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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 49 23
Rank change year-on-year +30 -26 -4
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 230 74 191
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 7.45% 4.35% 5.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.38% 4.81% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 52 141
10th Percentile £376 £407 £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 13 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 £80.00 £76.25 £48.16
90th Percentile £93.75 £78.50 £66.08
England median hourly rate £45.46 £60.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -24.23% +23.08% -13.67%

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 2,451 1,540 2,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 79.35% 90.53% 83.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,362 1,018 1,765
10th Percentile £306 £250 £239
25th Percentile £410 £409 £408
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 415 121 308
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.51 £13.80
25th Percentile £25.15 £36.00 £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 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.71% -11.83%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 85 £525 +0.48% 24
Wiltshire +22 68 £550 - 11
Gloucestershire +18 32 £475 -32.14% 36
Somerset +3 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 3 (1.30%) 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%) OCI
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%) Metadata
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%) 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 11 (4.78%) Legal
6 11 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (3.91%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.48%) Local Government
9 7 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.61%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.74%) Aviation
11 4 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.74%) Military
11 4 (1.74%) Retail
12 3 (1.30%) Banking
13 2 (0.87%) Law
13 2 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.87%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 35 (15.22%) Analyst
2 34 (14.78%) Architect
3 30 (13.04%) Project Manager
4 26 (11.30%) Lead
5 25 (10.87%) Business Analyst
6 18 (7.83%) Senior
7 14 (6.09%) Programme Manager
8 11 (4.78%) Consultant
9 10 (4.35%) Data Architect
9 10 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
9 10 (4.35%) Service Manager
9 10 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.04%) Telecoms Manager
11 6 (2.61%) Change Manager
11 6 (2.61%) IT Manager
11 6 (2.61%) Senior Manager
11 6 (2.61%) Site Manager
11 6 (2.61%) Technical Manager
12 5 (2.17%) Data Analyst
12 5 (2.17%) Support Engineer
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 12 (5.22%) Management Information System
5 11 (4.78%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.61%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.61%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.74%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.74%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
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%) FMCG
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%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 25 (10.87%) Migration
9 25 (10.87%) Process Improvement
9 25 (10.87%) Risk Management
10 23 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
10 23 (10.00%) Decision-Making
10 23 (10.00%) Project Delivery
10 23 (10.00%) Scrum
11 20 (8.70%) Change Control
12 18 (7.83%) Business Analysis
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
1 123 (53.48%) Security Cleared
2 106 (46.09%) 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%) CSPO
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 12 (5.22%) Data Quality
4 11 (4.78%) QA
5 10 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.61%) JSP 440
7 4 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.74%) NCSC
7 4 (1.74%) SLA
8 3 (1.30%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.30%) PMO
9 2 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.87%) COBIT
9 2 (0.87%) GAAP
9 2 (0.87%) GRC
9 2 (0.87%) HL7
9 2 (0.87%) IFRS
9 2 (0.87%) SNOMED CT
10 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 11 (4.78%) 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