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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 28 136
Rank change year-on-year +3 +108 +26
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,156 2,058 690
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.65% 6.30% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.07% 6.96% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,828 1,377 439
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 35 11
10th Percentile £26.00 £23.80 £26.25
25th Percentile £41.00 £27.52 £38.25
Median hourly rate £65.20 £42.82 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +52.28% -26.56% +3.20%
75th Percentile £83.38 £64.45 £65.73
90th Percentile £89.88 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.70 £32.39 £59.45
% change year-on-year +108.98% -45.51% +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 45,811 29,562 32,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.30% 90.52% 85.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,773 18,345 20,161
10th Percentile £325 £300 £309
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 £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,152 1,818 1,440
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.23 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +0.58%
75th Percentile £67.47 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £66.15 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.06 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +84.00% -48.10% +1.18%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +4 3,487 £548 -0.45% 3,319
UK excluding London +8 1,917 £525 - 1,994
London +2 1,735 £550 - 1,622
Work from Home +8 1,419 £525 - 1,644
South East +8 497 £560 +4.28% 533
North of England +5 487 £500 -2.44% 476
Midlands +5 335 £500 -6.93% 290
West Midlands +4 266 £500 -4.76% 198
South West -3 229 £550 - 265
Scotland +25 226 £500 +8.70% 181
North West -1 220 £525 - 282
Yorkshire +1 197 £500 -2.53% 138
East of England +10 113 £525 -13.08% 158
North East +13 78 £450 - 59
East Midlands +10 67 £525 -4.55% 92
Wales +16 57 £525 +27.27% 33
Northern Ireland 0 6 £413 -21.43% 72
Channel Islands -3 4 £588 +27.03% 3

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
1 169 (4.07%) SharePoint
2 165 (3.97%) Confluence
3 37 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (0.87%) Apache
5 35 (0.84%) CMS
6 34 (0.82%) Apache Spark
7 26 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 26 (0.63%) SAS
8 9 (0.22%) Headless CMS
9 7 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.14%) WordPress
11 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.096%) OpenEdge
12 4 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.072%) Drupal
13 3 (0.072%) IIS
13 3 (0.072%) Kentico
14 2 (0.048%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.048%) Oracle Coherence
14 2 (0.048%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 188 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
3 86 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (1.37%) MS Visio
5 55 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.19%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.19%) Navisworks
7 8 (0.19%) ProjectWise
7 8 (0.19%) Revit
8 7 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.17%) Trello
9 3 (0.072%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.072%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.072%) Sketch
10 2 (0.048%) InDesign
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 126 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.53%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 15 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.29%) Maximo
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
8 11 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (0.26%) Primavera
8 11 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 10 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 9 (0.22%) SAP CO
10 9 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.22%) SAP SD
11 8 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 785 (18.89%) Azure
2 542 (13.04%) AWS
3 430 (10.35%) Power Platform
4 213 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
5 199 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
6 180 (4.33%) GCP
7 136 (3.27%) Entra ID
8 135 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
9 99 (2.38%) Power Automate
10 98 (2.36%) SaaS
11 89 (2.14%) GitHub
12 77 (1.85%) Microsoft Copilot
12 77 (1.85%) Snowflake
13 73 (1.76%) Serverless
14 71 (1.71%) PowerApps
15 70 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
16 64 (1.54%) Amazon S3
17 60 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
18 53 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
19 46 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 71 (1.71%) Network Security
2 69 (1.66%) Firewall
3 49 (1.18%) DNS
4 38 (0.91%) WAN
5 37 (0.89%) VPN
6 29 (0.70%) DHCP
6 29 (0.70%) LAN
7 24 (0.58%) TCP/IP
8 18 (0.43%) Internet
9 17 (0.41%) VLAN
9 17 (0.41%) Wireless
10 16 (0.38%) 5G
10 16 (0.38%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.29%) BGP
11 12 (0.29%) Kerberos
11 12 (0.29%) VoIP
12 11 (0.26%) Intranet
12 11 (0.26%) OSPF
12 11 (0.26%) SSL
12 11 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 331 (7.96%) Power BI
2 161 (3.87%) Metadata
3 95 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
4 93 (2.24%) Data Lake
5 75 (1.80%) SQL Server
6 42 (1.01%) Tableau
7 36 (0.87%) Relational Database
8 31 (0.75%) Power Query
9 29 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (0.65%) DynamoDB
11 25 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
12 24 (0.58%) BigQuery
13 23 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
14 22 (0.53%) Oracle Database
15 21 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
16 20 (0.48%) NoSQL
17 19 (0.46%) Big Data
17 19 (0.46%) MongoDB
18 18 (0.43%) Looker
18 18 (0.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 262 (6.30%) JIRA
2 93 (2.24%) Git
3 58 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 55 (1.32%) GitLab
5 29 (0.70%) Postman
6 27 (0.65%) Selenium
7 17 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.38%) Cucumber
8 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
9 14 (0.34%) Hudson
10 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (0.22%) ERwin
12 8 (0.19%) JMeter
12 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.17%) Zephyr
14 6 (0.14%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.14%) JUnit
14 6 (0.14%) Maven
14 6 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,940 (46.68%) Social Skills
2 1,128 (27.14%) Finance
3 850 (20.45%) Public Sector
4 692 (16.65%) Analytical Skills
5 251 (6.04%) Influencing Skills
6 231 (5.56%) Banking
7 181 (4.36%) Documentation Skills
8 175 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
9 143 (3.44%) Legal
10 133 (3.20%) Retail
11 120 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 116 (2.79%) Local Government
13 108 (2.60%) Manufacturing
14 83 (2.00%) Marketing
15 82 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
16 79 (1.90%) Telecoms
17 76 (1.83%) Military
18 71 (1.71%) Law
19 61 (1.47%) Aerospace
20 42 (1.01%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 702 (16.89%) Analyst
2 614 (14.77%) Architect
3 502 (12.08%) Lead
4 433 (10.42%) Senior
5 406 (9.77%) Business Analyst
6 302 (7.27%) Consultant
7 295 (7.10%) Project Manager
8 229 (5.51%) Developer
9 187 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
10 122 (2.94%) Data Architect
11 119 (2.86%) Data Analyst
12 112 (2.69%) Change Manager
13 105 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
14 89 (2.14%) Senior Manager
15 88 (2.12%) Data Engineer
15 88 (2.12%) Designer
16 87 (2.09%) Delivery Manager
17 83 (2.00%) Technical Architect
18 79 (1.90%) IT Manager
19 72 (1.73%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (4.36%) Terraform
2 125 (3.01%) REST
3 66 (1.59%) .NET
4 61 (1.47%) JSON
5 56 (1.35%) Kafka
6 53 (1.28%) SOAP
7 49 (1.18%) PySpark
8 47 (1.13%) XML
9 46 (1.11%) Middleware
10 45 (1.08%) Spring
11 43 (1.03%) React
12 42 (1.01%) Spring Boot
13 41 (0.99%) OAuth
13 41 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
14 36 (0.87%) RESTful
14 36 (0.87%) SAML
14 36 (0.87%) Web Services
15 33 (0.79%) OpenID
16 32 (0.77%) LDAP
17 29 (0.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 280 (6.74%) Product Ownership
2 245 (5.90%) Onboarding
3 186 (4.48%) Cloud Native
4 143 (3.44%) Management Information System
5 96 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
6 93 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
7 84 (2.02%) Data Structures
8 77 (1.85%) AI Agents
9 76 (1.83%) NHS
10 74 (1.78%) Operational Technology
11 71 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
12 67 (1.61%) Data Centre
13 60 (1.44%) Virtual Team
14 58 (1.40%) Security Posture
15 56 (1.35%) CMDB
16 53 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
17 47 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
18 44 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
19 31 (0.75%) PKI
20 27 (0.65%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 127 (3.06%) Windows
2 77 (1.85%) Linux
3 34 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.38%) Unix
5 14 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.17%) Android
7 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.14%) VMS
9 4 (0.096%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.096%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,258 (30.27%) Agile
2 1,087 (26.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 947 (22.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 669 (16.10%) Decision-Making
5 654 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
6 579 (13.93%) Roadmaps
7 563 (13.55%) Migration
8 543 (13.07%) Workshop Facilitation
9 528 (12.70%) DevOps
10 524 (12.61%) AI
11 484 (11.65%) Change Management
12 472 (11.36%) Analytics
13 443 (10.66%) CI/CD
14 418 (10.06%) Risk Management
15 397 (9.55%) Project Delivery
16 382 (9.19%) Business Intelligence
17 378 (9.10%) Cybersecurity
18 366 (8.81%) Data Governance
19 351 (8.45%) Data Modelling
20 338 (8.13%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 397 (9.55%) SQL
2 298 (7.17%) Python
3 129 (3.10%) Java
4 103 (2.48%) JavaScript
5 91 (2.19%) PowerShell
6 87 (2.09%) C#
7 52 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 50 (1.20%) Bash
9 45 (1.08%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.65%) Bicep
11 21 (0.51%) Scala
12 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.29%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.24%) Korn
16 9 (0.22%) Groovy
17 8 (0.19%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.19%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.17%) VBA
19 4 (0.096%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,182 (28.44%) Security Cleared
2 912 (21.94%) SC Cleared
3 258 (6.21%) Degree
4 201 (4.84%) DV Cleared
5 160 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 114 (2.74%) PMI Certification
7 110 (2.65%) CISSP
8 107 (2.57%) PMP
9 70 (1.68%) CISM
10 67 (1.61%) Azure Certification
10 67 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
11 59 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 44 (1.06%) AWS Certification
13 37 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 36 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
15 33 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 31 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
17 28 (0.67%) Master's Degree
18 26 (0.63%) ISTQB
19 25 (0.60%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 357 (8.59%) Data Quality
2 192 (4.62%) PMO
3 179 (4.31%) QA
4 176 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 167 (4.02%) GDPR
5 167 (4.02%) NIST
6 126 (3.03%) Accessibility
7 102 (2.45%) GRC
8 80 (1.92%) NCSC
9 40 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
10 39 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
11 36 (0.87%) WCAG
12 34 (0.82%) SLA
13 19 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 16 (0.38%) PCI DSS
15 15 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.34%) NIST 800
17 13 (0.31%) JSP 440
18 12 (0.29%) ITGC
19 11 (0.26%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 128 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 98 (2.36%) Docker
3 51 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.43%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.38%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.36%) vSphere
7 12 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.048%) Firmware
10 2 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.024%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.024%) IAG
11 1 (0.024%) KVM
11 1 (0.024%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 157 (3.78%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.18%) Ansible
3 41 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (0.77%) Grafana
5 30 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
6 28 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (0.26%) SCCM
9 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
10 6 (0.14%) VxRail
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
12 4 (0.096%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.096%) Istio
12 4 (0.096%) QRadar
12 4 (0.096%) vRealize
13 3 (0.072%) Argo
13 3 (0.072%) Kibana
13 3 (0.072%) McAfee ePO
13 3 (0.072%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.072%) Puppet
Vendors
1 821 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 252 (6.06%) SAP
3 227 (5.46%) ServiceNow
4 190 (4.57%) Oracle
5 160 (3.85%) Databricks
6 103 (2.48%) Salesforce
7 92 (2.21%) Google
8 68 (1.64%) VMware
9 62 (1.49%) Cisco
10 53 (1.28%) Splunk
10 53 (1.28%) Workday
11 41 (0.99%) IBM
12 33 (0.79%) CyberArk
13 28 (0.67%) Ariba
14 27 (0.65%) MuleSoft
15 24 (0.58%) Dynatrace
16 23 (0.55%) Informatica
16 23 (0.55%) Palo Alto
17 21 (0.51%) Okta
18 20 (0.48%) Adobe