Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Stakeholder Engagement
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 20 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 -
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 30 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 11.15% 5.50% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.63% 5.71% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 6 2
10th Percentile £350 £376 £390
25th Percentile £358 £450 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £524 £398
Median % change year-on-year -14.61% +31.70% -
75th Percentile £532 £588 £411
90th Percentile £565 £600 £415
Cheshire median daily rate £453 £500 £478
% change year-on-year -9.40% +4.71% -18.72%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Stakeholder Engagement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 258 105 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 95.91% 96.33% 93.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 93 99
10th Percentile £322 £316 £361
25th Percentile £358 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £378 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.25% -24.40% -5.20%
75th Percentile £576 £500 £582
90th Percentile £638 £609 £625
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £481 £500
% change year-on-year -6.35% -3.90% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £32.95 £21.84
% change year-on-year -30.65% +50.87% +1.23%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in Knutsford over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in Knutsford

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (20.00%) Confluence
2 4 (13.33%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Power Platform
3 5 (16.67%) GCP
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.67%) Figma
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) IaaS
6 1 (3.33%) PaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) MPLS
1 2 (6.67%) SD-WAN
1 2 (6.67%) VPN
1 2 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Power BI
2 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.33%) DocumentDB
3 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (70.00%) Finance
2 12 (40.00%) Banking
3 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (10.00%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Architect
2 6 (20.00%) Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Project Manager
4 4 (13.33%) Support Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Programme Manager
5 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 3 (10.00%) Technical Manager
5 3 (10.00%) Technical Programme Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Network Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Applications Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Business Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) Change Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) Junior
7 1 (3.33%) Junior Project Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Project Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Project Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Kafka
1 1 (3.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (13.33%) Credit Risk
3 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (10.00%) PMI
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.33%) CMDB
5 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.33%) Online Banking
5 1 (3.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Agile
2 10 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (23.33%) Change Management
6 6 (20.00%) Analytics
6 6 (20.00%) Data Analysis
6 6 (20.00%) IT Strategy
6 6 (20.00%) Migration
6 6 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
7 5 (16.67%) Business Analysis
7 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 5 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
7 5 (16.67%) Project Management
7 5 (16.67%) Risk Management
7 5 (16.67%) Scrum
8 4 (13.33%) Predictive Analytics
8 4 (13.33%) PRINCE2
8 4 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) Python
2 4 (13.33%) R
3 1 (3.33%) Java
3 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 10 (33.33%) PMP
2 8 (26.67%) Degree
3 4 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 3 (10.00%) Master's Degree
4 3 (10.00%) MBA
4 3 (10.00%) SAFe Agilist
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) GRC
2 4 (13.33%) QA
3 3 (10.00%) Basel III
3 3 (10.00%) GDPR
4 2 (6.67%) P3O
4 2 (6.67%) PMO
5 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
5 1 (3.33%) ISO 20022
5 1 (3.33%) ISO 8583
5 1 (3.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (13.33%) Pega
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.00%) Snow
3 3 (10.00%) Workday
4 2 (6.67%) Fortinet