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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 429 438
Rank change year-on-year +87 +9 +77
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 179 100 157
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.31% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.36% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 67 90
10th Percentile £366 £363 £202
25th Percentile £449 £400 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £519
Median % change year-on-year - +1.20% -8.99%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £653
90th Percentile £725 £693 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 8
10th Percentile £14.00 - £23.43
25th Percentile £14.50 £59.25 £38.86
Median hourly rate £34.00 £63.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -46.46% +26.37% +34.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.75 £54.39
90th Percentile £49.00 - £56.29
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £63.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -46.46% +20.95% +101.92%

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 25,696 27,604 36,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.95% 86.48% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,288 16,802 25,341
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,634 1,086 1,495
10th Percentile £14.51 £15.03 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £44.78 £67.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.43 £74.47 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £40.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -37.31% -9.60% +35.03%

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 18 October 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 18 October 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 18 October 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 +73 91 £520 -0.95% 214
South East +18 35 £525 +23.53% 188
North of England -8 23 £500 -11.82% 75
North West - 15 £700 - 48
Midlands -14 12 £584 +12.04% 39
West Midlands -17 12 £584 +12.04% 27
East of England -3 10 £625 +19.05% 23
Yorkshire -19 7 £475 -16.23% 24
South West +8 3 £388 -34.87% 36
North East - 1 £450 - 4
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 (1.68%) Confluence
1 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.68%) WordPress
2 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.23%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.68%) Notion
4 1 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.56%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (12.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.12%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.56%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.56%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.56%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 46 (25.70%) Power Platform
2 42 (23.46%) Dynamics 365
3 40 (22.35%) Azure
4 21 (11.73%) AWS
5 19 (10.61%) Power Automate
6 18 (10.06%) PowerApps
7 12 (6.70%) SaaS
8 10 (5.59%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (3.91%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.91%) GCP
10 6 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (3.35%) Serverless
10 6 (3.35%) Snowflake
11 5 (2.79%) Adobe Analytics
11 5 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 4 (2.23%) Azure Stack
12 4 (2.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 3 (1.68%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.47%) Network Security
2 3 (1.68%) HTTP
2 3 (1.68%) VLAN
2 3 (1.68%) VPN
2 3 (1.68%) Wireshark
3 2 (1.12%) Firewall
3 2 (1.12%) SMS
4 1 (0.56%) NAS
4 1 (0.56%) SAN
4 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (19.55%) Power BI
2 16 (8.94%) Tableau
3 7 (3.91%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.23%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.56%) DB2
7 1 (0.56%) Mixpanel
7 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.56%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 5 (2.79%) JIRA
2 3 (1.68%) Fiddler
3 2 (1.12%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.12%) Metasploit
3 2 (1.12%) Postman
3 2 (1.12%) sqlmap
4 1 (0.56%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.56%) Git
4 1 (0.56%) GitLab
4 1 (0.56%) Gradle
4 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.56%) MLflow
4 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.56%) Xcode
General
1 66 (36.87%) Social Skills
2 62 (34.64%) Marketing
3 49 (27.37%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (16.20%) Finance
5 22 (12.29%) Retail
6 15 (8.38%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.03%) Brand Awareness
8 6 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.35%) Italian Language
9 5 (2.79%) Banking
10 4 (2.23%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.68%) Local Government
12 2 (1.12%) Billing
12 2 (1.12%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.12%) Electronics
12 2 (1.12%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.12%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (16.76%) Architect
2 26 (14.53%) Analyst
3 24 (13.41%) Consultant
4 17 (9.50%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (8.94%) Developer
6 13 (7.26%) Senior
7 11 (6.15%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 9 (5.03%) Senior Manager
9 8 (4.47%) Lead
10 7 (3.91%) Marketing Manager
10 7 (3.91%) Project Manager
10 7 (3.91%) Security Specialist
11 6 (3.35%) Dynamics 365 Architect
11 6 (3.35%) Senior Marketing Manager
11 6 (3.35%) Technical Support
12 5 (2.79%) Business Analyst
12 5 (2.79%) Customer Analyst
12 5 (2.79%) Data Analyst
12 5 (2.79%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 5 (2.79%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.59%) .NET
1 10 (5.59%) REST
2 8 (4.47%) HTML
3 7 (3.91%) CSS
3 7 (3.91%) SOAP
4 6 (3.35%) JSON
5 5 (2.79%) Middleware
6 4 (2.23%) ASP.NET
6 4 (2.23%) OAuth
7 3 (1.68%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (1.68%) XML
8 2 (1.12%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.12%) EDI
8 2 (1.12%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.12%) PyTorch
8 2 (1.12%) React
8 2 (1.12%) RESTful
8 2 (1.12%) Swagger
8 2 (1.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.82%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.15%) Social Media
3 7 (3.91%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (3.91%) Security Posture
4 6 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.35%) Web Conferencing
5 5 (2.79%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.79%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.23%) IVR
6 4 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.23%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.23%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.68%) Midjourney
7 3 (1.68%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.12%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.12%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.03%) Windows
2 6 (3.35%) Linux
3 3 (1.68%) Unix
3 3 (1.68%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.56%) Android
4 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (30.73%) CRM
2 49 (27.37%) Agile
3 42 (23.46%) Analytics
4 41 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (22.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 36 (20.11%) Business Intelligence
7 30 (16.76%) Customer Experience
8 21 (11.73%) DevOps
8 21 (11.73%) E-Commerce
8 21 (11.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 20 (11.17%) AI
9 20 (11.17%) Customer Service
10 17 (9.50%) Project Management
11 16 (8.94%) Data Modelling
11 16 (8.94%) Validation
12 15 (8.38%) CI/CD
13 14 (7.82%) A/B Testing
13 14 (7.82%) Digital Marketing
13 14 (7.82%) Marketing Automation
13 14 (7.82%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 21 (11.73%) SQL
2 20 (11.17%) Python
3 16 (8.94%) JavaScript
4 14 (7.82%) C#
5 7 (3.91%) Java
6 4 (2.23%) Bash
7 3 (1.68%) Go
7 3 (1.68%) Groovy
7 3 (1.68%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.68%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.12%) Scala
9 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.56%) C++
9 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.56%) JSX
9 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (10.06%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.50%) Degree
3 13 (7.26%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.47%) CISM
5 7 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.35%) GPEN
6 6 (3.35%) OSCP
7 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.23%) GWAPT
9 3 (1.68%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.12%) CISSP
10 2 (1.12%) GXPN
10 2 (1.12%) OSCE
10 2 (1.12%) SANS
11 1 (0.56%) MBA
11 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.56%) PMP
11 1 (0.56%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.06%) GDPR
2 10 (5.59%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.35%) QA
5 4 (2.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (2.23%) NIST
6 2 (1.12%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.12%) PMO
7 1 (0.56%) COBIT
7 1 (0.56%) COSO
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.56%) GRC
7 1 (0.56%) GxP
7 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (4.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (1.68%) Terraform
3 2 (1.12%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.12%) Nessus
3 2 (1.12%) Nmap
3 2 (1.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.56%) Ansible
4 1 (0.56%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 48 (26.82%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.17%) Salesforce
3 8 (4.47%) Adobe
3 8 (4.47%) Google
3 8 (4.47%) SAP
3 8 (4.47%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.35%) Databricks
4 6 (3.35%) Oracle
5 4 (2.23%) Cvent
5 4 (2.23%) Genesys
5 4 (2.23%) Pega
6 3 (1.68%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (1.68%) YouTube
7 2 (1.12%) Avaya
7 2 (1.12%) Marketo
7 2 (1.12%) Monzo
7 2 (1.12%) mParticle
7 2 (1.12%) OneTrust
7 2 (1.12%) Optimizely
7 2 (1.12%) Palo Alto