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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 134 163
Rank change year-on-year +105 +29 +18
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,050 699 786
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 6.22% 1.81% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.87% 2.12% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,373 443 574
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £427 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 11 31
10th Percentile £25.47 £26.25 £29.00
25th Percentile £29.12 £38.25 £50.92
Median hourly rate £44.91 £58.30 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -22.97% +3.20% +94.79%
75th Percentile £64.79 £65.73 £57.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.74 £59.45 £56.49
% change year-on-year -44.94% +5.24% +148.75%

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 29,826 33,000 43,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.52% 85.68% 89.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,546 20,284 29,794
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,802 1,460 1,537
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% - +48.28%
75th Percentile £44.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.56 £43.00 £41.90
% change year-on-year -47.53% +2.63% +80.76%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Stakeholder Engagement 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +103 1,738 £550 - 1,303
London +103 893 £550 -4.35% 594
UK excluding London +87 871 £525 +0.96% 998
Work from Home +122 628 £525 -4.55% 649
North of England +68 234 £512 +2.40% 208
South East +60 207 £539 -2.09% 428
Midlands +40 150 £537 +4.83% 141
South West +77 129 £550 +2.33% 114
North West +43 121 £519 +6.08% 126
West Midlands +32 118 £525 +1.69% 89
Yorkshire +53 105 £506 +1.20% 68
Scotland +30 78 £450 -14.29% 41
East of England +41 50 £605 +51.13% 55
East Midlands +17 30 £575 +15.00% 48
Wales +17 15 £413 +1.54% 15
Northern Ireland +3 10 £525 +100.96% 7
North East +4 8 £450 -23.73% 16
Channel Islands - 2 £463 -

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 110 (5.37%) Confluence
2 78 (3.80%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.73%) CMS
4 11 (0.54%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.39%) ArcGIS
6 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.34%) Apache
7 7 (0.34%) SAS
8 4 (0.20%) Appian
9 3 (0.15%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.098%) CICS
10 2 (0.098%) Drupal
10 2 (0.098%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.098%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.098%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.098%) WordPress
11 1 (0.049%) Alfresco
11 1 (0.049%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 113 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (3.71%) Microsoft Project
3 54 (2.63%) MS Visio
4 49 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 46 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.44%) Trello
7 8 (0.39%) ProjectWise
8 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.15%) Sketch
11 2 (0.098%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.098%) Navisworks
11 2 (0.098%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.098%) Revit
12 1 (0.049%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.049%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.049%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.049%) FrameMaker
12 1 (0.049%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.049%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 85 (4.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
4 17 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
5 15 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
6 13 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
7 12 (0.59%) Oracle Cash Management
8 11 (0.54%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.49%) SAP ERP
9 10 (0.49%) SAP FI
9 10 (0.49%) SAP PS
9 10 (0.49%) Teamcenter
10 9 (0.44%) Maximo
10 9 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.44%) SAP GTS
10 9 (0.44%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.39%) SAP MDG
12 7 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
12 7 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 277 (13.51%) Azure
2 168 (8.20%) AWS
3 151 (7.37%) Power Platform
4 74 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
5 65 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
6 62 (3.02%) GCP
7 58 (2.83%) SaaS
8 51 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
9 39 (1.90%) GitHub
10 34 (1.66%) Entra ID
11 27 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (1.32%) PaaS
12 25 (1.22%) Serverless
13 24 (1.17%) OCI
13 24 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
14 22 (1.07%) Miro
15 20 (0.98%) Figma
15 20 (0.98%) IaaS
16 17 (0.83%) Amazon S3
16 17 (0.83%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.90%) Firewall
2 18 (0.88%) Network Security
3 13 (0.63%) WAN
4 12 (0.59%) SD-WAN
4 12 (0.59%) VPN
5 11 (0.54%) SSL
6 8 (0.39%) 5G
7 5 (0.24%) DNS
7 5 (0.24%) LAN
7 5 (0.24%) VoIP
8 4 (0.20%) Internet
8 4 (0.20%) Intranet
8 4 (0.20%) PSTN
8 4 (0.20%) WebEx
8 4 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.15%) BGP
9 3 (0.15%) DHCP
9 3 (0.15%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.15%) OSPF
9 3 (0.15%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (6.05%) Power BI
2 62 (3.02%) Metadata
3 45 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (1.76%) Tableau
5 21 (1.02%) SQL Server
6 18 (0.88%) Data Lake
7 14 (0.68%) Power Query
8 13 (0.63%) Relational Database
9 12 (0.59%) Big Data
10 11 (0.54%) Data Vault
11 10 (0.49%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (0.44%) Delta Lake
12 9 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
13 8 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.39%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 7 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (0.34%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 203 (9.90%) JIRA
2 20 (0.98%) Git
3 18 (0.88%) GitLab
3 18 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 16 (0.78%) Selenium
5 8 (0.39%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.29%) Postman
6 6 (0.29%) REST Assured
7 5 (0.24%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.24%) Robot Framework
7 5 (0.24%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.20%) Axure RP
8 4 (0.20%) Hudson
8 4 (0.20%) JUnit
9 3 (0.15%) Mockito
9 3 (0.15%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (0.15%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.15%) TestRail
9 3 (0.15%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 3 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 1,003 (48.93%) Social Skills
2 625 (30.49%) Finance
3 304 (14.83%) Public Sector
4 298 (14.54%) Analytical Skills
5 156 (7.61%) Banking
6 104 (5.07%) Legal
7 87 (4.24%) Manufacturing
8 86 (4.20%) Telecoms
9 69 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
10 67 (3.27%) Marketing
11 63 (3.07%) Retail
12 61 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
13 48 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
14 47 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 47 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
15 44 (2.15%) Local Government
16 39 (1.90%) Financial Institution
17 32 (1.56%) Investment Banking
17 32 (1.56%) Law
18 30 (1.46%) Billing
Job Titles
1 387 (18.88%) Analyst
2 275 (13.41%) Business Analyst
3 257 (12.54%) Project Manager
4 248 (12.10%) Architect
5 197 (9.61%) Lead
6 195 (9.51%) Senior
7 187 (9.12%) Consultant
8 87 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
9 57 (2.78%) Programme Manager
10 54 (2.63%) Developer
11 52 (2.54%) Data Analyst
12 51 (2.49%) IT Manager
13 49 (2.39%) Senior Manager
14 48 (2.34%) Senior Analyst
15 46 (2.24%) Change Manager
16 40 (1.95%) Senior Business Analyst
17 39 (1.90%) Technical Manager
18 38 (1.85%) Delivery Manager
18 38 (1.85%) Designer
19 33 (1.61%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (2.05%) REST
2 22 (1.07%) .NET
2 22 (1.07%) Middleware
3 20 (0.98%) HTML
4 19 (0.93%) SOAP
4 19 (0.93%) Web Services
5 18 (0.88%) JSON
6 17 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
7 14 (0.68%) Kafka
8 13 (0.63%) RESTful
8 13 (0.63%) SailPoint
8 13 (0.63%) XML
9 12 (0.59%) CSS
9 12 (0.59%) LDAP
9 12 (0.59%) OAuth
9 12 (0.59%) SAML
9 12 (0.59%) SAP Fiori
10 11 (0.54%) ARM Templates
11 10 (0.49%) AngularJS
11 10 (0.49%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 102 (4.98%) Product Ownership
2 91 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
3 87 (4.24%) Onboarding
4 69 (3.37%) Management Information System
5 64 (3.12%) Cloud Native
6 56 (2.73%) Data Centre
7 43 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
8 38 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 32 (1.56%) Data Structures
10 29 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
11 28 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
12 26 (1.27%) CMDB
12 26 (1.27%) Life Science
12 26 (1.27%) NHS
13 24 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
14 22 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
14 22 (1.07%) Virtual Team
15 18 (0.88%) Operational Technology
16 16 (0.78%) FMCG
16 16 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 50 (2.44%) Windows
2 18 (0.88%) Linux
3 12 (0.59%) Windows 10
4 8 (0.39%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.29%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.24%) Android
6 5 (0.24%) Unix
7 4 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.098%) CentOS
8 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.049%) AIX
9 1 (0.049%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.049%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.049%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.049%) Solaris
9 1 (0.049%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.049%) VMS
9 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.049%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 601 (29.32%) Agile
2 398 (19.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 321 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
4 292 (14.24%) Project Management
5 276 (13.46%) Migration
6 269 (13.12%) Change Management
7 262 (12.78%) Risk Management
8 242 (11.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 236 (11.51%) Decision-Making
10 219 (10.68%) Roadmaps
11 205 (10.00%) Project Delivery
12 199 (9.71%) DevOps
13 185 (9.02%) Analytics
14 182 (8.88%) Workshop Facilitation
15 177 (8.63%) Business Intelligence
16 173 (8.44%) Data Governance
17 157 (7.66%) ERP
18 154 (7.51%) Requirements Gathering
19 141 (6.88%) PRINCE2
20 139 (6.78%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 138 (6.73%) SQL
2 83 (4.05%) Python
3 40 (1.95%) JavaScript
4 29 (1.41%) Java
5 26 (1.27%) PowerShell
6 22 (1.07%) C#
7 19 (0.93%) Bicep
8 15 (0.73%) TypeScript
9 13 (0.63%) Bash
10 12 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (0.59%) R
11 8 (0.39%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.29%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.24%) Scala
14 4 (0.20%) Groovy
14 4 (0.20%) Korn
14 4 (0.20%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.20%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.098%) RPG
15 2 (0.098%) VBA
Qualifications
1 335 (16.34%) Security Cleared
2 247 (12.05%) SC Cleared
3 194 (9.46%) Degree
4 93 (4.54%) PMP
5 88 (4.29%) PMI Certification
6 61 (2.98%) DV Cleared
7 40 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (1.61%) Azure Certification
9 25 (1.22%) CISSP
9 25 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 23 (1.12%) CISM
12 18 (0.88%) AWS Certification
13 16 (0.78%) CBAP
14 13 (0.63%) ACCA
15 11 (0.54%) APMG
15 11 (0.54%) CIMA
15 11 (0.54%) CISA
16 10 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (5.22%) GDPR
2 96 (4.68%) QA
3 95 (4.63%) Data Quality
4 84 (4.10%) PMO
5 75 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 70 (3.41%) NIST
7 60 (2.93%) Accessibility
8 28 (1.37%) GRC
9 18 (0.88%) NCSC
9 18 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 17 (0.83%) PCI DSS
11 16 (0.78%) SLA
12 14 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.63%) IFRS
14 11 (0.54%) COBIT
15 10 (0.49%) ISO 19650
15 10 (0.49%) MiFID
16 9 (0.44%) EMIR
16 9 (0.44%) GxP
16 9 (0.44%) JSP 440
System Software
1 39 (1.90%) Active Directory
1 39 (1.90%) Docker
2 15 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.098%) Firmware
5 2 (0.098%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.098%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.098%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.098%) vSphere
6 1 (0.049%) XenApp
6 1 (0.049%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 66 (3.22%) Terraform
2 41 (2.00%) Kubernetes
3 20 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
4 18 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.83%) Ansible
6 15 (0.73%) SCCM
7 10 (0.49%) HP ALM
8 6 (0.29%) Amdocs OSS
8 6 (0.29%) Grafana
8 6 (0.29%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.20%) Control-M
10 3 (0.15%) Nessus
11 2 (0.098%) HP Data Protector
11 2 (0.098%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.098%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.049%) OPNET
12 1 (0.049%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.049%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.049%) SCOM
12 1 (0.049%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 311 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 210 (10.24%) SAP
3 117 (5.71%) Oracle
4 113 (5.51%) ServiceNow
5 64 (3.12%) Salesforce
6 43 (2.10%) Google
7 38 (1.85%) Workday
8 29 (1.41%) Databricks
9 23 (1.12%) Cisco
10 22 (1.07%) Adobe
11 21 (1.02%) Ariba
12 19 (0.93%) VMware
13 18 (0.88%) HP
14 16 (0.78%) IBM
15 15 (0.73%) Citrix
15 15 (0.73%) Remedy
16 14 (0.68%) Informatica
17 13 (0.63%) Planview
18 10 (0.49%) BMC
19 8 (0.39%) Nokia
1,434 Stakeholder Engagement jobs Nationwide