Stakeholder Management Contract Job Trends in the South West

Stakeholder Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Stakeholder Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 376 176 176
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 10.01% 8.97% 6.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.88% 9.88% 8.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 111 91
10th Percentile £400 £361 £363
25th Percentile £485 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £669
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 8 10
10th Percentile £17.17 £45.31 £35.03
25th Percentile £31.56 £57.83 £43.44
Median hourly rate £48.75 £60.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -25.00% +89.35%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £85.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £65.25 £85.50
England median hourly rate £60.50 £49.25 £61.06
% change year-on-year +22.84% -19.34% +29.39%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

Stakeholder Management 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 2,920 1,781 2,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 77.72% 90.77% 83.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,636 1,025 1,283
10th Percentile £325 £213 £300
25th Percentile £450 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £633 £619 £638
90th Percentile £730 £713 £722
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 477 262 209
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.25 £21.96
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.60 £48.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +7.57%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £72.50
90th Percentile £78.28 £68.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%

Stakeholder Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Stakeholder Management job vacancy trend in the South West

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Stakeholder Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Management in the South West over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the South West

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Stakeholder Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Stakeholder Management in the South West over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Stakeholder Management in the South West

Stakeholder Management
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 Stakeholder Management within the South West region over the 6 months to 25 September 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
Bristol 0 146 £550 +1.15% 102
Wiltshire +16 112 £538 -6.52% 44
Somerset -7 37 £550 +72.55% 43
Gloucestershire +4 30 £550 +10.00% 69
Devon -3 25 £560 -2.61% 24
Dorset -9 5 £375 -25.37% 34
Avon - 1 - - 46
Cornwall - 1 - - 6
Stakeholder Management
England

Stakeholder Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 17 (4.52%) Confluence
2 12 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.80%) CMS
5 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.27%) Apache
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.27%) Moodle
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.27%) Totara
Applications
1 16 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.86%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.80%) Trello
6 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.13%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.86%) Oracle Payables
2 7 (1.86%) Oracle Receivables
2 7 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (1.33%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.80%) Primavera
4 3 (0.80%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.53%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.53%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.53%) Sprinklr
5 2 (0.53%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.27%) Magento
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.27%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (13.83%) Azure
2 40 (10.64%) AWS
3 20 (5.32%) Power Platform
4 18 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.72%) GCP
6 13 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.39%) Entra ID
8 7 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (1.86%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.33%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.33%) Cloud Composer
9 5 (1.33%) SaaS
9 5 (1.33%) Vertex AI
10 4 (1.06%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (1.06%) Cloud Run
10 4 (1.06%) dbt
10 4 (1.06%) GitHub
10 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (1.06%) Miro
11 3 (0.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.93%) Firewall
2 4 (1.06%) 3G
2 4 (1.06%) 4G
2 4 (1.06%) 5G
2 4 (1.06%) DNS
3 3 (0.80%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (0.80%) DHCP
3 3 (0.80%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (0.80%) Network Security
3 3 (0.80%) WAN
3 3 (0.80%) Wireless
4 2 (0.53%) Asterisk PBX
4 2 (0.53%) ATM
4 2 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (0.53%) LAN
4 2 (0.53%) NX-OS
4 2 (0.53%) PABX
5 1 (0.27%) MPLS
5 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.27%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.99%) Power BI
2 8 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (2.13%) Metadata
3 6 (1.60%) Looker
3 6 (1.60%) Tableau
4 5 (1.33%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (1.06%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.80%) EDRMS
6 3 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.53%) GIS
7 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.27%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 35 (9.31%) JIRA
2 3 (0.80%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.27%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.27%) Gatling
4 1 (0.27%) Git
4 1 (0.27%) GitLab
4 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.27%) Maven
4 1 (0.27%) Postman
4 1 (0.27%) Selenium
4 1 (0.27%) Snyk
4 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 224 (59.57%) Social Skills
2 70 (18.62%) Public Sector
3 69 (18.35%) Finance
4 40 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.65%) Influencing Skills
6 21 (5.59%) Manufacturing
7 20 (5.32%) Aerospace
8 16 (4.26%) Military
9 15 (3.99%) Telecoms
10 14 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (3.19%) Banking
12 11 (2.93%) Retail
13 10 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (2.39%) General Ledger
15 8 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.86%) Aviation
16 7 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 7 (1.86%) Legal
17 5 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (1.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 64 (17.02%) Architect
2 61 (16.22%) Lead
3 45 (11.97%) Analyst
4 43 (11.44%) Project Manager
5 34 (9.04%) Senior
6 28 (7.45%) Business Analyst
7 19 (5.05%) Consultant
8 14 (3.72%) Senior Manager
9 13 (3.46%) Delivery Manager
9 13 (3.46%) Product Manager
9 13 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (2.93%) Product Owner
11 10 (2.66%) IT Manager
11 10 (2.66%) Programme Manager
12 9 (2.39%) Change Manager
12 9 (2.39%) Digital Product Manager
12 9 (2.39%) Scrum Master
13 8 (2.13%) Coordinator
13 8 (2.13%) Telecoms Manager
14 7 (1.86%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.38%) LDAP
2 16 (4.26%) Terraform
3 5 (1.33%) .NET
3 5 (1.33%) REST
4 4 (1.06%) ADO
4 4 (1.06%) OpenID
4 4 (1.06%) React
4 4 (1.06%) SAML
4 4 (1.06%) SOAP
5 3 (0.80%) HTML
5 3 (0.80%) Middleware
5 3 (0.80%) OAuth
5 3 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.80%) Spring
5 3 (0.80%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.53%) EDI
6 2 (0.53%) JDO
6 2 (0.53%) ModSecurity
6 2 (0.53%) Playwright
6 2 (0.53%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.31%) Onboarding
1 35 (9.31%) Product Ownership
2 25 (6.65%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (5.05%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.93%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (1.86%) Operational Technology
7 6 (1.60%) Cyber Security Posture
7 6 (1.60%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.33%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.06%) CSOC
9 4 (1.06%) FMCG
9 4 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.06%) Life Science
10 3 (0.80%) CMDB
10 3 (0.80%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.99%) Windows
2 10 (2.66%) Linux
3 5 (1.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.80%) Unix
5 2 (0.53%) VMS
6 1 (0.27%) Android
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (27.93%) Agile
2 92 (24.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 62 (16.49%) Roadmaps
4 61 (16.22%) Decision-Making
5 55 (14.63%) Project Delivery
5 55 (14.63%) Technical Leadership
6 53 (14.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 45 (11.97%) Project Management
8 44 (11.70%) AI
8 44 (11.70%) DevOps
8 44 (11.70%) Mentoring
8 44 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (10.90%) Analytics
9 41 (10.90%) PRINCE2
10 39 (10.37%) Migration
11 38 (10.11%) Cybersecurity
12 37 (9.84%) ITSM
13 36 (9.57%) ITIL
14 32 (8.51%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 31 (8.24%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (6.65%) SQL
2 17 (4.52%) Python
3 7 (1.86%) Java
4 5 (1.33%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.06%) Bash
5 4 (1.06%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.06%) TypeScript
6 3 (0.80%) C#
7 2 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.53%) PHP
8 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.27%) LookML
Qualifications
1 163 (43.35%) Security Cleared
2 91 (24.20%) SC Cleared
3 60 (15.96%) DV Cleared
4 19 (5.05%) Degree
5 14 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (3.72%) PMP
6 9 (2.39%) CISSP
7 7 (1.86%) ACCA
7 7 (1.86%) CIMA
8 6 (1.60%) CISM
8 6 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 5 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.06%) CIPD
11 3 (0.80%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.80%) CCNP
11 3 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.80%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.53%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.18%) NIST
2 24 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (6.12%) Data Quality
3 23 (6.12%) QA
4 15 (3.99%) GDPR
4 15 (3.99%) PMO
5 8 (2.13%) NCSC
6 6 (1.60%) GRC
6 6 (1.60%) JSP 440
6 6 (1.60%) SLA
7 4 (1.06%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.53%) DICOM
8 2 (0.53%) HL7
8 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 1 (0.27%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.27%) ITGC
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 27 (7.18%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.60%) Docker
2 6 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.53%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.53%) vSphere
4 1 (0.27%) Firmware
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (1.60%) SCCM
2 5 (1.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.80%) Ansible
4 2 (0.53%) Argo
4 2 (0.53%) BMC PATROL
4 2 (0.53%) BMC Performance Manager
4 2 (0.53%) Computer Incident Response Team
4 2 (0.53%) Grafana
4 2 (0.53%) Perfmon
5 1 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.27%) CASB
5 1 (0.27%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.27%) Nessus
5 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.65%) CyberArk
2 25 (6.65%) Oracle
3 19 (5.05%) SAP
4 10 (2.66%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.13%) Google
6 7 (1.86%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.86%) Workday
7 6 (1.60%) Cisco
7 6 (1.60%) Databricks
7 6 (1.60%) VMware
8 5 (1.33%) Pega
8 5 (1.33%) Remedy
9 4 (1.06%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.53%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.53%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.53%) Instagram
10 2 (0.53%) Sparx
10 2 (0.53%) TikTok
10 2 (0.53%) YouTube