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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 370 374
Rank change year-on-year -80 +4 +85
Contract jobs citing Customer-Centricity 147 106 161
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.45% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.49% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 66 100
10th Percentile £350 £328 £182
25th Percentile £413 £438 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £456
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +9.59% -10.54%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £719 £681 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £456
% change year-on-year +5.00% +9.59% -11.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile - £12.91 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £14.42 £6.57
Median hourly rate £17.78 £15.65 £7.85
Median % change year-on-year +13.61% +99.36% -70.57%
75th Percentile £31.59 £18.36 £12.82
90th Percentile £39.83 £22.97 £15.03
UK median hourly rate £17.78 £15.65 £10.30
% change year-on-year +13.61% +51.94% -61.38%

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 35,194 21,730 31,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.29% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,373 14,199 20,591
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,179 923 2,284
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.22 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.99
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.11
90th Percentile £81.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
% change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -48 64 £538 +13.16% 148
North of England -52 25 £481 -14.44% 34
South East -78 21 £405 -19.10% 49
Midlands -50 17 £550 +10.00% 18
Yorkshire -45 13 £487 -7.31% 10
North West -27 11 £358 -40.33% 21
South West -27 10 £575 +76.92% 20
West Midlands -54 9 £550 +1241.46% 10
East Midlands -24 8 £538 +7.50% 8
East of England -33 8 £725 +11.54% 21
North East - 1 - - 4
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 15 (10.20%) Confluence
2 5 (3.40%) CMS
3 2 (1.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 10 (6.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.04%) Adobe XD
4 3 (2.04%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.36%) InVision
5 2 (1.36%) Sketch
5 2 (1.36%) Zeplin
6 1 (0.68%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.68%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.40%) iTrent
2 2 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.68%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 16 (10.88%) Azure
2 8 (5.44%) Power Platform
3 6 (4.08%) AWS
3 6 (4.08%) Figma
4 5 (3.40%) SaaS
4 5 (3.40%) SuccessFactors
5 3 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.04%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.04%) PaaS
5 3 (2.04%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.36%) Azure AKS
6 2 (1.36%) Azure App Service
6 2 (1.36%) GitHub
6 2 (1.36%) Miro
6 2 (1.36%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (1.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.68%) Firewall
1 1 (0.68%) NaaS
1 1 (0.68%) NetScaler
1 1 (0.68%) NGN
1 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.44%) Power BI
2 3 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.36%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.68%) Looker
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (1.36%) Axure RP
2 2 (1.36%) Balsamiq
General
1 56 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 39 (26.53%) Finance
3 33 (22.45%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (14.97%) Banking
5 14 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (8.84%) Retail
7 11 (7.48%) Telecoms
8 6 (4.08%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.40%) Marketing
10 3 (2.04%) Billing
10 3 (2.04%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (2.04%) Local Government
10 3 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.04%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.36%) Automotive
11 2 (1.36%) Back Office
11 2 (1.36%) Law
11 2 (1.36%) Legal
11 2 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (12.93%) Senior
2 18 (12.24%) Analyst
3 17 (11.56%) Product Owner
4 16 (10.88%) Lead
5 13 (8.84%) Business Analyst
6 12 (8.16%) Designer
7 10 (6.80%) Architect
8 8 (5.44%) Senior Product Owner
9 7 (4.76%) Developer
9 7 (4.76%) Product Manager
10 5 (3.40%) Data Analyst
10 5 (3.40%) Design Engineer
10 5 (3.40%) HR Analyst
10 5 (3.40%) HR Data Analyst
10 5 (3.40%) Product Designer
10 5 (3.40%) Voice Design Engineer
10 5 (3.40%) Voice Engineer
11 4 (2.72%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (2.72%) Head of Delivery
11 4 (2.72%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.40%) Middleware
2 3 (2.04%) ADO
3 2 (1.36%) .NET
3 2 (1.36%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.36%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (1.36%) Kafka
3 2 (1.36%) OAuth
3 2 (1.36%) OAuth2
3 2 (1.36%) OpenID
3 2 (1.36%) REST
3 2 (1.36%) RESTful
4 1 (0.68%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.68%) HTML
4 1 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.68%) NumPy
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.68%) Pandas
4 1 (0.68%) React
4 1 (0.68%) React Native
4 1 (0.68%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 41 (27.89%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (4.76%) Virtual Team
3 6 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.04%) CCTV
5 3 (2.04%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.04%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.04%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.36%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.36%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.36%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.68%) CMDB
7 1 (0.68%) Motion Graphics
7 1 (0.68%) PMI
7 1 (0.68%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.68%) Social Media
7 1 (0.68%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.36%) Windows
2 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (42.18%) Agile
2 46 (31.29%) Roadmaps
3 37 (25.17%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (23.13%) Stakeholder Management
5 32 (21.77%) User Experience
6 30 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (19.73%) Customer Experience
8 24 (16.33%) User Stories
9 23 (15.65%) Decision-Making
10 20 (13.61%) Analytics
10 20 (13.61%) Workshop Facilitation
11 16 (10.88%) Acceptance Criteria
12 15 (10.20%) AI
12 15 (10.20%) User Research
13 14 (9.52%) Scrum
14 13 (8.84%) Business Case
14 13 (8.84%) Data Modelling
14 13 (8.84%) Service Delivery
15 12 (8.16%) Product Roadmap
15 12 (8.16%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.40%) SQL
2 4 (2.72%) Bicep
3 2 (1.36%) C#
3 2 (1.36%) Java
3 2 (1.36%) Python
4 1 (0.68%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 19 (12.93%) Degree
2 10 (6.80%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.44%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.40%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.72%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.04%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.36%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.36%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.68%) CCNA
8 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) PMP
8 1 (0.68%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.48%) QA
2 9 (6.12%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.72%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.36%) PMO
4 2 (1.36%) WCAG
5 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.68%) COBIT
5 1 (0.68%) GDPR
5 1 (0.68%) GRC
5 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (5.44%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.36%) Docker
3 2 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (2.72%) Terraform
2 2 (1.36%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.68%) Ansible
3 1 (0.68%) SCCM
3 1 (0.68%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.44%) SAP
3 7 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.08%) Oracle
5 5 (3.40%) Adobe
5 5 (3.40%) Workday
6 4 (2.72%) Citrix
7 3 (2.04%) Google
7 3 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.36%) Databricks
8 2 (1.36%) VMware
9 1 (0.68%) BMC
9 1 (0.68%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.68%) Cisco
9 1 (0.68%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (0.68%) Ivanti
9 1 (0.68%) Mitel
9 1 (0.68%) Murex
9 1 (0.68%) PTC
9 1 (0.68%) Virgin Media