Customer Experience Contracts in the UK excluding London

Customer Experience (CX)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Customer Experience skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Customer Experience over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 203 200 161
Rank change year-on-year -3 -39 +7
Contract jobs citing Customer Experience 196 280 483
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.97% 1.22% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.36% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 183 296
10th Percentile £263 £272 £235
25th Percentile £359 £368 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £681
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 23 25
10th Percentile £10.42 £12.15 £10.88
25th Percentile £11.86 £13.16 £11.36
Median hourly rate £13.13 £14.50 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -7.88% +12.19%
75th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £17.61
90th Percentile £17.72 £19.14 £24.00
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £17.22 £17.50
% change year-on-year -12.88% -1.61% +24.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,112 20,583 27,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.30% 89.45% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,187 18,951
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,254 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Customer Experience
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Customer Experience as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Experience in the UK excluding London

Customer Experience
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer Experience in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Customer Experience in the UK excluding London

Customer Experience
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Experience in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Experience in the UK excluding London

Customer Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer Experience in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Customer Experience in the UK excluding London

Customer Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Experience in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Experience in the UK excluding London

Customer Experience
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Experience within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +6 86 £475 +11.76% 166
North of England +20 52 £500 -9.09% 140
North West +17 44 £500 -13.04% 74
South West +8 23 £400 - 47
Scotland +24 15 £650 +18.18% 27
Midlands +19 12 £495 +3.13% 88
West Midlands +18 9 £500 +7.53% 58
Yorkshire +4 6 £475 -13.64% 46
East of England -12 6 £438 -12.50% 46
Northern Ireland +4 4 £435 +45.00% 8
East Midlands +15 3 £475 -9.52% 30
Wales +16 1 £300 -47.83% 17
North East - 1 £625 - 21
Customer Experience
UK

Customer Experience
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (2.55%) Confluence
1 5 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.53%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.02%) Jadu
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) Appian
4 1 (0.51%) CMS
4 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (7.65%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.51%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (5.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.53%) Shopify
4 2 (1.02%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.51%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (5.10%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (3.57%) Azure
4 6 (3.06%) OneDrive
5 4 (2.04%) AWS
5 4 (2.04%) SaaS
6 3 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.53%) BigCommerce
6 3 (1.53%) PaaS
6 3 (1.53%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.51%) Azure API Management
7 1 (0.51%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.51%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.51%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.51%) Miro
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle CX
7 1 (0.51%) Serverless
7 1 (0.51%) SpeedCurve
7 1 (0.51%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.20%) 5G
2 15 (7.65%) Radio Access Network
3 14 (7.14%) 3G
3 14 (7.14%) 4G
4 12 (6.12%) DNS
5 7 (3.57%) VoLTE
5 7 (3.57%) Wireshark
6 6 (3.06%) Diameter Protocol
6 6 (3.06%) GGSN
6 6 (3.06%) LTE
6 6 (3.06%) RANAP
6 6 (3.06%) SGSN
7 5 (2.55%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.55%) VPN
8 4 (2.04%) DHCP
8 4 (2.04%) Firewall
9 3 (1.53%) Internet
9 3 (1.53%) VoIP
9 3 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.02%) 2G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.53%) GIS
1 3 (1.53%) Power BI
2 2 (1.02%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.02%) Tableau
3 1 (0.51%) MySQL
3 1 (0.51%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (4.08%) JIRA
2 6 (3.06%) Git
3 3 (1.53%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.53%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.02%) Android Studio
4 2 (1.02%) Capybara
4 2 (1.02%) Gradle
4 2 (1.02%) Maven
4 2 (1.02%) Subversion
5 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.51%) GoCD
5 1 (0.51%) Pa11y
5 1 (0.51%) Postman
5 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.51%) TestCafe
General
1 72 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 39 (19.90%) Telecoms
3 35 (17.86%) Finance
4 30 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (11.73%) Marketing
6 20 (10.20%) Public Sector
7 12 (6.12%) Banking
8 11 (5.61%) Law
8 11 (5.61%) Retail
9 8 (4.08%) Legal
9 8 (4.08%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (3.57%) Manufacturing
11 6 (3.06%) Multimedia
12 4 (2.04%) Back Office
12 4 (2.04%) Billing
13 3 (1.53%) Front Office
13 3 (1.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 28 (14.29%) Senior
2 21 (10.71%) Analyst
3 18 (9.18%) Consultant
4 15 (7.65%) Lead
5 14 (7.14%) Support Engineer
6 11 (5.61%) Data Analyst
7 10 (5.10%) Administrator
8 8 (4.08%) Desktop Engineer
8 8 (4.08%) Desktop Support
8 8 (4.08%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 8 (4.08%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 8 (4.08%) Project Manager
8 8 (4.08%) Technical Leader
8 8 (4.08%) Telecoms Manager
9 7 (3.57%) Architect
9 7 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (3.57%) Senior Data Analyst
10 6 (3.06%) Network Manager
10 6 (3.06%) Procurement Manager
10 6 (3.06%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.06%) HTML
2 5 (2.55%) .NET
3 4 (2.04%) CSS
3 4 (2.04%) React
3 4 (2.04%) REST
4 3 (1.53%) JSON
4 3 (1.53%) RESTful
4 3 (1.53%) VML
4 3 (1.53%) YAML
5 2 (1.02%) Android SDK
5 2 (1.02%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.02%) gRPC
5 2 (1.02%) Kafka
5 2 (1.02%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.02%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.02%) Swagger
5 2 (1.02%) Symfony
5 2 (1.02%) Twig
5 2 (1.02%) WebKit
6 1 (0.51%) Doctrine
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.61%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.59%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.04%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.53%) BYOD
7 3 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.53%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.53%) Housing Association
7 3 (1.53%) Social Media
7 3 (1.53%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.02%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.02%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (1.02%) Video Editing
9 1 (0.51%) CMDB
9 1 (0.51%) FMCG
9 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.76%) Windows
2 11 (5.61%) Linux
2 11 (5.61%) Windows 10
3 6 (3.06%) Apple iOS
3 6 (3.06%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.53%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.53%) Unix
4 3 (1.53%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.02%) Android
5 2 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (15.82%) Agile
2 31 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
3 29 (14.80%) Customer Service
4 28 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 25 (12.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (10.20%) CRM
7 19 (9.69%) Data Analysis
7 19 (9.69%) Service Delivery
8 18 (9.18%) ITIL
8 18 (9.18%) Migration
8 18 (9.18%) Project Management
8 18 (9.18%) User Experience
9 17 (8.67%) Roadmaps
10 15 (7.65%) Translating Business Requirements
11 14 (7.14%) Change Management
11 14 (7.14%) Data Migration
12 12 (6.12%) Computer Science
12 12 (6.12%) Line Management
12 12 (6.12%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.63%) SQL
2 8 (4.08%) JavaScript
3 5 (2.55%) Python
4 4 (2.04%) C#
4 4 (2.04%) Java
4 4 (2.04%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.53%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.02%) C++
6 2 (1.02%) Go
6 2 (1.02%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.02%) PHP
6 2 (1.02%) Ruby
6 2 (1.02%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.51%) Bicep
7 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (11.22%) Degree
2 14 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.08%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (2.04%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.53%) PMP
6 2 (1.02%) MBA
6 2 (1.02%) PhD
7 1 (0.51%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.51%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.22%) SLA
2 10 (5.10%) GDPR
3 7 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.57%) QA
4 4 (2.04%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.04%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.53%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (1.02%) PMO
7 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (7.65%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.53%) Docker
3 3 (1.53%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.53%) vSphere
4 1 (0.51%) Firmware
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (5.10%) SCCM
2 7 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (3.06%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (2.04%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.53%) WSUS
6 2 (1.02%) Ansible
7 1 (0.51%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.51%) Grafana
7 1 (0.51%) Kibana
7 1 (0.51%) Nagios
7 1 (0.51%) OpenView
Vendors
1 25 (12.76%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.16%) SAP
3 13 (6.63%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.08%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.57%) Adobe
5 7 (3.57%) BT
6 6 (3.06%) Apple
6 6 (3.06%) Cisco
6 6 (3.06%) Empirix
6 6 (3.06%) NetScout
7 5 (2.55%) VMware
8 4 (2.04%) Ariba
9 3 (1.53%) Aruba
9 3 (1.53%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.53%) Civica
9 3 (1.53%) Dell
9 3 (1.53%) F5
9 3 (1.53%) Intel
9 3 (1.53%) OpenText
9 3 (1.53%) Oracle