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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 368 424
Rank change year-on-year +15 +56 +26
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 304 157 99
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.56% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.62% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 81 68
10th Percentile £379 £363 £359
25th Percentile £464 £450 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.91%
75th Percentile £620 £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 £42.40 -
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 39,218 25,382 28,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.59% 90.90% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,880 16,110 17,293
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -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 2,852 1,550 1,234
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.26
Median hourly rate £41.03 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.14% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.41 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.28 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +57.06% -40.82% -

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -6 156 £525 - 679
North of England -46 41 £500 - 123
South West +2 38 £525 +29.23% 60
North West -31 34 £500 -28.57% 79
South East -66 31 £572 +8.95% 244
Midlands -25 19 £506 -11.96% 91
West Midlands -35 17 £500 -13.04% 56
East of England -13 14 £563 -10.00% 54
Yorkshire -47 5 £550 +15.79% 37
North East -36 2 £525 +16.67% 8
East Midlands - 2 £750 - 35
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 (2.30%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.99%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
4 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.33%) CICS
5 1 (0.33%) CMS
5 1 (0.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.33%) PowerExchange
5 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.33%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.33%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 37 (12.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.32%) Workfront
4 3 (0.99%) BusinessWorks
4 3 (0.99%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.99%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.66%) Shopify
6 1 (0.33%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.33%) OPENHousing
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.33%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 45 (14.80%) Dynamics 365
2 44 (14.47%) Azure
3 34 (11.18%) Power Platform
4 27 (8.88%) AWS
5 16 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (4.93%) Power Automate
7 14 (4.61%) PowerApps
8 11 (3.62%) Azure Logic Apps
8 11 (3.62%) GCP
8 11 (3.62%) Serverless
9 9 (2.96%) SaaS
10 8 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (2.30%) Entra ID
11 7 (2.30%) Snowflake
12 6 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 5 (1.64%) Amazon EventBridge
13 5 (1.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.28%) Firewall
2 8 (2.63%) Network Security
3 7 (2.30%) DNS
4 6 (1.97%) VSAN
5 5 (1.64%) DHCP
5 5 (1.64%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.32%) Internet
6 4 (1.32%) MPLS
6 4 (1.32%) SMS
7 3 (0.99%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.99%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.99%) VPN
7 3 (0.99%) WAN
7 3 (0.99%) Wireless
8 2 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.66%) NetScaler
8 2 (0.66%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.62%) Power BI
2 5 (1.64%) DynamoDB
2 5 (1.64%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.32%) BigQuery
4 3 (0.99%) Tableau
5 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.66%) Looker
5 2 (0.66%) Metadata
5 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.33%) GIS
6 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.33%) Power Query
6 1 (0.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (2.30%) JIRA
2 3 (0.99%) Git
3 2 (0.66%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.66%) MSI
4 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.33%) GitLab
4 1 (0.33%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
General
1 128 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 65 (21.38%) Marketing
3 45 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (13.16%) Finance
5 28 (9.21%) Retail
6 24 (7.89%) Public Sector
7 21 (6.91%) Banking
8 17 (5.59%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (3.29%) Italian Language
11 9 (2.96%) German Language
11 9 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.30%) Advertising
12 7 (2.30%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.97%) French Language
13 6 (1.97%) Local Government
13 6 (1.97%) Spanish Language
14 5 (1.64%) Dutch Language
14 5 (1.64%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.32%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 87 (28.62%) Architect
2 30 (9.87%) Consultant
2 30 (9.87%) Lead
3 23 (7.57%) Developer
3 23 (7.57%) Senior
4 22 (7.24%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (5.92%) Lead Architect
6 13 (4.28%) Analyst
6 13 (4.28%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 13 (4.28%) Product Manager
6 13 (4.28%) Project Manager
7 12 (3.95%) Service Manager
7 12 (3.95%) Voice Architect
8 11 (3.62%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 11 (3.62%) Senior Manager
9 10 (3.29%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 8 (2.63%) CRM Manager
11 7 (2.30%) Campaign Manager
11 7 (2.30%) Designer
11 7 (2.30%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.91%) LDAP
2 14 (4.61%) .NET
3 13 (4.28%) REST
4 12 (3.95%) Terraform
5 10 (3.29%) Middleware
6 7 (2.30%) JSON
7 6 (1.97%) Kafka
8 5 (1.64%) HTML
9 4 (1.32%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.32%) CSS
9 4 (1.32%) React
10 3 (0.99%) ASP.NET Web API
10 3 (0.99%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (0.99%) SAP Fiori
10 3 (0.99%) SOAP
11 2 (0.66%) .NET Framework
11 2 (0.66%) Next.js
11 2 (0.66%) PySpark
11 2 (0.66%) Web Services
11 2 (0.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.91%) AI Agents
2 16 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.93%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.61%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.28%) IVR
6 9 (2.96%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.96%) Marketing Technology
7 8 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.63%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.97%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.97%) Social Media
10 5 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.64%) PKI
10 5 (1.64%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.64%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.32%) Life Science
12 3 (0.99%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.28%) Windows
2 7 (2.30%) Linux
3 3 (0.99%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.66%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (42.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 95 (31.25%) CRM
3 61 (20.07%) Customer Experience
4 56 (18.42%) AI
5 54 (17.76%) Analytics
6 53 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (17.43%) Roadmaps
7 52 (17.11%) Agile
8 47 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (14.14%) Migration
9 43 (14.14%) Technical Leadership
10 42 (13.82%) Mentoring
11 41 (13.49%) Customer Service
12 35 (11.51%) ITSM
13 29 (9.54%) SIEM
14 28 (9.21%) Decision-Making
15 27 (8.88%) DevSecOps
16 26 (8.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 25 (8.22%) GAP Analysis
17 25 (8.22%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 24 (7.89%) JavaScript
2 21 (6.91%) Python
3 19 (6.25%) SQL
4 15 (4.93%) C#
5 8 (2.63%) PowerShell
6 7 (2.30%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.97%) Bash
8 3 (0.99%) ABAP
8 3 (0.99%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.99%) Java
8 3 (0.99%) R
9 2 (0.66%) Bicep
9 2 (0.66%) X++
10 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.33%) Perl
10 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 33 (10.86%) DV Cleared
3 32 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.96%) Degree
5 6 (1.97%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.64%) VCAP
7 4 (1.32%) CEH
7 4 (1.32%) CISM
7 4 (1.32%) CISSP
8 2 (0.66%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.66%) PMP
8 2 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.33%) CCNA
9 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.88%) NIST
2 22 (7.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (4.28%) GDPR
4 10 (3.29%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.63%) QA
6 5 (1.64%) SLA
7 4 (1.32%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.99%) PMO
9 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.33%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.33%) GxP
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.33%) PERC
9 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (11.18%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.97%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.64%) vSphere
5 4 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.66%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.66%) Docker
6 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.66%) XenApp
6 2 (0.66%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.64%) Ansible
3 5 (1.64%) VxRail
4 2 (0.66%) Rundeck
4 2 (0.66%) SCCM
4 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.66%) SysTrack
5 1 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 88 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 36 (11.84%) Salesforce
3 23 (7.57%) CyberArk
4 17 (5.59%) Braze
5 16 (5.26%) ServiceNow
6 11 (3.62%) Adobe
6 11 (3.62%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 10 (3.29%) VMware
8 7 (2.30%) Databricks
8 7 (2.30%) Google
8 7 (2.30%) SAP
9 5 (1.64%) Pega
10 4 (1.32%) Cisco
10 4 (1.32%) Confluent
10 4 (1.32%) Genesys
10 4 (1.32%) JD Edwards
10 4 (1.32%) Oracle
11 3 (0.99%) Citrix
11 3 (0.99%) mParticle
11 3 (0.99%) TIBCO