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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 26 135
Rank change year-on-year +1 +109 +37
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,267 2,266 689
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.77% 6.88% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.17% 7.61% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,893 1,521 423
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £645 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 40 11
10th Percentile £24.50 £20.88 £22.00
25th Percentile £41.00 £26.24 £26.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £48.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -2.50% -11.49%
75th Percentile £80.00 £65.04 £60.28
90th Percentile £87.87 £74.13 £61.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.49 £58.25 £58.05
% change year-on-year +15.85% +0.35% +2.75%

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 46,512 29,792 32,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.69% 90.47% 86.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,938 18,529 19,417
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
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 £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £737 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,382 1,881 1,250
10th Percentile £13.63 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.03
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.54 £65.14 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -7.83%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +1 3,572 £550 +1.85% 1,856
UK excluding London +3 1,955 £525 - 1,058
London -1 1,791 £560 +1.82% 897
Work from Home +4 1,440 £525 -1.87% 944
South East +9 505 £550 +0.92% 246
North of England 0 498 £500 -3.15% 269
Midlands +7 338 £500 -4.76% 157
West Midlands +1 273 £500 -4.76% 110
South West -1 239 £550 +5.16% 150
North West 0 228 £500 -2.44% 158
Scotland +24 224 £488 +8.33% 104
Yorkshire -6 201 £492 -6.29% 82
East of England +11 113 £510 -15.70% 75
North East +5 76 £453 -4.63% 29
East Midlands +5 64 £525 +16.67% 47
Wales +17 60 £525 +15.07% 31
Northern Ireland +1 8 £438 -16.67% 35
Channel Islands -3 4 £588 +27.03% 1

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
1 179 (4.19%) SharePoint
2 172 (4.03%) Confluence
3 37 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 36 (0.84%) CMS
5 35 (0.82%) Apache
6 32 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
7 28 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 21 (0.49%) SAS
9 10 (0.23%) Headless CMS
10 6 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.14%) WordPress
11 4 (0.094%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.070%) IIS
12 3 (0.070%) Kentico
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.047%) Drupal
13 2 (0.047%) OpenEdge
13 2 (0.047%) Oracle Coherence
13 2 (0.047%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 201 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 87 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
4 57 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
4 57 (1.34%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.21%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.21%) Navisworks
6 9 (0.21%) Revit
7 8 (0.19%) ProjectWise
8 7 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.16%) Trello
9 4 (0.094%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.094%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.047%) InDesign
10 2 (0.047%) Sketch
11 1 (0.023%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.023%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.023%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.023%) Notion
Business Applications
1 126 (2.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 60 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.56%) Workday HCM
4 20 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 14 (0.33%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.30%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 13 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 12 (0.28%) Maximo
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.26%) Primavera
10 10 (0.23%) iTrent
10 10 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
10 10 (0.23%) SAP QM
11 9 (0.21%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.21%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 785 (18.40%) Azure
2 534 (12.51%) AWS
3 443 (10.38%) Power Platform
4 221 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
5 213 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
6 182 (4.27%) GCP
7 136 (3.19%) Entra ID
8 120 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
9 103 (2.41%) Power Automate
10 101 (2.37%) SaaS
11 94 (2.20%) GitHub
12 82 (1.92%) Snowflake
13 79 (1.85%) Microsoft Copilot
14 78 (1.83%) PowerApps
15 76 (1.78%) Microsoft Purview
16 74 (1.73%) Serverless
17 64 (1.50%) Amazon S3
18 55 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
19 54 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
20 45 (1.05%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 70 (1.64%) Network Security
2 65 (1.52%) Firewall
3 47 (1.10%) DNS
4 38 (0.89%) WAN
5 36 (0.84%) VPN
6 28 (0.66%) LAN
7 27 (0.63%) DHCP
8 22 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 19 (0.45%) Internet
10 16 (0.37%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.37%) VLAN
11 15 (0.35%) BGP
11 15 (0.35%) Wireless
12 14 (0.33%) 5G
13 13 (0.30%) OSPF
14 12 (0.28%) VoIP
15 11 (0.26%) Kerberos
16 10 (0.23%) HTTP
16 10 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
16 10 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (7.85%) Power BI
2 170 (3.98%) Metadata
3 102 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
4 94 (2.20%) Data Lake
5 74 (1.73%) SQL Server
6 52 (1.22%) Tableau
7 35 (0.82%) Relational Database
8 34 (0.80%) Power Query
9 29 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
9 29 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
10 26 (0.61%) BigQuery
11 25 (0.59%) DynamoDB
11 25 (0.59%) Star Schema
12 23 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
13 21 (0.49%) Big Data
14 20 (0.47%) NoSQL
15 19 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
15 19 (0.45%) MongoDB
15 19 (0.45%) Oracle Database
16 18 (0.42%) Looker
Development Applications
1 263 (6.16%) JIRA
2 86 (2.02%) Git
3 62 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.27%) GitLab
5 31 (0.73%) Selenium
6 26 (0.61%) Postman
7 19 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.37%) WebDriver
10 9 (0.21%) Claude Code
10 9 (0.21%) ERwin
10 9 (0.21%) JUnit
10 9 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (0.19%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
11 8 (0.19%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.16%) Hudson
12 7 (0.16%) JMeter
12 7 (0.16%) Maven
12 7 (0.16%) SonarQube
General
1 2,006 (47.01%) Social Skills
2 1,128 (26.44%) Finance
3 920 (21.56%) Public Sector
4 715 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
5 272 (6.37%) Influencing Skills
6 236 (5.53%) Banking
7 196 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
8 184 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
9 148 (3.47%) Legal
10 123 (2.88%) Manufacturing
10 123 (2.88%) Retail
11 120 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 113 (2.65%) Local Government
13 92 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
14 85 (1.99%) Marketing
14 85 (1.99%) Military
15 78 (1.83%) Telecoms
16 71 (1.66%) Aerospace
17 55 (1.29%) Law
18 45 (1.05%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 712 (16.69%) Analyst
2 612 (14.34%) Architect
3 518 (12.14%) Lead
4 442 (10.36%) Senior
5 419 (9.82%) Business Analyst
6 298 (6.98%) Consultant
7 287 (6.73%) Project Manager
8 239 (5.60%) Developer
9 186 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
10 126 (2.95%) Data Architect
11 123 (2.88%) Change Manager
12 118 (2.77%) Data Analyst
13 105 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
14 88 (2.06%) Designer
15 86 (2.02%) Data Engineer
15 86 (2.02%) Technical Architect
16 81 (1.90%) Delivery Manager
17 79 (1.85%) Senior Manager
18 77 (1.80%) IT Manager
19 72 (1.69%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (4.10%) Terraform
2 131 (3.07%) REST
3 67 (1.57%) .NET
4 60 (1.41%) Kafka
5 58 (1.36%) JSON
6 52 (1.22%) SOAP
7 48 (1.12%) Spring
8 46 (1.08%) Middleware
8 46 (1.08%) PySpark
9 45 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
10 44 (1.03%) XML
11 43 (1.01%) Spring Boot
12 42 (0.98%) React
13 35 (0.82%) RESTful
13 35 (0.82%) Web Services
14 33 (0.77%) OAuth
15 29 (0.68%) LDAP
16 27 (0.63%) Node.js
16 27 (0.63%) OpenID
17 26 (0.61%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 292 (6.84%) Product Ownership
2 253 (5.93%) Onboarding
3 194 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 152 (3.56%) Management Information System
5 102 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
5 102 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
6 90 (2.11%) Data Structures
7 87 (2.04%) AI Agents
8 79 (1.85%) NHS
9 72 (1.69%) Operational Technology
10 71 (1.66%) Data Centre
11 68 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
12 62 (1.45%) Security Posture
13 57 (1.34%) Virtual Team
14 56 (1.31%) CMDB
15 53 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
16 49 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
17 39 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
18 32 (0.75%) PKI
18 32 (0.75%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 127 (2.98%) Windows
2 83 (1.95%) Linux
3 37 (0.87%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.37%) Unix
5 14 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.21%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.14%) Android
7 6 (0.14%) VMS
8 5 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.12%) macOS
9 4 (0.094%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.070%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.047%) AIX
11 2 (0.047%) HPUX
11 2 (0.047%) Solaris
12 1 (0.023%) CentOS
12 1 (0.023%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.023%) SUSE
12 1 (0.023%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,280 (30.00%) Agile
2 1,200 (28.12%) Stakeholder Management
3 954 (22.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 710 (16.64%) Decision-Making
5 686 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
6 626 (14.67%) Roadmaps
7 607 (14.23%) Workshop Facilitation
8 575 (13.48%) AI
9 553 (12.96%) Migration
10 531 (12.44%) DevOps
11 500 (11.72%) Change Management
12 487 (11.41%) Analytics
13 432 (10.12%) CI/CD
14 427 (10.01%) Project Delivery
15 426 (9.98%) Risk Management
16 396 (9.28%) Business Intelligence
17 387 (9.07%) Data Governance
18 377 (8.84%) Cybersecurity
19 374 (8.76%) Data Modelling
20 372 (8.72%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 412 (9.66%) SQL
2 314 (7.36%) Python
3 127 (2.98%) Java
4 102 (2.39%) JavaScript
5 100 (2.34%) PowerShell
6 85 (1.99%) C#
7 57 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 54 (1.27%) Bash
9 42 (0.98%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.63%) Bicep
11 21 (0.49%) Scala
12 16 (0.37%) T-SQL
13 13 (0.30%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.23%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.23%) Groovy
14 10 (0.23%) Korn
15 9 (0.21%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.16%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.14%) VBA
18 4 (0.094%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,231 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 964 (22.59%) SC Cleared
3 256 (6.00%) Degree
4 199 (4.66%) DV Cleared
5 183 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 111 (2.60%) PMI Certification
7 106 (2.48%) CISSP
8 105 (2.46%) PMP
9 66 (1.55%) CISM
10 64 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
11 63 (1.48%) Azure Certification
12 60 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
13 43 (1.01%) AWS Certification
14 33 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
15 32 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 30 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
17 29 (0.68%) APMG
18 28 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 26 (0.61%) ISTQB
20 25 (0.59%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 380 (8.91%) Data Quality
2 196 (4.59%) PMO
3 185 (4.34%) QA
4 161 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 159 (3.73%) GDPR
6 153 (3.59%) NIST
7 142 (3.33%) Accessibility
8 96 (2.25%) GRC
9 86 (2.02%) NCSC
10 56 (1.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 38 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
11 38 (0.89%) WCAG
12 34 (0.80%) SLA
13 18 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 16 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 15 (0.35%) NIST 800
16 14 (0.33%) JSP 440
17 12 (0.28%) GxP
17 12 (0.28%) ISO 19650
17 12 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 128 (3.00%) Active Directory
2 107 (2.51%) Docker
3 55 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.40%) VMware NSX
6 14 (0.33%) vSphere
7 12 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.094%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.070%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.023%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.023%) Firmware
11 1 (0.023%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.023%) IAG
11 1 (0.023%) KVM
11 1 (0.023%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 171 (4.01%) Kubernetes
2 54 (1.27%) Ansible
3 41 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (0.73%) Grafana
5 28 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 10 (0.23%) NetBackup
8 10 (0.23%) SCCM
9 6 (0.14%) VxRail
10 5 (0.12%) QRadar
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 4 (0.094%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.094%) Istio
12 3 (0.070%) Argo
12 3 (0.070%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.070%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.070%) Puppet
12 3 (0.070%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.070%) vRealize
Vendors
1 854 (20.01%) Microsoft
2 254 (5.95%) SAP
3 205 (4.80%) ServiceNow
4 187 (4.38%) Oracle
5 154 (3.61%) Databricks
6 103 (2.41%) Google
7 100 (2.34%) Salesforce
8 74 (1.73%) VMware
9 63 (1.48%) Cisco
10 52 (1.22%) Workday
11 51 (1.20%) Splunk
12 45 (1.05%) IBM
13 35 (0.82%) Ariba
14 33 (0.77%) CyberArk
15 28 (0.66%) MuleSoft
16 25 (0.59%) Okta
17 24 (0.56%) OpenAI
18 22 (0.52%) Dynatrace
19 21 (0.49%) Informatica
19 21 (0.49%) Palo Alto
2,176 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide