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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 63 81
Rank change year-on-year +35 +18 +21
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 77 19 23
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 6.54% 1.80% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.30% 1.99% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 8 15
10th Percentile £325 £445 £216
25th Percentile £413 £454 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £500 £413
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% +21.21% -16.67%
75th Percentile £616 £585 £528
90th Percentile £660 £617 £580
North West median daily rate £518 £515 £475
% change year-on-year +0.49% +8.42% -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 & 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 1,055 954 1,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 90.51% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 719 568 986
10th Percentile £306 £294 £302
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 36 46
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.95 £14.89
25th Percentile £19.75 £20.75 £17.26
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +6.67% -25.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £33.75 £59.38
90th Percentile £64.50 £62.50 £75.63
North West median hourly rate £41.03 £29.62 £38.00
% change year-on-year +38.54% -22.07% +15.61%

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 4 January 2026.

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 4 January 2026. 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 - 3
Stockport - 1 £600 - 6
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 (2.60%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.30%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.30%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.60%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.30%) ENOVIA
3 1 (1.30%) Maximo
3 1 (1.30%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (1.30%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.30%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.30%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.30%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.78%) Azure
2 10 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (11.69%) AWS
4 6 (7.79%) GCP
5 5 (6.49%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.90%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.90%) OCI
7 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.60%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (2.60%) GitHub
7 2 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.60%) Serverless
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.30%) Figma
8 1 (1.30%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.60%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.30%) DWDM
2 1 (1.30%) LAN
2 1 (1.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.49%) Power BI
2 3 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.60%) Delta Lake
3 2 (2.60%) Metadata
3 2 (2.60%) Power Query
4 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.30%) EDRMS
4 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (16.88%) JIRA
2 2 (2.60%) Git
3 1 (1.30%) GitLab
3 1 (1.30%) Hudson
3 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
General
1 50 (64.94%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.97%) Finance
3 12 (15.58%) Public Sector
4 10 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.39%) Manufacturing
6 6 (7.79%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (5.19%) Banking
8 3 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.90%) Law
8 3 (3.90%) Legal
9 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.30%) Aviation
10 1 (1.30%) Local Government
10 1 (1.30%) Marketing
10 1 (1.30%) Military
10 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.30%) Social Housing
10 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (19.48%) Architect
2 10 (12.99%) Analyst
3 9 (11.69%) Business Analyst
4 8 (10.39%) Project Manager
5 7 (9.09%) Change Manager
5 7 (9.09%) Consultant
5 7 (9.09%) Lead
6 6 (7.79%) ITIL Change Manager
6 6 (7.79%) ITIL Manager
7 5 (6.49%) Senior
7 5 (6.49%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.90%) Automation Specialist
8 3 (3.90%) Business Architect
8 3 (3.90%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Data Architect
8 3 (3.90%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) SailPoint Architect
8 3 (3.90%) Support Specialist
8 3 (3.90%) Technical Manager
9 2 (2.60%) ERP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.19%) SailPoint
2 2 (2.60%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.60%) OAuth
2 2 (2.60%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.30%) CSS
3 1 (1.30%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.30%) HTML
3 1 (1.30%) JWT
3 1 (1.30%) Middleware
3 1 (1.30%) OpenID
3 1 (1.30%) RESTful
3 1 (1.30%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.09%) Fibre Optics
2 4 (5.19%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.90%) NHS
4 2 (2.60%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.60%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.30%) CMDB
5 1 (1.30%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.30%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.30%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.30%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.90%) Windows
2 2 (2.60%) Mac OS
2 2 (2.60%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.30%) Android
3 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (22.08%) Agile
1 17 (22.08%) Change Management
2 16 (20.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (16.88%) Roadmaps
4 11 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 11 (14.29%) DevOps
5 10 (12.99%) Change Control
5 10 (12.99%) CI/CD
6 9 (11.69%) Business Analysis
6 9 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (11.69%) Data Governance
6 9 (11.69%) Knowledge Transfer
6 9 (11.69%) Release Management
6 9 (11.69%) Risk Management
7 8 (10.39%) GAP Analysis
7 8 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (10.39%) Service Design
8 7 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (9.09%) Instructional Design
8 7 (9.09%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.79%) Python
2 4 (5.19%) SQL
3 2 (2.60%) Bash
3 2 (2.60%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.30%) Java
4 1 (1.30%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.99%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) PMI Certification
3 3 (3.90%) PMP
4 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.60%) Degree
5 1 (1.30%) APMG
5 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.30%) CISM
5 1 (1.30%) CISSP
5 1 (1.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (1.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (1.30%) PCI QSA
5 1 (1.30%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.19%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.19%) GDPR
3 3 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.90%) PMO
3 3 (3.90%) QA
4 1 (1.30%) COBIT
4 1 (1.30%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.30%) NIST
4 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.30%) PMBOK
4 1 (1.30%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (3.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.49%) Ansible
2 3 (3.90%) Terraform
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.60%) SCCM
4 1 (1.30%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (16.88%) ServiceNow
2 7 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.49%) SAP
4 4 (5.19%) Oracle
5 3 (3.90%) Databricks
5 3 (3.90%) Google
6 2 (2.60%) Citrix
6 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.60%) VMware
7 1 (1.30%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.30%) Cisco
7 1 (1.30%) Epicor
7 1 (1.30%) Gigya
7 1 (1.30%) PTC
7 1 (1.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.30%) Siemens
7 1 (1.30%) Workday