Customer-Centricity Contracts

Customer-Centric
UK

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 429 530 536
Rank change year-on-year +101 +6 -38
Contract jobs citing Customer-Centricity 174 166 337
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.30% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.33% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 122 225
10th Percentile £168 £170 £350
25th Percentile £344 £340 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £505 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% -12.17% +4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £617 £713
90th Percentile £675 £700 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile - £18.13 £12.09
25th Percentile £6.57 £21.34 £15.06
Median hourly rate £10.30 £26.67 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -61.38% +1.60% +15.38%
75th Percentile £13.97 £32.01 £59.13
90th Percentile £15.49 £35.21 £79.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £10.30 £16.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year -35.63% +23.08% -41.86%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Customer-Centricity in the UK

Customer-Centricity
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer-Centricity over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer-Centricity in the UK

Customer-Centricity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer-Centricity in the UK

Customer-Centricity
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Customer-Centricity within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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 +97 156 £450 -10.00% 267
London +77 80 £475 -9.52% 84
UK excluding London +52 79 £425 -15.00% 189
Work from Home +111 60 £478 -4.50% 137
South East +29 37 £488 +39.78% 48
South West +16 12 £150 -77.78% 22
East of England +9 10 £345 -28.31% 16
Scotland +45 8 £455 -20.87% 12
North of England +20 8 £563 +3.21% 56
North West +10 4 £550 -6.38% 28
Yorkshire +10 4 £600 +18.23% 18
Wales +19 2 £91 -84.17% 6
Midlands +6 2 £398 -23.30% 32
West Midlands 0 2 £398 -21.40% 20

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 8 (4.60%) Confluence
1 8 (4.60%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.02%) CMS
3 1 (0.57%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (5.75%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.57%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.57%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.57%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 15 (8.62%) Azure
2 13 (7.47%) Power Platform
3 11 (6.32%) AWS
3 11 (6.32%) Cloud Computing
3 11 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (4.02%) Figma
4 7 (4.02%) SaaS
4 7 (4.02%) Slack
5 6 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.45%) Serverless
6 5 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.87%) Google Workspace
6 5 (2.87%) PaaS
7 4 (2.30%) GCP
7 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.72%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (1.72%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.72%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.15%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.30%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (1.15%) Broadband
2 2 (1.15%) SSH
2 2 (1.15%) Telnet
2 2 (1.15%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.15%) VoIP
3 1 (0.57%) 3G
3 1 (0.57%) 4G
3 1 (0.57%) 5G
3 1 (0.57%) DSL
3 1 (0.57%) Firewall
3 1 (0.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.90%) Power BI
2 6 (3.45%) Tableau
3 4 (2.30%) Couchbase
4 3 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.72%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.57%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (4.60%) JIRA
2 4 (2.30%) Git
3 2 (1.15%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.15%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.15%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.57%) GitLab
General
1 105 (60.34%) Social Skills
2 47 (27.01%) Finance
3 42 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (13.79%) Telecoms
5 15 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (8.62%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (8.62%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (8.05%) Marketing
6 14 (8.05%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.60%) Banking
8 7 (4.02%) Legal
8 7 (4.02%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.87%) Electronics
9 5 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.87%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (2.30%) Retail
11 2 (1.15%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.15%) French Language
11 2 (1.15%) Law
11 2 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 34 (19.54%) Analyst
2 20 (11.49%) Senior
3 13 (7.47%) Designer
4 12 (6.90%) Architect
5 11 (6.32%) Senior Analyst
6 8 (4.60%) Product Manager
7 7 (4.02%) Business Analyst
7 7 (4.02%) Lead
7 7 (4.02%) Product Owner
7 7 (4.02%) Service Designer
7 7 (4.02%) Support Analyst
7 7 (4.02%) Support Engineer
7 7 (4.02%) Technical Analyst
7 7 (4.02%) Technical Support
8 6 (3.45%) Project Manager
8 6 (3.45%) Technical Support Analyst
9 5 (2.87%) Business Manager
9 5 (2.87%) Desktop Engineer
9 5 (2.87%) Security Engineer
9 5 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.87%) Node.js
2 4 (2.30%) Kafka
2 4 (2.30%) REST
3 3 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.15%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.15%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.15%) CSS
4 2 (1.15%) HTML
4 2 (1.15%) OpenAPI
4 2 (1.15%) Playwright
4 2 (1.15%) Pyramid
4 2 (1.15%) React
4 2 (1.15%) SAML
4 2 (1.15%) Swagger
4 2 (1.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (1.15%) Web Services
5 1 (0.57%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.57%) JWT
5 1 (0.57%) Next.js
5 1 (0.57%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.90%) Product Ownership
1 12 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (2.87%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.30%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.30%) Virtual Team
4 3 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.72%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.72%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.72%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.15%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.15%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.15%) PMI
5 2 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.57%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (0.57%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.75%) Windows
2 4 (2.30%) Linux
3 3 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.15%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.57%) Android
5 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (31.61%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (29.31%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 48 (27.59%) Agile
4 31 (17.82%) Project Management
4 31 (17.82%) Roadmaps
5 30 (17.24%) Customer Service
6 25 (14.37%) Customer Experience
7 24 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 24 (13.79%) User Stories
8 22 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (12.64%) Decision-Making
9 19 (10.92%) DevOps
10 18 (10.34%) Analytics
10 18 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (10.34%) Infrastructure Management
10 18 (10.34%) Service Management
11 17 (9.77%) ITIL
11 17 (9.77%) Risk Management
11 17 (9.77%) Scrum
12 16 (9.20%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.60%) Python
1 8 (4.60%) SQL
2 7 (4.02%) TypeScript
3 6 (3.45%) C++
3 6 (3.45%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.87%) Bicep
4 5 (2.87%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.72%) Java
6 2 (1.15%) Bash
6 2 (1.15%) C
6 2 (1.15%) Go
6 2 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.15%) Scala
7 1 (0.57%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 21 (12.07%) Degree
2 12 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.75%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.87%) Postgraduate
6 4 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.30%) CSPO
6 4 (2.30%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.72%) APMP
7 3 (1.72%) PgMP
8 2 (1.15%) ACCA
8 2 (1.15%) CCENT
8 2 (1.15%) CIMA
8 2 (1.15%) CIPD
8 2 (1.15%) CIPFA
8 2 (1.15%) ISEB
8 2 (1.15%) PMP
8 2 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.90%) QA
2 9 (5.17%) PMO
3 6 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.87%) SLA
5 4 (2.30%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.15%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.57%) GRC
8 1 (0.57%) P3O
System Software
1 3 (1.72%) Docker
2 2 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (2.87%) Terraform
2 3 (1.72%) Progress Chef
2 3 (1.72%) Puppet
3 2 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.57%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.57%) Ansible
4 1 (0.57%) Grafana
4 1 (0.57%) Kibana
4 1 (0.57%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.57%) NetIQ Identity Manager
Vendors
1 33 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.32%) Oracle
3 10 (5.75%) SAP
4 7 (4.02%) Google
5 6 (3.45%) Cisco
6 4 (2.30%) BT
7 3 (1.72%) Adobe
7 3 (1.72%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.15%) Ariba
8 2 (1.15%) Citrix
8 2 (1.15%) Genesys
8 2 (1.15%) Guidewire
8 2 (1.15%) Huawei
8 2 (1.15%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.15%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.57%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.57%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.57%) NCR
9 1 (0.57%) NetIQ
9 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow