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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 45 60
Rank change year-on-year +17 +15 -1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 50 21 12
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.90% 3.07% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.72% 3.52% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 13 8
10th Percentile £389 £226 £325
25th Percentile £424 £463 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -21.74%
75th Percentile £591 £588 £528
90th Percentile £625 £718 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £506 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -8.00% +7.32% -10.87%

All Process and 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 648 596 618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 89.38% 87.13% 83.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 402 402
10th Percentile £222 £197 £285
25th Percentile £370 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 16 18
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.03
25th Percentile £14.59 £21.63 £14.78
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -49.63% +233.33%
75th Percentile £20.56 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £25.00 £56.25 £67.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £23.60 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.19% +2.61% +29.94%

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 16 December 2025.

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 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Elite 3E
1 1 (2.00%) SAP PP
1 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.00%) Azure
2 4 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.00%) AWS
3 3 (6.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.00%) SaaS
5 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.00%) OCI
5 1 (2.00%) Smartsheet
5 1 (2.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) Firewall
1 1 (2.00%) LAN
1 1 (2.00%) MPLS
1 1 (2.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (2.00%) VoIP
1 1 (2.00%) WAN
1 1 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
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
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) JIRA
2 2 (4.00%) Git
3 1 (2.00%) GitLab
3 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.00%) Selenium
General
1 27 (54.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.00%) Legal
3 8 (16.00%) Finance
4 7 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.00%) Banking
6 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.00%) Law
7 1 (2.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (32.00%) Project Manager
2 8 (16.00%) Analyst
3 5 (10.00%) Architect
4 4 (8.00%) Business Analyst
4 4 (8.00%) PMO Analyst
5 3 (6.00%) Lead
5 3 (6.00%) Senior
5 3 (6.00%) Service Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Business Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Business Project Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Consultant
6 2 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Implementation Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Implementation Project Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Platform Manager
7 1 (2.00%) Business Systems Analyst
7 1 (2.00%) IT Manager
7 1 (2.00%) Legal Analyst
7 1 (2.00%) Network Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) REST
2 2 (4.00%) Middleware
3 1 (2.00%) .NET
3 1 (2.00%) EDI
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.00%) PySpark
3 1 (2.00%) pytest
3 1 (2.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.00%) Educational Technology
3 3 (6.00%) Learning Management System
3 3 (6.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.00%) CMDB
5 1 (2.00%) IoT
5 1 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.00%) SCORM
5 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 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (14.00%) Project Management
4 6 (12.00%) Analytics
4 6 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (12.00%) Change Management
4 6 (12.00%) Data Governance
4 6 (12.00%) PRINCE2
4 6 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (12.00%) Time Management
5 5 (10.00%) Conflict Management
5 5 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 5 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (8.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (8.00%) Data Architecture
6 4 (8.00%) ERP
6 4 (8.00%) Project Delivery
6 4 (8.00%) SIEM
6 4 (8.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.00%) Python
2 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) PMP
1 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) Degree
2 5 (10.00%) PMI Certification
3 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) PMO
2 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.00%) MiFID
2 1 (2.00%) NIST
2 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 12 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.00%) Splunk
3 3 (6.00%) Progress
4 2 (4.00%) Informatica
4 2 (4.00%) SAP
5 1 (2.00%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.00%) BT
5 1 (2.00%) CenturyLink
5 1 (2.00%) Databricks
5 1 (2.00%) Foundry
5 1 (2.00%) Genesys
5 1 (2.00%) JD Edwards
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.00%) QAD
5 1 (2.00%) Sage
5 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) Verint
5 1 (2.00%) VMware
5 1 (2.00%) Xero