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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 30 138
Rank change year-on-year +5 +108 +28
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,192 1,992 676
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.69% 6.04% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% 6.68% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,832 1,333 445
10th Percentile £363 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £427 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £528 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% -1.77% -2.27%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £506
% change year-on-year - +3.81% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 33 13
10th Percentile £23.56 £25.36 £26.30
25th Percentile £46.50 £30.11 £50.00
Median hourly rate £67.49 £47.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +43.59% -19.38% +3.20%
75th Percentile £85.00 £63.75 £70.39
90th Percentile £95.00 £73.30 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.05 £32.74 £59.45
% change year-on-year +107.89% -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 46,112 29,840 32,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.46% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,098 18,520 20,299
10th Percentile £325 £300 £312
25th Percentile £425 £403 £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 £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,038 1,780 1,507
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.23 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.38 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +76.89% -47.37% +8.65%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 3,543 £547 +0.18% 1,450
UK excluding London +7 1,949 £525 - 949
London +3 1,751 £550 - 679
Work from Home +10 1,423 £525 - 743
South East +12 506 £568 +3.23% 306
North of England +7 499 £500 -2.21% 206
Midlands +7 338 £500 -4.76% 164
West Midlands +5 261 £500 -2.91% 112
North West +2 238 £506 -3.69% 111
South West +3 231 £550 - 149
Scotland +22 220 £500 +13.64% 51
Yorkshire 0 196 £500 +2.56% 60
East of England +20 123 £533 -11.84% 51
East Midlands +16 73 £525 -8.70% 52
North East +8 73 £453 +0.56% 35
Wales +15 54 £525 +20.00% 14
Northern Ireland +3 8 £319 -38.55% 19
Channel Islands -1 4 £588 +27.03% 2

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 (3.98%) Confluence
2 164 (3.91%) SharePoint
3 37 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (0.86%) Apache
4 36 (0.86%) CMS
5 35 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 27 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 27 (0.64%) SAS
7 8 (0.19%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.14%) WordPress
9 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.095%) OpenEdge
10 4 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.072%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.072%) ArcGIS
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%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 188 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 86 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (1.41%) MS Visio
5 56 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.41%) 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%) Sketch
9 2 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.048%) InDesign
9 2 (0.048%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 133 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.57%) Workday HCM
4 20 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.33%) SAP FI
6 13 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 13 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.29%) Maximo
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.26%) Primavera
8 11 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 10 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 9 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
10 9 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
10 9 (0.21%) SAP CO
10 9 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 803 (19.16%) Azure
2 553 (13.19%) AWS
3 441 (10.52%) Power Platform
4 204 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
4 204 (4.87%) Microsoft 365
5 184 (4.39%) GCP
6 153 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
7 138 (3.29%) Entra ID
8 95 (2.27%) SaaS
9 93 (2.22%) Power Automate
10 92 (2.19%) GitHub
11 72 (1.72%) Serverless
11 72 (1.72%) Snowflake
12 70 (1.67%) PowerApps
13 68 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
13 68 (1.62%) Microsoft Purview
14 61 (1.46%) Amazon S3
15 59 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
16 58 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
17 48 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.62%) Network Security
2 67 (1.60%) Firewall
3 50 (1.19%) DNS
4 39 (0.93%) WAN
5 36 (0.86%) VPN
6 31 (0.74%) LAN
7 26 (0.62%) DHCP
8 23 (0.55%) TCP/IP
9 18 (0.43%) SD-WAN
9 18 (0.43%) Wireless
10 17 (0.41%) 5G
10 17 (0.41%) Internet
11 16 (0.38%) VLAN
12 14 (0.33%) BGP
13 13 (0.31%) Intranet
13 13 (0.31%) OSPF
13 13 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (0.29%) VoIP
15 11 (0.26%) Kerberos
15 11 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 349 (8.33%) Power BI
2 155 (3.70%) Metadata
3 96 (2.29%) Data Lake
3 96 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
4 73 (1.74%) SQL Server
5 44 (1.05%) Tableau
6 36 (0.86%) Relational Database
7 33 (0.79%) Power Query
8 32 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (0.57%) DynamoDB
10 23 (0.55%) Oracle Database
11 22 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (0.50%) NoSQL
13 20 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
14 19 (0.45%) Big Data
14 19 (0.45%) BigQuery
15 18 (0.43%) Data Vault
16 16 (0.38%) Delta Lake
16 16 (0.38%) Looker
Development Applications
1 266 (6.35%) JIRA
2 96 (2.29%) Git
3 63 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 59 (1.41%) GitLab
5 30 (0.72%) Selenium
6 29 (0.69%) Postman
7 17 (0.41%) WebDriver
8 16 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 15 (0.36%) Cypress.io
9 15 (0.36%) Hudson
10 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
11 11 (0.26%) ERwin
11 11 (0.26%) JMeter
12 10 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
13 9 (0.21%) JUnit
14 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
14 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.19%) Zephyr
15 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
16 6 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,933 (46.11%) Social Skills
2 1,162 (27.72%) Finance
3 820 (19.56%) Public Sector
4 690 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
5 239 (5.70%) Influencing Skills
6 232 (5.53%) Banking
7 178 (4.25%) Documentation Skills
8 170 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
9 146 (3.48%) Legal
10 139 (3.32%) Retail
11 116 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 110 (2.62%) Local Government
13 101 (2.41%) Manufacturing
14 90 (2.15%) Law
15 87 (2.08%) Telecoms
16 85 (2.03%) Marketing
17 76 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
18 73 (1.74%) Military
19 62 (1.48%) Aerospace
20 40 (0.95%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 709 (16.91%) Analyst
2 643 (15.34%) Architect
3 521 (12.43%) Lead
4 429 (10.23%) Senior
5 408 (9.73%) Business Analyst
6 302 (7.20%) Consultant
7 299 (7.13%) Project Manager
8 219 (5.22%) Developer
9 189 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
10 124 (2.96%) Data Architect
11 121 (2.89%) Data Analyst
12 111 (2.65%) Change Manager
13 100 (2.39%) Senior Analyst
14 92 (2.19%) Senior Manager
15 89 (2.12%) Data Engineer
16 88 (2.10%) Delivery Manager
17 85 (2.03%) Technical Architect
18 81 (1.93%) Designer
19 79 (1.88%) IT Manager
20 76 (1.81%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (4.34%) Terraform
2 118 (2.81%) REST
3 67 (1.60%) .NET
4 60 (1.43%) JSON
5 55 (1.31%) Kafka
6 51 (1.22%) PySpark
7 50 (1.19%) SOAP
8 49 (1.17%) Middleware
9 46 (1.10%) React
9 46 (1.10%) Spring
9 46 (1.10%) XML
10 41 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
11 40 (0.95%) Spring Boot
12 38 (0.91%) OAuth
13 35 (0.83%) SAML
14 34 (0.81%) Web Services
15 33 (0.79%) RESTful
16 32 (0.76%) OpenID
17 30 (0.72%) LDAP
18 28 (0.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 290 (6.92%) Product Ownership
2 242 (5.77%) Onboarding
3 188 (4.48%) Cloud Native
4 146 (3.48%) Management Information System
5 96 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 94 (2.24%) Data Structures
7 91 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
8 74 (1.77%) AI Agents
8 74 (1.77%) NHS
9 70 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
10 69 (1.65%) Data Centre
11 68 (1.62%) Operational Technology
12 62 (1.48%) Virtual Team
13 56 (1.34%) CMDB
14 53 (1.26%) Security Posture
15 52 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
16 47 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
17 46 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
18 31 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
19 30 (0.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.08%) Windows
2 79 (1.88%) Linux
3 35 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.38%) Unix
5 14 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.19%) Android
8 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.17%) VMS
9 5 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.12%) 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
12 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,257 (29.99%) Agile
2 1,048 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 957 (22.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 663 (15.82%) Decision-Making
5 642 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
6 594 (14.17%) Migration
7 574 (13.69%) Roadmaps
8 539 (12.86%) Workshop Facilitation
9 531 (12.67%) DevOps
10 517 (12.33%) AI
11 491 (11.71%) Change Management
12 476 (11.35%) Analytics
13 452 (10.78%) CI/CD
14 418 (9.97%) Risk Management
15 412 (9.83%) Project Delivery
16 401 (9.57%) Business Intelligence
17 371 (8.85%) Cybersecurity
18 356 (8.49%) Data Governance
19 355 (8.47%) Data Modelling
20 332 (7.92%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 392 (9.35%) SQL
2 307 (7.32%) Python
3 127 (3.03%) Java
4 98 (2.34%) JavaScript
5 86 (2.05%) PowerShell
6 85 (2.03%) C#
7 52 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 50 (1.19%) Bash
9 44 (1.05%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.64%) Bicep
11 21 (0.50%) Scala
12 15 (0.36%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 12 (0.29%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.24%) Korn
15 9 (0.21%) Groovy
15 9 (0.21%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.21%) VBA
16 8 (0.19%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.12%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,173 (27.98%) Security Cleared
2 896 (21.37%) SC Cleared
3 254 (6.06%) Degree
4 200 (4.77%) DV Cleared
5 159 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 121 (2.89%) PMI Certification
7 114 (2.72%) PMP
8 112 (2.67%) CISSP
9 72 (1.72%) CISM
10 71 (1.69%) Azure Certification
11 69 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
12 56 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
13 47 (1.12%) AWS Certification
14 38 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 34 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
15 34 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
16 32 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 28 (0.67%) Master's Degree
18 26 (0.62%) APMG
18 26 (0.62%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 341 (8.13%) Data Quality
2 207 (4.94%) PMO
3 187 (4.46%) QA
4 176 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 175 (4.17%) GDPR
6 164 (3.91%) NIST
7 121 (2.89%) Accessibility
8 94 (2.24%) GRC
9 71 (1.69%) NCSC
10 35 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
10 35 (0.83%) WCAG
11 33 (0.79%) SLA
12 32 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 17 (0.41%) PCI DSS
13 17 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.31%) ITGC
15 13 (0.31%) JSP 440
16 12 (0.29%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 126 (3.01%) Active Directory
2 100 (2.39%) Docker
3 52 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.45%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.38%) vSphere
6 15 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.048%) Firmware
9 2 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.024%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.024%) IAG
10 1 (0.024%) KVM
10 1 (0.024%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 159 (3.79%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.17%) Ansible
3 39 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.81%) 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 9 (0.21%) NetBackup
10 6 (0.14%) VxRail
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
12 4 (0.095%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.095%) Istio
12 4 (0.095%) QRadar
12 4 (0.095%) vRealize
13 3 (0.072%) Argo
13 3 (0.072%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.072%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.072%) Puppet
14 2 (0.048%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 813 (19.39%) Microsoft
2 270 (6.44%) SAP
3 232 (5.53%) ServiceNow
4 192 (4.58%) Oracle
5 164 (3.91%) Databricks
6 110 (2.62%) Salesforce
7 89 (2.12%) Google
8 69 (1.65%) VMware
9 61 (1.46%) Cisco
10 52 (1.24%) Workday
11 49 (1.17%) Splunk
12 45 (1.07%) IBM
13 33 (0.79%) CyberArk
14 28 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 27 (0.64%) Ariba
16 26 (0.62%) Informatica
17 23 (0.55%) Dynatrace
17 23 (0.55%) Palo Alto
18 21 (0.50%) Adobe
18 21 (0.50%) Okta