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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 44 22
Rank change year-on-year +24 -22 -2
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 216 77 200
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 7.31% 4.55% 6.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.18% 5.06% 7.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 53 149
10th Percentile £377 £408 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £589 £675 £625
90th Percentile £729 £700 £751
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 7
10th Percentile £30.60 - -
25th Percentile £31.25 £65.00 £11.87
Median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £46.39
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +50.89% -21.07%
75th Percentile £93.75 £76.25 £66.08
90th Percentile £94.25 £78.50 £86.05
England median hourly rate £45.46 £60.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -24.23% +23.08% -13.56%

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 2,354 1,521 2,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 79.66% 89.89% 83.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,281 1,007 1,745
10th Percentile £310 £242 £250
25th Percentile £409 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £713
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 109 332
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.51 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.15 £50.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £47.83
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +35.90% -22.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £68.19
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £35.25 £32.81 £33.00
% change year-on-year +7.44% -0.58% -12.00%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +13 82 £512 -7.84% 23
Wiltshire +12 62 £550 - 11
Gloucestershire +16 30 £475 -32.14% 35
Somerset +6 24 £523 -0.48% 8
Devon -4 9 £556 +23.61% 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 15 (6.94%) Confluence
2 4 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (6.02%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.85%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.93%) Trello
6 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.85%) NEC Housing
1 4 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.39%) SAP EWM
2 3 (1.39%) SAP WM
3 2 (0.93%) Primavera
3 2 (0.93%) SAP PM
3 2 (0.93%) SAP PP
3 2 (0.93%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.46%) Lorenzo
4 1 (0.46%) Maximo
4 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 28 (12.96%) Azure
2 14 (6.48%) AWS
3 10 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (2.31%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.85%) GCP
7 3 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.39%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.39%) SaaS
7 3 (1.39%) ShareGate
8 2 (0.93%) Asana
8 2 (0.93%) Figma
8 2 (0.93%) GitHub
8 2 (0.93%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.93%) npm
8 2 (0.93%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.93%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.46%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.46%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.39%) Firewall
2 2 (0.93%) AMQP
2 2 (0.93%) Network Security
2 2 (0.93%) NGFW
3 1 (0.46%) 3G
3 1 (0.46%) 4G
3 1 (0.46%) 5G
3 1 (0.46%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.70%) Power BI
2 7 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.85%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (0.93%) Metadata
4 2 (0.93%) RDBMS
4 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.46%) GIS
5 1 (0.46%) Looker
5 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.46%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (15.28%) JIRA
2 4 (1.85%) Git
3 2 (0.93%) AdminStudio
3 2 (0.93%) InstallShield
3 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.93%) Maven
4 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.46%) GitLab
4 1 (0.46%) HP UFT
4 1 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.46%) Selenium
4 1 (0.46%) WebDriver
General
1 108 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 51 (23.61%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (20.37%) Finance
4 27 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.63%) Legal
6 10 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (3.70%) Local Government
8 7 (3.24%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.31%) Military
10 4 (1.85%) Aviation
10 4 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.39%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.39%) Banking
11 3 (1.39%) Retail
11 3 (1.39%) Social Housing
12 2 (0.93%) Law
12 2 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 36 (16.67%) Analyst
2 34 (15.74%) Architect
3 27 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 26 (12.04%) Business Analyst
5 17 (7.87%) Lead
6 16 (7.41%) Senior
7 11 (5.09%) Programme Manager
8 10 (4.63%) Consultant
8 10 (4.63%) Data Architect
8 10 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.17%) Service Manager
10 8 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (3.24%) Change Manager
12 6 (2.78%) Technical Manager
13 5 (2.31%) Data Analyst
13 5 (2.31%) IT Manager
13 5 (2.31%) Senior Manager
13 5 (2.31%) Support Engineer
13 5 (2.31%) Technical Programme Manager
14 4 (1.85%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.31%) Leaflet
1 5 (2.31%) OpenID
1 5 (2.31%) SAML
2 4 (1.85%) LDAP
3 3 (1.39%) JDO
4 2 (0.93%) Android Jetpack
4 2 (0.93%) Android SDK
4 2 (0.93%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.93%) Bootstrap
4 2 (0.93%) CSS
4 2 (0.93%) FHIR
4 2 (0.93%) HTML
4 2 (0.93%) Jetpack Compose
4 2 (0.93%) JSON
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.93%) REST
4 2 (0.93%) SOAP
4 2 (0.93%) XML
5 1 (0.46%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.46%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.19%) Onboarding
2 14 (6.48%) Blackberry
3 13 (6.02%) Management Information System
4 12 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.31%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.85%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.85%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.85%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.85%) PMI
9 3 (1.39%) CMDB
9 3 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.39%) NHS
9 3 (1.39%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.93%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.93%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.33%) Android
2 17 (7.87%) Windows
3 14 (6.48%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.78%) Linux
5 4 (1.85%) VMS
6 2 (0.93%) CentOS
6 2 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.93%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (32.87%) Agile
2 56 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 39 (18.06%) Project Management
5 35 (16.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 30 (13.89%) Change Management
7 28 (12.96%) Migration
8 25 (11.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 23 (10.65%) Process Improvement
9 23 (10.65%) Roadmaps
9 23 (10.65%) Scrum
10 22 (10.19%) ITIL
11 21 (9.72%) Cybersecurity
11 21 (9.72%) Decision-Making
11 21 (9.72%) PRINCE2
11 21 (9.72%) Project Delivery
11 21 (9.72%) Risk Management
12 20 (9.26%) Service Management
13 18 (8.33%) Business Analysis
13 18 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.63%) SQL
2 8 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 6 (2.78%) Java
4 4 (1.85%) Kotlin
4 4 (1.85%) Python
5 3 (1.39%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 111 (51.39%) Security Cleared
2 96 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.57%) Degree
4 11 (5.09%) PMI Certification
5 10 (4.63%) PMP
6 9 (4.17%) APMP
6 9 (4.17%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.31%) CISM
7 5 (2.31%) CISSP
7 5 (2.31%) CRISC
8 4 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.93%) ACCA
9 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.93%) CBAP
9 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.46%) CSPO
10 1 (0.46%) IIBA
10 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.57%) GDPR
2 13 (6.02%) NIST
3 12 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 12 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (5.09%) QA
5 5 (2.31%) JSP 440
6 4 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.39%) NCSC
8 2 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.93%) COBIT
8 2 (0.93%) GAAP
8 2 (0.93%) GRC
8 2 (0.93%) HL7
8 2 (0.93%) IFRS
8 2 (0.93%) PMO
8 2 (0.93%) SLA
8 2 (0.93%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (2.31%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.39%) Docker
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.85%) PingFederate
4 3 (1.39%) Terraform
5 2 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.93%) Ansible
5 2 (0.93%) Grafana
5 2 (0.93%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.48%) Citrix
2 14 (6.48%) MobileIron
2 14 (6.48%) VMware
3 9 (4.17%) Atlassian
3 9 (4.17%) SAP
4 7 (3.24%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.31%) Oracle
5 5 (2.31%) Ping Identity
6 4 (1.85%) Google
6 4 (1.85%) IBM
6 4 (1.85%) NEC
7 3 (1.39%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.39%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.39%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.93%) Cerner
8 2 (0.93%) Databricks
8 2 (0.93%) F5
8 2 (0.93%) Tenable
9 1 (0.46%) Zscaler