Commercial Awareness Contracts in the South East

Commercial Awareness
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Commercial Awareness skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Commercial Awareness over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 171 184
Rank change year-on-year +18 +13 +69
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 4 19 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.13% 0.34% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.40% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 20
10th Percentile - £353 £460
25th Percentile £325 £562 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £625 £595
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +4.96% +48.86%
75th Percentile £459 £678 £700
90th Percentile £510 £800 £756
England median daily rate £543 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -13.20% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.73 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £26.73 £89.78
% change year-on-year +161.88% -70.23% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,750 4,692 5,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.48% 84.65% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 2,750 3,583
10th Percentile £256 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -1.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 435 223
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £17.10
25th Percentile £15.52 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -3.06% +123.23%
75th Percentile £62.44 £62.50 £64.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.96
England median hourly rate £29.90 £36.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -18.08% -1.75% +52.57%

Commercial Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Commercial Awareness in the South East

Commercial Awareness
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Commercial Awareness in the South East

Commercial Awareness
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Commercial Awareness in the South East over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Commercial Awareness in the South East

Commercial Awareness
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Commercial Awareness in the South East

Commercial Awareness
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 7 May 2025. 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
West Sussex - 2 £350 - 3
Thames Valley +23 1 £543 +146.59% 22
Surrey +16 1 - - 7
Buckinghamshire +15 1 £543 +146.59% 3
Commercial Awareness
England

Commercial Awareness
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Aviation
2 2 (50.00%) Marketing
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Bid Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Field Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Field Service Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CCTV
1 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Project Management
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Contract Management
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (25.00%) Product Management
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
4 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) APMP
2 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (25.00%) ISEB
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft