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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 471 487
Rank change year-on-year +99 +16 +62
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 178 122 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.29% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.33% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 72 125
10th Percentile £363 £325 £318
25th Percentile £453 £363 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £648 £688 £630
90th Percentile £725 £825 £674
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +4.96% -13.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 16
10th Percentile - £14.00 £23.43
25th Percentile £47.25 £21.07 £44.00
Median hourly rate £48.50 £31.50 £55.15
Median % change year-on-year +53.97% -42.88% +112.10%
75th Percentile £49.75 £47.83 £56.29
90th Percentile - - £66.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £27.00 £56.29
% change year-on-year - -52.03% +9.13%

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 29,604 36,487 50,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.43% 85.35% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,633 23,275 34,708
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% +0.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,516 2,444 1,698
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £13.17
25th Percentile £17.45 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +53.85%
75th Percentile £53.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.62 £38.12 £37.93
% change year-on-year -35.41% +0.51% +77.30%

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 13 July 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
Top 16 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 13 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
England +84 155 £535 +1.90% 670
London +74 82 £535 +1.90% 358
UK excluding London +30 75 £525 - 353
Work from Home +40 55 £550 -4.35% 325
South East +45 24 £550 +4.76% 110
North of England +23 20 £463 +11.78% 91
North West +18 15 £475 +88.12% 53
South West +34 11 £545 -9.25% 36
East of England +23 8 £625 -3.85% 38
Midlands -2 6 £500 - 49
West Midlands +3 5 £525 +5.00% 37
Scotland -2 5 £425 -26.09% 23
Yorkshire +6 4 £475 -17.39% 32
Wales - 2 £525 - 7
East Midlands -1 1 £475 - 13
North East - 1 £450 - 8

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 8 (4.49%) IBM Domino
1 8 (4.49%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.81%) CMS
3 3 (1.69%) Confluence
4 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.25%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (2.25%) Photoshop
4 3 (1.69%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.56%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.56%) Sketch
5 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 27 (15.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.25%) SAP PP
3 3 (1.69%) SAP MM
4 2 (1.12%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.56%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.56%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 49 (27.53%) Power Platform
2 47 (26.40%) Dynamics 365
3 37 (20.79%) Azure
4 26 (14.61%) AWS
5 20 (11.24%) PowerApps
6 19 (10.67%) Power Automate
7 10 (5.62%) GCP
8 9 (5.06%) SaaS
8 9 (5.06%) Serverless
9 8 (4.49%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.81%) Azure Functions
10 5 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.81%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.25%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.25%) GitHub
11 4 (2.25%) IaaS
11 4 (2.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.62%) Network Security
2 2 (1.12%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.12%) VLAN
2 2 (1.12%) VoIP
3 1 (0.56%) 4G
3 1 (0.56%) 5G
3 1 (0.56%) BGP
3 1 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.56%) DHCP
3 1 (0.56%) DNS
3 1 (0.56%) Firewall
3 1 (0.56%) HTTP
3 1 (0.56%) Internet
3 1 (0.56%) NAS
3 1 (0.56%) PBX
3 1 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.56%) SAN
3 1 (0.56%) SNMP
3 1 (0.56%) Wireless
3 1 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (17.98%) Power BI
2 18 (10.11%) Tableau
3 7 (3.93%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.12%) Big Data
5 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.56%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.56%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 6 (3.37%) JIRA
2 4 (2.25%) Postman
3 3 (1.69%) ERwin
3 3 (1.69%) Git
4 1 (0.56%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.56%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.56%) GitLab
4 1 (0.56%) Gradle
4 1 (0.56%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.56%) MLflow
4 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.56%) Xcode
General
1 67 (37.64%) Social Skills
2 46 (25.84%) Marketing
3 31 (17.42%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (16.85%) Finance
5 20 (11.24%) Retail
6 14 (7.87%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.06%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.37%) Banking
8 6 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.25%) Advertising
9 4 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.69%) Aviation
10 3 (1.69%) Brand Awareness
10 3 (1.69%) Law
10 3 (1.69%) Local Government
11 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.12%) Games
11 2 (1.12%) International Banking
11 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (19.10%) Architect
2 32 (17.98%) Consultant
3 23 (12.92%) Analyst
4 19 (10.67%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (7.30%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 11 (6.18%) Project Manager
7 9 (5.06%) Developer
8 8 (4.49%) Security Specialist
9 7 (3.93%) Dynamics 365 Architect
9 7 (3.93%) Product Manager
10 6 (3.37%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.37%) Designer
11 5 (2.81%) CRM Developer
11 5 (2.81%) Data Consultant
11 5 (2.81%) Security Consultant
11 5 (2.81%) Senior
11 5 (2.81%) Senior Manager
11 5 (2.81%) Technical Consultant
12 4 (2.25%) Lead
12 4 (2.25%) Power Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.06%) CSS
2 8 (4.49%) .NET
2 8 (4.49%) HTML
3 7 (3.93%) REST
4 6 (3.37%) Middleware
5 4 (2.25%) ASP.NET
5 4 (2.25%) OpenAPI
5 4 (2.25%) Swagger
5 4 (2.25%) Web Services
6 3 (1.69%) Kafka
7 2 (1.12%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.12%) ADO
7 2 (1.12%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.12%) DCOM
7 2 (1.12%) EDI
7 2 (1.12%) JSON
7 2 (1.12%) OAuth
7 2 (1.12%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.12%) React
7 2 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.43%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.49%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.49%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.37%) Social Media
6 5 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.25%) Marketing Technology
7 4 (2.25%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.25%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.12%) Life Science
9 2 (1.12%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.56%) CMDB
10 1 (0.56%) IVR
10 1 (0.56%) Photography
10 1 (0.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.06%) Windows
2 2 (1.12%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.56%) Android
3 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (24.16%) CRM
3 38 (21.35%) Agile
4 33 (18.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 32 (17.98%) Business Intelligence
6 31 (17.42%) Analytics
7 27 (15.17%) Migration
8 26 (14.61%) Customer Experience
9 20 (11.24%) Customer Service
9 20 (11.24%) DevOps
9 20 (11.24%) E-Commerce
10 19 (10.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 18 (10.11%) Change Management
11 18 (10.11%) Decision-Making
12 17 (9.55%) Artificial Intelligence
12 17 (9.55%) Project Management
12 17 (9.55%) Roadmaps
13 16 (8.99%) A/B Testing
13 16 (8.99%) User Experience
14 14 (7.87%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.99%) SQL
2 13 (7.30%) JavaScript
2 13 (7.30%) Python
3 11 (6.18%) C#
4 3 (1.69%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.12%) Go
5 2 (1.12%) Java
5 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.56%) Bash
6 1 (0.56%) JSX
6 1 (0.56%) X++
Qualifications
1 25 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.55%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.74%) Degree
4 11 (6.18%) CISM
5 6 (3.37%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.25%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.25%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.69%) CISSP
9 2 (1.12%) CISA
9 2 (1.12%) CRISC
9 2 (1.12%) ISACA
9 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.12%) PMP
10 1 (0.56%) CCNP
10 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.56%) MBA
10 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (4.49%) GDPR
3 7 (3.93%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.37%) QA
5 3 (1.69%) PMO
6 2 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.12%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.12%) SLA
7 1 (0.56%) COBIT
7 1 (0.56%) COSO
7 1 (0.56%) GxP
7 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (3.37%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.81%) Terraform
2 2 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (1.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.56%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (0.56%) Cisco UCCX
3 1 (0.56%) Grafana
3 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 50 (28.09%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.30%) Adobe
3 11 (6.18%) Salesforce
4 10 (5.62%) Google
5 8 (4.49%) SAP
6 6 (3.37%) Cisco
7 4 (2.25%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.69%) Aruba
8 3 (1.69%) Juniper
8 3 (1.69%) Optimizely
8 3 (1.69%) Oracle
8 3 (1.69%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.12%) Apple
9 2 (1.12%) Databricks
9 2 (1.12%) F5
9 2 (1.12%) Genesys
9 2 (1.12%) HP
9 2 (1.12%) Monzo
9 2 (1.12%) OneTrust
9 2 (1.12%) Splunk