Engagement Manager Contracts

Engagement Manager
UK

The median Engagement Manager daily rate in the UK is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 570 668
Rank change year-on-year +98 +98 +149
Contract jobs requiring an Engagement Manager 46 19 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.044% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.047% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 13 6
10th Percentile £464 - £344
25th Percentile £511 £263 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £458
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% +9.29% -10.73%
75th Percentile £544 £519 £541
90th Percentile £702 £525 £560
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £519 £515
% change year-on-year -0.77% +0.78% +7.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,380 40,472 52,439
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 92.90% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,580 25,942 36,562
10th Percentile £288 £280 £313
25th Percentile £402 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,161 2,956 1,487
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £16.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.40 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.93% -16.67% +80.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.01 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £76.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £41.05
% change year-on-year -37.13% -2.55% +105.23%

Engagement Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Engagement Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Engagement Manager in the UK

Engagement Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Engagement Manager in the UK

Engagement Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Engagement Manager over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Engagement Manager in the UK

Engagement Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Engagement Manager in the UK

Engagement Manager
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Engagement Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 16 June 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 +79 41 £520 +3.95% 133
UK excluding London +69 32 £515 -0.77% 44
West Midlands +38 25 £520 +0.14% 12
Midlands +34 25 £520 +0.14% 13
Work from Home +37 15 £512 +86.18% 40
North of England +18 9 £470 -7.11% 4
London +56 7 £765 +178.27% 99
North West +11 7 £470 -7.11% 2
North East - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - - 2

Engagement Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 June 2025, Engagement Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Engagement Manager in the job title.

1 24 (52.17%) Project Delivery
2 22 (47.83%) Project Management
3 17 (36.96%) Agile
4 15 (32.61%) Finance
4 15 (32.61%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
5 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
5 11 (23.91%) Analytics
6 10 (21.74%) JIRA
6 10 (21.74%) Confluence
7 9 (19.57%) SC Cleared
7 9 (19.57%) Security Cleared
8 8 (17.39%) Microsoft Project
8 8 (17.39%) Agile Project Management
9 7 (15.22%) Commercial Awareness
9 7 (15.22%) Waterfall
9 7 (15.22%) Project Planning
10 6 (13.04%) Resource Management
10 6 (13.04%) SailPoint
10 6 (13.04%) Big Data
10 6 (13.04%) HIPAA
10 6 (13.04%) SAP
10 6 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (13.04%) ERP
10 6 (13.04%) Active Directory
10 6 (13.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (13.04%) Change Management
10 6 (13.04%) GDPR
10 6 (13.04%) PMO
10 6 (13.04%) Budgeting and Forecasting

Engagement Manager Skill Set
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 10 (21.74%) Confluence
2 2 (4.35%) CMS
2 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (17.39%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.17%) Open Workbench
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.17%) AWS
1 1 (2.17%) Azure
1 1 (2.17%) Datadog
1 1 (2.17%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) Big Data
1 6 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) JIRA
General
1 15 (32.61%) Finance
2 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Banking
4 2 (4.35%) International Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.17%) CMDB
2 1 (2.17%) PMI
2 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (52.17%) Project Delivery
2 22 (47.83%) Project Management
3 17 (36.96%) Agile
4 15 (32.61%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (23.91%) Analytics
6 8 (17.39%) Agile Project Management
7 7 (15.22%) Commercial Awareness
7 7 (15.22%) Project Planning
7 7 (15.22%) Waterfall
8 6 (13.04%) Budget Management
8 6 (13.04%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 6 (13.04%) Change Management
8 6 (13.04%) ERP
8 6 (13.04%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (13.04%) Impact Analysis
8 6 (13.04%) RBAC
8 6 (13.04%) Resource Management
9 5 (10.87%) Data Strategy
10 4 (8.70%) Digital Analytics
10 4 (8.70%) Infographics
Qualifications
1 9 (19.57%) SC Cleared
1 9 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) GDPR
1 6 (13.04%) HIPAA
1 6 (13.04%) PMO
1 6 (13.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.04%) SAP
3 2 (4.35%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.35%) Workday
4 1 (2.17%) Dell
4 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.17%) VMware