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

 6 months to
2 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 30 142
Rank change year-on-year +5 +112 +19
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,129 1,931 673
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.71% 5.94% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.11% 6.57% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,791 1,300 451
10th Percentile £363 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £648 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £504
% change year-on-year - +4.22% -4.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 33 16
10th Percentile £24.28 £25.36 £19.80
25th Percentile £49.50 £30.11 £26.44
Median hourly rate £67.89 £47.00 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +44.45% -19.21% +2.98%
75th Percentile £87.04 £63.75 £71.54
90th Percentile £94.63 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £73.60 £45.12 £58.30
% change year-on-year +63.13% -22.61% +3.20%

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 45,329 29,411 32,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 90.42% 85.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,714 18,306 20,733
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% -3.54%
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 2,913 1,754 1,602
10th Percentile £14.07 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.30 £18.79
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.49% -47.37% +14.67%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 3,498 £546 -0.73% 2,230
UK excluding London +7 1,937 £525 - 1,411
London +4 1,716 £550 - 1,118
Work from Home +11 1,402 £525 - 1,127
South East +12 512 £569 +3.36% 382
North of England +7 493 £500 -2.25% 299
Midlands +8 342 £505 -1.94% 200
West Midlands +7 263 £500 -2.91% 145
North West +4 240 £506 -3.69% 180
South West +1 223 £550 - 227
Scotland +30 215 £500 +8.70% 113
Yorkshire -1 195 £500 - 72
East of England +22 121 £533 -11.98% 124
East Midlands +21 74 £525 +20.00% 55
North East +4 66 £450 - 51
Wales +10 54 £525 +23.53% 23
Northern Ireland +3 9 £413 -20.48% 59
Channel Islands -2 2 £563 +21.62% 2

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
1 175 (4.24%) Confluence
2 160 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 35 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 34 (0.82%) CMS
5 32 (0.78%) Apache
6 28 (0.68%) SAS
7 27 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.17%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.15%) WordPress
10 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.097%) OpenEdge
12 3 (0.073%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.073%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.073%) Drupal
12 3 (0.073%) IIS
12 3 (0.073%) Kentico
12 3 (0.073%) SharePoint 2013
12 3 (0.073%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.048%) Anypoint
Applications
1 185 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 83 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (1.40%) MS Visio
5 57 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.17%) Trello
9 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.15%) Navisworks
9 6 (0.15%) ProjectWise
9 6 (0.15%) Revit
10 4 (0.097%) Sketch
11 2 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.048%) InDesign
11 2 (0.048%) InVision
11 2 (0.048%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 135 (3.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 66 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.58%) Workday HCM
4 20 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 13 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 13 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.27%) Maximo
8 11 (0.27%) Primavera
8 11 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 9 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
9 9 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
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 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 806 (19.52%) Azure
2 546 (13.22%) AWS
3 443 (10.73%) Power Platform
4 205 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
5 197 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
6 183 (4.43%) GCP
7 154 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
8 141 (3.41%) Entra ID
9 95 (2.30%) SaaS
10 93 (2.25%) Power Automate
11 89 (2.16%) GitHub
12 72 (1.74%) PowerApps
13 71 (1.72%) Serverless
14 70 (1.70%) Snowflake
15 68 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
16 63 (1.53%) Microsoft Purview
17 60 (1.45%) Amazon S3
18 58 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
19 56 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
20 45 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.65%) Firewall
2 67 (1.62%) Network Security
3 52 (1.26%) DNS
4 42 (1.02%) WAN
5 40 (0.97%) VPN
6 34 (0.82%) LAN
7 27 (0.65%) DHCP
8 24 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 20 (0.48%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.44%) Wireless
11 17 (0.41%) Internet
12 16 (0.39%) 5G
12 16 (0.39%) VLAN
13 14 (0.34%) BGP
13 14 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (0.31%) Intranet
14 13 (0.31%) OSPF
15 12 (0.29%) SSL
15 12 (0.29%) VoIP
16 11 (0.27%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 353 (8.55%) Power BI
2 139 (3.37%) Metadata
3 95 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
4 91 (2.20%) Data Lake
5 71 (1.72%) SQL Server
6 44 (1.07%) Tableau
7 36 (0.87%) Relational Database
8 33 (0.80%) Power Query
9 31 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (0.58%) DynamoDB
11 23 (0.56%) Oracle Database
12 21 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 20 (0.48%) NoSQL
14 19 (0.46%) Big Data
14 19 (0.46%) BigQuery
14 19 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
15 17 (0.41%) Data Vault
16 16 (0.39%) Looker
17 15 (0.36%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 272 (6.59%) JIRA
2 95 (2.30%) Git
3 61 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 56 (1.36%) GitLab
5 31 (0.75%) Selenium
6 29 (0.70%) Postman
7 18 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
7 18 (0.44%) WebDriver
8 17 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 16 (0.39%) Hudson
10 15 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.29%) JMeter
11 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (0.27%) ERwin
13 10 (0.24%) JUnit
14 9 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
15 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.19%) Zephyr
16 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
17 6 (0.15%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,899 (45.99%) Social Skills
2 1,143 (27.68%) Finance
3 814 (19.71%) Public Sector
4 683 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
5 229 (5.55%) Influencing Skills
6 224 (5.43%) Banking
7 173 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
8 163 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
9 150 (3.63%) Legal
10 139 (3.37%) Retail
11 117 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 109 (2.64%) Local Government
13 89 (2.16%) Manufacturing
14 88 (2.13%) Law
14 88 (2.13%) Telecoms
15 84 (2.03%) Marketing
16 68 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
17 66 (1.60%) Aerospace
17 66 (1.60%) Military
18 40 (0.97%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 702 (17.00%) Analyst
2 631 (15.28%) Architect
3 513 (12.42%) Lead
4 424 (10.27%) Senior
5 403 (9.76%) Business Analyst
6 302 (7.31%) Consultant
7 298 (7.22%) Project Manager
8 213 (5.16%) Developer
9 182 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
10 120 (2.91%) Data Analyst
11 119 (2.88%) Data Architect
12 111 (2.69%) Change Manager
13 98 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
14 93 (2.25%) Senior Manager
15 91 (2.20%) Delivery Manager
16 88 (2.13%) Data Engineer
17 86 (2.08%) Technical Architect
18 80 (1.94%) Designer
19 75 (1.82%) Security Architect
20 73 (1.77%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (4.26%) Terraform
2 113 (2.74%) REST
3 66 (1.60%) .NET
4 58 (1.40%) JSON
5 54 (1.31%) Kafka
6 51 (1.24%) Middleware
7 50 (1.21%) PySpark
8 49 (1.19%) SOAP
9 45 (1.09%) React
9 45 (1.09%) Spring
10 44 (1.07%) XML
11 41 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
12 38 (0.92%) OAuth
12 38 (0.92%) Spring Boot
13 35 (0.85%) SAML
14 34 (0.82%) Web Services
15 32 (0.78%) RESTful
16 31 (0.75%) OpenID
17 30 (0.73%) LDAP
18 28 (0.68%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 292 (7.07%) Product Ownership
2 231 (5.59%) Onboarding
3 182 (4.41%) Cloud Native
4 144 (3.49%) Management Information System
5 100 (2.42%) Data Structures
6 96 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 88 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
8 76 (1.84%) NHS
9 71 (1.72%) AI Agents
9 71 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 65 (1.57%) Data Centre
11 63 (1.53%) Operational Technology
12 58 (1.40%) CMDB
13 56 (1.36%) Virtual Team
14 50 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
14 50 (1.21%) Security Posture
15 48 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
16 47 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
17 32 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
18 26 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.12%) Windows
2 77 (1.86%) Linux
3 36 (0.87%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.39%) Unix
5 13 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.27%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.19%) Android
7 8 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.17%) VMS
9 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.048%) AIX
11 2 (0.048%) HPUX
11 2 (0.048%) Solaris
11 2 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,256 (30.42%) Agile
2 1,021 (24.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 944 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 642 (15.55%) Decision-Making
5 632 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
6 592 (14.34%) Migration
7 560 (13.56%) Roadmaps
8 533 (12.91%) Workshop Facilitation
9 531 (12.86%) DevOps
10 509 (12.33%) AI
11 488 (11.82%) Change Management
12 467 (11.31%) Analytics
13 446 (10.80%) CI/CD
14 412 (9.98%) Risk Management
15 406 (9.83%) Project Delivery
16 403 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
17 366 (8.86%) Cybersecurity
18 346 (8.38%) Data Modelling
19 338 (8.19%) Data Governance
20 328 (7.94%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 384 (9.30%) SQL
2 306 (7.41%) Python
3 129 (3.12%) Java
4 97 (2.35%) JavaScript
5 84 (2.03%) PowerShell
6 83 (2.01%) C#
7 53 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 48 (1.16%) Bash
9 44 (1.07%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.63%) Bicep
11 20 (0.48%) Scala
12 15 (0.36%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 13 (0.31%) Apex Code
13 13 (0.31%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.24%) Korn
15 9 (0.22%) Groovy
15 9 (0.22%) VBA
16 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,156 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 877 (21.24%) SC Cleared
3 253 (6.13%) Degree
4 192 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 152 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 120 (2.91%) PMI Certification
7 113 (2.74%) CISSP
7 113 (2.74%) PMP
8 75 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 75 (1.82%) CISM
9 69 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
10 56 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (1.14%) AWS Certification
12 38 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 36 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
14 33 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 31 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
16 27 (0.65%) Master's Degree
17 26 (0.63%) APMG
17 26 (0.63%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 327 (7.92%) Data Quality
2 210 (5.09%) PMO
3 184 (4.46%) QA
4 177 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 175 (4.24%) GDPR
6 165 (4.00%) NIST
7 122 (2.95%) Accessibility
8 94 (2.28%) GRC
9 66 (1.60%) NCSC
10 37 (0.90%) SLA
11 35 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
11 35 (0.85%) WCAG
12 30 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
13 18 (0.44%) PCI DSS
14 17 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 16 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 15 (0.36%) SOC 2
17 13 (0.31%) ITGC
17 13 (0.31%) NIST 800
18 12 (0.29%) JSP 440
System Software
1 128 (3.10%) Active Directory
2 95 (2.30%) Docker
3 50 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 17 (0.41%) vSphere
6 16 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.048%) 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
11 1 (0.024%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 153 (3.71%) Kubernetes
2 48 (1.16%) Ansible
3 40 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (0.85%) Grafana
5 33 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (0.27%) SCCM
9 9 (0.22%) NetBackup
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 4 (0.097%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.097%) Istio
11 4 (0.097%) QRadar
11 4 (0.097%) vRealize
11 4 (0.097%) VxRail
12 3 (0.073%) Argo
12 3 (0.073%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.073%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.073%) Puppet
13 2 (0.048%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 792 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 270 (6.54%) SAP
3 236 (5.72%) ServiceNow
4 189 (4.58%) Oracle
5 158 (3.83%) Databricks
6 111 (2.69%) Salesforce
7 87 (2.11%) Google
8 67 (1.62%) VMware
9 60 (1.45%) Cisco
10 52 (1.26%) Workday
11 49 (1.19%) IBM
12 47 (1.14%) Splunk
13 33 (0.80%) CyberArk
14 30 (0.73%) MuleSoft
15 27 (0.65%) Ariba
16 23 (0.56%) Palo Alto
17 22 (0.53%) Dynatrace
17 22 (0.53%) Informatica
18 20 (0.48%) Okta
19 19 (0.46%) Zscaler
2,557 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide