Commercial Awareness Contracts in the South West

Commercial Awareness
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 114 159
Rank change year-on-year +27 +45 0
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 22 35 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.30% 1.10% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.32% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 7
10th Percentile £502 - £345
25th Percentile £505 £663 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £495
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +36.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £605 £688 £644
90th Percentile £647 £710 £730
England median daily rate £544 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £87.39
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £89.78
75th Percentile - - £92.16
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £26.73 £89.78
% change year-on-year +161.88% -70.23% +89.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,524 2,653 3,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.34% 83.09% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 1,693 2,396
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £723
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 336 334
10th Percentile £18.48 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.27 £29.19 £16.32
Median hourly rate £62.75 £55.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.09% -10.57% +26.52%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.37
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.33 £36.77
% change year-on-year -19.99% -1.19% +51.01%

Commercial Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Commercial Awareness in the South West

Commercial Awareness
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Commercial Awareness in the South West

Commercial Awareness
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Commercial Awareness in the South West over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Commercial Awareness in the South West

Commercial Awareness
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Commercial Awareness in the South West

Commercial Awareness
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Bristol +31 16 £547 -18.93% 11
Wiltshire +35 6 £604 -16.76% 4
Commercial Awareness
England

Commercial Awareness
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) PaaS
1 11 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) PBX
1 12 (54.55%) VoIP
2 3 (13.64%) 4G
2 3 (13.64%) 5G
3 2 (9.09%) Unified Communications
General
1 11 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 8 (36.36%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Project Manager
2 2 (9.09%) Head of Engineering
2 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 2 (9.09%) Senior
2 2 (9.09%) Senior Manager
2 2 (9.09%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (4.55%) Information Officer
3 1 (4.55%) Information Security Officer
3 1 (4.55%) Product Owner
3 1 (4.55%) Security Officer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
2 10 (45.45%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 11 (50.00%) Migration
3 10 (45.45%) Impact Assessments
3 10 (45.45%) Roadmaps
3 10 (45.45%) Root Cause Analysis
4 9 (40.91%) Product Roadmap
4 9 (40.91%) Service Design
4 9 (40.91%) Thought Leadership
4 9 (40.91%) Validation
5 8 (36.36%) Cost Reduction
5 8 (36.36%) Project Management
6 6 (27.27%) Project Delivery
7 4 (18.18%) Agile
7 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (13.64%) Change Management
8 3 (13.64%) Coaching
8 3 (13.64%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (13.64%) Waterfall
9 2 (9.09%) Programme Delivery
Qualifications
1 19 (86.36%) Security Cleared
2 15 (68.18%) SC Cleared
3 12 (54.55%) DV Cleared
4 10 (45.45%) CCNP
4 10 (45.45%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (45.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) PMO
2 1 (4.55%) Def Stans
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 10 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Cisco
1 12 (54.55%) Ericsson
1 12 (54.55%) F5
1 12 (54.55%) Juniper
1 12 (54.55%) Nokia
1 12 (54.55%) Palo Alto
2 10 (45.45%) Avaya
2 10 (45.45%) Ribbon
2 10 (45.45%) VMware
3 2 (9.09%) Red Hat