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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 46 153
Rank change year-on-year +20 +107 +12
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,839 1,478 689
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.31% 4.58% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.59% 5.05% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,585 983 472
10th Percentile £364 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £447 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £640 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 28 30
10th Percentile £24.75 £24.51 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £29.51 £26.64
Median hourly rate £72.50 £49.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.46% +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 £80.00 £59.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +35.59% +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 44,694 29,246 37,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.15% 90.54% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,812 18,436 23,663
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -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 2,657 1,477 2,496
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -3.62%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +19 3,259 £540 +2.86% 1,140
UK excluding London +26 1,818 £514 +2.80% 770
London +19 1,555 £550 - 522
Work from Home +25 1,241 £535 +7.00% 560
North of England +18 481 £500 - 169
South East +25 461 £550 +2.42% 279
Midlands +14 332 £513 +5.24% 109
North West +24 243 £500 -0.79% 90
West Midlands +9 240 £510 +4.72% 58
South West +14 197 £530 -3.64% 104
Yorkshire +2 188 £501 +5.37% 53
Scotland +32 176 £475 -5.05% 31
East of England +34 123 £533 +6.50% 50
East Midlands +23 87 £525 +16.67% 50
North East +11 56 £450 - 27
Wales +17 52 £500 +31.58% 17
Northern Ireland +17 17 £447 -20.53% 22
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
1 182 (4.74%) Confluence
2 123 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 33 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (0.70%) SAS
5 25 (0.65%) 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 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.10%) Drupal
9 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.10%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.078%) Appian
10 3 (0.078%) Kentico
10 3 (0.078%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.052%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.052%) Camunda
11 2 (0.052%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.052%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 182 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 68 (1.77%) MS Visio
5 65 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.10%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.078%) Sketch
10 2 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.052%) InVision
10 2 (0.052%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.052%) 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
1 150 (3.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.47%) Workday HCM
4 15 (0.39%) Teamcenter
5 13 (0.34%) SAP FI
5 13 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 12 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 12 (0.31%) SAP QM
7 11 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (0.29%) Primavera
8 10 (0.26%) Maximo
8 10 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
9 9 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 9 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
10 8 (0.21%) NetSuite
10 8 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (0.21%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
11 7 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
11 7 (0.18%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 715 (18.62%) Azure
2 489 (12.74%) AWS
3 371 (9.66%) Power Platform
4 167 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 164 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
6 150 (3.91%) GCP
7 116 (3.02%) Entra ID
8 106 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
9 99 (2.58%) SaaS
10 78 (2.03%) GitHub
11 62 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
12 59 (1.54%) Serverless
13 52 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
13 52 (1.35%) Power Automate
14 48 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
14 48 (1.25%) PaaS
15 47 (1.22%) Amazon S3
16 46 (1.20%) PowerApps
17 41 (1.07%) Snowflake
18 37 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.77%) Network Security
2 63 (1.64%) Firewall
3 47 (1.22%) DNS
4 33 (0.86%) VPN
5 32 (0.83%) WAN
6 28 (0.73%) LAN
7 21 (0.55%) TCP/IP
8 18 (0.47%) DHCP
8 18 (0.47%) Wireless
9 15 (0.39%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.39%) VLAN
10 14 (0.36%) Internet
11 13 (0.34%) 5G
11 13 (0.34%) BGP
12 12 (0.31%) OSPF
12 12 (0.31%) SSL
13 10 (0.26%) NGFW
14 9 (0.23%) Intranet
14 9 (0.23%) MPLS
14 9 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 308 (8.02%) Power BI
2 97 (2.53%) Metadata
3 80 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (1.46%) Data Lake
5 48 (1.25%) SQL Server
6 45 (1.17%) Tableau
7 33 (0.86%) Relational Database
8 29 (0.76%) Power Query
9 27 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.49%) Big Data
10 19 (0.49%) NoSQL
11 18 (0.47%) DynamoDB
12 17 (0.44%) Oracle Database
13 16 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
14 15 (0.39%) Data Vault
14 15 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
15 14 (0.36%) BigQuery
15 14 (0.36%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 13 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 286 (7.45%) JIRA
2 69 (1.80%) Git
3 61 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.41%) GitLab
5 31 (0.81%) Rational DOORS
6 30 (0.78%) Postman
6 30 (0.78%) Selenium
7 21 (0.55%) JMeter
8 18 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.47%) Hudson
9 16 (0.42%) WebDriver
10 14 (0.36%) JUnit
11 12 (0.31%) ERwin
12 10 (0.26%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.21%) LoadRunner
13 8 (0.21%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.16%) MLflow
14 6 (0.16%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.13%) Gatling
General
1 1,747 (45.51%) Social Skills
2 1,103 (28.73%) Finance
3 663 (17.27%) Public Sector
4 610 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
5 210 (5.47%) Banking
6 183 (4.77%) Influencing Skills
7 154 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
8 146 (3.80%) Legal
9 123 (3.20%) Retail
10 121 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
11 92 (2.40%) Manufacturing
12 87 (2.27%) Law
13 77 (2.01%) Local Government
14 76 (1.98%) Marketing
15 74 (1.93%) Aerospace
15 74 (1.93%) Telecoms
16 65 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 52 (1.35%) Military
18 46 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
19 37 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 702 (18.29%) Analyst
2 567 (14.77%) Architect
3 486 (12.66%) Lead
4 431 (11.23%) Business Analyst
5 380 (9.90%) Senior
6 291 (7.58%) Project Manager
7 273 (7.11%) Consultant
8 162 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
9 144 (3.75%) Developer
10 117 (3.05%) Data Analyst
11 103 (2.68%) Change Manager
12 98 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
13 95 (2.47%) Delivery Manager
14 82 (2.14%) Senior Manager
15 80 (2.08%) Data Architect
16 76 (1.98%) Security Architect
17 75 (1.95%) Programme Manager
18 73 (1.90%) Designer
19 71 (1.85%) Product Manager
20 70 (1.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (2.66%) REST
2 61 (1.59%) Middleware
3 49 (1.28%) Spring
4 45 (1.17%) JSON
5 43 (1.12%) Kafka
5 43 (1.12%) React
6 40 (1.04%) SOAP
7 39 (1.02%) Spring Boot
8 37 (0.96%) .NET
9 36 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
10 35 (0.91%) XML
11 34 (0.89%) PySpark
12 31 (0.81%) OpenID
12 31 (0.81%) SailPoint
13 29 (0.76%) OAuth
14 27 (0.70%) SAML
15 24 (0.63%) LDAP
16 22 (0.57%) RESTful
17 20 (0.52%) AngularJS
17 20 (0.52%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 260 (6.77%) Product Ownership
2 204 (5.31%) Onboarding
3 167 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 99 (2.58%) Data Structures
4 99 (2.58%) Management Information System
5 72 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
5 72 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
5 72 (1.88%) Operational Technology
6 69 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
7 63 (1.64%) Data Centre
8 62 (1.62%) NHS
9 61 (1.59%) CMDB
10 57 (1.48%) Virtual Team
11 49 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
12 47 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
13 43 (1.12%) AI Agents
14 42 (1.09%) Security Posture
15 38 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
16 34 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
17 33 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 110 (2.87%) Windows
2 55 (1.43%) Linux
3 27 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.42%) 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 (0.10%) Android
10 3 (0.078%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.078%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.078%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.026%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,087 (28.31%) Agile
2 816 (21.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 802 (20.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 553 (14.40%) Migration
5 549 (14.30%) Problem-Solving
6 546 (14.22%) Decision-Making
7 504 (13.13%) Roadmaps
8 474 (12.35%) DevOps
9 463 (12.06%) Change Management
10 441 (11.49%) Workshop Facilitation
11 424 (11.04%) AI
12 404 (10.52%) Analytics
13 381 (9.92%) Risk Management
14 371 (9.66%) CI/CD
15 349 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
16 336 (8.75%) Cybersecurity
17 328 (8.54%) Project Delivery
18 323 (8.41%) ERP
19 317 (8.26%) Data Modelling
20 308 (8.02%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 326 (8.49%) SQL
2 266 (6.93%) Python
3 127 (3.31%) Java
4 69 (1.80%) JavaScript
5 61 (1.59%) PowerShell
6 54 (1.41%) C#
7 44 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 44 (1.15%) TypeScript
8 36 (0.94%) Bash
9 21 (0.55%) Bicep
9 21 (0.55%) VBA
10 17 (0.44%) Scala
11 15 (0.39%) Apex Code
12 13 (0.34%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.31%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.26%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.23%) Korn
16 7 (0.18%) ABAP
16 7 (0.18%) R
17 5 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 982 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 748 (19.48%) SC Cleared
3 280 (7.29%) Degree
4 157 (4.09%) DV Cleared
5 133 (3.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 116 (3.02%) PMI Certification
7 105 (2.74%) PMP
8 99 (2.58%) CISSP
9 66 (1.72%) Azure Certification
10 65 (1.69%) CISM
11 59 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
13 38 (0.99%) AWS Certification
14 33 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
15 30 (0.78%) Master's Degree
16 29 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 29 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
17 25 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 25 (0.65%) ACCA
18 24 (0.63%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (7.45%) Data Quality
2 195 (5.08%) PMO
3 179 (4.66%) QA
4 161 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 156 (4.06%) GDPR
6 154 (4.01%) NIST
7 100 (2.60%) Accessibility
8 89 (2.32%) GRC
9 53 (1.38%) NCSC
10 44 (1.15%) SLA
11 28 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
12 25 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
13 24 (0.63%) PCI DSS
13 24 (0.63%) WCAG
14 18 (0.47%) SOC 2
15 17 (0.44%) ISO 20022
16 13 (0.34%) COBIT
16 13 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.29%) NIST 800
18 10 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 98 (2.55%) Active Directory
2 84 (2.19%) Docker
3 40 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.44%) vSphere
5 14 (0.36%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.10%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.078%) NFS
10 1 (0.026%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.026%) Firmware
10 1 (0.026%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.026%) KVM
Systems Management
1 149 (3.88%) Terraform
2 140 (3.65%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.17%) Ansible
4 33 (0.86%) Grafana
4 33 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 30 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.39%) 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 (0.10%) Podman
11 4 (0.10%) VxRail
12 3 (0.078%) Argo
12 3 (0.078%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.078%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 3 (0.078%) SCOM
12 3 (0.078%) WSUS
Vendors
1 635 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 273 (7.11%) SAP
3 235 (6.12%) ServiceNow
4 181 (4.71%) Oracle
5 116 (3.02%) Salesforce
6 111 (2.89%) Databricks
7 67 (1.75%) Google
8 55 (1.43%) Cisco
9 51 (1.33%) IBM
9 51 (1.33%) VMware
10 47 (1.22%) Workday
11 42 (1.09%) Splunk
12 27 (0.70%) CyberArk
12 27 (0.70%) MuleSoft
13 21 (0.55%) Dynatrace
13 21 (0.55%) Palo Alto
13 21 (0.55%) Zscaler
14 20 (0.52%) Ariba
14 20 (0.52%) Citrix
15 19 (0.49%) IFS