Stakeholder Engagement Contracts

Stakeholder Engagement
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Stakeholder Engagement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Stakeholder Engagement over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 153 193
Rank change year-on-year +2 +40 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 684 972 1,335
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.61% 1.72% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 1.92% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 712 1,013
10th Percentile £363 £400 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £516 £500
% change year-on-year +1.69% +3.25% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 8 12
10th Percentile £18.35 £19.00 £16.33
25th Percentile £27.81 £19.94 £23.75
Median hourly rate £36.23 £20.90 £31.22
Median % change year-on-year +73.35% -33.05% +25.89%
75th Percentile £57.37 £56.50 £55.84
90th Percentile £75.00 £60.55 £64.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.49 £20.50 £33.05
% change year-on-year +175.56% -37.97% +36.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Stakeholder Engagement 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 36,537 50,741 79,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 89.71% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,555 35,132 55,704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 1,680 1,899
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Daily rate trend for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Hourly rate trend for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the UK

Stakeholder Engagement
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 Engagement within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +2 598 £550 - 370
London +36 340 £575 -2.09% 143
UK excluding London -18 292 £525 +1.69% 237
Work from Home -31 185 £550 - 174
South East -10 68 £538 +4.37% 60
Midlands +5 54 £525 - 53
North of England -25 53 £525 -4.55% 62
South West +7 50 £550 +4.76% 24
West Midlands +3 46 £523 -0.48% 35
Scotland +30 42 £525 +16.67% 21
North West +12 29 £525 +5.00% 34
East of England -3 22 £375 -26.83% 12
Yorkshire -29 19 £506 -8.99% 22
East Midlands 0 8 £525 +5.00% 18
North East +11 5 £590 +18.00% 7
Wales +10 2 £406 -33.67% 4
Northern Ireland -1 1 £363 +10.86% 3

Stakeholder Engagement
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 18 (2.63%) Confluence
1 18 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.73%) SAS
3 5 (0.73%) WordPress
4 3 (0.44%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.15%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.15%) CMS
5 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 32 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (2.34%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.29%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.29%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.29%) Sketch
7 1 (0.15%) OmniGraffle
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.73%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.29%) iTrent
6 1 (0.15%) OPENHousing
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.15%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 64 (9.36%) Azure
2 51 (7.46%) AWS
3 36 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 21 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (2.92%) SaaS
6 18 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (1.75%) GitHub
8 11 (1.61%) GCP
9 10 (1.46%) Boomi
10 9 (1.32%) Amazon S3
10 9 (1.32%) PowerApps
10 9 (1.32%) Snowflake
11 7 (1.02%) PaaS
11 7 (1.02%) Power Automate
12 6 (0.88%) Collibra
12 6 (0.88%) Figma
13 5 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (0.73%) Miro
13 5 (0.73%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.63%) Firewall
2 6 (0.88%) VPN
3 4 (0.58%) DNS
3 4 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.44%) DHCP
5 2 (0.29%) 4G
5 2 (0.29%) 5G
5 2 (0.29%) Broadband
5 2 (0.29%) LAN
5 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.15%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.15%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.15%) Network Security
6 1 (0.15%) PSTN
6 1 (0.15%) Skype
6 1 (0.15%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.15%) VoIP
6 1 (0.15%) WAN
6 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.68%) Power BI
2 13 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (1.90%) Tableau
3 12 (1.75%) SQL Server
4 11 (1.61%) Metadata
5 8 (1.17%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.02%) Big Data
7 6 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
8 5 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (0.73%) Crystal Reports
9 4 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.44%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.44%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.29%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.15%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.15%) Looker
12 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (5.26%) JIRA
2 9 (1.32%) Git
2 9 (1.32%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.88%) NeoLoad
3 6 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
4 5 (0.73%) LoadRunner
5 4 (0.58%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.58%) JUnit
5 4 (0.58%) Mockito
6 3 (0.44%) Selenium
7 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.15%) JMeter
8 1 (0.15%) MLflow
8 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
General
1 235 (34.36%) Social Skills
2 173 (25.29%) Finance
3 93 (13.60%) Public Sector
4 61 (8.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (5.85%) Legal
7 39 (5.70%) Local Government
8 34 (4.97%) Presentation Skills
9 33 (4.82%) Banking
10 21 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (3.07%) Telecoms
11 19 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (2.63%) Manufacturing
12 18 (2.63%) Marketing
13 17 (2.49%) Retail
14 12 (1.75%) Military
15 11 (1.61%) Games
15 11 (1.61%) Law
16 10 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (1.02%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 113 (16.52%) Project Manager
2 112 (16.37%) Analyst
3 84 (12.28%) Senior
4 65 (9.50%) Business Analyst
5 58 (8.48%) Architect
5 58 (8.48%) Lead
6 36 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
7 32 (4.68%) Consultant
7 32 (4.68%) Programme Manager
8 27 (3.95%) Change Manager
9 23 (3.36%) IT Manager
10 22 (3.22%) Senior Manager
11 19 (2.78%) Developer
12 18 (2.63%) Product Manager
13 17 (2.49%) Data Analyst
14 16 (2.34%) Business Manager
14 16 (2.34%) IT Project Manager
14 16 (2.34%) Product Owner
14 16 (2.34%) Test Leader
15 14 (2.05%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.63%) .NET
2 13 (1.90%) React
3 5 (0.73%) ModSecurity
3 5 (0.73%) Spring
3 5 (0.73%) Spring Boot
4 4 (0.58%) .NET Framework
4 4 (0.58%) HTML
4 4 (0.58%) LDAP
4 4 (0.58%) Node.js
4 4 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (0.58%) SailPoint
5 3 (0.44%) Kafka
5 3 (0.44%) PySpark
5 3 (0.44%) REST
6 2 (0.29%) CSS
6 2 (0.29%) Gherkin
6 2 (0.29%) Playwright
6 2 (0.29%) SOAP
6 2 (0.29%) Web Services
6 2 (0.29%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 37 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 13 (1.90%) Management Information System
3 11 (1.61%) NHS
4 10 (1.46%) Onboarding
4 10 (1.46%) Public Cloud
5 9 (1.32%) Derivative
6 7 (1.02%) Data Centre
7 6 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (0.88%) Mobile App
8 5 (0.73%) Algorithms
8 5 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (0.73%) Driving Licence
8 5 (0.73%) Fixed Income
8 5 (0.73%) FMCG
8 5 (0.73%) Operational Technology
8 5 (0.73%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.58%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.58%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.63%) Linux
2 13 (1.90%) Mac OS X
2 13 (1.90%) Windows
3 2 (0.29%) Android
3 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.29%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.15%) AIX
4 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (22.22%) Agile
2 145 (21.20%) Project Management
3 138 (20.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 83 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (10.82%) Risk Management
6 70 (10.23%) Change Management
7 65 (9.50%) Project Delivery
8 58 (8.48%) Roadmaps
9 54 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 54 (7.89%) Decision-Making
10 46 (6.73%) DevOps
11 45 (6.58%) Programme Management
11 45 (6.58%) Scrum
12 44 (6.43%) PRINCE2
13 43 (6.29%) Analytics
13 43 (6.29%) Cybersecurity
14 40 (5.85%) Business Case
14 40 (5.85%) Business Intelligence
14 40 (5.85%) Migration
15 37 (5.41%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (5.12%) SQL
2 24 (3.51%) Python
3 19 (2.78%) C#
4 15 (2.19%) Java
5 7 (1.02%) PowerShell
6 4 (0.58%) C
7 3 (0.44%) C++
7 3 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.44%) Go
7 3 (0.44%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.29%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.29%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.29%) R
8 2 (0.29%) Scala
8 2 (0.29%) VB
8 2 (0.29%) VB6
9 1 (0.15%) ABAP
9 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 104 (15.20%) Security Cleared
2 83 (12.13%) Degree
2 83 (12.13%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.24%) DV Cleared
4 26 (3.80%) PMP
5 25 (3.65%) PMI Certification
6 13 (1.90%) CISSP
7 11 (1.61%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.32%) CISM
8 9 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.73%) ICAEW
10 5 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.58%) ISEB
12 3 (0.44%) ACCA
12 3 (0.44%) CIMA
12 3 (0.44%) NVQ Level 4
12 3 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 3 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (7.89%) QA
2 32 (4.68%) PMO
3 21 (3.07%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.07%) GDPR
4 19 (2.78%) NIST
5 18 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (2.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 12 (1.75%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.61%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.73%) GAAP
9 5 (0.73%) IFRS
10 4 (0.58%) GRC
11 3 (0.44%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.44%) SLA
12 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.15%) Basel III
13 1 (0.15%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 13 (1.90%) Docker
2 9 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.58%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (2.34%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.17%) Terraform
3 5 (0.73%) Ansible
4 4 (0.58%) OPNET
5 2 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.29%) PowerCLI
5 2 (0.29%) SCCM
6 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.15%) Kibana
6 1 (0.15%) logstash
6 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 83 (12.13%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.24%) Oracle
3 25 (3.65%) SAP
4 15 (2.19%) Salesforce
5 10 (1.46%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.32%) Google
7 7 (1.02%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.02%) Sparx
8 5 (0.73%) Adobe
8 5 (0.73%) CA Agile Central
8 5 (0.73%) Cadence
8 5 (0.73%) Cisco
8 5 (0.73%) Databricks
8 5 (0.73%) IBM
8 5 (0.73%) IFS
8 5 (0.73%) iManage
8 5 (0.73%) Intapp
8 5 (0.73%) NEC
8 5 (0.73%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.73%) VMware