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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 37 39
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +18
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 16 9 7
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 4.53% 2.95% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.16% 3.32% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 6
10th Percentile £305 £469 £328
25th Percentile £336 £500 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £447 £600 £656
90th Percentile £481 £620 £678
South West median daily rate £523 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.04% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £55.42 - -
25th Percentile £61.73 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £86.50 - -
90th Percentile £92.35 - -
South West median hourly rate £55.61 £82.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -32.60% +46.04% -28.22%

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 310 271 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 87.82% 88.85% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 201 237
10th Percentile £316 £357 £351
25th Percentile £425 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £688
90th Percentile £675 £738 £750
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 46
10th Percentile £12.43 £25.56 £17.01
25th Percentile £26.25 £56.88 £33.50
Median hourly rate £51.21 £67.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -24.13% +38.55% -18.80%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.34 £69.38 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -20.78%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in Gloucestershire

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 - 7 - - 8
Gloucester -7 5 £310 -44.82% 2
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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DHCP
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Aerospace
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Legal
5 1 (6.25%) Local Government
5 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Business Change Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Change Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) PMO Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Rollout Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Rollout Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) OAuth
1 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
1 1 (6.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.25%) Insider Threat
2 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 4 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (18.75%) Change Management
4 3 (18.75%) ITIL
4 3 (18.75%) Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) AI
5 2 (12.50%) Business Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) Risk Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
5 2 (12.50%) Six Sigma
5 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (12.50%) Tech Ops
5 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) APMG
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.25%) SAP