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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 28 136
Rank change year-on-year +3 +108 +20
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,184 2,069 690
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.66% 6.29% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.08% 6.95% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,847 1,386 439
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% -2.64% -
75th Percentile £639 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 34 11
10th Percentile £26.10 £25.47 £26.25
25th Percentile £41.00 £29.12 £38.25
Median hourly rate £65.40 £44.91 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +45.63% -22.97% +3.20%
75th Percentile £83.75 £64.79 £65.73
90th Percentile £91.50 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.70 £32.74 £59.45
% change year-on-year +106.80% -44.94% +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 46,068 29,787 33,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.40% 90.53% 85.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,926 18,499 20,227
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 3,164 1,816 1,455
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.23 £14.90
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% -1.91%
75th Percentile £67.48 £44.05 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.91% -47.67% +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 20 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 20 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 20 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 3,512 £549 -0.23% 2,771
UK excluding London +8 1,930 £525 - 1,705
London +2 1,747 £550 - 1,317
Work from Home +9 1,430 £525 - 1,357
South East +7 497 £560 +4.38% 475
North of England +5 492 £500 -2.44% 416
Midlands +7 338 £500 -6.93% 252
West Midlands +3 267 £500 -4.76% 174
South West -1 232 £550 - 206
Scotland +22 227 £500 +11.11% 151
North West 0 223 £525 - 246
Yorkshire -3 199 £500 -1.19% 120
East of England +12 114 £525 -13.08% 126
North East +12 78 £450 - 53
East Midlands +9 68 £525 -4.55% 78
Wales +16 57 £525 +27.27% 33
Northern Ireland 0 6 £413 -21.43% 57
Channel Islands -3 4 £588 +27.03% 4

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 (4.04%) SharePoint
2 165 (3.94%) Confluence
3 37 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (0.86%) Apache
5 35 (0.84%) CMS
6 34 (0.81%) Apache Spark
7 26 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 26 (0.62%) 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%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.048%) Appian
14 2 (0.048%) GeoServer
Applications
1 188 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 87 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (1.36%) MS Visio
5 55 (1.31%) 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 XD
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Notion
11 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 128 (3.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.53%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.45%) 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
1 787 (18.81%) Azure
2 546 (13.05%) AWS
3 431 (10.30%) Power Platform
4 213 (5.09%) Microsoft 365
5 200 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
6 180 (4.30%) GCP
7 138 (3.30%) Entra ID
8 137 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
9 100 (2.39%) SaaS
10 99 (2.37%) Power Automate
11 88 (2.10%) GitHub
12 76 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
12 76 (1.82%) Snowflake
13 72 (1.72%) Serverless
14 71 (1.70%) PowerApps
15 70 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
16 64 (1.53%) Amazon S3
17 59 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
18 53 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
19 46 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 72 (1.72%) Network Security
2 69 (1.65%) Firewall
3 50 (1.20%) DNS
4 38 (0.91%) WAN
5 37 (0.88%) VPN
6 29 (0.69%) DHCP
6 29 (0.69%) LAN
7 24 (0.57%) 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
1 333 (7.96%) Power BI
2 161 (3.85%) Metadata
3 94 (2.25%) Data Lake
3 94 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
4 74 (1.77%) SQL Server
5 42 (1.00%) Tableau
6 36 (0.86%) Relational Database
7 30 (0.72%) Power Query
8 29 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (0.65%) DynamoDB
10 25 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
11 24 (0.57%) BigQuery
12 23 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 22 (0.53%) Oracle Database
14 21 (0.50%) Semantic Layer
15 20 (0.48%) NoSQL
16 19 (0.45%) Big Data
16 19 (0.45%) MongoDB
17 18 (0.43%) Data Vault
17 18 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 262 (6.26%) JIRA
2 93 (2.22%) Git
3 58 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 55 (1.31%) GitLab
5 29 (0.69%) Postman
6 27 (0.65%) Selenium
7 17 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.38%) Cucumber
8 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
9 14 (0.33%) 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%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.14%) MLflow
14 6 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 1,946 (46.51%) Social Skills
2 1,139 (27.22%) Finance
3 857 (20.48%) Public Sector
4 700 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
5 251 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
6 232 (5.54%) Banking
7 184 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
8 175 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
9 147 (3.51%) Legal
10 134 (3.20%) Retail
11 120 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 118 (2.82%) Local Government
13 108 (2.58%) Manufacturing
14 84 (2.01%) Marketing
15 82 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
16 81 (1.94%) Telecoms
17 77 (1.84%) Military
18 76 (1.82%) Law
19 61 (1.46%) Aerospace
20 42 (1.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 706 (16.87%) Analyst
2 620 (14.82%) Architect
3 505 (12.07%) Lead
4 434 (10.37%) Senior
5 409 (9.78%) Business Analyst
6 305 (7.29%) Consultant
7 297 (7.10%) Project Manager
8 229 (5.47%) Developer
9 187 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
10 123 (2.94%) Data Architect
11 119 (2.84%) Data Analyst
12 114 (2.72%) Change Manager
13 105 (2.51%) Senior Analyst
14 90 (2.15%) Senior Manager
15 88 (2.10%) Data Engineer
15 88 (2.10%) Delivery Manager
15 88 (2.10%) Designer
16 83 (1.98%) Technical Architect
17 79 (1.89%) IT Manager
18 73 (1.74%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (4.33%) Terraform
2 124 (2.96%) REST
3 66 (1.58%) .NET
4 61 (1.46%) JSON
5 56 (1.34%) Kafka
6 53 (1.27%) SOAP
7 49 (1.17%) PySpark
8 47 (1.12%) XML
9 46 (1.10%) Middleware
10 45 (1.08%) Spring
11 43 (1.03%) React
12 42 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
12 42 (1.00%) Spring Boot
13 41 (0.98%) OAuth
14 36 (0.86%) RESTful
14 36 (0.86%) SAML
14 36 (0.86%) Web Services
15 33 (0.79%) OpenID
16 32 (0.76%) LDAP
17 29 (0.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 280 (6.69%) Product Ownership
2 249 (5.95%) Onboarding
3 188 (4.49%) Cloud Native
4 147 (3.51%) Management Information System
5 96 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
6 93 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 84 (2.01%) Data Structures
8 76 (1.82%) AI Agents
8 76 (1.82%) NHS
9 74 (1.77%) Operational Technology
10 72 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
11 67 (1.60%) Data Centre
12 60 (1.43%) Virtual Team
13 58 (1.39%) Security Posture
14 56 (1.34%) CMDB
15 53 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
16 47 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
17 44 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
18 31 (0.74%) PKI
19 27 (0.65%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 127 (3.04%) Windows
2 77 (1.84%) Linux
3 34 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.38%) Unix
5 14 (0.33%) 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 1,266 (30.26%) Agile
2 1,093 (26.12%) Stakeholder Management
3 953 (22.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 676 (16.16%) Decision-Making
5 658 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
6 583 (13.93%) Roadmaps
7 570 (13.62%) Migration
8 547 (13.07%) Workshop Facilitation
9 529 (12.64%) DevOps
10 526 (12.57%) AI
11 488 (11.66%) Change Management
12 475 (11.35%) Analytics
13 444 (10.61%) CI/CD
14 426 (10.18%) Risk Management
15 401 (9.58%) Project Delivery
16 385 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
16 385 (9.20%) Cybersecurity
17 368 (8.80%) Data Governance
18 353 (8.44%) Data Modelling
19 338 (8.08%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 396 (9.46%) SQL
2 297 (7.10%) Python
3 129 (3.08%) Java
4 103 (2.46%) JavaScript
5 91 (2.17%) PowerShell
6 87 (2.08%) C#
7 51 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 50 (1.20%) Bash
9 45 (1.08%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.65%) Bicep
11 21 (0.50%) Scala
12 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.33%) 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%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,185 (28.32%) Security Cleared
2 915 (21.87%) SC Cleared
3 258 (6.17%) Degree
4 201 (4.80%) DV Cleared
5 161 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 116 (2.77%) PMI Certification
7 111 (2.65%) CISSP
8 109 (2.61%) PMP
9 71 (1.70%) CISM
10 68 (1.63%) Azure Certification
11 67 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
12 59 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
13 45 (1.08%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 36 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
16 33 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 32 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
18 28 (0.67%) Master's Degree
19 27 (0.65%) ISTQB
20 25 (0.60%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 355 (8.48%) Data Quality
2 194 (4.64%) PMO
3 182 (4.35%) QA
4 177 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 170 (4.06%) NIST
6 169 (4.04%) GDPR
7 126 (3.01%) Accessibility
8 104 (2.49%) GRC
9 82 (1.96%) NCSC
10 40 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
11 39 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
12 36 (0.86%) WCAG
13 34 (0.81%) SLA
14 19 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 17 (0.41%) PCI DSS
16 16 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 15 (0.36%) NIST 800
18 13 (0.31%) JSP 440
19 12 (0.29%) ITGC
20 11 (0.26%) GxP
System Software
1 129 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 98 (2.34%) Docker
3 51 (1.22%) 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 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.17%) Ansible
3 41 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (0.76%) Grafana
5 31 (0.74%) 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
1 825 (19.72%) Microsoft
2 255 (6.09%) SAP
3 228 (5.45%) ServiceNow
4 191 (4.57%) Oracle
5 161 (3.85%) Databricks
6 103 (2.46%) Salesforce
7 92 (2.20%) Google
8 68 (1.63%) VMware
9 62 (1.48%) Cisco
10 53 (1.27%) Splunk
10 53 (1.27%) Workday
11 41 (0.98%) IBM
12 34 (0.81%) CyberArk
13 28 (0.67%) Ariba
14 27 (0.65%) MuleSoft
15 24 (0.57%) Dynatrace
15 24 (0.57%) Informatica
16 23 (0.55%) Palo Alto
17 21 (0.50%) Okta
18 20 (0.48%) Adobe