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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 41 23
Rank change year-on-year +23 -18 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 195 100 213
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 7.17% 5.34% 6.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.81% 6.02% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 54 155
10th Percentile £408 £433 £408
25th Percentile £463 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £725 £684 £638
90th Percentile £775 £700 £745
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 10
10th Percentile £57.13 - £11.87
25th Percentile - £65.00 £17.15
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £39.70
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +76.34% -33.49%
75th Percentile £85.31 £76.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £94.00 £78.50 £84.07
England median hourly rate £45.46 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -20.94% +15.00% -7.24%

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 2,214 1,661 2,637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 81.40% 88.73% 84.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,232 1,022 1,697
10th Percentile £275 £225 £268
25th Percentile £409 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -2.75%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 100 331
10th Percentile £16.62 £19.70 £14.54
25th Percentile £22.79 £47.50 £31.60
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +23.81% -14.63%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile - £70.00 £78.36
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 14 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
Bristol +14 92 £550 -2.65% 27
Wiltshire +5 44 £570 -1.30% 7
Gloucestershire +13 25 £525 -10.64% 15
Somerset 0 17 £500 -6.98% 9
Devon 0 8 £488 +6.56% 7
Cornwall - 1 £350 - 4
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 12 (6.15%) Confluence
2 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (7.18%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.03%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.05%) NEC Housing
1 4 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.54%) Primavera
2 3 (1.54%) SAP EWM
2 3 (1.54%) SAP WM
3 2 (1.03%) SAP PM
3 2 (1.03%) SAP PP
3 2 (1.03%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.51%) Lorenzo
4 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 25 (12.82%) Azure
2 15 (7.69%) AWS
3 8 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (4.10%) Power Platform
4 5 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (2.05%) npm
5 4 (2.05%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (1.54%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.54%) GCP
6 3 (1.54%) GitHub
6 3 (1.54%) OneDrive
6 3 (1.54%) SaaS
6 3 (1.54%) ShareGate
7 2 (1.03%) Asana
7 2 (1.03%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.51%) Matillion
8 1 (0.51%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.05%) AMQP
1 4 (2.05%) Firewall
2 1 (0.51%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.51%) Network Security
2 1 (0.51%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.10%) Power BI
2 5 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.05%) RDBMS
3 4 (2.05%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.03%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.03%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.03%) Metadata
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.51%) GIS
5 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (14.36%) JIRA
2 6 (3.08%) Git
3 4 (2.05%) Maven
4 2 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.51%) GitLab
5 1 (0.51%) Rational DOORS
General
1 90 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 38 (19.49%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (17.95%) Finance
4 24 (12.31%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.62%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.10%) Legal
7 8 (4.10%) Local Government
8 7 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.56%) Military
11 4 (2.05%) Aviation
12 3 (1.54%) Electronics
12 3 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.54%) Marketing
12 3 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.54%) Social Housing
13 2 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (20.51%) Architect
2 30 (15.38%) Analyst
3 22 (11.28%) Project Manager
4 21 (10.77%) Business Analyst
5 17 (8.72%) Integration Architect
6 13 (6.67%) Lead
6 13 (6.67%) Senior
7 11 (5.64%) Consultant
8 10 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.62%) Programme Manager
10 8 (4.10%) IT Manager
10 8 (4.10%) Support Engineer
11 7 (3.59%) Change Manager
11 7 (3.59%) Data Architect
11 7 (3.59%) Service Manager
12 6 (3.08%) Technical Manager
13 5 (2.56%) Applications Support
13 5 (2.56%) Delivery Manager
13 5 (2.56%) IT Services Manager
13 5 (2.56%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.56%) OpenID
1 5 (2.56%) SAML
2 4 (2.05%) JDO
2 4 (2.05%) LDAP
3 2 (1.03%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.03%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.03%) Bootstrap
3 2 (1.03%) CSS
3 2 (1.03%) HTML
3 2 (1.03%) JSON
3 2 (1.03%) REST
3 2 (1.03%) SOAP
3 2 (1.03%) XML
4 1 (0.51%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (0.51%) Android SDK
4 1 (0.51%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (0.51%) OAuth
4 1 (0.51%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.21%) Onboarding
2 15 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.08%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.56%) CMDB
6 4 (2.05%) Blackberry
6 4 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.05%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.54%) PMI
7 3 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.54%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.03%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.03%) FMCG
8 2 (1.03%) Insider Threat
8 2 (1.03%) NHS
8 2 (1.03%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.03%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.51%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.10%) Linux
2 7 (3.59%) Windows
3 5 (2.56%) Android
4 4 (2.05%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.05%) CentOS
4 4 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.05%) VMS
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (29.23%) Agile
2 44 (22.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 38 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (15.90%) Project Management
5 30 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 29 (14.87%) Change Management
7 24 (12.31%) Logistics
7 24 (12.31%) Migration
8 23 (11.79%) Decision-Making
9 22 (11.28%) Process Improvement
9 22 (11.28%) Service Management
10 21 (10.77%) ITIL
11 20 (10.26%) Roadmaps
12 19 (9.74%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 19 (9.74%) Identity Management
12 19 (9.74%) Visualisation
13 17 (8.72%) Scrum
13 17 (8.72%) Service Delivery
14 15 (7.69%) Business Analysis
15 14 (7.18%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.62%) SQL
2 7 (3.59%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.08%) Java
4 4 (2.05%) Python
5 3 (1.54%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 106 (54.36%) Security Cleared
2 89 (45.64%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.77%) Degree
4 13 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.10%) PMI Certification
6 7 (3.59%) APMP
7 6 (3.08%) PMP
8 3 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.03%) ACCA
10 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.51%) CBAP
10 1 (0.51%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.51%) CISM
10 1 (0.51%) CISSP
10 1 (0.51%) CITP
10 1 (0.51%) CRISC
10 1 (0.51%) CSPO
10 1 (0.51%) IIBA
10 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.28%) GDPR
2 13 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (5.64%) Data Quality
4 10 (5.13%) NIST
5 6 (3.08%) QA
6 4 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (2.05%) NCSC
7 3 (1.54%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.03%) COBIT
8 2 (1.03%) GAAP
8 2 (1.03%) GRC
8 2 (1.03%) IFRS
8 2 (1.03%) JSP 440
8 2 (1.03%) PMO
9 1 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.51%) PSD2
9 1 (0.51%) RMADS
System Software
1 5 (2.56%) Docker
2 3 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (3.08%) Kubernetes
1 6 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
1 6 (3.08%) Terraform
2 4 (2.05%) Ansible
2 4 (2.05%) Grafana
2 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.05%) PingFederate
3 2 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 26 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.62%) Atlassian
3 8 (4.10%) SAP
3 8 (4.10%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.08%) Oracle
5 5 (2.56%) Ping Identity
6 4 (2.05%) Citrix
6 4 (2.05%) MobileIron
6 4 (2.05%) NEC
6 4 (2.05%) VMware
7 3 (1.54%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.54%) IBM
7 3 (1.54%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.03%) Cerner
8 2 (1.03%) Databricks
8 2 (1.03%) Google
8 2 (1.03%) NetApp
8 2 (1.03%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.03%) Remedy
9 1 (0.51%) ForgeRock