Customer Engagement Contracts

Customer Engagement
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Customer Engagement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Customer Engagement over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 453 532 559
Rank change year-on-year +79 +27 -70
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 145 188 304
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.31% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.35% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 128 189
10th Percentile £350 £325 £390
25th Percentile £488 £398 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £573
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.30% +21.04%
75th Percentile £690 £626 £643
90th Percentile £723 £669 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 10
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.75 £20.07
25th Percentile £21.07 £20.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £52.15 £34.88
Median % change year-on-year -39.59% +49.51% -35.41%
75th Percentile £47.83 £56.29 £54.63
90th Percentile - £56.30 £59.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £56.29 £51.38
% change year-on-year -52.03% +9.56% +2.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Customer Engagement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Customer Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Customer Engagement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Engagement in the UK

Customer Engagement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer Engagement.

Daily rate trend for Customer Engagement in the UK

Customer Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Engagement over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Engagement in the UK

Customer Engagement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer Engagement.

Hourly rate trend for Customer Engagement in the UK

Customer Engagement
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Engagement over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Engagement in the UK

Customer Engagement
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Engagement within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +101 129 £600 +19.17% 227
UK excluding London +71 85 £650 +30.00% 141
Work from Home +124 58 £600 +9.09% 103
London +69 48 £550 +8.48% 87
South East +22 27 £550 +10.00% 40
South West +31 21 £663 -5.36% 14
North of England +42 17 £663 +6.85% 38
North West +29 16 £663 +18.83% 21
Scotland +26 7 £588 +6.82% 8
East of England +22 7 £616 +54.04% 17
Midlands +16 5 £575 +35.29% 20
West Midlands +28 4 £575 +39.39% 15
Yorkshire +16 1 £575 -11.54% 11
East Midlands +13 1 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £640 - 5

Customer Engagement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.14%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.07%) CMS
3 2 (1.38%) IBM Notes
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.69%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.38%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.38%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (5.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.76%) SAP SD
4 2 (1.38%) SAP HCM
4 2 (1.38%) SAP HR
4 2 (1.38%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.69%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.69%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 21 (14.48%) Dynamics 365
2 20 (13.79%) AWS
3 18 (12.41%) Azure
4 14 (9.66%) Power Platform
5 12 (8.28%) SaaS
6 11 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (6.21%) Amazon ECR
7 9 (6.21%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (6.21%) Amazon S3
7 9 (6.21%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (6.21%) Power Automate
7 9 (6.21%) Route 53
7 9 (6.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (4.83%) PaaS
9 6 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.07%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 2 (1.38%) Boomi
11 2 (1.38%) GitHub
11 2 (1.38%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.83%) PBX
1 7 (4.83%) VoIP
1 7 (4.83%) WAN
2 6 (4.14%) SDH
3 4 (2.76%) Junos
4 3 (2.07%) HTTP
5 2 (1.38%) SMS
5 2 (1.38%) Wireless
6 1 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.69%) DHCP
6 1 (0.69%) DNS
6 1 (0.69%) Firewall
6 1 (0.69%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.69%) Internet
6 1 (0.69%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.69%) NAS
6 1 (0.69%) Network Security
6 1 (0.69%) SAN
6 1 (0.69%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.52%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.07%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.38%) Power BI
4 1 (0.69%) Big Data
4 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (13.10%) Rational DOORS
2 11 (7.59%) GitLab
3 9 (6.21%) webpack
4 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.69%) NUnit
General
1 34 (23.45%) Social Skills
2 33 (22.76%) Finance
3 26 (17.93%) Marketing
4 19 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (12.41%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (9.66%) Telecoms
7 12 (8.28%) Public Sector
8 11 (7.59%) Retail
9 7 (4.83%) Digital Economy
10 6 (4.14%) Aerospace
10 6 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (4.14%) German Language
11 4 (2.76%) Aeronautics
11 4 (2.76%) Law
11 4 (2.76%) Military
12 3 (2.07%) Billing
13 2 (1.38%) Banking
13 2 (1.38%) French Language
13 2 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (20.00%) Architect
2 24 (16.55%) Consultant
3 21 (14.48%) Solutions Architect
4 19 (13.10%) Senior
5 17 (11.72%) Lead
6 12 (8.28%) Systems Engineer
7 10 (6.90%) Functional Consultant
8 9 (6.21%) Project Manager
9 8 (5.52%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 8 (5.52%) Technical Leader
10 7 (4.83%) Analyst
10 7 (4.83%) Bid Manager
10 7 (4.83%) SAP Consultant
11 6 (4.14%) DOORS Engineer
11 6 (4.14%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 6 (4.14%) Integration Engineer
11 6 (4.14%) Senior Integration Engineer
11 6 (4.14%) Software Integration Engineer
11 6 (4.14%) Systems Integration Engineer
12 5 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.34%) Node.js
2 14 (9.66%) React
3 11 (7.59%) Express.js
4 9 (6.21%) CSS
4 9 (6.21%) HTML
4 9 (6.21%) Redux
5 4 (2.76%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (2.76%) Middleware
6 3 (2.07%) OAuth
6 3 (2.07%) OAuth2
6 3 (2.07%) OpenID
6 3 (2.07%) REST
6 3 (2.07%) SAML
7 2 (1.38%) DOM
8 1 (0.69%) .NET
8 1 (0.69%) DCOM
8 1 (0.69%) LDAP
8 1 (0.69%) RESTful
8 1 (0.69%) Visualforce
8 1 (0.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.52%) Video Conferencing
2 7 (4.83%) Blackberry
3 6 (4.14%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.45%) Digital Media
5 4 (2.76%) Taxonomies
6 3 (2.07%) Social Media
7 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.38%) FMCG
7 2 (1.38%) IVR
7 2 (1.38%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.38%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.38%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.69%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.69%) Handset
8 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.69%) Mobile Games
8 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.69%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.97%) Windows
2 8 (5.52%) Unix
3 1 (0.69%) Android
3 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.69%) Windows 7
3 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (22.76%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (19.31%) ITIL
3 26 (17.93%) Roadmaps
4 23 (15.86%) Agile
5 22 (15.17%) CRM
5 22 (15.17%) Customer Requirements
6 21 (14.48%) Decision-Making
6 21 (14.48%) Strategic Roadmap
7 20 (13.79%) Customer Service
8 19 (13.10%) Collaborative Working
8 19 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (12.41%) Enterprise Architecture
9 18 (12.41%) Process Improvement
10 16 (11.03%) DevOps
11 15 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (9.66%) Scrum
12 14 (9.66%) TOGAF
12 14 (9.66%) Validation
13 13 (8.97%) BPMN
13 13 (8.97%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.21%) JavaScript
2 6 (4.14%) Java
3 5 (3.45%) Python
4 4 (2.76%) C#
5 3 (2.07%) PHP
5 3 (2.07%) Ruby
6 2 (1.38%) C++
6 2 (1.38%) SQL
7 1 (0.69%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.69%) Go
7 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 38 (26.21%) Security Cleared
2 32 (22.07%) Degree
3 24 (16.55%) SC Cleared
4 16 (11.03%) DV Cleared
5 13 (8.97%) HND
6 11 (7.59%) TOGAF Certification
7 9 (6.21%) CCNP
7 9 (6.21%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (5.52%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (5.52%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.76%) JNCIA
10 3 (2.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.38%) CCNA
11 2 (1.38%) HNC
11 2 (1.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.69%) CCIE
12 1 (0.69%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.28%) QA
2 8 (5.52%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.07%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.07%) GDPR
4 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.69%) NIST
4 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.76%) Docker
2 3 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.38%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (6.21%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.07%) Terraform
3 1 (0.69%) Ansible
3 1 (0.69%) Istio
3 1 (0.69%) Nessus
3 1 (0.69%) SCCM
3 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.69%) WMI
3 1 (0.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.34%) Cisco
3 13 (8.97%) Juniper
3 13 (8.97%) Nokia
4 12 (8.28%) IBM
5 11 (7.59%) SAP
6 10 (6.90%) Google
7 8 (5.52%) Salesforce
8 7 (4.83%) Avaya
8 7 (4.83%) Ericsson
8 7 (4.83%) Ribbon
9 5 (3.45%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.76%) Ciena
10 4 (2.76%) VMware
11 2 (1.38%) Adobe
11 2 (1.38%) Dell
11 2 (1.38%) Lotus
11 2 (1.38%) Marketo
11 2 (1.38%) Pardot
11 2 (1.38%) UiPath