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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 116 163
Rank change year-on-year +93 +47 +1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,743 753 706
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.62% 2.11% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.56% 2.42% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,880 460 482
10th Percentile £360 £386 £375
25th Percentile £431 £456 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £769 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 10 34
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.63 £30.34
25th Percentile £20.75 £23.06 £53.00
Median hourly rate £41.86 £27.75 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +50.83% -50.88% +82.23%
75th Percentile £66.20 £57.18 £61.77
90th Percentile £87.13 £65.92 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £39.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +7.32% -30.96% +125.96%

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 32,041 31,135 40,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.06% 87.25% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,133 18,828 26,941
10th Percentile £300 £310 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,077 1,103 1,555
10th Percentile £14.58 £15.22 £14.38
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% -24.14% +24.29%
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 £43.83
% change year-on-year -29.69% -25.84% +37.15%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +95 2,395 £525 -4.55% 732
UK excluding London +84 1,272 £508 -3.33% 659
London +100 1,158 £550 -4.35% 263
Work from Home +104 806 £525 -4.55% 368
South East +55 348 £520 -5.45% 251
North of England +65 319 £520 +4.00% 141
Midlands +41 218 £506 -0.05% 94
South West +66 176 £525 -6.67% 83
West Midlands +36 165 £510 -2.81% 67
North West +40 150 £525 +5.00% 63
Yorkshire +40 135 £525 +5.00% 64
Scotland +53 103 £450 -10.00% 36
East of England +37 78 £541 +34.31% 46
East Midlands +17 52 £424 -0.29% 25
North East +26 37 £450 -45.45% 15
Wales +18 23 £400 -33.33% 15
Northern Ireland +8 13 £513 - 3
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
1 144 (5.25%) Confluence
2 130 (4.74%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.51%) SAS
5 13 (0.47%) CMS
6 11 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.40%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.26%) Apache
8 6 (0.22%) 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 (0.073%) Drupal
11 2 (0.073%) nginx
11 2 (0.073%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.073%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.036%) Alfresco
12 1 (0.036%) CICS
Applications
1 160 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 89 (3.24%) Microsoft Project
3 67 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
5 57 (2.08%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.36%) 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 (0.073%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.073%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.036%) FrameMaker
12 1 (0.036%) Notion
12 1 (0.036%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.036%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.036%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 113 (4.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
5 18 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
6 15 (0.55%) SAP FI
6 15 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 14 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
7 14 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
8 13 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
9 12 (0.44%) SAP MM
9 12 (0.44%) SAP PP
9 12 (0.44%) Workday HCM
10 11 (0.40%) Maximo
10 11 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
11 10 (0.36%) SAP CO
12 9 (0.33%) SAP ERP
12 9 (0.33%) Teamcenter
13 8 (0.29%) SAP EWM
13 8 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 458 (16.70%) Azure
2 271 (9.88%) AWS
3 220 (8.02%) Power Platform
4 133 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
5 109 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
6 105 (3.83%) GCP
7 89 (3.24%) SaaS
8 83 (3.03%) Entra ID
9 74 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
10 48 (1.75%) OCI
11 44 (1.60%) GitHub
11 44 (1.60%) Serverless
12 36 (1.31%) Microsoft Purview
12 36 (1.31%) Power Automate
13 34 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
14 32 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
14 32 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
15 31 (1.13%) PowerApps
16 29 (1.06%) PaaS
17 28 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.19%) Firewall
2 38 (1.39%) Network Security
3 27 (0.98%) WAN
4 23 (0.84%) VPN
5 22 (0.80%) LAN
5 22 (0.80%) SD-WAN
6 19 (0.69%) DNS
7 13 (0.47%) BGP
7 13 (0.47%) MPLS
8 10 (0.36%) 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%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.22%) VLAN
11 6 (0.22%) Wireless
12 5 (0.18%) IPsec
12 5 (0.18%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (6.20%) Power BI
2 82 (2.99%) Metadata
3 53 (1.93%) Tableau
4 51 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (1.49%) SQL Server
6 24 (0.87%) Data Lake
7 21 (0.77%) Electronic Patient Records
8 19 (0.69%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 17 (0.62%) Power Query
10 14 (0.51%) Big Data
10 14 (0.51%) Data Vault
10 14 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
11 13 (0.47%) Relational Database
12 12 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (0.40%) Delta Lake
13 11 (0.40%) GIS
14 10 (0.36%) Hadoop
14 10 (0.36%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 253 (9.22%) JIRA
2 35 (1.28%) Git
3 26 (0.95%) GitLab
4 21 (0.77%) 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 (0.073%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.073%) MLflow
12 2 (0.073%) Postman
General
1 1,422 (51.84%) Social Skills
2 798 (29.09%) Finance
3 473 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 429 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
5 194 (7.07%) Banking
6 130 (4.74%) Legal
7 118 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
8 104 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
9 101 (3.68%) Manufacturing
10 83 (3.03%) Telecoms
11 82 (2.99%) Marketing
12 77 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
13 75 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
14 69 (2.52%) Retail
15 56 (2.04%) Local Government
16 47 (1.71%) Financial Institution
17 41 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 36 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
19 35 (1.28%) Investment Banking
19 35 (1.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 506 (18.45%) Analyst
2 363 (13.23%) Business Analyst
3 355 (12.94%) Architect
4 293 (10.68%) Consultant
5 275 (10.03%) Lead
5 275 (10.03%) Project Manager
6 240 (8.75%) Senior
7 147 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
8 97 (3.54%) Developer
9 79 (2.88%) Programme Manager
10 67 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
11 62 (2.26%) Change Manager
12 59 (2.15%) Data Analyst
13 55 (2.01%) Senior Business Analyst
14 51 (1.86%) Technical Manager
15 50 (1.82%) IT Manager
16 49 (1.79%) SAP Consultant
17 48 (1.75%) Senior Manager
18 44 (1.60%) Delivery Manager
18 44 (1.60%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (2.33%) REST
2 39 (1.42%) .NET
3 32 (1.17%) SOAP
4 31 (1.13%) OAuth
5 26 (0.95%) SAML
6 25 (0.91%) Middleware
6 25 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
7 23 (0.84%) SAP Fiori
7 23 (0.84%) XML
8 22 (0.80%) AngularJS
8 22 (0.80%) HTML
9 20 (0.73%) JSON
9 20 (0.73%) Node.js
9 20 (0.73%) OpenID
9 20 (0.73%) Web Services
10 19 (0.69%) RESTful
11 17 (0.62%) Kafka
12 16 (0.58%) LDAP
13 15 (0.55%) OAuth2
13 15 (0.55%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 166 (6.05%) Product Ownership
2 145 (5.29%) Onboarding
3 115 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
4 82 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 80 (2.92%) Cloud Native
6 62 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
7 55 (2.01%) NHS
8 49 (1.79%) Data Centre
9 48 (1.75%) Data Structures
10 41 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 40 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
12 34 (1.24%) PMI
13 33 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
13 33 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
14 31 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
15 30 (1.09%) CMDB
16 25 (0.91%) Operational Technology
17 24 (0.87%) AI Agents
18 23 (0.84%) Life Science
19 21 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 69 (2.52%) Windows
2 28 (1.02%) Linux
3 20 (0.73%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.62%) Windows 10
5 14 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.22%) 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 (0.073%) CentOS
10 2 (0.073%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.073%) 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
11 1 (0.036%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 769 (28.03%) Agile
2 518 (18.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 416 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
4 404 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 400 (14.58%) Migration
6 356 (12.98%) Roadmaps
7 353 (12.87%) Project Management
8 351 (12.80%) Change Management
9 279 (10.17%) Decision-Making
10 277 (10.10%) Workshop Facilitation
11 276 (10.06%) Analytics
12 274 (9.99%) Risk Management
13 269 (9.81%) DevOps
14 250 (9.11%) Project Delivery
15 243 (8.86%) Business Intelligence
16 217 (7.91%) Requirements Gathering
17 215 (7.84%) Data Governance
18 202 (7.36%) ERP
19 197 (7.18%) CI/CD
20 194 (7.07%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 188 (6.85%) SQL
2 151 (5.50%) Python
3 66 (2.41%) PowerShell
4 53 (1.93%) JavaScript
5 51 (1.86%) Java
6 36 (1.31%) C#
7 26 (0.95%) Bicep
8 22 (0.80%) Bash
9 21 (0.77%) R
10 18 (0.66%) TypeScript
11 15 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 13 (0.47%) ABAP
13 11 (0.40%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.26%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.26%) Korn
15 5 (0.18%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.15%) C++
16 4 (0.15%) RPG
16 4 (0.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 509 (18.56%) Security Cleared
2 390 (14.22%) SC Cleared
3 248 (9.04%) Degree
4 109 (3.97%) PMI Certification
5 95 (3.46%) PMP
6 86 (3.14%) DV Cleared
7 53 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 52 (1.90%) Master's Degree
9 45 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 43 (1.57%) CISSP
11 39 (1.42%) Azure Certification
12 31 (1.13%) CISM
13 30 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
14 27 (0.98%) ACCA
14 27 (0.98%) AWS Certification
15 24 (0.87%) CIMA
16 22 (0.80%) CBAP
17 20 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
18 17 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
19 14 (0.51%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (5.54%) GDPR
2 127 (4.63%) QA
3 125 (4.56%) Data Quality
4 124 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 111 (4.05%) PMO
6 100 (3.65%) NIST
7 76 (2.77%) Accessibility
8 42 (1.53%) GRC
9 41 (1.49%) PCI DSS
10 31 (1.13%) NCSC
11 30 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 22 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
13 20 (0.73%) SLA
14 15 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
14 15 (0.55%) COBIT
14 15 (0.55%) MiFID
15 14 (0.51%) PSD2
16 13 (0.47%) JSP 440
17 11 (0.40%) Basel III
17 11 (0.40%) HIPAA
System Software
1 81 (2.95%) Active Directory
2 65 (2.37%) Docker
3 26 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.40%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.33%) vSphere
6 7 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.073%) Firmware
9 1 (0.036%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 110 (4.01%) Terraform
2 74 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 32 (1.17%) Ansible
4 31 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.47%) SCCM
7 11 (0.40%) HP ALM
8 7 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (0.26%) Grafana
9 5 (0.18%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.15%) Control-M
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 (0.073%) Argo
12 2 (0.073%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.073%) Cisco UCCE
12 2 (0.073%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.036%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 425 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 265 (9.66%) SAP
3 166 (6.05%) ServiceNow
4 161 (5.87%) Oracle
5 92 (3.35%) Salesforce
6 70 (2.55%) Cisco
7 67 (2.44%) Google
8 58 (2.11%) Workday
9 45 (1.64%) Databricks
10 34 (1.24%) VMware
11 33 (1.20%) Aruba
12 26 (0.95%) IBM
13 22 (0.80%) Adobe
14 21 (0.77%) OpenAI
14 21 (0.77%) Palo Alto
15 20 (0.73%) Ariba
15 20 (0.73%) HP
15 20 (0.73%) Remedy
16 19 (0.69%) CyberArk
17 16 (0.58%) Informatica