Stakeholder Engagement Contracts

Stakeholder Engagement
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Stakeholder Engagement over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 152 162
Rank change year-on-year +107 +10 +22
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 1,441 682 902
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.53% 1.57% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.99% 1.85% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 953 466 670
10th Percentile £359 £363 £397
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -4.53% -0.24% +0.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 16
10th Percentile £24.51 £18.35 £19.00
25th Percentile £29.51 £26.64 £21.25
Median hourly rate £49.50 £38.00 £51.08
Median % change year-on-year +30.27% -25.61% +54.56%
75th Percentile £71.31 £60.44 £56.50
90th Percentile £76.67 £75.00 £57.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.00 £56.49 £51.08
% change year-on-year +4.44% +10.59% +75.00%

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 28,850 36,964 50,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.71% 85.28% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,170 23,592 34,850
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,420 2,515 1,729
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.42 £16.18 £16.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +1.77% +43.62%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Daily rate trend for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Hourly rate trend for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Top 18 Contract 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 5 July 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 +98 1,215 £529 -3.82% 3,709
London +93 646 £550 -7.56% 1,744
UK excluding London +96 608 £500 -4.53% 2,214
Work from Home +114 448 £501 -9.00% 1,738
North of England +77 168 £500 -2.44% 513
South East +68 144 £531 -3.45% 568
Midlands +38 104 £487 -6.35% 368
North West +47 84 £504 +1.92% 280
Yorkshire +56 79 £475 -8.43% 187
South West +63 76 £550 +5.01% 295
West Midlands +28 76 £487 -6.35% 233
Scotland +27 70 £501 -4.67% 116
East of England +33 30 £500 +33.33% 270
East Midlands +20 26 £450 -10.00% 129
Wales +16 12 £380 -6.46% 65
North East -2 5 £450 -23.73% 47
Northern Ireland -10 5 £563 +115.31% 43
Channel Islands - 2 £463 -

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 79 (5.48%) Confluence
2 45 (3.12%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.04%) CMS
4 8 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.42%) Apache
6 5 (0.35%) SAS
7 4 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.21%) Drupal
8 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.069%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.069%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.069%) CICS
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle UPK
10 1 (0.069%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.069%) TPMS
10 1 (0.069%) Umbraco
Applications
1 67 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (3.82%) Microsoft Project
3 41 (2.85%) MS Visio
4 38 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.49%) Trello
7 6 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.21%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.21%) Sketch
10 2 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 63 (4.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.62%) SAP CO
5 8 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (0.56%) SAP FI
5 8 (0.56%) SAP GTS
5 8 (0.56%) SAP MDG
5 8 (0.56%) SAP PS
6 7 (0.49%) Maximo
6 7 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
7 6 (0.42%) NEC Housing
7 6 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.42%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.35%) Primavera
8 5 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.35%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 198 (13.74%) Azure
2 116 (8.05%) AWS
3 95 (6.59%) Power Platform
4 45 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
5 42 (2.91%) SaaS
6 40 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (2.78%) GCP
7 34 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
8 22 (1.53%) Entra ID
9 18 (1.25%) IaaS
9 18 (1.25%) PaaS
10 17 (1.18%) GitHub
10 17 (1.18%) Serverless
11 16 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
12 14 (0.97%) Lucidchart
13 12 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (0.83%) Figma
13 12 (0.83%) Snowflake
13 12 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
14 11 (0.76%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.15%) Firewall
2 11 (0.76%) 5G
3 10 (0.69%) VPN
3 10 (0.69%) WAN
4 9 (0.62%) Network Security
5 8 (0.56%) SSL
6 7 (0.49%) DNS
7 6 (0.42%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.35%) DHCP
8 5 (0.35%) Internet
9 4 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
9 4 (0.28%) WebEx
10 3 (0.21%) 4G
10 3 (0.21%) BGP
10 3 (0.21%) Cisco Firepower
10 3 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (0.21%) Intranet
10 3 (0.21%) LAN
10 3 (0.21%) OSPF
10 3 (0.21%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (5.20%) Power BI
2 38 (2.64%) Metadata
3 36 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (1.32%) SQL Server
5 15 (1.04%) Data Lake
6 13 (0.90%) Tableau
7 8 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (0.56%) Big Data
7 8 (0.56%) Data Vault
7 8 (0.56%) Delta Lake
7 8 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (0.56%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.49%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.35%) BigQuery
9 5 (0.35%) Data Mining
9 5 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (0.35%) Power Query
10 4 (0.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 140 (9.72%) JIRA
2 10 (0.69%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.42%) Git
4 5 (0.35%) Axure RP
4 5 (0.35%) Selenium
5 4 (0.28%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.28%) GitLab
5 4 (0.28%) Postman
5 4 (0.28%) TestRail
6 3 (0.21%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.21%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.21%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.21%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.21%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.14%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.14%) ERwin
7 2 (0.14%) JUnit
7 2 (0.14%) Mockito
7 2 (0.14%) ScriptRunner
General
1 639 (44.34%) Social Skills
2 440 (30.53%) Finance
3 227 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (12.35%) Public Sector
5 103 (7.15%) Banking
6 73 (5.07%) Legal
7 65 (4.51%) Retail
8 61 (4.23%) Telecoms
9 55 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
10 52 (3.61%) Manufacturing
11 51 (3.54%) Marketing
12 50 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
13 39 (2.71%) Local Government
14 35 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
15 33 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 31 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
16 31 (2.15%) Law
17 25 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
18 23 (1.60%) Financial Institution
19 21 (1.46%) Billing
Job Titles
1 284 (19.71%) Analyst
2 215 (14.92%) Project Manager
3 202 (14.02%) Business Analyst
4 172 (11.94%) Architect
5 147 (10.20%) Lead
6 141 (9.78%) Senior
7 109 (7.56%) Consultant
8 59 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
9 44 (3.05%) Data Analyst
10 43 (2.98%) IT Manager
10 43 (2.98%) Senior Manager
11 42 (2.91%) Programme Manager
12 38 (2.64%) Senior Analyst
13 36 (2.50%) Change Manager
14 34 (2.36%) Delivery Manager
15 32 (2.22%) Developer
16 30 (2.08%) Technical Manager
17 29 (2.01%) IT Project Manager
18 28 (1.94%) SAP Manager
19 27 (1.87%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.73%) REST
2 16 (1.11%) Web Services
3 14 (0.97%) Middleware
4 13 (0.90%) .NET
4 13 (0.90%) JSON
5 11 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
6 10 (0.69%) HTML
6 10 (0.69%) Kafka
6 10 (0.69%) React
7 8 (0.56%) RFC 2544
7 8 (0.56%) SAML
7 8 (0.56%) SAP Fiori
8 7 (0.49%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.42%) CSS
9 6 (0.42%) LDAP
9 6 (0.42%) OAuth
9 6 (0.42%) RESTful
9 6 (0.42%) SOAP
10 5 (0.35%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 65 (4.51%) Product Ownership
2 50 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
3 49 (3.40%) Data Centre
3 49 (3.40%) Onboarding
4 41 (2.85%) Management Information System
5 33 (2.29%) Cloud Native
6 26 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
8 20 (1.39%) FMCG
9 19 (1.32%) CMDB
9 19 (1.32%) Virtual Team
10 18 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.25%) Life Science
11 17 (1.18%) Security Posture
12 16 (1.11%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
13 15 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
14 14 (0.97%) NHS
15 13 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 40 (2.78%) Windows
2 20 (1.39%) Linux
3 10 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.56%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.42%) Unix
6 5 (0.35%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.069%) Android
8 1 (0.069%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.069%) CentOS
8 1 (0.069%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.069%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (28.17%) Agile
2 306 (21.24%) Stakeholder Management
3 263 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
4 234 (16.24%) Project Management
5 226 (15.68%) Risk Management
6 218 (15.13%) Change Management
7 207 (14.37%) Migration
8 196 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 172 (11.94%) Decision-Making
10 165 (11.45%) Project Delivery
11 143 (9.92%) Roadmaps
12 140 (9.72%) Analytics
13 126 (8.74%) Workshop Facilitation
14 115 (7.98%) Business Intelligence
15 108 (7.49%) Data Governance
16 107 (7.43%) DevOps
17 99 (6.87%) Artificial Intelligence
17 99 (6.87%) Requirements Gathering
18 98 (6.80%) Business Analysis
18 98 (6.80%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 101 (7.01%) SQL
2 54 (3.75%) Python
3 22 (1.53%) JavaScript
4 14 (0.97%) PowerShell
5 12 (0.83%) Java
6 11 (0.76%) C#
7 10 (0.69%) TypeScript
8 8 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.42%) Bash
9 6 (0.42%) Bicep
9 6 (0.42%) R
10 5 (0.35%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.35%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.28%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.28%) Groovy
12 3 (0.21%) VBA
13 2 (0.14%) ABAP
13 2 (0.14%) PHP
13 2 (0.14%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.14%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 242 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 180 (12.49%) SC Cleared
3 131 (9.09%) Degree
4 65 (4.51%) PMP
5 62 (4.30%) PMI Certification
6 52 (3.61%) DV Cleared
7 23 (1.60%) Azure Certification
7 23 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (1.39%) CISSP
9 18 (1.25%) CISM
10 17 (1.18%) AWS Certification
10 17 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.11%) CBAP
12 15 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (0.97%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.56%) CISA
15 8 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
16 7 (0.49%) CRISC
17 6 (0.42%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.20%) QA
2 64 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 62 (4.30%) GDPR
4 50 (3.47%) Accessibility
5 46 (3.19%) NIST
6 45 (3.12%) PMO
7 41 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (1.25%) GRC
9 10 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.69%) IFRS
9 10 (0.69%) SLA
10 9 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.56%) NCSC
12 7 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.49%) GxP
12 7 (0.49%) MiFID
13 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.35%) EMIR
System Software
1 39 (2.71%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.69%) Docker
4 8 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.14%) NFS
7 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.069%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.069%) vSphere
8 1 (0.069%) XenApp
8 1 (0.069%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 30 (2.08%) Terraform
2 20 (1.39%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.83%) SCCM
5 11 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.56%) Amdocs OSS
6 8 (0.56%) HP ALM
7 7 (0.49%) Ansible
8 3 (0.21%) AirWatch
8 3 (0.21%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.21%) SCOM
8 3 (0.21%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.14%) Control-M
9 2 (0.14%) Grafana
9 2 (0.14%) HP Data Protector
9 2 (0.14%) Nessus
9 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 212 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 146 (10.13%) SAP
3 84 (5.83%) ServiceNow
4 69 (4.79%) Oracle
5 47 (3.26%) Salesforce
6 30 (2.08%) Google
7 28 (1.94%) Cisco
8 25 (1.73%) Workday
9 23 (1.60%) Databricks
10 20 (1.39%) Ariba
11 16 (1.11%) Informatica
12 14 (0.97%) HP
12 14 (0.97%) VMware
13 10 (0.69%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.56%) Atlassian
14 8 (0.56%) Remedy
15 7 (0.49%) Adobe
15 7 (0.49%) IBM
15 7 (0.49%) NEC
15 7 (0.49%) Nokia