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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 34 20
Rank change year-on-year +13 -14 +1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 193 110 220
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 7.21% 5.89% 7.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.85% 6.66% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 63 159
10th Percentile £406 £415 £362
25th Percentile £459 £450 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -
75th Percentile £744 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £700 £751
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 13
10th Percentile £57.13 - £11.87
25th Percentile - £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +112.12% -44.71%
75th Percentile £85.31 £76.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £94.00 £78.50 £81.48
England median hourly rate £45.23 £56.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -19.95% +13.00% -8.91%

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 2,182 1,652 2,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 81.54% 88.53% 83.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,234 1,017 1,707
10th Percentile £275 £225 £275
25th Percentile £411 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £639
90th Percentile £738 £706 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 379 100 331
10th Percentile £16.50 £19.70 £14.54
25th Percentile £22.69 £47.19 £31.60
Median hourly rate £57.35 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.77% +23.81% -14.63%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile - £70.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -0.71% +0.71%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +6 87 £550 +4.76% 39
Wiltshire -6 46 £570 -1.30% 11
Gloucestershire +17 27 £500 +29.03% 19
Somerset +4 17 £500 -6.98% 10
Devon +2 7 £538 +19.44% 8
Cornwall - 1 £350 - 1
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 13 (6.74%) Confluence
2 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (7.25%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.04%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.55%) Primavera
2 3 (1.55%) SAP EWM
2 3 (1.55%) SAP WM
3 2 (1.04%) NEC Housing
3 2 (1.04%) SAP PM
3 2 (1.04%) SAP PP
3 2 (1.04%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.52%) iTrent
4 1 (0.52%) Lorenzo
4 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (12.95%) Azure
2 15 (7.77%) AWS
3 11 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (3.63%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.07%) npm
6 4 (2.07%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.55%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.55%) GCP
7 3 (1.55%) GitHub
7 3 (1.55%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.55%) SaaS
7 3 (1.55%) ShareGate
8 2 (1.04%) Asana
9 1 (0.52%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.52%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.52%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.52%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.07%) AMQP
1 4 (2.07%) Firewall
2 1 (0.52%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.52%) Network Security
2 1 (0.52%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.63%) Power BI
2 5 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.07%) RDBMS
3 4 (2.07%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.04%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.04%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.04%) Metadata
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.52%) GIS
5 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (15.03%) JIRA
2 6 (3.11%) Git
3 4 (2.07%) Maven
4 2 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.52%) GitLab
5 1 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
General
1 89 (46.11%) Social Skills
2 39 (20.21%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (17.10%) Finance
4 26 (13.47%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.25%) Telecoms
6 11 (5.70%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.15%) Legal
8 7 (3.63%) Local Government
8 7 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.59%) Military
11 4 (2.07%) Aviation
11 4 (2.07%) Electronics
11 4 (2.07%) Marketing
12 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.55%) Social Housing
13 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (18.65%) Architect
2 30 (15.54%) Analyst
3 21 (10.88%) Business Analyst
3 21 (10.88%) Project Manager
4 17 (8.81%) Integration Architect
5 14 (7.25%) Lead
6 11 (5.70%) Consultant
7 10 (5.18%) Senior
7 10 (5.18%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (4.66%) IT Manager
8 9 (4.66%) Programme Manager
8 9 (4.66%) Support Engineer
9 8 (4.15%) Service Manager
10 7 (3.63%) Change Manager
11 6 (3.11%) IT Services Manager
11 6 (3.11%) Technical Manager
12 5 (2.59%) Applications Support
12 5 (2.59%) Delivery Manager
12 5 (2.59%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
12 5 (2.59%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.59%) OpenID
1 5 (2.59%) SAML
2 4 (2.07%) JDO
2 4 (2.07%) LDAP
3 2 (1.04%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.04%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.04%) Bootstrap
3 2 (1.04%) CSS
3 2 (1.04%) HTML
3 2 (1.04%) JSON
3 2 (1.04%) REST
3 2 (1.04%) SOAP
3 2 (1.04%) XML
4 1 (0.52%) ADO
4 1 (0.52%) OAuth
4 1 (0.52%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.77%) Onboarding
2 13 (6.74%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.18%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.63%) CMDB
4 7 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.11%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.07%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.55%) Blackberry
7 3 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.55%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.55%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.04%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.04%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.04%) FMCG
8 2 (1.04%) Insider Threat
8 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 2 (1.04%) NHS
8 2 (1.04%) PMI
8 2 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.15%) Linux
2 6 (3.11%) Windows
3 4 (2.07%) CentOS
3 4 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.07%) VMS
4 3 (1.55%) Android
4 3 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (30.05%) Agile
2 46 (23.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 36 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (16.06%) Project Management
5 30 (15.54%) Change Management
5 30 (15.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 26 (13.47%) Service Management
7 24 (12.44%) ITIL
7 24 (12.44%) Logistics
7 24 (12.44%) Migration
8 22 (11.40%) Decision-Making
9 20 (10.36%) Process Improvement
9 20 (10.36%) Roadmaps
10 19 (9.84%) Identity Management
10 19 (9.84%) Visualisation
11 18 (9.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 18 (9.33%) Service Delivery
12 17 (8.81%) Scrum
13 16 (8.29%) Business Analysis
14 15 (7.77%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.63%) PowerShell
1 7 (3.63%) SQL
2 5 (2.59%) Java
3 4 (2.07%) Python
4 3 (1.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 105 (54.40%) Security Cleared
2 87 (45.08%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.84%) Degree
4 13 (6.74%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.63%) APMP
5 7 (3.63%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.59%) PMP
7 2 (1.04%) ACCA
7 2 (1.04%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.04%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.52%) CBAP
8 1 (0.52%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.52%) CISM
8 1 (0.52%) CISSP
8 1 (0.52%) CRISC
8 1 (0.52%) CSPO
8 1 (0.52%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.84%) GDPR
2 13 (6.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.18%) NIST
4 9 (4.66%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (2.07%) NCSC
5 4 (2.07%) QA
5 4 (2.07%) SLA
6 3 (1.55%) GRC
7 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.04%) COBIT
7 2 (1.04%) GAAP
7 2 (1.04%) IFRS
7 2 (1.04%) JSP 440
7 2 (1.04%) PMO
8 1 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.52%) PSD2
8 1 (0.52%) RMADS
System Software
1 5 (2.59%) Docker
2 3 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (4.15%) Terraform
2 6 (3.11%) Ansible
2 6 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (2.07%) Grafana
3 4 (2.07%) PingFederate
4 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.04%) Puppet
6 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 24 (12.44%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.70%) ServiceNow
3 9 (4.66%) Atlassian
3 9 (4.66%) SAP
4 6 (3.11%) Oracle
5 5 (2.59%) Ping Identity
6 4 (2.07%) Remedy
7 3 (1.55%) Citrix
7 3 (1.55%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.55%) IBM
7 3 (1.55%) MobileIron
7 3 (1.55%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.55%) VMware
8 2 (1.04%) Cerner
8 2 (1.04%) Databricks
8 2 (1.04%) NEC
8 2 (1.04%) NetApp
8 2 (1.04%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.52%) Google
9 1 (0.52%) Informatica