Stakeholder Management Contracts in the North West

Stakeholder Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Stakeholder Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Stakeholder Management 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 11 14 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 212 254 313
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 10.91% 9.55% 10.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.11% 11.13% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 204 243
10th Percentile £361 £387 £400
25th Percentile £432 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% +5.05% +5.26%
75th Percentile £591 £614 £600
90th Percentile £662 £718 £680
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 9
10th Percentile £37.80 £14.00 -
25th Percentile £41.65 £23.74 £30.54
Median hourly rate £55.25 £35.95 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year +53.69% +2.63% -14.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £82.07 £40.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £84.44 £52.98
England median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £52.97
% change year-on-year - +13.27% +35.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Stakeholder Management 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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Stakeholder Management in the North West

Stakeholder Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Stakeholder Management in the North West

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the North West

Stakeholder Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Stakeholder Management in the North West

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Management in the North West over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the North West

Stakeholder Management
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 Management 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 +12 99 £508 -3.19% 162
Cheshire -3 72 £500 +1.11% 42
Cumbria -14 19 £625 -3.85% 9
Lancashire -10 14 £526 -2.09% 87
Merseyside -10 3 £523 -9.13% 19
Stakeholder Management
England

Stakeholder Management
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 9 (4.25%) Confluence
2 5 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.89%) SAS
4 3 (1.42%) JBoss
5 2 (0.94%) CICS
5 2 (0.94%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.47%) CMS
6 1 (0.47%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (3.30%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (2.83%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.94%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.94%) InVision
5 2 (0.94%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (5.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.47%) Maximo
3 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.47%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 20 (9.43%) AWS
2 17 (8.02%) Azure
3 7 (3.30%) GitHub
3 7 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (2.83%) OpenShift
5 5 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.42%) GCP
6 3 (1.42%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.42%) SaaS
6 3 (1.42%) Serverless
7 2 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (0.94%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (0.94%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (0.94%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.94%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.94%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.89%) Skype
2 1 (0.47%) Broadband
2 1 (0.47%) Firewall
2 1 (0.47%) Network Security
2 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.47%) VPN
2 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.42%) Hadoop
2 3 (1.42%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.42%) RDBMS
2 3 (1.42%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.42%) Tableau
3 2 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (0.94%) DB2
3 2 (0.94%) DocumentDB
3 2 (0.94%) DynamoDB
3 2 (0.94%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.94%) Power BI
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.47%) HBase
4 1 (0.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 24 (11.32%) JIRA
2 9 (4.25%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.89%) GitLab
4 3 (1.42%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (1.42%) CA Release Automation
4 3 (1.42%) Git
4 3 (1.42%) Selenium
4 3 (1.42%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.42%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.94%) Axure RP
5 2 (0.94%) SOAtest
6 1 (0.47%) Appium
6 1 (0.47%) ERwin
6 1 (0.47%) Postman
6 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.47%) WebDriver
General
1 100 (47.17%) Social Skills
2 47 (22.17%) Finance
3 26 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.55%) Banking
4 16 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.19%) Legal
5 11 (5.19%) Pharmaceutical
6 7 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.36%) Automotive
8 5 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.36%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.36%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.42%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.42%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.42%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.42%) Marketing
10 3 (1.42%) Military
11 2 (0.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 42 (19.81%) Architect
2 33 (15.57%) Analyst
3 30 (14.15%) Business Analyst
4 28 (13.21%) Senior
5 25 (11.79%) Project Manager
6 17 (8.02%) Lead
7 16 (7.55%) Change Manager
8 14 (6.60%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.77%) Programme Manager
10 7 (3.30%) Network Architect
10 7 (3.30%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (3.30%) Senior Architect
10 7 (3.30%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
11 6 (2.83%) Consultant
11 6 (2.83%) Domain Architect
11 6 (2.83%) IT Manager
11 6 (2.83%) Product Manager
11 6 (2.83%) Release Manager
11 6 (2.83%) Senior Business Analyst
11 6 (2.83%) Senior Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.72%) Kafka
2 4 (1.89%) .NET
2 4 (1.89%) Middleware
2 4 (1.89%) OAuth
2 4 (1.89%) OAuth2
2 4 (1.89%) OpenID
2 4 (1.89%) SAML
3 3 (1.42%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.42%) JSON
3 3 (1.42%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.94%) CSS
4 2 (0.94%) HTML
4 2 (0.94%) J2EE
4 2 (0.94%) SAP PI
4 2 (0.94%) Web Services
4 2 (0.94%) XML
5 1 (0.47%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.47%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.47%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.47%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.13%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.66%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.25%) CMDB
4 7 (3.30%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.83%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.83%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.42%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.94%) FMCG
7 2 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.94%) IVR
7 2 (0.94%) Learning Management System
7 2 (0.94%) Life Science
7 2 (0.94%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.94%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.94%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.94%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (0.94%) Replication
7 2 (0.94%) VSAM
8 1 (0.47%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.89%) Windows
2 3 (1.42%) Android
2 3 (1.42%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.42%) Linux
2 3 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (31.60%) Agile
2 50 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (18.40%) Change Management
4 31 (14.62%) Project Management
5 29 (13.68%) Migration
6 28 (13.21%) Decision-Making
6 28 (13.21%) Risk Management
7 26 (12.26%) Roadmaps
8 24 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (10.85%) Business Strategy
9 23 (10.85%) Project Delivery
10 21 (9.91%) Analytics
11 19 (8.96%) ITIL
11 19 (8.96%) Service Management
11 19 (8.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 18 (8.49%) Service Delivery
13 17 (8.02%) ITSM
13 17 (8.02%) Waterfall
14 16 (7.55%) DevOps
14 16 (7.55%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.30%) SQL
2 6 (2.83%) Python
3 5 (2.36%) Java
4 3 (1.42%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.42%) Perl
5 2 (0.94%) COBOL
5 2 (0.94%) JCL
5 2 (0.94%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.94%) REXX
6 1 (0.47%) C#
6 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (17.45%) Security Cleared
2 28 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.96%) Degree
4 10 (4.72%) PMI Certification
4 10 (4.72%) PMP
5 7 (3.30%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.36%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.94%) CIMA
8 2 (0.94%) CISM
8 2 (0.94%) CISSP
8 2 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (0.94%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.47%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.47%) ACCA
9 1 (0.47%) APMG
9 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.25%) PMO
2 8 (3.77%) QA
3 5 (2.36%) GDPR
3 5 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.36%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.42%) NIST
6 2 (0.94%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.94%) ISO 31000
7 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.47%) COBIT
7 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.47%) GRC
7 1 (0.47%) GxP
7 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.47%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 5 (2.36%) Active Directory
1 5 (2.36%) Docker
1 5 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (5.19%) Terraform
2 8 (3.77%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.83%) Progress Chef
4 5 (2.36%) Ansible
5 3 (1.42%) Kibana
5 3 (1.42%) SCCM
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.47%) SCSM
6 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (11.79%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.32%) ServiceNow
3 18 (8.49%) SAP
4 6 (2.83%) Splunk
5 5 (2.36%) MuleSoft
5 5 (2.36%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.36%) VMware
6 4 (1.89%) Ariba
7 3 (1.42%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.42%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.42%) Informatica
7 3 (1.42%) Oracle
7 3 (1.42%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.42%) Wyse
8 2 (0.94%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.94%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.94%) Nintex
8 2 (0.94%) Parasoft
8 2 (0.94%) Remedy
8 2 (0.94%) TOWER Software