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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 130 164
Rank change year-on-year +107 +34 +8
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,537 698 736
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.34% 1.93% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.15% 2.24% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,728 420 520
10th Percentile £363 £381 £375
25th Percentile £441 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £664 £659
90th Percentile £738 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £512 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.48% - -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 11 35
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £29.40
25th Percentile £21.26 £26.25 £51.83
Median hourly rate £41.86 £50.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -16.29% -11.49% +82.23%
75th Percentile £64.31 £60.28 £64.63
90th Percentile £77.75 £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 31,128 31,222 41,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.01% 86.14% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,470 18,786 28,146
10th Percentile £295 £310 £308
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 £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,032 1,099 1,610
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.09 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -19.77% +24.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.95 £73.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £33.27 £43.90
% change year-on-year -32.37% -24.21% +48.26%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +108 2,203 £525 -4.55% 2,397
UK excluding London +86 1,157 £512 -2.48% 1,818
London +118 1,077 £550 -4.35% 1,047
Work from Home +114 758 £536 -2.55% 1,125
South East +59 301 £525 -4.55% 1,005
North of England +66 296 £520 +4.00% 262
Midlands +47 199 £507 -1.17% 206
South West +79 160 £525 -6.67% 153
West Midlands +34 152 £514 -1.20% 123
North West +45 142 £525 +6.17% 141
Yorkshire +46 132 £525 +5.00% 83
Scotland +42 96 £450 -14.29% 65
East of England +40 78 £533 +33.13% 110
East Midlands +21 46 £425 -15.00% 76
North East +12 23 £466 -18.91% 38
Wales +15 19 £438 -33.33% 37
Northern Ireland +7 13 £513 +220.31% 1
Channel Islands - 2 - - 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
1 133 (5.24%) Confluence
2 117 (4.61%) SharePoint
3 24 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.67%) CMS
5 13 (0.51%) SAS
6 11 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.43%) ArcGIS
7 8 (0.32%) Apache
8 7 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.24%) Appian
10 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.16%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.12%) Smallworld
11 3 (0.12%) WordPress
12 2 (0.079%) CICS
12 2 (0.079%) Drupal
12 2 (0.079%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.079%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.039%) Documentum
Applications
1 151 (5.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 90 (3.55%) Microsoft Project
3 61 (2.40%) MS Visio
4 60 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 54 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.32%) ProjectWise
6 8 (0.32%) Trello
7 6 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.12%) Navisworks
8 3 (0.12%) Revit
9 2 (0.079%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.039%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.039%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.039%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.039%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.039%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.039%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.039%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 106 (4.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 34 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
5 18 (0.71%) SAP FI
6 17 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
7 14 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
8 13 (0.51%) Oracle EBS R12
8 13 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
9 12 (0.47%) Oracle Cash Management
9 12 (0.47%) SAP CO
10 11 (0.43%) Maximo
10 11 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
10 11 (0.43%) Workday HCM
11 10 (0.39%) SAP MM
11 10 (0.39%) SAP PS
12 9 (0.35%) SAP GTS
12 9 (0.35%) SAP MDG
12 9 (0.35%) Teamcenter
13 8 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 402 (15.85%) Azure
2 232 (9.14%) AWS
3 194 (7.65%) Power Platform
4 115 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
5 102 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
6 88 (3.47%) GCP
7 81 (3.19%) SaaS
8 74 (2.92%) Entra ID
9 59 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
10 46 (1.81%) OCI
11 40 (1.58%) Serverless
12 37 (1.46%) GitHub
13 32 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
14 31 (1.22%) PaaS
15 30 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
15 30 (1.18%) SuccessFactors
16 28 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
17 27 (1.06%) Miro
17 27 (1.06%) Power Automate
18 26 (1.02%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 57 (2.25%) Firewall
2 33 (1.30%) Network Security
3 23 (0.91%) WAN
4 19 (0.75%) SD-WAN
5 16 (0.63%) DNS
6 15 (0.59%) LAN
6 15 (0.59%) VPN
7 10 (0.39%) BGP
8 9 (0.35%) SSL
9 8 (0.32%) DHCP
9 8 (0.32%) MPLS
10 6 (0.24%) Software-Defined Networking
10 6 (0.24%) VLAN
11 5 (0.20%) OSPF
11 5 (0.20%) SMS
11 5 (0.20%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.16%) Intranet
12 4 (0.16%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (5.87%) Power BI
2 77 (3.04%) Metadata
3 47 (1.85%) Tableau
4 46 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (1.50%) SQL Server
6 23 (0.91%) Data Lake
7 21 (0.83%) Electronic Patient Records
8 18 (0.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 18 (0.71%) Power Query
9 13 (0.51%) Big Data
9 13 (0.51%) Data Vault
9 13 (0.51%) Relational Database
10 12 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
11 11 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (0.39%) GIS
12 10 (0.39%) Hadoop
12 10 (0.39%) SAP HANA
13 9 (0.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 243 (9.58%) JIRA
2 32 (1.26%) Git
3 23 (0.91%) GitLab
4 19 (0.75%) Jenkins
5 18 (0.71%) Selenium
6 8 (0.32%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.28%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.28%) Robot Framework
8 6 (0.24%) JUnit
9 5 (0.20%) ERwin
9 5 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
10 4 (0.16%) Hudson
10 4 (0.16%) Mockito
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.12%) Postman
11 3 (0.12%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.12%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 2 (0.079%) ER Studio
12 2 (0.079%) Gradle
12 2 (0.079%) Zephyr
General
1 1,274 (50.22%) Social Skills
2 745 (29.37%) Finance
3 428 (16.87%) Public Sector
4 380 (14.98%) Analytical Skills
5 181 (7.13%) Banking
6 126 (4.97%) Legal
7 99 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
8 94 (3.71%) Manufacturing
9 90 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
10 78 (3.07%) Telecoms
11 75 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
12 74 (2.92%) Marketing
13 63 (2.48%) Retail
14 61 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
15 53 (2.09%) Local Government
16 44 (1.73%) Financial Institution
16 44 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 37 (1.46%) Law
18 35 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
19 34 (1.34%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 475 (18.72%) Analyst
2 341 (13.44%) Business Analyst
3 308 (12.14%) Architect
4 285 (11.23%) Consultant
5 256 (10.09%) Project Manager
6 255 (10.05%) Lead
7 222 (8.75%) Senior
8 133 (5.24%) Solutions Architect
9 89 (3.51%) Developer
10 73 (2.88%) Programme Manager
11 60 (2.36%) Data Analyst
12 58 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
13 57 (2.25%) Change Manager
14 51 (2.01%) SAP Consultant
15 49 (1.93%) Senior Business Analyst
16 45 (1.77%) Senior Manager
17 44 (1.73%) Designer
18 43 (1.69%) IT Manager
18 43 (1.69%) Technical Manager
19 39 (1.54%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (2.40%) REST
2 39 (1.54%) .NET
3 28 (1.10%) SOAP
4 27 (1.06%) OAuth
4 27 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
5 25 (0.99%) SAP Fiori
6 24 (0.95%) Middleware
6 24 (0.95%) XML
7 23 (0.91%) SAML
8 22 (0.87%) HTML
9 21 (0.83%) JSON
10 20 (0.79%) Kafka
10 20 (0.79%) RESTful
11 19 (0.75%) Web Services
12 17 (0.67%) OpenID
13 15 (0.59%) OAuth2
14 14 (0.55%) AngularJS
14 14 (0.55%) CSS
14 14 (0.55%) LDAP
15 13 (0.51%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 148 (5.83%) Product Ownership
2 120 (4.73%) Onboarding
3 110 (4.34%) Legacy Systems
4 76 (3.00%) Management Information System
5 68 (2.68%) Cloud Native
6 56 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
7 51 (2.01%) NHS
8 49 (1.93%) Data Centre
9 46 (1.81%) Data Structures
10 38 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
11 34 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
12 33 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
13 31 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
14 27 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
15 25 (0.99%) CMDB
16 24 (0.95%) Virtual Team
17 23 (0.91%) Life Science
17 23 (0.91%) Operational Technology
17 23 (0.91%) PMI
18 21 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 66 (2.60%) Windows
2 22 (0.87%) Linux
3 18 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.67%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.28%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.20%) Android
7 5 (0.20%) Unix
8 4 (0.16%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.079%) CentOS
10 2 (0.079%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.079%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.039%) AIX
11 1 (0.039%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.039%) Solaris
11 1 (0.039%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.039%) VMS
11 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.039%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 713 (28.10%) Agile
2 467 (18.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 379 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
4 375 (14.78%) Migration
5 332 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 324 (12.77%) Project Management
7 318 (12.53%) Change Management
7 318 (12.53%) Roadmaps
8 257 (10.13%) Decision-Making
8 257 (10.13%) Risk Management
8 257 (10.13%) Workshop Facilitation
9 253 (9.97%) Analytics
10 250 (9.85%) DevOps
11 237 (9.34%) Project Delivery
12 220 (8.67%) Business Intelligence
13 199 (7.84%) Data Governance
13 199 (7.84%) Requirements Gathering
14 191 (7.53%) ERP
15 179 (7.06%) User Acceptance Testing
16 176 (6.94%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 171 (6.74%) SQL
2 127 (5.01%) Python
3 60 (2.36%) PowerShell
4 51 (2.01%) JavaScript
5 44 (1.73%) Java
6 35 (1.38%) C#
7 22 (0.87%) Bash
8 21 (0.83%) Bicep
9 16 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 15 (0.59%) R
10 15 (0.59%) TypeScript
11 12 (0.47%) ABAP
12 10 (0.39%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.24%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.24%) Korn
14 5 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.20%) Scala
15 4 (0.16%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.16%) RPG
15 4 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 439 (17.30%) Security Cleared
2 339 (13.36%) SC Cleared
3 232 (9.14%) Degree
4 94 (3.71%) PMI Certification
5 90 (3.55%) PMP
6 70 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 44 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 44 (1.73%) Master's Degree
8 41 (1.62%) Azure Certification
8 41 (1.62%) CISSP
9 39 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 33 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 32 (1.26%) CISM
12 27 (1.06%) AWS Certification
13 22 (0.87%) ACCA
14 20 (0.79%) CBAP
15 19 (0.75%) CIMA
16 16 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
17 15 (0.59%) APMG
17 15 (0.59%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (5.48%) GDPR
2 114 (4.49%) QA
3 113 (4.45%) Data Quality
4 112 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 99 (3.90%) PMO
6 91 (3.59%) NIST
7 73 (2.88%) Accessibility
8 40 (1.58%) GRC
9 36 (1.42%) PCI DSS
10 30 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 29 (1.14%) NCSC
12 20 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
13 19 (0.75%) SLA
14 15 (0.59%) MiFID
15 14 (0.55%) COBIT
16 12 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
16 12 (0.47%) PSD2
17 11 (0.43%) HIPAA
17 11 (0.43%) ISO 19650
17 11 (0.43%) JSP 440
System Software
1 73 (2.88%) Active Directory
2 53 (2.09%) Docker
3 25 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.32%) VMware NSX
4 8 (0.32%) vSphere
5 7 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.079%) Firmware
10 1 (0.039%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.039%) XenApp
10 1 (0.039%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 94 (3.71%) Terraform
2 55 (2.17%) Kubernetes
3 30 (1.18%) Ansible
3 30 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
4 22 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (0.51%) HP ALM
5 13 (0.51%) SCCM
6 7 (0.28%) Grafana
7 6 (0.24%) Control-M
8 5 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.20%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.12%) Nessus
9 3 (0.12%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.079%) Argo
10 2 (0.079%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.079%) Cisco UCCE
10 2 (0.079%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.079%) RSA Archer
10 2 (0.079%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.039%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 393 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 255 (10.05%) SAP
3 153 (6.03%) Oracle
4 150 (5.91%) ServiceNow
5 79 (3.11%) Salesforce
6 65 (2.56%) Cisco
7 57 (2.25%) Workday
8 50 (1.97%) Google
9 34 (1.34%) Databricks
10 32 (1.26%) Aruba
11 30 (1.18%) VMware
12 25 (0.99%) IBM
13 22 (0.87%) HP
14 20 (0.79%) Adobe
14 20 (0.79%) Ariba
14 20 (0.79%) Remedy
15 17 (0.67%) Palo Alto
16 15 (0.59%) Citrix
16 15 (0.59%) CyberArk
17 14 (0.55%) OpenAI