Customer Retention Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Customer Retention (Client Retention)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Customer Retention skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 551 542
Rank change year-on-year +119 -9 +195
Permanent jobs citing Customer Retention 80 42 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.096% 0.021%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.11% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 66 21 4
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £36,700
25th Percentile £31,750 £41,250 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £47,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £65,625
90th Percentile £73,750 £60,000 £75,750
UK median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -17.00% -23.08% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Customer Retention 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,722 36,864 27,088
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.55% 84.32% 93.82%
Number of salaries quoted 18,897 17,819 20,233
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,748 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.15%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,900
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Customer Retention
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Customer Retention relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Customer Retention job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Customer Retention
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Customer Retention.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Customer Retention

Customer Retention
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Retention in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Customer Retention in the UK excluding London

Customer Retention
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Retention within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
South East +74 36 £35,000 -22.22% 18
Midlands +48 15 £31,000 -34.74% 8
North of England +39 11 £45,000 +25.87% 10
East of England - 11 £32,500 - 8
East Midlands +15 10 £31,000 -31.11% 1
Yorkshire +3 6 £48,750 +68.10% 1
North West +37 5 £45,000 -10.00% 8
West Midlands +28 5 £37,500 -21.05% 7
South West +17 3 £100,000 +90.48% 1
Northern Ireland +2 3 £30,000 - 2
Wales - 1 £37,500 -
Customer Retention
UK

Customer Retention
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (3.75%) WordPress
2 2 (2.50%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Sage X3
2 2 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 25 (31.25%) SaaS
2 7 (8.75%) Google Analytics
3 6 (7.50%) Google Ads
4 3 (3.75%) MailChimp
5 1 (1.25%) Bloomreach
5 1 (1.25%) Canva
5 1 (1.25%) Figma
5 1 (1.25%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (1.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.25%) Power BI
1 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.25%) Tableau
General
1 41 (51.25%) Social Skills
2 34 (42.50%) Marketing
3 17 (21.25%) Finance
4 11 (13.75%) Electronics
5 10 (12.50%) Retail
6 8 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (8.75%) Legal
7 7 (8.75%) Telecoms
8 6 (7.50%) Billing
9 4 (5.00%) Manufacturing
10 3 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.25%) Back Office
11 1 (1.25%) Banking
11 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.25%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 13 (16.25%) Sales Manager
2 12 (15.00%) Account Manager
3 8 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 7 (8.75%) Sales Account Manager
5 6 (7.50%) Operations Manager
5 6 (7.50%) Operations Project Manager
5 6 (7.50%) Sales Operations Manager
6 5 (6.25%) Consultant
6 5 (6.25%) Internal Account Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Marketing Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Sage Support
8 3 (3.75%) Head of Marketing
8 3 (3.75%) Head of Strategy
8 3 (3.75%) IT Manager
8 3 (3.75%) IT Support
8 3 (3.75%) IT Support Manager
9 2 (2.50%) Customer Services Manager
9 2 (2.50%) Development Manager
9 2 (2.50%) Product Manager
9 2 (2.50%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 25 (31.25%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.50%) Blog
4 2 (2.50%) Digital Signage
4 2 (2.50%) FMCG
4 2 (2.50%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Tandem
5 1 (1.25%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (1.25%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.25%) PropTech
5 1 (1.25%) Social Media
5 1 (1.25%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (47.50%) CRM
2 22 (27.50%) B2B
3 19 (23.75%) Strategic Thinking
4 17 (21.25%) Customer Service
5 15 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (18.75%) Project Management
6 13 (16.25%) Analytics
6 13 (16.25%) Contract Negotiation
7 12 (15.00%) Customer Engagement
7 12 (15.00%) Use Case
8 11 (13.75%) Decision-Making
8 11 (13.75%) Service Delivery
9 10 (12.50%) E-Commerce
9 10 (12.50%) SEO
10 9 (11.25%) A/B Testing
10 9 (11.25%) Digital Marketing
10 9 (11.25%) Market Research
11 8 (10.00%) Commercial Awareness
11 8 (10.00%) Customer Experience
12 7 (8.75%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.25%) Python
1 1 (1.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (1.25%) PMO
3 1 (1.25%) SLA
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Google
2 9 (11.25%) Salesforce
3 6 (7.50%) Oracle
4 5 (6.25%) HubSpot
5 4 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.00%) Sage
6 2 (2.50%) Hotjar