Stakeholder Engagement Contracts in the North West

Stakeholder Engagement
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Stakeholder Engagement over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 109 120
Rank change year-on-year +47 +11 +10
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 64 28 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.29% 1.05% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 1.23% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 22 35
10th Percentile £400 £244 £400
25th Percentile £440 £388 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +2.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £594 £645 £622
90th Percentile £738 £673 £748
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 £33.48 -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £35.95 -
Median % change year-on-year +101.67% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 £38.43 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £49.50 £35.96 £21.30
% change year-on-year +37.65% +68.83% -27.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,750 2,283 2,831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.07% 85.83% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 1,449 1,995
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £389 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
90th Percentile £660 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 249 139
10th Percentile £16.03 £10.95 £16.80
25th Percentile £22.81 £13.50 £23.15
Median hourly rate £31.88 £23.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.66% -34.72% +52.90%
75th Percentile £62.25 £45.88 £49.46
90th Percentile £84.39 £62.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.34
% change year-on-year -20.55% -2.25% +49.36%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Stakeholder Engagement in the North West

Stakeholder Engagement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Stakeholder Engagement in the North West

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the North West over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the North West

Stakeholder Engagement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Stakeholder Engagement in the North West

Stakeholder Engagement
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Manchester +39 30 £515 +8.32% 63
Cheshire +15 23 £497 +22.72% 24
Lancashire -3 5 £458 -28.24% 35
Merseyside - 3 £400 - 13
Cumbria -1 1 £741 +1088.32% 4
Stakeholder Engagement
England

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (3.13%) Confluence
1 2 (3.13%) SAS
2 1 (1.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (9.38%) MS Visio
2 5 (7.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.56%) Maximo
2 1 (1.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.94%) AWS
2 5 (7.81%) Azure
3 4 (6.25%) dbt
4 3 (4.69%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.56%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.56%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) Airbyte
1 4 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.69%) SAP HANA
3 2 (3.13%) Power BI
4 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.56%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.56%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 4 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (1.56%) Git
2 1 (1.56%) Rational DOORS
General
1 34 (53.13%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (18.75%) Finance
4 8 (12.50%) Banking
5 6 (9.38%) Legal
5 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (4.69%) Retail
8 2 (3.13%) Automotive
8 2 (3.13%) Aviation
8 2 (3.13%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (3.13%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.13%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.56%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.56%) Law
9 1 (1.56%) Marketing
9 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Public Speaking
9 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (26.56%) Senior
2 16 (25.00%) Analyst
3 15 (23.44%) Business Analyst
4 12 (18.75%) Architect
5 10 (15.63%) Lead
5 10 (15.63%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (12.50%) Project Manager
7 7 (10.94%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
8 6 (9.38%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (9.38%) Senior Business Analyst
9 5 (7.81%) SAP Architect
9 5 (7.81%) SAP Solutions Architect
10 4 (6.25%) Data Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) Senior Manager
10 4 (6.25%) Senior Project Manager
11 3 (4.69%) Infrastructure Manager
11 3 (4.69%) Infrastructure Project Manager
12 2 (3.13%) Change Manager
12 2 (3.13%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) Middleware
1 4 (6.25%) REST
2 2 (3.13%) SAP PI
3 1 (1.56%) ADO
3 1 (1.56%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) CMDB
2 5 (7.81%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.69%) Operational Technology
5 2 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Life Science
6 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.56%) SCADA
6 1 (1.56%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.94%) Agile
2 22 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (29.69%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (28.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (23.44%) Risk Management
6 14 (21.88%) Analytics
7 13 (20.31%) Business Analysis
8 12 (18.75%) Decision-Making
9 10 (15.63%) Service Management
10 9 (14.06%) Customer Experience
10 9 (14.06%) Test Strategy
11 8 (12.50%) Project Management
11 8 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
12 7 (10.94%) ETL
12 7 (10.94%) Focus Group
12 7 (10.94%) ITSM
12 7 (10.94%) Service Catalogue
12 7 (10.94%) Waterfall
13 6 (9.38%) Data Protection
13 6 (9.38%) Stakeholder Identification
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.81%) Python
2 4 (6.25%) SPARQL
3 2 (3.13%) SQL
4 1 (1.56%) Java
4 1 (1.56%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (17.19%) Degree
2 8 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) PMP
4 3 (4.69%) PMI Certification
4 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.13%) APMG
5 2 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.56%) CBAP
6 1 (1.56%) ISEB
6 1 (1.56%) RIBA
6 1 (1.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) GDPR
2 4 (6.25%) QA
3 3 (4.69%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.13%) PMO
5 1 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.56%) GxP
5 1 (1.56%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.56%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) ServiceNow
2 8 (12.50%) SAP
3 7 (10.94%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.81%) MuleSoft
5 3 (4.69%) Concur
6 2 (3.13%) Adobe
6 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.56%) AlgoSec
7 1 (1.56%) VMware