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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 142 151
Rank change year-on-year +82 +9 +42
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 900 604 875
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.73% 1.65% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 1.91% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 435 638
10th Percentile £400 £363 £400
25th Percentile £455 £422 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £680 £650
90th Percentile £747 £775 £761
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 34 5
10th Percentile £26.20 £18.35 -
25th Percentile £32.05 £27.81 £20.25
Median hourly rate £49.50 £35.96 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year +37.65% +68.83% -27.50%
75th Percentile £72.50 £57.33 £56.50
90th Percentile £79.75 £75.00 -
UK median hourly rate £49.50 £35.96 £20.50
% change year-on-year +37.65% +75.41% -34.33%

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 22,009 31,610 44,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.21% 86.47% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,381 20,692 31,129
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £446
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 £764
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.62% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 927 2,241 1,561
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.87 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.17 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -20.55% -2.25% +49.36%
75th Percentile £62.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.17 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.84% +1.39% +40.19%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +64 479 £550 -4.35% 588
South East +88 110 £494 -5.95% 322
North of England +65 110 £502 -2.05% 200
Midlands +30 72 £501 -4.57% 148
South West +52 67 £550 - 122
North West +47 64 £502 -2.05% 127
West Midlands +12 46 £525 +1.20% 96
Yorkshire +29 38 £500 - 55
East of England +30 26 £500 +33.33% 96
East Midlands +21 24 £450 -14.29% 47
North East -1 8 £641 +8.69% 21
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 38 (4.22%) Confluence
2 22 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.33%) CMS
4 8 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.56%) Drupal
5 5 (0.56%) SAS
6 3 (0.33%) Apache
6 3 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.22%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 32 (3.56%) Microsoft Project
2 28 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (3.00%) MS Visio
4 24 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.67%) Trello
7 5 (0.56%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.33%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.22%) Sketch
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 36 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.56%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
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
6 2 (0.22%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.22%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.22%) OPENHousing
6 2 (0.22%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.22%) SAP GTS
6 2 (0.22%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.22%) SAP PLM
6 2 (0.22%) SAP PP
6 2 (0.22%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.22%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 124 (13.78%) Azure
2 75 (8.33%) AWS
3 62 (6.89%) Power Platform
4 23 (2.56%) SaaS
5 22 (2.44%) Entra ID
5 22 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (2.22%) GCP
7 19 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
8 16 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (1.33%) Lucidchart
10 10 (1.11%) GitHub
10 10 (1.11%) Serverless
10 10 (1.11%) Snowflake
11 9 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (1.00%) IaaS
12 8 (0.89%) dbt
12 8 (0.89%) Google Workspace
13 7 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (0.78%) Collibra
13 7 (0.78%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.56%) Firewall
2 11 (1.22%) 5G
3 9 (1.00%) VPN
4 7 (0.78%) WAN
5 6 (0.67%) Network Security
5 6 (0.67%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.56%) DNS
7 4 (0.44%) DHCP
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
8 3 (0.33%) Intranet
9 2 (0.22%) 3G
9 2 (0.22%) FTP
9 2 (0.22%) MPLS
9 2 (0.22%) OSPF
9 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.89%) Power BI
2 25 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (2.00%) Metadata
4 10 (1.11%) Data Lake
4 10 (1.11%) Delta Lake
4 10 (1.11%) SQL Server
4 10 (1.11%) Tableau
5 9 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (0.78%) Data Vault
6 7 (0.78%) Oracle Database
6 7 (0.78%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.44%) Airbyte
7 4 (0.44%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.44%) SAP Data Services
7 4 (0.44%) SAP HANA
8 3 (0.33%) Big Data
8 3 (0.33%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 74 (8.22%) JIRA
2 5 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.44%) Axure RP
3 4 (0.44%) Git
3 4 (0.44%) GitLab
3 4 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.33%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.22%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.22%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.22%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.22%) MLflow
5 2 (0.22%) ScriptRunner
5 2 (0.22%) Selenium
6 1 (0.11%) ERwin
6 1 (0.11%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.11%) JMeter
6 1 (0.11%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 395 (43.89%) Social Skills
2 258 (28.67%) Finance
3 166 (18.44%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (13.56%) Public Sector
5 54 (6.00%) Banking
6 43 (4.78%) Telecoms
7 41 (4.56%) Marketing
8 39 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
9 38 (4.22%) Legal
10 36 (4.00%) Retail
11 32 (3.56%) Local Government
12 29 (3.22%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (2.89%) Manufacturing
14 25 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (2.33%) Law
16 20 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 17 (1.89%) Financial Institution
17 17 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (1.44%) Billing
19 11 (1.22%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 178 (19.78%) Analyst
2 140 (15.56%) Project Manager
3 120 (13.33%) Business Analyst
4 107 (11.89%) Architect
5 101 (11.22%) Lead
6 94 (10.44%) Senior
7 58 (6.44%) Consultant
8 35 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
9 34 (3.78%) Senior Manager
10 32 (3.56%) Change Manager
11 30 (3.33%) IT Manager
12 27 (3.00%) Programme Manager
13 23 (2.56%) Senior Project Manager
14 22 (2.44%) Data Analyst
15 21 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
16 20 (2.22%) IT Project Manager
17 19 (2.11%) Delivery Manager
18 17 (1.89%) Product Manager
18 17 (1.89%) Senior Business Analyst
19 16 (1.78%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.44%) REST
2 12 (1.33%) Web Services
3 10 (1.11%) Middleware
4 7 (0.78%) .NET
4 7 (0.78%) JSON
4 7 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (0.78%) SailPoint
5 6 (0.67%) LDAP
5 6 (0.67%) OAuth
5 6 (0.67%) SAML
6 5 (0.56%) Kafka
7 4 (0.44%) CSS
7 4 (0.44%) HTML
7 4 (0.44%) PyTorch
7 4 (0.44%) React
7 4 (0.44%) SAP PI
7 4 (0.44%) TensorFlow
8 3 (0.33%) OpenID
9 2 (0.22%) RESTful
9 2 (0.22%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 36 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 34 (3.78%) Product Ownership
3 29 (3.22%) Management Information System
4 24 (2.67%) Data Centre
5 20 (2.22%) Cloud Native
5 20 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (1.78%) CMDB
8 15 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.44%) NHS
9 13 (1.44%) Security Posture
10 10 (1.11%) FMCG
10 10 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.00%) Operational Technology
11 9 (1.00%) PKI
11 9 (1.00%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.00%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.89%) e-Learning
12 8 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.78%) Windows
2 13 (1.44%) Linux
3 9 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.44%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.33%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.33%) Unix
5 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (28.44%) Agile
2 223 (24.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 206 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
4 181 (20.11%) Project Management
5 167 (18.56%) Risk Management
6 149 (16.56%) Change Management
7 147 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 134 (14.89%) Migration
9 105 (11.67%) Analytics
10 103 (11.44%) Project Delivery
11 96 (10.67%) Decision-Making
12 87 (9.67%) Roadmaps
13 77 (8.56%) Business Intelligence
14 75 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
15 73 (8.11%) Business Analysis
15 73 (8.11%) Requirements Gathering
16 66 (7.33%) Data Governance
16 66 (7.33%) ERP
17 65 (7.22%) Artificial Intelligence
18 64 (7.11%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 65 (7.22%) SQL
2 37 (4.11%) Python
3 9 (1.00%) Java
3 9 (1.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (1.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (0.56%) Groovy
5 4 (0.44%) R
5 4 (0.44%) SPARQL
5 4 (0.44%) T-SQL
5 4 (0.44%) TypeScript
6 3 (0.33%) Bash
6 3 (0.33%) Bicep
6 3 (0.33%) C#
6 3 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.22%) Go
7 2 (0.22%) PHP
7 2 (0.22%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.22%) PROC SQL
8 1 (0.11%) Perl
8 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 171 (19.00%) Security Cleared
2 134 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 94 (10.44%) Degree
4 48 (5.33%) PMI Certification
5 47 (5.22%) PMP
6 35 (3.89%) DV Cleared
7 21 (2.33%) CISSP
8 14 (1.56%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.33%) CISM
10 11 (1.22%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.22%) CBAP
10 11 (1.22%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.11%) CISA
12 9 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.67%) APMG
15 6 (0.67%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.22%) QA
2 41 (4.56%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.56%) GDPR
3 30 (3.33%) PMO
4 29 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (3.00%) NIST
6 21 (2.33%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.11%) GRC
8 9 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.67%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.56%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.56%) IFRS
12 5 (0.56%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.56%) PMBOK
13 4 (0.44%) NCSC
13 4 (0.44%) P3O
14 3 (0.33%) GxP
System Software
1 36 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.78%) Docker
2 7 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.22%) NFS
5 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (2.89%) Terraform
2 17 (1.89%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.22%) SCCM
4 10 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.89%) Amdocs OSS
6 4 (0.44%) Ansible
7 3 (0.33%) AirWatch
7 3 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.33%) OPNET
8 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.22%) Grafana
8 2 (0.22%) HP Data Protector
8 2 (0.22%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.22%) Puppet
8 2 (0.22%) SCOM
8 2 (0.22%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.11%) CASB
9 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 120 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 80 (8.89%) SAP
3 47 (5.22%) ServiceNow
4 38 (4.22%) Oracle
5 36 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 23 (2.56%) Google
7 22 (2.44%) Workday
8 20 (2.22%) Databricks
9 14 (1.56%) Cisco
10 11 (1.22%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.00%) Adobe
11 9 (1.00%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.89%) Informatica
13 7 (0.78%) Palo Alto
13 7 (0.78%) VMware
14 6 (0.67%) Amdocs
14 6 (0.67%) Ciena
14 6 (0.67%) CyberArk
14 6 (0.67%) Ericsson
14 6 (0.67%) Nokia