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

 6 months to
1 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 30 143
Rank change year-on-year +6 +113 +18
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 4,129 1,944 671
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.70% 5.94% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.10% 6.56% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,789 1,307 449
10th Percentile £363 £357 £363
25th Percentile £450 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £508
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 33 16
10th Percentile £24.57 £25.36 £19.80
25th Percentile £48.50 £30.11 £26.44
Median hourly rate £67.89 £47.00 £58.17
Median % change year-on-year +44.45% -19.21% +2.98%
75th Percentile £87.12 £63.75 £71.54
90th Percentile £94.38 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £73.60 £45.12 £58.30
% change year-on-year +63.13% -22.61% +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 45,369 29,617 32,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.56% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,730 18,446 20,728
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 2,902 1,758 1,607
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.78 £17.30 £18.82
Median hourly rate £41.09 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.39% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.88 £47.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.49% -47.37% +14.67%

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 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 1 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 1 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 +3 3,495 £545 -0.91% 2,123
UK excluding London +7 1,934 £525 - 1,356
London +5 1,715 £550 - 1,059
Work from Home +11 1,397 £525 - 1,088
South East +11 514 £566 +2.95% 383
North of England +6 492 £500 -2.23% 295
Midlands +4 338 £510 -0.20% 178
West Midlands +5 260 £500 -2.15% 126
North West +4 241 £511 -2.61% 177
South West 0 224 £550 - 226
Scotland +29 213 £500 +11.11% 105
Yorkshire -1 193 £500 - 72
East of England +22 121 £533 -11.98% 104
East Midlands +21 73 £525 +23.53% 52
North East +3 66 £450 - 48
Wales +12 53 £525 +23.53% 22
Northern Ireland +6 11 £380 -26.75% 56
Channel Islands -2 2 £563 +21.62% 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
1 174 (4.21%) Confluence
2 161 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 35 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (0.85%) CMS
4 34 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 32 (0.78%) Apache
6 28 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 28 (0.68%) SAS
7 7 (0.17%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.15%) WordPress
9 5 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.097%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.073%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 (0.048%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 184 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 82 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
4 57 (1.38%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.15%) Navisworks
7 6 (0.15%) ProjectWise
7 6 (0.15%) Revit
7 6 (0.15%) Trello
8 4 (0.097%) Sketch
9 2 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.048%) InDesign
9 2 (0.048%) InVision
9 2 (0.048%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.024%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 136 (3.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 66 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.58%) Workday HCM
4 20 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 13 (0.31%) NetSuite
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.29%) SAP QM
8 11 (0.27%) Maximo
8 11 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (0.27%) Primavera
8 11 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 10 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 9 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 9 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
10 9 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
10 9 (0.22%) SAP CO
10 9 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
11 8 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 811 (19.64%) Azure
2 548 (13.27%) AWS
3 445 (10.78%) Power Platform
4 204 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
5 197 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
6 184 (4.46%) GCP
7 154 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
8 143 (3.46%) Entra ID
9 97 (2.35%) SaaS
10 93 (2.25%) Power Automate
11 88 (2.13%) GitHub
12 72 (1.74%) PowerApps
12 72 (1.74%) Serverless
13 69 (1.67%) Snowflake
14 68 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
15 62 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
16 60 (1.45%) Amazon S3
17 58 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
18 56 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
19 44 (1.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.65%) Firewall
2 66 (1.60%) Network Security
3 52 (1.26%) DNS
4 42 (1.02%) WAN
5 40 (0.97%) VPN
6 34 (0.82%) LAN
7 27 (0.65%) DHCP
8 24 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 20 (0.48%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.44%) Wireless
11 17 (0.41%) Internet
12 16 (0.39%) VLAN
13 15 (0.36%) 5G
14 14 (0.34%) BGP
14 14 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
15 13 (0.31%) Intranet
15 13 (0.31%) OSPF
16 12 (0.29%) SSL
16 12 (0.29%) VoIP
17 11 (0.27%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 355 (8.60%) Power BI
2 140 (3.39%) Metadata
3 95 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
4 90 (2.18%) Data Lake
5 70 (1.70%) SQL Server
6 44 (1.07%) Tableau
7 36 (0.87%) Relational Database
8 34 (0.82%) Power Query
9 30 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (0.58%) DynamoDB
11 22 (0.53%) Oracle Database
12 21 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 20 (0.48%) NoSQL
14 19 (0.46%) Big Data
14 19 (0.46%) BigQuery
14 19 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
15 17 (0.41%) Data Vault
16 16 (0.39%) Looker
16 16 (0.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 270 (6.54%) JIRA
2 93 (2.25%) Git
3 61 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.31%) GitLab
5 31 (0.75%) Selenium
6 30 (0.73%) Postman
7 19 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
8 18 (0.44%) WebDriver
9 17 (0.41%) Cucumber
10 15 (0.36%) Cypress.io
10 15 (0.36%) Hudson
11 12 (0.29%) JMeter
11 12 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (0.27%) ERwin
13 10 (0.24%) JUnit
14 8 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
14 8 (0.19%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.19%) Zephyr
15 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
16 6 (0.15%) MLflow
General
1 1,898 (45.97%) Social Skills
2 1,142 (27.66%) Finance
3 812 (19.67%) Public Sector
4 683 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
5 225 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
6 221 (5.35%) Banking
7 174 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
8 163 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
9 150 (3.63%) Legal
10 139 (3.37%) Retail
11 116 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 110 (2.66%) Local Government
13 90 (2.18%) Law
14 88 (2.13%) Manufacturing
15 87 (2.11%) Telecoms
16 86 (2.08%) Marketing
17 69 (1.67%) Aerospace
18 66 (1.60%) Military
19 65 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
20 38 (0.92%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 704 (17.05%) Analyst
2 630 (15.26%) Architect
3 511 (12.38%) Lead
4 420 (10.17%) Senior
5 407 (9.86%) Business Analyst
6 300 (7.27%) Consultant
7 297 (7.19%) Project Manager
8 212 (5.13%) Developer
9 180 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
10 121 (2.93%) Data Analyst
11 119 (2.88%) Data Architect
12 108 (2.62%) Change Manager
13 97 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
14 92 (2.23%) Delivery Manager
14 92 (2.23%) Senior Manager
15 88 (2.13%) Data Engineer
16 84 (2.03%) Technical Architect
17 83 (2.01%) Designer
18 75 (1.82%) Security Architect
19 74 (1.79%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (4.29%) Terraform
2 115 (2.79%) REST
3 65 (1.57%) .NET
4 58 (1.40%) JSON
5 53 (1.28%) Kafka
6 51 (1.24%) Middleware
7 49 (1.19%) PySpark
7 49 (1.19%) SOAP
8 45 (1.09%) React
8 45 (1.09%) Spring
9 43 (1.04%) XML
10 42 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
11 38 (0.92%) OAuth
11 38 (0.92%) Spring Boot
12 35 (0.85%) SAML
13 34 (0.82%) Web Services
14 31 (0.75%) OpenID
14 31 (0.75%) RESTful
15 30 (0.73%) LDAP
16 28 (0.68%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 294 (7.12%) Product Ownership
2 234 (5.67%) Onboarding
3 182 (4.41%) Cloud Native
4 143 (3.46%) Management Information System
5 102 (2.47%) Data Structures
6 96 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 87 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
8 76 (1.84%) NHS
9 71 (1.72%) AI Agents
9 71 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 65 (1.57%) Data Centre
11 62 (1.50%) Operational Technology
12 58 (1.40%) CMDB
13 56 (1.36%) Virtual Team
14 49 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
15 48 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
15 48 (1.16%) Security Posture
16 46 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
17 32 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
18 27 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 131 (3.17%) Windows
2 78 (1.89%) Linux
3 37 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.39%) Unix
5 13 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.29%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.19%) Android
7 8 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.17%) VMS
8 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.048%) AIX
10 2 (0.048%) HPUX
10 2 (0.048%) Solaris
11 1 (0.024%) CentOS
11 1 (0.024%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.024%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,257 (30.44%) Agile
2 1,013 (24.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 945 (22.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 636 (15.40%) Decision-Making
5 634 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
6 595 (14.41%) Migration
7 563 (13.64%) Roadmaps
8 536 (12.98%) Workshop Facilitation
9 529 (12.81%) DevOps
10 503 (12.18%) AI
11 483 (11.70%) Change Management
12 467 (11.31%) Analytics
13 443 (10.73%) CI/CD
14 409 (9.91%) Risk Management
15 403 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
15 403 (9.76%) Project Delivery
16 361 (8.74%) Cybersecurity
17 346 (8.38%) Data Modelling
18 337 (8.16%) Data Governance
19 329 (7.97%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 385 (9.32%) SQL
2 305 (7.39%) Python
3 129 (3.12%) Java
4 97 (2.35%) JavaScript
5 84 (2.03%) PowerShell
6 82 (1.99%) C#
7 54 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 48 (1.16%) Bash
9 44 (1.07%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.63%) Bicep
11 20 (0.48%) Scala
12 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 13 (0.31%) Apex Code
14 13 (0.31%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.24%) Korn
16 9 (0.22%) Groovy
16 9 (0.22%) VBA
17 7 (0.17%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,159 (28.07%) Security Cleared
2 878 (21.26%) SC Cleared
3 254 (6.15%) Degree
4 194 (4.70%) DV Cleared
5 153 (3.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 120 (2.91%) PMI Certification
7 113 (2.74%) PMP
8 111 (2.69%) CISSP
9 74 (1.79%) Azure Certification
10 72 (1.74%) CISM
11 69 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
12 58 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
13 48 (1.16%) AWS Certification
14 38 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 35 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
16 33 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 31 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
18 26 (0.63%) APMG
18 26 (0.63%) ISTQB
19 25 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 326 (7.90%) Data Quality
2 211 (5.11%) PMO
3 184 (4.46%) QA
4 175 (4.24%) GDPR
5 174 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 162 (3.92%) NIST
7 123 (2.98%) Accessibility
8 89 (2.16%) GRC
9 66 (1.60%) NCSC
10 38 (0.92%) SLA
11 35 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
11 35 (0.85%) WCAG
12 30 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
13 18 (0.44%) PCI DSS
14 17 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 15 (0.36%) SOC 2
16 14 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 13 (0.31%) NIST 800
18 12 (0.29%) JSP 440
19 11 (0.27%) ITGC
System Software
1 130 (3.15%) Active Directory
2 94 (2.28%) Docker
3 51 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 18 (0.44%) vSphere
6 16 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.048%) 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%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.024%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 153 (3.71%) Kubernetes
2 48 (1.16%) Ansible
3 41 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (0.85%) Grafana
5 33 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (0.29%) SCCM
9 9 (0.22%) NetBackup
10 5 (0.12%) SCOM
11 4 (0.097%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.097%) Istio
11 4 (0.097%) QRadar
11 4 (0.097%) vRealize
11 4 (0.097%) VxRail
12 3 (0.073%) Argo
12 3 (0.073%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.073%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.073%) Puppet
12 3 (0.073%) WSUS
Vendors
1 794 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 269 (6.51%) SAP
3 237 (5.74%) ServiceNow
4 188 (4.55%) Oracle
5 158 (3.83%) Databricks
6 110 (2.66%) Salesforce
7 87 (2.11%) Google
8 68 (1.65%) VMware
9 60 (1.45%) Cisco
10 52 (1.26%) Workday
11 50 (1.21%) IBM
12 47 (1.14%) Splunk
13 33 (0.80%) CyberArk
14 30 (0.73%) MuleSoft
15 26 (0.63%) Ariba
16 23 (0.56%) Palo Alto
17 22 (0.53%) Dynatrace
17 22 (0.53%) Informatica
18 20 (0.48%) Okta
19 19 (0.46%) Zscaler
2,449 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide