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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 139 136
Rank change year-on-year +96 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 718 293 399
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.69% 1.60% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.25% 1.92% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 187 295
10th Percentile £350 £320 £363
25th Percentile £413 £403 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% -0.48% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 17
10th Percentile £22.83 £18.35 £20.35
25th Percentile £26.21 £32.13 £29.00
Median hourly rate £45.87 £58.05 £53.67
Median % change year-on-year -20.98% +8.16% +85.05%
75th Percentile £73.75 £72.70 £56.49
90th Percentile £80.38 £75.00 £57.33
UK median hourly rate £41.16 £57.74 £53.67
% change year-on-year -28.72% +7.60% +71.92%

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 13,664 15,267 19,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.31% 83.13% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,216 9,199 13,235
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £365 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,319 1,592 1,214
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.71
Median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.82% +2.35% +84.42%
75th Percentile £46.30 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.03 £75.00 £76.07
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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
North of England +75 193 £511 +2.13% 199
South East +56 168 £550 -4.35% 308
Midlands +42 130 £501 -3.05% 126
West Midlands +34 101 £501 -4.11% 94
North West +57 97 £513 +6.16% 123
South West +70 95 £550 +2.33% 108
Yorkshire +50 92 £479 -7.71% 65
Scotland +32 78 £500 -8.26% 74
East of England +28 38 £501 +33.47% 61
East Midlands +13 27 £475 -3.80% 28
Wales +19 12 £380 -6.46% 17
Northern Ireland -9 7 £525 +100.96% 21
North East -3 4 £485 -17.80% 14
Channel Islands - 2 £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 38 (5.29%) Confluence
2 18 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.97%) CMS
4 5 (0.70%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.28%) SAS
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.14%) CICS
6 1 (0.14%) TPMS
6 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 40 (5.57%) Microsoft Project
2 34 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (3.06%) MS Visio
4 16 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (3.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.84%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 5 (0.70%) Maximo
5 4 (0.56%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.28%) Primavera
7 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.14%) Actimize
8 1 (0.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 1 (0.14%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.14%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 86 (11.98%) Azure
2 43 (5.99%) AWS
2 43 (5.99%) Power Platform
3 19 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (1.95%) SaaS
6 13 (1.81%) GCP
7 11 (1.53%) SuccessFactors
8 10 (1.39%) Entra ID
9 9 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (1.11%) Smartsheet
11 7 (0.97%) Serverless
12 5 (0.70%) Amazon S3
12 5 (0.70%) GitHub
12 5 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (0.70%) Lucidchart
12 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (0.70%) OCI
13 4 (0.56%) Power Automate
13 4 (0.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.53%) Firewall
2 9 (1.25%) 5G
3 5 (0.70%) WAN
4 4 (0.56%) Internet
4 4 (0.56%) Network Security
4 4 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (0.56%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.56%) VoIP
5 3 (0.42%) DNS
5 3 (0.42%) SSL
5 3 (0.42%) VPN
6 2 (0.28%) 2G
6 2 (0.28%) 3G
6 2 (0.28%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (0.28%) DHCP
6 2 (0.28%) FTP
6 2 (0.28%) LAN
6 2 (0.28%) MPLS
6 2 (0.28%) SMTP
6 2 (0.28%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (4.87%) Power BI
2 17 (2.37%) Metadata
3 9 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (0.84%) Tableau
5 5 (0.70%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.56%) Big Data
6 4 (0.56%) Power Query
7 3 (0.42%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.42%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.42%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.28%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.28%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.28%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.28%) Looker
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.28%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 65 (9.05%) JIRA
2 3 (0.42%) Git
2 3 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (0.42%) Selenium
3 2 (0.28%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.28%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.14%) AdminStudio
4 1 (0.14%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.14%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.14%) CMake
4 1 (0.14%) git-flow
4 1 (0.14%) GoogleTest
4 1 (0.14%) Gradle
4 1 (0.14%) HP UFT
4 1 (0.14%) Hudson
4 1 (0.14%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.14%) Xcode
4 1 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 363 (50.56%) Social Skills
2 206 (28.69%) Finance
3 100 (13.93%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (11.84%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.80%) Banking
6 43 (5.99%) Telecoms
7 42 (5.85%) Organisational Skills
8 37 (5.15%) Manufacturing
9 32 (4.46%) Legal
10 23 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (2.37%) Retail
14 15 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (2.09%) Marketing
15 13 (1.81%) Billing
16 11 (1.53%) Law
16 11 (1.53%) Local Government
17 9 (1.25%) Financial Institution
17 9 (1.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 133 (18.52%) Analyst
2 129 (17.97%) Project Manager
3 89 (12.40%) Architect
4 87 (12.12%) Business Analyst
5 65 (9.05%) Lead
6 57 (7.94%) Senior
7 40 (5.57%) Consultant
7 40 (5.57%) Solutions Architect
8 29 (4.04%) Programme Manager
9 23 (3.20%) Data Analyst
10 22 (3.06%) Technical Manager
11 20 (2.79%) IT Manager
12 19 (2.65%) Senior Analyst
13 17 (2.37%) Developer
13 17 (2.37%) Technical Project Manager
14 15 (2.09%) Delivery Manager
15 14 (1.95%) Senior Business Analyst
16 13 (1.81%) IT Project Manager
16 13 (1.81%) Security Manager
16 13 (1.81%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.25%) Web Services
2 7 (0.97%) .NET
2 7 (0.97%) REST
3 6 (0.84%) Middleware
4 5 (0.70%) JSON
4 5 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.56%) Kafka
5 4 (0.56%) React
6 3 (0.42%) RESTful
6 3 (0.42%) RFC 2544
7 2 (0.28%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.28%) Playwright
8 1 (0.14%) Azure Blueprints
8 1 (0.14%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.14%) FHIR
8 1 (0.14%) Hugging Face
8 1 (0.14%) React Native
8 1 (0.14%) SAP Basis
8 1 (0.14%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.14%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
1 33 (4.60%) Management Information System
2 29 (4.04%) Product Ownership
3 28 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (3.62%) Onboarding
5 25 (3.48%) Data Centre
6 18 (2.51%) CMDB
7 17 (2.37%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
8 14 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.81%) Life Science
10 12 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.53%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.53%) PMI
11 11 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
12 10 (1.39%) NHS
13 8 (1.11%) Security Posture
14 7 (0.97%) Fibre Optics
14 7 (0.97%) Operational Technology
14 7 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.92%) Windows
2 6 (0.84%) Windows 10
3 5 (0.70%) Linux
4 4 (0.56%) Unix
4 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.42%) Android
6 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.14%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (31.48%) Agile
2 158 (22.01%) Stakeholder Management
3 120 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
4 119 (16.57%) Project Management
5 118 (16.43%) Risk Management
6 110 (15.32%) Change Management
7 108 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 93 (12.95%) Migration
8 93 (12.95%) Project Delivery
9 86 (11.98%) Decision-Making
10 76 (10.58%) Roadmaps
11 74 (10.31%) PRINCE2
12 60 (8.36%) Business Analysis
13 59 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
14 58 (8.08%) Analytics
15 54 (7.52%) Business Intelligence
16 52 (7.24%) Scrum
17 49 (6.82%) Waterfall
18 48 (6.69%) Data Governance
19 47 (6.55%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 36 (5.01%) SQL
2 27 (3.76%) Python
3 7 (0.97%) C#
4 5 (0.70%) PowerShell
5 4 (0.56%) R
5 4 (0.56%) TypeScript
6 3 (0.42%) Bash
6 3 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.42%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.28%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.28%) Bicep
7 2 (0.28%) Java
7 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.14%) C++
8 1 (0.14%) COBOL
8 1 (0.14%) JCL
8 1 (0.14%) JSX
8 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 126 (17.55%) Security Cleared
2 80 (11.14%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.22%) Degree
4 41 (5.71%) DV Cleared
4 41 (5.71%) PMI Certification
5 37 (5.15%) PMP
6 14 (1.95%) CISSP
7 13 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.39%) CISM
9 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.84%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.84%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.56%) CBAP
11 4 (0.56%) CISA
11 4 (0.56%) HND
11 4 (0.56%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.56%) RIBA
12 3 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.74%) QA
2 33 (4.60%) GDPR
3 30 (4.18%) PMO
4 28 (3.90%) Data Quality
4 28 (3.90%) NIST
5 27 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (2.51%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.39%) NCSC
8 9 (1.25%) GRC
9 7 (0.97%) JSP 440
9 7 (0.97%) P3O
10 6 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.84%) PMBOK
10 6 (0.84%) SLA
11 5 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.70%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.56%) COBIT
12 4 (0.56%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 17 (2.37%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.56%) Docker
4 3 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.28%) Firmware
5 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.28%) NFS
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.14%) vSphere
6 1 (0.14%) XenApp
6 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 9 (1.25%) SCCM
2 8 (1.11%) Amdocs OSS
2 8 (1.11%) Terraform
3 7 (0.97%) Ansible
4 6 (0.84%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.42%) AirWatch
5 3 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.42%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.42%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.28%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.28%) HP Data Protector
6 2 (0.28%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.28%) SCOM
7 1 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.14%) Grafana
7 1 (0.14%) OPNET
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.14%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 98 (13.65%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.80%) ServiceNow
3 52 (7.24%) SAP
4 25 (3.48%) Salesforce
5 20 (2.79%) Oracle
6 12 (1.67%) Cisco
7 8 (1.11%) VMware
8 7 (0.97%) Google
8 7 (0.97%) IBM
8 7 (0.97%) Nokia
8 7 (0.97%) Workday
9 6 (0.84%) Amdocs
9 6 (0.84%) Ciena
9 6 (0.84%) Ericsson
9 6 (0.84%) HP
9 6 (0.84%) NetCracker
9 6 (0.84%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.70%) Citrix
10 5 (0.70%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.70%) Remedy