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

 6 months to
7 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 46 151
Rank change year-on-year +20 +105 +15
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,784 1,445 684
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.27% 4.54% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.55% 5.01% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,543 957 468
10th Percentile £367 £359 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £500 £524
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.53% -0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 28 30
10th Percentile £24.75 £24.51 £18.35
25th Percentile £50.00 £29.51 £26.64
Median hourly rate £68.50 £49.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.38% +30.27% -25.61%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.31 £60.44
90th Percentile £88.35 £76.67 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 £59.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +26.27% +4.44% +10.59%

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 44,261 28,859 36,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.68% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,507 18,191 23,560
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,650 1,433 2,509
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.50 £16.12
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -3.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.32 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.83 £38.12
% change year-on-year +77.04% -34.86% +8.82%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +21 3,210 £540 +1.89% 1,204
UK excluding London +27 1,793 £515 +3.00% 815
London +22 1,527 £550 - 552
Work from Home +25 1,228 £535 +6.95% 633
North of England +21 472 £500 - 201
South East +25 452 £550 +2.14% 287
Midlands +19 328 £515 +5.65% 119
North West +24 240 £500 -0.79% 113
West Midlands +12 235 £510 +4.72% 51
South West +19 196 £530 -3.64% 90
Yorkshire -1 184 £501 +5.37% 61
Scotland +28 173 £475 -5.09% 36
East of England +30 125 £533 +6.50% 46
East Midlands +24 88 £525 +16.67% 67
North East +6 54 £451 +0.28% 30
Wales +16 50 £500 +31.58% 23
Northern Ireland +16 17 £447 -20.53% 25
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
1 177 (4.68%) Confluence
2 120 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 33 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (0.69%) SAS
5 25 (0.66%) Apache Spark
6 24 (0.63%) Apache
7 21 (0.55%) CMS
7 21 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.13%) WordPress
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.11%) Drupal
9 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.11%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.079%) Appian
10 3 (0.079%) Kentico
11 2 (0.053%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.053%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.053%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.053%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 178 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 67 (1.77%) MS Visio
5 64 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.11%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.079%) Sketch
10 2 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.053%) InVision
10 2 (0.053%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.053%) Trello
11 1 (0.026%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.026%) CATIA
11 1 (0.026%) InDesign
11 1 (0.026%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.026%) Notion
11 1 (0.026%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.026%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 145 (3.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.48%) Workday HCM
4 15 (0.40%) Teamcenter
5 13 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 12 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 12 (0.32%) Primavera
7 11 (0.29%) SAP FI
7 11 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 10 (0.26%) Maximo
9 9 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 9 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
9 9 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 8 (0.21%) NetSuite
10 8 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
11 7 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
11 7 (0.18%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.18%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
12 6 (0.16%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 704 (18.60%) Azure
2 480 (12.68%) AWS
3 366 (9.67%) Power Platform
4 166 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
5 157 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
6 149 (3.94%) GCP
7 116 (3.07%) Entra ID
8 102 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
9 98 (2.59%) SaaS
10 78 (2.06%) GitHub
11 62 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
12 58 (1.53%) Serverless
13 52 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
14 49 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
14 49 (1.29%) Power Automate
15 48 (1.27%) PaaS
16 46 (1.22%) Amazon S3
17 44 (1.16%) PowerApps
18 40 (1.06%) Snowflake
19 36 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.80%) Network Security
2 62 (1.64%) Firewall
3 46 (1.22%) DNS
4 33 (0.87%) VPN
5 31 (0.82%) WAN
6 27 (0.71%) LAN
7 20 (0.53%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.45%) DHCP
8 17 (0.45%) Wireless
9 14 (0.37%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.37%) VLAN
10 13 (0.34%) Internet
11 12 (0.32%) 5G
11 12 (0.32%) BGP
11 12 (0.32%) SSL
12 11 (0.29%) OSPF
13 10 (0.26%) NGFW
14 9 (0.24%) Intranet
14 9 (0.24%) MPLS
15 8 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 303 (8.01%) Power BI
2 92 (2.43%) Metadata
3 79 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (1.37%) Data Lake
5 46 (1.22%) SQL Server
6 44 (1.16%) Tableau
7 33 (0.87%) Relational Database
8 29 (0.77%) Power Query
9 27 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.50%) NoSQL
11 18 (0.48%) Big Data
11 18 (0.48%) DynamoDB
12 16 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
12 16 (0.42%) Oracle Database
12 16 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
13 15 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (0.37%) BigQuery
14 14 (0.37%) Data Vault
14 14 (0.37%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 13 (0.34%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 279 (7.37%) JIRA
2 68 (1.80%) Git
3 61 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 52 (1.37%) GitLab
5 31 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
6 28 (0.74%) Postman
6 28 (0.74%) Selenium
7 20 (0.53%) JMeter
8 18 (0.48%) Hudson
9 17 (0.45%) Cucumber
10 15 (0.40%) WebDriver
11 14 (0.37%) JUnit
12 12 (0.32%) ERwin
13 10 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.21%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.21%) LoadRunner
14 8 (0.21%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.16%) MLflow
16 5 (0.13%) REST Assured
16 5 (0.13%) Snyk
General
1 1,721 (45.48%) Social Skills
2 1,090 (28.81%) Finance
3 649 (17.15%) Public Sector
4 601 (15.88%) Analytical Skills
5 207 (5.47%) Banking
6 184 (4.86%) Influencing Skills
7 150 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
8 145 (3.83%) Legal
9 121 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
10 117 (3.09%) Retail
11 89 (2.35%) Manufacturing
12 86 (2.27%) Law
13 76 (2.01%) Local Government
14 75 (1.98%) Marketing
15 74 (1.96%) Aerospace
16 72 (1.90%) Telecoms
17 62 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 52 (1.37%) Military
19 44 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
20 34 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 693 (18.31%) Analyst
2 560 (14.80%) Architect
3 480 (12.68%) Lead
4 424 (11.21%) Business Analyst
5 373 (9.86%) Senior
6 289 (7.64%) Project Manager
7 272 (7.19%) Consultant
8 160 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
9 138 (3.65%) Developer
10 112 (2.96%) Data Analyst
11 103 (2.72%) Change Manager
12 97 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
13 93 (2.46%) Delivery Manager
14 82 (2.17%) Senior Manager
15 79 (2.09%) Data Architect
16 76 (2.01%) Programme Manager
17 74 (1.96%) Designer
17 74 (1.96%) Security Architect
18 70 (1.85%) Technical Architect
19 69 (1.82%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (2.64%) REST
2 61 (1.61%) Middleware
3 47 (1.24%) Spring
4 42 (1.11%) JSON
4 42 (1.11%) Kafka
5 41 (1.08%) React
6 40 (1.06%) SOAP
7 37 (0.98%) Spring Boot
8 36 (0.95%) .NET
9 34 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
10 32 (0.85%) PySpark
10 32 (0.85%) XML
11 31 (0.82%) OpenID
11 31 (0.82%) SailPoint
12 29 (0.77%) OAuth
13 27 (0.71%) SAML
14 24 (0.63%) LDAP
15 22 (0.58%) RESTful
16 21 (0.55%) HTML
17 19 (0.50%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 252 (6.66%) Product Ownership
2 200 (5.29%) Onboarding
3 165 (4.36%) Cloud Native
4 97 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 90 (2.38%) Data Structures
6 72 (1.90%) Operational Technology
7 70 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
8 69 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
9 67 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
10 62 (1.64%) Data Centre
10 62 (1.64%) NHS
11 61 (1.61%) CMDB
12 56 (1.48%) Virtual Team
13 49 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
14 44 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
15 43 (1.14%) AI Agents
16 42 (1.11%) Security Posture
17 38 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
18 34 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
19 33 (0.87%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 109 (2.88%) Windows
2 54 (1.43%) Linux
3 27 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.40%) Unix
5 13 (0.34%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.21%) VMS
8 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.11%) Android
10 3 (0.079%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.079%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.079%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.079%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.026%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,065 (28.14%) Agile
2 801 (21.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 791 (20.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 545 (14.40%) Migration
5 544 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
6 538 (14.22%) Decision-Making
7 502 (13.27%) Roadmaps
8 461 (12.18%) Change Management
8 461 (12.18%) DevOps
9 433 (11.44%) Workshop Facilitation
10 409 (10.81%) AI
11 397 (10.49%) Analytics
12 378 (9.99%) Risk Management
13 358 (9.46%) CI/CD
14 344 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
15 331 (8.75%) Cybersecurity
16 324 (8.56%) Project Delivery
17 319 (8.43%) ERP
18 307 (8.11%) Data Modelling
19 302 (7.98%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 318 (8.40%) SQL
2 259 (6.84%) Python
3 122 (3.22%) Java
4 66 (1.74%) JavaScript
5 59 (1.56%) PowerShell
6 51 (1.35%) C#
7 43 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 43 (1.14%) TypeScript
8 35 (0.92%) Bash
9 21 (0.55%) Bicep
9 21 (0.55%) VBA
10 16 (0.42%) Scala
11 14 (0.37%) Apex Code
12 12 (0.32%) PL/SQL
12 12 (0.32%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.26%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.24%) Korn
15 7 (0.18%) ABAP
15 7 (0.18%) R
16 4 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 966 (25.53%) Security Cleared
2 737 (19.48%) SC Cleared
3 278 (7.35%) Degree
4 155 (4.10%) DV Cleared
5 130 (3.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 115 (3.04%) PMI Certification
7 104 (2.75%) PMP
8 97 (2.56%) CISSP
9 65 (1.72%) Azure Certification
9 65 (1.72%) CISM
10 58 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
12 38 (1.00%) AWS Certification
13 30 (0.79%) Master's Degree
13 30 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
14 29 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 27 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
16 25 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 25 (0.66%) ACCA
17 24 (0.63%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 196 (5.18%) PMO
3 175 (4.62%) QA
4 161 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 155 (4.10%) NIST
6 153 (4.04%) GDPR
7 94 (2.48%) Accessibility
8 89 (2.35%) GRC
9 53 (1.40%) NCSC
10 42 (1.11%) SLA
11 29 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
12 25 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
13 24 (0.63%) PCI DSS
14 23 (0.61%) WCAG
15 18 (0.48%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.45%) ISO 20022
17 13 (0.34%) COBIT
17 13 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 11 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 11 (0.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 96 (2.54%) Active Directory
2 81 (2.14%) Docker
3 39 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.42%) vSphere
5 13 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.079%) NFS
11 1 (0.026%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.026%) Firmware
11 1 (0.026%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.026%) KVM
Systems Management
1 144 (3.81%) Terraform
2 136 (3.59%) Kubernetes
3 44 (1.16%) Ansible
4 33 (0.87%) Grafana
4 33 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 30 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.40%) SCCM
7 11 (0.29%) HP ALM
8 10 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.18%) vRealize
10 6 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.16%) NetBackup
11 4 (0.11%) Podman
12 3 (0.079%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.079%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 3 (0.079%) SCOM
12 3 (0.079%) vMotion
12 3 (0.079%) VxRail
12 3 (0.079%) WSUS
Vendors
1 626 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 266 (7.03%) SAP
3 232 (6.13%) ServiceNow
4 179 (4.73%) Oracle
5 112 (2.96%) Salesforce
6 109 (2.88%) Databricks
7 68 (1.80%) Google
8 54 (1.43%) Cisco
9 51 (1.35%) VMware
10 50 (1.32%) IBM
11 44 (1.16%) Workday
12 42 (1.11%) Splunk
13 27 (0.71%) MuleSoft
14 25 (0.66%) CyberArk
15 21 (0.55%) Dynatrace
15 21 (0.55%) Palo Alto
15 21 (0.55%) Zscaler
16 20 (0.53%) Citrix
17 19 (0.50%) IFS
18 18 (0.48%) Adobe
1,392 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide