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

 6 months to
16 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 53 154
Rank change year-on-year +27 +101 +3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,481 1,245 688
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.93% 4.20% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.18% 4.62% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,360 832 474
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £447 £450 £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 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 22 38
10th Percentile £28.03 £23.22 £18.35
25th Percentile £50.00 £27.41 £27.81
Median hourly rate £64.09 £46.16 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.85% +26.46% -7.01%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.94 £59.05
90th Percentile - £75.09 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.80 £45.53 £56.91
% change year-on-year +44.52% -20.01% +44.99%

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 42,574 26,968 37,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.80% 91.03% 85.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,549 17,103 23,600
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,556 1,231 2,598
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.01
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.32 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +67.02% -29.21% +6.23%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £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 16 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 16 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 16 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 2,957 £538 +2.38% 1,291
UK excluding London +31 1,647 £510 +2.00% 922
London +29 1,405 £550 - 545
Work from Home +35 1,128 £535 +6.93% 682
North of England +29 442 £500 +3.09% 224
South East +21 376 £540 +10.77% 287
Midlands +16 317 £500 - 139
North West +27 229 £500 +0.30% 130
West Midlands +13 225 £500 -0.15% 75
South West +14 190 £525 -4.55% 118
Yorkshire +8 171 £517 +8.80% 70
Scotland +30 159 £475 -9.52% 50
East of England +33 121 £575 +15.00% 59
East Midlands +19 87 £525 +16.67% 62
North East +4 46 £453 -4.13% 26
Wales +15 44 £500 +53.85% 23
Northern Ireland +14 16 £449 -22.84% 37
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
1 181 (5.20%) Confluence
2 96 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 30 (0.86%) SAS
4 28 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (0.57%) Apache
6 19 (0.55%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 17 (0.49%) CMS
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.11%) OpenEdge
9 4 (0.11%) WordPress
10 3 (0.086%) Appian
10 3 (0.086%) Drupal
10 3 (0.086%) Kentico
11 2 (0.057%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.057%) Camunda
11 2 (0.057%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.057%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 161 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 63 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
3 63 (1.81%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.23%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.11%) PTC Creo
5 4 (0.11%) Sketch
6 2 (0.057%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.057%) InVision
6 2 (0.057%) Trello
7 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.029%) CATIA
7 1 (0.029%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.029%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.029%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 134 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.43%) Teamcenter
4 12 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 12 (0.34%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.32%) Maximo
5 11 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.29%) SAP FI
7 9 (0.26%) Primavera
8 8 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 8 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.23%) SAP QM
9 7 (0.20%) NEC Housing
10 6 (0.17%) Finacle
10 6 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 664 (19.07%) Azure
2 465 (13.36%) AWS
3 329 (9.45%) Power Platform
4 159 (4.57%) GCP
5 132 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
6 127 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
7 103 (2.96%) Entra ID
8 99 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
9 97 (2.79%) SaaS
10 65 (1.87%) GitHub
11 56 (1.61%) Serverless
12 49 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
13 46 (1.32%) PaaS
14 43 (1.24%) Amazon S3
15 42 (1.21%) Power Automate
16 41 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
17 39 (1.12%) PowerApps
18 38 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
19 36 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
19 36 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.75%) Network Security
2 56 (1.61%) Firewall
3 35 (1.01%) DNS
4 24 (0.69%) VPN
4 24 (0.69%) WAN
5 20 (0.57%) LAN
6 16 (0.46%) Wireless
7 14 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.37%) Internet
9 12 (0.34%) VLAN
10 11 (0.32%) BGP
11 10 (0.29%) DHCP
11 10 (0.29%) NGFW
11 10 (0.29%) OSPF
11 10 (0.29%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.29%) SSL
12 9 (0.26%) 5G
12 9 (0.26%) Intranet
12 9 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 277 (7.96%) Power BI
2 84 (2.41%) Metadata
3 72 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (1.12%) Data Lake
5 38 (1.09%) Tableau
6 32 (0.92%) Power Query
7 28 (0.80%) SQL Server
8 26 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (0.75%) Relational Database
9 19 (0.55%) DynamoDB
10 18 (0.52%) NoSQL
11 17 (0.49%) Snowflake Schema
12 16 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
13 15 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (0.40%) Big Data
14 14 (0.40%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 13 (0.37%) Data Vault
15 13 (0.37%) SAS Visual Analytics
16 12 (0.34%) Oracle Database
16 12 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 279 (8.01%) JIRA
2 57 (1.64%) Git
3 55 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.41%) GitLab
5 31 (0.89%) Rational DOORS
6 25 (0.72%) Postman
7 22 (0.63%) Selenium
8 18 (0.52%) Hudson
8 18 (0.52%) JMeter
9 15 (0.43%) Cucumber
10 13 (0.37%) WebDriver
11 10 (0.29%) JUnit
12 8 (0.23%) ERwin
12 8 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.20%) LoadRunner
13 7 (0.20%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.17%) Cypress.io
14 6 (0.17%) MLflow
15 5 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
16 4 (0.11%) NeoLoad
General
1 1,585 (45.53%) Social Skills
2 999 (28.70%) Finance
3 568 (16.32%) Public Sector
4 541 (15.54%) Analytical Skills
5 196 (5.63%) Banking
6 140 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
6 140 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
7 128 (3.68%) Legal
8 104 (2.99%) Retail
9 94 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
10 85 (2.44%) Law
11 83 (2.38%) Manufacturing
12 75 (2.15%) Aerospace
13 70 (2.01%) Local Government
14 63 (1.81%) Telecoms
15 60 (1.72%) Marketing
16 52 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 45 (1.29%) Military
18 39 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
19 33 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 651 (18.70%) Analyst
2 526 (15.11%) Architect
3 454 (13.04%) Lead
4 414 (11.89%) Business Analyst
5 330 (9.48%) Senior
6 277 (7.96%) Project Manager
7 261 (7.50%) Consultant
8 141 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
9 107 (3.07%) Developer
10 98 (2.82%) Data Analyst
11 97 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
12 95 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
13 91 (2.61%) Change Manager
14 79 (2.27%) Programme Manager
15 76 (2.18%) Designer
16 70 (2.01%) Senior Manager
17 67 (1.92%) Security Architect
18 66 (1.90%) Senior Business Analyst
19 63 (1.81%) Data Architect
19 63 (1.81%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (3.25%) REST
2 56 (1.61%) SOAP
3 54 (1.55%) Middleware
4 47 (1.35%) LDAP
5 40 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
6 39 (1.12%) Spring
7 37 (1.06%) JSON
8 35 (1.01%) Kafka
8 35 (1.01%) React
9 34 (0.98%) OAuth
10 31 (0.89%) OpenID
10 31 (0.89%) Spring Boot
11 30 (0.86%) XML
12 27 (0.78%) SailPoint
13 25 (0.72%) PySpark
13 25 (0.72%) SAML
14 22 (0.63%) .NET
14 22 (0.63%) CSS
15 21 (0.60%) HTML
16 19 (0.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 238 (6.84%) Product Ownership
2 165 (4.74%) Onboarding
3 152 (4.37%) Cloud Native
4 85 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 82 (2.36%) Management Information System
6 75 (2.15%) Operational Technology
7 74 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 68 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
9 67 (1.92%) Security Posture
10 57 (1.64%) Data Centre
10 57 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
11 53 (1.52%) NHS
12 49 (1.41%) CMDB
13 48 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
14 46 (1.32%) Virtual Team
15 44 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
16 43 (1.24%) AI Agents
17 34 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
18 32 (0.92%) Public Cloud
19 26 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 88 (2.53%) Windows
2 45 (1.29%) Linux
3 21 (0.60%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.34%) Unix
5 10 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.23%) VMS
7 7 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.11%) Android
11 3 (0.086%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.086%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.029%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 948 (27.23%) Agile
2 695 (19.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 683 (19.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 521 (14.97%) Migration
5 487 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
6 469 (13.47%) Decision-Making
7 450 (12.93%) Roadmaps
8 438 (12.58%) Change Management
9 405 (11.63%) DevOps
10 396 (11.38%) Workshop Facilitation
11 354 (10.17%) Analytics
12 345 (9.91%) AI
13 335 (9.62%) Risk Management
14 318 (9.14%) Business Intelligence
15 307 (8.82%) ERP
16 297 (8.53%) CI/CD
16 297 (8.53%) Cybersecurity
17 295 (8.47%) Project Management
18 291 (8.36%) Project Delivery
19 279 (8.01%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 276 (7.93%) SQL
2 246 (7.07%) Python
3 106 (3.05%) Java
4 72 (2.07%) PowerShell
5 52 (1.49%) JavaScript
6 39 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 36 (1.03%) TypeScript
8 35 (1.01%) C#
9 29 (0.83%) Bash
10 19 (0.55%) VBA
11 18 (0.52%) Bicep
12 14 (0.40%) Scala
13 10 (0.29%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.29%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.23%) Korn
15 7 (0.20%) R
15 7 (0.20%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.17%) ABAP
17 4 (0.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 895 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 709 (20.37%) SC Cleared
3 251 (7.21%) Degree
4 131 (3.76%) DV Cleared
5 113 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 104 (2.99%) PMI Certification
7 100 (2.87%) PMP
8 88 (2.53%) CISSP
9 62 (1.78%) CISM
10 51 (1.47%) Azure Certification
11 47 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
12 38 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
13 34 (0.98%) AWS Certification
14 27 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 26 (0.75%) ACCA
15 26 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
15 26 (0.75%) Master's Degree
15 26 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
16 25 (0.72%) CIMA
17 21 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (7.15%) Data Quality
2 176 (5.06%) PMO
3 165 (4.74%) QA
4 151 (4.34%) NIST
5 145 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 133 (3.82%) GDPR
7 85 (2.44%) Accessibility
8 83 (2.38%) GRC
9 38 (1.09%) NCSC
10 31 (0.89%) SLA
11 26 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
11 26 (0.75%) PCI DSS
12 25 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
13 24 (0.69%) WCAG
14 18 (0.52%) SOC 2
15 17 (0.49%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.34%) COBIT
16 12 (0.34%) Def Stans
16 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 99 (2.84%) Active Directory
2 62 (1.78%) Docker
3 23 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.26%) VMware NSX
4 9 (0.26%) vSphere
5 5 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.086%) NFS
7 3 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.029%) Firmware
8 1 (0.029%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.029%) KVM
Systems Management
1 127 (3.65%) Terraform
2 114 (3.27%) Kubernetes
3 41 (1.18%) Ansible
4 32 (0.92%) Grafana
5 28 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 27 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (0.32%) HP ALM
8 11 (0.32%) SCCM
9 10 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.17%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.14%) vRealize
12 4 (0.11%) Istio
12 4 (0.11%) Podman
13 3 (0.086%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.086%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.086%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 3 (0.086%) vMotion
13 3 (0.086%) WSUS
14 2 (0.057%) Nessus
Vendors
1 532 (15.28%) Microsoft
2 254 (7.30%) SAP
3 197 (5.66%) ServiceNow
4 160 (4.60%) Oracle
5 96 (2.76%) Salesforce
6 94 (2.70%) Databricks
7 58 (1.67%) Google
8 48 (1.38%) IBM
9 47 (1.35%) Cisco
10 44 (1.26%) CyberArk
11 42 (1.21%) Splunk
12 38 (1.09%) VMware
13 37 (1.06%) Workday
14 30 (0.86%) BeyondTrust
15 26 (0.75%) Centrify
16 20 (0.57%) MuleSoft
16 20 (0.57%) Zscaler
17 19 (0.55%) Dynatrace
17 19 (0.55%) IFS
17 19 (0.55%) Palo Alto
1,466 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide