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

 6 months to
12 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 36 148
Rank change year-on-year +11 +112 +22
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,047 1,782 640
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.58% 5.41% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.94% 5.97% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,745 1,186 440
10th Percentile £363 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £441 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -2.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £640 £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 28 19
10th Percentile £25.49 £22.97 £18.35
25th Percentile £52.50 £26.21 £32.13
Median hourly rate £74.50 £37.25 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -35.83% +5.54%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.31 £72.70
90th Percentile £88.18 £74.20 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £32.05 £58.17
% change year-on-year +149.61% -44.91% +4.35%

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 45,292 29,826 33,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.86% 90.48% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,883 18,657 21,289
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £423 £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 £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 2,827 1,696 1,836
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.80 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.08
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.77% -1.96%
75th Percentile £68.00 £47.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.51 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.84 £42.50
% change year-on-year +92.47% -46.26% +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 12 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 12 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 12 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 3,440 £540 -1.82% 2,091
UK excluding London +16 1,912 £525 - 1,319
London +9 1,663 £550 - 1,037
Work from Home +15 1,364 £525 - 1,064
South East +22 513 £563 +2.27% 364
North of England +16 493 £500 -2.25% 308
Midlands +13 333 £500 -1.38% 190
West Midlands +6 257 £500 -2.91% 139
North West +13 243 £500 -4.76% 180
South West +3 216 £550 - 184
Scotland +32 198 £500 +2.56% 109
Yorkshire 0 189 £500 +5.26% 88
East of England +29 121 £533 -9.67% 109
East Midlands +25 72 £513 +17.14% 51
North East +10 69 £451 -6.96% 44
Wales +16 50 £500 +21.21% 29
Northern Ireland +12 13 £430 -18.14% 39
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
1 172 (4.25%) Confluence
2 140 (3.46%) SharePoint
3 35 (0.86%) 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 (0.049%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.049%) Drupal
12 2 (0.049%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.049%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.049%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 183 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 82 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (1.53%) 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 (0.049%) InDesign
10 2 (0.049%) 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 (3.58%) 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%) Salesforce CRM
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%) Teamcenter
11 8 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 817 (20.19%) Azure
2 532 (13.15%) AWS
3 432 (10.67%) Power Platform
4 198 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
5 193 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
6 183 (4.52%) GCP
7 148 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
8 137 (3.39%) Entra ID
9 97 (2.40%) SaaS
10 89 (2.20%) GitHub
11 83 (2.05%) Power Automate
12 69 (1.70%) Serverless
13 67 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
13 67 (1.66%) PowerApps
14 63 (1.56%) Snowflake
15 59 (1.46%) Microsoft Purview
16 58 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
17 56 (1.38%) Amazon S3
18 55 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
19 44 (1.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (1.66%) Firewall
2 63 (1.56%) Network Security
3 51 (1.26%) DNS
4 39 (0.96%) VPN
5 38 (0.94%) WAN
6 33 (0.82%) LAN
7 24 (0.59%) DHCP
7 24 (0.59%) TCP/IP
8 18 (0.44%) SD-WAN
8 18 (0.44%) Wireless
9 16 (0.40%) Internet
10 15 (0.37%) VLAN
11 13 (0.32%) 5G
11 13 (0.32%) BGP
11 13 (0.32%) 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
1 350 (8.65%) Power BI
2 117 (2.89%) Metadata
3 94 (2.32%) 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 32 (0.79%) Relational Database
9 29 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
10 22 (0.54%) DynamoDB
11 21 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
11 21 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (0.52%) Oracle Database
12 20 (0.49%) Big Data
13 19 (0.47%) BigQuery
14 18 (0.44%) NoSQL
14 18 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
15 17 (0.42%) Data Vault
16 15 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
16 15 (0.37%) Looker
Development Applications
1 273 (6.75%) JIRA
2 90 (2.22%) Git
3 67 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 56 (1.38%) GitLab
5 36 (0.89%) Selenium
6 32 (0.79%) Postman
7 31 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
8 21 (0.52%) WebDriver
9 20 (0.49%) Cucumber
10 18 (0.44%) Hudson
11 17 (0.42%) JMeter
12 16 (0.40%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.32%) JUnit
14 12 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (0.27%) ERwin
16 9 (0.22%) SonarQube
16 9 (0.22%) Zephyr
17 8 (0.20%) Bitbucket
18 6 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
18 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 1,835 (45.34%) Social Skills
2 1,132 (27.97%) Finance
3 757 (18.71%) Public Sector
4 662 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
5 209 (5.16%) Banking
6 202 (4.99%) Influencing Skills
7 158 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
8 155 (3.83%) Legal
9 147 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
10 134 (3.31%) Retail
11 101 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 101 (2.50%) Local Government
12 94 (2.32%) Manufacturing
13 89 (2.20%) Law
14 87 (2.15%) Marketing
15 83 (2.05%) Telecoms
16 74 (1.83%) Aerospace
17 59 (1.46%) Military
17 59 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
18 40 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 713 (17.62%) Analyst
2 597 (14.75%) Architect
3 503 (12.43%) Lead
4 427 (10.55%) Business Analyst
5 420 (10.38%) Senior
6 303 (7.49%) Project Manager
7 290 (7.17%) Consultant
8 190 (4.69%) Developer
9 173 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
10 127 (3.14%) Data Analyst
11 105 (2.59%) Change Manager
11 105 (2.59%) Data Architect
12 99 (2.45%) Delivery Manager
13 98 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
14 89 (2.20%) Senior Manager
15 85 (2.10%) Data Engineer
16 80 (1.98%) Designer
17 78 (1.93%) Security Architect
18 74 (1.83%) Product Manager
18 74 (1.83%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (2.59%) REST
2 58 (1.43%) .NET
3 56 (1.38%) JSON
3 56 (1.38%) Middleware
4 49 (1.21%) 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 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
9 37 (0.91%) Spring Boot
10 32 (0.79%) OAuth
11 30 (0.74%) SAML
12 29 (0.72%) Web Services
13 28 (0.69%) OpenID
14 27 (0.67%) SailPoint
15 26 (0.64%) RESTful
16 25 (0.62%) HTML
17 24 (0.59%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 298 (7.36%) Product Ownership
2 219 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 176 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 128 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 112 (2.77%) Data Structures
6 87 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
7 80 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
8 73 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 73 (1.80%) NHS
9 66 (1.63%) Operational Technology
10 59 (1.46%) AI Agents
11 57 (1.41%) Data Centre
12 56 (1.38%) Virtual Team
13 55 (1.36%) CMDB
14 50 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
15 49 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
16 47 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
17 42 (1.04%) Security Posture
18 34 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
19 31 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 125 (3.09%) Windows
2 69 (1.70%) Linux
3 30 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.40%) Windows 10
5 15 (0.37%) Unix
6 12 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.17%) VMS
9 6 (0.15%) Android
9 6 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.099%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.074%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.049%) AIX
12 2 (0.049%) HPUX
12 2 (0.049%) Solaris
13 1 (0.025%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,230 (30.39%) Agile
2 922 (22.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 920 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 602 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
5 589 (14.55%) Decision-Making
6 585 (14.46%) Migration
7 534 (13.19%) DevOps
8 526 (13.00%) Roadmaps
9 499 (12.33%) Workshop Facilitation
10 491 (12.13%) AI
11 472 (11.66%) Change Management
12 469 (11.59%) Analytics
13 445 (11.00%) CI/CD
14 399 (9.86%) Business Intelligence
15 397 (9.81%) Risk Management
16 373 (9.22%) Project Delivery
17 352 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
18 349 (8.62%) Data Modelling
19 328 (8.10%) ERP
20 325 (8.03%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 371 (9.17%) SQL
2 297 (7.34%) Python
3 126 (3.11%) Java
4 89 (2.20%) JavaScript
5 77 (1.90%) C#
6 75 (1.85%) PowerShell
7 52 (1.28%) 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 13 (0.32%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.22%) Groovy
15 8 (0.20%) Korn
16 7 (0.17%) ABAP
17 6 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,088 (26.88%) Security Cleared
2 822 (20.31%) SC Cleared
3 260 (6.42%) Degree
4 186 (4.60%) DV Cleared
5 142 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 121 (2.99%) PMI Certification
7 112 (2.77%) PMP
8 105 (2.59%) CISSP
9 73 (1.80%) Azure Certification
10 66 (1.63%) CISM
11 62 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
12 53 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
13 49 (1.21%) AWS Certification
14 36 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
14 36 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 32 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
16 29 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 25 (0.62%) ISTQB
17 25 (0.62%) Master's Degree
18 24 (0.59%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 332 (8.20%) Data Quality
2 217 (5.36%) PMO
3 189 (4.67%) QA
4 179 (4.42%) GDPR
5 170 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 155 (3.83%) NIST
7 118 (2.92%) Accessibility
8 86 (2.13%) GRC
9 58 (1.43%) NCSC
10 43 (1.06%) SLA
11 33 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
12 32 (0.79%) WCAG
13 29 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.47%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.44%) 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
1 127 (3.14%) Active Directory
2 93 (2.30%) Docker
3 48 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 20 (0.49%) vSphere
6 16 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 12 (0.30%) 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 (0.025%) 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 (4.20%) Terraform
2 154 (3.81%) Kubernetes
3 47 (1.16%) Ansible
4 43 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (0.86%) Grafana
5 35 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (0.82%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.37%) SCCM
8 12 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 10 (0.25%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.17%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 5 (0.12%) vRealize
12 4 (0.099%) Istio
12 4 (0.099%) VxRail
13 3 (0.074%) Argo
13 3 (0.074%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.074%) Puppet
13 3 (0.074%) QRadar
13 3 (0.074%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 755 (18.66%) Microsoft
2 273 (6.75%) SAP
3 229 (5.66%) ServiceNow
4 180 (4.45%) Oracle
5 145 (3.58%) Databricks
6 117 (2.89%) Salesforce
7 82 (2.03%) Google
8 62 (1.53%) VMware
9 57 (1.41%) Cisco
9 57 (1.41%) IBM
10 49 (1.21%) Workday
11 42 (1.04%) Splunk
12 34 (0.84%) CyberArk
13 29 (0.72%) MuleSoft
14 26 (0.64%) Ariba
15 25 (0.62%) Zscaler
16 23 (0.57%) Palo Alto
17 22 (0.54%) Okta
18 21 (0.52%) Citrix
18 21 (0.52%) Dynatrace
2,429 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide