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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 350 426
Rank change year-on-year -69 +76 +71
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 182 125 115
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.52% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.57% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 87 77
10th Percentile £350 £315 £340
25th Percentile £413 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +18.34%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £694
90th Percentile £755 £725 £770
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 35,508 21,848 31,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 91.31% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,529 14,223 20,659
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 949 2,294
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year +66.78% -23.51% -1.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £27.59 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.34% -24.42% +1.04%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -42 105 £525 -6.67% 67
South East -37 26 £550 -2.22% 68
North of England -70 18 £538 +13.16% 53
Midlands -48 15 £800 +60.00% 16
North West -30 14 £447 -5.89% 29
West Midlands -51 13 £800 +52.38% 8
East of England -21 11 £375 -42.31% 17
Yorkshire -54 4 £550 +15.79% 15
South West -42 2 - - 14
East Midlands -26 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 8 (4.40%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.20%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.65%) Confluence
4 2 (1.10%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.55%) CICS
5 1 (0.55%) CMS
5 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.55%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 9 (4.95%) Chatbot
2 8 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.10%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 37 (20.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.30%) Sage X3
3 5 (2.75%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (2.20%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (2.20%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (2.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (2.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.55%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.55%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 40 (21.98%) Dynamics 365
2 39 (21.43%) Power Platform
3 31 (17.03%) Azure
4 18 (9.89%) Power Automate
5 15 (8.24%) PowerApps
6 13 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (4.40%) WhatsApp
8 7 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (3.85%) Google Workspace
8 7 (3.85%) Miro
9 6 (3.30%) AWS
10 5 (2.75%) GCP
10 5 (2.75%) PaaS
10 5 (2.75%) SaaS
11 4 (2.20%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.65%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.65%) IaaS
12 3 (1.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.04%) VPN
2 10 (5.49%) Network Security
3 6 (3.30%) WAN
4 5 (2.75%) Firewall
4 5 (2.75%) HTTP
4 5 (2.75%) LAN
4 5 (2.75%) SMS
5 4 (2.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 4 (2.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (1.65%) MPLS
6 3 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.10%) BGP
7 2 (1.10%) BIG-IP
7 2 (1.10%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.10%) OSPF
7 2 (1.10%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.10%) VoIP
8 1 (0.55%) SSH
8 1 (0.55%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.79%) Power BI
2 7 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.30%) Power Query
3 6 (3.30%) ZAP BI
4 2 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.10%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (1.10%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.10%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.10%) Tableau
4 2 (1.10%) Weaviate
5 1 (0.55%) Looker
5 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.20%) JIRA
2 2 (1.10%) JDeveloper
3 1 (0.55%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.55%) Git
3 1 (0.55%) GitLab
General
1 72 (39.56%) Social Skills
2 44 (24.18%) Finance
3 31 (17.03%) Marketing
4 24 (13.19%) Retail
5 16 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (8.79%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.40%) Banking
7 7 (3.85%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.30%) Local Government
9 5 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.20%) Advertising
10 4 (2.20%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.20%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.65%) Legal
12 2 (1.10%) Back Office
12 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.10%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (20.33%) Architect
2 27 (14.84%) Consultant
3 25 (13.74%) Developer
4 21 (11.54%) Lead
5 16 (8.79%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 11 (6.04%) Analyst
6 11 (6.04%) Senior
7 9 (4.95%) Security Consultant
8 8 (4.40%) Network Architect
8 8 (4.40%) Project Manager
8 8 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (3.85%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 7 (3.85%) Product Manager
10 6 (3.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 6 (3.30%) Functional Consultant
10 6 (3.30%) Power BI Developer
10 6 (3.30%) Report Developer
10 6 (3.30%) SQL BI Developer
10 6 (3.30%) SQL Developer
10 6 (3.30%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.69%) .NET
2 8 (4.40%) HTML
3 6 (3.30%) HTML5 Canvas
4 5 (2.75%) JSON
4 5 (2.75%) PyTorch
4 5 (2.75%) REST
4 5 (2.75%) TensorFlow
5 4 (2.20%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.65%) Kafka
6 3 (1.65%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (1.10%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.10%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.10%) CSS
7 2 (1.10%) Hugging Face
7 2 (1.10%) Keras
7 2 (1.10%) LangChain
7 2 (1.10%) Middleware
7 2 (1.10%) PySpark
7 2 (1.10%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.10%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.49%) Virtual Team
2 9 (4.95%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.75%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.75%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.20%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.20%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.65%) FPGA
6 3 (1.65%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.65%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.65%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.65%) Verilog
6 3 (1.65%) VHDL
7 2 (1.10%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.10%) Social Media
8 1 (0.55%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.20%) Linux
1 4 (2.20%) Windows
2 3 (1.65%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.55%) Android
3 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.55%) Unix
3 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (32.97%) CRM
2 35 (19.23%) Analytics
3 33 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 33 (18.13%) Migration
3 33 (18.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 31 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (15.38%) Agile
6 23 (12.64%) Roadmaps
7 22 (12.09%) Customer Experience
8 21 (11.54%) Customer Service
9 20 (10.99%) DevOps
9 20 (10.99%) Workshop Facilitation
10 18 (9.89%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (9.89%) Decision-Making
10 18 (9.89%) Use Case
11 17 (9.34%) AI
11 17 (9.34%) Presales
12 16 (8.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (8.24%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (8.24%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.89%) C#
2 17 (9.34%) JavaScript
3 15 (8.24%) SQL
4 13 (7.14%) Python
5 7 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (3.30%) VBA
7 3 (1.65%) ABAP
7 3 (1.65%) C
7 3 (1.65%) C++
7 3 (1.65%) Embedded C
7 3 (1.65%) Embedded C++
7 3 (1.65%) R
8 2 (1.10%) Bicep
8 2 (1.10%) Java
8 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.55%) Bash
9 1 (0.55%) Perl
9 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (16.48%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.99%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.49%) Degree
4 8 (4.40%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.65%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.10%) CCIE
7 2 (1.10%) CCNP
7 2 (1.10%) CCSE
7 2 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.10%) JNCIE
7 2 (1.10%) JNCIP
7 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.10%) MBA
7 2 (1.10%) PMP
8 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.40%) GDPR
2 7 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.85%) QA
3 6 (3.30%) SLA
4 3 (1.65%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.10%) NIST
6 1 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.55%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.55%) PMO
6 1 (0.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (1.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.55%) IAG
3 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (3.85%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 5 (2.75%) Terraform
3 3 (1.65%) Ansible
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (34.07%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.24%) Salesforce
3 9 (4.95%) Google
4 8 (4.40%) SAP
5 7 (3.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 6 (3.30%) Cisco
6 6 (3.30%) Oracle
6 6 (3.30%) Sage
6 6 (3.30%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.75%) F5
7 5 (2.75%) Pega
8 4 (2.20%) Braze
9 3 (1.65%) Databricks
9 3 (1.65%) Intel
9 3 (1.65%) Juniper
9 3 (1.65%) Meraki
9 3 (1.65%) Xilinx
9 3 (1.65%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.10%) Adobe
10 2 (1.10%) CheckPoint