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

 6 months to
26 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 32 143
Rank change year-on-year +7 +111 +18
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,109 1,895 664
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.66% 5.79% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.06% 6.40% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,786 1,268 457
10th Percentile £363 £356 £363
25th Percentile £450 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 34 18
10th Percentile £25.50 £23.65 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £29.12 £26.31
Median hourly rate £74.50 £44.91 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +65.90% -22.80% +2.98%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.38 £73.85
90th Percentile £89.75 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £32.74 £58.30
% change year-on-year +144.39% -43.85% +3.20%

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 45,367 29,590 33,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.44% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,794 18,422 20,982
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
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 2,879 1,766 1,695
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £17.97 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £42.50
% change year-on-year +94.26% -46.75% +6.25%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +5 3,482 £540 -1.82% 829
UK excluding London +8 1,935 £525 - 566
London +4 1,699 £550 - 339
Work from Home +11 1,390 £525 -0.24% 434
South East +14 516 £550 - 131
North of England +9 496 £500 -2.23% 136
Midlands +10 334 £500 -2.91% 97
West Midlands +2 255 £500 -2.91% 69
North West +11 242 £500 -4.76% 74
South West +2 224 £550 - 123
Scotland +30 206 £500 +8.70% 28
Yorkshire +1 193 £500 +3.63% 46
East of England +24 121 £533 -13.41% 49
East Midlands +23 74 £525 +20.00% 28
North East +7 69 £453 +2.03% 19
Wales +12 54 £500 +17.65% 14
Northern Ireland +5 13 £430 -17.16% 10
Channel Islands -1 2 £563 +21.62%

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
1 174 (4.23%) Confluence
2 156 (3.80%) SharePoint
3 36 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 32 (0.78%) CMS
6 31 (0.75%) Apache
7 28 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.68%) SAS
8 6 (0.15%) WordPress
9 4 (0.097%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.097%) OpenEdge
9 4 (0.097%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.073%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.073%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.073%) Drupal
10 3 (0.073%) IIS
10 3 (0.073%) Kentico
10 3 (0.073%) SharePoint 2013
10 3 (0.073%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.049%) GeoServer
Applications
1 182 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 86 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 79 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
5 53 (1.29%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.15%) Navisworks
8 6 (0.15%) ProjectWise
8 6 (0.15%) Revit
9 5 (0.12%) Trello
10 4 (0.097%) Sketch
11 2 (0.049%) InDesign
11 2 (0.049%) InVision
12 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.024%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
12 1 (0.024%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 140 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.58%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.34%) Primavera
5 14 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 12 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 12 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 12 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
6 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
7 11 (0.27%) Maximo
7 11 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
7 11 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
7 11 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 9 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
8 9 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 9 (0.22%) SAP CO
8 9 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 8 (0.19%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 822 (20.00%) Azure
2 555 (13.51%) AWS
3 446 (10.85%) Power Platform
4 211 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
5 198 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
6 192 (4.67%) GCP
7 155 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
8 145 (3.53%) Entra ID
9 92 (2.24%) SaaS
10 91 (2.21%) Power Automate
11 90 (2.19%) GitHub
12 71 (1.73%) PowerApps
12 71 (1.73%) Serverless
13 67 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
13 67 (1.63%) Snowflake
14 60 (1.46%) Microsoft Purview
15 59 (1.44%) Amazon S3
16 58 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
17 57 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
18 44 (1.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.65%) Firewall
2 64 (1.56%) Network Security
3 54 (1.31%) DNS
4 42 (1.02%) VPN
5 41 (1.00%) WAN
6 34 (0.83%) LAN
7 27 (0.66%) DHCP
8 24 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 19 (0.46%) SD-WAN
9 19 (0.46%) Wireless
10 18 (0.44%) Internet
11 15 (0.37%) VLAN
12 14 (0.34%) 5G
12 14 (0.34%) BGP
12 14 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (0.32%) Intranet
14 12 (0.29%) OSPF
15 11 (0.27%) Kerberos
15 11 (0.27%) SSL
16 10 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 358 (8.71%) Power BI
2 124 (3.02%) Metadata
3 94 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
4 90 (2.19%) Data Lake
5 70 (1.70%) SQL Server
6 47 (1.14%) Tableau
7 34 (0.83%) Relational Database
8 32 (0.78%) Power Query
9 30 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (0.58%) DynamoDB
11 22 (0.54%) Oracle Database
12 21 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (0.46%) Big Data
13 19 (0.46%) BigQuery
13 19 (0.46%) NoSQL
13 19 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
14 16 (0.39%) Data Vault
15 15 (0.37%) MongoDB
15 15 (0.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 275 (6.69%) JIRA
2 94 (2.29%) Git
3 64 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 53 (1.29%) GitLab
5 33 (0.80%) Selenium
6 31 (0.75%) Postman
7 29 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
8 19 (0.46%) WebDriver
9 18 (0.44%) Cucumber
10 17 (0.41%) Hudson
11 15 (0.37%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.37%) JMeter
12 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (0.27%) ERwin
13 11 (0.27%) JUnit
14 9 (0.22%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.22%) Zephyr
15 8 (0.19%) Bitbucket
16 6 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
16 6 (0.15%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,875 (45.63%) Social Skills
2 1,144 (27.84%) Finance
3 792 (19.27%) Public Sector
4 662 (16.11%) Analytical Skills
5 220 (5.35%) Banking
6 215 (5.23%) Influencing Skills
7 169 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
8 158 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
9 149 (3.63%) Legal
10 141 (3.43%) Retail
11 112 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 104 (2.53%) Local Government
13 93 (2.26%) Law
14 92 (2.24%) Manufacturing
15 87 (2.12%) Marketing
16 83 (2.02%) Telecoms
17 77 (1.87%) Aerospace
18 62 (1.51%) Military
19 61 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
20 38 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 698 (16.99%) Analyst
2 623 (15.16%) Architect
3 516 (12.56%) Lead
4 418 (10.17%) Senior
5 409 (9.95%) Business Analyst
6 304 (7.40%) Consultant
7 301 (7.33%) Project Manager
8 206 (5.01%) Developer
9 177 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
10 122 (2.97%) Data Analyst
11 112 (2.73%) Data Architect
12 103 (2.51%) Change Manager
13 96 (2.34%) Delivery Manager
14 93 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
15 92 (2.24%) Senior Manager
16 85 (2.07%) Data Engineer
17 82 (2.00%) Technical Architect
18 81 (1.97%) Designer
19 74 (1.80%) IT Manager
20 73 (1.78%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (4.26%) Terraform
2 108 (2.63%) REST
3 65 (1.58%) .NET
4 58 (1.41%) JSON
5 52 (1.27%) Kafka
5 52 (1.27%) Middleware
6 47 (1.14%) PySpark
6 47 (1.14%) React
7 46 (1.12%) Spring
8 43 (1.05%) SOAP
9 42 (1.02%) XML
10 40 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
11 39 (0.95%) Spring Boot
12 38 (0.92%) OAuth
13 35 (0.85%) SAML
14 33 (0.80%) Web Services
15 31 (0.75%) OpenID
15 31 (0.75%) RESTful
16 29 (0.71%) LDAP
17 28 (0.68%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 306 (7.45%) Product Ownership
2 229 (5.57%) Onboarding
3 183 (4.45%) Cloud Native
4 138 (3.36%) Management Information System
5 109 (2.65%) Data Structures
6 94 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
7 84 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 78 (1.90%) NHS
9 73 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
10 68 (1.65%) AI Agents
10 68 (1.65%) Data Centre
11 60 (1.46%) Operational Technology
12 57 (1.39%) CMDB
13 53 (1.29%) Virtual Team
14 50 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
15 46 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
15 46 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
16 43 (1.05%) Security Posture
17 34 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
18 28 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 132 (3.21%) Windows
2 79 (1.92%) Linux
3 36 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.37%) Unix
5 13 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.29%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.17%) Android
8 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.17%) VMS
9 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.049%) AIX
11 2 (0.049%) HPUX
11 2 (0.049%) Solaris
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,257 (30.59%) Agile
2 978 (23.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 942 (22.93%) Continuous Improvement
4 615 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
5 614 (14.94%) Decision-Making
6 602 (14.65%) Migration
7 548 (13.34%) Roadmaps
8 536 (13.04%) DevOps
9 522 (12.70%) Workshop Facilitation
10 494 (12.02%) AI
11 475 (11.56%) Change Management
12 469 (11.41%) Analytics
13 446 (10.85%) CI/CD
14 407 (9.91%) Business Intelligence
15 403 (9.81%) Risk Management
16 402 (9.78%) Project Delivery
17 359 (8.74%) Cybersecurity
18 341 (8.30%) Data Modelling
19 330 (8.03%) User Acceptance Testing
20 324 (7.89%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 384 (9.35%) SQL
2 304 (7.40%) Python
3 133 (3.24%) Java
4 92 (2.24%) JavaScript
5 82 (2.00%) C#
5 82 (2.00%) PowerShell
6 55 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 46 (1.12%) Bash
7 46 (1.12%) TypeScript
8 26 (0.63%) Bicep
9 20 (0.49%) Scala
10 15 (0.37%) Kotlin
10 15 (0.37%) T-SQL
11 14 (0.34%) PL/SQL
12 13 (0.32%) Apex Code
13 11 (0.27%) VBA
14 10 (0.24%) Korn
15 9 (0.22%) Groovy
16 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.15%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,145 (27.87%) Security Cleared
2 852 (20.73%) SC Cleared
3 263 (6.40%) Degree
4 192 (4.67%) DV Cleared
5 148 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 120 (2.92%) PMI Certification
7 112 (2.73%) PMP
8 107 (2.60%) CISSP
9 75 (1.83%) Azure Certification
10 70 (1.70%) CISM
11 67 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
12 57 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 47 (1.14%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 36 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
16 32 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 30 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 27 (0.66%) APMG
18 27 (0.66%) ISTQB
19 25 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 324 (7.89%) Data Quality
2 210 (5.11%) PMO
3 184 (4.48%) QA
4 174 (4.23%) GDPR
5 172 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 161 (3.92%) NIST
7 121 (2.94%) Accessibility
8 88 (2.14%) GRC
9 66 (1.61%) NCSC
10 43 (1.05%) SLA
11 35 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
12 32 (0.78%) WCAG
13 31 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.46%) PCI DSS
15 17 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 16 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.39%) SOC 2
17 12 (0.29%) JSP 440
17 12 (0.29%) NIST 800
18 11 (0.27%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 131 (3.19%) Active Directory
2 93 (2.26%) Docker
3 53 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 19 (0.46%) vSphere
6 17 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.049%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.024%) Firmware
11 1 (0.024%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.024%) IAG
11 1 (0.024%) KVM
11 1 (0.024%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 154 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.19%) Ansible
3 41 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.83%) Grafana
5 33 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 13 (0.32%) SCCM
9 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.17%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 5 (0.12%) vRealize
12 4 (0.097%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.097%) Istio
12 4 (0.097%) QRadar
12 4 (0.097%) VxRail
13 3 (0.073%) Argo
13 3 (0.073%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.073%) Puppet
13 3 (0.073%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 789 (19.20%) Microsoft
2 274 (6.67%) SAP
3 233 (5.67%) ServiceNow
4 185 (4.50%) Oracle
5 155 (3.77%) Databricks
6 110 (2.68%) Salesforce
7 88 (2.14%) Google
8 69 (1.68%) VMware
9 60 (1.46%) Cisco
9 60 (1.46%) IBM
10 51 (1.24%) Workday
11 44 (1.07%) Splunk
12 33 (0.80%) CyberArk
13 30 (0.73%) MuleSoft
14 26 (0.63%) Ariba
15 25 (0.61%) Zscaler
16 23 (0.56%) Palo Alto
17 21 (0.51%) Dynatrace
17 21 (0.51%) Okta
18 20 (0.49%) Citrix
948 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide