Stakeholder Engagement Contracts in England

Stakeholder Engagement
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Stakeholder Engagement over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 142 150
Rank change year-on-year +84 +8 +47
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 904 607 902
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.71% 1.64% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.07% 1.89% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 435 656
10th Percentile £400 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £415 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £678 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £771
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 34 6
10th Percentile £25.25 £18.35 £20.25
25th Percentile £31.79 £27.81 £20.51
Median hourly rate £48.50 £35.96 £30.03
Median % change year-on-year +34.87% +19.77% +22.35%
75th Percentile £71.88 £57.33 £52.22
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £56.50
UK median hourly rate £48.50 £35.96 £20.90
% change year-on-year +34.87% +72.06% -28.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,228 32,110 45,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.15% 86.56% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,553 21,055 31,791
10th Percentile £309 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 924 2,255 1,587
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.95 £10.94
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Stakeholder Engagement in England

Stakeholder Engagement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in England.

Daily rate trend for Stakeholder Engagement in England

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in England

Stakeholder Engagement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in England.

Hourly rate trend for Stakeholder Engagement in England

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in England

Stakeholder Engagement
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. 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
London +61 482 £550 -4.35% 448
South East +75 113 £500 -4.76% 213
North of England +60 113 £500 - 137
Midlands +31 70 £500 -4.76% 80
South West +46 68 £550 - 86
North West +44 64 £499 -2.73% 98
West Midlands +14 45 £525 +5.00% 59
Yorkshire +27 41 £500 - 37
East of England +37 23 £500 +33.33% 41
East Midlands +28 23 £425 -19.05% 18
North East -2 8 £641 +8.69% 4
Stakeholder Engagement
UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 35 (3.87%) Confluence
2 21 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.33%) CMS
4 6 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.55%) Drupal
5 5 (0.55%) SAS
6 3 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.22%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.11%) Apache
8 1 (0.11%) Appian
8 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 34 (3.76%) Microsoft Project
2 26 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.88%) MS Visio
3 24 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.77%) Trello
6 5 (0.55%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.33%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.33%) Sketch
7 3 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 35 (3.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.55%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.44%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 4 (0.44%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.33%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.33%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.33%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.22%) Maximo
6 2 (0.22%) OPENHousing
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.22%) SAP GTS
6 2 (0.22%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.22%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 119 (13.16%) Azure
2 72 (7.96%) AWS
3 61 (6.75%) Power Platform
4 24 (2.65%) SaaS
5 22 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (2.32%) Entra ID
7 20 (2.21%) GCP
8 19 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (1.22%) Lucidchart
11 9 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (1.00%) GitHub
11 9 (1.00%) Serverless
11 9 (1.00%) Snowflake
12 8 (0.88%) Figma
12 8 (0.88%) Google Workspace
12 8 (0.88%) IaaS
13 7 (0.77%) dbt
13 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (0.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.55%) Firewall
2 10 (1.11%) 5G
3 9 (1.00%) VPN
4 7 (0.77%) WAN
5 6 (0.66%) DNS
5 6 (0.66%) Network Security
5 6 (0.66%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.55%) DHCP
7 4 (0.44%) Intranet
7 4 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
7 4 (0.44%) SSL
7 4 (0.44%) VoIP
7 4 (0.44%) WebEx
8 3 (0.33%) 4G
8 3 (0.33%) Internet
9 2 (0.22%) 3G
9 2 (0.22%) BGP
9 2 (0.22%) MPLS
9 2 (0.22%) OSPF
9 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.75%) Power BI
2 24 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (1.77%) Metadata
4 10 (1.11%) Data Lake
4 10 (1.11%) Tableau
5 9 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (0.88%) SQL Server
7 7 (0.77%) Delta Lake
7 7 (0.77%) Oracle Database
7 7 (0.77%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.66%) Data Vault
9 4 (0.44%) Airbyte
9 4 (0.44%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.33%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.33%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 71 (7.85%) JIRA
2 6 (0.66%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.55%) Git
3 5 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (0.44%) Axure RP
4 4 (0.44%) GitLab
5 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.33%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.22%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.22%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.22%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.22%) JMeter
6 2 (0.22%) ScriptRunner
6 2 (0.22%) Selenium
6 2 (0.22%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.11%) ERwin
7 1 (0.11%) LSMW
7 1 (0.11%) Maven
General
1 395 (43.69%) Social Skills
2 260 (28.76%) Finance
3 172 (19.03%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (14.16%) Public Sector
5 54 (5.97%) Banking
6 40 (4.42%) Telecoms
7 39 (4.31%) Marketing
7 39 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
8 38 (4.20%) Legal
8 38 (4.20%) Local Government
9 35 (3.87%) Retail
10 29 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (2.65%) Manufacturing
12 23 (2.54%) Law
12 23 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 17 (1.88%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (1.33%) Billing
17 11 (1.22%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 174 (19.25%) Analyst
2 134 (14.82%) Project Manager
3 119 (13.16%) Business Analyst
4 101 (11.17%) Architect
5 100 (11.06%) Lead
6 98 (10.84%) Senior
7 61 (6.75%) Consultant
8 36 (3.98%) Senior Manager
9 35 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
10 33 (3.65%) Change Manager
11 29 (3.21%) IT Manager
12 27 (2.99%) Programme Manager
13 24 (2.65%) Senior Project Manager
14 21 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
15 20 (2.21%) Delivery Manager
15 20 (2.21%) IT Project Manager
16 19 (2.10%) Data Analyst
17 17 (1.88%) Product Manager
18 16 (1.77%) Business Manager
18 16 (1.77%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
2 12 (1.33%) REST
2 12 (1.33%) Web Services
3 11 (1.22%) Middleware
4 8 (0.88%) .NET
5 7 (0.77%) JSON
5 7 (0.77%) SailPoint
6 6 (0.66%) LDAP
6 6 (0.66%) OAuth
6 6 (0.66%) SAML
7 5 (0.55%) CSS
7 5 (0.55%) HTML
7 5 (0.55%) Kafka
7 5 (0.55%) PyTorch
7 5 (0.55%) TensorFlow
8 4 (0.44%) React
9 3 (0.33%) OpenID
9 3 (0.33%) SAP PI
10 2 (0.22%) RESTful
10 2 (0.22%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 37 (4.09%) Product Ownership
2 32 (3.54%) Onboarding
3 28 (3.10%) Management Information System
4 24 (2.65%) Data Centre
5 19 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (1.77%) CMDB
8 14 (1.55%) Cloud Native
9 13 (1.44%) NHS
9 13 (1.44%) Security Posture
10 10 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.00%) FMCG
11 9 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.00%) Operational Technology
11 9 (1.00%) PKI
11 9 (1.00%) Public Cloud
12 8 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
12 8 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.88%) Windows
2 13 (1.44%) Linux
3 10 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.55%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.44%) Unix
5 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.33%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.22%) AIX
7 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (28.65%) Agile
2 221 (24.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 216 (23.89%) Problem-Solving
4 179 (19.80%) Project Management
5 162 (17.92%) Risk Management
6 153 (16.92%) Change Management
7 151 (16.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 129 (14.27%) Migration
9 108 (11.95%) Analytics
10 101 (11.17%) Project Delivery
11 96 (10.62%) Decision-Making
12 91 (10.07%) Roadmaps
13 78 (8.63%) Requirements Gathering
14 77 (8.52%) Workshop Facilitation
15 75 (8.30%) Business Intelligence
16 69 (7.63%) Business Analysis
17 68 (7.52%) ERP
18 66 (7.30%) Artificial Intelligence
19 65 (7.19%) Data Governance
20 62 (6.86%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 68 (7.52%) SQL
2 36 (3.98%) Python
3 10 (1.11%) Java
4 9 (1.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (1.00%) PowerShell
5 6 (0.66%) R
6 5 (0.55%) Groovy
7 4 (0.44%) C#
7 4 (0.44%) SPARQL
7 4 (0.44%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.33%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.22%) Bash
9 2 (0.22%) Bicep
9 2 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.22%) Go
9 2 (0.22%) PHP
9 2 (0.22%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.22%) PROC SQL
10 1 (0.11%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 165 (18.25%) Security Cleared
2 129 (14.27%) SC Cleared
3 97 (10.73%) Degree
4 47 (5.20%) PMI Certification
5 46 (5.09%) PMP
6 32 (3.54%) DV Cleared
7 21 (2.32%) CISSP
8 14 (1.55%) Azure Certification
9 13 (1.44%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.33%) CISM
11 10 (1.11%) CBAP
11 10 (1.11%) CISA
11 10 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
12 9 (1.00%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.66%) RIBA
15 5 (0.55%) APMG
15 5 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (6.75%) QA
2 43 (4.76%) GDPR
3 40 (4.42%) Data Quality
4 30 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (3.32%) PMO
5 24 (2.65%) NIST
6 22 (2.43%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.11%) GRC
8 9 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.66%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.55%) IFRS
12 5 (0.55%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.44%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.44%) P3O
13 4 (0.44%) PMBOK
14 3 (0.33%) NCSC
14 3 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 37 (4.09%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.77%) Docker
3 5 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.22%) NFS
6 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (2.32%) Terraform
2 16 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (1.66%) Kubernetes
4 11 (1.22%) SCCM
5 10 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.77%) Amdocs OSS
7 5 (0.55%) Ansible
8 3 (0.33%) AirWatch
8 3 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.33%) OPNET
9 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.22%) HP Data Protector
9 2 (0.22%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.22%) Puppet
9 2 (0.22%) SCOM
9 2 (0.22%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.11%) Cisco UCCX
10 1 (0.11%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 119 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 77 (8.52%) SAP
3 46 (5.09%) Oracle
3 46 (5.09%) ServiceNow
4 37 (4.09%) Salesforce
5 23 (2.54%) Google
6 21 (2.32%) Workday
7 16 (1.77%) Databricks
8 15 (1.66%) Cisco
9 11 (1.22%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.00%) Adobe
11 8 (0.88%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.88%) Informatica
12 7 (0.77%) Palo Alto
13 6 (0.66%) CyberArk
13 6 (0.66%) Nokia
13 6 (0.66%) Planview
14 5 (0.55%) Ariba
14 5 (0.55%) Ericsson
14 5 (0.55%) VMware