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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 29 134
Rank change year-on-year +4 +105 +30
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,166 2,040 692
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.68% 6.19% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% 6.84% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,820 1,363 440
10th Percentile £363 £361 £363
25th Percentile £450 £426 £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 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 34 11
10th Percentile £26.00 £25.47 £26.25
25th Percentile £44.75 £29.12 £38.25
Median hourly rate £67.02 £44.91 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +49.23% -22.97% +3.20%
75th Percentile £83.75 £64.79 £65.73
90th Percentile £91.88 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.89 £32.74 £59.45
% change year-on-year +107.39% -44.94% +5.24%

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 45,839 29,816 32,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.46% 90.52% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,855 18,531 20,147
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
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 £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,070 1,799 1,460
10th Percentile £13.84 £14.25 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.36 £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 £67.50 £44.68 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +83.63% -47.37% +5.81%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 3,514 £550 +1.62% 3,421
UK excluding London +7 1,928 £525 - 2,054
London +2 1,743 £550 - 1,659
Work from Home +10 1,420 £525 - 1,674
South East +12 498 £566 +3.90% 548
North of England +7 495 £500 -2.21% 510
Midlands +9 338 £500 -5.84% 309
West Midlands +4 266 £500 -4.76% 215
North West +2 229 £514 -0.92% 311
South West -1 228 £550 - 263
Scotland +26 221 £500 +11.11% 179
Yorkshire -6 198 £500 - 141
East of England +17 118 £525 -10.94% 146
North East +12 76 £450 - 62
East Midlands +18 69 £525 -12.50% 94
Wales +15 55 £525 +27.27% 30
Northern Ireland 0 6 £413 -21.43% 82
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
2 166 (3.98%) 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
1 188 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 91 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
3 86 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (1.39%) MS Visio
5 55 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.17%) AutoCAD
7 7 (0.17%) Chatbot
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
1 796 (19.11%) Azure
2 548 (13.15%) AWS
3 433 (10.39%) Power Platform
4 211 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
5 201 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
6 183 (4.39%) GCP
7 142 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
8 139 (3.34%) Entra ID
9 99 (2.38%) SaaS
10 97 (2.33%) Power Automate
11 90 (2.16%) GitHub
12 73 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
12 73 (1.75%) Snowflake
13 72 (1.73%) PowerApps
14 71 (1.70%) Microsoft Purview
14 71 (1.70%) Serverless
15 63 (1.51%) Amazon S3
16 59 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
17 55 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
18 46 (1.10%) 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%) Internet
9 18 (0.43%) VLAN
9 18 (0.43%) Wireless
10 17 (0.41%) 5G
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
1 336 (8.07%) Power BI
2 155 (3.72%) Metadata
3 95 (2.28%) Data Lake
4 94 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
5 74 (1.78%) SQL Server
6 41 (0.98%) Tableau
7 36 (0.86%) Relational Database
8 32 (0.77%) Power Query
9 31 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
10 26 (0.62%) DynamoDB
11 24 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
11 24 (0.58%) BigQuery
12 23 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 22 (0.53%) Oracle Database
14 20 (0.48%) NoSQL
14 20 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
15 19 (0.46%) Big Data
16 18 (0.43%) Data Vault
16 18 (0.43%) Looker
16 18 (0.43%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 263 (6.31%) JIRA
2 95 (2.28%) Git
3 60 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.37%) 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%) Maven
15 6 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,939 (46.54%) Social Skills
2 1,143 (27.44%) Finance
3 840 (20.16%) Public Sector
4 693 (16.63%) Analytical Skills
5 248 (5.95%) Influencing Skills
6 228 (5.47%) Banking
7 182 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
8 174 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
9 150 (3.60%) Legal
10 135 (3.24%) Retail
11 118 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 116 (2.78%) Local Government
13 103 (2.47%) Manufacturing
14 85 (2.04%) Marketing
15 82 (1.97%) Telecoms
16 79 (1.90%) Law
16 79 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
17 75 (1.80%) Military
18 58 (1.39%) Aerospace
19 41 (0.98%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 708 (16.99%) Analyst
2 620 (14.88%) Architect
3 508 (12.19%) Lead
4 433 (10.39%) Senior
5 410 (9.84%) Business Analyst
6 300 (7.20%) Consultant
7 293 (7.03%) Project Manager
8 227 (5.45%) Developer
9 186 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
10 123 (2.95%) Data Architect
11 119 (2.86%) Data Analyst
12 111 (2.66%) Change Manager
13 101 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
14 91 (2.18%) Senior Manager
15 88 (2.11%) Data Engineer
15 88 (2.11%) Designer
16 84 (2.02%) Delivery Manager
17 81 (1.94%) Technical Architect
18 77 (1.85%) IT Manager
19 72 (1.73%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (4.39%) Terraform
2 124 (2.98%) REST
3 66 (1.58%) .NET
4 61 (1.46%) JSON
5 54 (1.30%) Kafka
6 52 (1.25%) SOAP
7 49 (1.18%) Middleware
7 49 (1.18%) PySpark
8 47 (1.13%) XML
9 46 (1.10%) Spring
10 43 (1.03%) React
11 42 (1.01%) Spring Boot
12 41 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
13 40 (0.96%) OAuth
14 36 (0.86%) Web Services
15 35 (0.84%) RESTful
15 35 (0.84%) SAML
16 33 (0.79%) OpenID
17 31 (0.74%) LDAP
18 29 (0.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 283 (6.79%) Product Ownership
2 242 (5.81%) Onboarding
3 187 (4.49%) Cloud Native
4 145 (3.48%) Management Information System
5 96 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
6 95 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
7 86 (2.06%) Data Structures
8 75 (1.80%) AI Agents
8 75 (1.80%) NHS
9 72 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
10 71 (1.70%) Operational Technology
11 68 (1.63%) Data Centre
12 62 (1.49%) 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 25 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 127 (3.05%) Windows
2 77 (1.85%) Linux
3 34 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.38%) Unix
5 14 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.17%) Android
7 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.17%) VMS
8 6 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.096%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.096%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,257 (30.17%) Agile
2 1,072 (25.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 953 (22.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 674 (16.18%) Decision-Making
5 647 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
6 578 (13.87%) Roadmaps
7 571 (13.71%) Migration
8 539 (12.94%) Workshop Facilitation
9 535 (12.84%) DevOps
10 521 (12.51%) AI
11 481 (11.55%) Change Management
12 475 (11.40%) Analytics
13 446 (10.71%) CI/CD
14 420 (10.08%) Risk Management
15 405 (9.72%) Project Delivery
16 387 (9.29%) Business Intelligence
17 386 (9.27%) Cybersecurity
18 356 (8.55%) Data Governance
19 351 (8.43%) Data Modelling
20 336 (8.07%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 391 (9.39%) SQL
2 299 (7.18%) Python
3 130 (3.12%) Java
4 102 (2.45%) JavaScript
5 91 (2.18%) PowerShell
6 86 (2.06%) C#
7 51 (1.22%) Bash
7 51 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 45 (1.08%) TypeScript
9 27 (0.65%) Bicep
10 21 (0.50%) Scala
11 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
12 14 (0.34%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.29%) Apex Code
14 11 (0.26%) Korn
15 9 (0.22%) Groovy
16 8 (0.19%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.19%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.19%) VBA
17 4 (0.096%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,175 (28.20%) Security Cleared
2 906 (21.75%) SC Cleared
3 253 (6.07%) Degree
4 200 (4.80%) DV Cleared
5 156 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 118 (2.83%) PMI Certification
7 112 (2.69%) CISSP
8 111 (2.66%) PMP
9 72 (1.73%) CISM
10 69 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
11 68 (1.63%) Azure Certification
12 58 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (1.06%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 36 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
16 33 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 32 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
18 28 (0.67%) Master's Degree
19 26 (0.62%) ISTQB
20 24 (0.58%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 343 (8.23%) Data Quality
2 202 (4.85%) PMO
3 182 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 181 (4.34%) QA
5 171 (4.10%) GDPR
6 169 (4.06%) NIST
7 122 (2.93%) Accessibility
8 97 (2.33%) GRC
9 77 (1.85%) NCSC
10 39 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
11 38 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
12 35 (0.84%) WCAG
13 33 (0.79%) SLA
14 19 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 16 (0.38%) PCI DSS
15 16 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 13 (0.31%) JSP 440
16 13 (0.31%) NIST 800
17 12 (0.29%) ITGC
18 11 (0.26%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 128 (3.07%) Active Directory
2 101 (2.42%) Docker
3 51 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.43%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.38%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.36%) vSphere
7 12 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.048%) Firmware
10 2 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.024%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.024%) IAG
11 1 (0.024%) KVM
11 1 (0.024%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 159 (3.82%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.18%) Ansible
3 41 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.82%) Grafana
5 31 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (0.72%) 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%) CA Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.048%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 821 (19.71%) Microsoft
2 261 (6.27%) SAP
3 230 (5.52%) ServiceNow
4 192 (4.61%) Oracle
5 159 (3.82%) Databricks
6 108 (2.59%) Salesforce
7 92 (2.21%) Google
8 68 (1.63%) VMware
9 61 (1.46%) Cisco
10 54 (1.30%) Workday
11 53 (1.27%) Splunk
12 40 (0.96%) IBM
13 34 (0.82%) CyberArk
14 28 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 27 (0.65%) Ariba
16 24 (0.58%) Dynatrace
16 24 (0.58%) Informatica
17 22 (0.53%) Palo Alto
18 21 (0.50%) Okta
19 20 (0.48%) Adobe