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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 369 436
Rank change year-on-year +11 +67 +10
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 300 153 99
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.55% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.61% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 81 68
10th Percentile £376 £363 £343
25th Percentile £463 £450 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.95% -0.03%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £600
90th Percentile £704 £725 £693
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 2
10th Percentile £19.48 £25.30 £20.89
25th Percentile £24.11 £32.75 £27.29
Median hourly rate £39.00 £34.00 £40.07
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -15.14% -20.27%
75th Percentile £48.84 £36.25 £54.97
90th Percentile £75.80 £42.40 £62.64
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £34.00 £40.07
% change year-on-year +14.71% -15.14% -23.69%

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 38,989 25,060 28,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.56% 90.87% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,802 15,892 17,554
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £627 £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 2,803 1,513 1,284
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.69 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.71 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +0.58%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -13 156 £525 - 896
North of England -48 39 £500 - 145
South West -6 38 £525 +23.53% 81
North West -29 33 £500 -28.57% 86
South East -60 31 £572 +2.05% 259
Midlands -34 17 £500 -18.70% 104
West Midlands -35 16 £500 -18.70% 64
East of England -20 14 £563 -10.00% 56
Yorkshire -41 4 £550 +15.79% 47
North East -39 2 £525 +16.67% 13
East Midlands - 1 - - 40
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 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.00%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
4 2 (0.67%) 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 8 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.67%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.33%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.33%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 36 (12.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (1.33%) Workfront
4 3 (1.00%) BusinessWorks
4 3 (1.00%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (1.00%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.67%) 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 44 (14.67%) Dynamics 365
2 43 (14.33%) Azure
3 33 (11.00%) Power Platform
4 26 (8.67%) AWS
5 15 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (5.00%) Power Automate
6 14 (4.67%) PowerApps
7 11 (3.67%) Azure Logic Apps
7 11 (3.67%) GCP
7 11 (3.67%) Serverless
8 8 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (2.33%) Entra ID
9 7 (2.33%) SaaS
9 7 (2.33%) Snowflake
10 6 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 5 (1.67%) Amazon EventBridge
11 5 (1.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.33%) Firewall
2 9 (3.00%) Network Security
3 7 (2.33%) DNS
4 5 (1.67%) DHCP
4 5 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.67%) VSAN
4 5 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.33%) Internet
5 4 (1.33%) MPLS
5 4 (1.33%) SMS
5 4 (1.33%) VPN
6 3 (1.00%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.00%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (1.00%) WAN
6 3 (1.00%) Wireless
7 2 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.67%) NetScaler
7 2 (0.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.67%) Power BI
2 5 (1.67%) DynamoDB
2 5 (1.67%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.33%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.00%) Tableau
5 2 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.67%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.67%) Looker
5 2 (0.67%) Metadata
5 2 (0.67%) 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 8 (2.67%) JIRA
2 3 (1.00%) Git
3 2 (0.67%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.67%) 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
1 120 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 65 (21.67%) Marketing
3 42 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (13.67%) Finance
5 28 (9.33%) Retail
6 24 (8.00%) Public Sector
7 21 (7.00%) Banking
8 17 (5.67%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (3.33%) Italian Language
11 9 (3.00%) German Language
11 9 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.33%) Advertising
13 6 (2.00%) French Language
13 6 (2.00%) Local Government
13 6 (2.00%) Manufacturing
13 6 (2.00%) Spanish Language
14 5 (1.67%) Legal
15 4 (1.33%) Dutch Language
15 4 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (29.33%) Architect
2 29 (9.67%) Consultant
2 29 (9.67%) Lead
3 24 (8.00%) Senior
4 23 (7.67%) Developer
5 22 (7.33%) Solutions Architect
6 18 (6.00%) Lead Architect
7 13 (4.33%) Analyst
7 13 (4.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 13 (4.33%) Product Manager
7 13 (4.33%) Project Manager
8 12 (4.00%) Service Manager
8 12 (4.00%) Voice Architect
9 11 (3.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 11 (3.67%) Senior Manager
10 9 (3.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 8 (2.67%) CRM Manager
11 8 (2.67%) Delivery Manager
12 7 (2.33%) Campaign Manager
12 7 (2.33%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.00%) LDAP
2 14 (4.67%) .NET
3 13 (4.33%) REST
4 12 (4.00%) Terraform
5 10 (3.33%) Middleware
6 7 (2.33%) JSON
7 6 (2.00%) Kafka
8 5 (1.67%) HTML
9 4 (1.33%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.33%) CSS
9 4 (1.33%) React
10 3 (1.00%) ASP.NET Web API
10 3 (1.00%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (1.00%) SAP Fiori
10 3 (1.00%) SOAP
11 2 (0.67%) .NET Framework
11 2 (0.67%) Next.js
11 2 (0.67%) PySpark
11 2 (0.67%) Web Services
11 2 (0.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.00%) AI Agents
2 14 (4.67%) Onboarding
2 14 (4.67%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.33%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.33%) IVR
4 9 (3.00%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.00%) Marketing Technology
5 8 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.67%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.00%) Social Media
8 5 (1.67%) PKI
8 5 (1.67%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.67%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.00%) CCTV
10 3 (1.00%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.33%) Windows
2 8 (2.67%) Linux
3 3 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.67%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.33%) Android
5 1 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 93 (31.00%) CRM
3 60 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 55 (18.33%) AI
5 53 (17.67%) Analytics
6 52 (17.33%) Agile
6 52 (17.33%) Roadmaps
7 51 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (14.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (14.00%) Mentoring
9 42 (14.00%) Migration
9 42 (14.00%) Technical Leadership
10 39 (13.00%) Customer Service
11 35 (11.67%) ITSM
12 29 (9.67%) SIEM
13 27 (9.00%) Decision-Making
13 27 (9.00%) DevSecOps
13 27 (9.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (8.33%) GAP Analysis
14 25 (8.33%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 24 (8.00%) JavaScript
2 21 (7.00%) Python
3 19 (6.33%) SQL
4 15 (5.00%) C#
5 8 (2.67%) PowerShell
6 7 (2.33%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.00%) Bash
8 3 (1.00%) ABAP
8 3 (1.00%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.00%) R
9 2 (0.67%) Bicep
9 2 (0.67%) Java
9 2 (0.67%) X++
10 1 (0.33%) C
10 1 (0.33%) C++
10 1 (0.33%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.33%) Perl
10 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (24.67%) Security Cleared
2 35 (11.67%) DV Cleared
3 33 (11.00%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.00%) Degree
5 6 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.67%) VCAP
7 4 (1.33%) CEH
7 4 (1.33%) CISM
7 4 (1.33%) CISSP
8 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.67%) PMP
8 2 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.33%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.00%) NIST
2 22 (7.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.00%) GDPR
4 10 (3.33%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.67%) QA
6 4 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.33%) PMO
6 4 (1.33%) SLA
7 3 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.33%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.33%) PERC
8 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (11.33%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.67%) VMware NSX
3 5 (1.67%) vSphere
4 4 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.67%) Docker
5 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.67%) XenApp
5 2 (0.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (2.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.67%) Ansible
3 5 (1.67%) VxRail
4 2 (0.67%) Rundeck
4 2 (0.67%) SCCM
4 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.67%) SysTrack
5 1 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 85 (28.33%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.67%) Salesforce
3 23 (7.67%) CyberArk
4 17 (5.67%) Braze
5 16 (5.33%) ServiceNow
6 11 (3.67%) Adobe
6 11 (3.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 9 (3.00%) VMware
8 7 (2.33%) Databricks
8 7 (2.33%) Google
8 7 (2.33%) SAP
9 5 (1.67%) Pega
10 4 (1.33%) Confluent
10 4 (1.33%) Genesys
10 4 (1.33%) Oracle
11 3 (1.00%) Cisco
11 3 (1.00%) Citrix
11 3 (1.00%) JD Edwards
11 3 (1.00%) mParticle
11 3 (1.00%) TIBCO