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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 29 28
Rank change year-on-year +15 -1 -8
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 283 108 196
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 7.94% 6.14% 5.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.96% 6.75% 7.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 69 130
10th Percentile £368 £306 £363
25th Percentile £463 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £636
90th Percentile £698 £738 £788
England median daily rate £543 £530 £540
% change year-on-year +2.50% -1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 4 9
10th Percentile - £55.43 £11.87
25th Percentile £31.25 £61.58 £35.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% -18.75% +45.50%
75th Percentile £49.06 £68.13 £85.00
90th Percentile £80.30 £73.75 £86.00
England median hourly rate £58.75 £54.01 £60.00
% change year-on-year +8.79% -9.99% +12.53%

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 2,840 1,599 2,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 79.73% 90.85% 82.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,528 972 1,697
10th Percentile £325 £213 £258
25th Percentile £413 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 175 378
10th Percentile £16.62 £17.50 £13.86
25th Percentile £32.19 £18.51 £29.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £27.64 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.03% -49.75% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.50 £70.25
90th Percentile £72.54 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +8.48%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +3 100 £511 +13.56% 45
Wiltshire +32 87 £550 -8.33% 16
Gloucestershire +5 32 £488 -7.14% 29
Somerset 0 27 £523 +21.16% 20
Devon -3 20 £560 +17.28% 2
Cornwall - 2 £350 -
Dorset -8 1 £450 -10.45% 8
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 9 (3.18%) Confluence
2 6 (2.12%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.71%) CMS
3 2 (0.71%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.71%) Trello
5 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (2.83%) NetSuite
2 7 (2.47%) Oracle Payables
2 7 (2.47%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (2.12%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (1.41%) NEC Housing
5 3 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.71%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.71%) Sprinklr
6 2 (0.71%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.35%) Magento
7 1 (0.35%) Maximo
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.35%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.35%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.35%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 35 (12.37%) Azure
2 23 (8.13%) AWS
3 10 (3.53%) Power Platform
4 8 (2.83%) GCP
5 7 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.12%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.06%) GitHub
8 3 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.06%) SaaS
8 3 (1.06%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.71%) dbt
9 2 (0.71%) Figma
9 2 (0.71%) Intacct
10 1 (0.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.35%) OCI
10 1 (0.35%) Serverless
10 1 (0.35%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.77%) 3G
1 5 (1.77%) 4G
1 5 (1.77%) 5G
1 5 (1.77%) Firewall
2 2 (0.71%) Network Security
2 2 (0.71%) NGFW
3 1 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.35%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.35%) DMVPN
3 1 (0.35%) Internet
3 1 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.35%) LAN
3 1 (0.35%) Multicast
3 1 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.53%) Power BI
2 5 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.35%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.35%) GIS
4 1 (0.35%) Looker
4 1 (0.35%) Metadata
4 1 (0.35%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (10.25%) JIRA
2 2 (0.71%) AdminStudio
2 2 (0.71%) InstallShield
2 2 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.35%) Gatling
3 1 (0.35%) GitLab
3 1 (0.35%) HP UFT
3 1 (0.35%) Selenium
3 1 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 144 (50.88%) Social Skills
2 62 (21.91%) Finance
3 42 (14.84%) Public Sector
4 40 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.95%) Manufacturing
5 14 (4.95%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.24%) Aerospace
6 12 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (3.53%) Banking
7 10 (3.53%) Legal
8 8 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.83%) Retail
9 7 (2.47%) General Ledger
9 7 (2.47%) Military
10 6 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.77%) Local Government
11 5 (1.77%) Publishing
12 4 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.06%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 45 (15.90%) Lead
2 35 (12.37%) Analyst
3 34 (12.01%) Architect
3 34 (12.01%) Project Manager
4 24 (8.48%) Senior
5 17 (6.01%) Business Analyst
6 14 (4.95%) Delivery Manager
6 14 (4.95%) Programme Manager
7 12 (4.24%) Consultant
8 11 (3.89%) Service Manager
8 11 (3.89%) Telecoms Manager
9 10 (3.53%) Product Manager
9 10 (3.53%) Scrum Master
10 9 (3.18%) Change Manager
10 9 (3.18%) IT Manager
11 8 (2.83%) Digital Product Manager
11 8 (2.83%) Site Manager
12 7 (2.47%) Data Analyst
12 7 (2.47%) Implementation Consultant
12 7 (2.47%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.12%) Leaflet
2 5 (1.77%) .NET
3 3 (1.06%) JDO
4 2 (0.71%) Android Jetpack
4 2 (0.71%) Android SDK
4 2 (0.71%) FHIR
4 2 (0.71%) Jetpack Compose
4 2 (0.71%) LDAP
4 2 (0.71%) Middleware
4 2 (0.71%) OAuth
4 2 (0.71%) OpenID
4 2 (0.71%) REST
4 2 (0.71%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.71%) SAML
4 2 (0.71%) SOAP
5 1 (0.35%) Kafka
5 1 (0.35%) Playwright
5 1 (0.35%) Quarkus
5 1 (0.35%) React
5 1 (0.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.19%) Product Ownership
2 24 (8.48%) Legacy Systems
2 24 (8.48%) Onboarding
3 14 (4.95%) Blackberry
4 10 (3.53%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.47%) Operational Technology
5 7 (2.47%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.12%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.12%) Cyber Security Posture
6 6 (2.12%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.12%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.41%) CSOC
8 4 (1.41%) FMCG
9 3 (1.06%) CMDB
9 3 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.06%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.42%) Windows
2 19 (6.71%) Android
3 15 (5.30%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.06%) Linux
4 3 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.06%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (32.16%) Agile
2 60 (21.20%) Continuous Improvement
3 54 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (16.61%) Roadmaps
5 39 (13.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 36 (12.72%) Project Management
7 34 (12.01%) ITIL
7 34 (12.01%) Risk Management
8 33 (11.66%) Cybersecurity
9 32 (11.31%) PRINCE2
10 31 (10.95%) Decision-Making
10 31 (10.95%) Project Delivery
11 28 (9.89%) Scrum
12 27 (9.54%) DevOps
12 27 (9.54%) Service Management
13 22 (7.77%) ERP
13 22 (7.77%) Migration
14 21 (7.42%) AI
14 21 (7.42%) Change Management
14 21 (7.42%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 15 (5.30%) SQL
2 8 (2.83%) Java
3 7 (2.47%) Python
4 5 (1.77%) Kotlin
5 3 (1.06%) C#
6 2 (0.71%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 126 (44.52%) Security Cleared
2 106 (37.46%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.71%) PMP
4 17 (6.01%) Degree
5 12 (4.24%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.83%) CISSP
7 7 (2.47%) ACCA
7 7 (2.47%) CIMA
7 7 (2.47%) CISM
7 7 (2.47%) PMI Certification
8 6 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.12%) CRISC
9 5 (1.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 3 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.71%) APMP
11 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.71%) CBAP
11 2 (0.71%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.36%) GDPR
2 17 (6.01%) QA
3 11 (3.89%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.18%) JSP 440
5 8 (2.83%) NIST
6 7 (2.47%) NCSC
6 7 (2.47%) SLA
7 5 (1.77%) PMO
8 3 (1.06%) Def Stans
8 3 (1.06%) GRC
9 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.71%) HL7
9 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.71%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.35%) COBIT
10 1 (0.35%) ITGC
10 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (6.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.77%) SCCM
3 3 (1.06%) Terraform
4 2 (0.71%) Computer Incident Response Team
4 2 (0.71%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.35%) CASB
5 1 (0.35%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 47 (16.61%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.30%) VMware
3 14 (4.95%) Citrix
3 14 (4.95%) MobileIron
3 14 (4.95%) SAP
4 11 (3.89%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.18%) Oracle
6 6 (2.12%) Remedy
7 4 (1.41%) Databricks
7 4 (1.41%) Google
7 4 (1.41%) NEC
7 4 (1.41%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.06%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.06%) F5
9 2 (0.71%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.71%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.71%) Foundry
9 2 (0.71%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.71%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.71%) Virgin Media