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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 57 72
Rank change year-on-year -12 +15 +24
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 4 17 10
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.51% 2.01% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 2.44% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £492 £430 -
25th Percentile £495 £434 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £453 £700
Median % change year-on-year +10.44% -35.32% +43.59%
75th Percentile £594 £475 -
90th Percentile £650 £479 -
South West median daily rate £588 £456 £360
% change year-on-year +28.98% +26.53% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
Median hourly rate - £28.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -53.33% -34.78%
South West median hourly rate - £28.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - -53.33% -34.78%

All Process and 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 715 698 920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 92.02% 82.60% 87.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 360 597
10th Percentile £250 £227 £305
25th Percentile £379 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £645
90th Percentile £735 £719 £713
South West median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 122 126
10th Percentile £13.91 £40.80 £29.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £61.44 £50.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £76.25
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.26 £60.00
% change year-on-year -62.61% +12.10% -5.11%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Commercial Awareness in Bristol over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Commercial Awareness in Bristol

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 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) PBX
1 1 (25.00%) VoIP
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Billing
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Finance Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Finance Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) PMO Manager
2 1 (25.00%) PMO Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Finance Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior PMO
2 1 (25.00%) Senior PMO Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Transformation Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Transformation Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Transformation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Coaching
1 3 (75.00%) Project Management
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Campaign Management
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Service Design
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Avaya
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Ericsson
1 1 (25.00%) F5
1 1 (25.00%) Juniper
1 1 (25.00%) Nokia
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (25.00%) Ribbon
1 1 (25.00%) VMware