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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 361 439
Rank change year-on-year -3 +78 +35
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 266 154 94
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.56% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.61% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 91 62
10th Percentile £357 £363 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -0.08%
75th Percentile £618 £639 £590
90th Percentile £713 £725 £687
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.10% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 6
10th Percentile £32.44 £21.70 £21.07
25th Percentile £38.00 £32.50 £25.88
Median hourly rate £43.92 £34.00 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +29.18% -9.13% -28.73%
75th Percentile £55.38 £37.50 £47.83
90th Percentile £77.40 £44.85 £57.79
UK median hourly rate £43.92 £34.00 £37.42
% change year-on-year +29.18% -9.13% -29.74%

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 38,772 25,064 28,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 90.82% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,937 15,945 18,292
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,483 1,510
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -11 145 £501 -9.00% 692
North of England -54 38 £500 +5.26% 100
North West -29 32 £500 - 61
South East -52 31 £572 -0.17% 195
South West -32 17 £800 +77.78% 58
East of England -11 16 £513 -18.00% 41
Midlands -43 14 £486 -20.61% 69
West Midlands -42 11 £510 -16.73% 44
Yorkshire -51 4 £550 +15.79% 32
North East -40 2 £525 +16.67% 8
East Midlands - 2 - - 25
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 6 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (1.13%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
3 2 (0.75%) Confluence
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.38%) CICS
4 1 (0.38%) PowerExchange
4 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.75%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.38%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.38%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 27 (10.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.88%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.13%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (1.13%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (1.13%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (1.13%) Workfront
4 2 (0.75%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.38%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.38%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.38%) Orchard Housing
5 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 40 (15.04%) Azure
2 34 (12.78%) Dynamics 365
3 28 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 24 (9.02%) AWS
5 12 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (4.51%) Power Automate
6 11 (4.14%) PowerApps
7 10 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
7 10 (3.76%) GCP
8 9 (3.38%) Serverless
9 7 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.63%) Entra ID
9 7 (2.63%) SaaS
9 7 (2.63%) Snowflake
10 6 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.26%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (2.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 5 (1.88%) Amazon EventBridge
11 5 (1.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.26%) Firewall
2 11 (4.14%) Network Security
3 7 (2.63%) DNS
4 6 (2.26%) VPN
5 5 (1.88%) DHCP
5 5 (1.88%) MPLS
5 5 (1.88%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.88%) VSAN
5 5 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.50%) Internet
6 4 (1.50%) SMS
7 3 (1.13%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (1.13%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (1.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (1.13%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.13%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (1.13%) VoIP
7 3 (1.13%) WAN
7 3 (1.13%) Wireless
8 2 (0.75%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.26%) Power BI
2 5 (1.88%) DynamoDB
3 4 (1.50%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.50%) Tableau
4 3 (1.13%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.75%) Looker
5 2 (0.75%) Metadata
5 2 (0.75%) Power Query
5 2 (0.75%) ZAP BI
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.38%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.63%) JIRA
2 2 (0.75%) Git
2 2 (0.75%) MSI
3 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.38%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.38%) GitLab
3 1 (0.38%) JDeveloper
General
1 94 (35.34%) Social Skills
2 62 (23.31%) Marketing
3 37 (13.91%) Finance
4 35 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (10.53%) Retail
6 22 (8.27%) Public Sector
7 19 (7.14%) Banking
8 18 (6.77%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (4.14%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (3.38%) Italian Language
11 8 (3.01%) German Language
12 7 (2.63%) Advertising
12 7 (2.63%) Local Government
12 7 (2.63%) Manufacturing
13 6 (2.26%) Legal
14 5 (1.88%) French Language
14 5 (1.88%) Spanish Language
15 4 (1.50%) Telecoms
16 3 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 62 (23.31%) Architect
2 30 (11.28%) Consultant
2 30 (11.28%) Lead
3 24 (9.02%) Senior
4 22 (8.27%) Developer
5 17 (6.39%) Lead Architect
6 14 (5.26%) Product Manager
6 14 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (4.89%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 12 (4.51%) Project Manager
8 12 (4.51%) Voice Architect
9 11 (4.14%) Analyst
9 11 (4.14%) Service Manager
10 10 (3.76%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 10 (3.76%) Senior Manager
11 9 (3.38%) Delivery Manager
11 9 (3.38%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 7 (2.63%) Designer
12 7 (2.63%) Functional Consultant
12 7 (2.63%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.89%) .NET
2 12 (4.51%) Terraform
3 11 (4.14%) REST
4 9 (3.38%) Middleware
5 5 (1.88%) JSON
5 5 (1.88%) Kafka
6 4 (1.50%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.50%) HTML
6 4 (1.50%) React
7 3 (1.13%) CSS
7 3 (1.13%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (1.13%) PySpark
7 3 (1.13%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (1.13%) SOAP
8 2 (0.75%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (0.75%) Django
8 2 (0.75%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (0.75%) LDAP
8 2 (0.75%) Next.js
9 1 (0.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.89%) AI Agents
2 13 (4.89%) IVR
2 13 (4.89%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.14%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.76%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (3.38%) Marketing Technology
5 9 (3.38%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.01%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.26%) Social Media
9 5 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.88%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.88%) PKI
9 5 (1.88%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.88%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.50%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.13%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.26%) Windows
2 10 (3.76%) Linux
3 3 (1.13%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (37.97%) Stakeholder Management
2 79 (29.70%) CRM
3 54 (20.30%) Customer Experience
4 51 (19.17%) Agile
4 51 (19.17%) AI
5 50 (18.80%) Analytics
6 48 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (18.05%) Roadmaps
7 40 (15.04%) Migration
8 31 (11.65%) Customer Service
9 27 (10.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 26 (9.77%) Decision-Making
11 23 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (8.65%) Customer Requirements
12 22 (8.27%) Mentoring
12 22 (8.27%) Workshop Facilitation
13 21 (7.89%) Requirements Gathering
14 20 (7.52%) DevOps
14 20 (7.52%) ITIL
14 20 (7.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (8.65%) JavaScript
1 23 (8.65%) Python
2 22 (8.27%) SQL
3 14 (5.26%) C#
4 8 (3.01%) PowerShell
5 6 (2.26%) Bash
5 6 (2.26%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.13%) ABAP
7 3 (1.13%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.13%) C
7 3 (1.13%) C++
7 3 (1.13%) Embedded C
7 3 (1.13%) Embedded C++
7 3 (1.13%) R
8 2 (0.75%) Bicep
8 2 (0.75%) VBA
8 2 (0.75%) X++
9 1 (0.38%) Java
9 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (20.30%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.41%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.77%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.38%) Degree
5 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.88%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.88%) VCAP
7 4 (1.50%) CEH
7 4 (1.50%) CISM
7 4 (1.50%) CISSP
8 3 (1.13%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.75%) PMP
10 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.38%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.51%) GDPR
2 9 (3.38%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.01%) NIST
4 7 (2.63%) QA
5 4 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.50%) PMO
6 3 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.38%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.38%) PERC
7 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.38%) SLA
7 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (5.64%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.88%) VMware NSX
3 5 (1.88%) vSphere
4 4 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.75%) Docker
5 2 (0.75%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.75%) XenApp
5 2 (0.75%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (3.01%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.88%) Ansible
3 5 (1.88%) VxRail
4 2 (0.75%) Rundeck
4 2 (0.75%) SCCM
4 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.75%) SysTrack
5 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 74 (27.82%) Microsoft
2 34 (12.78%) Salesforce
3 15 (5.64%) ServiceNow
4 11 (4.14%) Braze
4 11 (4.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 9 (3.38%) Adobe
5 9 (3.38%) Databricks
5 9 (3.38%) VMware
6 6 (2.26%) Google
6 6 (2.26%) Pega
6 6 (2.26%) SAP
7 4 (1.50%) Cisco
7 4 (1.50%) Confluent
7 4 (1.50%) CyberArk
7 4 (1.50%) Genesys
7 4 (1.50%) Oracle
8 3 (1.13%) Citrix
8 3 (1.13%) Intel
8 3 (1.13%) mParticle
8 3 (1.13%) TIBCO