Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Stakeholder Engagement
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 36 37
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +11
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 63 5 13
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 8.62% 1.80% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.10% 1.94% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 3 11
10th Percentile £372 £402 £513
25th Percentile £417 £405 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £410 £612
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -33.01% +6.43%
75th Percentile £537 £505 £1,119
90th Percentile £575 £562 £1,188
South Yorkshire median daily rate £476 £405 £631
% change year-on-year +17.59% -35.82% +9.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 692 258 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.66% 92.81% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 147 229
10th Percentile £324 £220 £382
25th Percentile £402 £418 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £613 £683 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -5.88% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 8
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £12.11
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £17.03
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -14.85% +28.79%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £26.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £21.25
% change year-on-year +10.94% -14.85% +116.84%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in Sheffield over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in Sheffield

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 8 (12.70%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (12.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (9.52%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Elite 3E
1 1 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (22.22%) AWS
2 13 (20.63%) Azure
2 13 (20.63%) GCP
3 7 (11.11%) OpenShift
3 7 (11.11%) SaaS
4 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (1.59%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.59%) Smartsheet
6 1 (1.59%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) Kerberos
2 2 (3.17%) DNS
2 2 (3.17%) Network Security
2 2 (3.17%) VSAN
3 1 (1.59%) BIG-IP
3 1 (1.59%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.59%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (1.59%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.59%) DHCP
3 1 (1.59%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (1.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (1.59%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.52%) MySQL
1 6 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.59%) Metadata
2 1 (1.59%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 14 (22.22%) JIRA
2 8 (12.70%) Jenkins
2 8 (12.70%) Selenium
3 7 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 7 (11.11%) Postman
3 7 (11.11%) REST Assured
4 6 (9.52%) TestRail
5 5 (7.94%) GitLab
6 1 (1.59%) JUnit
6 1 (1.59%) Maven
6 1 (1.59%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.59%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.59%) Zephyr
General
1 41 (65.08%) Social Skills
2 19 (30.16%) Banking
3 18 (28.57%) Finance
4 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.94%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.76%) Legal
7 2 (3.17%) Marketing
7 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.59%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (25.40%) Lead
2 13 (20.63%) Analyst
3 11 (17.46%) Project Manager
4 8 (12.70%) Business Analyst
5 7 (11.11%) Architect
5 7 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Test Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) Technical Analyst
6 6 (9.52%) Technical Manager
7 5 (7.94%) Automation Test Lead
7 5 (7.94%) Lead Test Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Technical Business Analyst
8 4 (6.35%) Planning Manager
9 3 (4.76%) Integration Manager
9 3 (4.76%) Integration Project Manager
9 3 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.76%) Test Leader
10 2 (3.17%) Compliance Manager
10 2 (3.17%) Consultant
10 2 (3.17%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.87%) LDAP
2 9 (14.29%) OpenID
3 6 (9.52%) .NET
3 6 (9.52%) REST
3 6 (9.52%) SailPoint
4 3 (4.76%) Middleware
4 3 (4.76%) OAuth
4 3 (4.76%) SAML
5 2 (3.17%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.59%) Node.js
6 1 (1.59%) SLSA
6 1 (1.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (7.94%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.94%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.59%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.59%) RSA SecurID
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) Linux
1 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.59%) Windows
1 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
2 15 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (22.22%) Agile
4 13 (20.63%) CI/CD
4 13 (20.63%) DevOps
5 12 (19.05%) Privileged Access Management
6 11 (17.46%) Migration
7 10 (15.87%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (15.87%) Identity Management
7 10 (15.87%) Roadmaps
8 9 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
8 9 (14.29%) Scrum
8 9 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 8 (12.70%) API Testing
9 8 (12.70%) Manual Testing
9 8 (12.70%) Scenario Testing
9 8 (12.70%) Use Case
10 7 (11.11%) Decision-Making
10 7 (11.11%) PRINCE2
10 7 (11.11%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.29%) Java
1 9 (14.29%) SQL
2 7 (11.11%) Python
3 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
3 6 (9.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (11.11%) PMP
2 6 (9.52%) Degree
2 6 (9.52%) PMI Certification
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.17%) CISM
4 2 (3.17%) CISSP
4 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.59%) CCSK
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.59%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.59%) PhD
5 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) QA
2 4 (6.35%) GDPR
3 2 (3.17%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.59%) Basel III
4 1 (1.59%) GRC
4 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.59%) MiFID
4 1 (1.59%) NIST
4 1 (1.59%) PMO
4 1 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (6.35%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.17%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.17%) vSphere
4 1 (1.59%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (1.59%) Docker
4 1 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) Ansible
1 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (4.76%) Terraform
3 1 (1.59%) Argo
3 1 (1.59%) Podman
3 1 (1.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.35%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.76%) VMware
5 2 (3.17%) Cisco
5 2 (3.17%) F5
5 2 (3.17%) Splunk
6 1 (1.59%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.59%) Centrify
6 1 (1.59%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.59%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.59%) NetApp
6 1 (1.59%) NetScout
6 1 (1.59%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.59%) SAP
6 1 (1.59%) SevOne