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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 119 169
Rank change year-on-year +96 +50 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,686 732 714
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.52% 2.02% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.38% 2.34% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,839 437 500
10th Percentile £362 £375 £367
25th Percentile £438 £450 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £660 £665
90th Percentile £738 £771 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.67% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 11 34
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £29.30
25th Percentile £21.26 £26.38 £53.00
Median hourly rate £41.86 £50.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -16.29% -11.49% +94.79%
75th Percentile £65.11 £60.28 £61.77
90th Percentile £88.88 £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 32,049 31,289 41,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.77% 86.33% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,064 18,819 27,584
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £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 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 1,102 1,587
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.11 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.14 £19.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £33.54 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.43% -24.63% +50.85%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 2,331 £525 -4.55% 1,341
UK excluding London +85 1,234 £511 -2.67% 827
London +108 1,133 £550 -4.35% 612
Work from Home +101 800 £536 -2.55% 650
South East +54 325 £525 -4.55% 290
North of England +72 316 £513 +2.50% 183
Midlands +40 212 £508 +1.50% 147
South West +63 169 £525 -4.55% 98
West Midlands +33 160 £515 -1.44% 101
North West +44 148 £525 +6.17% 92
Yorkshire +41 138 £520 +4.00% 66
Scotland +47 104 £450 -15.89% 50
East of England +37 79 £529 +32.19% 50
East Midlands +16 51 £424 -8.38% 45
North East +22 31 £450 -21.74% 25
Wales +21 21 £425 -34.62% 14
Northern Ireland +4 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
1 140 (5.21%) Confluence
2 125 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.63%) CMS
5 14 (0.52%) SAS
6 11 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.41%) ArcGIS
7 8 (0.30%) Apache
8 7 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.22%) Appian
10 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.15%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.11%) Smallworld
11 3 (0.11%) WordPress
12 2 (0.074%) CICS
12 2 (0.074%) Drupal
12 2 (0.074%) nginx
12 2 (0.074%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.037%) Alfresco
Applications
1 159 (5.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (3.43%) Microsoft Project
3 63 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (2.27%) MS Visio
5 58 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.34%) Trello
8 8 (0.30%) ProjectWise
9 6 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.11%) Revit
11 2 (0.074%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.037%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.037%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.037%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.037%) FrameMaker
12 1 (0.037%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.037%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.037%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 113 (4.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
5 17 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
5 17 (0.63%) SAP FI
6 14 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
7 13 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
7 13 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
7 13 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 12 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
8 12 (0.45%) SAP PP
9 11 (0.41%) Maximo
9 11 (0.41%) SAP CO
9 11 (0.41%) SAP MM
9 11 (0.41%) Workday HCM
10 10 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.34%) SAP ERP
11 9 (0.34%) SAP PS
11 9 (0.34%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 430 (16.01%) Azure
2 258 (9.61%) AWS
3 209 (7.78%) Power Platform
4 126 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
5 106 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
6 97 (3.61%) GCP
7 88 (3.28%) SaaS
8 78 (2.90%) Entra ID
9 64 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
10 49 (1.82%) OCI
11 45 (1.68%) GitHub
12 43 (1.60%) Serverless
13 35 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
14 34 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
15 33 (1.23%) Power Automate
16 32 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
17 30 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
18 29 (1.08%) PaaS
18 29 (1.08%) PowerApps
19 28 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 62 (2.31%) Firewall
2 37 (1.38%) Network Security
3 25 (0.93%) WAN
4 21 (0.78%) SD-WAN
5 20 (0.74%) VPN
6 19 (0.71%) DNS
6 19 (0.71%) LAN
7 12 (0.45%) BGP
8 11 (0.41%) MPLS
9 10 (0.37%) DHCP
10 9 (0.34%) SSL
11 7 (0.26%) Internet
11 7 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
12 6 (0.22%) VLAN
13 5 (0.19%) OSPF
13 5 (0.19%) SMS
13 5 (0.19%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.19%) Wireless
14 4 (0.15%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (5.96%) Power BI
2 81 (3.02%) Metadata
3 49 (1.82%) Tableau
4 48 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 39 (1.45%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 21 (0.78%) Electronic Patient Records
8 19 (0.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 18 (0.67%) Power Query
10 14 (0.52%) Big Data
10 14 (0.52%) Data Vault
10 14 (0.52%) Relational Database
11 13 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
12 11 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (0.41%) GIS
12 11 (0.41%) Hadoop
13 10 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (0.37%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 253 (9.42%) JIRA
2 34 (1.27%) Git
3 25 (0.93%) GitLab
4 19 (0.71%) Jenkins
5 18 (0.67%) Selenium
6 9 (0.34%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.26%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.26%) Robot Framework
8 6 (0.22%) 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%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.11%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 2 (0.074%) ER Studio
12 2 (0.074%) Gradle
12 2 (0.074%) Postman
General
1 1,374 (51.15%) Social Skills
2 786 (29.26%) Finance
3 462 (17.20%) Public Sector
4 416 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
5 197 (7.33%) Banking
6 130 (4.84%) Legal
7 106 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
8 98 (3.65%) Manufacturing
9 96 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
10 83 (3.09%) Telecoms
11 80 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
12 76 (2.83%) Marketing
13 66 (2.46%) Retail
14 65 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
15 58 (2.16%) Local Government
16 47 (1.75%) Financial Institution
17 43 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 37 (1.38%) Investment Banking
18 37 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
19 36 (1.34%) Law
Job Titles
1 503 (18.73%) Analyst
2 364 (13.55%) Business Analyst
3 341 (12.70%) Architect
4 287 (10.69%) Consultant
5 277 (10.31%) Project Manager
6 272 (10.13%) Lead
7 239 (8.90%) Senior
8 142 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
9 98 (3.65%) Developer
10 74 (2.76%) Programme Manager
11 66 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
12 62 (2.31%) Data Analyst
13 59 (2.20%) Change Manager
14 55 (2.05%) Senior Business Analyst
15 50 (1.86%) SAP Consultant
16 47 (1.75%) IT Manager
16 47 (1.75%) Technical Manager
17 46 (1.71%) Senior Manager
18 43 (1.60%) Delivery Manager
18 43 (1.60%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (2.42%) REST
2 41 (1.53%) .NET
3 31 (1.15%) SOAP
4 29 (1.08%) OAuth
5 26 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
6 25 (0.93%) Middleware
7 24 (0.89%) SAML
7 24 (0.89%) SAP Fiori
7 24 (0.89%) XML
8 22 (0.82%) HTML
9 21 (0.78%) AngularJS
9 21 (0.78%) JSON
10 20 (0.74%) Kafka
10 20 (0.74%) RESTful
10 20 (0.74%) Web Services
11 19 (0.71%) Node.js
12 18 (0.67%) OpenID
13 15 (0.56%) OAuth2
13 15 (0.56%) React
13 15 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 154 (5.73%) Product Ownership
2 134 (4.99%) Onboarding
3 117 (4.36%) Legacy Systems
4 81 (3.02%) Cloud Native
4 81 (3.02%) Management Information System
5 62 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
6 55 (2.05%) Data Centre
7 53 (1.97%) NHS
8 48 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 40 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
9 40 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
10 33 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
11 32 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
12 30 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
13 29 (1.08%) PMI
14 26 (0.97%) CMDB
15 24 (0.89%) Operational Technology
15 24 (0.89%) Virtual Team
16 23 (0.86%) AI Agents
16 23 (0.86%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 72 (2.68%) Windows
2 28 (1.04%) Linux
3 19 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.67%) Windows 10
5 13 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.22%) 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 (0.074%) CentOS
11 2 (0.074%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.074%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.037%) AIX
12 1 (0.037%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.037%) Solaris
12 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.037%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (28.26%) Agile
2 507 (18.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 408 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
4 393 (14.63%) Migration
5 372 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 340 (12.66%) Change Management
7 339 (12.62%) Project Management
8 336 (12.51%) Roadmaps
9 276 (10.28%) Risk Management
10 273 (10.16%) Analytics
11 268 (9.98%) Decision-Making
12 266 (9.90%) DevOps
13 265 (9.87%) Workshop Facilitation
14 250 (9.31%) Project Delivery
15 232 (8.64%) Business Intelligence
16 217 (8.08%) Data Governance
17 214 (7.97%) Requirements Gathering
18 197 (7.33%) ERP
19 191 (7.11%) CI/CD
20 187 (6.96%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 186 (6.92%) SQL
2 150 (5.58%) Python
3 68 (2.53%) PowerShell
4 54 (2.01%) JavaScript
5 52 (1.94%) Java
6 39 (1.45%) C#
7 24 (0.89%) Bicep
8 22 (0.82%) Bash
9 20 (0.74%) TypeScript
10 18 (0.67%) R
11 15 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 13 (0.48%) ABAP
13 9 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.26%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.26%) Korn
15 5 (0.19%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.19%) Scala
16 4 (0.15%) C++
16 4 (0.15%) RPG
Qualifications
1 484 (18.02%) Security Cleared
2 378 (14.07%) SC Cleared
3 246 (9.16%) Degree
4 103 (3.83%) PMI Certification
5 95 (3.54%) PMP
6 77 (2.87%) DV Cleared
7 49 (1.82%) Master's Degree
8 48 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 44 (1.64%) CISSP
9 44 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 40 (1.49%) Azure Certification
11 33 (1.23%) CISM
12 32 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
13 27 (1.01%) AWS Certification
14 23 (0.86%) ACCA
15 22 (0.82%) CBAP
16 20 (0.74%) CIMA
16 20 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
17 15 (0.56%) APMG
17 15 (0.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (5.62%) GDPR
2 125 (4.65%) QA
3 123 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 118 (4.39%) Data Quality
5 103 (3.83%) PMO
6 97 (3.61%) NIST
7 76 (2.83%) Accessibility
8 41 (1.53%) GRC
9 40 (1.49%) PCI DSS
10 30 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 29 (1.08%) NCSC
12 22 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
13 20 (0.74%) SLA
14 16 (0.60%) MiFID
15 14 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
15 14 (0.52%) PSD2
16 13 (0.48%) COBIT
16 13 (0.48%) JSP 440
17 11 (0.41%) Basel III
17 11 (0.41%) HIPAA
System Software
1 78 (2.90%) Active Directory
2 63 (2.35%) Docker
3 26 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.41%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.34%) vSphere
6 7 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.074%) Firmware
10 1 (0.037%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.037%) XenApp
10 1 (0.037%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 108 (4.02%) Terraform
2 69 (2.57%) Kubernetes
3 32 (1.19%) Ansible
4 31 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.48%) HP ALM
6 13 (0.48%) SCCM
7 6 (0.22%) Grafana
8 5 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.19%) Control-M
9 4 (0.15%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.11%) Nessus
10 3 (0.11%) RSA Archer
10 3 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.11%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.074%) Argo
11 2 (0.074%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.074%) Cisco UCCE
11 2 (0.074%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.037%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 419 (15.60%) Microsoft
2 259 (9.64%) SAP
3 157 (5.85%) Oracle
4 156 (5.81%) ServiceNow
5 86 (3.20%) Salesforce
6 69 (2.57%) Cisco
7 60 (2.23%) Google
8 58 (2.16%) Workday
9 38 (1.41%) Databricks
10 34 (1.27%) VMware
11 32 (1.19%) Aruba
12 27 (1.01%) IBM
13 22 (0.82%) HP
14 20 (0.74%) Adobe
14 20 (0.74%) Ariba
14 20 (0.74%) Palo Alto
14 20 (0.74%) Remedy
15 18 (0.67%) CyberArk
15 18 (0.67%) OpenAI
16 15 (0.56%) Citrix