Customer-Centric
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Customer-Centricity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Customer-Centricity over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 259 284
Rank change year-on-year -120 +25 +141
Permanent jobs citing Customer-Centricity 700 1,418 2,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 1.40% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.46% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 477 620 653
10th Percentile £26,650 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £51,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +7.69% +23.81%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £93,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -39.29% +16.67% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Customer-Centricity 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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Customer-Centricity in the UK

Customer-Centricity
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer-Centricity over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Customer-Centricity in the UK

Customer-Centricity
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-Centricity within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 -97 614 £46,958 -32.92% 242
UK excluding London -117 482 £42,500 -39.29% 166
Work from Home -96 262 £48,500 -31.30% 108
London -45 185 £72,500 +3.57% 92
South East -68 136 £42,500 -39.29% 43
North of England -99 91 £37,500 -46.43% 44
Midlands -20 82 £45,000 -35.71% 25
South West -32 81 £46,958 -32.92% 22
North West -10 54 £35,000 -50.00% 23
West Midlands -4 47 £65,000 -1.89% 14
East of England -39 37 £32,875 -53.43% 12
Scotland -56 37 £45,000 -36.26% 11
East Midlands -11 35 £31,000 -55.71% 11
Yorkshire -45 34 £48,750 -30.36% 13
Wales +10 15 £35,000 -50.00% 9
Northern Ireland +26 3 £32,500 - 5
North East -20 3 £37,500 -46.43% 8

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 24 (3.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.43%) Confluence
4 5 (0.71%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.71%) CMS
5 4 (0.57%) SAS
6 3 (0.43%) IIS
6 3 (0.43%) Moodle
6 3 (0.43%) WordPress
7 2 (0.29%) Apache
7 2 (0.29%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 42 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (5.86%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.57%) Adobe Captivate
6 3 (0.43%) InVision
7 2 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.29%) Sketch
8 1 (0.14%) 1Password
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.14%) Blender
8 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.14%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 15 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (0.86%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.14%) Data Workbench
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 153 (21.86%) Azure
2 106 (15.14%) AWS
3 89 (12.71%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 46 (6.57%) SaaS
6 28 (4.00%) GCP
7 26 (3.71%) Power Automate
8 22 (3.14%) PowerApps
9 21 (3.00%) Entra ID
10 16 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (1.57%) OneDrive
12 10 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (1.29%) OCI
14 8 (1.14%) Serverless
15 7 (1.00%) Snowflake
16 6 (0.86%) Amazon EMR
16 6 (0.86%) Amazon S3
16 6 (0.86%) Matillion
16 6 (0.86%) PaaS
17 5 (0.71%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.00%) Firewall
2 25 (3.57%) LAN
3 15 (2.14%) DNS
4 10 (1.43%) DHCP
5 9 (1.29%) Remote Desktop
5 9 (1.29%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.14%) WAN
6 8 (1.14%) Wireless
7 7 (1.00%) Network Security
7 7 (1.00%) VoIP
7 7 (1.00%) VPN
8 4 (0.57%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (0.57%) HTTP
8 4 (0.57%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.43%) Internet
9 3 (0.43%) PBX
10 2 (0.29%) Intranet
11 1 (0.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (9.57%) Power BI
2 21 (3.00%) Tableau
3 20 (2.86%) SQL Server
4 17 (2.43%) MySQL
5 12 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (1.57%) Amazon QuickSight
6 11 (1.57%) Metadata
7 8 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.14%) Big Data
8 7 (1.00%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.00%) SAP BW
9 6 (0.86%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.86%) Data Mining
9 6 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.71%) Apache Hive
10 5 (0.71%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.71%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.57%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.57%) QlikView
11 4 (0.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (3.43%) JIRA
2 12 (1.71%) Git
3 4 (0.57%) Postman
3 4 (0.57%) webpack
4 2 (0.29%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.29%) JMeter
5 1 (0.14%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 352 (50.29%) Social Skills
2 172 (24.57%) Analytical Skills
3 169 (24.14%) Finance
4 82 (11.71%) Marketing
5 69 (9.86%) Retail
6 58 (8.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 54 (7.71%) Legal
8 42 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (5.86%) Telecoms
10 40 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
10 40 (5.71%) Public Sector
11 33 (4.71%) Manufacturing
12 30 (4.29%) Law
13 24 (3.43%) Fire and Rescue
14 23 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (2.71%) Banking
16 18 (2.57%) Brand Awareness
17 12 (1.71%) Automotive
18 11 (1.57%) Back Office
18 11 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 92 (13.14%) Senior
2 81 (11.57%) Analyst
3 66 (9.43%) Architect
4 60 (8.57%) Developer
5 57 (8.14%) Lead
6 45 (6.43%) Support Engineer
7 40 (5.71%) IT Support
8 35 (5.00%) Product Manager
9 34 (4.86%) Project Manager
10 28 (4.00%) Senior Architect
11 25 (3.57%) Software Engineer
12 24 (3.43%) Consultant
12 24 (3.43%) Security Architect
13 22 (3.14%) Applications Developer
13 22 (3.14%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 21 (3.00%) Designer
14 21 (3.00%) Product Owner
14 21 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
14 21 (3.00%) Team Leader
15 19 (2.71%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (7.14%) .NET
2 31 (4.43%) AngularJS
3 28 (4.00%) React
4 26 (3.71%) CSS
5 23 (3.29%) HTML
6 22 (3.14%) RESTful
7 21 (3.00%) Web Services
8 12 (1.71%) HTML5
8 12 (1.71%) jQuery
9 11 (1.57%) Vue
10 10 (1.43%) Node.js
11 8 (1.14%) Laravel
11 8 (1.14%) Symfony
12 6 (0.86%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.86%) Blazor
12 6 (0.86%) CSS3
12 6 (0.86%) Sass
13 5 (0.71%) Doctrine
13 5 (0.71%) LAMP
14 4 (0.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (9.29%) Product Ownership
2 63 (9.00%) Onboarding
3 47 (6.71%) Management Information System
4 45 (6.43%) Self-Motivation
5 27 (3.86%) Data Centre
6 21 (3.00%) Data Structures
6 21 (3.00%) Driving Licence
7 19 (2.71%) Algorithms
8 17 (2.43%) Cyberattack
9 16 (2.29%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.71%) iPhone
11 10 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.43%) PMI
12 6 (0.86%) Learning Management System
12 6 (0.86%) Reinsurance
13 5 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (0.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (0.71%) Fat Client
13 5 (0.71%) Hedge funds
13 5 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 71 (10.14%) Windows
2 26 (3.71%) Windows Server
3 17 (2.43%) Windows 10
4 14 (2.00%) Linux
5 11 (1.57%) Android
5 11 (1.57%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.71%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.71%) Unix
8 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.14%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (30.14%) Problem-Solving
2 203 (29.00%) Agile
3 165 (23.57%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 143 (20.43%) Customer Experience
5 125 (17.86%) Customer Service
6 115 (16.43%) Roadmaps
7 113 (16.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 111 (15.86%) Project Management
9 84 (12.00%) Analytics
10 77 (11.00%) ITIL
11 76 (10.86%) Business Development
11 76 (10.86%) CRM
11 76 (10.86%) User Experience
12 71 (10.14%) Scrum
13 63 (9.00%) Coaching
14 62 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
15 61 (8.71%) Collaborative Working
16 60 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
16 60 (8.57%) Decision-Making
17 58 (8.29%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 91 (13.00%) SQL
2 42 (6.00%) JavaScript
3 39 (5.57%) Python
4 36 (5.14%) C#
5 31 (4.43%) Java
6 14 (2.00%) C
7 13 (1.86%) R
8 12 (1.71%) PHP
8 12 (1.71%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.00%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.00%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.86%) Go
10 6 (0.86%) VBA
11 5 (0.71%) Scala
11 5 (0.71%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.57%) Bash
12 4 (0.57%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.57%) Swift
13 3 (0.43%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 143 (20.43%) Degree
2 41 (5.86%) Azure Certification
3 29 (4.14%) CISSP
4 26 (3.71%) Master's Degree
4 26 (3.71%) Security Cleared
5 24 (3.43%) AWS Certification
5 24 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (3.29%) SC Cleared
7 19 (2.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 18 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (2.43%) CISM
10 15 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (2.00%) MBA
12 12 (1.71%) A+ Certification
12 12 (1.71%) OSCP
13 11 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (1.43%) PMI Certification
15 8 (1.14%) CSPO
16 7 (1.00%) DBS Check
16 7 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.14%) SLA
2 23 (3.29%) GDPR
3 21 (3.00%) QA
4 12 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.00%) HIPAA
6 7 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 7 (1.00%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.86%) GAAP
7 6 (0.86%) IFRS
7 6 (0.86%) PMO
8 5 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.71%) IASME
9 4 (0.57%) ISO 22301
9 4 (0.57%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.43%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.43%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.29%) COBIT
11 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 63 (9.00%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.71%) Docker
4 10 (1.43%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (1.57%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.00%) SCCM
4 2 (0.29%) CASB
4 2 (0.29%) Terraform
5 1 (0.14%) Ansible
5 1 (0.14%) Autotask
5 1 (0.14%) Nessus
5 1 (0.14%) Puppet
5 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 200 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.57%) Oracle
2 25 (3.57%) VMware
3 23 (3.29%) SAP
4 17 (2.43%) Cisco
5 15 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.43%) Databricks
7 7 (1.00%) Adobe
7 7 (1.00%) CyberArk
7 7 (1.00%) Veeam
8 6 (0.86%) Apple
8 6 (0.86%) Citrix
8 6 (0.86%) PeopleSoft
8 6 (0.86%) Red Hat
8 6 (0.86%) Sophos
9 5 (0.71%) Fortinet
9 5 (0.71%) Genesys
9 5 (0.71%) Google
9 5 (0.71%) Palo Alto
9 5 (0.71%) YouTube