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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 108 163
Rank change year-on-year +85 +55 +1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,816 768 685
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.59% 2.27% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.61% 2.57% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,950 469 473
10th Percentile £369 £400 £375
25th Percentile £438 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £770 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £541 £525
% change year-on-year -7.62% +3.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 8 34
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.90 £32.44
25th Percentile £19.10 £25.19 £49.31
Median hourly rate £41.86 £27.75 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +50.83% -50.88% +175.56%
75th Percentile £67.25 £52.23 £61.77
90th Percentile £95.00 £72.38 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.21 £28.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +82.89% -50.43% +175.56%

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 32,705 29,929 38,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.13% 88.30% 88.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,588 18,254 25,497
10th Percentile £300 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,080 971 1,514
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.43
25th Percentile £17.54 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +27.14%
75th Percentile £50.19 £62.62 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.44 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.54 £31.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.28% -30.00% +40.63%

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 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 25 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 25 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 +88 2,467 £525 -4.55% 1,614
UK excluding London +69 1,297 £500 -7.62% 1,373
London +94 1,188 £550 - 416
Work from Home +94 828 £536 -4.71% 882
South East +53 348 £500 -9.09% 376
North of England +48 326 £505 +0.22% 310
Midlands +39 233 £500 -4.76% 260
South West +51 185 £525 -10.64% 170
West Midlands +32 169 £500 -9.09% 151
North West +31 149 £525 +4.22% 140
Yorkshire +37 140 £516 +3.25% 152
Scotland +45 90 £450 -24.05% 54
East of England +35 83 £550 +22.22% 165
East Midlands +18 63 £436 +2.59% 99
North East +24 40 £454 -45.82% 18
Wales +20 27 £450 -25.00% 36
Northern Ireland +7 13 £513 - 22
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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
1 136 (4.83%) Confluence
2 130 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.60%) SAS
5 13 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.46%) 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 (0.071%) nginx
11 2 (0.071%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.071%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.071%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 156 (5.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (3.09%) Microsoft Project
3 64 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 56 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
5 54 (1.92%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.32%) Trello
8 8 (0.28%) ProjectWise
9 7 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
10 3 (0.11%) Revit
11 2 (0.071%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.036%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.036%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.036%) Sketch
12 1 (0.036%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 111 (3.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (1.31%) Oracle EBS
4 19 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
5 17 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
5 17 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
5 17 (0.60%) SAP PP
6 15 (0.53%) SAP FI
6 15 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 13 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
8 12 (0.43%) Maximo
8 12 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
8 12 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.43%) SAP MM
8 12 (0.43%) Workday HCM
9 11 (0.39%) SAP ERP
10 9 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
10 9 (0.32%) SAP CO
10 9 (0.32%) SAP HR
10 9 (0.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 499 (17.72%) Azure
2 310 (11.01%) AWS
3 223 (7.92%) Power Platform
4 137 (4.87%) Microsoft 365
5 136 (4.83%) GCP
6 113 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
7 92 (3.27%) SaaS
8 89 (3.16%) Entra ID
9 79 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
10 56 (1.99%) OCI
11 51 (1.81%) GitHub
12 47 (1.67%) Serverless
13 38 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (1.28%) Power Automate
15 33 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
15 33 (1.17%) PowerApps
15 33 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
16 30 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
17 29 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
18 28 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 58 (2.06%) Firewall
2 39 (1.38%) Network Security
3 27 (0.96%) WAN
4 23 (0.82%) LAN
4 23 (0.82%) VPN
5 22 (0.78%) SD-WAN
6 17 (0.60%) DNS
7 13 (0.46%) BGP
8 12 (0.43%) MPLS
9 11 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (0.36%) Internet
11 8 (0.28%) DHCP
12 7 (0.25%) Kerberos
12 7 (0.25%) VSAN
12 7 (0.25%) Wireless
13 6 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
13 6 (0.21%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.21%) VLAN
14 5 (0.18%) IPsec
14 5 (0.18%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (6.21%) Power BI
2 72 (2.56%) Metadata
3 54 (1.92%) Tableau
4 52 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
5 43 (1.53%) SQL Server
6 23 (0.82%) Data Lake
7 22 (0.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 19 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
9 16 (0.57%) Power Query
10 15 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
11 14 (0.50%) Big Data
11 14 (0.50%) Data Vault
11 14 (0.50%) Relational Database
12 12 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.43%) MySQL
13 11 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (0.39%) GIS
13 11 (0.39%) Oracle Database
14 10 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 260 (9.23%) JIRA
2 37 (1.31%) GitLab
3 34 (1.21%) Git
4 30 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 24 (0.85%) Selenium
6 14 (0.50%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.36%) Postman
8 10 (0.36%) REST Assured
9 7 (0.25%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.25%) TestRail
10 6 (0.21%) JUnit
11 5 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (0.14%) ERwin
12 4 (0.14%) Hudson
12 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
13 3 (0.11%) Mockito
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
13 3 (0.11%) Visual Website Optimizer
14 2 (0.071%) MLflow
General
1 1,497 (53.16%) Social Skills
2 789 (28.02%) Finance
3 486 (17.26%) Public Sector
4 436 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
5 191 (6.78%) Banking
6 122 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
7 114 (4.05%) Legal
8 106 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
9 96 (3.41%) Manufacturing
10 81 (2.88%) Marketing
11 76 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
12 74 (2.63%) Telecoms
13 72 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
14 63 (2.24%) Retail
15 54 (1.92%) Local Government
16 48 (1.70%) Financial Institution
17 38 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 36 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
19 35 (1.24%) Investment Banking
20 33 (1.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 504 (17.90%) Analyst
2 376 (13.35%) Architect
3 362 (12.86%) Business Analyst
4 311 (11.04%) Consultant
5 300 (10.65%) Lead
6 267 (9.48%) Project Manager
7 236 (8.38%) Senior
8 136 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
9 94 (3.34%) Developer
10 76 (2.70%) Programme Manager
11 74 (2.63%) Change Manager
12 65 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
13 56 (1.99%) SAP Consultant
14 54 (1.92%) Senior Business Analyst
15 53 (1.88%) Data Analyst
16 51 (1.81%) Senior Manager
17 49 (1.74%) Designer
18 47 (1.67%) Delivery Manager
18 47 (1.67%) Technical Manager
19 44 (1.56%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (3.27%) REST
2 52 (1.85%) SOAP
3 46 (1.63%) .NET
4 41 (1.46%) LDAP
5 33 (1.17%) OAuth
5 33 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
6 28 (0.99%) Middleware
7 27 (0.96%) OpenID
8 26 (0.92%) XML
9 23 (0.82%) SAML
9 23 (0.82%) SAP Fiori
10 22 (0.78%) Node.js
11 20 (0.71%) HTML
12 19 (0.67%) AngularJS
12 19 (0.67%) JSON
13 18 (0.64%) Kafka
14 17 (0.60%) SailPoint
15 16 (0.57%) CSS
15 16 (0.57%) RESTful
16 15 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 171 (6.07%) Product Ownership
2 143 (5.08%) Onboarding
3 105 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
4 89 (3.16%) Cloud Native
5 77 (2.73%) Management Information System
6 63 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
7 57 (2.02%) NHS
8 54 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
9 52 (1.85%) Data Structures
10 47 (1.67%) Data Centre
11 43 (1.53%) Security Posture
12 39 (1.38%) PMI
13 38 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
14 35 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
15 33 (1.17%) CMDB
16 32 (1.14%) Operational Technology
17 30 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
18 29 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
19 26 (0.92%) AI Agents
20 22 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 74 (2.63%) Windows
2 33 (1.17%) Linux
3 21 (0.75%) Windows 10
4 20 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.21%) Android
7 5 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.18%) VMS
8 3 (0.11%) Unix
8 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.071%) CentOS
9 2 (0.071%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.036%) AIX
10 1 (0.036%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.036%) Solaris
10 1 (0.036%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 773 (27.45%) Agile
2 543 (19.28%) Stakeholder Management
3 442 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
4 438 (15.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 404 (14.35%) Migration
6 381 (13.53%) Roadmaps
7 365 (12.96%) Project Management
8 353 (12.54%) Change Management
9 294 (10.44%) Workshop Facilitation
10 288 (10.23%) Decision-Making
11 286 (10.16%) DevOps
12 283 (10.05%) Analytics
13 259 (9.20%) Risk Management
14 250 (8.88%) Business Intelligence
15 235 (8.35%) Project Delivery
16 223 (7.92%) Requirements Gathering
17 212 (7.53%) Data Governance
18 211 (7.49%) ERP
19 204 (7.24%) CI/CD
20 202 (7.17%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 208 (7.39%) SQL
2 187 (6.64%) Python
3 98 (3.48%) PowerShell
4 62 (2.20%) Java
5 58 (2.06%) JavaScript
6 36 (1.28%) C#
7 29 (1.03%) Bash
8 27 (0.96%) Bicep
9 22 (0.78%) R
10 19 (0.67%) TypeScript
11 15 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 13 (0.46%) ABAP
13 12 (0.43%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.32%) PHP
15 6 (0.21%) C++
15 6 (0.21%) Korn
15 6 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.18%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.18%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 554 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 439 (15.59%) SC Cleared
3 258 (9.16%) Degree
4 112 (3.98%) PMI Certification
5 98 (3.48%) PMP
6 84 (2.98%) DV Cleared
7 55 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 54 (1.92%) Master's Degree
9 46 (1.63%) CISSP
9 46 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 36 (1.28%) Azure Certification
11 32 (1.14%) CISM
12 31 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 28 (0.99%) ACCA
14 25 (0.89%) CIMA
15 23 (0.82%) AWS Certification
16 22 (0.78%) CBAP
17 19 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
18 18 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
19 16 (0.57%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (5.61%) GDPR
2 136 (4.83%) QA
3 130 (4.62%) Data Quality
4 127 (4.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 108 (3.84%) PMO
6 107 (3.80%) NIST
7 77 (2.73%) Accessibility
8 43 (1.53%) PCI DSS
9 42 (1.49%) GRC
10 32 (1.14%) NCSC
11 30 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 25 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (0.60%) SLA
14 14 (0.50%) COBIT
14 14 (0.50%) PSD2
15 13 (0.46%) Basel III
15 13 (0.46%) ISO 19650
15 13 (0.46%) JSP 440
16 12 (0.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 106 (3.76%) Active Directory
2 66 (2.34%) Docker
3 29 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.53%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.43%) vSphere
6 9 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.071%) Firmware
10 1 (0.036%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.036%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.036%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 114 (4.05%) Terraform
2 80 (2.84%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.17%) Ansible
4 30 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.64%) SCCM
7 11 (0.39%) HP ALM
8 9 (0.32%) Grafana
9 8 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.25%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.14%) Control-M
12 3 (0.11%) Argo
12 3 (0.11%) Istio
12 3 (0.11%) Nessus
12 3 (0.11%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.071%) Cisco CUCM
13 2 (0.071%) Cisco UCCE
13 2 (0.071%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.071%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 420 (14.91%) Microsoft
2 270 (9.59%) SAP
3 176 (6.25%) Oracle
4 168 (5.97%) ServiceNow
5 89 (3.16%) Salesforce
6 72 (2.56%) Google
7 69 (2.45%) Cisco
8 56 (1.99%) Workday
9 49 (1.74%) Databricks
10 43 (1.53%) VMware
11 41 (1.46%) CyberArk
12 34 (1.21%) Aruba
13 27 (0.96%) BeyondTrust
14 25 (0.89%) Adobe
14 25 (0.89%) IBM
15 23 (0.82%) Palo Alto
16 22 (0.78%) Centrify
17 21 (0.75%) OpenAI
18 18 (0.64%) Citrix
19 17 (0.60%) Remedy