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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 43 23
Rank change year-on-year +23 -20 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 226 78 194
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 7.43% 4.59% 6.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.35% 5.08% 7.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 53 144
10th Percentile £375 £402 £363
25th Percentile £459 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £602 £675 £628
90th Percentile £725 £700 £753
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.25 £65.00 £11.87
Median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £29.13
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +140.30% -48.26%
75th Percentile £82.50 £76.25 £48.16
90th Percentile £93.75 £78.50 £66.08
England median hourly rate £45.46 £60.00 £46.95
% change year-on-year -24.23% +27.81% -16.82%

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 2,417 1,536 2,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 79.45% 90.41% 83.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,333 1,013 1,768
10th Percentile £305 £250 £250
25th Percentile £409 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £688 £706
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 116 322
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.51 £13.86
25th Percentile £25.15 £35.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +36.84% -22.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £68.56
90th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £76.80
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 +12 83 £513 -6.85% 24
Wiltshire +16 66 £550 - 11
Gloucestershire +21 34 £475 -32.14% 36
Somerset +2 22 £525 - 8
Devon 0 12 £519 +15.28% 6
Cornwall - 1 £350 -
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 14 (6.19%) Confluence
2 3 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (5.31%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.77%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.88%) Trello
6 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.77%) NEC Housing
1 4 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.33%) SAP EWM
2 3 (1.33%) SAP WM
3 2 (0.88%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.88%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.88%) Primavera
3 2 (0.88%) SAP PM
3 2 (0.88%) SAP PP
3 2 (0.88%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.44%) Lorenzo
4 1 (0.44%) Maximo
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.44%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 25 (11.06%) Azure
2 12 (5.31%) AWS
3 10 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (3.10%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (1.77%) GCP
7 3 (1.33%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.33%) SaaS
8 2 (0.88%) Asana
8 2 (0.88%) Figma
8 2 (0.88%) GitHub
8 2 (0.88%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.88%) npm
8 2 (0.88%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.88%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.44%) Azure API Management
9 1 (0.44%) Collibra
9 1 (0.44%) Matillion
9 1 (0.44%) OCI
9 1 (0.44%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.33%) Firewall
2 2 (0.88%) 3G
2 2 (0.88%) 4G
2 2 (0.88%) 5G
2 2 (0.88%) AMQP
2 2 (0.88%) Network Security
2 2 (0.88%) NGFW
3 1 (0.44%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.44%) Internet
3 1 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (3.10%) Power BI
2 4 (1.77%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (0.88%) Metadata
3 2 (0.88%) RDBMS
3 2 (0.88%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.44%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.44%) GIS
4 1 (0.44%) Looker
4 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (14.60%) JIRA
2 4 (1.77%) Git
3 2 (0.88%) AdminStudio
3 2 (0.88%) InstallShield
3 2 (0.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.88%) Maven
4 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.44%) GitLab
4 1 (0.44%) HP UFT
4 1 (0.44%) Selenium
4 1 (0.44%) WebDriver
General
1 110 (48.67%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.12%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (19.91%) Finance
4 30 (13.27%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.19%) Telecoms
6 12 (5.31%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.87%) Legal
8 9 (3.98%) Manufacturing
9 8 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (3.54%) Local Government
10 7 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.65%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.77%) Aviation
12 4 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.77%) Military
12 4 (1.77%) Retail
13 3 (1.33%) Banking
14 2 (0.88%) Digital Healthcare
14 2 (0.88%) Law
14 2 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (16.37%) Analyst
2 34 (15.04%) Architect
3 30 (13.27%) Project Manager
4 25 (11.06%) Business Analyst
5 22 (9.73%) Lead
6 18 (7.96%) Senior
7 12 (5.31%) Programme Manager
8 10 (4.42%) Consultant
8 10 (4.42%) Data Architect
8 10 (4.42%) Service Manager
8 10 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (3.98%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (2.65%) Change Manager
10 6 (2.65%) IT Manager
10 6 (2.65%) Senior Manager
10 6 (2.65%) Site Manager
10 6 (2.65%) Technical Manager
11 5 (2.21%) SC Cleared Project Manager
11 5 (2.21%) Technical Programme Manager
11 5 (2.21%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.65%) Leaflet
2 4 (1.77%) LDAP
2 4 (1.77%) OpenID
2 4 (1.77%) SAML
3 3 (1.33%) JDO
4 2 (0.88%) .NET
4 2 (0.88%) Android Jetpack
4 2 (0.88%) Android SDK
4 2 (0.88%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.88%) Bootstrap
4 2 (0.88%) CSS
4 2 (0.88%) FHIR
4 2 (0.88%) HTML
4 2 (0.88%) Jetpack Compose
4 2 (0.88%) JSON
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.88%) REST
4 2 (0.88%) SOAP
4 2 (0.88%) XML
5 1 (0.44%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.29%) Onboarding
2 14 (6.19%) Blackberry
3 13 (5.75%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.31%) Management Information System
5 11 (4.87%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.65%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.65%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.77%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.77%) PMI
9 3 (1.33%) CMDB
9 3 (1.33%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.33%) NHS
9 3 (1.33%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.88%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.88%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.96%) Android
2 17 (7.52%) Windows
3 14 (6.19%) Apple iOS
4 8 (3.54%) Linux
5 4 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.77%) VMS
6 2 (0.88%) CentOS
6 2 (0.88%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (33.19%) Agile
2 57 (25.22%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (21.24%) Continuous Improvement
4 40 (17.70%) Project Management
5 35 (15.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 28 (12.39%) Change Management
7 26 (11.50%) PRINCE2
7 26 (11.50%) Roadmaps
8 25 (11.06%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 25 (11.06%) ITIL
8 25 (11.06%) Migration
8 25 (11.06%) Process Improvement
8 25 (11.06%) Scrum
8 25 (11.06%) Service Management
9 23 (10.18%) Cybersecurity
9 23 (10.18%) Project Delivery
9 23 (10.18%) Risk Management
10 22 (9.73%) Decision-Making
11 18 (7.96%) Change Control
11 18 (7.96%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.42%) SQL
2 6 (2.65%) Java
2 6 (2.65%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.21%) Python
4 4 (1.77%) Kotlin
5 3 (1.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.88%) C#
7 1 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 121 (53.54%) Security Cleared
2 105 (46.46%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.62%) Degree
4 13 (5.75%) PMP
5 12 (5.31%) PMI Certification
6 9 (3.98%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.54%) APMP
8 6 (2.65%) CISM
8 6 (2.65%) CISSP
8 6 (2.65%) CRISC
9 4 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 3 (1.33%) ACCA
11 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.88%) CBAP
11 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.44%) CIMA
12 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.73%) GDPR
2 14 (6.19%) NIST
3 12 (5.31%) Data Quality
4 11 (4.87%) QA
5 10 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.65%) JSP 440
7 4 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.77%) NCSC
7 4 (1.77%) SLA
8 3 (1.33%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.88%) COBIT
9 2 (0.88%) GAAP
9 2 (0.88%) GRC
9 2 (0.88%) HL7
9 2 (0.88%) IFRS
9 2 (0.88%) PMO
9 2 (0.88%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (1.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (7.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.65%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.77%) PingFederate
5 3 (1.33%) Terraform
6 2 (0.88%) Ansible
6 2 (0.88%) Grafana
6 2 (0.88%) SCCM
7 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 35 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.19%) Citrix
2 14 (6.19%) MobileIron
2 14 (6.19%) VMware
3 11 (4.87%) SAP
4 8 (3.54%) Atlassian
4 8 (3.54%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.65%) Oracle
6 4 (1.77%) Google
6 4 (1.77%) NEC
6 4 (1.77%) Ping Identity
7 3 (1.33%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.33%) IBM
7 3 (1.33%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.33%) Remedy
7 3 (1.33%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.88%) Cerner
8 2 (0.88%) Databricks
8 2 (0.88%) F5
8 2 (0.88%) Tenable