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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 360 414
Rank change year-on-year -44 +54 +95
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 175 109 128
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.44% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.49% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 77 84
10th Percentile £350 £267 £368
25th Percentile £413 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -10.83% +18.34%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £694
90th Percentile £738 £688 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £600
% change year-on-year -6.19% -11.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 11
10th Percentile - - £14.00
25th Percentile - £27.50 £21.07
Median hourly rate £14.00 £48.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.13% +53.97% -44.04%
75th Percentile £15.98 £55.93 £47.83
90th Percentile £19.55 £61.37 -
UK median hourly rate £14.00 £48.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year -71.13% +53.97% -39.59%

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 33,718 22,322 32,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 91.07% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,550 14,669 21,082
10th Percentile £315 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,104 894 2,218
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.32 £18.51 £15.86
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.31 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.18 £72.33
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -6.67%

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 April 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
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 April 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 -31 98 £500 -6.54% 91
South East -41 26 £543 +14.21% 53
Midlands -52 20 £800 +42.22% 25
West Midlands -48 18 £800 +33.33% 16
East of England -23 12 £375 -42.31% 13
North of England -56 11 £445 -1.06% 41
North West -45 7 £444 -1.44% 23
Yorkshire - 4 £550 - 17
South West -39 2 - - 16
East Midlands -34 1 - - 9
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 8 (4.57%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.29%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.71%) Confluence
4 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.57%) CICS
5 1 (0.57%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (5.14%) Chatbot
2 8 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.71%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.57%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.57%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.57%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 42 (24.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.43%) Sage X3
3 4 (2.29%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (2.29%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (2.29%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (2.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (1.71%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.57%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 48 (27.43%) Dynamics 365
2 41 (23.43%) Power Platform
3 35 (20.00%) Azure
4 23 (13.14%) Power Automate
5 17 (9.71%) PowerApps
6 15 (8.57%) Azure Logic Apps
7 12 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (4.57%) AWS
8 8 (4.57%) WhatsApp
9 7 (4.00%) Azure Functions
9 7 (4.00%) Google Workspace
9 7 (4.00%) Miro
9 7 (4.00%) Serverless
10 6 (3.43%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.86%) PaaS
11 5 (2.86%) SaaS
12 4 (2.29%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (2.29%) GCP
13 3 (1.71%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.86%) VPN
2 10 (5.71%) HTTP
3 9 (5.14%) WAN
4 8 (4.57%) Network Security
5 7 (4.00%) LAN
5 7 (4.00%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (2.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 4 (2.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (2.29%) Firewall
8 3 (1.71%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.14%) BGP
9 2 (1.14%) BIG-IP
9 2 (1.14%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (1.14%) MPLS
9 2 (1.14%) OSPF
9 2 (1.14%) SMS
9 2 (1.14%) VoIP
10 1 (0.57%) MIMO
10 1 (0.57%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.00%) Power BI
2 7 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.43%) Power Query
3 6 (3.43%) ZAP BI
4 4 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.14%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.14%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.14%) Pinecone
5 2 (1.14%) Tableau
5 2 (1.14%) Weaviate
6 1 (0.57%) Looker
6 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.71%) JIRA
2 2 (1.14%) JDeveloper
3 1 (0.57%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.57%) Git
3 1 (0.57%) GitLab
General
1 72 (41.14%) Social Skills
2 38 (21.71%) Finance
3 31 (17.71%) Marketing
4 21 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 13 (7.43%) Banking
7 12 (6.86%) Retail
8 10 (5.71%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.86%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.29%) Legal
10 4 (2.29%) Local Government
11 3 (1.71%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.14%) Back Office
12 2 (1.14%) Billing
12 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.14%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.57%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 33 (18.86%) Architect
2 29 (16.57%) Consultant
3 23 (13.14%) Developer
4 21 (12.00%) Lead
5 16 (9.14%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 10 (5.71%) Analyst
6 10 (5.71%) Senior
6 10 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (5.14%) Technical Architect
8 8 (4.57%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 8 (4.57%) Functional Consultant
8 8 (4.57%) Security Consultant
9 7 (4.00%) Network Architect
9 7 (4.00%) Project Manager
10 6 (3.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 6 (3.43%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 6 (3.43%) Power BI Developer
10 6 (3.43%) Report Developer
10 6 (3.43%) SQL BI Developer
10 6 (3.43%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.00%) .NET
1 14 (8.00%) HTML
2 10 (5.71%) JSON
3 7 (4.00%) HTML5 Canvas
4 6 (3.43%) Ajax
4 6 (3.43%) OAuth
4 6 (3.43%) OAuth2
4 6 (3.43%) REST
5 5 (2.86%) PyTorch
5 5 (2.86%) TensorFlow
6 4 (2.29%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.71%) CSS
7 3 (1.71%) Kafka
8 2 (1.14%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.14%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.14%) Hugging Face
8 2 (1.14%) Keras
8 2 (1.14%) LangChain
8 2 (1.14%) scikit-learn
8 2 (1.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.14%) Virtual Team
2 8 (4.57%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (3.43%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (3.43%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.29%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.29%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.29%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.29%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.71%) FPGA
6 3 (1.71%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.71%) Verilog
6 3 (1.71%) VHDL
7 2 (1.14%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.14%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.43%) Windows
2 4 (2.29%) Linux
3 3 (1.71%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.14%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.57%) Android
5 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.57%) Unix
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (37.14%) CRM
2 35 (20.00%) Agile
2 35 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 33 (18.86%) Analytics
4 26 (14.86%) DevOps
4 26 (14.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 25 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (13.71%) Business Intelligence
7 21 (12.00%) Migration
8 20 (11.43%) AI
8 20 (11.43%) Requirements Gathering
8 20 (11.43%) Roadmaps
9 19 (10.86%) Customer Service
9 19 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 19 (10.86%) Use Case
9 19 (10.86%) Workshop Facilitation
10 17 (9.71%) Decision-Making
10 17 (9.71%) Presales
11 16 (9.14%) Customer Experience
12 14 (8.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.71%) JavaScript
2 16 (9.14%) C#
3 15 (8.57%) SQL
4 12 (6.86%) Python
5 6 (3.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (3.43%) VBA
6 5 (2.86%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.71%) Bicep
7 3 (1.71%) C
7 3 (1.71%) C++
7 3 (1.71%) Embedded C
7 3 (1.71%) Embedded C++
7 3 (1.71%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.14%) Java
8 2 (1.14%) R
9 1 (0.57%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 28 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.86%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.14%) Degree
4 9 (5.14%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.71%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.14%) CCIE
8 2 (1.14%) CCNP
8 2 (1.14%) CCSE
8 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.14%) JNCIE
8 2 (1.14%) JNCIP
8 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.14%) MBA
8 2 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.71%) GDPR
2 7 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.00%) SLA
3 6 (3.43%) QA
4 3 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.14%) PMO
6 1 (0.57%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) IAG
2 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (4.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 6 (3.43%) Terraform
3 3 (1.71%) Ansible
4 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.14%) SysTrack
5 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.29%) Salesforce
3 10 (5.71%) Google
4 9 (5.14%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.57%) SAP
6 6 (3.43%) Cisco
6 6 (3.43%) Sage
7 5 (2.86%) F5
7 5 (2.86%) Meraki
7 5 (2.86%) Oracle
7 5 (2.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 4 (2.29%) Braze
8 4 (2.29%) Pega
9 3 (1.71%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.71%) Intel
9 3 (1.71%) Juniper
9 3 (1.71%) Xilinx
10 2 (1.14%) Databricks
10 2 (1.14%) HubSpot
10 2 (1.14%) Riverbed