Customer Engagement Contracts

Customer Engagement
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Customer Engagement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Customer Engagement over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 437 517 543
Rank change year-on-year +80 +26 -61
Contract jobs citing Customer Engagement 145 186 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.32% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.36% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 124 199
10th Percentile £325 £325 £408
25th Percentile £488 £400 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +21.52%
75th Percentile £690 £635 £643
90th Percentile £731 £684 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 7
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.00 -
25th Percentile £21.07 £21.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £56.29 £48.76
Median % change year-on-year -44.04% +15.45% -9.71%
75th Percentile £47.83 - £56.80
90th Percentile - £56.30 £60.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £56.29 £54.84
% change year-on-year -52.03% +2.64% +9.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Customer Engagement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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 10 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Engagement over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Engagement in the UK

Customer Engagement
Top 15 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 10 May 2024. 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 +76 130 £600 +18.34% 224
UK excluding London +68 86 £650 +30.00% 139
Work from Home +112 58 £600 +8.79% 136
London +65 48 £550 +8.48% 80
South East +20 26 £550 +10.00% 44
South West +30 22 £650 -16.13% 19
North of England +41 17 £663 +6.85% 32
North West +35 16 £663 +32.50% 19
Scotland +33 7 £588 +6.82% 8
East of England +20 7 £616 +54.04% 15
Midlands +19 6 £525 +23.53% 19
West Midlands +17 5 £525 +27.27% 10
East Midlands +16 1 - - 9
Yorkshire +14 1 £575 -17.86% 10
Northern Ireland - 1 £640 - 2

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 6 (4.14%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.07%) CMS
3 2 (1.38%) IBM Notes
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.69%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.07%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.38%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.69%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (6.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.76%) SAP SD
4 2 (1.38%) SAP HCM
4 2 (1.38%) SAP HR
4 2 (1.38%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.69%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.69%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 21 (14.48%) AWS
2 20 (13.79%) Dynamics 365
3 18 (12.41%) Azure
4 14 (9.66%) Power Platform
5 11 (7.59%) SaaS
6 10 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (6.21%) Amazon ECR
7 9 (6.21%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (6.21%) Amazon S3
7 9 (6.21%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (6.21%) Route 53
7 9 (6.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (4.83%) PaaS
8 7 (4.83%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.07%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 2 (1.38%) Boomi
10 2 (1.38%) GitHub
10 2 (1.38%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.83%) PBX
1 7 (4.83%) VoIP
1 7 (4.83%) WAN
2 6 (4.14%) SDH
3 4 (2.76%) Junos
4 2 (1.38%) SMS
5 1 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.69%) HTTP
5 1 (0.69%) Network Security
5 1 (0.69%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.52%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.07%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.38%) Big Data
3 2 (1.38%) Power BI
4 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (13.10%) Rational DOORS
2 11 (7.59%) GitLab
3 9 (6.21%) webpack
4 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.69%) JIRA
4 1 (0.69%) NUnit
General
1 33 (22.76%) Finance
2 32 (22.07%) Marketing
3 31 (21.38%) Social Skills
4 18 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.41%) Presentation Skills
5 14 (9.66%) Telecoms
6 13 (8.97%) Public Sector
6 13 (8.97%) Retail
7 7 (4.83%) Digital Economy
8 6 (4.14%) Aerospace
8 6 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (3.45%) German Language
10 4 (2.76%) Aeronautics
10 4 (2.76%) Law
10 4 (2.76%) Military
11 3 (2.07%) Billing
11 3 (2.07%) French Language
12 2 (1.38%) Banking
12 2 (1.38%) Italian Language
12 2 (1.38%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 28 (19.31%) Architect
2 21 (14.48%) Consultant
2 21 (14.48%) Solutions Architect
3 19 (13.10%) Senior
4 16 (11.03%) Lead
5 12 (8.28%) Systems Engineer
6 10 (6.90%) Functional Consultant
7 9 (6.21%) Analyst
7 9 (6.21%) Project Manager
8 8 (5.52%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 8 (5.52%) Technical Leader
9 7 (4.83%) Bid Manager
9 7 (4.83%) SAP Consultant
10 6 (4.14%) DOORS Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 6 (4.14%) Integration Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Senior Integration Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Service Manager
10 6 (4.14%) Software Integration Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.66%) React
2 13 (8.97%) Node.js
3 11 (7.59%) Express.js
4 9 (6.21%) Redux
5 7 (4.83%) CSS
5 7 (4.83%) HTML
6 4 (2.76%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (2.76%) Middleware
7 2 (1.38%) DOM
8 1 (0.69%) .NET
8 1 (0.69%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.69%) DCOM
8 1 (0.69%) Kafka
8 1 (0.69%) OAuth
8 1 (0.69%) React Native
8 1 (0.69%) RESTful
8 1 (0.69%) SAML
8 1 (0.69%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.69%) Visualforce
8 1 (0.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.52%) Video Conferencing
2 7 (4.83%) Blackberry
3 6 (4.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.14%) Digital Media
4 4 (2.76%) Taxonomies
5 3 (2.07%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.07%) Social Media
6 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.38%) FMCG
6 2 (1.38%) IVR
6 2 (1.38%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.38%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.69%) Handset
7 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Mobile Games
7 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.59%) Windows
2 8 (5.52%) Unix
3 1 (0.69%) Android
3 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.69%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (18.62%) ITIL
3 25 (17.24%) Roadmaps
4 24 (16.55%) Agile
4 24 (16.55%) CRM
5 22 (15.17%) Customer Requirements
5 22 (15.17%) Customer Service
6 21 (14.48%) Decision-Making
6 21 (14.48%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (13.79%) Strategic Roadmap
8 19 (13.10%) Collaborative Working
9 18 (12.41%) Enterprise Architecture
9 18 (12.41%) Process Improvement
10 17 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (11.03%) DevOps
12 14 (9.66%) Customer Experience
12 14 (9.66%) Risk Management
12 14 (9.66%) Scrum
12 14 (9.66%) TOGAF
12 14 (9.66%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.21%) JavaScript
2 5 (3.45%) Java
3 4 (2.76%) Python
4 2 (1.38%) C#
4 2 (1.38%) C++
4 2 (1.38%) SQL
5 1 (0.69%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.69%) Go
5 1 (0.69%) PHP
5 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.69%) Ruby
5 1 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (26.21%) Security Cleared
2 32 (22.07%) Degree
3 24 (16.55%) SC Cleared
4 16 (11.03%) DV Cleared
5 13 (8.97%) HND
6 11 (7.59%) TOGAF Certification
7 10 (6.90%) Master's Degree
8 8 (5.52%) CCNP
8 8 (5.52%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (5.52%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (2.76%) JNCIA
10 3 (2.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.38%) HNC
11 2 (1.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.69%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.97%) QA
2 8 (5.52%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.76%) GDPR
4 3 (2.07%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.38%) SLA
6 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.69%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (2.76%) Docker
2 3 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (6.21%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.07%) Terraform
3 1 (0.69%) Ansible
3 1 (0.69%) Istio
3 1 (0.69%) Nessus
3 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (17.93%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.66%) Cisco
3 13 (8.97%) Juniper
3 13 (8.97%) Nokia
4 12 (8.28%) IBM
5 11 (7.59%) SAP
6 10 (6.90%) Google
7 8 (5.52%) Salesforce
8 7 (4.83%) Avaya
8 7 (4.83%) Ericsson
8 7 (4.83%) Ribbon
9 5 (3.45%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.76%) Ciena
10 4 (2.76%) VMware
11 2 (1.38%) Adobe
11 2 (1.38%) Dell
11 2 (1.38%) Lotus
11 2 (1.38%) Marketo
11 2 (1.38%) Pardot
11 2 (1.38%) UiPath