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

 6 months to
8 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 26 136
Rank change year-on-year +1 +110 +32
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,229 2,235 692
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.75% 6.76% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.17% 7.47% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,869 1,499 428
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £644 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -0.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 38 10
10th Percentile £24.50 £21.29 £21.93
25th Percentile £40.88 £26.89 £26.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £48.75 £54.02
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -9.76% -4.37%
75th Percentile £80.00 £65.11 £60.44
90th Percentile £87.87 £74.88 £61.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £58.17
% change year-on-year +17.39% -1.16% +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 46,126 29,916 32,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.57% 90.50% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,740 18,573 19,640
10th Percentile £325 £295 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,322 1,863 1,307
10th Percentile £13.63 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.63% -7.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.21 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.95 £65.23 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.32 £42.50
% change year-on-year +68.05% -47.49% -

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +1 3,543 £550 +1.85% 2,814
UK excluding London +3 1,947 £525 - 1,654
London -1 1,764 £555 +0.91% 1,282
Work from Home +6 1,441 £525 - 1,327
South East +10 505 £550 +1.85% 406
North of England +3 500 £500 -3.15% 392
Midlands +6 341 £500 -4.76% 260
West Midlands +4 277 £500 -4.76% 175
South West -3 236 £550 +2.33% 229
North West +1 228 £514 +0.29% 229
Scotland +26 220 £500 +11.11% 161
Yorkshire -7 201 £498 -5.24% 128
East of England +6 112 £510 -15.70% 126
North East +8 80 £453 -4.63% 36
East Midlands +6 63 £525 +16.67% 85
Wales +20 58 £525 +27.27% 40
Northern Ireland +6 8 £438 -16.67% 50
Channel Islands -3 4 £588 +27.03% 1

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 (4.14%) SharePoint
2 168 (3.97%) Confluence
3 37 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 35 (0.83%) Apache
4 35 (0.83%) CMS
5 34 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 27 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 20 (0.47%) SAS
8 10 (0.24%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.14%) WordPress
10 4 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.071%) Drupal
11 3 (0.071%) IIS
11 3 (0.071%) Kentico
12 2 (0.047%) OpenEdge
12 2 (0.047%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.047%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.047%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 196 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 91 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
2 91 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 55 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
4 53 (1.25%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.21%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.21%) Navisworks
6 9 (0.21%) Revit
7 8 (0.19%) ProjectWise
8 7 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.17%) Trello
9 3 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.071%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.047%) InDesign
10 2 (0.047%) Sketch
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Notion
Business Applications
1 124 (2.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 62 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.57%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 14 (0.33%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.31%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 13 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.28%) Maximo
8 12 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.26%) Primavera
10 10 (0.24%) iTrent
10 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 10 (0.24%) SAP QM
11 9 (0.21%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 789 (18.66%) Azure
2 541 (12.79%) AWS
3 439 (10.38%) Power Platform
4 221 (5.23%) Microsoft 365
5 207 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
6 183 (4.33%) GCP
7 140 (3.31%) Entra ID
8 119 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
9 101 (2.39%) Power Automate
10 100 (2.36%) SaaS
11 93 (2.20%) GitHub
12 82 (1.94%) Snowflake
13 78 (1.84%) Microsoft Copilot
14 76 (1.80%) PowerApps
15 74 (1.75%) Serverless
16 73 (1.73%) Microsoft Purview
17 64 (1.51%) Amazon S3
18 56 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
19 55 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
20 48 (1.14%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 71 (1.68%) Network Security
2 65 (1.54%) Firewall
3 46 (1.09%) DNS
4 38 (0.90%) WAN
5 36 (0.85%) VPN
6 28 (0.66%) LAN
7 27 (0.64%) DHCP
8 22 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 16 (0.38%) Internet
9 16 (0.38%) SD-WAN
9 16 (0.38%) VLAN
10 15 (0.35%) Wireless
11 14 (0.33%) 5G
12 12 (0.28%) BGP
12 12 (0.28%) VoIP
13 11 (0.26%) Kerberos
14 10 (0.24%) HTTP
14 10 (0.24%) Intranet
14 10 (0.24%) OSPF
14 10 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (7.85%) Power BI
2 169 (4.00%) Metadata
3 105 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
4 94 (2.22%) Data Lake
5 73 (1.73%) SQL Server
6 52 (1.23%) Tableau
7 35 (0.83%) Relational Database
8 34 (0.80%) Power Query
9 28 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 28 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
10 26 (0.61%) BigQuery
11 25 (0.59%) DynamoDB
12 24 (0.57%) Star Schema
13 22 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
14 21 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
14 21 (0.50%) Big Data
15 20 (0.47%) NoSQL
16 19 (0.45%) MongoDB
16 19 (0.45%) Oracle Database
17 18 (0.43%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 265 (6.27%) JIRA
2 94 (2.22%) Git
3 64 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.35%) GitLab
5 31 (0.73%) Selenium
6 26 (0.61%) Postman
7 19 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
10 12 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (0.21%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.21%) ERwin
11 9 (0.21%) JUnit
12 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.19%) REST Assured
12 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.17%) Hudson
13 7 (0.17%) JMeter
13 7 (0.17%) Maven
General
1 1,991 (47.08%) Social Skills
2 1,111 (26.27%) Finance
3 908 (21.47%) Public Sector
4 701 (16.58%) Analytical Skills
5 265 (6.27%) Influencing Skills
6 231 (5.46%) Banking
7 189 (4.47%) Documentation Skills
8 183 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
9 148 (3.50%) Legal
10 124 (2.93%) Retail
11 122 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 122 (2.88%) Manufacturing
12 113 (2.67%) Local Government
13 88 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
14 85 (2.01%) Military
15 83 (1.96%) Marketing
16 78 (1.84%) Telecoms
17 71 (1.68%) Aerospace
18 54 (1.28%) Law
19 45 (1.06%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 703 (16.62%) Analyst
2 611 (14.45%) Architect
3 506 (11.97%) Lead
4 448 (10.59%) Senior
5 418 (9.88%) Business Analyst
6 295 (6.98%) Consultant
7 288 (6.81%) Project Manager
8 236 (5.58%) Developer
9 183 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
10 128 (3.03%) Data Architect
11 120 (2.84%) Change Manager
12 117 (2.77%) Data Analyst
13 106 (2.51%) Senior Analyst
14 88 (2.08%) Delivery Manager
14 88 (2.08%) Designer
15 87 (2.06%) Data Engineer
16 86 (2.03%) Technical Architect
17 85 (2.01%) Senior Manager
18 76 (1.80%) IT Manager
19 74 (1.75%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (4.26%) Terraform
2 126 (2.98%) REST
3 66 (1.56%) .NET
4 58 (1.37%) JSON
5 57 (1.35%) Kafka
6 50 (1.18%) SOAP
7 48 (1.14%) Spring
8 47 (1.11%) PySpark
9 46 (1.09%) XML
10 45 (1.06%) Middleware
10 45 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
11 43 (1.02%) React
11 43 (1.02%) Spring Boot
12 35 (0.83%) Web Services
13 34 (0.80%) OAuth
13 34 (0.80%) RESTful
14 29 (0.69%) LDAP
15 28 (0.66%) Node.js
16 27 (0.64%) HTML
17 26 (0.61%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 285 (6.74%) Product Ownership
2 248 (5.86%) Onboarding
3 198 (4.68%) Cloud Native
4 151 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 101 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
6 95 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 91 (2.15%) Data Structures
8 84 (1.99%) AI Agents
9 74 (1.75%) NHS
10 72 (1.70%) Operational Technology
11 70 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
12 68 (1.61%) Data Centre
13 61 (1.44%) Security Posture
14 57 (1.35%) Virtual Team
15 54 (1.28%) CMDB
16 52 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
17 49 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
18 43 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
19 32 (0.76%) Taxonomies
20 31 (0.73%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 126 (2.98%) Windows
2 80 (1.89%) Linux
3 37 (0.87%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.35%) Unix
5 14 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.21%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.14%) Android
7 6 (0.14%) VMS
8 5 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.12%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.095%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.071%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.047%) AIX
11 2 (0.047%) HPUX
11 2 (0.047%) Solaris
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.024%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,278 (30.22%) Agile
2 1,179 (27.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 945 (22.35%) Continuous Improvement
4 700 (16.55%) Decision-Making
5 668 (15.80%) Problem-Solving
6 616 (14.57%) Roadmaps
7 589 (13.93%) Workshop Facilitation
8 568 (13.43%) AI
9 552 (13.05%) Migration
10 532 (12.58%) DevOps
11 490 (11.59%) Change Management
12 486 (11.49%) Analytics
13 441 (10.43%) CI/CD
14 431 (10.19%) Risk Management
15 415 (9.81%) Project Delivery
16 389 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
17 382 (9.03%) Data Governance
18 377 (8.91%) Cybersecurity
19 370 (8.75%) Data Modelling
20 364 (8.61%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 412 (9.74%) SQL
2 306 (7.24%) Python
3 128 (3.03%) Java
4 104 (2.46%) JavaScript
5 98 (2.32%) PowerShell
6 86 (2.03%) C#
7 56 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 53 (1.25%) Bash
9 42 (0.99%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.61%) Bicep
11 21 (0.50%) Scala
12 16 (0.38%) T-SQL
13 13 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.24%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.24%) Korn
15 9 (0.21%) Groovy
16 7 (0.17%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.14%) VBA
18 4 (0.095%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,225 (28.97%) Security Cleared
2 956 (22.61%) SC Cleared
3 254 (6.01%) Degree
4 198 (4.68%) DV Cleared
5 183 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 111 (2.62%) PMI Certification
7 110 (2.60%) CISSP
8 105 (2.48%) PMP
9 68 (1.61%) CISM
10 66 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
11 65 (1.54%) Azure Certification
12 59 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
13 41 (0.97%) AWS Certification
14 34 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 33 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
16 30 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 30 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
17 26 (0.61%) ACCA
17 26 (0.61%) APMG
17 26 (0.61%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 378 (8.94%) Data Quality
2 191 (4.52%) PMO
3 186 (4.40%) QA
4 167 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 163 (3.85%) GDPR
6 159 (3.76%) NIST
7 138 (3.26%) Accessibility
8 98 (2.32%) GRC
9 85 (2.01%) NCSC
10 53 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 38 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
11 38 (0.90%) WCAG
12 33 (0.78%) SLA
13 18 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 15 (0.35%) NIST 800
14 15 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 14 (0.33%) JSP 440
16 13 (0.31%) PCI DSS
17 12 (0.28%) GxP
17 12 (0.28%) ITGC
System Software
1 127 (3.00%) Active Directory
2 106 (2.51%) Docker
3 56 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 18 (0.43%) VMware NSX
5 14 (0.33%) vSphere
6 12 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.024%) Firmware
10 1 (0.024%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.024%) IAG
10 1 (0.024%) KVM
10 1 (0.024%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 172 (4.07%) Kubernetes
2 51 (1.21%) Ansible
3 41 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (0.73%) Grafana
5 28 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
8 10 (0.24%) SCCM
9 6 (0.14%) VxRail
10 5 (0.12%) QRadar
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 4 (0.095%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.095%) Istio
11 4 (0.095%) vRealize
12 3 (0.071%) Argo
12 3 (0.071%) Kibana
12 3 (0.071%) McAfee ePO
12 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.071%) Puppet
Vendors
1 842 (19.91%) Microsoft
2 252 (5.96%) SAP
3 215 (5.08%) ServiceNow
4 184 (4.35%) Oracle
5 155 (3.67%) Databricks
6 102 (2.41%) Salesforce
7 101 (2.39%) Google
8 75 (1.77%) VMware
9 63 (1.49%) Cisco
10 54 (1.28%) Workday
11 52 (1.23%) Splunk
12 43 (1.02%) IBM
13 34 (0.80%) Ariba
14 32 (0.76%) CyberArk
15 27 (0.64%) MuleSoft
16 25 (0.59%) Okta
17 24 (0.57%) OpenAI
18 22 (0.52%) Dynatrace
19 21 (0.50%) Informatica
19 21 (0.50%) Palo Alto
3,246 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide