Customer Experience Contract Job Trends

Customer Experience (CX)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Customer Experience skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 220 245
Rank change year-on-year +13 +25 -12
Contract jobs citing Customer Experience 498 387 435
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.36% 1.14% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.29% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 228 290
10th Percentile £261 £150 £240
25th Percentile £375 £300 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £620
90th Percentile £688 £677 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +24.13% -16.67% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 18 11
10th Percentile £13.75 £19.28 -
25th Percentile £16.22 £21.34 -
Median hourly rate £17.69 £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -26.84% +36.46% +2.72%
75th Percentile £27.52 £37.69 £36.19
90th Percentile £38.94 £56.00 £53.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.18 £17.72
% change year-on-year -26.84% +36.46% +4.64%

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 32,432 29,959 38,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.29% 88.23% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,397 18,286 25,908
10th Percentile £300 £307 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £743 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,093 972 1,488
10th Percentile £14.51 £15.62 £14.33
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £31.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.98% -29.21% +39.26%

Customer Experience
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Customer Experience relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Customer Experience job vacancy trend in the UK

Customer Experience
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Customer Experience.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Customer Experience

Customer Experience
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Experience over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Experience in the UK

Customer Experience
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Customer Experience.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Customer Experience

Customer Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Experience over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Experience in the UK

Customer Experience
Top 16 Contract Job 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 21 December 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 +13 449 £500 +11.11% 353
UK excluding London -26 231 £466 +24.13% 315
London +65 229 £550 +16.03% 122
Work from Home -10 119 £550 +57.14% 196
North of England -16 79 £466 +30.76% 69
Midlands -17 50 £359 +0.84% 41
North West -27 43 £466 +3.44% 40
South East -58 39 £508 +18.37% 141
East Midlands +1 35 £360 +1.12% 26
Yorkshire -40 26 £470 +104.35% 20
South West -8 20 £450 +28.57% 29
Scotland +3 18 £575 +64.29% 13
East of England -16 16 £588 +38.24% 19
West Midlands -31 15 £350 +84.21% 15
North East +3 10 £450 - 11
Wales - 9 £163 - 7

Customer Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 30 (6.02%) Confluence
2 13 (2.61%) CMS
2 13 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.40%) SAS
5 1 (0.20%) Drupal
5 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (2.01%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.40%) Autodesk Smoke
6 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.40%) Sketch
7 1 (0.20%) InVision
7 1 (0.20%) Marvel
7 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.80%) Shopify
3 1 (0.20%) Magento
3 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (7.43%) Azure
2 35 (7.03%) AWS
3 25 (5.02%) SaaS
4 20 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (3.61%) Power Platform
6 17 (3.41%) GCP
7 9 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (1.61%) Figma
9 7 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (1.41%) GitHub
10 6 (1.20%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.00%) Google Tag Manager
11 5 (1.00%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.00%) PowerApps
12 4 (0.80%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.80%) Google Analytics
12 4 (0.80%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.80%) PaaS
13 3 (0.60%) Adobe Analytics
13 3 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.81%) SSH
2 5 (1.00%) HTTP
3 3 (0.60%) VPN
3 3 (0.60%) WebEx
4 2 (0.40%) Broadband
4 2 (0.40%) DNS
4 2 (0.40%) Firewall
4 2 (0.40%) Internet
4 2 (0.40%) PuTTY
4 2 (0.40%) SMS
4 2 (0.40%) Telnet
4 2 (0.40%) Wireless
5 1 (0.20%) 4G
5 1 (0.20%) Cisco ICM
5 1 (0.20%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.20%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.20%) Network Security
5 1 (0.20%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.81%) Power BI
2 7 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.00%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.80%) Big Data
4 4 (0.80%) MySQL
5 3 (0.60%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.60%) Looker
5 3 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.60%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.60%) Tableau
6 2 (0.40%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.40%) Couchbase
6 2 (0.40%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.40%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.40%) Redis
7 1 (0.20%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.20%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.20%) Parquet
7 1 (0.20%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 41 (8.23%) JIRA
2 13 (2.61%) Git
3 5 (1.00%) CircleCI
3 5 (1.00%) Postman
4 4 (0.80%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.60%) Selenium
5 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.20%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.20%) Babel
7 1 (0.20%) Gatling
7 1 (0.20%) GitLab
7 1 (0.20%) Mockito
7 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.20%) TestNG
7 1 (0.20%) TestRail
7 1 (0.20%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.20%) webpack
7 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 206 (41.37%) Social Skills
2 117 (23.49%) Finance
3 74 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (12.85%) Banking
5 62 (12.45%) Marketing
6 58 (11.65%) Retail
7 43 (8.63%) Public Sector
8 20 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
9 19 (3.82%) Legal
10 18 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (3.61%) Telecoms
11 14 (2.81%) Manufacturing
12 11 (2.21%) Automotive
13 10 (2.01%) Retail Banking
14 9 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (1.81%) Investment Banking
15 8 (1.61%) Advertising
15 8 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.41%) Local Government
17 6 (1.20%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 80 (16.06%) Analyst
2 55 (11.04%) Project Manager
3 54 (10.84%) Senior
4 44 (8.84%) Lead
5 38 (7.63%) Business Analyst
6 23 (4.62%) Architect
7 22 (4.42%) Developer
7 22 (4.42%) Digital Project Manager
8 21 (4.22%) Designer
9 20 (4.02%) Product Manager
10 19 (3.82%) Product Owner
11 18 (3.61%) Senior Manager
12 16 (3.21%) Administrator
12 16 (3.21%) IT Support
13 15 (3.01%) Consultant
13 15 (3.01%) Programme Manager
14 13 (2.61%) Support Engineer
15 12 (2.41%) Digital Business Analyst
15 12 (2.41%) Senior Product Manager
15 12 (2.41%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.01%) RESTful
2 14 (2.81%) REST
3 9 (1.81%) HTML
4 7 (1.41%) .NET
4 7 (1.41%) React
5 6 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (1.00%) CSS
6 5 (1.00%) GraphQL
6 5 (1.00%) Middleware
6 5 (1.00%) PySpark
7 4 (0.80%) Kafka
7 4 (0.80%) TensorFlow
8 3 (0.60%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.60%) JSON
8 3 (0.60%) Pandas
8 3 (0.60%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.60%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.60%) Spring
8 3 (0.60%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.23%) Product Ownership
2 39 (7.83%) Onboarding
3 18 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (3.61%) Mobile App
4 13 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (2.21%) Cloud Native
7 10 (2.01%) Tandem
8 8 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.61%) Mobile Banking
9 7 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.41%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.20%) Blog
10 6 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
10 6 (1.20%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.00%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.00%) IVR
11 5 (1.00%) Social Media
12 4 (0.80%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.80%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 43 (8.63%) Windows
2 15 (3.01%) Apple iOS
3 14 (2.81%) Windows 10
4 9 (1.81%) Android
5 8 (1.61%) Unix
6 6 (1.20%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.20%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.80%) Linux
8 3 (0.60%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.40%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (29.72%) Agile
2 102 (20.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 93 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (15.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 76 (15.26%) Customer Service
6 70 (14.06%) Analytics
6 70 (14.06%) User Experience
7 66 (13.25%) Project Management
7 66 (13.25%) Roadmaps
8 51 (10.24%) AI
9 47 (9.44%) Decision-Making
9 47 (9.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 46 (9.24%) Service Delivery
11 41 (8.23%) Change Management
11 41 (8.23%) ITIL
12 40 (8.03%) Business Case
12 40 (8.03%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 40 (8.03%) Project Delivery
13 37 (7.43%) CRM
14 32 (6.43%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 27 (5.42%) Python
2 24 (4.82%) SQL
3 14 (2.81%) Java
3 14 (2.81%) JavaScript
4 9 (1.81%) Swift
5 8 (1.61%) TypeScript
6 4 (0.80%) C#
7 3 (0.60%) Go
7 3 (0.60%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.40%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.40%) R
9 1 (0.20%) ABAP
9 1 (0.20%) Bash
9 1 (0.20%) Bicep
9 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.20%) Korn
9 1 (0.20%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.20%) Perl
9 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (8.84%) Degree
2 32 (6.43%) Security Cleared
3 21 (4.22%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.21%) PMI Certification
5 15 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.41%) PMP
7 10 (2.01%) MOS
8 7 (1.41%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.60%) MBA
9 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.40%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.40%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.20%) APMG
11 1 (0.20%) APMP
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.20%) CSPO
11 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.22%) SLA
2 20 (4.02%) QA
3 18 (3.61%) GDPR
4 10 (2.01%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.61%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.20%) PMO
7 4 (0.80%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.80%) WCAG
8 3 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.40%) GRC
10 1 (0.20%) COBIT
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.20%) NIST
10 1 (0.20%) PSD2
10 1 (0.20%) SEPA
10 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (2.01%) Docker
2 9 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.40%) BitLocker
3 2 (0.40%) Firmware
4 1 (0.20%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 9 (1.81%) Terraform
2 8 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.20%) SCCM
4 5 (1.00%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.80%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 3 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.40%) Grafana
8 1 (0.20%) Cisco UCCE
8 1 (0.20%) Cisco UCCX
8 1 (0.20%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.20%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.20%) TADDM
8 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 67 (13.45%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.63%) Salesforce
3 25 (5.02%) Google
4 19 (3.82%) ServiceNow
5 15 (3.01%) Genesys
6 14 (2.81%) Adobe
7 11 (2.21%) Oracle
8 10 (2.01%) IBM
9 9 (1.81%) Databricks
9 9 (1.81%) SAP
10 8 (1.61%) Apple
11 6 (1.20%) Cisco
12 5 (1.00%) BMC
13 4 (0.80%) Cvent
13 4 (0.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 3 (0.60%) Amplitude
14 3 (0.60%) Dynatrace
14 3 (0.60%) Facebook
14 3 (0.60%) New Relic
14 3 (0.60%) Optimizely