Customer Experience Contracts in the UK excluding London

Customer Experience (CX)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 216 197
Rank change year-on-year +51 -19 -35
Contract jobs citing Customer Experience 185 192 280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.45% 0.95% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.13% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 110 181
10th Percentile £185 £258 £275
25th Percentile £350 £352 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £498 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% +4.74% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 21 23
10th Percentile - £10.42 £12.15
25th Percentile - £11.86 £13.16
Median hourly rate £13.81 £13.13 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -9.48% -7.88%
75th Percentile £23.00 £15.50 £17.50
90th Percentile £23.53 £17.72 £19.14
UK median hourly rate £14.42 £15.00 £16.94
% change year-on-year -3.87% -11.43% -3.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,596 17,041 20,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.69% 84.15% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,235 10,189 14,096
10th Percentile £231 £250 £259
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,063 1,256
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.34 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.73
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

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 22 May 2025.

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 22 May 2025.

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 22 May 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
South East +9 46 £350 -26.32% 1,443
Scotland +30 36 £536 +11.61% 219
South West +44 33 £550 +37.50% 548
North of England 0 31 £490 -2.00% 1,123
Midlands +27 25 £480 -3.52% 927
North West -4 25 £490 -2.00% 558
East Midlands +23 20 £469 -3.35% 380
East of England +28 8 £638 +45.71% 664
Yorkshire +9 6 £488 +2.63% 453
West Midlands +8 5 £625 +25.00% 494
Wales +7 5 £650 +116.67% 127
Northern Ireland -9 1 £148 -65.98% 71
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 7 (3.78%) Confluence
2 4 (2.16%) SAS
2 4 (2.16%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.16%) Umbraco
3 3 (1.62%) CMS
4 2 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.08%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.08%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.54%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.54%) Camunda
Applications
1 14 (7.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.16%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.54%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.54%) InVision
3 1 (0.54%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.54%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (2.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.62%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.08%) Finacle
3 2 (1.08%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 8 (4.32%) Power Platform
2 7 (3.78%) AWS
3 3 (1.62%) Azure
3 3 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (1.62%) Figma
3 3 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (1.62%) SaaS
4 2 (1.08%) GitHub
4 2 (1.08%) Power Automate
4 2 (1.08%) Serverless
5 1 (0.54%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (0.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.54%) Datadog
5 1 (0.54%) GCP
5 1 (0.54%) IaaS
5 1 (0.54%) Lucidchart
5 1 (0.54%) PaaS
5 1 (0.54%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.95%) Broadband
2 8 (4.32%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (2.70%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (1.62%) 4G
4 3 (1.62%) 5G
4 3 (1.62%) DNS
4 3 (1.62%) Internet
4 3 (1.62%) LAN
4 3 (1.62%) Unified Communications
4 3 (1.62%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.08%) 3G
5 2 (1.08%) Diameter Protocol
5 2 (1.08%) GGSN
5 2 (1.08%) LTE
5 2 (1.08%) RANAP
5 2 (1.08%) SGSN
5 2 (1.08%) VoLTE
6 1 (0.54%) 2G
6 1 (0.54%) ATM
6 1 (0.54%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.78%) Power BI
2 3 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.62%) Tableau
3 2 (1.08%) MySQL
3 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.54%) Metadata
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.54%) Power Query
4 1 (0.54%) Redis
4 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.54%) Sisense
4 1 (0.54%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (7.57%) JIRA
2 5 (2.70%) Git
3 4 (2.16%) Xcode
4 2 (1.08%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.54%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.54%) GitLab
5 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
General
1 89 (48.11%) Social Skills
2 74 (40.00%) Finance
3 33 (17.84%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.81%) Telecoms
5 15 (8.11%) Banking
6 11 (5.95%) Marketing
7 8 (4.32%) Billing
7 8 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.78%) Retail
9 6 (3.24%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.70%) Back Office
10 5 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.16%) Automotive
11 4 (2.16%) Legal
11 4 (2.16%) Local Government
11 4 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.16%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.08%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (1.08%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (18.92%) Analyst
2 32 (17.30%) Support Engineer
3 26 (14.05%) Desktop Engineer
3 26 (14.05%) Desktop Support
3 26 (14.05%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 14 (7.57%) Business Analyst
5 13 (7.03%) Architect
5 13 (7.03%) Developer
6 12 (6.49%) Project Manager
7 10 (5.41%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
8 9 (4.86%) Designer
9 7 (3.78%) Senior
9 7 (3.78%) Service Desk Engineer
10 6 (3.24%) Consultant
10 6 (3.24%) Product Owner
10 6 (3.24%) Windows Engineer
10 6 (3.24%) Windows Support Engineer
11 5 (2.70%) Service Desk Support
11 5 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.70%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.86%) REST
2 5 (2.70%) JSON
2 5 (2.70%) Web Services
3 4 (2.16%) .NET
3 4 (2.16%) SwiftUI
3 4 (2.16%) UIKit
4 2 (1.08%) HTML
4 2 (1.08%) Kafka
4 2 (1.08%) Next.js
4 2 (1.08%) Node.js
4 2 (1.08%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.08%) React
5 1 (0.54%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.54%) CSS
5 1 (0.54%) J2EE
5 1 (0.54%) Laravel
5 1 (0.54%) MDX
5 1 (0.54%) RESTful
5 1 (0.54%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 39 (21.08%) Driving Licence
2 14 (7.57%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.86%) Device Driver
4 8 (4.32%) Credit Risk
5 6 (3.24%) Smartphone
6 5 (2.70%) Frameworx
6 5 (2.70%) TM Forum
6 5 (2.70%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.16%) iPad
7 4 (2.16%) iPhone
7 4 (2.16%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.16%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.62%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.08%) Derivative
9 2 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.54%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.54%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.27%) Windows
2 9 (4.86%) Windows 10
3 5 (2.70%) Android
3 5 (2.70%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.54%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (27.57%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (24.32%) Agile
3 26 (14.05%) Mathematics
4 24 (12.97%) Customer Service
4 24 (12.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 23 (12.43%) ITIL
5 23 (12.43%) User Experience
6 20 (10.81%) CRM
7 19 (10.27%) Service Delivery
8 18 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (9.73%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (8.65%) Change Management
9 16 (8.65%) Scrum
10 15 (8.11%) Analytics
10 15 (8.11%) Decision-Making
10 15 (8.11%) Project Management
11 14 (7.57%) Task Automation
12 13 (7.03%) Service Management
13 12 (6.49%) UX Design
14 11 (5.95%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.32%) JavaScript
1 8 (4.32%) PowerShell
1 8 (4.32%) Python
2 7 (3.78%) SQL
3 4 (2.16%) Objective-C
3 4 (2.16%) Swift
4 3 (1.62%) VBA
5 2 (1.08%) C#
5 2 (1.08%) Java
6 1 (0.54%) COBOL
6 1 (0.54%) Go
6 1 (0.54%) PHP
6 1 (0.54%) Ruby
6 1 (0.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 33 (17.84%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.43%) Dell Certification
4 13 (7.03%) Degree
5 7 (3.78%) A+ Certification
5 7 (3.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.62%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.08%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.08%) PMP
9 1 (0.54%) APMP
9 1 (0.54%) CIMA
9 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.54%) MBA
9 1 (0.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (17.84%) SLA
2 13 (7.03%) QA
3 5 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.16%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.08%) GDPR
6 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.54%) GRC
6 1 (0.54%) P3O
System Software
1 2 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (0.54%) Grafana
1 1 (0.54%) HP Data Protector
1 1 (0.54%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.54%) NetBackup
1 1 (0.54%) SCCM
1 1 (0.54%) Terraform
1 1 (0.54%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 40 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.97%) Dell
3 23 (12.43%) HP
4 21 (11.35%) ServiceNow
5 17 (9.19%) BT
6 10 (5.41%) Salesforce
7 7 (3.78%) Adobe
8 6 (3.24%) Oracle
9 5 (2.70%) Remedy
9 5 (2.70%) Sitecore
10 4 (2.16%) BMC
10 4 (2.16%) Virgin Media
11 3 (1.62%) Alteryx
11 3 (1.62%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.08%) Avaloq
12 2 (1.08%) Empirix
12 2 (1.08%) NetScout
12 2 (1.08%) Pega
12 2 (1.08%) Splunk
12 2 (1.08%) Temenos