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

 6 months to
19 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 34 150
Rank change year-on-year +9 +116 +16
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,086 1,836 648
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.63% 5.59% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.00% 6.18% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,777 1,220 443
10th Percentile £363 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% -2.36% -
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 130 29 17
10th Percentile £25.49 £22.98 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £26.21 £26.25
Median hourly rate £74.50 £39.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +88.61% -32.25% +3.20%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £90.28 £74.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £32.39 £59.45
% change year-on-year +146.97% -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 45,377 29,691 33,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.71% 90.48% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,881 18,495 21,183
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% -3.58%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,839 1,731 1,775
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.38 £17.30 £18.15
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% +0.61%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.30 £42.50
% change year-on-year +88.67% -45.18% +18.88%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +7 3,467 £540 -1.82% 1,622
UK excluding London +11 1,932 £525 - 1,123
London +6 1,678 £550 - 728
Work from Home +16 1,375 £525 - 843
South East +15 517 £555 +0.91% 326
North of England +11 494 £500 -3.15% 255
Midlands +12 336 £500 -1.38% 160
West Midlands +7 257 £500 -2.91% 113
North West +12 242 £500 -5.21% 142
South West +2 223 £550 - 178
Scotland +28 200 £500 +5.26% 71
Yorkshire +3 191 £500 +1.78% 77
East of England +20 121 £525 -13.15% 88
East Midlands +19 75 £525 +20.00% 47
North East +9 69 £453 -4.68% 39
Wales +12 54 £525 +23.53% 29
Northern Ireland +11 13 £430 -17.16% 29
Channel Islands 0 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
1 170 (4.16%) Confluence
2 149 (3.65%) SharePoint
3 36 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 31 (0.76%) Apache
5 31 (0.76%) CMS
6 27 (0.66%) SAS
7 25 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.15%) WordPress
9 4 (0.098%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.098%) OpenEdge
9 4 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.073%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.073%) Drupal
10 3 (0.073%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.073%) IIS
10 3 (0.073%) Kentico
10 3 (0.073%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.049%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.049%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 181 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 82 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 76 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
5 52 (1.27%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.15%) Navisworks
8 6 (0.15%) ProjectWise
8 6 (0.15%) Revit
8 6 (0.15%) Trello
9 4 (0.098%) Sketch
10 2 (0.049%) InDesign
10 2 (0.049%) InVision
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 141 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 61 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.59%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.37%) Primavera
6 14 (0.34%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 12 (0.29%) NetSuite
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.27%) Maximo
8 11 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
8 11 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 9 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 9 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
9 9 (0.22%) SAP CO
9 9 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 8 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 822 (20.12%) Azure
2 547 (13.39%) AWS
3 437 (10.70%) Power Platform
4 208 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
5 196 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
6 189 (4.63%) GCP
7 151 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
8 138 (3.38%) Entra ID
9 98 (2.40%) SaaS
10 90 (2.20%) GitHub
10 90 (2.20%) Power Automate
11 71 (1.74%) PowerApps
11 71 (1.74%) Serverless
12 67 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
13 63 (1.54%) Snowflake
14 62 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
15 59 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
16 58 (1.42%) Amazon S3
17 57 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
18 44 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.59%) Firewall
2 63 (1.54%) Network Security
3 54 (1.32%) DNS
4 40 (0.98%) VPN
5 38 (0.93%) WAN
6 33 (0.81%) LAN
7 27 (0.66%) DHCP
8 24 (0.59%) TCP/IP
9 18 (0.44%) SD-WAN
9 18 (0.44%) Wireless
10 17 (0.42%) Internet
11 15 (0.37%) VLAN
12 14 (0.34%) BGP
13 13 (0.32%) 5G
14 12 (0.29%) Intranet
14 12 (0.29%) OSPF
15 11 (0.27%) Kerberos
15 11 (0.27%) SSL
15 11 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
16 9 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 352 (8.61%) Power BI
2 121 (2.96%) Metadata
3 95 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 85 (2.08%) Data Lake
5 69 (1.69%) SQL Server
6 43 (1.05%) Tableau
7 35 (0.86%) Power Query
8 33 (0.81%) Relational Database
9 28 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (0.59%) DynamoDB
11 21 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (0.51%) Oracle Database
12 20 (0.49%) Big Data
13 19 (0.47%) BigQuery
14 18 (0.44%) Data Vault
14 18 (0.44%) NoSQL
15 17 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
16 15 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
16 15 (0.37%) Looker
Development Applications
1 274 (6.71%) JIRA
2 93 (2.28%) Git
3 65 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.32%) GitLab
5 35 (0.86%) Selenium
6 32 (0.78%) Postman
7 29 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
8 19 (0.47%) WebDriver
9 18 (0.44%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.44%) Hudson
10 16 (0.39%) 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 (0.20%) Bitbucket
16 7 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
17 6 (0.15%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,859 (45.50%) Social Skills
2 1,137 (27.83%) Finance
3 773 (18.92%) Public Sector
4 663 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
5 214 (5.24%) Banking
6 208 (5.09%) Influencing Skills
7 170 (4.16%) Documentation Skills
8 151 (3.70%) Legal
9 149 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
10 137 (3.35%) Retail
11 109 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 101 (2.47%) Local Government
13 96 (2.35%) Manufacturing
14 91 (2.23%) Law
15 86 (2.10%) Marketing
16 81 (1.98%) Telecoms
17 77 (1.88%) Aerospace
18 60 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
19 57 (1.40%) Military
20 40 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 705 (17.25%) Analyst
2 613 (15.00%) Architect
3 507 (12.41%) Lead
4 422 (10.33%) Senior
5 415 (10.16%) Business Analyst
6 300 (7.34%) Project Manager
7 297 (7.27%) Consultant
8 200 (4.89%) Developer
9 173 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
10 125 (3.06%) Data Analyst
11 109 (2.67%) Data Architect
12 105 (2.57%) Change Manager
13 98 (2.40%) Delivery Manager
13 98 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
14 92 (2.25%) Senior Manager
15 83 (2.03%) Data Engineer
16 78 (1.91%) Designer
17 76 (1.86%) Security Architect
17 76 (1.86%) Technical Architect
18 74 (1.81%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (2.64%) REST
2 65 (1.59%) .NET
3 57 (1.40%) JSON
4 56 (1.37%) Middleware
5 50 (1.22%) Kafka
6 47 (1.15%) React
7 46 (1.13%) PySpark
8 44 (1.08%) Spring
9 43 (1.05%) SOAP
10 42 (1.03%) XML
11 38 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
12 37 (0.91%) Spring Boot
13 35 (0.86%) OAuth
14 34 (0.83%) Web Services
15 33 (0.81%) SAML
16 29 (0.71%) RESTful
17 28 (0.69%) LDAP
17 28 (0.69%) OpenID
18 26 (0.64%) HTML
18 26 (0.64%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 305 (7.46%) Product Ownership
2 229 (5.60%) Onboarding
3 185 (4.53%) Cloud Native
4 137 (3.35%) Management Information System
5 111 (2.72%) Data Structures
6 92 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 82 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
8 76 (1.86%) NHS
9 73 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
10 66 (1.62%) AI Agents
11 65 (1.59%) Operational Technology
12 62 (1.52%) Data Centre
13 58 (1.42%) CMDB
14 57 (1.40%) Virtual Team
15 50 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
15 50 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
16 47 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
17 43 (1.05%) Security Posture
18 35 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
19 29 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 131 (3.21%) Windows
2 77 (1.88%) Linux
3 34 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.39%) Unix
5 15 (0.37%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.17%) VMS
9 6 (0.15%) Android
9 6 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.049%) AIX
12 2 (0.049%) HPUX
12 2 (0.049%) Solaris
13 1 (0.024%) CentOS
13 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,250 (30.59%) Agile
2 954 (23.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 935 (22.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 611 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
5 600 (14.68%) Decision-Making
6 594 (14.54%) Migration
7 540 (13.22%) DevOps
8 538 (13.17%) Roadmaps
9 511 (12.51%) Workshop Facilitation
10 495 (12.11%) AI
11 473 (11.58%) Analytics
12 472 (11.55%) Change Management
13 449 (10.99%) CI/CD
14 405 (9.91%) Business Intelligence
15 398 (9.74%) Risk Management
16 390 (9.54%) Project Delivery
17 357 (8.74%) Cybersecurity
18 342 (8.37%) Data Modelling
19 329 (8.05%) User Acceptance Testing
20 328 (8.03%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 377 (9.23%) SQL
2 303 (7.42%) Python
3 133 (3.26%) Java
4 91 (2.23%) JavaScript
5 85 (2.08%) C#
6 79 (1.93%) PowerShell
7 54 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 46 (1.13%) TypeScript
9 45 (1.10%) Bash
10 27 (0.66%) Bicep
11 20 (0.49%) Scala
12 15 (0.37%) Kotlin
13 14 (0.34%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.34%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.34%) VBA
14 13 (0.32%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.24%) Korn
16 9 (0.22%) Groovy
17 7 (0.17%) ABAP
17 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,120 (27.41%) Security Cleared
2 833 (20.39%) SC Cleared
3 259 (6.34%) Degree
4 193 (4.72%) DV Cleared
5 143 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 123 (3.01%) PMI Certification
7 114 (2.79%) PMP
8 107 (2.62%) CISSP
9 75 (1.84%) Azure Certification
10 70 (1.71%) CISM
11 66 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
12 58 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
13 49 (1.20%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 36 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
16 32 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 30 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 26 (0.64%) ISTQB
19 25 (0.61%) APMG
20 24 (0.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 324 (7.93%) Data Quality
2 210 (5.14%) PMO
3 187 (4.58%) QA
4 179 (4.38%) GDPR
5 174 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 160 (3.92%) NIST
7 118 (2.89%) Accessibility
8 86 (2.10%) GRC
9 63 (1.54%) NCSC
10 42 (1.03%) SLA
11 34 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
12 32 (0.78%) WCAG
13 27 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.47%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.44%) SOC 2
16 16 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 16 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.29%) JSP 440
18 11 (0.27%) ISO 20022
19 10 (0.24%) NIST 800
System Software
1 135 (3.30%) Active Directory
2 92 (2.25%) Docker
3 52 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 20 (0.49%) vSphere
6 17 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.32%) 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%) Slurm Workload Manager
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
Systems Management
1 177 (4.33%) Terraform
2 156 (3.82%) Kubernetes
3 49 (1.20%) Ansible
4 41 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (0.83%) Grafana
5 34 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 15 (0.37%) SCCM
8 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
9 7 (0.17%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
10 5 (0.12%) vRealize
11 4 (0.098%) Istio
11 4 (0.098%) QRadar
11 4 (0.098%) VxRail
12 3 (0.073%) Cisco CUCM
12 3 (0.073%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.073%) Puppet
12 3 (0.073%) WSUS
Vendors
1 774 (18.94%) Microsoft
2 277 (6.78%) SAP
3 234 (5.73%) ServiceNow
4 184 (4.50%) Oracle
5 148 (3.62%) Databricks
6 113 (2.77%) Salesforce
7 87 (2.13%) Google
8 67 (1.64%) VMware
9 59 (1.44%) IBM
10 58 (1.42%) Cisco
11 51 (1.25%) Workday
12 44 (1.08%) Splunk
13 34 (0.83%) CyberArk
14 29 (0.71%) MuleSoft
15 25 (0.61%) Ariba
15 25 (0.61%) Zscaler
16 23 (0.56%) Palo Alto
17 22 (0.54%) Dynatrace
18 21 (0.51%) Okta
19 19 (0.47%) Citrix
1,856 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide