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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 35 23
Rank change year-on-year +19 -12 -3
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 246 89 209
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 7.33% 5.25% 6.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.34% 5.79% 7.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 62 125
10th Percentile £369 £361 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +1.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £775
England median daily rate £531 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -1.76% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 12
10th Percentile - £55.43 £11.87
25th Percentile £31.25 £61.58 £29.22
Median hourly rate £35.00 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% -18.75% +45.91%
75th Percentile £44.32 £67.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £61.88 £72.00 -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -21.74% -4.17% +13.78%

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 2,635 1,536 2,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 78.52% 90.67% 82.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,438 957 1,675
10th Percentile £323 £228 £222
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £625
90th Percentile £713 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 453 158 343
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.18 £13.88
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £29.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £58.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +7 90 £500 +11.11% 28
Wiltshire +26 73 £550 -5.38% 21
Gloucestershire +13 28 £425 -22.73% 27
Somerset -1 23 £538 +2.38% 14
Devon -3 20 £560 +53.42% 11
Cornwall - 2 £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 12 (4.88%) Confluence
2 4 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.81%) CMS
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (2.85%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.81%) Trello
5 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.03%) NetSuite
3 4 (1.63%) NEC Housing
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.41%) Lorenzo
5 1 (0.41%) Magento
5 1 (0.41%) Maximo
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.41%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.41%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 28 (11.38%) Azure
2 17 (6.91%) AWS
3 7 (2.85%) Power Platform
4 6 (2.44%) Entra ID
4 6 (2.44%) GCP
5 5 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (0.81%) Asana
6 2 (0.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (0.81%) Figma
6 2 (0.81%) SaaS
7 1 (0.41%) GitHub
7 1 (0.41%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.41%) Intacct
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.41%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.41%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.41%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.41%) ShareGate
7 1 (0.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.03%) 3G
1 5 (2.03%) 4G
1 5 (2.03%) 5G
2 3 (1.22%) Firewall
3 2 (0.81%) Network Security
3 2 (0.81%) NGFW
4 1 (0.41%) AMQP
4 1 (0.41%) Internet
4 1 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.85%) Power BI
2 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (1.63%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.41%) EDRMS
3 1 (0.41%) GIS
3 1 (0.41%) Looker
3 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (0.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (11.38%) JIRA
2 2 (0.81%) AdminStudio
2 2 (0.81%) InstallShield
3 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.41%) Git
3 1 (0.41%) GitLab
3 1 (0.41%) HP UFT
3 1 (0.41%) Maven
3 1 (0.41%) Selenium
3 1 (0.41%) WebDriver
General
1 122 (49.59%) Social Skills
2 48 (19.51%) Finance
3 42 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (12.20%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.69%) Telecoms
6 11 (4.47%) Manufacturing
7 10 (4.07%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.66%) Banking
9 8 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.85%) Legal
10 7 (2.85%) Local Government
10 7 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.44%) Retail
12 5 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (2.03%) Military
13 4 (1.63%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.81%) Aviation
14 2 (0.81%) Law
14 2 (0.81%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 35 (14.23%) Lead
1 35 (14.23%) Project Manager
2 33 (13.41%) Analyst
3 26 (10.57%) Architect
4 21 (8.54%) Business Analyst
5 19 (7.72%) Senior
6 12 (4.88%) Programme Manager
7 11 (4.47%) Consultant
7 11 (4.47%) Delivery Manager
7 11 (4.47%) Telecoms Manager
8 10 (4.07%) Service Manager
9 9 (3.66%) Change Manager
10 8 (3.25%) Site Manager
11 7 (2.85%) IT Manager
11 7 (2.85%) Product Manager
11 7 (2.85%) SC Cleared Project Manager
11 7 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.44%) Data Architect
12 6 (2.44%) IT Project Manager
12 6 (2.44%) Telecoms Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.44%) Leaflet
2 3 (1.22%) .NET
2 3 (1.22%) JDO
3 2 (0.81%) Android Jetpack
3 2 (0.81%) Android SDK
3 2 (0.81%) FHIR
3 2 (0.81%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (0.81%) LDAP
3 2 (0.81%) OAuth
3 2 (0.81%) OpenID
3 2 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.81%) SailPoint
3 2 (0.81%) SAML
4 1 (0.41%) OLE
4 1 (0.41%) React
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.94%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.50%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (6.50%) Onboarding
3 14 (5.69%) Blackberry
4 11 (4.47%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.85%) Operational Technology
6 6 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.44%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.03%) Cyber Security Posture
7 5 (2.03%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (2.03%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.63%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.63%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.22%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.22%) CSOC
9 3 (1.22%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.22%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.22%) NHS
9 3 (1.22%) PMI
10 2 (0.81%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.72%) Android
2 18 (7.32%) Windows
3 15 (6.10%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.63%) Linux
4 4 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.22%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.41%) CentOS
6 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.41%) VMS
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (34.55%) Agile
2 57 (23.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 53 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (17.48%) Project Management
5 42 (17.07%) Roadmaps
6 38 (15.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 32 (13.01%) PRINCE2
8 31 (12.60%) Cybersecurity
8 31 (12.60%) ITIL
9 30 (12.20%) Decision-Making
10 28 (11.38%) Change Management
10 28 (11.38%) Risk Management
10 28 (11.38%) Service Management
11 24 (9.76%) Project Delivery
12 21 (8.54%) Change Control
13 20 (8.13%) DevOps
13 20 (8.13%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 20 (8.13%) Scrum
14 19 (7.72%) Migration
14 19 (7.72%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.47%) SQL
2 5 (2.03%) Java
3 4 (1.63%) Kotlin
3 4 (1.63%) Python
4 3 (1.22%) C#
5 2 (0.81%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 114 (46.34%) Security Cleared
2 101 (41.06%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.72%) Degree
4 18 (7.32%) PMP
5 10 (4.07%) PMI Certification
6 9 (3.66%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.85%) CISM
7 7 (2.85%) CISSP
8 6 (2.44%) CRISC
9 5 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (1.63%) ACCA
10 4 (1.63%) APMP
10 4 (1.63%) CIMA
10 4 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.81%) CBAP
11 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.41%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.69%) GDPR
1 14 (5.69%) QA
2 9 (3.66%) NIST
3 8 (3.25%) JSP 440
4 7 (2.85%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.03%) NCSC
5 5 (2.03%) SLA
6 4 (1.63%) PMO
7 3 (1.22%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.81%) COBIT
8 2 (0.81%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.81%) GRC
8 2 (0.81%) HL7
8 2 (0.81%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (1.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (6.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.22%) SCCM
3 2 (0.81%) Computer Incident Response Team
3 2 (0.81%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.41%) Ansible
4 1 (0.41%) CASB
4 1 (0.41%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (0.41%) Grafana
4 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.69%) Citrix
2 14 (5.69%) MobileIron
2 14 (5.69%) VMware
3 11 (4.47%) SAP
4 9 (3.66%) Oracle
4 9 (3.66%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.44%) Remedy
6 4 (1.63%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.63%) Google
6 4 (1.63%) NEC
7 3 (1.22%) Databricks
7 3 (1.22%) F5
7 3 (1.22%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.81%) Cerner
8 2 (0.81%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.81%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.81%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.81%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.81%) Virgin Media