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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 354 412
Rank change year-on-year -61 +58 +60
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 189 142 130
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.58% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.63% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 91 82
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -6.96% +15.00%
75th Percentile £637 £675 £694
90th Percentile £738 £725 £747
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £575
% change year-on-year -7.36% -6.13% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile £21.34 £29.48 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.16 £32.44 £21.07
Median hourly rate £29.47 £39.25 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.91% +24.60% -44.04%
75th Percentile £34.17 £45.44 £47.83
90th Percentile £36.62 £48.03 -
UK median hourly rate £29.47 £39.25 £31.50
% change year-on-year -24.91% +24.60% -44.04%

All Process & 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 36,463 22,562 32,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.37% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,069 14,583 20,746
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +1.08% -3.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,280 1,047 2,378
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.81 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +70.91% -27.15% +7.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.75 £37.18
% change year-on-year +64.34% -28.05% +6.23%

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 15 June 2026.

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 15 June 2026.

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 15 June 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
London -36 108 £513 -5.53% 203
South East -53 29 £560 -10.40% 102
Midlands -46 15 £800 +60.00% 41
North of England -80 15 £525 +10.53% 66
East of England -21 13 £375 -42.31% 29
West Midlands -53 13 £800 +52.38% 24
North West -45 11 £447 -5.89% 42
Yorkshire -53 3 £550 +15.79% 16
South West -38 2 - - 37
East Midlands -22 1 - - 16
North East - 1 £525 - 9
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 6 (3.17%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.12%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.06%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.06%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) CICS
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.53%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 9 (4.76%) Chatbot
2 8 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 31 (16.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.17%) Sage X3
3 5 (2.65%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (2.12%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (2.12%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (2.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (2.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.53%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 35 (18.52%) Dynamics 365
2 34 (17.99%) Power Platform
3 28 (14.81%) Azure
4 15 (7.94%) Power Automate
5 12 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (6.35%) PowerApps
6 10 (5.29%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (4.23%) AWS
7 8 (4.23%) Google Workspace
7 8 (4.23%) WhatsApp
8 7 (3.70%) Miro
9 5 (2.65%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.12%) GCP
10 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.12%) Serverless
11 3 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.59%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (1.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.76%) VPN
2 8 (4.23%) Network Security
3 5 (2.65%) Firewall
3 5 (2.65%) SMS
3 5 (2.65%) WAN
4 4 (2.12%) LAN
5 3 (1.59%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (1.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (1.59%) HTTP
5 3 (1.59%) MPLS
5 3 (1.59%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.06%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.06%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.06%) VoIP
7 1 (0.53%) BGP
7 1 (0.53%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.53%) MIMO
7 1 (0.53%) OSPF
7 1 (0.53%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.47%) Power BI
2 7 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.17%) Power Query
3 6 (3.17%) ZAP BI
4 2 (1.06%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (1.06%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.06%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.06%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.06%) Tableau
4 2 (1.06%) Weaviate
5 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.65%) JIRA
2 1 (0.53%) CircleCI
2 1 (0.53%) Git
2 1 (0.53%) GitLab
General
1 68 (35.98%) Social Skills
2 43 (22.75%) Finance
3 30 (15.87%) Marketing
4 26 (13.76%) Retail
5 23 (12.17%) Public Sector
6 18 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.70%) Banking
7 7 (3.70%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.17%) Local Government
8 6 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.12%) Advertising
9 4 (2.12%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (2.12%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.59%) Legal
11 2 (1.06%) Back Office
11 2 (1.06%) Brand Awareness
11 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.06%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (19.05%) Architect
2 27 (14.29%) Consultant
3 25 (13.23%) Developer
4 21 (11.11%) Lead
5 16 (8.47%) Senior
6 13 (6.88%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 11 (5.82%) Analyst
8 9 (4.76%) Security Consultant
9 8 (4.23%) Project Manager
9 8 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.70%) Network Architect
10 7 (3.70%) Product Manager
11 6 (3.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 6 (3.17%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 6 (3.17%) Functional Consultant
11 6 (3.17%) Power BI Developer
11 6 (3.17%) Product Owner
11 6 (3.17%) Report Developer
11 6 (3.17%) SQL BI Developer
11 6 (3.17%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.82%) .NET
2 5 (2.65%) HTML
2 5 (2.65%) PyTorch
2 5 (2.65%) TensorFlow
3 4 (2.12%) HTML5 Canvas
3 4 (2.12%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (2.12%) REST
4 3 (1.59%) JSON
4 3 (1.59%) Kafka
4 3 (1.59%) Middleware
4 3 (1.59%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (1.06%) CSS
5 2 (1.06%) Faiss
5 2 (1.06%) Hugging Face
5 2 (1.06%) Keras
5 2 (1.06%) LangChain
5 2 (1.06%) PySpark
5 2 (1.06%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.06%) SOAP
6 1 (0.53%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.29%) Virtual Team
2 9 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.65%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.12%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.12%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.59%) FPGA
6 3 (1.59%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.59%) Social Media
6 3 (1.59%) Verilog
6 3 (1.59%) VHDL
7 2 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.06%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.06%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.53%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.53%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.12%) Linux
2 3 (1.59%) Embedded Linux
2 3 (1.59%) Windows
3 1 (0.53%) Android
3 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.53%) Unix
3 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (29.63%) CRM
2 40 (21.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 35 (18.52%) Analytics
3 35 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (17.99%) Agile
5 32 (16.93%) Migration
6 29 (15.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (12.70%) Customer Experience
8 21 (11.11%) AI
8 21 (11.11%) Customer Service
8 21 (11.11%) DevOps
8 21 (11.11%) Roadmaps
9 19 (10.05%) Decision-Making
9 19 (10.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 18 (9.52%) Workshop Facilitation
11 17 (8.99%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (8.99%) Use Case
12 16 (8.47%) Presales
13 15 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (7.94%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 20 (10.58%) JavaScript
2 17 (8.99%) C#
3 15 (7.94%) Python
4 14 (7.41%) SQL
5 7 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (3.17%) VBA
7 3 (1.59%) ABAP
7 3 (1.59%) C
7 3 (1.59%) C++
7 3 (1.59%) Embedded C
7 3 (1.59%) Embedded C++
7 3 (1.59%) R
8 2 (1.06%) Java
8 2 (1.06%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.06%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.53%) Bash
9 1 (0.53%) Perl
9 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.53%) X++
Qualifications
1 37 (19.58%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.70%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.82%) Degree
4 10 (5.29%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.59%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.06%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.06%) MBA
7 2 (1.06%) PMP
8 1 (0.53%) CCIE
8 1 (0.53%) CCNP
8 1 (0.53%) CCSE
8 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.53%) JNCIE
8 1 (0.53%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.53%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.23%) Data Quality
1 8 (4.23%) GDPR
2 6 (3.17%) QA
2 6 (3.17%) SLA
3 3 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.59%) NIST
4 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.53%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.53%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.53%) PMO
5 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.53%) IAG
Systems Management
1 7 (3.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 4 (2.12%) Terraform
3 2 (1.06%) Ansible
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.53%) vRealize
Vendors
1 59 (31.22%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.47%) Salesforce
3 10 (5.29%) Google
4 8 (4.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 7 (3.70%) SAP
5 7 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.17%) Oracle
6 6 (3.17%) Sage
7 5 (2.65%) Cisco
7 5 (2.65%) Pega
8 4 (2.12%) Braze
8 4 (2.12%) Databricks
8 4 (2.12%) F5
9 3 (1.59%) Intel
9 3 (1.59%) Meraki
9 3 (1.59%) Xilinx
10 2 (1.06%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.06%) Genesys
10 2 (1.06%) HubSpot
10 2 (1.06%) Juniper