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

 6 months to
24 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 40 155
Rank change year-on-year +15 +115 +12
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,924 1,611 669
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.44% 4.93% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.75% 5.45% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,641 1,076 460
10th Percentile £369 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £439 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £501 £521
% change year-on-year +3.90% -3.98% -0.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 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% +10.59%
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% +11.52%

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 44,871 29,543 34,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.02% 90.39% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,803 18,563 22,435
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.46%
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 2,660 1,589 2,131
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £13.46
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £17.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £68.13 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £69.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +82.83% -39.15% -1.95%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 3,348 £540 +0.56% 1,065
UK excluding London +22 1,848 £520 +3.90% 730
London +14 1,615 £550 - 491
Work from Home +22 1,284 £530 +5.89% 517
North of England +20 497 £500 - 180
South East +26 489 £565 +4.92% 248
Midlands +10 318 £511 +2.25% 99
North West +20 247 £500 -2.08% 89
West Midlands +4 241 £508 +1.50% 68
South West +8 196 £539 -2.09% 102
Yorkshire 0 192 £501 +4.54% 67
Scotland +30 186 £481 -1.28% 32
East of England +31 123 £533 +6.45% 53
East Midlands +21 73 £525 +10.53% 31
North East +12 66 £450 -7.22% 25
Wales +15 50 £500 +31.58% 17
Northern Ireland +12 14 £449 -17.52% 9
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
1 175 (4.46%) Confluence
2 129 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 33 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 28 (0.71%) Apache
6 26 (0.66%) SAS
7 25 (0.64%) CMS
8 23 (0.59%) 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%) Kentico
11 3 (0.076%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.076%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.051%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.051%) IIS
12 2 (0.051%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.051%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 176 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (1.81%) 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 3 (0.076%) 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%) PTC Creo
10 2 (0.051%) Revit
11 1 (0.025%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.025%) CATIA
11 1 (0.025%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.025%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 155 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 51 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.54%) 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
7 12 (0.31%) Teamcenter
8 11 (0.28%) Maximo
8 11 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
9 10 (0.25%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
9 10 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 9 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
11 8 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
11 8 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
11 8 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 757 (19.29%) Azure
2 499 (12.72%) AWS
3 391 (9.96%) Power Platform
4 179 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
5 174 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
6 163 (4.15%) GCP
7 132 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
8 121 (3.08%) Entra ID
9 99 (2.52%) SaaS
10 80 (2.04%) GitHub
11 66 (1.68%) Power Automate
12 65 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
13 61 (1.55%) Serverless
14 55 (1.40%) PowerApps
15 54 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
16 52 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
17 51 (1.30%) Amazon S3
18 49 (1.25%) Snowflake
19 48 (1.22%) PaaS
20 46 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.66%) Network Security
2 60 (1.53%) Firewall
3 49 (1.25%) DNS
4 36 (0.92%) VPN
5 35 (0.89%) WAN
6 31 (0.79%) LAN
7 24 (0.61%) TCP/IP
8 21 (0.54%) DHCP
9 18 (0.46%) Wireless
10 15 (0.38%) Internet
10 15 (0.38%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.38%) VLAN
11 13 (0.33%) 5G
11 13 (0.33%) BGP
12 12 (0.31%) Intranet
12 12 (0.31%) OSPF
13 11 (0.28%) SSL
14 10 (0.25%) NGFW
14 10 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.23%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 322 (8.21%) Power BI
2 105 (2.68%) Metadata
3 87 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (1.78%) Data Lake
5 57 (1.45%) SQL Server
6 43 (1.10%) Tableau
7 29 (0.74%) Power Query
7 29 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 27 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (0.54%) DynamoDB
10 20 (0.51%) Big Data
11 19 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
12 18 (0.46%) BigQuery
12 18 (0.46%) Oracle Database
13 16 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
13 16 (0.41%) NoSQL
14 15 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.38%) Data Vault
15 14 (0.36%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 14 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 277 (7.06%) JIRA
2 73 (1.86%) Git
3 56 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.25%) GitLab
5 33 (0.84%) Selenium
6 31 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
7 27 (0.69%) Postman
8 18 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.46%) Hudson
8 18 (0.46%) WebDriver
9 16 (0.41%) JMeter
10 15 (0.38%) JUnit
11 14 (0.36%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.31%) ERwin
13 11 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (0.23%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.15%) MLflow
15 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.15%) Zephyr
16 5 (0.13%) Snyk
General
1 1,786 (45.51%) Social Skills
2 1,127 (28.72%) Finance
3 705 (17.97%) Public Sector
4 640 (16.31%) Analytical Skills
5 208 (5.30%) Banking
6 197 (5.02%) Influencing Skills
7 154 (3.92%) Legal
8 147 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
9 132 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
10 127 (3.24%) Retail
11 93 (2.37%) Manufacturing
12 89 (2.27%) Law
13 84 (2.14%) Local Government
14 81 (2.06%) Telecoms
15 80 (2.04%) Marketing
16 78 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 73 (1.86%) Aerospace
18 55 (1.40%) Military
19 50 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
20 40 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 719 (18.32%) Analyst
2 567 (14.45%) Architect
3 491 (12.51%) Lead
4 433 (11.03%) Business Analyst
5 399 (10.17%) Senior
6 295 (7.52%) Project Manager
7 277 (7.06%) Consultant
8 164 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
9 162 (4.13%) Developer
10 124 (3.16%) Data Analyst
11 102 (2.60%) Change Manager
12 101 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
13 100 (2.55%) Delivery Manager
14 89 (2.27%) Data Architect
15 85 (2.17%) Senior Manager
16 80 (2.04%) Security Architect
17 74 (1.89%) Designer
18 73 (1.86%) Product Manager
18 73 (1.86%) Programme Manager
19 70 (1.78%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (2.62%) REST
2 55 (1.40%) Middleware
3 52 (1.33%) JSON
4 46 (1.17%) SOAP
4 46 (1.17%) Spring
5 45 (1.15%) React
6 44 (1.12%) .NET
6 44 (1.12%) Kafka
7 40 (1.02%) PySpark
7 40 (1.02%) XML
8 38 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
9 37 (0.94%) Spring Boot
10 28 (0.71%) SailPoint
11 27 (0.69%) OAuth
12 26 (0.66%) SAML
13 24 (0.61%) OpenID
14 23 (0.59%) HTML
14 23 (0.59%) Web Services
15 22 (0.56%) LDAP
16 21 (0.54%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 284 (7.24%) Product Ownership
2 208 (5.30%) Onboarding
3 163 (4.15%) Cloud Native
4 112 (2.85%) Data Structures
4 112 (2.85%) Management Information System
5 77 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
5 77 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
7 69 (1.76%) NHS
7 69 (1.76%) Operational Technology
8 59 (1.50%) Data Centre
9 58 (1.48%) Virtual Team
10 56 (1.43%) CMDB
11 48 (1.22%) AI Agents
12 47 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
13 46 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
14 39 (0.99%) Security Posture
14 39 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
15 38 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
16 34 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 112 (2.85%) Windows
2 56 (1.43%) Linux
3 27 (0.69%) 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 1,152 (29.36%) Agile
2 860 (21.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 852 (21.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 575 (14.65%) Problem-Solving
5 571 (14.55%) Migration
6 557 (14.19%) Decision-Making
7 511 (13.02%) Roadmaps
8 490 (12.49%) DevOps
9 473 (12.05%) Change Management
10 469 (11.95%) Workshop Facilitation
11 456 (11.62%) AI
12 430 (10.96%) Analytics
13 392 (9.99%) CI/CD
14 381 (9.71%) Risk Management
15 367 (9.35%) Business Intelligence
16 346 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
17 344 (8.77%) Project Delivery
18 335 (8.54%) ERP
19 324 (8.26%) Data Modelling
20 315 (8.03%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 333 (8.49%) SQL
2 276 (7.03%) Python
3 118 (3.01%) Java
4 79 (2.01%) JavaScript
5 66 (1.68%) PowerShell
6 59 (1.50%) C#
7 43 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 42 (1.07%) TypeScript
9 38 (0.97%) Bash
10 26 (0.66%) Bicep
11 18 (0.46%) VBA
12 14 (0.36%) Apex Code
12 14 (0.36%) Scala
13 13 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.31%) T-SQL
15 11 (0.28%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.25%) Korn
17 8 (0.20%) Groovy
18 7 (0.18%) ABAP
18 7 (0.18%) R
Qualifications
1 1,025 (26.12%) Security Cleared
2 786 (20.03%) SC Cleared
3 267 (6.80%) Degree
4 171 (4.36%) DV Cleared
5 138 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 120 (3.06%) PMI Certification
7 112 (2.85%) PMP
8 104 (2.65%) CISSP
9 74 (1.89%) Azure Certification
10 66 (1.68%) CISM
11 62 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
12 46 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (1.12%) AWS Certification
14 36 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
15 34 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 29 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 29 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 29 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
17 23 (0.59%) CIMA
17 23 (0.59%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 305 (7.77%) Data Quality
2 203 (5.17%) PMO
3 184 (4.69%) QA
4 171 (4.36%) GDPR
5 163 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 155 (3.95%) NIST
7 105 (2.68%) Accessibility
8 89 (2.27%) GRC
9 55 (1.40%) NCSC
10 47 (1.20%) SLA
11 31 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
12 29 (0.74%) WCAG
13 27 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
14 21 (0.54%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.46%) SOC 2
16 14 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 13 (0.33%) COBIT
18 12 (0.31%) ISO 20022
18 12 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 110 (2.80%) Active Directory
2 86 (2.19%) Docker
3 45 (1.15%) 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 2 (0.051%) NFS
11 1 (0.025%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.025%) Firmware
11 1 (0.025%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.025%) IAG
11 1 (0.025%) KVM
Systems Management
1 161 (4.10%) Terraform
2 147 (3.75%) Kubernetes
3 44 (1.12%) Ansible
4 36 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (0.89%) Grafana
6 32 (0.82%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.33%) SCCM
9 10 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 9 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.18%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.13%) vRealize
13 4 (0.10%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.10%) Podman
14 3 (0.076%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 3 (0.076%) QRadar
14 3 (0.076%) SCOM
14 3 (0.076%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.076%) VxRail
14 3 (0.076%) WSUS
Vendors
1 690 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 279 (7.11%) SAP
3 233 (5.94%) ServiceNow
4 182 (4.64%) Oracle
5 126 (3.21%) Databricks
6 111 (2.83%) Salesforce
7 72 (1.83%) Google
8 56 (1.43%) Cisco
8 56 (1.43%) VMware
9 54 (1.38%) IBM
10 48 (1.22%) Workday
11 43 (1.10%) Splunk
12 30 (0.76%) CyberArk
13 25 (0.64%) MuleSoft
14 23 (0.59%) Palo Alto
15 22 (0.56%) Zscaler
16 21 (0.54%) Ariba
17 20 (0.51%) IFS
17 20 (0.51%) Okta
18 19 (0.48%) Dynatrace
1,182 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide