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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 27 20
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 195 155 242
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 8.91% 6.47% 7.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.19% 7.61% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 97 175
10th Percentile £393 £388 £363
25th Percentile £463 £425 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +6.79%
75th Percentile £750 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £753 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 17
10th Percentile - £36.52 -
25th Percentile - £38.76 £33.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £48.75 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +0.52% -24.95%
75th Percentile £85.63 £65.94 £57.33
90th Percentile £93.75 £74.38 £73.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £60.00 £51.42
% change year-on-year -20.83% +16.69% -4.23%

All Process and 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 1,914 2,038 2,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 87.44% 85.06% 87.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,123 1,221 1,856
10th Percentile £230 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £628 £640 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £720
England median daily rate £507 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 145 283
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £20.05
25th Percentile £18.87 £33.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £63.94 £70.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £74.26 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.48% -16.29% +27.14%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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 +14 96 £550 +10.00% 58
Wiltshire -2 41 £600 -4.00% 17
Gloucestershire +12 31 £475 -13.64% 50
Somerset +1 16 £450 -5.26% 14
Devon +7 8 £575 +27.78% 6
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 7 (3.59%) Confluence
2 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.54%) iTrent
1 3 (1.54%) Primavera
1 3 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.03%) SAP EWM
2 2 (1.03%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.51%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.51%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.51%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.38%) Azure
2 23 (11.79%) AWS
3 10 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (4.62%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.59%) GCP
7 4 (2.05%) SaaS
8 3 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.54%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.54%) npm
8 3 (1.54%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.54%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.54%) ShareGate
8 3 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.03%) Akamai
9 2 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.03%) GitHub
9 2 (1.03%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.51%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.08%) Firewall
2 5 (2.56%) Network Security
3 3 (1.54%) AMQP
3 3 (1.54%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.54%) VoIP
3 3 (1.54%) WAN
4 2 (1.03%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.51%) BGP
5 1 (0.51%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.51%) MPLS
5 1 (0.51%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.51%) OSPF
5 1 (0.51%) VLAN
5 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.62%) Power BI
2 4 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.54%) RDBMS
3 3 (1.54%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.03%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.03%) Metadata
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (8.21%) JIRA
2 5 (2.56%) Git
3 3 (1.54%) Maven
4 2 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.03%) Rational DOORS
General
1 74 (37.95%) Social Skills
2 43 (22.05%) Finance
3 30 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 29 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (11.28%) Telecoms
6 12 (6.15%) Manufacturing
7 11 (5.64%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.59%) Electronics
8 7 (3.59%) Legal
8 7 (3.59%) Marketing
8 7 (3.59%) Military
8 7 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.56%) Local Government
10 5 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (2.05%) Aviation
12 3 (1.54%) Banking
13 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.51%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 45 (23.08%) Architect
2 22 (11.28%) Analyst
3 20 (10.26%) Project Manager
4 18 (9.23%) Lead
5 17 (8.72%) Integration Architect
6 12 (6.15%) Business Analyst
7 11 (5.64%) Consultant
7 11 (5.64%) Senior
7 11 (5.64%) Support Engineer
8 10 (5.13%) IT Manager
9 7 (3.59%) Technical Engineer
9 7 (3.59%) Technical Support
9 7 (3.59%) Technical Support Engineer
10 6 (3.08%) IT Services Manager
10 6 (3.08%) Service Manager
10 6 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.56%) Data Architect
11 5 (2.56%) ITIL Manager
11 5 (2.56%) Programme Manager
11 5 (2.56%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.56%) OpenID
1 5 (2.56%) SAML
2 4 (2.05%) JDO
2 4 (2.05%) LDAP
3 2 (1.03%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.03%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.03%) Bootstrap
3 2 (1.03%) CSS
3 2 (1.03%) HTML
3 2 (1.03%) JSON
3 2 (1.03%) REST
3 2 (1.03%) SailPoint
3 2 (1.03%) SOAP
3 2 (1.03%) XML
4 1 (0.51%) ADO
4 1 (0.51%) Next.js
4 1 (0.51%) OAuth
4 1 (0.51%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.51%) React
4 1 (0.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.15%) CMDB
1 12 (6.15%) Onboarding
2 10 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.10%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.59%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.08%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.56%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.54%) FMCG
8 3 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.54%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 2 (1.03%) PKI
9 2 (1.03%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) PMI
10 1 (0.51%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.51%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.13%) Windows
2 7 (3.59%) Linux
3 4 (2.05%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.54%) CentOS
4 3 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.54%) VMS
5 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (19.49%) Agile
2 36 (18.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 33 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (14.87%) Service Management
5 28 (14.36%) ITIL
6 25 (12.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 23 (11.79%) Service Delivery
8 22 (11.28%) Decision-Making
8 22 (11.28%) Project Management
9 21 (10.77%) Migration
10 19 (9.74%) Logistics
10 19 (9.74%) Roadmaps
11 18 (9.23%) Change Management
11 18 (9.23%) Identity Management
11 18 (9.23%) Risk Management
11 18 (9.23%) Visualisation
12 17 (8.72%) Project Delivery
13 15 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
14 14 (7.18%) AI
14 14 (7.18%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.10%) PowerShell
2 5 (2.56%) Java
3 4 (2.05%) Python
4 3 (1.54%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.54%) SQL
5 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 106 (54.36%) Security Cleared
2 88 (45.13%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 14 (7.18%) Degree
5 5 (2.56%) APMP
6 4 (2.05%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.03%) ACCA
8 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.03%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.03%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.51%) CCIE
9 1 (0.51%) CCNP
9 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.51%) CISM
9 1 (0.51%) CISSP
9 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.69%) GDPR
2 12 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.62%) SLA
4 8 (4.10%) NIST
5 7 (3.59%) PMO
6 6 (3.08%) NCSC
7 5 (2.56%) Data Quality
8 4 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (2.05%) GRC
9 2 (1.03%) GAAP
9 2 (1.03%) IFRS
9 2 (1.03%) JSP 440
9 2 (1.03%) QA
10 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.51%) PSD2
10 1 (0.51%) RMADS
10 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (3.59%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.05%) Docker
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.51%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (3.59%) Terraform
2 5 (2.56%) Ansible
2 5 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (2.05%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.05%) PingFederate
4 3 (1.54%) Grafana
4 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.54%) NSN NetAct
4 3 (1.54%) SCCM
5 2 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.03%) Puppet
6 1 (0.51%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 25 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 13 (6.67%) SAP
4 10 (5.13%) Remedy
5 6 (3.08%) Oracle
6 5 (2.56%) Ping Identity
7 4 (2.05%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.05%) F5
8 3 (1.54%) Ericsson
8 3 (1.54%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.54%) Google
8 3 (1.54%) IBM
8 3 (1.54%) Nokia
8 3 (1.54%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.03%) NetApp
9 2 (1.03%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.51%) Databricks
10 1 (0.51%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.51%) Informatica
10 1 (0.51%) Zscaler