Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Stakeholder Engagement
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 47 43
Rank change year-on-year +21 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 56 10 27
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.51% 1.87% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.58% 2.07% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 7 22
10th Percentile £351 £443 £389
25th Percentile £423 £464 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +8.11% -13.95%
75th Percentile £602 £544 £638
90th Percentile £643 £588 £695
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 739 484 622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 85.93% 90.47% 82.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 344 405
10th Percentile £263 £200 £253
25th Percentile £402 £391 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +13.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £654
West Midlands median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 13 41
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.62 £13.18
25th Percentile £16.05 £14.70 £18.50
Median hourly rate £17.69 £22.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% -21.05% +97.40%
75th Percentile £24.29 £30.68 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £48.14 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.52 £18.63 £23.00
% change year-on-year +15.54% -19.02% +29.80%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in Birmingham over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in Birmingham

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 6 (10.71%) Confluence
2 2 (3.57%) SAS
2 2 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (5.36%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Aareon QL
1 1 (1.79%) Elite 3E
1 1 (1.79%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (1.79%) NEC Housing
1 1 (1.79%) OPENHousing
1 1 (1.79%) Orchard Housing
1 1 (1.79%) SAP PP
1 1 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.86%) Azure
2 6 (10.71%) AWS
3 5 (8.93%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (7.14%) GitHub
4 4 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.36%) GCP
5 3 (5.36%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (3.57%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.79%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.79%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.79%) OCI
7 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Firewall
1 1 (1.79%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) Power BI
2 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.57%) Metadata
4 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) JIRA
2 5 (8.93%) Git
3 4 (7.14%) GitLab
3 4 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.14%) JMeter
3 4 (7.14%) Selenium
4 3 (5.36%) Cucumber
4 3 (5.36%) JUnit
4 3 (5.36%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (23.21%) Finance
3 11 (19.64%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 6 (10.71%) Legal
6 3 (5.36%) Banking
6 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.57%) Law
7 2 (3.57%) Local Government
7 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Retail
8 1 (1.79%) Automotive
8 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Social Housing
8 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (23.21%) Analyst
2 11 (19.64%) Project Manager
3 7 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 5 (8.93%) Senior
5 4 (7.14%) Architect
5 4 (7.14%) Consultant
5 4 (7.14%) PMO Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Automation Tester
6 3 (5.36%) Lead
6 3 (5.36%) Senior Automation Tester
6 3 (5.36%) Senior Tester
6 3 (5.36%) Tester
7 2 (3.57%) Business Project Manager
7 2 (3.57%) Change Consultant
7 2 (3.57%) Chief Technology Officer
7 2 (3.57%) Contracts Manager
7 2 (3.57%) Platform Manager
7 2 (3.57%) Service Manager
7 2 (3.57%) Technical Manager
7 2 (3.57%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) REST
2 3 (5.36%) Middleware
2 3 (5.36%) Spring
2 3 (5.36%) WireMock
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.79%) PySpark
3 1 (1.79%) pytest
3 1 (1.79%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.36%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.79%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.79%) IoT
5 1 (1.79%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 1 (1.79%) PMI
5 1 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Linux
1 4 (7.14%) Windows
2 3 (5.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.79%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) Agile
2 10 (17.86%) Change Management
3 9 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 8 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
5 6 (10.71%) Analytics
5 6 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (10.71%) Data Governance
5 6 (10.71%) Decision-Making
5 6 (10.71%) Validation
5 6 (10.71%) Waterfall
6 5 (8.93%) DevOps
6 5 (8.93%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 5 (8.93%) Microservices
6 5 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (8.93%) Project Delivery
6 5 (8.93%) Time Management
7 4 (7.14%) SIEM
7 4 (7.14%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.71%) Python
2 3 (5.36%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.36%) SQL
3 1 (1.79%) Bicep
3 1 (1.79%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.57%) Degree
3 2 (3.57%) PMI Certification
3 2 (3.57%) PMP
4 1 (1.79%) AAT
4 1 (1.79%) ACCA
4 1 (1.79%) CIMA
4 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) PMO
2 3 (5.36%) GDPR
3 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.57%) NIST
4 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.79%) ISO 19650
4 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 4 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.36%) Grafana
2 3 (5.36%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.93%) Splunk
3 4 (7.14%) SAP
4 2 (3.57%) Informatica
4 2 (3.57%) Sage
5 1 (1.79%) Aareon
5 1 (1.79%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.79%) Capita
5 1 (1.79%) Civica
5 1 (1.79%) Databricks
5 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.79%) Foundry
5 1 (1.79%) Google
5 1 (1.79%) NEC
5 1 (1.79%) Northgate
5 1 (1.79%) Oneserve
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle
5 1 (1.79%) Orchard
5 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.79%) VMware