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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 358 410
Rank change year-on-year -58 +52 +87
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 173 111 123
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.46% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.50% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 77 82
10th Percentile £325 £267 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -11.17% +18.34%
75th Percentile £614 £641 £694
90th Percentile £740 £700 £747
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £600
% change year-on-year -6.19% -11.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 11
10th Percentile - £33.43 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.46 £42.31 £21.07
Median hourly rate £20.70 £50.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.02% +60.32% -44.04%
75th Percentile £21.93 £58.19 £47.83
90th Percentile - £62.28 -
UK median hourly rate £20.70 £50.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year -59.02% +60.32% -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 34,498 22,079 31,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.70% 91.24% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,001 14,439 20,650
10th Percentile £320 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 933 2,247
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.44 £12.90
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +47.83% -21.23% +0.29%

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 May 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
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 May 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 -35 100 £500 -10.51% 113
South East -41 27 £550 +15.79% 57
Midlands -55 15 £800 +60.00% 35
West Midlands -51 13 £800 +52.38% 20
North of England -56 13 £447 -0.67% 66
East of England -24 12 £375 -42.31% 17
North West -29 10 £444 -1.44% 31
Yorkshire - 3 £550 - 24
East Midlands -28 1 - - 15
South West -43 1 - - 16
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 8 (4.62%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.31%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.73%) Confluence
4 2 (1.16%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.58%) CICS
5 1 (0.58%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (5.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.62%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.73%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 38 (21.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.47%) Sage X3
3 4 (2.31%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (2.31%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (2.31%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (2.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (1.73%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.58%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 44 (25.43%) Dynamics 365
2 39 (22.54%) Power Platform
3 32 (18.50%) Azure
4 21 (12.14%) Power Automate
5 17 (9.83%) PowerApps
6 13 (7.51%) Azure Logic Apps
7 11 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (4.62%) WhatsApp
9 7 (4.05%) AWS
9 7 (4.05%) Google Workspace
9 7 (4.05%) Miro
10 5 (2.89%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.89%) Azure Functions
10 5 (2.89%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (2.89%) PaaS
10 5 (2.89%) Serverless
11 4 (2.31%) GCP
11 4 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (2.31%) SaaS
12 3 (1.73%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.94%) VPN
2 9 (5.20%) Network Security
3 8 (4.62%) WAN
4 7 (4.05%) HTTP
4 7 (4.05%) LAN
5 5 (2.89%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.89%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (2.31%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 4 (2.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (2.31%) Firewall
6 4 (2.31%) SMS
7 2 (1.16%) BGP
7 2 (1.16%) BIG-IP
7 2 (1.16%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.16%) MPLS
7 2 (1.16%) OSPF
7 2 (1.16%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.16%) VoIP
8 1 (0.58%) MIMO
8 1 (0.58%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.56%) Power BI
2 7 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.47%) Power Query
3 6 (3.47%) ZAP BI
4 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.16%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.16%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.16%) Tableau
4 2 (1.16%) Weaviate
5 1 (0.58%) Looker
5 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.73%) JIRA
2 2 (1.16%) JDeveloper
3 1 (0.58%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.58%) Git
3 1 (0.58%) GitLab
General
1 69 (39.88%) Social Skills
2 44 (25.43%) Finance
3 30 (17.34%) Marketing
4 18 (10.40%) Retail
5 17 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (9.25%) Public Sector
7 11 (6.36%) Banking
8 8 (4.62%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.89%) Legal
9 5 (2.89%) Local Government
9 5 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.89%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.31%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.73%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.16%) Back Office
12 2 (1.16%) Billing
12 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.16%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (19.65%) Architect
2 26 (15.03%) Consultant
3 23 (13.29%) Developer
4 19 (10.98%) Lead
5 15 (8.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 11 (6.36%) Analyst
6 11 (6.36%) Senior
7 9 (5.20%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.62%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 8 (4.62%) Network Architect
8 8 (4.62%) Project Manager
8 8 (4.62%) Security Consultant
8 8 (4.62%) Technical Architect
9 7 (4.05%) Functional Consultant
10 6 (3.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 6 (3.47%) Power BI Developer
10 6 (3.47%) Product Manager
10 6 (3.47%) Report Developer
10 6 (3.47%) SQL BI Developer
10 6 (3.47%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.51%) .NET
2 11 (6.36%) HTML
3 7 (4.05%) HTML5 Canvas
3 7 (4.05%) JSON
4 6 (3.47%) REST
5 5 (2.89%) PyTorch
5 5 (2.89%) TensorFlow
6 4 (2.31%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.73%) Ajax
7 3 (1.73%) Kafka
7 3 (1.73%) OAuth
7 3 (1.73%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.16%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.16%) CSS
8 2 (1.16%) Keras
8 2 (1.16%) Middleware
8 2 (1.16%) PySpark
8 2 (1.16%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (1.16%) scikit-learn
8 2 (1.16%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.20%) Virtual Team
2 8 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (3.47%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.89%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.31%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.73%) FPGA
6 3 (1.73%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.73%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.73%) Verilog
6 3 (1.73%) VHDL
7 2 (1.16%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.16%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.47%) Windows
2 4 (2.31%) Linux
3 3 (1.73%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.16%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.58%) Android
5 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.58%) Unix
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (34.68%) CRM
2 33 (19.08%) Analytics
2 33 (19.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 31 (17.92%) Agile
4 30 (17.34%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (15.61%) Migration
6 25 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (13.29%) Business Intelligence
8 21 (12.14%) DevOps
8 21 (12.14%) Roadmaps
9 20 (11.56%) Workshop Facilitation
10 19 (10.98%) AI
10 19 (10.98%) Customer Service
11 18 (10.40%) Customer Experience
11 18 (10.40%) Presales
12 17 (9.83%) Decision-Making
12 17 (9.83%) Requirements Gathering
12 17 (9.83%) Use Case
13 15 (8.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 14 (8.09%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (9.25%) C#
1 16 (9.25%) JavaScript
1 16 (9.25%) SQL
2 13 (7.51%) Python
3 7 (4.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (3.47%) VBA
5 4 (2.31%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.73%) C
6 3 (1.73%) C++
6 3 (1.73%) Embedded C
6 3 (1.73%) Embedded C++
6 3 (1.73%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.16%) ABAP
7 2 (1.16%) Bicep
7 2 (1.16%) Java
7 2 (1.16%) R
8 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (17.34%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.56%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.51%) Degree
4 9 (5.20%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.73%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.16%) CCIE
8 2 (1.16%) CCNP
8 2 (1.16%) CCSE
8 2 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.16%) JNCIE
8 2 (1.16%) JNCIP
8 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.16%) MBA
8 2 (1.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.05%) Data Quality
1 7 (4.05%) GDPR
1 7 (4.05%) QA
2 6 (3.47%) SLA
3 3 (1.73%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.16%) NIST
5 1 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.58%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.58%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.58%) PMO
5 1 (0.58%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.58%) IAG
2 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (4.05%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 5 (2.89%) Terraform
3 3 (1.73%) Ansible
4 2 (1.16%) SysTrack
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (35.84%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.09%) Salesforce
3 9 (5.20%) Google
4 8 (4.62%) SAP
4 8 (4.62%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.47%) Cisco
5 6 (3.47%) Sage
5 6 (3.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 5 (2.89%) F5
6 5 (2.89%) Meraki
6 5 (2.89%) Oracle
7 4 (2.31%) Braze
7 4 (2.31%) Pega
8 3 (1.73%) Intel
8 3 (1.73%) Juniper
8 3 (1.73%) Xilinx
8 3 (1.73%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.16%) Adobe
9 2 (1.16%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.16%) Genesys