Customer Experience (CX)
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 92 86
Rank change year-on-year -39 -6 +77
Permanent jobs citing Customer Experience 2,181 3,758 6,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.21% 3.63% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 3.80% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,441 1,403 2,205
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,569 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,924 £44,900 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.27% +2.50% +4.88%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,290 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,000 £54,313 £55,000
% change year-on-year -30.03% -1.25% +13.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Customer Experience is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,862 98,882 150,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59,922 58,137 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,251 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,251
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Customer Experience
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Experience in the UK

Customer Experience
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Customer Experience.

Salary trend for Customer Experience in the UK

Customer Experience
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Experience over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Customer Experience in the UK

Customer Experience
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Experience within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -42 1,901 £42,500 -30.56% 765
UK excluding London -48 1,481 £38,000 -30.03% 517
Work from Home -39 928 £40,000 -38.46% 361
London -38 600 £60,000 -14.29% 280
South East +31 466 £38,000 -20.00% 134
North of England -79 361 £43,481 -27.53% 156
Midlands +29 248 £42,500 -15.00% 81
West Midlands +37 182 £41,000 -18.00% 56
North West -24 179 £39,634 -35.42% 88
South West -38 150 £45,000 -1.64% 50
Yorkshire -66 144 £44,000 -28.46% 45
Scotland -106 98 £60,000 -13.60% 33
East of England -15 70 £50,000 +19.05% 44
Wales +26 69 £37,500 -6.25% 23
East Midlands -7 65 £45,000 -10.00% 25
Northern Ireland +59 47 £35,000 - 14
North East +18 42 £50,000 +11.11% 25

Customer Experience
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 80 (3.67%) SharePoint
2 60 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (1.24%) SAS
4 18 (0.83%) CMS
4 18 (0.83%) Confluence
5 15 (0.69%) Umbraco
6 13 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.60%) WordPress
7 11 (0.50%) Apache
8 9 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.28%) IBM Domino
10 5 (0.23%) IIS
11 4 (0.18%) JBoss
12 3 (0.14%) GlassFish
12 3 (0.14%) Moodle
12 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.092%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.092%) Drupal
13 2 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.046%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 220 (10.09%) Microsoft Office
2 158 (7.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 54 (2.48%) Sketch
4 21 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.092%) Trello
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.046%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (1.42%) Endur
2 19 (0.87%) SAP CX
2 19 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
3 13 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.50%) SAP ERP
5 10 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
6 8 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.32%) Magento
8 6 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.28%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 5 (0.23%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 5 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.23%) Shopify
10 4 (0.18%) Lawson
10 4 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
10 4 (0.18%) SAP CRM
11 3 (0.14%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 248 (11.37%) Azure
2 154 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
3 139 (6.37%) AWS
4 124 (5.69%) SaaS
5 88 (4.03%) Power Platform
6 68 (3.12%) Figma
7 61 (2.80%) GCP
8 51 (2.34%) Miro
9 46 (2.11%) Heroku
10 24 (1.10%) Google Analytics
11 23 (1.05%) Entra ID
12 22 (1.01%) Snowflake
13 20 (0.92%) Power Automate
14 19 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (0.87%) Serverless
15 18 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
17 15 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 15 (0.69%) IaaS
18 14 (0.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 93 (4.26%) Firewall
2 68 (3.12%) VPN
3 65 (2.98%) DNS
4 61 (2.80%) TCP/IP
5 59 (2.71%) WAN
6 50 (2.29%) LAN
7 45 (2.06%) DHCP
8 38 (1.74%) Internet
9 36 (1.65%) Wireless
10 19 (0.87%) VLAN
11 18 (0.83%) SAN
12 17 (0.78%) Network Security
13 12 (0.55%) Unified Communications
14 11 (0.50%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.46%) SMS
16 9 (0.41%) HTTP
16 9 (0.41%) HTTPS
16 9 (0.41%) SSL
16 9 (0.41%) VoIP
17 8 (0.37%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (4.13%) Tableau
2 64 (2.93%) Power BI
3 42 (1.93%) SQL Server
4 34 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.42%) Relational Database
6 22 (1.01%) Big Data
7 21 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (0.96%) NoSQL
8 19 (0.87%) Metadata
8 19 (0.87%) MySQL
9 18 (0.83%) BigQuery
10 15 (0.69%) Amazon QuickSight
11 14 (0.64%) Data Lake
11 14 (0.64%) Data Mining
12 13 (0.60%) Looker
13 12 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.50%) MongoDB
14 11 (0.50%) RDBMS
15 9 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
16 8 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 94 (4.31%) Git
2 58 (2.66%) JIRA
3 12 (0.55%) GitLab
3 12 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.37%) Vagrant
5 7 (0.32%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.28%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.28%) Subversion
7 5 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.18%) Postman
9 3 (0.14%) JUnit
9 3 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 3 (0.14%) webpack
10 2 (0.092%) Axure RP
10 2 (0.092%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.092%) NUnit
10 2 (0.092%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.092%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.092%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 630 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 514 (23.57%) Finance
3 314 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
4 251 (11.51%) Marketing
5 208 (9.54%) Retail
6 137 (6.28%) Telecoms
7 135 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 89 (4.08%) Public Sector
9 86 (3.94%) Banking
9 86 (3.94%) Military
10 84 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
11 79 (3.62%) Legal
12 57 (2.61%) Manufacturing
13 49 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.65%) Electronics
15 32 (1.47%) Games
16 31 (1.42%) Brand Awareness
17 27 (1.24%) Publishing
18 25 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
18 25 (1.15%) Law
Job Titles
1 349 (16.00%) Senior
2 320 (14.67%) Development Manager
3 316 (14.49%) Business Manager
4 309 (14.17%) Business Development Manager
5 219 (10.04%) Analyst
6 126 (5.78%) Lead
7 119 (5.46%) Architect
8 116 (5.32%) Designer
9 98 (4.49%) Support Engineer
10 96 (4.40%) Graduate
11 91 (4.17%) Developer
12 86 (3.94%) Consultant
13 72 (3.30%) Product Manager
14 62 (2.84%) UI Designer
15 61 (2.80%) Data Scientist
16 58 (2.66%) UX Designer
17 55 (2.52%) UI/UX Designer
18 54 (2.48%) Senior Data Scientist
19 53 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
20 50 (2.29%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (5.73%) HTML
2 63 (2.89%) CSS
3 50 (2.29%) .NET
4 49 (2.25%) React
5 48 (2.20%) Pandas
6 40 (1.83%) Web Services
7 39 (1.79%) PySpark
8 35 (1.60%) scikit-learn
8 35 (1.60%) TensorFlow
9 30 (1.38%) RESTful
10 24 (1.10%) XML
11 23 (1.05%) Node.js
12 20 (0.92%) jQuery
13 19 (0.87%) .NET Core
13 19 (0.87%) JSON
13 19 (0.87%) REST
14 17 (0.78%) AngularJS
15 14 (0.64%) GraphQL
15 14 (0.64%) Vue
16 12 (0.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 190 (8.71%) Onboarding
2 166 (7.61%) Product Ownership
3 72 (3.30%) Management Information System
4 68 (3.12%) Self-Motivation
5 57 (2.61%) Algorithms
6 43 (1.97%) Data Centre
6 43 (1.97%) Driving Licence
7 42 (1.93%) Social Media
8 40 (1.83%) Data Structures
9 25 (1.15%) Robotics
10 22 (1.01%) Cloud Native
10 22 (1.01%) Mobile App
10 22 (1.01%) Virtual Team
11 21 (0.96%) IoT
12 15 (0.69%) PlayStation
13 14 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (0.64%) Credit Risk
13 14 (0.64%) Reinsurance
14 13 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (0.60%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 147 (6.74%) Windows
2 72 (3.30%) Windows Server
3 60 (2.75%) Linux
4 30 (1.38%) Windows 10
5 29 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 29 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 25 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 22 (1.01%) Apple iOS
8 17 (0.78%) Ubuntu
9 16 (0.73%) Android
10 14 (0.64%) Mac OS
11 13 (0.60%) Windows 8
12 12 (0.55%) CentOS
12 12 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 10 (0.46%) Windows 7
14 9 (0.41%) Debian
15 5 (0.23%) AIX
15 5 (0.23%) Unix
16 4 (0.18%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (22.47%) Problem-Solving
2 445 (20.40%) Customer Service
3 429 (19.67%) Agile
4 353 (16.19%) Business Development
5 321 (14.72%) Client Onboarding
6 290 (13.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 242 (11.10%) Analytics
8 235 (10.77%) Roadmaps
9 220 (10.09%) Coaching
10 192 (8.80%) Stakeholder Management
11 179 (8.21%) Decision-Making
11 179 (8.21%) User Experience
12 174 (7.98%) Data Analysis
13 168 (7.70%) Actionable Insight
14 148 (6.79%) Mentoring
14 148 (6.79%) Project Management
15 145 (6.65%) CRM
16 139 (6.37%) Customer-Centricity
17 136 (6.24%) Process Improvement
18 133 (6.10%) Digital Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 253 (11.60%) SQL
2 168 (7.70%) Python
3 96 (4.40%) JavaScript
4 68 (3.12%) Java
5 49 (2.25%) C#
6 45 (2.06%) R
7 35 (1.60%) TypeScript
8 30 (1.38%) Bash
9 27 (1.24%) C
10 21 (0.96%) PowerShell
11 17 (0.78%) PHP
12 12 (0.55%) VBA
13 10 (0.46%) C++
14 8 (0.37%) Ruby
14 8 (0.37%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.28%) Go
16 5 (0.23%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.23%) Scala
16 5 (0.23%) VB
17 4 (0.18%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 466 (21.37%) Degree
2 150 (6.88%) Security Cleared
3 134 (6.14%) SC Cleared
4 82 (3.76%) Master's Degree
5 51 (2.34%) DBS Check
6 41 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (1.28%) Azure Certification
9 20 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
10 15 (0.69%) PMP
11 14 (0.64%) PMI Certification
12 13 (0.60%) A+ Certification
12 13 (0.60%) MBA
13 12 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
14 11 (0.50%) PhD
15 10 (0.46%) CISSP
16 9 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
17 8 (0.37%) DV Cleared
18 7 (0.32%) MCP
18 7 (0.32%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (5.73%) Accessibility
2 104 (4.77%) SLA
3 49 (2.25%) QA
4 48 (2.20%) WCAG
5 19 (0.87%) Data Quality
6 17 (0.78%) GDPR
7 16 (0.73%) PMO
8 13 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.37%) NIST
10 6 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.28%) GAAP
10 6 (0.28%) IFRS
10 6 (0.28%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.28%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.28%) NEBOSH
10 6 (0.28%) PSD2
11 4 (0.18%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.092%) COBIT
System Software
1 84 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 53 (2.43%) Docker
2 53 (2.43%) Hyper-V
3 32 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.28%) XenApp
6 6 (0.28%) XenDesktop
7 5 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (0.18%) Firmware
9 3 (0.14%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.092%) NFS
11 1 (0.046%) pfSense
11 1 (0.046%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (2.34%) Kubernetes
2 42 (1.93%) Ansible
3 31 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (0.96%) SCCM
5 20 (0.92%) Terraform
6 14 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
6 14 (0.64%) SCOM
7 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 7 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.28%) Puppet
9 6 (0.28%) SCDPM
10 5 (0.23%) Grafana
11 4 (0.18%) Autotask
11 4 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (0.18%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.14%) Oracle Statspack
12 3 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.092%) CASB
13 2 (0.092%) Core Impact
13 2 (0.092%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 370 (16.96%) Salesforce
2 320 (14.67%) Microsoft
3 89 (4.08%) SAP
4 67 (3.07%) Oracle
5 57 (2.61%) Adobe
5 57 (2.61%) VMware
6 42 (1.93%) Google
7 39 (1.79%) Databricks
8 35 (1.60%) Citrix
9 32 (1.47%) Fortinet
10 30 (1.38%) Juniper
11 28 (1.28%) ServiceNow
12 26 (1.19%) IBM
13 24 (1.10%) Facebook
14 23 (1.05%) Cisco
14 23 (1.05%) Dell
14 23 (1.05%) Sandvine
15 17 (0.78%) Samsung
16 15 (0.69%) Sony
17 13 (0.60%) Meraki