Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in Preston

Stakeholder Engagement
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +9
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 5 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 5.32% 5.80% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% 6.15% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile £345 - £548
25th Percentile £525 £400 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £458 £650
Median % change year-on-year +20.22% -29.62% +100.00%
75th Percentile £838 £542 £706
90th Percentile £905 £577 £733
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £458 £638
% change year-on-year +20.22% -28.24% +37.84%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73 65 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 77.66% 94.20% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 44 24
10th Percentile £193 £350 £354
25th Percentile £463 £447 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £538 £593
Median % change year-on-year +11.52% -9.26% +35.52%
75th Percentile £800 £608 £646
90th Percentile £888 £671 £908
Lancashire median daily rate £575 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +6.88% +7.60% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 32
10th Percentile £35.15 £25.68 £12.20
25th Percentile £38.39 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £42.69 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +48.47% +79.02% -62.21%
75th Percentile £68.88 £40.20 £19.05
90th Percentile £72.05 £48.34 £46.18
Lancashire median hourly rate £56.44 £28.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +96.31% -17.86% -17.65%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in Preston

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in Preston over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in Preston

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power Query
General
1 3 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth
1 2 (40.00%) OpenID
1 2 (40.00%) SailPoint
1 2 (40.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (40.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 2 (40.00%) RBAC
1 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) BeyondTrust
2 2 (40.00%) CyberArk
2 2 (40.00%) Thycotic