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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 118 166
Rank change year-on-year +95 +48 +2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,697 737 710
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.54% 2.02% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.40% 2.34% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,848 441 496
10th Percentile £360 £375 £371
25th Percentile £438 £450 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £660 £665
90th Percentile £732 £769 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.62% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 11 34
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £29.30
25th Percentile £20.75 £26.38 £53.00
Median hourly rate £41.86 £50.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -16.29% -11.49% +82.23%
75th Percentile £66.20 £60.28 £61.77
90th Percentile £95.00 £61.06 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £58.05 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.89% +2.75% +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 32,116 31,513 40,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.73% 86.36% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,100 18,975 27,383
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,121 1,108 1,576
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.17 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.17 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.36% +25.57%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £33.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.30% -25.84% +50.29%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 2,346 £525 -4.55% 1,342
UK excluding London +86 1,242 £511 -2.62% 841
London +104 1,139 £550 -4.35% 625
Work from Home +98 802 £536 -2.55% 638
South East +53 332 £525 -4.55% 308
North of England +68 314 £513 +2.50% 184
Midlands +45 214 £508 +1.50% 139
South West +62 172 £525 -4.55% 92
West Midlands +29 163 £514 -1.67% 99
North West +41 146 £525 +6.17% 93
Yorkshire +44 138 £520 +4.00% 69
Scotland +49 102 £450 -15.89% 55
East of England +35 79 £529 +32.19% 50
East Midlands +17 50 £425 -8.11% 38
North East +19 31 £450 -21.74% 23
Wales +21 21 £425 -34.62% 17
Northern Ireland +5 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
1 140 (5.19%) Confluence
2 127 (4.71%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.63%) CMS
5 14 (0.52%) SAS
6 11 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.41%) ArcGIS
7 8 (0.30%) Apache
8 7 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.22%) Appian
10 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.15%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.11%) Smallworld
11 3 (0.11%) WordPress
12 2 (0.074%) CICS
12 2 (0.074%) Drupal
12 2 (0.074%) nginx
12 2 (0.074%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.037%) Documentum
Applications
1 160 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 91 (3.37%) Microsoft Project
3 64 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (2.26%) MS Visio
5 60 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.33%) Trello
8 8 (0.30%) ProjectWise
9 6 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.11%) Revit
11 2 (0.074%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.037%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.037%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.037%) Camtasia
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 (4.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
5 18 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
6 17 (0.63%) SAP FI
7 14 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
7 14 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
8 13 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
8 13 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 12 (0.44%) Oracle Cash Management
9 12 (0.44%) SAP PP
9 12 (0.44%) Workday HCM
10 11 (0.41%) Maximo
10 11 (0.41%) SAP CO
10 11 (0.41%) SAP MM
11 10 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
12 9 (0.33%) SAP ERP
12 9 (0.33%) SAP PS
12 9 (0.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 441 (16.35%) Azure
2 267 (9.90%) AWS
3 211 (7.82%) Power Platform
4 128 (4.75%) Microsoft 365
5 106 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
6 98 (3.63%) GCP
7 89 (3.30%) SaaS
8 78 (2.89%) Entra ID
9 64 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
10 49 (1.82%) OCI
11 45 (1.67%) GitHub
12 44 (1.63%) Serverless
13 35 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
14 34 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
15 33 (1.22%) Power Automate
16 32 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
17 30 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
18 29 (1.08%) Miro
18 29 (1.08%) PaaS
18 29 (1.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 61 (2.26%) Firewall
2 37 (1.37%) Network Security
3 26 (0.96%) WAN
4 22 (0.82%) SD-WAN
5 21 (0.78%) VPN
6 20 (0.74%) LAN
7 19 (0.70%) DNS
8 12 (0.44%) BGP
9 11 (0.41%) MPLS
10 10 (0.37%) DHCP
11 9 (0.33%) SSL
12 8 (0.30%) Internet
12 8 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
13 6 (0.22%) VLAN
13 6 (0.22%) Wireless
14 5 (0.19%) OSPF
14 5 (0.19%) SMS
14 5 (0.19%) Unified Communications
15 4 (0.15%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (6.01%) Power BI
2 79 (2.93%) Metadata
3 49 (1.82%) Tableau
4 48 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (1.48%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 21 (0.78%) Electronic Patient Records
8 19 (0.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 18 (0.67%) Power Query
10 14 (0.52%) Big Data
10 14 (0.52%) Data Vault
10 14 (0.52%) Relational Database
11 13 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
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
1 251 (9.31%) JIRA
2 34 (1.26%) Git
3 25 (0.93%) GitLab
4 19 (0.70%) Jenkins
5 18 (0.67%) Selenium
6 9 (0.33%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.26%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.26%) Robot Framework
8 6 (0.22%) JUnit
9 5 (0.19%) ERwin
9 5 (0.19%) 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 1,381 (51.21%) Social Skills
2 785 (29.11%) Finance
3 465 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 419 (15.54%) Analytical Skills
5 196 (7.27%) Banking
6 131 (4.86%) Legal
7 110 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
8 101 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
9 98 (3.63%) Manufacturing
10 83 (3.08%) Telecoms
11 78 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
12 76 (2.82%) Marketing
13 66 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
14 64 (2.37%) Retail
15 59 (2.19%) Local Government
16 45 (1.67%) Financial Institution
17 43 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 37 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
19 35 (1.30%) Investment Banking
19 35 (1.30%) Law
Job Titles
1 506 (18.76%) Analyst
2 364 (13.50%) Business Analyst
3 349 (12.94%) Architect
4 287 (10.64%) Consultant
5 278 (10.31%) Project Manager
6 277 (10.27%) Lead
7 238 (8.82%) Senior
8 146 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
9 98 (3.63%) Developer
10 74 (2.74%) Programme Manager
11 66 (2.45%) Senior Analyst
12 63 (2.34%) Data Analyst
13 59 (2.19%) Change Manager
14 55 (2.04%) Senior Business Analyst
15 50 (1.85%) SAP Consultant
16 48 (1.78%) Technical Manager
17 47 (1.74%) IT Manager
18 46 (1.71%) Senior Manager
19 43 (1.59%) Delivery Manager
19 43 (1.59%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (2.41%) REST
2 41 (1.52%) .NET
3 31 (1.15%) SOAP
4 29 (1.08%) OAuth
5 26 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
6 25 (0.93%) Middleware
7 24 (0.89%) SAML
7 24 (0.89%) SAP Fiori
7 24 (0.89%) XML
8 22 (0.82%) HTML
9 21 (0.78%) AngularJS
9 21 (0.78%) JSON
10 20 (0.74%) RESTful
10 20 (0.74%) Web Services
11 19 (0.70%) Node.js
12 18 (0.67%) Kafka
12 18 (0.67%) OpenID
13 15 (0.56%) OAuth2
13 15 (0.56%) React
13 15 (0.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 154 (5.71%) Product Ownership
2 136 (5.04%) Onboarding
3 117 (4.34%) Legacy Systems
4 82 (3.04%) Cloud Native
4 82 (3.04%) Management Information System
5 62 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 55 (2.04%) Data Centre
7 53 (1.97%) NHS
8 45 (1.67%) Data Structures
9 40 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
10 39 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
11 33 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
12 32 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
12 32 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
13 30 (1.11%) PMI
14 26 (0.96%) CMDB
15 25 (0.93%) Operational Technology
16 24 (0.89%) Virtual Team
17 23 (0.85%) AI Agents
17 23 (0.85%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 73 (2.71%) Windows
2 29 (1.08%) Linux
3 20 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.67%) Windows 10
5 14 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.22%) Android
8 5 (0.19%) 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
1 763 (28.29%) Agile
2 507 (18.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 407 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
4 393 (14.57%) Migration
5 374 (13.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 347 (12.87%) Change Management
7 343 (12.72%) Project Management
7 343 (12.72%) Roadmaps
8 273 (10.12%) Analytics
9 272 (10.09%) Risk Management
10 271 (10.05%) Decision-Making
11 267 (9.90%) DevOps
12 266 (9.86%) Workshop Facilitation
13 251 (9.31%) Project Delivery
14 233 (8.64%) Business Intelligence
15 216 (8.01%) Requirements Gathering
16 215 (7.97%) Data Governance
17 198 (7.34%) ERP
18 191 (7.08%) CI/CD
19 188 (6.97%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 184 (6.82%) SQL
2 151 (5.60%) Python
3 68 (2.52%) PowerShell
4 54 (2.00%) JavaScript
5 52 (1.93%) Java
6 39 (1.45%) C#
7 25 (0.93%) Bicep
8 22 (0.82%) Bash
9 20 (0.74%) R
9 20 (0.74%) TypeScript
10 15 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 13 (0.48%) ABAP
12 9 (0.33%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.26%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.26%) Korn
14 5 (0.19%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.19%) Scala
15 4 (0.15%) C++
15 4 (0.15%) RPG
Qualifications
1 496 (18.39%) Security Cleared
2 388 (14.39%) SC Cleared
3 248 (9.20%) Degree
4 105 (3.89%) PMI Certification
5 97 (3.60%) PMP
6 79 (2.93%) DV Cleared
7 50 (1.85%) Master's Degree
8 47 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 44 (1.63%) CISSP
9 44 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 40 (1.48%) Azure Certification
11 32 (1.19%) CISM
11 32 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 28 (1.04%) AWS Certification
13 24 (0.89%) ACCA
14 22 (0.82%) CBAP
15 21 (0.78%) CIMA
16 20 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
17 17 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
18 15 (0.56%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (5.64%) GDPR
2 126 (4.67%) QA
3 124 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 120 (4.45%) Data Quality
5 105 (3.89%) PMO
6 99 (3.67%) NIST
7 77 (2.86%) Accessibility
8 41 (1.52%) GRC
9 40 (1.48%) PCI DSS
10 30 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 29 (1.08%) NCSC
12 22 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
13 20 (0.74%) SLA
14 16 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
14 16 (0.59%) MiFID
15 14 (0.52%) PSD2
16 13 (0.48%) COBIT
16 13 (0.48%) JSP 440
17 11 (0.41%) Basel III
17 11 (0.41%) HIPAA
System Software
1 78 (2.89%) Active Directory
2 63 (2.34%) 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 6 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.074%) Firmware
10 1 (0.037%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.037%) XenApp
10 1 (0.037%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 110 (4.08%) Terraform
2 70 (2.60%) Kubernetes
3 32 (1.19%) Ansible
4 31 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.48%) SCCM
7 12 (0.44%) HP ALM
8 6 (0.22%) Grafana
9 5 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.19%) 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%) Avamar
Vendors
1 421 (15.61%) Microsoft
2 259 (9.60%) SAP
3 160 (5.93%) Oracle
4 158 (5.86%) ServiceNow
5 86 (3.19%) Salesforce
6 69 (2.56%) Cisco
7 62 (2.30%) Google
8 59 (2.19%) Workday
9 40 (1.48%) Databricks
10 34 (1.26%) VMware
11 33 (1.22%) Aruba
12 27 (1.00%) IBM
13 21 (0.78%) HP
14 20 (0.74%) Adobe
14 20 (0.74%) Ariba
14 20 (0.74%) Palo Alto
14 20 (0.74%) Remedy
15 19 (0.70%) OpenAI
16 18 (0.67%) CyberArk
17 15 (0.56%) Citrix