Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in South London

Stakeholder Engagement
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 35 39
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +21
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 14 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in South London 7.04% 1.74% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.14% 1.96% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 4
10th Percentile - - £438
25th Percentile £500 - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £583 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +1.39% +12.20%
75th Percentile £538 £664 £609
90th Percentile £582 £713 £626
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South London

Stakeholder Engagement 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 172 204 221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 86.43% 88.70% 87.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 139 152
10th Percentile £300 £235 £185
25th Percentile £450 £413 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £566 £600 £600
90th Percentile £646 £788 £675
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 17
10th Percentile £54.39 £32.72 £15.35
25th Percentile £54.55 £55.91 £19.25
Median hourly rate £58.94 £73.60 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.93% +213.19% -46.42%
75th Percentile £66.50 £79.60 £46.85
90th Percentile - £81.76 £58.93
London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in South London

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in South London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in South London

Stakeholder Engagement
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement within the South London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Croydon +5 9 £513 -12.09%
Stakeholder Engagement
London

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 4 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 7 (50.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 7 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 7 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 7 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 7 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 7 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 7 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 7 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 7 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 7 (50.00%) GitHub
2 7 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (35.71%) AWS
3 5 (35.71%) Azure App Service
3 5 (35.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (35.71%) Azure Functions
3 5 (35.71%) Serverless
4 3 (21.43%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 7 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Azure Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Backend Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Associate Director
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Implementation Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Implementation Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Security Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) .NET
1 7 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 7 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 7 (50.00%) Node.js
1 7 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 7 (50.00%) React
1 7 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) AI Agents
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
3 7 (50.00%) AI
3 7 (50.00%) DevOps
3 7 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 7 (50.00%) Microservices
3 7 (50.00%) RBAC
4 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (35.71%) Analytics
5 5 (35.71%) API Management
5 5 (35.71%) Compliance Management
5 5 (35.71%) Data Encryption
5 5 (35.71%) Data Science
5 5 (35.71%) Deep Learning
6 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
6 4 (28.57%) OWASP
6 4 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (28.57%) Security Testing
6 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Bicep
1 7 (50.00%) C#
1 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) CEH
2 4 (28.57%) CREST Certified
2 4 (28.57%) OSCP
3 3 (21.43%) SANS
4 1 (7.14%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (28.57%) NIST
1 4 (28.57%) NIST 800
2 1 (7.14%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Docker
2 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 8 (57.14%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Consul
2 1 (7.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Databricks
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (50.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (7.14%) NEC