Stakeholder Engagement Contracts in the UK excluding London

Stakeholder Engagement
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 149 127
Rank change year-on-year +82 -22 +16
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 458 287 458
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.57% 1.40% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 1.66% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 183 344
10th Percentile £363 £358 £330
25th Percentile £425 £406 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +0.48% +4.50%
75th Percentile £615 £626 £632
90th Percentile £688 £711 £705
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 23 6
10th Percentile £27.05 £18.35 £19.00
25th Percentile £32.05 £29.11 £19.31
Median hourly rate £57.50 £56.49 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +175.56% -42.70%
75th Percentile £73.75 £63.94 £21.16
90th Percentile £76.09 £75.00 £38.90
UK median hourly rate £48.50 £35.96 £20.50
% change year-on-year +34.87% +75.41% -30.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,622 17,293 20,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.49% 84.44% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,242 10,313 14,446
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £658 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.19% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 840 2,056 1,280
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £10.99
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.78 £38.06 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.28% +8.74% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.26 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -21.64% +0.29% +41.73%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK excluding London

Stakeholder Engagement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK excluding London

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK excluding London

Stakeholder Engagement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK excluding London

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK excluding London

Stakeholder Engagement
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +79 113 £500 -4.76% 306
North of England +65 111 £504 -0.44% 160
Midlands +36 73 £501 -4.67% 113
South West +56 71 £550 - 99
North West +47 64 £502 -2.05% 111
Scotland +20 49 £531 +1.14% 54
West Midlands +20 47 £525 +1.20% 84
Yorkshire +33 39 £500 - 38
East of England +26 26 £500 +33.33% 70
East Midlands +24 24 £450 -14.29% 27
Wales +15 12 £343 +71.25% 17
North East -4 8 £641 +8.69% 14
Northern Ireland -6 3 £581 +60.34% 9
Channel Islands - 1 £463 -
Stakeholder Engagement
UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (3.06%) Confluence
2 10 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.66%) CMS
3 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.44%) SAS
4 2 (0.44%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.22%) TPMS
Applications
1 24 (5.24%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (2.62%) MS Visio
3 11 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (4.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.87%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (0.44%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.22%) Actimize
4 1 (0.22%) Avolution ABACUS
4 1 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.22%) Maximo
4 1 (0.22%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.22%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 58 (12.66%) Azure
2 29 (6.33%) Power Platform
3 23 (5.02%) AWS
4 14 (3.06%) Entra ID
5 7 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.09%) GCP
7 5 (1.09%) SaaS
7 5 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
8 4 (0.87%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (0.87%) dbt
8 4 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (0.87%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 4 (0.87%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.66%) AWS KMS
9 3 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (0.66%) OCI
9 3 (0.66%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (0.44%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (0.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.97%) 5G
2 6 (1.31%) Firewall
2 6 (1.31%) WAN
3 5 (1.09%) DHCP
3 5 (1.09%) DNS
3 5 (1.09%) VPN
4 4 (0.87%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (0.87%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.66%) SSL
5 3 (0.66%) VoIP
6 2 (0.44%) 2G
6 2 (0.44%) 3G
6 2 (0.44%) BGP
6 2 (0.44%) Intranet
6 2 (0.44%) MPLS
6 2 (0.44%) OSPF
6 2 (0.44%) SMTP
6 2 (0.44%) Telnet
6 2 (0.44%) VLAN
6 2 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.46%) Power BI
2 9 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.31%) Oracle Database
3 6 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.09%) Metadata
4 5 (1.09%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.09%) Tableau
5 4 (0.87%) Airbyte
5 4 (0.87%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.87%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.66%) Qlik Sense
6 3 (0.66%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.44%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.44%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.22%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.22%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 27 (5.90%) JIRA
2 4 (0.87%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.44%) Git
5 1 (0.22%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.22%) JMeter
5 1 (0.22%) Selenium
5 1 (0.22%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.22%) TestRail
5 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 217 (47.38%) Social Skills
2 130 (28.38%) Finance
3 77 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (10.92%) Public Sector
5 36 (7.86%) Organisational Skills
6 35 (7.64%) Telecoms
7 23 (5.02%) Banking
8 18 (3.93%) Manufacturing
9 16 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (3.28%) Legal
10 15 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (3.06%) Retail
12 13 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (2.62%) Law
14 11 (2.40%) Billing
15 9 (1.97%) Local Government
15 9 (1.97%) Marketing
15 9 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (1.09%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.87%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 87 (19.00%) Analyst
2 78 (17.03%) Project Manager
3 61 (13.32%) Architect
4 60 (13.10%) Business Analyst
5 51 (11.14%) Lead
6 46 (10.04%) Senior
7 28 (6.11%) Solutions Architect
8 23 (5.02%) Consultant
9 17 (3.71%) Programme Manager
10 15 (3.28%) Senior Manager
10 15 (3.28%) Technical Manager
11 14 (3.06%) Service Manager
12 13 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (2.84%) Technical Architect
13 12 (2.62%) Delivery Manager
13 12 (2.62%) Senior Business Analyst
14 11 (2.40%) Change Manager
14 11 (2.40%) Technical Project Manager
15 10 (2.18%) Data Analyst
15 10 (2.18%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.18%) Oracle Fusion
1 10 (2.18%) REST
1 10 (2.18%) Web Services
2 7 (1.53%) Middleware
3 5 (1.09%) JSON
4 4 (0.87%) LDAP
5 2 (0.44%) OAuth
5 2 (0.44%) RESTful
5 2 (0.44%) SAML
5 2 (0.44%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.22%) .NET
6 1 (0.22%) ADO
6 1 (0.22%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.22%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (0.22%) MDX
6 1 (0.22%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.22%) OpenID
6 1 (0.22%) pytest
6 1 (0.22%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.22%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 17 (3.71%) Data Centre
1 17 (3.71%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.49%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.28%) CMDB
3 15 (3.28%) Management Information System
3 15 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.18%) Cloud Native
5 9 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.75%) NHS
6 8 (1.75%) PMI
6 8 (1.75%) Security Posture
7 7 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (1.53%) Life Science
7 7 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
8 6 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.31%) e-Learning
8 6 (1.31%) Operational Technology
9 5 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.09%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.93%) Windows
2 8 (1.75%) Linux
3 7 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.87%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.66%) Unix
6 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.22%) AIX
7 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (27.51%) Agile
2 110 (24.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 107 (23.36%) Problem-Solving
4 92 (20.09%) Project Management
5 78 (17.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 78 (17.03%) Risk Management
6 76 (16.59%) Change Management
7 62 (13.54%) Migration
8 61 (13.32%) Decision-Making
9 57 (12.45%) Project Delivery
10 54 (11.79%) Roadmaps
11 44 (9.61%) PRINCE2
12 43 (9.39%) Analytics
13 42 (9.17%) Workshop Facilitation
14 41 (8.95%) Business Analysis
15 35 (7.64%) Business Intelligence
15 35 (7.64%) Cybersecurity
16 34 (7.42%) Service Management
16 34 (7.42%) Waterfall
17 33 (7.21%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 26 (5.68%) SQL
2 8 (1.75%) Python
3 4 (0.87%) SPARQL
4 3 (0.66%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.44%) C#
5 2 (0.44%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.22%) Bash
6 1 (0.22%) Bicep
6 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.22%) Java
6 1 (0.22%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 91 (19.87%) Security Cleared
2 59 (12.88%) SC Cleared
3 50 (10.92%) Degree
4 33 (7.21%) PMI Certification
5 29 (6.33%) DV Cleared
6 28 (6.11%) PMP
7 8 (1.75%) CISSP
8 7 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.31%) CISM
10 5 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.87%) CISA
11 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.87%) RIBA
12 3 (0.66%) APMG
12 3 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.66%) CRISC
12 3 (0.66%) IIBA
12 3 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.68%) QA
2 16 (3.49%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.49%) PMO
3 12 (2.62%) GDPR
3 12 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.40%) NIST
5 10 (2.18%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.31%) GRC
7 5 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.87%) P3O
8 4 (0.87%) PMBOK
9 3 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.66%) NCSC
9 3 (0.66%) SLA
10 2 (0.44%) IFRS
10 2 (0.44%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.44%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (4.80%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.44%) NFS
3 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.75%) Amdocs OSS
2 8 (1.75%) SCCM
3 5 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.87%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.87%) Terraform
5 3 (0.66%) AirWatch
5 3 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.66%) OPNET
6 2 (0.44%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.44%) HP Data Protector
6 2 (0.44%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.44%) SCOM
6 2 (0.44%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.22%) Ansible
7 1 (0.22%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 60 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.21%) SAP
2 33 (7.21%) ServiceNow
3 25 (5.46%) Oracle
4 17 (3.71%) Salesforce
5 11 (2.40%) Cisco
6 7 (1.53%) MuleSoft
6 7 (1.53%) Nokia
7 6 (1.31%) Amdocs
7 6 (1.31%) Ciena
7 6 (1.31%) Ericsson
7 6 (1.31%) NetCracker
8 5 (1.09%) Adobe
8 5 (1.09%) Google
8 5 (1.09%) VMware
8 5 (1.09%) Workday
9 4 (0.87%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.87%) CyberArk
9 4 (0.87%) Databricks
9 4 (0.87%) OpenAI