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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 19 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 3,192 4,684 8,173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.50% 8.23% 9.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.70% 9.16% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,235 3,389 5,860
10th Percentile £360 £388 £381
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £658 £638
90th Percentile £746 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 78 132
10th Percentile £15.13 £28.99 £15.90
25th Percentile £23.63 £32.75 £18.92
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.74 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.78% +25.56% -
75th Percentile £77.70 £70.00 £52.67
90th Percentile £85.65 £84.24 £63.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £53.56 £41.50
% change year-on-year +12.02% +29.07% -1.78%

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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 2,752 £550 - 1,362
UK excluding London 0 1,593 £525 - 822
London -4 1,266 £550 -8.33% 612
Work from Home -4 1,104 £530 -1.40% 641
North of England +1 463 £525 +1.45% 209
South East -8 314 £500 -0.60% 241
North West 0 257 £525 +5.00% 124
Midlands +1 246 £550 +5.77% 160
South West -3 209 £525 -4.55% 87
West Midlands 0 199 £550 +4.76% 111
Yorkshire +2 184 £525 - 71
Scotland -3 174 £500 -1.33% 52
East of England +12 164 £513 +2.50% 55
East Midlands +7 45 £480 +3.78% 49
Wales +27 34 £550 +2.33% 26
North East 0 19 £588 +8.05% 15
Northern Ireland 0 3 - - 10

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
1 116 (3.63%) SharePoint
2 115 (3.60%) Confluence
3 30 (0.94%) SAS
4 18 (0.56%) CMS
5 14 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.41%) CICS
7 10 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.13%) Apache
11 4 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.13%) NetWeaver
12 3 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.063%) Moodle
14 1 (0.031%) GemFire
14 1 (0.031%) nginx
14 1 (0.031%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.031%) WebSphere
Applications
1 150 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 100 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
4 69 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 51 (1.60%) MS Visio
6 33 (1.03%) 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
1 113 (3.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
3 14 (0.44%) Primavera
4 12 (0.38%) SAP FI
5 10 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
6 9 (0.28%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
6 9 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
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%) Endur
8 7 (0.22%) SAP GTS
8 7 (0.22%) Temenos T24
9 6 (0.19%) ION MarketView
9 6 (0.19%) Maximo
9 6 (0.19%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 313 (9.81%) Azure
2 215 (6.74%) AWS
3 147 (4.61%) Power Platform
4 84 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
5 75 (2.35%) SaaS
6 62 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
6 62 (1.94%) GCP
7 57 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
9 32 (1.00%) GitHub
9 32 (1.00%) Serverless
10 27 (0.85%) Power Automate
11 26 (0.81%) Slack
12 24 (0.75%) PowerApps
13 23 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
14 22 (0.69%) Snowflake
15 20 (0.63%) WhatsApp
16 18 (0.56%) PaaS
17 17 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
18 16 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.07%) Firewall
2 53 (1.66%) Intranet
3 38 (1.19%) WAN
4 27 (0.85%) LAN
5 26 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (0.69%) Network Security
7 21 (0.66%) VoIP
7 21 (0.66%) VPN
8 17 (0.53%) CTI
9 16 (0.50%) DNS
9 16 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
10 15 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
11 12 (0.38%) Internet
11 12 (0.38%) TCP/IP
12 11 (0.34%) SD-WAN
13 10 (0.31%) 5G
13 10 (0.31%) WLAN
14 9 (0.28%) HTTP
15 8 (0.25%) 3G
15 8 (0.25%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (3.60%) Power BI
2 50 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (1.22%) SQL Server
4 35 (1.10%) Data Lake
5 25 (0.78%) Tableau
6 24 (0.75%) Metadata
7 23 (0.72%) Big Data
8 19 (0.60%) SAP HANA
9 18 (0.56%) DB2
10 17 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (0.41%) IDMS
11 13 (0.41%) Oracle Database
11 13 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (0.38%) Data Mining
12 12 (0.38%) Relational Database
13 11 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (0.31%) MongoDB
14 10 (0.31%) Qlik Sense
15 9 (0.28%) OLAP
15 9 (0.28%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 267 (8.36%) JIRA
2 42 (1.32%) Jenkins
3 36 (1.13%) Git
4 13 (0.41%) Selenium
5 10 (0.31%) GitLab
5 10 (0.31%) LoadRunner
6 9 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (0.28%) CircleCI
6 9 (0.28%) Travis CI
7 8 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
7 8 (0.25%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.22%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.16%) JMeter
9 5 (0.16%) Maven
9 5 (0.16%) NeoLoad
9 5 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 5 (0.16%) Toad
10 4 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.13%) Subversion
10 4 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,190 (37.28%) Social Skills
2 868 (27.19%) Finance
3 360 (11.28%) Public Sector
4 325 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
5 238 (7.46%) Banking
6 173 (5.42%) Presentation Skills
7 128 (4.01%) Influencing Skills
8 124 (3.88%) Marketing
9 123 (3.85%) Manufacturing
10 115 (3.60%) Legal
11 107 (3.35%) Retail
12 98 (3.07%) Telecoms
13 97 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
14 78 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
15 69 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 65 (2.04%) Electronics
16 65 (2.04%) Law
17 52 (1.63%) Local Government
18 46 (1.44%) Aerospace
19 42 (1.32%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 524 (16.42%) Project Manager
2 505 (15.82%) Analyst
3 374 (11.72%) Architect
4 326 (10.21%) Lead
5 303 (9.49%) Business Analyst
6 290 (9.09%) Senior
7 272 (8.52%) Consultant
8 151 (4.73%) Developer
9 111 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
10 96 (3.01%) IT Manager
11 93 (2.91%) Senior Manager
12 86 (2.69%) Programme Manager
13 80 (2.51%) Delivery Manager
14 71 (2.22%) Data Analyst
15 69 (2.16%) SAP Consultant
16 66 (2.07%) Senior Analyst
17 58 (1.82%) Change Manager
18 53 (1.66%) Product Owner
18 53 (1.66%) Senior Project Manager
19 49 (1.54%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (1.16%) .NET
2 33 (1.03%) CSS
3 31 (0.97%) HTML
4 25 (0.78%) Web Services
5 24 (0.75%) XML
6 23 (0.72%) React
7 22 (0.69%) Middleware
7 22 (0.69%) SOAP
7 22 (0.69%) YAML
8 21 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
9 17 (0.53%) Kafka
9 17 (0.53%) PySpark
10 15 (0.47%) REST
10 15 (0.47%) Spring
11 14 (0.44%) RESTful
12 13 (0.41%) JSON
13 12 (0.38%) FIX Protocol
14 11 (0.34%) ADO
15 10 (0.31%) J2EE
15 10 (0.31%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 107 (3.35%) Product Ownership
2 98 (3.07%) Management Information System
3 64 (2.01%) Data Centre
4 38 (1.19%) Onboarding
4 38 (1.19%) Virtual Team
5 35 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
5 35 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
6 34 (1.07%) Analogue Electronics
7 26 (0.81%) Mobile App
8 23 (0.72%) Data Structures
8 23 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (0.66%) Derivative
10 21 (0.66%) Fixed Income
10 21 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (0.66%) NHS
11 20 (0.63%) Life Science
12 19 (0.60%) Digital Media
13 18 (0.56%) Operational Technology
14 17 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 86 (2.69%) Windows
2 66 (2.07%) Linux
3 29 (0.91%) Unix
4 28 (0.88%) zOS
5 23 (0.72%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.34%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.19%) Mac OS X
7 6 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.16%) Android
8 5 (0.16%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.094%) AIX
9 3 (0.094%) Debian
9 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.063%) VMS
10 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.031%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.031%) Solaris
11 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 815 (25.53%) Agile
2 747 (23.40%) Project Management
3 403 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
4 356 (11.15%) Change Management
5 294 (9.21%) Project Delivery
6 259 (8.11%) Migration
7 251 (7.86%) Risk Management
8 220 (6.89%) PRINCE2
9 206 (6.45%) Roadmaps
10 194 (6.08%) DevOps
11 186 (5.83%) Business Analysis
12 176 (5.51%) Continuous Improvement
13 175 (5.48%) Waterfall
14 172 (5.39%) Business Intelligence
14 172 (5.39%) Decision-Making
14 172 (5.39%) Scrum
15 158 (4.95%) Analytics
16 157 (4.92%) Requirements Gathering
17 156 (4.89%) Cybersecurity
18 144 (4.51%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 190 (5.95%) SQL
2 114 (3.57%) Python
3 53 (1.66%) C#
4 50 (1.57%) Java
5 48 (1.50%) JavaScript
6 29 (0.91%) PowerShell
7 26 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 23 (0.72%) REXX
9 22 (0.69%) C++
10 15 (0.47%) COBOL
10 15 (0.47%) PL/SQL
11 14 (0.44%) Bash
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 8 (0.25%) ABAP
14 8 (0.25%) PHP
14 8 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 507 (15.88%) Security Cleared
2 385 (12.06%) SC Cleared
3 280 (8.77%) Degree
4 128 (4.01%) DV Cleared
5 70 (2.19%) PMI Certification
6 69 (2.16%) PMP
7 58 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 48 (1.50%) Master's Degree
9 44 (1.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 33 (1.03%) APMP
10 33 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
11 23 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 17 (0.53%) CISSP
13 17 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (0.50%) CIMA
15 15 (0.47%) IIBA
16 14 (0.44%) ACCA
16 14 (0.44%) AWS Certification
17 12 (0.38%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (4.98%) PMO
2 132 (4.14%) QA
3 96 (3.01%) Data Quality
4 73 (2.29%) GDPR
5 48 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (1.47%) 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%) ISO 9001
12 15 (0.47%) GxP
12 15 (0.47%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 13 (0.41%) MiFID
14 12 (0.38%) Good Clinical Practice
15 11 (0.34%) COBIT
15 11 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
15 11 (0.34%) EMIR
16 10 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (1.10%) Active Directory
2 28 (0.88%) Docker
3 14 (0.44%) NFS
3 14 (0.44%) Time Sharing Option
4 10 (0.31%) 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%) Firmware
9 2 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.031%) Citrix Hypervisor
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 39 (1.22%) Kubernetes
2 28 (0.88%) Terraform
3 23 (0.72%) Ansible
4 20 (0.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 10 (0.31%) Docker Swarm
5 10 (0.31%) Grafana
5 10 (0.31%) Kibana
5 10 (0.31%) logstash
6 9 (0.28%) Progress Chef
6 9 (0.28%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.28%) Puppet
6 9 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.22%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.13%) 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
1 327 (10.24%) Microsoft
2 302 (9.46%) SAP
3 123 (3.85%) Oracle
4 60 (1.88%) Salesforce
5 51 (1.60%) Cisco
6 50 (1.57%) Ariba
7 48 (1.50%) ServiceNow
8 46 (1.44%) IBM
9 43 (1.35%) Adobe
10 35 (1.10%) Databricks
11 33 (1.03%) Google
12 28 (0.88%) Informatica
13 27 (0.85%) Splunk
14 22 (0.69%) Genesys
15 21 (0.66%) Dell
15 21 (0.66%) VMware
16 16 (0.50%) Alteryx
16 16 (0.50%) CA
16 16 (0.50%) Fortinet
16 16 (0.50%) Palo Alto