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

 6 months to
15 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 35 145
Rank change year-on-year +10 +110 +22
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,109 1,817 649
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.66% 5.51% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.03% 6.09% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,784 1,206 443
10th Percentile £363 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £643 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -0.95% +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 29 19
10th Percentile £26.04 £22.98 £18.35
25th Percentile £52.50 £26.21 £32.13
Median hourly rate £74.75 £39.50 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year +89.24% -31.95% +5.54%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.75 £72.70
90th Percentile £89.58 £74.05 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £32.39 £58.17
% change year-on-year +146.97% -44.32% +2.98%

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 45,525 29,831 33,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.86% 90.51% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,003 18,596 21,236
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £424 £403 £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 2,834 1,716 1,828
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -39.40% -1.19%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.71 £68.00 £74.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +13.33%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 3,487 £540 -1.82% 2,008
UK excluding London +13 1,939 £520 -0.95% 1,274
London +6 1,688 £550 - 993
Work from Home +18 1,381 £525 - 1,034
South East +17 519 £550 - 349
North of England +15 496 £500 -2.44% 288
Midlands +11 337 £500 -2.15% 175
West Midlands +7 259 £500 -2.91% 124
North West +11 244 £500 -5.21% 156
South West -2 228 £550 - 187
Scotland +28 200 £500 +5.26% 107
Yorkshire +3 192 £500 +4.44% 90
East of England +22 119 £529 -12.46% 108
East Midlands +19 74 £525 +20.00% 51
North East +8 68 £453 -4.68% 44
Wales +12 52 £500 +14.29% 29
Northern Ireland +9 13 £430 -18.14% 41
Channel Islands +2 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 (4.26%) Confluence
2 147 (3.58%) SharePoint
3 35 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 31 (0.75%) Apache
6 30 (0.73%) CMS
7 26 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 26 (0.63%) SAS
8 6 (0.15%) WordPress
9 4 (0.097%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.097%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.073%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.073%) Drupal
10 3 (0.073%) Kentico
10 3 (0.073%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.073%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.049%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.049%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.049%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.049%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 182 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
5 52 (1.27%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.37%) 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 (0.049%) InDesign
10 2 (0.049%) 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
1 142 (3.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 60 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (0.56%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.37%) Primavera
6 14 (0.34%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 12 (0.29%) NetSuite
7 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.27%) Maximo
8 11 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
8 11 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 10 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
9 10 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 9 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
10 9 (0.22%) SAP CO
10 9 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.22%) Teamcenter
11 8 (0.19%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 834 (20.30%) Azure
2 544 (13.24%) AWS
3 443 (10.78%) Power Platform
4 205 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
5 199 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
6 191 (4.65%) GCP
7 149 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
8 138 (3.36%) Entra ID
9 100 (2.43%) SaaS
10 92 (2.24%) GitHub
11 90 (2.19%) Power Automate
12 72 (1.75%) PowerApps
13 71 (1.73%) Microsoft Copilot
14 70 (1.70%) Serverless
15 63 (1.53%) Microsoft Purview
15 63 (1.53%) Snowflake
16 59 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
17 57 (1.39%) Amazon S3
18 56 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
19 43 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 66 (1.61%) Firewall
2 62 (1.51%) Network Security
3 54 (1.31%) DNS
4 40 (0.97%) VPN
5 38 (0.92%) WAN
6 33 (0.80%) LAN
7 27 (0.66%) DHCP
8 24 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 18 (0.44%) SD-WAN
9 18 (0.44%) Wireless
10 16 (0.39%) Internet
11 15 (0.37%) VLAN
12 14 (0.34%) BGP
13 13 (0.32%) 5G
14 12 (0.29%) Intranet
14 12 (0.29%) OSPF
15 11 (0.27%) Kerberos
15 11 (0.27%) SSL
15 11 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
16 9 (0.22%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 358 (8.71%) Power BI
2 122 (2.97%) Metadata
3 95 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
4 83 (2.02%) Data Lake
5 68 (1.65%) SQL Server
6 44 (1.07%) Tableau
7 35 (0.85%) Power Query
8 32 (0.78%) Relational Database
9 29 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
10 23 (0.56%) DynamoDB
11 22 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (0.51%) Oracle Database
13 20 (0.49%) Big Data
14 19 (0.46%) BigQuery
15 18 (0.44%) NoSQL
15 18 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
16 17 (0.41%) Data Vault
17 15 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
17 15 (0.37%) Looker
Development Applications
1 279 (6.79%) JIRA
2 94 (2.29%) Git
3 66 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.39%) GitLab
5 36 (0.88%) Selenium
6 32 (0.78%) Postman
7 30 (0.73%) Rational DOORS
8 21 (0.51%) WebDriver
9 20 (0.49%) Cucumber
10 18 (0.44%) Hudson
11 17 (0.41%) JMeter
12 16 (0.39%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.32%) JUnit
14 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (0.27%) ERwin
16 9 (0.22%) SonarQube
16 9 (0.22%) Zephyr
17 8 (0.19%) Bitbucket
18 6 (0.15%) Rational Rhapsody
18 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 1,867 (45.44%) Social Skills
2 1,144 (27.84%) Finance
3 770 (18.74%) Public Sector
4 670 (16.31%) Analytical Skills
5 214 (5.21%) Banking
6 211 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
7 168 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
8 154 (3.75%) Legal
9 147 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
10 136 (3.31%) Retail
11 105 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 101 (2.46%) Local Government
13 96 (2.34%) Manufacturing
14 90 (2.19%) Law
15 89 (2.17%) Marketing
16 82 (2.00%) Telecoms
17 78 (1.90%) Aerospace
18 59 (1.44%) Military
19 58 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
20 40 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 718 (17.47%) Analyst
2 614 (14.94%) Architect
3 510 (12.41%) Lead
4 429 (10.44%) Business Analyst
5 426 (10.37%) Senior
6 303 (7.37%) Project Manager
7 298 (7.25%) Consultant
8 197 (4.79%) Developer
9 176 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
10 129 (3.14%) Data Analyst
11 107 (2.60%) Data Architect
12 105 (2.56%) Change Manager
13 100 (2.43%) Delivery Manager
13 100 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
14 91 (2.21%) Senior Manager
15 85 (2.07%) Data Engineer
16 79 (1.92%) Designer
17 78 (1.90%) Security Architect
18 75 (1.83%) IT Manager
18 75 (1.83%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (2.56%) REST
2 60 (1.46%) .NET
3 57 (1.39%) JSON
3 57 (1.39%) Middleware
4 49 (1.19%) Kafka
5 46 (1.12%) React
5 46 (1.12%) Spring
6 44 (1.07%) PySpark
7 42 (1.02%) SOAP
8 40 (0.97%) XML
9 37 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
9 37 (0.90%) Spring Boot
10 34 (0.83%) OAuth
11 33 (0.80%) SAML
12 30 (0.73%) Web Services
13 28 (0.68%) LDAP
13 28 (0.68%) OpenID
14 27 (0.66%) RESTful
15 26 (0.63%) HTML
15 26 (0.63%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 307 (7.47%) Product Ownership
2 226 (5.50%) Onboarding
3 182 (4.43%) Cloud Native
4 133 (3.24%) Management Information System
5 112 (2.73%) Data Structures
6 88 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 82 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
8 75 (1.83%) NHS
9 74 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 65 (1.58%) Operational Technology
11 63 (1.53%) AI Agents
12 62 (1.51%) Data Centre
13 58 (1.41%) CMDB
14 57 (1.39%) Virtual Team
15 51 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
16 50 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
17 47 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
18 41 (1.00%) Security Posture
19 34 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
20 30 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 131 (3.19%) Windows
2 75 (1.83%) Linux
3 33 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.37%) Unix
4 15 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 13 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.17%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.17%) VMS
8 6 (0.15%) Android
8 6 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.049%) AIX
11 2 (0.049%) HPUX
11 2 (0.049%) Solaris
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,254 (30.52%) Agile
2 944 (22.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 937 (22.80%) Continuous Improvement
4 613 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
5 602 (14.65%) Decision-Making
6 599 (14.58%) Migration
7 541 (13.17%) DevOps
8 540 (13.14%) Roadmaps
9 513 (12.48%) Workshop Facilitation
10 502 (12.22%) AI
11 477 (11.61%) Analytics
12 475 (11.56%) Change Management
13 450 (10.95%) CI/CD
14 411 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
15 400 (9.73%) Risk Management
16 386 (9.39%) Project Delivery
17 356 (8.66%) Cybersecurity
18 350 (8.52%) Data Modelling
19 331 (8.06%) Data Governance
20 330 (8.03%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 375 (9.13%) SQL
2 305 (7.42%) Python
3 129 (3.14%) Java
4 92 (2.24%) JavaScript
5 81 (1.97%) C#
6 79 (1.92%) PowerShell
7 55 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 45 (1.10%) Bash
9 44 (1.07%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.66%) Bicep
11 19 (0.46%) Scala
12 16 (0.39%) VBA
13 14 (0.34%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.34%) T-SQL
14 13 (0.32%) Apex Code
14 13 (0.32%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.24%) Korn
16 9 (0.22%) Groovy
17 7 (0.17%) ABAP
17 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,120 (27.26%) Security Cleared
2 836 (20.35%) SC Cleared
3 262 (6.38%) Degree
4 195 (4.75%) DV Cleared
5 143 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 123 (2.99%) PMI Certification
7 115 (2.80%) PMP
8 108 (2.63%) CISSP
9 76 (1.85%) Azure Certification
10 70 (1.70%) CISM
11 65 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
12 57 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 50 (1.22%) AWS Certification
14 36 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
14 36 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 33 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
16 30 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 25 (0.61%) ISTQB
17 25 (0.61%) Master's Degree
18 24 (0.58%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 212 (5.16%) PMO
3 190 (4.62%) QA
4 184 (4.48%) GDPR
5 173 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 159 (3.87%) NIST
7 120 (2.92%) Accessibility
8 85 (2.07%) GRC
9 62 (1.51%) NCSC
10 43 (1.05%) SLA
11 33 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
12 32 (0.78%) WCAG
13 30 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.46%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.44%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 15 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 13 (0.32%) JSP 440
19 12 (0.29%) ISO 20022
20 11 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 134 (3.26%) Active Directory
2 94 (2.29%) Docker
3 51 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 20 (0.49%) vSphere
6 17 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 12 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.049%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.049%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.049%) 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
Systems Management
1 174 (4.23%) Terraform
2 157 (3.82%) Kubernetes
3 49 (1.19%) Ansible
4 42 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (0.88%) Grafana
6 35 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.83%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 15 (0.37%) 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%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.073%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.073%) WSUS
Vendors
1 777 (18.91%) Microsoft
2 272 (6.62%) SAP
3 235 (5.72%) ServiceNow
4 181 (4.40%) Oracle
5 147 (3.58%) Databricks
6 115 (2.80%) Salesforce
7 87 (2.12%) Google
8 66 (1.61%) VMware
9 60 (1.46%) IBM
10 58 (1.41%) Cisco
11 50 (1.22%) Workday
12 44 (1.07%) Splunk
13 34 (0.83%) CyberArk
14 29 (0.71%) MuleSoft
15 25 (0.61%) Ariba
15 25 (0.61%) Zscaler
16 23 (0.56%) Palo Alto
17 22 (0.54%) Dynatrace
18 21 (0.51%) Adobe
18 21 (0.51%) Okta
2,340 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide