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

 6 months to
5 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 57 156
Rank change year-on-year +31 +99 +1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,348 1,165 667
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.82% 4.03% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.05% 4.42% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,265 772 468
10th Percentile £370 £373 £363
25th Percentile £445 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 18 37
10th Percentile £25.23 £28.60 £18.35
25th Percentile £47.00 £32.79 £27.81
Median hourly rate £68.50 £49.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.38% +35.62% +62.22%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £89.80 £77.79 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.00 £67.50 £57.33
% change year-on-year +15.56% +17.74% +161.78%

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 41,594 26,332 36,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.70% 91.01% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,970 16,762 23,491
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 2,502 1,133 2,525
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.25 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.29 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.09% -34.02% +8.91%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +28 2,859 £537 +2.29% 1,262
UK excluding London +37 1,587 £508 +1.50% 884
London +29 1,350 £550 - 536
Work from Home +43 1,056 £530 +5.89% 674
North of England +29 427 £495 +3.39% 223
South East +22 361 £540 +12.50% 269
Midlands +33 313 £500 -0.10% 135
West Midlands +22 216 £496 -3.31% 90
North West +29 212 £475 -4.71% 128
South West +20 192 £525 -4.55% 113
Yorkshire +14 175 £515 +8.32% 74
Scotland +36 139 £475 -9.91% 51
East of England +28 115 £575 +15.00% 49
East Midlands +19 92 £525 +16.67% 44
North East +5 44 £453 -10.84% 22
Wales +11 41 £475 +50.55% 26
Northern Ireland +17 16 £449 -22.84% 29
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
1 172 (5.14%) Confluence
2 89 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 29 (0.87%) SAS
4 24 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.51%) CMS
5 17 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.45%) Apache
6 15 (0.45%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.12%) WordPress
8 3 (0.090%) Appian
8 3 (0.090%) Drupal
8 3 (0.090%) Kentico
9 2 (0.060%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.060%) Camunda
9 2 (0.060%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.060%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 152 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 61 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
4 59 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
5 58 (1.73%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.12%) PTC Creo
7 4 (0.12%) Sketch
8 2 (0.060%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.060%) InVision
8 2 (0.060%) Trello
9 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.030%) CATIA
9 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.030%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.030%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 133 (3.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.45%) Teamcenter
4 13 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.33%) Workday HCM
6 10 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.27%) Maximo
7 9 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.27%) SAP ERP
7 9 (0.27%) SAP FI
8 8 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (0.24%) Primavera
8 8 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.24%) SAP QM
9 7 (0.21%) NEC Housing
9 7 (0.21%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 6 (0.18%) SAP CO
10 6 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 651 (19.44%) Azure
2 451 (13.47%) AWS
3 308 (9.20%) Power Platform
4 163 (4.87%) GCP
5 128 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
6 116 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (3.02%) SaaS
8 100 (2.99%) Entra ID
9 94 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
10 65 (1.94%) GitHub
11 50 (1.49%) Serverless
12 46 (1.37%) PaaS
13 45 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
14 40 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (1.08%) Amazon S3
16 34 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
16 34 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
16 34 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
17 33 (0.99%) Power Automate
17 33 (0.99%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.58%) Firewall
2 51 (1.52%) Network Security
3 35 (1.05%) DNS
4 22 (0.66%) VPN
4 22 (0.66%) WAN
5 19 (0.57%) LAN
6 14 (0.42%) Wireless
7 13 (0.39%) Internet
7 13 (0.39%) TCP/IP
8 10 (0.30%) BGP
8 10 (0.30%) DHCP
8 10 (0.30%) VLAN
9 9 (0.27%) NGFW
9 9 (0.27%) OSPF
9 9 (0.27%) SSL
9 9 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.24%) Intranet
10 8 (0.24%) NAS
10 8 (0.24%) SAN
10 8 (0.24%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (7.86%) Power BI
2 75 (2.24%) Metadata
3 62 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (1.02%) Tableau
5 32 (0.96%) Data Lake
6 29 (0.87%) Power Query
6 29 (0.87%) SQL Server
7 27 (0.81%) Relational Database
8 26 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (0.51%) NoSQL
9 17 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
10 15 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
11 14 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (0.42%) Big Data
11 14 (0.42%) DynamoDB
11 14 (0.42%) MySQL
12 13 (0.39%) Oracle Database
12 13 (0.39%) SAS Enterprise Guide
13 12 (0.36%) Data Vault
13 12 (0.36%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 280 (8.36%) JIRA
2 60 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 54 (1.61%) Git
3 54 (1.61%) GitLab
4 31 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
5 29 (0.87%) Postman
6 28 (0.84%) Selenium
7 21 (0.63%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.54%) Hudson
8 18 (0.54%) JMeter
9 12 (0.36%) WebDriver
10 11 (0.33%) JUnit
11 9 (0.27%) REST Assured
12 8 (0.24%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.21%) LoadRunner
14 6 (0.18%) ERwin
14 6 (0.18%) MLflow
14 6 (0.18%) TestRail
15 5 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 1,540 (46.00%) Social Skills
2 962 (28.73%) Finance
3 536 (16.01%) Public Sector
4 516 (15.41%) Analytical Skills
5 195 (5.82%) Banking
6 137 (4.09%) Influencing Skills
7 129 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
8 121 (3.61%) Legal
9 95 (2.84%) Retail
10 90 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
11 84 (2.51%) Law
12 80 (2.39%) Manufacturing
13 68 (2.03%) Aerospace
13 68 (2.03%) Local Government
14 59 (1.76%) Telecoms
15 56 (1.67%) Marketing
16 48 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 44 (1.31%) Military
18 38 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
19 34 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 617 (18.43%) Analyst
2 513 (15.32%) Architect
3 437 (13.05%) Lead
4 405 (12.10%) Business Analyst
5 306 (9.14%) Senior
6 277 (8.27%) Project Manager
7 249 (7.44%) Consultant
8 132 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
9 94 (2.81%) Change Manager
9 94 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
10 93 (2.78%) Delivery Manager
11 90 (2.69%) Developer
12 88 (2.63%) Data Analyst
13 80 (2.39%) Programme Manager
14 72 (2.15%) Designer
15 71 (2.12%) Senior Manager
16 66 (1.97%) Senior Business Analyst
17 61 (1.82%) Data Architect
18 59 (1.76%) IT Manager
19 58 (1.73%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (3.61%) REST
2 59 (1.76%) SOAP
3 57 (1.70%) LDAP
4 53 (1.58%) Middleware
5 39 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
6 36 (1.08%) Spring
7 33 (0.99%) OpenID
7 33 (0.99%) React
8 32 (0.96%) SailPoint
9 31 (0.93%) Kafka
10 30 (0.90%) OAuth
11 28 (0.84%) Spring Boot
12 27 (0.81%) JSON
13 26 (0.78%) .NET
14 23 (0.69%) XML
15 21 (0.63%) CSS
16 20 (0.60%) HTML
16 20 (0.60%) PySpark
16 20 (0.60%) SAML
17 19 (0.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 231 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 152 (4.54%) Onboarding
3 143 (4.27%) Cloud Native
4 84 (2.51%) Data Structures
5 81 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
6 77 (2.30%) Management Information System
7 71 (2.12%) Operational Technology
7 71 (2.12%) Security Posture
8 66 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
9 56 (1.67%) Data Centre
10 54 (1.61%) NHS
11 53 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
12 49 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
13 43 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
14 41 (1.22%) Virtual Team
15 40 (1.19%) CMDB
16 35 (1.05%) AI Agents
17 34 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
18 30 (0.90%) Public Cloud
19 25 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 96 (2.87%) Windows
2 48 (1.43%) Linux
3 22 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (0.36%) Unix
5 12 (0.36%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.24%) VMS
8 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.12%) Android
10 3 (0.090%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.090%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.090%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 902 (26.94%) Agile
2 657 (19.62%) Stakeholder Management
3 638 (19.06%) Continuous Improvement
4 500 (14.93%) Migration
5 464 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
6 442 (13.20%) Decision-Making
7 432 (12.90%) Roadmaps
8 423 (12.63%) Change Management
9 383 (11.44%) DevOps
10 381 (11.38%) Workshop Facilitation
11 336 (10.04%) Analytics
12 320 (9.56%) AI
13 317 (9.47%) Risk Management
14 302 (9.02%) Business Intelligence
15 300 (8.96%) ERP
16 293 (8.75%) Project Management
17 280 (8.36%) CI/CD
18 279 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
19 272 (8.12%) Project Delivery
20 269 (8.03%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 256 (7.65%) SQL
2 251 (7.50%) Python
3 113 (3.38%) Java
4 85 (2.54%) PowerShell
5 52 (1.55%) JavaScript
6 36 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 36 (1.08%) TypeScript
7 34 (1.02%) C#
8 33 (0.99%) Bash
9 19 (0.57%) VBA
10 18 (0.54%) Bicep
11 14 (0.42%) Scala
12 11 (0.33%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.30%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.30%) PHP
14 8 (0.24%) Korn
14 8 (0.24%) R
15 7 (0.21%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.15%) ABAP
17 4 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 849 (25.36%) Security Cleared
2 676 (20.19%) SC Cleared
3 252 (7.53%) Degree
4 124 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 109 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 104 (3.11%) PMI Certification
7 101 (3.02%) PMP
8 84 (2.51%) CISSP
9 61 (1.82%) CISM
10 46 (1.37%) Azure Certification
11 43 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
12 39 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
13 32 (0.96%) AWS Certification
14 27 (0.81%) Master's Degree
15 26 (0.78%) ACCA
16 25 (0.75%) CIMA
16 25 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
16 25 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 24 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
18 20 (0.60%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (6.63%) Data Quality
2 167 (4.99%) QA
3 165 (4.93%) PMO
4 144 (4.30%) NIST
5 139 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 131 (3.91%) GDPR
7 82 (2.45%) Accessibility
8 66 (1.97%) GRC
9 32 (0.96%) NCSC
10 30 (0.90%) SLA
11 26 (0.78%) PCI DSS
12 25 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
12 25 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
13 20 (0.60%) WCAG
14 18 (0.54%) SOC 2
15 16 (0.48%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.36%) COBIT
16 12 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 10 (0.30%) Basel III
System Software
1 102 (3.05%) Active Directory
2 62 (1.85%) Docker
3 28 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.33%) VMware NSX
4 11 (0.33%) vSphere
5 5 (0.15%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.090%) NFS
7 3 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.030%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.030%) Firmware
8 1 (0.030%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.030%) KVM
Systems Management
1 116 (3.46%) Terraform
2 108 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 39 (1.16%) Ansible
4 29 (0.87%) Grafana
5 27 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.45%) SCCM
8 13 (0.39%) HP ALM
9 7 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.18%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.15%) Istio
11 5 (0.15%) vRealize
12 4 (0.12%) Podman
13 3 (0.090%) EMC VPLEX
13 3 (0.090%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.090%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 3 (0.090%) vMotion
13 3 (0.090%) WSUS
14 2 (0.060%) Nessus
Vendors
1 500 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 254 (7.59%) SAP
3 188 (5.62%) ServiceNow
4 159 (4.75%) Oracle
5 92 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 86 (2.57%) Databricks
7 59 (1.76%) Google
8 53 (1.58%) CyberArk
9 47 (1.40%) IBM
10 44 (1.31%) VMware
11 43 (1.28%) Splunk
12 42 (1.25%) Cisco
13 38 (1.14%) BeyondTrust
14 36 (1.08%) Workday
15 34 (1.02%) Centrify
16 20 (0.60%) Dynatrace
16 20 (0.60%) Zscaler
17 19 (0.57%) Adobe
17 19 (0.57%) IFS
17 19 (0.57%) Palo Alto
1,443 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide