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

 6 months to
16 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 359 435
Rank change year-on-year -45 +76 +41
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 216 152 106
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.56% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.62% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 99 63
10th Percentile £363 £355 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% - +4.23%
75th Percentile £633 £639 £663
90th Percentile £719 £725 £814
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 11
10th Percentile £26.97 - £14.00
25th Percentile £38.25 £47.25 £21.07
Median hourly rate £48.84 £48.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +53.97% -40.00%
75th Percentile - £49.75 £47.83
90th Percentile £69.34 - -
UK median hourly rate £48.84 £48.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +0.70% +53.97% -42.88%

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 38,234 24,648 31,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.43% 90.68% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,071 15,798 20,362
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,374 1,309 2,214
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.70 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -34 116 £500 -6.54% 201
South East -54 30 £581 +5.68% 104
North of England -73 29 £509 +10.05% 78
North West -43 23 £500 +5.26% 51
East of England -10 16 £375 -40.00% 33
Midlands -53 13 £513 +2.50% 55
West Midlands -50 11 £656 +25.00% 28
South West -32 6 £650 +24.46% 49
Yorkshire -52 4 £550 +15.79% 21
North East -37 2 £525 +16.67% 6
East Midlands -11 1 - - 26
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 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (1.39%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.46%) CICS
4 1 (0.46%) Confluence
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.46%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 9 (4.17%) Chatbot
2 8 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.46%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.46%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (10.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.78%) Sage X3
3 5 (2.31%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (1.39%) BusinessWorks
4 3 (1.39%) Workfront
5 2 (0.93%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 29 (13.43%) Azure
2 28 (12.96%) Power Platform
3 27 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 12 (5.56%) Power Automate
4 12 (5.56%) PowerApps
5 11 (5.09%) AWS
6 9 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (3.70%) Google Workspace
7 8 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (3.70%) Serverless
7 8 (3.70%) WhatsApp
8 7 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.24%) Miro
8 7 (3.24%) SaaS
9 6 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.85%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (1.85%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (1.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.24%) Network Security
2 6 (2.78%) VPN
3 5 (2.31%) Firewall
3 5 (2.31%) SMS
4 3 (1.39%) MPLS
5 2 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (0.93%) VoIP
5 2 (0.93%) WAN
6 1 (0.46%) Internet
6 1 (0.46%) LAN
6 1 (0.46%) MIMO
6 1 (0.46%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.46%) SSH
6 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.46%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.46%) WebEx
6 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.33%) Power BI
2 7 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.78%) Power Query
3 6 (2.78%) ZAP BI
4 4 (1.85%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.93%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.93%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (0.93%) Pinecone
5 2 (0.93%) Tableau
5 2 (0.93%) Weaviate
6 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (2.78%) JIRA
2 1 (0.46%) CircleCI
2 1 (0.46%) Git
2 1 (0.46%) GitLab
General
1 70 (32.41%) Social Skills
2 45 (20.83%) Finance
3 43 (19.91%) Marketing
4 32 (14.81%) Retail
5 23 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (10.19%) Public Sector
7 14 (6.48%) Banking
8 10 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.70%) Manufacturing
9 8 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.24%) Advertising
11 5 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.31%) Local Government
12 4 (1.85%) French Language
12 4 (1.85%) German Language
12 4 (1.85%) Italian Language
12 4 (1.85%) Legal
13 3 (1.39%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.39%) Spanish Language
13 3 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (20.83%) Architect
2 31 (14.35%) Lead
3 26 (12.04%) Consultant
4 21 (9.72%) Developer
5 19 (8.80%) Senior
6 11 (5.09%) Lead Architect
7 10 (4.63%) Product Manager
8 9 (4.17%) Project Manager
8 9 (4.17%) Service Manager
8 9 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 7 (3.24%) Delivery Manager
10 7 (3.24%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 7 (3.24%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 7 (3.24%) Voice Architect
11 6 (2.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 6 (2.78%) Network Architect
11 6 (2.78%) Power BI Developer
11 6 (2.78%) Report Developer
11 6 (2.78%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.17%) .NET
2 6 (2.78%) Middleware
3 3 (1.39%) Kafka
3 3 (1.39%) PySpark
3 3 (1.39%) PyTorch
3 3 (1.39%) REST
3 3 (1.39%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (1.39%) TensorFlow
4 2 (0.93%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.93%) CSS
4 2 (0.93%) Faiss
4 2 (0.93%) HTML
4 2 (0.93%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (0.93%) Hugging Face
4 2 (0.93%) Keras
4 2 (0.93%) LangChain
4 2 (0.93%) SOAP
5 1 (0.46%) ADO
5 1 (0.46%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.46%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.56%) Virtual Team
2 11 (5.09%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.17%) AI Agents
3 9 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.70%) IVR
5 7 (3.24%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.24%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.31%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.31%) Marketing Technology
7 4 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.85%) Social Media
8 3 (1.39%) FPGA
8 3 (1.39%) Life Science
8 3 (1.39%) Verilog
8 3 (1.39%) VHDL
9 2 (0.93%) Blog
9 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.78%) Windows
2 4 (1.85%) Linux
3 3 (1.39%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.46%) Android
5 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (27.78%) CRM
2 59 (27.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 45 (20.83%) Analytics
4 43 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (18.06%) Agile
5 39 (18.06%) AI
5 39 (18.06%) Customer Experience
6 35 (16.20%) Roadmaps
7 34 (15.74%) Migration
8 27 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (12.04%) Decision-Making
10 25 (11.57%) Customer Service
11 24 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 23 (10.65%) Requirements Gathering
13 22 (10.19%) Workshop Facilitation
14 21 (9.72%) Use Case
15 19 (8.80%) E-Commerce
16 18 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
17 17 (7.87%) Presales
17 17 (7.87%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 20 (9.26%) JavaScript
2 17 (7.87%) SQL
3 16 (7.41%) Python
4 12 (5.56%) C#
5 8 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (2.78%) VBA
7 3 (1.39%) ABAP
7 3 (1.39%) C
7 3 (1.39%) C++
7 3 (1.39%) Embedded C
7 3 (1.39%) Embedded C++
7 3 (1.39%) Java
7 3 (1.39%) R
8 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.93%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.46%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.46%) Bash
9 1 (0.46%) Perl
9 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 41 (18.98%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.19%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.02%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.09%) Degree
5 6 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.85%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.39%) PMP
9 1 (0.46%) CEH
9 1 (0.46%) CISM
9 1 (0.46%) CISSP
9 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.46%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.48%) GDPR
2 10 (4.63%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.24%) QA
4 5 (2.31%) NIST
5 4 (1.85%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.93%) PMO
7 2 (0.93%) SLA
8 1 (0.46%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.46%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.46%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.46%) PERC
8 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (1.39%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.46%) IAG
Systems Management
1 7 (3.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 5 (2.31%) Terraform
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.46%) Ansible
4 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.46%) Rundeck
4 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.46%) vRealize
Vendors
1 56 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.26%) Salesforce
3 11 (5.09%) Google
4 10 (4.63%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 7 (3.24%) Databricks
6 7 (3.24%) SAP
7 6 (2.78%) Adobe
7 6 (2.78%) Sage
8 5 (2.31%) Braze
8 5 (2.31%) Cisco
8 5 (2.31%) Pega
9 4 (1.85%) Genesys
10 3 (1.39%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.39%) F5
10 3 (1.39%) Intel
10 3 (1.39%) Oracle
10 3 (1.39%) Splunk
10 3 (1.39%) TIBCO
10 3 (1.39%) Xilinx
485 Customer Engagement jobs in England