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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 110 161
Rank change year-on-year +87 +51 +1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,793 754 696
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.61% 2.20% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.60% 2.50% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,921 458 482
10th Percentile £363 £400 £375
25th Percentile £435 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £775 £771
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 9 31
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.59 £33.48
25th Percentile £19.18 £22.00 -
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +70.91% -51.32% +82.23%
75th Percentile £69.68 £48.75 £64.63
90th Percentile £95.00 £69.15 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.75 £28.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +109.82% -50.43% +172.24%

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 32,471 30,121 39,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.45% 87.99% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,452 18,385 26,091
10th Percentile £300 £306 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £745 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,000 1,510
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.61 £14.49
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £19.02
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.85
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.88% +25.29%
75th Percentile £48.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.04 £32.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.87% -27.21% +39.06%

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 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 16 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 16 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 +86 2,446 £525 -4.55% 632
UK excluding London +76 1,287 £500 -4.76% 517
London +91 1,183 £550 -3.93% 248
Work from Home +97 808 £537 -4.62% 318
South East +54 356 £508 -9.05% 172
North of England +61 323 £513 +2.50% 119
Midlands +38 225 £500 -3.61% 110
South West +58 181 £525 -8.70% 55
West Midlands +31 163 £506 -8.00% 68
North West +34 150 £525 +4.22% 57
Yorkshire +33 137 £516 +3.25% 53
Scotland +49 93 £450 -12.20% 16
East of England +31 78 £550 +35.47% 33
East Midlands +22 61 £431 +2.62% 41
North East +22 39 £450 -46.27% 10
Wales +21 24 £413 -31.25% 15
Northern Ireland +7 13 £513 - 7
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
1 147 (5.26%) Confluence
2 133 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.50%) SAS
5 13 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.47%) CMS
6 11 (0.39%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.25%) Apache
8 6 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.21%) 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%) Moodle
Applications
1 160 (5.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 90 (3.22%) Microsoft Project
3 66 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (2.08%) MS Visio
5 57 (2.04%) 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
1 109 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 48 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
4 21 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
5 19 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
6 17 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
6 17 (0.61%) SAP PP
7 15 (0.54%) SAP FI
7 15 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 13 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
8 13 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
9 12 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
9 12 (0.43%) SAP MM
9 12 (0.43%) Workday HCM
10 11 (0.39%) Maximo
10 11 (0.39%) SAP ERP
11 9 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
11 9 (0.32%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.32%) SAP HR
11 9 (0.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 486 (17.40%) Azure
2 292 (10.45%) AWS
3 222 (7.95%) Power Platform
4 139 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
5 124 (4.44%) GCP
6 112 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
7 89 (3.19%) Entra ID
7 89 (3.19%) SaaS
8 76 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
9 53 (1.90%) OCI
10 50 (1.79%) GitHub
11 45 (1.61%) Serverless
12 38 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (1.32%) Power Automate
14 34 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
15 33 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
15 33 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
16 31 (1.11%) PowerApps
17 30 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
18 26 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.15%) Firewall
2 37 (1.32%) Network Security
3 27 (0.97%) WAN
4 24 (0.86%) LAN
5 23 (0.82%) VPN
6 22 (0.79%) SD-WAN
7 18 (0.64%) DNS
8 12 (0.43%) BGP
8 12 (0.43%) MPLS
9 9 (0.32%) DHCP
9 9 (0.32%) Internet
9 9 (0.32%) SSL
9 9 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.25%) Kerberos
11 6 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
11 6 (0.21%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.21%) VLAN
11 6 (0.21%) VSAN
11 6 (0.21%) Wireless
12 5 (0.18%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (6.16%) Power BI
2 76 (2.72%) Metadata
3 54 (1.93%) Tableau
4 49 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
5 44 (1.58%) SQL Server
6 23 (0.82%) Data Lake
7 21 (0.75%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 20 (0.72%) Electronic Patient Records
9 16 (0.57%) Big Data
9 16 (0.57%) Power Query
10 15 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
11 14 (0.50%) Data Vault
11 14 (0.50%) Relational Database
12 12 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (0.43%) MySQL
13 11 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (0.39%) Delta Lake
13 11 (0.39%) GIS
13 11 (0.39%) Oracle Database
14 10 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 270 (9.67%) JIRA
2 35 (1.25%) Git
2 35 (1.25%) GitLab
3 29 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 25 (0.90%) Selenium
5 14 (0.50%) Cucumber
6 11 (0.39%) SonarQube
7 10 (0.36%) REST Assured
8 9 (0.32%) Postman
9 7 (0.25%) JUnit
9 7 (0.25%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.25%) TestRail
10 5 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.14%) ERwin
11 4 (0.14%) Hudson
11 4 (0.14%) Mockito
11 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
12 3 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.11%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 2 (0.072%) Artifactory
General
1 1,467 (52.52%) Social Skills
2 795 (28.46%) Finance
3 475 (17.01%) Public Sector
4 430 (15.40%) Analytical Skills
5 195 (6.98%) Banking
6 122 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
7 119 (4.26%) Legal
8 103 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
9 97 (3.47%) Manufacturing
10 82 (2.94%) Marketing
11 81 (2.90%) Telecoms
12 76 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
13 70 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
14 67 (2.40%) Retail
15 51 (1.83%) Local Government
16 48 (1.72%) Financial Institution
17 37 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 37 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
18 36 (1.29%) Investment Banking
19 35 (1.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 508 (18.19%) Analyst
2 368 (13.18%) Architect
3 363 (13.00%) Business Analyst
4 306 (10.96%) Consultant
5 288 (10.31%) Lead
6 273 (9.77%) Project Manager
7 239 (8.56%) Senior
8 144 (5.16%) Solutions Architect
9 96 (3.44%) Developer
10 75 (2.69%) Programme Manager
11 72 (2.58%) Change Manager
12 63 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
13 57 (2.04%) Data Analyst
14 56 (2.01%) SAP Consultant
15 53 (1.90%) Senior Business Analyst
16 51 (1.83%) Senior Manager
17 46 (1.65%) Delivery Manager
17 46 (1.65%) IT Manager
17 46 (1.65%) Technical Manager
18 44 (1.58%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (2.83%) REST
2 46 (1.65%) .NET
3 40 (1.43%) SOAP
4 32 (1.15%) LDAP
4 32 (1.15%) OAuth
5 28 (1.00%) Middleware
5 28 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
6 27 (0.97%) OpenID
6 27 (0.97%) SAML
7 23 (0.82%) AngularJS
7 23 (0.82%) SAP Fiori
7 23 (0.82%) XML
8 22 (0.79%) HTML
8 22 (0.79%) Node.js
9 19 (0.68%) JSON
9 19 (0.68%) Web Services
10 18 (0.64%) RESTful
11 17 (0.61%) Kafka
11 17 (0.61%) SailPoint
12 15 (0.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 174 (6.23%) Product Ownership
2 148 (5.30%) Onboarding
3 112 (4.01%) Legacy Systems
4 87 (3.11%) Cloud Native
5 80 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 61 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
7 56 (2.01%) NHS
8 52 (1.86%) Data Centre
9 50 (1.79%) Data Structures
10 41 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
12 38 (1.36%) PMI
13 37 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
14 33 (1.18%) CMDB
14 33 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
15 29 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
15 29 (1.04%) Security Posture
16 27 (0.97%) AI Agents
16 27 (0.97%) Operational Technology
17 22 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 74 (2.65%) Windows
2 33 (1.18%) Linux
3 21 (0.75%) Windows 10
4 20 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.21%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 777 (27.82%) Agile
2 539 (19.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 431 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
4 419 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 402 (14.39%) Migration
6 372 (13.32%) Roadmaps
7 360 (12.89%) Project Management
8 350 (12.53%) Change Management
9 286 (10.24%) Workshop Facilitation
10 285 (10.20%) Analytics
11 282 (10.10%) Decision-Making
12 280 (10.03%) DevOps
13 267 (9.56%) Risk Management
14 245 (8.77%) Business Intelligence
15 233 (8.34%) Project Delivery
16 220 (7.88%) Requirements Gathering
17 210 (7.52%) Data Governance
18 206 (7.38%) ERP
19 204 (7.30%) CI/CD
20 194 (6.95%) AI
Programming Languages
1 204 (7.30%) SQL
2 175 (6.27%) Python
3 84 (3.01%) PowerShell
4 62 (2.22%) Java
5 60 (2.15%) JavaScript
6 37 (1.32%) C#
7 29 (1.04%) Bicep
8 27 (0.97%) Bash
9 23 (0.82%) R
10 19 (0.68%) TypeScript
11 14 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 13 (0.47%) ABAP
13 11 (0.39%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.32%) PHP
15 7 (0.25%) Korn
16 6 (0.21%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.21%) C++
16 6 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.18%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 527 (18.87%) Security Cleared
2 405 (14.50%) SC Cleared
3 260 (9.31%) Degree
4 113 (4.05%) PMI Certification
5 97 (3.47%) PMP
6 85 (3.04%) DV Cleared
7 55 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 55 (1.97%) Master's Degree
8 48 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 45 (1.61%) CISSP
10 39 (1.40%) Azure Certification
11 32 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 31 (1.11%) CISM
13 26 (0.93%) ACCA
14 24 (0.86%) AWS Certification
15 23 (0.82%) CIMA
16 22 (0.79%) CBAP
17 20 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
18 18 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
19 15 (0.54%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (5.62%) GDPR
2 133 (4.76%) QA
3 127 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 124 (4.44%) Data Quality
5 109 (3.90%) PMO
6 101 (3.62%) NIST
7 76 (2.72%) Accessibility
8 43 (1.54%) GRC
9 42 (1.50%) PCI DSS
10 32 (1.15%) NCSC
11 30 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 22 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
13 18 (0.64%) SLA
14 16 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
15 15 (0.54%) COBIT
16 14 (0.50%) JSP 440
16 14 (0.50%) MiFID
16 14 (0.50%) PSD2
17 13 (0.47%) ISO 19650
18 12 (0.43%) Basel III
System Software
1 95 (3.40%) Active Directory
2 68 (2.43%) Docker
3 28 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.50%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.39%) vSphere
6 9 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.072%) Firmware
11 1 (0.036%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.036%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.036%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 112 (4.01%) Terraform
2 81 (2.90%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
4 32 (1.15%) Ansible
5 29 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (0.64%) SCCM
7 12 (0.43%) HP ALM
8 8 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 8 (0.29%) Grafana
9 6 (0.21%) 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)
12 2 (0.072%) Argo
12 2 (0.072%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.072%) Cisco UCCE
12 2 (0.072%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.072%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.036%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 430 (15.40%) Microsoft
2 271 (9.70%) SAP
3 171 (6.12%) ServiceNow
4 170 (6.09%) Oracle
5 93 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 74 (2.65%) Google
7 70 (2.51%) Cisco
8 56 (2.01%) Workday
9 49 (1.75%) Databricks
10 39 (1.40%) VMware
11 34 (1.22%) Aruba
12 28 (1.00%) CyberArk
13 26 (0.93%) IBM
14 24 (0.86%) Adobe
15 22 (0.79%) Palo Alto
16 21 (0.75%) HP
16 21 (0.75%) OpenAI
16 21 (0.75%) Remedy
17 19 (0.68%) Ariba
18 18 (0.64%) Citrix