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 3 months leading up to 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 272 324
Rank change year-on-year -63 +52 +82
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 85 57 82
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.49% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.54% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 42 53
10th Percentile £363 £256 £362
25th Percentile £413 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £553 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% -7.92% +20.00%
75th Percentile £616 £647 £694
90th Percentile £800 £675 £790
UK median daily rate £475 £555 £600
% change year-on-year -14.41% -7.50% +18.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 11
10th Percentile - - £14.00
25th Percentile £19.46 £27.50 £21.07
Median hourly rate £20.70 £30.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.02% -4.76% -44.04%
75th Percentile £21.93 £32.50 £47.83
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £20.70 £30.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year -31.02% -4.76% -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 17,351 10,653 17,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.60% 91.47% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,205 7,032 11,644
10th Percentile £325 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,007 421 1,539
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.63 £12.13
25th Percentile £20.34 £18.20 £15.38
Median hourly rate £48.72 £31.64 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.98% +5.47% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £63.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £82.55 £77.19 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £31.04 £30.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% +3.47% -14.29%

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 3 months to 24 March 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 3 months to 24 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -55 43 £463 -17.78% 103
South East -19 18 £560 +44.52% 60
Midlands -45 11 £800 +68.42% 26
West Midlands -46 9 £800 +60.00% 17
East of England -13 8 £375 -42.31% 19
North West -28 3 £445 -1.06% 22
North of England -55 3 £445 -1.06% 39
South West -19 1 - - 21
East Midlands -23 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 7 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.95%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.46%) Confluence
3 3 (1.46%) WordPress
4 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) CMS
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (4.88%) Chatbot
2 8 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.46%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.46%) Notion
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.49%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 42 (20.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.93%) Sage X3
3 4 (1.95%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (1.95%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.95%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.98%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.49%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 50 (24.39%) Dynamics 365
2 44 (21.46%) Azure
2 44 (21.46%) Power Platform
3 25 (12.20%) Power Automate
4 18 (8.78%) PowerApps
5 15 (7.32%) Azure Logic Apps
6 14 (6.83%) AWS
7 13 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (5.37%) SaaS
9 8 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.90%) WhatsApp
10 7 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (3.41%) Azure Functions
10 7 (3.41%) Google Workspace
10 7 (3.41%) Miro
10 7 (3.41%) Serverless
11 6 (2.93%) AtomSphere
11 6 (2.93%) Boomi
12 5 (2.44%) PaaS
13 4 (1.95%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.85%) VPN
2 11 (5.37%) HTTP
3 10 (4.88%) WAN
4 8 (3.90%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.41%) LAN
5 7 (3.41%) Network Security
6 5 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.95%) Firewall
7 4 (1.95%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.46%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (1.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.98%) BGP
9 2 (0.98%) BIG-IP
9 2 (0.98%) OSPF
9 2 (0.98%) SMS
10 1 (0.49%) DHCP
10 1 (0.49%) DNS
10 1 (0.49%) MPLS
10 1 (0.49%) VoIP
10 1 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.22%) Power BI
2 9 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.93%) Power Query
3 6 (2.93%) ZAP BI
4 4 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.98%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (0.98%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.98%) Pinecone
5 2 (0.98%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.98%) Tableau
5 2 (0.98%) Weaviate
6 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.49%) DB2
6 1 (0.49%) Looker
6 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (0.98%) JDeveloper
1 2 (0.98%) JIRA
2 1 (0.49%) Fiddler
2 1 (0.49%) Git
General
1 90 (43.90%) Social Skills
2 47 (22.93%) Finance
3 41 (20.00%) Marketing
4 37 (18.05%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.78%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.83%) Banking
6 14 (6.83%) Retail
7 9 (4.39%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.93%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.44%) Italian Language
10 4 (1.95%) Brand Awareness
10 4 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.95%) Legal
10 4 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.46%) Billing
11 3 (1.46%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.98%) Back Office
12 2 (0.98%) Local Government
12 2 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (16.59%) Consultant
2 33 (16.10%) Architect
3 32 (15.61%) Developer
4 19 (9.27%) Lead
5 17 (8.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 14 (6.83%) Senior
7 11 (5.37%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.88%) Analyst
8 10 (4.88%) Project Manager
8 10 (4.88%) Technical Architect
9 9 (4.39%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 9 (4.39%) Functional Consultant
9 9 (4.39%) Security Consultant
10 6 (2.93%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 6 (2.93%) Integration Developer
10 6 (2.93%) Network Architect
10 6 (2.93%) Power BI Developer
10 6 (2.93%) SQL BI Developer
10 6 (2.93%) SQL Developer
10 6 (2.93%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.80%) JSON
2 14 (6.83%) .NET
2 14 (6.83%) HTML
3 12 (5.85%) REST
4 8 (3.90%) SOAP
5 7 (3.41%) HTML5 Canvas
5 7 (3.41%) OAuth
6 6 (2.93%) Ajax
6 6 (2.93%) OAuth2
6 6 (2.93%) XML
7 4 (1.95%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.95%) PyTorch
7 4 (1.95%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.46%) CSS
9 2 (0.98%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.98%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.98%) Faiss
9 2 (0.98%) Hugging Face
9 2 (0.98%) Keras
9 2 (0.98%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.39%) Data Protection Act
1 9 (4.39%) Product Ownership
1 9 (4.39%) Social Media
2 8 (3.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (3.90%) Virtual Team
3 6 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.95%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.95%) Low-Code
5 4 (1.95%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.95%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (1.95%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.95%) Web Conferencing
6 3 (1.46%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.46%) FPGA
6 3 (1.46%) Midjourney
6 3 (1.46%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.46%) Verilog
6 3 (1.46%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.88%) Windows
2 7 (3.41%) Linux
3 4 (1.95%) Unix
4 3 (1.46%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.98%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.98%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.49%) Android
6 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (34.15%) CRM
2 48 (23.41%) Agile
3 39 (19.02%) Analytics
4 38 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (18.05%) DevOps
6 34 (16.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (16.10%) Stakeholder Management
8 26 (12.68%) Business Intelligence
8 26 (12.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 23 (11.22%) AI
10 22 (10.73%) Requirements Gathering
11 21 (10.24%) Customer Service
12 20 (9.76%) Roadmaps
12 20 (9.76%) Workshop Facilitation
13 19 (9.27%) Customer Experience
13 19 (9.27%) Use Case
13 19 (9.27%) Validation
14 18 (8.78%) Migration
15 17 (8.29%) Presales
16 15 (7.32%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 24 (11.71%) JavaScript
2 23 (11.22%) C#
3 15 (7.32%) SQL
4 14 (6.83%) Python
5 10 (4.88%) Java
6 7 (3.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (2.93%) Groovy
7 6 (2.93%) T-SQL
7 6 (2.93%) VBA
8 5 (2.44%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.44%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.95%) C++
10 3 (1.46%) Bicep
10 3 (1.46%) C
10 3 (1.46%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.46%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.98%) R
12 1 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 30 (14.63%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.73%) Degree
3 19 (9.27%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.39%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.46%) GPEN
7 3 (1.46%) GWAPT
7 3 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.46%) MBA
7 3 (1.46%) OSCP
7 3 (1.46%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.98%) CCIE
8 2 (0.98%) CCNP
8 2 (0.98%) CCSE
8 2 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.98%) JNCIE
8 2 (0.98%) JNCIP
8 2 (0.98%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.85%) GDPR
2 8 (3.90%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.90%) SLA
3 7 (3.41%) QA
4 6 (2.93%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.95%) NIST
6 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.49%) GRC
8 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.49%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (3.90%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.49%) IAG
2 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (3.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 5 (2.44%) Terraform
3 3 (1.46%) Ansible
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.98%) SysTrack
5 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.49%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.49%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 66 (32.20%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.34%) Salesforce
3 9 (4.39%) Google
3 9 (4.39%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.41%) SAP
5 6 (2.93%) Cisco
5 6 (2.93%) CyberArk
5 6 (2.93%) Oracle
5 6 (2.93%) Sage
5 6 (2.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 5 (2.44%) Meraki
7 4 (1.95%) F5
7 4 (1.95%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.46%) Databricks
8 3 (1.46%) Genesys
8 3 (1.46%) Intel
8 3 (1.46%) Juniper
8 3 (1.46%) Pega
8 3 (1.46%) Remedy
8 3 (1.46%) Xilinx