Customer Experience Contract Job Trends in England

Customer Experience (CX)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Customer Experience skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 213 233
Rank change year-on-year +16 +20 0
Contract jobs citing Customer Experience 454 355 382
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.22% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.38% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 209 253
10th Percentile £265 £150 £250
25th Percentile £372 £300 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £634
90th Percentile £699 £676 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £441 £475
% change year-on-year +13.31% -7.11% -6.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 16 12
10th Percentile £15.37 £18.13 £16.66
25th Percentile £16.35 £21.05 -
Median hourly rate £18.00 £23.99 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -24.97% +35.38% +1.26%
75th Percentile £27.83 £44.00 £33.97
90th Percentile £38.94 £57.50 £51.99
UK median hourly rate £17.75 £24.18 £17.72
% change year-on-year -26.59% +36.46% +2.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Customer Experience 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,925 25,808 32,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.90% 88.45% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,780 15,959 22,396
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,812 863 1,395
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.97 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

Customer Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Customer Experience relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Customer Experience job vacancy trend in England

Customer Experience
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Customer Experience.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Customer Experience

Customer Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Experience in England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Experience in England

Customer Experience
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Customer Experience.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Customer Experience

Customer Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Experience in England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Experience in England

Customer Experience
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Experience within the England region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. 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
London +67 234 £550 +22.22% 186
North of England -24 79 £466 +30.76% 159
Midlands -15 48 £360 +1.12% 120
North West -25 43 £466 +9.53% 84
South East -56 39 £516 +21.47% 272
East Midlands -4 34 £360 +1.12% 64
Yorkshire -39 26 £470 +104.35% 48
South West +3 21 £375 -16.72% 81
East of England -8 16 £588 +38.24% 72
West Midlands -37 14 £406 +113.82% 53
North East +1 10 £450 - 32
Customer Experience
UK

Customer Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 30 (6.61%) Confluence
2 13 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.64%) CMS
4 3 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.44%) Drupal
5 2 (0.44%) SAS
6 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (1.76%) Chatbot
5 5 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.44%) Autodesk Smoke
6 2 (0.44%) Sketch
7 1 (0.22%) InVision
7 1 (0.22%) Marvel
7 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.44%) Shopify
3 1 (0.22%) Magento
3 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (7.71%) AWS
2 33 (7.27%) Azure
3 19 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (4.19%) SaaS
4 17 (3.74%) Power Platform
5 16 (3.52%) GCP
6 7 (1.54%) Figma
7 6 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (1.32%) GitHub
8 5 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.10%) OpenShift
8 5 (1.10%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.88%) Entra ID
9 4 (0.88%) Google Analytics
9 4 (0.88%) Google Tag Manager
9 4 (0.88%) OneDrive
9 4 (0.88%) PaaS
9 4 (0.88%) PowerApps
10 3 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.66%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.98%) SSH
2 4 (0.88%) HTTP
3 3 (0.66%) VPN
3 3 (0.66%) WebEx
4 2 (0.44%) Broadband
4 2 (0.44%) DNS
4 2 (0.44%) Firewall
4 2 (0.44%) Internet
4 2 (0.44%) PuTTY
4 2 (0.44%) SMS
4 2 (0.44%) Telnet
4 2 (0.44%) Wireless
5 1 (0.22%) 2G
5 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.22%) RFID
5 1 (0.22%) Softphone
5 1 (0.22%) Symposium
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) WAN
5 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.86%) Power BI
2 7 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.10%) Big Data
4 4 (0.88%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.66%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.66%) Looker
5 3 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.66%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.66%) Tableau
6 2 (0.44%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.44%) Couchbase
6 2 (0.44%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.44%) MySQL
6 2 (0.44%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.44%) Redis
7 1 (0.22%) DB2
7 1 (0.22%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.22%) Parquet
7 1 (0.22%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 43 (9.47%) JIRA
2 12 (2.64%) Git
3 5 (1.10%) CircleCI
3 5 (1.10%) Postman
4 4 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.66%) Selenium
5 3 (0.66%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.22%) AppVeyor
7 1 (0.22%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.22%) GitLab
7 1 (0.22%) JMeter
7 1 (0.22%) JUnit
7 1 (0.22%) Mockito
7 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.22%) TestNG
7 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.22%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 189 (41.63%) Social Skills
2 105 (23.13%) Finance
3 66 (14.54%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (12.78%) Marketing
4 58 (12.78%) Retail
5 57 (12.56%) Banking
6 41 (9.03%) Public Sector
7 21 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (4.41%) Telecoms
9 18 (3.96%) Legal
10 17 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (3.08%) Manufacturing
12 10 (2.20%) Automotive
13 9 (1.98%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.98%) Retail Banking
14 7 (1.54%) Advertising
14 7 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.54%) Local Government
15 5 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (15.20%) Analyst
2 53 (11.67%) Project Manager
3 42 (9.25%) Senior
4 39 (8.59%) Lead
5 28 (6.17%) Business Analyst
6 24 (5.29%) Architect
7 21 (4.63%) Digital Project Manager
8 19 (4.19%) Designer
8 19 (4.19%) Developer
9 18 (3.96%) Product Manager
10 17 (3.74%) Senior Manager
11 16 (3.52%) IT Support
11 16 (3.52%) Product Owner
12 14 (3.08%) Consultant
12 14 (3.08%) Support Engineer
13 12 (2.64%) Programme Manager
13 12 (2.64%) Team Leader
14 11 (2.42%) Senior Product Manager
15 10 (2.20%) Delivery Manager
15 10 (2.20%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.86%) RESTful
2 12 (2.64%) REST
3 8 (1.76%) HTML
4 6 (1.32%) Middleware
4 6 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (1.32%) React
5 5 (1.10%) .NET
5 5 (1.10%) Kafka
5 5 (1.10%) PySpark
6 4 (0.88%) CSS
6 4 (0.88%) GraphQL
6 4 (0.88%) TensorFlow
7 3 (0.66%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.66%) OpenAPI
7 3 (0.66%) Pandas
7 3 (0.66%) scikit-learn
7 3 (0.66%) Spring
7 3 (0.66%) Spring Boot
7 3 (0.66%) Swagger
7 3 (0.66%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.59%) Product Ownership
2 36 (7.93%) Onboarding
3 18 (3.96%) Mobile App
4 17 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.42%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.76%) Mobile Banking
8 7 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.54%) Tandem
9 6 (1.32%) Marketing Technology
9 6 (1.32%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.10%) Blog
10 5 (1.10%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.10%) Social Media
11 4 (0.88%) IVR
11 4 (0.88%) Motion Graphics
11 4 (0.88%) PMI
11 4 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (9.47%) Windows
2 16 (3.52%) Apple iOS
3 13 (2.86%) Windows 10
4 9 (1.98%) Android
5 8 (1.76%) Unix
6 6 (1.32%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.32%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.88%) Linux
8 2 (0.44%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.44%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (29.96%) Agile
2 96 (21.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 83 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (16.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 69 (15.20%) Customer Service
6 68 (14.98%) Analytics
7 62 (13.66%) Roadmaps
8 61 (13.44%) Project Management
8 61 (13.44%) User Experience
9 49 (10.79%) AI
10 42 (9.25%) ITIL
11 41 (9.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 40 (8.81%) Decision-Making
13 39 (8.59%) Change Management
13 39 (8.59%) Service Delivery
14 38 (8.37%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 38 (8.37%) Project Delivery
15 35 (7.71%) Business Case
15 35 (7.71%) CRM
16 29 (6.39%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 23 (5.07%) Python
2 22 (4.85%) SQL
3 13 (2.86%) Java
4 12 (2.64%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.98%) Swift
6 6 (1.32%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.66%) Go
8 2 (0.44%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.44%) C#
8 2 (0.44%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.44%) R
9 1 (0.22%) ABAP
9 1 (0.22%) Bash
9 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.22%) Korn
9 1 (0.22%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.22%) Perl
9 1 (0.22%) PHP
9 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (9.03%) Degree
2 32 (7.05%) Security Cleared
3 21 (4.63%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.52%) PMI Certification
5 15 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.64%) PMP
7 10 (2.20%) MOS
8 6 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.44%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.44%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.44%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.44%) MBA
11 1 (0.22%) APMG
11 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.22%) CSPO
11 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.22%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.73%) SLA
2 18 (3.96%) QA
3 15 (3.30%) GDPR
4 9 (1.98%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.54%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.32%) PMO
7 4 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.66%) WCAG
9 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.44%) GRC
10 1 (0.22%) COBIT
10 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.22%) NIST
10 1 (0.22%) PSD2
10 1 (0.22%) SEPA
10 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (1.98%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.76%) Docker
3 2 (0.44%) BitLocker
3 2 (0.44%) Firmware
4 1 (0.22%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 8 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (1.54%) Terraform
3 6 (1.32%) SCCM
4 4 (0.88%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.44%) Grafana
7 1 (0.22%) Cisco UCCE
7 1 (0.22%) Cisco UCCX
7 1 (0.22%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.22%) TADDM
7 1 (0.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 65 (14.32%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.93%) Salesforce
3 24 (5.29%) Google
4 19 (4.19%) ServiceNow
5 12 (2.64%) Adobe
5 12 (2.64%) Genesys
6 11 (2.42%) IBM
6 11 (2.42%) Oracle
7 10 (2.20%) Databricks
8 8 (1.76%) Apple
8 8 (1.76%) SAP
9 6 (1.32%) Cisco
10 5 (1.10%) BMC
11 4 (0.88%) Cvent
11 4 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.66%) Amplitude
12 3 (0.66%) DocuSign
12 3 (0.66%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.66%) New Relic
12 3 (0.66%) UiPath