Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Stakeholder Engagement
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 26 46
Rank change year-on-year -5 +20 +4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 12 12 8
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 3.92% 4.65% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 5.36% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 6
10th Percentile £446 £451 £313
25th Percentile £459 £491 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £406
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +35.38% -15.58%
75th Percentile £559 £581 £611
90th Percentile £569 £600 £678
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +6.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £53.31 - -
25th Percentile £56.47 - -
Median hourly rate £62.86 - -
75th Percentile £70.37 - -
90th Percentile £74.20 - -
South West median hourly rate £55.61 £82.50 £57.44
% change year-on-year -32.60% +43.63% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 271 224 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 88.56% 86.82% 85.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 160 214
10th Percentile £227 £230 £363
25th Percentile £380 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -3.18% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £748 £734
South West median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 31
10th Percentile £12.43 £26.12 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.27 £36.00 £19.57
Median hourly rate £32.50 £67.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +68.75% -42.86%
75th Percentile £51.21 £70.00 £70.75
90th Percentile £61.46 £75.00 £73.75
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in Gloucestershire

Stakeholder Engagement
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheltenham - 8 - - 3
Gloucester -7 3 £550 -4.35% 8
Stakeholder Engagement
South West

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Consultant
1 2 (16.67%) PMO Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Lead
2 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Project Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Insider Threat
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Project Delivery
2 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Change Management
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL
3 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
3 3 (25.00%) Tech Ops
3 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 3 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (8.33%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) APMG
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) BC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) PMO
2 1 (8.33%) ISO 22301
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft