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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 380 398
Rank change year-on-year -97 +18 +62
Contract jobs citing Customer-Centricity 148 132 149
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.48% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.53% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 81 83
10th Percentile £305 £350 £177
25th Percentile £405 £413 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £607
90th Percentile £700 £725 £705
UK median daily rate £538 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +7.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 2
10th Percentile £12.21 £15.36 £7.46
25th Percentile £14.81 £15.53 £8.80
Median hourly rate £29.96 £15.80 £11.93
Median % change year-on-year +89.62% +32.49% -31.70%
75th Percentile £31.13 £20.92 £14.66
90th Percentile £37.55 £23.99 £15.76
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £15.80 £12.75
% change year-on-year +89.62% +23.92% -26.98%

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 38,425 24,898 29,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.75% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,067 15,953 19,300
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £424 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £521 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,400 1,362 1,833
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.21 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.69
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.46 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -72 58 £600 +36.21% 94
North of England -56 27 £500 -3.61% 26
South East -87 25 £311 -38.18% 46
Midlands -31 24 £539 +99.17% 26
West Midlands -37 17 £538 +1210.98% 23
North West -36 15 £375 -32.58% 16
Yorkshire -35 11 £533 +1.57% 8
South West -28 10 £575 +22.67% 6
East Midlands -7 7 £551 +10.25% 3
East of England -23 3 - - 12
North East -41 1 - - 3
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 13 (8.78%) Confluence
2 4 (2.70%) CMS
3 3 (2.03%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (9.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (7.43%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (6.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.35%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (3.38%) iTrent
2 3 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.68%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (10.14%) Azure
2 11 (7.43%) Power Platform
3 8 (5.41%) SaaS
4 7 (4.73%) AWS
4 7 (4.73%) Figma
5 6 (4.05%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (2.70%) GCP
6 4 (2.70%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.03%) Google Analytics
7 3 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.03%) PaaS
7 3 (2.03%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.03%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.35%) Azure App Service
8 2 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (1.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.35%) 2G
1 2 (1.35%) 3G
1 2 (1.35%) 4G
1 2 (1.35%) Diameter Protocol
1 2 (1.35%) NetScaler
1 2 (1.35%) SIGTRAN
1 2 (1.35%) SS7
2 1 (0.68%) DHCP
2 1 (0.68%) DNS
2 1 (0.68%) NaaS
2 1 (0.68%) NGN
2 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.43%) Power BI
2 6 (4.05%) Big Data
3 3 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.03%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.35%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.35%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.68%) Looker
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (11.49%) JIRA
2 2 (1.35%) Balsamiq
General
1 66 (44.59%) Social Skills
2 43 (29.05%) Finance
3 35 (23.65%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (12.84%) Influencing Skills
5 18 (12.16%) Banking
6 15 (10.14%) Retail
7 13 (8.78%) Marketing
8 10 (6.76%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (5.41%) Billing
9 8 (5.41%) Corporate Banking
10 5 (3.38%) Arabic Language
10 5 (3.38%) French Language
11 4 (2.70%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.70%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.70%) Retail Banking
12 3 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (2.03%) Local Government
13 2 (1.35%) Legal
13 2 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (12.16%) Lead
2 16 (10.81%) Product Owner
3 14 (9.46%) Senior
4 13 (8.78%) Analyst
4 13 (8.78%) Designer
5 10 (6.76%) Architect
5 10 (6.76%) Product Manager
6 9 (6.08%) Developer
6 9 (6.08%) Senior Product Owner
7 8 (5.41%) Business Analyst
7 8 (5.41%) Service Designer
8 7 (4.73%) Consultant
8 7 (4.73%) Product Lead
9 5 (3.38%) Data Analyst
9 5 (3.38%) HR Analyst
9 5 (3.38%) HR Data Analyst
10 4 (2.70%) Automation Specialist
10 4 (2.70%) Data Engineer
10 4 (2.70%) Head of Delivery
10 4 (2.70%) Head of Service Delivery
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.38%) Kafka
1 5 (3.38%) Middleware
2 3 (2.03%) React
3 2 (1.35%) .NET
3 2 (1.35%) ADO
3 2 (1.35%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.35%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.35%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (1.35%) CSS
3 2 (1.35%) HTML
3 2 (1.35%) OAuth
3 2 (1.35%) OAuth2
3 2 (1.35%) OpenID
3 2 (1.35%) REST
3 2 (1.35%) RESTful
4 1 (0.68%) DOM
4 1 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.68%) NumPy
4 1 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 44 (29.73%) Product Ownership
2 11 (7.43%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (6.08%) Virtual Team
4 6 (4.05%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.70%) Marketing Technology
6 4 (2.70%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.03%) CCTV
7 3 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.03%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.03%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.68%) CMDB
8 1 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.68%) Life Science
8 1 (0.68%) NHS
8 1 (0.68%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.68%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.68%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.38%) Windows
2 2 (1.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (43.24%) Agile
2 45 (30.41%) Roadmaps
3 44 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (28.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 39 (26.35%) Customer Experience
6 32 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (18.92%) Analytics
7 28 (18.92%) Workshop Facilitation
8 25 (16.89%) User Experience
9 24 (16.22%) AI
10 18 (12.16%) Customer Insight
10 18 (12.16%) Decision-Making
11 17 (11.49%) User Stories
12 16 (10.81%) Acceptance Criteria
12 16 (10.81%) Business Case
12 16 (10.81%) Migration
12 16 (10.81%) Product Vision
13 15 (10.14%) Generative AI
13 15 (10.14%) Matrix Organization
13 15 (10.14%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.41%) SQL
2 7 (4.73%) Java
3 3 (2.03%) Bicep
3 3 (2.03%) Python
4 2 (1.35%) C#
4 2 (1.35%) Go
4 2 (1.35%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.68%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.68%) C++
5 1 (0.68%) Rust
5 1 (0.68%) Scala
5 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (14.19%) Degree
2 13 (8.78%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.05%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.38%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.70%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.03%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.03%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.03%) PMP
7 2 (1.35%) CCA
7 2 (1.35%) Citrix Certification
7 2 (1.35%) MBA
7 2 (1.35%) MCSA
7 2 (1.35%) MCSE
7 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.73%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.70%) PMO
3 4 (2.70%) QA
4 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.68%) COBIT
4 1 (0.68%) GDPR
4 1 (0.68%) GRC
4 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.35%) Docker
3 2 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.35%) vSphere
4 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.03%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.03%) Terraform
3 2 (1.35%) SCCM
3 2 (1.35%) SCOM
3 2 (1.35%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.68%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.68%) vMotion
Vendors
1 24 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.08%) Salesforce
2 9 (6.08%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.41%) SAP
4 5 (3.38%) Google
4 5 (3.38%) Oracle
4 5 (3.38%) Workday
5 3 (2.03%) Alteryx
5 3 (2.03%) Braze
5 3 (2.03%) Citrix
5 3 (2.03%) Databricks
5 3 (2.03%) Splunk
5 3 (2.03%) VMware
6 2 (1.35%) Remedy
6 2 (1.35%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.68%) Adobe
7 1 (0.68%) Apple
7 1 (0.68%) Concur
7 1 (0.68%) Ericsson
7 1 (0.68%) PTC