Customer Engagement Contracts in the UK excluding London

Customer Engagement
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 300 376
Rank change year-on-year +2 +76 +48
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 45 86 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.42% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.50% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 58 53
10th Percentile £355 £488 £340
25th Percentile £450 £525 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.00% +30.00% -6.28%
75th Percentile £584 £694 £620
90th Percentile £660 £776 £700
UK median daily rate £533 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -11.17% +14.29% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 7
10th Percentile £49.67 £14.00 £40.86
25th Percentile £50.56 £16.63 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £27.00 £56.29
Median % change year-on-year +108.33% -52.03% +2.64%
75th Percentile £62.73 £47.83 £56.30
90th Percentile £64.09 - £64.18
UK median hourly rate £50.50 £31.50 £56.29
% change year-on-year +60.32% -44.04% +15.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,573 17,298 21,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.48% 84.45% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,212 10,313 14,528
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 834 2,056 1,281
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.25 £15.44
Median hourly rate £25.23 £38.06 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.72% +8.74% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.26 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.48% +1.39% +40.19%

Customer Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Customer Engagement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Engagement in the UK excluding London

Customer Engagement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer Engagement in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Customer Engagement in the UK excluding London

Customer Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Engagement in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Engagement in the UK excluding London

Customer Engagement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer Engagement in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Customer Engagement in the UK excluding London

Customer Engagement
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
South West +37 14 £533 -18.00% 40
South East +32 11 £475 -13.64% 178
North of England +10 6 £450 -32.08% 78
North West +9 6 £450 -32.08% 62
Scotland +7 5 £500 -14.89% 19
East of England +20 4 £650 +5.49% 25
Midlands +17 4 £500 -4.76% 57
West Midlands +16 3 £525 - 27
Wales - 2 £525 - 11
East Midlands +9 1 £475 - 26
Customer Engagement
UK

Customer Engagement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (2.22%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (4.44%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.22%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (2.22%) Chatbot
4 1 (2.22%) Photoshop
4 1 (2.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.22%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (8.89%) Azure
2 4 (8.89%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (8.89%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (6.67%) Serverless
4 2 (4.44%) Adobe Analytics
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.44%) dbt
4 2 (4.44%) GitHub
4 2 (4.44%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.22%) Contentsquare
5 1 (2.22%) Figma
5 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) Unified Communications
1 2 (4.44%) VoIP
2 1 (2.22%) 4G
2 1 (2.22%) 5G
2 1 (2.22%) BGP
2 1 (2.22%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (2.22%) Internet
2 1 (2.22%) Network Security
2 1 (2.22%) PBX
2 1 (2.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Power BI
2 3 (6.67%) Tableau
3 2 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.44%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.44%) Parquet
4 1 (2.22%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Git
1 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 21 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (24.44%) Marketing
3 9 (20.00%) Finance
4 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.67%) Aviation
6 3 (6.67%) Retail
7 2 (4.44%) Automotive
7 2 (4.44%) Brand Awareness
8 1 (2.22%) Advertising
8 1 (2.22%) Billing
8 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.22%) Games
8 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.22%) Law
8 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (15.56%) Analyst
2 6 (13.33%) Project Manager
3 5 (11.11%) Architect
3 5 (11.11%) Consultant
4 4 (8.89%) Lead
4 4 (8.89%) Product Manager
4 4 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Campaign Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Contracts Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Data Consultant
6 2 (4.44%) Lead Consultant
6 2 (4.44%) Security Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Senior
7 1 (2.22%) Data Science Manager
7 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Consultant
7 1 (2.22%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) AWS CDK
1 2 (4.44%) JSON
2 1 (2.22%) .NET
2 1 (2.22%) ADO
2 1 (2.22%) CSS
2 1 (2.22%) HTML
2 1 (2.22%) PySpark
2 1 (2.22%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
1 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.44%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.22%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.22%) Housing Association
4 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Life Science
4 1 (2.22%) PKI
4 1 (2.22%) Smart Meter
4 1 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.89%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (22.22%) Agile
3 10 (22.22%) CRM
3 10 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 8 (17.78%) Migration
5 7 (15.56%) Change Management
6 6 (13.33%) Customer Service
7 5 (11.11%) Customer Experience
7 5 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
7 5 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 5 (11.11%) DevOps
7 5 (11.11%) Product Management
7 5 (11.11%) Project Management
7 5 (11.11%) Waterfall
8 4 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (8.89%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (8.89%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (8.89%) Product Roadmap
8 4 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.33%) Python
2 5 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (2.22%) C#
3 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) Degree
2 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) CISM
3 3 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.44%) CISA
4 2 (4.44%) CISSP
4 2 (4.44%) CRISC
4 2 (4.44%) ISACA
5 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.22%) CCNA
5 1 (2.22%) CCNP
5 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.22%) MBA
5 1 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.44%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.22%) GxP
3 1 (2.22%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.22%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (2.22%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) Adobe
3 3 (6.67%) Cisco
4 2 (4.44%) Juniper
4 2 (4.44%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.44%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.22%) Aruba
5 1 (2.22%) Databricks
5 1 (2.22%) Ericsson
5 1 (2.22%) F5
5 1 (2.22%) Genesys
5 1 (2.22%) HP
5 1 (2.22%) Nokia
5 1 (2.22%) Samsung