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

 6 months to
22 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 51 151
Rank change year-on-year +25 +100 +9
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,566 1,295 698
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.03% 4.32% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.28% 4.75% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 859 477
10th Percentile £368 £358 £363
25th Percentile £447 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £757
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.26% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 24 39
10th Percentile £25.04 £23.65 £18.35
25th Percentile £48.50 £29.80 £27.81
Median hourly rate £65.80 £49.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.91% +35.62% -24.74%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.88 £58.53
90th Percentile - £78.57 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.70 £59.00 £56.91
% change year-on-year +14.74% +3.67% +17.34%

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 43,060 27,252 37,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.87% 91.01% 84.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,847 17,268 23,692
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -4.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,578 1,280 2,621
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.01 £72.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +17.65%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +27 3,020 £537 +2.29% 876
UK excluding London +29 1,694 £511 +2.26% 693
London +24 1,434 £550 - 352
Work from Home +28 1,160 £525 +5.00% 509
North of England +26 451 £500 +2.56% 167
South East +21 395 £540 +9.37% 236
Midlands +16 320 £504 +0.75% 114
North West +28 230 £500 - 101
West Midlands +10 225 £500 -0.05% 58
South West +16 194 £525 -4.55% 86
Yorkshire +5 180 £514 +8.21% 48
Scotland +31 166 £475 -5.05% 25
East of England +40 126 £565 +13.00% 34
East Midlands +22 90 £525 +16.67% 55
Wales +16 47 £500 +53.85% 22
North East +3 47 £453 +0.56% 20
Northern Ireland +10 16 £449 -22.84% 23
Channel Islands 0 1 £575 +24.32%

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
1 183 (5.13%) Confluence
2 99 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 31 (0.87%) SAS
4 30 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
5 23 (0.64%) Apache Spark
6 22 (0.62%) Apache
7 20 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 18 (0.50%) CMS
9 5 (0.14%) WordPress
10 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.11%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.084%) Appian
11 3 (0.084%) Drupal
11 3 (0.084%) Kentico
12 2 (0.056%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.056%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.056%) Camunda
12 2 (0.056%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.056%) WebLogic
Applications
1 161 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 63 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
4 60 (1.68%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.11%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.11%) Sketch
8 2 (0.056%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.056%) InVision
8 2 (0.056%) Trello
9 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.028%) CATIA
9 1 (0.028%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.028%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.028%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 137 (3.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.42%) Teamcenter
4 13 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 13 (0.36%) Workday HCM
5 12 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.28%) Maximo
6 10 (0.28%) Primavera
6 10 (0.28%) SAP QM
7 9 (0.25%) SAP FI
8 8 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.22%) SAP ERP
9 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.17%) Finacle
10 6 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.17%) Sage X3
10 6 (0.17%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 680 (19.07%) Azure
2 474 (13.29%) AWS
3 340 (9.53%) Power Platform
4 160 (4.49%) GCP
5 141 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
6 136 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
7 106 (2.97%) Entra ID
8 98 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
8 98 (2.75%) SaaS
9 68 (1.91%) GitHub
10 54 (1.51%) Microsoft Copilot
10 54 (1.51%) Serverless
11 46 (1.29%) PaaS
12 44 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
13 43 (1.21%) Amazon S3
14 42 (1.18%) Power Automate
15 41 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
16 37 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
16 37 (1.04%) PowerApps
17 35 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 64 (1.79%) Network Security
2 59 (1.65%) Firewall
3 38 (1.07%) DNS
4 28 (0.79%) VPN
4 28 (0.79%) WAN
5 23 (0.64%) LAN
6 16 (0.45%) Wireless
7 14 (0.39%) TCP/IP
8 12 (0.34%) Internet
8 12 (0.34%) VLAN
9 11 (0.31%) DHCP
9 11 (0.31%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.31%) SSL
10 10 (0.28%) 5G
10 10 (0.28%) BGP
10 10 (0.28%) NGFW
11 9 (0.25%) Intranet
11 9 (0.25%) OSPF
12 8 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (0.20%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 285 (7.99%) Power BI
2 86 (2.41%) Metadata
3 76 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (1.26%) Data Lake
5 42 (1.18%) Tableau
6 32 (0.90%) SQL Server
7 31 (0.87%) Power Query
8 30 (0.84%) Relational Database
9 26 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.56%) NoSQL
11 18 (0.50%) DynamoDB
12 16 (0.45%) Big Data
12 16 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
12 16 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
13 14 (0.39%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 13 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
14 13 (0.36%) Data Vault
14 13 (0.36%) Oracle Database
14 13 (0.36%) SAS Visual Analytics
15 12 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 282 (7.91%) JIRA
2 60 (1.68%) Jenkins
3 59 (1.65%) Git
4 50 (1.40%) GitLab
5 31 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
6 26 (0.73%) Postman
7 22 (0.62%) Selenium
8 19 (0.53%) JMeter
9 18 (0.50%) Hudson
10 15 (0.42%) Cucumber
11 13 (0.36%) WebDriver
12 12 (0.34%) JUnit
13 11 (0.31%) ERwin
14 8 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (0.20%) LoadRunner
15 7 (0.20%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.17%) Cypress.io
16 6 (0.17%) MLflow
17 5 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
17 5 (0.14%) Snyk
General
1 1,623 (45.51%) Social Skills
2 1,019 (28.58%) Finance
3 592 (16.60%) Public Sector
4 548 (15.37%) Analytical Skills
5 202 (5.66%) Banking
6 148 (4.15%) Influencing Skills
7 144 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
8 132 (3.70%) Legal
9 108 (3.03%) Retail
10 105 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
11 85 (2.38%) Manufacturing
12 82 (2.30%) Law
13 74 (2.08%) Aerospace
13 74 (2.08%) Local Government
14 67 (1.88%) Marketing
15 66 (1.85%) Telecoms
16 52 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 48 (1.35%) Military
18 42 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
19 33 (0.93%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 648 (18.17%) Analyst
2 536 (15.03%) Architect
3 467 (13.10%) Lead
4 405 (11.36%) Business Analyst
5 340 (9.53%) Senior
6 280 (7.85%) Project Manager
7 267 (7.49%) Consultant
8 148 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
9 116 (3.25%) Developer
10 101 (2.83%) Data Analyst
11 97 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
12 93 (2.61%) Change Manager
13 90 (2.52%) Delivery Manager
14 76 (2.13%) Designer
15 75 (2.10%) Programme Manager
16 70 (1.96%) Data Architect
17 69 (1.93%) Security Architect
17 69 (1.93%) Senior Manager
18 65 (1.82%) Data Engineer
18 65 (1.82%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (2.94%) REST
2 56 (1.57%) Middleware
3 46 (1.29%) SOAP
4 42 (1.18%) Spring
5 38 (1.07%) Kafka
5 38 (1.07%) LDAP
5 38 (1.07%) React
6 37 (1.04%) JSON
6 37 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
7 34 (0.95%) Spring Boot
8 33 (0.93%) OpenID
9 31 (0.87%) OAuth
10 30 (0.84%) XML
11 29 (0.81%) PySpark
11 29 (0.81%) SailPoint
12 26 (0.73%) .NET
12 26 (0.73%) SAML
13 22 (0.62%) CSS
13 22 (0.62%) HTML
14 19 (0.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 249 (6.98%) Product Ownership
2 172 (4.82%) Onboarding
3 153 (4.29%) Cloud Native
4 87 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 85 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 72 (2.02%) Operational Technology
7 70 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
8 69 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
9 61 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
10 59 (1.65%) Data Centre
10 59 (1.65%) Security Posture
11 56 (1.57%) NHS
12 54 (1.51%) CMDB
13 51 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
14 48 (1.35%) Virtual Team
15 46 (1.29%) AI Agents
16 45 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
17 36 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
18 31 (0.87%) Public Cloud
19 29 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 93 (2.61%) Windows
2 46 (1.29%) Linux
3 23 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.34%) Unix
5 10 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.25%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.22%) VMS
8 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.11%) Android
11 3 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.084%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.084%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.028%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 985 (27.62%) Agile
2 721 (20.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 711 (19.94%) Continuous Improvement
4 526 (14.75%) Migration
5 496 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
6 492 (13.80%) Decision-Making
7 467 (13.10%) Roadmaps
8 443 (12.42%) Change Management
9 417 (11.69%) DevOps
10 405 (11.36%) Workshop Facilitation
11 384 (10.77%) Analytics
12 367 (10.29%) AI
13 348 (9.76%) Risk Management
14 324 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
15 314 (8.81%) CI/CD
16 309 (8.67%) Cybersecurity
17 304 (8.52%) ERP
18 297 (8.33%) Project Delivery
19 287 (8.05%) Project Management
20 280 (7.85%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 298 (8.36%) SQL
2 251 (7.04%) Python
3 114 (3.20%) Java
4 63 (1.77%) PowerShell
5 58 (1.63%) JavaScript
6 40 (1.12%) C#
7 39 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 39 (1.09%) TypeScript
8 27 (0.76%) Bash
9 20 (0.56%) VBA
10 19 (0.53%) Bicep
11 14 (0.39%) Scala
12 10 (0.28%) Apex Code
12 10 (0.28%) Kotlin
12 10 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.25%) Korn
14 7 (0.20%) R
14 7 (0.20%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.17%) ABAP
16 4 (0.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 906 (25.41%) Security Cleared
2 711 (19.94%) SC Cleared
3 251 (7.04%) Degree
4 139 (3.90%) DV Cleared
5 116 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 106 (2.97%) PMI Certification
7 98 (2.75%) PMP
8 95 (2.66%) CISSP
9 68 (1.91%) CISM
10 56 (1.57%) Azure Certification
11 54 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
12 37 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
13 36 (1.01%) AWS Certification
14 27 (0.76%) Master's Degree
14 27 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 26 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
16 25 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 24 (0.67%) ACCA
18 23 (0.64%) CIMA
19 22 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 259 (7.26%) Data Quality
2 182 (5.10%) PMO
3 167 (4.68%) QA
4 158 (4.43%) NIST
5 153 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 140 (3.93%) GDPR
7 85 (2.38%) GRC
8 84 (2.36%) Accessibility
9 45 (1.26%) NCSC
10 32 (0.90%) SLA
11 27 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
12 25 (0.70%) PCI DSS
13 24 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
13 24 (0.67%) WCAG
14 18 (0.50%) SOC 2
15 16 (0.45%) ISO 20022
16 13 (0.36%) COBIT
17 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 11 (0.31%) Def Stans
18 11 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 95 (2.66%) Active Directory
2 63 (1.77%) Docker
3 26 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.34%) vSphere
5 9 (0.25%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.084%) NFS
10 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.028%) Firmware
10 1 (0.028%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.028%) KVM
Systems Management
1 127 (3.56%) Terraform
2 118 (3.31%) Kubernetes
3 41 (1.15%) Ansible
4 32 (0.90%) Grafana
5 28 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 28 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.34%) SCCM
8 11 (0.31%) HP ALM
9 10 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.17%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.14%) vRealize
12 4 (0.11%) Podman
13 3 (0.084%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.084%) Istio
13 3 (0.084%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.084%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 3 (0.084%) vMotion
13 3 (0.084%) WSUS
14 2 (0.056%) Nessus
Vendors
1 551 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 255 (7.15%) SAP
3 208 (5.83%) ServiceNow
4 159 (4.46%) Oracle
5 102 (2.86%) Salesforce
6 99 (2.78%) Databricks
7 59 (1.65%) Google
8 51 (1.43%) Cisco
9 50 (1.40%) IBM
10 39 (1.09%) Splunk
11 38 (1.07%) VMware
11 38 (1.07%) Workday
12 35 (0.98%) CyberArk
13 21 (0.59%) MuleSoft
14 20 (0.56%) BeyondTrust
14 20 (0.56%) Zscaler
15 19 (0.53%) Dynatrace
15 19 (0.53%) IFS
15 19 (0.53%) Palo Alto
16 18 (0.50%) Red Hat
1,014 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide