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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 400 432
Rank change year-on-year +39 +32 +105
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 188 107 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.35% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.40% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 75 77
10th Percentile £313 £343 £168
25th Percentile £422 £383 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -3.93%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £658
90th Percentile £638 £683 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 7
10th Percentile - £31.82 £23.43
25th Percentile £14.00 £38.29 £33.71
Median hourly rate £24.50 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.33% - +48.34%
75th Percentile £35.00 £61.84 £55.02
90th Percentile £37.25 £65.39 £56.29
UK median hourly rate £24.50 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -53.33% - +150.00%

All Process and 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 27,655 26,658 34,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.31% 87.92% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,614 16,424 23,309
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,796 941 1,445
10th Percentile £14.92 £15.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025. 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 +45 97 £525 +13.51% 110
South East -12 29 £525 +23.53% 129
West Midlands -14 20 £600 +5.82% 36
Midlands -20 20 £600 +5.82% 66
North of England -24 19 £350 -38.27% 78
East of England -8 13 £625 +19.05% 46
North West -5 11 £350 - 43
Yorkshire -35 7 - - 28
South West -20 2 £463 -22.92% 44
North East - 1 £450 - 7
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 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.60%) WordPress
2 2 (1.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.53%) Confluence
3 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (3.19%) Chatbot
2 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.60%) Notion
4 2 (1.06%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.53%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.53%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.53%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.53%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 28 (14.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.06%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.53%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.53%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.53%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.53%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 41 (21.81%) Azure
2 40 (21.28%) Dynamics 365
3 35 (18.62%) Power Platform
4 22 (11.70%) Power Automate
5 20 (10.64%) AWS
6 17 (9.04%) PowerApps
7 16 (8.51%) SaaS
8 11 (5.85%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (4.79%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (4.26%) Serverless
11 6 (3.19%) AtomSphere
11 6 (3.19%) Boomi
11 6 (3.19%) Entra ID
11 6 (3.19%) Snowflake
12 5 (2.66%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.66%) GCP
12 5 (2.66%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 4 (2.13%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.26%) HTTP
2 7 (3.72%) VPN
3 5 (2.66%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.66%) WAN
4 3 (1.60%) Firewall
4 3 (1.60%) LAN
4 3 (1.60%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.60%) VLAN
4 3 (1.60%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.06%) Network Security
5 2 (1.06%) SMS
5 2 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.53%) BGP
6 1 (0.53%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.53%) DHCP
6 1 (0.53%) DNS
6 1 (0.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.53%) OSPF
6 1 (0.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.83%) Power BI
2 9 (4.79%) Tableau
3 4 (2.13%) BigQuery
3 4 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.60%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.53%) DB2
5 1 (0.53%) Mixpanel
5 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Fiddler
2 2 (1.06%) Burp Suite
2 2 (1.06%) Git
2 2 (1.06%) JIRA
2 2 (1.06%) Metasploit
2 2 (1.06%) Postman
2 2 (1.06%) sqlmap
3 1 (0.53%) GitLab
3 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.53%) MLflow
General
1 74 (39.36%) Social Skills
2 64 (34.04%) Marketing
3 50 (26.60%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (15.43%) Finance
5 16 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.51%) Retail
6 11 (5.85%) Banking
7 7 (3.72%) Brand Awareness
7 7 (3.72%) Italian Language
8 5 (2.66%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.66%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.60%) Billing
9 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.60%) Electronics
9 3 (1.60%) Legal
9 3 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.60%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (13.30%) Architect
2 24 (12.77%) Consultant
3 20 (10.64%) Analyst
3 20 (10.64%) Developer
4 13 (6.91%) Senior
5 12 (6.38%) Project Manager
6 11 (5.85%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (5.32%) Lead
8 9 (4.79%) Senior Manager
9 8 (4.26%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 8 (4.26%) Marketing Manager
9 8 (4.26%) Technical Support
10 7 (3.72%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 6 (3.19%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.19%) Dynamics 365 Architect
11 6 (3.19%) Functional Consultant
11 6 (3.19%) Integration Developer
11 6 (3.19%) Senior Marketing Manager
11 6 (3.19%) Technical Manager
11 6 (3.19%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.45%) JSON
2 13 (6.91%) REST
3 10 (5.32%) HTML
4 9 (4.79%) .NET
4 9 (4.79%) SOAP
5 8 (4.26%) OAuth
6 6 (3.19%) XML
7 5 (2.66%) Ajax
7 5 (2.66%) HTML5 Canvas
7 5 (2.66%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.60%) CSS
8 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (1.06%) Middleware
9 2 (1.06%) OpenAPI
9 2 (1.06%) PyTorch
9 2 (1.06%) RESTful
9 2 (1.06%) Swagger
9 2 (1.06%) Web Services
10 1 (0.53%) Pandas
10 1 (0.53%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.45%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.91%) Social Media
3 8 (4.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (3.72%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.72%) Security Posture
5 6 (3.19%) Marketing Technology
5 6 (3.19%) Web Conferencing
6 5 (2.66%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.66%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.66%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.13%) IVR
7 4 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.13%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.60%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.60%) Midjourney
8 3 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.60%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.38%) Windows
2 6 (3.19%) Linux
3 3 (1.60%) Unix
3 3 (1.60%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.06%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (36.17%) CRM
2 55 (29.26%) Agile
3 41 (21.81%) Analytics
4 39 (20.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 36 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (17.02%) DevOps
7 29 (15.43%) Business Intelligence
8 27 (14.36%) Customer Experience
8 27 (14.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 24 (12.77%) AI
10 22 (11.70%) Customer Service
11 20 (10.64%) Validation
12 19 (10.11%) CI/CD
13 18 (9.57%) Data Modelling
14 17 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (7.98%) Marketing Automation
15 15 (7.98%) Roadmaps
16 14 (7.45%) Actionable Insight
16 14 (7.45%) E-Commerce
16 14 (7.45%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 21 (11.17%) Python
2 18 (9.57%) JavaScript
3 16 (8.51%) C#
4 13 (6.91%) SQL
5 10 (5.32%) Java
6 6 (3.19%) Groovy
6 6 (3.19%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.19%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.13%) Bash
7 4 (2.13%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.60%) Go
9 2 (1.06%) Scala
10 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.53%) Bicep
10 1 (0.53%) C++
10 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 23 (12.23%) Degree
2 14 (7.45%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.19%) GPEN
6 6 (3.19%) OSCP
7 4 (2.13%) GWAPT
8 3 (1.60%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.06%) CISSP
9 2 (1.06%) GXPN
9 2 (1.06%) OSCE
9 2 (1.06%) SANS
10 1 (0.53%) CCIE
10 1 (0.53%) CCNP
10 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.53%) MBA
10 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.53%) PMP
10 1 (0.53%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.17%) GDPR
2 11 (5.85%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.72%) QA
4 5 (2.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (2.13%) NIST
6 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.06%) PMO
6 2 (1.06%) SLA
7 1 (0.53%) COBIT
7 1 (0.53%) COSO
7 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.53%) GRC
7 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (5.32%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.66%) Terraform
2 3 (1.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (1.60%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (1.06%) Ansible
3 2 (1.06%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.06%) Nessus
3 2 (1.06%) Nmap
3 2 (1.06%) SysTrack
4 1 (0.53%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 53 (28.19%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.17%) Salesforce
3 10 (5.32%) SAP
3 10 (5.32%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.72%) Adobe
4 7 (3.72%) Google
5 6 (3.19%) Databricks
6 5 (2.66%) CyberArk
6 5 (2.66%) Genesys
6 5 (2.66%) Oracle
7 4 (2.13%) Cvent
7 4 (2.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) Cisco
8 3 (1.60%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.60%) OneTrust
8 3 (1.60%) Optimizely
8 3 (1.60%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.60%) Pega
8 3 (1.60%) YouTube
9 2 (1.06%) Avaya