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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 367 408
Rank change year-on-year -11 +41 +111
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 204 105 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.43% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.48% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 73 89
10th Percentile £350 £281 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -10.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £597 £650 £694
90th Percentile £742 £685 £720
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £600
% change year-on-year -6.19% -11.17% +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 32,394 22,046 32,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.25% 90.85% 86.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,755 14,514 21,646
10th Percentile £313 £313 £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 1,983 845 2,157
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.55 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -1.52% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.20 £76.25 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.81% -1.54% -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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +2 109 £489 -7.74% 103
South East -31 31 £525 -2.33% 61
Midlands -40 27 £600 +14.29% 25
West Midlands -41 25 £600 +6.67% 17
East of England -21 15 £375 -42.31% 20
North of England -54 15 £444 -1.44% 41
North West -33 10 £444 -1.44% 23
Yorkshire - 5 - - 15
South West -34 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 (3.43%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.96%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.47%) Confluence
3 3 (1.47%) WordPress
4 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) CMS
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (4.41%) Chatbot
2 8 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.47%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.47%) 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 (20.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.94%) Sage X3
3 4 (1.96%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (1.96%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.96%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.96%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.98%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 49 (24.02%) Dynamics 365
2 43 (21.08%) Azure
2 43 (21.08%) Power Platform
3 25 (12.25%) Power Automate
4 18 (8.82%) PowerApps
5 15 (7.35%) Azure Logic Apps
6 13 (6.37%) AWS
6 13 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (5.39%) SaaS
8 8 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (3.92%) WhatsApp
9 7 (3.43%) Azure Functions
9 7 (3.43%) Google Workspace
9 7 (3.43%) Miro
9 7 (3.43%) Serverless
10 6 (2.94%) AtomSphere
10 6 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.94%) Boomi
11 5 (2.45%) PaaS
12 4 (1.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.37%) VPN
2 11 (5.39%) HTTP
3 10 (4.90%) WAN
4 8 (3.92%) Network Security
4 8 (3.92%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.43%) LAN
6 5 (2.45%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.96%) Firewall
7 4 (1.96%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (1.47%) 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 22 (10.78%) Power BI
2 8 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.94%) Power Query
3 6 (2.94%) ZAP BI
4 4 (1.96%) 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 (1.47%) JIRA
2 2 (0.98%) JDeveloper
3 1 (0.49%) Fiddler
3 1 (0.49%) Git
General
1 88 (43.14%) Social Skills
2 45 (22.06%) Finance
3 40 (19.61%) Marketing
4 36 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.86%) Banking
6 14 (6.86%) Retail
7 9 (4.41%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.45%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.96%) Italian Language
9 4 (1.96%) Legal
9 4 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.47%) Billing
10 3 (1.47%) Brand Awareness
10 3 (1.47%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.98%) Back Office
11 2 (0.98%) Local Government
11 2 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (16.67%) Consultant
2 32 (15.69%) Architect
2 32 (15.69%) Developer
3 18 (8.82%) Lead
4 17 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 13 (6.37%) Senior
6 10 (4.90%) Analyst
6 10 (4.90%) Project Manager
6 10 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (4.90%) Technical Architect
7 9 (4.41%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 9 (4.41%) Functional Consultant
7 9 (4.41%) Security Consultant
8 7 (3.43%) Network Architect
9 6 (2.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 6 (2.94%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (2.94%) Power BI Developer
9 6 (2.94%) Report Developer
9 6 (2.94%) SQL Developer
9 6 (2.94%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.84%) JSON
2 14 (6.86%) .NET
2 14 (6.86%) HTML
3 11 (5.39%) REST
4 7 (3.43%) HTML5 Canvas
4 7 (3.43%) OAuth
4 7 (3.43%) SOAP
5 6 (2.94%) Ajax
5 6 (2.94%) OAuth2
5 6 (2.94%) XML
6 4 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (1.96%) PyTorch
6 4 (1.96%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.47%) 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 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
1 9 (4.41%) Social Media
2 8 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (3.92%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.92%) Virtual Team
3 6 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.45%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.96%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.96%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.96%) Low-Code
5 4 (1.96%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.96%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (1.96%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.47%) FPGA
6 3 (1.47%) Midjourney
6 3 (1.47%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.47%) Verilog
6 3 (1.47%) VHDL
6 3 (1.47%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.90%) Windows
2 7 (3.43%) Linux
3 4 (1.96%) Unix
4 3 (1.47%) 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 (34.31%) CRM
2 47 (23.04%) Agile
3 38 (18.63%) Analytics
3 38 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (18.14%) DevOps
5 34 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (15.20%) Stakeholder Management
7 25 (12.25%) Business Intelligence
7 25 (12.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 22 (10.78%) Requirements Gathering
9 21 (10.29%) AI
9 21 (10.29%) Customer Service
10 19 (9.31%) Customer Experience
10 19 (9.31%) Migration
10 19 (9.31%) Roadmaps
10 19 (9.31%) Use Case
10 19 (9.31%) Workshop Facilitation
11 18 (8.82%) Validation
12 17 (8.33%) Presales
13 15 (7.35%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 23 (11.27%) C#
3 15 (7.35%) SQL
4 14 (6.86%) Python
5 10 (4.90%) Java
6 6 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (2.94%) Groovy
6 6 (2.94%) T-SQL
6 6 (2.94%) VBA
7 5 (2.45%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.45%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.96%) C++
9 3 (1.47%) Bicep
9 3 (1.47%) C
9 3 (1.47%) Embedded C
9 3 (1.47%) Embedded C++
10 2 (0.98%) R
11 1 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 30 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.78%) Degree
3 19 (9.31%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.41%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.47%) GPEN
7 3 (1.47%) GWAPT
7 3 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.47%) MBA
7 3 (1.47%) OSCP
7 3 (1.47%) 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 (5.88%) GDPR
2 8 (3.92%) SLA
3 7 (3.43%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.94%) QA
5 4 (1.96%) NIST
6 3 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.98%) PMO
8 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.49%) GRC
8 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (3.92%) 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 (3.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 5 (2.45%) Terraform
3 3 (1.47%) 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 65 (31.86%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 9 (4.41%) Google
3 9 (4.41%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.43%) SAP
5 6 (2.94%) Cisco
5 6 (2.94%) CyberArk
5 6 (2.94%) Oracle
5 6 (2.94%) Sage
5 6 (2.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 5 (2.45%) Meraki
7 4 (1.96%) F5
7 4 (1.96%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.47%) Databricks
8 3 (1.47%) Genesys
8 3 (1.47%) Intel
8 3 (1.47%) Juniper
8 3 (1.47%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.47%) Remedy
8 3 (1.47%) Xilinx