Maximo
8 11 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
8 11 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 10 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
9 10 (0.25%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
10 9 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
10 9 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
10 9 (0.22%) Teamcenter
11 8 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 815 (20.18%) Azure
2 530 (13.13%) AWS
3 433 (10.72%) Power Platform
4 200 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
5 191 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
6 183 (4.53%) GCP
7 147 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
8 135 (3.34%) Entra ID
9 98 (2.43%) SaaS
10 88 (2.18%) GitHub
11 83 (2.06%) Power Automate
12 69 (1.71%) Serverless
13 68 (1.68%) Microsoft Copilot
14 67 (1.66%) PowerApps
15 63 (1.56%) Snowflake
16 59 (1.46%) Microsoft Purview
17 57 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
18 56 (1.39%) Amazon S3
19 55 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
20 45 (1.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (1.66%) Firewall
2 63 (1.56%) Network Security
3 51 (1.26%) DNS
4 39 (0.97%) WAN
5 38 (0.94%) VPN
6 34 (0.84%) LAN
7 24 (0.59%) DHCP
7 24 (0.59%) TCP/IP
8 18 (0.45%) SD-WAN
8 18 (0.45%) Wireless
9 16 (0.40%) Internet
10 15 (0.37%) VLAN
11 13 (0.32%) 5G
11 13 (0.32%) BGP
12 12 (0.30%) Intranet
12 12 (0.30%) OSPF
12 12 (0.30%) SSL
13 11 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
14 9 (0.22%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 351 (8.69%) Power BI
2 117 (2.90%) Metadata
3 94 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 82 (2.03%) Data Lake
5 66 (1.63%) SQL Server
6 45 (1.11%) Tableau
7 34 (0.84%) Power Query
8 31 (0.77%) Relational Database
9 29 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
10 22 (0.54%) DynamoDB
11 21 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
11 21 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (0.50%) Big Data
12 20 (0.50%) Oracle Database
13 19 (0.47%) BigQuery
14 18 (0.45%) Semantic Layer
15 17 (0.42%) Data Vault
15 17 (0.42%) NoSQL
16 15 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
16 15 (0.37%) Looker
Development Applications
1 273 (6.76%) JIRA
2 89 (2.20%) Git
3 66 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 56 (1.39%) GitLab
5 35 (0.87%) Selenium
6 31 (0.77%) Postman
6 31 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
7 20 (0.50%) WebDriver
8 19 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.45%) Hudson
10 17 (0.42%) JMeter
11 16 (0.40%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.32%) JUnit
13 12 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (0.27%) ERwin
15 9 (0.22%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.22%) Zephyr
16 8 (0.20%) Bitbucket
17 6 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
17 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 1,829 (45.29%) Social Skills
2 1,128 (27.93%) Finance
3 751 (18.60%) Public Sector
4 665 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
5 207 (5.13%) Banking
6 200 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
7 156 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
7 156 (3.86%) Legal
8 146 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
9 135 (3.34%) Retail
10 101 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 99 (2.45%) Local Government
12 92 (2.28%) Manufacturing
13 89 (2.20%) Law
13 89 (2.20%) Marketing
14 83 (2.06%) Telecoms
15 73 (1.81%) Aerospace
16 59 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
17 58 (1.44%) Military
18 40 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 713 (17.66%) Analyst
2 593 (14.69%) Architect
3 504 (12.48%) Lead
4 428 (10.60%) Business Analyst
5 418 (10.35%) Senior
6 301 (7.45%) Project Manager
7 288 (7.13%) Consultant
8 190 (4.71%) Developer
9 171 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
10 128 (3.17%) Data Analyst
11 104 (2.58%) Data Architect
12 103 (2.55%) Change Manager
13 99 (2.45%) Delivery Manager
14 98 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
15 88 (2.18%) Senior Manager
16 85 (2.11%) Data Engineer
17 79 (1.96%) Designer
18 78 (1.93%) Security Architect
19 75 (1.86%) Product Manager
20 72 (1.78%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (2.60%) REST
2 59 (1.46%) .NET
3 56 (1.39%) JSON
3 56 (1.39%) Middleware
4 48 (1.19%) Kafka
5 46 (1.14%) React
5 46 (1.14%) Spring
6 44 (1.09%) PySpark
6 44 (1.09%) SOAP
7 40 (0.99%) XML
8 39 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
9 37 (0.92%) Spring Boot
10 33 (0.82%) OAuth
11 30 (0.74%) SAML
12 29 (0.72%) OpenID
12 29 (0.72%) Web Services
13 27 (0.67%) RESTful
13 27 (0.67%) SailPoint
14 25 (0.62%) HTML
15 24 (0.59%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 297 (7.36%) Product Ownership
2 221 (5.47%) Onboarding
3 176 (4.36%) Cloud Native
4 126 (3.12%) Management Information System
5 111 (2.75%) Data Structures
6 86 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 80 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
8 73 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
8 73 (1.81%) NHS
9 66 (1.63%) Operational Technology
10 58 (1.44%) AI Agents
10 58 (1.44%) Data Centre
11 55 (1.36%) CMDB
11 55 (1.36%) Virtual Team
12 51 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
13 49 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
14 47 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
15 42 (1.04%) Security Posture
16 34 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
17 32 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 122 (3.02%) Windows
2 68 (1.68%) Linux
3 30 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.37%) Unix
4 15 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 11 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.20%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.17%) VMS
8 6 (0.15%) Android
8 6 (0.15%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.099%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.074%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.050%) AIX
11 2 (0.050%) HPUX
11 2 (0.050%) Solaris
12 1 (0.025%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,224 (30.31%) Agile
2 918 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
2 918 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 605 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
4 588 (14.56%) Decision-Making
5 579 (14.34%) Migration
6 535 (13.25%) DevOps
7 525 (13.00%) Roadmaps
8 496 (12.28%) Workshop Facilitation
9 490 (12.13%) AI
10 475 (11.76%) Change Management
11 469 (11.61%) Analytics
12 444 (11.00%) CI/CD
13 402 (9.96%) Risk Management
14 399 (9.88%) Business Intelligence
15 371 (9.19%) Project Delivery
16 353 (8.74%) Cybersecurity
17 350 (8.67%) Data Modelling
18 326 (8.07%) ERP
19 323 (8.00%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 370 (9.16%) SQL
2 294 (7.28%) Python
3 125 (3.10%) Java
4 89 (2.20%) JavaScript
5 78 (1.93%) C#
6 74 (1.83%) PowerShell
7 52 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 43 (1.06%) Bash
8 43 (1.06%) TypeScript
9 26 (0.64%) Bicep
10 19 (0.47%) Scala
11 16 (0.40%) VBA
12 14 (0.35%) Apex Code
12 14 (0.35%) PL/SQL
12 14 (0.35%) T-SQL
13 12 (0.30%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.22%) Groovy
15 8 (0.20%) Korn
16 7 (0.17%) ABAP
17 6 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 1,079 (26.72%) Security Cleared
2 815 (20.18%) SC Cleared
3 262 (6.49%) Degree
4 187 (4.63%) DV Cleared
5 141 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 122 (3.02%) PMI Certification
7 113 (2.80%) PMP
8 105 (2.60%) CISSP
9 74 (1.83%) Azure Certification
10 66 (1.63%) CISM
11 62 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
12 53 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
13 48 (1.19%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
15 36 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 32 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
17 29 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 25 (0.62%) ISTQB
18 25 (0.62%) Master's Degree
19 24 (0.59%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 330 (8.17%) Data Quality
2 217 (5.37%) PMO
3 190 (4.71%) QA
4 178 (4.41%) GDPR
5 170 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 154 (3.81%) NIST
7 114 (2.82%) Accessibility
8 87 (2.15%) GRC
9 58 (1.44%) NCSC
10 44 (1.09%) SLA
11 33 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
12 32 (0.79%) WCAG
13 28 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.47%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.45%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 15 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 12 (0.30%) ISO 20022
18 12 (0.30%) NIST 800
19 11 (0.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 126 (3.12%) Active Directory
2 93 (2.30%) Docker
3 48 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 20 (0.50%) vSphere
6 16 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.050%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.050%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
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
1 170 (4.21%) Terraform
2 154 (3.81%) Kubernetes
3 46 (1.14%) Ansible
4 42 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
6 35 (0.87%) Grafana
7 33 (0.82%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.37%) SCCM
9 12 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.25%) NetBackup
11 7 (0.17%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.12%) SCOM
12 5 (0.12%) vRealize
13 4 (0.099%) Istio
13 4 (0.099%) VxRail
14 3 (0.074%) Argo
14 3 (0.074%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.074%) Puppet
14 3 (0.074%) QRadar
14 3 (0.074%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 749 (18.55%) Microsoft
2 272 (6.74%) SAP
3 231 (5.72%) ServiceNow
4 180 (4.46%) Oracle
5 145 (3.59%) Databricks
6 116 (2.87%) Salesforce
7 82 (2.03%) Google
8 62 (1.54%) VMware
9 57 (1.41%) Cisco
10 56 (1.39%) IBM
11 49 (1.21%) Workday
12 42 (1.04%) Splunk
13 34 (0.84%) CyberArk
14 29 (0.72%) MuleSoft
15 25 (0.62%) Ariba
16 24 (0.59%) Zscaler
17 23 (0.57%) Palo Alto
18 21 (0.52%) Citrix
18 21 (0.52%) Dynatrace
18 21 (0.52%) Okta
1,661 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide