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

6 months to
10 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 3,208 4,733 8,096
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.46% 8.18% 9.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.65% 9.10% 10.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,257 3,419 5,777
10th Percentile £360 £388 £381
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £638
90th Percentile £739 £763 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 77 132
10th Percentile £15.13 £28.53 £15.90
25th Percentile £23.63 £35.00 £16.94
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +36.39% -7.30%
75th Percentile £79.38 £71.25 £51.95
90th Percentile £85.65 £84.82 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £54.83 £39.00
% change year-on-year +9.43% +40.59% -8.24%

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 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
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 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +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 10 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 10 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 10 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 2,772 £550 - 1,274
UK excluding London 0 1,602 £525 - 766
London -6 1,276 £550 -8.33% 528
Work from Home -3 1,120 £525 -1.22% 611
North of England +2 469 £525 +0.48% 196
South East -13 314 £500 -0.20% 186
North West -2 259 £525 +5.00% 123
Midlands +1 253 £550 +10.00% 160
South West -2 210 £525 -4.55% 91
West Midlands 0 205 £550 +4.76% 106
Yorkshire +3 188 £513 -2.38% 58
Scotland -1 175 £500 -2.44% 52
East of England +15 161 £500 -2.44% 69
East Midlands +13 46 £495 +10.00% 54
Wales +22 31 £540 +2.86% 21
North East +3 18 £575 +4.55% 16
Northern Ireland +2 3 - - 11

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 (3.68%) SharePoint
2 107 (3.34%) Confluence
3 30 (0.94%) SAS
4 19 (0.59%) CMS
5 16 (0.50%) 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 (0.12%) Apache
10 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.12%) NetWeaver
11 3 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.062%) 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 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 99 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (2.34%) Microsoft Project
4 71 (2.21%) 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 (0.062%) InDesign
13 2 (0.062%) Maya
13 2 (0.062%) Trello
14 1 (0.031%) Adobe XD
14 1 (0.031%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 112 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.50%) Primavera
4 12 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
5 11 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 10 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
7 9 (0.28%) Endur
7 9 (0.28%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
7 9 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
8 8 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
8 8 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 8 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
8 8 (0.25%) SAP PP
9 7 (0.22%) SAP GTS
10 6 (0.19%) ION MarketView
10 6 (0.19%) Maximo
10 6 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.19%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 313 (9.76%) Azure
2 211 (6.58%) AWS
3 143 (4.46%) Power Platform
4 88 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
5 74 (2.31%) SaaS
6 62 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
7 60 (1.87%) GCP
8 55 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
10 31 (0.97%) GitHub
11 30 (0.94%) Serverless
12 26 (0.81%) Slack
13 25 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
13 25 (0.78%) Power Automate
14 22 (0.69%) PowerApps
14 22 (0.69%) Snowflake
15 20 (0.62%) WhatsApp
16 16 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
16 16 (0.50%) PaaS
17 15 (0.47%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.06%) Firewall
2 55 (1.71%) Intranet
3 38 (1.18%) WAN
4 27 (0.84%) LAN
5 25 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
6 23 (0.72%) Network Security
7 22 (0.69%) VoIP
8 20 (0.62%) VPN
9 17 (0.53%) CTI
10 16 (0.50%) DNS
10 16 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
11 15 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
12 12 (0.37%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.34%) 3G
13 11 (0.34%) 4G
13 11 (0.34%) TCP/IP
13 11 (0.34%) WLAN
14 10 (0.31%) 5G
14 10 (0.31%) Wireless
15 8 (0.25%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (3.55%) Power BI
2 49 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (1.25%) SQL Server
4 35 (1.09%) 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 (0.37%) Data Mining
11 12 (0.37%) Oracle Database
11 12 (0.37%) Relational Database
11 12 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (0.31%) Qlik Sense
13 9 (0.28%) KDB
14 8 (0.25%) MongoDB
14 8 (0.25%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 260 (8.10%) JIRA
2 41 (1.28%) Jenkins
3 35 (1.09%) Git
4 13 (0.41%) Selenium
5 10 (0.31%) LoadRunner
6 9 (0.28%) GitLab
7 8 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 8 (0.25%) CircleCI
7 8 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
7 8 (0.25%) TeamCity
7 8 (0.25%) Travis CI
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 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.12%) Subversion
10 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,197 (37.31%) Social Skills
2 874 (27.24%) Finance
3 365 (11.38%) Public Sector
4 332 (10.35%) Analytical Skills
5 240 (7.48%) Banking
6 175 (5.46%) Presentation Skills
7 132 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
8 122 (3.80%) Marketing
9 121 (3.77%) Manufacturing
10 114 (3.55%) Legal
11 106 (3.30%) Retail
12 99 (3.09%) Telecoms
13 98 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
14 78 (2.43%) Pharmaceutical
15 67 (2.09%) Law
16 66 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 64 (2.00%) Electronics
18 53 (1.65%) Local Government
19 46 (1.43%) Aerospace
20 41 (1.28%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 535 (16.68%) Project Manager
2 510 (15.90%) Analyst
3 368 (11.47%) Architect
4 325 (10.13%) Lead
5 306 (9.54%) Business Analyst
6 291 (9.07%) Senior
7 270 (8.42%) Consultant
8 151 (4.71%) Developer
9 108 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
10 101 (3.15%) IT Manager
11 93 (2.90%) Senior Manager
12 91 (2.84%) Programme Manager
13 75 (2.34%) Delivery Manager
14 73 (2.28%) Data Analyst
15 68 (2.12%) SAP Consultant
16 64 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
17 57 (1.78%) Change Manager
18 53 (1.65%) IT Project Manager
19 52 (1.62%) Senior Project Manager
20 50 (1.56%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (1.15%) .NET
2 32 (1.00%) CSS
3 30 (0.94%) HTML
4 23 (0.72%) React
4 23 (0.72%) XML
5 22 (0.69%) Middleware
5 22 (0.69%) Web Services
5 22 (0.69%) YAML
6 19 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
6 19 (0.59%) SOAP
7 17 (0.53%) PySpark
8 15 (0.47%) Kafka
9 14 (0.44%) REST
9 14 (0.44%) RESTful
10 13 (0.41%) ADO
11 12 (0.37%) FIX Protocol
11 12 (0.37%) JSON
11 12 (0.37%) Spring
12 9 (0.28%) SAP Basis
12 9 (0.28%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 106 (3.30%) Product Ownership
2 97 (3.02%) Management Information System
3 64 (2.00%) Data Centre
4 39 (1.22%) Onboarding
4 39 (1.22%) Virtual Team
5 35 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (1.03%) Analogue Electronics
6 33 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (0.78%) Mobile App
8 24 (0.75%) NHS
9 23 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
9 23 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (0.69%) Data Structures
11 21 (0.65%) Fixed Income
11 21 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 20 (0.62%) Derivative
12 20 (0.62%) Life Science
13 18 (0.56%) Digital Media
13 18 (0.56%) FMCG
14 17 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 90 (2.81%) Windows
2 66 (2.06%) Linux
3 28 (0.87%) Unix
3 28 (0.87%) zOS
4 25 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.37%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.22%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.19%) Mac OS X
8 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.094%) AIX
9 3 (0.094%) Android
9 3 (0.094%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.094%) Debian
10 2 (0.062%) VMS
10 2 (0.062%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.062%) 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
1 808 (25.19%) Agile
2 765 (23.85%) Project Management
3 406 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
4 353 (11.00%) Change Management
5 292 (9.10%) Project Delivery
6 257 (8.01%) Migration
7 254 (7.92%) Risk Management
8 220 (6.86%) PRINCE2
9 206 (6.42%) Roadmaps
10 193 (6.02%) DevOps
11 188 (5.86%) Business Analysis
12 183 (5.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 180 (5.61%) Decision-Making
14 171 (5.33%) Business Intelligence
15 170 (5.30%) Waterfall
16 163 (5.08%) Scrum
17 161 (5.02%) Analytics
18 158 (4.93%) Cybersecurity
19 157 (4.89%) Requirements Gathering
20 144 (4.49%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 187 (5.83%) SQL
2 114 (3.55%) Python
3 53 (1.65%) C#
4 49 (1.53%) JavaScript
5 46 (1.43%) Java
6 28 (0.87%) PowerShell
7 25 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 23 (0.72%) C++
8 23 (0.72%) REXX
9 15 (0.47%) COBOL
9 15 (0.47%) PL/SQL
10 14 (0.44%) JCL
10 14 (0.44%) TypeScript
11 13 (0.41%) Bash
11 13 (0.41%) CLIST
11 13 (0.41%) SELCOPY
12 12 (0.37%) R
13 9 (0.28%) ABAP
14 8 (0.25%) C
14 8 (0.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 512 (15.96%) Security Cleared
2 387 (12.06%) SC Cleared
3 281 (8.76%) Degree
4 126 (3.93%) DV Cleared
5 73 (2.28%) PMP
6 72 (2.24%) PMI Certification
7 56 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 43 (1.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 34 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
11 33 (1.03%) APMP
12 24 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 16 (0.50%) CIMA
14 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (0.47%) IIBA
16 14 (0.44%) ACCA
16 14 (0.44%) CISSP
17 13 (0.41%) AWS Certification
18 12 (0.37%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (5.05%) PMO
2 131 (4.08%) QA
3 96 (2.99%) 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 37 (1.15%) PCI DSS
9 35 (1.09%) 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 (0.37%) COBIT
15 12 (0.37%) Good Clinical Practice
16 11 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
16 11 (0.34%) EMIR
17 10 (0.31%) GRC
System Software
1 35 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 26 (0.81%) 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 (0.12%) vSphere
8 3 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.062%) 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 40 (1.25%) Kubernetes
2 28 (0.87%) Terraform
3 23 (0.72%) Ansible
4 20 (0.62%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 9 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (0.28%) Kibana
5 9 (0.28%) logstash
5 9 (0.28%) Puppet
6 8 (0.25%) FortiGate
6 8 (0.25%) Grafana
6 8 (0.25%) Progress Chef
6 8 (0.25%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.16%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.12%) SCCM
11 3 (0.094%) PingFederate
11 3 (0.094%) WSUS
12 2 (0.062%) Matomo
12 2 (0.062%) VxRail
Vendors
1 329 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 303 (9.45%) SAP
3 120 (3.74%) Oracle
4 58 (1.81%) Salesforce
5 53 (1.65%) Cisco
6 50 (1.56%) Ariba
7 46 (1.43%) ServiceNow
8 44 (1.37%) Adobe
8 44 (1.37%) IBM
9 35 (1.09%) Databricks
10 33 (1.03%) Google
11 28 (0.87%) Informatica
12 26 (0.81%) Splunk
13 23 (0.72%) Genesys
14 22 (0.69%) VMware
15 21 (0.65%) Dell
16 17 (0.53%) Palo Alto
17 16 (0.50%) Alteryx
17 16 (0.50%) Citrix
17 16 (0.50%) HP