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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 137
Rank change year-on-year +2 +110 +16
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,201 2,189 696
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.65% 6.61% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.06% 7.29% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 1,476 434
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% -3.41% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -0.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 39 10
10th Percentile £24.70 £22.58 £21.93
25th Percentile £40.88 £27.52 £26.31
Median hourly rate £65.40 £47.00 £54.02
Median % change year-on-year +39.15% -13.00% -4.37%
75th Percentile £81.13 £64.82 £60.44
90th Percentile £87.99 £74.50 £61.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.89 £32.74 £58.17
% change year-on-year +107.39% -43.73% +2.98%

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 46,382 30,011 32,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.49% 90.62% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,976 18,637 19,780
10th Percentile £325 £300 £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 £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £734 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,269 1,869 1,352
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.17 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.02 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.86% -48.10% +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 2 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 2 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 2 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 3,523 £550 - 3,044
UK excluding London +3 1,939 £525 - 1,897
London +1 1,747 £550 - 1,397
Work from Home +7 1,435 £525 - 1,490
South East +7 502 £550 +2.14% 511
North of England +2 495 £500 -3.85% 443
Midlands +2 343 £500 -4.76% 292
West Midlands +2 279 £500 -5.84% 205
South West -4 234 £550 +2.33% 255
Scotland +19 222 £500 +11.11% 165
North West -2 221 £514 -2.10% 251
Yorkshire -4 205 £500 -4.76% 141
East of England +14 114 £505 -16.53% 152
North East +9 78 £451 -5.00% 52
East Midlands +7 63 £525 +17.32% 86
Wales +15 57 £525 +27.27% 45
Northern Ireland +1 6 £413 -24.14% 47
Channel Islands -2 4 £588 +27.03% 3

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 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 170 (4.05%) Confluence
3 36 (0.86%) Apache
3 36 (0.86%) CMS
4 35 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 27 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 22 (0.52%) SAS
7 10 (0.24%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.14%) WordPress
9 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.071%) Drupal
11 3 (0.071%) IIS
11 3 (0.071%) Kentico
11 3 (0.071%) OpenEdge
12 2 (0.048%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.048%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.048%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 191 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 94 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
3 90 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 55 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
4 55 (1.31%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.19%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.19%) Navisworks
6 8 (0.19%) ProjectWise
6 8 (0.19%) Revit
7 7 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.17%) Trello
8 3 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.071%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.071%) Sketch
9 2 (0.048%) InDesign
10 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.024%) Notion
Business Applications
1 121 (2.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 66 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.57%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 14 (0.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 14 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 14 (0.33%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.29%) Maximo
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 11 (0.26%) iTrent
8 11 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
8 11 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (0.26%) Primavera
9 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
9 10 (0.24%) SAP QM
10 9 (0.21%) SAP CO
10 9 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 793 (18.88%) Azure
2 543 (12.93%) AWS
3 433 (10.31%) Power Platform
4 221 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 210 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 184 (4.38%) GCP
7 136 (3.24%) Entra ID
8 125 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
9 103 (2.45%) SaaS
10 101 (2.40%) Power Automate
11 92 (2.19%) GitHub
12 81 (1.93%) Snowflake
13 80 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
14 75 (1.79%) PowerApps
15 74 (1.76%) Serverless
16 73 (1.74%) Microsoft Purview
17 65 (1.55%) Amazon S3
18 58 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
19 55 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
20 47 (1.12%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 73 (1.74%) Network Security
2 68 (1.62%) Firewall
3 49 (1.17%) DNS
4 40 (0.95%) VPN
4 40 (0.95%) WAN
5 30 (0.71%) LAN
6 29 (0.69%) DHCP
7 24 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 18 (0.43%) Internet
8 18 (0.43%) SD-WAN
9 17 (0.40%) VLAN
10 16 (0.38%) Wireless
11 14 (0.33%) 5G
12 12 (0.29%) BGP
12 12 (0.29%) VoIP
13 11 (0.26%) Kerberos
13 11 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.24%) HTTP
14 10 (0.24%) Intranet
14 10 (0.24%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 330 (7.86%) Power BI
2 166 (3.95%) Metadata
3 96 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
4 95 (2.26%) Data Lake
5 73 (1.74%) SQL Server
6 46 (1.09%) Tableau
7 34 (0.81%) Relational Database
8 30 (0.71%) Power Query
9 29 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
11 26 (0.62%) DynamoDB
12 25 (0.60%) BigQuery
13 23 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
14 22 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
15 20 (0.48%) MongoDB
15 20 (0.48%) NoSQL
16 19 (0.45%) Big Data
16 19 (0.45%) Oracle Database
17 18 (0.43%) Looker
17 18 (0.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 265 (6.31%) JIRA
2 93 (2.21%) Git
3 62 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 58 (1.38%) GitLab
5 29 (0.69%) Selenium
6 28 (0.67%) Postman
7 19 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
10 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (0.21%) ERwin
11 9 (0.21%) JUnit
11 9 (0.21%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.19%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.17%) Hudson
13 7 (0.17%) JMeter
13 7 (0.17%) Maven
14 6 (0.14%) Gradle
General
1 1,977 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 1,111 (26.45%) Finance
3 887 (21.11%) Public Sector
4 691 (16.45%) Analytical Skills
5 260 (6.19%) Influencing Skills
6 229 (5.45%) Banking
7 189 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
8 184 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
9 143 (3.40%) Legal
10 127 (3.02%) Retail
11 122 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 117 (2.79%) Manufacturing
13 114 (2.71%) Local Government
14 87 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
15 83 (1.98%) Marketing
16 82 (1.95%) Military
17 76 (1.81%) Telecoms
18 67 (1.59%) Aerospace
19 55 (1.31%) Law
20 44 (1.05%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 716 (17.04%) Analyst
2 611 (14.54%) Architect
3 498 (11.85%) Lead
4 442 (10.52%) Senior
5 420 (10.00%) Business Analyst
6 296 (7.05%) Consultant
7 289 (6.88%) Project Manager
8 232 (5.52%) Developer
9 184 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
10 126 (3.00%) Data Architect
11 120 (2.86%) Data Analyst
12 117 (2.79%) Change Manager
13 106 (2.52%) Senior Analyst
14 91 (2.17%) Designer
15 87 (2.07%) Data Engineer
15 87 (2.07%) Senior Manager
16 86 (2.05%) Technical Architect
17 84 (2.00%) Delivery Manager
18 75 (1.79%) IT Manager
19 74 (1.76%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (4.33%) Terraform
2 125 (2.98%) REST
3 68 (1.62%) .NET
4 59 (1.40%) JSON
5 56 (1.33%) Kafka
6 52 (1.24%) SOAP
7 47 (1.12%) PySpark
7 47 (1.12%) Spring
7 47 (1.12%) XML
8 46 (1.09%) Middleware
9 44 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
10 43 (1.02%) React
11 42 (1.00%) Spring Boot
12 35 (0.83%) OAuth
12 35 (0.83%) Web Services
13 34 (0.81%) RESTful
14 29 (0.69%) LDAP
14 29 (0.69%) SAML
15 28 (0.67%) Node.js
16 27 (0.64%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 284 (6.76%) Product Ownership
2 247 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 190 (4.52%) Cloud Native
4 149 (3.55%) Management Information System
5 99 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
6 93 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 89 (2.12%) Data Structures
8 83 (1.98%) AI Agents
9 75 (1.79%) NHS
10 74 (1.76%) Operational Technology
11 71 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
12 68 (1.62%) Data Centre
13 59 (1.40%) Security Posture
14 56 (1.33%) Virtual Team
15 54 (1.29%) CMDB
16 50 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
16 50 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
17 42 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
18 31 (0.74%) Taxonomies
19 30 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 128 (3.05%) Windows
2 80 (1.90%) Linux
3 37 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.36%) 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 (0.095%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.071%) 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
12 1 (0.024%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,279 (30.45%) Agile
2 1,145 (27.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 942 (22.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 689 (16.40%) Decision-Making
5 659 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
6 601 (14.31%) Roadmaps
7 571 (13.59%) Workshop Facilitation
8 556 (13.23%) AI
9 553 (13.16%) Migration
10 532 (12.66%) DevOps
11 487 (11.59%) Change Management
12 486 (11.57%) Analytics
13 438 (10.43%) CI/CD
14 429 (10.21%) Risk Management
15 407 (9.69%) Project Delivery
16 387 (9.21%) Cybersecurity
17 381 (9.07%) Business Intelligence
18 375 (8.93%) Data Governance
19 361 (8.59%) Data Modelling
20 360 (8.57%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 406 (9.66%) SQL
2 301 (7.16%) Python
3 127 (3.02%) Java
4 106 (2.52%) JavaScript
5 94 (2.24%) PowerShell
6 89 (2.12%) C#
7 54 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 51 (1.21%) Bash
9 45 (1.07%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.64%) Bicep
11 21 (0.50%) Scala
12 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 13 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.24%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.24%) Korn
15 9 (0.21%) Groovy
16 8 (0.19%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.12%) VBA
19 4 (0.095%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,222 (29.09%) Security Cleared
2 949 (22.59%) SC Cleared
3 259 (6.17%) Degree
4 202 (4.81%) DV Cleared
5 177 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 113 (2.69%) PMI Certification
7 112 (2.67%) CISSP
8 108 (2.57%) PMP
9 68 (1.62%) Azure Certification
9 68 (1.62%) CISM
10 66 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
11 61 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
12 41 (0.98%) AWS Certification
13 34 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 33 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
14 33 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 31 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
16 26 (0.62%) ISTQB
17 25 (0.60%) ACCA
18 24 (0.57%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 367 (8.74%) Data Quality
2 189 (4.50%) PMO
3 182 (4.33%) QA
4 170 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 164 (3.90%) NIST
6 162 (3.86%) GDPR
7 135 (3.21%) Accessibility
8 101 (2.40%) GRC
9 82 (1.95%) NCSC
10 49 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
11 39 (0.93%) WCAG
12 38 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
13 33 (0.79%) SLA
14 18 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 15 (0.36%) NIST 800
15 15 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.33%) JSP 440
16 14 (0.33%) PCI DSS
17 12 (0.29%) ITGC
18 11 (0.26%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 125 (2.98%) Active Directory
2 103 (2.45%) Docker
3 55 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.45%) VMware NSX
5 18 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.33%) vSphere
7 12 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.071%) 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
Systems Management
1 161 (3.83%) Kubernetes
2 51 (1.21%) Ansible
3 43 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (0.74%) Grafana
5 27 (0.64%) Prometheus
5 27 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 11 (0.26%) SCCM
8 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
9 6 (0.14%) VxRail
10 5 (0.12%) QRadar
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 4 (0.095%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.095%) Istio
11 4 (0.095%) vRealize
12 3 (0.071%) Argo
12 3 (0.071%) McAfee ePO
12 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.071%) Puppet
12 3 (0.071%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 836 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 245 (5.83%) SAP
3 220 (5.24%) ServiceNow
4 187 (4.45%) Oracle
5 157 (3.74%) Databricks
6 101 (2.40%) Salesforce
7 98 (2.33%) Google
8 73 (1.74%) VMware
9 63 (1.50%) Cisco
10 55 (1.31%) Splunk
10 55 (1.31%) Workday
11 43 (1.02%) IBM
12 31 (0.74%) CyberArk
13 29 (0.69%) Ariba
14 27 (0.64%) MuleSoft
15 24 (0.57%) OpenAI
16 23 (0.55%) Dynatrace
16 23 (0.55%) Palo Alto
17 22 (0.52%) Adobe
17 22 (0.52%) Informatica