Customer Experience Job Trends in the South West

Customer Experience (CX)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Customer Experience skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 110 116
Rank change year-on-year +63 +6 -9
Permanent jobs citing Customer Experience 177 90 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.53% 2.08% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.86% 2.46% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 57 38 93
10th Percentile £24,570 £37,250 £27,841
25th Percentile £27,500 £38,563 £32,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £74,688 £53,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £92,250 £76,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +36.90% -31.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

Customer Experience falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,643 3,653 4,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 72.60% 84.31% 91.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,470 1,875 3,047
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,158 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,351
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.09% +6.70%
75th Percentile £65,579 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Customer Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Customer Experience relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Customer Experience job vacancy trend in the South West

Customer Experience
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Customer Experience.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Customer Experience

Customer Experience
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Experience in the South West over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Customer Experience in the South West

Customer Experience
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Experience within the South West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wiltshire +44 53 £27,285 -45.43% 20
Somerset +26 48 £48,998 -9.26% 18
Bristol +14 44 £56,650 +12.18% 16
Gloucestershire +21 12 £55,000 -8.33% 38
Devon +1 9 £35,000 -17.65% 35
Cornwall -7 7 £27,500 -64.52% 1
Dorset -2 4 £27,697 -28.06% 17
Customer Experience
England

Customer Experience
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 84 (47.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.82%) CMS
3 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 26 (14.69%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Magento
1 1 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 107 (60.45%) Microsoft 365
2 87 (49.15%) Azure
3 5 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (2.26%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.69%) SaaS
6 1 (0.56%) AWS
6 1 (0.56%) Azure API Management
6 1 (0.56%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.56%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 86 (48.59%) DNS
2 84 (47.46%) DHCP
3 8 (4.52%) Internet
4 5 (2.82%) Broadband
4 5 (2.82%) Wireless
5 4 (2.26%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.13%) VoIP
6 2 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.56%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (47.46%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.69%) Looker
2 3 (1.69%) Power BI
2 3 (1.69%) Tableau
3 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.82%) JIRA
2 1 (0.56%) Git
2 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 136 (76.84%) Social Skills
2 88 (49.72%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (11.86%) Back Office
4 18 (10.17%) Finance
4 18 (10.17%) Marketing
5 8 (4.52%) Police
6 7 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.39%) Arabic Language
7 6 (3.39%) Legal
7 6 (3.39%) Military
8 5 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.26%) Brand Awareness
10 3 (1.69%) Retail
11 2 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.13%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.13%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.56%) Automotive
12 1 (0.56%) Billing
12 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (47.46%) Systems Engineer
2 24 (13.56%) Support Engineer
3 21 (11.86%) Desktop Engineer
3 21 (11.86%) Desktop Support
3 21 (11.86%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 21 (11.86%) Site Engineer
4 9 (5.08%) Product Owner
5 5 (2.82%) Analyst
5 5 (2.82%) Coordinator
5 5 (2.82%) Digital Product Owner
5 5 (2.82%) Sales Executive
6 4 (2.26%) Business Development Executive
6 4 (2.26%) Lead
6 4 (2.26%) Marketing Manager
6 4 (2.26%) Service Analyst
6 4 (2.26%) Service Desk Analyst
6 4 (2.26%) Telesales Executive
6 4 (2.26%) Vendor Manager
7 3 (1.69%) Service Desk Support
7 3 (1.69%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.13%) .NET
1 2 (1.13%) RESTful
2 1 (0.56%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.56%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (0.56%) HTML
2 1 (0.56%) HTML5
2 1 (0.56%) Spring
2 1 (0.56%) Spring Boot
2 1 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 84 (47.46%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (5.65%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.82%) Blog
4 5 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.69%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.13%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.56%) CCTV
7 1 (0.56%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.56%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 105 (59.32%) Windows
2 84 (47.46%) Linux
2 84 (47.46%) Windows Server
2 84 (47.46%) Windows Server 2016
3 21 (11.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (70.62%) Customer Service
2 100 (56.50%) Problem-Solving
3 87 (49.15%) Migration
4 84 (47.46%) Email Filtering
4 84 (47.46%) Kalman Filter
4 84 (47.46%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 84 (47.46%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 84 (47.46%) Web Filtering
5 37 (20.90%) Analytics
6 32 (18.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (14.69%) ITIL
8 21 (11.86%) Customer Acquisition
8 21 (11.86%) Cybersecurity
8 21 (11.86%) Patch Management
8 21 (11.86%) People Management
8 21 (11.86%) Software Deployment
8 21 (11.86%) Ticket Management
9 13 (7.34%) B2B
10 12 (6.78%) AI
11 9 (5.08%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.13%) C#
2 1 (0.56%) Java
2 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (0.56%) SQL
2 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 111 (62.71%) Security Cleared
2 105 (59.32%) SC Cleared
3 26 (14.69%) Degree
4 21 (11.86%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (1.13%) CCNA
5 2 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.13%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (47.46%) Cyber Essentials
1 84 (47.46%) PCI DSS
2 21 (11.86%) SLA
3 4 (2.26%) QA
4 1 (0.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 84 (47.46%) Active Directory
1 84 (47.46%) Hyper-V
1 84 (47.46%) Terminal Server
Vendors
1 99 (55.93%) Microsoft
2 84 (47.46%) Brocade
2 84 (47.46%) Nimble Storage
2 84 (47.46%) SolarWinds
2 84 (47.46%) Splunk
2 84 (47.46%) Tanium
2 84 (47.46%) Veeam
2 84 (47.46%) VMware
3 23 (12.99%) Cisco
4 3 (1.69%) Ubiquiti
5 2 (1.13%) Nokia
5 2 (1.13%) TP-LINK
6 1 (0.56%) Google
6 1 (0.56%) Salesforce