Stakeholder Management Contracts

Stakeholder Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 19 19
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 2,658 3,468 5,966
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 8.34% 8.14% 8.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.40% 9.28% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,660 2,352 4,280
10th Percentile £363 £375 £385
25th Percentile £445 £463 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £744 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -1.14% +2.94% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 99 73
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.23 £27.51
25th Percentile £35.02 £31.46 £38.13
Median hourly rate £54.63 £50.00 £52.97
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% -5.61% +24.64%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.88 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.29 £74.13 £75.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.75 £47.50 £49.70
% change year-on-year +29.99% -4.42% +16.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,275 37,352 62,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.74% 87.70% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,206 24,712 42,883
10th Percentile £306 £305 £331
25th Percentile £413 £415 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 896 1,602 1,665
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.16 £11.92
25th Percentile £20.69 £18.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £40.50 £34.58
Median % change year-on-year -19.75% +17.12% +60.84%
75th Percentile £62.24 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.93 £76.53 £70.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.45 £43.83 £29.00
% change year-on-year -30.52% +51.12% +61.11%

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 16 January 2025.

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 16 January 2025.

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 16 January 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
England -1 2,304 £550 - 1,114
London -3 1,208 £550 -4.35% 561
UK excluding London -4 1,173 £519 -1.14% 554
Work from Home -5 894 £550 +1.85% 571
South East -8 287 £525 +0.48% 127
North of England -7 270 £525 - 208
Midlands +5 260 £525 - 87
West Midlands +2 210 £525 - 54
North West -4 173 £525 - 139
Scotland +1 146 £456 -13.14% 45
South West -11 120 £513 -6.82% 54
East of England 0 84 £550 +4.76% 36
Yorkshire -12 80 £500 -4.76% 57
East Midlands +17 46 £473 -5.03% 33
North East -11 19 £606 +10.16% 15
Wales -17 9 £425 -17.07% 4
Northern Ireland -2 5 £300 - 4

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 94 (3.54%) Confluence
2 90 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.64%) CMS
4 16 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.49%) SAS
6 9 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.23%) Drupal
8 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.15%) Apache
9 2 (0.075%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.075%) MTS
9 2 (0.075%) WordPress
10 1 (0.038%) Appian
10 1 (0.038%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.038%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.038%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.038%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.038%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.038%) Tomcat
Applications
1 114 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 83 (3.12%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 54 (2.03%) Microsoft Project
5 45 (1.69%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.53%) Trello
7 13 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.34%) Sketch
9 8 (0.30%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.11%) InVision
11 2 (0.075%) Open Workbench
11 2 (0.075%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.038%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.038%) Revit
12 1 (0.038%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 81 (3.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.83%) SAP MDG
4 18 (0.68%) NEC Housing
5 11 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
6 10 (0.38%) SAP CO
7 9 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.34%) SAP IBP
8 8 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.30%) SAP FI
8 8 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
8 8 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 6 (0.23%) Endur
9 6 (0.23%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
9 6 (0.23%) SAP BPC
9 6 (0.23%) SAP Retail
10 5 (0.19%) Maximo
10 5 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.19%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 286 (10.76%) Azure
2 176 (6.62%) Power Platform
3 166 (6.25%) AWS
4 80 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
5 64 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
6 60 (2.26%) GCP
7 47 (1.77%) SaaS
8 39 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (1.13%) Amazon S3
10 27 (1.02%) Serverless
11 25 (0.94%) PowerApps
12 23 (0.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 23 (0.87%) SuccessFactors
13 22 (0.83%) Power Automate
14 20 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
16 16 (0.60%) Figma
17 15 (0.56%) Azure Storage
17 15 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
17 15 (0.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.24%) Firewall
2 29 (1.09%) WAN
3 22 (0.83%) Intranet
4 18 (0.68%) LAN
5 17 (0.64%) Network Security
6 13 (0.49%) SD-WAN
7 12 (0.45%) VoIP
8 10 (0.38%) CTI
9 9 (0.34%) Broadband
10 8 (0.30%) Internet
11 7 (0.26%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.26%) VPN
11 7 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
13 5 (0.19%) DNS
13 5 (0.19%) MPLS
13 5 (0.19%) S/MIME
13 5 (0.19%) X.509
14 4 (0.15%) BGP
14 4 (0.15%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (5.53%) Power BI
2 51 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (1.32%) SQL Server
4 32 (1.20%) Tableau
5 22 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
5 22 (0.83%) Big Data
6 19 (0.71%) Data Lake
7 18 (0.68%) Hadoop
8 14 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (0.45%) DynamoDB
10 11 (0.41%) Relational Database
11 10 (0.38%) Apache Hive
11 10 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
11 10 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
13 8 (0.30%) Impala
13 8 (0.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 172 (6.47%) JIRA
2 38 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 21 (0.79%) GitLab
4 15 (0.56%) Git
5 13 (0.49%) ERwin
5 13 (0.49%) Selenium
6 7 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.19%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.19%) JMeter
7 5 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
7 5 (0.19%) WebDriver
8 4 (0.15%) Appium
8 4 (0.15%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.15%) Postman
8 4 (0.15%) XCUITest
9 3 (0.11%) Axure RP
9 3 (0.11%) Subversion
9 3 (0.11%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.11%) Visual Studio Team System
10 2 (0.075%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1,184 (44.54%) Social Skills
2 798 (30.02%) Finance
3 433 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
4 326 (12.26%) Public Sector
5 200 (7.52%) Banking
6 120 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
7 103 (3.88%) Retail
8 102 (3.84%) Manufacturing
9 98 (3.69%) Legal
9 98 (3.69%) Marketing
10 97 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
11 95 (3.57%) Telecoms
12 84 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 61 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
14 53 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
15 40 (1.50%) Local Government
16 38 (1.43%) Investment Banking
17 34 (1.28%) Law
18 32 (1.20%) Electronics
19 31 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 428 (16.10%) Analyst
2 406 (15.27%) Project Manager
3 328 (12.34%) Architect
4 274 (10.31%) Business Analyst
5 257 (9.67%) Lead
6 238 (8.95%) Senior
7 185 (6.96%) Consultant
8 119 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
9 99 (3.72%) IT Manager
10 90 (3.39%) Programme Manager
11 81 (3.05%) Senior Manager
12 77 (2.90%) Delivery Manager
13 69 (2.60%) Developer
14 59 (2.22%) IT Project Manager
15 58 (2.18%) Senior Analyst
16 56 (2.11%) Change Manager
17 55 (2.07%) Service Manager
18 54 (2.03%) Data Analyst
19 50 (1.88%) Senior Project Manager
20 49 (1.84%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (2.18%) Oracle Fusion
2 23 (0.87%) HTML
3 20 (0.75%) .NET
4 15 (0.56%) CSS
5 12 (0.45%) ADO
5 12 (0.45%) Kafka
5 12 (0.45%) Node.js
6 11 (0.41%) PySpark
7 10 (0.38%) SPFx
8 9 (0.34%) JSON
8 9 (0.34%) REST
9 8 (0.30%) Bootstrap
9 8 (0.30%) SAP Fiori
10 7 (0.26%) SailPoint
11 6 (0.23%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.23%) ARM Templates
11 6 (0.23%) Middleware
11 6 (0.23%) TensorFlow
12 5 (0.19%) AWS CDK
12 5 (0.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 98 (3.69%) Management Information System
2 91 (3.42%) Product Ownership
3 54 (2.03%) Onboarding
4 49 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (1.69%) Virtual Team
6 41 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
7 40 (1.50%) Data Centre
8 38 (1.43%) Operational Technology
9 34 (1.28%) FMCG
10 31 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
11 29 (1.09%) NHS
12 28 (1.05%) Data Structures
13 26 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
14 25 (0.94%) Life Science
15 24 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
16 21 (0.79%) CMDB
17 18 (0.68%) PMI
18 17 (0.64%) Social Media
19 16 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
19 16 (0.60%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (1.92%) Windows
2 32 (1.20%) Linux
3 14 (0.53%) Unix
4 9 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.26%) Android
5 7 (0.26%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.15%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.038%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.038%) Solaris
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (24.08%) Agile
2 620 (23.33%) Project Management
3 563 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
4 351 (13.21%) Risk Management
5 282 (10.61%) Project Delivery
6 267 (10.05%) Change Management
7 242 (9.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 227 (8.54%) Roadmaps
9 209 (7.86%) Migration
10 202 (7.60%) Analytics
11 192 (7.22%) Decision-Making
11 192 (7.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 185 (6.96%) Business Intelligence
13 147 (5.53%) Business Analysis
13 147 (5.53%) PRINCE2
13 147 (5.53%) Waterfall
14 145 (5.46%) ITIL
14 145 (5.46%) Requirements Gathering
15 138 (5.19%) ERP
15 138 (5.19%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 186 (7.00%) SQL
2 141 (5.30%) Python
3 36 (1.35%) Java
3 36 (1.35%) JavaScript
4 21 (0.79%) C#
5 18 (0.68%) PowerShell
6 11 (0.41%) Bash
6 11 (0.41%) PL/SQL
6 11 (0.41%) R
7 10 (0.38%) Scala
8 9 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (0.34%) Shell Script
9 8 (0.30%) VBA
10 7 (0.26%) ABAP
10 7 (0.26%) C
10 7 (0.26%) Groovy
10 7 (0.26%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.23%) Bicep
11 6 (0.23%) HiveQL
11 6 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 364 (13.69%) Security Cleared
2 320 (12.04%) Degree
3 291 (10.95%) SC Cleared
4 110 (4.14%) PMI Certification
5 107 (4.03%) PMP
6 60 (2.26%) DV Cleared
7 58 (2.18%) CISSP
8 48 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 45 (1.69%) Master's Degree
10 40 (1.50%) CISM
11 36 (1.35%) CISA
12 21 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (0.71%) CBAP
13 19 (0.71%) CRISC
14 18 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
16 15 (0.56%) AWS Certification
17 13 (0.49%) CCNP
17 13 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
18 12 (0.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (5.30%) PMO
2 126 (4.74%) QA
3 89 (3.35%) Data Quality
4 75 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 65 (2.45%) NIST
6 43 (1.62%) GDPR
7 39 (1.47%) Accessibility
8 17 (0.64%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (0.60%) COBIT
9 16 (0.60%) GRC
10 8 (0.30%) MiFID
10 8 (0.30%) NCSC
10 8 (0.30%) P3O
10 8 (0.30%) SLA
11 7 (0.26%) HL7
11 7 (0.26%) ISO 22301
12 6 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
12 6 (0.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 35 (1.32%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.49%) Docker
3 11 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.30%) HDFS
5 7 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.15%) SRDF
7 2 (0.075%) KVM
7 2 (0.075%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.075%) vSphere
8 1 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.038%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.038%) XenApp
8 1 (0.038%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 45 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 39 (1.47%) Terraform
3 28 (1.05%) Ansible
4 22 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.45%) SCCM
6 11 (0.41%) Grafana
6 11 (0.41%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.19%) Puppet
8 4 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.11%) Argo
10 2 (0.075%) CASB
10 2 (0.075%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.075%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.075%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.075%) Packer
10 2 (0.075%) QRadar
10 2 (0.075%) SCOM
10 2 (0.075%) systemd
10 2 (0.075%) VxRail
11 1 (0.038%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 281 (10.57%) Microsoft
2 256 (9.63%) SAP
3 136 (5.12%) Oracle
4 104 (3.91%) ServiceNow
5 55 (2.07%) Salesforce
6 42 (1.58%) Databricks
7 39 (1.47%) NEC
7 39 (1.47%) Workday
8 34 (1.28%) Cisco
9 32 (1.20%) Ariba
10 31 (1.17%) Google
11 23 (0.87%) Adobe
12 21 (0.79%) Informatica
13 20 (0.75%) Atlassian
14 18 (0.68%) VMware
15 17 (0.64%) Genesys
16 15 (0.56%) CyberArk
17 12 (0.45%) Concur
18 11 (0.41%) Planview
19 10 (0.38%) HP