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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 26 19
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 199 160 239
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 9.02% 6.61% 7.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.26% 7.79% 8.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 99 172
10th Percentile £390 £388 £363
25th Percentile £463 £431 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £750 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £699
England median daily rate £537 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.36% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 18
10th Percentile £52.20 £36.52 -
25th Percentile - £38.76 £33.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £48.75 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +1.56% -25.73%
75th Percentile £81.56 £65.94 £57.33
90th Percentile £93.75 £74.38 £73.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £60.00 £51.24
% change year-on-year -20.83% +17.10% -2.84%

All Process and 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 1,939 2,055 2,725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 87.86% 84.88% 87.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 1,237 1,837
10th Percentile £225 £313 £300
25th Percentile £390 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £735 £720
England median daily rate £507 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 145 284
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £20.33
25th Percentile £18.87 £33.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.49 £74.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.17 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.46% -18.73% +27.14%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +8 100 £550 +10.00% 64
Wiltshire -3 40 £600 -4.00% 14
Gloucestershire +15 31 £475 -13.64% 51
Somerset +2 16 £450 -7.69% 11
Devon +5 8 £575 +27.78% 6
Dorset +1 1 £725 - 11
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 6 (3.02%) Confluence
2 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.51%) iTrent
1 3 (1.51%) Primavera
1 3 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.01%) SAP EWM
2 2 (1.01%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.50%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.50%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.50%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.08%) Azure
2 23 (11.56%) AWS
3 10 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (4.52%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.52%) GCP
7 4 (2.01%) SaaS
8 3 (1.51%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.51%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.51%) npm
8 3 (1.51%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.51%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.51%) ShareGate
8 3 (1.51%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.01%) Akamai
9 2 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.01%) GitHub
9 2 (1.01%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.50%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.02%) Firewall
2 5 (2.51%) Network Security
3 3 (1.51%) AMQP
3 3 (1.51%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.51%) VoIP
3 3 (1.51%) WAN
4 2 (1.01%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.50%) BGP
5 1 (0.50%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.50%) MPLS
5 1 (0.50%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.50%) OSPF
5 1 (0.50%) VLAN
5 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.52%) Power BI
2 4 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.51%) RDBMS
3 3 (1.51%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.01%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.01%) Metadata
5 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (7.54%) JIRA
2 5 (2.51%) Git
3 3 (1.51%) Maven
4 2 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.01%) Rational DOORS
General
1 74 (37.19%) Social Skills
2 45 (22.61%) Finance
3 32 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (15.08%) Public Sector
5 22 (11.06%) Telecoms
6 12 (6.03%) Manufacturing
7 11 (5.53%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (4.02%) Military
9 7 (3.52%) Electronics
9 7 (3.52%) Marketing
9 7 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (3.02%) Legal
11 5 (2.51%) Local Government
11 5 (2.51%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (2.01%) Aviation
13 3 (1.51%) Banking
14 2 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.50%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 45 (22.61%) Architect
2 22 (11.06%) Analyst
2 22 (11.06%) Project Manager
3 19 (9.55%) Lead
4 17 (8.54%) Integration Architect
5 11 (5.53%) Business Analyst
5 11 (5.53%) Consultant
5 11 (5.53%) IT Manager
5 11 (5.53%) Senior
5 11 (5.53%) Support Engineer
6 7 (3.52%) Technical Engineer
6 7 (3.52%) Technical Support
6 7 (3.52%) Technical Support Engineer
7 6 (3.02%) IT Services Manager
7 6 (3.02%) Service Manager
7 6 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.51%) Data Architect
8 5 (2.51%) ITIL Manager
8 5 (2.51%) Programme Manager
8 5 (2.51%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.51%) OpenID
1 5 (2.51%) SAML
2 4 (2.01%) JDO
2 4 (2.01%) LDAP
3 2 (1.01%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.01%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.01%) Bootstrap
3 2 (1.01%) CSS
3 2 (1.01%) HTML
3 2 (1.01%) JSON
3 2 (1.01%) REST
3 2 (1.01%) SailPoint
3 2 (1.01%) SOAP
3 2 (1.01%) XML
4 1 (0.50%) ADO
4 1 (0.50%) Next.js
4 1 (0.50%) OAuth
4 1 (0.50%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.50%) React
4 1 (0.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.03%) CMDB
1 12 (6.03%) Onboarding
2 9 (4.52%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.02%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.52%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.02%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.51%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.51%) FMCG
7 3 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.51%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 2 (1.01%) PKI
8 2 (1.01%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.50%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.50%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.03%) Windows
2 7 (3.52%) Linux
3 4 (2.01%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.51%) CentOS
4 3 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.51%) VMS
5 2 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (19.10%) Continuous Improvement
2 37 (18.59%) Agile
3 36 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (16.08%) Service Management
5 27 (13.57%) ITIL
6 25 (12.56%) Migration
7 24 (12.06%) Project Management
7 24 (12.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 23 (11.56%) Service Delivery
9 22 (11.06%) Decision-Making
10 19 (9.55%) Logistics
10 19 (9.55%) Risk Management
10 19 (9.55%) Roadmaps
11 18 (9.05%) Change Management
11 18 (9.05%) Identity Management
11 18 (9.05%) Visualisation
12 16 (8.04%) Project Delivery
13 15 (7.54%) Cybersecurity
14 14 (7.04%) AI
14 14 (7.04%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.02%) PowerShell
2 5 (2.51%) Java
3 4 (2.01%) Python
4 3 (1.51%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.51%) SQL
5 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 106 (53.27%) Security Cleared
2 88 (44.22%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.54%) DV Cleared
4 14 (7.04%) Degree
5 5 (2.51%) APMP
6 4 (2.01%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.51%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.01%) ACCA
8 2 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.01%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.01%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.50%) CCIE
9 1 (0.50%) CCNP
9 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.50%) CISM
9 1 (0.50%) CISSP
9 1 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.04%) GDPR
2 12 (6.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.52%) SLA
4 8 (4.02%) NIST
5 6 (3.02%) Data Quality
5 6 (3.02%) NCSC
5 6 (3.02%) PMO
6 4 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (2.01%) GRC
7 2 (1.01%) GAAP
7 2 (1.01%) IFRS
7 2 (1.01%) JSP 440
7 2 (1.01%) QA
8 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.50%) PSD2
8 1 (0.50%) RMADS
8 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (3.52%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.51%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.01%) Docker
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (3.52%) Terraform
2 5 (2.51%) Ansible
2 5 (2.51%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (2.01%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.01%) NSN NetAct
3 4 (2.01%) PingFederate
4 3 (1.51%) Grafana
4 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.51%) SCCM
5 2 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.01%) Puppet
6 1 (0.50%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 25 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.54%) ServiceNow
3 13 (6.53%) SAP
4 10 (5.03%) Remedy
5 6 (3.02%) Oracle
6 5 (2.51%) Ping Identity
7 4 (2.01%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.01%) Ericsson
7 4 (2.01%) F5
7 4 (2.01%) Nokia
8 3 (1.51%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.51%) Google
8 3 (1.51%) IBM
8 3 (1.51%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.01%) NetApp
9 2 (1.01%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.50%) Databricks
10 1 (0.50%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.50%) Informatica
10 1 (0.50%) Zscaler