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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 36 41
Rank change year-on-year +13 +5 +14
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 63 16 24
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.81% 3.16% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.07% 3.62% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 11 19
10th Percentile £351 £401 £406
25th Percentile £416 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £474 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +2.49% -11.90%
75th Percentile £609 £519 £638
90th Percentile £685 £750 £710
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.29% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £43.44 - -

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 781 442 623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 84.43% 87.18% 82.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 311 407
10th Percentile £313 £163 £255
25th Percentile £413 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -8.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £655 £694 £689
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 20 43
10th Percentile £12.91 - £13.19
25th Percentile £16.05 £12.62 £17.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £14.70 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.05% -43.46% +59.66%
75th Percentile £29.05 £22.08 £47.13
90th Percentile £70.25 £31.35 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £18.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +88.83% -20.00% +21.62%

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 8 May 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 12 (19.05%) Confluence
2 3 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.17%) NEC Housing
1 2 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.59%) Aareon QL
2 1 (1.59%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (1.59%) OPENHousing
2 1 (1.59%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 19 (30.16%) Azure
2 13 (20.63%) AWS
3 7 (11.11%) GCP
3 7 (11.11%) GitHub
3 7 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (7.94%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.17%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.59%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.59%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.59%) Miro
7 1 (1.59%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.59%) Slack
7 1 (1.59%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) Ethernet
1 1 (1.59%) Unified Communications
1 1 (1.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.76%) Power BI
3 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.59%) Metadata
3 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (20.63%) JIRA
2 10 (15.87%) Git
3 9 (14.29%) JMeter
4 7 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 7 (11.11%) GitLab
4 7 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 7 (11.11%) JUnit
4 7 (11.11%) Selenium
4 7 (11.11%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (49.21%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.22%) Finance
3 9 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 8 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.76%) Banking
5 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.76%) Legal
5 3 (4.76%) Local Government
5 3 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.17%) Retail
6 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.59%) Automotive
7 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Law
7 1 (1.59%) Marketing
7 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 14 (22.22%) Senior
2 13 (20.63%) Project Manager
3 9 (14.29%) Analyst
4 7 (11.11%) Architect
4 7 (11.11%) Automation Tester
4 7 (11.11%) Senior Automation Tester
4 7 (11.11%) Senior Tester
4 7 (11.11%) Tester
5 5 (7.94%) Business Analyst
5 5 (7.94%) Senior Manager
6 4 (6.35%) Consultant
6 4 (6.35%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.76%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Project Manager
7 3 (4.76%) Technical Manager
8 2 (3.17%) Performance Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Performance Test Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) PMO Analyst
8 2 (3.17%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.11%) Spring
1 7 (11.11%) WireMock
2 3 (4.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
1 7 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.35%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.59%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.59%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.59%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.59%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (1.59%) NHS
6 1 (1.59%) Photography
6 1 (1.59%) PMI
6 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.76%) Linux
1 3 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.86%) Agile
2 15 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (20.63%) Workshop Facilitation
4 12 (19.05%) Change Management
4 12 (19.05%) CI/CD
5 10 (15.87%) Microservices
5 10 (15.87%) Validation
6 9 (14.29%) DevOps
6 9 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 9 (14.29%) Load Testing
6 9 (14.29%) Performance Testing
6 9 (14.29%) Stress Testing
6 9 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 9 (14.29%) Waterfall
7 8 (12.70%) Roadmaps
7 8 (12.70%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (11.11%) BDD
8 7 (11.11%) Data Validation
8 7 (11.11%) Scrum
8 7 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.52%) Python
2 3 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.17%) SQL
4 1 (1.59%) Bicep
4 1 (1.59%) Java
4 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.59%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 17 (26.98%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.11%) Degree
4 5 (7.94%) PMI Certification
5 4 (6.35%) PMP
6 3 (4.76%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.59%) AAT
7 1 (1.59%) ACCA
7 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.59%) CIMA
7 1 (1.59%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) PMO
2 3 (4.76%) GDPR
3 2 (3.17%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.59%) ISO 19650
4 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.59%) NIST
4 1 (1.59%) P3O
4 1 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 7 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.70%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.11%) Grafana
2 7 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 4 (6.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.11%) SAP
3 4 (6.35%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.35%) Splunk
4 2 (3.17%) Adobe
4 2 (3.17%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.17%) Informatica
4 2 (3.17%) NEC
4 2 (3.17%) VMware
5 1 (1.59%) Aareon
5 1 (1.59%) Capita
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco
5 1 (1.59%) Civica
5 1 (1.59%) Foundry
5 1 (1.59%) Google
5 1 (1.59%) Northgate
5 1 (1.59%) Oneserve
5 1 (1.59%) Orchard
5 1 (1.59%) Sage
5 1 (1.59%) Salesforce