Customer-Centricity Job Trends

Customer-Centric
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Customer-Centricity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 264 384
Rank change year-on-year -89 +120 -53
Permanent jobs citing Customer-Centricity 576 556 563
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.12% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.25% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 256 267 344
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £31,875 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -27.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £37,500 £41,821
% change year-on-year +26.67% -10.33% -38.07%

All Process & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 77,301 44,356 67,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.43% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 53,282 25,229 44,135
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -9.09%

Customer-Centricity
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Customer-Centricity relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Customer-Centricity job vacancy trend in the UK

Customer-Centricity
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Customer-Centricity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Customer-Centricity

Customer-Centricity
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer-Centricity over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Customer-Centricity in the UK

Customer-Centricity
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Customer-Centricity within the UK over the 6 months to 7 August 2026. 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 -80 502 £55,500 +0.91% 287
UK excluding London -50 376 £47,500 +26.67% 160
London -48 174 £65,000 -7.14% 162
Work from Home -16 153 £61,250 +11.36% 110
South East -80 89 £47,500 +11.76% 54
North of England -62 67 £46,500 +57.63% 36
East of England +10 58 £55,000 +107.55% 11
Midlands -13 58 £47,500 +18.75% 30
South West -27 57 £80,000 +33.33% 6
North West -17 41 £46,500 +89.80% 21
East Midlands -5 38 £47,500 +18.75% 9
Yorkshire -21 22 £30,000 -64.71% 10
Wales -46 22 £30,000 -14.29% 7
West Midlands -33 20 £60,000 +50.00% 21
Scotland +14 18 £38,000 -63.94% 14
Isle of Man - 9 - - 2
North East -60 4 £47,277 +63.02% 6
Northern Ireland - 2 £39,500 - 6

Customer-Centricity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 10 (1.74%) CMS
2 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.04%) Headless CMS
4 4 (0.69%) WordPress
5 3 (0.52%) SAS
6 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Confluence
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 21 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (2.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 13 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.08%) Adobe Illustrator
4 12 (2.08%) Photoshop
5 8 (1.39%) Adobe After Effects
5 8 (1.39%) InDesign
6 4 (0.69%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.52%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.52%) Productboard
7 3 (0.52%) Sketch
8 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.17%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (1.22%) Oracle Financials
2 6 (1.04%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.35%) Shopify
5 1 (0.17%) FastStats
5 1 (0.17%) FastStats PeopleStage
5 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.17%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 89 (15.45%) SaaS
2 59 (10.24%) Azure
3 48 (8.33%) AWS
4 35 (6.08%) PaaS
5 26 (4.51%) GCP
6 19 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (1.91%) Entra ID
7 11 (1.91%) Figma
8 9 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (1.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 9 (1.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 7 (1.22%) Asana
9 7 (1.22%) Serverless
9 7 (1.22%) Sprout Social
10 6 (1.04%) Snowflake
11 5 (0.87%) Power Platform
12 4 (0.69%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (0.52%) AWS KMS
13 3 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (0.52%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.08%) DNS
2 11 (1.91%) LAN
3 10 (1.74%) Broadband
3 10 (1.74%) Firewall
4 8 (1.39%) HTTP
4 8 (1.39%) VoIP
5 7 (1.22%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.04%) BGP
6 6 (1.04%) Internet
6 6 (1.04%) VPN
7 4 (0.69%) DHCP
7 4 (0.69%) HSRP
7 4 (0.69%) MPLS
7 4 (0.69%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.69%) VPLS
7 4 (0.69%) VRRP
7 4 (0.69%) WAN
8 3 (0.52%) WPA
9 2 (0.35%) IGMP
9 2 (0.35%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.91%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (1.56%) Db2
3 9 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (1.39%) BigQuery
5 7 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.04%) MySQL
7 5 (0.87%) Big Data
7 5 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.87%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.87%) Power BI
8 4 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (0.69%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.52%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.35%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.35%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.35%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (1.56%) Git
1 9 (1.56%) GitLab
2 8 (1.39%) JIRA
3 3 (0.52%) Maven
4 1 (0.17%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.17%) JMeter
4 1 (0.17%) JUnit
4 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.17%) Selenium
4 1 (0.17%) Snyk
4 1 (0.17%) Vite
4 1 (0.17%) webpack
General
1 165 (28.65%) Finance
2 161 (27.95%) Social Skills
3 113 (19.62%) Marketing
4 90 (15.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 79 (13.72%) Analytical Skills
6 73 (12.67%) Retail
7 56 (9.72%) Law
8 53 (9.20%) Banking
9 35 (6.08%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (5.38%) Back Office
11 25 (4.34%) Presentation Skills
12 18 (3.13%) Legal
13 15 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (2.60%) Manufacturing
14 14 (2.43%) Italian Language
15 13 (2.26%) Public Sector
16 12 (2.08%) German Language
17 11 (1.91%) French Language
18 10 (1.74%) Financial Institution
19 8 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (11.46%) Senior
2 60 (10.42%) Lead
3 27 (4.69%) Architect
4 25 (4.34%) Account Manager
5 24 (4.17%) Analyst
6 23 (3.99%) Product Manager
7 21 (3.65%) Consultant
8 20 (3.47%) Service Manager
9 19 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
9 19 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (2.78%) IT Manager
11 15 (2.60%) Administrator
12 14 (2.43%) Business Consultant
12 14 (2.43%) Business Development Consultant
12 14 (2.43%) Designer
12 14 (2.43%) Development Consultant
12 14 (2.43%) Digital Architect
13 12 (2.08%) Engineering Manager
14 10 (1.74%) Sales Executive
14 10 (1.74%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.13%) Ruby on Rails
2 15 (2.60%) .NET
3 12 (2.08%) RESTful
4 9 (1.56%) CSS
4 9 (1.56%) HTML
5 7 (1.22%) GraphQL
5 7 (1.22%) React Native
5 7 (1.22%) REST
5 7 (1.22%) WebSockets
6 6 (1.04%) Django
7 5 (0.87%) Flutter
8 4 (0.69%) ASP.NET
8 4 (0.69%) ModSecurity
8 4 (0.69%) PySpark
8 4 (0.69%) PyTorch
8 4 (0.69%) scikit-learn
8 4 (0.69%) XGBoost
9 3 (0.52%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.52%) React
9 3 (0.52%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 49 (8.51%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.90%) Onboarding
3 23 (3.99%) Management Information System
3 23 (3.99%) Social Media
4 22 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.30%) Data Centre
6 15 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.26%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.26%) Driving Licence
8 11 (1.91%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.74%) FMCG
10 9 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.39%) Graphic Design
12 7 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.22%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.22%) Freedom of Information
12 7 (1.22%) Freedom of Information Act
12 7 (1.22%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.95%) Linux
1 17 (2.95%) Windows
2 7 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.04%) Android
4 5 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.69%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.35%) Rocky
7 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
2 96 (16.67%) Agile
3 95 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
4 88 (15.28%) AI
5 66 (11.46%) Roadmaps
6 65 (11.28%) User Experience
7 64 (11.11%) Analytics
7 64 (11.11%) Decision-Making
8 63 (10.94%) Customer Experience
9 51 (8.85%) Mentoring
10 46 (7.99%) Service Delivery
11 45 (7.81%) B2B
12 44 (7.64%) ITIL
13 42 (7.29%) Cybersecurity
14 41 (7.12%) Customer-Centric Approach
15 38 (6.60%) Service Management
15 38 (6.60%) Stakeholder Management
16 37 (6.42%) Business Development
16 37 (6.42%) Collaborative Culture
16 37 (6.42%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 39 (6.77%) SQL
2 32 (5.56%) Python
3 18 (3.13%) Ruby
4 15 (2.60%) C#
5 10 (1.74%) Java
6 9 (1.56%) Bash
6 9 (1.56%) PL/SQL
6 9 (1.56%) VB.NET
7 6 (1.04%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.69%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.17%) Bicep
11 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 65 (11.28%) Degree
2 22 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (3.30%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.08%) CISSP
4 12 (2.08%) DV Cleared
4 12 (2.08%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.56%) CISM
5 9 (1.56%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.39%) PhD
7 7 (1.22%) CISA
7 7 (1.22%) CRISC
7 7 (1.22%) ISACA
7 7 (1.22%) RHCSA
8 6 (1.04%) CCNP
8 6 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.04%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.69%) CCIE
10 4 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.69%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.30%) QA
2 16 (2.78%) SLA
3 15 (2.60%) GDPR
4 11 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.91%) NIST
5 9 (1.56%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.39%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.22%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.22%) COBIT
7 7 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (1.22%) SOC 1
7 7 (1.22%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.04%) NEBOSH
9 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.35%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.35%) WCAG
10 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.17%) PERC
System Software
1 13 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.04%) Docker
4 4 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.69%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.35%) IAG
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (1.56%) Nagios
2 8 (1.39%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.69%) Ansible
4 3 (0.52%) CSIRT
4 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 53 (9.20%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.08%) Adobe
3 22 (3.82%) Salesforce
4 18 (3.13%) Google
5 13 (2.26%) VMware
6 12 (2.08%) Cisco
7 9 (1.56%) SolarWinds
8 8 (1.39%) HubSpot
8 8 (1.39%) Oracle
8 8 (1.39%) SAP
9 7 (1.22%) Hootsuite
9 7 (1.22%) Instagram
9 7 (1.22%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.22%) Wrike
10 6 (1.04%) Databricks
10 6 (1.04%) Dell
10 6 (1.04%) Sage
10 6 (1.04%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.04%) Tealium
10 6 (1.04%) TikTok