Customer Engagement Contract Job Trends in England

Customer Engagement
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Customer Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 404 428
Rank change year-on-year +48 +24 +126
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 191 100 137
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.35% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.39% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 69 76
10th Percentile £313 £338 £165
25th Percentile £425 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £567 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.29% +3.09% -3.30%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £658
90th Percentile £671 £690 £691
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 6
10th Percentile - £33.97 £23.43
25th Percentile £14.00 £43.68 £30.38
Median hourly rate £24.50 £56.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.44% +7.14% +150.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £65.69 £55.66
90th Percentile £37.25 £66.93 £56.30
UK median hourly rate £24.50 £56.25 £53.25
% change year-on-year -56.44% +5.63% +160.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Customer 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,756 25,643 33,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.83% 88.51% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,663 15,859 22,544
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,804 849 1,407
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.68
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%
75th Percentile £54.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

Customer Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Customer Engagement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Customer Engagement job vacancy trend in England

Customer Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Customer Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Customer Engagement

Customer Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Engagement in England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Engagement in England

Customer Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Customer Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Customer Engagement

Customer Engagement
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Engagement in England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Engagement in England

Customer Engagement
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London +58 108 £500 +5.26% 62
South East -18 23 £525 -6.67% 128
West Midlands -19 20 £600 +5.82% 43
Midlands -26 20 £600 +5.82% 81
North of England -36 17 £400 -29.45% 101
East of England -15 13 £625 +19.05% 81
North West -10 9 £350 - 52
Yorkshire -35 7 - - 42
South West -11 2 £463 -22.27% 58
North East - 1 £450 - 7
Customer Engagement
UK

Customer Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (2.09%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.57%) WordPress
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.52%) CMS
4 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (3.14%) Chatbot
2 5 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.57%) Notion
4 2 (1.05%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.52%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.52%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.52%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 39 (20.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.05%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.05%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.52%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.52%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.52%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.52%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 50 (26.18%) Dynamics 365
2 48 (25.13%) Azure
3 42 (21.99%) Power Platform
4 29 (15.18%) Power Automate
5 21 (10.99%) PowerApps
6 17 (8.90%) AWS
7 16 (8.38%) Azure Logic Apps
8 15 (7.85%) SaaS
9 13 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (5.24%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (3.66%) Azure Functions
11 7 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (3.66%) Serverless
12 6 (3.14%) AtomSphere
12 6 (3.14%) Boomi
12 6 (3.14%) Entra ID
12 6 (3.14%) GCP
12 6 (3.14%) Snowflake
13 5 (2.62%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 4 (2.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.24%) HTTP
2 8 (4.19%) VPN
3 6 (3.14%) WAN
4 5 (2.62%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.57%) LAN
5 3 (1.57%) Network Security
5 3 (1.57%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.05%) Firewall
6 2 (1.05%) SMS
6 2 (1.05%) VLAN
6 2 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.05%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.52%) BGP
7 1 (0.52%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.52%) DHCP
7 1 (0.52%) DNS
7 1 (0.52%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.52%) OSPF
7 1 (0.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.57%) Power BI
2 5 (2.62%) Tableau
3 4 (2.09%) BigQuery
3 4 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.05%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.52%) DB2
6 1 (0.52%) Looker
6 1 (0.52%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (1.57%) JIRA
2 2 (1.05%) Burp Suite
2 2 (1.05%) Fiddler
2 2 (1.05%) JDeveloper
2 2 (1.05%) Metasploit
2 2 (1.05%) Postman
2 2 (1.05%) sqlmap
3 1 (0.52%) Git
3 1 (0.52%) GitLab
3 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
General
1 78 (40.84%) Social Skills
2 67 (35.08%) Marketing
3 46 (24.08%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (15.71%) Finance
5 16 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.38%) Retail
6 12 (6.28%) Banking
7 7 (3.66%) Brand Awareness
7 7 (3.66%) Italian Language
8 6 (3.14%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.62%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.57%) Billing
11 3 (1.57%) Electronics
11 3 (1.57%) Legal
11 3 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.57%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.05%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.05%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (15.18%) Architect
2 25 (13.09%) Developer
3 22 (11.52%) Consultant
4 19 (9.95%) Analyst
5 13 (6.81%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 13 (6.81%) Senior
6 12 (6.28%) Project Manager
6 12 (6.28%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (5.24%) Lead
8 9 (4.71%) Senior Manager
9 8 (4.19%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 8 (4.19%) Marketing Manager
10 7 (3.66%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 7 (3.66%) Technical Architect
10 7 (3.66%) Technical Support
11 6 (3.14%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.14%) Functional Consultant
11 6 (3.14%) Integration Developer
11 6 (3.14%) Technical Manager
11 6 (3.14%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.90%) JSON
2 15 (7.85%) .NET
3 14 (7.33%) REST
4 13 (6.81%) HTML
5 9 (4.71%) SOAP
6 8 (4.19%) OAuth
7 7 (3.66%) HTML5 Canvas
8 6 (3.14%) Ajax
8 6 (3.14%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.14%) XML
9 3 (1.57%) CSS
10 2 (1.05%) .NET Core
10 2 (1.05%) ARM Templates
10 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (1.05%) Middleware
10 2 (1.05%) OpenAPI
10 2 (1.05%) RESTful
10 2 (1.05%) Swagger
10 2 (1.05%) Web Services
11 1 (0.52%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.81%) Social Media
2 11 (5.76%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.19%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (4.19%) Marketing Technology
4 7 (3.66%) Security Posture
5 6 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.14%) Web Conferencing
6 5 (2.62%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.62%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.62%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.62%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.09%) IVR
7 4 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.09%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.57%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.57%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.24%) Windows
2 5 (2.62%) Linux
3 3 (1.57%) Unix
4 2 (1.05%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (41.36%) CRM
2 58 (30.37%) Agile
3 40 (20.94%) Analytics
4 39 (20.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 35 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (17.80%) DevOps
7 27 (14.14%) Business Intelligence
7 27 (14.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 26 (13.61%) Customer Experience
9 24 (12.57%) AI
10 23 (12.04%) Customer Service
11 20 (10.47%) Validation
12 19 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (9.95%) Marketing Automation
13 18 (9.42%) CI/CD
13 18 (9.42%) Data Modelling
13 18 (9.42%) Roadmaps
14 16 (8.38%) Project Management
15 15 (7.85%) Digital Marketing
16 14 (7.33%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 24 (12.57%) JavaScript
2 23 (12.04%) C#
3 18 (9.42%) Python
4 15 (7.85%) SQL
5 10 (5.24%) Java
6 6 (3.14%) Groovy
6 6 (3.14%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.62%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.09%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.57%) Bash
9 3 (1.57%) Bicep
9 3 (1.57%) Go
10 2 (1.05%) Scala
11 1 (0.52%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.52%) C++
11 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 23 (12.04%) Degree
2 14 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (7.33%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (4.19%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.14%) GPEN
5 6 (3.14%) OSCP
6 4 (2.09%) GWAPT
7 3 (1.57%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.05%) CISSP
8 2 (1.05%) GXPN
8 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.05%) OSCE
8 2 (1.05%) SANS
9 1 (0.52%) CCIE
9 1 (0.52%) CCNP
9 1 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.52%) PMP
9 1 (0.52%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.52%) GDPR
2 11 (5.76%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.66%) QA
4 6 (3.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (2.09%) NIST
6 2 (1.05%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.05%) PMO
6 2 (1.05%) SLA
7 1 (0.52%) COBIT
7 1 (0.52%) COSO
7 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.52%) GRC
7 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (5.24%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (2.09%) Terraform
2 3 (1.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (1.05%) Ansible
3 2 (1.05%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.05%) Nessus
3 2 (1.05%) Nmap
3 2 (1.05%) SysTrack
4 1 (0.52%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 66 (34.55%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.52%) Salesforce
3 10 (5.24%) SAP
3 10 (5.24%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.66%) Google
5 6 (3.14%) Adobe
5 6 (3.14%) Databricks
6 5 (2.62%) CyberArk
6 5 (2.62%) Genesys
7 4 (2.09%) Cvent
7 4 (2.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.57%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.57%) OneTrust
8 3 (1.57%) Optimizely
8 3 (1.57%) Oracle
8 3 (1.57%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.57%) Pega
8 3 (1.57%) YouTube
9 2 (1.05%) Avaya
9 2 (1.05%) Cisco