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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 42 42
Rank change year-on-year +18 0 +12
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 57 10 26
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.54% 1.94% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.79% 2.20% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 6 21
10th Percentile £351 £438 £388
25th Percentile £423 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% +2.59% -11.90%
75th Percentile £575 £497 £638
90th Percentile £643 £501 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.53% +0.10% -2.38%
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 732 454 631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 84.04% 87.98% 83.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 328 415
10th Percentile £312 £184 £250
25th Percentile £406 £372 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £638 £700 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 18 43
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.19
25th Percentile £15.91 £12.62 £17.00
Median hourly rate £20.25 £14.70 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.76% -43.46% +66.21%
75th Percentile £25.00 £29.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £37.22 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £18.07 £22.50
% change year-on-year +38.39% -19.71% +26.98%

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 2 April 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 (21.05%) Confluence
2 3 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.51%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (5.26%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.75%) Aareon QL
2 1 (1.75%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.75%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (1.75%) OPENHousing
2 1 (1.75%) Orchard Housing
2 1 (1.75%) SAP PP
2 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (29.82%) Azure
2 11 (19.30%) AWS
3 7 (12.28%) GCP
3 7 (12.28%) GitHub
3 7 (12.28%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (7.02%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (7.02%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.26%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (3.51%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.75%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.75%) Miro
7 1 (1.75%) Slack
7 1 (1.75%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) Unified Communications
1 1 (1.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.02%) Power BI
3 2 (3.51%) Metadata
4 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (19.30%) JIRA
2 9 (15.79%) Git
2 9 (15.79%) JMeter
3 8 (14.04%) GitLab
3 8 (14.04%) Jenkins
3 8 (14.04%) Selenium
4 7 (12.28%) Cucumber
4 7 (12.28%) JUnit
4 7 (12.28%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (54.39%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (17.54%) Finance
2 10 (17.54%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.77%) Legal
4 3 (5.26%) Banking
4 3 (5.26%) Local Government
4 3 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Law
5 2 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Retail
6 1 (1.75%) Automotive
6 1 (1.75%) Social Housing
6 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (21.05%) Analyst
2 9 (15.79%) Project Manager
2 9 (15.79%) Senior
3 7 (12.28%) Automation Tester
3 7 (12.28%) Business Analyst
3 7 (12.28%) Senior Automation Tester
3 7 (12.28%) Senior Tester
3 7 (12.28%) Tester
4 5 (8.77%) Architect
5 4 (7.02%) Consultant
5 4 (7.02%) PMO Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Technical Manager
6 3 (5.26%) Test Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Change Consultant
7 2 (3.51%) Chief Technology Officer
7 2 (3.51%) Contracts Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Performance Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Platform Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.28%) Spring
1 7 (12.28%) WireMock
2 3 (5.26%) Middleware
3 2 (3.51%) REST
4 1 (1.75%) pytest
4 1 (1.75%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Distributed Architecture
1 7 (12.28%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.51%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.75%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.75%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.75%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 1 (1.75%) NHS
5 1 (1.75%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.26%) Linux
1 3 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (38.60%) Agile
2 11 (19.30%) CI/CD
2 11 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (19.30%) Workshop Facilitation
3 10 (17.54%) Microservices
4 9 (15.79%) Change Management
4 9 (15.79%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 9 (15.79%) Load Testing
4 9 (15.79%) Performance Testing
4 9 (15.79%) Stress Testing
4 9 (15.79%) Validation
5 8 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (14.04%) Test Automation
5 8 (14.04%) Test Strategy
6 7 (12.28%) Analytics
6 7 (12.28%) BDD
6 7 (12.28%) Data Validation
6 7 (12.28%) Observability
6 7 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (12.28%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.28%) Python
2 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.51%) SQL
4 1 (1.75%) Bicep
4 1 (1.75%) Java
4 1 (1.75%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.75%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 14 (24.56%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.51%) Degree
3 2 (3.51%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.75%) AAT
4 1 (1.75%) ACCA
4 1 (1.75%) CIMA
4 1 (1.75%) IIBA
4 1 (1.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) PMO
2 3 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.75%) ISO 19650
3 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.75%) NIST
3 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 8 (14.04%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (17.54%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.28%) Grafana
2 7 (12.28%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.02%) SAP
2 4 (7.02%) Splunk
3 2 (3.51%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.51%) Informatica
3 2 (3.51%) NEC
3 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.75%) Aareon
4 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.75%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (1.75%) Capita
4 1 (1.75%) Civica
4 1 (1.75%) Databricks
4 1 (1.75%) Foundry
4 1 (1.75%) Google
4 1 (1.75%) Northgate
4 1 (1.75%) Oneserve
4 1 (1.75%) Orchard
4 1 (1.75%) Sage
4 1 (1.75%) Zscaler