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

 6 months to
23 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 51 150
Rank change year-on-year +25 +99 +12
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,580 1,295 695
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.05% 4.32% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.30% 4.75% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,421 859 475
10th Percentile £367 £358 £363
25th Percentile £447 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £512 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.38% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 24 38
10th Percentile £25.04 £23.65 £18.35
25th Percentile £48.50 £29.80 £27.81
Median hourly rate £65.80 £49.50 £36.23
Median % change year-on-year +32.91% +36.63% -29.08%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.88 £59.05
90th Percentile - £78.57 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.70 £59.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +14.74% +4.44% +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 43,108 27,270 37,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.89% 91.01% 84.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,889 17,271 23,587
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -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 2,584 1,289 2,614
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.70
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £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 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +27 3,031 £537 +2.29% 995
UK excluding London +28 1,697 £512 +2.38% 764
London +26 1,439 £550 - 411
Work from Home +30 1,166 £525 +5.00% 553
North of England +27 452 £500 +2.56% 189
South East +20 399 £545 +10.38% 249
Midlands +16 319 £500 - 120
North West +28 232 £500 - 114
West Midlands +9 225 £500 -0.05% 63
South West +16 194 £525 -4.55% 89
Yorkshire +8 179 £514 +8.21% 55
Scotland +30 165 £475 -5.05% 29
East of England +38 126 £565 +13.00% 40
East Midlands +23 89 £525 +16.67% 56
North East +4 47 £453 +0.56% 23
Wales +14 46 £500 +53.85% 25
Northern Ireland +13 17 £447 -23.10% 34
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
1 184 (5.14%) Confluence
2 100 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 31 (0.87%) SAS
4 30 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
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 (0.084%) Appian
11 3 (0.084%) Drupal
11 3 (0.084%) 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
1 162 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 64 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
4 62 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
5 60 (1.68%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.11%) Sketch
9 2 (0.056%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.056%) InVision
9 2 (0.056%) Trello
10 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.028%) CATIA
10 1 (0.028%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.028%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.028%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 138 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.42%) Teamcenter
3 15 (0.42%) Workday HCM
4 13 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 12 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.28%) Maximo
6 10 (0.28%) Primavera
6 10 (0.28%) SAP QM
7 9 (0.25%) SAP FI
8 8 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.22%) SAP ERP
9 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.17%) Finacle
10 6 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) Sage X3
10 6 (0.17%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 681 (19.02%) Azure
2 474 (13.24%) AWS
3 344 (9.61%) Power Platform
4 157 (4.39%) GCP
5 141 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
6 138 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 106 (2.96%) Entra ID
8 98 (2.74%) SaaS
9 96 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
10 68 (1.90%) GitHub
11 54 (1.51%) Microsoft Copilot
11 54 (1.51%) Serverless
12 46 (1.28%) PaaS
13 44 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
14 43 (1.20%) Amazon S3
14 43 (1.20%) Power Automate
15 42 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
16 38 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
16 38 (1.06%) PowerApps
17 35 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.76%) Network Security
2 59 (1.65%) Firewall
3 38 (1.06%) DNS
4 28 (0.78%) VPN
5 27 (0.75%) WAN
6 23 (0.64%) LAN
7 16 (0.45%) Wireless
8 14 (0.39%) TCP/IP
9 12 (0.34%) Internet
9 12 (0.34%) VLAN
10 11 (0.31%) 5G
10 11 (0.31%) DHCP
10 11 (0.31%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.31%) SSL
11 10 (0.28%) BGP
11 10 (0.28%) NGFW
12 9 (0.25%) Intranet
12 9 (0.25%) OSPF
13 8 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (0.20%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (8.04%) Power BI
2 87 (2.43%) Metadata
3 76 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (1.28%) Data Lake
5 42 (1.17%) Tableau
6 34 (0.95%) SQL Server
7 31 (0.87%) Power Query
7 31 (0.87%) Relational Database
8 27 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (0.56%) NoSQL
10 18 (0.50%) DynamoDB
11 16 (0.45%) Big Data
11 16 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
11 16 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
12 14 (0.39%) SAS Enterprise Guide
13 13 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (0.36%) Data Vault
13 13 (0.36%) Oracle Database
13 13 (0.36%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 283 (7.91%) JIRA
2 60 (1.68%) Git
2 60 (1.68%) Jenkins
3 50 (1.40%) GitLab
4 31 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
5 26 (0.73%) Postman
6 22 (0.61%) Selenium
7 19 (0.53%) JMeter
8 18 (0.50%) Hudson
9 15 (0.42%) Cucumber
10 13 (0.36%) JUnit
10 13 (0.36%) WebDriver
11 11 (0.31%) ERwin
12 8 (0.22%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.20%) LoadRunner
14 6 (0.17%) Cypress.io
14 6 (0.17%) MLflow
15 5 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
15 5 (0.14%) Snyk
General
1 1,631 (45.56%) Social Skills
2 1,022 (28.55%) Finance
3 597 (16.68%) Public Sector
4 552 (15.42%) Analytical Skills
5 204 (5.70%) Banking
6 151 (4.22%) Influencing Skills
7 143 (3.99%) Documentation Skills
8 132 (3.69%) Legal
9 109 (3.04%) Retail
10 107 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
11 86 (2.40%) Manufacturing
12 82 (2.29%) Law
13 75 (2.09%) Aerospace
13 75 (2.09%) Local Government
14 68 (1.90%) Marketing
15 67 (1.87%) Telecoms
16 53 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 47 (1.31%) Military
18 43 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
19 33 (0.92%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 657 (18.35%) Analyst
2 532 (14.86%) Architect
3 470 (13.13%) Lead
4 409 (11.42%) Business Analyst
5 344 (9.61%) Senior
6 283 (7.91%) Project Manager
7 268 (7.49%) Consultant
8 148 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
9 118 (3.30%) Developer
10 104 (2.91%) Data Analyst
11 99 (2.77%) Senior Analyst
12 94 (2.63%) Change Manager
13 90 (2.51%) Delivery Manager
14 77 (2.15%) Designer
15 74 (2.07%) Programme Manager
16 70 (1.96%) Data Architect
16 70 (1.96%) Senior Manager
17 68 (1.90%) Security Architect
18 66 (1.84%) Data Engineer
19 65 (1.82%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (2.93%) REST
2 56 (1.56%) Middleware
3 45 (1.26%) SOAP
4 43 (1.20%) Spring
5 39 (1.09%) Kafka
6 38 (1.06%) React
7 37 (1.03%) JSON
7 37 (1.03%) LDAP
7 37 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
8 35 (0.98%) Spring Boot
9 33 (0.92%) OpenID
10 31 (0.87%) OAuth
11 30 (0.84%) XML
12 29 (0.81%) PySpark
12 29 (0.81%) SailPoint
13 26 (0.73%) .NET
13 26 (0.73%) SAML
14 22 (0.61%) CSS
14 22 (0.61%) HTML
15 20 (0.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 250 (6.98%) Product Ownership
2 174 (4.86%) Onboarding
3 151 (4.22%) Cloud Native
4 89 (2.49%) Data Structures
5 87 (2.43%) Management Information System
6 72 (2.01%) Operational Technology
7 69 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
7 69 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
8 61 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
9 60 (1.68%) Data Centre
10 58 (1.62%) Security Posture
11 56 (1.56%) NHS
12 52 (1.45%) CMDB
13 51 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
14 48 (1.34%) Virtual Team
15 46 (1.28%) AI Agents
16 45 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
17 36 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
18 32 (0.89%) Public Cloud
19 29 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 93 (2.60%) Windows
2 45 (1.26%) Linux
3 23 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.34%) 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 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.084%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.084%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.028%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 994 (27.77%) Agile
2 731 (20.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 716 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 529 (14.78%) Migration
5 497 (13.88%) Problem-Solving
6 495 (13.83%) Decision-Making
7 467 (13.04%) Roadmaps
8 445 (12.43%) Change Management
9 419 (11.70%) DevOps
10 409 (11.42%) Workshop Facilitation
11 390 (10.89%) Analytics
12 368 (10.28%) AI
13 351 (9.80%) Risk Management
14 327 (9.13%) Business Intelligence
15 316 (8.83%) CI/CD
16 310 (8.66%) Cybersecurity
17 303 (8.46%) ERP
18 299 (8.35%) Project Delivery
19 288 (8.04%) Project Management
20 281 (7.85%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 299 (8.35%) SQL
2 253 (7.07%) Python
3 115 (3.21%) Java
4 63 (1.76%) PowerShell
5 58 (1.62%) JavaScript
6 40 (1.12%) C#
6 40 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 39 (1.09%) TypeScript
8 27 (0.75%) Bash
9 20 (0.56%) Bicep
9 20 (0.56%) VBA
10 14 (0.39%) Scala
11 11 (0.31%) Apex Code
12 10 (0.28%) Kotlin
12 10 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.25%) Korn
14 7 (0.20%) R
14 7 (0.20%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.17%) ABAP
16 4 (0.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 906 (25.31%) Security Cleared
2 711 (19.86%) SC Cleared
3 252 (7.04%) Degree
4 135 (3.77%) DV Cleared
5 119 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 107 (2.99%) PMI Certification
7 98 (2.74%) PMP
8 94 (2.63%) CISSP
9 67 (1.87%) CISM
10 58 (1.62%) Azure Certification
11 54 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
12 37 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
13 36 (1.01%) AWS Certification
14 27 (0.75%) Master's Degree
14 27 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
14 27 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 25 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 24 (0.67%) ACCA
17 23 (0.64%) CIMA
18 22 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 261 (7.29%) Data Quality
2 183 (5.11%) PMO
3 169 (4.72%) QA
4 158 (4.41%) NIST
5 153 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 141 (3.94%) GDPR
7 86 (2.40%) Accessibility
7 86 (2.40%) GRC
8 46 (1.28%) NCSC
9 32 (0.89%) SLA
10 27 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
11 25 (0.70%) PCI DSS
12 24 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
12 24 (0.67%) WCAG
13 18 (0.50%) SOC 2
14 17 (0.47%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.36%) COBIT
16 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.31%) Def Stans
17 11 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 95 (2.65%) Active Directory
2 65 (1.82%) Docker
3 26 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.34%) vSphere
5 9 (0.25%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.084%) NFS
10 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.028%) Firmware
10 1 (0.028%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.028%) KVM
Systems Management
1 128 (3.58%) Terraform
2 118 (3.30%) Kubernetes
3 40 (1.12%) Ansible
4 32 (0.89%) Grafana
5 28 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 28 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.34%) 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 (0.084%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.084%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.084%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 3 (0.084%) vMotion
13 3 (0.084%) WSUS
14 2 (0.056%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.056%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 554 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 257 (7.18%) SAP
3 205 (5.73%) ServiceNow
4 161 (4.50%) Oracle
5 104 (2.91%) Salesforce
6 100 (2.79%) Databricks
7 59 (1.65%) Google
8 51 (1.42%) IBM
9 50 (1.40%) Cisco
10 40 (1.12%) Workday
11 39 (1.09%) Splunk
12 38 (1.06%) VMware
13 34 (0.95%) CyberArk
14 21 (0.59%) MuleSoft
15 20 (0.56%) Zscaler
16 19 (0.53%) BeyondTrust
16 19 (0.53%) Dynatrace
16 19 (0.53%) IFS
16 19 (0.53%) Palo Alto
17 18 (0.50%) Adobe
1,120 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide