Customer Engagement Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Customer Engagement
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Customer Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 99 101
Rank change year-on-year -17 +2 +58
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 24 7 13
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.06% 0.45% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.51% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 8
10th Percentile £478 £453 £135
25th Percentile £550 £550 £146
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £567 £150
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% +278.00% -64.71%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £158
90th Percentile £800 - £317
England median daily rate £525 £567 £570
% change year-on-year -7.41% -0.53% +1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.00 - -
England median hourly rate £24.50 £52.50 £56.29
% change year-on-year -53.33% -6.73% +168.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,936 1,363 1,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.66% 86.98% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,222 846 1,002
10th Percentile £263 £224 £275
25th Percentile £403 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 46 62
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.97
25th Percentile £16.22 £16.38 £17.94
Median hourly rate £20.25 £21.59 £28.34
Median % change year-on-year -6.21% -23.80% +63.62%
75th Percentile £27.21 £33.70 £50.94
90th Percentile £35.60 £52.50 £68.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

Customer Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Customer Engagement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Customer Engagement job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Customer Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Customer Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Customer Engagement

Customer Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Engagement in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Engagement in the West Midlands

Customer Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Customer Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Customer Engagement

Customer Engagement
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Warwickshire - 7 £600 -
Wolverhampton - 4 £800 - 1
Birmingham -10 3 £600 +5.82% 4
Coventry - 1 £480 - 1
Staffordshire - 1 - - 7
Worcestershire - 1 - - 2
Customer Engagement
England

Customer Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.17%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.33%) Power BI
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Finance
4 3 (12.50%) Marketing
4 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.17%) Automotive
6 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Consultant
2 5 (20.83%) Project Manager
2 5 (20.83%) Support Specialist
2 5 (20.83%) Technical Manager
2 5 (20.83%) Technical Project Manager
2 5 (20.83%) Technical Specialist
2 5 (20.83%) Technical Support
2 5 (20.83%) Technical Support Specialist
3 4 (16.67%) Security Consultant
4 3 (12.50%) Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Pega Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Pega Consultant
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Project Coordinator
6 1 (4.17%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) REST
1 3 (12.50%) SOAP
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.50%) Taxonomies
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) CRM
1 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (25.00%) DevOps
3 5 (20.83%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (20.83%) Customer Service
3 5 (20.83%) Privileged Access Management
3 5 (20.83%) Product Strategy
4 4 (16.67%) Agile
4 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (12.50%) AI
5 3 (12.50%) Data Integration
5 3 (12.50%) Data Science
5 3 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (12.50%) Predictive Modelling
5 3 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (12.50%) Unit Testing
5 3 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.17%) C#
2 1 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.17%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) CyberArk
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) Pega