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

 6 months to
1 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 57 152
Rank change year-on-year +31 +95 +7
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,317 1,151 680
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 6.78% 3.95% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.01% 4.34% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,251 766 477
10th Percentile £370 £375 £363
25th Percentile £443 £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 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 17 38
10th Percentile £25.23 £27.80 £18.35
25th Percentile £47.00 £32.05 £27.81
Median hourly rate £68.50 £49.50 £36.23
Median % change year-on-year +38.38% +36.63% +41.25%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.75 £57.45
90th Percentile £93.50 £78.64 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.50 £69.41 £57.33
% change year-on-year +7.34% +21.07% +169.15%

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 41,434 26,510 36,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.66% 90.99% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,895 16,942 23,625
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £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 2,481 1,120 2,526
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.97 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.98% -23.38% -0.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.50 £60.71
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +28 2,836 £535 +1.90% 1,011
UK excluding London +41 1,576 £500 - 767
London +30 1,332 £550 - 429
Work from Home +41 1,048 £528 +3.94% 524
North of England +30 416 £494 +0.92% 189
South East +27 362 £533 +11.04% 243
Midlands +31 318 £500 -0.05% 117
West Midlands +27 217 £492 -1.80% 82
North West +28 203 £475 -4.71% 109
South West +19 193 £525 -4.55% 88
Yorkshire +9 176 £515 +8.42% 60
Scotland +40 134 £475 -9.91% 52
East of England +24 114 £575 +15.00% 41
East Midlands +26 96 £525 +16.67% 33
Wales +17 41 £475 +50.55% 22
North East +4 41 £453 -10.84% 21
Northern Ireland +16 16 £449 -22.84% 26
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
1 176 (5.31%) Confluence
2 92 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 24 (0.72%) SAS
4 20 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.45%) Apache
6 15 (0.45%) 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 (0.090%) Appian
8 3 (0.090%) Drupal
9 2 (0.060%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.060%) Camunda
9 2 (0.060%) Kentico
9 2 (0.060%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.060%) Oracle Service Bus
9 2 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 152 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
3 66 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
5 61 (1.84%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.12%) PTC Creo
8 4 (0.12%) Sketch
9 2 (0.060%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.060%) InVision
9 2 (0.060%) Notion
9 2 (0.060%) Trello
10 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.030%) CATIA
10 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.030%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.030%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 133 (4.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.45%) Teamcenter
4 11 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 10 (0.30%) SAP ERP
5 10 (0.30%) SAP FI
6 9 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.24%) Maximo
7 8 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 8 (0.24%) SAP QM
7 8 (0.24%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.21%) NEC Housing
8 7 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.21%) Primavera
9 6 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 6 (0.18%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 640 (19.29%) Azure
2 447 (13.48%) AWS
3 307 (9.26%) Power Platform
4 165 (4.97%) GCP
5 126 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
6 113 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (3.04%) Entra ID
7 101 (3.04%) SaaS
8 96 (2.89%) Dynamics 365
9 67 (2.02%) GitHub
10 53 (1.60%) Serverless
11 45 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
12 43 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (1.21%) PaaS
14 37 (1.12%) Amazon S3
15 36 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
16 35 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
17 34 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
18 33 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
18 33 (0.99%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 55 (1.66%) Firewall
2 52 (1.57%) Network Security
3 36 (1.09%) DNS
4 24 (0.72%) VPN
4 24 (0.72%) WAN
5 20 (0.60%) LAN
6 14 (0.42%) Wireless
7 13 (0.39%) Internet
8 12 (0.36%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.30%) BGP
9 10 (0.30%) DHCP
9 10 (0.30%) VLAN
9 10 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.27%) NGFW
10 9 (0.27%) OSPF
10 9 (0.27%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.27%) SSL
11 8 (0.24%) Intranet
11 8 (0.24%) SAN
11 8 (0.24%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (7.87%) Power BI
2 74 (2.23%) Metadata
3 63 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (1.06%) Tableau
5 33 (0.99%) Data Lake
6 29 (0.87%) Power Query
6 29 (0.87%) SQL Server
7 26 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (0.78%) Relational Database
8 17 (0.51%) NoSQL
8 17 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
9 15 (0.45%) Big Data
9 15 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
10 14 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (0.42%) MySQL
11 13 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
12 12 (0.36%) Data Vault
12 12 (0.36%) DynamoDB
13 11 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (0.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 287 (8.65%) JIRA
2 59 (1.78%) Jenkins
3 54 (1.63%) GitLab
4 52 (1.57%) Git
5 32 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
6 27 (0.81%) Postman
6 27 (0.81%) Selenium
7 21 (0.63%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.54%) Hudson
9 17 (0.51%) JMeter
10 11 (0.33%) JUnit
10 11 (0.33%) WebDriver
11 9 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (0.24%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.21%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.18%) ERwin
14 6 (0.18%) LoadRunner
14 6 (0.18%) MLflow
14 6 (0.18%) TestRail
15 5 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 1,533 (46.22%) Social Skills
2 960 (28.94%) Finance
3 526 (15.86%) Public Sector
4 509 (15.35%) Analytical Skills
5 195 (5.88%) Banking
6 132 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
7 129 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
8 118 (3.56%) Legal
9 90 (2.71%) Retail
10 89 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
11 85 (2.56%) Law
12 78 (2.35%) Manufacturing
13 67 (2.02%) Aerospace
13 67 (2.02%) Local Government
14 55 (1.66%) Marketing
14 55 (1.66%) Telecoms
15 46 (1.39%) Military
16 45 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 38 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
18 35 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 607 (18.30%) Analyst
2 507 (15.28%) Architect
3 425 (12.81%) Lead
4 411 (12.39%) Business Analyst
5 304 (9.16%) Senior
6 281 (8.47%) Project Manager
7 250 (7.54%) Consultant
8 129 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
9 95 (2.86%) Change Manager
10 93 (2.80%) Delivery Manager
11 89 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
12 86 (2.59%) Data Analyst
12 86 (2.59%) Developer
13 81 (2.44%) Programme Manager
14 73 (2.20%) Senior Manager
15 71 (2.14%) Designer
16 66 (1.99%) Senior Business Analyst
17 60 (1.81%) Data Architect
18 59 (1.78%) IT Manager
19 58 (1.75%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (3.59%) REST
2 60 (1.81%) SOAP
3 58 (1.75%) LDAP
4 55 (1.66%) Middleware
5 38 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
6 35 (1.06%) Spring
7 34 (1.03%) React
8 33 (0.99%) OpenID
9 32 (0.96%) Kafka
9 32 (0.96%) SailPoint
10 29 (0.87%) OAuth
11 27 (0.81%) .NET
11 27 (0.81%) Spring Boot
12 24 (0.72%) JSON
13 22 (0.66%) XML
14 20 (0.60%) CSS
14 20 (0.60%) SAML
15 19 (0.57%) Node.js
15 19 (0.57%) PySpark
15 19 (0.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 225 (6.78%) Product Ownership
2 151 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 144 (4.34%) Cloud Native
4 84 (2.53%) Data Structures
5 79 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 77 (2.32%) Management Information System
7 71 (2.14%) Operational Technology
7 71 (2.14%) Security Posture
8 66 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
9 58 (1.75%) Data Centre
10 53 (1.60%) NHS
11 52 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
12 50 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
13 43 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
14 41 (1.24%) Virtual Team
15 37 (1.12%) CMDB
16 34 (1.03%) AI Agents
16 34 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
17 30 (0.90%) Public Cloud
18 26 (0.78%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 94 (2.83%) Windows
2 47 (1.42%) Linux
3 22 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (0.36%) Unix
5 12 (0.36%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.21%) VMS
8 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.12%) Android
10 3 (0.090%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.090%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.090%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 892 (26.89%) Agile
2 650 (19.60%) Stakeholder Management
3 636 (19.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 491 (14.80%) Migration
5 462 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
6 445 (13.42%) Decision-Making
7 433 (13.05%) Roadmaps
8 421 (12.69%) Change Management
9 385 (11.61%) Workshop Facilitation
10 375 (11.31%) DevOps
11 337 (10.16%) Analytics
12 319 (9.62%) AI
12 319 (9.62%) Risk Management
13 301 (9.07%) Project Management
14 300 (9.04%) Business Intelligence
14 300 (9.04%) ERP
15 278 (8.38%) Cybersecurity
16 273 (8.23%) CI/CD
17 270 (8.14%) Project Delivery
18 263 (7.93%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 253 (7.63%) Python
2 252 (7.60%) SQL
3 111 (3.35%) Java
4 85 (2.56%) PowerShell
5 51 (1.54%) JavaScript
6 36 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 36 (1.09%) TypeScript
7 34 (1.03%) C#
8 33 (0.99%) Bash
9 21 (0.63%) Bicep
10 19 (0.57%) VBA
11 14 (0.42%) Scala
12 11 (0.33%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.30%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.30%) PHP
14 8 (0.24%) Korn
14 8 (0.24%) R
15 5 (0.15%) ABAP
15 5 (0.15%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 830 (25.02%) Security Cleared
2 662 (19.96%) SC Cleared
3 264 (7.96%) Degree
4 124 (3.74%) DV Cleared
5 108 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 108 (3.26%) PMI Certification
6 105 (3.17%) PMP
7 84 (2.53%) CISSP
8 62 (1.87%) CISM
9 45 (1.36%) Azure Certification
10 42 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
12 31 (0.93%) AWS Certification
13 28 (0.84%) Master's Degree
14 26 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
14 26 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 25 (0.75%) ACCA
15 25 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
16 24 (0.72%) CIMA
17 22 (0.66%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (6.54%) Data Quality
2 166 (5.00%) QA
3 159 (4.79%) PMO
4 142 (4.28%) NIST
5 138 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 128 (3.86%) GDPR
7 83 (2.50%) Accessibility
8 65 (1.96%) GRC
9 32 (0.96%) NCSC
10 31 (0.93%) SLA
11 27 (0.81%) PCI DSS
12 26 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
13 25 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
14 20 (0.60%) WCAG
15 18 (0.54%) SOC 2
16 15 (0.45%) ISO 20022
17 11 (0.33%) COBIT
17 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 11 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 10 (0.30%) Def Stans
System Software
1 103 (3.11%) Active Directory
2 62 (1.87%) Docker
3 28 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.39%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.36%) vSphere
6 6 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.15%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.090%) NFS
10 2 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.030%) Firmware
11 1 (0.030%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.030%) KVM
11 1 (0.030%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 119 (3.59%) Terraform
2 113 (3.41%) Kubernetes
3 38 (1.15%) Ansible
4 30 (0.90%) Grafana
5 28 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 27 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.45%) SCCM
9 13 (0.39%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.18%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.15%) Istio
12 5 (0.15%) vRealize
13 4 (0.12%) Podman
14 3 (0.090%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (0.090%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.090%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.090%) vMotion
14 3 (0.090%) WSUS
15 2 (0.060%) Nessus
Vendors
1 498 (15.01%) Microsoft
2 257 (7.75%) SAP
3 182 (5.49%) ServiceNow
4 153 (4.61%) Oracle
5 91 (2.74%) Salesforce
6 87 (2.62%) Databricks
7 57 (1.72%) Google
8 53 (1.60%) CyberArk
9 46 (1.39%) IBM
9 46 (1.39%) VMware
10 42 (1.27%) Splunk
11 41 (1.24%) Cisco
12 39 (1.18%) BeyondTrust
13 34 (1.03%) Centrify
13 34 (1.03%) Workday
14 20 (0.60%) Adobe
14 20 (0.60%) Dynatrace
14 20 (0.60%) Palo Alto
14 20 (0.60%) Zscaler
15 19 (0.57%) IFS
1,159 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide