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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 381 404
Rank change year-on-year -124 +23 +45
Contract jobs citing Customer-Centricity 129 138 118
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.49% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.54% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 75 55
10th Percentile £302 £350 £218
25th Percentile £350 £394 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £613
90th Percentile £738 £733 £675
UK median daily rate £533 £485 £475
% change year-on-year +9.79% +2.11% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £19.36 £24.19 -
25th Percentile £26.17 £30.20 -
Median hourly rate £29.96 £40.44 £30.41
Median % change year-on-year -25.91% +32.97% +74.17%
75th Percentile - £40.65 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £40.44 £21.58
% change year-on-year -25.91% +87.37% +23.60%

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 39,476 25,411 27,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.80% 90.93% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,882 16,117 16,935
10th Percentile £325 £295 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £642
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,976 1,567 1,167
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.75 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.87 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +50.56% -39.40% -2.92%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -102 53 £550 +27.54% 470
North of England -53 27 £483 -5.76% 98
South East -78 21 £310 -55.71% 90
Midlands -30 20 £539 +28.27% 45
West Midlands -35 15 £538 +7.50% 34
North West -30 14 £500 -2.44% 51
Yorkshire -30 10 £489 -6.95% 44
East Midlands -15 5 £551 +53.13% 11
North East -37 3 £325 -27.78% 4
South West -43 2 £469 -23.43% 32
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 10 (7.75%) Confluence
2 3 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.33%) CMS
3 2 (1.55%) Apache
3 2 (1.55%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (1.55%) nginx
3 2 (1.55%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (1.55%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.55%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.55%) WebLogic Portal
3 2 (1.55%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.55%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (1.55%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 13 (10.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (5.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.33%) Productboard
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.33%) iTrent
2 2 (1.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.78%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (6.98%) Azure
1 9 (6.98%) Power Platform
2 6 (4.65%) Figma
3 5 (3.88%) AWS
3 5 (3.88%) Google Analytics
3 5 (3.88%) SaaS
4 4 (3.10%) Azure AKS
4 4 (3.10%) PaaS
4 4 (3.10%) SuccessFactors
5 3 (2.33%) GCP
5 3 (2.33%) Power Automate
5 3 (2.33%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.55%) Azure App Service
6 2 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (1.55%) GitHub
6 2 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.55%) IaaS
6 2 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.33%) 2G
1 3 (2.33%) 3G
1 3 (2.33%) 4G
1 3 (2.33%) Diameter Protocol
1 3 (2.33%) SIGTRAN
1 3 (2.33%) SS7
2 2 (1.55%) Firewall
2 2 (1.55%) HTTP
2 2 (1.55%) Internet
2 2 (1.55%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.78%) DHCP
3 1 (0.78%) DNS
3 1 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.98%) Power BI
2 6 (4.65%) Big Data
3 3 (2.33%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.78%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (7.75%) JIRA
General
1 66 (51.16%) Social Skills
2 37 (28.68%) Analytical Skills
2 37 (28.68%) Finance
3 21 (16.28%) Banking
3 21 (16.28%) Influencing Skills
4 12 (9.30%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (8.53%) Marketing
5 11 (8.53%) Retail
6 10 (7.75%) Corporate Banking
7 9 (6.98%) Billing
8 5 (3.88%) Arabic Language
8 5 (3.88%) French Language
8 5 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.10%) Local Government
9 4 (3.10%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.33%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.33%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (11.63%) Lead
2 14 (10.85%) Product Owner
3 13 (10.08%) Designer
4 12 (9.30%) Analyst
5 9 (6.98%) Architect
5 9 (6.98%) Senior
5 9 (6.98%) Service Designer
6 8 (6.20%) Product Lead
6 8 (6.20%) Product Manager
7 7 (5.43%) Business Analyst
8 5 (3.88%) Consultant
8 5 (3.88%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (3.88%) Desktop Engineer
8 5 (3.88%) Desktop Support
8 5 (3.88%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 5 (3.88%) Support Engineer
9 4 (3.10%) Automation Specialist
9 4 (3.10%) Customer Analyst
9 4 (3.10%) User Experience Researcher
10 3 (2.33%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.10%) Terraform
2 3 (2.33%) ADO
2 3 (2.33%) Kafka
2 3 (2.33%) Middleware
2 3 (2.33%) React
3 2 (1.55%) .NET
3 2 (1.55%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.55%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.55%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (1.55%) CSS
3 2 (1.55%) HTML
3 2 (1.55%) Node.js
3 2 (1.55%) OAuth
3 2 (1.55%) OAuth2
3 2 (1.55%) OpenID
3 2 (1.55%) RESTful
4 1 (0.78%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.78%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 42 (32.56%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.75%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.88%) Marketing Technology
4 5 (3.88%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.33%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.55%) CCTV
6 2 (1.55%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.55%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.55%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) NHS
7 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.78%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.88%) Android
2 4 (3.10%) Windows
3 2 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.78%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.78%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (48.84%) Agile
2 51 (39.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 43 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 42 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (24.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 32 (24.81%) Customer Experience
6 27 (20.93%) Analytics
7 24 (18.60%) User Experience
7 24 (18.60%) Workshop Facilitation
8 23 (17.83%) Decision-Making
8 23 (17.83%) Product Vision
9 22 (17.05%) AI
10 21 (16.28%) Customer Insight
11 19 (14.73%) Coaching
11 19 (14.73%) Product Management
12 18 (13.95%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 18 (13.95%) Scrum
13 17 (13.18%) Service Design
14 16 (12.40%) Migration
15 15 (11.63%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.43%) Java
2 6 (4.65%) SQL
3 4 (3.10%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.55%) Bicep
4 2 (1.55%) C#
4 2 (1.55%) Go
4 2 (1.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.78%) C++
5 1 (0.78%) Python
5 1 (0.78%) Rust
5 1 (0.78%) Scala
5 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (13.18%) Degree
2 8 (6.20%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.10%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.33%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.55%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.55%) CCA
5 2 (1.55%) CISSP
5 2 (1.55%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (1.55%) MBA
5 2 (1.55%) MCSA
5 2 (1.55%) MCSE
5 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.55%) PhD
5 2 (1.55%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.55%) PMP
5 2 (1.55%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.20%) QA
2 4 (3.10%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.33%) PMO
4 2 (1.55%) GDPR
4 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.78%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (6.20%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.55%) Docker
2 2 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.55%) vSphere
3 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (5.43%) SCCM
2 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.55%) SCOM
3 2 (1.55%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.78%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.78%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.78%) vMotion
Vendors
1 22 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.20%) Salesforce
3 7 (5.43%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.65%) Google
4 6 (4.65%) Oracle
4 6 (4.65%) SAP
5 5 (3.88%) Tanium
6 3 (2.33%) Alteryx
6 3 (2.33%) Braze
6 3 (2.33%) IBM
6 3 (2.33%) Splunk
6 3 (2.33%) Workday
7 2 (1.55%) Citrix
7 2 (1.55%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.55%) Ericsson
7 2 (1.55%) Fujitsu
7 2 (1.55%) Remedy
7 2 (1.55%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.55%) VMware
8 1 (0.78%) Concur