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

 6 months to
25 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 49 151
Rank change year-on-year +23 +102 +11
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,602 1,325 698
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.08% 4.40% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.33% 4.83% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,438 879 480
10th Percentile £367 £357 £363
25th Percentile £448 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.50% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 27 35
10th Percentile £25.04 £24.29 £18.35
25th Percentile £48.50 £28.61 £27.81
Median hourly rate £65.80 £49.51 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.91% +35.63% -28.55%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.38 £59.76
90th Percentile - £77.14 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.70 £60.75 £56.49
% change year-on-year +11.43% +7.54% +10.59%

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 43,238 27,425 37,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.97% 91.06% 85.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,959 17,371 23,647
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £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 2,600 1,291 2,584
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.65
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.70 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £54.88 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.25 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.04 £38.12
% change year-on-year +79.73% -34.32% +17.29%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +24 3,055 £538 +2.38% 910
UK excluding London +28 1,706 £513 +2.50% 717
London +22 1,456 £550 - 356
Work from Home +33 1,167 £536 +7.20% 509
North of England +22 455 £500 - 186
South East +18 405 £540 +8.00% 255
Midlands +14 316 £509 +1.75% 108
North West +26 233 £500 -1.38% 111
West Midlands +13 224 £500 - 60
South West +13 194 £525 -4.55% 83
Yorkshire +6 180 £514 +8.21% 52
Scotland +31 167 £475 -5.05% 26
East of England +36 126 £550 +10.00% 39
East Midlands +21 87 £525 +16.67% 47
North East +6 48 £453 +0.56% 26
Wales +17 46 £500 +50.15% 21
Northern Ireland +14 17 £447 -23.10% 12
Channel Islands 0 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
1 182 (5.05%) Confluence
2 105 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 31 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (0.78%) SAS
5 23 (0.64%) Apache Spark
6 22 (0.61%) Apache
7 20 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 18 (0.50%) CMS
9 5 (0.14%) WordPress
10 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.11%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.083%) Appian
11 3 (0.083%) Drupal
11 3 (0.083%) Kentico
12 2 (0.056%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.056%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.056%) Camunda
12 2 (0.056%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.056%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 163 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 66 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
4 62 (1.72%) MS Visio
5 61 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.083%) Sketch
10 2 (0.056%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.056%) InVision
10 2 (0.056%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.056%) Trello
11 1 (0.028%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.028%) CATIA
11 1 (0.028%) InDesign
11 1 (0.028%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.028%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.028%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 139 (3.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.42%) Teamcenter
3 15 (0.42%) Workday HCM
4 13 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 12 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 11 (0.31%) Primavera
7 10 (0.28%) Maximo
7 10 (0.28%) SAP FI
7 10 (0.28%) SAP QM
8 9 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 8 (0.22%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.19%) NetSuite
10 7 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.17%) Sage X3
11 6 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.17%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 688 (19.10%) Azure
2 479 (13.30%) AWS
3 348 (9.66%) Power Platform
4 158 (4.39%) GCP
5 146 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
6 140 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
7 108 (3.00%) Entra ID
8 99 (2.75%) SaaS
9 97 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
10 70 (1.94%) GitHub
11 56 (1.55%) Serverless
12 55 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
13 47 (1.30%) PaaS
14 46 (1.28%) Power Automate
15 45 (1.25%) Amazon S3
15 45 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
16 44 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
17 39 (1.08%) PowerApps
18 37 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
19 36 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 64 (1.78%) Network Security
2 62 (1.72%) Firewall
3 40 (1.11%) DNS
4 30 (0.83%) VPN
5 29 (0.81%) WAN
6 25 (0.69%) LAN
7 16 (0.44%) TCP/IP
7 16 (0.44%) Wireless
8 14 (0.39%) VLAN
9 13 (0.36%) SD-WAN
10 12 (0.33%) 5G
10 12 (0.33%) BGP
10 12 (0.33%) Internet
11 11 (0.31%) DHCP
11 11 (0.31%) OSPF
11 11 (0.31%) SSL
12 10 (0.28%) NGFW
13 9 (0.25%) Intranet
13 9 (0.25%) MPLS
14 8 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (8.11%) Power BI
2 90 (2.50%) Metadata
3 76 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (1.33%) Data Lake
5 44 (1.22%) Tableau
6 37 (1.03%) SQL Server
7 32 (0.89%) Relational Database
8 31 (0.86%) Power Query
9 27 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.56%) NoSQL
11 19 (0.53%) DynamoDB
12 16 (0.44%) Big Data
12 16 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
12 16 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
13 14 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (0.39%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 13 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (0.36%) Data Vault
14 13 (0.36%) Oracle Database
14 13 (0.36%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 280 (7.77%) JIRA
2 60 (1.67%) Git
2 60 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 50 (1.39%) GitLab
4 31 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
5 28 (0.78%) Postman
6 25 (0.69%) Selenium
7 19 (0.53%) JMeter
8 18 (0.50%) Hudson
9 16 (0.44%) Cucumber
10 15 (0.42%) WebDriver
11 13 (0.36%) JUnit
12 12 (0.33%) ERwin
13 10 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.22%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.22%) SonarQube
15 7 (0.19%) LoadRunner
16 6 (0.17%) MLflow
17 5 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
17 5 (0.14%) Snyk
General
1 1,638 (45.47%) Social Skills
2 1,033 (28.68%) Finance
3 601 (16.69%) Public Sector
4 558 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
5 203 (5.64%) Banking
6 156 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
7 140 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
8 133 (3.69%) Legal
9 112 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
10 110 (3.05%) Retail
11 85 (2.36%) Manufacturing
12 82 (2.28%) Law
13 75 (2.08%) Local Government
14 73 (2.03%) Aerospace
15 71 (1.97%) Telecoms
16 68 (1.89%) Marketing
17 56 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 47 (1.30%) Military
19 42 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
20 33 (0.92%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 664 (18.43%) Analyst
2 539 (14.96%) Architect
3 470 (13.05%) Lead
4 411 (11.41%) Business Analyst
5 346 (9.61%) Senior
6 283 (7.86%) Project Manager
7 270 (7.50%) Consultant
8 149 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
9 122 (3.39%) Developer
10 106 (2.94%) Data Analyst
11 99 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
12 95 (2.64%) Change Manager
13 92 (2.55%) Delivery Manager
14 74 (2.05%) Designer
14 74 (2.05%) Programme Manager
15 73 (2.03%) Data Architect
16 70 (1.94%) Senior Manager
17 69 (1.92%) Security Architect
18 66 (1.83%) Technical Architect
19 64 (1.78%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (2.92%) REST
2 56 (1.55%) Middleware
3 46 (1.28%) SOAP
4 44 (1.22%) Spring
5 39 (1.08%) JSON
5 39 (1.08%) Kafka
5 39 (1.08%) React
6 36 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
7 35 (0.97%) LDAP
7 35 (0.97%) Spring Boot
8 33 (0.92%) OpenID
9 32 (0.89%) XML
10 31 (0.86%) OAuth
11 30 (0.83%) PySpark
11 30 (0.83%) SailPoint
12 28 (0.78%) .NET
13 26 (0.72%) SAML
14 21 (0.58%) CSS
14 21 (0.58%) HTML
15 20 (0.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 247 (6.86%) Product Ownership
2 175 (4.86%) Onboarding
3 156 (4.33%) Cloud Native
4 93 (2.58%) Management Information System
5 88 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 71 (1.97%) Operational Technology
7 69 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
7 69 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 63 (1.75%) Data Centre
9 62 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
10 57 (1.58%) NHS
11 56 (1.55%) Security Posture
12 55 (1.53%) CMDB
13 51 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
14 50 (1.39%) Virtual Team
15 47 (1.30%) AI Agents
16 45 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
17 36 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
18 32 (0.89%) Public Cloud
19 30 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 94 (2.61%) Windows
2 45 (1.25%) Linux
3 23 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.33%) Unix
5 9 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.25%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.22%) VMS
7 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.11%) Android
10 3 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.083%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.083%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.083%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.028%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,001 (27.79%) Agile
2 738 (20.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 725 (20.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 530 (14.71%) Migration
5 506 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
6 499 (13.85%) Decision-Making
7 470 (13.05%) Roadmaps
8 444 (12.33%) Change Management
9 425 (11.80%) DevOps
10 407 (11.30%) Workshop Facilitation
11 390 (10.83%) Analytics
12 380 (10.55%) AI
13 355 (9.86%) Risk Management
14 330 (9.16%) Business Intelligence
15 326 (9.05%) CI/CD
16 311 (8.63%) Cybersecurity
17 307 (8.52%) ERP
18 302 (8.38%) Project Delivery
19 293 (8.13%) Project Management
20 284 (7.88%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 300 (8.33%) SQL
2 255 (7.08%) Python
3 115 (3.19%) Java
4 62 (1.72%) PowerShell
5 60 (1.67%) JavaScript
6 44 (1.22%) C#
7 41 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 40 (1.11%) TypeScript
9 27 (0.75%) Bash
10 20 (0.56%) Bicep
10 20 (0.56%) VBA
11 14 (0.39%) Scala
12 11 (0.31%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.28%) Korn
13 10 (0.28%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.22%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.19%) R
16 6 (0.17%) ABAP
17 4 (0.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 912 (25.32%) Security Cleared
2 713 (19.79%) SC Cleared
3 258 (7.16%) Degree
4 140 (3.89%) DV Cleared
5 118 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 108 (3.00%) PMI Certification
7 98 (2.72%) PMP
8 93 (2.58%) CISSP
9 66 (1.83%) CISM
10 59 (1.64%) Azure Certification
11 56 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
12 38 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
13 37 (1.03%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
15 28 (0.78%) Master's Degree
16 27 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 25 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 24 (0.67%) ACCA
19 23 (0.64%) CIMA
19 23 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 260 (7.22%) Data Quality
2 183 (5.08%) PMO
3 170 (4.72%) QA
4 155 (4.30%) NIST
5 154 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 145 (4.03%) GDPR
7 88 (2.44%) GRC
8 86 (2.39%) Accessibility
9 49 (1.36%) NCSC
10 32 (0.89%) SLA
11 26 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
11 26 (0.72%) PCI DSS
12 25 (0.69%) WCAG
13 24 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
14 18 (0.50%) SOC 2
15 17 (0.47%) ISO 20022
16 13 (0.36%) COBIT
17 12 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 11 (0.31%) NIST 800
19 10 (0.28%) Def Stans
System Software
1 95 (2.64%) Active Directory
2 67 (1.86%) Docker
3 27 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.33%) vSphere
5 11 (0.31%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.083%) NFS
10 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.028%) Firmware
10 1 (0.028%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.028%) KVM
Systems Management
1 131 (3.64%) Terraform
2 120 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 42 (1.17%) Ansible
4 32 (0.89%) Grafana
5 29 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
6 28 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.33%) SCCM
8 11 (0.31%) HP ALM
9 10 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.17%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.14%) vRealize
12 4 (0.11%) Podman
13 3 (0.083%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.083%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.083%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 3 (0.083%) vMotion
13 3 (0.083%) WSUS
14 2 (0.056%) Nessus
14 2 (0.056%) Puppet
Vendors
1 568 (15.77%) Microsoft
2 259 (7.19%) SAP
3 213 (5.91%) ServiceNow
4 161 (4.47%) Oracle
5 105 (2.92%) Salesforce
6 103 (2.86%) Databricks
7 63 (1.75%) Google
8 52 (1.44%) Cisco
9 51 (1.42%) IBM
10 40 (1.11%) Splunk
10 40 (1.11%) VMware
10 40 (1.11%) Workday
11 33 (0.92%) CyberArk
12 21 (0.58%) MuleSoft
12 21 (0.58%) Palo Alto
13 20 (0.56%) Zscaler
14 19 (0.53%) Dynatrace
14 19 (0.53%) IFS
15 18 (0.50%) Adobe
15 18 (0.50%) BeyondTrust
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