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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 388 407
Rank change year-on-year +18 +19 +130
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 203 101 144
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.41% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.45% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 70 91
10th Percentile £353 £273 £350
25th Percentile £413 £416 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £553 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% -7.92% +11.63%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £691
90th Percentile £752 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £547 £600
% change year-on-year -8.63% -8.79% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 7
10th Percentile - - £14.00
25th Percentile - £27.50 £22.13
Median hourly rate £14.00 £41.25 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.06% -6.25% -21.83%
75th Percentile - £58.19 £47.83
90th Percentile £54.50 £62.28 -
UK median hourly rate £14.00 £41.25 £44.00
% change year-on-year -66.06% -6.25% -21.83%

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 31,205 22,550 33,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.68% 90.54% 86.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,990 14,548 21,873
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £615 £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 1,928 809 2,164
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.26 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.80 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -7.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.53
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.44 £71.83
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.77% - -7.14%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +12 106 £500 -4.76% 75
South East -28 29 £525 -4.55% 100
Midlands -36 29 £600 +5.82% 47
West Midlands -31 27 £600 +5.82% 24
East of England -24 16 £375 -42.31% 48
North of England -48 14 £444 -12.78% 61
North West -20 9 £444 -1.44% 35
Yorkshire -54 5 - - 23
South West -35 3 £463 -28.85% 41
East Midlands -33 1 - - 21
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 (2.96%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.97%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.48%) Confluence
3 3 (1.48%) WordPress
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.49%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (4.93%) Chatbot
2 8 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.48%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.48%) Notion
4 2 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.49%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 42 (20.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.96%) Sage X3
3 4 (1.97%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (1.97%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.97%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.97%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.49%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 49 (24.14%) Dynamics 365
2 46 (22.66%) Azure
3 43 (21.18%) Power Platform
4 25 (12.32%) Power Automate
5 18 (8.87%) PowerApps
6 16 (7.88%) AWS
7 15 (7.39%) Azure Logic Apps
8 13 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (5.91%) SaaS
10 9 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (4.43%) WhatsApp
11 7 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (3.45%) Azure Functions
11 7 (3.45%) Google Workspace
11 7 (3.45%) Miro
11 7 (3.45%) Serverless
12 6 (2.96%) AtomSphere
12 6 (2.96%) Boomi
12 6 (2.96%) GCP
13 5 (2.46%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.91%) HTTP
2 11 (5.42%) VPN
3 10 (4.93%) WAN
4 8 (3.94%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.45%) LAN
6 5 (2.46%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.97%) Network Security
7 4 (1.97%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.48%) Firewall
8 3 (1.48%) SMS
9 2 (0.99%) BGP
9 2 (0.99%) BIG-IP
9 2 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.99%) OSPF
9 2 (0.99%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.49%) DHCP
10 1 (0.49%) DNS
10 1 (0.49%) SSH
10 1 (0.49%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.84%) Power BI
2 9 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.96%) Power Query
3 6 (2.96%) ZAP BI
4 4 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.48%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.48%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.48%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.48%) Tableau
6 2 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.99%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (0.99%) Pinecone
6 2 (0.99%) Weaviate
7 1 (0.49%) DB2
7 1 (0.49%) Looker
7 1 (0.49%) Mixpanel
7 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (1.48%) JIRA
2 2 (0.99%) Fiddler
2 2 (0.99%) JDeveloper
3 1 (0.49%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.49%) Git
3 1 (0.49%) GitLab
3 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.49%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.49%) sqlmap
General
1 87 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 48 (23.65%) Finance
3 47 (23.15%) Marketing
4 43 (21.18%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (9.85%) Public Sector
6 15 (7.39%) Retail
7 14 (6.90%) Banking
8 10 (4.93%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.45%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.46%) Italian Language
11 4 (1.97%) Brand Awareness
11 4 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.48%) Billing
12 3 (1.48%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.99%) Back Office
13 2 (0.99%) Legal
13 2 (0.99%) Military
13 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.99%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (16.26%) Consultant
2 32 (15.76%) Developer
3 30 (14.78%) Architect
4 20 (9.85%) Lead
5 17 (8.37%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 14 (6.90%) Analyst
6 14 (6.90%) Senior
7 11 (5.42%) Project Manager
8 10 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.93%) Technical Architect
9 9 (4.43%) Security Consultant
10 8 (3.94%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 8 (3.94%) Functional Consultant
11 7 (3.45%) Technical Support
12 6 (2.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 6 (2.96%) Marketing Manager
12 6 (2.96%) Report Developer
12 6 (2.96%) SQL Developer
12 6 (2.96%) Technical Manager
12 6 (2.96%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.87%) JSON
2 15 (7.39%) HTML
3 14 (6.90%) .NET
4 13 (6.40%) REST
5 9 (4.43%) HTML5 Canvas
5 9 (4.43%) SOAP
6 8 (3.94%) OAuth
7 6 (2.96%) Ajax
7 6 (2.96%) OAuth2
7 6 (2.96%) XML
8 4 (1.97%) CSS
8 4 (1.97%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.97%) PyTorch
8 4 (1.97%) TensorFlow
9 2 (0.99%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.99%) Faiss
9 2 (0.99%) Hugging Face
9 2 (0.99%) Keras
9 2 (0.99%) LangChain
9 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.93%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.43%) Social Media
2 9 (4.43%) Virtual Team
3 8 (3.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (3.94%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.45%) Marketing Technology
5 6 (2.96%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.46%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.46%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.97%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.97%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.97%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.97%) Web Conferencing
8 3 (1.48%) Midjourney
8 3 (1.48%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.48%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.42%) Windows
2 6 (2.96%) Linux
3 4 (1.97%) Unix
4 3 (1.48%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.99%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.49%) Android
6 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (35.47%) CRM
2 49 (24.14%) Agile
3 40 (19.70%) Analytics
4 37 (18.23%) DevOps
4 37 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (18.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 33 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (12.32%) Business Intelligence
6 25 (12.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 24 (11.82%) AI
8 21 (10.34%) Validation
9 20 (9.85%) Customer Experience
9 20 (9.85%) Requirements Gathering
9 20 (9.85%) Use Case
10 19 (9.36%) Customer Service
10 19 (9.36%) Roadmaps
11 17 (8.37%) Workshop Facilitation
12 16 (7.88%) Data Modelling
12 16 (7.88%) Migration
12 16 (7.88%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 24 (11.82%) JavaScript
2 23 (11.33%) C#
3 17 (8.37%) Python
4 16 (7.88%) SQL
5 10 (4.93%) Java
6 7 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (2.96%) Groovy
7 6 (2.96%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.96%) T-SQL
7 6 (2.96%) VBA
8 5 (2.46%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.48%) Bicep
10 2 (0.99%) Bash
10 2 (0.99%) C++
10 2 (0.99%) R
11 1 (0.49%) C
11 1 (0.49%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.49%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.49%) Go
11 1 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 27 (13.30%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.33%) Degree
3 17 (8.37%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.96%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.46%) GPEN
6 5 (2.46%) OSCP
7 4 (1.97%) GWAPT
8 3 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.48%) MBA
9 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.99%) CCIE
9 2 (0.99%) CCNP
9 2 (0.99%) CCSE
9 2 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.99%) JNCIE
9 2 (0.99%) JNCIP
9 2 (0.99%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.99%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.40%) GDPR
2 9 (4.43%) QA
3 8 (3.94%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.94%) SLA
4 6 (2.96%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.97%) NIST
6 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.99%) PMO
7 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
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 10 (4.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.49%) Docker
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 (3.94%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 5 (2.46%) Terraform
3 4 (1.97%) Ansible
4 2 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.99%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.99%) SysTrack
5 1 (0.49%) Nessus
5 1 (0.49%) Nmap
5 1 (0.49%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 66 (32.51%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.40%) Salesforce
3 11 (5.42%) ServiceNow
4 9 (4.43%) Google
5 6 (2.96%) CyberArk
5 6 (2.96%) Oracle
5 6 (2.96%) Sage
6 5 (2.46%) Cisco
6 5 (2.46%) Meraki
6 5 (2.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 5 (2.46%) SAP
7 4 (1.97%) Databricks
7 4 (1.97%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.97%) Pega
8 3 (1.48%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.48%) F5
8 3 (1.48%) Genesys
8 3 (1.48%) Juniper
8 3 (1.48%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.48%) YouTube