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

 6 months to
9 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 139
Rank change year-on-year +2 +112 +26
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,214 2,262 696
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.73% 6.82% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.14% 7.54% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,860 1,515 429
10th Percentile £363 £366 £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 £644 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -0.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 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 £87.96 £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 46,102 30,004 32,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 90.46% 86.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,718 18,629 19,703
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 £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,326 1,885 1,303
10th Percentile £13.58 £14.33 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -8.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.52 £65.00 £73.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £41.25
% change year-on-year +68.43% -46.02% -2.94%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 3,528 £550 +1.85% 2,902
UK excluding London +4 1,932 £525 - 1,651
London +1 1,765 £560 +1.82% 1,373
Work from Home +6 1,433 £525 -1.18% 1,353
South East +7 504 £550 +1.85% 393
North of England +3 492 £500 -3.85% 396
Midlands +5 335 £500 -5.84% 265
West Midlands +5 270 £500 -5.84% 179
South West -3 234 £550 +4.76% 235
North West +4 225 £514 +0.29% 239
Scotland +23 220 £500 +11.11% 159
Yorkshire -5 197 £492 -6.29% 122
East of England +9 111 £505 -16.49% 122
North East +4 77 £453 -4.68% 37
East Midlands 0 64 £525 +16.67% 86
Wales +18 59 £525 +27.27% 43
Northern Ireland +3 8 £438 -16.67% 47
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
1 174 (4.13%) SharePoint
2 165 (3.92%) Confluence
3 37 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 36 (0.85%) CMS
5 35 (0.83%) Apache
6 34 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
7 27 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
8 19 (0.45%) SAS
9 10 (0.24%) Headless CMS
10 6 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.14%) WordPress
11 4 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.071%) IIS
12 3 (0.071%) Kentico
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.047%) OpenEdge
13 2 (0.047%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.047%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.047%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 195 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 90 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 90 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 55 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
4 53 (1.26%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.21%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.21%) Navisworks
6 9 (0.21%) Revit
7 8 (0.19%) ProjectWise
8 7 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.17%) Trello
9 3 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.071%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.047%) InDesign
10 2 (0.047%) Sketch
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Notion
Business Applications
1 126 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.57%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 14 (0.33%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.31%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 13 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
8 12 (0.28%) Maximo
8 12 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
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 (0.24%) iTrent
10 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 10 (0.24%) SAP QM
11 9 (0.21%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 783 (18.58%) Azure
2 534 (12.67%) AWS
3 439 (10.42%) Power Platform
4 221 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
5 209 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
6 184 (4.37%) GCP
7 136 (3.23%) Entra ID
8 119 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
9 101 (2.40%) Power Automate
9 101 (2.40%) SaaS
10 92 (2.18%) GitHub
11 81 (1.92%) Snowflake
12 78 (1.85%) Microsoft Copilot
13 76 (1.80%) PowerApps
14 73 (1.73%) Microsoft Purview
14 73 (1.73%) Serverless
15 64 (1.52%) Amazon S3
16 55 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
17 54 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
18 47 (1.12%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 70 (1.66%) Network Security
2 65 (1.54%) Firewall
3 46 (1.09%) DNS
4 38 (0.90%) WAN
5 36 (0.85%) VPN
6 28 (0.66%) LAN
7 27 (0.64%) DHCP
8 22 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 18 (0.43%) Internet
10 16 (0.38%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.38%) VLAN
11 15 (0.36%) Wireless
12 14 (0.33%) 5G
12 14 (0.33%) BGP
13 12 (0.28%) OSPF
13 12 (0.28%) VoIP
14 11 (0.26%) Kerberos
15 10 (0.24%) HTTP
15 10 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
15 10 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (7.88%) Power BI
2 169 (4.01%) Metadata
3 103 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
4 94 (2.23%) Data Lake
5 74 (1.76%) SQL Server
6 51 (1.21%) Tableau
7 35 (0.83%) Relational Database
8 34 (0.81%) Power Query
9 28 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 28 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
10 26 (0.62%) BigQuery
11 25 (0.59%) DynamoDB
11 25 (0.59%) Star Schema
12 23 (0.55%) Semantic Layer
13 21 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
13 21 (0.50%) Big Data
14 20 (0.47%) NoSQL
15 19 (0.45%) MongoDB
15 19 (0.45%) Oracle Database
16 18 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 255 (6.05%) JIRA
2 87 (2.06%) Git
3 62 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 55 (1.31%) GitLab
5 31 (0.74%) Selenium
6 26 (0.62%) Postman
7 19 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.38%) 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%) Oracle Forms
11 8 (0.19%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.17%) Hudson
12 7 (0.17%) JMeter
12 7 (0.17%) Maven
12 7 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 1,986 (47.13%) Social Skills
2 1,110 (26.34%) Finance
3 906 (21.50%) Public Sector
4 700 (16.61%) Analytical Skills
5 269 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
6 232 (5.51%) Banking
7 192 (4.56%) Documentation Skills
8 185 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
9 148 (3.51%) Legal
10 122 (2.90%) Retail
11 121 (2.87%) Manufacturing
12 120 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 111 (2.63%) Local Government
14 91 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
15 83 (1.97%) Marketing
16 82 (1.95%) Military
17 78 (1.85%) Telecoms
18 70 (1.66%) Aerospace
19 54 (1.28%) Law
20 45 (1.07%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 701 (16.64%) Analyst
2 606 (14.38%) Architect
3 508 (12.06%) Lead
4 440 (10.44%) Senior
5 416 (9.87%) Business Analyst
6 294 (6.98%) Consultant
7 287 (6.81%) Project Manager
8 236 (5.60%) Developer
9 183 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
10 127 (3.01%) Data Architect
11 120 (2.85%) Change Manager
12 115 (2.73%) Data Analyst
13 105 (2.49%) Senior Analyst
14 88 (2.09%) Designer
15 86 (2.04%) Data Engineer
16 85 (2.02%) Technical Architect
17 82 (1.95%) Delivery Manager
18 79 (1.87%) Senior Manager
19 76 (1.80%) IT Manager
20 73 (1.73%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (4.13%) Terraform
2 126 (2.99%) REST
3 66 (1.57%) .NET
4 58 (1.38%) JSON
4 58 (1.38%) Kafka
5 50 (1.19%) SOAP
6 48 (1.14%) Spring
7 46 (1.09%) Middleware
7 46 (1.09%) PySpark
8 45 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
9 44 (1.04%) XML
10 43 (1.02%) Spring Boot
11 42 (1.00%) React
12 35 (0.83%) RESTful
12 35 (0.83%) Web Services
13 33 (0.78%) OAuth
14 28 (0.66%) LDAP
15 27 (0.64%) Node.js
16 25 (0.59%) OpenID
16 25 (0.59%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 284 (6.74%) Product Ownership
2 247 (5.86%) Onboarding
3 194 (4.60%) Cloud Native
4 152 (3.61%) Management Information System
5 100 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
6 97 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
7 90 (2.14%) Data Structures
8 85 (2.02%) AI Agents
9 75 (1.78%) NHS
10 72 (1.71%) Operational Technology
11 70 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
12 69 (1.64%) Data Centre
13 61 (1.45%) Security Posture
14 57 (1.35%) Virtual Team
15 56 (1.33%) CMDB
16 52 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
17 49 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
18 42 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
19 32 (0.76%) Taxonomies
20 31 (0.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 126 (2.99%) Windows
2 81 (1.92%) Linux
3 37 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.36%) 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%) Mac OS
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%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.024%) SUSE
12 1 (0.024%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,266 (30.04%) Agile
2 1,177 (27.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 936 (22.21%) Continuous Improvement
4 700 (16.61%) Decision-Making
5 669 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
6 612 (14.52%) Roadmaps
7 593 (14.07%) Workshop Facilitation
8 566 (13.43%) AI
9 549 (13.03%) Migration
10 526 (12.48%) DevOps
11 492 (11.68%) Change Management
12 485 (11.51%) Analytics
13 432 (10.25%) CI/CD
14 428 (10.16%) Risk Management
15 420 (9.97%) Project Delivery
16 390 (9.25%) Business Intelligence
17 383 (9.09%) Data Governance
18 378 (8.97%) Cybersecurity
19 369 (8.76%) Data Modelling
20 364 (8.64%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 411 (9.75%) SQL
2 308 (7.31%) Python
3 128 (3.04%) Java
4 101 (2.40%) JavaScript
5 98 (2.33%) PowerShell
6 86 (2.04%) C#
7 57 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 53 (1.26%) Bash
9 41 (0.97%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.62%) Bicep
11 21 (0.50%) Scala
12 16 (0.38%) 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%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.17%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.14%) VBA
19 4 (0.095%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,221 (28.97%) Security Cleared
2 954 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 254 (6.03%) Degree
4 197 (4.67%) DV Cleared
5 180 (4.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 112 (2.66%) PMI Certification
7 109 (2.59%) CISSP
8 106 (2.52%) PMP
9 68 (1.61%) CISM
10 65 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
11 64 (1.52%) Azure Certification
12 59 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
13 41 (0.97%) AWS Certification
14 33 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 33 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
15 30 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 30 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
16 28 (0.66%) APMG
17 26 (0.62%) ACCA
17 26 (0.62%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 377 (8.95%) Data Quality
2 191 (4.53%) PMO
3 182 (4.32%) QA
4 166 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 160 (3.80%) GDPR
6 158 (3.75%) NIST
7 140 (3.32%) Accessibility
8 97 (2.30%) GRC
9 85 (2.02%) NCSC
10 54 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
11 38 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
11 38 (0.90%) WCAG
12 33 (0.78%) SLA
13 18 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 16 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 15 (0.36%) NIST 800
16 14 (0.33%) JSP 440
17 13 (0.31%) PCI DSS
18 12 (0.28%) GxP
18 12 (0.28%) ITGC
System Software
1 128 (3.04%) Active Directory
2 104 (2.47%) Docker
3 55 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.43%) 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 (0.095%) 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
1 170 (4.03%) Kubernetes
2 53 (1.26%) Ansible
3 41 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (0.74%) Grafana
5 28 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
8 10 (0.24%) SCCM
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
12 3 (0.071%) Argo
12 3 (0.071%) Kibana
12 3 (0.071%) McAfee ePO
12 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.071%) Puppet
12 3 (0.071%) vRealize
Vendors
1 841 (19.96%) Microsoft
2 254 (6.03%) SAP
3 207 (4.91%) ServiceNow
4 186 (4.41%) Oracle
5 154 (3.65%) Databricks
6 102 (2.42%) Google
7 101 (2.40%) Salesforce
8 74 (1.76%) VMware
9 63 (1.50%) Cisco
10 53 (1.26%) Workday
11 52 (1.23%) Splunk
12 44 (1.04%) IBM
13 35 (0.83%) Ariba
14 32 (0.76%) CyberArk
15 28 (0.66%) MuleSoft
16 25 (0.59%) Okta
17 23 (0.55%) OpenAI
18 22 (0.52%) Dynatrace
19 21 (0.50%) Informatica
19 21 (0.50%) Palo Alto
3,332 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide