Stakeholder Engagement Job Trends in the Midlands

Stakeholder Engagement
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 149 199
Rank change year-on-year +63 +50 +27
Permanent jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 177 101 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.25% 1.58% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 1.75% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 115 82 29
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £31,208
25th Percentile £46,875 £51,672 £45,972
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £68,125 £110,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £78,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,556 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.90% +0.09% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Stakeholder Engagement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,381 5,787 4,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.23% 90.49% 86.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,553 2,530 4,052
10th Percentile £28,178 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Stakeholder Engagement
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the Midlands

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +53 146 £62,000 -27.06% 95
East Midlands +3 31 £58,250 +7.87% 45
Stakeholder Engagement
England

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (2.26%) CMS
1 4 (2.26%) Confluence
1 4 (2.26%) nginx
1 4 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.13%) WinCC
4 1 (0.56%) Appian
4 1 (0.56%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 20 (11.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (6.21%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.95%) Chatbot
4 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (2.26%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (2.26%) Photoshop
6 3 (1.69%) MS Visio
7 2 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (1.13%) Trello
8 1 (0.56%) Civil 3D
8 1 (0.56%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.56%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.26%) Shopify
2 3 (1.69%) SAP FI
2 3 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.13%) Maximo
3 2 (1.13%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.56%) Odoo
4 1 (0.56%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.56%) Primavera
4 1 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.56%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.56%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.56%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 38 (21.47%) Azure
2 24 (13.56%) Power Platform
3 21 (11.86%) AWS
4 13 (7.34%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.08%) GitHub
7 8 (4.52%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.82%) IaaS
8 5 (2.82%) PaaS
8 5 (2.82%) Smartsheet
9 4 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (2.26%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.26%) SaaS
10 3 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.69%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.13%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.52%) Firewall
2 5 (2.82%) VPN
3 4 (2.26%) WAN
4 3 (1.69%) DNS
4 3 (1.69%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.69%) VLAN
5 2 (1.13%) HTTP
5 2 (1.13%) Modbus
5 2 (1.13%) SSH
5 2 (1.13%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.56%) DHCP
6 1 (0.56%) ISDN
6 1 (0.56%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.56%) LAN
6 1 (0.56%) Network Security
6 1 (0.56%) PSTN
6 1 (0.56%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.56%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.60%) Looker
2 16 (9.04%) Power BI
3 7 (3.95%) Data Lake
3 7 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.26%) MySQL
4 4 (2.26%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.69%) Tableau
6 2 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.13%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.56%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.56%) GIS
7 1 (0.56%) Metadata
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (6.21%) Git
2 7 (3.95%) JIRA
3 5 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.26%) Vite
5 3 (1.69%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.69%) GitLab
5 3 (1.69%) Selenium
6 2 (1.13%) JUnit
7 1 (0.56%) Gatling
7 1 (0.56%) Maven
7 1 (0.56%) Postman
7 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 85 (48.02%) Social Skills
2 56 (31.64%) Finance
3 38 (21.47%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (18.64%) Public Sector
5 20 (11.30%) Marketing
6 15 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (7.91%) Manufacturing
8 13 (7.34%) Law
9 12 (6.78%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.95%) Legal
11 5 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.82%) Retail
12 4 (2.26%) Banking
13 3 (1.69%) Back Office
13 3 (1.69%) Local Government
13 3 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (1.13%) Advertising
14 2 (1.13%) Billing
14 2 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (1.13%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (16.95%) Lead
2 23 (12.99%) Senior
3 17 (9.60%) Analyst
4 15 (8.47%) Architect
5 10 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.52%) Change Manager
6 8 (4.52%) Delivery Manager
6 8 (4.52%) IT Manager
6 8 (4.52%) Technical Manager
7 7 (3.95%) ERP Manager
7 7 (3.95%) Project Manager
7 7 (3.95%) Support Engineer
7 7 (3.95%) Technical Engineer
7 7 (3.95%) Technical Support
7 7 (3.95%) Technical Support Engineer
8 6 (3.39%) Developer
9 5 (2.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (2.82%) Product Owner
9 5 (2.82%) Security Analyst
9 5 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.21%) EDI
2 4 (2.26%) CSS
2 4 (2.26%) HTML
2 4 (2.26%) Laravel
2 4 (2.26%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (2.26%) Tailwind CSS
2 4 (2.26%) Vue
2 4 (2.26%) YAML
3 3 (1.69%) .NET
3 3 (1.69%) PySpark
3 3 (1.69%) REST
4 2 (1.13%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.13%) Django
4 2 (1.13%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.13%) Flask
4 2 (1.13%) pytest
4 2 (1.13%) Spring
4 2 (1.13%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.56%) Playwright
5 1 (0.56%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.56%) Onboarding
2 11 (6.21%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (5.65%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.08%) Management Information System
4 9 (5.08%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.52%) Security Posture
6 7 (3.95%) Driving Licence
7 6 (3.39%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.39%) Cyber Security Posture
8 4 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.26%) NHS
9 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.69%) FMCG
9 3 (1.69%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.13%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.13%) Housing Association
10 2 (1.13%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.13%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.52%) Windows
2 5 (2.82%) Linux
3 4 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (35.03%) Continuous Improvement
2 41 (23.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (22.03%) CRM
3 39 (22.03%) Project Management
4 36 (20.34%) Analytics
5 33 (18.64%) Agile
6 32 (18.08%) Business Intelligence
7 31 (17.51%) Project Delivery
8 29 (16.38%) Cybersecurity
9 28 (15.82%) Roadmaps
10 27 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (14.69%) Decision-Making
12 25 (14.12%) Risk Management
13 22 (12.43%) PRINCE2
14 21 (11.86%) Change Management
14 21 (11.86%) Dashboard Development
15 20 (11.30%) DevOps
16 19 (10.73%) Coaching
16 19 (10.73%) Mentoring
16 19 (10.73%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.91%) SQL
2 7 (3.95%) Python
3 4 (2.26%) Bash
3 4 (2.26%) JavaScript
3 4 (2.26%) PHP
4 3 (1.69%) Bicep
4 3 (1.69%) C#
4 3 (1.69%) Java
4 3 (1.69%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.13%) Delphi
5 2 (1.13%) VBA
6 1 (0.56%) Go
6 1 (0.56%) R
6 1 (0.56%) Scala
6 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 45 (25.42%) Degree
2 10 (5.65%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.95%) PMI Certification
3 7 (3.95%) PMP
4 5 (2.82%) ACCA
4 5 (2.82%) APMG
4 5 (2.82%) CITP
5 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.26%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.69%) CIMA
6 3 (1.69%) CISSP
6 3 (1.69%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 3 (1.69%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.60%) QA
2 14 (7.91%) PMO
3 10 (5.65%) GDPR
4 9 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (3.39%) Data Quality
5 6 (3.39%) NIST
6 5 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (2.26%) ISO 9001
7 4 (2.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.13%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.13%) GAAP
8 2 (1.13%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.13%) IEC 61131
8 2 (1.13%) IEC 61508
8 2 (1.13%) IFRS
8 2 (1.13%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.56%) GRC
9 1 (0.56%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (5.08%) Docker
2 5 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.13%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (4.52%) Terraform
2 5 (2.82%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.13%) Ansible
4 2 (1.13%) Grafana
4 2 (1.13%) Nessus
5 1 (0.56%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 38 (21.47%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.91%) Oracle
3 13 (7.34%) SAP
4 6 (3.39%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.82%) Planon
6 4 (2.26%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.69%) Cisco
7 3 (1.69%) Databricks
7 3 (1.69%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.69%) Workday
8 2 (1.13%) IFS
8 2 (1.13%) Qualys
8 2 (1.13%) Rockwell
8 2 (1.13%) Siemens
8 2 (1.13%) VMware
9 1 (0.56%) Aruba
9 1 (0.56%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.56%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.56%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft