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

 6 months to
11 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 55 153
Rank change year-on-year +29 +98 +7
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,452 1,213 688
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.92% 4.13% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.16% 4.54% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,331 802 481
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £445 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £500 £521
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.08% -0.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 22 38
10th Percentile £27.37 £23.22 £18.35
25th Percentile £50.00 £31.26 £27.81
Median hourly rate £65.80 £48.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.66% +32.88% +21.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.94 £59.05
90th Percentile - £75.09 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £53.25 £57.33
% change year-on-year +26.76% -7.12% +91.10%

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 42,291 26,731 37,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 91.01% 85.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,385 16,984 23,772
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,541 1,182 2,587
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £61.16
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +27 2,942 £538 +2.38% 1,004
UK excluding London +38 1,634 £510 +2.00% 754
London +29 1,398 £550 - 399
Work from Home +34 1,099 £530 +5.89% 559
North of England +26 440 £500 +0.60% 185
South East +23 370 £540 +11.63% 258
Midlands +23 319 £500 -0.05% 123
West Midlands +23 224 £500 -2.53% 78
North West +22 219 £490 -2.00% 98
South West +19 191 £525 -4.55% 86
Yorkshire +13 178 £515 +8.32% 65
Scotland +32 154 £473 -11.02% 30
East of England +33 120 £575 +15.00% 46
East Midlands +18 90 £525 +16.67% 44
North East +7 47 £453 -4.18% 24
Wales +14 42 £475 +46.15% 14
Northern Ireland +16 16 £449 -22.84% 24
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
1 179 (5.19%) Confluence
2 91 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 30 (0.87%) SAS
4 27 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.52%) Apache
5 18 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.49%) CMS
7 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.12%) WordPress
8 3 (0.087%) Appian
8 3 (0.087%) Drupal
8 3 (0.087%) Kentico
9 2 (0.058%) Camunda
9 2 (0.058%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.058%) Oracle Service Bus
9 2 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.058%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 158 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 61 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
3 61 (1.77%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 4 (0.12%) Sketch
7 2 (0.058%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.058%) InVision
7 2 (0.058%) Trello
8 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.029%) CATIA
8 1 (0.029%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.029%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.029%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.029%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 133 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.43%) Teamcenter
4 11 (0.32%) Maximo
4 11 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (0.32%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.26%) Primavera
5 9 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
5 9 (0.26%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 8 (0.23%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.23%) SAP QM
7 7 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 6 (0.17%) Sage X3
8 6 (0.17%) SAP CO
8 6 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 669 (19.38%) Azure
2 473 (13.70%) AWS
3 318 (9.21%) Power Platform
4 170 (4.92%) GCP
5 130 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
6 120 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
7 104 (3.01%) Entra ID
8 102 (2.95%) SaaS
9 95 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
10 66 (1.91%) GitHub
11 54 (1.56%) Serverless
12 47 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
12 47 (1.36%) PaaS
13 42 (1.22%) Amazon S3
14 41 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
16 36 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
16 36 (1.04%) Power Automate
17 35 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
17 35 (1.01%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 56 (1.62%) Network Security
2 55 (1.59%) Firewall
3 35 (1.01%) DNS
4 24 (0.70%) VPN
5 23 (0.67%) WAN
6 19 (0.55%) LAN
7 15 (0.43%) Wireless
8 14 (0.41%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.38%) Internet
10 12 (0.35%) VLAN
11 11 (0.32%) BGP
12 10 (0.29%) DHCP
12 10 (0.29%) NGFW
12 10 (0.29%) OSPF
12 10 (0.29%) SSL
13 9 (0.26%) Intranet
13 9 (0.26%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.23%) NAS
14 8 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (7.85%) Power BI
2 78 (2.26%) Metadata
3 70 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (1.10%) Data Lake
5 37 (1.07%) Tableau
6 32 (0.93%) Power Query
7 31 (0.90%) SQL Server
8 26 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (0.75%) Relational Database
9 19 (0.55%) DynamoDB
10 18 (0.52%) NoSQL
11 17 (0.49%) Snowflake Schema
12 16 (0.46%) Big Data
12 16 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
13 15 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (0.41%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 13 (0.38%) Data Vault
15 13 (0.38%) MySQL
15 13 (0.38%) SAS Visual Analytics
16 12 (0.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 284 (8.23%) JIRA
2 61 (1.77%) Jenkins
3 55 (1.59%) Git
4 54 (1.56%) GitLab
5 31 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
6 30 (0.87%) Postman
7 28 (0.81%) Selenium
8 21 (0.61%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.52%) Hudson
9 18 (0.52%) JMeter
10 12 (0.35%) WebDriver
11 11 (0.32%) JUnit
12 9 (0.26%) REST Assured
13 8 (0.23%) ERwin
13 8 (0.23%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.20%) LoadRunner
15 6 (0.17%) MLflow
15 6 (0.17%) TestRail
16 5 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 1,583 (45.86%) Social Skills
2 982 (28.45%) Finance
3 549 (15.90%) Public Sector
4 533 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
5 199 (5.76%) Banking
6 141 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
7 137 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
8 124 (3.59%) Legal
9 104 (3.01%) Retail
10 92 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
11 85 (2.46%) Law
12 83 (2.40%) Manufacturing
13 72 (2.09%) Aerospace
14 67 (1.94%) Local Government
15 62 (1.80%) Telecoms
16 59 (1.71%) Marketing
17 50 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 45 (1.30%) Military
19 39 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
20 35 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 640 (18.54%) Analyst
2 531 (15.38%) Architect
3 450 (13.04%) Lead
4 414 (11.99%) Business Analyst
5 323 (9.36%) Senior
6 278 (8.05%) Project Manager
7 259 (7.50%) Consultant
8 139 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
9 101 (2.93%) Developer
10 96 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
11 94 (2.72%) Data Analyst
12 92 (2.67%) Delivery Manager
13 89 (2.58%) Change Manager
14 79 (2.29%) Programme Manager
15 75 (2.17%) Designer
16 71 (2.06%) Senior Manager
17 68 (1.97%) Senior Business Analyst
18 63 (1.83%) Data Architect
19 62 (1.80%) Security Architect
20 60 (1.74%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (3.56%) REST
2 61 (1.77%) LDAP
3 60 (1.74%) SOAP
4 54 (1.56%) Middleware
5 40 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
6 38 (1.10%) OpenID
7 37 (1.07%) Spring
8 35 (1.01%) OAuth
8 35 (1.01%) React
9 34 (0.98%) JSON
9 34 (0.98%) Kafka
10 33 (0.96%) SailPoint
11 29 (0.84%) Spring Boot
12 27 (0.78%) .NET
12 27 (0.78%) XML
13 26 (0.75%) SAML
14 23 (0.67%) PySpark
15 22 (0.64%) CSS
16 21 (0.61%) HTML
17 19 (0.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 237 (6.87%) Product Ownership
2 161 (4.66%) Onboarding
3 148 (4.29%) Cloud Native
4 85 (2.46%) Data Structures
5 81 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
6 80 (2.32%) Management Information System
7 78 (2.26%) Operational Technology
8 72 (2.09%) Security Posture
9 69 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
10 57 (1.65%) Data Centre
11 55 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
12 53 (1.54%) NHS
13 51 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
14 47 (1.36%) CMDB
15 46 (1.33%) Virtual Team
16 44 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
17 41 (1.19%) AI Agents
18 35 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
19 31 (0.90%) Public Cloud
20 26 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 92 (2.67%) Windows
2 46 (1.33%) Linux
3 21 (0.61%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.35%) Unix
5 11 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.23%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.23%) VMS
7 6 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.12%) Android
9 3 (0.087%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.087%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.029%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 925 (26.80%) Agile
2 678 (19.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 664 (19.24%) Continuous Improvement
4 515 (14.92%) Migration
5 480 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
6 461 (13.35%) Decision-Making
7 449 (13.01%) Roadmaps
8 429 (12.43%) Change Management
9 399 (11.56%) DevOps
10 390 (11.30%) Workshop Facilitation
11 349 (10.11%) Analytics
12 336 (9.73%) AI
13 328 (9.50%) Risk Management
14 314 (9.10%) Business Intelligence
15 305 (8.84%) ERP
16 294 (8.52%) CI/CD
16 294 (8.52%) Cybersecurity
16 294 (8.52%) Project Management
17 279 (8.08%) Project Delivery
18 276 (8.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 270 (7.82%) SQL
2 257 (7.44%) Python
3 114 (3.30%) Java
4 80 (2.32%) PowerShell
5 55 (1.59%) JavaScript
6 39 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 37 (1.07%) TypeScript
8 33 (0.96%) C#
9 32 (0.93%) Bash
10 18 (0.52%) Bicep
10 18 (0.52%) VBA
11 14 (0.41%) Scala
12 11 (0.32%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.29%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.29%) PHP
13 10 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.23%) Korn
14 8 (0.23%) R
15 6 (0.17%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.14%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 882 (25.55%) Security Cleared
2 704 (20.39%) SC Cleared
3 255 (7.39%) Degree
4 123 (3.56%) DV Cleared
5 109 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 103 (2.98%) PMI Certification
7 99 (2.87%) PMP
8 87 (2.52%) CISSP
9 63 (1.83%) CISM
10 49 (1.42%) Azure Certification
11 45 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
12 41 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
13 33 (0.96%) AWS Certification
14 26 (0.75%) ACCA
14 26 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
14 26 (0.75%) Master's Degree
14 26 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 25 (0.72%) CIMA
15 25 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
16 21 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (6.89%) Data Quality
2 173 (5.01%) PMO
3 167 (4.84%) QA
4 152 (4.40%) NIST
5 147 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 134 (3.88%) GDPR
7 83 (2.40%) Accessibility
8 81 (2.35%) GRC
9 38 (1.10%) NCSC
10 30 (0.87%) SLA
11 26 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
11 26 (0.75%) PCI DSS
12 25 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
13 22 (0.64%) WCAG
14 18 (0.52%) SOC 2
15 17 (0.49%) ISO 20022
16 12 (0.35%) COBIT
16 12 (0.35%) Def Stans
16 12 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 107 (3.10%) Active Directory
2 62 (1.80%) Docker
3 27 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.32%) VMware NSX
4 11 (0.32%) vSphere
5 5 (0.14%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 5 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.087%) NFS
8 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.029%) Firmware
8 1 (0.029%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.029%) KVM
Systems Management
1 123 (3.56%) Terraform
2 111 (3.22%) Kubernetes
3 40 (1.16%) Ansible
4 32 (0.93%) Grafana
5 28 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 26 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.41%) SCCM
8 11 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (0.32%) HP ALM
9 6 (0.17%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.14%) Istio
10 5 (0.14%) vRealize
11 4 (0.12%) Podman
12 3 (0.087%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.087%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.087%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 3 (0.087%) vMotion
12 3 (0.087%) WSUS
13 2 (0.058%) Nessus
Vendors
1 519 (15.03%) Microsoft
2 251 (7.27%) SAP
3 202 (5.85%) ServiceNow
4 160 (4.63%) Oracle
5 95 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 91 (2.64%) Databricks
7 58 (1.68%) Google
8 51 (1.48%) CyberArk
9 48 (1.39%) IBM
10 45 (1.30%) Cisco
11 43 (1.25%) Splunk
11 43 (1.25%) VMware
12 37 (1.07%) BeyondTrust
13 36 (1.04%) Workday
14 33 (0.96%) Centrify
15 20 (0.58%) Dynatrace
15 20 (0.58%) MuleSoft
15 20 (0.58%) Zscaler
16 19 (0.55%) IFS
16 19 (0.55%) Red Hat
1,131 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide