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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 29 135
Rank change year-on-year +4 +106 +25
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,184 2,063 695
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.69% 6.26% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.10% 6.92% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,840 1,381 440
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £640 £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 34 11
10th Percentile £26.10 £25.47 £26.25
25th Percentile £41.00 £29.12 £38.25
Median hourly rate £66.56 £44.91 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +48.22% -22.97% +3.20%
75th Percentile £83.75 £64.79 £65.73
90th Percentile £91.50 £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 45,960 29,830 33,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.47% 90.53% 85.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,897 18,534 20,247
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 £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 3,123 1,812 1,459
10th Percentile £13.84 £14.23 £14.96
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.76 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.56 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +84.69% -47.67% +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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +3 3,519 £548 -0.45% 2,757
UK excluding London +9 1,932 £525 - 1,734
London +3 1,747 £550 - 1,286
Work from Home +10 1,430 £525 - 1,347
South East +11 498 £563 +4.94% 498
North of England +6 497 £500 -2.34% 420
Midlands +6 340 £500 -6.93% 257
West Midlands +7 267 £500 -4.76% 175
South West 0 233 £550 - 207
North West +2 229 £525 +1.20% 248
Scotland +25 223 £500 +11.11% 149
Yorkshire -2 198 £500 -1.19% 117
East of England +11 113 £525 -13.08% 114
North East +8 78 £450 - 57
East Midlands +12 70 £525 -6.67% 82
Wales +17 56 £525 +27.27% 33
Northern Ireland -1 6 £413 -21.43% 70
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
1 168 (4.02%) SharePoint
2 166 (3.97%) Confluence
3 37 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (0.86%) Apache
5 34 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 34 (0.81%) CMS
6 26 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 26 (0.62%) SAS
7 8 (0.19%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.14%) WordPress
9 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.096%) OpenEdge
10 4 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.072%) Drupal
11 3 (0.072%) IIS
11 3 (0.072%) Kentico
11 3 (0.072%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.048%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.048%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 189 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 87 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (1.36%) MS Visio
5 56 (1.34%) 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
1 129 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 62 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.53%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 14 (0.33%) 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 General Ledger
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.26%) Primavera
9 11 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 10 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
11 9 (0.22%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.22%) SAP SD
12 8 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 787 (18.81%) Azure
2 548 (13.10%) AWS
3 429 (10.25%) Power Platform
4 211 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
5 200 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
6 180 (4.30%) GCP
7 138 (3.30%) Entra ID
8 137 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
9 100 (2.39%) SaaS
10 98 (2.34%) Power Automate
11 89 (2.13%) GitHub
12 75 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
13 74 (1.77%) Snowflake
14 72 (1.72%) Serverless
15 71 (1.70%) PowerApps
16 70 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
17 64 (1.53%) Amazon S3
18 59 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
19 54 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
20 46 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 71 (1.70%) Network Security
2 68 (1.63%) Firewall
3 49 (1.17%) DNS
4 39 (0.93%) WAN
5 37 (0.88%) VPN
6 30 (0.72%) LAN
7 28 (0.67%) DHCP
8 24 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 19 (0.45%) Internet
10 18 (0.43%) VLAN
10 18 (0.43%) Wireless
11 17 (0.41%) 5G
11 17 (0.41%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.31%) BGP
13 12 (0.29%) OSPF
13 12 (0.29%) VoIP
13 12 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (0.26%) Intranet
14 11 (0.26%) Kerberos
14 11 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 333 (7.96%) Power BI
2 157 (3.75%) Metadata
3 94 (2.25%) Data Lake
3 94 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
4 73 (1.74%) SQL Server
5 41 (0.98%) Tableau
6 36 (0.86%) Relational Database
7 31 (0.74%) Power Query
8 29 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (0.65%) DynamoDB
10 25 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
11 24 (0.57%) 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 (0.45%) Big Data
16 19 (0.45%) MongoDB
17 18 (0.43%) Data Vault
17 18 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 264 (6.31%) JIRA
2 94 (2.25%) Git
3 59 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 56 (1.34%) GitLab
5 28 (0.67%) Postman
6 26 (0.62%) Selenium
7 16 (0.38%) Cypress.io
8 15 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.36%) WebDriver
9 14 (0.33%) 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%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.14%) Maven
14 6 (0.14%) MLflow
14 6 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 1,948 (46.56%) Social Skills
2 1,140 (27.25%) Finance
3 852 (20.36%) Public Sector
4 694 (16.59%) Analytical Skills
5 251 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
6 231 (5.52%) Banking
7 183 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
8 175 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
9 147 (3.51%) Legal
10 134 (3.20%) Retail
11 119 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 117 (2.80%) Local Government
13 104 (2.49%) Manufacturing
14 84 (2.01%) Marketing
15 81 (1.94%) Telecoms
16 80 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
17 77 (1.84%) Law
17 77 (1.84%) Military
18 59 (1.41%) Aerospace
19 42 (1.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 702 (16.78%) Analyst
2 619 (14.79%) Architect
3 514 (12.28%) Lead
4 434 (10.37%) Senior
5 408 (9.75%) Business Analyst
6 305 (7.29%) Consultant
7 295 (7.05%) Project Manager
8 229 (5.47%) Developer
9 186 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
10 123 (2.94%) Data Architect
11 118 (2.82%) Data Analyst
12 111 (2.65%) Change Manager
13 103 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
14 91 (2.17%) Senior Manager
15 88 (2.10%) Data Engineer
15 88 (2.10%) Designer
16 86 (2.06%) Delivery Manager
17 83 (1.98%) Technical Architect
18 77 (1.84%) IT Manager
19 73 (1.74%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (4.40%) Terraform
2 124 (2.96%) 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 (1.12%) XML
9 46 (1.10%) Middleware
10 45 (1.08%) Spring
11 43 (1.03%) React
12 42 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
12 42 (1.00%) Spring Boot
13 40 (0.96%) OAuth
14 36 (0.86%) RESTful
14 36 (0.86%) Web Services
15 35 (0.84%) SAML
16 33 (0.79%) OpenID
17 31 (0.74%) LDAP
18 29 (0.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 281 (6.72%) Product Ownership
2 250 (5.98%) Onboarding
3 189 (4.52%) Cloud Native
4 145 (3.47%) Management Information System
5 95 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 94 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 84 (2.01%) Data Structures
8 77 (1.84%) AI Agents
9 76 (1.82%) NHS
10 72 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
11 71 (1.70%) Operational Technology
12 67 (1.60%) Data Centre
13 61 (1.46%) Virtual Team
14 57 (1.36%) Security Posture
15 56 (1.34%) CMDB
16 54 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
17 47 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
18 44 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
19 31 (0.74%) PKI
20 26 (0.62%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 127 (3.04%) Windows
2 77 (1.84%) Linux
3 34 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.38%) Unix
5 14 (0.33%) 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 1,263 (30.19%) Agile
2 1,085 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 956 (22.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 679 (16.23%) Decision-Making
5 654 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
6 579 (13.84%) Roadmaps
7 571 (13.65%) Migration
8 542 (12.95%) Workshop Facilitation
9 531 (12.69%) DevOps
10 523 (12.50%) AI
11 483 (11.54%) Change Management
12 474 (11.33%) Analytics
13 447 (10.68%) CI/CD
14 424 (10.13%) Risk Management
15 407 (9.73%) Project Delivery
16 392 (9.37%) Cybersecurity
17 384 (9.18%) Business Intelligence
18 364 (8.70%) Data Governance
19 351 (8.39%) Data Modelling
20 338 (8.08%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 394 (9.42%) SQL
2 297 (7.10%) Python
3 129 (3.08%) Java
4 102 (2.44%) JavaScript
5 91 (2.17%) 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 (0.33%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.29%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.24%) 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%) R
Qualifications
1 1,186 (28.35%) Security Cleared
2 916 (21.89%) SC Cleared
3 256 (6.12%) Degree
4 200 (4.78%) DV Cleared
5 159 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 117 (2.80%) PMI Certification
7 113 (2.70%) CISSP
8 110 (2.63%) PMP
9 73 (1.74%) CISM
10 68 (1.63%) Azure Certification
10 68 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
11 58 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 45 (1.08%) AWS Certification
13 37 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 36 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
15 33 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 32 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
17 28 (0.67%) Master's Degree
18 26 (0.62%) ISTQB
19 25 (0.60%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 353 (8.44%) Data Quality
2 197 (4.71%) PMO
3 181 (4.33%) QA
4 177 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 172 (4.11%) NIST
6 170 (4.06%) GDPR
7 125 (2.99%) Accessibility
8 104 (2.49%) GRC
9 82 (1.96%) NCSC
10 39 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
10 39 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
11 35 (0.84%) WCAG
12 34 (0.81%) SLA
13 19 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 16 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
16 13 (0.31%) JSP 440
17 12 (0.29%) ITGC
18 11 (0.26%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 128 (3.06%) Active Directory
2 100 (2.39%) 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 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.17%) Ansible
3 41 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (0.79%) Grafana
5 31 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (0.69%) 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%) Kibana
13 3 (0.072%) McAfee ePO
13 3 (0.072%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.072%) Puppet
Vendors
1 819 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 255 (6.09%) SAP
3 230 (5.50%) ServiceNow
4 192 (4.59%) Oracle
5 159 (3.80%) Databricks
6 104 (2.49%) Salesforce
7 92 (2.20%) Google
8 68 (1.63%) VMware
9 63 (1.51%) Cisco
10 53 (1.27%) Splunk
10 53 (1.27%) Workday
11 41 (0.98%) IBM
12 34 (0.81%) CyberArk
13 28 (0.67%) Ariba
14 27 (0.65%) MuleSoft
15 24 (0.57%) Dynatrace
15 24 (0.57%) Informatica
16 23 (0.55%) Palo Alto
17 21 (0.50%) Okta
18 20 (0.48%) Adobe