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 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 20 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,195 4,739 8,074
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.42% 8.17% 9.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.60% 9.10% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,246 3,423 5,761
10th Percentile £360 £388 £381
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £638
90th Percentile £745 £763 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 76 133
10th Percentile £15.13 £28.06 £15.90
25th Percentile £23.63 £34.25 £17.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.57 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% +33.89% -4.05%
75th Percentile £79.69 £71.56 £52.56
90th Percentile £85.65 £85.40 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £54.83 £39.50
% change year-on-year +9.43% +38.81% -7.06%

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 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

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 May 2024.

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 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 -3 2,756 £550 - 1,254
UK excluding London 0 1,595 £525 - 755
London -7 1,268 £550 -8.33% 523
Work from Home -3 1,114 £525 - 579
North of England +1 466 £525 +0.48% 195
South East -15 311 £500 -0.20% 180
North West +1 259 £525 +5.00% 121
Midlands +1 251 £550 +10.00% 157
South West -3 210 £525 -4.55% 85
West Midlands -1 203 £550 +4.76% 102
Yorkshire +3 186 £500 -4.76% 59
Scotland +1 175 £500 -2.68% 55
East of England +18 161 £500 -2.44% 73
East Midlands +19 46 £495 +10.00% 55
Wales +25 32 £530 +6.00% 18
North East 0 18 £575 +4.55% 16
Northern Ireland +1 3 - - 12

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
1 118 (3.69%) SharePoint
2 104 (3.26%) Confluence
3 30 (0.94%) SAS
4 19 (0.59%) CMS
5 15 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.41%) CICS
7 11 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.13%) Apache
10 4 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.13%) NetWeaver
11 3 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.063%) Moodle
13 1 (0.031%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.031%) GemFire
13 1 (0.031%) Mule
13 1 (0.031%) nginx
Applications
1 149 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 100 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (2.32%) Microsoft Project
4 71 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 48 (1.50%) MS Visio
6 32 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
7 24 (0.75%) Photoshop
8 11 (0.34%) Acrobat
9 10 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
10 9 (0.28%) Chatbot
11 6 (0.19%) Adobe Captivate
11 6 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.094%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.094%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.063%) InDesign
13 2 (0.063%) Maya
13 2 (0.063%) Trello
14 1 (0.031%) Adobe XD
14 1 (0.031%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 111 (3.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.53%) Primavera
4 11 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.34%) SAP FI
5 10 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
6 9 (0.28%) Endur
6 9 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
6 9 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (0.25%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
7 8 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
7 8 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.25%) SAP PP
8 7 (0.22%) SAP GTS
9 6 (0.19%) ION MarketView
9 6 (0.19%) Maximo
9 6 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.19%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 310 (9.70%) Azure
2 207 (6.48%) AWS
3 142 (4.44%) Power Platform
4 88 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
5 73 (2.28%) SaaS
6 63 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
7 58 (1.82%) GCP
8 55 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
10 30 (0.94%) Serverless
11 29 (0.91%) GitHub
12 26 (0.81%) Slack
13 25 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
14 24 (0.75%) Power Automate
15 22 (0.69%) PowerApps
15 22 (0.69%) Snowflake
16 20 (0.63%) WhatsApp
17 16 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
17 16 (0.50%) PaaS
18 15 (0.47%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 64 (2.00%) Firewall
2 54 (1.69%) Intranet
3 38 (1.19%) WAN
4 27 (0.85%) LAN
5 25 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
6 23 (0.72%) Network Security
7 22 (0.69%) VoIP
8 18 (0.56%) VPN
9 17 (0.53%) CTI
10 16 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
11 15 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
12 14 (0.44%) DNS
13 12 (0.38%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.34%) 3G
14 11 (0.34%) 4G
14 11 (0.34%) WLAN
15 10 (0.31%) 5G
15 10 (0.31%) Wireless
16 9 (0.28%) TCP/IP
17 8 (0.25%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (3.54%) Power BI
2 49 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (1.25%) SQL Server
4 35 (1.10%) Data Lake
5 26 (0.81%) Tableau
6 24 (0.75%) Metadata
7 22 (0.69%) Big Data
8 19 (0.59%) SAP HANA
9 17 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (0.53%) DB2
10 13 (0.41%) IDMS
11 12 (0.38%) Data Mining
11 12 (0.38%) Relational Database
11 12 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (0.34%) Oracle Database
13 10 (0.31%) Qlik Sense
14 9 (0.28%) KDB
15 8 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (0.25%) MongoDB
15 8 (0.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 256 (8.01%) JIRA
2 39 (1.22%) Jenkins
3 33 (1.03%) Git
4 13 (0.41%) Selenium
5 9 (0.28%) LoadRunner
6 8 (0.25%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.22%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.22%) GitLab
7 7 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
8 6 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (0.19%) CircleCI
8 6 (0.19%) Travis CI
9 5 (0.16%) JMeter
9 5 (0.16%) Maven
9 5 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 5 (0.16%) Toad
10 4 (0.13%) Gradle
10 4 (0.13%) NeoLoad
10 4 (0.13%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 1,195 (37.40%) Social Skills
2 870 (27.23%) Finance
3 365 (11.42%) Public Sector
4 327 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
5 239 (7.48%) Banking
6 174 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
7 133 (4.16%) Influencing Skills
8 121 (3.79%) Manufacturing
9 120 (3.76%) Marketing
10 113 (3.54%) Legal
11 105 (3.29%) Retail
12 100 (3.13%) Telecoms
13 98 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
14 78 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
15 66 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 66 (2.07%) Law
16 63 (1.97%) Electronics
17 53 (1.66%) Local Government
18 46 (1.44%) Aerospace
19 41 (1.28%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 536 (16.78%) Project Manager
2 509 (15.93%) Analyst
3 362 (11.33%) Architect
4 324 (10.14%) Lead
5 307 (9.61%) Business Analyst
6 286 (8.95%) Senior
7 270 (8.45%) Consultant
8 150 (4.69%) Developer
9 105 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
10 100 (3.13%) IT Manager
11 93 (2.91%) Senior Manager
12 91 (2.85%) Programme Manager
13 76 (2.38%) Delivery Manager
14 72 (2.25%) Data Analyst
15 68 (2.13%) SAP Consultant
16 63 (1.97%) Senior Analyst
17 56 (1.75%) Change Manager
18 52 (1.63%) IT Project Manager
18 52 (1.63%) Senior Project Manager
19 50 (1.56%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (1.22%) .NET
2 30 (0.94%) CSS
3 28 (0.88%) HTML
4 22 (0.69%) Middleware
4 22 (0.69%) React
4 22 (0.69%) Web Services
5 21 (0.66%) XML
6 20 (0.63%) YAML
7 19 (0.59%) SOAP
8 18 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
9 17 (0.53%) PySpark
10 15 (0.47%) Kafka
11 14 (0.44%) REST
11 14 (0.44%) RESTful
12 13 (0.41%) ADO
13 12 (0.38%) FIX Protocol
13 12 (0.38%) Spring
14 10 (0.31%) JSON
15 9 (0.28%) SAP Basis
15 9 (0.28%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 106 (3.32%) Product Ownership
2 97 (3.04%) Management Information System
3 64 (2.00%) Data Centre
4 39 (1.22%) Onboarding
4 39 (1.22%) Virtual Team
5 35 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
7 32 (1.00%) Analogue Electronics
8 25 (0.78%) Mobile App
9 24 (0.75%) NHS
10 23 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (0.66%) Fixed Income
11 21 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 20 (0.63%) Data Structures
12 20 (0.63%) Derivative
12 20 (0.63%) Life Science
13 18 (0.56%) Digital Media
13 18 (0.56%) FMCG
14 17 (0.53%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 89 (2.79%) Windows
2 66 (2.07%) Linux
3 28 (0.88%) zOS
4 27 (0.85%) Unix
5 25 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.38%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.19%) Mac OS X
9 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.094%) AIX
10 3 (0.094%) Android
10 3 (0.094%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.094%) Debian
11 2 (0.063%) VMS
11 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.031%) CentOS
12 1 (0.031%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.031%) Solaris
12 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 807 (25.26%) Agile
2 760 (23.79%) Project Management
3 402 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
4 351 (10.99%) Change Management
5 293 (9.17%) Project Delivery
6 257 (8.04%) Migration
7 254 (7.95%) Risk Management
8 220 (6.89%) PRINCE2
9 204 (6.38%) Roadmaps
10 189 (5.92%) Business Analysis
10 189 (5.92%) DevOps
11 183 (5.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 181 (5.67%) Decision-Making
13 170 (5.32%) Business Intelligence
14 169 (5.29%) Waterfall
15 162 (5.07%) Scrum
16 160 (5.01%) Analytics
17 157 (4.91%) Cybersecurity
18 156 (4.88%) Requirements Gathering
19 144 (4.51%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 185 (5.79%) SQL
2 109 (3.41%) Python
3 53 (1.66%) C#
4 47 (1.47%) JavaScript
5 44 (1.38%) Java
6 26 (0.81%) PowerShell
7 25 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 23 (0.72%) REXX
9 21 (0.66%) C++
10 15 (0.47%) COBOL
10 15 (0.47%) PL/SQL
11 14 (0.44%) JCL
11 14 (0.44%) TypeScript
12 13 (0.41%) CLIST
12 13 (0.41%) SELCOPY
13 12 (0.38%) R
14 11 (0.34%) Bash
15 9 (0.28%) ABAP
16 8 (0.25%) PHP
17 7 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 512 (16.03%) Security Cleared
2 387 (12.11%) SC Cleared
3 279 (8.73%) Degree
4 126 (3.94%) DV Cleared
5 73 (2.28%) PMP
6 72 (2.25%) PMI Certification
7 56 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 45 (1.41%) Master's Degree
9 43 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 33 (1.03%) APMP
10 33 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 20 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 16 (0.50%) CIMA
13 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 15 (0.47%) IIBA
15 14 (0.44%) ACCA
15 14 (0.44%) CISSP
16 13 (0.41%) AWS Certification
17 12 (0.38%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (5.04%) PMO
2 127 (3.97%) QA
3 95 (2.97%) Data Quality
4 73 (2.28%) GDPR
5 50 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.50%) NIST
7 41 (1.28%) SLA
8 36 (1.13%) PCI DSS
9 35 (1.10%) Accessibility
10 25 (0.78%) JSP 440
11 16 (0.50%) GxP
11 16 (0.50%) ISO 9001
12 15 (0.47%) HIPAA
13 14 (0.44%) MiFID
14 13 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 12 (0.38%) COBIT
15 12 (0.38%) Good Clinical Practice
16 11 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
16 11 (0.34%) EMIR
17 10 (0.31%) GRC
System Software
1 35 (1.10%) Active Directory
2 24 (0.75%) Docker
3 14 (0.44%) NFS
3 14 (0.44%) Time Sharing Option
4 11 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.13%) vSphere
8 3 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.031%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.031%) Firmware
10 1 (0.031%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.031%) PowerHA
10 1 (0.031%) UAG
10 1 (0.031%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 38 (1.19%) Kubernetes
2 24 (0.75%) Terraform
3 21 (0.66%) Ansible
4 20 (0.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 8 (0.25%) FortiGate
6 7 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
6 7 (0.22%) Kibana
6 7 (0.22%) logstash
6 7 (0.22%) Puppet
6 7 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.19%) Grafana
7 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.19%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.19%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.16%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.13%) SCCM
10 3 (0.094%) PingFederate
10 3 (0.094%) WSUS
11 2 (0.063%) Matomo
11 2 (0.063%) VxRail
Vendors
1 330 (10.33%) Microsoft
2 300 (9.39%) SAP
3 119 (3.72%) Oracle
4 57 (1.78%) Salesforce
5 53 (1.66%) Cisco
6 49 (1.53%) Ariba
7 46 (1.44%) ServiceNow
8 44 (1.38%) Adobe
8 44 (1.38%) IBM
9 35 (1.10%) Databricks
10 33 (1.03%) Google
11 28 (0.88%) Informatica
12 24 (0.75%) Splunk
13 23 (0.72%) Genesys
14 22 (0.69%) VMware
15 21 (0.66%) Dell
16 17 (0.53%) Palo Alto
17 16 (0.50%) Alteryx
17 16 (0.50%) Citrix
17 16 (0.50%) HP