Engagement Manager Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Engagement Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Engagement Manager daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £512, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 August 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
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 332 426
Rank change year-on-year +29 +94 +177
Contract jobs requiring an Engagement Manager 15 5 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.038% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.041% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile £484 - £452
25th Percentile £493 - £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £493 £533
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -7.42% +10.94%
75th Percentile £513 £540 £555
90th Percentile £567 £569 £564
UK median daily rate £520 £519 £438
% change year-on-year +0.14% +18.63% -8.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,460 12,263 21,075
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 93.55% 94.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,296 8,236 14,860
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -1.40%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.02% -0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 379 500
10th Percentile £12.62 £16.97 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.56 £28.38 £24.94
Median hourly rate £34.48 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £67.50
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%

Engagement Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Engagement Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Engagement Manager trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Engagement Manager
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Engagement Manager.

Engagement Manager daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Engagement Manager
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Engagement Manager over the 6 months to 7 August 2025.

Engagement Manager daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Engagement Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 7 August 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Engagement Manager in the job title.

1 9 (60.00%) Project Management
2 8 (53.33%) Analytics
3 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
4 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
5 5 (33.33%) JIRA
5 5 (33.33%) Confluence
5 5 (33.33%) Big Data
5 5 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
5 5 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (33.33%) Agile
5 5 (33.33%) Project Delivery
5 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 4 (26.67%) Impact Analysis
7 3 (20.00%) Storytelling
7 3 (20.00%) Digital Analytics
7 3 (20.00%) Data Strategy
7 3 (20.00%) Web Analytics
7 3 (20.00%) Infographics
8 2 (13.33%) Commercial Awareness
9 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
9 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
9 1 (6.67%) Impact Assessments
9 1 (6.67%) ITIL
9 1 (6.67%) Regulatory Compliance
9 1 (6.67%) PMO
9 1 (6.67%) Tech Ops
9 1 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
9 1 (6.67%) Programme Delivery
9 1 (6.67%) Runbook
9 1 (6.67%) Service Management

Engagement Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Datadog
1 1 (6.67%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Big Data
1 5 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Law
2 1 (6.67%) Legal
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) CMDB
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Project Management
2 8 (53.33%) Analytics
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
3 5 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 4 (26.67%) Impact Analysis
5 3 (20.00%) Data Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) Digital Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) Infographics
5 3 (20.00%) Storytelling
5 3 (20.00%) Web Analytics
6 2 (13.33%) Commercial Awareness
7 1 (6.67%) Fintech
7 1 (6.67%) Impact Assessments
7 1 (6.67%) Patch Management
7 1 (6.67%) Programme Delivery
7 1 (6.67%) Regulatory Compliance
7 1 (6.67%) Runbook
7 1 (6.67%) Tech Ops
7 1 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Dell
1 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds
1 1 (6.67%) VMware