Commercial Awareness Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Commercial Awareness
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Commercial Awareness skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 50 67
Rank change year-on-year -16 +17 +33
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 1 18 11
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.11% 2.85% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 3.17% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £448 -
25th Percentile - £477 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £553 £675
Median % change year-on-year -11.35% -18.11% +22.73%
75th Percentile - £627 £688
90th Percentile - £656 £695
South West median daily rate £645 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +7.50% -11.11% +80.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -33.17%
South West median hourly rate - £80.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +33.33% -33.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

Commercial Awareness 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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 751 568 831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 84.95% 89.87% 84.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 316 510
10th Percentile £303 £213 £286
25th Percentile £400 £355 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £645
90th Percentile £748 £700 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 68 120
10th Percentile £16.94 £33.80 £34.80
25th Percentile £33.50 £58.94 £56.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% +4.80%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £76.25
90th Percentile £67.25 £74.61 £83.52
South West median hourly rate £44.00 £65.00 £57.33
% change year-on-year -32.31% +13.38% -6.78%

Commercial Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Commercial Awareness relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Commercial Awareness job vacancy trend in Bristol

Commercial Awareness
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Commercial Awareness.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Commercial Awareness.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) PBX
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Reduction
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Avaya
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Ericsson
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Nokia
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Ribbon
1 1 (100.00%) VMware