Stakeholder Engagement Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Stakeholder Engagement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Stakeholder Engagement over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Stakeholder Engagement UK
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	189	191	197
Rank change year-on-year	+2	+6
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement	615	734	662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.31%	1.38%	1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.55%	1.66%	1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted	397	532	463
Median daily rate	£467	£450	£428
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.66%	+5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£310	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£605	£650	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£438	£413
% change year-on-year	-2.85%	+5.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted	7	5	8
Median hourly rate	£37.50	£23.50	£40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+59.57%	-41.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£31.70	£18.63	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£49.50	£27.57	£47.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£37.50	£25.50	£40.00
% change year-on-year	+47.05%	-36.25%

Stakeholder Engagement is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	39704	44234	45146
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	84.45%	83.33%	80.72%
Number of daily rates quoted	25886	29348	28980
Median daily rate	£450	£438	£413
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.85%	+6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£313	£300	£285
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1051	1071	1257
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£27.50	£27.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+18.18%	-
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.00	£12.58	£12.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£53.00	£48.65	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Stakeholder Engagement as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor daily rate trend for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Top 30 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 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-13	573	£475	+5.55%	91
London	-41	262	£500	+5.26%	42
South East	+48	107	£438	+2.94%	17
South West	+1	48	£400	-8.04%	5
North West	+2	39	£450	+2.27%	5
City of London	-27	37	£488	+5.40%	10
West Midlands	+1	36	£425	-	5
Berkshire	+34	33	£438	-10.25%	2
East of England	+1	33	£456	-3.94%	5
Yorkshire	+7	24	£510	+13.30%	9
Wiltshire	+9	23	£400	+6.66%
Scotland	+32	19	£450	+28.57%	2
Birmingham	+22	18	£438	+32.57%
Hampshire	+15	17	£400	-13.04%	1
Leeds	+20	16	£535	+22.89%	3
West Yorkshire	+7	16	£535	+25.79%	6
Wales	+9	15	£344	-14.12%	2
South Wales	+8	15	£344	-1.85%	2
Surrey	+6	14	£463	+23.33%	5
Manchester	0	14	£425	-3.40%	3
Buckinghamshire	-17	14	£475	+18.75%	4
Merseyside	+4	13	£450	+7.14%
Hertfordshire	+1	12	£475	+22.58%	2
Milton Keynes	-18	12	£475	+18.75%	2
Cardiff	+10	11	£344	-1.85%	1
East Midlands	-18	11	£431	-15.85%	2
Watford	+3	10	£475	-
Bristol	-1	10	£463	+29.82%
West Sussex	+20	9	£441	-7.10%
Glasgow	+16	9	£485	+36.14%

Stakeholder Engagement
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Stakeholder Engagement.

1	325 (27.02%)	Finance
2	298 (24.77%)	Project Management
3	275 (22.86%)	Agile Software Development
4	245 (20.37%)	Stakeholder Management
5	166 (13.80%)	PRINCE2
6	125 (10.39%)	Change Management
7	121 (10.06%)	Security Cleared
7	121 (10.06%)	Analytical Skills
8	114 (9.48%)	Business Analysis
9	110 (9.14%)	PMO
10	108 (8.98%)	Retail
11	93 (7.73%)	Banking
12	87 (7.23%)	Migration
13	83 (6.90%)	SC Cleared
14	81 (6.73%)	Programme Management

15	78 (6.48%)	Microsoft
16	75 (6.23%)	ITIL
17	73 (6.07%)	Microsoft Excel
18	71 (5.90%)	SharePoint
18	71 (5.90%)	SAP
19	70 (5.82%)	Business Intelligence
20	68 (5.65%)	Degree
21	66 (5.49%)	ERP
21	66 (5.49%)	Scrum
22	63 (5.24%)	SQL
23	59 (4.90%)	Microsoft Office
24	57 (4.74%)	Oracle
25	55 (4.57%)	Service Delivery
26	53 (4.41%)	Telecoms
26	53 (4.41%)	Marketing

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	71 (5.90%)	SharePoint
2	14 (1.16%)	Confluence
3	13 (1.08%)	SAS
4	12 (1.00%)	CMS
5	9 (0.75%)	Oracle SOA Suite
6	5 (0.42%)	Cloud Foundry
6	5 (0.42%)	MS Project Server
7	4 (0.33%)	Oracle Self-Service HR
8	3 (0.25%)	Adobe Experience Manager
8	3 (0.25%)	Apache Spark
8	3 (0.25%)	IIS
8	3 (0.25%)	Moodle
9	2 (0.17%)	BizTalk Server
9	2 (0.17%)	Drupal
9	2 (0.17%)	IBM Notes
9	2 (0.17%)	Skype for Business
10	1 (0.083%)	Apache Solr
10	1 (0.083%)	SharePoint 2010
10	1 (0.083%)	WebSphere
10	1 (0.083%)	WordPress

Applications
1	73 (6.07%)	Microsoft Excel
2	59 (4.90%)	Microsoft Office
3	52 (4.32%)	Microsoft Project
4	50 (4.16%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	49 (4.07%)	MS Visio
6	5 (0.42%)	Spreadsheet
7	4 (0.33%)	Adobe Creative Suite
8	3 (0.25%)	Stata
9	2 (0.17%)	Adobe Illustrator
9	2 (0.17%)	InDesign
10	1 (0.083%)	Photoshop

Business Applications
1	16 (1.33%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	13 (1.08%)	Dynamics CRM
2	13 (1.08%)	Oracle iRecruitment
3	9 (0.75%)	Oracle EBS
4	7 (0.58%)	Unit4 Business World
5	6 (0.50%)	Salesforce.com CRM
6	5 (0.42%)	Oracle Payroll
6	5 (0.42%)	Remedy ITSM
7	4 (0.33%)	SAP ERP
7	4 (0.33%)	SAP FI
8	3 (0.25%)	CA PPM
8	3 (0.25%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
8	3 (0.25%)	Oracle Applications
8	3 (0.25%)	Oracle ERP
8	3 (0.25%)	Oracle Financials
8	3 (0.25%)	Primavera
8	3 (0.25%)	SAP MDG
8	3 (0.25%)	SAP Retail
9	2 (0.17%)	Oracle Payables
9	2 (0.17%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay

Cloud Services
1	25 (2.08%)	SaaS
2	22 (1.83%)	Amazon AWS
3	18 (1.50%)	Microsoft Azure
4	16 (1.33%)	IaaS
5	13 (1.08%)	PaaS
6	12 (1.00%)	Office 365
7	9 (0.75%)	Oracle CX
7	9 (0.75%)	Oracle Service Cloud
8	6 (0.50%)	Dynamics 365
8	6 (0.50%)	SuccessFactors
9	3 (0.25%)	GitHub
10	2 (0.17%)	Cloud Computing
10	2 (0.17%)	G Suite
10	2 (0.17%)	OneDrive
10	2 (0.17%)	Taleo
10	2 (0.17%)	Yammer
11	1 (0.083%)	Adobe Creative Cloud
11	1 (0.083%)	Azure Active Directory
11	1 (0.083%)	Sage Pay
11	1 (0.083%)	Trello

Communications & Networking
1	15 (1.25%)	Intranet
2	12 (1.00%)	Firewall
3	11 (0.91%)	WAN
4	9 (0.75%)	IPsec
4	9 (0.75%)	LAN
4	9 (0.75%)	SSL
5	8 (0.67%)	Network Security
6	7 (0.58%)	4G
6	7 (0.58%)	Wi-Fi
7	6 (0.50%)	Internet
7	6 (0.50%)	LTE
7	6 (0.50%)	WLAN
8	4 (0.33%)	2G
8	4 (0.33%)	3G
8	4 (0.33%)	Diameter Protocol
8	4 (0.33%)	MVNO
8	4 (0.33%)	Radio Access Network
8	4 (0.33%)	Unified Communications
8	4 (0.33%)	VoLTE
9	3 (0.25%)	SMS

Database & Business Intelligence
1	21 (1.75%)	Data Warehouse
2	20 (1.66%)	SQL Server
3	17 (1.41%)	Big Data
4	16 (1.33%)	BusinessObjects
5	9 (0.75%)	Oracle BI EE
5	9 (0.75%)	Oracle Database
5	9 (0.75%)	Oracle ODI
6	8 (0.67%)	Data Mining
6	8 (0.67%)	QlikView
7	7 (0.58%)	Riak
8	5 (0.42%)	Electronic Patient Records
8	5 (0.42%)	Hadoop
8	5 (0.42%)	Oracle Database 11g
8	5 (0.42%)	Relational Database
8	5 (0.42%)	SAP BW
8	5 (0.42%)	SQL Server 2012
9	4 (0.33%)	Oracle Reports
9	4 (0.33%)	Power BI
9	4 (0.33%)	SAP HANA
9	4 (0.33%)	SQL Server Integration Services

Development Applications
1	23 (1.91%)	JIRA
2	5 (0.42%)	JMeter
2	5 (0.42%)	SoapUI
3	4 (0.33%)	Rational DOORS
3	4 (0.33%)	VSS/SourceSafe
4	3 (0.25%)	Axure RP
4	3 (0.25%)	Bitbucket
4	3 (0.25%)	Cucumber
4	3 (0.25%)	Talend Open Studio
5	2 (0.17%)	Git (software)
5	2 (0.17%)	Selenium
5	2 (0.17%)	TestPartner
6	1 (0.083%)	Grunt
6	1 (0.083%)	Jenkins
6	1 (0.083%)	Octopus Deploy
6	1 (0.083%)	Subversion
6	1 (0.083%)	Team Foundation Server
6	1 (0.083%)	TeamCity
6	1 (0.083%)	Toad
6	1 (0.083%)	Visual Studio

General
1	325 (27.02%)	Finance
2	108 (8.98%)	Retail
3	93 (7.73%)	Banking
4	53 (4.41%)	Marketing
4	53 (4.41%)	Telecoms
5	40 (3.33%)	Law
6	36 (2.99%)	Legal
7	30 (2.49%)	Manufacturing
8	22 (1.83%)	Retail Banking
9	16 (1.33%)	Investment Banking
10	15 (1.25%)	Front Office
11	14 (1.16%)	Back Office
11	14 (1.16%)	Electronics
11	14 (1.16%)	Financial Institution
12	9 (0.75%)	Automotive
12	9 (0.75%)	Pharmaceutical
12	9 (0.75%)	Publishing
13	8 (0.67%)	Local Government
14	6 (0.50%)	Games
15	4 (0.33%)	Military

Job Titles
1	295 (24.52%)	Analyst
2	257 (21.36%)	Project Manager
3	176 (14.63%)	Business Analyst
4	111 (9.23%)	Architect
5	63 (5.24%)	Programme Manager
6	49 (4.07%)	Consultant
7	45 (3.74%)	IT Manager
8	38 (3.16%)	Developer
9	34 (2.83%)	IT Analyst
10	32 (2.66%)	Senior Manager
10	32 (2.66%)	Service Manager
11	30 (2.49%)	Change Manager
11	30 (2.49%)	Solutions Architect
12	29 (2.41%)	Infrastructure Manager
13	27 (2.24%)	PMO Analyst
14	26 (2.16%)	Delivery Manager
15	24 (2.00%)	Data Analyst
15	24 (2.00%)	IT Project Manager
15	24 (2.00%)	Senior Analyst
16	20 (1.66%)	PMO Manager

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	15 (1.25%)	Web Services
2	14 (1.16%)	.NET
3	10 (0.83%)	HTML
4	8 (0.67%)	CSS
4	8 (0.67%)	Flask
5	7 (0.58%)	AngularJS
5	7 (0.58%)	JSON
5	7 (0.58%)	Oracle Fusion
6	5 (0.42%)	Middleware
6	5 (0.42%)	SAPUI5
6	5 (0.42%)	SOAP
6	5 (0.42%)	Spring
7	4 (0.33%)	Ajax
7	4 (0.33%)	Hibernate
7	4 (0.33%)	HTML5
7	4 (0.33%)	REST
7	4 (0.33%)	Struts
7	4 (0.33%)	XML
8	3 (0.25%)	Node.js
8	3 (0.25%)	WCF

Miscellaneous
1	121 (10.06%)	Analytical Skills
2	52 (4.32%)	Management Information System
3	42 (3.49%)	Data Centre
4	41 (3.41%)	NHS
5	30 (2.49%)	User Experience
6	14 (1.16%)	FMCG
6	14 (1.16%)	Mainframe
7	11 (0.91%)	Greenfield Project
8	10 (0.83%)	Derivative
8	10 (0.83%)	Reference Data
9	9 (0.75%)	Fixed Income
9	9 (0.75%)	Mobile App
10	8 (0.67%)	Cloud Native
11	7 (0.58%)	Computer Science
11	7 (0.58%)	EPoS
11	7 (0.58%)	Equities
11	7 (0.58%)	Life Science
12	6 (0.50%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
12	6 (0.50%)	Hedge funds
12	6 (0.50%)	Social Media

Operating Systems
1	20 (1.66%)	Windows
2	10 (0.83%)	Unix
3	6 (0.50%)	Linux
4	5 (0.42%)	Android
4	5 (0.42%)	Apple iOS
4	5 (0.42%)	Windows Server
5	4 (0.33%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	4 (0.33%)	Windows 10
5	4 (0.33%)	Windows Server 2012
6	3 (0.25%)	CentOS
7	2 (0.17%)	AIX
8	1 (0.083%)	Solaris
8	1 (0.083%)	Windows Server 2008
8	1 (0.083%)	zOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	298 (24.77%)	Project Management
2	275 (22.86%)	Agile Software Development
3	245 (20.37%)	Stakeholder Management
4	166 (13.80%)	PRINCE2
5	125 (10.39%)	Change Management
6	114 (9.48%)	Business Analysis
7	87 (7.23%)	Migration
8	81 (6.73%)	Programme Management
9	75 (6.23%)	ITIL
10	70 (5.82%)	Business Intelligence
11	66 (5.49%)	ERP
11	66 (5.49%)	Scrum
12	55 (4.57%)	Service Delivery
13	53 (4.41%)	Change Control
13	53 (4.41%)	User Stories
14	50 (4.16%)	Data Analysis
14	50 (4.16%)	Service Management
15	48 (3.99%)	Analytics
16	46 (3.82%)	Risk Management
17	45 (3.74%)	Waterfall

Programming Languages
1	63 (5.24%)	SQL
2	25 (2.08%)	Java
3	23 (1.91%)	C
4	16 (1.33%)	C#
5	14 (1.16%)	Python
6	13 (1.08%)	JavaScript
7	9 (0.75%)	VBA
8	7 (0.58%)	VB
9	6 (0.50%)	PL/SQL
10	4 (0.33%)	PHP
10	4 (0.33%)	PowerShell
11	3 (0.25%)	ABAP
11	3 (0.25%)	VB6
12	2 (0.17%)	JCL
12	2 (0.17%)	R
13	1 (0.083%)	Perl
13	1 (0.083%)	Ruby
13	1 (0.083%)	SAS Macro
13	1 (0.083%)	Shell Script
13	1 (0.083%)	T-SQL

Qualifications
1	121 (10.06%)	Security Cleared
2	83 (6.90%)	SC Cleared
3	68 (5.65%)	Degree
4	29 (2.41%)	DV Cleared
5	26 (2.16%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
6	25 (2.08%)	PRINCE2 Certification
7	17 (1.41%)	PMI Certification
8	16 (1.33%)	PMP
9	15 (1.25%)	ISEB
10	11 (0.91%)	BPSS Clearance
11	9 (0.75%)	APMP
12	7 (0.58%)	ITIL Certification
13	6 (0.50%)	CISM
13	6 (0.50%)	CISSP
13	6 (0.50%)	Master's Degree
14	5 (0.42%)	Chartered Engineer
15	4 (0.33%)	HNC
15	4 (0.33%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
15	4 (0.33%)	MBA
15	4 (0.33%)	Microsoft Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	110 (9.14%)	PMO
2	34 (2.83%)	Data Quality
3	33 (2.74%)	QA
4	17 (1.41%)	MiFID
5	13 (1.08%)	IFRS
6	12 (1.00%)	GDPR
7	11 (0.91%)	IFRS 9
7	11 (0.91%)	SLA
8	10 (0.83%)	Disclosure Scotland
9	9 (0.75%)	PMBOK
10	8 (0.67%)	ISO/IEC 27001
11	5 (0.42%)	FATCA
11	5 (0.42%)	Solvency II
12	4 (0.33%)	COBIT
12	4 (0.33%)	P3O
13	3 (0.25%)	HL7
13	3 (0.25%)	JSP 440
13	3 (0.25%)	PCI DSS
14	2 (0.17%)	GMP
14	2 (0.17%)	ISO 20022

System Software
1	19 (1.58%)	Active Directory
2	6 (0.50%)	Docker
3	5 (0.42%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	4 (0.33%)	Hyper-V
5	1 (0.083%)	Firmware
5	1 (0.083%)	Virtual Machines
5	1 (0.083%)	VMware ESXi
5	1 (0.083%)	XenApp
5	1 (0.083%)	XenDesktop

Systems Management
1	7 (0.58%)	Ansible
2	6 (0.50%)	Terraform
3	5 (0.42%)	AirWatch
4	4 (0.33%)	SCCM
5	3 (0.25%)	Microsoft Clustering
5	3 (0.25%)	PowerCLI
5	3 (0.25%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection
6	2 (0.17%)	Cisco CUCM
7	1 (0.083%)	EMC NetWorker
7	1 (0.083%)	Failover Clustering
7	1 (0.083%)	HP Quality Center
7	1 (0.083%)	RSA Archer

Vendors
1	78 (6.48%)	Microsoft
2	71 (5.90%)	SAP
3	57 (4.74%)	Oracle
4	15 (1.25%)	IBM
5	14 (1.16%)	Adobe
6	12 (1.00%)	Remedy
6	12 (1.00%)	Salesforce.com
7	11 (0.91%)	Cognos
8	10 (0.83%)	Kronos
9	8 (0.67%)	Workday
10	7 (0.58%)	Tableau
11	6 (0.50%)	Cisco
11	6 (0.50%)	VMware
12	5 (0.42%)	BMC
12	5 (0.42%)	HP
12	5 (0.42%)	ServiceNow
13	4 (0.33%)	Google
13	4 (0.33%)	MuleSoft
13	4 (0.33%)	Red Hat
13	4 (0.33%)	Splunk