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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 50 24
Rank change year-on-year +33 -26 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 230 75 190
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 7.40% 4.40% 5.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.34% 4.85% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 53 141
10th Percentile £376 £408 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £754
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 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 £79.38 £76.25 £48.16
90th Percentile £93.75 £78.50 £66.08
England median hourly rate £45.00 £60.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -25.00% +23.08% -13.62%

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 2,462 1,545 2,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 79.21% 90.56% 83.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,363 1,020 1,754
10th Percentile £310 £250 £234
25th Percentile £410 £408 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £715 £700 £706
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 425 123 308
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.51 £13.80
25th Percentile £25.15 £34.25 £24.66
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £46.95
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +38.46% -23.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £67.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.52% -13.95%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +14 84 £525 +0.48% 24
Wiltshire +17 68 £550 -2.22% 11
Gloucestershire +18 33 £475 -32.14% 36
Somerset +1 22 £525 -2.33% 8
Devon +2 12 £519 +1.22% 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 (6.09%) Confluence
2 4 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (5.22%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.74%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.87%) Trello
6 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.74%) NEC Housing
1 4 (1.74%) Remedy ITSM
1 4 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.30%) SAP EWM
2 3 (1.30%) SAP WM
3 2 (0.87%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.87%) Primavera
3 2 (0.87%) SAP PM
3 2 (0.87%) SAP PP
3 2 (0.87%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.43%) Lorenzo
4 1 (0.43%) Maximo
4 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.43%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 23 (10.00%) Azure
2 10 (4.35%) AWS
3 7 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (3.04%) Power Platform
4 6 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (2.17%) GCP
6 4 (1.74%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.30%) SaaS
8 2 (0.87%) Asana
8 2 (0.87%) Figma
8 2 (0.87%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.87%) npm
8 2 (0.87%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.87%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.43%) Azure API Management
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.43%) Collibra
9 1 (0.43%) Matillion
9 1 (0.43%) Miro
9 1 (0.43%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.30%) 3G
1 3 (1.30%) 4G
1 3 (1.30%) 5G
1 3 (1.30%) Firewall
2 2 (0.87%) AMQP
2 2 (0.87%) Network Security
2 2 (0.87%) NGFW
3 1 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.43%) Internet
3 1 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (3.04%) Power BI
2 4 (1.74%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (0.87%) RDBMS
3 2 (0.87%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.43%) GIS
4 1 (0.43%) Looker
4 1 (0.43%) Metadata
4 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (13.48%) JIRA
2 2 (0.87%) AdminStudio
2 2 (0.87%) Git
2 2 (0.87%) InstallShield
2 2 (0.87%) Maven
3 1 (0.43%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.43%) GitLab
3 1 (0.43%) HP UFT
3 1 (0.43%) Selenium
3 1 (0.43%) WebDriver
General
1 109 (47.39%) Social Skills
2 46 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (19.13%) Finance
4 30 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.96%) Telecoms
6 12 (5.22%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.78%) Legal
8 10 (4.35%) Manufacturing
9 9 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (3.48%) Local Government
11 7 (3.04%) Aerospace
11 7 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.74%) Aviation
12 4 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.74%) Military
12 4 (1.74%) Retail
13 3 (1.30%) Banking
14 2 (0.87%) Law
14 2 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.87%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 35 (15.22%) Analyst
2 33 (14.35%) Architect
3 30 (13.04%) Project Manager
4 26 (11.30%) Lead
5 25 (10.87%) Business Analyst
6 17 (7.39%) Senior
7 14 (6.09%) Programme Manager
8 11 (4.78%) Consultant
9 10 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
9 10 (4.35%) Service Manager
9 10 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.91%) Data Architect
11 7 (3.04%) Site Manager
11 7 (3.04%) Telecoms Manager
12 6 (2.61%) Change Manager
12 6 (2.61%) IT Manager
12 6 (2.61%) Senior Manager
12 6 (2.61%) Technical Manager
13 5 (2.17%) Data Analyst
13 5 (2.17%) Relationships Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.61%) Leaflet
2 5 (2.17%) LDAP
2 5 (2.17%) OpenID
2 5 (2.17%) SAML
3 3 (1.30%) .NET
3 3 (1.30%) JDO
4 2 (0.87%) Android Jetpack
4 2 (0.87%) Android SDK
4 2 (0.87%) FHIR
4 2 (0.87%) Jetpack Compose
4 2 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.43%) ADO
5 1 (0.43%) OAuth
5 1 (0.43%) OLE
5 1 (0.43%) React
5 1 (0.43%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.57%) Onboarding
2 14 (6.09%) Blackberry
3 13 (5.65%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.78%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (4.78%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.04%) Operational Technology
5 7 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.61%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.74%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.74%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.74%) PMI
9 3 (1.30%) NHS
9 3 (1.30%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.87%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.87%) Cyber Security Posture
10 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.87%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.83%) Android
2 16 (6.96%) Windows
3 14 (6.09%) Apple iOS
4 9 (3.91%) Linux
5 5 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.74%) VMS
7 2 (0.87%) CentOS
7 2 (0.87%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (32.61%) Agile
2 53 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (21.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 40 (17.39%) Project Management
5 37 (16.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 28 (12.17%) PRINCE2
7 27 (11.74%) Roadmaps
8 26 (11.30%) Change Management
8 26 (11.30%) ITIL
8 26 (11.30%) Service Management
9 25 (10.87%) Migration
9 25 (10.87%) Process Improvement
9 25 (10.87%) Risk Management
10 24 (10.43%) Cybersecurity
10 24 (10.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 23 (10.00%) Project Delivery
11 23 (10.00%) Scrum
12 22 (9.57%) Decision-Making
13 20 (8.70%) Change Control
14 18 (7.83%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.35%) SQL
2 6 (2.61%) Java
3 4 (1.74%) Kotlin
3 4 (1.74%) Python
4 3 (1.30%) C#
4 3 (1.30%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 122 (53.04%) Security Cleared
2 105 (45.65%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.43%) Degree
4 13 (5.65%) PMP
5 11 (4.78%) PMI Certification
6 10 (4.35%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.48%) APMP
8 6 (2.61%) CISM
8 6 (2.61%) CISSP
8 6 (2.61%) CRISC
9 4 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 3 (1.30%) ACCA
11 2 (0.87%) CBAP
11 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.43%) IIBA
12 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.57%) GDPR
2 14 (6.09%) NIST
3 11 (4.78%) Data Quality
3 11 (4.78%) QA
4 10 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.61%) JSP 440
6 4 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.74%) NCSC
6 4 (1.74%) SLA
7 3 (1.30%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.30%) PMO
8 2 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.87%) COBIT
8 2 (0.87%) GAAP
8 2 (0.87%) GRC
8 2 (0.87%) HL7
8 2 (0.87%) IFRS
8 2 (0.87%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (1.30%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (6.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.61%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.74%) PingFederate
5 2 (0.87%) Ansible
5 2 (0.87%) Grafana
5 2 (0.87%) SCCM
5 2 (0.87%) Terraform
6 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 33 (14.35%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.09%) Citrix
2 14 (6.09%) MobileIron
2 14 (6.09%) VMware
3 12 (5.22%) SAP
4 8 (3.48%) Atlassian
5 6 (2.61%) Oracle
5 6 (2.61%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.74%) Google
6 4 (1.74%) NEC
6 4 (1.74%) Ping Identity
6 4 (1.74%) Remedy
7 3 (1.30%) F5
7 3 (1.30%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.30%) IBM
7 3 (1.30%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.30%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.87%) Cerner
8 2 (0.87%) Databricks
8 2 (0.87%) Tenable