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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 378 408
Rank change year-on-year -2 +30 +140
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 201 104 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.40% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.45% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 70 94
10th Percentile £353 £300 £291
25th Percentile £413 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £559 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% -6.92% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -7.36% -10.04% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 6
10th Percentile - - £14.00
25th Percentile - £27.50 £18.06
Median hourly rate £14.00 £41.25 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -66.06% +9.27% -32.94%
75th Percentile £35.00 £58.19 £47.50
90th Percentile £47.00 £62.28 £47.83
UK median hourly rate £14.00 £41.25 £37.75
% change year-on-year -66.06% +9.27% +79.76%

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 30,443 23,357 32,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.38% 90.01% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,446 14,532 21,897
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 1,911 750 2,006
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% - -
75th Percentile £62.29 £64.73 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.28 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.64 £32.50 £34.77
% change year-on-year -21.12% -6.52% -0.67%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 +8 111 £500 +11.11% 159
West Midlands -27 27 £600 +5.82% 21
Midlands -34 27 £600 +5.82% 33
South East -22 25 £525 -14.29% 82
North of England -52 15 £444 -21.78% 38
East of England -19 14 £363 -44.23% 15
North West -17 10 £444 - 24
Yorkshire -60 5 - - 11
South West -22 3 £463 -28.85% 23
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 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (1.49%) WordPress
3 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.00%) Confluence
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.50%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (3.98%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.49%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.49%) Notion
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.50%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 43 (21.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.00%) Sage X3
3 2 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.50%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.50%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.50%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 51 (25.37%) Azure
1 51 (25.37%) Dynamics 365
2 40 (19.90%) Power Platform
3 25 (12.44%) Power Automate
4 18 (8.96%) PowerApps
5 17 (8.46%) AWS
6 16 (7.96%) Azure Logic Apps
7 13 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (5.97%) SaaS
9 10 (4.98%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (3.48%) Azure Functions
11 7 (3.48%) GCP
11 7 (3.48%) Serverless
11 7 (3.48%) WhatsApp
12 6 (2.99%) AtomSphere
12 6 (2.99%) Boomi
12 6 (2.99%) Entra ID
13 5 (2.49%) Google Workspace
13 5 (2.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.97%) HTTP
1 12 (5.97%) VPN
2 10 (4.98%) WAN
3 8 (3.98%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.48%) LAN
5 5 (2.49%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.99%) Network Security
6 4 (1.99%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.49%) Firewall
8 2 (1.00%) BGP
8 2 (1.00%) BIG-IP
8 2 (1.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (1.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (1.00%) OSPF
8 2 (1.00%) VLAN
8 2 (1.00%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.50%) DHCP
9 1 (0.50%) DNS
9 1 (0.50%) SMS
9 1 (0.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.96%) Power BI
2 5 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.49%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.49%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.49%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.00%) Pinecone
5 2 (1.00%) Power Query
5 2 (1.00%) Weaviate
5 2 (1.00%) ZAP BI
6 1 (0.50%) DB2
6 1 (0.50%) Looker
6 1 (0.50%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (1.00%) Fiddler
1 2 (1.00%) JDeveloper
1 2 (1.00%) JIRA
1 2 (1.00%) Metasploit
1 2 (1.00%) sqlmap
2 1 (0.50%) Git
2 1 (0.50%) GitLab
2 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
General
1 89 (44.28%) Social Skills
2 52 (25.87%) Marketing
3 45 (22.39%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (19.90%) Finance
5 19 (9.45%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.97%) Retail
7 13 (6.47%) Banking
8 7 (3.48%) Brand Awareness
8 7 (3.48%) Italian Language
8 7 (3.48%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.48%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Back Office
11 2 (1.00%) Billing
11 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Legal
11 2 (1.00%) Military
11 2 (1.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (16.42%) Architect
2 32 (15.92%) Consultant
3 29 (14.43%) Developer
4 17 (8.46%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 16 (7.96%) Lead
6 14 (6.97%) Analyst
7 13 (6.47%) Senior
8 11 (5.47%) Project Manager
8 11 (5.47%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (4.98%) Technical Architect
10 9 (4.48%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 9 (4.48%) Functional Consultant
11 8 (3.98%) Marketing Manager
11 8 (3.98%) Security Consultant
12 7 (3.48%) Dynamics 365 Architect
12 7 (3.48%) Senior Manager
12 7 (3.48%) Technical Support
13 6 (2.99%) Integration Developer
13 6 (2.99%) Technical Manager
13 6 (2.99%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.96%) JSON
2 15 (7.46%) .NET
3 14 (6.97%) HTML
4 12 (5.97%) REST
5 9 (4.48%) SOAP
6 8 (3.98%) HTML5 Canvas
6 8 (3.98%) OAuth
7 6 (2.99%) Ajax
7 6 (2.99%) OAuth2
7 6 (2.99%) XML
8 4 (1.99%) PyTorch
8 4 (1.99%) TensorFlow
9 3 (1.49%) CSS
9 3 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (1.00%) .NET Core
10 2 (1.00%) ARM Templates
10 2 (1.00%) Keras
10 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (1.00%) RESTful
10 2 (1.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.48%) Product Ownership
1 9 (4.48%) Social Media
2 8 (3.98%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (3.98%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (3.48%) Marketing Technology
3 7 (3.48%) Security Posture
3 7 (3.48%) Virtual Team
4 6 (2.99%) Web Conferencing
5 5 (2.49%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.49%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.99%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.99%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.99%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.49%) Midjourney
7 3 (1.49%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.49%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.97%) Windows
2 6 (2.99%) Linux
3 4 (1.99%) Unix
4 3 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (37.81%) CRM
2 49 (24.38%) Agile
3 41 (20.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 38 (18.91%) DevOps
4 38 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (17.91%) Analytics
6 27 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (11.94%) AI
8 21 (10.45%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (9.95%) Customer Experience
9 20 (9.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 19 (9.45%) Customer Service
11 18 (8.96%) Roadmaps
12 17 (8.46%) CI/CD
12 17 (8.46%) Marketing Automation
12 17 (8.46%) Use Case
12 17 (8.46%) Validation
13 16 (7.96%) Data Modelling
13 16 (7.96%) Project Management
13 16 (7.96%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 25 (12.44%) JavaScript
2 24 (11.94%) C#
3 16 (7.96%) Python
4 11 (5.47%) SQL
5 10 (4.98%) Java
6 6 (2.99%) Groovy
6 6 (2.99%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.99%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.49%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.49%) Bash
8 3 (1.49%) Bicep
8 3 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.00%) R
9 2 (1.00%) Scala
9 2 (1.00%) VBA
10 1 (0.50%) C++
10 1 (0.50%) Go
10 1 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 23 (11.44%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.95%) Degree
3 16 (7.96%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.99%) GPEN
6 6 (2.99%) OSCP
7 4 (1.99%) GWAPT
8 3 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.49%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.49%) MBA
9 2 (1.00%) CCIE
9 2 (1.00%) CCNP
9 2 (1.00%) CCSE
9 2 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.00%) JNCIE
9 2 (1.00%) JNCIP
9 2 (1.00%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.97%) GDPR
2 10 (4.98%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.98%) QA
4 6 (2.99%) SLA
5 4 (1.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.99%) NIST
6 2 (1.00%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.00%) PMO
7 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.50%) GRC
7 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (5.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (2.99%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 5 (2.49%) Terraform
3 3 (1.49%) Ansible
4 2 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.00%) Nessus
4 2 (1.00%) Nmap
4 2 (1.00%) SysTrack
5 1 (0.50%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 66 (32.84%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.47%) Salesforce
3 12 (5.97%) ServiceNow
4 8 (3.98%) Google
5 6 (2.99%) CyberArk
5 6 (2.99%) Databricks
5 6 (2.99%) SAP
6 5 (2.49%) Meraki
6 5 (2.49%) Oracle
6 5 (2.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 4 (1.99%) Cisco
7 4 (1.99%) Genesys
8 3 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.49%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.49%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.49%) Pega
8 3 (1.49%) Remedy
8 3 (1.49%) YouTube
9 2 (1.00%) Cvent
9 2 (1.00%) mParticle