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

 6 months to
4 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 57 159
Rank change year-on-year +31 +102 -1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,340 1,155 671
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.83% 4.01% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.06% 4.40% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,255 766 471
10th Percentile £370 £374 £363
25th Percentile £445 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £739 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 18 37
10th Percentile £25.27 £28.60 £18.35
25th Percentile £47.50 £32.79 £27.81
Median hourly rate £70.50 £49.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.42% +35.62% +62.22%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £93.25 £77.79 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.00 £67.50 £57.33
% change year-on-year +15.56% +17.74% +161.78%

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 41,432 26,234 36,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.66% 91.00% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,858 16,712 23,486
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,493 1,127 2,523
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.71 £27.64 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.50% -24.27% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.25 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +29 2,850 £537 +2.29% 1,342
UK excluding London +37 1,578 £500 - 931
London +30 1,347 £550 - 576
Work from Home +42 1,057 £535 +6.86% 719
North of England +27 421 £494 +0.92% 233
South East +27 358 £539 +12.24% 274
Midlands +26 314 £500 -0.10% 141
West Midlands +20 214 £492 -4.09% 94
North West +31 209 £475 -4.71% 134
South West +17 193 £525 -4.55% 117
Yorkshire +8 174 £515 +8.42% 77
Scotland +34 137 £475 -9.91% 62
East of England +25 115 £575 +15.00% 58
East Midlands +22 95 £525 +16.67% 45
North East +2 42 £451 -11.08% 23
Wales +13 41 £475 +50.55% 27
Northern Ireland +18 16 £449 -22.84% 29
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 (5.12%) Confluence
2 91 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 28 (0.84%) SAS
4 24 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.51%) CMS
5 17 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.45%) Apache
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
8 4 (0.12%) WordPress
9 3 (0.090%) Appian
9 3 (0.090%) Drupal
9 3 (0.090%) Kentico
10 2 (0.060%) Camunda
10 2 (0.060%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.060%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.060%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 149 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 61 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
4 60 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
5 57 (1.71%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.12%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.12%) Sketch
8 2 (0.060%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.060%) InVision
8 2 (0.060%) Trello
9 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.030%) CATIA
9 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.030%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.030%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 132 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.45%) Teamcenter
4 12 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.33%) Workday HCM
6 10 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.27%) SAP ERP
7 9 (0.27%) SAP FI
8 8 (0.24%) Maximo
8 8 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (0.24%) Primavera
8 8 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.24%) SAP QM
9 7 (0.21%) NEC Housing
9 7 (0.21%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 6 (0.18%) SAP CO
10 6 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 651 (19.49%) Azure
2 452 (13.53%) AWS
3 309 (9.25%) Power Platform
4 165 (4.94%) GCP
5 127 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
6 115 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (3.02%) SaaS
8 100 (2.99%) Entra ID
9 94 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
10 66 (1.98%) GitHub
11 52 (1.56%) Serverless
12 45 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
12 45 (1.35%) PaaS
13 42 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (1.11%) Amazon S3
15 36 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
16 35 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
17 34 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
17 34 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
18 33 (0.99%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.59%) Firewall
2 51 (1.53%) Network Security
3 35 (1.05%) DNS
4 22 (0.66%) VPN
4 22 (0.66%) WAN
5 19 (0.57%) LAN
6 14 (0.42%) Wireless
7 13 (0.39%) Internet
8 12 (0.36%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.30%) BGP
9 10 (0.30%) DHCP
9 10 (0.30%) VLAN
10 9 (0.27%) NGFW
10 9 (0.27%) OSPF
10 9 (0.27%) SSL
10 9 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.24%) Intranet
11 8 (0.24%) SAN
11 8 (0.24%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.24%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (7.87%) Power BI
2 74 (2.22%) Metadata
3 63 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (1.02%) Tableau
5 33 (0.99%) Data Lake
6 29 (0.87%) Power Query
6 29 (0.87%) SQL Server
7 27 (0.81%) Relational Database
8 26 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (0.51%) NoSQL
9 17 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
10 15 (0.45%) Big Data
10 15 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
11 14 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (0.42%) MySQL
12 13 (0.39%) Oracle Database
13 12 (0.36%) Data Vault
13 12 (0.36%) DynamoDB
13 12 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
13 12 (0.36%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 278 (8.32%) JIRA
2 59 (1.77%) Jenkins
3 54 (1.62%) Git
3 54 (1.62%) GitLab
4 32 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
5 29 (0.87%) Postman
6 28 (0.84%) Selenium
7 21 (0.63%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.54%) Hudson
9 17 (0.51%) JMeter
10 12 (0.36%) WebDriver
11 11 (0.33%) JUnit
12 9 (0.27%) REST Assured
13 8 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.21%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.18%) ERwin
15 6 (0.18%) LoadRunner
15 6 (0.18%) MLflow
15 6 (0.18%) TestRail
16 5 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 1,535 (45.96%) Social Skills
2 959 (28.71%) Finance
3 537 (16.08%) Public Sector
4 513 (15.36%) Analytical Skills
5 195 (5.84%) Banking
6 135 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
7 131 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
8 121 (3.62%) Legal
9 94 (2.81%) Retail
10 89 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
11 85 (2.54%) Law
12 80 (2.40%) Manufacturing
13 68 (2.04%) Aerospace
13 68 (2.04%) Local Government
14 58 (1.74%) Telecoms
15 56 (1.68%) Marketing
16 47 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 44 (1.32%) Military
18 38 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
19 35 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 617 (18.47%) Analyst
2 512 (15.33%) Architect
3 434 (12.99%) Lead
4 409 (12.25%) Business Analyst
5 306 (9.16%) Senior
6 275 (8.23%) Project Manager
7 250 (7.49%) Consultant
8 131 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
9 95 (2.84%) Change Manager
10 94 (2.81%) Delivery Manager
11 92 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
12 88 (2.63%) Data Analyst
12 88 (2.63%) Developer
13 80 (2.40%) Programme Manager
14 72 (2.16%) Designer
14 72 (2.16%) Senior Manager
15 66 (1.98%) Senior Business Analyst
16 61 (1.83%) Data Architect
17 59 (1.77%) IT Manager
18 58 (1.74%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (3.65%) REST
2 60 (1.80%) SOAP
3 58 (1.74%) LDAP
4 53 (1.59%) Middleware
5 37 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
6 35 (1.05%) Spring
7 33 (0.99%) OpenID
7 33 (0.99%) React
8 32 (0.96%) Kafka
8 32 (0.96%) SailPoint
9 30 (0.90%) OAuth
10 27 (0.81%) Spring Boot
11 26 (0.78%) .NET
12 24 (0.72%) JSON
13 22 (0.66%) XML
14 21 (0.63%) CSS
15 20 (0.60%) HTML
15 20 (0.60%) PySpark
15 20 (0.60%) SAML
16 19 (0.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 229 (6.86%) Product Ownership
2 153 (4.58%) Onboarding
3 144 (4.31%) Cloud Native
4 83 (2.49%) Data Structures
5 80 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
6 77 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 71 (2.13%) Operational Technology
7 71 (2.13%) Security Posture
8 65 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
9 56 (1.68%) Data Centre
10 54 (1.62%) NHS
11 53 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
12 49 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
13 43 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
14 41 (1.23%) Virtual Team
15 39 (1.17%) CMDB
16 36 (1.08%) AI Agents
17 34 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
18 30 (0.90%) Public Cloud
19 25 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 96 (2.87%) Windows
2 48 (1.44%) Linux
3 22 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (0.36%) Unix
5 12 (0.36%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.21%) VMS
8 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.12%) Android
10 3 (0.090%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.090%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.090%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 897 (26.86%) Agile
2 659 (19.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 637 (19.07%) Continuous Improvement
4 492 (14.73%) Migration
5 463 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
6 441 (13.20%) Decision-Making
7 431 (12.90%) Roadmaps
8 421 (12.60%) Change Management
9 384 (11.50%) Workshop Facilitation
10 381 (11.41%) DevOps
11 338 (10.12%) Analytics
12 321 (9.61%) AI
13 317 (9.49%) Risk Management
14 301 (9.01%) Business Intelligence
15 299 (8.95%) ERP
16 293 (8.77%) Project Management
17 279 (8.35%) CI/CD
18 278 (8.32%) Cybersecurity
19 268 (8.02%) Project Delivery
20 266 (7.96%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 255 (7.63%) SQL
2 254 (7.60%) Python
3 112 (3.35%) Java
4 87 (2.60%) PowerShell
5 51 (1.53%) JavaScript
6 36 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 36 (1.08%) TypeScript
7 34 (1.02%) Bash
7 34 (1.02%) C#
8 19 (0.57%) Bicep
8 19 (0.57%) VBA
9 14 (0.42%) Scala
10 11 (0.33%) Apex Code
11 10 (0.30%) Kotlin
11 10 (0.30%) PHP
12 9 (0.27%) R
13 8 (0.24%) Korn
14 5 (0.15%) ABAP
14 5 (0.15%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 843 (25.24%) Security Cleared
2 673 (20.15%) SC Cleared
3 253 (7.57%) Degree
4 123 (3.68%) DV Cleared
5 109 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 104 (3.11%) PMI Certification
7 100 (2.99%) PMP
8 83 (2.49%) CISSP
9 61 (1.83%) CISM
10 45 (1.35%) Azure Certification
11 42 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
12 39 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 31 (0.93%) AWS Certification
14 27 (0.81%) Master's Degree
15 26 (0.78%) ACCA
15 26 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
16 25 (0.75%) CIMA
16 25 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 24 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
18 20 (0.60%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (6.53%) Data Quality
2 166 (4.97%) QA
3 162 (4.85%) PMO
4 142 (4.25%) NIST
5 138 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 132 (3.95%) GDPR
7 82 (2.46%) Accessibility
8 65 (1.95%) GRC
9 32 (0.96%) NCSC
10 30 (0.90%) SLA
11 27 (0.81%) PCI DSS
12 26 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
13 25 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
14 20 (0.60%) WCAG
15 18 (0.54%) SOC 2
16 16 (0.48%) ISO 20022
17 12 (0.36%) COBIT
17 12 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 10 (0.30%) Def Stans
System Software
1 103 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 61 (1.83%) Docker
3 28 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.36%) VMware NSX
4 12 (0.36%) vSphere
5 5 (0.15%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.090%) NFS
7 3 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.030%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.030%) Firmware
8 1 (0.030%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.030%) KVM
8 1 (0.030%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 117 (3.50%) Terraform
2 108 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 39 (1.17%) Ansible
4 29 (0.87%) Grafana
5 27 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.45%) SCCM
8 13 (0.39%) HP ALM
9 7 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.18%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.15%) Istio
11 5 (0.15%) vRealize
12 4 (0.12%) Podman
13 3 (0.090%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.090%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.090%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 3 (0.090%) vMotion
13 3 (0.090%) WSUS
14 2 (0.060%) Nessus
Vendors
1 498 (14.91%) Microsoft
2 255 (7.63%) SAP
3 185 (5.54%) ServiceNow
4 157 (4.70%) Oracle
5 92 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 87 (2.60%) Databricks
7 58 (1.74%) Google
8 54 (1.62%) CyberArk
9 46 (1.38%) IBM
10 45 (1.35%) VMware
11 43 (1.29%) Splunk
12 41 (1.23%) Cisco
13 39 (1.17%) BeyondTrust
14 36 (1.08%) Workday
15 34 (1.02%) Centrify
16 20 (0.60%) Adobe
16 20 (0.60%) Dynatrace
16 20 (0.60%) Zscaler
17 19 (0.57%) IFS
17 19 (0.57%) Palo Alto
1,538 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide