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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 140
Rank change year-on-year +2 +113 +32
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,304 2,309 691
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.78% 6.95% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.18% 7.68% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,924 1,557 424
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.38% -0.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 42 11
10th Percentile £24.50 £17.88 £22.00
25th Percentile £40.75 £26.22 £26.25
Median hourly rate £64.09 £48.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.47% -2.50% -11.49%
75th Percentile £80.00 £65.11 £60.28
90th Percentile £87.96 £77.13 £61.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.56 £59.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year +12.81% +1.65% +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 46,870 30,047 32,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 90.49% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,156 18,700 19,515
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% -2.42%
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 3,444 1,888 1,247
10th Percentile £13.53 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.94 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.18 £65.25 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -8.14%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 3,601 £550 +2.42% 606
UK excluding London +3 1,970 £525 +0.38% 452
London -1 1,811 £560 +1.82% 236
Work from Home +4 1,450 £525 - 350
North of England +5 510 £500 -2.44% 114
South East +7 505 £550 +2.61% 138
Midlands +5 337 £500 -4.76% 78
West Midlands +5 273 £500 -4.76% 63
South West -4 238 £550 +5.16% 78
North West +2 235 £500 -2.44% 64
Scotland +22 230 £500 +11.11% 17
Yorkshire -4 204 £498 -5.24% 34
East of England +7 112 £501 -16.58% 19
North East +9 78 £463 -2.63% 16
East Midlands -1 63 £525 +17.98% 15
Wales +21 59 £525 +15.07% 10
Northern Ireland 0 9 £463 -13.95% 6
Channel Islands -3 4 £588 +27.03%

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 (4.16%) SharePoint
2 171 (3.97%) Confluence
3 38 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 35 (0.81%) Apache
4 35 (0.81%) CMS
5 31 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 29 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 20 (0.46%) SAS
8 10 (0.23%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.14%) WordPress
10 4 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.093%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.070%) IIS
11 3 (0.070%) Kentico
12 2 (0.046%) Drupal
12 2 (0.046%) OpenEdge
12 2 (0.046%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.046%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.046%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 201 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 87 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
4 56 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
4 56 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.46%) 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 (0.093%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.093%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.070%) Sketch
11 2 (0.046%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.046%) InDesign
12 1 (0.023%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.023%) InfoPath
12 1 (0.023%) Notion
Business Applications
1 127 (2.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 60 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.56%) Workday HCM
4 20 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.35%) 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%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 796 (18.49%) Azure
2 542 (12.59%) AWS
3 447 (10.39%) Power Platform
4 224 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
5 215 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 180 (4.18%) GCP
7 139 (3.23%) Entra ID
8 120 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
9 103 (2.39%) SaaS
10 102 (2.37%) Power Automate
11 96 (2.23%) GitHub
12 83 (1.93%) Snowflake
13 78 (1.81%) Microsoft Copilot
14 77 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
14 77 (1.79%) PowerApps
15 76 (1.77%) Serverless
16 64 (1.49%) Amazon S3
17 56 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
18 55 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
19 47 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 70 (1.63%) Network Security
2 65 (1.51%) Firewall
3 47 (1.09%) DNS
4 38 (0.88%) WAN
5 36 (0.84%) VPN
6 28 (0.65%) LAN
7 27 (0.63%) DHCP
8 22 (0.51%) TCP/IP
9 20 (0.46%) 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
1 339 (7.88%) Power BI
2 168 (3.90%) Metadata
3 104 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
4 95 (2.21%) Data Lake
5 74 (1.72%) SQL Server
6 53 (1.23%) Tableau
7 35 (0.81%) Relational Database
8 34 (0.79%) Power Query
9 31 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
10 29 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
11 27 (0.63%) DynamoDB
12 25 (0.58%) Semantic Layer
12 25 (0.58%) Star Schema
13 24 (0.56%) BigQuery
14 22 (0.51%) Big Data
15 21 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
16 19 (0.44%) MongoDB
16 19 (0.44%) NoSQL
16 19 (0.44%) Oracle Database
17 18 (0.42%) Looker
Development Applications
1 263 (6.11%) JIRA
2 89 (2.07%) Git
3 64 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 55 (1.28%) GitLab
5 31 (0.72%) Selenium
6 25 (0.58%) Postman
7 19 (0.44%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.39%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.37%) WebDriver
10 10 (0.23%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.21%) ERwin
11 9 (0.21%) JUnit
12 8 (0.19%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.19%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.16%) Hudson
13 7 (0.16%) JMeter
13 7 (0.16%) Maven
13 7 (0.16%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2,022 (46.98%) Social Skills
2 1,140 (26.49%) Finance
3 930 (21.61%) Public Sector
4 723 (16.80%) Analytical Skills
5 275 (6.39%) Influencing Skills
6 240 (5.58%) Banking
7 201 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
8 187 (4.34%) Organisational Skills
9 150 (3.49%) Legal
10 128 (2.97%) Manufacturing
11 123 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 122 (2.83%) Retail
13 114 (2.65%) Local Government
14 94 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
15 85 (1.97%) Military
16 81 (1.88%) Marketing
17 77 (1.79%) Telecoms
18 72 (1.67%) Aerospace
19 59 (1.37%) Law
20 46 (1.07%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 722 (16.78%) Analyst
2 618 (14.36%) Architect
3 520 (12.08%) Lead
4 450 (10.46%) Senior
5 425 (9.87%) Business Analyst
6 300 (6.97%) Consultant
7 290 (6.74%) Project Manager
8 240 (5.58%) Developer
9 187 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
10 128 (2.97%) Data Architect
11 127 (2.95%) Change Manager
12 120 (2.79%) Data Analyst
13 107 (2.49%) Senior Analyst
14 90 (2.09%) Designer
15 86 (2.00%) Data Engineer
15 86 (2.00%) Technical Architect
16 82 (1.91%) Delivery Manager
17 81 (1.88%) Senior Manager
18 75 (1.74%) IT Manager
19 72 (1.67%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (4.16%) Terraform
2 133 (3.09%) REST
3 68 (1.58%) .NET
4 59 (1.37%) JSON
4 59 (1.37%) Kafka
5 52 (1.21%) SOAP
6 50 (1.16%) Spring
7 47 (1.09%) Middleware
8 46 (1.07%) PySpark
9 45 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
9 45 (1.05%) Spring Boot
9 45 (1.05%) XML
10 42 (0.98%) React
11 37 (0.86%) Web Services
12 35 (0.81%) RESTful
13 34 (0.79%) OAuth
14 30 (0.70%) LDAP
15 28 (0.65%) OpenID
16 27 (0.63%) Node.js
16 27 (0.63%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 294 (6.83%) Product Ownership
2 256 (5.95%) Onboarding
3 198 (4.60%) Cloud Native
4 154 (3.58%) Management Information System
5 107 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
6 102 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
7 92 (2.14%) AI Agents
8 91 (2.11%) Data Structures
9 81 (1.88%) NHS
10 74 (1.72%) Operational Technology
11 72 (1.67%) Data Centre
12 67 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
13 62 (1.44%) Security Posture
14 59 (1.37%) Virtual Team
15 57 (1.32%) CMDB
16 54 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
17 49 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
18 40 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
19 32 (0.74%) Life Science
19 32 (0.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.00%) Windows
2 84 (1.95%) Linux
3 38 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.37%) Unix
5 15 (0.35%) 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
8 5 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.093%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.046%) AIX
10 2 (0.046%) HPUX
10 2 (0.046%) Solaris
11 1 (0.023%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.023%) SUSE
11 1 (0.023%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.023%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,291 (30.00%) Agile
2 1,216 (28.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 958 (22.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 719 (16.71%) Decision-Making
5 693 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
6 636 (14.78%) Roadmaps
7 617 (14.34%) Workshop Facilitation
8 584 (13.57%) AI
9 567 (13.17%) Migration
10 534 (12.41%) DevOps
11 503 (11.69%) Change Management
12 494 (11.48%) Analytics
13 433 (10.06%) CI/CD
14 428 (9.94%) Project Delivery
14 428 (9.94%) Risk Management
15 401 (9.32%) Business Intelligence
16 389 (9.04%) Data Governance
17 382 (8.88%) Cybersecurity
18 380 (8.83%) Data Modelling
18 380 (8.83%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 418 (9.71%) SQL
2 318 (7.39%) Python
3 130 (3.02%) Java
4 102 (2.37%) JavaScript
4 102 (2.37%) PowerShell
5 86 (2.00%) C#
6 58 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 55 (1.28%) Bash
8 42 (0.98%) TypeScript
9 28 (0.65%) Bicep
10 21 (0.49%) Scala
11 16 (0.37%) T-SQL
12 13 (0.30%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.23%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.23%) Groovy
13 10 (0.23%) Korn
14 9 (0.21%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.16%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.14%) VBA
17 4 (0.093%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 1,241 (28.83%) Security Cleared
2 974 (22.63%) SC Cleared
3 256 (5.95%) Degree
4 204 (4.74%) DV Cleared
5 186 (4.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 114 (2.65%) PMI Certification
7 108 (2.51%) CISSP
7 108 (2.51%) PMP
8 68 (1.58%) CISM
9 64 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
10 63 (1.46%) Azure Certification
11 61 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 46 (1.07%) AWS Certification
13 33 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
14 32 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 30 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 30 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
16 29 (0.67%) APMG
17 26 (0.60%) ISTQB
18 25 (0.58%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 388 (9.01%) Data Quality
2 195 (4.53%) PMO
3 184 (4.28%) QA
4 162 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 158 (3.67%) GDPR
6 156 (3.62%) NIST
7 145 (3.37%) Accessibility
8 97 (2.25%) GRC
9 85 (1.97%) NCSC
10 58 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 40 (0.93%) WCAG
12 39 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
13 34 (0.79%) SLA
14 19 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 16 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 15 (0.35%) NIST 800
17 14 (0.33%) JSP 440
18 12 (0.28%) GxP
18 12 (0.28%) PCI DSS
19 11 (0.26%) ITGC
System Software
1 128 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 109 (2.53%) Docker
3 55 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.39%) VMware NSX
6 14 (0.33%) vSphere
7 12 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.093%) 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
1 172 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 55 (1.28%) Ansible
3 41 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (0.72%) Grafana
5 28 (0.65%) 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 (0.093%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.093%) Istio
12 3 (0.070%) Argo
12 3 (0.070%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.070%) Kibana
12 3 (0.070%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.070%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.070%) vRealize
Vendors
1 864 (20.07%) Microsoft
2 257 (5.97%) SAP
3 205 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 188 (4.37%) Oracle
5 158 (3.67%) Databricks
6 103 (2.39%) Google
6 103 (2.39%) Salesforce
7 74 (1.72%) VMware
8 63 (1.46%) Cisco
9 52 (1.21%) Workday
10 51 (1.18%) Splunk
11 45 (1.05%) IBM
12 36 (0.84%) Ariba
13 35 (0.81%) CyberArk
14 28 (0.65%) MuleSoft
15 26 (0.60%) Okta
16 25 (0.58%) OpenAI
17 22 (0.51%) Dynatrace
18 21 (0.49%) Informatica
18 21 (0.49%) Palo Alto