Customer Experience Contracts

Customer Experience (CX)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 193 249 197
Rank change year-on-year +56 -52 +13
Contract jobs citing Customer Experience 524 634 1,288
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.22% 1.09% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.22% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 394 815
10th Percentile £263 £313 £357
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +17.52%
75th Percentile £594 £634 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +12.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 35 35
10th Percentile £11.25 £12.34 £11.17
25th Percentile £11.87 £13.16 £12.50
Median hourly rate £15.00 £16.94 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% -6.51% +29.12%
75th Percentile £17.95 £20.00 £38.13
90th Percentile £32.75 £52.80 £62.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.75 £14.50 £15.74
% change year-on-year -12.05% -7.88% +12.19%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Experience in the UK

Customer Experience
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Experience over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Experience in the UK

Customer Experience
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Experience in the UK

Customer Experience
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Experience over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Experience in the UK

Customer Experience
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +55 473 £500 -2.44% 699
London +78 276 £516 -6.18% 243
UK excluding London -20 199 £500 +5.26% 493
Work from Home +55 182 £500 +1.01% 305
South East +1 86 £475 +11.76% 123
North of England +16 53 £500 -9.09% 150
North West +12 45 £500 -6.98% 88
South West +12 25 £385 -3.75% 41
Scotland +19 15 £650 +23.81% 34
Midlands +28 12 £495 +6.45% 84
West Midlands +16 9 £500 +11.11% 57
Yorkshire +8 6 £475 -13.64% 42
East of England -8 6 £438 -12.50% 44
Northern Ireland +5 4 £435 +45.00% 13
East Midlands +23 3 £475 -9.52% 27
Wales +16 1 £300 -42.86% 22
North East +13 1 £625 - 22

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 13 (2.48%) CMS
2 10 (1.91%) Confluence
2 10 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.53%) govService
4 6 (1.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.76%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.57%) Apache
6 3 (0.57%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (0.57%) Jadu
7 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.19%) Appian
8 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.19%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.19%) SAS
8 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 32 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (3.24%) Chatbot
4 15 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.15%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.38%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.19%) Sketch
7 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (3.63%) Shopify
2 13 (2.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.57%) CA PPM
4 3 (0.57%) Oracle 11i
4 3 (0.57%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.38%) SAP PLM
5 2 (0.38%) Softmar
5 2 (0.38%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 56 (10.69%) Azure
2 33 (6.30%) AWS
3 26 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (3.63%) Cloud Computing
4 19 (3.63%) SaaS
5 18 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (3.05%) GCP
6 16 (3.05%) Power Platform
7 14 (2.67%) BigCommerce
7 14 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (1.72%) Google Analytics
8 9 (1.72%) PaaS
9 8 (1.53%) Twilio
10 7 (1.34%) Serverless
11 6 (1.15%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (0.95%) Figma
12 5 (0.95%) GitHub
13 4 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.77%) 5G
2 19 (3.63%) Radio Access Network
3 18 (3.44%) 3G
3 18 (3.44%) 4G
4 17 (3.24%) DNS
4 17 (3.24%) VPN
5 15 (2.86%) VoIP
6 11 (2.10%) CTI
7 9 (1.72%) Internet
7 9 (1.72%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.53%) HTTP
9 7 (1.34%) VoLTE
9 7 (1.34%) Wireshark
10 6 (1.15%) 2G
10 6 (1.15%) Diameter Protocol
10 6 (1.15%) GGSN
10 6 (1.15%) LTE
10 6 (1.15%) RANAP
10 6 (1.15%) SGSN
11 5 (0.95%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.05%) Power BI
2 13 (2.48%) Tableau
3 7 (1.34%) GIS
4 6 (1.15%) MySQL
4 6 (1.15%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.76%) QGIS
6 3 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.57%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.57%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.38%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.38%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.38%) NonStop SQL
7 2 (0.38%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.38%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.19%) Looker
8 1 (0.19%) Redis
8 1 (0.19%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 23 (4.39%) Git
2 15 (2.86%) JIRA
3 10 (1.91%) git-flow
4 8 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.53%) Maven
4 8 (1.53%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 4 (0.76%) Appium
5 4 (0.76%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.57%) GitLab
6 3 (0.57%) Subversion
7 2 (0.38%) Android Studio
7 2 (0.38%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.38%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.38%) Capybara
7 2 (0.38%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.38%) GoCD
7 2 (0.38%) Gradle
7 2 (0.38%) Postman
7 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.38%) XCUITest
General
1 179 (34.16%) Social Skills
2 99 (18.89%) Finance
3 83 (15.84%) Marketing
4 71 (13.55%) Retail
5 67 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
6 65 (12.40%) Telecoms
7 47 (8.97%) Public Sector
8 30 (5.73%) Presentation Skills
9 28 (5.34%) Banking
10 16 (3.05%) Law
11 13 (2.48%) Retail Banking
12 12 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.29%) Manufacturing
13 11 (2.10%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.91%) Corporate Banking
14 10 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (1.91%) Legal
14 10 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.72%) Local Government
15 9 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 73 (13.93%) Senior
2 54 (10.31%) Analyst
3 40 (7.63%) Architect
3 40 (7.63%) Consultant
4 34 (6.49%) Lead
5 31 (5.92%) Support Engineer
6 29 (5.53%) Project Manager
7 23 (4.39%) Business Analyst
8 22 (4.20%) Product Owner
9 21 (4.01%) Designer
10 16 (3.05%) Data Analyst
10 16 (3.05%) Product Manager
11 15 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (2.67%) Desktop Support
12 14 (2.67%) Technical Leader
13 13 (2.48%) Desktop Engineer
13 13 (2.48%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 13 (2.48%) Head of Customer Experience
13 13 (2.48%) Head of Digital
14 12 (2.29%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.63%) CSS
2 16 (3.05%) Web Services
3 15 (2.86%) React
4 14 (2.67%) VML
5 12 (2.29%) .NET
6 11 (2.10%) REST
6 11 (2.10%) Sass
7 10 (1.91%) HTML
8 9 (1.72%) Jest
8 9 (1.72%) JSON
8 9 (1.72%) Middleware
8 9 (1.72%) RESTful
9 8 (1.53%) LESS
9 8 (1.53%) Material-UI
9 8 (1.53%) Node.js
9 8 (1.53%) OpenFin
9 8 (1.53%) Redux
9 8 (1.53%) Tailwind CSS
9 8 (1.53%) WebSockets
10 5 (0.95%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 45 (8.59%) Product Ownership
2 20 (3.82%) Management Information System
2 20 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (2.67%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.48%) Virtual Team
6 12 (2.29%) IVR
7 11 (2.10%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.10%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.53%) BYOD
9 8 (1.53%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.53%) Fixed Income
9 8 (1.53%) Social Media
10 7 (1.34%) Taxonomies
11 6 (1.15%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.76%) Driving Licence
12 4 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.25%) Windows
2 19 (3.63%) Linux
3 18 (3.44%) Windows 10
4 16 (3.05%) Apple iOS
5 15 (2.86%) Android
6 8 (1.53%) Unix
6 8 (1.53%) Windows 7
7 6 (1.15%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.57%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (21.37%) Agile
2 108 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (12.98%) User Experience
4 67 (12.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 66 (12.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 64 (12.21%) DevOps
7 63 (12.02%) Analytics
8 60 (11.45%) CRM
9 55 (10.50%) Project Management
10 54 (10.31%) Decision-Making
11 51 (9.73%) Roadmaps
12 49 (9.35%) Customer Service
13 44 (8.40%) Change Management
14 41 (7.82%) Computer Science
14 41 (7.82%) Service Design
15 40 (7.63%) Data Analysis
16 39 (7.44%) E-Commerce
16 39 (7.44%) Scrum
16 39 (7.44%) Service Delivery
17 36 (6.87%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 39 (7.44%) SQL
2 28 (5.34%) JavaScript
3 26 (4.96%) Java
4 25 (4.77%) Python
5 16 (3.05%) TypeScript
6 14 (2.67%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.91%) C#
8 6 (1.15%) Go
8 6 (1.15%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.76%) Ruby
10 3 (0.57%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.57%) PHP
10 3 (0.57%) Scala
10 3 (0.57%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.57%) Swift
10 3 (0.57%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.38%) Bash
11 2 (0.38%) C++
12 1 (0.19%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 74 (14.12%) Degree
2 44 (8.40%) Security Cleared
3 28 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (4.39%) SC Cleared
5 20 (3.82%) Master's Degree
6 11 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.91%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.53%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.95%) PMP
10 4 (0.76%) CCNA
10 4 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.76%) MBA
10 4 (0.76%) PhD
11 3 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.38%) IIBA
12 2 (0.38%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.19%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.25%) SLA
2 23 (4.39%) GDPR
3 19 (3.63%) Accessibility
4 16 (3.05%) QA
5 14 (2.67%) PCI DSS
6 11 (2.10%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.53%) HIPAA
7 8 (1.53%) PMO
7 8 (1.53%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.57%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.38%) PSD2
11 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (3.63%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.53%) Docker
3 7 (1.34%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.95%) NFS
5 5 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.57%) vSphere
7 1 (0.19%) Ceph
7 1 (0.19%) Firmware
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (1.91%) SCCM
3 9 (1.72%) Ansible
4 8 (1.53%) Kubernetes
5 7 (1.34%) Terraform
6 6 (1.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (0.57%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.57%) Puppet
7 3 (0.57%) WSUS
8 2 (0.38%) Grafana
9 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.19%) Kibana
9 1 (0.19%) Mesos
9 1 (0.19%) Nagios
9 1 (0.19%) OpenView
9 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (13.93%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.63%) SAP
3 33 (6.30%) Salesforce
4 31 (5.92%) Adobe
5 26 (4.96%) Cisco
6 25 (4.77%) Google
7 22 (4.20%) ServiceNow
8 17 (3.24%) Avaya
8 17 (3.24%) Sitecore
9 14 (2.67%) Oracle
10 12 (2.29%) Dell
10 12 (2.29%) Intel
11 11 (2.10%) Apple
12 10 (1.91%) Genesys
13 7 (1.34%) BT
14 6 (1.15%) Empirix
14 6 (1.15%) NetScout
14 6 (1.15%) Optimizely
15 5 (0.95%) VMware
16 4 (0.76%) Ariba