Customer Engagement Contracts

Customer Engagement
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 402 455 526
Rank change year-on-year +53 +71 +29
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 117 145 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.33% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.39% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 95 127
10th Percentile £275 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £488 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £641 £690 £628
90th Percentile £700 £723 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -19.23% +30.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 12
10th Percentile - £14.00 £17.75
25th Percentile £27.50 £21.07 £20.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £31.50 £52.15
Median % change year-on-year +53.97% -39.59% +148.31%
75th Percentile £55.93 £47.83 £56.29
90th Percentile £61.37 - £56.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £27.00 £56.29
% change year-on-year +94.44% -52.03% +15.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Customer Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Customer Engagement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Engagement in the UK

Customer Engagement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Engagement in the UK

Customer Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Engagement over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Engagement in the UK

Customer Engagement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Engagement in the UK

Customer Engagement
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Engagement over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Engagement in the UK

Customer Engagement
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +35 101 £545 -9.25% 580
London +49 62 £563 +2.27% 387
Work from Home +35 43 £513 -14.54% 278
UK excluding London +12 43 £525 -19.23% 213
South West +36 12 £545 -17.81% 17
South East +27 11 £400 -27.27% 48
Scotland +8 6 £525 -10.64% 15
North of England +16 5 £450 -32.08% 69
North West 0 5 £450 -32.08% 56
East of England +30 4 £650 +5.49% 11
Midlands +23 4 £500 -13.04% 46
West Midlands +15 3 £525 -8.70% 25
Wales - 2 £525 - 5
East Midlands +10 1 £475 - 20

Customer Engagement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.27%) CMS
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.85%) SAS
3 1 (0.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (9.40%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.42%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (3.42%) Photoshop
4 3 (2.56%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.71%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.85%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.85%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.85%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (10.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.71%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (1.71%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.85%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.85%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.85%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.85%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 22 (18.80%) AWS
2 19 (16.24%) Azure
3 17 (14.53%) Dynamics 365
4 16 (13.68%) Power Platform
5 7 (5.98%) GCP
5 7 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (5.98%) PowerApps
5 7 (5.98%) Serverless
6 6 (5.13%) Amazon S3
6 6 (5.13%) Power Automate
7 5 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (4.27%) GitHub
7 5 (4.27%) Snowflake
8 4 (3.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.42%) Amazon Cognito
8 4 (3.42%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (3.42%) SaaS
9 3 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.71%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.71%) Unified Communications
1 2 (1.71%) VoIP
2 1 (0.85%) 4G
2 1 (0.85%) 5G
2 1 (0.85%) BGP
2 1 (0.85%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.85%) Internet
2 1 (0.85%) PBX
2 1 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.69%) Power BI
2 8 (6.84%) Tableau
3 5 (4.27%) DynamoDB
3 5 (4.27%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.42%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (3.42%) Parquet
5 3 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.71%) Big Data
6 2 (1.71%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.85%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.85%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.42%) JIRA
2 3 (2.56%) ERwin
3 2 (1.71%) Git
3 2 (1.71%) Postman
4 1 (0.85%) GitLab
4 1 (0.85%) Jaeger
General
1 48 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 36 (30.77%) Marketing
3 27 (23.08%) Finance
4 25 (21.37%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 11 (9.40%) Retail
7 10 (8.55%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.42%) Law
10 3 (2.56%) Advertising
10 3 (2.56%) Aviation
10 3 (2.56%) Banking
11 2 (1.71%) Automotive
11 2 (1.71%) Billing
11 2 (1.71%) Brand Awareness
11 2 (1.71%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.71%) Games
11 2 (1.71%) International Banking
11 2 (1.71%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.85%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 19 (16.24%) Architect
2 15 (12.82%) Consultant
3 12 (10.26%) Analyst
4 10 (8.55%) Project Manager
5 9 (7.69%) Developer
5 9 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (5.98%) Product Manager
6 7 (5.98%) Senior
7 5 (4.27%) Business Analyst
7 5 (4.27%) Cloud Developer
7 5 (4.27%) Data Consultant
7 5 (4.27%) Lead
7 5 (4.27%) Senior Manager
8 4 (3.42%) Communications Manager
8 4 (3.42%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 3 (2.56%) Dynamics 365 Architect
9 3 (2.56%) IT Manager
9 3 (2.56%) Senior Product Manager
9 3 (2.56%) Service Analyst
9 3 (2.56%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.13%) JSON
2 5 (4.27%) CSS
3 4 (3.42%) AWS CDK
3 4 (3.42%) HTML
4 3 (2.56%) .NET
4 3 (2.56%) DCOM
4 3 (2.56%) Kafka
4 3 (2.56%) REST
5 2 (1.71%) ADO
5 2 (1.71%) OpenAPI
5 2 (1.71%) Swagger
5 2 (1.71%) Web Services
5 2 (1.71%) XML
6 1 (0.85%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.85%) jQuery
6 1 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
6 1 (0.85%) Middleware
6 1 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.85%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.98%) Legacy Systems
1 7 (5.98%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.42%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (3.42%) Marketing Technology
2 4 (3.42%) Social Media
3 3 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.56%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.56%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.71%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.85%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.85%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.85%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.85%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.85%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.84%) Windows
2 3 (2.56%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.85%) Linux
3 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (29.91%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (19.66%) Agile
2 23 (19.66%) CRM
3 22 (18.80%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (17.09%) Customer Experience
5 19 (16.24%) Decision-Making
6 18 (15.38%) Migration
6 18 (15.38%) Roadmaps
7 17 (14.53%) DevOps
8 15 (12.82%) Analytics
8 15 (12.82%) Project Management
9 14 (11.97%) Change Management
10 13 (11.11%) Customer Service
11 12 (10.26%) User Experience
12 11 (9.40%) Customer Requirements
12 11 (9.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (9.40%) Waterfall
13 10 (8.55%) Artificial Intelligence
13 10 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (8.55%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.97%) SQL
2 9 (7.69%) Python
3 4 (3.42%) C#
3 4 (3.42%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.85%) Apex Code
4 1 (0.85%) C
4 1 (0.85%) MATLAB
4 1 (0.85%) R
4 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
4 1 (0.85%) X++
Qualifications
1 17 (14.53%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.55%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.69%) Degree
4 6 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.42%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.42%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.71%) CISA
7 2 (1.71%) CISM
7 2 (1.71%) CISSP
7 2 (1.71%) CRISC
7 2 (1.71%) ISACA
8 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.85%) CCNA
8 1 (0.85%) CCNP
8 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.85%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.85%) MBA
8 1 (0.85%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.69%) QA
2 6 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.42%) GDPR
4 3 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.56%) PMO
4 3 (2.56%) SLA
5 1 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (3.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.85%) Firmware
2 1 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.71%) Terraform
2 1 (0.85%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (0.85%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (0.85%) Grafana
2 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.85%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 25 (21.37%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.40%) Salesforce
3 8 (6.84%) Adobe
4 6 (5.13%) Google
4 6 (5.13%) SAP
5 4 (3.42%) Cisco
6 3 (2.56%) Apple
6 3 (2.56%) Juniper
7 2 (1.71%) Aruba
7 2 (1.71%) Databricks
7 2 (1.71%) HP
7 2 (1.71%) Optimizely
7 2 (1.71%) Oracle
7 2 (1.71%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (1.71%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.85%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.85%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.85%) Samsung
8 1 (0.85%) Tealium