Customer-Centricity Contracts

Customer-Centric
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Customer-Centricity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Customer-Centricity over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 411 532 547
Rank change year-on-year +121 +15 -61
Contract jobs citing Customer-Centricity 190 188 318
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.31% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.35% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 130 216
10th Percentile £176 £169 £329
25th Percentile £345 £340 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £590 £634 £700
90th Percentile £675 £700 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -25.00% - +26.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile - - £12.09
25th Percentile £6.57 - £15.06
Median hourly rate £7.85 £37.34 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -78.98% +42.25% +8.25%
75th Percentile £12.82 - £59.13
90th Percentile £15.03 - £79.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £7.85 - £13.00
% change year-on-year - - -42.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Customer-Centricity 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 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Customer-Centricity
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Customer-Centricity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Customer-Centricity in the UK

Customer-Centricity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer-Centricity.

Daily rate trend for Customer-Centricity in the UK

Customer-Centricity
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer-Centricity over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer-Centricity in the UK

Customer-Centricity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer-Centricity.

Hourly rate trend for Customer-Centricity in the UK

Customer-Centricity
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Customer-Centricity within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +129 175 £456 -9.65% 290
London +94 94 £475 -9.52% 119
UK excluding London +67 81 £375 -25.00% 195
Work from Home +134 68 £550 +10.00% 162
South East +34 31 £475 +35.71% 48
South West +31 15 £200 -75.76% 23
North of England +29 13 £425 -28.57% 53
East of England +22 10 £345 -27.37% 20
North West +15 7 £375 -41.18% 27
West Midlands +22 6 £550 +7.53% 16
Yorkshire +17 6 £513 -3.76% 15
Midlands +11 6 £550 +6.13% 26
Scotland +30 4 £461 +179.39% 15
Wales +15 2 £91 -84.17% 8

Customer-Centricity
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 12 (6.32%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.74%) CMS
3 6 (3.16%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.53%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (5.79%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.16%) Adobe XD
4 5 (2.63%) InVision
4 5 (2.63%) Sketch
4 5 (2.63%) Zeplin
5 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (1.05%) Chatbot
6 2 (1.05%) UserZoom
7 1 (0.53%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.53%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.53%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (8.42%) Azure
1 16 (8.42%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (7.37%) Figma
3 13 (6.84%) Power Platform
4 12 (6.32%) AWS
5 11 (5.79%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (4.21%) SaaS
7 7 (3.68%) Slack
8 6 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (3.16%) GCP
8 6 (3.16%) Serverless
9 5 (2.63%) Google Workspace
9 5 (2.63%) PaaS
10 4 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.58%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.58%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (1.58%) Miro
11 3 (1.58%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.58%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.58%) 3G
1 3 (1.58%) 4G
1 3 (1.58%) 5G
2 2 (1.05%) 2G
2 2 (1.05%) Broadband
2 2 (1.05%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (1.05%) SSH
2 2 (1.05%) Telnet
2 2 (1.05%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.05%) VoIP
3 1 (0.53%) DSL
3 1 (0.53%) Firewall
3 1 (0.53%) Network Security
3 1 (0.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.32%) Power BI
2 6 (3.16%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.63%) Tableau
4 4 (2.11%) Couchbase
5 3 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.53%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.63%) Axure RP
1 5 (2.63%) Git
1 5 (2.63%) JIRA
2 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.05%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.05%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.53%) GitLab
General
1 108 (56.84%) Social Skills
2 48 (25.26%) Finance
3 38 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (12.63%) Telecoms
5 18 (9.47%) Marketing
6 16 (8.42%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (6.32%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.79%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (5.26%) Legal
10 8 (4.21%) Banking
11 7 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (3.68%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.63%) Electronics
12 5 (2.63%) Mandarin Language
12 5 (2.63%) Retail
13 2 (1.05%) Advertising
13 2 (1.05%) Back Office
13 2 (1.05%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.05%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (18.95%) Analyst
2 20 (10.53%) Senior
3 18 (9.47%) Designer
4 12 (6.32%) Service Designer
5 10 (5.26%) Architect
5 10 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
6 9 (4.74%) Lead
6 9 (4.74%) Product Manager
7 8 (4.21%) Product Owner
7 8 (4.21%) Support Analyst
7 8 (4.21%) Support Engineer
7 8 (4.21%) Technical Analyst
8 7 (3.68%) Desktop Engineer
8 7 (3.68%) Developer
9 6 (3.16%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.16%) Service Analyst
9 6 (3.16%) Technical Support
9 6 (3.16%) Technical Support Analyst
10 5 (2.63%) Data Analyst
10 5 (2.63%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.63%) REST
2 4 (2.11%) Kafka
2 4 (2.11%) Node.js
3 3 (1.58%) AWS CDK
3 3 (1.58%) CSS
3 3 (1.58%) HTML
3 3 (1.58%) React
4 2 (1.05%) .NET
4 2 (1.05%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.05%) OpenAPI
4 2 (1.05%) Playwright
4 2 (1.05%) Pyramid
4 2 (1.05%) SOAP
4 2 (1.05%) Spring
4 2 (1.05%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.05%) Swagger
4 2 (1.05%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (1.05%) Web Services
4 2 (1.05%) XML
5 1 (0.53%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.84%) Product Ownership
1 13 (6.84%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (3.16%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.11%) Mainframe
4 4 (2.11%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.58%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.05%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.05%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.05%) PMI
6 2 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.53%) Blog
7 1 (0.53%) CMDB
7 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.53%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.32%) Windows
2 4 (2.11%) Linux
2 4 (2.11%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.05%) Android
3 2 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.05%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (32.11%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (30.53%) Agile
3 56 (29.47%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 41 (21.58%) Roadmaps
5 33 (17.37%) Customer Service
5 33 (17.37%) Project Management
6 32 (16.84%) Customer Experience
7 29 (15.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 27 (14.21%) User Stories
9 26 (13.68%) Decision-Making
10 24 (12.63%) Analytics
11 22 (11.58%) Service Management
12 20 (10.53%) Scrum
13 19 (10.00%) User Experience
14 18 (9.47%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (9.47%) Data Analysis
14 18 (9.47%) Product Management
14 18 (9.47%) Risk Management
14 18 (9.47%) Workshop Facilitation
15 17 (8.95%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.79%) SQL
2 10 (5.26%) Python
3 7 (3.68%) C++
3 7 (3.68%) TypeScript
4 6 (3.16%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.63%) Java
6 4 (2.11%) Bicep
6 4 (2.11%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.05%) Bash
7 2 (1.05%) C
7 2 (1.05%) C#
7 2 (1.05%) Go
7 2 (1.05%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.05%) Scala
7 2 (1.05%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (12.11%) Degree
2 7 (3.68%) SC Cleared
2 7 (3.68%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.63%) Postgraduate
5 4 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.58%) CSPO
6 3 (1.58%) PgMP
6 3 (1.58%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.05%) CCENT
7 2 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.53%) ACCA
8 1 (0.53%) APMP
8 1 (0.53%) CIMA
8 1 (0.53%) CISA
8 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.84%) QA
2 11 (5.79%) PMO
3 10 (5.26%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.63%) SLA
5 5 (2.63%) WCAG
6 3 (1.58%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.05%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.05%) GDPR
8 1 (0.53%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (2.11%) Docker
2 3 (1.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.11%) Progress Chef
1 4 (2.11%) Puppet
1 4 (2.11%) Terraform
2 1 (0.53%) AirWatch
2 1 (0.53%) Ansible
2 1 (0.53%) Grafana
2 1 (0.53%) Kibana
2 1 (0.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.53%) SCCM
2 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (16.32%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.26%) SAP
3 8 (4.21%) Adobe
3 8 (4.21%) Google
4 6 (3.16%) Cisco
4 6 (3.16%) Oracle
5 5 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.58%) Citrix
6 3 (1.58%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.05%) BT
7 2 (1.05%) Genesys
7 2 (1.05%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.05%) Huawei
7 2 (1.05%) UiPath
8 1 (0.53%) Ariba
8 1 (0.53%) NCR
8 1 (0.53%) Remedy