Customer Experience Contracts

Customer Experience (CX)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 203 252
Rank change year-on-year +13 +49 -53
Contract jobs citing Customer Experience 416 512 641
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.42% 1.17% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.36% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 331 400
10th Percentile £287 £263 £313
25th Percentile £383 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -2.58% -6.68%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £734 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £498 £475
% change year-on-year -5.78% +4.74% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 29 35
10th Percentile £11.96 £11.08 £12.34
25th Percentile £13.81 £11.87 £14.53
Median hourly rate £15.11 £16.25 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% -8.45% -15.48%
75th Percentile £23.40 £18.13 £22.69
90th Percentile £27.35 £39.20 £65.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.42 £12.13 £17.22
% change year-on-year +18.93% -29.58% -1.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Customer Experience
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Customer Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Experience in the UK

Customer Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Experience in the UK

Customer Experience
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Experience over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Experience in the UK

Customer Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Experience in the UK

Customer Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Experience over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Experience in the UK

Customer Experience
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England -6 339 £500 - 1,765
UK excluding London +51 203 £469 -5.78% 635
London -29 164 £538 +2.87% 1,166
Work from Home +1 113 £500 - 683
South East +13 55 £363 -19.44% 139
Scotland +30 37 £534 -2.02% 37
South West +55 34 £525 +41.89% 58
North of England +3 31 £463 -7.50% 199
Midlands +38 27 £475 -4.52% 126
North West -13 25 £438 -12.50% 125
East Midlands +27 20 £469 -1.32% 46
East of England +37 10 £638 +45.71% 64
West Midlands +13 7 £550 +10.00% 80
Yorkshire +16 6 £488 +1.56% 59
Wales +9 5 £650 +116.67% 20
Northern Ireland -8 4 £148 -65.98% 5

Customer Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (4.09%) Confluence
2 7 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.44%) CMS
4 4 (0.96%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.72%) SAS
6 2 (0.48%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.24%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.24%) Camunda
7 1 (0.24%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (5.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.72%) InVision
5 3 (0.72%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.48%) Autodesk Smoke
6 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.24%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.24%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (1.44%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.48%) Finacle
5 2 (0.48%) Magento
5 2 (0.48%) Movex
5 2 (0.48%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.48%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.48%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.48%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.24%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.24%) SessionCam
6 1 (0.24%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 22 (5.29%) Power Platform
2 18 (4.33%) AWS
3 15 (3.61%) Azure
4 8 (1.92%) Figma
4 8 (1.92%) SaaS
5 7 (1.68%) Serverless
6 6 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (1.44%) GitHub
6 6 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 5 (1.20%) Snowflake
8 4 (0.96%) Amazon S3
9 3 (0.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (0.72%) Power Automate
9 3 (0.72%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.01%) Radio Access Network
2 23 (5.53%) 4G
2 23 (5.53%) 5G
2 23 (5.53%) Wireshark
3 20 (4.81%) 3G
3 20 (4.81%) Diameter Protocol
3 20 (4.81%) LTE
3 20 (4.81%) RANAP
3 20 (4.81%) VoLTE
4 11 (2.64%) Broadband
5 8 (1.92%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (1.92%) Unified Communications
6 5 (1.20%) LAN
6 5 (1.20%) VPN
7 3 (0.72%) 2G
7 3 (0.72%) DNS
7 3 (0.72%) H.323
7 3 (0.72%) Internet
7 3 (0.72%) MGCP
7 3 (0.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.81%) Power BI
2 12 (2.88%) Tableau
3 7 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (0.96%) DynamoDB
4 4 (0.96%) MySQL
5 3 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.72%) Big Data
5 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.48%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (0.48%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.24%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.24%) Redis
7 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 29 (6.97%) JIRA
2 7 (1.68%) Git
3 4 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.72%) GitLab
4 3 (0.72%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.72%) Xcode
5 2 (0.48%) Postman
5 2 (0.48%) Snyk
6 1 (0.24%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.24%) Spock
6 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 194 (46.63%) Social Skills
2 129 (31.01%) Finance
3 91 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (12.98%) Marketing
5 36 (8.65%) Banking
6 30 (7.21%) Retail
7 25 (6.01%) Telecoms
8 22 (5.29%) Public Sector
9 20 (4.81%) Legal
9 20 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.64%) Billing
10 11 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.64%) Local Government
11 10 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (2.16%) Retail Banking
13 8 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.20%) Automotive
14 5 (1.20%) Back Office
14 5 (1.20%) German Language
14 5 (1.20%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 62 (14.90%) Analyst
2 33 (7.93%) Support Engineer
3 32 (7.69%) Architect
4 28 (6.73%) Senior
5 27 (6.49%) Desktop Support
5 27 (6.49%) Project Manager
6 26 (6.25%) Desktop Engineer
6 26 (6.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 26 (6.25%) Developer
6 26 (6.25%) Product Manager
7 23 (5.53%) Business Analyst
8 21 (5.05%) Lead
9 19 (4.57%) Designer
10 12 (2.88%) Senior Manager
11 11 (2.64%) Consultant
11 11 (2.64%) IT Manager
11 11 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (2.40%) Programme Manager
12 10 (2.40%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
13 9 (2.16%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.37%) REST
2 9 (2.16%) Web Services
3 8 (1.92%) JSON
4 6 (1.44%) Kafka
5 5 (1.20%) HTML
6 4 (0.96%) OpenAPI
6 4 (0.96%) Swagger
7 3 (0.72%) .NET
7 3 (0.72%) CSS
7 3 (0.72%) GraphQL
7 3 (0.72%) Node.js
7 3 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.72%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (0.72%) React
7 3 (0.72%) SwiftUI
7 3 (0.72%) UIKit
8 2 (0.48%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.48%) RESTful
8 2 (0.48%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (0.48%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.38%) Driving Licence
2 32 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.88%) Virtual Team
5 9 (2.16%) Device Driver
6 8 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.92%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.68%) Credit Risk
7 7 (1.68%) Smartphone
8 6 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.44%) Digital Signage
8 6 (1.44%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.20%) BYOD
9 5 (1.20%) Cyber Security Posture
9 5 (1.20%) Frameworx
9 5 (1.20%) TM Forum
10 4 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.73%) Windows
2 13 (3.13%) Windows 10
3 8 (1.92%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.68%) Android
5 4 (0.96%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.48%) Linux
6 2 (0.48%) Unix
6 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.24%) Debian
7 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (24.52%) Agile
2 87 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (15.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 61 (14.66%) Customer Service
5 54 (12.98%) Project Management
6 50 (12.02%) Analytics
7 49 (11.78%) Decision-Making
8 45 (10.82%) User Experience
9 44 (10.58%) CRM
10 42 (10.10%) ITIL
11 41 (9.86%) Roadmaps
11 41 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 37 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (8.17%) Service Delivery
14 32 (7.69%) Change Management
15 27 (6.49%) DevOps
15 27 (6.49%) Scrum
16 26 (6.25%) Mathematics
16 26 (6.25%) Risk Management
17 25 (6.01%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 33 (7.93%) Python
2 27 (6.49%) SQL
3 13 (3.13%) PowerShell
4 12 (2.88%) Java
5 11 (2.64%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.20%) Go
7 4 (0.96%) Bash
7 4 (0.96%) R
7 4 (0.96%) Ruby
8 3 (0.72%) C#
8 3 (0.72%) Objective-C
8 3 (0.72%) Perl
8 3 (0.72%) Swift
8 3 (0.72%) VBA
9 2 (0.48%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.24%) C
10 1 (0.24%) COBOL
10 1 (0.24%) Korn
10 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.24%) PHP
Qualifications
1 45 (10.82%) Security Cleared
2 41 (9.86%) Degree
3 38 (9.13%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.53%) Dell Certification
5 8 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.68%) A+ Certification
6 7 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.68%) PMP
7 6 (1.44%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.72%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.72%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.48%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.48%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.48%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.17%) SLA
2 24 (5.77%) QA
3 12 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.68%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.68%) PMO
5 5 (1.20%) GDPR
6 4 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.48%) PSD2
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.24%) NIST
8 1 (0.24%) P3O
8 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (1.44%) Docker
2 3 (0.72%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.72%) Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.24%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 7 (1.68%) Ansible
2 5 (1.20%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.20%) Terraform
3 3 (0.72%) Cisco UCCE
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.24%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.24%) Consul
5 1 (0.24%) HP Data Protector
5 1 (0.24%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.24%) Packer
5 1 (0.24%) Plesk
5 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.24%) Puppet
5 1 (0.24%) SCCM
5 1 (0.24%) TADDM
5 1 (0.24%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.24%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 56 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.65%) Salesforce
2 36 (8.65%) ServiceNow
3 24 (5.77%) Dell
4 23 (5.53%) HP
5 20 (4.81%) Empirix
5 20 (4.81%) NetScout
6 16 (3.85%) BT
7 12 (2.88%) Oracle
8 11 (2.64%) Adobe
9 9 (2.16%) SAP
10 5 (1.20%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.20%) Cisco
10 5 (1.20%) DocuSign
10 5 (1.20%) Sitecore
11 4 (0.96%) Computacenter
11 4 (0.96%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.96%) Nokia
11 4 (0.96%) Pega
11 4 (0.96%) Virgin Media