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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 28 132
Rank change year-on-year +3 +104 +30
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,213 2,062 687
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.68% 6.31% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.10% 6.97% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,868 1,384 437
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £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 118 35 11
10th Percentile £26.21 £23.80 £26.25
25th Percentile £41.00 £27.52 £38.25
Median hourly rate £65.20 £42.82 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +52.28% -26.56% +3.20%
75th Percentile £83.06 £64.45 £65.73
90th Percentile £89.83 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.70 £32.39 £59.45
% change year-on-year +108.98% -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 46,309 29,588 32,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.42% 90.49% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,063 18,372 19,750
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 £627 £625 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,189 1,818 1,403
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.25 £15.00
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% -
75th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +79.25% -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 23 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 23 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 23 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 3,534 £548 -0.45% 2,971
UK excluding London +8 1,938 £525 - 1,873
London +2 1,763 £550 - 1,343
Work from Home +9 1,437 £525 - 1,466
South East +8 501 £566 +5.45% 510
North of England +1 494 £500 -3.85% 439
Midlands +7 335 £500 -6.89% 281
West Midlands +7 266 £500 -4.76% 193
South West -6 232 £550 - 245
Scotland +29 229 £500 +8.70% 161
North West +5 224 £525 - 252
Yorkshire -4 199 £500 -3.85% 134
East of England +11 116 £525 -13.15% 149
North East +14 79 £450 -5.26% 55
East Midlands +6 67 £525 -4.55% 88
Wales +16 58 £525 +27.27% 35
Northern Ireland -1 6 £413 -21.43% 68
Channel Islands -3 4 £588 +27.03% 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
1 170 (4.04%) SharePoint
2 165 (3.92%) Confluence
3 37 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (0.85%) Apache
4 36 (0.85%) CMS
5 35 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 26 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 26 (0.62%) SAS
7 10 (0.24%) Headless CMS
8 7 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.14%) WordPress
10 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.095%) OpenEdge
11 4 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.071%) Drupal
12 3 (0.071%) IIS
12 3 (0.071%) Kentico
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.047%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.047%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 190 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
3 88 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (1.35%) 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 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.071%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.071%) Sketch
10 2 (0.047%) InDesign
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Notion
11 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 127 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.59%) 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 (0.28%) Maximo
7 12 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.28%) 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 (0.21%) SAP CO
10 9 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.21%) SAP SD
11 8 (0.19%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 793 (18.82%) Azure
2 551 (13.08%) AWS
3 430 (10.21%) Power Platform
4 215 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
5 202 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
6 184 (4.37%) GCP
7 141 (3.35%) Entra ID
8 134 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
9 100 (2.37%) Power Automate
9 100 (2.37%) SaaS
10 92 (2.18%) GitHub
11 79 (1.88%) Snowflake
12 77 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
13 74 (1.76%) Serverless
14 73 (1.73%) Microsoft Purview
15 72 (1.71%) PowerApps
16 65 (1.54%) Amazon S3
17 60 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
18 56 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
19 46 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 72 (1.71%) Network Security
2 69 (1.64%) Firewall
3 50 (1.19%) DNS
4 40 (0.95%) WAN
5 39 (0.93%) VPN
6 30 (0.71%) LAN
7 29 (0.69%) DHCP
8 24 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 18 (0.43%) Internet
9 18 (0.43%) SD-WAN
10 17 (0.40%) VLAN
10 17 (0.40%) Wireless
11 16 (0.38%) 5G
12 13 (0.31%) BGP
13 12 (0.28%) Kerberos
13 12 (0.28%) VoIP
14 11 (0.26%) Intranet
14 11 (0.26%) OSPF
14 11 (0.26%) SSL
14 11 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 329 (7.81%) Power BI
2 165 (3.92%) Metadata
3 96 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
4 93 (2.21%) Data Lake
5 75 (1.78%) SQL Server
6 45 (1.07%) Tableau
7 36 (0.85%) Relational Database
8 31 (0.74%) Power Query
9 29 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (0.64%) DynamoDB
11 25 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (0.59%) BigQuery
12 23 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 22 (0.52%) Oracle Database
13 22 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
14 20 (0.47%) NoSQL
15 19 (0.45%) Big Data
15 19 (0.45%) MongoDB
16 18 (0.43%) Data Vault
16 18 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 263 (6.24%) JIRA
2 93 (2.21%) Git
3 60 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.35%) GitLab
5 29 (0.69%) Postman
6 28 (0.66%) Selenium
7 17 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 17 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
9 14 (0.33%) Hudson
10 12 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (0.21%) ERwin
12 8 (0.19%) JMeter
12 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.17%) JUnit
13 7 (0.17%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.17%) Zephyr
14 6 (0.14%) Maven
14 6 (0.14%) MLflow
General
1 1,968 (46.71%) Social Skills
2 1,139 (27.04%) Finance
3 861 (20.44%) Public Sector
4 695 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
5 251 (5.96%) Influencing Skills
6 236 (5.60%) Banking
7 183 (4.34%) Documentation Skills
8 178 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
9 144 (3.42%) Legal
10 133 (3.16%) Retail
11 120 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 116 (2.75%) Local Government
13 110 (2.61%) Manufacturing
14 85 (2.02%) Marketing
15 84 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
16 80 (1.90%) Telecoms
17 78 (1.85%) Military
18 70 (1.66%) Law
19 62 (1.47%) Aerospace
20 43 (1.02%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 707 (16.78%) Analyst
2 625 (14.84%) Architect
3 505 (11.99%) Lead
4 440 (10.44%) Senior
5 409 (9.71%) Business Analyst
6 307 (7.29%) Consultant
7 298 (7.07%) Project Manager
8 230 (5.46%) Developer
9 191 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
10 124 (2.94%) Data Architect
11 119 (2.82%) Data Analyst
12 113 (2.68%) Change Manager
13 108 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
14 90 (2.14%) Designer
15 89 (2.11%) Data Engineer
15 89 (2.11%) Senior Manager
16 87 (2.07%) Delivery Manager
17 84 (1.99%) Technical Architect
18 80 (1.90%) IT Manager
19 74 (1.76%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (4.41%) Terraform
2 126 (2.99%) REST
3 66 (1.57%) .NET
4 61 (1.45%) JSON
5 58 (1.38%) Kafka
6 53 (1.26%) SOAP
7 49 (1.16%) PySpark
8 47 (1.12%) Middleware
8 47 (1.12%) XML
9 45 (1.07%) Spring
10 43 (1.02%) React
11 42 (1.00%) OAuth
11 42 (1.00%) Spring Boot
12 41 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
13 37 (0.88%) RESTful
14 36 (0.85%) SAML
14 36 (0.85%) Web Services
15 34 (0.81%) OpenID
16 32 (0.76%) LDAP
17 29 (0.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 282 (6.69%) Product Ownership
2 250 (5.93%) Onboarding
3 189 (4.49%) Cloud Native
4 144 (3.42%) Management Information System
5 99 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
6 94 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
7 86 (2.04%) Data Structures
8 78 (1.85%) AI Agents
9 76 (1.80%) NHS
9 76 (1.80%) Operational Technology
10 71 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 69 (1.64%) Data Centre
12 60 (1.42%) Virtual Team
13 59 (1.40%) Security Posture
14 57 (1.35%) CMDB
15 53 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
16 50 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
17 45 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
18 32 (0.76%) PKI
19 29 (0.69%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.06%) Windows
2 80 (1.90%) Linux
3 36 (0.85%) 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 (0.095%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.071%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.047%) AIX
11 2 (0.047%) HPUX
11 2 (0.047%) Solaris
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,273 (30.22%) Agile
2 1,106 (26.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 954 (22.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 681 (16.16%) Decision-Making
5 657 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
6 595 (14.12%) Roadmaps
7 570 (13.53%) Migration
8 551 (13.08%) Workshop Facilitation
9 534 (12.68%) AI
9 534 (12.68%) DevOps
10 488 (11.58%) Change Management
11 481 (11.42%) Analytics
12 449 (10.66%) CI/CD
13 426 (10.11%) Risk Management
14 401 (9.52%) Project Delivery
15 385 (9.14%) Cybersecurity
16 380 (9.02%) Business Intelligence
17 373 (8.85%) Data Governance
18 357 (8.47%) Data Modelling
19 339 (8.05%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 402 (9.54%) SQL
2 302 (7.17%) Python
3 130 (3.09%) Java
4 103 (2.44%) JavaScript
5 94 (2.23%) PowerShell
6 87 (2.07%) C#
7 52 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 51 (1.21%) Bash
9 45 (1.07%) TypeScript
10 28 (0.66%) Bicep
11 21 (0.50%) Scala
12 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.28%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.24%) Korn
16 9 (0.21%) Groovy
17 8 (0.19%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.19%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.17%) VBA
19 4 (0.095%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,203 (28.55%) Security Cleared
2 930 (22.07%) SC Cleared
3 260 (6.17%) Degree
4 203 (4.82%) DV Cleared
5 163 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 114 (2.71%) PMI Certification
7 112 (2.66%) CISSP
8 107 (2.54%) PMP
9 70 (1.66%) CISM
10 69 (1.64%) Azure Certification
11 68 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
12 59 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (1.04%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 36 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
16 34 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 31 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
18 28 (0.66%) Master's Degree
19 27 (0.64%) ISTQB
20 25 (0.59%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 359 (8.52%) Data Quality
2 195 (4.63%) PMO
3 181 (4.30%) QA
4 177 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 169 (4.01%) NIST
6 167 (3.96%) GDPR
7 129 (3.06%) Accessibility
8 103 (2.44%) GRC
9 81 (1.92%) NCSC
10 40 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
10 40 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
11 37 (0.88%) WCAG
12 35 (0.83%) SLA
13 19 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 16 (0.38%) PCI DSS
15 15 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.33%) JSP 440
16 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
17 12 (0.28%) ITGC
18 11 (0.26%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 132 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 100 (2.37%) Docker
3 52 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.45%) VMware NSX
5 17 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.36%) vSphere
7 12 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.047%) Firmware
12 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.024%) FreeRADIUS
12 1 (0.024%) IAG
12 1 (0.024%) KVM
12 1 (0.024%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 160 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 51 (1.21%) Ansible
3 42 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (0.76%) Grafana
5 31 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 28 (0.66%) 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 (0.095%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.095%) Istio
12 4 (0.095%) QRadar
12 4 (0.095%) vRealize
13 3 (0.071%) Argo
13 3 (0.071%) Kibana
13 3 (0.071%) McAfee ePO
13 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.071%) Puppet
Vendors
1 832 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 254 (6.03%) SAP
3 229 (5.44%) ServiceNow
4 192 (4.56%) Oracle
5 161 (3.82%) Databricks
6 105 (2.49%) Salesforce
7 95 (2.25%) Google
8 71 (1.69%) VMware
9 64 (1.52%) Cisco
10 56 (1.33%) Workday
11 54 (1.28%) Splunk
12 41 (0.97%) IBM
13 34 (0.81%) CyberArk
14 28 (0.66%) Ariba
15 27 (0.64%) MuleSoft
16 24 (0.57%) Dynatrace
16 24 (0.57%) Palo Alto
17 23 (0.55%) Informatica
18 21 (0.50%) Adobe
18 21 (0.50%) Okta