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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 368 409
Rank change year-on-year -15 +41 +108
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 205 104 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.43% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.47% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 71 89
10th Percentile £350 £275 £390
25th Percentile £413 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% -9.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £597 £650 £694
90th Percentile £742 £688 £720
UK median daily rate £500 £535 £600
% change year-on-year -6.54% -10.83% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 11
10th Percentile - - £14.00
25th Percentile - £27.50 £21.07
Median hourly rate £14.00 £41.25 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.06% +30.95% -44.04%
75th Percentile £17.97 £58.19 £47.83
90th Percentile £51.16 £62.28 -
UK median hourly rate £14.00 £41.25 £31.50
% change year-on-year -66.06% +30.95% -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 32,391 22,052 32,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.35% 90.83% 86.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,759 14,493 21,652
10th Percentile £313 £312 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,980 839 2,155
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.56 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.25 £32.81 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -0.58% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £75.44 £77.25 £71.89
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year - - -9.72%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -21 109 £500 -6.54% 101
South East -26 31 £525 -2.33% 59
Midlands -45 28 £600 +14.29% 24
West Midlands -30 26 £600 +6.67% 16
East of England -26 15 £375 -42.31% 20
North of England -58 15 £444 -1.44% 39
North West -31 10 £444 -1.44% 22
Yorkshire - 5 - - 14
South West -28 2 - - 21
East Midlands -33 1 - - 8
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 7 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.95%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.46%) Confluence
3 3 (1.46%) WordPress
4 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) CMS
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (4.39%) Chatbot
2 8 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.46%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.46%) Notion
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.49%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 42 (20.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.93%) Sage X3
3 4 (1.95%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (1.95%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.95%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.98%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.49%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 50 (24.39%) Dynamics 365
2 44 (21.46%) Azure
2 44 (21.46%) Power Platform
3 25 (12.20%) Power Automate
4 18 (8.78%) PowerApps
5 15 (7.32%) Azure Logic Apps
6 14 (6.83%) AWS
7 13 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (5.37%) SaaS
9 8 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.90%) WhatsApp
10 7 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (3.41%) Azure Functions
10 7 (3.41%) Google Workspace
10 7 (3.41%) Miro
10 7 (3.41%) Serverless
11 6 (2.93%) AtomSphere
11 6 (2.93%) Boomi
12 5 (2.44%) PaaS
13 4 (1.95%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.34%) VPN
2 11 (5.37%) HTTP
3 10 (4.88%) WAN
4 8 (3.90%) Network Security
4 8 (3.90%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.41%) LAN
6 5 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.95%) Firewall
7 4 (1.95%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.46%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (1.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.98%) BGP
9 2 (0.98%) BIG-IP
9 2 (0.98%) OSPF
9 2 (0.98%) SMS
10 1 (0.49%) DHCP
10 1 (0.49%) DNS
10 1 (0.49%) SSH
10 1 (0.49%) VoIP
10 1 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.22%) Power BI
2 8 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.93%) Power Query
3 6 (2.93%) ZAP BI
4 4 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.98%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (0.98%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.98%) Pinecone
5 2 (0.98%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.98%) Tableau
5 2 (0.98%) Weaviate
6 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.49%) DB2
6 1 (0.49%) Looker
6 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (1.46%) JIRA
2 2 (0.98%) JDeveloper
3 1 (0.49%) Fiddler
3 1 (0.49%) Git
General
1 89 (43.41%) Social Skills
2 46 (22.44%) Finance
3 40 (19.51%) Marketing
4 37 (18.05%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.78%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.83%) Banking
6 14 (6.83%) Retail
7 9 (4.39%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.44%) Italian Language
8 5 (2.44%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.95%) Brand Awareness
9 4 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.95%) Legal
9 4 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.46%) Billing
10 3 (1.46%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.98%) Back Office
11 2 (0.98%) Local Government
11 2 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (16.10%) Consultant
2 32 (15.61%) Architect
2 32 (15.61%) Developer
3 19 (9.27%) Lead
4 17 (8.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 14 (6.83%) Senior
6 10 (4.88%) Analyst
6 10 (4.88%) Project Manager
6 10 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (4.88%) Technical Architect
7 9 (4.39%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 9 (4.39%) Functional Consultant
7 9 (4.39%) Security Consultant
8 7 (3.41%) Network Architect
9 6 (2.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 6 (2.93%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (2.93%) Marketing Manager
9 6 (2.93%) Report Developer
9 6 (2.93%) SQL Developer
9 6 (2.93%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.80%) JSON
2 14 (6.83%) .NET
2 14 (6.83%) HTML
3 11 (5.37%) REST
4 7 (3.41%) HTML5 Canvas
4 7 (3.41%) OAuth
4 7 (3.41%) SOAP
5 6 (2.93%) Ajax
5 6 (2.93%) OAuth2
5 6 (2.93%) XML
6 4 (1.95%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (1.95%) PyTorch
6 4 (1.95%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.46%) CSS
8 2 (0.98%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.98%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.98%) Faiss
8 2 (0.98%) Keras
8 2 (0.98%) LangChain
8 2 (0.98%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.39%) Data Protection Act
1 9 (4.39%) Social Media
2 8 (3.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (3.90%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.90%) Virtual Team
3 6 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.95%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.95%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.95%) Low-Code
5 4 (1.95%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.95%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (1.95%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.95%) Web Conferencing
6 3 (1.46%) FPGA
6 3 (1.46%) Midjourney
6 3 (1.46%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.46%) Verilog
6 3 (1.46%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.88%) Windows
2 7 (3.41%) Linux
3 4 (1.95%) Unix
4 3 (1.46%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.98%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.98%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.49%) Android
6 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (34.15%) CRM
2 48 (23.41%) Agile
3 39 (19.02%) Analytics
4 38 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (18.05%) DevOps
6 34 (16.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (15.61%) Stakeholder Management
8 26 (12.68%) Business Intelligence
8 26 (12.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 22 (10.73%) Requirements Gathering
10 21 (10.24%) AI
10 21 (10.24%) Customer Service
11 20 (9.76%) Roadmaps
11 20 (9.76%) Workshop Facilitation
12 19 (9.27%) Customer Experience
12 19 (9.27%) Migration
12 19 (9.27%) Use Case
13 18 (8.78%) Validation
14 17 (8.29%) Presales
15 15 (7.32%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (11.71%) JavaScript
2 23 (11.22%) C#
3 15 (7.32%) SQL
4 14 (6.83%) Python
5 10 (4.88%) Java
6 7 (3.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (2.93%) Groovy
7 6 (2.93%) T-SQL
7 6 (2.93%) VBA
8 5 (2.44%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.44%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.95%) C++
10 3 (1.46%) Bicep
10 3 (1.46%) C
10 3 (1.46%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.46%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.98%) R
12 1 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 30 (14.63%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.73%) Degree
3 19 (9.27%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.39%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.46%) GPEN
7 3 (1.46%) GWAPT
7 3 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.46%) MBA
7 3 (1.46%) OSCP
7 3 (1.46%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.98%) CCIE
8 2 (0.98%) CCNP
8 2 (0.98%) CCSE
8 2 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.98%) JNCIE
8 2 (0.98%) JNCIP
8 2 (0.98%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.85%) GDPR
2 8 (3.90%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.90%) SLA
3 6 (2.93%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.93%) QA
4 4 (1.95%) NIST
5 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.98%) PMO
7 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.49%) GRC
7 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (3.90%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.49%) IAG
2 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (3.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 5 (2.44%) Terraform
3 3 (1.46%) Ansible
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.98%) SysTrack
5 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.49%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.49%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 66 (32.20%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.85%) Salesforce
3 9 (4.39%) Google
3 9 (4.39%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.41%) SAP
5 6 (2.93%) Cisco
5 6 (2.93%) CyberArk
5 6 (2.93%) Oracle
5 6 (2.93%) Sage
5 6 (2.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 5 (2.44%) Meraki
7 4 (1.95%) F5
7 4 (1.95%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.46%) Databricks
8 3 (1.46%) Genesys
8 3 (1.46%) Intel
8 3 (1.46%) Juniper
8 3 (1.46%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.46%) Remedy
8 3 (1.46%) Xilinx