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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 147 166
Rank change year-on-year +113 +19 +11
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 1,836 649 813
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.54% 1.68% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.12% 1.96% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,220 444 602
10th Percentile £358 £363 £406
25th Percentile £435 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% - -
75th Percentile £641 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 17 23
10th Percentile £22.98 £18.35 £21.26
25th Percentile £26.21 £26.25 £37.13
Median hourly rate £39.50 £58.30 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -32.25% +3.20% +105.42%
75th Percentile £63.75 £75.00 £56.92
90th Percentile £74.05 - £57.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.39 £59.45 £56.49
% change year-on-year -45.51% +5.24% +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 29,996 33,111 46,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.49% 85.46% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,667 21,197 31,745
10th Percentile £300 £310 £319
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% -1.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,728 1,795 1,512
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.02 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.22 £18.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.27
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% -0.80% +55.74%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -45.88% +13.33% +70.45%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +111 1,546 £550 - 1,486
London +105 814 £550 -4.35% 749
UK excluding London +101 778 £525 +0.96% 935
Work from Home +134 568 £525 -3.67% 766
North of England +77 204 £513 +2.50% 232
South East +63 188 £550 -0.36% 289
Midlands +46 132 £511 -0.29% 144
South West +70 107 £550 - 104
North West +53 105 £526 +7.95% 125
West Midlands +36 105 £515 -0.96% 111
Yorkshire +47 94 £491 -2.96% 83
Scotland +33 83 £475 -9.52% 77
East of England +38 44 £604 +61.07% 58
East Midlands +13 25 £438 -11.39% 30
Wales +16 14 £438 +7.69% 23
Northern Ireland -6 9 £519 +98.56% 16
North East -4 5 £475 -19.49% 27
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 98 (5.34%) Confluence
2 62 (3.38%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.82%) CMS
4 10 (0.54%) SAS
5 9 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.44%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.38%) Apache
8 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.16%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.11%) CICS
10 2 (0.11%) Drupal
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.11%) WordPress
11 1 (0.054%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.054%) IBM Notes
11 1 (0.054%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.054%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.054%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.054%) WebLogic
Applications
1 94 (5.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (3.65%) Microsoft Project
3 50 (2.72%) MS Visio
4 44 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
5 40 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.49%) Trello
7 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.27%) ProjectWise
9 3 (0.16%) Sketch
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.054%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.054%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 77 (4.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (1.36%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
5 15 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
6 14 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
7 13 (0.71%) Oracle EBS R12
8 11 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
8 11 (0.60%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.54%) SAP FI
9 10 (0.54%) Teamcenter
10 9 (0.49%) Maximo
10 9 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.49%) SAP GTS
11 8 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 8 (0.44%) SAP MDG
11 8 (0.44%) SAP PS
11 8 (0.44%) Workday HCM
12 7 (0.38%) NEC Housing
12 7 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 248 (13.51%) Azure
2 150 (8.17%) AWS
3 132 (7.19%) Power Platform
4 56 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
4 56 (3.05%) GCP
5 52 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
6 51 (2.78%) SaaS
7 44 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
8 28 (1.53%) Entra ID
9 27 (1.47%) GitHub
10 25 (1.36%) PaaS
11 22 (1.20%) OCI
11 22 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
12 21 (1.14%) IaaS
12 21 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
13 19 (1.03%) Miro
13 19 (1.03%) Serverless
14 16 (0.87%) Collibra
14 16 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (0.87%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.91%) Firewall
2 17 (0.93%) Network Security
3 14 (0.76%) WAN
4 13 (0.71%) SD-WAN
5 12 (0.65%) SSL
6 11 (0.60%) VPN
7 9 (0.49%) 5G
8 6 (0.33%) Internet
9 5 (0.27%) DNS
9 5 (0.27%) LAN
9 5 (0.27%) VoIP
10 4 (0.22%) WebEx
10 4 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.16%) BGP
11 3 (0.16%) Cisco Firepower
11 3 (0.16%) DHCP
11 3 (0.16%) Intranet
11 3 (0.16%) NAS
11 3 (0.16%) OSPF
11 3 (0.16%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (5.77%) Power BI
2 54 (2.94%) Metadata
3 42 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (1.42%) Tableau
5 20 (1.09%) SQL Server
6 16 (0.87%) Data Lake
7 12 (0.65%) Data Vault
8 11 (0.60%) Relational Database
9 10 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (0.54%) Big Data
9 10 (0.54%) NoSQL
9 10 (0.54%) Power Query
10 8 (0.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 7 (0.38%) Delta Lake
11 7 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
11 7 (0.38%) Oracle Database
12 6 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 189 (10.29%) JIRA
2 16 (0.87%) Git
3 15 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.71%) Selenium
5 11 (0.60%) GitLab
6 6 (0.33%) Postman
6 6 (0.33%) REST Assured
7 5 (0.27%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.27%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.22%) Axure RP
8 4 (0.22%) TestRail
9 3 (0.16%) JUnit
9 3 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (0.16%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.16%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.11%) ERwin
10 2 (0.11%) Hudson
10 2 (0.11%) JMeter
10 2 (0.11%) Mockito
10 2 (0.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 873 (47.55%) Social Skills
2 565 (30.77%) Finance
3 275 (14.98%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (13.78%) Public Sector
5 134 (7.30%) Banking
6 95 (5.17%) Legal
7 81 (4.41%) Manufacturing
8 77 (4.19%) Telecoms
9 72 (3.92%) Marketing
10 65 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
11 64 (3.49%) Retail
12 62 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
13 44 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
14 42 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
15 40 (2.18%) Local Government
16 37 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 37 (2.02%) Law
17 34 (1.85%) Financial Institution
18 28 (1.53%) Investment Banking
19 25 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 350 (19.06%) Analyst
2 264 (14.38%) Project Manager
3 243 (13.24%) Business Analyst
4 227 (12.36%) Architect
5 172 (9.37%) Senior
6 168 (9.15%) Lead
7 166 (9.04%) Consultant
8 77 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
9 50 (2.72%) Data Analyst
9 50 (2.72%) Programme Manager
10 48 (2.61%) IT Manager
11 47 (2.56%) Senior Manager
12 46 (2.51%) Change Manager
13 45 (2.45%) Senior Analyst
14 43 (2.34%) Developer
15 41 (2.23%) Delivery Manager
16 35 (1.91%) Technical Manager
17 34 (1.85%) Business Manager
18 33 (1.80%) Senior Business Analyst
19 31 (1.69%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.02%) REST
2 21 (1.14%) Middleware
2 21 (1.14%) Web Services
3 17 (0.93%) HTML
4 16 (0.87%) .NET
4 16 (0.87%) JSON
4 16 (0.87%) SOAP
5 14 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
6 11 (0.60%) Kafka
6 11 (0.60%) SAP Fiori
7 10 (0.54%) SailPoint
8 9 (0.49%) AngularJS
8 9 (0.49%) CSS
8 9 (0.49%) LDAP
8 9 (0.49%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (0.49%) RESTful
8 9 (0.49%) RFC 2544
8 9 (0.49%) SAML
9 8 (0.44%) JDBC
9 8 (0.44%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 95 (5.17%) Product Ownership
2 76 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
3 72 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 64 (3.49%) Management Information System
5 52 (2.83%) Data Centre
6 50 (2.72%) Cloud Native
7 35 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 30 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (1.53%) CMDB
9 28 (1.53%) Data Structures
10 24 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
10 24 (1.31%) Life Science
11 23 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
12 22 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
13 21 (1.14%) Virtual Team
14 19 (1.03%) FMCG
14 19 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
15 18 (0.98%) PMI
16 17 (0.93%) NHS
17 16 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 48 (2.61%) Windows
2 21 (1.14%) Linux
3 13 (0.71%) Windows 10
4 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
4 7 (0.38%) Unix
4 7 (0.38%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.22%) Android
6 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.11%) CentOS
8 1 (0.054%) AIX
8 1 (0.054%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.054%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.054%) Solaris
8 1 (0.054%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.054%) VMS
8 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.054%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 556 (30.28%) Agile
2 378 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 318 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
4 282 (15.36%) Project Management
5 259 (14.11%) Change Management
6 258 (14.05%) Risk Management
7 253 (13.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 245 (13.34%) Migration
9 203 (11.06%) Decision-Making
9 203 (11.06%) Project Delivery
10 201 (10.95%) Roadmaps
11 173 (9.42%) Analytics
12 164 (8.93%) Business Intelligence
13 163 (8.88%) DevOps
14 156 (8.50%) Workshop Facilitation
15 150 (8.17%) Data Governance
16 137 (7.46%) PRINCE2
16 137 (7.46%) Requirements Gathering
17 131 (7.14%) ERP
18 127 (6.92%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 117 (6.37%) SQL
2 70 (3.81%) Python
3 31 (1.69%) JavaScript
4 25 (1.36%) Java
5 19 (1.03%) PowerShell
6 18 (0.98%) C#
7 10 (0.54%) R
8 9 (0.49%) TypeScript
9 8 (0.44%) Bash
9 8 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.38%) Bicep
10 7 (0.38%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.27%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.27%) Scala
12 4 (0.22%) Groovy
12 4 (0.22%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.22%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.16%) PHP
13 3 (0.16%) VBA
14 2 (0.11%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 310 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 227 (12.36%) SC Cleared
3 178 (9.69%) Degree
4 92 (5.01%) PMI Certification
5 89 (4.85%) PMP
6 59 (3.21%) DV Cleared
7 34 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (1.47%) Azure Certification
9 25 (1.36%) CISSP
10 23 (1.25%) CISM
11 21 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (0.98%) CBAP
12 18 (0.98%) Master's Degree
13 17 (0.93%) AWS Certification
14 13 (0.71%) CISA
15 9 (0.49%) ACCA
15 9 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 8 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.12%) GDPR
1 94 (5.12%) QA
2 92 (5.01%) Data Quality
3 71 (3.87%) PMO
4 63 (3.43%) NIST
5 58 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 53 (2.89%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.09%) GRC
8 16 (0.87%) NCSC
9 15 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.76%) SLA
11 13 (0.71%) IFRS
12 11 (0.60%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.54%) COBIT
14 9 (0.49%) GxP
14 9 (0.49%) MiFID
14 9 (0.49%) P3O
15 8 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.44%) JSP 440
System Software
1 44 (2.40%) Active Directory
2 27 (1.47%) Docker
3 12 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.11%) Firmware
7 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.054%) NFS
8 1 (0.054%) XenApp
8 1 (0.054%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 47 (2.56%) Terraform
2 28 (1.53%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (0.76%) SCCM
5 13 (0.71%) Ansible
6 10 (0.54%) HP ALM
7 8 (0.44%) Amdocs OSS
8 4 (0.22%) Grafana
8 4 (0.22%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.16%) AirWatch
9 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.16%) SCOM
9 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.11%) Control-M
10 2 (0.11%) HP Data Protector
10 2 (0.11%) Nessus
10 2 (0.11%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 270 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 188 (10.24%) SAP
3 116 (6.32%) ServiceNow
4 103 (5.61%) Oracle
5 60 (3.27%) Salesforce
6 40 (2.18%) Google
7 37 (2.02%) Workday
8 25 (1.36%) Cisco
9 22 (1.20%) Databricks
10 21 (1.14%) Ariba
11 18 (0.98%) Adobe
11 18 (0.98%) HP
11 18 (0.98%) Informatica
12 16 (0.87%) Remedy
13 15 (0.82%) VMware
14 12 (0.65%) Planview
15 11 (0.60%) Citrix
15 11 (0.60%) IBM
16 10 (0.54%) BMC
17 8 (0.44%) Nokia