Customer Experience Contracts in the South East

Customer Experience (CX)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Customer Experience skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Customer Experience over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 106 112
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Customer Experience 52 85 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.48% 1.72% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 2.09% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 40 75
10th Percentile £175 £211 £259
25th Percentile £309 £263 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% +8.82% -22.73%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £525
90th Percentile £725 £708 £623
England median daily rate £525 £525 £498
% change year-on-year - +5.42% -8.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 4
10th Percentile - - £13.15
25th Percentile £13.25 £14.50 £13.16
Median hourly rate £15.75 £15.00 £14.19
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.75% -5.43%
75th Percentile £18.00 £20.56 £16.28
90th Percentile - £38.00 £18.21
England median hourly rate £15.00 £16.25 £17.72
% change year-on-year -7.69% -8.30% +2.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,156 4,074 5,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.86% 82.67% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,974 2,483 3,397
10th Percentile £250 £255 £259
25th Percentile £400 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.58% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 323 238
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.43
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £21.32 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.82% +14.70% +100.00%
75th Percentile £49.69 £70.00 £63.56
90th Percentile £70.92 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

Customer Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Customer Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Experience in the South East

Customer Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer Experience in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Customer Experience in the South East

Customer Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Experience in the South East over the 6 months to 12 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Experience in the South East

Customer Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer Experience in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Customer Experience in the South East

Customer Experience
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Experience within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 August 2025. 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
Thames Valley -5 42 £596 +40.24% 64
Berkshire 0 33 £550 +11.11% 36
Buckinghamshire +6 8 £700 +86.54% 16
Hampshire +19 7 £175 -73.08% 32
Surrey +12 1 £235 -48.63% 23
West Sussex +2 1 £340 - 1
Oxfordshire -13 1 £250 -9.09% 14
Home Counties - 1 - -
Customer Experience
England

Customer Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.69%) CMS
2 3 (5.77%) Umbraco
3 2 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.85%) Headless CMS
3 2 (3.85%) SAS
3 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.85%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.38%) Azure
2 4 (7.69%) AWS
2 4 (7.69%) Oracle CX
3 2 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
3 2 (3.85%) GCP
3 2 (3.85%) Google Analytics
3 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.85%) SaaS
3 2 (3.85%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.92%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) HTTP
2 2 (3.85%) DNS
3 1 (1.92%) Network Security
3 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.92%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.85%) Big Data
2 2 (3.85%) Metadata
2 2 (3.85%) Power BI
2 2 (3.85%) Tableau
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.92%) Power Query
3 1 (1.92%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (1.92%) Sisense
3 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Fiddler
1 1 (1.92%) Git
1 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (28.85%) Social Skills
1 15 (28.85%) Telecoms
2 7 (13.46%) Marketing
3 6 (11.54%) Billing
4 4 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (7.69%) Retail
5 3 (5.77%) Finance
6 2 (3.85%) French Language
6 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.85%) Law
7 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.92%) German Language
7 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.92%) Local Government
7 1 (1.92%) Police
7 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.92%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) Analyst
2 9 (17.31%) Architect
3 6 (11.54%) Project Manager
3 6 (11.54%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (9.62%) Designer
4 5 (9.62%) Solutions Designer
5 4 (7.69%) Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Support Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Technical Support
5 4 (7.69%) Technical Support Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Incident Analyst
6 3 (5.77%) Oracle Project Manager
6 3 (5.77%) Programme Manager
6 3 (5.77%) React Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Senior
6 3 (5.77%) Support Specialist
7 2 (3.85%) CMS Developer
7 2 (3.85%) IT Support
7 2 (3.85%) Power BI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) REST
2 5 (9.62%) JSON
2 5 (9.62%) Web Services
3 3 (5.77%) Kafka
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (3.85%) .NET
4 2 (3.85%) HTML
4 2 (3.85%) MDX
4 2 (3.85%) Next.js
5 1 (1.92%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.92%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.92%) gRPC
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.92%) OAuth
5 1 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Driving Licence
1 6 (11.54%) Smartphone
2 5 (9.62%) Frameworx
2 5 (9.62%) TM Forum
3 4 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (5.77%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.92%) EPoS
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.92%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.31%) Windows
2 6 (11.54%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.92%) Linux
3 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.08%) Agile
2 11 (21.15%) CRM
2 11 (21.15%) Service Delivery
2 11 (21.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 9 (17.31%) Analytics
3 9 (17.31%) Roadmaps
4 8 (15.38%) Customer Service
4 8 (15.38%) Project Delivery
4 8 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (13.46%) Customer Engagement
6 6 (11.54%) Business Strategy
6 6 (11.54%) ITIL
6 6 (11.54%) Microservices
6 6 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (11.54%) User Experience
7 5 (9.62%) Asset Management
7 5 (9.62%) Data Protection
7 5 (9.62%) E-Commerce
7 5 (9.62%) Project Management
7 5 (9.62%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (1.92%) Go
1 1 (1.92%) Java
1 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.92%) CIPD
2 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.92%) Degree
2 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.92%) PMP
2 1 (1.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) SLA
2 3 (5.77%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (1.92%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (19.23%) Oracle
1 10 (19.23%) ServiceNow
2 9 (17.31%) Salesforce
3 7 (13.46%) Remedy
4 5 (9.62%) BT
5 4 (7.69%) BMC
5 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
6 3 (5.77%) Adobe
6 3 (5.77%) Sitecore
6 3 (5.77%) Virgin Media
7 2 (3.85%) Databricks
7 2 (3.85%) Google
7 2 (3.85%) Hotjar
7 2 (3.85%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.92%) Workday