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

 6 months to
31 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 29 141
Rank change year-on-year +4 +112 +24
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,132 1,948 669
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.69% 5.91% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% 6.54% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,797 1,311 449
10th Percentile £363 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% -3.73% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £508
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 33 16
10th Percentile £24.73 £25.36 £19.80
25th Percentile £49.00 £30.11 £26.44
Median hourly rate £68.22 £47.00 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +45.14% -19.21% +2.98%
75th Percentile £87.73 £63.75 £71.54
90th Percentile £94.25 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.25 £45.12 £58.30
% change year-on-year +64.57% -22.61% +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 45,455 29,807 32,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.45% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,783 18,569 20,737
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 2,905 1,767 1,609
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.30 £18.89
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +3.56%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.49% -47.37% +14.67%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +4 3,499 £540 -1.82% 1,278
UK excluding London +7 1,944 £525 - 852
London +6 1,711 £550 - 637
Work from Home +10 1,393 £525 - 630
South East +14 517 £565 +2.73% 290
North of England +6 496 £500 -2.25% 178
Midlands +8 338 £500 -2.15% 126
West Midlands +8 259 £500 -2.15% 89
North West +6 241 £506 -3.69% 109
South West +1 227 £550 - 145
Scotland +30 213 £500 +11.11% 44
Yorkshire 0 194 £500 - 44
East of England +26 121 £533 -11.98% 53
East Midlands +22 74 £525 +23.53% 36
North East +10 69 £453 +0.61% 27
Wales +11 53 £525 +23.53% 16
Northern Ireland +5 11 £396 -23.61% 15
Channel Islands -2 2 £563 +21.62% 1

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
1 174 (4.21%) Confluence
2 160 (3.87%) SharePoint
3 36 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (0.82%) Apache Spark
4 34 (0.82%) CMS
5 32 (0.77%) Apache
6 28 (0.68%) SAS
7 27 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.15%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.15%) WordPress
9 4 (0.097%) OpenEdge
9 4 (0.097%) Oracle Workflow
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
10 3 (0.073%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.048%) GeoServer
Applications
1 184 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 82 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
5 56 (1.36%) 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
1 137 (3.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.58%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 13 (0.31%) NetSuite
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.29%) Primavera
7 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 11 (0.27%) Maximo
8 11 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 9 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
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%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 814 (19.70%) Azure
2 550 (13.31%) AWS
3 445 (10.77%) Power Platform
4 206 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
5 199 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
6 186 (4.50%) GCP
7 154 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
8 143 (3.46%) Entra ID
9 95 (2.30%) SaaS
10 91 (2.20%) Power Automate
11 88 (2.13%) GitHub
12 72 (1.74%) Serverless
13 70 (1.69%) PowerApps
14 69 (1.67%) Snowflake
15 68 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
16 61 (1.48%) Microsoft Purview
17 60 (1.45%) Amazon S3
18 58 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
19 55 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
20 43 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.65%) Firewall
2 65 (1.57%) Network Security
3 53 (1.28%) DNS
4 43 (1.04%) VPN
5 41 (0.99%) 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%) 5G
12 15 (0.36%) VLAN
13 14 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (0.31%) BGP
14 13 (0.31%) Intranet
15 12 (0.29%) OSPF
15 12 (0.29%) VoIP
16 11 (0.27%) Kerberos
16 11 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 357 (8.64%) Power BI
2 136 (3.29%) Metadata
3 96 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
4 91 (2.20%) Data Lake
5 70 (1.69%) SQL Server
6 44 (1.06%) Tableau
7 35 (0.85%) Relational Database
8 34 (0.82%) Power Query
9 29 (0.70%) 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 17 (0.41%) Data Vault
16 16 (0.39%) Looker
16 16 (0.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 270 (6.53%) JIRA
2 93 (2.25%) Git
3 61 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.31%) GitLab
5 31 (0.75%) Selenium
6 30 (0.73%) Postman
7 21 (0.51%) Rational DOORS
8 18 (0.44%) WebDriver
9 17 (0.41%) Cucumber
10 16 (0.39%) Hudson
11 15 (0.36%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.31%) JMeter
13 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (0.27%) ERwin
15 10 (0.24%) JUnit
16 8 (0.19%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
16 8 (0.19%) Zephyr
17 7 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
18 6 (0.15%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,898 (45.93%) Social Skills
2 1,148 (27.78%) Finance
3 812 (19.65%) Public Sector
4 680 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
5 224 (5.42%) Influencing Skills
6 222 (5.37%) Banking
7 175 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
8 161 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
9 152 (3.68%) Legal
10 140 (3.39%) Retail
11 116 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 111 (2.69%) Local Government
13 92 (2.23%) Law
14 89 (2.15%) Manufacturing
15 86 (2.08%) Marketing
15 86 (2.08%) Telecoms
16 72 (1.74%) Aerospace
17 65 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
18 64 (1.55%) Military
19 38 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 705 (17.06%) Analyst
2 630 (15.25%) Architect
3 514 (12.44%) Lead
4 423 (10.24%) Senior
5 408 (9.87%) Business Analyst
6 303 (7.33%) Consultant
7 299 (7.24%) Project Manager
8 211 (5.11%) Developer
9 178 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
10 122 (2.95%) Data Analyst
11 117 (2.83%) Data Architect
12 106 (2.57%) Change Manager
13 97 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
14 93 (2.25%) Delivery Manager
15 92 (2.23%) Senior Manager
16 87 (2.11%) Data Engineer
17 84 (2.03%) Technical Architect
18 82 (1.98%) Designer
19 75 (1.82%) Security Architect
20 74 (1.79%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (4.26%) Terraform
2 113 (2.73%) REST
3 64 (1.55%) .NET
4 58 (1.40%) JSON
5 52 (1.26%) Kafka
6 51 (1.23%) Middleware
7 49 (1.19%) PySpark
8 48 (1.16%) SOAP
9 45 (1.09%) React
9 45 (1.09%) Spring
10 42 (1.02%) XML
11 41 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
12 38 (0.92%) OAuth
12 38 (0.92%) Spring Boot
13 35 (0.85%) SAML
14 33 (0.80%) Web Services
15 31 (0.75%) OpenID
15 31 (0.75%) RESTful
16 30 (0.73%) LDAP
17 28 (0.68%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 296 (7.16%) Product Ownership
2 232 (5.61%) Onboarding
3 181 (4.38%) Cloud Native
4 142 (3.44%) Management Information System
5 105 (2.54%) Data Structures
6 95 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
7 85 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
8 77 (1.86%) NHS
9 73 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
10 69 (1.67%) AI Agents
11 65 (1.57%) Data Centre
12 62 (1.50%) Operational Technology
13 58 (1.40%) CMDB
14 56 (1.36%) Virtual Team
15 50 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
16 47 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
17 46 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
17 46 (1.11%) Security Posture
18 33 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
19 27 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 132 (3.19%) Windows
2 79 (1.91%) Linux
3 37 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.39%) Unix
5 13 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.29%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.19%) Android
7 8 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.17%) VMS
8 7 (0.17%) 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
11 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,260 (30.49%) Agile
2 1,009 (24.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 944 (22.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 638 (15.44%) Decision-Making
5 632 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
6 595 (14.40%) Migration
7 561 (13.58%) Roadmaps
8 530 (12.83%) DevOps
8 530 (12.83%) Workshop Facilitation
9 503 (12.17%) AI
10 481 (11.64%) Change Management
11 470 (11.37%) Analytics
12 442 (10.70%) CI/CD
13 410 (9.92%) Risk Management
14 405 (9.80%) Business Intelligence
15 401 (9.70%) Project Delivery
16 363 (8.79%) Cybersecurity
17 347 (8.40%) Data Modelling
18 333 (8.06%) Data Governance
19 329 (7.96%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 383 (9.27%) SQL
2 308 (7.45%) Python
3 132 (3.19%) Java
4 97 (2.35%) JavaScript
5 84 (2.03%) PowerShell
6 82 (1.98%) C#
7 53 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 48 (1.16%) Bash
9 44 (1.06%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.63%) Bicep
11 20 (0.48%) Scala
12 16 (0.39%) Kotlin
13 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
14 14 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 13 (0.31%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.24%) Korn
17 9 (0.22%) Groovy
17 9 (0.22%) VBA
18 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
19 5 (0.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,166 (28.22%) Security Cleared
2 879 (21.27%) SC Cleared
3 256 (6.20%) Degree
4 197 (4.77%) DV Cleared
5 152 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 122 (2.95%) PMI Certification
7 115 (2.78%) PMP
8 110 (2.66%) CISSP
9 76 (1.84%) Azure Certification
10 71 (1.72%) CISM
11 68 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
12 58 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
13 48 (1.16%) AWS Certification
14 38 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 35 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
16 32 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 31 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
18 28 (0.68%) APMG
19 26 (0.63%) ISTQB
20 25 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 328 (7.94%) Data Quality
2 211 (5.11%) PMO
3 185 (4.48%) QA
4 175 (4.24%) GDPR
5 174 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 162 (3.92%) NIST
7 122 (2.95%) Accessibility
8 90 (2.18%) GRC
9 66 (1.60%) NCSC
10 38 (0.92%) SLA
11 35 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
12 34 (0.82%) WCAG
13 30 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
14 18 (0.44%) PCI DSS
15 17 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 15 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 15 (0.36%) SOC 2
17 13 (0.31%) NIST 800
18 12 (0.29%) ITGC
18 12 (0.29%) JSP 440
System Software
1 131 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 93 (2.25%) 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 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
1 153 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 47 (1.14%) Ansible
3 41 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.82%) Grafana
5 33 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (0.29%) SCCM
9 9 (0.22%) NetBackup
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
10 5 (0.12%) vRealize
11 4 (0.097%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.097%) Istio
11 4 (0.097%) QRadar
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
12 3 (0.073%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 792 (19.17%) Microsoft
2 269 (6.51%) SAP
3 237 (5.74%) ServiceNow
4 185 (4.48%) Oracle
5 158 (3.82%) Databricks
6 110 (2.66%) Salesforce
7 88 (2.13%) Google
8 69 (1.67%) VMware
9 59 (1.43%) Cisco
10 52 (1.26%) IBM
11 51 (1.23%) Workday
12 46 (1.11%) Splunk
13 33 (0.80%) CyberArk
14 30 (0.73%) MuleSoft
15 27 (0.65%) Ariba
16 23 (0.56%) Palo Alto
17 22 (0.53%) Dynatrace
17 22 (0.53%) Informatica
17 22 (0.53%) Zscaler
18 20 (0.48%) Okta
1,434 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide