Stakeholder Management Contracts

Stakeholder Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Stakeholder Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Stakeholder Management over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 19 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,201 4,626 8,230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.43% 8.21% 9.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.69% 9.15% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,225 3,356 5,922
10th Percentile £360 £380 £381
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 75 120
10th Percentile £15.16 £23.05 £15.90
25th Percentile £23.63 £33.13 £18.60
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +33.33% -2.94%
75th Percentile £72.90 £73.38 £53.77
90th Percentile £85.65 £82.50 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £56.40 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.38% +41.00% -5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Stakeholder Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

Stakeholder Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Stakeholder Management in the UK

Stakeholder Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Stakeholder Management in the UK

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Management over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the UK

Stakeholder Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Stakeholder Management in the UK

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Management over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the UK

Stakeholder Management
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stakeholder Management within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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 -3 2,759 £540 -1.82% 1,370
UK excluding London -1 1,610 £525 - 791
London -5 1,262 £550 -8.33% 612
Work from Home -2 1,090 £525 -2.33% 618
North of England +3 473 £525 +2.44% 228
South East -14 322 £500 -2.91% 187
North West +1 261 £525 +5.00% 146
Midlands +5 245 £550 +6.54% 132
South West -2 210 £525 -6.42% 108
West Midlands -1 196 £550 +4.76% 93
Yorkshire +4 183 £513 -3.98% 68
Scotland -4 172 £500 - 55
East of England +10 162 £525 +5.00% 66
East Midlands +4 47 £456 +1.39% 39
Wales +22 33 £540 -1.82% 23
North East +6 25 £588 +9.30% 17
Northern Ireland +1 6 - - 5

Stakeholder Management
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
1 118 (3.69%) SharePoint
2 107 (3.34%) Confluence
3 30 (0.94%) SAS
4 21 (0.66%) CMS
5 14 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.41%) CICS
7 10 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 10 (0.31%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.12%) Apache
10 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.094%) NetWeaver
11 3 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.031%) Drupal
12 1 (0.031%) Mule
12 1 (0.031%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.031%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.031%) WebSphere
Applications
1 145 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 104 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (2.34%) Microsoft Project
4 66 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 48 (1.50%) MS Visio
6 33 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
7 25 (0.78%) Photoshop
8 11 (0.34%) Acrobat
9 10 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
10 9 (0.28%) Chatbot
11 6 (0.19%) Adobe Captivate
11 6 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.094%) AutoCAD
14 2 (0.062%) InDesign
14 2 (0.062%) Maya
14 2 (0.062%) Trello
15 1 (0.031%) Adobe XD
15 1 (0.031%) Revit
15 1 (0.031%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 116 (3.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (0.44%) Primavera
5 11 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 10 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
7 9 (0.28%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
7 9 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
8 8 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
8 8 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
8 8 (0.25%) SAP PP
9 7 (0.22%) Endur
9 7 (0.22%) Maximo
9 7 (0.22%) SAP GTS
9 7 (0.22%) Temenos T24
10 6 (0.19%) ION MarketView
10 6 (0.19%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 324 (10.12%) Azure
2 217 (6.78%) AWS
3 144 (4.50%) Power Platform
4 90 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
5 73 (2.28%) SaaS
6 68 (2.12%) GCP
7 62 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
8 58 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
10 32 (1.00%) GitHub
10 32 (1.00%) Serverless
11 27 (0.84%) Power Automate
12 26 (0.81%) Slack
13 25 (0.78%) PowerApps
14 23 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
14 23 (0.72%) Snowflake
15 18 (0.56%) PaaS
15 18 (0.56%) WhatsApp
16 17 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
17 16 (0.50%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.06%) Firewall
2 51 (1.59%) Intranet
3 35 (1.09%) WAN
4 27 (0.84%) LAN
4 27 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
5 23 (0.72%) VoIP
6 21 (0.66%) VPN
7 20 (0.62%) Network Security
8 18 (0.56%) CTI
9 16 (0.50%) DNS
9 16 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
10 15 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
11 14 (0.44%) TCP/IP
12 12 (0.37%) 5G
12 12 (0.37%) Internet
12 12 (0.37%) WLAN
13 9 (0.28%) 3G
13 9 (0.28%) 4G
13 9 (0.28%) HTTP
13 9 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (3.56%) Power BI
2 49 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (1.19%) SQL Server
4 36 (1.12%) Data Lake
5 29 (0.91%) Metadata
6 25 (0.78%) Tableau
7 21 (0.66%) Big Data
8 20 (0.62%) SAP HANA
9 19 (0.59%) DB2
10 17 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (0.44%) Oracle Database
12 13 (0.41%) IDMS
12 13 (0.41%) Relational Database
12 13 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (0.34%) Data Mining
15 10 (0.31%) MongoDB
15 10 (0.31%) Qlik Sense
15 10 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 9 (0.28%) KDB
Development Applications
1 261 (8.15%) JIRA
2 40 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 35 (1.09%) Git
4 12 (0.37%) Selenium
5 9 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (0.28%) CircleCI
5 9 (0.28%) GitLab
5 9 (0.28%) LoadRunner
5 9 (0.28%) Travis CI
6 7 (0.22%) Cucumber
6 7 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (0.22%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.16%) Maven
7 5 (0.16%) NeoLoad
7 5 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.16%) Toad
8 4 (0.12%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.12%) Gradle
8 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 1,204 (37.61%) Social Skills
2 862 (26.93%) Finance
3 357 (11.15%) Public Sector
4 327 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
5 236 (7.37%) Banking
6 169 (5.28%) Presentation Skills
7 129 (4.03%) Influencing Skills
8 126 (3.94%) Manufacturing
9 122 (3.81%) Marketing
10 115 (3.59%) Retail
11 113 (3.53%) Legal
12 99 (3.09%) Telecoms
13 97 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
14 76 (2.37%) Pharmaceutical
15 70 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 67 (2.09%) Law
17 63 (1.97%) Electronics
18 50 (1.56%) Local Government
19 45 (1.41%) Aerospace
20 38 (1.19%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 523 (16.34%) Analyst
2 518 (16.18%) Project Manager
3 382 (11.93%) Architect
4 321 (10.03%) Lead
5 311 (9.72%) Business Analyst
6 298 (9.31%) Senior
7 260 (8.12%) Consultant
8 148 (4.62%) Developer
9 109 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
10 108 (3.37%) IT Manager
11 97 (3.03%) Senior Manager
12 84 (2.62%) Delivery Manager
13 79 (2.47%) Programme Manager
14 73 (2.28%) Data Analyst
15 70 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
16 67 (2.09%) SAP Consultant
17 58 (1.81%) Change Manager
18 55 (1.72%) Product Owner
19 53 (1.66%) IT Project Manager
19 53 (1.66%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (1.12%) .NET
2 35 (1.09%) CSS
3 33 (1.03%) HTML
4 25 (0.78%) Web Services
5 24 (0.75%) XML
6 23 (0.72%) React
7 22 (0.69%) SOAP
8 21 (0.66%) Middleware
9 20 (0.62%) Kafka
9 20 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
9 20 (0.62%) YAML
10 18 (0.56%) PySpark
10 18 (0.56%) REST
11 15 (0.47%) Spring
12 14 (0.44%) RESTful
13 12 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (0.37%) JSON
14 11 (0.34%) SAP Basis
14 11 (0.34%) Spring Boot
15 10 (0.31%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 124 (3.87%) Product Ownership
2 99 (3.09%) Management Information System
3 61 (1.91%) Data Centre
4 38 (1.19%) Virtual Team
5 37 (1.16%) Onboarding
6 35 (1.09%) Analogue Electronics
6 35 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
6 35 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (0.87%) Mobile App
8 26 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
10 22 (0.69%) Data Structures
10 22 (0.69%) NHS
11 20 (0.62%) Digital Media
11 20 (0.62%) Life Science
11 20 (0.62%) Operational Technology
12 19 (0.59%) Derivative
12 19 (0.59%) FMCG
12 19 (0.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 19 (0.59%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 82 (2.56%) Windows
2 70 (2.19%) Linux
3 28 (0.87%) zOS
4 26 (0.81%) Unix
5 19 (0.59%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.34%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.22%) Mac OS X
8 6 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.16%) Android
9 5 (0.16%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.094%) AIX
10 3 (0.094%) Debian
10 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.062%) VMS
11 2 (0.062%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.062%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.031%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.031%) Solaris
12 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 832 (25.99%) Agile
2 736 (22.99%) Project Management
3 403 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
4 359 (11.22%) Change Management
5 307 (9.59%) Project Delivery
6 257 (8.03%) Migration
7 254 (7.94%) Risk Management
8 217 (6.78%) PRINCE2
9 214 (6.69%) Roadmaps
10 190 (5.94%) Business Analysis
11 188 (5.87%) DevOps
12 182 (5.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 176 (5.50%) Scrum
14 175 (5.47%) Waterfall
15 167 (5.22%) Requirements Gathering
16 165 (5.15%) Business Intelligence
17 159 (4.97%) Decision-Making
18 158 (4.94%) Analytics
19 150 (4.69%) Cybersecurity
20 141 (4.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 187 (5.84%) SQL
2 115 (3.59%) Python
3 53 (1.66%) C#
4 50 (1.56%) JavaScript
5 49 (1.53%) Java
6 30 (0.94%) PowerShell
7 26 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 23 (0.72%) REXX
9 22 (0.69%) C++
10 17 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 17 (0.53%) TypeScript
11 16 (0.50%) Bash
12 15 (0.47%) COBOL
13 14 (0.44%) JCL
14 13 (0.41%) CLIST
14 13 (0.41%) SELCOPY
15 12 (0.37%) R
16 9 (0.28%) C
17 8 (0.25%) T-SQL
18 7 (0.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 501 (15.65%) Security Cleared
2 367 (11.47%) SC Cleared
3 280 (8.75%) Degree
4 135 (4.22%) DV Cleared
5 72 (2.25%) PMI Certification
5 72 (2.25%) PMP
6 61 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (1.47%) Master's Degree
8 38 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 35 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
10 32 (1.00%) APMP
11 27 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (0.59%) CISSP
13 17 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 15 (0.47%) AWS Certification
14 15 (0.47%) CIMA
14 15 (0.47%) IIBA
15 14 (0.44%) ACCA
16 13 (0.41%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (4.84%) PMO
2 135 (4.22%) QA
3 95 (2.97%) Data Quality
4 74 (2.31%) GDPR
5 48 (1.50%) NIST
6 47 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 42 (1.31%) SLA
8 35 (1.09%) Accessibility
8 35 (1.09%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.78%) JSP 440
10 17 (0.53%) GxP
11 16 (0.50%) HIPAA
11 16 (0.50%) ISO 9001
12 14 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 13 (0.41%) COBIT
14 12 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
14 12 (0.37%) Good Clinical Practice
15 11 (0.34%) MiFID
16 10 (0.31%) GRC
16 10 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 28 (0.87%) Docker
3 14 (0.44%) NFS
3 14 (0.44%) Time Sharing Option
4 11 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.12%) vSphere
8 3 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.062%) Firmware
9 2 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.062%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.031%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.031%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.031%) PowerHA
10 1 (0.031%) UAG
Systems Management
1 44 (1.37%) Kubernetes
2 30 (0.94%) Terraform
3 25 (0.78%) Ansible
4 20 (0.62%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 10 (0.31%) Docker Swarm
5 10 (0.31%) Grafana
5 10 (0.31%) Kibana
5 10 (0.31%) logstash
5 10 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.28%) Progress Chef
6 9 (0.28%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.28%) Puppet
7 5 (0.16%) FortiGate
7 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.12%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.12%) SCCM
9 3 (0.094%) PingFederate
9 3 (0.094%) WSUS
10 2 (0.062%) Matomo
10 2 (0.062%) VxRail
Vendors
1 328 (10.25%) Microsoft
2 300 (9.37%) SAP
3 119 (3.72%) Oracle
4 69 (2.16%) Salesforce
5 53 (1.66%) ServiceNow
6 49 (1.53%) Ariba
6 49 (1.53%) Cisco
7 46 (1.44%) IBM
8 44 (1.37%) Adobe
9 36 (1.12%) Databricks
10 34 (1.06%) Google
11 29 (0.91%) Splunk
12 27 (0.84%) Informatica
13 23 (0.72%) Genesys
14 22 (0.69%) VMware
15 20 (0.62%) Dell
16 17 (0.53%) Alteryx
17 16 (0.50%) CA
18 15 (0.47%) Brocade
18 15 (0.47%) Cadence