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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 28 18
Rank change year-on-year +11 -10 0
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Management 198 145 242
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 8.67% 6.45% 7.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.21% 7.46% 9.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 87 173
10th Percentile £400 £395 £363
25th Percentile £463 £431 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £750 £669 £650
90th Percentile £775 £760 £708
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 16
10th Percentile - £36.52 -
25th Percentile - £38.76 £33.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £48.75 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +1.56% -20.62%
75th Percentile £85.63 £65.94 £61.44
90th Percentile £93.75 £74.38 £78.58
England median hourly rate £48.75 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.22% +15.00% -3.04%

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 1,940 1,944 2,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 84.98% 86.44% 87.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 1,172 1,791
10th Percentile £258 £300 £306
25th Percentile £406 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 140 271
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.61 £20.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £35.76 £45.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £74.50 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%

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 2 December 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 2 December 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 2 December 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 +10 95 £550 +12.82% 45
Wiltshire -5 47 £600 -4.00% 17
Gloucestershire +13 27 £500 +31.15% 29
Somerset -1 13 £475 -15.56% 11
Devon +8 9 £575 +27.78% 4
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 10 (5.05%) Confluence
2 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.52%) iTrent
2 3 (1.52%) Primavera
2 3 (1.52%) SAP EWM
2 3 (1.52%) SAP WM
3 2 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.01%) SAP PM
3 2 (1.01%) SAP PP
3 2 (1.01%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.51%) Lorenzo
4 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.15%) Azure
2 22 (11.11%) AWS
3 10 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.54%) GCP
6 5 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.52%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.52%) npm
7 3 (1.52%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.52%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.52%) SaaS
7 3 (1.52%) ShareGate
7 3 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.01%) Akamai
8 2 (1.01%) GitHub
9 1 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.51%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.51%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.03%) Firewall
2 5 (2.53%) Network Security
3 3 (1.52%) AMQP
3 3 (1.52%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.52%) WAN
4 2 (1.01%) 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 (4.55%) Power BI
2 3 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.52%) RDBMS
2 3 (1.52%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.01%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.01%) Metadata
4 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (10.61%) JIRA
2 5 (2.53%) Git
3 3 (1.52%) Maven
4 2 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.01%) Rational DOORS
General
1 84 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.71%) Finance
3 35 (17.68%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (15.15%) Public Sector
5 20 (10.10%) Telecoms
6 13 (6.57%) Manufacturing
7 12 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.54%) Electronics
9 7 (3.54%) Legal
9 7 (3.54%) Marketing
9 7 (3.54%) Military
10 5 (2.53%) Local Government
10 5 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (2.02%) Aviation
12 3 (1.52%) Banking
13 2 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.51%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 45 (22.73%) Architect
2 23 (11.62%) Analyst
3 19 (9.60%) Project Manager
4 17 (8.59%) Integration Architect
4 17 (8.59%) Lead
5 13 (6.57%) Business Analyst
6 12 (6.06%) Consultant
7 11 (5.56%) IT Manager
8 10 (5.05%) Senior
9 8 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (4.04%) Support Engineer
10 7 (3.54%) Programme Manager
11 6 (3.03%) IT Services Manager
11 6 (3.03%) Service Manager
11 6 (3.03%) Technical Manager
12 5 (2.53%) Incident Manager
12 5 (2.53%) IT Project Manager
12 5 (2.53%) ITIL Manager
12 5 (2.53%) Senior Manager
12 5 (2.53%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.53%) OpenID
1 5 (2.53%) SAML
2 4 (2.02%) JDO
2 4 (2.02%) LDAP
3 2 (1.01%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.01%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.01%) Bootstrap
3 2 (1.01%) CSS
3 2 (1.01%) HTML
3 2 (1.01%) JSON
3 2 (1.01%) REST
3 2 (1.01%) SailPoint
3 2 (1.01%) SOAP
3 2 (1.01%) 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 13 (6.57%) Onboarding
2 12 (6.06%) CMDB
3 11 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.04%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.54%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.03%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.02%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.52%) FMCG
9 3 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.52%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing Execution System
10 2 (1.01%) PKI
10 2 (1.01%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.51%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.51%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.54%) Linux
1 7 (3.54%) Windows
2 4 (2.02%) VMS
3 3 (1.52%) CentOS
3 3 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.01%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (23.23%) Agile
2 42 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 35 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (14.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 28 (14.14%) ITIL
5 28 (14.14%) Project Management
6 27 (13.64%) Service Management
7 23 (11.62%) Change Management
7 23 (11.62%) Decision-Making
8 21 (10.61%) Migration
9 20 (10.10%) Logistics
9 20 (10.10%) Roadmaps
9 20 (10.10%) Service Delivery
10 19 (9.60%) Project Delivery
11 18 (9.09%) Identity Management
11 18 (9.09%) Risk Management
11 18 (9.09%) Visualisation
12 16 (8.08%) Process Improvement
12 16 (8.08%) Waterfall
13 15 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.04%) PowerShell
2 5 (2.53%) Java
3 4 (2.02%) Python
4 3 (1.52%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.52%) SQL
5 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 113 (57.07%) Security Cleared
2 94 (47.47%) SC Cleared
3 18 (9.09%) Degree
4 16 (8.08%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.04%) APMP
6 4 (2.02%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.02%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.52%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.52%) PMP
8 2 (1.01%) ACCA
8 2 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.01%) 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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.58%) GDPR
2 12 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.04%) NIST
3 8 (4.04%) PMO
4 6 (3.03%) SLA
5 5 (2.53%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.53%) NCSC
6 4 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (2.02%) GRC
6 4 (2.02%) QA
7 2 (1.01%) GAAP
7 2 (1.01%) IFRS
7 2 (1.01%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.51%) PSD2
8 1 (0.51%) RMADS
8 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (2.53%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (2.02%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.02%) Docker
3 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.51%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (3.54%) Terraform
2 6 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (2.53%) Ansible
3 5 (2.53%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.02%) PingFederate
5 3 (1.52%) Grafana
5 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.52%) SCCM
6 2 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.01%) Puppet
7 1 (0.51%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.51%) NSN NetAct
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 25 (12.63%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.07%) SAP
3 13 (6.57%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.54%) Atlassian
4 7 (3.54%) Remedy
5 5 (2.53%) Oracle
5 5 (2.53%) Ping Identity
6 4 (2.02%) F5
6 4 (2.02%) IBM
7 3 (1.52%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.52%) Google
7 3 (1.52%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.01%) NetApp
8 2 (1.01%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.51%) Cisco
9 1 (0.51%) Citrix
9 1 (0.51%) Databricks
9 1 (0.51%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.51%) Nokia
9 1 (0.51%) Zscaler