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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 352 420
Rank change year-on-year -48 +68 +72
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 180 115 122
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.48% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.53% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 77 82
10th Percentile £345 £267 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -10.83% +16.28%
75th Percentile £620 £641 £694
90th Percentile £742 £705 £747
UK median daily rate £500 £545 £600
% change year-on-year -8.17% -9.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 11
10th Percentile - £33.43 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.46 £42.31 £21.07
Median hourly rate £20.70 £50.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.02% +60.32% -44.04%
75th Percentile £21.93 £58.19 £47.83
90th Percentile - £62.28 -
UK median hourly rate £20.70 £50.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year -59.02% +60.32% -44.04%

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 34,973 21,894 31,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 91.30% 86.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,266 14,295 20,565
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 929 2,246
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.11 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.98% -20.55% -0.73%
75th Percentile £68.00 £62.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.44 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.05
% change year-on-year +50.82% -21.82% +0.13%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -23 105 £525 -6.04% 126
South East -40 27 £550 - 61
North of England -64 16 £447 -0.67% 60
Midlands -56 15 £800 +60.00% 25
North West -40 13 £444 -1.44% 33
West Midlands -45 13 £800 +52.38% 14
East of England -22 10 £375 -42.31% 16
Yorkshire - 3 £550 - 18
East Midlands -24 1 - - 11
South West -40 1 - - 20
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 (3.89%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.22%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.67%) Confluence
4 2 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.56%) CICS
5 1 (0.56%) CMS
5 1 (0.56%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 9 (5.00%) Chatbot
2 8 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.11%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 35 (19.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.33%) Sage X3
3 5 (2.78%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (2.22%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (2.22%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (2.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (2.22%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.56%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 42 (23.33%) Dynamics 365
2 40 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 31 (17.22%) Azure
4 20 (11.11%) Power Automate
5 17 (9.44%) PowerApps
6 13 (7.22%) Azure Logic Apps
7 12 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (4.44%) WhatsApp
9 7 (3.89%) Google Workspace
9 7 (3.89%) Miro
10 6 (3.33%) AWS
10 6 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.22%) Azure Functions
11 4 (2.22%) GCP
11 4 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (2.22%) PaaS
11 4 (2.22%) SaaS
11 4 (2.22%) Serverless
12 3 (1.67%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.56%) VPN
2 9 (5.00%) Network Security
3 6 (3.33%) HTTP
3 6 (3.33%) WAN
4 5 (2.78%) LAN
4 5 (2.78%) SMS
5 4 (2.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 4 (2.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 4 (2.22%) Firewall
6 3 (1.67%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.11%) BGP
7 2 (1.11%) BIG-IP
7 2 (1.11%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.11%) MPLS
7 2 (1.11%) OSPF
7 2 (1.11%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.11%) VoIP
8 1 (0.56%) MIMO
8 1 (0.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.56%) Power BI
2 7 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.33%) Power Query
3 6 (3.33%) ZAP BI
4 2 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.11%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (1.11%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.11%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.11%) Tableau
4 2 (1.11%) Weaviate
5 1 (0.56%) Looker
5 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.67%) JIRA
2 2 (1.11%) JDeveloper
3 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.56%) Git
3 1 (0.56%) GitLab
General
1 70 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 45 (25.00%) Finance
3 33 (18.33%) Marketing
4 22 (12.22%) Retail
5 17 (9.44%) Public Sector
6 16 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (5.56%) Banking
8 8 (4.44%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.78%) Legal
9 5 (2.78%) Local Government
9 5 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.78%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.22%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.67%) Advertising
11 3 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.67%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.11%) Back Office
12 2 (1.11%) Billing
12 2 (1.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (19.44%) Architect
2 26 (14.44%) Consultant
3 25 (13.89%) Developer
4 19 (10.56%) Lead
5 16 (8.89%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 11 (6.11%) Analyst
6 11 (6.11%) Senior
7 8 (4.44%) Network Architect
7 8 (4.44%) Project Manager
7 8 (4.44%) Security Consultant
8 7 (3.89%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 7 (3.89%) Product Manager
8 7 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 6 (3.33%) Functional Consultant
9 6 (3.33%) Power BI Developer
9 6 (3.33%) Report Developer
9 6 (3.33%) SQL BI Developer
9 6 (3.33%) SQL Developer
9 6 (3.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.78%) .NET
2 10 (5.56%) HTML
3 7 (3.89%) HTML5 Canvas
4 6 (3.33%) JSON
4 6 (3.33%) REST
5 5 (2.78%) PyTorch
5 5 (2.78%) TensorFlow
6 4 (2.22%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.67%) Kafka
8 2 (1.11%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.11%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.11%) Faiss
8 2 (1.11%) Hugging Face
8 2 (1.11%) Keras
8 2 (1.11%) LangChain
8 2 (1.11%) OAuth
8 2 (1.11%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.11%) PySpark
8 2 (1.11%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (1.11%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.00%) Virtual Team
2 8 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.22%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.67%) FPGA
6 3 (1.67%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.67%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.67%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.67%) Verilog
6 3 (1.67%) VHDL
7 2 (1.11%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.11%) Social Media
8 1 (0.56%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.33%) Windows
2 4 (2.22%) Linux
3 3 (1.67%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.11%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.56%) Android
5 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (33.33%) CRM
2 37 (20.56%) Analytics
3 33 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 33 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 30 (16.67%) Agile
5 29 (16.11%) Migration
6 26 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (12.22%) Business Intelligence
7 22 (12.22%) Customer Service
7 22 (12.22%) Roadmaps
8 20 (11.11%) AI
8 20 (11.11%) Customer Experience
8 20 (11.11%) DevOps
8 20 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
9 18 (10.00%) Decision-Making
10 17 (9.44%) Presales
10 17 (9.44%) Use Case
11 16 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 18 (10.00%) C#
2 17 (9.44%) JavaScript
3 16 (8.89%) SQL
4 14 (7.78%) Python
5 7 (3.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (3.33%) VBA
7 3 (1.67%) C
7 3 (1.67%) C++
7 3 (1.67%) Embedded C
7 3 (1.67%) Embedded C++
7 3 (1.67%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.67%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.11%) ABAP
8 2 (1.11%) Bicep
8 2 (1.11%) Java
8 2 (1.11%) R
9 1 (0.56%) Bash
9 1 (0.56%) Perl
9 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (17.22%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.11%) Degree
4 9 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.67%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.11%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.11%) CCIE
7 2 (1.11%) CCNP
7 2 (1.11%) CCSE
7 2 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.11%) JNCIE
7 2 (1.11%) JNCIP
7 2 (1.11%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.11%) MBA
7 2 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.44%) GDPR
2 7 (3.89%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.89%) QA
3 6 (3.33%) SLA
4 3 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.11%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.56%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.56%) PMO
6 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.56%) IAG
3 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (3.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 5 (2.78%) Terraform
3 3 (1.67%) Ansible
4 2 (1.11%) SysTrack
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (33.89%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 9 (5.00%) Google
4 8 (4.44%) SAP
4 8 (4.44%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.89%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 6 (3.33%) Cisco
6 6 (3.33%) Oracle
6 6 (3.33%) Sage
7 5 (2.78%) F5
8 4 (2.22%) Braze
8 4 (2.22%) Pega
9 3 (1.67%) Intel
9 3 (1.67%) Juniper
9 3 (1.67%) Meraki
9 3 (1.67%) Xilinx
9 3 (1.67%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.11%) Adobe
10 2 (1.11%) HubSpot
10 2 (1.11%) Riverbed