Customer-Centricity Contracts

Customer-Centric
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Customer-Centricity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Customer-Centricity over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 391 531
Rank change year-on-year -17 +140 +17
Contract jobs citing Customer-Centricity 113 193 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.44% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.51% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 123 130
10th Percentile £335 £176 £169
25th Percentile £436 £345 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £505
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -8.42% -8.18%
75th Percentile £625 £589 £634
90th Percentile £681 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £13.25 - -
25th Percentile £15.25 £6.57 -
Median hourly rate £15.80 £7.85 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +101.27% -78.98% +42.25%
75th Percentile £26.04 £12.82 -
90th Percentile £29.33 £15.03 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.65 £7.85 -
% change year-on-year +99.36% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Customer-Centricity 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer-Centricity over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 1 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
England -17 102 £500 +9.59% 927
UK excluding London +35 55 £500 +33.33% 487
London -10 47 £500 +5.26% 517
Work from Home +5 33 £500 -9.09% 436
South East +41 27 £500 +5.26% 144
Midlands +24 8 £440 -20.00% 79
South West +38 7 £325 +62.50% 41
East of England +27 7 £650 +88.41% 54
West Midlands +13 5 £400 -27.27% 42
North of England +10 5 £563 +32.35% 133
Scotland +13 4 £535 +15.94% 30
North West +13 3 £600 +60.00% 76
East Midlands - 3 £500 - 32
Yorkshire +3 2 £525 +23.53% 46

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 11 (9.73%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.54%) Confluence
3 2 (1.77%) CMS
3 2 (1.77%) SAS
4 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.88%) IIS
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (7.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (5.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.88%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Movex
1 2 (1.77%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.88%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.88%) Finacle
2 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.88%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 26 (23.01%) Azure
2 19 (16.81%) AWS
3 14 (12.39%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.85%) GitHub
4 10 (8.85%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (7.08%) SaaS
6 6 (5.31%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (4.42%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.77%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.77%) Boomi
8 2 (1.77%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.77%) GCP
8 2 (1.77%) IaaS
8 2 (1.77%) PaaS
8 2 (1.77%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.88%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.88%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.54%) Firewall
2 3 (2.65%) HTTP
3 2 (1.77%) DNS
3 2 (1.77%) VPN
4 1 (0.88%) DHCP
4 1 (0.88%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.88%) LAN
4 1 (0.88%) SMTP
4 1 (0.88%) SNMP
4 1 (0.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.19%) Big Data
2 5 (4.42%) Power BI
3 3 (2.65%) Tableau
4 2 (1.77%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.77%) Metadata
5 1 (0.88%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.88%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.88%) Looker
5 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (7.96%) Git
1 9 (7.96%) JIRA
2 8 (7.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.88%) GitLab
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.88%) Postman
3 1 (0.88%) Selenium
3 1 (0.88%) Subversion
3 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 45 (39.82%) Social Skills
2 34 (30.09%) Finance
3 22 (19.47%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.62%) Banking
4 12 (10.62%) Marketing
5 8 (7.08%) Retail
5 8 (7.08%) Telecoms
6 7 (6.19%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.54%) Legal
8 3 (2.65%) Aviation
8 3 (2.65%) Law
9 2 (1.77%) Automotive
9 2 (1.77%) Electronics
9 2 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.77%) International Banking
9 2 (1.77%) Local Government
9 2 (1.77%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (11.50%) Analyst
2 12 (10.62%) Architect
2 12 (10.62%) Project Manager
3 9 (7.96%) Senior
4 7 (6.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 7 (6.19%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (5.31%) Designer
5 6 (5.31%) Product Manager
6 5 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (4.42%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 5 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (4.42%) Business Analyst
6 5 (4.42%) Developer
7 4 (3.54%) Analytics Manager
7 4 (3.54%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 4 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.65%) Data Analyst
8 3 (2.65%) IT Manager
8 3 (2.65%) Senior Manager
8 3 (2.65%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.54%) React
2 3 (2.65%) .NET
3 2 (1.77%) Flutter
3 2 (1.77%) Middleware
4 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.88%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.88%) CSS
4 1 (0.88%) HTML
4 1 (0.88%) Jest
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.88%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.88%) Playwright
4 1 (0.88%) REST
4 1 (0.88%) Swagger
4 1 (0.88%) Web Services
4 1 (0.88%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.08%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.19%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (5.31%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.54%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.54%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.65%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.77%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.77%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (1.77%) Robotics
7 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.88%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.39%) Windows
2 10 (8.85%) Windows Server
3 9 (7.96%) Linux
4 8 (7.08%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.77%) Android
5 2 (1.77%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.88%) CentOS
6 1 (0.88%) Rocky
6 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (33.63%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (26.55%) Agile
3 22 (19.47%) Customer Experience
4 21 (18.58%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 20 (17.70%) Analytics
5 20 (17.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (16.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (15.04%) DevOps
7 17 (15.04%) Project Management
8 14 (12.39%) User Experience
9 13 (11.50%) Process Improvement
10 12 (10.62%) Migration
10 12 (10.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (9.73%) Actionable Insight
12 10 (8.85%) Budget Management
12 10 (8.85%) CRM
12 10 (8.85%) Roadmaps
13 9 (7.96%) Change Management
13 9 (7.96%) Customer Engagement
13 9 (7.96%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.58%) Python
2 13 (11.50%) PowerShell
3 12 (10.62%) SQL
4 5 (4.42%) Java
5 4 (3.54%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.65%) Bash
6 3 (2.65%) R
7 2 (1.77%) C#
7 2 (1.77%) C++
7 2 (1.77%) Dart
7 2 (1.77%) Go
7 2 (1.77%) PHP
8 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.88%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.88%) Perl
8 1 (0.88%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (9.73%) Degree
2 9 (7.96%) SC Cleared
2 9 (7.96%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (3.54%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.77%) CEH
5 2 (1.77%) CISSP
5 2 (1.77%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.77%) SAFe Agilist
6 1 (0.88%) APMP
6 1 (0.88%) CCNA
6 1 (0.88%) IIBA
6 1 (0.88%) PgMP
6 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.88%) PMP
6 1 (0.88%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) QA
2 3 (2.65%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.65%) GDPR
2 3 (2.65%) PMO
3 2 (1.77%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.77%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.77%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.77%) PSD2
3 2 (1.77%) SLA
4 1 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.88%) NIST
4 1 (0.88%) P3O
System Software
1 3 (2.65%) Docker
2 2 (1.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.77%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (11.50%) Terraform
2 12 (10.62%) Ansible
3 2 (1.77%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.88%) CSIRT
4 1 (0.88%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.88%) Grafana
4 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (26.55%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.96%) Databricks
3 6 (5.31%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.42%) Oracle
4 5 (4.42%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.54%) Adobe
5 4 (3.54%) Google
6 3 (2.65%) Cisco
6 3 (2.65%) SAP
6 3 (2.65%) Splunk
7 2 (1.77%) Aruba
7 2 (1.77%) Blue Prism
7 2 (1.77%) Dell
7 2 (1.77%) HP
7 2 (1.77%) Juniper
7 2 (1.77%) Pega
8 1 (0.88%) Intel
8 1 (0.88%) Qualys
8 1 (0.88%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.88%) Temenos