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 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 201 247 196
Rank change year-on-year +46 -51 -5
Contract jobs citing Customer Experience 513 604 1,295
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.18% 1.09% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.21% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 386 836
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 31 34
10th Percentile £11.25 £12.75 £10.70
25th Percentile £11.87 £13.71 £11.58
Median hourly rate £15.00 £16.23 £16.68
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% -2.70% +18.89%
75th Percentile £18.92 £19.75 £24.75
90th Percentile £31.70 £42.75 £57.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.13 £14.50 £15.37
% change year-on-year -9.48% -5.66% +9.55%

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 36,914 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 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 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 +43 461 £500 - 646
London +83 277 £525 - 201
UK excluding London -23 187 £485 +2.11% 447
Work from Home +37 173 £519 +9.21% 311
South East +1 94 £463 +8.82% 104
North of England -12 35 £525 -4.55% 144
North West -12 27 £525 +7.69% 79
South West +14 24 £385 -3.75% 44
Scotland +24 16 £440 -16.19% 17
Midlands +12 10 £495 +3.13% 87
West Midlands +6 8 £500 -4.76% 50
Yorkshire -3 6 £475 -17.39% 43
East of England -13 6 £438 -12.50% 44
Northern Ireland +3 4 £435 +45.00% 5
East Midlands +9 2 £485 +2.11% 36
Wales +16 1 £300 -50.00% 18
North East +13 1 £625 +19.05% 22

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 11 (2.14%) CMS
2 10 (1.95%) Confluence
2 10 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.56%) govService
4 7 (1.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.78%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.58%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (0.58%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.39%) Apache
7 2 (0.39%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.39%) Jadu
7 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.19%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 27 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (3.31%) Chatbot
4 14 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (2.92%) Shopify
2 8 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.78%) Oracle 11i
3 4 (0.78%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.78%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.39%) CA PPM
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.39%) SAP PLM
5 2 (0.39%) Softmar
5 2 (0.39%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.19%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.19%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.19%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 50 (9.75%) Azure
2 36 (7.02%) AWS
3 23 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
5 17 (3.31%) SaaS
6 15 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (2.73%) BigCommerce
7 14 (2.73%) GCP
8 13 (2.53%) Power Platform
9 8 (1.56%) Google Analytics
9 8 (1.56%) Twilio
10 7 (1.36%) PaaS
10 7 (1.36%) Serverless
11 6 (1.17%) GitHub
12 5 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.58%) OneDrive
14 3 (0.58%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 3 (0.58%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.48%) 5G
2 20 (3.90%) Radio Access Network
3 16 (3.12%) 3G
3 16 (3.12%) 4G
3 16 (3.12%) VPN
4 15 (2.92%) DNS
4 15 (2.92%) VoIP
5 11 (2.14%) CTI
6 8 (1.56%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.36%) HTTP
7 7 (1.36%) Internet
7 7 (1.36%) VoLTE
7 7 (1.36%) Wireshark
8 6 (1.17%) Diameter Protocol
8 6 (1.17%) GGSN
8 6 (1.17%) LTE
8 6 (1.17%) RANAP
8 6 (1.17%) SGSN
9 5 (0.97%) Firewall
10 4 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.34%) Power BI
2 9 (1.75%) Tableau
3 8 (1.56%) GIS
4 5 (0.97%) MySQL
4 5 (0.97%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.78%) Data Mining
5 4 (0.78%) QGIS
6 3 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.58%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.39%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.39%) NonStop SQL
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.39%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.19%) Looker
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 29 (5.65%) Git
2 17 (3.31%) JIRA
3 13 (2.53%) git-flow
4 10 (1.95%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.56%) Maven
5 8 (1.56%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 5 (0.97%) Appium
7 3 (0.58%) GitLab
7 3 (0.58%) Postman
7 3 (0.58%) Subversion
7 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.39%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.39%) Capybara
8 2 (0.39%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.39%) GoCD
8 2 (0.39%) Selenium
8 2 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.39%) XCTest
8 2 (0.39%) XCUITest
General
1 168 (32.75%) Social Skills
2 107 (20.86%) Finance
3 78 (15.20%) Marketing
4 77 (15.01%) Retail
5 70 (13.65%) Analytical Skills
6 68 (13.26%) Telecoms
7 46 (8.97%) Public Sector
8 30 (5.85%) Banking
9 28 (5.46%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.53%) Law
12 12 (2.34%) Legal
12 12 (2.34%) Retail Banking
13 11 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.75%) Corporate Banking
15 9 (1.75%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.75%) Local Government
16 8 (1.56%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 73 (14.23%) Senior
2 58 (11.31%) Analyst
3 42 (8.19%) Architect
4 34 (6.63%) Consultant
5 32 (6.24%) Lead
6 31 (6.04%) Project Manager
7 26 (5.07%) Support Engineer
8 22 (4.29%) Business Analyst
9 21 (4.09%) Product Owner
10 20 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
11 18 (3.51%) Data Analyst
12 16 (3.12%) Designer
12 16 (3.12%) Product Manager
12 16 (3.12%) Technical Leader
13 13 (2.53%) Head of Customer Experience
13 13 (2.53%) Head of Digital
13 13 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (2.34%) Administrator
14 12 (2.34%) Desktop Engineer
14 12 (2.34%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.48%) CSS
2 20 (3.90%) React
3 17 (3.31%) Web Services
4 14 (2.73%) Sass
4 14 (2.73%) VML
5 12 (2.34%) Jest
6 11 (2.14%) HTML
6 11 (2.14%) LESS
6 11 (2.14%) Material-UI
6 11 (2.14%) OpenFin
6 11 (2.14%) Redux
6 11 (2.14%) Tailwind CSS
6 11 (2.14%) WebSockets
7 10 (1.95%) .NET
7 10 (1.95%) REST
7 10 (1.95%) RESTful
8 9 (1.75%) Middleware
8 9 (1.75%) Node.js
9 7 (1.36%) JSON
10 6 (1.17%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (9.75%) Product Ownership
2 20 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (3.51%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.92%) Virtual Team
6 14 (2.73%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.34%) IVR
8 11 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.14%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.14%) Fixed Income
9 9 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.56%) BYOD
10 8 (1.56%) Social Media
11 7 (1.36%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.17%) Taxonomies
13 5 (0.97%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.97%) FMCG
13 5 (0.97%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (7.21%) Windows
2 19 (3.70%) Linux
3 17 (3.31%) Android
4 15 (2.92%) Windows 10
5 14 (2.73%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.75%) Unix
7 8 (1.56%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.58%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.58%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.19%) AIX
9 1 (0.19%) Solaris
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (23.39%) Agile
2 99 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (13.26%) Analytics
4 67 (13.06%) Stakeholder Management
5 63 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
5 63 (12.28%) User Experience
6 62 (12.09%) DevOps
7 52 (10.14%) Decision-Making
8 51 (9.94%) Project Management
9 48 (9.36%) Change Management
10 47 (9.16%) Roadmaps
11 46 (8.97%) CRM
12 45 (8.77%) Customer Service
13 43 (8.38%) Computer Science
14 41 (7.99%) Scrum
15 40 (7.80%) Software Engineering
16 39 (7.60%) Data Analysis
16 39 (7.60%) Service Design
17 38 (7.41%) ITIL
18 37 (7.21%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 41 (7.99%) SQL
2 32 (6.24%) Java
3 30 (5.85%) JavaScript
4 27 (5.26%) Python
5 21 (4.09%) TypeScript
6 11 (2.14%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.36%) C#
7 7 (1.36%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.97%) Bash
8 5 (0.97%) Go
9 4 (0.78%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.58%) Ruby
10 3 (0.58%) Scala
10 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.58%) Swift
10 3 (0.58%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.39%) C++
11 2 (0.39%) PHP
11 2 (0.39%) R
12 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 72 (14.04%) Degree
2 43 (8.38%) Security Cleared
3 29 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (4.09%) Master's Degree
5 20 (3.90%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.75%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.56%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.97%) PhD
10 4 (0.78%) CCNA
10 4 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.78%) MBA
10 4 (0.78%) PMP
11 3 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.39%) IIBA
12 2 (0.39%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.39%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.63%) SLA
2 22 (4.29%) GDPR
2 22 (4.29%) QA
3 16 (3.12%) Accessibility
4 14 (2.73%) PCI DSS
5 12 (2.34%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (1.56%) HIPAA
7 8 (1.56%) SOC 2
8 7 (1.36%) PMO
9 3 (0.58%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.39%) GxP
10 2 (0.39%) PSD2
11 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (3.12%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.34%) Docker
3 6 (1.17%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.78%) NFS
6 3 (0.58%) 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 10 (1.95%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.75%) Ansible
3 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.36%) Terraform
5 6 (1.17%) SCCM
6 3 (0.58%) WSUS
7 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.39%) Puppet
7 2 (0.39%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.19%) Grafana
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 63 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.80%) SAP
3 33 (6.43%) Salesforce
4 31 (6.04%) Adobe
5 26 (5.07%) Cisco
6 23 (4.48%) Google
7 17 (3.31%) Avaya
7 17 (3.31%) ServiceNow
7 17 (3.31%) Sitecore
8 15 (2.92%) Oracle
9 12 (2.34%) Dell
9 12 (2.34%) Intel
10 10 (1.95%) Genesys
11 8 (1.56%) BT
12 7 (1.36%) Databricks
13 6 (1.17%) Apple
13 6 (1.17%) Empirix
13 6 (1.17%) NetScout
13 6 (1.17%) Optimizely
14 5 (0.97%) VMware