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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 154 189
Rank change year-on-year 0 +35 +2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 679 943 1,340
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.58% 1.67% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 1.86% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 693 1,024
10th Percentile £363 £390 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £638
90th Percentile £775 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £515 £500
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 12 14
10th Percentile £18.35 £19.13 £16.48
25th Percentile £27.81 £20.25 £24.82
Median hourly rate £36.23 £22.50 £31.22
Median % change year-on-year +61.02% -27.92% +25.37%
75th Percentile £57.45 £55.75 £55.32
90th Percentile £75.00 £56.50 £62.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.33 £21.90 £31.22
% change year-on-year +161.78% -29.84% +24.86%

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 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +7 590 £550 - 376
London +42 334 £575 - 158
UK excluding London -15 292 £525 +1.94% 230
Work from Home -30 187 £550 +1.01% 162
South East -12 69 £538 +3.17% 61
Midlands -2 55 £513 -2.38% 48
North of England -22 52 £525 - 60
South West +1 48 £525 +1.20% 25
West Midlands +2 47 £506 -3.57% 37
Scotland +33 43 £535 +18.89% 16
North West +8 27 £538 +7.50% 35
East of England -7 21 £375 -26.83% 16
Yorkshire -29 19 £519 -5.68% 21
East Midlands -6 8 £525 +5.00% 11
North East +12 6 £590 +18.00% 5
Wales +6 2 £406 -33.67% 5
Northern Ireland +2 2 £261 -20.11% 2

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 21 (3.09%) Confluence
2 18 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.74%) SAS
4 5 (0.74%) WordPress
5 3 (0.44%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.15%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.15%) CMS
Applications
1 31 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (2.21%) 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 18 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.74%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.29%) iTrent
4 2 (0.29%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.15%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.15%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.15%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 68 (10.01%) Azure
2 53 (7.81%) AWS
3 35 (5.15%) Power Platform
4 23 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (2.95%) SaaS
6 15 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (2.06%) GCP
8 12 (1.77%) GitHub
9 10 (1.47%) Boomi
10 9 (1.33%) Amazon S3
10 9 (1.33%) PaaS
10 9 (1.33%) PowerApps
10 9 (1.33%) Snowflake
11 7 (1.03%) Power Automate
12 6 (0.88%) Collibra
12 6 (0.88%) Figma
12 6 (0.88%) OpenShift
13 5 (0.74%) Miro
13 5 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.65%) Firewall
2 8 (1.18%) VPN
3 5 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (0.59%) DNS
5 3 (0.44%) DHCP
6 2 (0.29%) 4G
6 2 (0.29%) 5G
6 2 (0.29%) Broadband
6 2 (0.29%) LAN
6 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.15%) Cisco IPT
7 1 (0.15%) Internet
7 1 (0.15%) Intranet
7 1 (0.15%) PSTN
7 1 (0.15%) SAN
7 1 (0.15%) Skype
7 1 (0.15%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.15%) VoIP
7 1 (0.15%) WAN
7 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.57%) Power BI
2 14 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.77%) Tableau
4 11 (1.62%) Metadata
5 10 (1.47%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.18%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.03%) Big Data
8 6 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.74%) Crystal Reports
10 4 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.44%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.44%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.29%) GIS
12 2 (0.29%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 1 (0.15%) MS Access
13 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 1 (0.15%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 41 (6.04%) JIRA
2 9 (1.33%) Git
2 9 (1.33%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.88%) Bitbucket
3 6 (0.88%) NeoLoad
3 6 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
4 5 (0.74%) LoadRunner
5 4 (0.59%) JUnit
5 4 (0.59%) 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 (34.61%) Social Skills
2 172 (25.33%) Finance
3 93 (13.70%) Public Sector
4 61 (8.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (6.19%) Legal
7 39 (5.74%) Local Government
8 33 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
9 31 (4.57%) Banking
10 23 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (3.09%) Telecoms
12 20 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (2.65%) Manufacturing
14 17 (2.50%) Marketing
14 17 (2.50%) Retail
15 12 (1.77%) Military
16 10 (1.47%) Law
16 10 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (1.33%) Games
18 7 (1.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 116 (17.08%) Project Manager
2 115 (16.94%) Analyst
3 85 (12.52%) Senior
4 67 (9.87%) Business Analyst
5 56 (8.25%) Architect
5 56 (8.25%) Lead
6 36 (5.30%) Consultant
7 33 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
8 32 (4.71%) Programme Manager
9 27 (3.98%) Change Manager
9 27 (3.98%) IT Manager
10 23 (3.39%) Senior Manager
11 19 (2.80%) Developer
11 19 (2.80%) IT Project Manager
12 18 (2.65%) Data Analyst
13 17 (2.50%) Product Manager
14 16 (2.36%) Business Manager
15 14 (2.06%) Systems Engineer
15 14 (2.06%) Test Leader
16 13 (1.91%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.95%) .NET
2 13 (1.91%) React
3 7 (1.03%) ModSecurity
4 6 (0.88%) .NET Framework
4 6 (0.88%) Spring Boot
5 5 (0.74%) HTML
5 5 (0.74%) Node.js
5 5 (0.74%) Spring
6 4 (0.59%) Kafka
6 4 (0.59%) LDAP
6 4 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (0.59%) REST
6 4 (0.59%) SailPoint
7 3 (0.44%) CSS
7 3 (0.44%) PySpark
8 2 (0.29%) Gherkin
8 2 (0.29%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.29%) React Native
8 2 (0.29%) Redux
8 2 (0.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 37 (5.45%) Product Ownership
2 14 (2.06%) NHS
3 12 (1.77%) Management Information System
3 12 (1.77%) Public Cloud
4 10 (1.47%) Onboarding
5 9 (1.33%) Derivative
6 7 (1.03%) Fixed Income
6 7 (1.03%) Security Posture
7 6 (0.88%) Data Centre
7 6 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (0.88%) Mobile App
8 5 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (0.74%) Driving Licence
8 5 (0.74%) FMCG
8 5 (0.74%) Operational Technology
9 4 (0.59%) Credit Derivative
9 4 (0.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.59%) PKI
9 4 (0.59%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.95%) Linux
2 13 (1.91%) Mac OS X
2 13 (1.91%) 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
1 150 (22.09%) Agile
2 147 (21.65%) Project Management
3 141 (20.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 83 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (10.90%) Change Management
6 72 (10.60%) Risk Management
7 67 (9.87%) Project Delivery
8 57 (8.39%) Roadmaps
9 53 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (6.77%) Decision-Making
10 46 (6.77%) PRINCE2
11 45 (6.63%) Analytics
11 45 (6.63%) DevOps
11 45 (6.63%) Programme Management
12 42 (6.19%) Migration
12 42 (6.19%) Scrum
13 39 (5.74%) Business Intelligence
13 39 (5.74%) Cybersecurity
14 37 (5.45%) User Experience
15 36 (5.30%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 34 (5.01%) SQL
2 25 (3.68%) Python
3 19 (2.80%) C#
4 15 (2.21%) Java
5 9 (1.33%) PowerShell
6 4 (0.59%) C
6 4 (0.59%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.44%) Go
7 3 (0.44%) JavaScript
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%) C++
9 1 (0.15%) Julia
9 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 101 (14.87%) Security Cleared
2 81 (11.93%) Degree
3 79 (11.63%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.57%) DV Cleared
5 26 (3.83%) PMP
6 25 (3.68%) PMI Certification
7 13 (1.91%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.62%) CISSP
9 9 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.03%) CISM
11 6 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.74%) ICAEW
12 5 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.44%) ACCA
13 3 (0.44%) APMP
13 3 (0.44%) ISEB
13 3 (0.44%) NVQ Level 4
13 3 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 3 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (7.81%) QA
2 34 (5.01%) PMO
3 21 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 20 (2.95%) GDPR
5 18 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.65%) NIST
6 16 (2.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 11 (1.62%) HIPAA
8 9 (1.33%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.74%) GAAP
9 5 (0.74%) IFRS
10 3 (0.44%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.44%) SLA
11 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.29%) GRC
11 2 (0.29%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.15%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (2.21%) Docker
2 9 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.88%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (2.80%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.47%) Terraform
3 6 (0.88%) Ansible
3 6 (0.88%) OPNET
4 4 (0.59%) PowerCLI
5 2 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.29%) SCCM
6 1 (0.15%) Kibana
6 1 (0.15%) logstash
6 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 84 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.42%) Oracle
3 28 (4.12%) SAP
4 15 (2.21%) Salesforce
5 12 (1.77%) Atlassian
6 10 (1.47%) Google
7 7 (1.03%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.03%) Sparx
7 7 (1.03%) VMware
8 6 (0.88%) Cisco
9 5 (0.74%) Adobe
9 5 (0.74%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (0.74%) Cadence
9 5 (0.74%) Databricks
9 5 (0.74%) IBM
9 5 (0.74%) IFS
9 5 (0.74%) iManage
9 5 (0.74%) Intapp
9 5 (0.74%) NEC
9 5 (0.74%) OpenAI