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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 367 406
Rank change year-on-year -8 +39 +143
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 205 104 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.42% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.47% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 71 91
10th Percentile £350 £275 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% -9.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £694
90th Percentile £742 £688 £719
UK median daily rate £500 £535 £600
% change year-on-year -6.54% -10.83% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 10
10th Percentile - - £14.00
25th Percentile - £27.50 £25.88
Median hourly rate £14.00 £41.25 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -66.06% +9.27% -32.94%
75th Percentile £17.97 £58.19 £47.83
90th Percentile £51.16 £62.28 -
UK median hourly rate £14.00 £41.25 £37.75
% change year-on-year -66.06% +9.27% -32.94%

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 32,374 22,226 32,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.47% 90.74% 86.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,766 14,506 21,651
10th Percentile £313 £310 £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 1,980 825 2,147
10th Percentile £15.49 £15.07 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -10.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.83
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.81 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £30.32 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.71% - -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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -10 108 £478 -9.81% 102
South East -29 31 £525 -2.33% 62
Midlands -38 29 £600 +14.29% 26
West Midlands -39 27 £600 +6.67% 18
East of England -14 15 £375 -42.31% 20
North of England -58 15 £444 -1.44% 41
North West -23 10 £444 -1.44% 23
Yorkshire - 5 - - 15
South West -34 2 - - 22
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 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.95%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.46%) Confluence
3 3 (1.46%) WordPress
4 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.49%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (4.88%) Chatbot
2 8 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.46%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.46%) Notion
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.98%) 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 Project
5 1 (0.49%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 42 (20.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.93%) Sage X3
3 4 (1.95%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (1.95%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.95%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.98%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.49%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 50 (24.39%) Dynamics 365
2 45 (21.95%) Azure
3 44 (21.46%) Power Platform
4 25 (12.20%) Power Automate
5 18 (8.78%) PowerApps
6 15 (7.32%) Azure Logic Apps
7 14 (6.83%) AWS
8 13 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (5.85%) SaaS
10 9 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (3.90%) WhatsApp
12 7 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (3.41%) Azure Functions
12 7 (3.41%) Google Workspace
12 7 (3.41%) Miro
12 7 (3.41%) Serverless
13 6 (2.93%) AtomSphere
13 6 (2.93%) Boomi
14 5 (2.44%) PaaS
14 5 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.85%) HTTP
1 12 (5.85%) VPN
2 10 (4.88%) WAN
3 8 (3.90%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.41%) LAN
4 7 (3.41%) Network Security
5 5 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.95%) Firewall
6 4 (1.95%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.46%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (1.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.98%) BGP
8 2 (0.98%) BIG-IP
8 2 (0.98%) OSPF
8 2 (0.98%) SMS
8 2 (0.98%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.49%) DHCP
9 1 (0.49%) DNS
9 1 (0.49%) SSH
9 1 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.22%) Power BI
2 9 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.93%) Power Query
3 6 (2.93%) ZAP BI
4 4 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.46%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.98%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.98%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (0.98%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.98%) Pinecone
6 2 (0.98%) Tableau
6 2 (0.98%) Weaviate
7 1 (0.49%) DB2
7 1 (0.49%) Looker
7 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Fiddler
1 2 (0.98%) JDeveloper
1 2 (0.98%) JIRA
2 1 (0.49%) Git
General
1 89 (43.41%) Social Skills
2 47 (22.93%) Finance
3 42 (20.49%) Marketing
4 38 (18.54%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.78%) Public Sector
6 15 (7.32%) Retail
7 14 (6.83%) Banking
8 9 (4.39%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.93%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.44%) Italian Language
11 4 (1.95%) Brand Awareness
11 4 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.46%) Billing
12 3 (1.46%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.46%) Legal
13 2 (0.98%) Back Office
13 2 (0.98%) Local Government
13 2 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (16.59%) Consultant
2 33 (16.10%) Architect
3 32 (15.61%) Developer
4 19 (9.27%) Lead
5 17 (8.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 14 (6.83%) Senior
7 11 (5.37%) Analyst
7 11 (5.37%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.88%) Project Manager
8 10 (4.88%) Technical Architect
9 9 (4.39%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 9 (4.39%) Functional Consultant
9 9 (4.39%) Security Consultant
10 7 (3.41%) Technical Support
11 6 (2.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 6 (2.93%) Marketing Manager
11 6 (2.93%) Network Architect
11 6 (2.93%) Power BI Developer
11 6 (2.93%) Report Developer
11 6 (2.93%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.80%) JSON
2 14 (6.83%) .NET
2 14 (6.83%) HTML
3 12 (5.85%) REST
4 8 (3.90%) OAuth
4 8 (3.90%) SOAP
5 7 (3.41%) HTML5 Canvas
6 6 (2.93%) Ajax
6 6 (2.93%) OAuth2
6 6 (2.93%) XML
7 4 (1.95%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.95%) PyTorch
7 4 (1.95%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.46%) CSS
9 2 (0.98%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.98%) Hugging Face
9 2 (0.98%) Keras
9 2 (0.98%) LangChain
9 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.98%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
2 9 (4.39%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.39%) Social Media
3 8 (3.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (3.90%) Virtual Team
4 6 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.95%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.95%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.95%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.95%) Marketing Technology
6 4 (1.95%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.95%) Web Conferencing
7 3 (1.46%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.46%) Midjourney
7 3 (1.46%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.46%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.46%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (0.98%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.37%) Windows
2 6 (2.93%) Linux
3 4 (1.95%) Unix
4 3 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.98%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.49%) Android
6 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (34.63%) CRM
2 47 (22.93%) Agile
3 39 (19.02%) Analytics
4 38 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (18.05%) DevOps
6 34 (16.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (16.10%) Stakeholder Management
8 26 (12.68%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 23 (11.22%) AI
11 22 (10.73%) Requirements Gathering
12 21 (10.24%) Customer Service
13 20 (9.76%) Roadmaps
13 20 (9.76%) Workshop Facilitation
14 19 (9.27%) Customer Experience
14 19 (9.27%) Use Case
14 19 (9.27%) Validation
15 18 (8.78%) Migration
16 17 (8.29%) Presales
17 15 (7.32%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (11.71%) JavaScript
2 23 (11.22%) C#
3 16 (7.80%) SQL
4 15 (7.32%) Python
5 10 (4.88%) Java
6 7 (3.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (2.93%) Groovy
7 6 (2.93%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.93%) T-SQL
7 6 (2.93%) VBA
8 5 (2.44%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.46%) Bicep
9 3 (1.46%) C++
10 2 (0.98%) C
10 2 (0.98%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.98%) Embedded C++
10 2 (0.98%) R
11 1 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 28 (13.66%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.73%) Degree
3 18 (8.78%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.41%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.46%) GPEN
7 3 (1.46%) GWAPT
7 3 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.46%) MBA
7 3 (1.46%) OSCP
7 3 (1.46%) 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 (5.85%) GDPR
2 8 (3.90%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.90%) SLA
3 7 (3.41%) QA
4 6 (2.93%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.95%) NIST
6 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.49%) GRC
8 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.49%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (4.39%) 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 (3.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 5 (2.44%) Terraform
3 3 (1.46%) Ansible
4 2 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.98%) SysTrack
5 1 (0.49%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.49%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 67 (32.68%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.34%) Salesforce
3 9 (4.39%) Google
3 9 (4.39%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.93%) Cisco
4 6 (2.93%) CyberArk
4 6 (2.93%) Oracle
4 6 (2.93%) Sage
4 6 (2.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 6 (2.93%) SAP
5 5 (2.44%) Meraki
6 4 (1.95%) Databricks
6 4 (1.95%) F5
6 4 (1.95%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.46%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.46%) Genesys
7 3 (1.46%) Juniper
7 3 (1.46%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.46%) Pega
7 3 (1.46%) YouTube