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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 260 285
Rank change year-on-year -115 +25 +136
Permanent jobs citing Customer-Centricity 695 1,448 2,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 1.40% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.46% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 474 629 658
10th Percentile £26,750 £35,000 £31,775
25th Percentile £35,500 £51,750 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,229 £70,000 £64,750
Median % change year-on-year -32.53% +8.11% +23.33%
75th Percentile £68,438 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £92,500 £93,750
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 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £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-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 4 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 4 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 -111 607 £46,958 -32.92% 277
UK excluding London -114 482 £42,500 -39.29% 179
Work from Home -89 261 £48,500 -31.30% 137
London -54 178 £70,000 - 118
South East -61 135 £42,500 -39.29% 40
North of England -112 91 £37,500 -46.43% 53
Midlands +4 83 £45,000 -35.71% 25
South West -33 80 £46,958 -32.92% 25
North West -14 55 £35,000 -50.00% 28
West Midlands -4 47 £65,000 -7.14% 14
East of England -36 38 £32,875 -53.43% 13
East Midlands -6 36 £31,000 -55.71% 11
Scotland -55 36 £45,000 -35.99% 16
Yorkshire -52 33 £42,500 -39.29% 16
Wales +20 16 £34,250 -51.07% 7
Northern Ireland +25 3 £32,500 - 6
North East -19 3 £37,500 -46.43% 9

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 23 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.59%) Confluence
4 7 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.72%) CMS
6 4 (0.58%) Apache
6 4 (0.58%) SAS
7 3 (0.43%) IIS
7 3 (0.43%) Moodle
7 3 (0.43%) WordPress
8 2 (0.29%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 40 (5.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 40 (5.76%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.58%) Adobe Captivate
5 3 (0.43%) InVision
5 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.29%) Sketch
7 1 (0.14%) 1Password
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.14%) Blender
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 17 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (0.86%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.14%) Data Workbench
5 1 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 155 (22.30%) Azure
2 108 (15.54%) AWS
3 89 (12.81%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (10.07%) Power Platform
5 47 (6.76%) SaaS
6 27 (3.88%) GCP
7 26 (3.74%) Power Automate
8 22 (3.17%) PowerApps
9 21 (3.02%) Entra ID
10 17 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (1.58%) OneDrive
12 10 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.44%) Serverless
13 9 (1.29%) OCI
14 8 (1.15%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (1.15%) Amazon S3
15 7 (1.01%) Snowflake
16 6 (0.86%) Matillion
16 6 (0.86%) PaaS
17 5 (0.72%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.04%) Firewall
2 26 (3.74%) LAN
3 15 (2.16%) DNS
4 10 (1.44%) DHCP
5 9 (1.29%) Remote Desktop
5 9 (1.29%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.15%) WAN
6 8 (1.15%) Wireless
7 7 (1.01%) Network Security
7 7 (1.01%) VoIP
7 7 (1.01%) VPN
8 5 (0.72%) HTTP
9 4 (0.58%) Cisco Firepower
9 4 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
9 4 (0.58%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.43%) PBX
11 2 (0.29%) Internet
11 2 (0.29%) Intranet
12 1 (0.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (9.64%) Power BI
2 21 (3.02%) SQL Server
3 18 (2.59%) Tableau
4 17 (2.45%) MySQL
5 14 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (1.58%) Metadata
7 10 (1.44%) Big Data
8 9 (1.29%) Amazon QuickSight
8 9 (1.29%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.01%) Apache Hive
10 7 (1.01%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.01%) SAP BW
11 6 (0.86%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.86%) Data Mining
12 5 (0.72%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.58%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.58%) PowerPivot
13 4 (0.58%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (3.60%) JIRA
2 13 (1.87%) Git
3 4 (0.58%) Postman
3 4 (0.58%) 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
1 353 (50.79%) Social Skills
2 170 (24.46%) Analytical Skills
3 164 (23.60%) Finance
4 83 (11.94%) Marketing
5 69 (9.93%) Retail
6 55 (7.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 53 (7.63%) Legal
8 44 (6.33%) Presentation Skills
9 43 (6.19%) Public Sector
10 40 (5.76%) Organisational Skills
11 39 (5.61%) Telecoms
12 33 (4.75%) Manufacturing
13 30 (4.32%) Law
14 24 (3.45%) Fire and Rescue
15 21 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
16 18 (2.59%) Brand Awareness
17 17 (2.45%) Banking
18 12 (1.73%) Automotive
19 11 (1.58%) Back Office
19 11 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 92 (13.24%) Senior
2 78 (11.22%) Analyst
3 66 (9.50%) Architect
4 60 (8.63%) Developer
5 57 (8.20%) Lead
6 45 (6.47%) Support Engineer
7 40 (5.76%) IT Support
8 35 (5.04%) Product Manager
9 32 (4.60%) Project Manager
10 27 (3.88%) Senior Architect
11 25 (3.60%) Consultant
11 25 (3.60%) Security Architect
11 25 (3.60%) Software Engineer
12 23 (3.31%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 22 (3.17%) Applications Developer
14 21 (3.02%) Designer
14 21 (3.02%) Product Owner
14 21 (3.02%) Team Leader
15 19 (2.73%) IT Engineer
15 19 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (7.19%) .NET
2 31 (4.46%) AngularJS
3 28 (4.03%) React
4 26 (3.74%) CSS
5 23 (3.31%) HTML
6 22 (3.17%) RESTful
7 21 (3.02%) Web Services
8 12 (1.73%) HTML5
8 12 (1.73%) jQuery
8 12 (1.73%) Node.js
9 11 (1.58%) Vue
10 8 (1.15%) Laravel
10 8 (1.15%) Symfony
11 6 (0.86%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.86%) Blazor
11 6 (0.86%) CSS3
11 6 (0.86%) Sass
12 5 (0.72%) Doctrine
12 5 (0.72%) LAMP
12 5 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (9.35%) Onboarding
2 64 (9.21%) Product Ownership
3 48 (6.91%) Management Information System
4 45 (6.47%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (3.74%) Data Centre
6 21 (3.02%) Data Structures
6 21 (3.02%) Driving Licence
7 19 (2.73%) Algorithms
8 18 (2.59%) Cyberattack
9 16 (2.30%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.87%) iPhone
11 12 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (1.58%) PMI
13 6 (0.86%) Learning Management System
13 6 (0.86%) Reinsurance
14 5 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
14 5 (0.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 5 (0.72%) Fat Client
14 5 (0.72%) Hedge funds
14 5 (0.72%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 71 (10.22%) Windows
2 27 (3.88%) Windows Server
3 17 (2.45%) Windows 10
4 15 (2.16%) Linux
5 11 (1.58%) Android
5 11 (1.58%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.72%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.72%) Unix
8 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.14%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (30.07%) Problem-Solving
2 205 (29.50%) Agile
3 164 (23.60%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 139 (20.00%) Customer Experience
5 124 (17.84%) Customer Service
6 117 (16.83%) Roadmaps
7 110 (15.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 107 (15.40%) Project Management
9 85 (12.23%) Analytics
10 77 (11.08%) CRM
10 77 (11.08%) ITIL
10 77 (11.08%) User Experience
11 75 (10.79%) Business Development
12 72 (10.36%) Scrum
13 63 (9.06%) Stakeholder Management
14 62 (8.92%) Coaching
15 61 (8.78%) Collaborative Working
15 61 (8.78%) Decision-Making
16 60 (8.63%) Information Security
17 58 (8.35%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 92 (13.24%) SQL
2 42 (6.04%) JavaScript
3 40 (5.76%) Python
4 36 (5.18%) C#
5 34 (4.89%) Java
6 14 (2.01%) C
7 12 (1.73%) PHP
7 12 (1.73%) PowerShell
7 12 (1.73%) R
8 8 (1.15%) T-SQL
9 7 (1.01%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.01%) Scala
10 6 (0.86%) Go
11 5 (0.72%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.72%) VBA
12 4 (0.58%) Bash
12 4 (0.58%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.58%) Swift
13 3 (0.43%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 142 (20.43%) Degree
2 42 (6.04%) Azure Certification
3 30 (4.32%) CISSP
4 27 (3.88%) Security Cleared
5 26 (3.74%) Master's Degree
6 25 (3.60%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.60%) SC Cleared
7 24 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (2.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 18 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (2.59%) CISM
10 15 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (2.01%) MBA
12 13 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (1.87%) OSCP
13 12 (1.73%) A+ Certification
14 11 (1.58%) PMI Certification
15 8 (1.15%) CSPO
15 8 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
16 7 (1.01%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.17%) SLA
2 23 (3.31%) GDPR
3 22 (3.17%) QA
4 12 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.01%) HIPAA
6 7 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 7 (1.01%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.86%) GAAP
7 6 (0.86%) IFRS
7 6 (0.86%) PMO
8 5 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.72%) IASME
9 4 (0.58%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.58%) ISO 22301
9 4 (0.58%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.43%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.29%) COBIT
11 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 64 (9.21%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.73%) Docker
4 10 (1.44%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (1.58%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.01%) 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
5 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 200 (28.78%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.74%) Oracle
3 25 (3.60%) VMware
4 24 (3.45%) SAP
5 17 (2.45%) Cisco
6 15 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.58%) Databricks
8 7 (1.01%) Adobe
8 7 (1.01%) CyberArk
8 7 (1.01%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.01%) Veeam
9 6 (0.86%) Apple
9 6 (0.86%) Citrix
9 6 (0.86%) PeopleSoft
9 6 (0.86%) Sophos
10 5 (0.72%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.72%) Genesys
10 5 (0.72%) Google
10 5 (0.72%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.72%) YouTube