Customer Experience (CX)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Customer Experience skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Customer Experience over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 98 81
Rank change year-on-year -31 -17 +75
Permanent jobs citing Customer Experience 2,221 3,279 7,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.15% 3.37% 4.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.56% 3.53% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,337 1,300 2,307
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,700 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,249 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.31% +0.42% +4.88%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,715 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £94,504 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% -5.45% +13.40%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,886 92,843 159,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.13% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,763 54,795 82,800
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Customer Experience in the UK

Customer Experience
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Experience over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Customer Experience in the UK

Customer Experience
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 Experience within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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 -30 1,942 £45,000 -25.00% 749
UK excluding London -46 1,505 £40,000 -23.08% 510
Work from Home -58 841 £41,250 -36.85% 350
London -21 620 £60,000 -13.60% 246
South East +13 397 £38,000 -20.00% 131
North of England -77 368 £43,231 -28.10% 166
Midlands +58 347 £43,000 -14.00% 84
West Midlands +57 257 £40,000 -20.00% 50
North West -14 187 £39,817 -42.89% 82
Yorkshire -68 144 £43,500 -27.21% 49
South West -34 136 £45,000 +16.88% 45
Scotland -94 98 £60,000 -13.60% 29
East Midlands +8 89 £45,000 -10.00% 33
Wales +18 70 £37,500 +12.19% 19
East of England -24 69 £55,000 +22.22% 47
Northern Ireland +67 49 £35,000 -30.00% 6
North East +23 41 £50,000 +14.29% 36

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 80 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 60 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (1.31%) SAS
4 19 (0.86%) Confluence
5 18 (0.81%) CMS
6 15 (0.68%) WordPress
7 13 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 13 (0.59%) Umbraco
8 11 (0.50%) Apache
9 8 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (0.27%) IBM Domino
11 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.18%) Drupal
11 4 (0.18%) JBoss
12 3 (0.14%) GlassFish
12 3 (0.14%) Moodle
12 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.090%) IIS
13 2 (0.090%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.045%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 335 (15.08%) Microsoft Office
2 265 (11.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 56 (2.52%) Sketch
4 24 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.27%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
10 2 (0.090%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.090%) Trello
11 1 (0.045%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.045%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.045%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.045%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.045%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 29 (1.31%) Endur
2 17 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.72%) SAP CX
4 13 (0.59%) Adobe Campaign
5 12 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
6 10 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.45%) Unit4 Business World
7 9 (0.41%) SAP ERP
8 8 (0.36%) Magento
8 8 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 5 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.23%) Shopify
11 4 (0.18%) Lawson
11 4 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
12 3 (0.14%) NetSuite
12 3 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
12 3 (0.14%) SAP CRM
13 2 (0.090%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 245 (11.03%) Azure
2 151 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
3 135 (6.08%) AWS
4 126 (5.67%) SaaS
5 89 (4.01%) Power Platform
6 70 (3.15%) Figma
7 61 (2.75%) GCP
8 51 (2.30%) Miro
9 46 (2.07%) Heroku
10 23 (1.04%) Power Automate
10 23 (1.04%) Snowflake
11 21 (0.95%) Entra ID
12 20 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (0.90%) Google Analytics
13 19 (0.86%) Serverless
14 18 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
15 16 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 15 (0.68%) IaaS
17 14 (0.63%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 91 (4.10%) Firewall
2 63 (2.84%) VPN
3 60 (2.70%) TCP/IP
4 59 (2.66%) DNS
5 57 (2.57%) WAN
6 48 (2.16%) LAN
7 41 (1.85%) DHCP
8 36 (1.62%) Internet
9 32 (1.44%) Wireless
10 18 (0.81%) SAN
11 16 (0.72%) Network Security
11 16 (0.72%) VLAN
12 11 (0.50%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.50%) Unified Communications
13 10 (0.45%) SMS
14 9 (0.41%) HTTPS
14 9 (0.41%) SSL
14 9 (0.41%) VoIP
15 8 (0.36%) HTTP
15 8 (0.36%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (4.59%) Tableau
2 62 (2.79%) Power BI
3 34 (1.53%) SQL Server
4 30 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (1.13%) Relational Database
6 23 (1.04%) Big Data
7 21 (0.95%) Amazon QuickSight
8 20 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (0.86%) NoSQL
10 17 (0.77%) Metadata
10 17 (0.77%) MySQL
11 14 (0.63%) Data Mining
12 13 (0.59%) BigQuery
13 12 (0.54%) Looker
14 11 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.50%) Data Lake
14 11 (0.50%) MongoDB
15 9 (0.41%) Hadoop
16 8 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (0.36%) GIS
Development Applications
1 105 (4.73%) Git
2 56 (2.52%) JIRA
3 12 (0.54%) GitLab
4 10 (0.45%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.36%) Vagrant
6 7 (0.32%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.23%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.23%) Subversion
7 5 (0.23%) webpack
8 4 (0.18%) Postman
9 3 (0.14%) JUnit
9 3 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 2 (0.090%) Axure RP
10 2 (0.090%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.090%) NUnit
10 2 (0.090%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.090%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.090%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 663 (29.85%) Social Skills
2 520 (23.41%) Finance
3 317 (14.27%) Analytical Skills
4 254 (11.44%) Marketing
5 226 (10.18%) Retail
6 188 (8.46%) Military
7 152 (6.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 136 (6.12%) Telecoms
9 99 (4.46%) Banking
10 95 (4.28%) Presentation Skills
11 81 (3.65%) Public Sector
12 78 (3.51%) Legal
13 55 (2.48%) Manufacturing
14 50 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
15 38 (1.71%) Games
16 34 (1.53%) Electronics
17 33 (1.49%) Brand Awareness
18 28 (1.26%) Publishing
19 27 (1.22%) Billing
20 26 (1.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 368 (16.57%) Senior
2 221 (9.95%) Analyst
2 221 (9.95%) Development Manager
3 219 (9.86%) Business Manager
4 213 (9.59%) Business Development Manager
5 200 (9.00%) Graduate
6 131 (5.90%) Architect
7 125 (5.63%) Lead
8 114 (5.13%) Designer
9 98 (4.41%) Support Engineer
10 94 (4.23%) Developer
11 83 (3.74%) Consultant
12 76 (3.42%) Product Manager
13 75 (3.38%) Data Scientist
14 68 (3.06%) Senior Data Scientist
15 63 (2.84%) UI Designer
16 58 (2.61%) UX Designer
17 56 (2.52%) UI/UX Designer
18 54 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
19 52 (2.34%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (5.72%) HTML
2 63 (2.84%) CSS
3 58 (2.61%) Pandas
4 49 (2.21%) PySpark
5 46 (2.07%) React
6 45 (2.03%) .NET
6 45 (2.03%) scikit-learn
6 45 (2.03%) TensorFlow
7 41 (1.85%) Web Services
8 30 (1.35%) RESTful
9 26 (1.17%) XML
10 20 (0.90%) jQuery
11 19 (0.86%) JSON
12 17 (0.77%) .NET Core
12 17 (0.77%) REST
13 16 (0.72%) AngularJS
13 16 (0.72%) Node.js
13 16 (0.72%) Vue
14 15 (0.68%) SOAP
15 13 (0.59%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 301 (13.55%) Onboarding
2 160 (7.20%) Product Ownership
3 73 (3.29%) Management Information System
4 71 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
5 67 (3.02%) Algorithms
6 49 (2.21%) Data Structures
7 44 (1.98%) Social Media
8 43 (1.94%) Driving Licence
9 41 (1.85%) Data Centre
10 29 (1.31%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.13%) Cloud Native
11 25 (1.13%) Mobile App
12 22 (0.99%) Robotics
13 21 (0.95%) IoT
14 16 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
15 15 (0.68%) PlayStation
16 14 (0.63%) Credit Risk
17 13 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
17 13 (0.59%) Reinsurance
18 12 (0.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 150 (6.75%) Windows
2 67 (3.02%) Windows Server
3 56 (2.52%) Linux
4 30 (1.35%) Windows 10
5 28 (1.26%) Windows Server 2012
6 27 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (0.99%) Apple iOS
9 19 (0.86%) Android
10 17 (0.77%) Ubuntu
11 14 (0.63%) Mac OS
12 12 (0.54%) CentOS
12 12 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 11 (0.50%) Windows 8
14 9 (0.41%) Debian
14 9 (0.41%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.23%) AIX
15 5 (0.23%) Unix
16 4 (0.18%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (25.53%) Customer Service
2 489 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
3 434 (19.54%) Agile
4 393 (17.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 282 (12.70%) Data Analysis
6 260 (11.71%) Business Development
7 243 (10.94%) Process Improvement
8 233 (10.49%) Logistics
8 233 (10.49%) Roadmaps
9 232 (10.45%) Analytics
10 231 (10.40%) Performance Metrics
11 228 (10.27%) Coaching
12 224 (10.09%) Client Onboarding
13 223 (10.04%) Creative Thinking
14 199 (8.96%) Stakeholder Management
15 191 (8.60%) Contingency Planning
16 190 (8.55%) Decision-Making
17 181 (8.15%) User Experience
18 176 (7.92%) Actionable Insight
19 159 (7.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 260 (11.71%) SQL
2 171 (7.70%) Python
3 98 (4.41%) JavaScript
4 63 (2.84%) Java
5 48 (2.16%) C#
5 48 (2.16%) R
6 33 (1.49%) TypeScript
7 28 (1.26%) Bash
8 27 (1.22%) C
9 19 (0.86%) PHP
10 18 (0.81%) PowerShell
11 11 (0.50%) C++
12 9 (0.41%) VBA
13 8 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.32%) MATLAB
15 6 (0.27%) Go
15 6 (0.27%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.23%) Ruby
17 4 (0.18%) Scala
18 3 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 590 (26.56%) Degree
2 151 (6.80%) Security Cleared
3 134 (6.03%) SC Cleared
4 95 (4.28%) Master's Degree
5 69 (3.11%) DBS Check
6 40 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.13%) Azure Certification
9 21 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
10 14 (0.63%) MBA
10 14 (0.63%) PMI Certification
10 14 (0.63%) PMP
11 12 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
11 12 (0.54%) PhD
12 11 (0.50%) A+ Certification
13 10 (0.45%) CISSP
14 8 (0.36%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
15 7 (0.32%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (5.85%) Accessibility
2 107 (4.82%) SLA
3 53 (2.39%) QA
4 49 (2.21%) WCAG
5 22 (0.99%) Data Quality
5 22 (0.99%) GDPR
6 13 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.50%) NIST
7 11 (0.50%) PMO
8 6 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.27%) GAAP
8 6 (0.27%) IFRS
8 6 (0.27%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.27%) ISO 9001
8 6 (0.27%) NEBOSH
8 6 (0.27%) PSD2
9 3 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.14%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.090%) COBIT
System Software
1 86 (3.87%) Active Directory
2 52 (2.34%) Docker
3 50 (2.25%) Hyper-V
4 29 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
7 5 (0.23%) XenApp
7 5 (0.23%) XenDesktop
8 4 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.14%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.090%) Firmware
10 2 (0.090%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.045%) NFS
11 1 (0.045%) pfSense
11 1 (0.045%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (2.12%) Kubernetes
2 41 (1.85%) Ansible
3 30 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (0.90%) SCCM
5 18 (0.81%) Terraform
6 16 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (0.54%) SCOM
8 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 8 (0.36%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.27%) Grafana
9 6 (0.27%) SCDPM
10 4 (0.18%) Autotask
10 4 (0.18%) Puppet
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Statspack
11 3 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.090%) CASB
12 2 (0.090%) Core Impact
12 2 (0.090%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.090%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.090%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 324 (14.59%) Microsoft
2 286 (12.88%) Salesforce
3 84 (3.78%) SAP
4 63 (2.84%) Adobe
5 61 (2.75%) Oracle
6 56 (2.52%) VMware
7 49 (2.21%) Databricks
8 37 (1.67%) Citrix
9 34 (1.53%) Google
10 30 (1.35%) Fortinet
10 30 (1.35%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.31%) Juniper
12 25 (1.13%) IBM
13 24 (1.08%) Facebook
14 22 (0.99%) Sandvine
15 21 (0.95%) Dell
16 20 (0.90%) Cisco
17 17 (0.77%) Samsung
18 15 (0.68%) Sony
19 13 (0.59%) Meraki