Customer Engagement Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Customer Engagement
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Customer Engagement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 332 410
Rank change year-on-year +109 +78 -42
Permanent jobs citing Customer Engagement 343 243 166
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.81% 0.68% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.76% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 228 99 120
10th Percentile £22,800 £34,000 £31,175
25th Percentile £31,500 £39,935 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +22.73% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £88,875
UK median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% -13.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Customer Engagement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Customer Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Customer Engagement relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Customer Engagement job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Customer Engagement
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Customer Engagement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Customer Engagement

Customer Engagement
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Engagement in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Customer Engagement in the UK excluding London

Customer Engagement
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Engagement within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +59 93 £39,500 -28.18% 84
South East +77 87 £45,000 -40.00% 143
Midlands +43 72 £41,750 -35.37% 69
Yorkshire +27 49 £31,000 -61.25% 40
West Midlands +33 48 £48,500 -31.93% 24
North West +25 37 £52,500 +8.10% 34
South West +22 37 £52,500 -19.85% 65
East of England +29 30 £70,000 -20.00% 67
East Midlands 0 22 £31,000 -27.06% 44
Scotland -18 17 £95,000 +31.03% 11
North East - 7 £44,000 - 11
Wales +8 5 £52,500 +40.00% 19
Northern Ireland -12 2 £57,500 -28.13% 10
Customer Engagement
UK

Customer Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (3.50%) CMS
1 12 (3.50%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.75%) WordPress
3 4 (1.17%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.29%) Strapi
Applications
1 32 (9.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.17%) Autodesk Inventor
5 4 (1.17%) Chatbot
5 4 (1.17%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.87%) Notion
7 2 (0.58%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.29%) InDesign
8 1 (0.29%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 32 (9.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.75%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (1.17%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.58%) Shopify
5 1 (0.29%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 62 (18.08%) SaaS
2 40 (11.66%) Dynamics 365
3 32 (9.33%) Azure
4 29 (8.45%) Power Platform
5 18 (5.25%) AWS
6 16 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (3.21%) GCP
9 10 (2.92%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.75%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.17%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (1.17%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (1.17%) Canva
11 4 (1.17%) dbt
11 4 (1.17%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.17%) Fivetran
11 4 (1.17%) GitHub
11 4 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.17%) Google Data Studio
11 4 (1.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.00%) SMS
2 13 (3.79%) Broadband
3 12 (3.50%) WAN
4 11 (3.21%) SD-WAN
5 8 (2.33%) Firewall
6 7 (2.04%) LAN
7 6 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.46%) Internet
9 4 (1.17%) 5G
9 4 (1.17%) VoIP
10 2 (0.58%) DHCP
10 2 (0.58%) DNS
10 2 (0.58%) MPLS
10 2 (0.58%) SNA
10 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.58%) WLAN
11 1 (0.29%) Cisco Wireless
11 1 (0.29%) VPN
11 1 (0.29%) Wireless
11 1 (0.29%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.25%) Power BI
2 13 (3.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (2.92%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.92%) Tableau
4 6 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.17%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.17%) DTS
5 4 (1.17%) Looker
6 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.87%) Metadata
7 2 (0.58%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.29%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Development Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Git
General
1 120 (34.99%) Marketing
2 107 (31.20%) Social Skills
3 48 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (11.66%) Finance
4 40 (11.66%) Retail
5 37 (10.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (6.71%) Law
7 20 (5.83%) Manufacturing
8 18 (5.25%) Public Sector
9 16 (4.66%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (4.66%) Legal
10 15 (4.37%) Telecoms
11 14 (4.08%) Games
12 10 (2.92%) Electronics
13 8 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.75%) Arabic Language
14 6 (1.75%) Military
14 6 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.75%) Police
15 5 (1.46%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 46 (13.41%) Senior
2 44 (12.83%) Architect
3 27 (7.87%) CRM Executive
4 21 (6.12%) Analyst
5 20 (5.83%) Developer
5 20 (5.83%) Technical Engineer
6 17 (4.96%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 15 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (4.08%) Support Engineer
9 13 (3.79%) Technical Support
9 13 (3.79%) Technical Support Engineer
10 12 (3.50%) Integration Architect
10 12 (3.50%) QA Manager
10 12 (3.50%) Quality Manager
11 10 (2.92%) Business Development Manager
11 10 (2.92%) Business Manager
11 10 (2.92%) Coordinator
11 10 (2.92%) Development Manager
11 10 (2.92%) Technical Architect
11 10 (2.92%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.37%) React
2 12 (3.50%) .NET
3 9 (2.62%) CSS
4 7 (2.04%) GraphQL
4 7 (2.04%) Next.js
4 7 (2.04%) REST
5 6 (1.75%) HTML
5 6 (1.75%) Hugging Face
6 4 (1.17%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.17%) NumPy
6 4 (1.17%) Pandas
6 4 (1.17%) scikit-learn
7 3 (0.87%) Kafka
8 2 (0.58%) Keras
8 2 (0.58%) Node.js
8 2 (0.58%) Nuxt
8 2 (0.58%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.58%) TensorFlow
8 2 (0.58%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 49 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 25 (7.29%) Blog
3 22 (6.41%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (5.54%) Social Media
5 16 (4.66%) Data Centre
6 12 (3.50%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (2.92%) Driving Licence
7 10 (2.92%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
8 7 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.04%) NHS
9 5 (1.46%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.17%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.17%) GNSS
10 4 (1.17%) Self-Driving Car
11 3 (0.87%) Midjourney
11 3 (0.87%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.87%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.58%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.62%) Windows
2 3 (0.87%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (31.20%) CRM
2 72 (20.99%) AI
3 69 (20.12%) Project Management
4 60 (17.49%) Analytics
5 55 (16.03%) Roadmaps
6 54 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 54 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (15.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 50 (14.58%) Digital Marketing
9 48 (13.99%) Customer Experience
10 46 (13.41%) Agile
11 43 (12.54%) Cybersecurity
12 40 (11.66%) Marketing Strategy
13 37 (10.79%) Time Management
14 34 (9.91%) Customer Service
14 34 (9.91%) Service Delivery
15 33 (9.62%) Business Development
16 30 (8.75%) Presales
17 27 (7.87%) Project Delivery
18 26 (7.58%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 27 (7.87%) SQL
2 23 (6.71%) JavaScript
3 20 (5.83%) C#
4 10 (2.92%) Python
5 7 (2.04%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (1.17%) Delphi
7 2 (0.58%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.29%) ABAP
8 1 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 66 (19.24%) Degree
2 28 (8.16%) DBS Check
3 26 (7.58%) PMP
4 18 (5.25%) Security Cleared
5 9 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.46%) HNC
7 5 (1.46%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.17%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.58%) CCNP
9 2 (0.58%) CCSP
9 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.29%) ACCA
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.62%) GDPR
2 17 (4.96%) QA
3 6 (1.75%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.46%) PMO
4 5 (1.46%) SLA
5 4 (1.17%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.58%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (2.92%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (1.17%) Autotask
2 2 (0.58%) Ansible
2 2 (0.58%) FortiGate
2 2 (0.58%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 68 (19.83%) Microsoft
2 60 (17.49%) Salesforce
3 25 (7.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 20 (5.83%) Adobe
5 18 (5.25%) HubSpot
6 14 (4.08%) Apple
7 13 (3.79%) Google
7 13 (3.79%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.04%) Dell
8 7 (2.04%) Sage
9 6 (1.75%) ConnectWise
9 6 (1.75%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.75%) Sophos
10 5 (1.46%) Cisco
10 5 (1.46%) SAP
10 5 (1.46%) YouTube
11 4 (1.17%) Alteryx
11 4 (1.17%) Autodesk
11 4 (1.17%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.17%) Zoho