Customer-Centricity Contracts

Customer-Centric
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Customer-Centricity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Customer-Centricity over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 405 517 562
Rank change year-on-year +112 +45 -85
Contract jobs citing Customer-Centricity 182 181 315
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.31% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.35% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 129 211
10th Percentile £163 £170 £350
25th Percentile £345 £340 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £512 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -7.00% -
75th Percentile £598 £638 £700
90th Percentile £675 £700 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -25.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile - - £12.09
25th Percentile £6.57 - £15.06
Median hourly rate £10.30 £37.34 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -72.42% +42.25% +8.25%
75th Percentile £13.97 - £59.13
90th Percentile £15.49 - £79.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £10.30 - £13.00
% change year-on-year - - -42.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Customer-Centricity 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,097 52,247 79,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.81% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,888 36,212 55,718
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,719 1,895
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.23 £15.58
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Customer-Centricity
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer-Centricity in the UK

Customer-Centricity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Customer-Centricity in the UK

Customer-Centricity
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer-Centricity over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer-Centricity in the UK

Customer-Centricity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer-Centricity in the UK

Customer-Centricity
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Customer-Centricity within the UK over the 6 months to 12 May 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
England +110 168 £470 -7.84% 267
London +81 89 £475 -9.52% 105
UK excluding London +72 79 £375 -25.00% 177
Work from Home +115 65 £550 +10.00% 124
South East +32 34 £463 +32.14% 45
South West +20 13 £150 -81.82% 21
North of England +20 11 £463 -26.00% 48
East of England +16 10 £345 -28.31% 15
North West +20 6 £375 -41.18% 25
Yorkshire +19 5 £600 +6.19% 14
Midlands +15 5 £550 +6.13% 30
West Midlands +6 5 £550 +7.53% 16
Scotland +42 4 £455 -17.27% 12
Wales +19 2 £91 -84.17% 8

Customer-Centricity
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 8 (4.40%) CMS
1 8 (4.40%) Confluence
1 8 (4.40%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.55%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (6.04%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.65%) Adobe XD
4 2 (1.10%) InVision
4 2 (1.10%) Sketch
4 2 (1.10%) UserZoom
4 2 (1.10%) Zeplin
5 1 (0.55%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.55%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.55%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 13 (7.14%) Azure
1 13 (7.14%) Power Platform
2 12 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (6.04%) AWS
3 11 (6.04%) Cloud Computing
4 10 (5.49%) Figma
5 7 (3.85%) SaaS
5 7 (3.85%) Slack
6 5 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.75%) GCP
6 5 (2.75%) Google Workspace
6 5 (2.75%) PaaS
6 5 (2.75%) Serverless
7 4 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.65%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (1.65%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.65%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.10%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.65%) 3G
1 3 (1.65%) 4G
1 3 (1.65%) 5G
1 3 (1.65%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (1.10%) 2G
2 2 (1.10%) Broadband
2 2 (1.10%) SSH
2 2 (1.10%) Telnet
2 2 (1.10%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.10%) VoIP
3 1 (0.55%) DSL
3 1 (0.55%) Firewall
3 1 (0.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.59%) Power BI
2 5 (2.75%) Tableau
3 4 (2.20%) Couchbase
3 4 (2.20%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.55%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (3.85%) JIRA
2 5 (2.75%) Git
3 2 (1.10%) Axure RP
3 2 (1.10%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.10%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.55%) GitLab
General
1 105 (57.69%) Social Skills
2 47 (25.82%) Finance
3 39 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 16 (8.79%) Marketing
5 16 (8.79%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (6.59%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (6.59%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.40%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.85%) Banking
9 7 (3.85%) Legal
10 6 (3.30%) Electronics
10 6 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (3.30%) Retail
11 5 (2.75%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (1.10%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.10%) French Language
12 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.10%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (19.23%) Analyst
2 19 (10.44%) Senior
3 14 (7.69%) Designer
4 10 (5.49%) Product Manager
4 10 (5.49%) Senior Analyst
5 9 (4.95%) Architect
5 9 (4.95%) Lead
5 9 (4.95%) Service Designer
6 8 (4.40%) Product Owner
6 8 (4.40%) Support Analyst
6 8 (4.40%) Support Engineer
7 7 (3.85%) Business Analyst
7 7 (3.85%) Technical Analyst
7 7 (3.85%) Technical Support
8 6 (3.30%) Desktop Engineer
8 6 (3.30%) Technical Support Analyst
9 5 (2.75%) Data Analyst
9 5 (2.75%) Desktop Support
9 5 (2.75%) Developer
9 5 (2.75%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.75%) Node.js
2 4 (2.20%) Kafka
2 4 (2.20%) REST
3 3 (1.65%) React
4 2 (1.10%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.10%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.10%) CSS
4 2 (1.10%) HTML
4 2 (1.10%) OpenAPI
4 2 (1.10%) Playwright
4 2 (1.10%) Pyramid
4 2 (1.10%) Swagger
4 2 (1.10%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (1.10%) Web Services
5 1 (0.55%) Java EE
5 1 (0.55%) JWT
5 1 (0.55%) Middleware
5 1 (0.55%) Next.js
5 1 (0.55%) SAML
5 1 (0.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.59%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.30%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.20%) Mainframe
4 4 (2.20%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.20%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.65%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.10%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.10%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.10%) PMI
6 2 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.55%) CMDB
7 1 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.55%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.55%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.04%) Windows
2 4 (2.20%) Linux
2 4 (2.20%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.10%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.55%) Android
4 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (31.32%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (29.67%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 52 (28.57%) Agile
4 37 (20.33%) Roadmaps
5 33 (18.13%) Project Management
6 32 (17.58%) Customer Service
7 30 (16.48%) Customer Experience
8 26 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 25 (13.74%) Decision-Making
9 25 (13.74%) User Stories
10 24 (13.19%) Analytics
11 21 (11.54%) Service Management
12 19 (10.44%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (10.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (10.44%) Scrum
13 18 (9.89%) Infrastructure Management
13 18 (9.89%) Risk Management
14 17 (9.34%) Business Analysis
14 17 (9.34%) Product Management
14 17 (9.34%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.40%) Python
1 8 (4.40%) SQL
2 7 (3.85%) TypeScript
3 6 (3.30%) C++
3 6 (3.30%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.20%) Bicep
4 4 (2.20%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.65%) Java
6 2 (1.10%) Bash
6 2 (1.10%) C
6 2 (1.10%) Go
6 2 (1.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (12.09%) Degree
2 10 (5.49%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.40%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.75%) Postgraduate
6 4 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.20%) CSPO
7 3 (1.65%) APMP
7 3 (1.65%) PgMP
7 3 (1.65%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.10%) CCENT
8 2 (1.10%) ISEB
8 2 (1.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.55%) ACCA
9 1 (0.55%) CIMA
9 1 (0.55%) CISA
9 1 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.14%) QA
2 10 (5.49%) PMO
3 6 (3.30%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.75%) SLA
5 3 (1.65%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.10%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.10%) WCAG
7 1 (0.55%) GDPR
7 1 (0.55%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (2.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.20%) Progress Chef
1 4 (2.20%) Puppet
1 4 (2.20%) Terraform
2 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.55%) AirWatch
3 1 (0.55%) Ansible
3 1 (0.55%) Grafana
3 1 (0.55%) Kibana
3 1 (0.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 32 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.04%) SAP
3 7 (3.85%) Google
4 6 (3.30%) Cisco
4 6 (3.30%) Oracle
5 5 (2.75%) Adobe
6 3 (1.65%) BT
6 3 (1.65%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.65%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.10%) Ariba
7 2 (1.10%) Citrix
7 2 (1.10%) Genesys
7 2 (1.10%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.10%) Huawei
8 1 (0.55%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.55%) NCR
8 1 (0.55%) Okta
8 1 (0.55%) Salesforce