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

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 20 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,268 4,864 8,127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.50% 8.15% 9.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.69% 9.06% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,280 3,511 5,791
10th Percentile £356 £388 £380
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £655 £638
90th Percentile £750 £758 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 75 140
10th Percentile £15.13 £27.60 £15.90
25th Percentile £23.63 £31.63 £17.23
Median hourly rate £60.00 £56.30 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +6.57% +36.48% -4.62%
75th Percentile £76.65 £71.88 £51.53
90th Percentile £85.65 £85.98 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £55.57 £39.50
% change year-on-year +7.98% +40.67% -6.51%

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 37,621 53,662 80,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.30% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,254 37,244 56,449
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 2,830 £548 -0.45% 1,272
UK excluding London 0 1,654 £525 - 745
London -6 1,295 £550 -6.38% 544
Work from Home -3 1,146 £526 -1.36% 579
North of England +1 481 £525 - 189
South East -8 346 £500 - 188
North West 0 276 £525 +5.00% 110
Midlands 0 250 £538 +7.50% 156
South West -2 213 £525 -4.55% 86
West Midlands +1 202 £550 +4.76% 102
Yorkshire +2 185 £513 -2.38% 60
Scotland +1 181 £500 -2.44% 52
East of England +13 160 £500 -3.38% 71
East Midlands +13 46 £495 +10.00% 54
Wales +25 34 £530 +0.95% 16
North East +7 18 £569 -1.09% 21
Northern Ireland +5 3 - - 9

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
1 125 (3.82%) SharePoint
2 108 (3.30%) Confluence
3 29 (0.89%) SAS
4 20 (0.61%) CMS
5 15 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.40%) CICS
7 12 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.12%) NetWeaver
11 3 (0.092%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.061%) Apache
12 2 (0.061%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.061%) GemFire
13 1 (0.031%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.031%) govService
13 1 (0.031%) Moodle
13 1 (0.031%) nginx
Applications
1 155 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 116 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
3 77 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 74 (2.26%) Microsoft Project
5 49 (1.50%) MS Visio
6 34 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
7 23 (0.70%) Photoshop
8 11 (0.34%) Acrobat
9 10 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
10 7 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 6 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
12 3 (0.092%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.092%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.061%) InDesign
13 2 (0.061%) Maya
13 2 (0.061%) Sketch
13 2 (0.061%) Trello
14 1 (0.031%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 107 (3.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.58%) Primavera
4 12 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 12 (0.37%) SAP FI
5 10 (0.31%) Endur
6 9 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
6 9 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
6 9 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.24%) SAP PP
8 7 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
8 7 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
8 7 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.21%) SAP GTS
9 6 (0.18%) ION MarketView
9 6 (0.18%) Maximo
9 6 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.18%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 304 (9.30%) Azure
2 200 (6.12%) AWS
3 141 (4.31%) Power Platform
4 104 (3.18%) SaaS
5 89 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
6 60 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
8 47 (1.44%) PaaS
9 45 (1.38%) GCP
9 45 (1.38%) IaaS
10 29 (0.89%) GitHub
10 29 (0.89%) SuccessFactors
11 26 (0.80%) Power Automate
11 26 (0.80%) Slack
12 25 (0.76%) Serverless
13 22 (0.67%) PowerApps
14 20 (0.61%) Snowflake
15 18 (0.55%) WhatsApp
16 15 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
17 14 (0.43%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.08%) Firewall
2 53 (1.62%) Intranet
3 45 (1.38%) WAN
4 39 (1.19%) 5G
5 37 (1.13%) LAN
6 33 (1.01%) Broadband
7 26 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
8 24 (0.73%) VPN
9 23 (0.70%) Network Security
10 17 (0.52%) Structured Cabling
11 16 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
11 16 (0.49%) WLAN
12 15 (0.46%) DNS
12 15 (0.46%) Wireless
13 12 (0.37%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.34%) 3G
14 11 (0.34%) 4G
15 10 (0.31%) BGP
15 10 (0.31%) OSPF
16 9 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (3.46%) Power BI
2 50 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (1.13%) SQL Server
4 29 (0.89%) Data Lake
5 28 (0.86%) Tableau
6 25 (0.76%) Metadata
7 23 (0.70%) Big Data
8 17 (0.52%) SAP HANA
9 16 (0.49%) DB2
10 14 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (0.40%) IDMS
12 12 (0.37%) Relational Database
12 12 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (0.34%) Data Mining
13 11 (0.34%) Oracle Database
14 10 (0.31%) Qlik Sense
15 9 (0.28%) KDB
16 8 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (0.24%) MongoDB
16 8 (0.24%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 262 (8.02%) JIRA
2 40 (1.22%) Jenkins
3 32 (0.98%) Git
4 13 (0.40%) Selenium
5 9 (0.28%) LoadRunner
6 8 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
6 8 (0.24%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.21%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.21%) GitLab
8 6 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (0.18%) CircleCI
8 6 (0.18%) Travis CI
9 5 (0.15%) JMeter
9 5 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 5 (0.15%) Toad
10 4 (0.12%) Gradle
10 4 (0.12%) NeoLoad
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.12%) Postman
10 4 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 1,218 (37.27%) Social Skills
2 867 (26.53%) Finance
3 369 (11.29%) Public Sector
4 338 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 235 (7.19%) Banking
6 177 (5.42%) Presentation Skills
7 144 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
8 125 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
9 124 (3.79%) Manufacturing
10 117 (3.58%) Marketing
11 113 (3.46%) Legal
12 99 (3.03%) Law
12 99 (3.03%) Retail
13 94 (2.88%) Telecoms
14 80 (2.45%) Pharmaceutical
15 63 (1.93%) Electronics
16 58 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 51 (1.56%) Local Government
18 45 (1.38%) Aerospace
19 41 (1.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 560 (17.14%) Project Manager
2 528 (16.16%) Analyst
3 341 (10.43%) Architect
4 319 (9.76%) Lead
5 313 (9.58%) Business Analyst
6 297 (9.09%) Senior
7 267 (8.17%) Consultant
8 148 (4.53%) Developer
9 110 (3.37%) IT Manager
10 99 (3.03%) Programme Manager
11 95 (2.91%) Senior Manager
12 89 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
13 78 (2.39%) Data Analyst
13 78 (2.39%) Delivery Manager
14 64 (1.96%) Senior Analyst
15 60 (1.84%) SAP Consultant
16 58 (1.77%) IT Project Manager
17 54 (1.65%) Senior Project Manager
18 52 (1.59%) Change Manager
19 49 (1.50%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (1.25%) Web Services
2 38 (1.16%) .NET
3 29 (0.89%) CSS
4 26 (0.80%) HTML
5 24 (0.73%) React
6 20 (0.61%) XML
6 20 (0.61%) YAML
7 19 (0.58%) SOAP
8 18 (0.55%) Oracle Fusion
9 16 (0.49%) Kafka
10 14 (0.43%) ADO
10 14 (0.43%) Middleware
10 14 (0.43%) REST
11 13 (0.40%) PySpark
12 12 (0.37%) FIX Protocol
12 12 (0.37%) RESTful
12 12 (0.37%) Spring
13 10 (0.31%) JSON
14 9 (0.28%) WPF
15 8 (0.24%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 104 (3.18%) Product Ownership
2 88 (2.69%) Management Information System
3 63 (1.93%) Data Centre
4 57 (1.74%) Mobile App
5 38 (1.16%) Virtual Team
6 37 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (1.07%) Onboarding
8 33 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
9 31 (0.95%) Analogue Electronics
10 25 (0.76%) Data Structures
11 24 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
12 23 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (0.70%) Life Science
12 23 (0.70%) NHS
13 21 (0.64%) Fixed Income
14 19 (0.58%) Derivative
14 19 (0.58%) Public Cloud
15 18 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 17 (0.52%) Mainframe
16 17 (0.52%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 97 (2.97%) Windows
2 68 (2.08%) Linux
3 28 (0.86%) Unix
3 28 (0.86%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.83%) zOS
5 12 (0.37%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS X
8 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.092%) AIX
9 3 (0.092%) Android
9 3 (0.092%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.092%) Debian
10 2 (0.061%) VMS
10 2 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.031%) CentOS
11 1 (0.031%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.031%) Solaris
11 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 805 (24.63%) Agile
2 780 (23.87%) Project Management
3 402 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
4 354 (10.83%) Change Management
5 301 (9.21%) Project Delivery
6 266 (8.14%) Migration
7 260 (7.96%) Risk Management
8 217 (6.64%) PRINCE2
9 203 (6.21%) Business Analysis
10 202 (6.18%) Roadmaps
11 199 (6.09%) Decision-Making
12 191 (5.84%) DevOps
13 187 (5.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 187 (5.72%) Cybersecurity
14 169 (5.17%) Business Intelligence
15 168 (5.14%) Scrum
16 167 (5.11%) Waterfall
17 160 (4.90%) Requirements Gathering
18 158 (4.83%) Analytics
19 152 (4.65%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 182 (5.57%) SQL
2 104 (3.18%) Python
3 51 (1.56%) C#
4 46 (1.41%) Java
4 46 (1.41%) JavaScript
5 28 (0.86%) PowerShell
6 23 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (0.70%) REXX
7 21 (0.64%) C++
8 16 (0.49%) PL/SQL
9 15 (0.46%) COBOL
9 15 (0.46%) TypeScript
10 13 (0.40%) CLIST
10 13 (0.40%) JCL
10 13 (0.40%) SELCOPY
11 12 (0.37%) Bash
11 12 (0.37%) R
12 9 (0.28%) ABAP
13 8 (0.24%) PHP
14 6 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 580 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 414 (12.67%) SC Cleared
3 281 (8.60%) Degree
4 131 (4.01%) DV Cleared
5 71 (2.17%) PMP
6 70 (2.14%) PMI Certification
7 43 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 41 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
10 33 (1.01%) APMP
11 32 (0.98%) CREST Certified
11 32 (0.98%) GIAC
11 32 (0.98%) Master's Degree
11 32 (0.98%) SANS
12 31 (0.95%) GPEN
12 31 (0.95%) OSCP
13 26 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
14 19 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 15 (0.46%) CIMA
15 15 (0.46%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (5.05%) PMO
2 126 (3.86%) QA
3 105 (3.21%) Data Quality
4 94 (2.88%) GDPR
5 60 (1.84%) PCI DSS
6 51 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 49 (1.50%) NIST
8 41 (1.25%) SLA
9 36 (1.10%) NCSC
10 35 (1.07%) Accessibility
11 25 (0.76%) JSP 440
12 16 (0.49%) GxP
12 16 (0.49%) ISO 9001
12 16 (0.49%) MiFID
13 13 (0.40%) COBIT
14 12 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 12 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
14 12 (0.37%) EMIR
14 12 (0.37%) Good Clinical Practice
15 11 (0.34%) GRC
System Software
1 35 (1.07%) Active Directory
2 24 (0.73%) Docker
3 13 (0.40%) NFS
3 13 (0.40%) Time Sharing Option
3 13 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.12%) vSphere
8 2 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.031%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.031%) Firmware
9 1 (0.031%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.031%) PowerHA
9 1 (0.031%) UAG
9 1 (0.031%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (1.19%) Kubernetes
2 26 (0.80%) Terraform
3 23 (0.70%) Ansible
4 19 (0.58%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 12 (0.37%) FortiGate
6 7 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
6 7 (0.21%) HP ALM
6 7 (0.21%) Kibana
6 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.21%) Puppet
6 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.18%) Grafana
7 6 (0.18%) logstash
7 6 (0.18%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.18%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.12%) SCCM
9 3 (0.092%) PingFederate
9 3 (0.092%) WSUS
10 2 (0.061%) Matomo
10 2 (0.061%) VxRail
Vendors
1 327 (10.01%) Microsoft
2 291 (8.90%) SAP
3 124 (3.79%) Oracle
4 59 (1.81%) Salesforce
5 51 (1.56%) Ariba
6 48 (1.47%) ServiceNow
7 46 (1.41%) Adobe
7 46 (1.41%) Cisco
8 42 (1.29%) IBM
9 33 (1.01%) Databricks
10 31 (0.95%) Virgin Media
11 30 (0.92%) Informatica
12 27 (0.83%) VMware
13 24 (0.73%) Splunk
14 22 (0.67%) Palo Alto
15 21 (0.64%) Google
16 20 (0.61%) Dell
16 20 (0.61%) Fortinet
17 18 (0.55%) HP
18 15 (0.46%) CA