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 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 391 515 542
Rank change year-on-year +124 +27 -45
Contract jobs citing Customer-Centricity 180 173 317
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.30% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.34% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 125 212
10th Percentile £158 £169 £334
25th Percentile £341 £340 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £512 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.02% -7.00% -
75th Percentile £595 £638 £700
90th Percentile £675 £700 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -25.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile - - £12.09
25th Percentile £6.57 - £15.06
Median hourly rate £10.30 £37.34 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -72.42% +42.25% +8.25%
75th Percentile £13.97 - £59.13
90th Percentile £15.49 - £79.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £10.30 - £13.00
% change year-on-year - - -42.86%

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 36,673 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-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 18 May 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 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 +112 163 £450 -10.89% 277
London +90 87 £475 -9.52% 104
UK excluding London +68 78 £375 -25.00% 197
Work from Home +109 62 £480 -4.00% 138
South East +47 34 £463 +32.14% 56
South West +14 13 £150 -69.85% 24
North of England +29 10 £463 -27.45% 53
East of England +12 10 £345 -28.31% 18
Scotland +44 7 £455 -19.11% 12
North West +19 5 £375 -42.31% 28
Yorkshire +13 5 £600 +6.19% 18
Wales +17 2 £91 -84.17% 6
West Midlands +9 2 £398 -22.29% 14
Midlands +5 2 £398 -23.30% 30

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 (4.44%) Confluence
1 8 (4.44%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.89%) CMS
3 1 (0.56%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.67%) Adobe XD
4 2 (1.11%) InVision
4 2 (1.11%) Sketch
4 2 (1.11%) UserZoom
4 2 (1.11%) Zeplin
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.56%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.56%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 13 (7.22%) Power Platform
2 12 (6.67%) Azure
2 12 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (6.11%) AWS
3 11 (6.11%) Cloud Computing
4 10 (5.56%) Figma
5 7 (3.89%) Slack
6 6 (3.33%) SaaS
6 6 (3.33%) Serverless
7 5 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.78%) Google Workspace
7 5 (2.78%) PaaS
8 4 (2.22%) GCP
8 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.67%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.67%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.67%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.11%) Miro
10 2 (1.11%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.67%) 3G
1 3 (1.67%) 4G
1 3 (1.67%) 5G
1 3 (1.67%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (1.11%) 2G
2 2 (1.11%) Broadband
2 2 (1.11%) SSH
2 2 (1.11%) Telnet
2 2 (1.11%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.11%) VoIP
3 1 (0.56%) DSL
3 1 (0.56%) Firewall
3 1 (0.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.67%) Power BI
2 5 (2.78%) Tableau
3 4 (2.22%) Couchbase
4 3 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.67%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.56%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (3.89%) JIRA
2 4 (2.22%) Git
3 2 (1.11%) Axure RP
3 2 (1.11%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.11%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.56%) GitLab
General
1 104 (57.78%) Social Skills
2 47 (26.11%) Finance
3 39 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (14.44%) Telecoms
5 16 (8.89%) Marketing
6 15 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (7.78%) Public Sector
8 13 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (4.44%) Manufacturing
11 7 (3.89%) Banking
11 7 (3.89%) Legal
12 6 (3.33%) Electronics
12 6 (3.33%) Retail
13 5 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (2.78%) Mandarin Language
14 2 (1.11%) French Language
14 2 (1.11%) Health Technology
14 2 (1.11%) Investment Banking
14 2 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (18.89%) Analyst
2 18 (10.00%) Senior
3 14 (7.78%) Designer
4 10 (5.56%) Architect
4 10 (5.56%) Lead
4 10 (5.56%) Product Manager
4 10 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
5 9 (5.00%) Service Designer
6 8 (4.44%) Product Owner
6 8 (4.44%) Support Analyst
6 8 (4.44%) Support Engineer
7 7 (3.89%) Business Analyst
7 7 (3.89%) Technical Analyst
7 7 (3.89%) Technical Support
8 6 (3.33%) Desktop Engineer
8 6 (3.33%) Technical Support Analyst
9 5 (2.78%) Business Manager
9 5 (2.78%) Data Analyst
9 5 (2.78%) Desktop Support
9 5 (2.78%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.78%) Node.js
2 4 (2.22%) Kafka
2 4 (2.22%) REST
3 3 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.67%) React
4 2 (1.11%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.11%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.11%) CSS
4 2 (1.11%) HTML
4 2 (1.11%) OpenAPI
4 2 (1.11%) Playwright
4 2 (1.11%) Pyramid
4 2 (1.11%) Swagger
4 2 (1.11%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (1.11%) Web Services
5 1 (0.56%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.56%) JWT
5 1 (0.56%) Next.js
5 1 (0.56%) Redux
5 1 (0.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.67%) Product Ownership
1 12 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.22%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.22%) Virtual Team
4 3 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.67%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.67%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.11%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.11%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.11%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.11%) PMI
5 2 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.56%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.56%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.56%) Social Media
6 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.56%) Windows
2 4 (2.22%) Linux
3 3 (1.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.11%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.56%) Android
5 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (31.67%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (28.89%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 50 (27.78%) Agile
4 35 (19.44%) Project Management
4 35 (19.44%) Roadmaps
5 33 (18.33%) Customer Service
6 31 (17.22%) Customer Experience
7 26 (14.44%) Stakeholder Management
8 25 (13.89%) Decision-Making
8 25 (13.89%) User Stories
9 21 (11.67%) Analytics
10 19 (10.56%) Business Intelligence
10 19 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
11 18 (10.00%) Risk Management
12 17 (9.44%) Scrum
12 17 (9.44%) Service Management
13 16 (8.89%) Product Management
13 16 (8.89%) User Experience
14 15 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.44%) Python
1 8 (4.44%) SQL
2 7 (3.89%) TypeScript
3 6 (3.33%) C++
3 6 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.67%) Bicep
4 3 (1.67%) Java
4 3 (1.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.11%) Bash
5 2 (1.11%) C
5 2 (1.11%) Go
5 2 (1.11%) Scala
6 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 22 (12.22%) Degree
2 10 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.78%) Postgraduate
6 4 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.22%) CSPO
7 3 (1.67%) ACCA
7 3 (1.67%) APMP
7 3 (1.67%) CIMA
7 3 (1.67%) PgMP
7 3 (1.67%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.11%) CCENT
8 2 (1.11%) CIPD
8 2 (1.11%) CIPFA
8 2 (1.11%) ISEB
8 2 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.67%) QA
2 9 (5.00%) PMO
3 6 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.78%) SLA
5 3 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.11%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.11%) WCAG
7 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.56%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (1.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.67%) Progress Chef
1 3 (1.67%) Puppet
1 3 (1.67%) Terraform
2 2 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.56%) AirWatch
3 1 (0.56%) Ansible
3 1 (0.56%) Grafana
3 1 (0.56%) Kibana
3 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 31 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.56%) SAP
3 9 (5.00%) Oracle
4 7 (3.89%) Google
5 6 (3.33%) Cisco
6 5 (2.78%) Adobe
7 3 (1.67%) BT
7 3 (1.67%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.11%) Ariba
8 2 (1.11%) Citrix
8 2 (1.11%) Genesys
8 2 (1.11%) Guidewire
8 2 (1.11%) Huawei
8 2 (1.11%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.56%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.56%) NCR
9 1 (0.56%) Okta
9 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow