Stakeholder Management Contracts

Stakeholder Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Stakeholder Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Stakeholder Management over the 6 months to 9 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 18 17 19
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +6
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,733 6,734 7,413
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 8.39% 8.76% 8.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.48% 9.72% 9.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,568 4,822 5,282
10th Percentile £381 £388 £363
25th Percentile £463 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +5.77% +9.47%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £745 £738 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £475
% change year-on-year +2.44% +7.89% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 83 119
10th Percentile £24.10 £23.60 £17.24
25th Percentile £33.12 £35.51 £26.44
Median hourly rate £54.69 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% +23.53% +1.19%
75th Percentile £65.08 £66.75 £50.89
90th Percentile £75.67 £78.70 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.24 £50.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +2.48% +17.65% +28.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Stakeholder Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,373 69,310 81,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.52% 90.15% 90.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,321 47,960 56,913
10th Percentile £310 £338 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £745 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,511 1,674 2,001
10th Percentile £14.36 £13.41 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.93 £17.40 £13.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +62.79% -18.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £47.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.00 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.95 £32.25 £18.00
% change year-on-year +36.28% +79.17% -21.74%

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 9 December 2023.

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 9 December 2023.

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 9 December 2023. 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 -2 3,228 £550 - 1,362
UK excluding London 0 1,726 £525 +2.44% 834
London -2 1,610 £575 - 604
Work from Home +2 1,440 £545 +3.81% 700
South East +4 483 £500 -0.50% 200
North of England 0 451 £525 - 215
North West 0 248 £525 +5.00% 131
Midlands +1 241 £550 +5.77% 182
South West -2 239 £550 +4.76% 96
West Midlands +3 200 £550 +4.76% 126
Scotland -9 193 £525 +5.00% 71
Yorkshire -1 187 £525 - 68
East of England +7 119 £511 -2.62% 59
East Midlands -18 37 £500 +5.26% 56
Wales -4 26 £550 +12.82% 18
North East +20 23 £550 -12.00% 16
Northern Ireland +3 4 £370 -10.03% 8

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
1 119 (3.19%) Confluence
2 94 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 26 (0.70%) CMS
4 19 (0.51%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.43%) Apache
6 9 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
7 8 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.13%) ThingWorx
9 4 (0.11%) LiveLink
10 3 (0.080%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.080%) MS Exchange
10 3 (0.080%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (0.080%) SAS
10 3 (0.080%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.054%) Appian
11 2 (0.054%) GemFire
11 2 (0.054%) JBoss
11 2 (0.054%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.054%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 140 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 113 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
3 98 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 73 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
5 46 (1.23%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.19%) Trello
9 6 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
10 5 (0.13%) UXPin
11 4 (0.11%) Camtasia
11 4 (0.11%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.080%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.080%) Adobe Captivate
12 3 (0.080%) SOLIDWORKS
13 2 (0.054%) SPSS
13 2 (0.054%) Stata
14 1 (0.027%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.027%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 114 (3.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.54%) SAP FI
4 19 (0.51%) SAP CO
4 19 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
5 11 (0.29%) Endur
5 11 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 11 (0.29%) SAP Retail
5 11 (0.29%) Workday HCM
6 10 (0.27%) SAP ERP
6 10 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.24%) Loan IQ
7 9 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.24%) Primavera
7 9 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 8 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 8 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
8 8 (0.21%) SAP SD
9 7 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 6 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 370 (9.91%) Azure
2 265 (7.10%) AWS
3 194 (5.20%) SaaS
4 150 (4.02%) Power Platform
5 108 (2.89%) PaaS
6 101 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
7 97 (2.60%) IaaS
8 90 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
9 87 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
10 40 (1.07%) GCP
11 33 (0.88%) Entra ID
12 31 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
13 24 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
13 24 (0.64%) Serverless
14 23 (0.62%) OCI
14 23 (0.62%) WhatsApp
15 22 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
16 21 (0.56%) GitHub
16 21 (0.56%) Snowflake
17 19 (0.51%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 98 (2.63%) 5G
2 96 (2.57%) Broadband
3 63 (1.69%) Firewall
4 53 (1.42%) LAN
5 51 (1.37%) WAN
6 30 (0.80%) SD-WAN
7 28 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
8 27 (0.72%) Wireless
9 26 (0.70%) VPN
10 25 (0.67%) Network Security
11 22 (0.59%) OSPF
12 21 (0.56%) BGP
13 19 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
14 18 (0.48%) WLAN
15 16 (0.43%) Intranet
16 15 (0.40%) IPsec
17 14 (0.38%) Internet
18 12 (0.32%) HTTP
19 11 (0.29%) 4G
19 11 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (3.67%) Power BI
2 70 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (1.13%) SQL Server
4 40 (1.07%) Tableau
5 36 (0.96%) Big Data
6 35 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
7 33 (0.88%) Metadata
8 30 (0.80%) Relational Database
9 27 (0.72%) Data Lake
10 20 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 17 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (0.46%) Oracle Database
12 15 (0.40%) Hadoop
12 15 (0.40%) RDBMS
12 15 (0.40%) SAP BW
13 14 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
14 13 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 12 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 10 (0.27%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 251 (6.72%) JIRA
2 45 (1.21%) Git
3 36 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 19 (0.51%) Selenium
5 17 (0.46%) GitLab
6 11 (0.29%) Cucumber
7 10 (0.27%) Cypress.io
7 10 (0.27%) TeamCity
7 10 (0.27%) WebDriver
8 8 (0.21%) Maven
8 8 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
8 8 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.19%) Postman
9 7 (0.19%) Subversion
10 5 (0.13%) Balsamiq
10 5 (0.13%) Gradle
10 5 (0.13%) JUnit
10 5 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.13%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,365 (36.57%) Social Skills
2 983 (26.33%) Finance
3 476 (12.75%) Public Sector
4 377 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
5 205 (5.49%) Banking
6 187 (5.01%) Organisational Skills
7 156 (4.18%) Retail
8 154 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
9 153 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
10 148 (3.96%) Law
11 118 (3.16%) Legal
12 111 (2.97%) Marketing
13 107 (2.87%) Telecoms
14 99 (2.65%) Manufacturing
15 88 (2.36%) Pharmaceutical
16 76 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 42 (1.13%) Investment Banking
18 30 (0.80%) Back Office
18 30 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
19 29 (0.78%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 707 (18.94%) Project Manager
2 633 (16.96%) Analyst
3 422 (11.30%) Business Analyst
4 363 (9.72%) Senior
5 359 (9.62%) Architect
6 289 (7.74%) Lead
7 248 (6.64%) Consultant
8 152 (4.07%) Programme Manager
9 144 (3.86%) Delivery Manager
10 125 (3.35%) Senior Manager
11 124 (3.32%) IT Manager
12 107 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
13 105 (2.81%) Tester
14 96 (2.57%) Developer
15 93 (2.49%) Security Specialist
16 91 (2.44%) Penetration Tester
17 86 (2.30%) Security Penetration Tester
17 86 (2.30%) Security Tester
17 86 (2.30%) Testing Specialist
18 76 (2.04%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (2.84%) Web Services
2 56 (1.50%) .NET
3 39 (1.04%) React
4 36 (0.96%) HTML
5 35 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
6 33 (0.88%) CSS
7 27 (0.72%) REST
7 27 (0.72%) XML
8 25 (0.67%) YAML
9 21 (0.56%) Velocity
10 20 (0.54%) SOAP
11 19 (0.51%) Kafka
12 18 (0.48%) JSON
13 17 (0.46%) Node.js
14 16 (0.43%) ADO
15 14 (0.38%) Middleware
16 12 (0.32%) GraphQL
16 12 (0.32%) Pandas
16 12 (0.32%) RESTful
17 11 (0.29%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 150 (4.02%) Product Ownership
2 140 (3.75%) Management Information System
3 126 (3.38%) Mobile App
4 103 (2.76%) Data Centre
5 74 (1.98%) Onboarding
6 69 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 51 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
8 48 (1.29%) Virtual Team
9 41 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
10 39 (1.04%) Operational Technology
11 35 (0.94%) NHS
12 33 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
12 33 (0.88%) Life Science
13 32 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
14 29 (0.78%) FMCG
15 25 (0.67%) Data Structures
15 25 (0.67%) Taxonomies
16 24 (0.64%) Public Cloud
17 17 (0.46%) CMDB
17 17 (0.46%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 112 (3.00%) Windows
2 80 (2.14%) Linux
3 40 (1.07%) Windows Server
4 32 (0.86%) Unix
5 22 (0.59%) Ubuntu
6 19 (0.51%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.16%) zOS
9 5 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
10 4 (0.11%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.080%) AIX
11 3 (0.080%) CentOS
11 3 (0.080%) Solaris
11 3 (0.080%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.054%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.027%) Android
13 1 (0.027%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.027%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,029 (27.56%) Agile
2 799 (21.40%) Project Management
3 383 (10.26%) Migration
4 374 (10.02%) Problem-Solving
5 347 (9.30%) Project Delivery
6 342 (9.16%) Change Management
7 314 (8.41%) Cybersecurity
8 282 (7.55%) Roadmaps
9 262 (7.02%) Risk Management
10 256 (6.86%) PRINCE2
11 244 (6.54%) Waterfall
12 235 (6.30%) Business Analysis
13 234 (6.27%) Decision-Making
14 222 (5.95%) DevOps
15 213 (5.71%) Scrum
16 209 (5.60%) Business Case
17 194 (5.20%) ITIL
18 186 (4.98%) Business Intelligence
19 182 (4.88%) Requirements Gathering
20 181 (4.85%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 204 (5.46%) SQL
2 120 (3.21%) Python
3 97 (2.60%) Java
4 54 (1.45%) JavaScript
5 43 (1.15%) PowerShell
6 38 (1.02%) C#
7 34 (0.91%) TypeScript
8 19 (0.51%) C++
9 16 (0.43%) PL/SQL
10 15 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 13 (0.35%) Bash
11 13 (0.35%) T-SQL
12 12 (0.32%) Kotlin
13 11 (0.29%) ABAP
13 11 (0.29%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.27%) R
14 10 (0.27%) VBA
15 9 (0.24%) Gremlin
16 7 (0.19%) C
16 7 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 698 (18.70%) Security Cleared
2 464 (12.43%) SC Cleared
3 312 (8.36%) Degree
4 131 (3.51%) DV Cleared
5 100 (2.68%) GIAC
6 93 (2.49%) SANS
7 91 (2.44%) CREST Certified
8 89 (2.38%) PMP
9 88 (2.36%) OSCP
10 86 (2.30%) GPEN
11 78 (2.09%) PMI Certification
12 60 (1.61%) CISSP
13 51 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
14 38 (1.02%) CISM
15 25 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
15 25 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
16 24 (0.64%) APMP
17 22 (0.59%) CRISC
17 22 (0.59%) Master's Degree
17 22 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (4.80%) PMO
2 122 (3.27%) GDPR
3 118 (3.16%) NCSC
4 116 (3.11%) QA
5 106 (2.84%) PCI DSS
6 94 (2.52%) Data Quality
7 72 (1.93%) NIST
8 57 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 34 (0.91%) SLA
10 26 (0.70%) Accessibility
11 21 (0.56%) GRC
12 15 (0.40%) EMIR
13 14 (0.38%) MiFID
14 13 (0.35%) COBIT
15 11 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 10 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
17 8 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
18 6 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
18 6 (0.16%) Dodd-Frank
18 6 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 51 (1.37%) Active Directory
2 37 (0.99%) Docker
3 21 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.11%) NFS
8 4 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.054%) vSphere
10 1 (0.027%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.027%) IAG
10 1 (0.027%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 48 (1.29%) Terraform
2 39 (1.04%) Kubernetes
3 30 (0.80%) Ansible
4 14 (0.38%) FortiGate
4 14 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.32%) HP ALM
5 12 (0.32%) Kibana
6 11 (0.29%) Packer
7 10 (0.27%) Grafana
7 10 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.24%) ZABBIX
9 6 (0.16%) SCOM
10 5 (0.13%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.13%) SCCM
10 5 (0.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 4 (0.11%) Puppet
12 3 (0.080%) Argo
12 3 (0.080%) HP Quality Center
12 3 (0.080%) logstash
12 3 (0.080%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 330 (8.84%) Microsoft
2 318 (8.52%) SAP
3 188 (5.04%) Oracle
4 102 (2.73%) Salesforce
5 89 (2.38%) Virgin Media
6 62 (1.66%) ServiceNow
7 58 (1.55%) Cisco
8 54 (1.45%) Ariba
9 41 (1.10%) VMware
10 39 (1.04%) Workday
11 33 (0.88%) Adobe
12 31 (0.83%) HP
13 30 (0.80%) Red Hat
14 27 (0.72%) Google
15 26 (0.70%) Databricks
16 25 (0.67%) IBM
17 23 (0.62%) Atlassian
17 23 (0.62%) Palo Alto
18 19 (0.51%) Juniper
19 18 (0.48%) Dell