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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 374 370
Rank change year-on-year -99 -4 +112
Contract jobs citing Customer-Centricity 146 131 173
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.48% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.53% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 81 94
10th Percentile £305 £359 £178
25th Percentile £400 £438 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +8.11% -9.31%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £610
90th Percentile £727 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £544 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +8.75% +8.11% -9.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 3
10th Percentile £12.21 £12.91 -
25th Percentile £12.86 £14.42 £6.57
Median hourly rate £29.96 £15.65 £7.85
Median % change year-on-year +91.44% +99.36% -55.04%
75th Percentile £30.83 £18.36 £12.82
90th Percentile £35.28 £22.97 £15.03
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £15.65 £10.30
% change year-on-year +91.44% +51.94% -41.01%

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 38,320 24,760 31,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 90.73% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,128 15,919 20,389
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,284 2,227
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.33 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.08 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -5.96%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.81 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £72.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -74 52 £575 +26.37% 170
South East -85 31 £335 -32.95% 55
North of England -58 28 £497 -4.19% 37
Midlands -35 19 £550 +10.00% 22
North West -39 17 £367 -34.11% 23
West Midlands -55 12 £550 +1241.46% 17
South West -27 10 £575 -4.17% 7
Yorkshire -47 10 £533 +1.57% 13
East Midlands -10 7 £538 +7.50% 5
East of England -23 5 £725 +11.54% 15
North East -34 1 - - 2
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 (8.90%) Confluence
2 5 (3.42%) CMS
3 2 (1.37%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 15 (10.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (7.53%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (6.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.05%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.68%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.68%) InVision
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.68%) Sketch
5 1 (0.68%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 5 (3.42%) iTrent
2 3 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.37%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.68%) Shopify
4 1 (0.68%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 19 (13.01%) Azure
2 11 (7.53%) Power Platform
3 8 (5.48%) SaaS
4 7 (4.79%) AWS
5 6 (4.11%) Figma
6 5 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.42%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.05%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.05%) PaaS
7 3 (2.05%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.05%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.05%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.37%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.37%) Azure App Service
8 2 (1.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (1.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.68%) 2G
2 1 (0.68%) 3G
2 1 (0.68%) 4G
2 1 (0.68%) DHCP
2 1 (0.68%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (0.68%) DNS
2 1 (0.68%) NaaS
2 1 (0.68%) NGN
2 1 (0.68%) SIGTRAN
2 1 (0.68%) SS7
2 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.53%) Power BI
2 3 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.37%) Big Data
3 2 (1.37%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.37%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.68%) Looker
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (10.96%) JIRA
2 2 (1.37%) Balsamiq
3 1 (0.68%) Axure RP
General
1 60 (41.10%) Social Skills
2 42 (28.77%) Finance
3 33 (22.60%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (13.01%) Banking
5 18 (12.33%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (8.90%) Retail
7 9 (6.16%) Marketing
8 7 (4.79%) Billing
8 7 (4.79%) Corporate Banking
8 7 (4.79%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.42%) Arabic Language
9 5 (3.42%) French Language
10 4 (2.74%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.74%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.05%) Local Government
11 3 (2.05%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.37%) Automotive
12 2 (1.37%) Law
12 2 (1.37%) Legal
12 2 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (11.64%) Lead
1 17 (11.64%) Product Owner
2 16 (10.96%) Senior
3 13 (8.90%) Analyst
4 11 (7.53%) Architect
4 11 (7.53%) Designer
5 9 (6.16%) Senior Product Owner
6 8 (5.48%) Business Analyst
6 8 (5.48%) Developer
6 8 (5.48%) Product Manager
7 6 (4.11%) Product Lead
7 6 (4.11%) Service Designer
7 6 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.42%) Consultant
8 5 (3.42%) Data Analyst
8 5 (3.42%) HR Analyst
8 5 (3.42%) HR Data Analyst
9 4 (2.74%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (2.74%) Head of Delivery
9 4 (2.74%) Head of Service Delivery
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.42%) Middleware
2 4 (2.74%) Kafka
3 2 (1.37%) .NET
3 2 (1.37%) ADO
3 2 (1.37%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.37%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (1.37%) OAuth
3 2 (1.37%) OAuth2
3 2 (1.37%) OpenID
3 2 (1.37%) React
3 2 (1.37%) REST
3 2 (1.37%) RESTful
4 1 (0.68%) CSS
4 1 (0.68%) DOM
4 1 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.68%) Pandas
4 1 (0.68%) React Native
4 1 (0.68%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 44 (30.14%) Product Ownership
2 11 (7.53%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.11%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.11%) Virtual Team
4 4 (2.74%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.74%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.74%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.05%) CCTV
5 3 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.05%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.05%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.68%) CMDB
7 1 (0.68%) Life Science
7 1 (0.68%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.68%) NHS
7 1 (0.68%) PMI
7 1 (0.68%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.42%) Windows
2 2 (1.37%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (42.47%) Agile
2 42 (28.77%) Roadmaps
3 40 (27.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 39 (26.71%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (25.34%) Customer Experience
6 28 (19.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (18.49%) User Experience
8 24 (16.44%) Analytics
9 21 (14.38%) AI
10 18 (12.33%) Workshop Facilitation
11 17 (11.64%) Decision-Making
11 17 (11.64%) User Stories
12 16 (10.96%) Migration
13 15 (10.27%) Matrix Organization
13 15 (10.27%) Scrum
14 14 (9.59%) Backlog Prioritisation
14 14 (9.59%) Business Case
14 14 (9.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 13 (8.90%) Business Intelligence
15 13 (8.90%) Customer Insight
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.79%) SQL
2 5 (3.42%) Java
3 4 (2.74%) Bicep
4 3 (2.05%) Python
5 2 (1.37%) C#
5 2 (1.37%) Go
5 2 (1.37%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.68%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.68%) C++
6 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.68%) Rust
6 1 (0.68%) Scala
6 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (15.75%) Degree
2 13 (8.90%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.11%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.42%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (3.42%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.74%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.05%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.05%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.05%) PMP
7 2 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.37%) CCA
7 2 (1.37%) Citrix Certification
7 2 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.37%) MBA
7 2 (1.37%) MCSA
7 2 (1.37%) MCSE
7 2 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.68%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.79%) Accessibility
1 7 (4.79%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.11%) QA
3 4 (2.74%) PMO
4 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.68%) COBIT
4 1 (0.68%) GDPR
4 1 (0.68%) GRC
4 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.68%) SLA
4 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (4.11%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.37%) Docker
3 2 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.37%) vSphere
4 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.74%) Terraform
3 3 (2.05%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.37%) SCCM
4 2 (1.37%) SCOM
4 2 (1.37%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.68%) vMotion
Vendors
1 27 (18.49%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.85%) Salesforce
3 9 (6.16%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.79%) SAP
5 6 (4.11%) Oracle
6 5 (3.42%) Citrix
6 5 (3.42%) Workday
7 4 (2.74%) VMware
8 3 (2.05%) Alteryx
8 3 (2.05%) Google
9 2 (1.37%) Databricks
9 2 (1.37%) Remedy
9 2 (1.37%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.68%) Adobe
10 1 (0.68%) Apple
10 1 (0.68%) Braze
10 1 (0.68%) Murex
10 1 (0.68%) PTC
10 1 (0.68%) Spotify
10 1 (0.68%) YouTube