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

 6 months to
21 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 42 150
Rank change year-on-year +17 +108 +17
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,895 1,576 674
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.39% 4.84% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.69% 5.35% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 1,054 462
10th Percentile £368 £361 £363
25th Percentile £450 £441 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -4.55% +4.56%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £500 £521
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.08% -0.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 29 25
10th Percentile £25.00 £22.98 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £26.21 £24.75
Median hourly rate £74.50 £42.82 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.00% -14.37% -2.12%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.25 £61.06
90th Percentile - £76.19 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £45.87 £56.97
% change year-on-year +74.42% -19.48% +11.52%

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 44,806 29,445 35,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.36% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,768 18,486 22,647
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,649 1,571 2,189
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £13.06
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.44 £16.86
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.88 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £68.75 £73.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +87.50% -40.00% -1.45%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +16 3,313 £540 +0.56% 1,049
UK excluding London +23 1,838 £520 +4.00% 660
London +16 1,594 £550 - 510
Work from Home +21 1,268 £533 +6.39% 520
North of England +22 486 £500 - 168
South East +23 484 £550 +1.85% 231
Midlands +13 317 £513 +2.50% 90
North West +21 241 £500 -0.79% 83
West Midlands +3 235 £508 +1.50% 59
South West +11 196 £536 -2.50% 80
Scotland +30 190 £475 -5.00% 32
Yorkshire -3 189 £501 +5.37% 61
East of England +27 122 £533 +6.50% 51
East Midlands +24 78 £525 +10.53% 31
North East +8 64 £450 -11.33% 26
Wales +16 50 £500 +31.58% 14
Northern Ireland +12 15 £450 -20.00% 4
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
1 176 (4.52%) Confluence
2 126 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 32 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 26 (0.67%) SAS
6 25 (0.64%) CMS
7 24 (0.62%) Apache
8 23 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.18%) WordPress
10 4 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.10%) Drupal
10 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.10%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.077%) Kentico
11 3 (0.077%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.051%) Appian
12 2 (0.051%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.051%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.051%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.051%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 177 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
5 63 (1.62%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.13%) Trello
8 3 (0.077%) Sketch
9 2 (0.051%) InDesign
9 2 (0.051%) InVision
9 2 (0.051%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.026%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.026%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.026%) CATIA
10 1 (0.026%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.026%) Revit
10 1 (0.026%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.026%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 152 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 15 (0.39%) SAP FI
5 12 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.31%) SAP QM
5 12 (0.31%) Teamcenter
6 11 (0.28%) Maximo
6 11 (0.28%) Primavera
6 11 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 10 (0.26%) SAP CO
7 10 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
8 9 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 9 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 9 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
9 8 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
10 7 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
10 7 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 744 (19.10%) Azure
2 494 (12.68%) AWS
3 379 (9.73%) Power Platform
4 174 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
5 169 (4.34%) Microsoft 365
6 159 (4.08%) GCP
7 122 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
8 120 (3.08%) Entra ID
9 100 (2.57%) SaaS
10 80 (2.05%) GitHub
11 65 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
12 62 (1.59%) Serverless
13 59 (1.51%) Power Automate
14 53 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
15 51 (1.31%) Amazon S3
15 51 (1.31%) Microsoft Purview
15 51 (1.31%) PowerApps
16 49 (1.26%) PaaS
17 47 (1.21%) Snowflake
18 42 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.67%) Network Security
2 62 (1.59%) Firewall
3 50 (1.28%) DNS
4 36 (0.92%) VPN
5 33 (0.85%) WAN
6 30 (0.77%) LAN
7 24 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 21 (0.54%) DHCP
9 18 (0.46%) Wireless
10 15 (0.39%) VLAN
11 14 (0.36%) Internet
11 14 (0.36%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.33%) 5G
12 13 (0.33%) BGP
13 12 (0.31%) Intranet
13 12 (0.31%) OSPF
13 12 (0.31%) SSL
14 10 (0.26%) NGFW
14 10 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.23%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 313 (8.04%) Power BI
2 101 (2.59%) Metadata
3 85 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
4 67 (1.72%) Data Lake
5 57 (1.46%) SQL Server
6 43 (1.10%) Tableau
7 29 (0.74%) Power Query
7 29 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 28 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (0.54%) DynamoDB
10 20 (0.51%) Big Data
11 18 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (0.46%) Oracle Database
12 17 (0.44%) BigQuery
13 16 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
13 16 (0.41%) NoSQL
14 15 (0.39%) Data Vault
15 14 (0.36%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 14 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 280 (7.19%) JIRA
2 70 (1.80%) Git
3 54 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.26%) GitLab
5 33 (0.85%) Selenium
6 31 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
7 27 (0.69%) Postman
8 18 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.46%) Hudson
8 18 (0.46%) WebDriver
9 16 (0.41%) JMeter
10 15 (0.39%) JUnit
11 14 (0.36%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.31%) ERwin
13 9 (0.23%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (0.15%) MLflow
14 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.13%) Snyk
15 5 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 1,778 (45.65%) Social Skills
2 1,124 (28.86%) Finance
3 693 (17.79%) Public Sector
4 625 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
5 206 (5.29%) Banking
6 190 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
7 154 (3.95%) Legal
8 150 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
9 133 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
10 125 (3.21%) Retail
11 92 (2.36%) Manufacturing
12 88 (2.26%) Law
13 82 (2.11%) Telecoms
14 81 (2.08%) Marketing
15 80 (2.05%) Local Government
16 75 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 74 (1.90%) Aerospace
18 54 (1.39%) Military
19 51 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
20 40 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 707 (18.15%) Analyst
2 564 (14.48%) Architect
3 492 (12.63%) Lead
4 424 (10.89%) Business Analyst
5 389 (9.99%) Senior
6 298 (7.65%) Project Manager
7 274 (7.03%) Consultant
8 161 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
9 156 (4.01%) Developer
10 120 (3.08%) Data Analyst
11 101 (2.59%) Change Manager
11 101 (2.59%) Delivery Manager
12 96 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
13 86 (2.21%) Data Architect
14 85 (2.18%) Senior Manager
15 78 (2.00%) Security Architect
16 77 (1.98%) Programme Manager
17 74 (1.90%) Designer
18 72 (1.85%) Product Manager
19 71 (1.82%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (2.57%) REST
2 54 (1.39%) Middleware
3 49 (1.26%) JSON
4 46 (1.18%) Spring
5 45 (1.16%) Kafka
5 45 (1.16%) React
6 43 (1.10%) SOAP
7 42 (1.08%) .NET
8 38 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
8 38 (0.98%) XML
9 37 (0.95%) Spring Boot
10 36 (0.92%) PySpark
11 28 (0.72%) SailPoint
12 27 (0.69%) OAuth
13 26 (0.67%) SAML
14 24 (0.62%) OpenID
15 23 (0.59%) Web Services
16 22 (0.56%) HTML
16 22 (0.56%) LDAP
17 21 (0.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 279 (7.16%) Product Ownership
2 207 (5.31%) Onboarding
3 165 (4.24%) Cloud Native
4 106 (2.72%) Data Structures
5 105 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 79 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
7 74 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
8 73 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
9 69 (1.77%) Operational Technology
10 66 (1.69%) NHS
11 61 (1.57%) Data Centre
12 58 (1.49%) Virtual Team
13 54 (1.39%) CMDB
14 47 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
15 46 (1.18%) AI Agents
15 46 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
16 40 (1.03%) Security Posture
17 38 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
18 37 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
19 33 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 110 (2.82%) Windows
2 55 (1.41%) Linux
3 26 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.39%) Windows 10
5 14 (0.36%) Unix
6 9 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.18%) VMS
8 6 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.10%) Android
10 3 (0.077%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.077%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.077%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.077%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.026%) AIX
11 1 (0.026%) HPUX
11 1 (0.026%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.026%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,137 (29.19%) Agile
2 846 (21.72%) Continuous Improvement
2 846 (21.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 576 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
4 564 (14.48%) Migration
5 550 (14.12%) Decision-Making
6 504 (12.94%) Roadmaps
7 486 (12.48%) DevOps
8 469 (12.04%) Change Management
9 461 (11.84%) Workshop Facilitation
10 450 (11.55%) AI
11 420 (10.78%) Analytics
12 387 (9.94%) CI/CD
13 384 (9.86%) Risk Management
14 354 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
15 344 (8.83%) Cybersecurity
16 340 (8.73%) Project Delivery
17 329 (8.45%) ERP
18 316 (8.11%) Data Modelling
19 310 (7.96%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 327 (8.40%) SQL
2 271 (6.96%) Python
3 118 (3.03%) Java
4 75 (1.93%) JavaScript
5 62 (1.59%) PowerShell
6 56 (1.44%) C#
7 42 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 42 (1.08%) TypeScript
8 36 (0.92%) Bash
9 25 (0.64%) Bicep
10 18 (0.46%) VBA
11 15 (0.39%) Apex Code
12 14 (0.36%) Scala
13 13 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.31%) T-SQL
15 11 (0.28%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.26%) Korn
17 7 (0.18%) ABAP
17 7 (0.18%) R
18 5 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,010 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 770 (19.77%) SC Cleared
3 272 (6.98%) Degree
4 167 (4.29%) DV Cleared
5 136 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 120 (3.08%) PMI Certification
7 112 (2.88%) PMP
8 105 (2.70%) CISSP
9 74 (1.90%) Azure Certification
10 67 (1.72%) CISM
11 62 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
12 43 (1.10%) AWS Certification
13 42 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
14 36 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
15 33 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 30 (0.77%) Master's Degree
17 29 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 29 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
18 23 (0.59%) ISTQB
19 22 (0.56%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 297 (7.63%) Data Quality
2 200 (5.13%) PMO
3 183 (4.70%) QA
4 170 (4.36%) GDPR
5 163 (4.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 155 (3.98%) NIST
7 106 (2.72%) Accessibility
8 87 (2.23%) GRC
9 55 (1.41%) NCSC
10 47 (1.21%) SLA
11 31 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
12 30 (0.77%) WCAG
13 26 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
14 21 (0.54%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.46%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 14 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 13 (0.33%) COBIT
18 13 (0.33%) ISO 20022
19 12 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 111 (2.85%) Active Directory
2 83 (2.13%) Docker
3 45 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.49%) vSphere
5 18 (0.46%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.077%) NFS
12 1 (0.026%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.026%) Firmware
12 1 (0.026%) FreeRADIUS
12 1 (0.026%) IAG
12 1 (0.026%) KVM
Systems Management
1 158 (4.06%) Terraform
2 146 (3.75%) Kubernetes
3 43 (1.10%) Ansible
4 36 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (0.87%) Grafana
6 31 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 30 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.33%) SCCM
9 10 (0.26%) HP ALM
10 9 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.18%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.13%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.13%) vRealize
13 4 (0.10%) Podman
14 3 (0.077%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.077%) Istio
14 3 (0.077%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.077%) QRadar
14 3 (0.077%) vMotion
14 3 (0.077%) VxRail
Vendors
1 667 (17.12%) Microsoft
2 275 (7.06%) SAP
3 231 (5.93%) ServiceNow
4 181 (4.65%) Oracle
5 120 (3.08%) Databricks
6 113 (2.90%) Salesforce
7 72 (1.85%) Google
8 56 (1.44%) VMware
9 55 (1.41%) Cisco
9 55 (1.41%) IBM
10 45 (1.16%) Workday
11 42 (1.08%) Splunk
12 30 (0.77%) CyberArk
13 25 (0.64%) MuleSoft
14 23 (0.59%) Palo Alto
15 22 (0.56%) Zscaler
16 21 (0.54%) Ariba
17 20 (0.51%) Citrix
17 20 (0.51%) IFS
17 20 (0.51%) Okta
1,170 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide