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

6 months to
14 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 3,190 4,711 8,202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.48% 8.17% 9.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.67% 9.10% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,240 3,413 5,864
10th Percentile £362 £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 £652 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 76 132
10th Percentile £15.13 £28.06 £15.90
25th Percentile £23.63 £31.81 £17.23
Median hourly rate £60.00 £53.90 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +11.32% +33.66% -6.22%
75th Percentile £79.06 £70.63 £51.95
90th Percentile £85.65 £85.40 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £53.56 £39.00
% change year-on-year +12.02% +37.34% -7.69%

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 36,783 51,773 79,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.20% 89.81% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,675 35,887 56,073
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
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% +8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,710 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £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 14 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 14 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 14 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 2,755 £550 - 1,363
UK excluding London 0 1,591 £525 - 782
London -5 1,269 £550 -8.33% 579
Work from Home -4 1,112 £530 -1.40% 637
North of England +1 465 £525 +0.96% 203
South East -13 312 £500 -1.96% 199
North West 0 257 £525 +5.00% 126
Midlands +2 248 £550 +10.00% 154
South West -5 210 £525 -4.55% 94
West Midlands 0 201 £550 +4.76% 105
Yorkshire +3 188 £525 - 61
Scotland +2 173 £500 -2.44% 52
East of England +14 162 £513 +2.50% 67
East Midlands +10 45 £498 +10.56% 48
Wales +27 32 £550 +4.76% 20
North East -4 17 £588 +6.82% 17
Northern Ireland +3 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
1 118 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 109 (3.42%) Confluence
3 30 (0.94%) SAS
4 18 (0.56%) CMS
5 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.41%) CICS
7 10 (0.31%) 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%) nginx
13 1 (0.031%) Umbraco
Applications
1 150 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 99 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
4 70 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 49 (1.54%) 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
1 112 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.44%) Primavera
4 12 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 11 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 10 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
7 9 (0.28%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
7 9 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (0.25%) Endur
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
1 314 (9.84%) Azure
2 212 (6.65%) AWS
3 149 (4.67%) Power Platform
4 87 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
5 74 (2.32%) SaaS
6 63 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
7 62 (1.94%) GCP
8 57 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
10 32 (1.00%) GitHub
11 30 (0.94%) Serverless
12 27 (0.85%) Power Automate
13 26 (0.82%) Slack
14 25 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
15 24 (0.75%) PowerApps
16 22 (0.69%) Snowflake
17 20 (0.63%) WhatsApp
18 16 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
18 16 (0.50%) PaaS
19 15 (0.47%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 67 (2.10%) Firewall
2 53 (1.66%) Intranet
3 37 (1.16%) WAN
4 26 (0.82%) LAN
5 24 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
6 23 (0.72%) Network Security
7 22 (0.69%) VoIP
8 21 (0.66%) VPN
9 17 (0.53%) CTI
9 17 (0.53%) DNS
10 16 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
11 15 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
12 12 (0.38%) TCP/IP
13 11 (0.34%) Internet
13 11 (0.34%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.34%) WLAN
14 10 (0.31%) Wireless
15 9 (0.28%) 3G
15 9 (0.28%) 4G
15 9 (0.28%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (3.67%) Power BI
2 50 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (1.25%) SQL Server
4 35 (1.10%) Data Lake
5 27 (0.85%) Tableau
6 24 (0.75%) Metadata
7 22 (0.69%) Big Data
8 19 (0.60%) SAP HANA
9 17 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (0.53%) DB2
10 13 (0.41%) IDMS
10 13 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (0.38%) Data Mining
11 12 (0.38%) Oracle Database
11 12 (0.38%) Relational Database
12 11 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (0.31%) Qlik Sense
14 9 (0.28%) KDB
15 8 (0.25%) SAP BW
15 8 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 263 (8.24%) 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 1,192 (37.37%) Social Skills
2 869 (27.24%) Finance
3 361 (11.32%) Public Sector
4 325 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
5 238 (7.46%) Banking
6 170 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
7 128 (4.01%) Influencing Skills
8 126 (3.95%) Manufacturing
9 122 (3.82%) Marketing
10 113 (3.54%) Legal
11 107 (3.35%) Retail
12 97 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
12 97 (3.04%) Telecoms
13 78 (2.45%) Pharmaceutical
14 67 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 66 (2.07%) Law
16 64 (2.01%) Electronics
17 52 (1.63%) Local Government
18 46 (1.44%) Aerospace
19 41 (1.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 530 (16.61%) Project Manager
2 507 (15.89%) Analyst
3 371 (11.63%) Architect
4 325 (10.19%) Lead
5 302 (9.47%) Business Analyst
6 295 (9.25%) Senior
7 270 (8.46%) Consultant
8 151 (4.73%) Developer
9 109 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
10 99 (3.10%) IT Manager
11 95 (2.98%) Senior Manager
12 88 (2.76%) Programme Manager
13 78 (2.45%) Delivery Manager
14 73 (2.29%) Data Analyst
15 69 (2.16%) SAP Consultant
16 66 (2.07%) Senior Analyst
17 56 (1.76%) Change Manager
18 54 (1.69%) Senior Project Manager
19 52 (1.63%) Product Owner
20 51 (1.60%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (1.16%) .NET
2 33 (1.03%) CSS
3 31 (0.97%) HTML
4 24 (0.75%) XML
5 23 (0.72%) Web Services
5 23 (0.72%) YAML
6 22 (0.69%) Middleware
6 22 (0.69%) React
7 20 (0.63%) SOAP
8 19 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
9 17 (0.53%) PySpark
10 15 (0.47%) Kafka
10 15 (0.47%) REST
11 14 (0.44%) RESTful
12 13 (0.41%) JSON
13 12 (0.38%) ADO
13 12 (0.38%) FIX Protocol
13 12 (0.38%) Spring
14 10 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
15 9 (0.28%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 108 (3.39%) Product Ownership
2 97 (3.04%) Management Information System
3 64 (2.01%) Data Centre
4 39 (1.22%) Onboarding
4 39 (1.22%) Virtual Team
5 35 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (1.03%) Analogue Electronics
7 32 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (0.78%) Mobile App
9 24 (0.75%) NHS
10 23 (0.72%) Data Structures
10 23 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
11 22 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
12 21 (0.66%) Fixed Income
12 21 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 20 (0.63%) Derivative
13 20 (0.63%) Life Science
14 18 (0.56%) Digital Media
15 17 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
15 17 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 90 (2.82%) Windows
2 66 (2.07%) Linux
3 29 (0.91%) Unix
4 28 (0.88%) zOS
5 26 (0.82%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.38%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.19%) Mac OS X
9 4 (0.13%) Android
9 4 (0.13%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.094%) AIX
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
1 811 (25.42%) Agile
2 757 (23.73%) Project Management
3 402 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
4 355 (11.13%) Change Management
5 294 (9.22%) Project Delivery
6 256 (8.03%) Migration
7 248 (7.77%) Risk Management
8 219 (6.87%) PRINCE2
9 205 (6.43%) Roadmaps
10 194 (6.08%) DevOps
11 186 (5.83%) Business Analysis
12 178 (5.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 174 (5.45%) Business Intelligence
14 173 (5.42%) Decision-Making
15 172 (5.39%) Waterfall
16 169 (5.30%) Scrum
17 159 (4.98%) Analytics
18 157 (4.92%) Cybersecurity
19 155 (4.86%) Requirements Gathering
20 145 (4.55%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 189 (5.92%) SQL
2 115 (3.61%) Python
3 53 (1.66%) C#
4 48 (1.50%) JavaScript
5 47 (1.47%) Java
6 30 (0.94%) PowerShell
7 26 (0.82%) 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%) Bash
10 14 (0.44%) JCL
11 13 (0.41%) CLIST
11 13 (0.41%) SELCOPY
11 13 (0.41%) TypeScript
12 12 (0.38%) R
13 9 (0.28%) ABAP
14 8 (0.25%) C
14 8 (0.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 509 (15.96%) Security Cleared
2 385 (12.07%) SC Cleared
3 277 (8.68%) Degree
4 127 (3.98%) DV Cleared
5 72 (2.26%) PMP
6 71 (2.23%) PMI Certification
7 55 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 43 (1.35%) 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
14 16 (0.50%) CIMA
14 16 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (0.47%) IIBA
16 14 (0.44%) ACCA
17 13 (0.41%) AWS Certification
18 12 (0.38%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (4.98%) PMO
2 133 (4.17%) QA
3 96 (3.01%) Data Quality
4 72 (2.26%) GDPR
5 49 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (1.47%) NIST
7 41 (1.29%) 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%) Good Clinical Practice
16 11 (0.34%) COBIT
16 11 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
16 11 (0.34%) EMIR
17 10 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (1.10%) Active Directory
2 26 (0.82%) 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 40 (1.25%) Kubernetes
2 29 (0.91%) Terraform
3 24 (0.75%) Ansible
4 20 (0.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 10 (0.31%) Docker Swarm
5 10 (0.31%) Kibana
5 10 (0.31%) logstash
5 10 (0.31%) Puppet
6 9 (0.28%) Grafana
6 9 (0.28%) Progress Chef
6 9 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.25%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.16%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.13%) SCCM
12 3 (0.094%) PingFederate
12 3 (0.094%) WSUS
13 2 (0.063%) Matomo
13 2 (0.063%) VxRail
Vendors
1 328 (10.28%) Microsoft
2 302 (9.47%) SAP
3 119 (3.73%) Oracle
4 59 (1.85%) Salesforce
5 52 (1.63%) Cisco
6 50 (1.57%) Ariba
7 47 (1.47%) ServiceNow
8 44 (1.38%) 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 23 (0.72%) Genesys
15 22 (0.69%) VMware
16 21 (0.66%) Dell
17 17 (0.53%) Palo Alto
18 16 (0.50%) Alteryx
18 16 (0.50%) Citrix
18 16 (0.50%) HP