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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 376 402
Rank change year-on-year +23 +26 +145
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 207 102 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.40% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.45% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 67 96
10th Percentile £357 £306 £294
25th Percentile £413 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £567 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% -5.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £688
90th Percentile £794 £693 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 6
10th Percentile - - £14.00
25th Percentile - £27.50 £18.06
Median hourly rate £14.00 £41.25 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -66.06% +9.27% -32.94%
75th Percentile £35.00 £58.19 £47.50
90th Percentile £47.00 £62.28 £47.83
UK median hourly rate £14.00 £41.25 £37.75
% change year-on-year -66.06% +9.27% +79.76%

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 30,532 22,872 32,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.28% 90.11% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,556 14,324 21,897
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,892 747 2,040
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.48 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - -
75th Percentile £63.40 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.18 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £33.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -21.91% -2.94% -2.86%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 24 February 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 +11 112 £500 -0.10% 77
West Midlands -34 28 £600 +5.82% 17
Midlands -37 28 £600 +5.82% 29
South East -19 27 £525 -8.70% 69
East of England -13 16 £375 -42.31% 13
North of England -55 15 £444 -21.78% 28
North West -23 10 £444 - 17
Yorkshire -52 5 - - 8
South West -26 3 £463 -28.85% 18
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 (2.90%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.45%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (1.45%) WordPress
3 2 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.97%) Confluence
3 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.48%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (4.83%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.45%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.45%) Notion
4 2 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.48%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.48%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.48%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 43 (20.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.93%) Sage X3
3 3 (1.45%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (1.45%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.45%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.97%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.48%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.48%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 51 (24.64%) Azure
1 51 (24.64%) Dynamics 365
2 42 (20.29%) Power Platform
3 25 (12.08%) Power Automate
4 18 (8.70%) PowerApps
5 17 (8.21%) AWS
6 16 (7.73%) Azure Logic Apps
7 13 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (5.80%) SaaS
9 10 (4.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (4.35%) WhatsApp
11 7 (3.38%) Azure Functions
11 7 (3.38%) GCP
11 7 (3.38%) Google Workspace
11 7 (3.38%) Miro
11 7 (3.38%) Serverless
12 6 (2.90%) AtomSphere
12 6 (2.90%) Boomi
12 6 (2.90%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.80%) HTTP
1 12 (5.80%) VPN
2 10 (4.83%) WAN
3 8 (3.86%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.38%) LAN
5 5 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.93%) Network Security
6 4 (1.93%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.45%) Firewall
8 2 (0.97%) BGP
8 2 (0.97%) BIG-IP
8 2 (0.97%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (0.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.97%) OSPF
8 2 (0.97%) SMS
8 2 (0.97%) VLAN
8 2 (0.97%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.48%) DHCP
9 1 (0.48%) DNS
9 1 (0.48%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.66%) Power BI
2 7 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.93%) Power Query
3 4 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (1.93%) ZAP BI
4 3 (1.45%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.45%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.45%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.97%) Pinecone
5 2 (0.97%) Tableau
5 2 (0.97%) Weaviate
6 1 (0.48%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.48%) DB2
6 1 (0.48%) Looker
6 1 (0.48%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Burp Suite
1 2 (0.97%) Fiddler
1 2 (0.97%) JDeveloper
1 2 (0.97%) JIRA
1 2 (0.97%) Metasploit
1 2 (0.97%) sqlmap
2 1 (0.48%) Git
2 1 (0.48%) GitLab
2 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
General
1 92 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 52 (25.12%) Marketing
3 45 (21.74%) Finance
4 44 (21.26%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (10.14%) Public Sector
6 16 (7.73%) Retail
7 13 (6.28%) Banking
8 9 (4.35%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.38%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.90%) Brand Awareness
10 6 (2.90%) Italian Language
11 4 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.45%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.97%) Back Office
13 2 (0.97%) Billing
13 2 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.97%) Legal
13 2 (0.97%) Military
13 2 (0.97%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (15.94%) Architect
1 33 (15.94%) Consultant
2 31 (14.98%) Developer
3 19 (9.18%) Lead
4 17 (8.21%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 14 (6.76%) Analyst
6 12 (5.80%) Senior
7 11 (5.31%) Project Manager
7 11 (5.31%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.83%) Technical Architect
9 9 (4.35%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 9 (4.35%) Functional Consultant
9 9 (4.35%) Security Consultant
10 7 (3.38%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 7 (3.38%) Marketing Manager
10 7 (3.38%) Technical Support
11 6 (2.90%) Integration Developer
11 6 (2.90%) Senior Manager
11 6 (2.90%) Technical Manager
11 6 (2.90%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.70%) JSON
2 15 (7.25%) .NET
2 15 (7.25%) HTML
3 12 (5.80%) REST
4 9 (4.35%) HTML5 Canvas
4 9 (4.35%) SOAP
5 8 (3.86%) OAuth
6 6 (2.90%) Ajax
6 6 (2.90%) OAuth2
6 6 (2.90%) XML
7 4 (1.93%) CSS
7 4 (1.93%) PyTorch
7 4 (1.93%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (0.97%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.97%) Faiss
9 2 (0.97%) Hugging Face
9 2 (0.97%) LangChain
9 2 (0.97%) RESTful
9 2 (0.97%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.35%) Product Ownership
1 9 (4.35%) Social Media
1 9 (4.35%) Virtual Team
2 8 (3.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (3.86%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (3.38%) Marketing Technology
3 7 (3.38%) Security Posture
4 5 (2.42%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.42%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (2.42%) Web Conferencing
5 4 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.93%) Low-Code
5 4 (1.93%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.93%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.45%) Midjourney
6 3 (1.45%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.45%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.80%) Windows
2 6 (2.90%) Linux
3 4 (1.93%) Unix
4 3 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.97%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.48%) Android
6 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (36.23%) CRM
2 50 (24.15%) Agile
3 41 (19.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 40 (19.32%) Analytics
5 39 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (18.36%) DevOps
7 31 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (12.08%) AI
9 23 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
10 22 (10.63%) Customer Experience
10 22 (10.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 19 (9.18%) Customer Service
11 19 (9.18%) Use Case
11 19 (9.18%) Validation
12 18 (8.70%) Roadmaps
12 18 (8.70%) Workshop Facilitation
13 17 (8.21%) CI/CD
13 17 (8.21%) Requirements Gathering
14 16 (7.73%) Data Modelling
14 16 (7.73%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (12.08%) JavaScript
2 24 (11.59%) C#
3 16 (7.73%) Python
4 13 (6.28%) SQL
5 10 (4.83%) Java
6 6 (2.90%) Groovy
6 6 (2.90%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.90%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (2.42%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.93%) VBA
9 3 (1.45%) Bash
9 3 (1.45%) Bicep
10 2 (0.97%) R
10 2 (0.97%) Scala
11 1 (0.48%) C++
11 1 (0.48%) Go
11 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 25 (12.08%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.14%) Degree
3 16 (7.73%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.90%) GPEN
6 6 (2.90%) OSCP
7 4 (1.93%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.93%) GWAPT
8 3 (1.45%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.45%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.45%) MBA
9 2 (0.97%) CCSE
9 2 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.97%) GXPN
9 2 (0.97%) JNCIE
9 2 (0.97%) JNCIP
9 2 (0.97%) OSCE
9 2 (0.97%) PMP
9 2 (0.97%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.76%) GDPR
2 9 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.86%) QA
4 6 (2.90%) SLA
5 4 (1.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.93%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.93%) NIST
6 2 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.97%) PMO
7 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.48%) GRC
7 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (5.31%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (3.86%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 5 (2.42%) Terraform
3 3 (1.45%) Ansible
4 2 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.97%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.97%) Nessus
4 2 (0.97%) Nmap
4 2 (0.97%) SysTrack
5 1 (0.48%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 68 (32.85%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.76%) Salesforce
3 12 (5.80%) ServiceNow
4 10 (4.83%) Google
5 6 (2.90%) CyberArk
5 6 (2.90%) Databricks
5 6 (2.90%) SAP
6 5 (2.42%) Meraki
6 5 (2.42%) Oracle
6 5 (2.42%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 4 (1.93%) Cisco
7 4 (1.93%) Genesys
7 4 (1.93%) Sage
8 3 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.45%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.45%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.45%) Pega
8 3 (1.45%) Remedy
8 3 (1.45%) YouTube
9 2 (0.97%) mParticle