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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 374 372
Rank change year-on-year -51 -2 +125
Contract jobs citing Customer-Centricity 142 109 174
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.43% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.48% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 70 109
10th Percentile £350 £288 £173
25th Percentile £414 £371 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £616
90th Percentile £700 £653 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 2
10th Percentile - £17.56 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £26.04 £6.57
Median hourly rate £20.55 £30.41 £7.85
Median % change year-on-year -32.42% +287.39% -
75th Percentile £34.91 £31.52 £9.14
90th Percentile £45.18 £44.86 -
UK median hourly rate £20.55 £30.41 £7.85
% change year-on-year -32.42% +287.39% -

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 31,295 22,746 32,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.03% 90.36% 87.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,032 14,434 21,722
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £618 £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 1,939 776 2,084
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +3.63% -6.18%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.44
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.38 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £32.50 £32.85
% change year-on-year -14.03% -1.05% -6.16%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 4 March 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 -18 74 £550 +10.00% 67
South East -34 21 £430 -14.10% 96
North of England -49 19 £481 +65.38% 42
South West -24 10 £550 +83.33% 38
Yorkshire -53 10 £481 - 16
North West -35 9 £350 +20.27% 18
East of England -22 8 £725 +11.54% 39
Midlands -66 8 £513 +28.13% 31
East Midlands -34 5 £495 +15.65% 15
West Midlands -56 3 £563 +40.63% 15
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 (9.15%) Confluence
2 4 (2.82%) CMS
3 2 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.70%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.82%) Adobe XD
2 4 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.11%) InVision
3 3 (2.11%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.11%) Sketch
3 3 (2.11%) Zeplin
4 1 (0.70%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.70%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.70%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.70%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 15 (10.56%) Azure
2 11 (7.75%) SaaS
3 8 (5.63%) Figma
4 7 (4.93%) AWS
5 4 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.82%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.11%) GCP
6 3 (2.11%) GitHub
6 3 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.11%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.11%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.41%) Lucidchart
7 2 (1.41%) Miro
7 2 (1.41%) Serverless
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.41%) Firewall
2 1 (0.70%) NaaS
2 1 (0.70%) NAS
2 1 (0.70%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.70%) NGN
2 1 (0.70%) SAN
2 1 (0.70%) VoIP
2 1 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.23%) Mixpanel
2 3 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.11%) Power BI
3 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.70%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.70%) Couchbase
3 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.70%) Looker
3 1 (0.70%) Metadata
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.70%) Redis
3 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (13.38%) JIRA
2 6 (4.23%) Visual Website Optimizer
3 3 (2.11%) Axure RP
4 2 (1.41%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.70%) AppVeyor
5 1 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
General
1 52 (36.62%) Social Skills
2 41 (28.87%) Finance
3 35 (24.65%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (16.20%) Banking
5 11 (7.75%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (7.75%) Telecoms
6 9 (6.34%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.34%) Retail
7 7 (4.93%) Marketing
8 4 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.41%) Automotive
10 2 (1.41%) Legal
10 2 (1.41%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.70%) Back Office
11 1 (0.70%) Billing
11 1 (0.70%) Front Office
11 1 (0.70%) Law
11 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (14.08%) Analyst
2 15 (10.56%) Business Analyst
3 13 (9.15%) Lead
3 13 (9.15%) Senior
4 11 (7.75%) Designer
4 11 (7.75%) Product Owner
5 9 (6.34%) Product Manager
6 8 (5.63%) Architect
7 7 (4.93%) Developer
8 5 (3.52%) Design Engineer
8 5 (3.52%) Senior Manager
8 5 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.52%) Voice Design Engineer
8 5 (3.52%) Voice Engineer
9 4 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (2.82%) Data Analyst
9 4 (2.82%) Data Engineer
9 4 (2.82%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (2.82%) Senior Product Manager
9 4 (2.82%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.52%) Middleware
2 3 (2.11%) ADO
2 3 (2.11%) CSS
2 3 (2.11%) HTML
2 3 (2.11%) REST
3 2 (1.41%) Kafka
3 2 (1.41%) SOAP
4 1 (0.70%) .NET
4 1 (0.70%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.70%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.70%) DOM
4 1 (0.70%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.70%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.70%) Playwright
4 1 (0.70%) React
4 1 (0.70%) React Native
4 1 (0.70%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.70%) UIKit
4 1 (0.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (22.54%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.34%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.82%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.82%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.82%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.11%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.41%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.41%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.41%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.41%) Media Streaming
6 2 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.70%) Derivative
7 1 (0.70%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.70%) NHS
7 1 (0.70%) PMI
7 1 (0.70%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (36.62%) Agile
2 40 (28.17%) Roadmaps
3 37 (26.06%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (23.94%) Continuous Improvement
4 34 (23.94%) User Experience
5 30 (21.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (16.90%) Analytics
7 23 (16.20%) Customer Experience
8 22 (15.49%) User Stories
9 20 (14.08%) Customer-Centric Approach
9 20 (14.08%) Decision-Making
10 14 (9.86%) AI
10 14 (9.86%) E-Commerce
10 14 (9.86%) UX Design
11 13 (9.15%) Service Delivery
11 13 (9.15%) User Research
11 13 (9.15%) Workshop Facilitation
12 12 (8.45%) Acceptance Criteria
12 12 (8.45%) CI/CD
12 12 (8.45%) Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.15%) SQL
2 2 (1.41%) Bicep
2 2 (1.41%) Java
2 2 (1.41%) JavaScript
2 2 (1.41%) Python
3 1 (0.70%) Apex Code
3 1 (0.70%) BeanShell
3 1 (0.70%) C#
3 1 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 16 (11.27%) Degree
2 8 (5.63%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.93%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.52%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.82%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.11%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.11%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.41%) PMP
7 2 (1.41%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.70%) CCNA
8 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.70%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.04%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.63%) QA
3 4 (2.82%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.11%) PMO
4 3 (2.11%) WCAG
5 2 (1.41%) COBIT
5 2 (1.41%) GDPR
6 1 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.70%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.82%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.11%) Ansible
2 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.11%) SCCM
2 3 (2.11%) SCOM
2 3 (2.11%) Terraform
3 1 (0.70%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 15 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.04%) Google
3 7 (4.93%) Adobe
4 6 (4.23%) Amplitude
4 6 (4.23%) Hotjar
4 6 (4.23%) Optimizely
5 4 (2.82%) Citrix
6 3 (2.11%) BMC
6 3 (2.11%) Oracle
7 2 (1.41%) Databricks
7 2 (1.41%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.41%) SAP
7 2 (1.41%) VMware
8 1 (0.70%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.70%) BT
8 1 (0.70%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (0.70%) Mitel
8 1 (0.70%) New Relic
8 1 (0.70%) Rollbar
8 1 (0.70%) Workday