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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 30 138
Rank change year-on-year +5 +108 +25
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,158 1,946 668
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.71% 5.91% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.11% 6.53% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,813 1,309 454
10th Percentile £363 £357 £363
25th Percentile £450 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £644 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £509
% change year-on-year - +3.19% -3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 33 16
10th Percentile £24.73 £25.36 £19.80
25th Percentile £50.00 £30.11 £26.44
Median hourly rate £69.00 £47.00 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +46.81% -19.21% +2.98%
75th Percentile £87.98 £63.75 £71.54
90th Percentile £94.25 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 £45.12 £58.30
% change year-on-year +65.12% -22.61% +3.20%

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 45,621 29,800 32,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.64% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,920 18,562 20,756
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,892 1,765 1,620
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.21 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.30 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.15 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.11 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +90.48% -47.37% +14.67%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 +4 3,524 £540 -1.82% 2,129
UK excluding London +6 1,960 £525 - 1,364
London +6 1,720 £550 - 1,080
Work from Home +10 1,402 £525 -0.24% 1,066
South East +14 523 £560 +1.82% 387
North of England +7 500 £500 -2.25% 303
Midlands +8 341 £510 -0.20% 189
West Midlands +7 261 £500 -2.15% 134
North West +4 245 £500 -4.76% 176
South West +2 228 £550 - 225
Scotland +27 213 £500 +11.11% 105
Yorkshire -1 194 £500 - 85
East of England +24 123 £529 -14.02% 102
East Midlands +23 75 £525 +23.53% 55
North East +9 69 £453 +0.61% 45
Wales +11 53 £525 +23.53% 24
Northern Ireland +5 11 £396 -23.61% 45
Channel Islands -1 2 £563 +21.62% 1

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
1 175 (4.21%) Confluence
2 158 (3.80%) SharePoint
3 37 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (0.82%) Apache Spark
4 34 (0.82%) CMS
5 32 (0.77%) Apache
6 29 (0.70%) SAS
7 27 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.14%) WordPress
9 4 (0.096%) OpenEdge
9 4 (0.096%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.072%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.072%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.072%) Drupal
10 3 (0.072%) IIS
10 3 (0.072%) Kentico
10 3 (0.072%) SharePoint 2013
10 3 (0.072%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.048%) GeoServer
Applications
1 185 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
3 82 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
5 56 (1.35%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.14%) Navisworks
8 6 (0.14%) ProjectWise
8 6 (0.14%) Revit
8 6 (0.14%) Trello
9 4 (0.096%) Sketch
10 2 (0.048%) InDesign
10 2 (0.048%) InVision
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 139 (3.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.58%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.34%) Primavera
5 14 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 13 (0.31%) NetSuite
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 11 (0.26%) Maximo
8 11 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 9 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 9 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 9 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
9 9 (0.22%) SAP CO
9 9 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 820 (19.72%) Azure
2 559 (13.44%) AWS
3 448 (10.77%) Power Platform
4 207 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
5 200 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
6 187 (4.50%) GCP
7 155 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
8 143 (3.44%) Entra ID
9 95 (2.28%) SaaS
10 91 (2.19%) Power Automate
11 89 (2.14%) GitHub
12 72 (1.73%) Serverless
13 70 (1.68%) PowerApps
14 69 (1.66%) Snowflake
15 68 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
16 61 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
17 60 (1.44%) Amazon S3
18 59 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
19 55 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
20 44 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.64%) Firewall
2 66 (1.59%) Network Security
3 54 (1.30%) DNS
4 43 (1.03%) VPN
5 41 (0.99%) WAN
6 34 (0.82%) LAN
7 27 (0.65%) DHCP
8 24 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 19 (0.46%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.43%) Wireless
11 17 (0.41%) Internet
12 15 (0.36%) 5G
12 15 (0.36%) VLAN
13 14 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (0.31%) BGP
14 13 (0.31%) Intranet
15 12 (0.29%) OSPF
15 12 (0.29%) VoIP
16 11 (0.26%) Kerberos
16 11 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 360 (8.66%) Power BI
2 136 (3.27%) Metadata
3 98 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
4 91 (2.19%) Data Lake
5 70 (1.68%) SQL Server
6 47 (1.13%) Tableau
7 35 (0.84%) Power Query
7 35 (0.84%) Relational Database
8 29 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (0.58%) DynamoDB
10 23 (0.55%) Oracle Database
11 21 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (0.48%) NoSQL
13 19 (0.46%) Big Data
13 19 (0.46%) BigQuery
13 19 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
14 17 (0.41%) Data Vault
14 17 (0.41%) Star Schema
15 16 (0.38%) Looker
Development Applications
1 273 (6.57%) JIRA
2 93 (2.24%) Git
3 62 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.30%) GitLab
5 32 (0.77%) Selenium
6 30 (0.72%) Postman
7 22 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
8 18 (0.43%) WebDriver
9 17 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.41%) Hudson
10 15 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 13 (0.31%) JMeter
12 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (0.26%) ERwin
14 10 (0.24%) JUnit
15 9 (0.22%) Zephyr
16 8 (0.19%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
17 7 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
18 6 (0.14%) MLflow
General
1 1,908 (45.89%) Social Skills
2 1,156 (27.80%) Finance
3 813 (19.55%) Public Sector
4 686 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
5 226 (5.44%) Banking
6 223 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
7 175 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
8 160 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
9 152 (3.66%) Legal
10 141 (3.39%) Retail
11 115 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 109 (2.62%) Local Government
13 93 (2.24%) Law
14 91 (2.19%) Manufacturing
15 86 (2.07%) Marketing
15 86 (2.07%) Telecoms
16 73 (1.76%) Aerospace
17 67 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
18 64 (1.54%) Military
19 39 (0.94%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 711 (17.10%) Analyst
2 634 (15.25%) Architect
3 516 (12.41%) Lead
4 424 (10.20%) Senior
5 412 (9.91%) Business Analyst
6 305 (7.34%) Consultant
7 302 (7.26%) Project Manager
8 214 (5.15%) Developer
9 179 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
10 123 (2.96%) Data Analyst
11 117 (2.81%) Data Architect
12 106 (2.55%) Change Manager
13 97 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
14 94 (2.26%) Delivery Manager
15 92 (2.21%) Senior Manager
16 87 (2.09%) Data Engineer
17 84 (2.02%) Technical Architect
18 82 (1.97%) Designer
19 75 (1.80%) IT Manager
19 75 (1.80%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (4.28%) Terraform
2 113 (2.72%) REST
3 64 (1.54%) .NET
4 58 (1.39%) JSON
5 52 (1.25%) Kafka
5 52 (1.25%) Middleware
6 49 (1.18%) PySpark
7 48 (1.15%) SOAP
8 47 (1.13%) React
9 45 (1.08%) Spring
10 42 (1.01%) XML
11 41 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
12 38 (0.91%) OAuth
12 38 (0.91%) Spring Boot
13 35 (0.84%) SAML
14 33 (0.79%) Web Services
15 31 (0.75%) OpenID
15 31 (0.75%) RESTful
16 30 (0.72%) LDAP
17 28 (0.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 299 (7.19%) Product Ownership
2 233 (5.60%) Onboarding
3 183 (4.40%) Cloud Native
4 143 (3.44%) Management Information System
5 106 (2.55%) Data Structures
6 96 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 85 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 78 (1.88%) NHS
9 74 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
10 69 (1.66%) AI Agents
11 67 (1.61%) Data Centre
12 62 (1.49%) Operational Technology
13 58 (1.39%) CMDB
14 56 (1.35%) Virtual Team
15 50 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
16 47 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
17 46 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
17 46 (1.11%) Security Posture
18 34 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
19 28 (0.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 134 (3.22%) Windows
2 81 (1.95%) Linux
3 37 (0.89%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.38%) Unix
5 13 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.29%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.19%) Android
7 8 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.17%) VMS
8 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.072%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.048%) AIX
10 2 (0.048%) HPUX
10 2 (0.048%) Solaris
11 1 (0.024%) CentOS
11 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,269 (30.52%) Agile
2 1,009 (24.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 951 (22.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 640 (15.39%) Decision-Making
5 636 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
6 605 (14.55%) Migration
7 563 (13.54%) Roadmaps
8 533 (12.82%) DevOps
8 533 (12.82%) Workshop Facilitation
9 507 (12.19%) AI
10 486 (11.69%) Change Management
11 477 (11.47%) Analytics
12 446 (10.73%) CI/CD
13 411 (9.88%) Risk Management
14 410 (9.86%) Business Intelligence
15 404 (9.72%) Project Delivery
16 363 (8.73%) Cybersecurity
17 349 (8.39%) Data Modelling
18 334 (8.03%) User Acceptance Testing
19 333 (8.01%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 387 (9.31%) SQL
2 311 (7.48%) Python
3 132 (3.17%) Java
4 97 (2.33%) JavaScript
5 84 (2.02%) PowerShell
6 82 (1.97%) C#
7 56 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 49 (1.18%) Bash
9 46 (1.11%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.63%) Bicep
11 20 (0.48%) Scala
12 16 (0.38%) Kotlin
13 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
14 14 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 13 (0.31%) Apex Code
16 11 (0.26%) VBA
17 10 (0.24%) Korn
18 9 (0.22%) Groovy
19 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
20 5 (0.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,168 (28.09%) Security Cleared
2 880 (21.16%) SC Cleared
3 260 (6.25%) Degree
4 196 (4.71%) DV Cleared
5 152 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 124 (2.98%) PMI Certification
7 116 (2.79%) PMP
8 110 (2.65%) CISSP
9 76 (1.83%) Azure Certification
10 71 (1.71%) CISM
11 69 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
12 58 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 48 (1.15%) AWS Certification
14 38 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 35 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
16 32 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 31 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
18 28 (0.67%) APMG
19 27 (0.65%) ISTQB
20 26 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (7.96%) Data Quality
2 212 (5.10%) PMO
3 187 (4.50%) QA
4 175 (4.21%) GDPR
5 174 (4.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 163 (3.92%) NIST
7 122 (2.93%) Accessibility
8 90 (2.16%) GRC
9 66 (1.59%) NCSC
10 39 (0.94%) SLA
11 35 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
12 34 (0.82%) WCAG
13 30 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.46%) PCI DSS
15 17 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 15 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 15 (0.36%) SOC 2
17 13 (0.31%) NIST 800
18 12 (0.29%) ITGC
18 12 (0.29%) JSP 440
System Software
1 131 (3.15%) Active Directory
2 93 (2.24%) Docker
3 53 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 19 (0.46%) vSphere
6 17 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.048%) 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
11 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 153 (3.68%) Kubernetes
2 48 (1.15%) Ansible
3 41 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.82%) Grafana
5 33 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (0.29%) SCCM
9 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
10 5 (0.12%) vRealize
11 4 (0.096%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.096%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.096%) Istio
11 4 (0.096%) QRadar
11 4 (0.096%) VxRail
12 3 (0.072%) Argo
12 3 (0.072%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.072%) Puppet
12 3 (0.072%) WSUS
Vendors
1 797 (19.17%) Microsoft
2 273 (6.57%) SAP
3 239 (5.75%) ServiceNow
4 187 (4.50%) Oracle
5 158 (3.80%) Databricks
6 110 (2.65%) Salesforce
7 88 (2.12%) Google
8 70 (1.68%) VMware
9 60 (1.44%) Cisco
10 53 (1.27%) IBM
11 51 (1.23%) Workday
12 48 (1.15%) Splunk
13 33 (0.79%) CyberArk
14 30 (0.72%) MuleSoft
15 27 (0.65%) Ariba
16 23 (0.55%) Palo Alto
16 23 (0.55%) Zscaler
17 22 (0.53%) Dynatrace
17 22 (0.53%) Informatica
18 20 (0.48%) Okta