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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 121 167
Rank change year-on-year +98 +46 +8
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,642 730 733
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.48% 2.00% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.33% 2.31% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,812 437 516
10th Percentile £360 £375 £371
25th Percentile £437 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £660 £663
90th Percentile £730 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 11 35
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £29.40
25th Percentile £20.25 £26.38 £51.83
Median hourly rate £41.86 £50.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -16.29% -11.49% +82.23%
75th Percentile £64.75 £60.28 £64.63
90th Percentile £76.00 £61.06 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £58.05 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.89% +2.75% +131.33%

All Process and 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 31,719 31,545 41,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.82% 86.25% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,853 18,987 28,148
10th Percentile £295 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,095 1,115 1,613
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -19.22% +23.80%
75th Percentile £44.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £33.93 £43.83
% change year-on-year -33.30% -22.58% +48.56%

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 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
England +99 2,292 £525 -4.55% 1,372
UK excluding London +87 1,210 £509 -3.05% 835
London +105 1,119 £550 -4.35% 628
Work from Home +109 789 £536 -2.55% 676
South East +54 314 £525 -4.55% 295
North of England +68 311 £513 +2.50% 178
Midlands +43 208 £507 +1.30% 152
South West +71 167 £525 -4.55% 99
West Midlands +36 159 £513 -1.44% 104
North West +40 144 £525 +5.00% 89
Yorkshire +40 137 £523 +4.50% 63
Scotland +45 103 £450 -15.89% 49
East of England +39 79 £529 +32.19% 53
East Midlands +22 48 £424 -8.38% 47
North East +19 31 £450 -21.74% 26
Wales +23 20 £425 -34.62% 16
Northern Ireland +5 14 £513 +220.31% 1
Channel Islands - 2 - -

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
1 136 (5.15%) Confluence
2 122 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 25 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.64%) CMS
5 14 (0.53%) SAS
6 12 (0.45%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.42%) ArcGIS
8 9 (0.34%) Apache
9 7 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (0.23%) Appian
11 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.15%) MQSeries
12 3 (0.11%) Smallworld
12 3 (0.11%) WordPress
13 2 (0.076%) CICS
13 2 (0.076%) Drupal
13 2 (0.076%) nginx
13 2 (0.076%) Oracle Coherence
13 2 (0.076%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.038%) Moodle
Applications
1 157 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (3.48%) Microsoft Project
3 62 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 60 (2.27%) MS Visio
5 58 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.38%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.30%) ProjectWise
7 8 (0.30%) Trello
8 6 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.11%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.11%) Revit
10 2 (0.076%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.038%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.038%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.038%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.038%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 111 (4.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (1.21%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
5 17 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
5 17 (0.64%) SAP FI
6 14 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
7 13 (0.49%) Oracle EBS R12
7 13 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
7 13 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 12 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
8 12 (0.45%) Workday HCM
9 11 (0.42%) Maximo
9 11 (0.42%) SAP CO
9 11 (0.42%) SAP MM
9 11 (0.42%) SAP PP
10 10 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.38%) SAP GTS
11 9 (0.34%) SAP ERP
11 9 (0.34%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 425 (16.09%) Azure
2 248 (9.39%) AWS
3 199 (7.53%) Power Platform
4 122 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
5 107 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (3.56%) GCP
7 84 (3.18%) SaaS
8 77 (2.91%) Entra ID
9 62 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
10 49 (1.85%) OCI
11 43 (1.63%) GitHub
11 43 (1.63%) Serverless
12 34 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
13 33 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
14 31 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
14 31 (1.17%) PaaS
15 30 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
16 28 (1.06%) Miro
16 28 (1.06%) Power Automate
17 27 (1.02%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.27%) Firewall
2 36 (1.36%) Network Security
3 23 (0.87%) WAN
4 19 (0.72%) SD-WAN
4 19 (0.72%) VPN
5 17 (0.64%) LAN
6 16 (0.61%) DNS
7 12 (0.45%) BGP
8 10 (0.38%) MPLS
9 9 (0.34%) SSL
10 8 (0.30%) DHCP
11 6 (0.23%) Software-Defined Networking
11 6 (0.23%) VLAN
11 6 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.19%) Internet
12 5 (0.19%) OSPF
12 5 (0.19%) SMS
12 5 (0.19%) Unified Communications
13 4 (0.15%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.15%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (5.83%) Power BI
2 78 (2.95%) Metadata
3 49 (1.85%) Tableau
4 47 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (1.44%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.95%) Data Lake
7 21 (0.79%) Electronic Patient Records
8 18 (0.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 18 (0.68%) Power Query
9 14 (0.53%) Relational Database
10 13 (0.49%) Big Data
10 13 (0.49%) Data Vault
11 12 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
12 11 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (0.38%) Hadoop
13 10 (0.38%) Oracle Database
13 10 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 245 (9.27%) JIRA
2 34 (1.29%) Git
3 25 (0.95%) GitLab
4 20 (0.76%) Jenkins
5 18 (0.68%) Selenium
6 8 (0.30%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.26%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.26%) Robot Framework
8 6 (0.23%) JUnit
9 5 (0.19%) ERwin
9 5 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
10 4 (0.15%) Hudson
10 4 (0.15%) Mockito
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.11%) Postman
11 3 (0.11%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.11%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 2 (0.076%) ER Studio
12 2 (0.076%) Zephyr
General
1 1,347 (50.98%) Social Skills
2 767 (29.03%) Finance
3 458 (17.34%) Public Sector
4 406 (15.37%) Analytical Skills
5 188 (7.12%) Banking
6 131 (4.96%) Legal
7 105 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
8 97 (3.67%) Manufacturing
9 96 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
10 82 (3.10%) Telecoms
11 78 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
12 77 (2.91%) Marketing
13 66 (2.50%) Retail
14 64 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
15 57 (2.16%) Local Government
16 44 (1.67%) Financial Institution
17 42 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 38 (1.44%) Law
19 37 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
20 35 (1.32%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 495 (18.74%) Analyst
2 360 (13.63%) Business Analyst
3 336 (12.72%) Architect
4 287 (10.86%) Consultant
5 274 (10.37%) Project Manager
6 265 (10.03%) Lead
7 229 (8.67%) Senior
8 140 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
9 96 (3.63%) Developer
10 73 (2.76%) Programme Manager
11 61 (2.31%) Data Analyst
11 61 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
12 59 (2.23%) Change Manager
13 52 (1.97%) Senior Business Analyst
14 50 (1.89%) SAP Consultant
15 47 (1.78%) Technical Manager
16 46 (1.74%) IT Manager
17 45 (1.70%) Senior Manager
18 43 (1.63%) Designer
19 39 (1.48%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (2.46%) REST
2 40 (1.51%) .NET
3 31 (1.17%) SOAP
4 29 (1.10%) OAuth
5 27 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
6 24 (0.91%) Middleware
6 24 (0.91%) SAML
6 24 (0.91%) SAP Fiori
7 23 (0.87%) XML
8 22 (0.83%) HTML
9 21 (0.79%) JSON
10 20 (0.76%) AngularJS
10 20 (0.76%) Kafka
10 20 (0.76%) RESTful
10 20 (0.76%) Web Services
11 18 (0.68%) OpenID
12 17 (0.64%) Node.js
13 15 (0.57%) OAuth2
13 15 (0.57%) Spring
13 15 (0.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 151 (5.72%) Product Ownership
2 130 (4.92%) Onboarding
3 117 (4.43%) Legacy Systems
4 78 (2.95%) Management Information System
5 75 (2.84%) Cloud Native
6 59 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 55 (2.08%) Data Centre
8 53 (2.01%) NHS
9 47 (1.78%) Data Structures
10 39 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
10 39 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 33 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
12 32 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
13 29 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
14 28 (1.06%) PMI
15 26 (0.98%) CMDB
16 24 (0.91%) Operational Technology
17 23 (0.87%) Life Science
17 23 (0.87%) Virtual Team
18 22 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 71 (2.69%) Windows
2 26 (0.98%) Linux
3 19 (0.72%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.68%) Windows 10
5 11 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.23%) Android
8 5 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.19%) Unix
9 4 (0.15%) VMS
10 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.076%) CentOS
11 2 (0.076%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.076%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.038%) AIX
12 1 (0.038%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.038%) Solaris
12 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.038%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 744 (28.16%) Agile
2 497 (18.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 396 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
4 388 (14.69%) Migration
5 357 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 333 (12.60%) Project Management
7 330 (12.49%) Change Management
8 329 (12.45%) Roadmaps
9 267 (10.11%) Analytics
10 265 (10.03%) Risk Management
11 263 (9.95%) Decision-Making
11 263 (9.95%) DevOps
11 263 (9.95%) Workshop Facilitation
12 252 (9.54%) Project Delivery
13 224 (8.48%) Business Intelligence
14 212 (8.02%) Data Governance
14 212 (8.02%) Requirements Gathering
15 197 (7.46%) ERP
16 190 (7.19%) CI/CD
17 186 (7.04%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 181 (6.85%) SQL
2 144 (5.45%) Python
3 65 (2.46%) PowerShell
4 53 (2.01%) JavaScript
5 51 (1.93%) Java
6 37 (1.40%) C#
7 24 (0.91%) Bicep
8 22 (0.83%) Bash
9 19 (0.72%) TypeScript
10 16 (0.61%) R
11 15 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (0.45%) ABAP
13 9 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.26%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.23%) Korn
16 5 (0.19%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.19%) Scala
17 4 (0.15%) RPG
18 3 (0.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 476 (18.02%) Security Cleared
2 369 (13.97%) SC Cleared
3 242 (9.16%) Degree
4 103 (3.90%) PMI Certification
5 96 (3.63%) PMP
6 75 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 49 (1.85%) Master's Degree
8 46 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 43 (1.63%) CISSP
9 43 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 42 (1.59%) Azure Certification
11 33 (1.25%) CISM
11 33 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 27 (1.02%) AWS Certification
13 23 (0.87%) ACCA
13 23 (0.87%) CBAP
14 20 (0.76%) CIMA
15 19 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
16 15 (0.57%) APMG
16 15 (0.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (5.60%) GDPR
2 124 (4.69%) QA
3 119 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 116 (4.39%) Data Quality
5 102 (3.86%) PMO
6 96 (3.63%) NIST
7 76 (2.88%) Accessibility
8 41 (1.55%) GRC
9 40 (1.51%) PCI DSS
10 30 (1.14%) NCSC
10 30 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 20 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
11 20 (0.76%) SLA
12 16 (0.61%) MiFID
13 14 (0.53%) PSD2
14 13 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.49%) COBIT
15 12 (0.45%) JSP 440
16 11 (0.42%) HIPAA
16 11 (0.42%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 75 (2.84%) Active Directory
2 62 (2.35%) Docker
3 26 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.42%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.34%) vSphere
6 7 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.076%) Firmware
10 1 (0.038%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.038%) XenApp
10 1 (0.038%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 109 (4.13%) Terraform
2 68 (2.57%) Kubernetes
3 32 (1.21%) Ansible
3 32 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
4 23 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (0.49%) HP ALM
5 13 (0.49%) SCCM
6 6 (0.23%) Grafana
7 5 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.19%) Control-M
8 4 (0.15%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.11%) Nessus
9 3 (0.11%) RSA Archer
9 3 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.11%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.076%) Argo
10 2 (0.076%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.076%) Cisco UCCE
10 2 (0.076%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.038%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 411 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 259 (9.80%) SAP
3 155 (5.87%) Oracle
4 150 (5.68%) ServiceNow
5 84 (3.18%) Salesforce
6 68 (2.57%) Cisco
7 59 (2.23%) Workday
8 55 (2.08%) Google
9 37 (1.40%) Databricks
10 34 (1.29%) VMware
11 32 (1.21%) Aruba
12 26 (0.98%) IBM
13 22 (0.83%) HP
14 20 (0.76%) Adobe
14 20 (0.76%) Ariba
14 20 (0.76%) Remedy
15 19 (0.72%) Palo Alto
16 18 (0.68%) CyberArk
17 16 (0.61%) OpenAI
18 15 (0.57%) Citrix