Customer Experience Contracts in the Thames Valley

Customer Experience (CX)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 64 81
Rank change year-on-year -6 +17 +18
Contract jobs citing Customer Experience 40 65 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.41% 2.77% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 3.28% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 26 52
10th Percentile - £200 £256
25th Percentile £350 £225 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £376 £425
Median % change year-on-year +46.47% -11.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £688 £500 £494
90th Percentile £725 £575 £583
South East median daily rate £519 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +22.06% - -22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.25 £14.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £15.75 £15.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -21.05% +33.99%
75th Percentile £18.00 £15.50 £19.50
90th Percentile - £19.55 -
South East median hourly rate £15.75 £15.00 £14.19
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.75% -5.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,530 1,983 2,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.06% 84.53% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 1,121 1,746
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -1.94% +3.00%
75th Percentile £590 £619 £623
90th Percentile £678 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.31% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 112 82
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £14.23
25th Percentile £15.12 £22.50 £21.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £55.44 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.63% +10.88% +150.00%
75th Percentile £52.25 £66.38 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.65 £74.98
South East median hourly rate £21.58 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.38% +14.70% +113.77%

Customer Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Experience in the Thames Valley

Customer Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer Experience in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Customer Experience in the Thames Valley

Customer Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Experience in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Experience in the Thames Valley

Customer Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer Experience in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Customer Experience in the Thames Valley

Customer Experience
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 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
Berkshire 0 31 £550 +10.55% 52
Buckinghamshire +5 8 £700 +99.43% 18
Oxfordshire -17 1 £250 -9.09% 20
Customer Experience
South East

Customer Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (10.00%) CMS
1 4 (10.00%) Umbraco
2 2 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.00%) Headless CMS
2 2 (5.00%) SAS
2 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.00%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.00%) GCP
3 2 (5.00%) Google Analytics
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle CX
3 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.00%) SaaS
3 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.50%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) HTTP
2 2 (5.00%) DNS
3 1 (2.50%) Network Security
3 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.00%) Big Data
2 2 (5.00%) Metadata
2 2 (5.00%) Power BI
2 2 (5.00%) Tableau
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (2.50%) Power Query
3 1 (2.50%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (2.50%) Sisense
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Fiddler
General
1 15 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.50%) Marketing
4 6 (15.00%) Billing
5 4 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (10.00%) Retail
6 2 (5.00%) French Language
6 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.50%) Finance
7 1 (2.50%) German Language
7 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Italian Language
7 1 (2.50%) Local Government
7 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.50%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Architect
2 6 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (12.50%) Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Designer
3 5 (12.50%) Developer
3 5 (12.50%) Solutions Designer
4 4 (10.00%) React Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Technical Support
4 4 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Incident Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.00%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.00%) CMS Developer
6 2 (5.00%) IT Support
6 2 (5.00%) IT Support Specialist
6 2 (5.00%) Power BI Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Programme Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) JSON
1 5 (12.50%) REST
1 5 (12.50%) Web Services
2 3 (7.50%) .NET
3 2 (5.00%) HTML
3 2 (5.00%) Kafka
3 2 (5.00%) MDX
3 2 (5.00%) Next.js
4 1 (2.50%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (2.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Frameworx
1 5 (12.50%) TM Forum
2 4 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.50%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.50%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.50%) EPoS
5 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.50%) Robotics
5 1 (2.50%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.50%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) Analytics
1 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 8 (20.00%) Agile
2 8 (20.00%) CRM
3 7 (17.50%) Roadmaps
3 7 (17.50%) Service Delivery
4 6 (15.00%) Business Strategy
4 6 (15.00%) Customer Engagement
4 6 (15.00%) Customer Service
5 5 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 5 (12.50%) E-Commerce
5 5 (12.50%) Microservices
5 5 (12.50%) Migration
5 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (12.50%) UML
6 4 (10.00%) Backlog Management
6 4 (10.00%) Process Improvement
6 4 (10.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.50%) Degree
1 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
1 1 (2.50%) PMP
1 1 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (2.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Remedy
2 6 (15.00%) Salesforce
2 6 (15.00%) ServiceNow
3 5 (12.50%) BT
4 4 (10.00%) BMC
4 4 (10.00%) Oracle
4 4 (10.00%) Sitecore
4 4 (10.00%) Virgin Media
5 3 (7.50%) Adobe
5 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.00%) Databricks
6 2 (5.00%) Google
6 2 (5.00%) Hotjar
6 2 (5.00%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace