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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 374 388
Rank change year-on-year -43 +14 +107
Contract jobs citing Customer-Centricity 131 103 164
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.39% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.44% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 58 114
10th Percentile £311 £263 £197
25th Percentile £400 £356 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £690 £650 £696
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 2
10th Percentile £12.21 £17.46 -
25th Percentile £16.19 £25.79 £6.57
Median hourly rate £20.75 £30.97 £7.85
Median % change year-on-year -32.99% +294.46% -
75th Percentile £36.83 £37.08 £9.14
90th Percentile £40.65 £47.08 -
UK median hourly rate £20.75 £30.97 £7.85
% change year-on-year -32.99% +294.46% -

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 28,761 23,490 33,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.64% 89.52% 87.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,392 14,344 22,407
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £641 £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 1,792 750 1,956
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £61.90
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 2 February 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 +3 76 £500 -2.91% 60
South East -21 21 £500 - 32
North of England -48 13 £481 +34.43% 24
East of England -17 8 £638 -1.92% 10
Midlands -54 8 £455 +13.75% 31
Yorkshire -54 7 £481 - 4
East Midlands -23 6 £420 +17.98% 5
North West -28 6 £450 +25.70% 15
South West -22 3 £550 +100.00% 14
West Midlands -41 2 £500 +25.00% 26
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 7 (5.34%) CMS
2 6 (4.58%) Confluence
3 2 (1.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.76%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.76%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (3.05%) Adobe XD
4 4 (3.05%) Sketch
5 3 (2.29%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (2.29%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (2.29%) InVision
5 3 (2.29%) Photoshop
5 3 (2.29%) Zeplin
6 2 (1.53%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (1.53%) InDesign
6 2 (1.53%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.76%) Marvel
7 1 (0.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (4.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.53%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.76%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.92%) SaaS
2 11 (8.40%) Azure
3 9 (6.87%) Figma
4 7 (5.34%) AWS
5 3 (2.29%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.29%) GitHub
5 3 (2.29%) Miro
6 2 (1.53%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 2 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.53%) GCP
6 2 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.76%) Canva
7 1 (0.76%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.76%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Serverless
7 1 (0.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) Firewall
2 1 (0.76%) NAS
2 1 (0.76%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.76%) SAN
2 1 (0.76%) VoIP
2 1 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.58%) Mixpanel
2 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.76%) Couchbase
2 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.76%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.76%) Metadata
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.76%) Power BI
2 1 (0.76%) Redis
2 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (9.16%) JIRA
2 6 (4.58%) Visual Website Optimizer
3 4 (3.05%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.76%) AppVeyor
4 1 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
General
1 45 (34.35%) Social Skills
2 39 (29.77%) Finance
3 30 (22.90%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (16.79%) Banking
5 10 (7.63%) Telecoms
6 9 (6.87%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (6.87%) Marketing
7 8 (6.11%) Public Sector
8 7 (5.34%) Retail
9 4 (3.05%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.53%) Automotive
11 2 (1.53%) Legal
11 2 (1.53%) Military
12 1 (0.76%) Billing
12 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.76%) Law
12 1 (0.76%) Local Government
12 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (17.56%) Analyst
2 14 (10.69%) Designer
3 13 (9.92%) Business Analyst
4 10 (7.63%) Architect
4 10 (7.63%) Lead
5 9 (6.87%) Senior
6 8 (6.11%) Product Manager
7 7 (5.34%) Data Analyst
7 7 (5.34%) Product Owner
8 6 (4.58%) HR Analyst
8 6 (4.58%) HR Data Analyst
9 5 (3.82%) Design Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) Senior Manager
9 5 (3.82%) Voice Design Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) Voice Engineer
10 4 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.05%) Integration Engineer
10 4 (3.05%) Senior Product Manager
10 4 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.05%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.29%) CSS
1 3 (2.29%) HTML
1 3 (2.29%) MACH
2 2 (1.53%) Middleware
2 2 (1.53%) REST
2 2 (1.53%) SOAP
3 1 (0.76%) .NET
3 1 (0.76%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.76%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.76%) ADO
3 1 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.76%) Playwright
3 1 (0.76%) React
3 1 (0.76%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.76%) UIKit
3 1 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (19.08%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.87%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.58%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.05%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.05%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.29%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.29%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.53%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.53%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.53%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.53%) Media Streaming
6 2 (1.53%) Social Media
7 1 (0.76%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.76%) NHS
7 1 (0.76%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.05%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (35.88%) Agile
2 33 (25.19%) Continuous Improvement
2 33 (25.19%) User Experience
3 32 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (24.43%) Roadmaps
4 30 (22.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (16.79%) Analytics
5 22 (16.79%) Customer Experience
6 20 (15.27%) User Stories
7 17 (12.98%) Decision-Making
8 16 (12.21%) Customer-Centric Approach
8 16 (12.21%) UX Design
9 14 (10.69%) E-Commerce
10 13 (9.92%) Journey Map
10 13 (9.92%) Scrum
11 12 (9.16%) CRM
11 12 (9.16%) Dashboard Development
11 12 (9.16%) Product Strategy
12 11 (8.40%) User Research
12 11 (8.40%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.63%) SQL
2 2 (1.53%) Java
2 2 (1.53%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.76%) Apex Code
3 1 (0.76%) BeanShell
3 1 (0.76%) Bicep
3 1 (0.76%) C#
3 1 (0.76%) Python
3 1 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (10.69%) Degree
2 8 (6.11%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.82%) Master's Degree
3 5 (3.82%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.05%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (3.05%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.29%) PMP
6 2 (1.53%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.53%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.76%) CCNA
7 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.76%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.11%) Accessibility
1 8 (6.11%) QA
2 4 (3.05%) WCAG
3 3 (2.29%) PMO
4 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.53%) GDPR
5 1 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.76%) COBIT
5 1 (0.76%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (5.34%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.76%) Docker
3 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.29%) Ansible
1 3 (2.29%) SCCM
1 3 (2.29%) SCOM
2 2 (1.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.53%) Terraform
3 1 (0.76%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 20 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.87%) Adobe
2 9 (6.87%) Google
3 6 (4.58%) Amplitude
3 6 (4.58%) Hotjar
3 6 (4.58%) Optimizely
4 4 (3.05%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.29%) BMC
5 3 (2.29%) Citrix
5 3 (2.29%) Oracle
6 2 (1.53%) SAP
6 2 (1.53%) Workday
7 1 (0.76%) Aruba
7 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.76%) BT
7 1 (0.76%) Cisco
7 1 (0.76%) Ivanti
7 1 (0.76%) Mitel
7 1 (0.76%) Murex
7 1 (0.76%) VMware