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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 354 421
Rank change year-on-year -54 +67 +66
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 184 130 118
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.54% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.59% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 87 75
10th Percentile £363 £348 £335
25th Percentile £413 £450 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% -9.25% +20.00%
75th Percentile £636 £675 £694
90th Percentile £745 £725 £780
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 11
10th Percentile - £31.45 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.46 £37.38 £21.07
Median hourly rate £20.70 £48.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.33% +53.97% -44.04%
75th Percentile £21.93 £57.38 £47.83
90th Percentile - £61.95 -
UK median hourly rate £20.70 £48.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year -57.33% +53.97% -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 35,679 21,999 31,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.05% 91.35% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,608 14,249 20,517
10th Percentile £325 £304 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,238 979 2,317
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.76 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -24.00% +1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.60 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.93 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +1.39%

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 5 June 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
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 5 June 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 -31 109 £500 -10.51% 172
South East -56 25 £560 -0.44% 96
North of England -77 16 £550 +15.79% 78
Midlands -42 15 £800 +60.00% 32
North West -34 13 £486 +2.32% 49
West Midlands -47 13 £800 +52.38% 20
East of England -20 12 £375 -42.31% 25
Yorkshire -52 3 £550 +15.79% 21
South West -41 2 - - 25
East Midlands -24 1 - - 12
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 (3.80%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.17%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.09%) Confluence
4 1 (0.54%) CICS
4 1 (0.54%) CMS
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.54%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 8 (4.35%) Chatbot
1 8 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (19.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.26%) Sage X3
3 5 (2.72%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (2.17%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (2.17%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (2.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (2.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.54%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 38 (20.65%) Dynamics 365
2 37 (20.11%) Power Platform
3 30 (16.30%) Azure
4 16 (8.70%) Power Automate
5 13 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (7.07%) Azure Logic Apps
5 13 (7.07%) PowerApps
6 8 (4.35%) WhatsApp
7 7 (3.80%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (3.80%) Google Workspace
7 7 (3.80%) Miro
8 6 (3.26%) AWS
9 5 (2.72%) GCP
9 5 (2.72%) PaaS
9 5 (2.72%) SaaS
10 4 (2.17%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.63%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.63%) IaaS
11 3 (1.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.43%) VPN
2 9 (4.89%) Network Security
3 5 (2.72%) HTTP
3 5 (2.72%) SMS
3 5 (2.72%) WAN
4 4 (2.17%) Firewall
4 4 (2.17%) LAN
5 3 (1.63%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (1.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (1.63%) MPLS
5 3 (1.63%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.09%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.09%) VoIP
7 1 (0.54%) BGP
7 1 (0.54%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.54%) MIMO
7 1 (0.54%) OSPF
7 1 (0.54%) SSH
7 1 (0.54%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.15%) Power BI
2 7 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.26%) Power Query
3 6 (3.26%) ZAP BI
4 2 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.09%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (1.09%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.09%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.09%) Tableau
4 2 (1.09%) Weaviate
5 1 (0.54%) Looker
5 1 (0.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.72%) JIRA
2 2 (1.09%) JDeveloper
3 1 (0.54%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.54%) Git
3 1 (0.54%) GitLab
General
1 71 (38.59%) Social Skills
2 42 (22.83%) Finance
3 31 (16.85%) Marketing
4 25 (13.59%) Retail
5 21 (11.41%) Public Sector
6 16 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.35%) Banking
8 7 (3.80%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.26%) Local Government
10 5 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.17%) Advertising
11 4 (2.17%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (2.17%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.63%) Legal
13 2 (1.09%) Back Office
13 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (20.65%) Architect
2 26 (14.13%) Developer
3 25 (13.59%) Consultant
4 21 (11.41%) Lead
5 16 (8.70%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 15 (8.15%) Senior
7 11 (5.98%) Analyst
8 9 (4.89%) Security Consultant
9 8 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.80%) Network Architect
10 7 (3.80%) Product Manager
10 7 (3.80%) Project Manager
10 7 (3.80%) Technical Architect
11 6 (3.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 6 (3.26%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 6 (3.26%) Functional Consultant
11 6 (3.26%) Power BI Developer
11 6 (3.26%) Report Developer
11 6 (3.26%) SQL BI Developer
11 6 (3.26%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.61%) .NET
2 7 (3.80%) HTML
3 5 (2.72%) HTML5 Canvas
3 5 (2.72%) JSON
3 5 (2.72%) PyTorch
3 5 (2.72%) TensorFlow
4 4 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (2.17%) REST
5 3 (1.63%) Kafka
5 3 (1.63%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (1.09%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.09%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.09%) CSS
6 2 (1.09%) Hugging Face
6 2 (1.09%) Keras
6 2 (1.09%) LangChain
6 2 (1.09%) Middleware
6 2 (1.09%) PySpark
6 2 (1.09%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.43%) Virtual Team
2 8 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (3.80%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.72%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.17%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.63%) FPGA
6 3 (1.63%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.63%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.63%) Social Media
6 3 (1.63%) Verilog
6 3 (1.63%) VHDL
7 2 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.09%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.54%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.17%) Linux
2 3 (1.63%) Embedded Linux
2 3 (1.63%) Windows
3 1 (0.54%) Android
3 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.54%) Unix
3 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (30.98%) CRM
2 34 (18.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (17.93%) Analytics
3 33 (17.93%) Migration
3 33 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (17.39%) Agile
5 30 (16.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (11.96%) Customer Experience
7 20 (10.87%) Customer Service
7 20 (10.87%) DevOps
7 20 (10.87%) Roadmaps
8 19 (10.33%) Decision-Making
9 18 (9.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 18 (9.78%) Workshop Facilitation
10 17 (9.24%) Presales
10 17 (9.24%) Use Case
11 16 (8.70%) AI
11 16 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (8.15%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.78%) C#
1 18 (9.78%) JavaScript
2 15 (8.15%) SQL
3 12 (6.52%) Python
4 7 (3.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (3.26%) VBA
6 3 (1.63%) ABAP
6 3 (1.63%) C
6 3 (1.63%) C++
6 3 (1.63%) Embedded C
6 3 (1.63%) Embedded C++
6 3 (1.63%) R
7 2 (1.09%) Bicep
7 2 (1.09%) Java
7 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.54%) Bash
8 1 (0.54%) Perl
8 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (17.93%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.96%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.89%) Degree
3 9 (4.89%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.63%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.09%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.09%) MBA
6 2 (1.09%) PMP
7 1 (0.54%) CCIE
7 1 (0.54%) CCNP
7 1 (0.54%) CCSE
7 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.54%) JNCIE
7 1 (0.54%) JNCIP
7 1 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.35%) GDPR
2 7 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.26%) QA
3 6 (3.26%) SLA
4 3 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.63%) NIST
5 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.54%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.54%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.54%) PMO
6 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (1.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.54%) IAG
3 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (3.80%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 4 (2.17%) Terraform
3 2 (1.09%) Ansible
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (33.70%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.15%) Salesforce
3 9 (4.89%) Google
4 7 (3.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 7 (3.80%) SAP
5 6 (3.26%) Oracle
5 6 (3.26%) Sage
5 6 (3.26%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.72%) Cisco
6 5 (2.72%) Pega
7 4 (2.17%) Braze
7 4 (2.17%) Databricks
7 4 (2.17%) F5
8 3 (1.63%) Intel
8 3 (1.63%) Meraki
8 3 (1.63%) Xilinx
9 2 (1.09%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.09%) Juniper
9 2 (1.09%) NVIDIA
9 2 (1.09%) VMware