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

 6 months to
1 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 37 153
Rank change year-on-year +11 +116 +16
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 3,977 1,688 640
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.46% 5.13% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.77% 5.68% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,690 1,125 438
10th Percentile £369 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £511 £520
% change year-on-year +1.68% -1.65% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 28 21
10th Percentile £25.04 £22.97 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £26.21 £26.25
Median hourly rate £74.50 £41.16 £57.44
Median % change year-on-year +81.01% -28.35% +7.03%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.31 £70.39
90th Percentile - £76.67 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £45.87 £57.74
% change year-on-year +74.42% -20.57% +7.60%

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 45,324 29,743 33,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.43% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,013 18,657 21,666
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,761 1,640 1,941
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.32 £17.80
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.94
% change year-on-year +86.55% -42.44% +2.35%

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 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 1 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 1 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 +12 3,394 £540 -0.46% 1,262
UK excluding London +19 1,873 £520 +1.68% 840
London +10 1,642 £550 - 582
Work from Home +21 1,326 £525 +2.44% 673
South East +25 503 £550 - 283
North of England +17 495 £500 -1.96% 199
Midlands +8 325 £500 -0.05% 123
North West +16 250 £500 -2.44% 103
West Midlands +5 250 £500 -0.15% 84
South West +3 204 £550 - 114
Scotland +30 189 £500 - 39
Yorkshire +3 187 £500 +4.44% 67
East of England +32 120 £533 +6.39% 62
East Midlands +18 71 £500 +5.26% 39
North East +11 66 £450 -7.22% 30
Wales +17 50 £500 +31.58% 12
Northern Ireland +5 12 £430 -18.14% 21
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
1 174 (4.38%) Confluence
2 136 (3.42%) SharePoint
3 35 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 30 (0.75%) Apache
6 26 (0.65%) CMS
6 26 (0.65%) SAS
7 22 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.15%) WordPress
9 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.10%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.075%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.075%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.075%) Kentico
10 3 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.075%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.050%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.050%) Appian
11 2 (0.050%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.050%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 183 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
5 60 (1.51%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.15%) Trello
9 4 (0.10%) Sketch
10 2 (0.050%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.050%) InDesign
10 2 (0.050%) InVision
10 2 (0.050%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.050%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.050%) Revit
11 1 (0.025%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.025%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.025%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.025%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.025%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 150 (3.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 57 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.55%) Workday HCM
4 16 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.38%) Primavera
5 15 (0.38%) SAP FI
6 12 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 12 (0.30%) SAP QM
7 11 (0.28%) Maximo
7 11 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
8 10 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 10 (0.25%) SAP CO
8 10 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
8 10 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 10 (0.25%) Teamcenter
9 9 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 9 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 8 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 8 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
10 8 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 797 (20.04%) Azure
2 512 (12.87%) AWS
3 421 (10.59%) Power Platform
4 190 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
5 182 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
6 175 (4.40%) GCP
7 141 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
8 127 (3.19%) Entra ID
9 98 (2.46%) SaaS
10 84 (2.11%) GitHub
11 79 (1.99%) Power Automate
12 66 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
13 65 (1.63%) PowerApps
13 65 (1.63%) Serverless
14 61 (1.53%) Snowflake
15 56 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
16 55 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
17 52 (1.31%) Amazon S3
17 52 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
18 47 (1.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.56%) Network Security
2 60 (1.51%) Firewall
3 52 (1.31%) DNS
4 36 (0.91%) WAN
5 35 (0.88%) VPN
6 32 (0.80%) LAN
7 24 (0.60%) DHCP
7 24 (0.60%) TCP/IP
8 18 (0.45%) Wireless
9 16 (0.40%) Internet
10 15 (0.38%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.35%) VLAN
12 13 (0.33%) 5G
13 12 (0.30%) BGP
13 12 (0.30%) Intranet
13 12 (0.30%) SSL
14 11 (0.28%) OSPF
15 9 (0.23%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (0.23%) VSAN
15 9 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 346 (8.70%) Power BI
2 109 (2.74%) Metadata
3 94 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
4 71 (1.79%) Data Lake
5 67 (1.68%) SQL Server
6 46 (1.16%) Tableau
7 35 (0.88%) Power Query
8 28 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (0.63%) Relational Database
10 21 (0.53%) DynamoDB
11 20 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (0.50%) Big Data
12 19 (0.48%) BigQuery
12 19 (0.48%) Data Vault
13 18 (0.45%) Oracle Database
14 16 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
14 16 (0.40%) NoSQL
15 15 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
15 15 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 275 (6.91%) JIRA
2 78 (1.96%) Git
3 59 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 53 (1.33%) GitLab
5 35 (0.88%) Selenium
6 31 (0.78%) Rational DOORS
7 29 (0.73%) Postman
8 20 (0.50%) WebDriver
9 19 (0.48%) Cucumber
10 18 (0.45%) Hudson
11 16 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 16 (0.40%) JMeter
12 13 (0.33%) ERwin
12 13 (0.33%) JUnit
13 12 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (0.23%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.20%) Bitbucket
16 7 (0.18%) Zephyr
17 6 (0.15%) MLflow
17 6 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 1,811 (45.54%) Social Skills
2 1,131 (28.44%) Finance
3 728 (18.31%) Public Sector
4 658 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
5 206 (5.18%) Banking
6 199 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
7 154 (3.87%) Legal
8 152 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
9 139 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
10 132 (3.32%) Retail
11 94 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 90 (2.26%) Local Government
12 90 (2.26%) Manufacturing
13 88 (2.21%) Law
14 80 (2.01%) Marketing
14 80 (2.01%) Telecoms
15 71 (1.79%) Aerospace
16 56 (1.41%) Military
17 54 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
18 40 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 724 (18.20%) Analyst
2 584 (14.68%) Architect
3 496 (12.47%) Lead
4 430 (10.81%) Business Analyst
5 416 (10.46%) Senior
6 295 (7.42%) Project Manager
7 288 (7.24%) Consultant
8 181 (4.55%) Developer
9 170 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
10 123 (3.09%) Data Analyst
11 104 (2.62%) Change Manager
11 104 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
12 100 (2.51%) Data Architect
12 100 (2.51%) Delivery Manager
13 86 (2.16%) Senior Manager
14 79 (1.99%) Security Architect
15 75 (1.89%) Data Engineer
15 75 (1.89%) Designer
15 75 (1.89%) Product Manager
16 72 (1.81%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (2.67%) REST
2 56 (1.41%) JSON
3 54 (1.36%) Middleware
4 51 (1.28%) .NET
5 46 (1.16%) Kafka
5 46 (1.16%) SOAP
5 46 (1.16%) Spring
6 45 (1.13%) React
7 43 (1.08%) PySpark
8 40 (1.01%) XML
9 38 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
10 37 (0.93%) Spring Boot
11 31 (0.78%) OAuth
12 28 (0.70%) OpenID
12 28 (0.70%) SailPoint
12 28 (0.70%) SAML
13 25 (0.63%) Web Services
14 24 (0.60%) HTML
15 23 (0.58%) RESTful
16 22 (0.55%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 297 (7.47%) Product Ownership
2 216 (5.43%) Onboarding
3 171 (4.30%) Cloud Native
4 116 (2.92%) Management Information System
5 113 (2.84%) Data Structures
6 79 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
7 78 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
8 70 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
8 70 (1.76%) NHS
9 68 (1.71%) Operational Technology
10 57 (1.43%) Data Centre
10 57 (1.43%) Virtual Team
11 56 (1.41%) CMDB
12 50 (1.26%) AI Agents
12 50 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
13 49 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
14 40 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
15 38 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
16 37 (0.93%) Security Posture
17 34 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 118 (2.97%) Windows
2 63 (1.58%) Linux
3 28 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.38%) Unix
4 15 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 11 (0.28%) 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 (0.075%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.075%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.075%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.075%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.050%) AIX
10 2 (0.050%) HPUX
10 2 (0.050%) Solaris
11 1 (0.025%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,193 (30.00%) Agile
2 891 (22.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 878 (22.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 592 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
5 571 (14.36%) Decision-Making
6 569 (14.31%) Migration
7 516 (12.97%) Roadmaps
8 507 (12.75%) DevOps
9 480 (12.07%) Workshop Facilitation
10 477 (11.99%) Change Management
11 474 (11.92%) AI
12 464 (11.67%) Analytics
13 423 (10.64%) CI/CD
14 394 (9.91%) Business Intelligence
15 388 (9.76%) Risk Management
16 359 (9.03%) Project Delivery
17 351 (8.83%) Cybersecurity
18 348 (8.75%) Data Modelling
19 329 (8.27%) ERP
20 319 (8.02%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 349 (8.78%) SQL
2 282 (7.09%) Python
3 121 (3.04%) Java
4 85 (2.14%) JavaScript
5 73 (1.84%) PowerShell
6 68 (1.71%) C#
7 49 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 43 (1.08%) TypeScript
9 41 (1.03%) Bash
10 27 (0.68%) Bicep
11 18 (0.45%) VBA
12 15 (0.38%) Scala
13 14 (0.35%) Apex Code
13 14 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 13 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.30%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.23%) Groovy
17 8 (0.20%) Korn
18 7 (0.18%) ABAP
19 6 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,053 (26.48%) Security Cleared
2 799 (20.09%) SC Cleared
3 257 (6.46%) Degree
4 182 (4.58%) DV Cleared
5 141 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 121 (3.04%) PMI Certification
7 112 (2.82%) PMP
8 103 (2.59%) CISSP
9 73 (1.84%) Azure Certification
10 65 (1.63%) CISM
11 61 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
12 52 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (1.11%) AWS Certification
14 35 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 33 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
16 31 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 29 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 27 (0.68%) Master's Degree
19 24 (0.60%) ISTQB
20 23 (0.58%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 317 (7.97%) Data Quality
2 208 (5.23%) PMO
3 183 (4.60%) QA
4 175 (4.40%) GDPR
5 165 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 154 (3.87%) NIST
7 113 (2.84%) Accessibility
8 84 (2.11%) GRC
9 53 (1.33%) NCSC
10 47 (1.18%) SLA
11 33 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
12 32 (0.80%) WCAG
13 25 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.48%) PCI DSS
15 18 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.45%) SOC 2
16 15 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 12 (0.30%) ISO 20022
17 12 (0.30%) NIST 800
18 11 (0.28%) COBIT
System Software
1 118 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 88 (2.21%) Docker
3 45 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.53%) VMware NSX
5 20 (0.50%) vSphere
6 14 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
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
1 162 (4.07%) Terraform
2 150 (3.77%) Kubernetes
3 46 (1.16%) Ansible
4 38 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (0.91%) Grafana
6 33 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 33 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.40%) SCCM
8 11 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 10 (0.25%) NetBackup
10 8 (0.20%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.13%) SCOM
11 5 (0.13%) vRealize
12 4 (0.10%) Podman
12 4 (0.10%) VxRail
13 3 (0.075%) Argo
13 3 (0.075%) Istio
13 3 (0.075%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 3 (0.075%) Puppet
13 3 (0.075%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 721 (18.13%) Microsoft
2 277 (6.97%) SAP
3 234 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 179 (4.50%) Oracle
5 140 (3.52%) Databricks
6 115 (2.89%) Salesforce
7 72 (1.81%) Google
8 57 (1.43%) VMware
9 56 (1.41%) IBM
10 54 (1.36%) Cisco
11 51 (1.28%) Workday
12 43 (1.08%) Splunk
13 33 (0.83%) CyberArk
14 27 (0.68%) MuleSoft
15 23 (0.58%) Zscaler
16 22 (0.55%) Ariba
17 21 (0.53%) Citrix
18 20 (0.50%) Dynatrace
18 20 (0.50%) Okta
18 20 (0.50%) Palo Alto
1,444 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide