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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 134
Rank change year-on-year +2 +107 +34
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,307 2,286 688
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.79% 6.89% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.20% 7.61% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,924 1,540 422
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £645 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 40 11
10th Percentile £24.50 £20.88 £22.00
25th Percentile £41.00 £26.24 £26.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £48.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -2.50% -11.49%
75th Percentile £80.00 £65.04 £60.28
90th Percentile £87.87 £74.13 £61.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.49 £58.25 £58.05
% change year-on-year +15.85% +0.35% +2.75%

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 46,826 30,024 32,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.73% 90.50% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,144 18,679 19,408
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £737 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,407 1,886 1,245
10th Percentile £13.64 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.72 £65.07 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -8.14%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 3,602 £550 +2.33% 1,887
UK excluding London +3 1,974 £525 - 1,077
London -1 1,807 £560 +1.82% 895
Work from Home +4 1,454 £525 -0.24% 950
North of England +3 509 £500 -2.44% 276
South East +8 506 £550 +1.85% 258
Midlands +5 338 £500 -4.76% 155
West Midlands +5 273 £500 -4.76% 108
South West -4 239 £550 +5.16% 154
North West 0 235 £500 -2.44% 164
Scotland +23 230 £500 +11.11% 104
Yorkshire -6 203 £498 -5.24% 82
East of England +5 114 £505 -16.35% 76
North East +8 78 £453 -4.63% 30
East Midlands -3 64 £525 +16.67% 47
Wales +21 60 £525 +15.07% 29
Northern Ireland +3 8 £438 -16.67% 35
Channel Islands -3 4 £588 +27.03% 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
1 180 (4.18%) SharePoint
2 172 (3.99%) Confluence
3 37 (0.86%) Apache Spark
4 36 (0.84%) CMS
5 35 (0.81%) Apache
6 32 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 29 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 21 (0.49%) SAS
9 10 (0.23%) Headless CMS
10 6 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.14%) WordPress
11 4 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.093%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.070%) IIS
12 3 (0.070%) Kentico
13 2 (0.046%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.046%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.046%) Oracle Coherence
13 2 (0.046%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.046%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 202 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 87 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
4 57 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
4 57 (1.32%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.21%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.21%) Navisworks
6 9 (0.21%) Revit
7 8 (0.19%) ProjectWise
8 7 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.16%) Trello
9 4 (0.093%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.093%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.070%) Sketch
11 2 (0.046%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.046%) InDesign
12 1 (0.023%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.023%) InfoPath
12 1 (0.023%) Notion
Business Applications
1 126 (2.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 60 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.56%) Workday HCM
4 20 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 14 (0.33%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.30%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 13 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 12 (0.28%) Maximo
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.26%) Primavera
10 10 (0.23%) iTrent
10 10 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
10 10 (0.23%) SAP QM
11 9 (0.21%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.21%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 794 (18.44%) Azure
2 541 (12.56%) AWS
3 447 (10.38%) Power Platform
4 224 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
5 215 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
6 183 (4.25%) GCP
7 139 (3.23%) Entra ID
8 120 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
9 103 (2.39%) Power Automate
9 103 (2.39%) SaaS
10 95 (2.21%) GitHub
11 84 (1.95%) Snowflake
12 79 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
13 78 (1.81%) PowerApps
14 77 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
15 75 (1.74%) Serverless
16 64 (1.49%) Amazon S3
17 55 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
17 55 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
18 46 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 70 (1.63%) Network Security
2 65 (1.51%) Firewall
3 47 (1.09%) DNS
4 38 (0.88%) WAN
5 36 (0.84%) VPN
6 28 (0.65%) LAN
7 27 (0.63%) DHCP
8 22 (0.51%) TCP/IP
9 20 (0.46%) Internet
10 16 (0.37%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.37%) VLAN
11 15 (0.35%) BGP
11 15 (0.35%) Wireless
12 14 (0.33%) 5G
13 13 (0.30%) OSPF
14 12 (0.28%) VoIP
15 11 (0.26%) Kerberos
16 10 (0.23%) HTTP
16 10 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
16 10 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 338 (7.85%) Power BI
2 170 (3.95%) Metadata
3 104 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
4 94 (2.18%) Data Lake
5 74 (1.72%) SQL Server
6 53 (1.23%) Tableau
7 35 (0.81%) Relational Database
8 34 (0.79%) Power Query
9 30 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
10 29 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
11 26 (0.60%) BigQuery
11 26 (0.60%) DynamoDB
12 25 (0.58%) Star Schema
13 24 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
14 21 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
14 21 (0.49%) Big Data
15 20 (0.46%) NoSQL
16 19 (0.44%) Looker
16 19 (0.44%) MongoDB
16 19 (0.44%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 264 (6.13%) JIRA
2 89 (2.07%) Git
3 64 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 55 (1.28%) GitLab
5 31 (0.72%) Selenium
6 26 (0.60%) Postman
7 19 (0.44%) Cucumber
8 17 (0.39%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.37%) WebDriver
10 9 (0.21%) Claude Code
10 9 (0.21%) ERwin
10 9 (0.21%) JUnit
10 9 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (0.19%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
11 8 (0.19%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.16%) Hudson
12 7 (0.16%) JMeter
12 7 (0.16%) Maven
12 7 (0.16%) SonarQube
General
1 2,025 (47.02%) Social Skills
2 1,138 (26.42%) Finance
3 928 (21.55%) Public Sector
4 720 (16.72%) Analytical Skills
5 275 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
6 240 (5.57%) Banking
7 199 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
8 187 (4.34%) Organisational Skills
9 148 (3.44%) Legal
10 125 (2.90%) Manufacturing
11 123 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 123 (2.86%) Retail
12 113 (2.62%) Local Government
13 93 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
14 85 (1.97%) Marketing
14 85 (1.97%) Military
15 78 (1.81%) Telecoms
16 72 (1.67%) Aerospace
17 57 (1.32%) Law
18 45 (1.04%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 721 (16.74%) Analyst
2 617 (14.33%) Architect
3 520 (12.07%) Lead
4 447 (10.38%) Senior
5 423 (9.82%) Business Analyst
6 300 (6.97%) Consultant
7 288 (6.69%) Project Manager
8 240 (5.57%) Developer
9 187 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
10 130 (3.02%) Change Manager
11 128 (2.97%) Data Architect
12 121 (2.81%) Data Analyst
13 107 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
14 92 (2.14%) Designer
15 87 (2.02%) Data Engineer
16 86 (2.00%) Technical Architect
17 82 (1.90%) Delivery Manager
18 80 (1.86%) Senior Manager
19 77 (1.79%) IT Manager
20 73 (1.69%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (4.13%) Terraform
2 133 (3.09%) REST
3 68 (1.58%) .NET
4 60 (1.39%) Kafka
5 59 (1.37%) JSON
6 52 (1.21%) SOAP
7 49 (1.14%) Spring
8 47 (1.09%) Middleware
9 46 (1.07%) PySpark
10 45 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
10 45 (1.04%) XML
11 44 (1.02%) Spring Boot
12 42 (0.98%) React
13 37 (0.86%) Web Services
14 35 (0.81%) RESTful
15 34 (0.79%) OAuth
16 30 (0.70%) LDAP
17 28 (0.65%) OpenID
18 27 (0.63%) Node.js
18 27 (0.63%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 294 (6.83%) Product Ownership
2 257 (5.97%) Onboarding
3 197 (4.57%) Cloud Native
4 155 (3.60%) Management Information System
5 105 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 102 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
7 90 (2.09%) AI Agents
7 90 (2.09%) Data Structures
8 80 (1.86%) NHS
9 73 (1.69%) Operational Technology
10 71 (1.65%) Data Centre
11 68 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
12 63 (1.46%) Security Posture
13 59 (1.37%) Virtual Team
14 57 (1.32%) CMDB
15 53 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
16 49 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
17 39 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
18 32 (0.74%) PKI
18 32 (0.74%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.00%) Windows
2 84 (1.95%) Linux
3 38 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.37%) Unix
5 15 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.21%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.14%) Android
7 6 (0.14%) VMS
8 5 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.12%) macOS
8 5 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.093%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.046%) AIX
10 2 (0.046%) HPUX
10 2 (0.046%) Solaris
11 1 (0.023%) CentOS
11 1 (0.023%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.023%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.023%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,295 (30.07%) Agile
2 1,213 (28.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 961 (22.31%) Continuous Improvement
4 717 (16.65%) Decision-Making
5 692 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
6 633 (14.70%) Roadmaps
7 617 (14.33%) Workshop Facilitation
8 582 (13.51%) AI
9 561 (13.03%) Migration
10 536 (12.44%) DevOps
11 507 (11.77%) Change Management
12 493 (11.45%) Analytics
13 434 (10.08%) CI/CD
14 430 (9.98%) Project Delivery
15 429 (9.96%) Risk Management
16 399 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
17 390 (9.06%) Data Governance
18 382 (8.87%) Cybersecurity
19 380 (8.82%) Data Modelling
20 376 (8.73%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 418 (9.71%) SQL
2 317 (7.36%) Python
3 129 (3.00%) Java
4 102 (2.37%) JavaScript
4 102 (2.37%) PowerShell
5 86 (2.00%) C#
6 58 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 55 (1.28%) Bash
8 42 (0.98%) TypeScript
9 28 (0.65%) Bicep
10 21 (0.49%) Scala
11 16 (0.37%) T-SQL
12 13 (0.30%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.23%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.23%) Groovy
13 10 (0.23%) Korn
14 9 (0.21%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.16%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.14%) VBA
17 4 (0.093%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,239 (28.77%) Security Cleared
2 972 (22.57%) SC Cleared
3 258 (5.99%) Degree
4 201 (4.67%) DV Cleared
5 185 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 114 (2.65%) PMI Certification
7 108 (2.51%) CISSP
7 108 (2.51%) PMP
8 68 (1.58%) CISM
9 64 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
10 63 (1.46%) Azure Certification
11 61 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 45 (1.04%) AWS Certification
13 33 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
14 32 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 30 (0.70%) APMG
15 30 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
16 29 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 26 (0.60%) ISTQB
18 25 (0.58%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 387 (8.99%) Data Quality
2 198 (4.60%) PMO
3 185 (4.30%) QA
4 163 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 159 (3.69%) GDPR
6 157 (3.65%) NIST
7 146 (3.39%) Accessibility
8 97 (2.25%) GRC
9 86 (2.00%) NCSC
10 57 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 40 (0.93%) WCAG
12 38 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
13 34 (0.79%) SLA
14 18 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 16 (0.37%) NIST 800
15 16 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.33%) JSP 440
17 12 (0.28%) GxP
17 12 (0.28%) ISO 19650
17 12 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 129 (3.00%) Active Directory
2 109 (2.53%) Docker
3 55 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.39%) VMware NSX
6 14 (0.33%) vSphere
7 12 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.093%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.070%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.023%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.023%) Firmware
11 1 (0.023%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.023%) IAG
11 1 (0.023%) KVM
11 1 (0.023%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 172 (3.99%) Kubernetes
2 55 (1.28%) Ansible
3 41 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (0.72%) Grafana
5 28 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 10 (0.23%) NetBackup
8 10 (0.23%) SCCM
9 6 (0.14%) VxRail
10 5 (0.12%) QRadar
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 4 (0.093%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.093%) Istio
12 3 (0.070%) Argo
12 3 (0.070%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.070%) Kibana
12 3 (0.070%) McAfee ePO
12 3 (0.070%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.070%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 865 (20.08%) Microsoft
2 256 (5.94%) SAP
3 206 (4.78%) ServiceNow
4 189 (4.39%) Oracle
5 157 (3.65%) Databricks
6 104 (2.41%) Google
7 103 (2.39%) Salesforce
8 74 (1.72%) VMware
9 63 (1.46%) Cisco
10 52 (1.21%) Splunk
10 52 (1.21%) Workday
11 45 (1.04%) IBM
12 36 (0.84%) Ariba
13 34 (0.79%) CyberArk
14 28 (0.65%) MuleSoft
15 26 (0.60%) Okta
16 24 (0.56%) OpenAI
17 22 (0.51%) Dynatrace
18 21 (0.49%) Informatica
18 21 (0.49%) Palo Alto