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

 6 months to
3 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 56 154
Rank change year-on-year +30 +98 +1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,328 1,144 679
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.81% 3.98% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.05% 4.37% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,251 762 476
10th Percentile £370 £375 £363
25th Percentile £443 £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 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 17 38
10th Percentile £25.27 £27.80 £18.35
25th Percentile £47.50 £32.05 £27.81
Median hourly rate £70.50 £49.50 £36.23
Median % change year-on-year +42.42% +36.63% +61.02%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.75 £57.45
90th Percentile £93.25 £78.64 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.00 £69.41 £57.33
% change year-on-year +12.38% +21.07% +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 41,363 26,184 36,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.68% 91.01% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,810 16,717 23,641
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £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 2,496 1,118 2,535
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.98 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.85 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.27% -23.70% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.19 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.14 £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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +28 2,841 £535 +1.90% 1,325
UK excluding London +39 1,575 £500 - 930
London +31 1,341 £550 - 569
Work from Home +44 1,053 £532 +4.89% 720
North of England +27 419 £494 +0.92% 227
South East +25 357 £535 +11.51% 272
Midlands +31 316 £500 -0.05% 150
West Midlands +22 215 £492 -1.80% 101
North West +33 207 £475 -4.71% 131
South West +19 193 £525 -4.55% 114
Yorkshire +13 174 £515 +8.42% 72
Scotland +43 136 £475 -9.91% 60
East of England +28 114 £575 +15.00% 55
East Midlands +23 96 £525 +16.67% 47
North East +1 42 £451 -11.08% 25
Wales +15 41 £475 +50.55% 31
Northern Ireland +16 16 £449 -22.84% 32
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
1 173 (5.20%) Confluence
2 90 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 27 (0.81%) SAS
4 23 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.48%) CMS
5 16 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.45%) Apache
7 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.12%) WordPress
8 3 (0.090%) Appian
8 3 (0.090%) Drupal
9 2 (0.060%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.060%) Camunda
9 2 (0.060%) Kentico
9 2 (0.060%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.060%) Oracle Service Bus
9 2 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 149 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 62 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
4 57 (1.71%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 4 (0.12%) Sketch
7 2 (0.060%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.060%) InVision
7 2 (0.060%) Trello
8 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.030%) CATIA
8 1 (0.030%) Notion
8 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.030%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.030%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 134 (4.03%) 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%) SAP ERP
6 10 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.27%) SAP FI
8 8 (0.24%) Maximo
8 8 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
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%) Primavera
10 6 (0.18%) SAP CO
10 6 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
10 6 (0.18%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 647 (19.44%) Azure
2 451 (13.55%) AWS
3 308 (9.25%) Power Platform
4 165 (4.96%) GCP
5 126 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
6 114 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (3.03%) SaaS
8 100 (3.00%) Entra ID
9 95 (2.85%) Dynamics 365
10 66 (1.98%) GitHub
11 52 (1.56%) Serverless
12 45 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
13 43 (1.29%) PaaS
14 42 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (1.11%) Amazon S3
16 36 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
17 35 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
18 34 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
18 34 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
19 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
1 262 (7.87%) Power BI
2 73 (2.19%) Metadata
3 63 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (1.05%) 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 Reports
13 12 (0.36%) Data Vault
13 12 (0.36%) DynamoDB
13 12 (0.36%) Oracle Database
14 11 (0.33%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 283 (8.50%) JIRA
2 60 (1.80%) Jenkins
3 55 (1.65%) GitLab
4 54 (1.62%) Git
5 32 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
6 29 (0.87%) Postman
7 28 (0.84%) Selenium
8 21 (0.63%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.54%) Hudson
10 17 (0.51%) JMeter
11 12 (0.36%) WebDriver
12 11 (0.33%) JUnit
13 9 (0.27%) REST Assured
13 9 (0.27%) 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 1,531 (46.00%) Social Skills
2 959 (28.82%) Finance
3 535 (16.08%) Public Sector
4 510 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
5 193 (5.80%) Banking
6 132 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
7 130 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
8 121 (3.64%) Legal
9 91 (2.73%) Retail
10 89 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
11 84 (2.52%) Law
12 80 (2.40%) Manufacturing
13 68 (2.04%) Aerospace
13 68 (2.04%) Local Government
14 56 (1.68%) Marketing
15 55 (1.65%) Telecoms
16 46 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 45 (1.35%) Military
18 38 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
19 35 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 610 (18.33%) Analyst
2 507 (15.23%) Architect
3 429 (12.89%) Lead
4 409 (12.29%) Business Analyst
5 307 (9.22%) Senior
6 277 (8.32%) Project Manager
7 249 (7.48%) Consultant
8 130 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
9 96 (2.88%) Change Manager
10 93 (2.79%) Delivery Manager
11 92 (2.76%) Senior Analyst
12 88 (2.64%) Developer
13 86 (2.58%) Data Analyst
14 81 (2.43%) Programme Manager
15 73 (2.19%) Senior Manager
16 71 (2.13%) Designer
17 66 (1.98%) Senior Business Analyst
18 61 (1.83%) Data Architect
19 59 (1.77%) IT Manager
20 57 (1.71%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (3.67%) REST
2 60 (1.80%) SOAP
3 58 (1.74%) LDAP
4 54 (1.62%) 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 20 (0.60%) CSS
14 20 (0.60%) PySpark
14 20 (0.60%) SAML
15 19 (0.57%) HTML
15 19 (0.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 230 (6.91%) Product Ownership
2 154 (4.63%) Onboarding
3 144 (4.33%) 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 66 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
9 57 (1.71%) Data Centre
10 53 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
10 53 (1.59%) NHS
11 50 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
12 43 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
13 41 (1.23%) Virtual Team
14 38 (1.14%) CMDB
15 34 (1.02%) AI Agents
15 34 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
16 30 (0.90%) Public Cloud
17 26 (0.78%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 95 (2.85%) 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 (26.95%) Agile
2 657 (19.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 639 (19.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 489 (14.69%) Migration
5 461 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
6 443 (13.31%) Decision-Making
7 433 (13.01%) Roadmaps
8 420 (12.62%) Change Management
9 385 (11.57%) Workshop Facilitation
10 379 (11.39%) DevOps
11 339 (10.19%) Analytics
12 319 (9.59%) AI
13 318 (9.56%) Risk Management
14 301 (9.04%) Business Intelligence
15 299 (8.98%) ERP
16 295 (8.86%) Project Management
17 278 (8.35%) Cybersecurity
18 277 (8.32%) CI/CD
19 269 (8.08%) Project Delivery
20 265 (7.96%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 254 (7.63%) Python
1 254 (7.63%) SQL
2 112 (3.37%) Java
3 86 (2.58%) PowerShell
4 50 (1.50%) JavaScript
5 36 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 36 (1.08%) TypeScript
6 34 (1.02%) Bash
7 33 (0.99%) 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
1 835 (25.09%) Security Cleared
2 665 (19.98%) SC Cleared
3 255 (7.66%) Degree
4 122 (3.67%) DV Cleared
5 109 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 106 (3.19%) PMI Certification
7 102 (3.06%) 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 28 (0.84%) Master's Degree
15 26 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
16 25 (0.75%) ACCA
16 25 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 24 (0.72%) CIMA
17 24 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
18 21 (0.63%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (6.43%) Data Quality
2 168 (5.05%) QA
3 162 (4.87%) PMO
4 142 (4.27%) NIST
5 138 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 131 (3.94%) GDPR
7 83 (2.49%) Accessibility
8 64 (1.92%) GRC
9 31 (0.93%) 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 15 (0.45%) 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 (3.09%) 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 6 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.15%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.090%) NFS
8 3 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.030%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.030%) Firmware
9 1 (0.030%) FreeRADIUS
9 1 (0.030%) KVM
9 1 (0.030%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 117 (3.52%) Terraform
2 110 (3.31%) Kubernetes
3 39 (1.17%) Ansible
4 30 (0.90%) Grafana
5 28 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 27 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 24 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.45%) SCCM
9 13 (0.39%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.18%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.15%) Istio
12 5 (0.15%) vRealize
13 4 (0.12%) Podman
14 3 (0.090%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.090%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.090%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.090%) vMotion
14 3 (0.090%) WSUS
15 2 (0.060%) Nessus
Vendors
1 498 (14.96%) Microsoft
2 256 (7.69%) SAP
3 183 (5.50%) ServiceNow
4 155 (4.66%) Oracle
5 92 (2.76%) Salesforce
6 86 (2.58%) 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
1,528 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide