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

 6 months to
25 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 32 141
Rank change year-on-year +7 +109 +16
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,103 1,883 664
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.65% 5.75% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.04% 6.36% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,780 1,261 457
10th Percentile £363 £354 £363
25th Percentile £450 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.65% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 34 18
10th Percentile £25.50 £23.65 £18.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £29.12 £26.31
Median hourly rate £74.50 £44.91 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +65.90% -22.80% +2.98%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.38 £73.85
90th Percentile £89.75 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £32.74 £58.30
% change year-on-year +144.39% -43.85% +3.20%

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 45,365 29,616 33,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.57% 90.47% 85.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,789 18,444 20,998
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
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 2,884 1,758 1,700
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.87
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% -3.67%
75th Percentile £67.99 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £42.50
% change year-on-year +94.26% -46.75% +6.25%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +5 3,474 £540 -1.82% 969
UK excluding London +8 1,935 £525 - 747
London +5 1,691 £550 - 397
Work from Home +12 1,386 £525 - 497
South East +14 518 £550 - 248
North of England +12 494 £500 -2.25% 170
Midlands +8 335 £500 -2.91% 110
West Midlands +6 257 £498 -3.40% 81
North West +9 241 £500 -4.76% 98
South West +2 224 £550 - 134
Scotland +28 206 £500 +8.70% 29
Yorkshire 0 192 £500 +1.78% 51
East of England +21 120 £529 -14.02% 53
East Midlands +19 73 £525 +20.00% 29
North East +7 69 £453 +2.03% 23
Wales +12 54 £500 +17.65% 16
Northern Ireland +6 13 £430 -17.16% 7
Channel Islands 0 2 £563 +21.62%

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 (4.24%) Confluence
2 155 (3.78%) SharePoint
3 36 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 32 (0.78%) CMS
6 31 (0.76%) Apache
7 28 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 27 (0.66%) SAS
9 6 (0.15%) WordPress
10 4 (0.097%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.097%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.097%) OpenEdge
10 4 (0.097%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.073%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.073%) Drupal
11 3 (0.073%) IIS
11 3 (0.073%) Kentico
11 3 (0.073%) SharePoint 2013
11 3 (0.073%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.049%) GeoServer
Applications
1 181 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 85 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 79 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 60 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
5 53 (1.29%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.15%) Navisworks
8 6 (0.15%) ProjectWise
8 6 (0.15%) Revit
8 6 (0.15%) Trello
9 4 (0.097%) Sketch
10 2 (0.049%) InDesign
10 2 (0.049%) InVision
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.024%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 140 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 63 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.58%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.34%) Primavera
5 14 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 12 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 12 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 12 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
6 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
7 11 (0.27%) Maximo
7 11 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
7 11 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
7 11 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 9 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
8 9 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 9 (0.22%) SAP CO
8 9 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 8 (0.19%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 822 (20.03%) Azure
2 555 (13.53%) AWS
3 444 (10.82%) Power Platform
4 211 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
5 197 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
6 192 (4.68%) GCP
7 154 (3.75%) Dynamics 365
8 144 (3.51%) Entra ID
9 94 (2.29%) SaaS
10 91 (2.22%) Power Automate
11 90 (2.19%) GitHub
12 72 (1.75%) Serverless
13 71 (1.73%) PowerApps
14 68 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
15 67 (1.63%) Snowflake
16 60 (1.46%) Microsoft Purview
17 59 (1.44%) Amazon S3
18 57 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
18 57 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
19 44 (1.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 67 (1.63%) Firewall
2 63 (1.54%) Network Security
3 54 (1.32%) DNS
4 41 (1.00%) VPN
5 40 (0.97%) WAN
6 34 (0.83%) LAN
7 27 (0.66%) DHCP
8 24 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 19 (0.46%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.44%) Wireless
11 17 (0.41%) Internet
12 15 (0.37%) VLAN
13 14 (0.34%) 5G
13 14 (0.34%) BGP
14 12 (0.29%) Intranet
14 12 (0.29%) OSPF
14 12 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (0.27%) Kerberos
15 11 (0.27%) SSL
16 10 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 356 (8.68%) Power BI
2 123 (3.00%) Metadata
3 93 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 90 (2.19%) Data Lake
5 70 (1.71%) SQL Server
6 47 (1.15%) Tableau
7 34 (0.83%) Relational Database
8 32 (0.78%) Power Query
9 30 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (0.58%) DynamoDB
11 22 (0.54%) Oracle Database
12 21 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (0.46%) Big Data
13 19 (0.46%) BigQuery
13 19 (0.46%) NoSQL
13 19 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
14 16 (0.39%) Data Vault
15 15 (0.37%) MongoDB
15 15 (0.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 275 (6.70%) JIRA
2 94 (2.29%) Git
3 64 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 53 (1.29%) GitLab
5 33 (0.80%) Selenium
6 31 (0.76%) Postman
7 29 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
8 19 (0.46%) WebDriver
9 18 (0.44%) Cucumber
10 17 (0.41%) Hudson
11 15 (0.37%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.37%) JMeter
12 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (0.27%) ERwin
13 11 (0.27%) JUnit
14 9 (0.22%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.22%) Zephyr
15 8 (0.19%) Bitbucket
16 6 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
16 6 (0.15%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1,873 (45.65%) Social Skills
2 1,140 (27.78%) Finance
3 789 (19.23%) Public Sector
4 661 (16.11%) Analytical Skills
5 216 (5.26%) Banking
6 215 (5.24%) Influencing Skills
7 170 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
8 157 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
9 149 (3.63%) Legal
10 140 (3.41%) Retail
11 113 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 104 (2.53%) Local Government
13 93 (2.27%) Law
14 91 (2.22%) Manufacturing
15 87 (2.12%) Marketing
16 82 (2.00%) Telecoms
17 77 (1.88%) Aerospace
18 62 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
19 60 (1.46%) Military
20 39 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 698 (17.01%) Analyst
2 623 (15.18%) Architect
3 517 (12.60%) Lead
4 415 (10.11%) Senior
5 410 (9.99%) Business Analyst
6 303 (7.38%) Consultant
7 299 (7.29%) Project Manager
8 206 (5.02%) Developer
9 176 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
10 123 (3.00%) Data Analyst
11 112 (2.73%) Data Architect
12 103 (2.51%) Change Manager
13 97 (2.36%) Delivery Manager
14 92 (2.24%) Senior Manager
15 91 (2.22%) Senior Analyst
16 85 (2.07%) Data Engineer
17 81 (1.97%) Technical Architect
18 79 (1.93%) Designer
19 75 (1.83%) IT Manager
20 74 (1.80%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (4.29%) Terraform
2 109 (2.66%) REST
3 65 (1.58%) .NET
4 58 (1.41%) JSON
5 53 (1.29%) Kafka
6 52 (1.27%) Middleware
7 47 (1.15%) PySpark
7 47 (1.15%) React
8 46 (1.12%) Spring
9 43 (1.05%) SOAP
10 42 (1.02%) XML
11 40 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
12 39 (0.95%) Spring Boot
13 36 (0.88%) OAuth
14 34 (0.83%) SAML
15 33 (0.80%) Web Services
16 30 (0.73%) RESTful
17 29 (0.71%) LDAP
17 29 (0.71%) OpenID
18 28 (0.68%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 305 (7.43%) Product Ownership
2 230 (5.61%) Onboarding
3 184 (4.48%) Cloud Native
4 138 (3.36%) Management Information System
5 109 (2.66%) Data Structures
6 95 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
7 84 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
8 79 (1.93%) NHS
9 71 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
10 68 (1.66%) AI Agents
11 66 (1.61%) Data Centre
12 62 (1.51%) Operational Technology
13 58 (1.41%) CMDB
14 53 (1.29%) Virtual Team
15 50 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
16 46 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
16 46 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
17 43 (1.05%) Security Posture
18 34 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
19 28 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 131 (3.19%) Windows
2 78 (1.90%) Linux
3 35 (0.85%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.37%) Unix
5 13 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.17%) Android
7 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.17%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.17%) VMS
8 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.049%) AIX
10 2 (0.049%) HPUX
10 2 (0.049%) Solaris
11 1 (0.024%) CentOS
11 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,253 (30.54%) Agile
2 975 (23.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 941 (22.93%) Continuous Improvement
4 612 (14.92%) Decision-Making
5 611 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
6 597 (14.55%) Migration
7 548 (13.36%) Roadmaps
8 537 (13.09%) DevOps
9 517 (12.60%) Workshop Facilitation
10 498 (12.14%) AI
11 476 (11.60%) Change Management
12 468 (11.41%) Analytics
13 449 (10.94%) CI/CD
14 407 (9.92%) Business Intelligence
15 406 (9.90%) Risk Management
16 404 (9.85%) Project Delivery
17 360 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
18 340 (8.29%) Data Modelling
19 330 (8.04%) User Acceptance Testing
20 325 (7.92%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 383 (9.33%) SQL
2 304 (7.41%) Python
3 133 (3.24%) Java
4 92 (2.24%) JavaScript
5 82 (2.00%) C#
6 81 (1.97%) PowerShell
7 54 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 46 (1.12%) Bash
8 46 (1.12%) TypeScript
9 26 (0.63%) Bicep
10 20 (0.49%) Scala
11 15 (0.37%) Kotlin
11 15 (0.37%) T-SQL
12 14 (0.34%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.32%) Apex Code
14 11 (0.27%) VBA
15 10 (0.24%) Korn
16 9 (0.22%) Groovy
17 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.15%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,137 (27.71%) Security Cleared
2 848 (20.67%) SC Cleared
3 264 (6.43%) Degree
4 191 (4.66%) DV Cleared
5 146 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 120 (2.92%) PMI Certification
7 112 (2.73%) PMP
8 107 (2.61%) CISSP
9 75 (1.83%) Azure Certification
10 70 (1.71%) CISM
11 67 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
12 58 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
13 48 (1.17%) AWS Certification
14 36 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
14 36 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 32 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
16 30 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 27 (0.66%) APMG
17 27 (0.66%) ISTQB
18 25 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 325 (7.92%) Data Quality
2 209 (5.09%) PMO
3 184 (4.48%) QA
4 174 (4.24%) GDPR
5 171 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 160 (3.90%) NIST
7 120 (2.92%) Accessibility
8 88 (2.14%) GRC
9 66 (1.61%) NCSC
10 43 (1.05%) SLA
11 35 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
12 32 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
12 32 (0.78%) WCAG
13 19 (0.46%) PCI DSS
14 17 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 16 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 16 (0.39%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.29%) JSP 440
16 12 (0.29%) NIST 800
17 11 (0.27%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 132 (3.22%) Active Directory
2 93 (2.27%) Docker
3 52 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 19 (0.46%) vSphere
6 17 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.049%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.024%) Firmware
11 1 (0.024%) FreeRADIUS
11 1 (0.024%) IAG
11 1 (0.024%) KVM
11 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 155 (3.78%) Kubernetes
2 49 (1.19%) Ansible
3 40 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.83%) Grafana
5 32 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 32 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 14 (0.34%) SCCM
8 10 (0.24%) NetBackup
9 7 (0.17%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
10 5 (0.12%) vRealize
11 4 (0.097%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.097%) Istio
11 4 (0.097%) QRadar
11 4 (0.097%) VxRail
12 3 (0.073%) Argo
12 3 (0.073%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.073%) Puppet
12 3 (0.073%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 783 (19.08%) Microsoft
2 275 (6.70%) SAP
3 234 (5.70%) ServiceNow
4 186 (4.53%) Oracle
5 154 (3.75%) Databricks
6 110 (2.68%) Salesforce
7 88 (2.14%) Google
8 68 (1.66%) VMware
9 60 (1.46%) Cisco
9 60 (1.46%) IBM
10 51 (1.24%) Workday
11 44 (1.07%) Splunk
12 33 (0.80%) CyberArk
13 30 (0.73%) MuleSoft
14 26 (0.63%) Ariba
15 25 (0.61%) Zscaler
16 23 (0.56%) Palo Alto
17 21 (0.51%) Dynatrace
17 21 (0.51%) Okta
18 20 (0.49%) Informatica
1,086 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide