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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 50 54
Rank change year-on-year +22 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 50 18 18
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.28% 2.81% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.25% 3.14% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 9 16
10th Percentile £389 £414 £397
25th Percentile £431 £465 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -19.57%
75th Percentile £602 £588 £469
90th Percentile £639 £750 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £573 £475
% change year-on-year -12.74% +20.63% -13.64%

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 690 573 609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.68% 89.53% 84.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 387 379
10th Percentile £263 £200 £263
25th Percentile £402 £395 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £575
90th Percentile £650 £725 £676
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 15 41
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £14.14
25th Percentile £16.08 £21.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +5.26% +105.41%
75th Percentile £23.56 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £56.45 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.98 £21.59 £24.60
% change year-on-year -2.83% -12.24% +38.90%

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 28 January 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 2 (4.00%) SAS
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (4.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Aareon QL
1 1 (2.00%) Elite 3E
1 1 (2.00%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (2.00%) NEC Housing
1 1 (2.00%) OPENHousing
1 1 (2.00%) Orchard Housing
1 1 (2.00%) SAP PP
1 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.00%) Azure
2 4 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.00%) AWS
3 3 (6.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.00%) GitHub
4 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.00%) Google Analytics
4 1 (2.00%) Google Tag Manager
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.00%) OCI
4 1 (2.00%) SaaS
4 1 (2.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) Firewall
1 1 (2.00%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.00%) Metadata
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (2.00%) GitLab
2 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Selenium
General
1 24 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Finance
3 9 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
5 7 (14.00%) Legal
6 4 (8.00%) Banking
7 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Law
7 2 (4.00%) Local Government
7 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.00%) Retail
8 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Social Housing
8 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Analyst
1 12 (24.00%) Project Manager
2 6 (12.00%) Architect
2 6 (12.00%) Business Analyst
3 4 (8.00%) Consultant
3 4 (8.00%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (4.00%) Business Manager
4 2 (4.00%) Business Project Manager
4 2 (4.00%) Change Consultant
4 2 (4.00%) Contracts Manager
4 2 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (4.00%) Lead
4 2 (4.00%) Platform Manager
4 2 (4.00%) Senior
4 2 (4.00%) Service Manager
4 2 (4.00%) Technical Manager
4 2 (4.00%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (2.00%) Business Process Analyst
5 1 (2.00%) Service Analyst
5 1 (2.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) Middleware
1 4 (8.00%) REST
2 1 (2.00%) .NET
2 1 (2.00%) EDI
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.00%) PySpark
2 1 (2.00%) pytest
2 1 (2.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.00%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.00%) IoT
4 1 (2.00%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Linux
1 4 (8.00%) Windows
2 3 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.00%) Agile
2 9 (18.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (16.00%) Change Management
4 7 (14.00%) Decision-Making
5 6 (12.00%) Analytics
5 6 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (12.00%) Data Governance
5 6 (12.00%) Waterfall
6 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.00%) Project Management
7 4 (8.00%) Business Analysis
7 4 (8.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (8.00%) Conflict Management
7 4 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (8.00%) DevOps
7 4 (8.00%) Project Delivery
7 4 (8.00%) Scrum
7 4 (8.00%) SIEM
7 4 (8.00%) Threat Detection
7 4 (8.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.00%) Python
2 4 (8.00%) SQL
3 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.00%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) PMP
4 2 (4.00%) Degree
4 2 (4.00%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.00%) AAT
5 1 (2.00%) ACCA
5 1 (2.00%) CIMA
5 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) PMO
2 2 (4.00%) GDPR
2 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.00%) NIST
3 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (22.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) Splunk
3 3 (6.00%) SAP
4 2 (4.00%) Informatica
4 2 (4.00%) Sage
5 1 (2.00%) Aareon
5 1 (2.00%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.00%) Capita
5 1 (2.00%) Civica
5 1 (2.00%) Databricks
5 1 (2.00%) Foundry
5 1 (2.00%) Google
5 1 (2.00%) JD Edwards
5 1 (2.00%) NEC
5 1 (2.00%) Northgate
5 1 (2.00%) Oneserve
5 1 (2.00%) Orchard
5 1 (2.00%) QAD
5 1 (2.00%) VMware
5 1 (2.00%) Xero