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 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 181 247 194
Rank change year-on-year +66 -53 +14
Contract jobs citing Customer Experience 527 611 1,308
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.24% 1.07% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.20% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 383 831
10th Percentile £263 £300 £359
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 34 36
10th Percentile £11.25 £12.86 £11.17
25th Percentile £11.87 £13.88 £12.50
Median hourly rate £15.00 £17.22 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.88% -1.61% +24.73%
75th Percentile £17.87 £20.94 £37.44
90th Percentile £31.62 £59.03 £62.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.13 £14.50 £15.74
% change year-on-year -9.48% -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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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 18 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 18 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 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
England +62 475 £500 -1.48% 793
London +98 279 £516 -6.18% 305
UK excluding London -3 196 £500 +5.26% 546
Work from Home +43 179 £500 +1.01% 351
South East +6 86 £475 +11.76% 178
North of England +20 52 £500 -9.09% 149
North West +17 44 £500 -13.04% 79
South West +8 23 £400 - 50
Scotland +24 15 £650 +18.18% 25
Midlands +19 12 £495 +3.13% 90
West Midlands +18 9 £500 +7.53% 59
Yorkshire +4 6 £475 -13.64% 50
East of England -12 6 £438 -12.50% 48
Northern Ireland +4 4 £435 +45.00% 8
East Midlands +15 3 £475 -9.52% 31
Wales +16 1 £300 -47.83% 17
North East - 1 £625 - 21

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 15 (2.85%) CMS
2 12 (2.28%) Confluence
3 11 (2.09%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.52%) govService
5 7 (1.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.76%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.57%) Apache
7 3 (0.57%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.57%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.57%) Jadu
8 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.19%) Appian
9 1 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.19%) SAS
9 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 33 (6.26%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (3.23%) Chatbot
4 15 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.14%) 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 18 (3.42%) Shopify
2 10 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
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%) CA PPM
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%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.19%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.19%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 57 (10.82%) Azure
2 35 (6.64%) AWS
3 27 (5.12%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (3.61%) Cloud Computing
4 19 (3.61%) SaaS
5 18 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (3.04%) Power Platform
7 15 (2.85%) GCP
8 14 (2.66%) BigCommerce
9 11 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (1.71%) PaaS
11 8 (1.52%) Google Analytics
11 8 (1.52%) Twilio
12 7 (1.33%) OneDrive
12 7 (1.33%) Serverless
13 5 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (0.95%) Figma
13 5 (0.95%) GitHub
14 4 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.74%) 5G
2 19 (3.61%) Radio Access Network
3 18 (3.42%) 3G
3 18 (3.42%) 4G
4 17 (3.23%) DNS
4 17 (3.23%) VPN
5 15 (2.85%) VoIP
6 11 (2.09%) CTI
7 9 (1.71%) Internet
7 9 (1.71%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.52%) HTTP
9 7 (1.33%) VoLTE
9 7 (1.33%) Wireshark
10 6 (1.14%) 2G
10 6 (1.14%) Diameter Protocol
10 6 (1.14%) GGSN
10 6 (1.14%) LTE
10 6 (1.14%) RANAP
10 6 (1.14%) SGSN
11 5 (0.95%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.04%) Power BI
2 13 (2.47%) Tableau
3 7 (1.33%) GIS
4 6 (1.14%) MySQL
4 6 (1.14%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.76%) QGIS
6 3 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.57%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.38%) BigQuery
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%) Sisense
8 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 25 (4.74%) Git
2 17 (3.23%) JIRA
3 11 (2.09%) git-flow
4 8 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.52%) Maven
4 8 (1.52%) 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
1 176 (33.40%) Social Skills
2 100 (18.98%) Finance
3 86 (16.32%) Marketing
4 72 (13.66%) Retail
5 69 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
6 67 (12.71%) Telecoms
7 46 (8.73%) Public Sector
8 30 (5.69%) Banking
8 30 (5.69%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (3.04%) Law
10 14 (2.66%) Retail Banking
11 13 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.28%) Investment Banking
13 11 (2.09%) Corporate Banking
13 11 (2.09%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (1.90%) Legal
14 10 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.71%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 77 (14.61%) Senior
2 53 (10.06%) Analyst
3 41 (7.78%) Architect
4 37 (7.02%) Consultant
5 33 (6.26%) Lead
6 31 (5.88%) Support Engineer
7 29 (5.50%) Project Manager
8 23 (4.36%) Product Owner
9 22 (4.17%) Business Analyst
10 21 (3.98%) Designer
11 17 (3.23%) Data Analyst
11 17 (3.23%) Product Manager
11 17 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (2.66%) Desktop Support
12 14 (2.66%) Technical Leader
13 13 (2.47%) Desktop Engineer
13 13 (2.47%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 13 (2.47%) Head of Customer Experience
13 13 (2.47%) Head of Digital
13 13 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.36%) CSS
2 18 (3.42%) React
2 18 (3.42%) Web Services
3 14 (2.66%) VML
4 13 (2.47%) HTML
5 12 (2.28%) .NET
5 12 (2.28%) Sass
6 11 (2.09%) REST
7 10 (1.90%) Jest
8 9 (1.71%) JSON
8 9 (1.71%) LESS
8 9 (1.71%) Material-UI
8 9 (1.71%) Middleware
8 9 (1.71%) OpenFin
8 9 (1.71%) Redux
8 9 (1.71%) RESTful
8 9 (1.71%) Tailwind CSS
8 9 (1.71%) WebSockets
9 8 (1.52%) Node.js
10 6 (1.14%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 47 (8.92%) Product Ownership
2 21 (3.98%) Management Information System
3 20 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (2.85%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.28%) IVR
6 12 (2.28%) Virtual Team
7 11 (2.09%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.09%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.71%) Fixed Income
9 8 (1.52%) BYOD
9 8 (1.52%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.52%) Social Media
10 7 (1.33%) Taxonomies
11 6 (1.14%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.76%) FMCG
12 4 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (7.40%) Windows
2 19 (3.61%) Linux
2 19 (3.61%) Windows 10
3 16 (3.04%) Apple iOS
4 15 (2.85%) Android
5 8 (1.52%) Unix
5 8 (1.52%) Windows 7
6 7 (1.33%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.57%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (21.44%) Agile
2 105 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
3 70 (13.28%) User Experience
4 67 (12.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 66 (12.52%) Analytics
5 66 (12.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 64 (12.14%) DevOps
7 57 (10.82%) CRM
8 54 (10.25%) Project Management
9 53 (10.06%) Decision-Making
10 51 (9.68%) Customer Service
10 51 (9.68%) Roadmaps
11 45 (8.54%) Change Management
12 42 (7.97%) Computer Science
13 41 (7.78%) Data Analysis
14 40 (7.59%) Service Design
15 39 (7.40%) Scrum
16 38 (7.21%) E-Commerce
16 38 (7.21%) Service Delivery
17 37 (7.02%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 40 (7.59%) SQL
2 30 (5.69%) JavaScript
3 27 (5.12%) Java
4 26 (4.93%) Python
5 19 (3.61%) TypeScript
6 14 (2.66%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.90%) C#
8 6 (1.14%) Go
8 6 (1.14%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.76%) Ruby
10 3 (0.57%) Bash
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%) C++
12 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 75 (14.23%) Degree
2 43 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 28 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (3.98%) Master's Degree
4 21 (3.98%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.52%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.95%) PhD
9 4 (0.76%) CCNA
9 4 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (0.76%) MBA
9 4 (0.76%) PMP
10 3 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.38%) IIBA
11 2 (0.38%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.19%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.21%) SLA
2 23 (4.36%) GDPR
3 19 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 16 (3.04%) QA
5 14 (2.66%) PCI DSS
6 12 (2.28%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.52%) HIPAA
7 8 (1.52%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.14%) PMO
9 5 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.57%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.38%) PSD2
12 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (3.80%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.71%) Docker
3 7 (1.33%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.14%) 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 12 (2.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (1.90%) SCCM
3 9 (1.71%) Ansible
3 9 (1.71%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.33%) Terraform
5 6 (1.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 3 (0.57%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.57%) Puppet
6 3 (0.57%) WSUS
7 2 (0.38%) Grafana
8 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.19%) Kibana
8 1 (0.19%) Mesos
8 1 (0.19%) Nagios
8 1 (0.19%) OpenView
8 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 75 (14.23%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.78%) SAP
3 33 (6.26%) Adobe
4 32 (6.07%) Salesforce
5 26 (4.93%) Cisco
6 24 (4.55%) Google
7 21 (3.98%) ServiceNow
8 17 (3.23%) Avaya
8 17 (3.23%) Sitecore
9 14 (2.66%) Oracle
10 12 (2.28%) Dell
10 12 (2.28%) Intel
11 11 (2.09%) Apple
12 10 (1.90%) Genesys
13 7 (1.33%) BT
14 6 (1.14%) Empirix
14 6 (1.14%) NetScout
14 6 (1.14%) Optimizely
15 5 (0.95%) Databricks
15 5 (0.95%) VMware