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

 6 months to
18 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 34 146
Rank change year-on-year +9 +112 +21
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,101 1,831 649
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.66% 5.57% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.04% 6.16% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,779 1,216 444
10th Percentile £367 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £642 £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 133 29 17
10th Percentile £25.70 £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 £89.40 £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 45,374 29,740 33,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.47% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,858 18,514 21,188
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 £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,725 1,782
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £18.17
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% +0.86%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +19.72%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 3,483 £540 -1.82% 1,635
UK excluding London +12 1,942 £525 - 1,120
London +6 1,681 £550 - 735
Work from Home +18 1,381 £525 - 841
South East +17 520 £550 - 324
North of England +12 499 £500 -2.44% 258
Midlands +8 338 £500 -2.15% 159
West Midlands +10 258 £500 -2.91% 113
North West +10 244 £500 -4.99% 138
South West 0 225 £550 - 181
Scotland +30 198 £500 +5.26% 66
Yorkshire -2 194 £500 +1.78% 81
East of England +23 121 £529 -12.46% 91
East Midlands +16 76 £525 +20.00% 46
North East +11 69 £453 -4.68% 42
Wales +10 53 £513 +17.14% 26
Northern Ireland +9 13 £430 -17.16% 28
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
1 171 (4.17%) Confluence
2 150 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 36 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (0.80%) 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%) Appian
11 2 (0.049%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 181 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 82 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 76 (1.85%) 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
1 143 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 61 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (0.56%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.41%) 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
9 9 (0.22%) Teamcenter
10 8 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 831 (20.26%) Azure
2 546 (13.31%) AWS
3 442 (10.78%) Power Platform
4 207 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
5 199 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
6 191 (4.66%) GCP
7 151 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
8 138 (3.37%) Entra ID
9 98 (2.39%) SaaS
10 90 (2.19%) GitHub
10 90 (2.19%) Power Automate
11 72 (1.76%) PowerApps
12 71 (1.73%) Microsoft Copilot
13 70 (1.71%) Serverless
14 64 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
15 63 (1.54%) Snowflake
16 59 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
17 58 (1.41%) Amazon S3
18 57 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
19 44 (1.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.58%) Firewall
2 63 (1.54%) Network Security
3 54 (1.32%) DNS
4 40 (0.98%) VPN
5 38 (0.93%) WAN
6 33 (0.80%) LAN
7 27 (0.66%) DHCP
8 24 (0.59%) TCP/IP
9 18 (0.44%) SD-WAN
9 18 (0.44%) Wireless
10 16 (0.39%) 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%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 356 (8.68%) Power BI
2 121 (2.95%) Metadata
3 96 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
4 85 (2.07%) Data Lake
5 69 (1.68%) SQL Server
6 44 (1.07%) Tableau
7 35 (0.85%) Power Query
8 32 (0.78%) Relational Database
9 29 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
10 23 (0.56%) DynamoDB
11 22 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (0.51%) Oracle Database
13 20 (0.49%) Big Data
14 19 (0.46%) BigQuery
15 18 (0.44%) Data Vault
15 18 (0.44%) NoSQL
15 18 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
16 15 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
16 15 (0.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 274 (6.68%) JIRA
2 94 (2.29%) Git
3 65 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 55 (1.34%) GitLab
5 36 (0.88%) Selenium
6 32 (0.78%) Postman
7 30 (0.73%) Rational DOORS
8 20 (0.49%) WebDriver
9 19 (0.46%) Cucumber
10 18 (0.44%) Hudson
11 16 (0.39%) Cypress.io
11 16 (0.39%) JMeter
12 12 (0.29%) JUnit
12 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (0.27%) ERwin
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 1,867 (45.53%) Social Skills
2 1,143 (27.87%) Finance
3 775 (18.90%) Public Sector
4 667 (16.26%) Analytical Skills
5 215 (5.24%) Banking
6 207 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
7 168 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
8 154 (3.76%) Legal
9 148 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
10 138 (3.37%) Retail
11 110 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 101 (2.46%) Local Government
13 97 (2.37%) Manufacturing
14 90 (2.19%) Law
15 88 (2.15%) Marketing
16 81 (1.98%) Telecoms
17 80 (1.95%) Aerospace
18 60 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
19 59 (1.44%) Military
20 40 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 712 (17.36%) Analyst
2 612 (14.92%) Architect
3 509 (12.41%) Lead
4 424 (10.34%) Senior
5 420 (10.24%) Business Analyst
6 300 (7.32%) Project Manager
7 298 (7.27%) Consultant
8 199 (4.85%) Developer
9 173 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
10 126 (3.07%) Data Analyst
11 108 (2.63%) Data Architect
12 105 (2.56%) Change Manager
13 100 (2.44%) Delivery Manager
14 99 (2.41%) Senior Analyst
15 91 (2.22%) Senior Manager
16 84 (2.05%) Data Engineer
17 79 (1.93%) Designer
18 76 (1.85%) Security Architect
18 76 (1.85%) Technical Architect
19 74 (1.80%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (2.61%) REST
2 64 (1.56%) .NET
3 57 (1.39%) JSON
4 56 (1.37%) Middleware
5 49 (1.19%) Kafka
6 47 (1.15%) React
7 46 (1.12%) PySpark
8 45 (1.10%) Spring
9 43 (1.05%) SOAP
10 42 (1.02%) XML
11 38 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
12 37 (0.90%) Spring Boot
13 35 (0.85%) OAuth
14 34 (0.83%) Web Services
15 33 (0.80%) SAML
16 28 (0.68%) LDAP
16 28 (0.68%) OpenID
16 28 (0.68%) RESTful
17 26 (0.63%) HTML
17 26 (0.63%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 306 (7.46%) Product Ownership
2 228 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 183 (4.46%) Cloud Native
4 136 (3.32%) Management Information System
5 111 (2.71%) Data Structures
6 90 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
7 82 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
8 75 (1.83%) NHS
9 73 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
10 65 (1.58%) AI Agents
10 65 (1.58%) Operational Technology
11 62 (1.51%) Data Centre
12 59 (1.44%) CMDB
13 57 (1.39%) Virtual Team
14 51 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
15 49 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
16 47 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
17 42 (1.02%) Security Posture
18 34 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
19 31 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 132 (3.22%) 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 1,249 (30.46%) Agile
2 951 (23.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 936 (22.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 613 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
5 599 (14.61%) Decision-Making
6 597 (14.56%) Migration
7 539 (13.14%) DevOps
8 537 (13.09%) Roadmaps
9 515 (12.56%) Workshop Facilitation
10 498 (12.14%) AI
11 474 (11.56%) Analytics
11 474 (11.56%) Change Management
12 449 (10.95%) CI/CD
13 406 (9.90%) Business Intelligence
14 397 (9.68%) Risk Management
15 388 (9.46%) Project Delivery
16 355 (8.66%) Cybersecurity
17 348 (8.49%) Data Modelling
18 330 (8.05%) ERP
19 329 (8.02%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 380 (9.27%) SQL
2 306 (7.46%) Python
3 131 (3.19%) Java
4 90 (2.19%) JavaScript
5 84 (2.05%) C#
6 80 (1.95%) PowerShell
7 54 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 46 (1.12%) TypeScript
9 45 (1.10%) Bash
10 27 (0.66%) Bicep
11 19 (0.46%) Scala
12 14 (0.34%) Kotlin
12 14 (0.34%) PL/SQL
12 14 (0.34%) T-SQL
12 14 (0.34%) VBA
13 13 (0.32%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.24%) Korn
15 9 (0.22%) Groovy
16 7 (0.17%) ABAP
16 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,122 (27.36%) Security Cleared
2 836 (20.39%) SC Cleared
3 260 (6.34%) Degree
4 193 (4.71%) DV Cleared
5 143 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 124 (3.02%) PMI Certification
7 115 (2.80%) PMP
8 107 (2.61%) CISSP
9 75 (1.83%) Azure Certification
10 69 (1.68%) CISM
11 66 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
12 58 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
13 50 (1.22%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 36 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
16 32 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 30 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 26 (0.63%) ISTQB
19 25 (0.61%) APMG
20 24 (0.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 325 (7.92%) Data Quality
2 210 (5.12%) PMO
3 189 (4.61%) QA
4 181 (4.41%) GDPR
5 173 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 159 (3.88%) NIST
7 118 (2.88%) Accessibility
8 85 (2.07%) GRC
9 61 (1.49%) NCSC
10 43 (1.05%) SLA
11 34 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
12 32 (0.78%) WCAG
13 27 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.46%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.44%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 12 (0.29%) JSP 440
19 11 (0.27%) ISO 20022
20 10 (0.24%) NIST 800
System Software
1 135 (3.29%) Active Directory
2 92 (2.24%) Docker
3 51 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 20 (0.49%) vSphere
6 17 (0.41%) 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
1 176 (4.29%) Terraform
2 156 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 49 (1.19%) Ansible
4 42 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (0.85%) Grafana
6 34 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
7 33 (0.80%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 15 (0.37%) SCCM
9 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.17%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 5 (0.12%) vRealize
12 4 (0.098%) Istio
12 4 (0.098%) QRadar
12 4 (0.098%) VxRail
13 3 (0.073%) Argo
13 3 (0.073%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.073%) Puppet
13 3 (0.073%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 779 (19.00%) Microsoft
2 279 (6.80%) SAP
3 238 (5.80%) ServiceNow
4 183 (4.46%) Oracle
5 148 (3.61%) Databricks
6 113 (2.76%) Salesforce
7 87 (2.12%) Google
8 66 (1.61%) VMware
9 60 (1.46%) IBM
10 58 (1.41%) Cisco
11 50 (1.22%) Workday
12 44 (1.07%) 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 (0.46%) Citrix
1,852 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide