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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 100 144
Rank change year-on-year +9 +44 +17
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 18 39 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.95% 1.40% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.67% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £495 £460 £377
25th Percentile £501 £475 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £525 £455
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £521
90th Percentile £646 £630 £554
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
Median hourly rate - £28.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year - -22.22% -60.87%
England median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -22.22% +242.86%

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 1,699 2,335 2,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.66% 83.69% 87.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 992 1,492 2,066
10th Percentile £220 £263 £313
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £619 £635 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £724
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 280 242
10th Percentile £14.86 £15.39 £19.03
25th Percentile £18.51 £43.44 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% - +21.96%
75th Percentile £64.06 £72.50 £77.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.25 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +13 12 £545 +21.00% 13
Wiltshire +25 6 £604 +0.58% 2
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 12 (66.67%) PaaS
1 12 (66.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (72.22%) PBX
1 13 (72.22%) VoIP
2 3 (16.67%) 4G
2 3 (16.67%) 5G
3 2 (11.11%) Unified Communications
General
1 12 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Billing
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (11.11%) Head of Engineering
1 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
1 2 (11.11%) Senior
1 2 (11.11%) Senior Manager
1 2 (11.11%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (5.56%) Finance Manager
2 1 (5.56%) Finance Project Manager
2 1 (5.56%) PMO Manager
2 1 (5.56%) PMO Project Manager
2 1 (5.56%) Product Owner
2 1 (5.56%) Senior Finance Project Manager
2 1 (5.56%) Senior PMO
2 1 (5.56%) Senior PMO Manager
2 1 (5.56%) Senior Transformation Manager
2 1 (5.56%) Transformation Manager
2 1 (5.56%) Transformation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 12 (66.67%) Video Conferencing
2 11 (61.11%) Blackberry
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (66.67%) Migration
3 11 (61.11%) Customer Requirements
3 11 (61.11%) Impact Assessments
3 11 (61.11%) Roadmaps
3 11 (61.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 10 (55.56%) Product Roadmap
4 10 (55.56%) Service Design
4 10 (55.56%) Thought Leadership
4 10 (55.56%) Validation
5 9 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
6 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (16.67%) Agile
7 3 (16.67%) Coaching
7 3 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
7 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
7 3 (16.67%) Project Management
8 2 (11.11%) Budget Management
8 2 (11.11%) Change Management
8 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 14 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 12 (66.67%) DV Cleared
2 12 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 11 (61.11%) CCNP
3 11 (61.11%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (61.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) PMO
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Cisco
1 13 (72.22%) Ericsson
1 13 (72.22%) F5
1 13 (72.22%) Juniper
1 13 (72.22%) Nokia
1 13 (72.22%) Palo Alto
2 11 (61.11%) Avaya
2 11 (61.11%) Ribbon
2 11 (61.11%) VMware