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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 374 404
Rank change year-on-year -110 +30 +65
Contract jobs citing Customer-Centricity 135 131 128
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.47% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.52% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 80 70
10th Percentile £303 £349 £182
25th Percentile £383 £398 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £491 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +3.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £601
90th Percentile £738 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £491 £475
% change year-on-year +11.96% +3.42% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £20.87 £15.36 -
25th Percentile - £15.53 £15.50
Median hourly rate £29.96 £15.80 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +89.62% -1.25% -8.36%
75th Percentile - £20.92 £16.50
90th Percentile £30.66 £23.99 -
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £15.80 £14.38
% change year-on-year +89.62% +9.91% -17.67%

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 38,792 25,089 28,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.08% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,117 16,022 18,624
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £422
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 £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,537 1,415 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -1.35%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -91 56 £600 +40.19% 182
North of England -61 25 £500 -3.61% 47
South East -86 25 £311 -40.91% 41
Midlands -39 21 £550 +60.58% 34
West Midlands -42 15 £550 +1241.46% 24
North West -29 13 £375 -32.58% 28
Yorkshire -40 11 £533 +1.57% 14
East Midlands -8 6 £575 +59.72% 10
South West -36 4 £725 +18.37% 10
East of England -25 1 - - 12
North East -42 1 - - 6
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 (9.63%) Confluence
2 4 (2.96%) CMS
3 3 (2.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (10.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (8.15%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.70%) iTrent
2 3 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.48%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.89%) Azure
2 8 (5.93%) AWS
2 8 (5.93%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.19%) SaaS
4 6 (4.44%) Figma
4 6 (4.44%) SuccessFactors
5 3 (2.22%) GCP
5 3 (2.22%) Google Analytics
5 3 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.22%) PaaS
5 3 (2.22%) Power Automate
5 3 (2.22%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.48%) Azure AKS
6 2 (1.48%) Azure App Service
6 2 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.48%) Lucidchart
6 2 (1.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.48%) 2G
1 2 (1.48%) 3G
1 2 (1.48%) 4G
1 2 (1.48%) Diameter Protocol
1 2 (1.48%) NetScaler
1 2 (1.48%) SIGTRAN
1 2 (1.48%) SS7
2 1 (0.74%) DHCP
2 1 (0.74%) DNS
2 1 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.93%) Power BI
2 6 (4.44%) Big Data
3 3 (2.22%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.48%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 17 (12.59%) JIRA
2 2 (1.48%) Balsamiq
General
1 64 (47.41%) Social Skills
2 43 (31.85%) Finance
3 33 (24.44%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (14.81%) Banking
4 20 (14.81%) Influencing Skills
5 15 (11.11%) Retail
6 14 (10.37%) Marketing
7 10 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (6.67%) Billing
9 8 (5.93%) Corporate Banking
10 5 (3.70%) Arabic Language
10 5 (3.70%) French Language
11 4 (2.96%) Manufacturing
12 3 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (2.22%) Local Government
12 3 (2.22%) Public Sector
12 3 (2.22%) Retail Banking
13 2 (1.48%) Legal
14 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.74%) Law
Job Titles
1 19 (14.07%) Lead
2 15 (11.11%) Product Owner
3 13 (9.63%) Analyst
3 13 (9.63%) Senior
4 12 (8.89%) Designer
5 10 (7.41%) Architect
6 8 (5.93%) Business Analyst
6 8 (5.93%) Product Lead
6 8 (5.93%) Service Designer
7 7 (5.19%) Consultant
7 7 (5.19%) Developer
7 7 (5.19%) Product Manager
7 7 (5.19%) Senior Product Owner
8 5 (3.70%) Data Analyst
8 5 (3.70%) HR Analyst
8 5 (3.70%) HR Data Analyst
9 4 (2.96%) Customer Analyst
9 4 (2.96%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.96%) Strategy Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.70%) Kafka
2 4 (2.96%) Middleware
3 3 (2.22%) React
4 2 (1.48%) .NET
4 2 (1.48%) ADO
4 2 (1.48%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.48%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.48%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (1.48%) CSS
4 2 (1.48%) HTML
4 2 (1.48%) OAuth
4 2 (1.48%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.48%) OpenID
4 2 (1.48%) RESTful
5 1 (0.74%) DOM
5 1 (0.74%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.74%) NumPy
5 1 (0.74%) Pandas
5 1 (0.74%) REST
5 1 (0.74%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 44 (32.59%) Product Ownership
2 11 (8.15%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (6.67%) Virtual Team
4 6 (4.44%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.70%) Marketing Technology
6 4 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.96%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.22%) CCTV
7 3 (2.22%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.48%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.48%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.74%) CMDB
9 1 (0.74%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.74%) Life Science
9 1 (0.74%) NHS
9 1 (0.74%) Online Banking
9 1 (0.74%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.70%) Windows
2 2 (1.48%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.74%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (48.89%) Agile
2 44 (32.59%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (32.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 43 (31.85%) Roadmaps
4 39 (28.89%) Customer Experience
5 31 (22.96%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (19.26%) Workshop Facilitation
7 25 (18.52%) Analytics
8 22 (16.30%) AI
8 22 (16.30%) User Experience
9 21 (15.56%) Decision-Making
10 19 (14.07%) Customer Insight
10 19 (14.07%) Product Vision
11 17 (12.59%) User Stories
12 16 (11.85%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 16 (11.85%) Migration
13 15 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
13 15 (11.11%) Scrum
14 14 (10.37%) Business Case
14 14 (10.37%) Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.19%) Java
2 4 (2.96%) SQL
3 3 (2.22%) Bicep
4 2 (1.48%) C#
4 2 (1.48%) Go
4 2 (1.48%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.48%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.48%) Python
5 1 (0.74%) C++
5 1 (0.74%) Rust
5 1 (0.74%) Scala
5 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (13.33%) Degree
2 12 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.22%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (2.22%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.22%) PMP
6 2 (1.48%) CCA
6 2 (1.48%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (1.48%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.48%) MBA
6 2 (1.48%) MCSA
6 2 (1.48%) MCSE
6 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.96%) PMO
1 4 (2.96%) QA
2 3 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.48%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.74%) COBIT
4 1 (0.74%) GRC
4 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.96%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.48%) Docker
3 2 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.48%) vSphere
4 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.22%) Terraform
3 2 (1.48%) SCCM
3 2 (1.48%) SCOM
3 2 (1.48%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.74%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.74%) vMotion
Vendors
1 22 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.93%) Salesforce
3 8 (5.93%) SAP
4 6 (4.44%) Oracle
5 5 (3.70%) Workday
6 4 (2.96%) Google
7 3 (2.22%) Alteryx
7 3 (2.22%) Braze
7 3 (2.22%) Citrix
7 3 (2.22%) Splunk
7 3 (2.22%) VMware
8 2 (1.48%) Remedy
8 2 (1.48%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.74%) Adobe
9 1 (0.74%) Apple
9 1 (0.74%) Ericsson
9 1 (0.74%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.74%) IBM
9 1 (0.74%) PTC