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

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 23 17
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 188 172 249
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 9.21% 6.99% 7.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.23% 8.31% 9.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 100 179
10th Percentile £375 £379 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £750 £653 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £690
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 18
10th Percentile £51.34 £37.02 -
25th Percentile - £40.00 £33.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £42.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +36.09% -29.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £80.00 £57.33
90th Percentile £93.75 £83.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £47.49 £60.00 £47.34
% change year-on-year -20.85% +26.74% -6.76%

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 1,837 2,071 2,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.00% 84.22% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,060 1,213 1,878
10th Percentile £222 £300 £308
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £721
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 178 280
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.57 £20.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £40.00 £46.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.60% +9.17% -5.11%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.16 £44.50
% change year-on-year -38.89% -7.52% +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 23 October 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 23 October 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 23 October 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 +14 101 £550 +8.64% 60
Wiltshire -9 32 £575 -8.00% 12
Gloucestershire +5 28 £444 -19.32% 37
Somerset +5 18 £450 -7.69% 26
Devon +4 9 £575 +27.78% 9
Dorset +1 1 £725 - 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 5 (2.66%) Confluence
2 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) iTrent
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.06%) Primavera
2 2 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 27 (14.36%) Azure
2 22 (11.70%) AWS
3 10 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (4.79%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.66%) GCP
6 4 (2.13%) SaaS
7 3 (1.60%) Akamai
7 3 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.60%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.60%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.60%) ShareGate
7 3 (1.60%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.06%) GitHub
8 2 (1.06%) npm
8 2 (1.06%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.53%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (0.53%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.53%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.19%) Firewall
1 6 (3.19%) Network Security
2 4 (2.13%) VoIP
3 3 (1.60%) 5G
3 3 (1.60%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.60%) WAN
3 3 (1.60%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.06%) AMQP
5 1 (0.53%) BGP
5 1 (0.53%) MPLS
5 1 (0.53%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.53%) OSPF
5 1 (0.53%) VLAN
5 1 (0.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.79%) Power BI
2 2 (1.06%) RDBMS
2 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.53%) Metadata
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (6.38%) JIRA
2 4 (2.13%) Git
3 2 (1.06%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.06%) Maven
3 2 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
General
1 61 (32.45%) Social Skills
2 44 (23.40%) Finance
3 28 (14.89%) Public Sector
4 26 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (13.30%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.32%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.79%) Military
8 8 (4.26%) Marketing
9 7 (3.72%) Electronics
9 7 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.66%) Local Government
11 4 (2.13%) Aviation
11 4 (2.13%) Banking
11 4 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.60%) Billing
12 3 (1.60%) Legal
13 2 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 41 (21.81%) Architect
2 24 (12.77%) Project Manager
3 19 (10.11%) Lead
4 18 (9.57%) Analyst
5 17 (9.04%) Integration Architect
6 11 (5.85%) Support Engineer
7 10 (5.32%) Consultant
7 10 (5.32%) IT Manager
7 10 (5.32%) Senior
8 8 (4.26%) Technical Engineer
8 8 (4.26%) Technical Support
8 8 (4.26%) Technical Support Engineer
9 7 (3.72%) Network Manager
9 7 (3.72%) Network Project Manager
10 6 (3.19%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.66%) Incident Manager
11 5 (2.66%) IT Services Manager
11 5 (2.66%) ITIL Manager
11 5 (2.66%) Security Manager
11 5 (2.66%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.66%) OpenID
1 5 (2.66%) SAML
2 4 (2.13%) JDO
2 4 (2.13%) LDAP
3 3 (1.60%) SailPoint
4 2 (1.06%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.06%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.06%) Bootstrap
4 2 (1.06%) CSS
4 2 (1.06%) HTML
4 2 (1.06%) JSON
4 2 (1.06%) REST
4 2 (1.06%) SOAP
4 2 (1.06%) XML
5 1 (0.53%) ADO
5 1 (0.53%) Next.js
5 1 (0.53%) OAuth
5 1 (0.53%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.53%) React
5 1 (0.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.38%) CMDB
2 10 (5.32%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.79%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.72%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.19%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.19%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.66%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 2 (1.06%) PKI
9 2 (1.06%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.53%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.53%) FMCG
10 1 (0.53%) IoT
10 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.53%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.53%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.53%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.38%) Windows
2 6 (3.19%) Linux
3 5 (2.66%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.06%) CentOS
5 2 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
1 33 (17.55%) Service Management
2 30 (15.96%) Agile
2 30 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (13.30%) ITIL
3 25 (13.30%) Project Management
4 24 (12.77%) Service Delivery
5 23 (12.23%) Migration
6 22 (11.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 21 (11.17%) Decision-Making
8 20 (10.64%) Risk Management
9 18 (9.57%) Logistics
9 18 (9.57%) Visualisation
10 17 (9.04%) Identity Management
11 16 (8.51%) Change Management
12 14 (7.45%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (7.45%) Roadmaps
13 13 (6.91%) ITSM
13 13 (6.91%) Programme Management
13 13 (6.91%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.26%) PowerShell
2 5 (2.66%) Python
3 4 (2.13%) Java
4 3 (1.60%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.60%) SQL
5 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 93 (49.47%) Security Cleared
2 81 (43.09%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.85%) DV Cleared
4 10 (5.32%) Degree
5 4 (2.13%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.13%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.13%) PMP
6 3 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.06%) ACCA
7 2 (1.06%) APMP
7 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.06%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.53%) CCIE
8 1 (0.53%) CCNP
8 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.53%) CISM
8 1 (0.53%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (5.32%) GDPR
2 10 (5.32%) SLA
3 8 (4.26%) NIST
4 6 (3.19%) PMO
5 5 (2.66%) GRC
5 5 (2.66%) NCSC
6 4 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.06%) GAAP
7 2 (1.06%) IFRS
7 2 (1.06%) JSP 440
7 2 (1.06%) QA
8 1 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.53%) PSD2
8 1 (0.53%) RMADS
8 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (4.26%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.66%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.06%) Docker
4 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.53%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (3.72%) NSN NetAct
2 6 (3.19%) Terraform
3 5 (2.66%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.13%) Ansible
4 4 (2.13%) PingFederate
5 3 (1.60%) Amdocs OSS
5 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.60%) SCCM
6 2 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.06%) Grafana
6 2 (1.06%) Puppet
7 1 (0.53%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 25 (13.30%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.51%) ServiceNow
3 11 (5.85%) Remedy
4 10 (5.32%) Ericsson
4 10 (5.32%) Nokia
4 10 (5.32%) SAP
5 5 (2.66%) F5
5 5 (2.66%) Oracle
5 5 (2.66%) Ping Identity
6 4 (2.13%) Google
7 3 (1.60%) Amdocs
7 3 (1.60%) Ciena
7 3 (1.60%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.60%) NetCracker
8 2 (1.06%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.06%) IBM
8 2 (1.06%) NetApp
8 2 (1.06%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.53%) Cisco
9 1 (0.53%) Ivanti