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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 134
Rank change year-on-year +2 +107 +35
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,200 2,191 688
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.69% 6.68% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.10% 7.38% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,848 1,477 426
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £644 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 39 10
10th Percentile £24.80 £21.29 £21.93
25th Percentile £40.94 £27.52 £26.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.00 £54.02
Median % change year-on-year +38.30% -13.00% -4.37%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.82 £60.44
90th Percentile £87.82 £74.50 £61.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.70 £32.39 £58.17
% change year-on-year +108.98% -44.32% +2.98%

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 46,176 29,707 32,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 90.53% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,774 18,450 19,527
10th Percentile £325 £297 £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 £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 3,315 1,863 1,324
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.14 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.50 £25.15 £41.08
Median % change year-on-year +53.08% -38.77% -3.91%
75th Percentile £65.41 £43.21 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £65.00 £74.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £22.32 £42.50
% change year-on-year +73.52% -47.49% -

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 3,521 £550 +1.85% 2,949
UK excluding London +3 1,931 £525 - 1,837
London 0 1,753 £552 +0.36% 1,328
Work from Home +5 1,433 £525 - 1,449
South East +8 500 £565 +2.73% 499
North of England +1 498 £500 -3.15% 430
Midlands +5 340 £500 -4.76% 295
West Midlands +2 276 £500 -4.76% 204
South West -4 230 £550 - 243
North West +5 227 £525 +2.44% 241
Scotland +23 221 £500 +11.11% 161
Yorkshire -7 201 £500 -4.76% 141
East of England +9 113 £505 -16.42% 127
North East +13 79 £453 -4.63% 50
East Midlands +10 63 £525 +16.67% 91
Wales +13 55 £525 +27.27% 43
Northern Ireland 0 6 £413 -24.14% 54
Channel Islands -3 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
1 175 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 169 (4.02%) Confluence
3 36 (0.86%) CMS
4 35 (0.83%) Apache
4 35 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 34 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
6 27 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 21 (0.50%) SAS
8 10 (0.24%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.14%) WordPress
10 4 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.071%) Drupal
11 3 (0.071%) IIS
11 3 (0.071%) Kentico
12 2 (0.048%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.048%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.048%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.048%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 195 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
3 89 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 56 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
5 53 (1.26%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.21%) AutoCAD
7 9 (0.21%) Navisworks
7 9 (0.21%) Revit
8 8 (0.19%) ProjectWise
9 7 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.17%) Trello
10 3 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.071%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.048%) InDesign
11 2 (0.048%) Sketch
12 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
12 1 (0.024%) Notion
Business Applications
1 122 (2.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 62 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.57%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 14 (0.33%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.31%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 13 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.29%) Maximo
8 12 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.26%) Primavera
10 10 (0.24%) iTrent
10 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 10 (0.24%) SAP QM
11 9 (0.21%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 789 (18.79%) Azure
2 543 (12.93%) AWS
3 436 (10.38%) Power Platform
4 220 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
5 207 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
6 182 (4.33%) GCP
7 135 (3.21%) Entra ID
8 118 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
9 101 (2.40%) Power Automate
9 101 (2.40%) SaaS
10 92 (2.19%) GitHub
11 82 (1.95%) Snowflake
12 80 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
13 75 (1.79%) PowerApps
14 73 (1.74%) Serverless
15 72 (1.71%) Microsoft Purview
16 64 (1.52%) Amazon S3
17 57 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
18 54 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
19 47 (1.12%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 71 (1.69%) Network Security
2 66 (1.57%) Firewall
3 46 (1.10%) DNS
4 38 (0.90%) WAN
5 37 (0.88%) VPN
6 28 (0.67%) LAN
7 27 (0.64%) DHCP
8 22 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 16 (0.38%) Internet
9 16 (0.38%) SD-WAN
9 16 (0.38%) VLAN
10 15 (0.36%) Wireless
11 14 (0.33%) 5G
12 12 (0.29%) BGP
12 12 (0.29%) VoIP
13 11 (0.26%) Kerberos
14 10 (0.24%) HTTP
14 10 (0.24%) Intranet
14 10 (0.24%) OSPF
14 10 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 330 (7.86%) Power BI
2 170 (4.05%) Metadata
3 98 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 95 (2.26%) Data Lake
5 73 (1.74%) SQL Server
6 48 (1.14%) Tableau
7 35 (0.83%) Relational Database
8 33 (0.79%) Power Query
9 29 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
10 28 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (0.60%) BigQuery
11 25 (0.60%) DynamoDB
12 22 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
13 21 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
14 20 (0.48%) MongoDB
14 20 (0.48%) NoSQL
15 19 (0.45%) Big Data
15 19 (0.45%) Oracle Database
15 19 (0.45%) Star Schema
16 18 (0.43%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 264 (6.29%) JIRA
2 94 (2.24%) Git
3 63 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.36%) GitLab
5 32 (0.76%) Selenium
6 28 (0.67%) Postman
7 19 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
10 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (0.21%) ERwin
11 9 (0.21%) JUnit
12 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.19%) REST Assured
12 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.17%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.17%) Hudson
13 7 (0.17%) JMeter
13 7 (0.17%) Maven
General
1 1,966 (46.81%) Social Skills
2 1,104 (26.29%) Finance
3 900 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 691 (16.45%) Analytical Skills
5 262 (6.24%) Influencing Skills
6 231 (5.50%) Banking
7 189 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
8 184 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
9 144 (3.43%) Legal
10 124 (2.95%) Retail
11 121 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 118 (2.81%) Manufacturing
13 114 (2.71%) Local Government
14 86 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
15 84 (2.00%) Marketing
15 84 (2.00%) Military
16 77 (1.83%) Telecoms
17 69 (1.64%) Aerospace
18 55 (1.31%) Law
19 46 (1.10%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 704 (16.76%) Analyst
2 612 (14.57%) Architect
3 502 (11.95%) Lead
4 444 (10.57%) Senior
5 417 (9.93%) Business Analyst
6 295 (7.02%) Consultant
7 285 (6.79%) Project Manager
8 233 (5.55%) Developer
9 184 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
10 128 (3.05%) Data Architect
11 119 (2.83%) Change Manager
11 119 (2.83%) Data Analyst
12 107 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
13 89 (2.12%) Designer
14 87 (2.07%) Data Engineer
14 87 (2.07%) Technical Architect
15 85 (2.02%) Senior Manager
16 84 (2.00%) Delivery Manager
17 76 (1.81%) IT Manager
17 76 (1.81%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (4.33%) Terraform
2 125 (2.98%) REST
3 68 (1.62%) .NET
4 59 (1.40%) JSON
5 56 (1.33%) Kafka
6 51 (1.21%) SOAP
7 47 (1.12%) Middleware
7 47 (1.12%) PySpark
7 47 (1.12%) Spring
7 47 (1.12%) XML
8 45 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
9 43 (1.02%) React
10 42 (1.00%) Spring Boot
11 35 (0.83%) Web Services
12 34 (0.81%) OAuth
12 34 (0.81%) RESTful
13 28 (0.67%) LDAP
13 28 (0.67%) Node.js
14 27 (0.64%) HTML
15 26 (0.62%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 283 (6.74%) Product Ownership
2 246 (5.86%) Onboarding
3 194 (4.62%) Cloud Native
4 150 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 99 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
6 92 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
7 89 (2.12%) Data Structures
8 86 (2.05%) AI Agents
9 73 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
9 73 (1.74%) NHS
10 72 (1.71%) Operational Technology
11 67 (1.60%) Data Centre
12 59 (1.40%) Security Posture
13 56 (1.33%) Virtual Team
14 54 (1.29%) CMDB
15 51 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
16 50 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
17 40 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
18 32 (0.76%) Taxonomies
19 30 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 125 (2.98%) Windows
2 79 (1.88%) Linux
3 37 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (0.33%) Unix
5 9 (0.21%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.14%) Android
6 6 (0.14%) VMS
7 5 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.095%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.071%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.048%) AIX
10 2 (0.048%) HPUX
10 2 (0.048%) Solaris
11 1 (0.024%) CentOS
11 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.024%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,273 (30.31%) Agile
2 1,153 (27.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 937 (22.31%) Continuous Improvement
4 690 (16.43%) Decision-Making
5 659 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
6 605 (14.40%) Roadmaps
7 579 (13.79%) Workshop Facilitation
8 560 (13.33%) AI
9 551 (13.12%) Migration
10 530 (12.62%) DevOps
11 487 (11.60%) Change Management
12 482 (11.48%) Analytics
13 439 (10.45%) CI/CD
14 429 (10.21%) Risk Management
15 411 (9.79%) Project Delivery
16 384 (9.14%) Business Intelligence
17 379 (9.02%) Data Governance
18 378 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
19 365 (8.69%) Data Modelling
20 358 (8.52%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 406 (9.67%) SQL
2 304 (7.24%) Python
3 127 (3.02%) Java
4 105 (2.50%) JavaScript
5 97 (2.31%) PowerShell
6 89 (2.12%) C#
7 55 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 52 (1.24%) Bash
9 42 (1.00%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.64%) Bicep
11 21 (0.50%) Scala
12 16 (0.38%) T-SQL
13 13 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.24%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.24%) Korn
15 9 (0.21%) Groovy
16 7 (0.17%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.14%) VBA
18 4 (0.095%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,221 (29.07%) Security Cleared
2 952 (22.67%) SC Cleared
3 254 (6.05%) Degree
4 200 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 181 (4.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 111 (2.64%) PMI Certification
7 110 (2.62%) CISSP
8 106 (2.52%) PMP
9 68 (1.62%) CISM
10 66 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
11 65 (1.55%) Azure Certification
12 60 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 41 (0.98%) AWS Certification
14 34 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 33 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
16 31 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 30 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
18 26 (0.62%) APMG
18 26 (0.62%) ISTQB
19 25 (0.60%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 374 (8.90%) Data Quality
2 189 (4.50%) PMO
3 188 (4.48%) QA
4 167 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 162 (3.86%) GDPR
6 161 (3.83%) NIST
7 137 (3.26%) Accessibility
8 97 (2.31%) GRC
9 85 (2.02%) NCSC
10 50 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
11 39 (0.93%) WCAG
12 37 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
13 35 (0.83%) SLA
14 18 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 15 (0.36%) NIST 800
15 15 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.33%) JSP 440
17 13 (0.31%) PCI DSS
18 12 (0.29%) ITGC
19 11 (0.26%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 123 (2.93%) Active Directory
2 106 (2.52%) Docker
3 55 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.45%) VMware NSX
5 18 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.33%) vSphere
7 12 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.071%) 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
Systems Management
1 170 (4.05%) Kubernetes
2 51 (1.21%) Ansible
3 41 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (0.74%) Grafana
5 27 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
8 10 (0.24%) SCCM
9 6 (0.14%) VxRail
10 5 (0.12%) QRadar
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 4 (0.095%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.095%) Istio
11 4 (0.095%) vRealize
12 3 (0.071%) Argo
12 3 (0.071%) McAfee ePO
12 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.071%) Puppet
12 3 (0.071%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 836 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 247 (5.88%) SAP
3 219 (5.21%) ServiceNow
4 184 (4.38%) Oracle
5 154 (3.67%) Databricks
6 99 (2.36%) Google
6 99 (2.36%) Salesforce
7 75 (1.79%) VMware
8 63 (1.50%) Cisco
9 54 (1.29%) Workday
10 52 (1.24%) Splunk
11 42 (1.00%) IBM
12 32 (0.76%) Ariba
13 30 (0.71%) CyberArk
14 27 (0.64%) MuleSoft
15 24 (0.57%) OpenAI
16 23 (0.55%) Palo Alto
17 22 (0.52%) Dynatrace
17 22 (0.52%) Okta
18 21 (0.50%) Informatica