Customer Experience Contracts in the UK excluding London

Customer Experience (CX)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Customer Experience skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Customer Experience over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 202 200 163
Rank change year-on-year -2 -37 +19
Contract jobs citing Customer Experience 202 295 487
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.98% 1.23% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.37% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 194 288
10th Percentile £251 £275 £266
25th Percentile £355 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -5.00% +14.61%
75th Percentile £549 £600 £600
90th Percentile £649 £688 £679
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.58% -6.68% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 22 30
10th Percentile £10.42 £12.02 £11.12
25th Percentile £11.40 £12.84 £12.50
Median hourly rate £12.13 £17.22 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.58% -1.61% +24.87%
75th Percentile £16.50 £19.16 £23.15
90th Percentile £17.74 £19.95 £40.55
UK median hourly rate £16.25 £17.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -8.45% -15.48% +49.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Customer Experience is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,514 21,548 27,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.76% 89.51% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,486 14,951 19,202
10th Percentile £248 £255 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,030 1,307 1,367
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.18 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Customer Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Customer Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Experience in the UK excluding London

Customer Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer Experience in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Customer Experience in the UK excluding London

Customer Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Experience in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Experience in the UK excluding London

Customer Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer Experience in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Customer Experience in the UK excluding London

Customer Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Experience in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Experience in the UK excluding London

Customer Experience
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
South East -5 85 £450 +5.88% 112
North of England +20 56 £500 -9.09% 154
North West +25 49 £500 -9.09% 87
South West +9 24 £370 -7.50% 62
Scotland +15 16 £545 +3.81% 33
Midlands +19 13 £498 +1.53% 91
West Midlands +24 10 £500 +4.17% 60
East of England -8 6 £438 -12.50% 52
Yorkshire +8 5 £480 -12.73% 46
Northern Ireland +8 4 £435 +45.00% 9
East Midlands +18 3 £475 -9.52% 31
North East +21 1 £625 - 23
Wales +11 1 £300 -42.86% 23
Customer Experience
UK

Customer Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (2.48%) Confluence
1 5 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.49%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (0.99%) Jadu
4 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.50%) Apache
4 1 (0.50%) Appian
4 1 (0.50%) CMS
4 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (6.44%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.50%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (6.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.49%) CA PPM
3 3 (1.49%) Shopify
4 1 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (6.93%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (6.44%) Dynamics 365
3 8 (3.96%) Azure
4 6 (2.97%) OneDrive
5 5 (2.48%) AWS
6 4 (1.98%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.98%) SaaS
7 3 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.49%) BigCommerce
7 3 (1.49%) PaaS
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.50%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.50%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.50%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.50%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.50%) Miro
8 1 (0.50%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle CX
8 1 (0.50%) Serverless
8 1 (0.50%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.91%) 5G
2 12 (5.94%) 3G
2 12 (5.94%) 4G
2 12 (5.94%) Radio Access Network
3 10 (4.95%) DNS
4 5 (2.48%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.48%) VoLTE
4 5 (2.48%) VPN
4 5 (2.48%) Wireshark
5 4 (1.98%) DHCP
5 4 (1.98%) Diameter Protocol
5 4 (1.98%) Firewall
5 4 (1.98%) GGSN
5 4 (1.98%) LTE
5 4 (1.98%) RANAP
5 4 (1.98%) SGSN
6 3 (1.49%) Internet
6 3 (1.49%) VoIP
6 3 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.99%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.49%) GIS
1 3 (1.49%) Power BI
2 2 (0.99%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.99%) Tableau
3 1 (0.50%) MySQL
3 1 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (3.96%) JIRA
2 6 (2.97%) Git
3 4 (1.98%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.49%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.99%) Android Studio
5 2 (0.99%) Capybara
5 2 (0.99%) Gradle
5 2 (0.99%) Maven
5 2 (0.99%) Subversion
6 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.50%) GoCD
6 1 (0.50%) Pa11y
6 1 (0.50%) Postman
6 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.50%) TestCafe
General
1 78 (38.61%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.33%) Telecoms
3 32 (15.84%) Finance
4 25 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (11.39%) Marketing
6 21 (10.40%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.45%) Law
8 10 (4.95%) Banking
8 10 (4.95%) Retail
9 8 (3.96%) Legal
9 8 (3.96%) Manufacturing
10 7 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.97%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.98%) Multimedia
13 3 (1.49%) Front Office
13 3 (1.49%) Italian Language
13 3 (1.49%) Local Government
14 2 (0.99%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 30 (14.85%) Senior
2 24 (11.88%) Analyst
3 21 (10.40%) Consultant
4 16 (7.92%) Lead
5 15 (7.43%) Support Engineer
6 13 (6.44%) Administrator
6 13 (6.44%) Data Analyst
7 11 (5.45%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 10 (4.95%) Desktop Engineer
9 9 (4.46%) Desktop Support
9 9 (4.46%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 9 (4.46%) Project Manager
9 9 (4.46%) Senior Analyst
9 9 (4.46%) Senior Data Analyst
10 8 (3.96%) SAP Analyst
10 8 (3.96%) SAP Data Analyst
10 8 (3.96%) Technical Leader
11 7 (3.47%) Telecoms Manager
12 6 (2.97%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 6 (2.97%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.48%) .NET
1 5 (2.48%) HTML
1 5 (2.48%) React
2 4 (1.98%) REST
3 3 (1.49%) CSS
3 3 (1.49%) JSON
3 3 (1.49%) RESTful
3 3 (1.49%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.49%) VML
3 3 (1.49%) YAML
4 2 (0.99%) Android SDK
4 2 (0.99%) GraphQL
4 2 (0.99%) gRPC
4 2 (0.99%) Kafka
4 2 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (0.99%) Swagger
4 2 (0.99%) Symfony
4 2 (0.99%) Twig
4 2 (0.99%) WebKit
5 1 (0.50%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (4.95%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.46%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.46%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.48%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.98%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.98%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.98%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.49%) BYOD
7 3 (1.49%) Housing Association
7 3 (1.49%) Social Media
8 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.99%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (0.99%) Smartphone
8 2 (0.99%) Video Editing
9 1 (0.50%) CMDB
9 1 (0.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.37%) Windows
2 13 (6.44%) Windows 10
3 11 (5.45%) Linux
4 6 (2.97%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.97%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.49%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.49%) Unix
5 3 (1.49%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.99%) Android
6 2 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (15.35%) Agile
3 30 (14.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 29 (14.36%) Customer Service
4 29 (14.36%) Decision-Making
5 25 (12.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (10.89%) Migration
6 22 (10.89%) Project Management
7 21 (10.40%) Data Analysis
8 20 (9.90%) CRM
8 20 (9.90%) ITIL
8 20 (9.90%) Translating Business Requirements
9 19 (9.41%) Service Delivery
10 18 (8.91%) User Experience
11 17 (8.42%) Data Migration
12 16 (7.92%) Roadmaps
13 14 (6.93%) Change Management
13 14 (6.93%) User Acceptance Testing
14 12 (5.94%) Customer Insight
14 12 (5.94%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.44%) SQL
2 8 (3.96%) JavaScript
3 5 (2.48%) Java
3 5 (2.48%) Python
4 4 (1.98%) C#
4 4 (1.98%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.49%) VB.NET
6 2 (0.99%) C++
6 2 (0.99%) Go
6 2 (0.99%) Kotlin
6 2 (0.99%) PHP
6 2 (0.99%) Ruby
6 2 (0.99%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.50%) Bicep
7 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (10.40%) Degree
2 16 (7.92%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.46%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.48%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (2.48%) PMP
6 4 (1.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (1.98%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.99%) MBA
8 2 (0.99%) PhD
9 1 (0.50%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.50%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.40%) SLA
2 12 (5.94%) GDPR
3 7 (3.47%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.48%) PMO
4 5 (2.48%) QA
5 4 (1.98%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.98%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.49%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (7.92%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.98%) Docker
4 3 (1.49%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.49%) vSphere
5 1 (0.50%) Firmware
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (4.95%) SCCM
2 8 (3.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.97%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (1.98%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.49%) WSUS
6 2 (0.99%) Ansible
7 1 (0.50%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.50%) Grafana
7 1 (0.50%) Kibana
7 1 (0.50%) Nagios
7 1 (0.50%) OpenView
Vendors
1 25 (12.38%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.92%) SAP
3 15 (7.43%) ServiceNow
4 11 (5.45%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.47%) BT
6 6 (2.97%) Adobe
6 6 (2.97%) Apple
6 6 (2.97%) Cisco
7 5 (2.48%) VMware
8 4 (1.98%) Ariba
8 4 (1.98%) Empirix
8 4 (1.98%) NetScout
9 3 (1.49%) Aruba
9 3 (1.49%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.49%) Civica
9 3 (1.49%) Dell
9 3 (1.49%) Intel
9 3 (1.49%) Meraki
9 3 (1.49%) Oracle
9 3 (1.49%) Sitecore