Customer-Centricity Contract Job Trends in England

Customer-Centric
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Customer-Centricity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 378 374
Rank change year-on-year -76 -4 +131
Contract jobs citing Customer-Centricity 132 99 179
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.41% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.45% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 71 110
10th Percentile £350 £313 £180
25th Percentile £414 £403 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £464
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +7.82% -11.67%
75th Percentile £634 £588 £600
90th Percentile £709 £650 £690
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £470
% change year-on-year +5.00% +6.38% -13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 3
10th Percentile - £13.58 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £15.39 £6.57
Median hourly rate £16.48 £20.92 £7.85
Median % change year-on-year -21.22% +166.50% -
75th Percentile £29.94 £30.15 £12.82
90th Percentile £44.38 £42.64 £15.03
UK median hourly rate £16.48 £20.92 £7.85
% change year-on-year -21.22% +166.50% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Customer-Centricity 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 32,858 22,016 32,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.08% 90.81% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,074 14,505 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,007 857 2,166
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.27 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.36
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.63 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%

Customer-Centricity
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Customer-Centricity job vacancy trend in England

Customer-Centricity
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Customer-Centricity

Customer-Centricity
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer-Centricity in England over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Customer-Centricity in England

Customer-Centricity
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Customer-Centricity

Customer-Centricity
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer-Centricity in England over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer-Centricity in England

Customer-Centricity
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-Centricity within the England region over the 6 months to 1 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -45 62 £575 +15.00% 45
North of England -56 21 £481 +34.43% 30
South East -60 18 £359 -28.20% 37
South West -20 11 £550 +69.23% 15
Yorkshire -44 11 £487 - 5
North West -38 10 £363 +1.26% 23
Midlands -71 10 £538 +34.38% 15
East of England -27 8 £725 +11.54% 19
East Midlands -32 5 £495 +15.65% 4
West Midlands -58 5 £550 +37.50% 11
Customer-Centricity
UK

Customer-Centricity
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 14 (10.61%) Confluence
2 5 (3.79%) CMS
3 2 (1.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.03%) Adobe XD
2 4 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.03%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.27%) InVision
3 3 (2.27%) Sketch
3 3 (2.27%) Zeplin
4 1 (0.76%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.76%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.76%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.85%) Azure
2 7 (5.30%) Figma
3 5 (3.79%) AWS
4 4 (3.03%) Entra ID
4 4 (3.03%) SaaS
5 3 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.27%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.27%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.52%) GitHub
6 2 (1.52%) Lucidchart
6 2 (1.52%) Miro
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.76%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (0.76%) Google Docs
7 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) Firewall
1 1 (0.76%) NaaS
1 1 (0.76%) NetScaler
1 1 (0.76%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (2.27%) Power BI
2 2 (1.52%) Mixpanel
3 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.76%) Looker
3 1 (0.76%) Metadata
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (15.91%) JIRA
2 3 (2.27%) Axure RP
3 2 (1.52%) Balsamiq
3 2 (1.52%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
General
1 44 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 37 (28.03%) Finance
3 33 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (17.42%) Banking
5 11 (8.33%) Retail
5 11 (8.33%) Telecoms
6 10 (7.58%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.03%) Marketing
9 3 (2.27%) Legal
9 3 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.52%) Automotive
10 2 (1.52%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.76%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.76%) Law
11 1 (0.76%) Local Government
11 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 17 (12.88%) Analyst
2 15 (11.36%) Business Analyst
3 14 (10.61%) Senior
4 13 (9.85%) Lead
4 13 (9.85%) Product Owner
5 11 (8.33%) Designer
6 8 (6.06%) Architect
6 8 (6.06%) Product Manager
7 7 (5.30%) Developer
8 6 (4.55%) Senior Product Owner
9 5 (3.79%) Design Engineer
9 5 (3.79%) Voice Design Engineer
9 5 (3.79%) Voice Engineer
10 4 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.03%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.03%) Head of Delivery
10 4 (3.03%) Head of Service Delivery
10 4 (3.03%) Integration Engineer
10 4 (3.03%) Product Designer
10 4 (3.03%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.03%) Middleware
2 3 (2.27%) ADO
3 2 (1.52%) Kafka
3 2 (1.52%) REST
4 1 (0.76%) CSS
4 1 (0.76%) DOM
4 1 (0.76%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.76%) HTML
4 1 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.76%) NumPy
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.76%) Pandas
4 1 (0.76%) React
4 1 (0.76%) React Native
4 1 (0.76%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.76%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.76%) SOAP
4 1 (0.76%) UIKit
4 1 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (26.52%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (3.79%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.03%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.27%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.27%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.52%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.52%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.52%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.52%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.76%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.76%) Derivative
7 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.76%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.76%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (39.39%) Agile
2 36 (27.27%) Roadmaps
3 33 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (23.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (21.21%) User Experience
6 25 (18.94%) Stakeholder Management
6 25 (18.94%) User Stories
7 23 (17.42%) Customer Experience
8 22 (16.67%) Decision-Making
9 17 (12.88%) AI
9 17 (12.88%) Analytics
10 16 (12.12%) Acceptance Criteria
10 16 (12.12%) Customer-Centric Approach
11 15 (11.36%) Workshop Facilitation
12 14 (10.61%) Service Delivery
13 13 (9.85%) Data Modelling
13 13 (9.85%) User Research
14 12 (9.09%) Scrum
14 12 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 11 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.06%) SQL
2 3 (2.27%) Python
3 2 (1.52%) Bicep
3 2 (1.52%) Java
4 1 (0.76%) Apex Code
4 1 (0.76%) BeanShell
4 1 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (10.61%) Degree
2 7 (5.30%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (4.55%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.03%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.03%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.27%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.52%) PMP
7 2 (1.52%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.76%) CCNA
8 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.76%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.82%) Accessibility
1 9 (6.82%) QA
2 4 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.27%) PMO
3 3 (2.27%) WCAG
4 2 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.52%) COBIT
5 1 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.76%) GDPR
5 1 (0.76%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.27%) Ansible
1 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (2.27%) SCCM
1 3 (2.27%) SCOM
2 2 (1.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.55%) Adobe
3 5 (3.79%) Google
4 4 (3.03%) Citrix
5 3 (2.27%) BMC
6 2 (1.52%) Amplitude
6 2 (1.52%) Databricks
6 2 (1.52%) Hotjar
6 2 (1.52%) Optimizely
6 2 (1.52%) Oracle
6 2 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.52%) SAP
6 2 (1.52%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.52%) VMware
7 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.76%) Cisco
7 1 (0.76%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (0.76%) Ivanti
7 1 (0.76%) Mitel
7 1 (0.76%) PTC