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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 57 154
Rank change year-on-year +31 +97 +2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,335 1,136 679
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.79% 3.93% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.01% 4.32% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,260 757 481
10th Percentile £370 £375 £363
25th Percentile £442 £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 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £524
% change year-on-year - -4.53% +1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 16 38
10th Percentile £25.27 £27.00 £18.35
25th Percentile £44.75 £32.05 £27.81
Median hourly rate £68.00 £48.50 £36.23
Median % change year-on-year +40.21% +33.87% +70.09%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.88 £57.45
90th Percentile £93.25 £74.49 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 £67.50 £57.33
% change year-on-year +10.37% +17.74% +174.31%

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 41,610 26,282 36,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.67% 91.03% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,026 16,812 23,631
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £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 2,481 1,100 2,513
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.30 £27.97 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.26% -23.38% -1.35%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.88 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -33.82% +8.57%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +29 2,854 £535 +1.87% 703
UK excluding London +37 1,586 £500 - 583
London +30 1,339 £550 - 271
Work from Home +42 1,050 £525 +3.45% 379
North of England +25 421 £492 -1.01% 141
South East +23 364 £533 +11.04% 208
Midlands +29 322 £500 -0.05% 98
West Midlands +20 219 £492 -1.80% 65
North West +30 205 £475 -5.00% 72
South West +17 193 £525 -4.55% 56
Yorkshire +7 179 £514 +8.21% 50
Scotland +40 133 £475 -9.91% 30
East of England +26 114 £575 +15.00% 36
East Midlands +24 98 £523 +16.11% 31
North East +8 43 £450 -11.33% 19
Wales +15 41 £475 +50.55% 20
Northern Ireland +17 16 £449 -22.84% 4
Channel Islands -1 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
1 178 (5.34%) Confluence
2 94 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 24 (0.72%) SAS
4 20 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.45%) Apache
6 15 (0.45%) CMS
7 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.12%) WordPress
8 3 (0.090%) Appian
8 3 (0.090%) Drupal
9 2 (0.060%) Camunda
9 2 (0.060%) Kentico
9 2 (0.060%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.060%) Oracle Service Bus
9 2 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.060%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 154 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
3 67 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
5 61 (1.83%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.12%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.12%) Sketch
9 3 (0.090%) Notion
10 2 (0.060%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.060%) InVision
10 2 (0.060%) Trello
11 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.030%) CATIA
11 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.030%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.030%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 133 (3.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.45%) Teamcenter
4 11 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 10 (0.30%) SAP ERP
5 10 (0.30%) SAP FI
6 9 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.24%) Maximo
7 8 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 8 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 8 (0.24%) SAP QM
7 8 (0.24%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.21%) Primavera
9 6 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 641 (19.22%) Azure
2 447 (13.40%) AWS
3 312 (9.36%) Power Platform
4 165 (4.95%) GCP
5 129 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
6 114 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
7 102 (3.06%) Entra ID
8 101 (3.03%) SaaS
9 98 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
10 67 (2.01%) GitHub
11 53 (1.59%) Serverless
12 47 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
13 43 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
14 40 (1.20%) PaaS
15 37 (1.11%) Amazon S3
16 36 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
17 35 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
17 35 (1.05%) Power Automate
18 34 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
18 34 (1.02%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 55 (1.65%) Firewall
2 52 (1.56%) Network Security
3 36 (1.08%) DNS
4 24 (0.72%) VPN
4 24 (0.72%) WAN
5 20 (0.60%) LAN
6 14 (0.42%) Wireless
7 13 (0.39%) Internet
8 12 (0.36%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.30%) BGP
9 10 (0.30%) DHCP
9 10 (0.30%) VLAN
9 10 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.27%) NGFW
10 9 (0.27%) OSPF
10 9 (0.27%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.27%) SSL
11 8 (0.24%) Intranet
11 8 (0.24%) SAN
11 8 (0.24%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (7.95%) Power BI
2 75 (2.25%) Metadata
3 63 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (1.11%) Tableau
5 33 (0.99%) Data Lake
6 29 (0.87%) Power Query
6 29 (0.87%) SQL Server
7 26 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (0.78%) Relational Database
8 17 (0.51%) NoSQL
8 17 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
9 15 (0.45%) Big Data
9 15 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
10 14 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (0.42%) MySQL
11 13 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
12 12 (0.36%) Data Vault
12 12 (0.36%) DynamoDB
13 11 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (0.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 289 (8.67%) JIRA
2 59 (1.77%) Jenkins
3 54 (1.62%) GitLab
4 52 (1.56%) Git
5 32 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
6 27 (0.81%) Postman
6 27 (0.81%) Selenium
7 21 (0.63%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.54%) Hudson
9 17 (0.51%) JMeter
10 11 (0.33%) JUnit
10 11 (0.33%) WebDriver
11 9 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (0.24%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.21%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.18%) ERwin
14 6 (0.18%) LoadRunner
14 6 (0.18%) MLflow
14 6 (0.18%) TestRail
15 5 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 1,542 (46.24%) Social Skills
2 969 (29.06%) Finance
3 525 (15.74%) Public Sector
4 510 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
5 199 (5.97%) Banking
6 135 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
7 127 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
8 120 (3.60%) Legal
9 93 (2.79%) Retail
10 89 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
11 86 (2.58%) Law
12 78 (2.34%) Manufacturing
13 67 (2.01%) Aerospace
13 67 (2.01%) Local Government
14 58 (1.74%) Marketing
15 55 (1.65%) Telecoms
16 46 (1.38%) Military
17 45 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 38 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
19 35 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 610 (18.29%) Analyst
2 509 (15.26%) Architect
3 428 (12.83%) Lead
4 413 (12.38%) Business Analyst
5 305 (9.15%) Senior
6 285 (8.55%) Project Manager
7 251 (7.53%) Consultant
8 129 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
9 94 (2.82%) Change Manager
10 93 (2.79%) Delivery Manager
11 90 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
12 87 (2.61%) Data Analyst
13 86 (2.58%) Developer
14 82 (2.46%) Programme Manager
15 73 (2.19%) Senior Manager
16 71 (2.13%) Designer
17 66 (1.98%) Senior Business Analyst
18 60 (1.80%) Data Architect
19 59 (1.77%) IT Manager
19 59 (1.77%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (3.54%) REST
2 60 (1.80%) SOAP
3 58 (1.74%) LDAP
4 55 (1.65%) Middleware
5 38 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
6 35 (1.05%) React
6 35 (1.05%) Spring
7 33 (0.99%) OpenID
8 32 (0.96%) Kafka
8 32 (0.96%) SailPoint
9 29 (0.87%) OAuth
10 27 (0.81%) .NET
10 27 (0.81%) Spring Boot
11 24 (0.72%) JSON
12 22 (0.66%) XML
13 20 (0.60%) SAML
14 19 (0.57%) CSS
14 19 (0.57%) Node.js
14 19 (0.57%) PySpark
14 19 (0.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 228 (6.84%) Product Ownership
2 151 (4.53%) Onboarding
3 143 (4.29%) Cloud Native
4 84 (2.52%) Data Structures
5 79 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
6 77 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 71 (2.13%) Operational Technology
7 71 (2.13%) Security Posture
8 65 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
9 58 (1.74%) Data Centre
10 53 (1.59%) NHS
11 52 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
12 49 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
13 43 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
14 41 (1.23%) Virtual Team
15 37 (1.11%) CMDB
16 34 (1.02%) AI Agents
17 33 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
18 30 (0.90%) Public Cloud
19 28 (0.84%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 94 (2.82%) Windows
2 47 (1.41%) Linux
3 22 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (0.36%) Unix
5 12 (0.36%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.21%) VMS
8 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.12%) Android
10 3 (0.090%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.090%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.090%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 896 (26.87%) Agile
2 650 (19.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 642 (19.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 492 (14.75%) Migration
5 464 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
6 448 (13.43%) Decision-Making
7 437 (13.10%) Roadmaps
8 421 (12.62%) Change Management
9 386 (11.57%) Workshop Facilitation
10 376 (11.27%) DevOps
11 340 (10.19%) Analytics
12 321 (9.63%) AI
13 318 (9.54%) Risk Management
14 306 (9.18%) Project Management
15 305 (9.15%) Business Intelligence
16 301 (9.03%) ERP
17 277 (8.31%) Cybersecurity
18 273 (8.19%) CI/CD
18 273 (8.19%) Project Delivery
19 262 (7.86%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 254 (7.62%) SQL
2 253 (7.59%) Python
3 111 (3.33%) Java
4 86 (2.58%) PowerShell
5 51 (1.53%) JavaScript
6 37 (1.11%) TypeScript
7 36 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 34 (1.02%) C#
9 33 (0.99%) Bash
10 21 (0.63%) Bicep
11 19 (0.57%) VBA
12 14 (0.42%) Scala
13 11 (0.33%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.30%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.30%) PHP
15 8 (0.24%) Korn
15 8 (0.24%) R
16 6 (0.18%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.15%) ABAP
18 4 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 830 (24.89%) Security Cleared
2 659 (19.76%) SC Cleared
3 264 (7.92%) Degree
4 126 (3.78%) DV Cleared
5 110 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 110 (3.30%) PMI Certification
6 106 (3.18%) PMP
7 83 (2.49%) CISSP
8 61 (1.83%) CISM
9 45 (1.35%) Azure Certification
10 41 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
12 31 (0.93%) AWS Certification
13 29 (0.87%) Master's Degree
14 27 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 26 (0.78%) ACCA
15 26 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
16 25 (0.75%) CIMA
16 25 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
17 23 (0.69%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (6.54%) Data Quality
2 167 (5.01%) QA
3 160 (4.80%) PMO
4 143 (4.29%) NIST
5 138 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 128 (3.84%) GDPR
7 83 (2.49%) Accessibility
8 64 (1.92%) GRC
9 32 (0.96%) NCSC
10 31 (0.93%) SLA
11 27 (0.81%) PCI DSS
12 26 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
13 25 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
14 20 (0.60%) WCAG
15 18 (0.54%) SOC 2
16 15 (0.45%) ISO 20022
17 11 (0.33%) COBIT
17 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 11 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 10 (0.30%) Basel III
System Software
1 103 (3.09%) Active Directory
2 62 (1.86%) Docker
3 28 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.39%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.36%) vSphere
6 7 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.15%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.090%) NFS
10 2 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.030%) Firmware
11 1 (0.030%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.030%) KVM
11 1 (0.030%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 119 (3.57%) Terraform
2 113 (3.39%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.14%) Ansible
4 30 (0.90%) Grafana
5 28 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 27 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.45%) SCCM
9 13 (0.39%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.18%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.15%) Istio
12 5 (0.15%) vRealize
13 4 (0.12%) Podman
14 3 (0.090%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.090%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.090%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.090%) vMotion
14 3 (0.090%) WSUS
15 2 (0.060%) Nessus
Vendors
1 502 (15.05%) Microsoft
2 258 (7.74%) SAP
3 180 (5.40%) ServiceNow
4 154 (4.62%) Oracle
5 92 (2.76%) Salesforce
6 87 (2.61%) Databricks
7 58 (1.74%) Google
8 53 (1.59%) CyberArk
9 46 (1.38%) IBM
9 46 (1.38%) VMware
10 41 (1.23%) Cisco
10 41 (1.23%) Splunk
11 39 (1.17%) BeyondTrust
12 34 (1.02%) Centrify
12 34 (1.02%) Workday
13 21 (0.63%) Zscaler
14 20 (0.60%) Adobe
14 20 (0.60%) Dynatrace
14 20 (0.60%) Palo Alto
15 19 (0.57%) IFS
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