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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 28 136
Rank change year-on-year +3 +108 +28
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,171 2,047 687
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.64% 6.30% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.06% 6.97% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,837 1,372 437
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £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 117 35 11
10th Percentile £26.10 £23.80 £26.25
25th Percentile £41.00 £27.52 £38.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £42.82 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +51.82% -26.56% +3.20%
75th Percentile £83.25 £64.45 £65.73
90th Percentile £89.85 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £32.39 £59.45
% change year-on-year +108.38% -45.51% +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 46,027 29,389 32,594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.35% 90.49% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,906 18,237 19,938
10th Percentile £325 £300 £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 £626 £625 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,152 1,808 1,420
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -1.10%
75th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.08 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +79.61% -48.10% +1.18%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 3,500 £549 -0.23% 3,172
UK excluding London +7 1,924 £525 - 1,918
London +3 1,741 £550 - 1,548
Work from Home +9 1,425 £525 - 1,579
South East +11 498 £560 +4.28% 525
North of England +3 490 £500 -3.85% 459
Midlands +5 335 £500 -6.89% 281
West Midlands +6 266 £500 -4.76% 190
South West -4 230 £550 - 246
Scotland +24 226 £500 +8.70% 177
North West +1 222 £525 - 274
Yorkshire -1 198 £500 -2.53% 127
East of England +9 114 £525 -13.15% 137
North East +15 78 £450 -5.26% 59
East Midlands +11 67 £525 -4.55% 91
Wales +16 58 £525 +27.27% 31
Northern Ireland 0 6 £413 -21.43% 71
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
1 170 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 165 (3.96%) Confluence
3 37 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (0.86%) Apache
4 36 (0.86%) CMS
5 35 (0.84%) Apache Spark
6 26 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 26 (0.62%) SAS
7 10 (0.24%) Headless CMS
8 7 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.14%) WordPress
10 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.096%) OpenEdge
11 4 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.072%) Drupal
12 3 (0.072%) IIS
12 3 (0.072%) Kentico
13 2 (0.048%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.048%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.048%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 188 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
3 86 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (1.37%) MS Visio
5 55 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.19%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.19%) Navisworks
7 8 (0.19%) ProjectWise
7 8 (0.19%) Revit
8 7 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.17%) Trello
9 3 (0.072%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.072%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.072%) Sketch
10 2 (0.048%) InDesign
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Notion
11 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 126 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.53%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 15 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.29%) Maximo
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
8 11 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (0.26%) Primavera
8 11 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 10 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 9 (0.22%) SAP CO
10 9 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.22%) SAP SD
11 8 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 787 (18.87%) Azure
2 544 (13.04%) AWS
3 429 (10.29%) Power Platform
4 215 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
5 199 (4.77%) Azure DevOps
6 182 (4.36%) GCP
7 139 (3.33%) Entra ID
8 134 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
9 100 (2.40%) Power Automate
10 99 (2.37%) SaaS
11 90 (2.16%) GitHub
12 78 (1.87%) Snowflake
13 77 (1.85%) Microsoft Copilot
14 73 (1.75%) Serverless
15 72 (1.73%) PowerApps
16 71 (1.70%) Microsoft Purview
17 64 (1.53%) Amazon S3
18 60 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
19 54 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
20 46 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 72 (1.73%) Network Security
2 69 (1.65%) Firewall
3 49 (1.17%) DNS
4 40 (0.96%) WAN
5 39 (0.94%) VPN
6 30 (0.72%) LAN
7 29 (0.70%) DHCP
8 24 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 18 (0.43%) Internet
9 18 (0.43%) SD-WAN
10 17 (0.41%) VLAN
10 17 (0.41%) Wireless
11 16 (0.38%) 5G
12 13 (0.31%) BGP
13 12 (0.29%) Kerberos
13 12 (0.29%) VoIP
14 11 (0.26%) Intranet
14 11 (0.26%) OSPF
14 11 (0.26%) SSL
14 11 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 329 (7.89%) Power BI
2 164 (3.93%) Metadata
3 96 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
4 93 (2.23%) Data Lake
5 75 (1.80%) SQL Server
6 42 (1.01%) Tableau
7 36 (0.86%) Relational Database
8 31 (0.74%) Power Query
9 29 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (0.65%) DynamoDB
11 25 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (0.60%) BigQuery
12 23 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 22 (0.53%) Oracle Database
14 21 (0.50%) Semantic Layer
15 20 (0.48%) NoSQL
16 19 (0.46%) Big Data
16 19 (0.46%) MongoDB
17 18 (0.43%) Data Vault
17 18 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 262 (6.28%) JIRA
2 93 (2.23%) Git
3 58 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 56 (1.34%) GitLab
5 29 (0.70%) Postman
6 27 (0.65%) Selenium
7 17 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.38%) Cucumber
8 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
9 14 (0.34%) Hudson
10 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (0.22%) ERwin
12 8 (0.19%) JMeter
12 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.17%) Zephyr
14 6 (0.14%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.14%) Maven
14 6 (0.14%) MLflow
14 6 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 1,948 (46.70%) Social Skills
2 1,128 (27.04%) Finance
3 853 (20.45%) Public Sector
4 694 (16.64%) Analytical Skills
5 251 (6.02%) Influencing Skills
6 232 (5.56%) Banking
7 181 (4.34%) Documentation Skills
8 176 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
9 144 (3.45%) Legal
10 133 (3.19%) Retail
11 120 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 116 (2.78%) Local Government
13 108 (2.59%) Manufacturing
14 84 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
15 83 (1.99%) Marketing
16 80 (1.92%) Telecoms
17 76 (1.82%) Military
18 70 (1.68%) Law
19 61 (1.46%) Aerospace
20 42 (1.01%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 702 (16.83%) Analyst
2 618 (14.82%) Architect
3 501 (12.01%) Lead
4 434 (10.41%) Senior
5 406 (9.73%) Business Analyst
6 302 (7.24%) Consultant
7 296 (7.10%) Project Manager
8 230 (5.51%) Developer
9 190 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
10 123 (2.95%) Data Architect
11 119 (2.85%) Data Analyst
12 112 (2.69%) Change Manager
13 105 (2.52%) Senior Analyst
14 89 (2.13%) Data Engineer
14 89 (2.13%) Senior Manager
15 88 (2.11%) Designer
16 87 (2.09%) Delivery Manager
17 83 (1.99%) Technical Architect
18 79 (1.89%) IT Manager
19 72 (1.73%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (4.39%) Terraform
2 125 (3.00%) REST
3 66 (1.58%) .NET
4 61 (1.46%) JSON
5 56 (1.34%) Kafka
6 53 (1.27%) SOAP
7 49 (1.17%) PySpark
8 47 (1.13%) XML
9 46 (1.10%) Middleware
10 45 (1.08%) Spring
11 43 (1.03%) React
12 42 (1.01%) Spring Boot
13 41 (0.98%) OAuth
13 41 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
14 36 (0.86%) RESTful
14 36 (0.86%) SAML
14 36 (0.86%) Web Services
15 33 (0.79%) OpenID
16 32 (0.77%) LDAP
17 29 (0.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 281 (6.74%) Product Ownership
2 247 (5.92%) Onboarding
3 187 (4.48%) Cloud Native
4 144 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 98 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
6 94 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 85 (2.04%) Data Structures
8 77 (1.85%) AI Agents
9 76 (1.82%) NHS
10 75 (1.80%) Operational Technology
11 71 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
12 69 (1.65%) Data Centre
13 60 (1.44%) Virtual Team
14 59 (1.41%) Security Posture
15 56 (1.34%) CMDB
16 53 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
17 49 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
18 45 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
19 31 (0.74%) PKI
20 29 (0.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 127 (3.04%) 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
8 6 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.14%) VMS
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 1,264 (30.30%) Agile
2 1,092 (26.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 947 (22.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 673 (16.14%) Decision-Making
5 656 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
6 585 (14.03%) Roadmaps
7 566 (13.57%) Migration
8 544 (13.04%) Workshop Facilitation
9 528 (12.66%) DevOps
10 527 (12.63%) AI
11 485 (11.63%) Change Management
12 474 (11.36%) Analytics
13 445 (10.67%) CI/CD
14 420 (10.07%) Risk Management
15 397 (9.52%) Project Delivery
16 380 (9.11%) Business Intelligence
16 380 (9.11%) Cybersecurity
17 368 (8.82%) Data Governance
18 354 (8.49%) Data Modelling
19 338 (8.10%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 399 (9.57%) SQL
2 300 (7.19%) Python
3 129 (3.09%) Java
4 103 (2.47%) JavaScript
5 91 (2.18%) PowerShell
6 87 (2.09%) C#
7 52 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 50 (1.20%) Bash
9 45 (1.08%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.65%) Bicep
11 21 (0.50%) Scala
12 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.29%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.24%) Korn
16 9 (0.22%) Groovy
17 8 (0.19%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.19%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.17%) VBA
19 4 (0.096%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,187 (28.46%) Security Cleared
2 918 (22.01%) SC Cleared
3 259 (6.21%) Degree
4 200 (4.80%) DV Cleared
5 161 (3.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 114 (2.73%) PMI Certification
7 111 (2.66%) CISSP
8 107 (2.57%) PMP
9 70 (1.68%) CISM
10 68 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
11 67 (1.61%) Azure Certification
12 59 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (1.05%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 36 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
16 34 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 31 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
18 28 (0.67%) Master's Degree
19 26 (0.62%) ISTQB
20 25 (0.60%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 359 (8.61%) Data Quality
2 193 (4.63%) PMO
3 179 (4.29%) QA
4 176 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 167 (4.00%) GDPR
5 167 (4.00%) NIST
6 126 (3.02%) Accessibility
7 102 (2.45%) GRC
8 80 (1.92%) NCSC
9 40 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
10 39 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
11 36 (0.86%) WCAG
12 34 (0.82%) SLA
13 19 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 16 (0.38%) PCI DSS
15 15 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.34%) NIST 800
17 13 (0.31%) JSP 440
18 12 (0.29%) ITGC
19 11 (0.26%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 130 (3.12%) Active Directory
2 98 (2.35%) Docker
3 51 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.46%) 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
1 158 (3.79%) Kubernetes
2 51 (1.22%) Ansible
3 42 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (0.77%) Grafana
5 31 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 28 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.38%) 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%) Kibana
13 3 (0.072%) McAfee ePO
13 3 (0.072%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.072%) Puppet
Vendors
1 824 (19.76%) Microsoft
2 252 (6.04%) SAP
3 227 (5.44%) ServiceNow
4 191 (4.58%) Oracle
5 160 (3.84%) Databricks
6 103 (2.47%) Salesforce
7 94 (2.25%) Google
8 70 (1.68%) VMware
9 64 (1.53%) Cisco
10 53 (1.27%) Splunk
10 53 (1.27%) Workday
11 41 (0.98%) IBM
12 33 (0.79%) CyberArk
13 28 (0.67%) Ariba
14 27 (0.65%) MuleSoft
15 24 (0.58%) Dynatrace
15 24 (0.58%) Palo Alto
16 23 (0.55%) Informatica
17 21 (0.50%) Okta
18 20 (0.48%) Adobe