Customer Engagement Contracts in the South East

Customer Engagement
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Customer Engagement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Customer Engagement over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 171 191
Rank change year-on-year +33 +20 +25
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 25 25 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.73% 0.46% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.55% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 20
10th Percentile £300 - £304
25th Percentile £306 £363 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £438
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +20.00% -23.25%
75th Percentile £725 £715 £643
90th Percentile - £1,000 £670
England median daily rate £525 £525 £504
% change year-on-year - +4.23% -15.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,087 4,522 5,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.00% 82.76% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,921 2,680 3,536
10th Percentile £250 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -0.19% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £619
90th Percentile £665 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 398 247
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.18 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.39 £21.81
Median hourly rate £21.99 £54.62 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.75% +9.24% +122.22%
75th Percentile £52.90 £70.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.90 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.33% -7.06% +63.46%

Customer Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Customer Engagement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Engagement in the South East

Customer Engagement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer Engagement in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Customer Engagement in the South East

Customer Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Engagement in the South East over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Engagement in the South East

Customer Engagement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer Engagement in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Customer Engagement in the South East

Customer Engagement
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 20 July 2025. 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
Thames Valley +31 13 £700 +1.45% 54
Hampshire +31 8 £675 -32.50% 15
Berkshire +27 7 £405 -41.30% 26
Buckinghamshire - 5 £700 - 16
Surrey +3 4 £300 -17.81% 16
Oxfordshire - 1 £550 - 12
Customer Engagement
England

Customer Engagement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (4.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (4.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (4.00%) Sketch
2 1 (4.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (12.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 3 (12.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) Contentsquare
2 3 (12.00%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (12.00%) SaaS
3 2 (8.00%) IaaS
3 2 (8.00%) OCI
3 2 (8.00%) PaaS
4 1 (4.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) Figma
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) HTTP
2 1 (4.00%) NAS
2 1 (4.00%) SAN
2 1 (4.00%) VLAN
2 1 (4.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Power BI
1 4 (16.00%) Tableau
2 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.00%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Fiddler
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (40.00%) Marketing
2 5 (20.00%) Retail
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Electronics
5 1 (4.00%) Brand Awareness
5 1 (4.00%) Games
5 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Security Specialist
2 4 (16.00%) Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Security Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle Security Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Security Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Support
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Digital Campaign Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Email Marketing Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Email Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Marketing Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) CSS
1 2 (8.00%) HTML
1 2 (8.00%) OAuth
2 1 (4.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (4.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Digital Media
3 1 (4.00%) Photography
3 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Agile
2 7 (28.00%) Information Assurance
2 7 (28.00%) ISMS
3 5 (20.00%) Analytics
3 5 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (16.00%) Data Protection
4 4 (16.00%) E-Commerce
4 4 (16.00%) Security Architecture
4 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (16.00%) User Experience
5 3 (12.00%) B2C
5 3 (12.00%) Data Integration
5 3 (12.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (12.00%) Information Security
5 3 (12.00%) Information Security Management
5 3 (12.00%) Logistics
5 3 (12.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (12.00%) Security Management
5 3 (12.00%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Python
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) C#
2 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) CISM
1 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (8.00%) Degree
3 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.00%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.00%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Adobe
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) Databricks
4 1 (4.00%) Dell
4 1 (4.00%) F5
4 1 (4.00%) Isilon
4 1 (4.00%) NetApp
4 1 (4.00%) Samsung
4 1 (4.00%) Veeam
4 1 (4.00%) VMware