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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 408 445
Rank change year-on-year +62 +37 +73
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 189 102 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.33% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.38% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 68 78
10th Percentile £367 £363 £171
25th Percentile £456 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year - +3.66% -11.54%
75th Percentile £608 £609 £614
90th Percentile £725 £688 £679
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 7
10th Percentile - - £23.43
25th Percentile £14.00 £59.25 £33.71
Median hourly rate £24.50 £63.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.42% +20.95% +101.92%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.75 £55.02
90th Percentile £37.25 - £56.29
UK median hourly rate £24.50 £63.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -61.42% +20.95% +101.92%

All Process and 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 26,627 26,735 35,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.45% 86.67% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,902 16,321 24,366
10th Percentile £299 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.50% -0.05%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,734 959 1,495
10th Percentile £14.69 £15.09 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.06 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.10% -17.98% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.46 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.80 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.63
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.77% +24.64%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +59 92 £523 +4.40% 382
South East +12 35 £525 +23.53% 341
North of England -8 25 £588 +3.62% 59
Midlands -17 20 £600 +5.82% 43
West Midlands -21 20 £600 +5.82% 24
North West - 15 £700 - 38
East of England -12 10 £625 +19.05% 24
Yorkshire -20 9 £475 -16.23% 14
South West +1 1 £463 -22.92% 44
North East - 1 £450 - 9
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 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.59%) WordPress
2 1 (0.53%) Confluence
2 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.12%) Chatbot
2 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.59%) Notion
4 1 (0.53%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.53%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.53%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.53%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 28 (14.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.06%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.53%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.53%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.53%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 45 (23.81%) Dynamics 365
2 44 (23.28%) Power Platform
3 41 (21.69%) Azure
4 21 (11.11%) AWS
5 18 (9.52%) Power Automate
6 16 (8.47%) SaaS
7 15 (7.94%) PowerApps
8 12 (6.35%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.70%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.70%) GCP
9 7 (3.70%) Serverless
10 6 (3.17%) AtomSphere
10 6 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (3.17%) Boomi
10 6 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (3.17%) Snowflake
11 5 (2.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 4 (2.12%) Canva
12 4 (2.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.70%) Network Security
2 4 (2.12%) HTTP
2 4 (2.12%) VPN
3 3 (1.59%) VLAN
3 3 (1.59%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.06%) Firewall
4 2 (1.06%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.06%) SMS
4 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.06%) WAN
5 1 (0.53%) NAS
5 1 (0.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.87%) Power BI
2 14 (7.41%) Tableau
3 7 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.12%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.53%) DB2
6 1 (0.53%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (1.59%) Fiddler
1 3 (1.59%) JIRA
2 2 (1.06%) Burp Suite
2 2 (1.06%) Git
2 2 (1.06%) Metasploit
2 2 (1.06%) Postman
2 2 (1.06%) sqlmap
3 1 (0.53%) Android Studio
3 1 (0.53%) GitLab
3 1 (0.53%) Gradle
3 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.53%) MLflow
3 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.53%) Xcode
General
1 74 (39.15%) Social Skills
2 64 (33.86%) Marketing
3 51 (26.98%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (14.29%) Finance
5 22 (11.64%) Retail
6 15 (7.94%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.23%) Brand Awareness
8 6 (3.17%) Banking
8 6 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.17%) Italian Language
9 4 (2.12%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.12%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.59%) Local Government
10 3 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.06%) Billing
11 2 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.06%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (13.76%) Architect
1 26 (13.76%) Consultant
2 23 (12.17%) Analyst
3 21 (11.11%) Developer
4 16 (8.47%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (6.88%) Senior
6 12 (6.35%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 9 (4.76%) Project Manager
7 9 (4.76%) Senior Manager
7 9 (4.76%) Technical Support
8 8 (4.23%) Lead
9 7 (3.70%) Marketing Manager
10 6 (3.17%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.17%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 6 (3.17%) Integration Developer
10 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Consultant
10 6 (3.17%) Security Specialist
10 6 (3.17%) Senior Marketing Manager
11 5 (2.65%) CRM Developer
11 5 (2.65%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.88%) REST
2 11 (5.82%) .NET
3 10 (5.29%) HTML
3 10 (5.29%) JSON
3 10 (5.29%) SOAP
4 8 (4.23%) CSS
5 6 (3.17%) XML
6 5 (2.65%) Middleware
6 5 (2.65%) OAuth
7 4 (2.12%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.59%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (1.06%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.06%) EDI
9 2 (1.06%) OpenAPI
9 2 (1.06%) PyTorch
9 2 (1.06%) React
9 2 (1.06%) RESTful
9 2 (1.06%) Swagger
9 2 (1.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.35%) Social Media
3 7 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (3.70%) Security Posture
4 6 (3.17%) Web Conferencing
5 5 (2.65%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.65%) Marketing Technology
5 5 (2.65%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.12%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (2.12%) IVR
6 4 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.12%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.59%) Midjourney
7 3 (1.59%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.59%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.76%) Windows
2 6 (3.17%) Linux
3 3 (1.59%) Unix
3 3 (1.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.53%) Android
4 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (33.86%) CRM
2 54 (28.57%) Agile
3 46 (24.34%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (21.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 40 (21.16%) Analytics
6 32 (16.93%) Customer Experience
7 31 (16.40%) Business Intelligence
8 30 (15.87%) DevOps
9 24 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 22 (11.64%) E-Commerce
11 20 (10.58%) CI/CD
12 19 (10.05%) Customer Service
12 19 (10.05%) Data Modelling
12 19 (10.05%) Validation
13 18 (9.52%) AI
14 17 (8.99%) Translating Business Requirements
15 14 (7.41%) A/B Testing
15 14 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (7.41%) Project Management
16 13 (6.88%) Marketing Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 19 (10.05%) SQL
3 18 (9.52%) C#
3 18 (9.52%) Python
4 10 (5.29%) Java
5 6 (3.17%) Groovy
5 6 (3.17%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.12%) Bash
6 4 (2.12%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.59%) Go
8 2 (1.06%) Scala
8 2 (1.06%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.53%) Bicep
9 1 (0.53%) C++
9 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.53%) JSX
9 1 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 19 (10.05%) Degree
2 17 (8.99%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.35%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.70%) CISM
5 7 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.17%) GPEN
6 6 (3.17%) OSCP
7 4 (2.12%) GWAPT
8 3 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.59%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.06%) CISSP
9 2 (1.06%) GXPN
9 2 (1.06%) OSCE
9 2 (1.06%) SANS
10 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.53%) MBA
10 1 (0.53%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.05%) GDPR
2 10 (5.29%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.17%) QA
5 4 (2.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (2.12%) NIST
6 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.06%) PMO
7 1 (0.53%) COBIT
7 1 (0.53%) COSO
7 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.53%) GRC
7 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (4.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (2.12%) Terraform
2 2 (1.06%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.06%) Nessus
2 2 (1.06%) Nmap
2 2 (1.06%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.53%) Ansible
3 1 (0.53%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 49 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.05%) Salesforce
3 8 (4.23%) Google
4 7 (3.70%) SAP
4 7 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.17%) Adobe
5 6 (3.17%) Databricks
6 5 (2.65%) Oracle
7 4 (2.12%) Cvent
7 4 (2.12%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.12%) Genesys
8 3 (1.59%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.59%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.59%) Pega
8 3 (1.59%) YouTube
9 2 (1.06%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.06%) Marketo
9 2 (1.06%) Optimizely
9 2 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) Tealium