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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 30 138
Rank change year-on-year +5 +108 +24
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,180 2,008 686
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.66% 6.08% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.06% 6.72% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,821 1,347 447
10th Percentile £363 £359 £363
25th Percentile £450 £427 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £530 £545
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -2.75% -0.91%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £511
% change year-on-year - +2.69% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 33 13
10th Percentile £25.90 £25.36 £26.30
25th Percentile £43.50 £30.11 £50.00
Median hourly rate £66.56 £47.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +41.62% -19.38% +3.20%
75th Percentile £83.75 £63.75 £70.39
90th Percentile £94.50 £73.30 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.89 £32.74 £59.45
% change year-on-year +107.39% -44.94% +5.24%

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 46,152 29,871 33,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 90.49% 85.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,085 18,553 20,430
10th Percentile £325 £300 £311
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
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 3,056 1,793 1,507
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.44 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.92%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.78 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.58 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.32% -47.50% +7.50%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 3,531 £548 +0.92% 2,046
UK excluding London +6 1,944 £525 - 1,355
London +3 1,750 £550 - 944
Work from Home +11 1,422 £525 - 974
South East +11 500 £568 +5.19% 402
North of England +6 500 £500 -2.23% 287
Midlands +6 335 £500 -4.76% 226
West Midlands +4 262 £500 -2.91% 149
North West +3 237 £511 -2.61% 152
South West 0 232 £550 - 188
Scotland +27 224 £500 +13.64% 100
Yorkshire -1 197 £500 - 93
East of England +24 120 £533 -9.67% 98
North East +7 74 £453 +0.56% 46
East Midlands +16 69 £525 -8.70% 76
Wales +13 55 £525 +23.53% 22
Northern Ireland +1 8 £319 -39.29% 45
Channel Islands -2 4 £588 +27.03% 4

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
1 167 (4.00%) Confluence
2 165 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 37 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (0.86%) Apache
5 35 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 35 (0.84%) CMS
6 27 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 27 (0.65%) SAS
7 8 (0.19%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.14%) WordPress
9 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.096%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.096%) OpenEdge
10 4 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.072%) Drupal
11 3 (0.072%) IIS
11 3 (0.072%) Kentico
11 3 (0.072%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.048%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.048%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 188 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 86 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (1.39%) MS Visio
5 56 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.17%) Navisworks
8 7 (0.17%) ProjectWise
8 7 (0.17%) Revit
8 7 (0.17%) Trello
9 3 (0.072%) Sketch
10 2 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.048%) InDesign
10 2 (0.048%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Notion
11 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 130 (3.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (0.55%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 13 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.29%) Maximo
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (0.26%) Primavera
8 11 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 10 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 10 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 9 (0.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 9 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
10 9 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
10 9 (0.22%) SAP CO
10 9 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 802 (19.19%) Azure
2 546 (13.06%) AWS
3 438 (10.48%) Power Platform
4 206 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
5 204 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
6 182 (4.35%) GCP
7 150 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
8 138 (3.30%) Entra ID
9 97 (2.32%) Power Automate
9 97 (2.32%) SaaS
10 90 (2.15%) GitHub
11 73 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
12 72 (1.72%) Snowflake
13 71 (1.70%) PowerApps
13 71 (1.70%) Serverless
14 69 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
15 61 (1.46%) Amazon S3
16 59 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
17 56 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
18 48 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 69 (1.65%) Network Security
2 67 (1.60%) Firewall
3 50 (1.20%) DNS
4 39 (0.93%) WAN
5 36 (0.86%) VPN
6 31 (0.74%) LAN
7 26 (0.62%) DHCP
8 23 (0.55%) TCP/IP
9 18 (0.43%) 5G
9 18 (0.43%) SD-WAN
9 18 (0.43%) Wireless
10 17 (0.41%) Internet
11 16 (0.38%) VLAN
12 14 (0.33%) BGP
13 13 (0.31%) OSPF
13 13 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (0.29%) VoIP
15 11 (0.26%) Intranet
15 11 (0.26%) Kerberos
15 11 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (8.21%) Power BI
2 151 (3.61%) Metadata
3 96 (2.30%) Data Lake
4 95 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
5 74 (1.77%) SQL Server
6 41 (0.98%) Tableau
7 34 (0.81%) Relational Database
8 33 (0.79%) Power Query
9 31 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (0.57%) DynamoDB
11 23 (0.55%) Oracle Database
12 22 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
13 21 (0.50%) BigQuery
14 20 (0.48%) Big Data
14 20 (0.48%) NoSQL
14 20 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
15 18 (0.43%) Data Vault
15 18 (0.43%) Looker
16 17 (0.41%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 266 (6.36%) JIRA
2 95 (2.27%) Git
3 62 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 58 (1.39%) GitLab
5 29 (0.69%) Postman
5 29 (0.69%) Selenium
6 16 (0.38%) Cypress.io
6 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
7 15 (0.36%) Cucumber
7 15 (0.36%) Hudson
8 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 11 (0.26%) ERwin
10 9 (0.22%) JMeter
11 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
11 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.19%) Zephyr
12 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.17%) JUnit
13 6 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
13 6 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,941 (46.44%) Social Skills
2 1,156 (27.66%) Finance
3 830 (19.86%) Public Sector
4 691 (16.53%) Analytical Skills
5 241 (5.77%) Influencing Skills
6 231 (5.53%) Banking
7 178 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
8 169 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
9 148 (3.54%) Legal
10 135 (3.23%) Retail
11 118 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 111 (2.66%) Local Government
13 101 (2.42%) Manufacturing
14 88 (2.11%) Law
15 84 (2.01%) Marketing
15 84 (2.01%) Telecoms
16 79 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
17 77 (1.84%) Military
18 59 (1.41%) Aerospace
19 41 (0.98%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 704 (16.84%) Analyst
2 637 (15.24%) Architect
3 519 (12.42%) Lead
4 429 (10.26%) Senior
5 407 (9.74%) Business Analyst
6 300 (7.18%) Consultant
7 296 (7.08%) Project Manager
8 224 (5.36%) Developer
9 190 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
10 123 (2.94%) Data Architect
11 118 (2.82%) Data Analyst
12 114 (2.73%) Change Manager
13 101 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
14 91 (2.18%) Senior Manager
15 88 (2.11%) Data Engineer
16 84 (2.01%) Delivery Manager
16 84 (2.01%) Designer
17 82 (1.96%) Technical Architect
18 79 (1.89%) IT Manager
19 75 (1.79%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (4.35%) Terraform
2 120 (2.87%) REST
3 68 (1.63%) .NET
4 60 (1.44%) JSON
5 54 (1.29%) Kafka
6 50 (1.20%) PySpark
7 49 (1.17%) Middleware
7 49 (1.17%) SOAP
8 46 (1.10%) React
8 46 (1.10%) XML
9 45 (1.08%) Spring
10 41 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
10 41 (0.98%) Spring Boot
11 38 (0.91%) OAuth
12 35 (0.84%) SAML
12 35 (0.84%) Web Services
13 34 (0.81%) RESTful
14 32 (0.77%) OpenID
15 30 (0.72%) LDAP
16 28 (0.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 288 (6.89%) Product Ownership
2 239 (5.72%) Onboarding
3 186 (4.45%) Cloud Native
4 148 (3.54%) Management Information System
5 96 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
6 94 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
7 88 (2.11%) Data Structures
8 76 (1.82%) AI Agents
9 74 (1.77%) NHS
10 71 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
11 69 (1.65%) Data Centre
12 68 (1.63%) Operational Technology
13 61 (1.46%) Virtual Team
14 55 (1.32%) CMDB
15 54 (1.29%) Security Posture
16 52 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
17 47 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
18 46 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
19 30 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
19 30 (0.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.09%) Windows
2 79 (1.89%) Linux
3 35 (0.84%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.38%) Unix
5 14 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.19%) Android
8 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.17%) VMS
9 5 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.072%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.048%) AIX
11 2 (0.048%) HPUX
11 2 (0.048%) Solaris
12 1 (0.024%) CentOS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,257 (30.07%) Agile
2 1,063 (25.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 956 (22.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 667 (15.96%) Decision-Making
5 642 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
6 587 (14.04%) Migration
7 574 (13.73%) Roadmaps
8 540 (12.92%) Workshop Facilitation
9 534 (12.78%) DevOps
10 521 (12.46%) AI
11 491 (11.75%) Change Management
12 477 (11.41%) Analytics
13 450 (10.77%) CI/CD
14 421 (10.07%) Risk Management
15 412 (9.86%) Project Delivery
16 396 (9.47%) Business Intelligence
17 370 (8.85%) Cybersecurity
18 354 (8.47%) Data Governance
19 351 (8.40%) Data Modelling
20 331 (7.92%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 389 (9.31%) SQL
2 302 (7.22%) Python
3 129 (3.09%) Java
4 100 (2.39%) JavaScript
5 88 (2.11%) C#
5 88 (2.11%) PowerShell
6 52 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 50 (1.20%) Bash
8 46 (1.10%) TypeScript
9 27 (0.65%) Bicep
10 21 (0.50%) Scala
11 15 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
12 12 (0.29%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.24%) Korn
14 9 (0.22%) Groovy
14 9 (0.22%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.19%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.19%) VBA
16 5 (0.12%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,175 (28.11%) Security Cleared
2 905 (21.65%) SC Cleared
3 254 (6.08%) Degree
4 202 (4.83%) DV Cleared
5 160 (3.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 120 (2.87%) PMI Certification
7 113 (2.70%) PMP
8 112 (2.68%) CISSP
9 72 (1.72%) CISM
10 71 (1.70%) Azure Certification
11 69 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
12 57 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
13 45 (1.08%) AWS Certification
14 38 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 34 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
16 33 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
17 32 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 29 (0.69%) Master's Degree
19 27 (0.65%) ISTQB
20 26 (0.62%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 341 (8.16%) Data Quality
2 209 (5.00%) PMO
3 186 (4.45%) QA
4 177 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 174 (4.16%) GDPR
6 164 (3.92%) NIST
7 122 (2.92%) Accessibility
8 94 (2.25%) GRC
9 73 (1.75%) NCSC
10 36 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
10 36 (0.86%) WCAG
11 33 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
11 33 (0.79%) SLA
12 18 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 17 (0.41%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
16 13 (0.31%) JSP 440
17 12 (0.29%) ISO 20022
17 12 (0.29%) ITGC
System Software
1 126 (3.01%) Active Directory
2 101 (2.42%) Docker
3 52 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.45%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.38%) vSphere
6 15 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.048%) Firmware
9 2 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.024%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.024%) IAG
10 1 (0.024%) KVM
10 1 (0.024%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 158 (3.78%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.17%) Ansible
3 39 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (0.79%) Grafana
5 31 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (0.26%) SCCM
9 9 (0.22%) NetBackup
10 6 (0.14%) VxRail
11 5 (0.12%) SCOM
12 4 (0.096%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.096%) Istio
12 4 (0.096%) QRadar
12 4 (0.096%) vRealize
13 3 (0.072%) Argo
13 3 (0.072%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.072%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.072%) Puppet
14 2 (0.048%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 819 (19.59%) Microsoft
2 267 (6.39%) SAP
3 231 (5.53%) ServiceNow
4 192 (4.59%) Oracle
5 162 (3.88%) Databricks
6 110 (2.63%) Salesforce
7 90 (2.15%) Google
8 69 (1.65%) VMware
9 61 (1.46%) Cisco
10 52 (1.24%) Workday
11 51 (1.22%) Splunk
12 41 (0.98%) IBM
13 33 (0.79%) CyberArk
14 28 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 26 (0.62%) Ariba
16 25 (0.60%) Informatica
17 23 (0.55%) Dynatrace
17 23 (0.55%) Palo Alto
18 21 (0.50%) Okta
19 20 (0.48%) Adobe