Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in the North East

Stakeholder Engagement
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 39 29
Rank change year-on-year +19 -10 +25
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 39 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 9.13% 1.62% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.48% 1.76% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 3 3
10th Percentile £338 £408 £423
25th Percentile £380 £550 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £825 £525
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +57.14% -
75th Percentile £531 £869 £553
90th Percentile £575 £873 £563
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
England median hourly rate £41.86 £37.75 £56.49
% change year-on-year +10.87% -33.17% +119.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 372 284 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 87.12% 92.21% 84.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 140 148
10th Percentile £175 £313 £224
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £525 £610 £575
90th Percentile £582 £722 £633
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 24 18
10th Percentile £15.40 £14.03 £11.79
25th Percentile £17.88 £15.19 £15.47
Median hourly rate £48.00 £17.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +174.29% -15.74% -41.90%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.18 £48.11
90th Percentile £60.00 - £68.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.10% -18.82% +21.43%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in the North East

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the North East over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the North East

Stakeholder Engagement
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 14 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
Tyne and Wear +16 37 £450 +38.46% 10
Durham - 1 £500 - 2
Northumberland - 1 £550 -
Stakeholder Engagement
England

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (5.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (10.26%) AWS
3 2 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (5.13%) Azure
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.56%) Kong
4 1 (2.56%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) DNS
2 1 (2.56%) BGP
2 1 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) Network Security
2 1 (2.56%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (2.56%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) GitLab
1 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
General
1 22 (56.41%) Social Skills
2 15 (38.46%) Public Sector
3 8 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Finance
4 4 (10.26%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Banking
5 2 (5.13%) Police
6 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Local Government
6 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (35.90%) Analyst
2 13 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 5 (12.82%) Senior
4 4 (10.26%) Administrator
4 4 (10.26%) Data Administrator
4 4 (10.26%) Project Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Architect
6 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Network Migration Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Product Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Onboarding
2 4 (10.26%) LIMS
2 4 (10.26%) NHS
3 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Windows
1 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) Agile
2 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (23.08%) Process Improvement
4 8 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (17.95%) Data Governance
6 6 (15.38%) Business Analysis
7 5 (12.82%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 5 (12.82%) Project Delivery
7 5 (12.82%) Project Management
7 5 (12.82%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (12.82%) Service Design
8 4 (10.26%) Business Case
8 4 (10.26%) CI/CD
8 4 (10.26%) DevOps
8 4 (10.26%) ITSM
8 4 (10.26%) Migration
8 4 (10.26%) Service Delivery
8 4 (10.26%) Supplier Management
8 4 (10.26%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.56%) Bash
1 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) SC Cleared
1 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.56%) CISA
2 1 (2.56%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) QA
2 5 (12.82%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.13%) COBIT
4 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.56%) GDPR
4 1 (2.56%) ISO 22301
4 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.56%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Grafana
1 2 (5.13%) Terraform
2 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) Cellebrite
2 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.56%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (2.56%) Pega
3 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.56%) Sage