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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 138
Rank change year-on-year +2 +111 +30
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,324 2,307 691
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.82% 6.93% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.22% 7.66% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,938 1,558 423
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 43 11
10th Percentile £24.43 £18.25 £22.00
25th Percentile £40.75 £26.23 £26.25
Median hourly rate £64.09 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.18% - -11.49%
75th Percentile £80.00 £67.57 £60.28
90th Percentile £87.96 £79.50 £61.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.02 £59.50 £58.05
% change year-on-year +12.63% +2.51% +2.75%

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 46,911 30,121 32,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 90.54% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,189 18,721 19,488
10th Percentile £325 £296 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,476 1,911 1,239
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.75 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.24 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.07% -37.13% -10.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.79 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £66.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.24 £22.27 £40.00
% change year-on-year +67.26% -44.34% -8.88%

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 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 16 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 16 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 3,613 £550 +2.42% 601
UK excluding London +2 1,973 £525 +0.96% 447
London 0 1,822 £560 +1.82% 235
Work from Home +4 1,451 £525 - 345
North of England +6 514 £500 -2.44% 117
South East +8 504 £550 +2.61% 136
Midlands +6 335 £500 -2.91% 79
West Midlands +5 271 £500 -4.76% 63
South West -4 240 £550 +5.16% 73
North West +4 238 £500 -2.44% 69
Scotland +21 230 £500 +11.11% 17
Yorkshire -5 205 £500 -4.76% 32
East of England +5 109 £505 -15.79% 18
North East +10 78 £463 - 16
East Midlands +2 63 £525 +17.98% 16
Wales +20 62 £525 +13.51% 10
Northern Ireland +1 9 £463 -13.95% 6
Channel Islands -3 4 £588 +27.03%

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
1 181 (4.19%) SharePoint
2 172 (3.98%) Confluence
3 38 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 35 (0.81%) Apache
4 35 (0.81%) CMS
5 31 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 29 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 21 (0.49%) SAS
8 10 (0.23%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.14%) WordPress
10 4 (0.093%) IIS
10 4 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.093%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.069%) Kentico
12 2 (0.046%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.046%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.046%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.046%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.046%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 200 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 88 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
4 56 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 55 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.21%) AutoCAD
7 9 (0.21%) Navisworks
7 9 (0.21%) Revit
8 8 (0.19%) ProjectWise
9 7 (0.16%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.16%) Trello
10 4 (0.093%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.093%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.069%) Sketch
12 2 (0.046%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.046%) InDesign
13 1 (0.023%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.023%) InfoPath
13 1 (0.023%) Notion
Business Applications
1 130 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 61 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.56%) Workday HCM
4 20 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 14 (0.32%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.30%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 13 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 12 (0.28%) Maximo
9 11 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
9 11 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.25%) Primavera
10 10 (0.23%) iTrent
10 10 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
10 10 (0.23%) SAP QM
11 9 (0.21%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 799 (18.48%) Azure
2 545 (12.60%) AWS
3 452 (10.45%) Power Platform
4 227 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
5 219 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
6 182 (4.21%) GCP
7 140 (3.24%) Entra ID
8 121 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
9 104 (2.41%) Power Automate
10 103 (2.38%) SaaS
11 96 (2.22%) GitHub
12 83 (1.92%) Snowflake
13 81 (1.87%) Microsoft Copilot
14 77 (1.78%) Microsoft Purview
14 77 (1.78%) PowerApps
15 76 (1.76%) Serverless
16 64 (1.48%) Amazon S3
17 59 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
18 55 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
19 49 (1.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 70 (1.62%) Network Security
2 65 (1.50%) Firewall
3 47 (1.09%) DNS
4 38 (0.88%) WAN
5 36 (0.83%) VPN
6 28 (0.65%) LAN
7 27 (0.62%) DHCP
8 22 (0.51%) TCP/IP
9 20 (0.46%) Internet
10 16 (0.37%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.37%) VLAN
11 15 (0.35%) BGP
11 15 (0.35%) Wireless
12 14 (0.32%) 5G
13 13 (0.30%) OSPF
14 12 (0.28%) VoIP
15 11 (0.25%) Kerberos
16 10 (0.23%) HTTP
16 10 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
16 10 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 342 (7.91%) Power BI
2 170 (3.93%) Metadata
3 105 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
4 98 (2.27%) Data Lake
5 77 (1.78%) SQL Server
6 53 (1.23%) Tableau
7 37 (0.86%) Power Query
8 35 (0.81%) Relational Database
9 31 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
10 29 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
11 27 (0.62%) DynamoDB
11 27 (0.62%) Star Schema
12 25 (0.58%) Semantic Layer
13 24 (0.56%) BigQuery
14 22 (0.51%) Big Data
15 21 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
16 19 (0.44%) MongoDB
16 19 (0.44%) NoSQL
16 19 (0.44%) Oracle Database
17 18 (0.42%) Looker
Development Applications
1 263 (6.08%) JIRA
2 90 (2.08%) Git
3 64 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 55 (1.27%) GitLab
5 31 (0.72%) Selenium
6 25 (0.58%) Postman
7 19 (0.44%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.39%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.37%) WebDriver
10 10 (0.23%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.21%) ERwin
11 9 (0.21%) JUnit
12 8 (0.19%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.19%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.16%) Hudson
13 7 (0.16%) JMeter
13 7 (0.16%) Maven
13 7 (0.16%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2,032 (46.99%) Social Skills
2 1,144 (26.46%) Finance
3 943 (21.81%) Public Sector
4 729 (16.86%) Analytical Skills
5 278 (6.43%) Influencing Skills
6 241 (5.57%) Banking
7 202 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
8 188 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
9 155 (3.58%) Legal
10 129 (2.98%) Manufacturing
11 125 (2.89%) Retail
12 122 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 114 (2.64%) Local Government
14 95 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
15 85 (1.97%) Military
16 82 (1.90%) Marketing
17 78 (1.80%) Telecoms
18 72 (1.67%) Aerospace
19 61 (1.41%) Law
20 46 (1.06%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 724 (16.74%) Analyst
2 620 (14.34%) Architect
3 519 (12.00%) Lead
4 452 (10.45%) Senior
5 428 (9.90%) Business Analyst
6 303 (7.01%) Consultant
7 291 (6.73%) Project Manager
8 241 (5.57%) Developer
9 188 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
10 128 (2.96%) Change Manager
11 127 (2.94%) Data Architect
12 119 (2.75%) Data Analyst
13 107 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
14 90 (2.08%) Designer
15 88 (2.04%) Technical Architect
16 86 (1.99%) Data Engineer
17 83 (1.92%) Delivery Manager
18 81 (1.87%) Senior Manager
19 77 (1.78%) IT Manager
20 71 (1.64%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (4.14%) Terraform
2 132 (3.05%) REST
3 69 (1.60%) .NET
4 59 (1.36%) JSON
5 58 (1.34%) Kafka
6 52 (1.20%) SOAP
7 49 (1.13%) Spring
8 48 (1.11%) Middleware
9 46 (1.06%) PySpark
10 45 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
10 45 (1.04%) XML
11 44 (1.02%) Spring Boot
12 41 (0.95%) React
13 37 (0.86%) Web Services
14 35 (0.81%) RESTful
15 34 (0.79%) OAuth
16 30 (0.69%) LDAP
17 28 (0.65%) OpenID
18 27 (0.62%) Node.js
18 27 (0.62%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 297 (6.87%) Product Ownership
2 258 (5.97%) Onboarding
3 200 (4.63%) Cloud Native
4 155 (3.58%) Management Information System
5 108 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 104 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
7 94 (2.17%) AI Agents
8 89 (2.06%) Data Structures
9 82 (1.90%) NHS
10 75 (1.73%) Operational Technology
11 73 (1.69%) Data Centre
12 67 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
13 62 (1.43%) Security Posture
14 61 (1.41%) Virtual Team
15 57 (1.32%) CMDB
16 54 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
17 49 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
18 40 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
19 33 (0.76%) Life Science
19 33 (0.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 131 (3.03%) Windows
2 86 (1.99%) Linux
3 38 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.37%) Unix
5 15 (0.35%) 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%) macOS
8 5 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.093%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.069%) AIX
10 3 (0.069%) Solaris
11 2 (0.046%) HPUX
12 1 (0.023%) CentOS
12 1 (0.023%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.023%) SUSE
12 1 (0.023%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,301 (30.09%) Agile
2 1,231 (28.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 964 (22.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 723 (16.72%) Decision-Making
5 695 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
6 642 (14.85%) Roadmaps
7 619 (14.32%) Workshop Facilitation
8 588 (13.60%) AI
9 569 (13.16%) Migration
10 538 (12.44%) DevOps
11 505 (11.68%) Change Management
12 499 (11.54%) Analytics
13 437 (10.11%) CI/CD
14 435 (10.06%) Risk Management
15 433 (10.01%) Project Delivery
16 404 (9.34%) Business Intelligence
17 394 (9.11%) Data Governance
18 384 (8.88%) Data Modelling
18 384 (8.88%) Requirements Gathering
19 382 (8.83%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 423 (9.78%) SQL
2 321 (7.42%) Python
3 130 (3.01%) Java
4 103 (2.38%) PowerShell
5 101 (2.34%) JavaScript
6 87 (2.01%) C#
7 61 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 55 (1.27%) Bash
9 41 (0.95%) TypeScript
10 28 (0.65%) Bicep
11 21 (0.49%) Scala
12 16 (0.37%) T-SQL
13 13 (0.30%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.23%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.23%) Groovy
14 10 (0.23%) Korn
15 9 (0.21%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.16%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.14%) VBA
18 4 (0.093%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,248 (28.86%) Security Cleared
2 982 (22.71%) SC Cleared
3 255 (5.90%) Degree
4 203 (4.69%) DV Cleared
5 188 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 116 (2.68%) PMI Certification
7 109 (2.52%) PMP
8 108 (2.50%) CISSP
9 68 (1.57%) CISM
10 64 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
11 63 (1.46%) Azure Certification
12 61 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
13 46 (1.06%) AWS Certification
14 33 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
15 32 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 30 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 30 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
17 29 (0.67%) APMG
18 26 (0.60%) ISTQB
19 24 (0.56%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 392 (9.07%) Data Quality
2 195 (4.51%) PMO
3 187 (4.32%) QA
4 161 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 158 (3.65%) GDPR
6 155 (3.58%) NIST
7 143 (3.31%) Accessibility
8 97 (2.24%) GRC
9 85 (1.97%) NCSC
10 59 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 40 (0.93%) WCAG
12 39 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
13 34 (0.79%) SLA
14 19 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 16 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 15 (0.35%) NIST 800
17 14 (0.32%) JSP 440
18 12 (0.28%) GxP
18 12 (0.28%) PCI DSS
19 11 (0.25%) ITGC
System Software
1 129 (2.98%) Active Directory
2 110 (2.54%) Docker
3 54 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.37%) VMware NSX
6 14 (0.32%) vSphere
7 12 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.093%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.069%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.023%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.023%) Firmware
11 1 (0.023%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.023%) IAG
11 1 (0.023%) KVM
11 1 (0.023%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 173 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 55 (1.27%) Ansible
3 41 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (0.72%) Grafana
5 29 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (0.25%) SCCM
9 10 (0.23%) NetBackup
10 6 (0.14%) VxRail
11 5 (0.12%) QRadar
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
12 4 (0.093%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.093%) Istio
13 3 (0.069%) Argo
13 3 (0.069%) Functional Safety
13 3 (0.069%) Kibana
13 3 (0.069%) McAfee ePO
13 3 (0.069%) Nessus
13 3 (0.069%) Puppet
Vendors
1 870 (20.12%) Microsoft
2 258 (5.97%) SAP
3 204 (4.72%) ServiceNow
4 192 (4.44%) Oracle
5 161 (3.72%) Databricks
6 105 (2.43%) Google
7 103 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 72 (1.67%) VMware
9 63 (1.46%) Cisco
10 52 (1.20%) Workday
11 51 (1.18%) Splunk
12 46 (1.06%) IBM
13 36 (0.83%) Ariba
14 35 (0.81%) CyberArk
15 28 (0.65%) MuleSoft
16 27 (0.62%) Okta
17 26 (0.60%) OpenAI
18 22 (0.51%) Dynatrace
19 21 (0.49%) Informatica
19 21 (0.49%) Palo Alto