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

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 21 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -12
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 186 173 240
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 11.35% 8.04% 8.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.11% 9.10% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 119 173
10th Percentile £368 £361 £387
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +6.77%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £588
90th Percentile £664 £660 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +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 £55.25 £60.00 £52.97
% change year-on-year -7.92% +13.27% +27.64%

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 1,536 1,901 2,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.72% 88.38% 92.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 880 1,165 1,771
10th Percentile £263 £219 £260
25th Percentile £375 £369 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +1.06%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £553
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 92 54
10th Percentile £15.95 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.18 £15.92 £11.51
Median hourly rate £19.90 £19.50 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +20.00% -56.59%
75th Percentile £24.66 £42.71 £52.25
90th Percentile £50.06 £60.75 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%

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 17 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 17 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 80 £475 -9.52% 42
Glasgow -9 57 £486 -2.75% 44
West Lothian +14 18 - -
Stirling - 5 - - 1
Perth and Kinross - 4 £450 -
Midlothian - 3 - - 7
Fife - 2 - - 3
Perthshire +3 1 - -
Lanarkshire -1 1 - - 7
East Lothian - 1 - -
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 7 (3.76%) Confluence
2 5 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.61%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (10.75%) Azure
2 13 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (5.91%) AWS
4 9 (4.84%) SaaS
5 8 (4.30%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.15%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.15%) PaaS
7 3 (1.61%) IaaS
7 3 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.61%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.08%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.08%) Asana
8 2 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.08%) Serverless
8 2 (1.08%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.54%) Figma
9 1 (0.54%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (21.51%) Broadband
2 5 (2.69%) WAN
3 3 (1.61%) 4G
3 3 (1.61%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.08%) LAN
4 2 (1.08%) SMS
5 1 (0.54%) ADSL
5 1 (0.54%) ATM
5 1 (0.54%) BGP
5 1 (0.54%) Firewall
5 1 (0.54%) Network Security
5 1 (0.54%) OSPF
5 1 (0.54%) PSTN
5 1 (0.54%) SDH
5 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.54%) VPN
5 1 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.69%) Power BI
3 3 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.08%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.54%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.54%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (12.37%) JIRA
2 5 (2.69%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.15%) Selenium
4 3 (1.61%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.61%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.61%) Git
4 3 (1.61%) Postman
4 3 (1.61%) Subversion
4 3 (1.61%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.61%) WebDriver
5 2 (1.08%) GitLab
6 1 (0.54%) GCC
6 1 (0.54%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.54%) Zephyr
General
1 115 (61.83%) Social Skills
2 100 (53.76%) Finance
3 40 (21.51%) General Ledger
4 30 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (15.59%) Banking
6 21 (11.29%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.76%) Retail Banking
8 6 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.08%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.08%) Retail
11 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.54%) Electronics
12 1 (0.54%) Front Office
12 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.54%) Legal
12 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 87 (46.77%) Analyst
2 60 (32.26%) Senior
3 46 (24.73%) Senior Analyst
4 42 (22.58%) Financial Analyst
5 40 (21.51%) Senior Financial Analyst
6 34 (18.28%) Business Analyst
7 22 (11.83%) Project Manager
8 16 (8.60%) Lead
9 8 (4.30%) Data Analyst
10 7 (3.76%) Programme Manager
11 6 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
11 6 (3.23%) SAP Analyst
11 6 (3.23%) SAP Business Analyst
11 6 (3.23%) Senior Manager
12 5 (2.69%) Architect
12 5 (2.69%) Consultant
12 5 (2.69%) Senior Business Analyst
12 5 (2.69%) Senior Project Manager
12 5 (2.69%) Technical Analyst
12 5 (2.69%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.15%) .NET
2 2 (1.08%) Kafka
2 2 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.54%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.54%) ADO
3 1 (0.54%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.54%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.54%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (0.54%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.54%) Blazor
3 1 (0.54%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.54%) React
Miscellaneous
1 40 (21.51%) Social Media
2 6 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (2.69%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.15%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.61%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.61%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.08%) Derivative
6 2 (1.08%) Equities
6 2 (1.08%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.08%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.08%) NHS
6 2 (1.08%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.54%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.54%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.69%) Windows
2 3 (1.61%) Unix
3 2 (1.08%) Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (27.42%) Agile
2 43 (23.12%) Root Cause Analysis
3 40 (21.51%) Accounts Payable
3 40 (21.51%) Procure-to-Pay
4 37 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 28 (15.05%) Project Management
7 24 (12.90%) DevOps
8 18 (9.68%) Business Analysis
8 18 (9.68%) Migration
9 17 (9.14%) Risk Management
10 14 (7.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 14 (7.53%) Waterfall
11 13 (6.99%) ITIL
11 13 (6.99%) Requirements Gathering
12 11 (5.91%) Analytics
12 11 (5.91%) Change Management
12 11 (5.91%) Data Analysis
12 11 (5.91%) Software Delivery
13 10 (5.38%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.91%) SQL
2 4 (2.15%) C#
3 3 (1.61%) C++
3 3 (1.61%) Java
3 3 (1.61%) JavaScript
3 3 (1.61%) Shell Script
3 3 (1.61%) VBA
3 3 (1.61%) VBScript
4 2 (1.08%) Python
5 1 (0.54%) Bash
5 1 (0.54%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 41 (22.04%) ACCA
2 40 (21.51%) CIMA
3 15 (8.06%) Degree
4 5 (2.69%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.15%) IIBA
5 4 (2.15%) PMP
6 3 (1.61%) ISEB
6 3 (1.61%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.61%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.61%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.08%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.08%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.54%) APMP
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.54%) CBAP
8 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.54%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.60%) QA
2 7 (3.76%) PMO
3 5 (2.69%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.69%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (2.69%) GDPR
4 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.54%) NIST
4 1 (0.54%) PERC
4 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.08%) Ansible
2 1 (0.54%) Grafana
2 1 (0.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 46 (24.73%) SAP
2 20 (10.75%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.84%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.15%) Oracle
5 3 (1.61%) BT
5 3 (1.61%) Cisco
5 3 (1.61%) IBM
5 3 (1.61%) StreamSets
5 3 (1.61%) VMware
6 2 (1.08%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.08%) Databricks
6 2 (1.08%) Fiserv
6 2 (1.08%) Reuters
6 2 (1.08%) Snow
7 1 (0.54%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.54%) Openreach
7 1 (0.54%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.54%) Spotify
7 1 (0.54%) Tanium
7 1 (0.54%) Workday