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

 6 months to
3 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 27 134
Rank change year-on-year +3 +107 +29
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,216 2,206 701
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.69% 6.66% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% 7.35% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,861 1,484 436
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £640 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -0.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 39 10
10th Percentile £24.80 £22.58 £21.93
25th Percentile £40.94 £27.52 £26.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.00 £54.02
Median % change year-on-year +38.30% -13.00% -4.37%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.82 £60.44
90th Percentile £87.82 £74.50 £61.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.70 £32.74 £58.17
% change year-on-year +106.80% -43.73% +2.98%

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 46,356 30,019 32,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 90.58% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,940 18,640 19,751
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,287 1,869 1,348
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.17 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.27
Median % change year-on-year +53.96% -40.49% -0.55%
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.02 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.86% -48.10% +1.18%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +1 3,537 £550 - 3,085
UK excluding London +3 1,943 £525 - 1,924
London 0 1,757 £550 - 1,405
Work from Home +6 1,435 £525 - 1,515
North of England +3 500 £500 -3.85% 444
South East +8 497 £550 - 518
Midlands +4 344 £500 -4.76% 299
West Midlands +5 280 £500 -5.84% 207
South West -3 235 £550 +1.15% 258
North West -1 226 £520 +0.14% 256
Scotland +23 222 £500 +11.11% 169
Yorkshire -7 205 £500 -4.76% 140
East of England +15 116 £501 -17.20% 163
North East +6 78 £451 -5.00% 50
East Midlands +5 63 £525 +17.32% 92
Wales +16 57 £525 +27.27% 39
Northern Ireland -2 6 £413 -24.14% 49
Channel Islands -2 4 £588 +27.03% 3

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
1 176 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 170 (4.03%) Confluence
3 36 (0.85%) CMS
4 35 (0.83%) Apache
4 35 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 34 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
6 26 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 22 (0.52%) SAS
8 10 (0.24%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.14%) WordPress
10 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.071%) Drupal
12 3 (0.071%) IIS
12 3 (0.071%) Kentico
12 3 (0.071%) OpenEdge
13 2 (0.047%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.047%) Oracle Coherence
13 2 (0.047%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 194 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
3 90 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 55 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
4 55 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.21%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.21%) Navisworks
6 9 (0.21%) Revit
7 8 (0.19%) ProjectWise
8 7 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.17%) Trello
9 3 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.071%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.071%) Sketch
10 2 (0.047%) InDesign
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Notion
Business Applications
1 122 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 66 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.57%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 14 (0.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 14 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 14 (0.33%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.28%) Maximo
7 12 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 11 (0.26%) iTrent
8 11 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
8 11 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (0.26%) Primavera
9 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
9 10 (0.24%) SAP QM
10 9 (0.21%) SAP CO
10 9 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 794 (18.83%) Azure
2 547 (12.97%) AWS
3 435 (10.32%) Power Platform
4 220 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
5 209 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
6 184 (4.36%) GCP
7 136 (3.23%) Entra ID
8 123 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
9 102 (2.42%) SaaS
10 101 (2.40%) Power Automate
11 92 (2.18%) GitHub
12 82 (1.94%) Snowflake
13 80 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
14 75 (1.78%) PowerApps
15 74 (1.76%) Serverless
16 73 (1.73%) Microsoft Purview
17 65 (1.54%) Amazon S3
18 58 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
19 54 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
20 47 (1.11%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 73 (1.73%) Network Security
2 68 (1.61%) Firewall
3 49 (1.16%) DNS
4 40 (0.95%) VPN
4 40 (0.95%) WAN
5 30 (0.71%) LAN
6 29 (0.69%) DHCP
7 24 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 18 (0.43%) Internet
8 18 (0.43%) SD-WAN
9 17 (0.40%) VLAN
10 16 (0.38%) Wireless
11 14 (0.33%) 5G
12 12 (0.28%) BGP
12 12 (0.28%) VoIP
13 11 (0.26%) Kerberos
13 11 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.24%) HTTP
14 10 (0.24%) Intranet
14 10 (0.24%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 331 (7.85%) Power BI
2 169 (4.01%) Metadata
3 97 (2.30%) Data Lake
3 97 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
4 74 (1.76%) SQL Server
5 47 (1.11%) Tableau
6 34 (0.81%) Relational Database
7 31 (0.74%) Power Query
8 29 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
10 26 (0.62%) DynamoDB
11 25 (0.59%) BigQuery
12 22 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 22 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
13 20 (0.47%) MongoDB
13 20 (0.47%) NoSQL
14 19 (0.45%) Big Data
14 19 (0.45%) Oracle Database
14 19 (0.45%) Star Schema
15 18 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 266 (6.31%) JIRA
2 93 (2.21%) Git
3 62 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 58 (1.38%) GitLab
5 30 (0.71%) Selenium
6 28 (0.66%) Postman
7 19 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
10 12 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (0.21%) ERwin
11 9 (0.21%) JUnit
12 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.19%) REST Assured
12 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.17%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.17%) Hudson
13 7 (0.17%) JMeter
13 7 (0.17%) Maven
General
1 1,979 (46.94%) Social Skills
2 1,116 (26.47%) Finance
3 898 (21.30%) Public Sector
4 694 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
5 260 (6.17%) Influencing Skills
6 231 (5.48%) Banking
7 189 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
8 185 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
9 144 (3.42%) Legal
10 127 (3.01%) Retail
11 122 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 117 (2.78%) Manufacturing
13 115 (2.73%) Local Government
14 86 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
15 85 (2.02%) Military
16 83 (1.97%) Marketing
17 76 (1.80%) Telecoms
18 66 (1.57%) Aerospace
19 55 (1.30%) Law
20 45 (1.07%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 711 (16.86%) Analyst
2 613 (14.54%) Architect
3 500 (11.86%) Lead
4 445 (10.56%) Senior
5 418 (9.91%) Business Analyst
6 297 (7.04%) Consultant
7 288 (6.83%) Project Manager
8 231 (5.48%) Developer
9 184 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
10 128 (3.04%) Data Architect
11 120 (2.85%) Change Manager
11 120 (2.85%) Data Analyst
12 107 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
13 91 (2.16%) Designer
14 87 (2.06%) Data Engineer
14 87 (2.06%) Senior Manager
15 86 (2.04%) Technical Architect
16 85 (2.02%) Delivery Manager
17 75 (1.78%) IT Manager
17 75 (1.78%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (4.32%) Terraform
2 125 (2.96%) REST
3 67 (1.59%) .NET
4 59 (1.40%) JSON
5 56 (1.33%) Kafka
6 51 (1.21%) SOAP
7 48 (1.14%) PySpark
8 47 (1.11%) Middleware
8 47 (1.11%) Spring
8 47 (1.11%) XML
9 46 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
10 43 (1.02%) React
11 42 (1.00%) Spring Boot
12 35 (0.83%) OAuth
12 35 (0.83%) Web Services
13 34 (0.81%) RESTful
14 29 (0.69%) LDAP
14 29 (0.69%) Node.js
14 29 (0.69%) SAML
15 27 (0.64%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 286 (6.78%) Product Ownership
2 247 (5.86%) Onboarding
3 190 (4.51%) Cloud Native
4 151 (3.58%) Management Information System
5 99 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
6 93 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 90 (2.13%) Data Structures
8 85 (2.02%) AI Agents
9 74 (1.76%) NHS
10 72 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
10 72 (1.71%) Operational Technology
11 67 (1.59%) Data Centre
12 59 (1.40%) Security Posture
13 56 (1.33%) Virtual Team
14 54 (1.28%) CMDB
15 50 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
15 50 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
16 40 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
17 32 (0.76%) Taxonomies
18 30 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 127 (3.01%) Windows
2 80 (1.90%) Linux
3 37 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.36%) Unix
5 14 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.21%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.17%) Android
7 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.14%) VMS
9 4 (0.095%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.071%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.047%) AIX
11 2 (0.047%) HPUX
11 2 (0.047%) Solaris
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.024%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,282 (30.41%) Agile
2 1,150 (27.28%) Stakeholder Management
3 945 (22.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 693 (16.44%) Decision-Making
5 662 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
6 605 (14.35%) Roadmaps
7 573 (13.59%) Workshop Facilitation
8 560 (13.28%) AI
9 554 (13.14%) Migration
10 532 (12.62%) DevOps
11 493 (11.69%) Change Management
12 489 (11.60%) Analytics
13 438 (10.39%) CI/CD
14 429 (10.18%) Risk Management
15 412 (9.77%) Project Delivery
16 384 (9.11%) Business Intelligence
17 381 (9.04%) Cybersecurity
18 378 (8.97%) Data Governance
19 364 (8.63%) Data Modelling
20 358 (8.49%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 407 (9.65%) SQL
2 304 (7.21%) Python
3 128 (3.04%) Java
4 105 (2.49%) JavaScript
5 95 (2.25%) PowerShell
6 88 (2.09%) C#
7 54 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 51 (1.21%) Bash
9 44 (1.04%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.64%) Bicep
11 21 (0.50%) Scala
12 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 13 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.24%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.24%) Korn
15 9 (0.21%) Groovy
16 8 (0.19%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.12%) VBA
19 4 (0.095%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,229 (29.15%) Security Cleared
2 957 (22.70%) SC Cleared
3 256 (6.07%) Degree
4 202 (4.79%) DV Cleared
5 179 (4.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 113 (2.68%) PMI Certification
7 111 (2.63%) CISSP
8 108 (2.56%) PMP
9 68 (1.61%) Azure Certification
9 68 (1.61%) CISM
10 66 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
11 60 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 42 (1.00%) AWS Certification
13 34 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 32 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
14 32 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 30 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
16 26 (0.62%) APMG
16 26 (0.62%) ISTQB
17 25 (0.59%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 374 (8.87%) Data Quality
2 193 (4.58%) PMO
3 185 (4.39%) QA
4 168 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 162 (3.84%) GDPR
5 162 (3.84%) NIST
6 136 (3.23%) Accessibility
7 99 (2.35%) GRC
8 83 (1.97%) NCSC
9 49 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 39 (0.93%) WCAG
11 38 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
12 34 (0.81%) SLA
13 18 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 15 (0.36%) NIST 800
14 15 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 14 (0.33%) JSP 440
15 14 (0.33%) PCI DSS
16 12 (0.28%) ITGC
17 11 (0.26%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 125 (2.96%) Active Directory
2 103 (2.44%) Docker
3 55 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.45%) VMware NSX
5 18 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.33%) vSphere
7 12 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.024%) Firmware
11 1 (0.024%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.024%) IAG
11 1 (0.024%) KVM
11 1 (0.024%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 162 (3.84%) Kubernetes
2 51 (1.21%) Ansible
3 42 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (0.74%) Grafana
5 27 (0.64%) Prometheus
5 27 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
7 10 (0.24%) SCCM
8 6 (0.14%) VxRail
9 5 (0.12%) QRadar
9 5 (0.12%) SCOM
10 4 (0.095%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.095%) Istio
10 4 (0.095%) vRealize
11 3 (0.071%) Argo
11 3 (0.071%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.071%) Puppet
11 3 (0.071%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 839 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 247 (5.86%) SAP
3 219 (5.19%) ServiceNow
4 189 (4.48%) Oracle
5 157 (3.72%) Databricks
6 101 (2.40%) Salesforce
7 98 (2.32%) Google
8 73 (1.73%) VMware
9 63 (1.49%) Cisco
10 55 (1.30%) Workday
11 54 (1.28%) Splunk
12 43 (1.02%) IBM
13 31 (0.74%) CyberArk
14 29 (0.69%) Ariba
15 27 (0.64%) MuleSoft
16 25 (0.59%) OpenAI
17 23 (0.55%) Palo Alto
18 22 (0.52%) Adobe
18 22 (0.52%) Dynatrace
18 22 (0.52%) Informatica
3,544 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide