Stakeholder Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Stakeholder Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 13 22 12
Rank change year-on-year +9 -10 0
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 158 187 299
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.53% 7.20% 10.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.34% 8.28% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 105 225
10th Percentile £325 £281 £331
25th Percentile £403 £370 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% -0.83%
75th Percentile £606 £568 £638
90th Percentile £700 £647 £750
South East median daily rate £523 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +4.50% -1.96% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 22 3
10th Percentile £51.85 £55.94 -
25th Percentile £55.56 £61.60 £63.14
Median hourly rate £61.50 £70.78 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year -13.12% +9.44% +55.84%
75th Percentile £67.25 £85.34 £66.21
90th Percentile £82.12 £85.65 -
South East median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £64.68
% change year-on-year +15.38% +0.50% +52.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,393 2,259 2,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.87% 86.98% 91.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 1,256 1,764
10th Percentile £290 £213 £317
25th Percentile £404 £371 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -0.05% -1.91% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 167 63
10th Percentile - £14.17 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £19.25 £23.75
Median hourly rate £31.50 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -10.00% +194.12%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.75 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.31 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £27.76 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.56% -5.00% +132.56%

Stakeholder Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Stakeholder Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Stakeholder Management in the Thames Valley

Stakeholder Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Stakeholder Management in the Thames Valley

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the Thames Valley

Stakeholder Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Stakeholder Management in the Thames Valley

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the Thames Valley

Stakeholder Management
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +8 120 £494 -1.20% 74
Oxfordshire +8 24 £550 +15.79% 40
Buckinghamshire -2 14 £550 +15.79% 28
Stakeholder Management
South East

Stakeholder Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (2.53%) Confluence
2 1 (0.63%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.63%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (6.96%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 11 (6.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.80%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (2.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (1.27%) Primavera
5 1 (0.63%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle ASCP
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.63%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 14 (8.86%) Azure
2 11 (6.96%) AWS
3 5 (3.16%) GCP
4 4 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.53%) OCI
4 4 (2.53%) SaaS
5 3 (1.90%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) Serverless
6 2 (1.27%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.63%) AWS KMS
7 1 (0.63%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.63%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) Route 53
7 1 (0.63%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.80%) SD-WAN
2 4 (2.53%) Structured Cabling
3 3 (1.90%) BGP
3 3 (1.90%) Broadband
3 3 (1.90%) MPLS
3 3 (1.90%) WAN
4 2 (1.27%) Ethernet
4 2 (1.27%) Firewall
4 2 (1.27%) Network Security
4 2 (1.27%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (1.27%) SDH
4 2 (1.27%) VPN
5 1 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.63%) DNS
5 1 (0.63%) FTP
5 1 (0.63%) HTTP
5 1 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.63%) Modbus
5 1 (0.63%) SMS
5 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.80%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (2.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 4 (2.53%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.90%) Power BI
4 2 (1.27%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.63%) Impala
5 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.80%) JIRA
2 4 (2.53%) ERwin
2 4 (2.53%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (1.27%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (1.27%) Selenium
4 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (0.63%) DbUnit
4 1 (0.63%) Git
4 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.63%) jMock
4 1 (0.63%) JUnit
4 1 (0.63%) Maven
4 1 (0.63%) Mockito
4 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
General
1 71 (44.94%) Social Skills
2 32 (20.25%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (19.62%) Finance
4 23 (14.56%) Telecoms
5 17 (10.76%) Manufacturing
6 14 (8.86%) Public Sector
7 13 (8.23%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.80%) Legal
9 5 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.16%) Retail
10 4 (2.53%) Agriculture
10 4 (2.53%) Billing
10 4 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.53%) Marketing
11 2 (1.27%) Automotive
11 2 (1.27%) Local Government
11 2 (1.27%) Military
12 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.63%) Law
Job Titles
1 27 (17.09%) Analyst
2 24 (15.19%) Project Manager
3 23 (14.56%) Architect
4 13 (8.23%) Senior
5 12 (7.59%) Lead
6 11 (6.96%) Business Analyst
7 9 (5.70%) Delivery Manager
8 8 (5.06%) Consultant
9 7 (4.43%) Developer
10 6 (3.80%) Data Analyst
10 6 (3.80%) SAP Manager
11 5 (3.16%) Information Security Specialist
11 5 (3.16%) Information Specialist
11 5 (3.16%) Security Specialist
11 5 (3.16%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 5 (3.16%) Senior Information Security Specialist
11 5 (3.16%) Senior Security Specialist
11 5 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (2.53%) Payroll Manager
12 4 (2.53%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.53%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.90%) .NET
2 3 (1.90%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.27%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (1.27%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (1.27%) REST
3 2 (1.27%) SOAP
4 1 (0.63%) Bootstrap
4 1 (0.63%) JPA
4 1 (0.63%) JSON
4 1 (0.63%) MACH
4 1 (0.63%) PowerMock
4 1 (0.63%) RESTful
4 1 (0.63%) RFC 2544
4 1 (0.63%) Spring Batch
4 1 (0.63%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.63%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (0.63%) Spring Integration
4 1 (0.63%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.86%) Life Science
2 13 (8.23%) Management Information System
2 13 (8.23%) Renewable Energy
3 8 (5.06%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.43%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.53%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.53%) SCADA
6 3 (1.90%) CMDB
6 3 (1.90%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.27%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.63%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.63%) PKI
8 1 (0.63%) PMI
8 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.53%) Windows
2 3 (1.90%) Linux
3 2 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (29.75%) Agile
2 46 (29.11%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (23.42%) Project Management
4 29 (18.35%) Migration
5 23 (14.56%) Risk Management
5 23 (14.56%) Roadmaps
6 20 (12.66%) Change Management
7 19 (12.03%) PRINCE2
7 19 (12.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (10.13%) Analytics
8 16 (10.13%) Project Delivery
9 14 (8.86%) Scrum
10 12 (7.59%) Time Management
11 11 (6.96%) Project Planning
11 11 (6.96%) Strategic Thinking
12 10 (6.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (6.33%) Data Migration
12 10 (6.33%) ITIL
12 10 (6.33%) Waterfall
13 9 (5.70%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.70%) SQL
2 3 (1.90%) Java
3 2 (1.27%) Apex Code
3 2 (1.27%) C#
4 1 (0.63%) ActionScript
4 1 (0.63%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 20 (12.66%) Degree
3 19 (12.03%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.59%) PMI Certification
4 12 (7.59%) PMP
5 10 (6.33%) DV Cleared
6 8 (5.06%) CISM
7 5 (3.16%) CISSP
7 5 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.90%) APMP
8 3 (1.90%) CCNA
8 3 (1.90%) CCNP
8 3 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.90%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (1.27%) CISA
9 2 (1.27%) ISEB
9 2 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.27%) PgMP
10 1 (0.63%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (7.59%) QA
3 10 (6.33%) NIST
4 6 (3.80%) COBIT
5 5 (3.16%) Data Quality
5 5 (3.16%) GDPR
5 5 (3.16%) PMO
6 4 (2.53%) PMBOK
7 3 (1.90%) NCSC
8 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.63%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.63%) P3O
9 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.63%) Docker
3 1 (0.63%) Postfix
3 1 (0.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (1.27%) Amdocs OSS
1 2 (1.27%) CSIRT
1 2 (1.27%) Terraform
2 1 (0.63%) Ansible
2 1 (0.63%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.63%) Grafana
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.63%) QRadar
2 1 (0.63%) SCOM
2 1 (0.63%) yum
Vendors
1 18 (11.39%) SAP
2 16 (10.13%) Microsoft
3 15 (9.49%) Oracle
4 8 (5.06%) VMware
5 7 (4.43%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.80%) Cisco
7 4 (2.53%) Sparx
8 3 (1.90%) Google
8 3 (1.90%) Liquidlogic
8 3 (1.90%) Remedy
9 2 (1.27%) Adobe
9 2 (1.27%) Cognos
9 2 (1.27%) Cramer
9 2 (1.27%) Databricks
9 2 (1.27%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.27%) HP
9 2 (1.27%) IBM
9 2 (1.27%) Infoblox
9 2 (1.27%) Meraki
9 2 (1.27%) Salesforce