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

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 136 166
Rank change year-on-year +111 +30 +11
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,388 686 745
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.10% 1.86% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.85% 2.16% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,611 415 534
10th Percentile £363 £368 £400
25th Percentile £435 £450 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £668
90th Percentile £738 £775 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £516 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.29% -0.48% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 11 34
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £29.30
25th Percentile £26.21 £26.25 £51.83
Median hourly rate £47.25 £50.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% -11.49% +105.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.28 £63.83
90th Percentile £79.75 £61.06 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £58.05 £56.49
% change year-on-year -0.94% +2.75% +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 30,417 31,751 42,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.41% 86.14% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,927 19,078 28,622
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,950 1,157 1,592
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.71
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year -32.95% -12.28% +22.14%
75th Percentile £42.69 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £37.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -39.82% -12.94% +53.26%

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 26 October 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 26 October 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 26 October 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 +109 2,061 £530 -3.64% 1,376
UK excluding London +94 1,076 £516 -1.29% 1,074
London +112 1,009 £550 -4.35% 596
Work from Home +112 726 £525 -3.67% 686
North of England +67 279 £520 +4.00% 203
South East +61 266 £525 -4.55% 479
Midlands +44 188 £515 +0.49% 154
South West +77 154 £538 - 113
West Midlands +34 142 £525 +0.96% 101
North West +38 136 £525 +5.00% 127
Yorkshire +47 126 £525 +5.00% 47
Scotland +45 89 £460 +0.27% 48
East of England +45 76 £550 +41.94% 69
East Midlands +22 45 £445 -11.00% 50
North East +10 18 £450 -21.74% 29
Wales +17 16 £463 -29.52% 22
Northern Ireland +1 12 £525 +228.13% 4
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
1 127 (5.32%) Confluence
2 113 (4.73%) SharePoint
3 20 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.59%) CMS
5 12 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.46%) SAS
7 9 (0.38%) Apache
7 9 (0.38%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.25%) Appian
10 4 (0.17%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
11 3 (0.13%) Smallworld
12 2 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.084%) Drupal
12 2 (0.084%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.084%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.084%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.084%) WordPress
Applications
1 144 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (3.64%) Microsoft Project
3 59 (2.47%) MS Visio
4 55 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 53 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (0.34%) ProjectWise
6 8 (0.34%) Trello
7 7 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.13%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.13%) Revit
10 2 (0.084%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.042%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.042%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.042%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.042%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.042%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 100 (4.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
4 19 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
5 17 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
6 14 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
6 14 (0.59%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.54%) Oracle EBS R12
7 13 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
9 10 (0.42%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.42%) Workday HCM
10 9 (0.38%) SAP ERP
10 9 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.38%) SAP GTS
10 9 (0.38%) SAP MDG
10 9 (0.38%) SAP PS
10 9 (0.38%) Teamcenter
11 8 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
11 8 (0.34%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 370 (15.49%) Azure
2 208 (8.71%) AWS
3 193 (8.08%) Power Platform
4 102 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
5 94 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
6 78 (3.27%) GCP
7 72 (3.02%) SaaS
8 60 (2.51%) Entra ID
9 56 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
10 45 (1.88%) OCI
11 34 (1.42%) GitHub
12 32 (1.34%) Serverless
13 31 (1.30%) PaaS
14 29 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
15 25 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
15 25 (1.05%) Power Automate
16 24 (1.01%) IaaS
17 23 (0.96%) Miro
17 23 (0.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.22%) Firewall
2 28 (1.17%) Network Security
3 21 (0.88%) WAN
4 17 (0.71%) SD-WAN
5 14 (0.59%) VPN
6 13 (0.54%) DNS
6 13 (0.54%) LAN
7 10 (0.42%) BGP
7 10 (0.42%) SSL
8 8 (0.34%) MPLS
9 6 (0.25%) DHCP
9 6 (0.25%) Software-Defined Networking
9 6 (0.25%) VLAN
10 5 (0.21%) OSPF
10 5 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.17%) 5G
11 4 (0.17%) Intranet
11 4 (0.17%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.17%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (6.37%) Power BI
2 72 (3.02%) Metadata
3 43 (1.80%) Tableau
4 42 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (1.42%) SQL Server
6 22 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 17 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
7 17 (0.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 16 (0.67%) Power Query
9 15 (0.63%) Big Data
10 14 (0.59%) Relational Database
11 12 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
12 11 (0.46%) Delta Lake
13 10 (0.42%) GIS
13 10 (0.42%) Hadoop
13 10 (0.42%) Oracle Database
14 9 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (0.38%) BigQuery
14 9 (0.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 235 (9.84%) JIRA
2 29 (1.21%) Git
3 24 (1.01%) GitLab
4 21 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 18 (0.75%) Selenium
6 8 (0.34%) Cucumber
6 8 (0.34%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.29%) Robot Framework
8 6 (0.25%) JUnit
9 4 (0.17%) Hudson
9 4 (0.17%) Mockito
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.13%) Postman
10 3 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.13%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 2 (0.084%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.084%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.084%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.084%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.084%) Zephyr
General
1 1,193 (49.96%) Social Skills
2 705 (29.52%) Finance
3 385 (16.12%) Public Sector
4 355 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
5 174 (7.29%) Banking
6 115 (4.82%) Legal
7 89 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
8 88 (3.69%) Manufacturing
9 80 (3.35%) Telecoms
10 76 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
11 75 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
12 68 (2.85%) Marketing
13 60 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
14 55 (2.30%) Retail
15 48 (2.01%) Local Government
16 46 (1.93%) Financial Institution
16 46 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 38 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
18 32 (1.34%) Investment Banking
19 31 (1.30%) Law
Job Titles
1 462 (19.35%) Analyst
2 326 (13.65%) Business Analyst
3 296 (12.40%) Architect
4 254 (10.64%) Consultant
5 249 (10.43%) Project Manager
6 239 (10.01%) Lead
7 216 (9.05%) Senior
8 121 (5.07%) Solutions Architect
9 83 (3.48%) Developer
10 71 (2.97%) Programme Manager
11 65 (2.72%) Data Analyst
12 57 (2.39%) Senior Analyst
13 49 (2.05%) Change Manager
13 49 (2.05%) SAP Consultant
14 48 (2.01%) Senior Business Analyst
15 45 (1.88%) IT Manager
15 45 (1.88%) Senior Manager
16 43 (1.80%) Technical Manager
17 41 (1.72%) Business Manager
18 40 (1.68%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (2.43%) REST
2 34 (1.42%) .NET
3 28 (1.17%) SOAP
4 25 (1.05%) Middleware
4 25 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
5 23 (0.96%) HTML
6 22 (0.92%) OAuth
7 20 (0.84%) JSON
7 20 (0.84%) SAML
7 20 (0.84%) SAP Fiori
7 20 (0.84%) XML
8 19 (0.80%) RESTful
9 18 (0.75%) Kafka
10 15 (0.63%) CSS
10 15 (0.63%) OpenID
10 15 (0.63%) Web Services
11 14 (0.59%) LDAP
11 14 (0.59%) SailPoint
12 13 (0.54%) OAuth2
13 12 (0.50%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 141 (5.90%) Product Ownership
2 112 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 105 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
4 73 (3.06%) Management Information System
5 69 (2.89%) Cloud Native
6 55 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 51 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 45 (1.88%) Data Structures
9 40 (1.68%) NHS
10 36 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
11 33 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
11 33 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
12 26 (1.09%) Virtual Team
13 25 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
13 25 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
13 25 (1.05%) Life Science
14 24 (1.01%) CMDB
15 20 (0.84%) Operational Technology
16 18 (0.75%) PMI
17 17 (0.71%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 64 (2.68%) Windows
2 22 (0.92%) Linux
3 17 (0.71%) Windows 10
3 17 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.29%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.21%) Android
5 5 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.17%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.17%) Unix
7 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.084%) CentOS
8 2 (0.084%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.084%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.042%) AIX
9 1 (0.042%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.042%) Solaris
9 1 (0.042%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.042%) VMS
9 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.042%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 675 (28.27%) Agile
2 441 (18.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 356 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
4 347 (14.53%) Migration
5 310 (12.98%) Project Management
6 296 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 295 (12.35%) Change Management
8 273 (11.43%) Roadmaps
9 257 (10.76%) Risk Management
10 248 (10.39%) Decision-Making
11 243 (10.18%) Workshop Facilitation
12 236 (9.88%) DevOps
13 227 (9.51%) Project Delivery
14 222 (9.30%) Analytics
15 216 (9.05%) Business Intelligence
16 189 (7.91%) Requirements Gathering
17 188 (7.87%) Data Governance
18 179 (7.50%) ERP
19 170 (7.12%) Business Analysis
20 166 (6.95%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 165 (6.91%) SQL
2 114 (4.77%) Python
3 51 (2.14%) PowerShell
4 47 (1.97%) JavaScript
5 41 (1.72%) Java
6 30 (1.26%) C#
7 21 (0.88%) Bash
7 21 (0.88%) Bicep
8 16 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (0.59%) TypeScript
10 13 (0.54%) R
11 9 (0.38%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.25%) ABAP
12 6 (0.25%) Korn
13 5 (0.21%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.21%) Scala
14 4 (0.17%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.17%) RPG
14 4 (0.17%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 394 (16.50%) Security Cleared
2 297 (12.44%) SC Cleared
3 216 (9.05%) Degree
4 94 (3.94%) PMI Certification
4 94 (3.94%) PMP
5 67 (2.81%) DV Cleared
6 43 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 37 (1.55%) CISSP
7 37 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 36 (1.51%) Azure Certification
9 34 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 32 (1.34%) CISM
11 29 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 25 (1.05%) AWS Certification
13 22 (0.92%) CBAP
14 20 (0.84%) ACCA
15 17 (0.71%) CIMA
16 15 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
17 13 (0.54%) APMG
18 11 (0.46%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (5.36%) GDPR
2 112 (4.69%) Data Quality
3 108 (4.52%) QA
4 101 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 94 (3.94%) PMO
6 92 (3.85%) NIST
7 64 (2.68%) Accessibility
8 37 (1.55%) GRC
9 30 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 29 (1.21%) PCI DSS
11 27 (1.13%) NCSC
12 20 (0.84%) SLA
13 18 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
14 15 (0.63%) MiFID
15 12 (0.50%) COBIT
15 12 (0.50%) PSD2
16 11 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
16 11 (0.46%) EMIR
16 11 (0.46%) ISO 19650
17 10 (0.42%) JSP 440
System Software
1 59 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 48 (2.01%) Docker
3 21 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.17%) vSphere
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.084%) Firmware
8 2 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.042%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.042%) XenApp
9 1 (0.042%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 80 (3.35%) Terraform
2 50 (2.09%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
4 24 (1.01%) Ansible
5 20 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.54%) SCCM
7 11 (0.46%) HP ALM
8 7 (0.29%) Grafana
9 6 (0.25%) Control-M
10 5 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.21%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.13%) Nessus
12 2 (0.084%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.084%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.084%) Cisco UCCE
12 2 (0.084%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.084%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.084%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.084%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.042%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 370 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 243 (10.18%) SAP
3 146 (6.11%) Oracle
4 133 (5.57%) ServiceNow
5 77 (3.22%) Salesforce
6 52 (2.18%) Workday
7 47 (1.97%) Google
8 45 (1.88%) Cisco
9 35 (1.47%) Databricks
10 26 (1.09%) VMware
11 21 (0.88%) Adobe
11 21 (0.88%) IBM
12 20 (0.84%) HP
13 19 (0.80%) Remedy
14 18 (0.75%) Aruba
15 17 (0.71%) Ariba
15 17 (0.71%) Citrix
16 14 (0.59%) CyberArk
16 14 (0.59%) Palo Alto
17 13 (0.54%) Informatica