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

 6 months to
28 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 40 150
Rank change year-on-year +14 +110 +19
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,933 1,625 650
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.44% 4.96% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.76% 5.49% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,653 1,084 447
10th Percentile £368 £359 £363
25th Percentile £450 £440 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% -4.55% +3.04%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £675
90th Percentile £750 £740 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £505 £513
% change year-on-year +2.58% -1.56% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 29 23
10th Percentile £25.00 £22.98 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £26.21 £23.00
Median hourly rate £74.50 £42.82 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +74.00% -24.21% +5.26%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.25 £65.73
90th Percentile - £76.19 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £45.87 £56.97
% change year-on-year +74.42% -19.48% +6.15%

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 44,902 29,618 34,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.94% 90.44% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,798 18,592 22,057
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,679 1,619 2,026
10th Percentile £14.79 £14.20 £13.56
25th Percentile £20.06 £17.33 £17.55
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.39 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +87.06% -41.25% -

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +15 3,359 £540 +0.47% 1,037
UK excluding London +21 1,851 £518 +2.58% 714
London +14 1,622 £550 - 461
Work from Home +19 1,287 £530 +3.82% 520
South East +23 495 £555 +0.91% 246
North of England +19 495 £500 - 174
Midlands +10 317 £500 - 112
North West +19 248 £500 -2.21% 82
West Midlands +5 243 £500 -0.05% 76
South West +8 199 £538 -2.27% 96
Yorkshire +2 188 £501 +4.54% 65
Scotland +27 185 £490 +0.51% 27
East of England +27 121 £533 +6.39% 51
East Midlands +17 70 £500 - 36
North East +10 67 £450 -7.22% 28
Wales +17 51 £500 +31.58% 11
Northern Ireland +7 13 £447 -17.79% 10
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 (4.37%) Confluence
2 131 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 34 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 29 (0.74%) Apache
6 26 (0.66%) SAS
7 25 (0.64%) CMS
8 23 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.18%) WordPress
10 4 (0.10%) Drupal
10 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.10%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.076%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.076%) Kentico
11 3 (0.076%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.076%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.051%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.051%) Appian
12 2 (0.051%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 178 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
5 61 (1.55%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.13%) Trello
9 4 (0.10%) Sketch
10 2 (0.051%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.051%) InDesign
10 2 (0.051%) InVision
10 2 (0.051%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.051%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.051%) Revit
11 1 (0.025%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.025%) CATIA
11 1 (0.025%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.025%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.025%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 152 (3.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.53%) Workday HCM
4 16 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.38%) SAP FI
6 14 (0.36%) Primavera
7 12 (0.31%) NetSuite
7 12 (0.31%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.28%) Maximo
8 11 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
8 11 (0.28%) Teamcenter
9 10 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
9 10 (0.25%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 9 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
10 9 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 8 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 8 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 773 (19.65%) Azure
2 508 (12.92%) AWS
3 404 (10.27%) Power Platform
4 183 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
5 176 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
6 170 (4.32%) GCP
7 135 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
8 122 (3.10%) Entra ID
9 97 (2.47%) SaaS
10 81 (2.06%) GitHub
11 71 (1.81%) Power Automate
12 63 (1.60%) Microsoft Copilot
13 61 (1.55%) Serverless
14 57 (1.45%) PowerApps
15 55 (1.40%) Snowflake
16 54 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
17 52 (1.32%) Amazon S3
17 52 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
18 47 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
19 46 (1.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.65%) Network Security
2 60 (1.53%) Firewall
3 49 (1.25%) DNS
4 36 (0.92%) WAN
5 35 (0.89%) VPN
6 32 (0.81%) LAN
7 23 (0.58%) TCP/IP
8 21 (0.53%) DHCP
9 18 (0.46%) Wireless
10 16 (0.41%) Internet
11 15 (0.38%) SD-WAN
12 14 (0.36%) VLAN
13 13 (0.33%) 5G
14 12 (0.31%) BGP
14 12 (0.31%) Intranet
14 12 (0.31%) SSL
15 11 (0.28%) OSPF
16 10 (0.25%) NGFW
16 10 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
17 9 (0.23%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (8.44%) Power BI
2 105 (2.67%) Metadata
3 87 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (1.78%) Data Lake
5 62 (1.58%) SQL Server
6 45 (1.14%) Tableau
7 30 (0.76%) Power Query
8 29 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 27 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (0.53%) DynamoDB
11 20 (0.51%) Big Data
12 19 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (0.46%) BigQuery
14 16 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
14 16 (0.41%) NoSQL
14 16 (0.41%) Oracle Database
15 15 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.38%) Data Vault
15 15 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
16 14 (0.36%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 275 (6.99%) JIRA
2 77 (1.96%) Git
3 57 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.27%) GitLab
5 34 (0.86%) Selenium
6 31 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
7 28 (0.71%) Postman
8 19 (0.48%) WebDriver
9 18 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.46%) Hudson
10 16 (0.41%) JMeter
11 15 (0.38%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.38%) JUnit
12 12 (0.31%) ERwin
13 11 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (0.23%) SonarQube
15 7 (0.18%) Bitbucket
16 6 (0.15%) MLflow
16 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 1,784 (45.36%) Social Skills
2 1,116 (28.38%) Finance
3 715 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 645 (16.40%) Analytical Skills
5 204 (5.19%) Banking
6 199 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
7 154 (3.92%) Legal
8 146 (3.71%) Documentation Skills
9 136 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
10 127 (3.23%) Retail
11 92 (2.34%) Manufacturing
12 90 (2.29%) Law
13 85 (2.16%) Local Government
14 84 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 82 (2.08%) Telecoms
16 79 (2.01%) Marketing
17 72 (1.83%) Aerospace
18 55 (1.40%) Military
19 50 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
20 40 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 715 (18.18%) Analyst
2 568 (14.44%) Architect
3 497 (12.64%) Lead
4 428 (10.88%) Business Analyst
5 405 (10.30%) Senior
6 291 (7.40%) Project Manager
7 280 (7.12%) Consultant
8 170 (4.32%) Developer
9 166 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
10 124 (3.15%) Data Analyst
11 101 (2.57%) Change Manager
11 101 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
12 100 (2.54%) Delivery Manager
13 92 (2.34%) Data Architect
14 82 (2.08%) Senior Manager
15 78 (1.98%) Security Architect
16 74 (1.88%) Data Engineer
16 74 (1.88%) Designer
16 74 (1.88%) Product Manager
17 71 (1.81%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (2.67%) REST
2 54 (1.37%) Middleware
3 53 (1.35%) JSON
4 50 (1.27%) .NET
5 46 (1.17%) Kafka
5 46 (1.17%) React
5 46 (1.17%) SOAP
5 46 (1.17%) Spring
6 41 (1.04%) PySpark
7 40 (1.02%) XML
8 38 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
9 37 (0.94%) Spring Boot
10 29 (0.74%) OAuth
11 28 (0.71%) SailPoint
12 26 (0.66%) OpenID
12 26 (0.66%) SAML
13 25 (0.64%) Web Services
14 23 (0.58%) HTML
15 22 (0.56%) LDAP
15 22 (0.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 288 (7.32%) Product Ownership
2 213 (5.42%) Onboarding
3 166 (4.22%) Cloud Native
4 112 (2.85%) Data Structures
5 110 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 78 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
7 77 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
8 71 (1.81%) NHS
9 70 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
10 68 (1.73%) Operational Technology
11 59 (1.50%) Data Centre
12 58 (1.47%) Virtual Team
13 56 (1.42%) CMDB
14 48 (1.22%) AI Agents
14 48 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
15 46 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
16 39 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
16 39 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
17 37 (0.94%) Security Posture
18 34 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 113 (2.87%) Windows
2 58 (1.47%) Linux
3 28 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.38%) Unix
4 15 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 10 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.18%) VMS
7 6 (0.15%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.10%) Android
9 3 (0.076%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.076%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.076%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.076%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.025%) AIX
10 1 (0.025%) HPUX
10 1 (0.025%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.025%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,168 (29.70%) Agile
2 863 (21.94%) Continuous Improvement
2 863 (21.94%) Stakeholder Management
3 582 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
4 568 (14.44%) Migration
5 558 (14.19%) Decision-Making
6 513 (13.04%) Roadmaps
7 496 (12.61%) DevOps
8 469 (11.92%) Change Management
9 467 (11.87%) Workshop Facilitation
10 458 (11.65%) AI
11 439 (11.16%) Analytics
12 406 (10.32%) CI/CD
13 379 (9.64%) Business Intelligence
14 375 (9.53%) Risk Management
15 347 (8.82%) Project Delivery
16 345 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
17 333 (8.47%) Data Modelling
18 329 (8.37%) ERP
19 315 (8.01%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 342 (8.70%) SQL
2 282 (7.17%) Python
3 119 (3.03%) Java
4 83 (2.11%) JavaScript
5 67 (1.70%) C#
5 67 (1.70%) PowerShell
6 44 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 43 (1.09%) TypeScript
8 37 (0.94%) Bash
9 26 (0.66%) Bicep
10 18 (0.46%) VBA
11 14 (0.36%) Apex Code
11 14 (0.36%) Scala
12 13 (0.33%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.31%) T-SQL
14 11 (0.28%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.20%) Groovy
15 8 (0.20%) Korn
16 7 (0.18%) ABAP
17 6 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 1,039 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 794 (20.19%) SC Cleared
3 257 (6.53%) Degree
4 178 (4.53%) DV Cleared
5 139 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 120 (3.05%) PMI Certification
7 113 (2.87%) PMP
8 104 (2.64%) CISSP
9 74 (1.88%) Azure Certification
10 66 (1.68%) CISM
11 61 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
12 48 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (1.12%) AWS Certification
14 36 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 33 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
16 29 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 29 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
17 27 (0.69%) Master's Degree
18 23 (0.58%) ISTQB
19 21 (0.53%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (7.91%) Data Quality
2 206 (5.24%) PMO
3 182 (4.63%) QA
4 171 (4.35%) GDPR
5 164 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 153 (3.89%) NIST
7 107 (2.72%) Accessibility
8 87 (2.21%) GRC
9 54 (1.37%) NCSC
10 47 (1.20%) SLA
11 31 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
12 30 (0.76%) WCAG
13 27 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
14 21 (0.53%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.46%) SOC 2
16 14 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 12 (0.31%) COBIT
17 12 (0.31%) ISO 20022
17 12 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 111 (2.82%) Active Directory
2 87 (2.21%) Docker
3 44 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.48%) VMware NSX
4 19 (0.48%) vSphere
5 11 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.025%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.025%) Firmware
10 1 (0.025%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.025%) IAG
10 1 (0.025%) KVM
10 1 (0.025%) NFS
Systems Management
1 162 (4.12%) Terraform
2 149 (3.79%) Kubernetes
3 44 (1.12%) Ansible
4 38 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (0.89%) Grafana
6 32 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.36%) SCCM
9 9 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (0.23%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.18%) NetBackup
11 5 (0.13%) vRealize
12 4 (0.10%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.10%) Podman
13 3 (0.076%) Argo
13 3 (0.076%) Istio
13 3 (0.076%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.076%) Puppet
13 3 (0.076%) SCOM
13 3 (0.076%) VxRail
Vendors
1 701 (17.82%) Microsoft
2 277 (7.04%) SAP
3 234 (5.95%) ServiceNow
4 179 (4.55%) Oracle
5 132 (3.36%) Databricks
6 111 (2.82%) Salesforce
7 71 (1.81%) Google
8 55 (1.40%) Cisco
8 55 (1.40%) VMware
9 54 (1.37%) IBM
10 48 (1.22%) Workday
11 40 (1.02%) Splunk
12 30 (0.76%) CyberArk
13 25 (0.64%) MuleSoft
14 23 (0.58%) Zscaler
15 22 (0.56%) Palo Alto
16 21 (0.53%) Ariba
17 20 (0.51%) IFS
17 20 (0.51%) Okta
18 19 (0.48%) Citrix
1,147 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide