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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 32 20
Rank change year-on-year +13 -12 -1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 190 119 210
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 7.51% 6.17% 7.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.18% 6.97% 8.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 67 145
10th Percentile £406 £393 £360
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +3.53%
75th Percentile £747 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £700 £725
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 16
10th Percentile £57.13 - £11.87
25th Percentile - £65.00 £33.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £41.20
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +69.92% -30.97%
75th Percentile £85.31 £76.25 £61.44
90th Percentile £94.00 £78.50 £78.58
England median hourly rate £40.76 £56.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -27.87% +13.00% -4.24%

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 2,069 1,708 2,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 81.81% 88.50% 84.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,200 1,039 1,660
10th Percentile £263 £246 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £706 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 107 291
10th Percentile £15.74 £18.51 £15.17
25th Percentile £21.87 £41.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £65.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -32.31% +15.06% -8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - £72.35 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £38.16
% change year-on-year -28.14% -8.27% +9.67%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 21 January 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 +8 85 £550 +10.00% 31
Wiltshire -7 45 £570 -0.87% 15
Gloucestershire +16 27 £500 +45.45% 18
Somerset +1 17 £525 -2.33% 16
Devon +2 7 £625 +38.89% 22
Cornwall - 1 £350 - 10
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 (6.84%) Confluence
2 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (6.32%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.58%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.58%) Primavera
2 3 (1.58%) SAP EWM
2 3 (1.58%) SAP WM
3 2 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.05%) SAP PM
3 2 (1.05%) SAP PP
3 2 (1.05%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.53%) iTrent
4 1 (0.53%) Lorenzo
4 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 24 (12.63%) Azure
2 16 (8.42%) AWS
3 10 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (4.21%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.11%) npm
6 4 (2.11%) OpenShift
6 4 (2.11%) SaaS
7 3 (1.58%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.58%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.58%) GCP
7 3 (1.58%) GitHub
7 3 (1.58%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.58%) ShareGate
7 3 (1.58%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.53%) Miro
8 1 (0.53%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.11%) AMQP
2 3 (1.58%) Firewall
3 1 (0.53%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.21%) Power BI
2 5 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.11%) RDBMS
3 4 (2.11%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.05%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.05%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.05%) Metadata
5 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.53%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (13.68%) JIRA
2 6 (3.16%) Git
3 4 (2.11%) Maven
4 2 (1.05%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.53%) GitLab
5 1 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
General
1 86 (45.26%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.95%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (17.89%) Finance
4 28 (14.74%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.42%) Telecoms
6 13 (6.84%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.68%) Legal
7 7 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.16%) Electronics
8 6 (3.16%) Marketing
9 5 (2.63%) Local Government
9 5 (2.63%) Military
10 4 (2.11%) Aviation
11 3 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.58%) Social Housing
12 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (17.89%) Architect
2 28 (14.74%) Analyst
3 21 (11.05%) Project Manager
4 20 (10.53%) Business Analyst
5 17 (8.95%) Integration Architect
6 14 (7.37%) Lead
7 12 (6.32%) Consultant
8 10 (5.26%) IT Manager
9 9 (4.74%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.74%) Support Engineer
10 8 (4.21%) Programme Manager
10 8 (4.21%) Senior
10 8 (4.21%) Service Manager
11 7 (3.68%) Change Manager
12 6 (3.16%) IT Services Manager
12 6 (3.16%) Technical Manager
13 5 (2.63%) Applications Support
13 5 (2.63%) Delivery Manager
13 5 (2.63%) Incident Manager
13 5 (2.63%) ITIL Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.63%) OpenID
1 5 (2.63%) SAML
2 4 (2.11%) JDO
2 4 (2.11%) LDAP
3 2 (1.05%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.05%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.05%) Bootstrap
3 2 (1.05%) CSS
3 2 (1.05%) HTML
3 2 (1.05%) JSON
3 2 (1.05%) REST
3 2 (1.05%) SOAP
3 2 (1.05%) XML
4 1 (0.53%) ADO
4 1 (0.53%) OAuth
4 1 (0.53%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.37%) Onboarding
2 10 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 10 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.74%) CMDB
4 5 (2.63%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.11%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.58%) FMCG
6 3 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.58%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.05%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.05%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.05%) Insider Threat
7 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 2 (1.05%) NHS
7 2 (1.05%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.05%) PMI
8 1 (0.53%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.21%) Linux
2 4 (2.11%) CentOS
2 4 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.11%) VMS
3 3 (1.58%) Windows
4 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (28.95%) Agile
2 46 (24.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 33 (17.37%) Project Management
3 33 (17.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 31 (16.32%) Change Management
4 31 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (14.21%) Service Management
6 26 (13.68%) ITIL
7 25 (13.16%) Migration
8 24 (12.63%) Logistics
9 23 (12.11%) Decision-Making
10 22 (11.58%) Roadmaps
11 21 (11.05%) Service Delivery
12 19 (10.00%) Identity Management
13 18 (9.47%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 18 (9.47%) Visualisation
14 17 (8.95%) Process Improvement
15 16 (8.42%) Business Analysis
16 15 (7.89%) Project Delivery
17 14 (7.37%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.68%) PowerShell
2 5 (2.63%) Java
2 5 (2.63%) SQL
3 3 (1.58%) JavaScript
3 3 (1.58%) Python
Qualifications
1 103 (54.21%) Security Cleared
2 84 (44.21%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.42%) Degree
4 13 (6.84%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.21%) APMP
6 5 (2.63%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.58%) PMP
8 2 (1.05%) ACCA
8 2 (1.05%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.53%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.53%) CISM
9 1 (0.53%) CISSP
9 1 (0.53%) CITP
9 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.53%) CRISC
9 1 (0.53%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.42%) GDPR
2 12 (6.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.74%) NIST
4 7 (3.68%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (2.11%) NCSC
5 4 (2.11%) PMO
5 4 (2.11%) SLA
6 3 (1.58%) QA
7 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.05%) COBIT
7 2 (1.05%) GAAP
7 2 (1.05%) GRC
7 2 (1.05%) IFRS
7 2 (1.05%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.53%) PSD2
8 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (2.63%) Docker
2 3 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (4.21%) Terraform
2 6 (3.16%) Ansible
2 6 (3.16%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (2.11%) Grafana
3 4 (2.11%) PingFederate
4 2 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.05%) Puppet
5 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 21 (11.05%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.84%) SAP
3 11 (5.79%) ServiceNow
4 9 (4.74%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.68%) Remedy
6 6 (3.16%) Oracle
7 5 (2.63%) Ping Identity
8 3 (1.58%) IBM
8 3 (1.58%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.05%) Cerner
9 2 (1.05%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.05%) NetApp
10 1 (0.53%) BMC
10 1 (0.53%) Databricks
10 1 (0.53%) F5
10 1 (0.53%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.53%) Informatica
10 1 (0.53%) Liquidlogic
10 1 (0.53%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.53%) Zscaler