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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 355 424
Rank change year-on-year -3 +69 +2
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 312 166 100
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.59% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.65% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 83 68
10th Percentile £381 £380 £359
25th Percentile £465 £456 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.96%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £713 £725 £693
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +4.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 1
10th Percentile - £25.30 -
25th Percentile £19.48 £32.75 £59.25
Median hourly rate £39.00 £34.00 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -46.46% +26.37%
75th Percentile £48.84 £36.25 £67.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £60.50 -
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £34.00 £63.50
% change year-on-year +14.71% -46.46% +20.95%

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 39,417 25,490 28,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.73% 90.96% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,890 16,169 17,141
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,564 1,197
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.44 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.59 £17.87 £20.25
Median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.43 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.27
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.49% -0.55%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -7 158 £525 - 858
North of England -51 44 £500 - 157
South West -1 40 £525 +29.23% 73
North West -29 35 £500 -28.57% 89
South East -61 32 £572 +8.95% 262
Midlands -38 19 £506 -15.63% 105
West Midlands -31 17 £500 -16.67% 59
East of England -18 14 £563 -10.00% 70
Yorkshire -36 7 £550 +15.79% 55
North East -44 2 £525 +16.67% 14
East Midlands - 2 £750 - 46
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 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.96%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
4 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.32%) CICS
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
5 1 (0.32%) Confluence
5 1 (0.32%) PowerExchange
5 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.32%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.32%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 38 (12.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.60%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.28%) Workfront
4 3 (0.96%) BusinessWorks
4 3 (0.96%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.96%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.64%) Shopify
6 1 (0.32%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.32%) OPENHousing
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.32%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 48 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
2 44 (14.10%) Azure
3 35 (11.22%) Power Platform
4 27 (8.65%) AWS
5 16 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (5.13%) Power Automate
6 15 (4.81%) PowerApps
7 11 (3.53%) Azure Logic Apps
7 11 (3.53%) GCP
7 11 (3.53%) Serverless
8 9 (2.88%) SaaS
9 8 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.24%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (2.24%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.24%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.92%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 6 (1.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 5 (1.60%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.17%) Firewall
2 8 (2.56%) Network Security
3 7 (2.24%) DNS
4 6 (1.92%) VSAN
5 5 (1.60%) DHCP
5 5 (1.60%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.28%) Internet
6 4 (1.28%) MPLS
6 4 (1.28%) SMS
7 3 (0.96%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.96%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.96%) VPN
7 3 (0.96%) WAN
7 3 (0.96%) Wireless
8 2 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.64%) NetScaler
8 2 (0.64%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.53%) Power BI
2 5 (1.60%) DynamoDB
2 5 (1.60%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.28%) BigQuery
4 3 (0.96%) Tableau
5 2 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.64%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.64%) Looker
5 2 (0.64%) Metadata
5 2 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.32%) GIS
6 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.32%) Power Query
6 1 (0.32%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (2.24%) JIRA
2 3 (0.96%) Git
3 2 (0.64%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.64%) MSI
4 1 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.32%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.32%) GitLab
4 1 (0.32%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
General
1 131 (41.99%) Social Skills
2 66 (21.15%) Marketing
3 45 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (12.82%) Finance
5 28 (8.97%) Retail
6 23 (7.37%) Public Sector
7 22 (7.05%) Banking
8 18 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (3.21%) Italian Language
11 9 (2.88%) German Language
11 9 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.24%) Advertising
12 7 (2.24%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.92%) French Language
13 6 (1.92%) Local Government
13 6 (1.92%) Spanish Language
14 5 (1.60%) Dutch Language
14 5 (1.60%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.28%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 86 (27.56%) Architect
2 34 (10.90%) Consultant
3 30 (9.62%) Lead
4 24 (7.69%) Developer
5 23 (7.37%) Senior
6 21 (6.73%) Solutions Architect
7 18 (5.77%) Lead Architect
8 14 (4.49%) Analyst
9 13 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 13 (4.17%) Product Manager
9 13 (4.17%) Project Manager
10 12 (3.85%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 12 (3.85%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 12 (3.85%) Service Manager
10 12 (3.85%) Voice Architect
11 11 (3.53%) Senior Manager
12 8 (2.56%) CRM Manager
13 7 (2.24%) Business Analyst
13 7 (2.24%) Campaign Manager
13 7 (2.24%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.73%) LDAP
2 14 (4.49%) .NET
2 14 (4.49%) REST
3 12 (3.85%) Terraform
4 10 (3.21%) Middleware
5 7 (2.24%) JSON
6 6 (1.92%) Kafka
7 5 (1.60%) HTML
7 5 (1.60%) React
8 4 (1.28%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.28%) CSS
9 3 (0.96%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.96%) SAP Fiori
9 3 (0.96%) SOAP
10 2 (0.64%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.64%) Next.js
10 2 (0.64%) PySpark
10 2 (0.64%) Web Services
10 2 (0.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.37%) AI Agents
2 16 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.49%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.17%) IVR
6 10 (3.21%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.88%) Marketing Technology
8 8 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.56%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.24%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.92%) Social Media
10 6 (1.92%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.60%) PKI
11 5 (1.60%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (1.28%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.28%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.17%) Windows
2 7 (2.24%) Linux
3 3 (0.96%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.64%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.32%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 96 (30.77%) CRM
3 62 (19.87%) Customer Experience
4 57 (18.27%) AI
5 54 (17.31%) Analytics
5 54 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (16.99%) Roadmaps
7 52 (16.67%) Agile
8 48 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (14.10%) Migration
10 43 (13.78%) Technical Leadership
11 42 (13.46%) Mentoring
12 41 (13.14%) Customer Service
13 35 (11.22%) ITSM
14 29 (9.29%) Decision-Making
14 29 (9.29%) SIEM
15 27 (8.65%) DevSecOps
16 26 (8.33%) GAP Analysis
16 26 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 25 (8.01%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (8.01%) JavaScript
2 21 (6.73%) Python
3 20 (6.41%) SQL
4 15 (4.81%) C#
5 8 (2.56%) PowerShell
5 8 (2.56%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.92%) Bash
7 4 (1.28%) Java
8 3 (0.96%) ABAP
8 3 (0.96%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.96%) R
9 2 (0.64%) Bicep
9 2 (0.64%) X++
10 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.32%) Perl
10 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (23.72%) Security Cleared
2 34 (10.90%) DV Cleared
3 33 (10.58%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.88%) Degree
5 6 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.60%) VCAP
7 4 (1.28%) CEH
7 4 (1.28%) CISM
7 4 (1.28%) CISSP
8 2 (0.64%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.64%) PMP
8 2 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.32%) CCNA
9 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.65%) NIST
2 22 (7.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (4.17%) GDPR
4 11 (3.53%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.56%) QA
6 5 (1.60%) SLA
7 4 (1.28%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.96%) PMO
9 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.32%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.32%) GxP
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.32%) PERC
9 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (10.90%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.92%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.60%) vSphere
5 4 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.96%) Docker
7 2 (0.64%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.64%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.64%) XenApp
7 2 (0.64%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.60%) Ansible
3 5 (1.60%) VxRail
4 2 (0.64%) Rundeck
4 2 (0.64%) SCCM
4 2 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.64%) SysTrack
5 1 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.32%) vRealize
Vendors
1 89 (28.53%) Microsoft
2 36 (11.54%) Salesforce
3 23 (7.37%) CyberArk
4 17 (5.45%) Braze
5 16 (5.13%) ServiceNow
6 11 (3.53%) Adobe
6 11 (3.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 10 (3.21%) VMware
8 7 (2.24%) Databricks
8 7 (2.24%) SAP
9 6 (1.92%) Google
10 5 (1.60%) Pega
11 4 (1.28%) Cisco
11 4 (1.28%) Confluent
11 4 (1.28%) JD Edwards
11 4 (1.28%) Oracle
12 3 (0.96%) Citrix
12 3 (0.96%) Genesys
12 3 (0.96%) mParticle
12 3 (0.96%) TIBCO