Commercial Awareness Contracts in the South West

Commercial Awareness
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Commercial Awareness skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Commercial Awareness over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 158 164
Rank change year-on-year +37 +6 -26
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 34 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.06% 0.25% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 0.28% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 11
10th Percentile - £345 £375
25th Percentile £663 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +10.00% -16.28%
75th Percentile £688 £644 £490
90th Percentile £710 £730 £838
England median daily rate £625 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% +10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £89.78 -
England median hourly rate £26.73 £89.78 £47.50
% change year-on-year -70.23% +89.00% +23.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Commercial Awareness is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,651 3,250 3,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.90% 89.63% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 2,396 2,328
10th Percentile £217 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.84%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 335 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.44 £17.00 £20.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.36 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Commercial Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Commercial Awareness as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Commercial Awareness in the South West

Commercial Awareness
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Commercial Awareness in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Commercial Awareness in the South West

Commercial Awareness
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Commercial Awareness in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Commercial Awareness in the South West

Commercial Awareness
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Commercial Awareness within the South West region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Gloucestershire - 23 - - 2
Bristol +24 9 £675 +36.36% 8
Wiltshire +3 2 £725 +7.41% 1
Commercial Awareness
England

Commercial Awareness
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 23 (67.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 23 (67.65%) Microsoft Office
1 23 (67.65%) Microsoft Project
1 23 (67.65%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.82%) AWS
1 3 (8.82%) PaaS
1 3 (8.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) SDH
1 5 (14.71%) WAN
2 4 (11.76%) Junos
3 3 (8.82%) PBX
3 3 (8.82%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 23 (67.65%) JIRA
2 8 (23.53%) Rational DOORS
General
1 26 (76.47%) Finance
2 24 (70.59%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (67.65%) Presentation Skills
3 23 (67.65%) Social Skills
4 9 (26.47%) Telecoms
5 5 (14.71%) Aeronautics
5 5 (14.71%) Aerospace
6 3 (8.82%) Digital Economy
6 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (67.65%) Lead
1 23 (67.65%) Project Leader
2 10 (29.41%) Architect
2 10 (29.41%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.94%) Project Controller
3 1 (2.94%) Senior
3 1 (2.94%) Senior Project Controller
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Blackberry
1 3 (8.82%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (91.18%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (73.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (70.59%) Agile
3 24 (70.59%) Project Delivery
3 24 (70.59%) Project Management
4 23 (67.65%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 23 (67.65%) Data Management
4 23 (67.65%) PRINCE2
4 23 (67.65%) Project Planning
4 23 (67.65%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 23 (67.65%) Workshop Facilitation
5 8 (23.53%) ArchiMate
5 8 (23.53%) BPMN
5 8 (23.53%) Customer Requirements
5 8 (23.53%) Enterprise Architecture
5 8 (23.53%) ITIL
5 8 (23.53%) Roadmaps
5 8 (23.53%) TOGAF
6 7 (20.59%) Digital Strategy
6 7 (20.59%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 34 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 30 (88.24%) DV Cleared
3 23 (67.65%) APMP
4 11 (32.35%) SC Cleared
5 7 (20.59%) CCNP
5 7 (20.59%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (20.59%) Degree
5 7 (20.59%) HND
5 7 (20.59%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (11.76%) JNCIA
7 3 (8.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (67.65%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 27 (79.41%) Microsoft
2 8 (23.53%) Cisco
2 8 (23.53%) IBM
2 8 (23.53%) Juniper
2 8 (23.53%) Nokia
3 4 (11.76%) Ciena
3 4 (11.76%) Palo Alto
4 3 (8.82%) Avaya
4 3 (8.82%) Ericsson
4 3 (8.82%) Google
4 3 (8.82%) Ribbon
4 3 (8.82%) VMware