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

 6 months to
7 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 36 148
Rank change year-on-year +11 +112 +17
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,021 1,728 641
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.53% 5.26% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.86% 5.81% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,729 1,146 437
10th Percentile £367 £360 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% -2.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £524 £525 £516
% change year-on-year -0.24% +1.69% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 29 19
10th Percentile £26.04 £22.98 £18.35
25th Percentile £52.50 £26.21 £32.13
Median hourly rate £74.50 £42.82 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year +74.00% -26.24% +5.54%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.25 £72.70
90th Percentile - £76.19 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £45.87 £58.17
% change year-on-year +74.42% -21.15% +5.77%

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 45,370 29,720 33,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.93% 90.44% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,958 18,627 21,372
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £729 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,804 1,656 1,869
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.33 £18.13
Median hourly rate £42.68 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +69.69% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.51
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.30 £40.94
% change year-on-year +88.67% -43.09% +2.35%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +9 3,427 £540 -1.82% 1,366
UK excluding London +17 1,903 £524 -0.24% 863
London +11 1,656 £550 - 647
Work from Home +19 1,349 £525 - 684
South East +25 511 £565 +2.73% 255
North of England +15 499 £500 -2.21% 200
Midlands +9 327 £505 +0.40% 154
North West +17 250 £500 -3.61% 99
West Midlands +3 250 £500 -1.38% 112
South West +4 210 £550 - 114
Scotland +28 198 £500 - 47
Yorkshire 0 189 £500 +4.44% 65
East of England +24 121 £529 -0.24% 64
East Midlands +21 73 £513 +13.89% 42
North East +10 68 £451 -6.96% 37
Wales +19 50 £500 +25.00% 19
Northern Ireland +9 12 £430 -18.14% 20
Channel Islands +1 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
1 174 (4.33%) Confluence
2 137 (3.41%) SharePoint
3 37 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 31 (0.77%) Apache
6 28 (0.70%) CMS
7 26 (0.65%) SAS
8 23 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.15%) WordPress
10 4 (0.099%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.099%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.099%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.075%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.075%) Kentico
11 3 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.075%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.050%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.050%) Appian
12 2 (0.050%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.050%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 185 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
5 60 (1.49%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.15%) Navisworks
8 6 (0.15%) ProjectWise
8 6 (0.15%) Revit
8 6 (0.15%) Trello
9 4 (0.099%) Sketch
10 2 (0.050%) InDesign
10 2 (0.050%) InVision
11 1 (0.025%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.025%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.025%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.025%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.025%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 143 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.55%) Workday HCM
4 17 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.37%) Primavera
6 14 (0.35%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.32%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 12 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 12 (0.30%) SAP QM
9 11 (0.27%) Maximo
9 11 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
9 11 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 10 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
11 9 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
11 9 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
11 9 (0.22%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.22%) Teamcenter
12 8 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 8 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 810 (20.14%) Azure
2 525 (13.06%) AWS
3 430 (10.69%) Power Platform
4 197 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
5 187 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
6 186 (4.63%) GCP
7 144 (3.58%) Dynamics 365
8 134 (3.33%) Entra ID
9 98 (2.44%) SaaS
10 89 (2.21%) GitHub
11 81 (2.01%) Power Automate
12 68 (1.69%) Serverless
13 67 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
14 66 (1.64%) PowerApps
15 65 (1.62%) Snowflake
16 58 (1.44%) Amazon S3
16 58 (1.44%) Microsoft Purview
17 57 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
18 54 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
19 46 (1.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.57%) Firewall
1 63 (1.57%) Network Security
2 50 (1.24%) DNS
3 37 (0.92%) VPN
3 37 (0.92%) WAN
4 31 (0.77%) LAN
5 23 (0.57%) DHCP
5 23 (0.57%) TCP/IP
6 18 (0.45%) Wireless
7 17 (0.42%) SD-WAN
8 16 (0.40%) Internet
9 14 (0.35%) VLAN
10 13 (0.32%) 5G
11 12 (0.30%) BGP
11 12 (0.30%) Intranet
11 12 (0.30%) SSL
12 11 (0.27%) OSPF
12 11 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
13 9 (0.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 351 (8.73%) Power BI
2 116 (2.88%) Metadata
3 97 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
4 80 (1.99%) Data Lake
5 67 (1.67%) SQL Server
6 47 (1.17%) Tableau
7 35 (0.87%) Power Query
8 30 (0.75%) Relational Database
9 29 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
10 22 (0.55%) DynamoDB
11 21 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (0.50%) Big Data
12 20 (0.50%) BigQuery
13 19 (0.47%) Oracle Database
14 18 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (0.45%) Data Vault
15 17 (0.42%) NoSQL
16 16 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
17 15 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
17 15 (0.37%) Looker
Development Applications
1 275 (6.84%) JIRA
2 86 (2.14%) Git
3 62 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 55 (1.37%) GitLab
5 35 (0.87%) Selenium
6 31 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
7 29 (0.72%) Postman
8 20 (0.50%) WebDriver
9 19 (0.47%) Cucumber
10 18 (0.45%) Hudson
11 17 (0.42%) JMeter
12 16 (0.40%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.32%) ERwin
13 13 (0.32%) JUnit
14 12 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
15 9 (0.22%) SonarQube
16 8 (0.20%) Bitbucket
17 7 (0.17%) Zephyr
18 6 (0.15%) MLflow
18 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 1,827 (45.44%) Social Skills
2 1,138 (28.30%) Finance
3 742 (18.45%) Public Sector
4 667 (16.59%) Analytical Skills
5 208 (5.17%) Banking
6 199 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
7 157 (3.90%) Legal
8 153 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
9 146 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
10 136 (3.38%) Retail
11 98 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 96 (2.39%) Local Government
13 90 (2.24%) Law
13 90 (2.24%) Manufacturing
14 86 (2.14%) Marketing
15 81 (2.01%) Telecoms
16 72 (1.79%) Aerospace
17 57 (1.42%) Military
17 57 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
18 40 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 717 (17.83%) Analyst
2 590 (14.67%) Architect
3 503 (12.51%) Lead
4 430 (10.69%) Business Analyst
5 416 (10.35%) Senior
6 299 (7.44%) Project Manager
7 287 (7.14%) Consultant
8 189 (4.70%) Developer
9 173 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
10 126 (3.13%) Data Analyst
11 105 (2.61%) Change Manager
12 102 (2.54%) Data Architect
13 99 (2.46%) Delivery Manager
14 98 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
15 88 (2.19%) Senior Manager
16 81 (2.01%) Data Engineer
16 81 (2.01%) Security Architect
17 78 (1.94%) Designer
18 74 (1.84%) Product Manager
19 72 (1.79%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (2.61%) REST
2 55 (1.37%) JSON
3 54 (1.34%) .NET
3 54 (1.34%) Middleware
4 48 (1.19%) Kafka
5 45 (1.12%) React
5 45 (1.12%) Spring
6 44 (1.09%) SOAP
7 43 (1.07%) PySpark
8 40 (0.99%) XML
9 39 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
10 36 (0.90%) Spring Boot
11 33 (0.82%) OAuth
12 30 (0.75%) SAML
13 29 (0.72%) OpenID
14 28 (0.70%) RESTful
14 28 (0.70%) SailPoint
15 27 (0.67%) Web Services
16 24 (0.60%) HTML
17 22 (0.55%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 297 (7.39%) Product Ownership
2 221 (5.50%) Onboarding
3 177 (4.40%) Cloud Native
4 122 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 113 (2.81%) Data Structures
6 88 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
7 78 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
8 72 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 71 (1.77%) NHS
10 67 (1.67%) Operational Technology
11 57 (1.42%) Data Centre
12 54 (1.34%) AI Agents
12 54 (1.34%) CMDB
12 54 (1.34%) Virtual Team
13 52 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
14 50 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
15 45 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
16 39 (0.97%) Security Posture
17 36 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
18 34 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 118 (2.93%) Windows
2 64 (1.59%) Linux
3 27 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.37%) Unix
4 15 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 11 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.20%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.17%) VMS
8 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.12%) Android
9 5 (0.12%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.075%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.075%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.075%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.050%) AIX
11 2 (0.050%) HPUX
11 2 (0.050%) Solaris
12 1 (0.025%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,221 (30.37%) Agile
2 911 (22.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 902 (22.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 603 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 584 (14.52%) Decision-Making
6 577 (14.35%) Migration
7 527 (13.11%) DevOps
8 524 (13.03%) Roadmaps
9 491 (12.21%) Workshop Facilitation
10 487 (12.11%) AI
11 477 (11.86%) Change Management
12 471 (11.71%) Analytics
13 438 (10.89%) CI/CD
14 401 (9.97%) Business Intelligence
15 397 (9.87%) Risk Management
16 372 (9.25%) Project Delivery
17 352 (8.75%) Cybersecurity
18 350 (8.70%) Data Modelling
19 326 (8.11%) ERP
20 322 (8.01%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 366 (9.10%) SQL
2 295 (7.34%) Python
3 122 (3.03%) Java
4 84 (2.09%) JavaScript
5 75 (1.87%) PowerShell
6 71 (1.77%) C#
7 50 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 43 (1.07%) Bash
9 42 (1.04%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.65%) Bicep
11 17 (0.42%) VBA
12 16 (0.40%) Scala
13 14 (0.35%) Apex Code
13 14 (0.35%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.30%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.22%) Groovy
16 8 (0.20%) Korn
17 7 (0.17%) ABAP
18 6 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 1,068 (26.56%) Security Cleared
2 809 (20.12%) SC Cleared
3 261 (6.49%) Degree
4 187 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 141 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 121 (3.01%) PMI Certification
7 113 (2.81%) PMP
8 102 (2.54%) CISSP
9 73 (1.82%) Azure Certification
10 64 (1.59%) CISM
11 61 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
12 52 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
13 47 (1.17%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 36 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
16 32 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
17 29 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 25 (0.62%) Master's Degree
19 23 (0.57%) APMG
19 23 (0.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 327 (8.13%) Data Quality
2 213 (5.30%) PMO
3 184 (4.58%) QA
4 177 (4.40%) GDPR
5 167 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 154 (3.83%) NIST
7 112 (2.79%) Accessibility
8 86 (2.14%) GRC
9 54 (1.34%) NCSC
10 44 (1.09%) SLA
11 33 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
12 32 (0.80%) WCAG
13 27 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.47%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.45%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 15 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 12 (0.30%) ISO 20022
18 12 (0.30%) NIST 800
19 10 (0.25%) COBIT
System Software
1 122 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 95 (2.36%) Docker
3 45 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.52%) VMware NSX
5 20 (0.50%) vSphere
6 14 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.099%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.025%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.025%) Firmware
11 1 (0.025%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.025%) IAG
11 1 (0.025%) KVM
Systems Management
1 167 (4.15%) Terraform
2 156 (3.88%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.12%) Ansible
4 42 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (0.90%) Grafana
5 36 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (0.82%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.37%) SCCM
8 11 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 10 (0.25%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.17%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 5 (0.12%) vRealize
12 4 (0.099%) Istio
12 4 (0.099%) Podman
12 4 (0.099%) VxRail
13 3 (0.075%) Argo
13 3 (0.075%) Puppet
13 3 (0.075%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.075%) WSUS
Vendors
1 735 (18.28%) Microsoft
2 268 (6.67%) SAP
3 232 (5.77%) ServiceNow
4 179 (4.45%) Oracle
5 145 (3.61%) Databricks
6 115 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 82 (2.04%) Google
8 57 (1.42%) VMware
9 56 (1.39%) IBM
10 55 (1.37%) Cisco
11 49 (1.22%) Workday
12 42 (1.04%) Splunk
13 34 (0.85%) CyberArk
14 29 (0.72%) MuleSoft
15 24 (0.60%) Zscaler
16 23 (0.57%) Ariba
17 21 (0.52%) Citrix
17 21 (0.52%) Okta
18 20 (0.50%) Dynatrace
18 20 (0.50%) Palo Alto
1,552 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide