Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Stakeholder Engagement
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 66 79
Rank change year-on-year +41 +13 +25
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 84 16 24
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 6.91% 1.52% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.69% 1.69% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 4 16
10th Percentile £326 £441 £218
25th Percentile £416 £445 £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £500 £419
Median % change year-on-year +7.80% +19.40% -15.40%
75th Percentile £619 £559 £523
90th Percentile £671 £599 £575
North West median daily rate £525 £504 £475
% change year-on-year +4.22% +6.05% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £41.86 - £32.48

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,093 944 1,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.88% 89.48% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 733 561 983
10th Percentile £306 £294 £303
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £593
90th Percentile £650 £683 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 36 50
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.45 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £32.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.23% -0.76% -16.03%
75th Percentile £55.00 £34.56 £60.94
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £75.70
North West median hourly rate £33.00 £30.95 £38.75
% change year-on-year +6.62% -20.13% +46.06%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in Manchester

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in Manchester over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in Manchester

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 23 December 2025. 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
Bolton - 5 £613 - 16
Stockport - 1 £600 - 14
Stakeholder Engagement
North West

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (2.38%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.19%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.19%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.19%) ENOVIA
2 1 (1.19%) Maximo
2 1 (1.19%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (1.19%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.19%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.19%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.19%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.19%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.19%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (19.05%) Azure
2 10 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (10.71%) AWS
4 6 (7.14%) GCP
5 5 (5.95%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.57%) OCI
7 2 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.38%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (2.38%) GitHub
7 2 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.38%) Serverless
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.19%) Figma
8 1 (1.19%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.38%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.19%) DWDM
2 1 (1.19%) LAN
2 1 (1.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.95%) Power BI
2 3 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.38%) Delta Lake
3 2 (2.38%) Metadata
3 2 (2.38%) Power Query
4 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.19%) EDRMS
4 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (15.48%) JIRA
2 2 (2.38%) Git
3 1 (1.19%) GitLab
3 1 (1.19%) Hudson
3 1 (1.19%) Jenkins
General
1 56 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 26 (30.95%) Finance
3 11 (13.10%) Public Sector
4 10 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.52%) Manufacturing
6 7 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.76%) Banking
8 3 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.57%) Law
8 3 (3.57%) Legal
9 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.19%) Aviation
10 1 (1.19%) Local Government
10 1 (1.19%) Marketing
10 1 (1.19%) Military
10 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.19%) Social Housing
10 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (19.05%) Architect
2 11 (13.10%) Analyst
3 10 (11.90%) Business Analyst
4 8 (9.52%) Lead
4 8 (9.52%) Project Manager
5 7 (8.33%) Automation Specialist
5 7 (8.33%) Change Manager
5 7 (8.33%) Consultant
5 7 (8.33%) Support Specialist
6 6 (7.14%) ITIL Change Manager
6 6 (7.14%) ITIL Manager
6 6 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.95%) Senior
8 3 (3.57%) Business Architect
8 3 (3.57%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.57%) Data Architect
8 3 (3.57%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) SailPoint Architect
8 3 (3.57%) Technical Manager
9 2 (2.38%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.76%) SailPoint
2 2 (2.38%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.38%) OAuth
2 2 (2.38%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.19%) CSS
3 1 (1.19%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.19%) HTML
3 1 (1.19%) JWT
3 1 (1.19%) Middleware
3 1 (1.19%) OpenID
3 1 (1.19%) RESTful
3 1 (1.19%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.33%) Fibre Optics
2 5 (5.95%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.57%) NHS
5 2 (2.38%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.38%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.38%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.38%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.19%) CMDB
6 1 (1.19%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.19%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.19%) Life Science
6 1 (1.19%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.57%) Windows
2 2 (2.38%) Mac OS
2 2 (2.38%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.19%) Android
3 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 17 (20.24%) Agile
3 16 (19.05%) Change Management
4 14 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 13 (15.48%) Roadmaps
6 11 (13.10%) Decision-Making
6 11 (13.10%) DevOps
7 10 (11.90%) Change Control
7 10 (11.90%) CI/CD
7 10 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (10.71%) Business Analysis
8 9 (10.71%) Data Governance
8 9 (10.71%) Knowledge Transfer
8 9 (10.71%) Project Management
8 9 (10.71%) Release Management
8 9 (10.71%) Test Automation
9 8 (9.52%) GAP Analysis
9 8 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (9.52%) Service Design
9 8 (9.52%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.90%) Python
2 4 (4.76%) SQL
3 2 (2.38%) Bash
3 2 (2.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.19%) Java
4 1 (1.19%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.57%) PMI Certification
3 3 (3.57%) PMP
4 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.38%) Degree
5 1 (1.19%) APMG
5 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.19%) CISM
5 1 (1.19%) CISSP
5 1 (1.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (1.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (1.19%) PCI QSA
5 1 (1.19%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.95%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.76%) GDPR
4 3 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.57%) QA
5 2 (2.38%) PMO
6 1 (1.19%) COBIT
6 1 (1.19%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.19%) NIST
6 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.19%) PMBOK
6 1 (1.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (10.71%) Ansible
2 3 (3.57%) Terraform
3 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.38%) SCCM
4 1 (1.19%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (20.24%) ServiceNow
2 10 (11.90%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.76%) Oracle
3 4 (4.76%) SAP
4 3 (3.57%) Databricks
4 3 (3.57%) Google
5 2 (2.38%) Citrix
5 2 (2.38%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.38%) VMware
6 1 (1.19%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.19%) Cisco
6 1 (1.19%) Epicor
6 1 (1.19%) Gigya
6 1 (1.19%) PTC
6 1 (1.19%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Siemens
6 1 (1.19%) Workday