Customer Engagement Contracts in the Thames Valley

Customer Engagement
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 140 138
Rank change year-on-year +43 -2 +11
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 5 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 0.19% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.21% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 12
10th Percentile - £526 £340
25th Percentile - £527 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £355
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +57.04% -38.26%
75th Percentile £569 £592 £521
90th Percentile £580 £595 £587
South East median daily rate £400 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Customer Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Engagement in the Thames Valley

Customer Engagement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer Engagement in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Customer Engagement in the Thames Valley

Customer Engagement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer Engagement in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Customer Engagement in the Thames Valley

Customer Engagement
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +29 2 - - 23
Buckinghamshire +17 2 £563 -0.44% 16
Oxfordshire - 1 £550 - 10
Customer Engagement
South East

Customer Engagement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Figma
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Marketing
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
2 1 (20.00%) Brand Awareness
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Games
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Email Marketing Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Email Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Implementation Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Implementation Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Campaign Management
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (40.00%) Email Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) B2C
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) CRM
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Game Development
2 1 (20.00%) Journey Map
2 1 (20.00%) Kanban
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Time Management
2 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks