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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 119 169
Rank change year-on-year +96 +50 0
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,712 746 698
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.57% 2.05% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.47% 2.37% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,854 454 479
10th Percentile £361 £392 £374
25th Percentile £438 £456 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £775 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.67% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 10 33
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.63 £32.05
25th Percentile £20.75 £23.06 -
Median hourly rate £44.43 £27.75 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +60.10% -50.88% +82.23%
75th Percentile £69.52 £57.18 £63.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £65.92 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.68 £39.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +27.38% -30.96% +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 32,027 31,522 40,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.46% 86.80% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,051 18,965 27,382
10th Percentile £300 £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 2,103 1,143 1,561
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.22 £14.27
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.15 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.69% -26.97% +48.33%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +95 2,360 £525 -4.55% 765
UK excluding London +86 1,257 £511 -2.67% 621
London +102 1,137 £550 -4.35% 301
Work from Home +104 807 £525 -4.55% 351
South East +57 340 £515 -6.70% 262
North of England +64 318 £518 +3.50% 118
Midlands +36 214 £510 +2.05% 97
South West +65 174 £525 -6.67% 71
West Midlands +33 162 £515 -1.90% 70
North West +40 149 £525 +5.00% 54
Yorkshire +43 138 £525 +5.00% 49
Scotland +50 104 £450 -14.29% 25
East of England +35 78 £533 +32.13% 43
East Midlands +20 51 £425 - 25
North East +24 32 £450 -35.71% 16
Wales +19 21 £425 -34.62% 11
Northern Ireland +8 14 £513 +220.31% 2
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
1 142 (5.24%) Confluence
2 128 (4.72%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.55%) CMS
5 14 (0.52%) SAS
6 11 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.41%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.26%) Apache
7 7 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.22%) Appian
9 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.15%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.11%) Smallworld
10 3 (0.11%) WordPress
11 2 (0.074%) CICS
11 2 (0.074%) Drupal
11 2 (0.074%) nginx
11 2 (0.074%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.037%) Alfresco
Applications
1 157 (5.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 91 (3.36%) Microsoft Project
3 64 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (2.25%) MS Visio
5 57 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.33%) Trello
8 8 (0.29%) ProjectWise
9 7 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.11%) Revit
11 2 (0.074%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.074%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.037%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.037%) FrameMaker
12 1 (0.037%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.037%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.037%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 112 (4.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 31 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
5 18 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
6 17 (0.63%) SAP FI
7 14 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
7 14 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 13 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
9 12 (0.44%) SAP PP
9 12 (0.44%) Workday HCM
10 11 (0.41%) Maximo
10 11 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
10 11 (0.41%) SAP CO
10 11 (0.41%) SAP MM
11 10 (0.37%) SAP ERP
11 10 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
12 9 (0.33%) Teamcenter
13 8 (0.29%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 450 (16.59%) Azure
2 270 (9.96%) AWS
3 212 (7.82%) Power Platform
4 130 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
5 108 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
6 102 (3.76%) GCP
7 89 (3.28%) SaaS
8 80 (2.95%) Entra ID
9 69 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
10 49 (1.81%) OCI
11 44 (1.62%) Serverless
12 43 (1.59%) GitHub
13 37 (1.36%) Microsoft Purview
14 33 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
14 33 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (1.22%) Power Automate
14 33 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
15 30 (1.11%) PowerApps
16 29 (1.07%) PaaS
17 28 (1.03%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 61 (2.25%) Firewall
2 38 (1.40%) Network Security
3 27 (1.00%) WAN
4 23 (0.85%) VPN
5 22 (0.81%) LAN
5 22 (0.81%) SD-WAN
6 19 (0.70%) DNS
7 13 (0.48%) BGP
7 13 (0.48%) MPLS
8 10 (0.37%) DHCP
9 9 (0.33%) Internet
9 9 (0.33%) SSL
10 8 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.22%) Kerberos
11 6 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
11 6 (0.22%) VLAN
11 6 (0.22%) Wireless
12 5 (0.18%) IPsec
12 5 (0.18%) OSPF
12 5 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (6.01%) Power BI
2 80 (2.95%) Metadata
3 49 (1.81%) Tableau
4 48 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
5 39 (1.44%) SQL Server
6 24 (0.88%) Data Lake
7 22 (0.81%) Electronic Patient Records
8 19 (0.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 17 (0.63%) Power Query
10 14 (0.52%) Big Data
10 14 (0.52%) Data Vault
10 14 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
11 13 (0.48%) Relational Database
12 12 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (0.41%) GIS
13 11 (0.41%) Hadoop
14 10 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.37%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 252 (9.29%) JIRA
2 34 (1.25%) Git
3 25 (0.92%) GitLab
4 19 (0.70%) Jenkins
5 18 (0.66%) Selenium
6 9 (0.33%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.26%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.26%) Robot Framework
8 6 (0.22%) JUnit
9 5 (0.18%) ERwin
9 5 (0.18%) 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%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.074%) Postman
12 2 (0.074%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,400 (51.62%) Social Skills
2 788 (29.06%) Finance
3 473 (17.44%) Public Sector
4 422 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
5 190 (7.01%) Banking
6 132 (4.87%) Legal
7 111 (4.09%) Influencing Skills
8 103 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
9 98 (3.61%) Manufacturing
10 82 (3.02%) Telecoms
11 78 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
12 76 (2.80%) Marketing
13 70 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
14 63 (2.32%) Retail
15 58 (2.14%) Local Government
16 45 (1.66%) Financial Institution
17 42 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 37 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
19 35 (1.29%) Law
20 34 (1.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 504 (18.58%) Analyst
2 364 (13.42%) Business Analyst
3 350 (12.91%) Architect
4 290 (10.69%) Consultant
5 281 (10.36%) Project Manager
6 278 (10.25%) Lead
7 239 (8.81%) Senior
8 146 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
9 97 (3.58%) Developer
10 77 (2.84%) Programme Manager
11 67 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
12 60 (2.21%) Data Analyst
13 59 (2.18%) Change Manager
14 57 (2.10%) Senior Business Analyst
15 50 (1.84%) SAP Consultant
16 49 (1.81%) IT Manager
16 49 (1.81%) Technical Manager
17 46 (1.70%) Senior Manager
18 45 (1.66%) Delivery Manager
19 44 (1.62%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (2.36%) REST
2 40 (1.47%) .NET
3 31 (1.14%) OAuth
3 31 (1.14%) SOAP
4 26 (0.96%) SAML
5 25 (0.92%) Middleware
5 25 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
6 24 (0.88%) SAP Fiori
7 23 (0.85%) XML
8 22 (0.81%) HTML
9 21 (0.77%) AngularJS
9 21 (0.77%) JSON
10 20 (0.74%) OpenID
10 20 (0.74%) RESTful
10 20 (0.74%) Web Services
11 19 (0.70%) Node.js
12 18 (0.66%) Kafka
13 16 (0.59%) LDAP
14 15 (0.55%) Spring
14 15 (0.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 160 (5.90%) Product Ownership
2 138 (5.09%) Onboarding
3 119 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
4 83 (3.06%) Management Information System
5 82 (3.02%) Cloud Native
6 61 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 54 (1.99%) Data Centre
7 54 (1.99%) NHS
8 47 (1.73%) Data Structures
9 41 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
10 40 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
11 32 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
11 32 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
11 32 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 32 (1.18%) PMI
12 26 (0.96%) CMDB
13 24 (0.88%) Operational Technology
14 23 (0.85%) AI Agents
14 23 (0.85%) Life Science
14 23 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 70 (2.58%) Windows
2 28 (1.03%) Linux
3 20 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.63%) Windows 10
5 14 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.22%) Android
8 5 (0.18%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.15%) VMS
10 3 (0.11%) Unix
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
1 773 (28.50%) Agile
2 509 (18.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 411 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
4 400 (14.75%) Migration
5 384 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 352 (12.98%) Project Management
7 350 (12.91%) Roadmaps
8 349 (12.87%) Change Management
9 274 (10.10%) Analytics
10 273 (10.07%) Decision-Making
11 272 (10.03%) Risk Management
12 269 (9.92%) DevOps
13 267 (9.85%) Workshop Facilitation
14 250 (9.22%) Project Delivery
15 235 (8.67%) Business Intelligence
16 217 (8.00%) Requirements Gathering
17 216 (7.96%) Data Governance
18 199 (7.34%) ERP
19 190 (7.01%) CI/CD
20 188 (6.93%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 182 (6.71%) SQL
2 150 (5.53%) Python
3 66 (2.43%) PowerShell
4 52 (1.92%) Java
4 52 (1.92%) JavaScript
5 39 (1.44%) C#
6 25 (0.92%) Bicep
7 22 (0.81%) Bash
8 20 (0.74%) R
9 18 (0.66%) TypeScript
10 14 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 13 (0.48%) ABAP
12 10 (0.37%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.26%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.26%) Korn
14 5 (0.18%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.18%) Scala
15 4 (0.15%) C++
15 4 (0.15%) RPG
Qualifications
1 496 (18.29%) Security Cleared
2 383 (14.12%) SC Cleared
3 252 (9.29%) Degree
4 108 (3.98%) PMI Certification
5 97 (3.58%) PMP
6 83 (3.06%) DV Cleared
7 51 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 51 (1.88%) Master's Degree
8 44 (1.62%) CISSP
8 44 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 40 (1.47%) Azure Certification
10 34 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 32 (1.18%) CISM
12 28 (1.03%) AWS Certification
13 24 (0.88%) ACCA
14 21 (0.77%) CBAP
14 21 (0.77%) CIMA
14 21 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
16 15 (0.55%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (5.57%) GDPR
2 125 (4.61%) QA
3 123 (4.54%) Data Quality
3 123 (4.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 109 (4.02%) PMO
5 99 (3.65%) NIST
6 78 (2.88%) Accessibility
7 40 (1.47%) GRC
7 40 (1.47%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.07%) NCSC
8 29 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 22 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
10 20 (0.74%) SLA
11 15 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
11 15 (0.55%) MiFID
12 14 (0.52%) COBIT
12 14 (0.52%) PSD2
13 13 (0.48%) JSP 440
14 11 (0.41%) HIPAA
14 11 (0.41%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 79 (2.91%) Active Directory
2 63 (2.32%) Docker
3 26 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.41%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.33%) vSphere
6 7 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.074%) Firmware
10 1 (0.037%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 109 (4.02%) Terraform
2 70 (2.58%) Kubernetes
3 32 (1.18%) Ansible
4 31 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
5 26 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.48%) SCCM
7 12 (0.44%) HP ALM
8 7 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.22%) Grafana
10 4 (0.15%) Control-M
10 4 (0.15%) Prometheus
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 (0.074%) Argo
12 2 (0.074%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.074%) Cisco UCCE
12 2 (0.074%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.037%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 426 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 263 (9.70%) SAP
3 161 (5.94%) Oracle
4 156 (5.75%) ServiceNow
5 88 (3.24%) Salesforce
6 71 (2.62%) Cisco
7 63 (2.32%) Google
8 59 (2.18%) Workday
9 42 (1.55%) Databricks
10 34 (1.25%) VMware
11 33 (1.22%) Aruba
12 26 (0.96%) IBM
13 21 (0.77%) Adobe
13 21 (0.77%) Ariba
13 21 (0.77%) HP
13 21 (0.77%) Palo Alto
14 20 (0.74%) Remedy
15 19 (0.70%) OpenAI
16 18 (0.66%) CyberArk
17 15 (0.55%) Informatica