Stakeholder Engagement Contracts in the West Midlands

Stakeholder Engagement
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Stakeholder Engagement over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 66 71
Rank change year-on-year +14 +5 +41
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 45 46 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.34% 2.37% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.78% 2.82% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 36 48
10th Percentile £400 £363 £329
25th Percentile £442 £406 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +9.09%
75th Percentile £637 £638 £628
90th Percentile £663 £675 £685
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,189 1,632 2,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.34% 83.95% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 783 1,084 1,439
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £378 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 114 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.08 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £24.61 £40.38 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £58.00 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Stakeholder Engagement in the West Midlands

Stakeholder Engagement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Stakeholder Engagement in the West Midlands

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the West Midlands

Stakeholder Engagement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Stakeholder Engagement in the West Midlands

Stakeholder Engagement
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +4 17 £474 +2.49% 26
Warwickshire +7 15 £575 -8.00% 10
Coventry - 5 £600 - 5
Shropshire - 2 - - 1
Staffordshire +2 1 £525 -4.55% 10
Worcestershire -3 1 - -
Herefordshire - 1 £400 -
Stakeholder Engagement
England

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 8 (17.78%) Azure
3 4 (8.89%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.44%) OCI
5 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.22%) SaaS
5 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.22%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) Firewall
2 2 (4.44%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (2.22%) 5G
3 1 (2.22%) Internet
3 1 (2.22%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (2.22%) Network Security
3 1 (2.22%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.22%) VPN
3 1 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) Power BI
2 4 (8.89%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (4.44%) JIRA
3 1 (2.22%) Git
3 1 (2.22%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 14 (31.11%) Finance
3 13 (28.89%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (15.56%) Law
5 5 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Local Government
7 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Analyst
2 9 (20.00%) Lead
3 8 (17.78%) Project Manager
4 5 (11.11%) Change Manager
4 5 (11.11%) Sustainability Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Business Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) Technical Manager
5 4 (8.89%) Technical Project Manager
6 3 (6.67%) Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Business Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Programme Change Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Senior
7 2 (4.44%) Service Delivery Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Service Manager
8 1 (2.22%) Junior Analyst
8 1 (2.22%) Junior Business Manager
8 1 (2.22%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.22%) Service Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) LDAP
2 1 (2.22%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.89%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.89%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.44%) e-Learning
4 2 (4.44%) IoT
5 1 (2.22%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.22%) Housing Association
5 1 (2.22%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 1 (2.22%) NB-IoT
5 1 (2.22%) NHS
5 1 (2.22%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.22%) SCADA
5 1 (2.22%) Smart Energy
5 1 (2.22%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Linux
1 3 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (22.22%) Agile
3 8 (17.78%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (15.56%) Change Management
4 7 (15.56%) Data Analysis
4 7 (15.56%) Migration
5 6 (13.33%) Impact Assessments
5 6 (13.33%) Performance Analysis
6 5 (11.11%) Design Thinking
6 5 (11.11%) Process Improvement
6 5 (11.11%) Waterfall
6 5 (11.11%) Zero Trust
7 4 (8.89%) Analytics
7 4 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (8.89%) ERP
7 4 (8.89%) ITSM
7 4 (8.89%) Risk Management
7 4 (8.89%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) SQL
2 1 (2.22%) C#
2 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) CISA
1 2 (4.44%) CISM
1 2 (4.44%) CISSP
1 2 (4.44%) Degree
1 2 (4.44%) GIAC
1 2 (4.44%) ISACA
1 2 (4.44%) SANS
1 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) APMG
2 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.22%) PMP
2 1 (2.22%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) GDPR
1 1 (2.22%) NCSC
1 1 (2.22%) PMO
1 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (4.44%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Oracle
2 5 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 4 (8.89%) CyberArk
3 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.44%) Cisco
4 2 (4.44%) Tenable
5 1 (2.22%) Planview
5 1 (2.22%) SAP
5 1 (2.22%) Workday