Customer Experience Contract Job Trends in Reading

Customer Experience (CX)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Customer Experience skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 51 58
Rank change year-on-year -20 +7 +12
Contract jobs citing Customer Experience 6 27 38
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.75% 3.36% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 3.61% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 15
10th Percentile £586 - £304
25th Percentile £586 £143 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £288 £400
Median % change year-on-year +107.83% -28.13% +48.15%
75th Percentile £609 £450 £584
90th Percentile - £500 £699
Berkshire median daily rate £596 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +32.44% -5.26% +6.99%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

Customer Experience 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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 696 748 1,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.33% 93.03% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 401 636
10th Percentile £313 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.76% -0.52%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £615
90th Percentile £664 £670 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 7 35
10th Percentile £18.55 £27.90 £20.17
25th Percentile £58.00 £35.75 £54.70
Median hourly rate £81.50 £61.76 £61.65
Median % change year-on-year +31.96% +0.19% -5.16%
75th Percentile £97.50 £69.80 £66.75
90th Percentile £107.00 £75.80 £86.78
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.75 £61.50 £60.57
% change year-on-year -4.46% +1.53% -6.35%

Customer Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Customer Experience relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Customer Experience job vacancy trend in Reading

Customer Experience
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Customer Experience.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Customer Experience

Customer Experience
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Customer Experience.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Customer Experience

Customer Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (16.67%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (16.67%) iPaaS
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle CX
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Delivery Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) EPoS Manager
3 1 (16.67%) EPoS Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Product Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Project Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Project Owner
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Product Owner
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) EPoS
1 1 (16.67%) Low-Code
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) CRM
2 3 (50.00%) Project Governance
2 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Network Planning
4 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
4 1 (16.67%) RAD
4 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Service Management
4 1 (16.67%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
1 1 (16.67%) PMP
1 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
1 1 (16.67%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft