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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 114 163
Rank change year-on-year +91 +49 +2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,780 765 704
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.62% 2.12% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.55% 2.42% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,919 467 481
10th Percentile £360 £389 £375
25th Percentile £431 £456 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £769 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 10 33
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.63 £35.63
25th Percentile £20.25 £23.06 -
Median hourly rate £41.86 £27.75 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +50.83% -50.88% +61.98%
75th Percentile £67.25 £57.18 £63.25
90th Percentile £88.00 £65.92 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £39.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +7.32% -30.96% +169.00%

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 32,500 31,582 39,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.05% 87.42% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,460 19,152 26,649
10th Percentile £300 £310 £312
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,092 1,104 1,551
10th Percentile £14.54 £15.25 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.23 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% -22.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.53 £63.51 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.93 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.71% -23.53% +30.77%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 5 December 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 +92 2,430 £525 -4.55% 669
UK excluding London +87 1,294 £500 -4.76% 563
London +99 1,171 £550 -4.35% 241
Work from Home +104 815 £525 -4.55% 315
South East +54 356 £509 -7.41% 203
North of England +68 324 £515 +3.00% 122
Midlands +36 222 £500 - 104
South West +62 180 £525 -6.67% 79
West Midlands +36 169 £507 -3.43% 75
North West +50 151 £525 +5.00% 51
Yorkshire +47 139 £525 +5.00% 59
Scotland +52 102 £450 -10.00% 11
East of England +36 78 £533 +32.13% 35
East Midlands +19 52 £425 - 28
North East +28 37 £450 -45.45% 13
Wales +17 25 £425 -29.17% 11
Northern Ireland +9 13 £513 - 5
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
1 150 (5.40%) Confluence
2 128 (4.60%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.50%) SAS
5 13 (0.47%) CMS
6 11 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.40%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.25%) Apache
8 6 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.22%) Appian
9 4 (0.14%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.14%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.11%) Smallworld
10 3 (0.11%) WordPress
11 2 (0.072%) Drupal
11 2 (0.072%) nginx
11 2 (0.072%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.072%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.036%) Alfresco
12 1 (0.036%) CICS
Applications
1 164 (5.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 94 (3.38%) Microsoft Project
3 67 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (2.19%) MS Visio
5 58 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.32%) Trello
8 8 (0.29%) ProjectWise
9 7 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
10 3 (0.11%) Revit
11 2 (0.072%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.072%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.036%) FrameMaker
12 1 (0.036%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.036%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.036%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 115 (4.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
5 18 (0.65%) Oracle Financials
6 16 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
6 16 (0.58%) SAP FI
6 16 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 14 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
8 13 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
9 12 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
9 12 (0.43%) SAP MM
9 12 (0.43%) SAP PP
9 12 (0.43%) Workday HCM
10 11 (0.40%) Maximo
11 10 (0.36%) SAP CO
11 10 (0.36%) SAP ERP
12 9 (0.32%) Teamcenter
13 8 (0.29%) SAP EWM
13 8 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 459 (16.51%) Azure
2 271 (9.75%) AWS
3 225 (8.09%) Power Platform
4 131 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
5 110 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
6 104 (3.74%) GCP
7 89 (3.20%) SaaS
8 84 (3.02%) Entra ID
9 77 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
10 48 (1.73%) OCI
11 45 (1.62%) GitHub
11 45 (1.62%) Serverless
12 37 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
12 37 (1.33%) Power Automate
13 35 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
15 32 (1.15%) SuccessFactors
16 31 (1.12%) PowerApps
17 30 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
18 28 (1.01%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (2.23%) Firewall
2 39 (1.40%) Network Security
3 29 (1.04%) WAN
4 25 (0.90%) VPN
5 23 (0.83%) LAN
5 23 (0.83%) SD-WAN
6 20 (0.72%) DNS
7 13 (0.47%) BGP
7 13 (0.47%) MPLS
8 10 (0.36%) DHCP
9 9 (0.32%) Internet
9 9 (0.32%) SSL
9 9 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.22%) Kerberos
10 6 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
10 6 (0.22%) Unified Communications
10 6 (0.22%) VLAN
10 6 (0.22%) Wireless
11 5 (0.18%) OSPF
11 5 (0.18%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (6.29%) Power BI
2 80 (2.88%) Metadata
3 55 (1.98%) Tableau
4 51 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (1.47%) SQL Server
6 24 (0.86%) Data Lake
7 21 (0.76%) Electronic Patient Records
8 19 (0.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 17 (0.61%) Power Query
10 15 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
11 14 (0.50%) Big Data
11 14 (0.50%) Data Vault
12 13 (0.47%) Relational Database
13 12 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.40%) Delta Lake
14 11 (0.40%) GIS
15 10 (0.36%) Hadoop
15 10 (0.36%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 263 (9.46%) JIRA
2 35 (1.26%) Git
3 27 (0.97%) GitLab
4 22 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 18 (0.65%) Selenium
6 9 (0.32%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.25%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.25%) Robot Framework
8 6 (0.22%) JUnit
9 4 (0.14%) ERwin
9 4 (0.14%) Hudson
9 4 (0.14%) Mockito
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.11%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.11%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 2 (0.072%) MLflow
11 2 (0.072%) Postman
11 2 (0.072%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,441 (51.83%) Social Skills
2 816 (29.35%) Finance
3 478 (17.19%) Public Sector
4 432 (15.54%) Analytical Skills
5 197 (7.09%) Banking
6 129 (4.64%) Legal
7 119 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
8 104 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
9 101 (3.63%) Manufacturing
10 84 (3.02%) Telecoms
11 82 (2.95%) Marketing
12 76 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
13 75 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
14 70 (2.52%) Retail
15 57 (2.05%) Local Government
16 48 (1.73%) Financial Institution
17 39 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 36 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
19 35 (1.26%) Investment Banking
19 35 (1.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 512 (18.42%) Analyst
2 369 (13.27%) Business Analyst
3 357 (12.84%) Architect
4 298 (10.72%) Consultant
5 284 (10.22%) Project Manager
6 280 (10.07%) Lead
7 242 (8.71%) Senior
8 148 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
9 98 (3.53%) Developer
10 79 (2.84%) Programme Manager
11 67 (2.41%) Senior Analyst
12 63 (2.27%) Change Manager
13 60 (2.16%) Data Analyst
14 55 (1.98%) Senior Business Analyst
15 51 (1.83%) IT Manager
15 51 (1.83%) Technical Manager
16 50 (1.80%) SAP Consultant
17 49 (1.76%) Senior Manager
18 47 (1.69%) Delivery Manager
19 43 (1.55%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (2.30%) REST
2 40 (1.44%) .NET
3 32 (1.15%) SOAP
4 31 (1.12%) OAuth
5 28 (1.01%) Middleware
6 27 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
7 26 (0.94%) SAML
8 23 (0.83%) AngularJS
8 23 (0.83%) SAP Fiori
8 23 (0.83%) XML
9 22 (0.79%) HTML
10 21 (0.76%) Node.js
11 20 (0.72%) JSON
11 20 (0.72%) OpenID
11 20 (0.72%) Web Services
12 19 (0.68%) RESTful
13 17 (0.61%) Kafka
14 16 (0.58%) LDAP
15 15 (0.54%) OAuth2
15 15 (0.54%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 168 (6.04%) Product Ownership
2 146 (5.25%) Onboarding
3 116 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 84 (3.02%) Cloud Native
5 83 (2.99%) Management Information System
6 62 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 55 (1.98%) NHS
8 52 (1.87%) Data Centre
9 50 (1.80%) Data Structures
10 41 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
11 40 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
12 36 (1.29%) PMI
13 33 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
13 33 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
14 30 (1.08%) CMDB
14 30 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
15 25 (0.90%) AI Agents
16 24 (0.86%) Operational Technology
17 23 (0.83%) Life Science
18 21 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 69 (2.48%) Windows
2 28 (1.01%) Linux
3 20 (0.72%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.58%) Windows 10
5 14 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.25%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.22%) Android
8 5 (0.18%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.18%) VMS
9 3 (0.11%) Unix
9 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.072%) CentOS
10 2 (0.072%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.036%) AIX
11 1 (0.036%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.036%) Solaris
11 1 (0.036%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.036%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 783 (28.17%) Agile
2 525 (18.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 421 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
4 412 (14.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 411 (14.78%) Migration
6 364 (13.09%) Project Management
6 364 (13.09%) Roadmaps
7 355 (12.77%) Change Management
8 288 (10.36%) Decision-Making
9 282 (10.14%) Analytics
9 282 (10.14%) Workshop Facilitation
10 277 (9.96%) Risk Management
11 274 (9.86%) DevOps
12 255 (9.17%) Project Delivery
13 248 (8.92%) Business Intelligence
14 220 (7.91%) Requirements Gathering
15 218 (7.84%) Data Governance
16 206 (7.41%) ERP
17 200 (7.19%) CI/CD
18 195 (7.01%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 191 (6.87%) SQL
2 153 (5.50%) Python
3 66 (2.37%) PowerShell
4 54 (1.94%) JavaScript
5 51 (1.83%) Java
6 37 (1.33%) C#
7 28 (1.01%) Bicep
8 22 (0.79%) Bash
9 21 (0.76%) R
10 18 (0.65%) TypeScript
11 15 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 13 (0.47%) ABAP
13 11 (0.40%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.25%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.25%) Korn
15 5 (0.18%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.14%) C++
16 4 (0.14%) RPG
16 4 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 514 (18.49%) Security Cleared
2 394 (14.17%) SC Cleared
3 257 (9.24%) Degree
4 115 (4.14%) PMI Certification
5 101 (3.63%) PMP
6 87 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 53 (1.91%) Master's Degree
8 51 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 46 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 44 (1.58%) CISSP
11 39 (1.40%) Azure Certification
12 32 (1.15%) CISM
13 31 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
14 27 (0.97%) ACCA
15 26 (0.94%) AWS Certification
16 24 (0.86%) CBAP
16 24 (0.86%) CIMA
17 20 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
18 16 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
19 14 (0.50%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (5.50%) GDPR
2 129 (4.64%) QA
3 128 (4.60%) Data Quality
4 124 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 113 (4.06%) PMO
6 99 (3.56%) NIST
7 76 (2.73%) Accessibility
8 43 (1.55%) GRC
9 41 (1.47%) PCI DSS
10 32 (1.15%) NCSC
11 30 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 22 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
13 21 (0.76%) SLA
14 15 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
14 15 (0.54%) COBIT
14 15 (0.54%) MiFID
15 14 (0.50%) JSP 440
15 14 (0.50%) PSD2
16 13 (0.47%) ISO 19650
17 11 (0.40%) HIPAA
System Software
1 82 (2.95%) Active Directory
2 66 (2.37%) Docker
3 25 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.43%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.32%) vSphere
6 8 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.072%) Firmware
11 1 (0.036%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 112 (4.03%) Terraform
2 79 (2.84%) Kubernetes
3 32 (1.15%) Ansible
3 32 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
4 25 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (0.47%) SCCM
6 11 (0.40%) HP ALM
7 8 (0.29%) Grafana
8 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.22%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.14%) Control-M
11 3 (0.11%) Nessus
11 3 (0.11%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.11%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.072%) Argo
12 2 (0.072%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.072%) Cisco UCCE
12 2 (0.072%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.036%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 431 (15.50%) Microsoft
2 268 (9.64%) SAP
3 165 (5.94%) ServiceNow
4 164 (5.90%) Oracle
5 92 (3.31%) Salesforce
6 70 (2.52%) Cisco
7 67 (2.41%) Google
8 59 (2.12%) Workday
9 47 (1.69%) Databricks
10 34 (1.22%) VMware
11 33 (1.19%) Aruba
12 26 (0.94%) IBM
13 22 (0.79%) Adobe
13 22 (0.79%) OpenAI
13 22 (0.79%) Palo Alto
14 20 (0.72%) HP
14 20 (0.72%) Remedy
15 19 (0.68%) Ariba
15 19 (0.68%) CyberArk
16 17 (0.61%) Sparx