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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 29 134
Rank change year-on-year +4 +105 +34
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,164 2,002 681
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.65% 6.17% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.06% 6.82% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,819 1,342 439
10th Percentile £363 £361 £363
25th Percentile £450 £427 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £644 £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 114 33 12
10th Percentile £25.80 £25.36 £26.28
25th Percentile £42.25 £30.11 £44.13
Median hourly rate £65.98 £47.00 £59.45
Median % change year-on-year +40.38% -20.94% +5.24%
75th Percentile £83.75 £63.75 £71.54
90th Percentile £94.63 £73.30 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.70 £32.74 £60.60
% change year-on-year +106.80% -45.98% +7.28%

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 45,945 29,375 32,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.44% 90.50% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,954 18,237 20,159
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
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 3,063 1,777 1,475
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.42 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.47 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £66.70 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.08 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.13% -47.67% +6.17%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 3,512 £550 +1.85% 3,254
UK excluding London +6 1,929 £525 - 1,980
London +3 1,744 £550 - 1,574
Work from Home +9 1,418 £525 - 1,577
South East +8 496 £568 +4.22% 520
North of England +4 492 £500 -2.21% 479
Midlands +6 339 £500 -4.76% 305
West Midlands +3 267 £500 -3.85% 206
North West +2 229 £513 +0.03% 281
South West -4 227 £550 - 259
Scotland +31 222 £500 +11.11% 174
Yorkshire 0 197 £500 - 136
East of England +15 121 £533 -9.67% 145
North East +9 74 £453 +0.56% 65
East Midlands +15 69 £525 -16.00% 99
Wales +16 55 £525 +23.53% 28
Northern Ireland +1 7 £413 -21.43% 81
Channel Islands -3 4 £588 +27.03% 3

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
1 167 (4.01%) SharePoint
2 165 (3.96%) Confluence
3 37 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (0.86%) Apache
5 35 (0.84%) CMS
6 34 (0.82%) Apache Spark
7 27 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
8 26 (0.62%) SAS
9 8 (0.19%) Headless CMS
10 6 (0.14%) WordPress
11 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.096%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.096%) OpenEdge
12 4 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.072%) Drupal
13 3 (0.072%) IIS
13 3 (0.072%) Kentico
13 3 (0.072%) SharePoint 2013
14 2 (0.048%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.048%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 189 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 91 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 86 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
4 57 (1.37%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.17%) AutoCAD
7 7 (0.17%) Navisworks
7 7 (0.17%) ProjectWise
7 7 (0.17%) Revit
7 7 (0.17%) Trello
8 3 (0.072%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.072%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.072%) Sketch
9 2 (0.048%) InDesign
10 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.024%) Notion
10 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 130 (3.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (0.55%) Workday HCM
4 18 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 14 (0.34%) NetSuite
7 13 (0.31%) SAP FI
8 12 (0.29%) Maximo
8 12 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.26%) Primavera
9 11 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
11 9 (0.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 9 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
11 9 (0.22%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.22%) SAP SD
12 8 (0.19%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 799 (19.19%) Azure
2 548 (13.16%) AWS
3 436 (10.47%) Power Platform
4 210 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
5 202 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
6 183 (4.39%) GCP
7 145 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
8 138 (3.31%) Entra ID
9 99 (2.38%) SaaS
10 98 (2.35%) Power Automate
11 89 (2.14%) GitHub
12 74 (1.78%) Microsoft Copilot
13 73 (1.75%) Snowflake
14 72 (1.73%) PowerApps
15 71 (1.71%) Microsoft Purview
16 70 (1.68%) Serverless
17 61 (1.46%) Amazon S3
18 59 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
19 55 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
20 47 (1.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 69 (1.66%) Network Security
2 67 (1.61%) Firewall
3 49 (1.18%) DNS
4 39 (0.94%) WAN
5 37 (0.89%) VPN
6 30 (0.72%) LAN
7 27 (0.65%) DHCP
8 24 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 18 (0.43%) VLAN
9 18 (0.43%) Wireless
10 17 (0.41%) 5G
10 17 (0.41%) Internet
10 17 (0.41%) SD-WAN
11 13 (0.31%) BGP
12 12 (0.29%) OSPF
12 12 (0.29%) VoIP
12 12 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (0.26%) Intranet
13 11 (0.26%) Kerberos
13 11 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 340 (8.17%) Power BI
2 152 (3.65%) Metadata
3 96 (2.31%) Data Lake
4 95 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
5 75 (1.80%) SQL Server
6 40 (0.96%) Tableau
7 36 (0.86%) Relational Database
8 33 (0.79%) Power Query
9 31 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
10 25 (0.60%) DynamoDB
11 24 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
12 23 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
12 23 (0.55%) BigQuery
12 23 (0.55%) Oracle Database
13 20 (0.48%) NoSQL
13 20 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
14 19 (0.46%) Big Data
15 18 (0.43%) Data Vault
15 18 (0.43%) Looker
15 18 (0.43%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 264 (6.34%) JIRA
2 95 (2.28%) Git
3 60 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 56 (1.34%) GitLab
5 29 (0.70%) Postman
6 27 (0.65%) Selenium
7 16 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
8 15 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 14 (0.34%) Hudson
10 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (0.24%) ERwin
12 9 (0.22%) JMeter
13 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
13 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
14 7 (0.17%) JUnit
14 7 (0.17%) Zephyr
15 6 (0.14%) Bitbucket
15 6 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
15 6 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 1,942 (46.64%) Social Skills
2 1,148 (27.57%) Finance
3 840 (20.17%) Public Sector
4 692 (16.62%) Analytical Skills
5 247 (5.93%) Influencing Skills
6 229 (5.50%) Banking
7 179 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
8 171 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
9 149 (3.58%) Legal
10 135 (3.24%) Retail
11 118 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 115 (2.76%) Local Government
13 102 (2.45%) Manufacturing
14 85 (2.04%) Marketing
15 83 (1.99%) Telecoms
16 82 (1.97%) Law
17 79 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
18 75 (1.80%) Military
19 57 (1.37%) Aerospace
20 40 (0.96%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 701 (16.83%) Analyst
2 625 (15.01%) Architect
3 510 (12.25%) Lead
4 431 (10.35%) Senior
5 405 (9.73%) Business Analyst
6 297 (7.13%) Consultant
7 295 (7.08%) Project Manager
8 228 (5.48%) Developer
9 186 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
10 124 (2.98%) Data Architect
11 118 (2.83%) Data Analyst
12 113 (2.71%) Change Manager
13 100 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
14 92 (2.21%) Senior Manager
15 89 (2.14%) Data Engineer
16 87 (2.09%) Designer
17 83 (1.99%) Delivery Manager
18 82 (1.97%) Technical Architect
19 78 (1.87%) IT Manager
20 72 (1.73%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (4.37%) Terraform
2 123 (2.95%) REST
3 68 (1.63%) .NET
4 61 (1.46%) JSON
5 54 (1.30%) Kafka
6 51 (1.22%) SOAP
7 49 (1.18%) PySpark
8 48 (1.15%) Middleware
9 47 (1.13%) XML
10 46 (1.10%) Spring
11 45 (1.08%) React
12 42 (1.01%) Spring Boot
13 41 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
14 39 (0.94%) OAuth
15 36 (0.86%) Web Services
16 35 (0.84%) SAML
17 34 (0.82%) RESTful
18 32 (0.77%) OpenID
19 31 (0.74%) LDAP
20 28 (0.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 285 (6.84%) Product Ownership
2 240 (5.76%) Onboarding
3 187 (4.49%) Cloud Native
4 144 (3.46%) Management Information System
5 97 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 94 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
7 87 (2.09%) Data Structures
8 76 (1.83%) AI Agents
9 73 (1.75%) NHS
10 72 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
11 69 (1.66%) Data Centre
11 69 (1.66%) Operational Technology
12 61 (1.46%) Virtual Team
13 55 (1.32%) CMDB
14 54 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
14 54 (1.30%) Security Posture
15 47 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
16 46 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
17 30 (0.72%) PKI
18 26 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 128 (3.07%) Windows
2 78 (1.87%) Linux
3 35 (0.84%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.38%) Unix
5 14 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.19%) Android
8 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.17%) VMS
9 5 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.072%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.048%) AIX
11 2 (0.048%) HPUX
11 2 (0.048%) Solaris
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,252 (30.07%) Agile
2 1,065 (25.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 955 (22.93%) Continuous Improvement
4 671 (16.11%) Decision-Making
5 648 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
6 579 (13.90%) Migration
7 577 (13.86%) Roadmaps
8 537 (12.90%) Workshop Facilitation
9 534 (12.82%) DevOps
10 524 (12.58%) AI
11 484 (11.62%) Change Management
12 474 (11.38%) Analytics
13 448 (10.76%) CI/CD
14 422 (10.13%) Risk Management
15 411 (9.87%) Project Delivery
16 391 (9.39%) Business Intelligence
17 377 (9.05%) Cybersecurity
18 356 (8.55%) Data Governance
19 351 (8.43%) Data Modelling
20 331 (7.95%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 392 (9.41%) SQL
2 299 (7.18%) Python
3 130 (3.12%) Java
4 102 (2.45%) JavaScript
5 90 (2.16%) PowerShell
6 88 (2.11%) C#
7 52 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 50 (1.20%) Bash
9 46 (1.10%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.65%) Bicep
11 21 (0.50%) Scala
12 15 (0.36%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 12 (0.29%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.24%) Korn
15 9 (0.22%) Groovy
15 9 (0.22%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.19%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.19%) VBA
17 5 (0.12%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,169 (28.07%) Security Cleared
2 901 (21.64%) SC Cleared
3 252 (6.05%) Degree
4 199 (4.78%) DV Cleared
5 159 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 117 (2.81%) PMI Certification
7 110 (2.64%) CISSP
7 110 (2.64%) PMP
8 71 (1.71%) CISM
9 68 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 68 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
10 57 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 44 (1.06%) AWS Certification
12 37 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 35 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
14 32 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 32 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
15 28 (0.67%) Master's Degree
16 26 (0.62%) APMG
16 26 (0.62%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 344 (8.26%) Data Quality
2 207 (4.97%) PMO
3 182 (4.37%) QA
4 177 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 171 (4.11%) GDPR
6 162 (3.89%) NIST
7 123 (2.95%) Accessibility
8 95 (2.28%) GRC
9 73 (1.75%) NCSC
10 38 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
10 38 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
11 36 (0.86%) WCAG
12 33 (0.79%) SLA
13 18 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 16 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 13 (0.31%) JSP 440
15 13 (0.31%) NIST 800
16 12 (0.29%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.29%) ITGC
System Software
1 127 (3.05%) Active Directory
2 100 (2.40%) Docker
3 51 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.46%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.38%) vSphere
6 12 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.048%) Firmware
9 2 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.024%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.024%) IAG
10 1 (0.024%) KVM
10 1 (0.024%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 157 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.18%) Ansible
3 41 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (0.79%) Grafana
5 31 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (0.70%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (0.26%) SCCM
9 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
10 6 (0.14%) VxRail
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
12 4 (0.096%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.096%) Istio
12 4 (0.096%) QRadar
12 4 (0.096%) vRealize
13 3 (0.072%) Argo
13 3 (0.072%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.072%) Puppet
14 2 (0.048%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.048%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 821 (19.72%) Microsoft
2 264 (6.34%) SAP
3 233 (5.60%) ServiceNow
4 193 (4.63%) Oracle
5 160 (3.84%) Databricks
6 108 (2.59%) Salesforce
7 90 (2.16%) Google
8 68 (1.63%) VMware
9 61 (1.46%) Cisco
10 54 (1.30%) Workday
11 51 (1.22%) Splunk
12 39 (0.94%) IBM
13 34 (0.82%) CyberArk
14 28 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 27 (0.65%) Ariba
16 24 (0.58%) Informatica
17 23 (0.55%) Dynatrace
18 22 (0.53%) Palo Alto
19 21 (0.50%) Okta
20 20 (0.48%) Adobe