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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 114 164
Rank change year-on-year +91 +50 -1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 2,784 768 710
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 7.64% 2.13% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.58% 2.44% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,919 468 486
10th Percentile £360 £389 £375
25th Percentile £431 £456 £457
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 £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 10 33
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.63 £35.63
25th Percentile £20.75 £23.06 -
Median hourly rate £41.86 £27.75 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +50.83% -50.88% +61.98%
75th Percentile £69.52 £57.18 £63.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £65.92 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £39.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +7.32% -30.96% +169.00%

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 32,432 31,463 40,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.97% 87.43% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,408 19,089 26,807
10th Percentile £300 £309 £312
25th Percentile £405 £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 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,095 1,098 1,556
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.24 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.20 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% -22.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +30.77%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +93 2,432 £525 -4.55% 1,235
UK excluding London +85 1,295 £500 -4.76% 1,132
London +93 1,173 £550 -4.35% 285
Work from Home +93 818 £525 -4.55% 509
South East +58 356 £504 -8.41% 345
North of England +65 320 £519 +3.75% 252
Midlands +34 226 £500 - 201
South West +64 180 £525 -4.55% 135
West Midlands +36 170 £507 -3.52% 125
North West +45 149 £525 +5.00% 105
Yorkshire +44 137 £525 +5.00% 126
Scotland +54 103 £450 -10.00% 37
East of England +41 78 £533 +32.13% 129
East Midlands +19 55 £424 -0.29% 66
North East +29 37 £450 -45.45% 22
Wales +20 25 £425 -29.17% 31
Northern Ireland +8 13 £513 - 18
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
1 149 (5.35%) Confluence
2 130 (4.67%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.50%) SAS
5 13 (0.47%) CMS
6 12 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.40%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.25%) Apache
9 6 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.22%) Appian
10 4 (0.14%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.14%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.11%) Smallworld
11 3 (0.11%) WordPress
12 2 (0.072%) Drupal
12 2 (0.072%) nginx
12 2 (0.072%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.072%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.036%) Alfresco
13 1 (0.036%) Moodle
Applications
1 162 (5.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 94 (3.38%) Microsoft Project
3 67 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (2.19%) MS Visio
5 58 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.32%) Trello
8 8 (0.29%) ProjectWise
9 7 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.11%) Notion
10 3 (0.11%) Revit
11 2 (0.072%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.072%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.036%) FrameMaker
12 1 (0.036%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.036%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.036%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 114 (4.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 48 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
5 18 (0.65%) Oracle Financials
6 16 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
6 16 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 15 (0.54%) SAP FI
8 14 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
9 13 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
10 12 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
10 12 (0.43%) SAP MM
10 12 (0.43%) SAP PP
10 12 (0.43%) Workday HCM
11 11 (0.40%) Maximo
12 10 (0.36%) SAP ERP
13 9 (0.32%) SAP CO
13 9 (0.32%) Teamcenter
14 8 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
14 8 (0.29%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 460 (16.52%) Azure
2 273 (9.81%) AWS
3 224 (8.05%) Power Platform
4 131 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
5 111 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
6 106 (3.81%) GCP
7 89 (3.20%) SaaS
8 84 (3.02%) Entra ID
9 76 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
10 49 (1.76%) OCI
11 47 (1.69%) GitHub
11 47 (1.69%) Serverless
12 37 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
12 37 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
12 37 (1.33%) Power Automate
13 33 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
14 32 (1.15%) SuccessFactors
15 31 (1.11%) PowerApps
16 30 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
17 28 (1.01%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (2.23%) Firewall
2 38 (1.36%) Network Security
3 29 (1.04%) WAN
4 25 (0.90%) VPN
5 23 (0.83%) LAN
5 23 (0.83%) SD-WAN
6 20 (0.72%) DNS
7 13 (0.47%) BGP
7 13 (0.47%) MPLS
8 10 (0.36%) DHCP
9 9 (0.32%) Internet
9 9 (0.32%) SSL
9 9 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.25%) VLAN
11 6 (0.22%) Kerberos
11 6 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
11 6 (0.22%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.22%) Wireless
12 5 (0.18%) IPsec
12 5 (0.18%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (6.21%) Power BI
2 80 (2.87%) Metadata
3 55 (1.98%) Tableau
4 52 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (1.47%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.90%) Data Lake
7 21 (0.75%) Electronic Patient Records
8 20 (0.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 16 (0.57%) Power Query
10 15 (0.54%) Big Data
10 15 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
11 14 (0.50%) Data Vault
12 13 (0.47%) Relational Database
13 12 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (0.40%) Delta Lake
14 11 (0.40%) GIS
15 10 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
15 10 (0.36%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 263 (9.45%) JIRA
2 35 (1.26%) Git
3 28 (1.01%) GitLab
4 23 (0.83%) Jenkins
5 18 (0.65%) Selenium
6 9 (0.32%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.25%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.25%) Robot Framework
8 6 (0.22%) JUnit
9 5 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.14%) ERwin
10 4 (0.14%) Hudson
10 4 (0.14%) Mockito
10 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.11%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.11%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 2 (0.072%) MLflow
12 2 (0.072%) Postman
12 2 (0.072%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,442 (51.80%) Social Skills
2 817 (29.35%) Finance
3 479 (17.21%) Public Sector
4 432 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
5 197 (7.08%) Banking
6 129 (4.63%) Legal
7 119 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
8 106 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
9 98 (3.52%) Manufacturing
10 82 (2.95%) Telecoms
11 80 (2.87%) Marketing
12 76 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
13 75 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
14 70 (2.51%) Retail
15 57 (2.05%) Local Government
16 47 (1.69%) Financial Institution
17 39 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 37 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
19 36 (1.29%) Law
20 35 (1.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 515 (18.50%) Analyst
2 371 (13.33%) Business Analyst
3 358 (12.86%) Architect
4 295 (10.60%) Consultant
5 284 (10.20%) Project Manager
6 281 (10.09%) Lead
7 243 (8.73%) Senior
8 147 (5.28%) Solutions Architect
9 97 (3.48%) Developer
10 78 (2.80%) Programme Manager
11 66 (2.37%) Change Manager
11 66 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
12 59 (2.12%) Data Analyst
13 54 (1.94%) Senior Business Analyst
14 51 (1.83%) IT Manager
14 51 (1.83%) Technical Manager
15 50 (1.80%) SAP Consultant
15 50 (1.80%) Senior Manager
16 48 (1.72%) Delivery Manager
17 43 (1.54%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (2.33%) REST
2 40 (1.44%) .NET
3 33 (1.19%) SOAP
4 31 (1.11%) OAuth
5 28 (1.01%) Middleware
6 27 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
7 26 (0.93%) SAML
8 23 (0.83%) AngularJS
8 23 (0.83%) XML
9 22 (0.79%) HTML
9 22 (0.79%) SAP Fiori
10 21 (0.75%) Node.js
11 20 (0.72%) JSON
11 20 (0.72%) OpenID
11 20 (0.72%) Web Services
12 19 (0.68%) RESTful
13 18 (0.65%) Kafka
14 17 (0.61%) LDAP
15 15 (0.54%) Spring
15 15 (0.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 169 (6.07%) Product Ownership
2 147 (5.28%) Onboarding
3 116 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 86 (3.09%) Cloud Native
5 83 (2.98%) Management Information System
6 62 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 55 (1.98%) NHS
8 52 (1.87%) Data Centre
9 50 (1.80%) Data Structures
10 41 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
11 40 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
12 36 (1.29%) PMI
13 33 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
13 33 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
14 30 (1.08%) CMDB
14 30 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
15 26 (0.93%) AI Agents
16 24 (0.86%) Operational Technology
17 23 (0.83%) Life Science
18 21 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 68 (2.44%) Windows
2 29 (1.04%) Linux
3 20 (0.72%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.57%) Windows 10
5 14 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.25%) 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 (0.072%) CentOS
10 2 (0.072%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.072%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 785 (28.20%) Agile
2 531 (19.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 422 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
4 413 (14.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 412 (14.80%) Migration
6 367 (13.18%) Roadmaps
7 365 (13.11%) Project Management
8 354 (12.72%) Change Management
9 288 (10.34%) Decision-Making
10 285 (10.24%) Workshop Facilitation
11 281 (10.09%) Analytics
12 276 (9.91%) Risk Management
13 274 (9.84%) DevOps
14 255 (9.16%) Project Delivery
15 246 (8.84%) Business Intelligence
16 222 (7.97%) Requirements Gathering
17 216 (7.76%) Data Governance
18 206 (7.40%) ERP
19 201 (7.22%) CI/CD
20 197 (7.08%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 192 (6.90%) SQL
2 156 (5.60%) Python
3 68 (2.44%) PowerShell
4 54 (1.94%) JavaScript
5 51 (1.83%) Java
6 37 (1.33%) C#
7 29 (1.04%) Bicep
8 23 (0.83%) Bash
9 22 (0.79%) R
10 18 (0.65%) TypeScript
11 14 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 13 (0.47%) ABAP
13 11 (0.40%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.25%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.25%) Korn
15 5 (0.18%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.14%) C++
16 4 (0.14%) RPG
16 4 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 513 (18.43%) Security Cleared
2 392 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 258 (9.27%) Degree
4 115 (4.13%) PMI Certification
5 101 (3.63%) PMP
6 87 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 53 (1.90%) Master's Degree
8 51 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 46 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 44 (1.58%) CISSP
11 40 (1.44%) Azure Certification
12 31 (1.11%) CISM
12 31 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
13 27 (0.97%) AWS Certification
14 26 (0.93%) ACCA
15 24 (0.86%) CBAP
16 23 (0.83%) CIMA
17 20 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
18 16 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
19 14 (0.50%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (5.53%) GDPR
2 129 (4.63%) QA
3 128 (4.60%) Data Quality
4 123 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 113 (4.06%) PMO
6 99 (3.56%) NIST
7 76 (2.73%) Accessibility
8 43 (1.54%) GRC
9 42 (1.51%) PCI DSS
10 32 (1.15%) NCSC
11 29 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 22 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
13 21 (0.75%) SLA
14 16 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
15 15 (0.54%) COBIT
15 15 (0.54%) MiFID
16 14 (0.50%) JSP 440
16 14 (0.50%) PSD2
17 13 (0.47%) ISO 19650
18 11 (0.40%) HIPAA
System Software
1 83 (2.98%) Active Directory
2 67 (2.41%) Docker
3 25 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.47%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.36%) vSphere
6 8 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.072%) Firmware
11 1 (0.036%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.036%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 114 (4.09%) Terraform
2 81 (2.91%) Kubernetes
3 32 (1.15%) Ansible
3 32 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
4 25 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (0.47%) SCCM
6 11 (0.40%) HP ALM
7 8 (0.29%) Grafana
8 7 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.22%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.14%) 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 (0.072%) Argo
12 2 (0.072%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.072%) Cisco UCCE
12 2 (0.072%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.036%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 432 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 268 (9.63%) SAP
3 166 (5.96%) Oracle
4 165 (5.93%) ServiceNow
5 92 (3.30%) Salesforce
6 70 (2.51%) Cisco
7 67 (2.41%) Google
8 58 (2.08%) Workday
9 48 (1.72%) Databricks
10 35 (1.26%) VMware
11 33 (1.19%) Aruba
12 26 (0.93%) IBM
13 23 (0.83%) Adobe
14 22 (0.79%) OpenAI
14 22 (0.79%) Palo Alto
15 20 (0.72%) CyberArk
15 20 (0.72%) HP
15 20 (0.72%) Remedy
16 19 (0.68%) Ariba
17 17 (0.61%) Sparx