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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 15 25
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 -8
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 370 180 179
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 9.90% 9.13% 7.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.73% 10.08% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 112 94
10th Percentile £402 £364 £368
25th Percentile £485 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £659
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 9 10
10th Percentile £17.17 £47.32 £35.03
25th Percentile £31.88 - £43.44
Median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -25.00% +64.95%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £85.00
90th Percentile £79.22 £63.50 £85.50
England median hourly rate £60.50 £49.25 £61.33
% change year-on-year +22.84% -19.70% +29.96%

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 2,906 1,786 2,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 77.74% 90.61% 83.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,612 1,016 1,242
10th Percentile £332 £213 £300
25th Percentile £450 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £735 £721 £725
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 482 271 204
10th Percentile £14.37 £15.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £48.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +8.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £72.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +3 149 £550 +1.15% 125
Wiltshire +12 108 £525 -8.70% 46
Somerset -5 38 £525 +35.48% 43
Gloucestershire 0 26 £563 +12.50% 109
Devon 0 22 £560 -2.61% 23
Dorset -8 5 £375 -25.37% 52
Cornwall - 2 - - 6
Avon - 1 - - 52
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 19 (5.14%) Confluence
2 11 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.81%) CMS
5 2 (0.54%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.27%) Apache
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.27%) Moodle
6 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.27%) Totara
Applications
1 17 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.89%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.81%) Trello
6 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.89%) NetSuite
1 7 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.62%) Oracle Payables
2 6 (1.62%) Oracle Receivables
2 6 (1.62%) SAP HR
3 4 (1.08%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.81%) Primavera
4 3 (0.81%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.54%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.54%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.54%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.54%) Sprinklr
5 2 (0.54%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.27%) Magento
6 1 (0.27%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.27%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (14.32%) Azure
2 40 (10.81%) AWS
3 19 (5.14%) Power Platform
4 18 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (4.05%) GCP
6 13 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.43%) Entra ID
8 7 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (1.89%) Snowflake
9 6 (1.62%) SaaS
10 5 (1.35%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.35%) Cloud Composer
10 5 (1.35%) Vertex AI
11 4 (1.08%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (1.08%) Cloud Run
11 4 (1.08%) dbt
11 4 (1.08%) GitHub
11 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.08%) Miro
12 3 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.24%) Firewall
2 4 (1.08%) DNS
3 3 (0.81%) 3G
3 3 (0.81%) 4G
3 3 (0.81%) 5G
3 3 (0.81%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (0.81%) DHCP
3 3 (0.81%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (0.81%) Network Security
3 3 (0.81%) WAN
3 3 (0.81%) Wireless
4 2 (0.54%) Asterisk PBX
4 2 (0.54%) ATM
4 2 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (0.54%) LAN
4 2 (0.54%) NX-OS
4 2 (0.54%) PABX
5 1 (0.27%) CTI
5 1 (0.27%) Internet
5 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.78%) Power BI
2 8 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (2.16%) Metadata
3 6 (1.62%) Looker
3 6 (1.62%) Tableau
4 5 (1.35%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (1.08%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.81%) EDRMS
6 3 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.54%) GIS
7 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.27%) Flink
8 1 (0.27%) MySQL
8 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.27%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 36 (9.73%) JIRA
2 3 (0.81%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.27%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.27%) Gatling
4 1 (0.27%) Git
4 1 (0.27%) GitLab
4 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.27%) Maven
4 1 (0.27%) Postman
4 1 (0.27%) Selenium
4 1 (0.27%) Snyk
4 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 221 (59.73%) Social Skills
2 68 (18.38%) Finance
2 68 (18.38%) Public Sector
3 39 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.57%) Influencing Skills
5 20 (5.41%) Manufacturing
6 18 (4.86%) Aerospace
7 15 (4.05%) Military
8 14 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (3.51%) Banking
9 13 (3.51%) Telecoms
10 12 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (2.70%) Retail
12 8 (2.16%) General Ledger
13 7 (1.89%) Aviation
13 7 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.62%) Legal
14 6 (1.62%) Marketing
14 6 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 64 (17.30%) Architect
2 60 (16.22%) Lead
3 44 (11.89%) Analyst
4 40 (10.81%) Project Manager
5 32 (8.65%) Senior
6 29 (7.84%) Business Analyst
7 19 (5.14%) Consultant
8 13 (3.51%) Product Manager
8 13 (3.51%) Product Owner
8 13 (3.51%) Senior Manager
8 13 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (3.24%) Delivery Manager
10 9 (2.43%) Change Manager
10 9 (2.43%) Digital Product Manager
10 9 (2.43%) IT Manager
10 9 (2.43%) Programme Manager
10 9 (2.43%) Scrum Master
11 8 (2.16%) Coordinator
12 7 (1.89%) Technical Leader
13 6 (1.62%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.49%) LDAP
2 16 (4.32%) Terraform
3 5 (1.35%) REST
4 4 (1.08%) ADO
4 4 (1.08%) OpenID
4 4 (1.08%) React
4 4 (1.08%) SAML
4 4 (1.08%) SOAP
5 3 (0.81%) .NET
5 3 (0.81%) HTML
5 3 (0.81%) Middleware
5 3 (0.81%) OAuth
5 3 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.81%) Spring
5 3 (0.81%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.54%) FHIR
6 2 (0.54%) Loki
6 2 (0.54%) ModSecurity
6 2 (0.54%) Playwright
6 2 (0.54%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 36 (9.73%) Product Ownership
3 25 (6.76%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (5.41%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.24%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.16%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (1.62%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.35%) Cyber Security Posture
8 5 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.35%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.35%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.08%) CSOC
9 4 (1.08%) FMCG
9 4 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.08%) Life Science
9 4 (1.08%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.81%) CMDB
10 3 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.05%) Windows
2 8 (2.16%) Linux
3 5 (1.35%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.81%) Unix
5 2 (0.54%) VMS
6 1 (0.27%) Android
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (28.38%) Agile
2 90 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 64 (17.30%) Decision-Making
4 60 (16.22%) Roadmaps
5 54 (14.59%) Technical Leadership
6 53 (14.32%) Project Delivery
7 51 (13.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 46 (12.43%) AI
9 45 (12.16%) Mentoring
10 44 (11.89%) DevOps
10 44 (11.89%) Project Management
11 43 (11.62%) Migration
12 41 (11.08%) Analytics
12 41 (11.08%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
14 36 (9.73%) PRINCE2
15 35 (9.46%) ITSM
16 33 (8.92%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 33 (8.92%) ITIL
17 31 (8.38%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (7.03%) SQL
2 16 (4.32%) Python
3 8 (2.16%) Java
4 5 (1.35%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.08%) Bash
5 4 (1.08%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.08%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.54%) PHP
7 1 (0.27%) C#
7 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.27%) LookML
Qualifications
1 155 (41.89%) Security Cleared
2 84 (22.70%) SC Cleared
3 61 (16.49%) DV Cleared
4 18 (4.86%) Degree
5 14 (3.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.24%) PMP
7 9 (2.43%) CISSP
8 7 (1.89%) ACCA
8 7 (1.89%) CIMA
9 6 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.62%) CISM
10 5 (1.35%) CIPD
11 4 (1.08%) CCNP
12 3 (0.81%) APMG
12 3 (0.81%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (0.81%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.03%) Data Quality
1 26 (7.03%) NIST
2 25 (6.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (6.22%) QA
4 16 (4.32%) GDPR
4 16 (4.32%) PMO
5 7 (1.89%) GRC
5 7 (1.89%) NCSC
6 5 (1.35%) JSP 440
7 4 (1.08%) Def Stans
7 4 (1.08%) SLA
8 2 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.54%) DICOM
8 2 (0.54%) HL7
8 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 1 (0.27%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.27%) ITGC
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 27 (7.30%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.62%) Docker
2 6 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.54%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.54%) vSphere
4 1 (0.27%) Firmware
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (1.62%) SCCM
2 5 (1.35%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.81%) Ansible
4 2 (0.54%) Argo
4 2 (0.54%) BMC PATROL
4 2 (0.54%) BMC Performance Manager
4 2 (0.54%) Computer Incident Response Team
4 2 (0.54%) Grafana
4 2 (0.54%) Perfmon
5 1 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.27%) CASB
5 1 (0.27%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.27%) Nessus
5 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.03%) Oracle
3 25 (6.76%) CyberArk
4 18 (4.86%) SAP
5 10 (2.70%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.16%) Google
6 8 (2.16%) Workday
7 7 (1.89%) Pega
7 7 (1.89%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.62%) Cisco
8 6 (1.62%) Databricks
8 6 (1.62%) VMware
9 4 (1.08%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.08%) Remedy
10 2 (0.54%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.54%) F5
10 2 (0.54%) Foundry
10 2 (0.54%) Palantir
10 2 (0.54%) Sage
10 2 (0.54%) Splunk