Stakeholder Management Contracts in Scotland

Stakeholder Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Stakeholder Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Stakeholder Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 22 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -13
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 147 182 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 9.05% 8.21% 8.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.68% 9.27% 9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 127 169
10th Percentile £366 £360 £392
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +7.22%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £576
90th Percentile £629 £680 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £24.26 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -58.91% +15.75%
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £58.44 £56.30
% change year-on-year +2.67% +3.81% +36.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Stakeholder Management 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 in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Stakeholder Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Stakeholder Management in Scotland

Stakeholder Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Stakeholder Management in Scotland

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in Scotland

Stakeholder Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Stakeholder Management in Scotland

Stakeholder Management
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh +4 72 £463 -11.90% 33
Glasgow -6 60 £475 -5.00% 28
Perthshire +2 4 £550 +10.00% 1
Perth and Kinross - 4 £450 -
Stirling - 1 - - 2
Stakeholder Management
UK

Stakeholder Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (4.08%) Confluence
2 5 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (4.08%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.68%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (12.93%) Azure
2 11 (7.48%) AWS
2 11 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (6.80%) SaaS
4 8 (5.44%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.72%) PaaS
6 3 (2.04%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.04%) IaaS
6 3 (2.04%) PowerApps
6 3 (2.04%) Serverless
7 2 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.36%) Asana
7 2 (1.36%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.36%) Figma
8 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.68%) Datadog
8 1 (0.68%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.40%) WAN
2 3 (2.04%) 4G
2 3 (2.04%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.36%) LAN
3 2 (1.36%) Network Security
4 1 (0.68%) ADSL
4 1 (0.68%) BGP
4 1 (0.68%) Firewall
4 1 (0.68%) OSPF
4 1 (0.68%) PSTN
4 1 (0.68%) SDH
4 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.68%) VPN
4 1 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (3.40%) Power BI
3 3 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.36%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.36%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (14.29%) JIRA
2 5 (3.40%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.72%) Selenium
4 3 (2.04%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.04%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.04%) Git
4 3 (2.04%) Postman
4 3 (2.04%) Subversion
4 3 (2.04%) TeamCity
4 3 (2.04%) WebDriver
5 2 (1.36%) GitLab
6 1 (0.68%) GCC
6 1 (0.68%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.68%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (48.98%) Social Skills
2 54 (36.73%) Finance
3 29 (19.73%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (19.05%) Banking
5 27 (18.37%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (4.76%) Retail Banking
8 6 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.36%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.36%) Retail
11 2 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.68%) Electronics
12 1 (0.68%) Front Office
12 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.68%) Legal
12 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 49 (33.33%) Analyst
2 34 (23.13%) Business Analyst
3 22 (14.97%) Project Manager
4 20 (13.61%) Senior
5 18 (12.24%) Lead
6 8 (5.44%) Data Analyst
7 7 (4.76%) Architect
7 7 (4.76%) Programme Manager
7 7 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (4.08%) Designer
8 6 (4.08%) SAP Analyst
8 6 (4.08%) SAP Business Analyst
8 6 (4.08%) Senior Business Analyst
8 6 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.40%) Senior Manager
9 5 (3.40%) Senior Project Manager
9 5 (3.40%) Technical Manager
10 4 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (2.72%) Service Manager
10 4 (2.72%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.72%) .NET
2 2 (1.36%) AWS CDK
2 2 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.68%) ADO
3 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.68%) CSS
3 1 (0.68%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (3.40%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.04%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.04%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.36%) NHS
5 2 (1.36%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.68%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.68%) Equities
6 1 (0.68%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (0.68%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.68%) PMI
6 1 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.40%) Windows
2 3 (2.04%) Unix
3 2 (1.36%) Linux
4 1 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (30.61%) Agile
2 44 (29.93%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (19.05%) Project Management
4 27 (18.37%) Project Delivery
5 22 (14.97%) DevOps
6 18 (12.24%) Business Analysis
7 16 (10.88%) Requirements Gathering
7 16 (10.88%) Risk Management
8 13 (8.84%) Analytics
8 13 (8.84%) ITIL
8 13 (8.84%) Migration
8 13 (8.84%) Roadmaps
8 13 (8.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (8.84%) Waterfall
9 11 (7.48%) Software Delivery
9 11 (7.48%) User Stories
10 10 (6.80%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (6.80%) Data Analysis
10 10 (6.80%) Translating Business Requirements
10 10 (6.80%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.12%) SQL
2 4 (2.72%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.04%) C#
3 3 (2.04%) C++
3 3 (2.04%) Java
3 3 (2.04%) Shell Script
3 3 (2.04%) VBA
3 3 (2.04%) VBScript
4 2 (1.36%) Python
5 1 (0.68%) Bash
5 1 (0.68%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (10.20%) Degree
2 5 (3.40%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.04%) IIBA
4 3 (2.04%) ISEB
4 3 (2.04%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (2.04%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.04%) PMP
5 2 (1.36%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.36%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.68%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.68%) CRISC
6 1 (0.68%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.68%) ISACA
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.52%) QA
2 7 (4.76%) PMO
3 6 (4.08%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (3.40%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.40%) GDPR
5 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.68%) NIST
6 1 (0.68%) PERC
6 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.36%) Ansible
1 2 (1.36%) CASB
2 1 (0.68%) Grafana
2 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.80%) ServiceNow
3 6 (4.08%) SAP
4 4 (2.72%) Oracle
5 3 (2.04%) BT
5 3 (2.04%) Cisco
5 3 (2.04%) VMware
6 2 (1.36%) Databricks
6 2 (1.36%) Fiserv
6 2 (1.36%) Snow
7 1 (0.68%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.68%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.68%) Forcepoint
7 1 (0.68%) Openreach
7 1 (0.68%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.68%) Splunk
7 1 (0.68%) Spotify
7 1 (0.68%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.68%) Tanium
7 1 (0.68%) Workday