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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 372 364
Rank change year-on-year -88 -8 +134
Contract jobs citing Customer-Centricity 134 103 173
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.42% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.46% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 66 107
10th Percentile £350 £322 £178
25th Percentile £418 £413 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +8.11% -9.31%
75th Percentile £628 £619 £600
90th Percentile £732 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £465
% change year-on-year +5.00% +7.53% -9.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 3
10th Percentile - £13.58 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £15.39 £6.57
Median hourly rate £17.78 £20.92 £7.85
Median % change year-on-year -15.01% +166.50% -
75th Percentile £31.59 £30.15 £12.82
90th Percentile £39.83 £42.64 £15.03
UK median hourly rate £17.78 £20.92 £7.85
% change year-on-year -15.01% +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 33,552 22,163 32,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.57% 90.95% 86.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,495 14,584 21,337
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 £613 £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 2,072 874 2,199
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.91
25th Percentile £19.98 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £40.54 £32.00 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +26.69% -6.46% -8.77%
75th Percentile £66.00 £64.50 £58.70
90th Percentile £78.70 £75.43 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.81 £34.00
% change year-on-year +20.11% -9.40% -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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -50 62 £575 +15.00% 46
North of England -58 23 £481 -8.33% 31
South East -60 18 £359 -28.30% 42
Yorkshire -47 12 £492 -6.29% 6
South West -19 11 £550 +69.23% 17
North West -30 10 £363 -29.27% 24
Midlands -64 10 £538 +22.16% 15
East of England -38 8 £725 +11.54% 15
East Midlands -32 5 £495 -1.00% 8
West Midlands -66 5 £550 +37.50% 7
North East - 1 - - 1
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 (10.45%) Confluence
2 5 (3.73%) CMS
3 2 (1.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.99%) Adobe XD
2 4 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.99%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.24%) InVision
3 3 (2.24%) Sketch
3 3 (2.24%) Zeplin
4 1 (0.75%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.75%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.75%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) iTrent
2 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.75%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.70%) Azure
2 7 (5.22%) Figma
3 5 (3.73%) AWS
3 5 (3.73%) Power Platform
4 4 (2.99%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.24%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.24%) SaaS
5 3 (2.24%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.49%) GitHub
6 2 (1.49%) Lucidchart
6 2 (1.49%) Miro
6 2 (1.49%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.75%) GCP
7 1 (0.75%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.75%) PaaS
7 1 (0.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) Firewall
1 1 (0.75%) NaaS
1 1 (0.75%) NetScaler
1 1 (0.75%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.73%) Power BI
2 3 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.75%) Looker
4 1 (0.75%) Metadata
4 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (15.67%) JIRA
2 3 (2.24%) Axure RP
3 2 (1.49%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
General
1 48 (35.82%) Social Skills
2 38 (28.36%) Finance
3 35 (26.12%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (17.16%) Banking
5 12 (8.96%) Retail
6 11 (8.21%) Telecoms
7 10 (7.46%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (5.22%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.73%) Marketing
10 4 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.24%) Legal
12 2 (1.49%) Automotive
12 2 (1.49%) Back Office
12 2 (1.49%) Law
12 2 (1.49%) Local Government
12 2 (1.49%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (13.43%) Analyst
2 15 (11.19%) Business Analyst
3 14 (10.45%) Senior
4 13 (9.70%) Lead
4 13 (9.70%) Product Owner
5 11 (8.21%) Designer
6 9 (6.72%) Product Manager
7 8 (5.97%) Architect
8 7 (5.22%) Developer
9 6 (4.48%) Senior Product Owner
10 5 (3.73%) Design Engineer
10 5 (3.73%) Voice Design Engineer
10 5 (3.73%) Voice Engineer
11 4 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (2.99%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.99%) Head of Delivery
11 4 (2.99%) Head of Service Delivery
11 4 (2.99%) Integration Engineer
11 4 (2.99%) Product Designer
11 4 (2.99%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.99%) Middleware
2 3 (2.24%) ADO
3 2 (1.49%) Kafka
3 2 (1.49%) REST
4 1 (0.75%) CSS
4 1 (0.75%) DOM
4 1 (0.75%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.75%) HTML
4 1 (0.75%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.75%) NumPy
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.75%) Pandas
4 1 (0.75%) React
4 1 (0.75%) React Native
4 1 (0.75%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.75%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.75%) SOAP
4 1 (0.75%) UIKit
4 1 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (26.12%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (3.73%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.73%) Virtual Team
4 4 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.24%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.24%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.49%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.49%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.49%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.49%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.75%) CCTV
7 1 (0.75%) CMDB
7 1 (0.75%) Derivative
7 1 (0.75%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.75%) Motion Graphics
7 1 (0.75%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (39.55%) Agile
2 38 (28.36%) Roadmaps
3 37 (27.61%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (23.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (20.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 25 (18.66%) User Experience
6 25 (18.66%) User Stories
7 24 (17.91%) Customer Experience
7 24 (17.91%) Decision-Making
8 17 (12.69%) AI
8 17 (12.69%) Analytics
9 15 (11.19%) Acceptance Criteria
9 15 (11.19%) Workshop Facilitation
10 14 (10.45%) Customer-Centric Approach
10 14 (10.45%) Service Delivery
11 13 (9.70%) Data Modelling
12 12 (8.96%) Customer Service
12 12 (8.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 12 (8.96%) User Acceptance Testing
12 12 (8.96%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.97%) SQL
2 3 (2.24%) Python
3 2 (1.49%) Bicep
3 2 (1.49%) Java
4 1 (0.75%) Apex Code
4 1 (0.75%) BeanShell
4 1 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (11.19%) Degree
2 7 (5.22%) ITIL Certification
2 7 (5.22%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.73%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.99%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.24%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.24%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.49%) PMP
6 2 (1.49%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.75%) CCNA
7 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.75%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.46%) Accessibility
2 9 (6.72%) QA
3 4 (2.99%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.24%) PMO
4 3 (2.24%) WCAG
5 2 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.49%) COBIT
6 1 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.75%) GDPR
6 1 (0.75%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (5.97%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.24%) Ansible
1 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (2.24%) SCCM
1 3 (2.24%) SCOM
2 2 (1.49%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (14.18%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.48%) Adobe
3 4 (2.99%) Citrix
3 4 (2.99%) Oracle
3 4 (2.99%) SAP
4 3 (2.24%) BMC
4 3 (2.24%) Google
5 2 (1.49%) Databricks
5 2 (1.49%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.49%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.49%) VMware
5 2 (1.49%) Workday
6 1 (0.75%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.75%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.75%) Cisco
6 1 (0.75%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (0.75%) Ivanti
6 1 (0.75%) Mitel
6 1 (0.75%) Murex
6 1 (0.75%) PTC