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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 404 505 534
Rank change year-on-year +101 +29 -30
Contract jobs citing Customer-Centricity 172 178 330
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.32% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.35% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 132 219
10th Percentile £163 £170 £350
25th Percentile £333 £340 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £716
90th Percentile £675 £700 £778
UK excluding London median daily rate £392 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -21.60% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile - £18.13 £12.09
25th Percentile £6.57 £21.34 £15.06
Median hourly rate £10.30 £26.67 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -61.38% +1.60% +15.38%
75th Percentile £13.97 £32.01 £59.13
90th Percentile £15.49 £35.21 £79.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £10.30 £16.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year -35.63% +23.08% -41.86%

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 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 +75 155 £450 -13.17% 308
London +80 80 £475 -10.80% 120
UK excluding London +41 78 £392 -21.60% 189
Work from Home +109 60 £480 -1.54% 152
South East +23 36 £475 +35.71% 54
South West +9 11 £148 -78.15% 19
East of England +12 10 £345 -28.31% 16
North of England +17 9 £550 -2.65% 58
Scotland +42 8 £455 -20.87% 11
North West +18 5 £438 -30.00% 29
Yorkshire +15 4 £600 +18.23% 19
Wales +18 2 £91 -84.17% 6
Midlands +5 2 £398 -23.30% 29
West Midlands 0 2 £398 -22.29% 16

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 (4.65%) Confluence
1 8 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.07%) CMS
3 1 (0.58%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.58%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (6.40%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (3.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.49%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.58%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.58%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.58%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.58%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 13 (7.56%) Power Platform
2 12 (6.98%) Azure
3 11 (6.40%) Cloud Computing
3 11 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (5.81%) AWS
5 7 (4.07%) Figma
5 7 (4.07%) SaaS
5 7 (4.07%) Slack
6 6 (3.49%) Serverless
7 5 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.91%) Google Workspace
7 5 (2.91%) PaaS
8 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.74%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.74%) GCP
9 3 (1.74%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.74%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.33%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (1.16%) 3G
2 2 (1.16%) 4G
2 2 (1.16%) 5G
2 2 (1.16%) Broadband
2 2 (1.16%) SSH
2 2 (1.16%) Telnet
2 2 (1.16%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.16%) VoIP
3 1 (0.58%) 2G
3 1 (0.58%) DSL
3 1 (0.58%) Firewall
3 1 (0.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.98%) Power BI
2 6 (3.49%) Tableau
3 4 (2.33%) Couchbase
4 3 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.16%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.58%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (4.07%) JIRA
2 3 (1.74%) Git
3 2 (1.16%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.16%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.58%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.58%) GitLab
General
1 103 (59.88%) Social Skills
2 46 (26.74%) Finance
3 41 (23.84%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (14.53%) Telecoms
5 15 (8.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (8.72%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (8.14%) Marketing
6 14 (8.14%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (8.14%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.07%) Banking
7 7 (4.07%) Legal
7 7 (4.07%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.91%) Electronics
8 5 (2.91%) Mandarin Language
8 5 (2.91%) Retail
9 4 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.16%) Advertising
10 2 (1.16%) Back Office
10 2 (1.16%) French Language
10 2 (1.16%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 35 (20.35%) Analyst
2 19 (11.05%) Senior
3 12 (6.98%) Designer
4 11 (6.40%) Architect
4 11 (6.40%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (4.65%) Lead
5 8 (4.65%) Product Manager
5 8 (4.65%) Support Analyst
6 7 (4.07%) Business Analyst
6 7 (4.07%) Service Designer
6 7 (4.07%) Support Engineer
6 7 (4.07%) Technical Analyst
6 7 (4.07%) Technical Support
7 6 (3.49%) Product Owner
7 6 (3.49%) Project Manager
7 6 (3.49%) Technical Support Analyst
8 5 (2.91%) Data Analyst
8 5 (2.91%) Desktop Engineer
8 5 (2.91%) Desktop Support
8 5 (2.91%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.91%) Node.js
2 4 (2.33%) Kafka
2 4 (2.33%) REST
3 3 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.74%) React
4 2 (1.16%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.16%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.16%) CSS
4 2 (1.16%) HTML
4 2 (1.16%) OpenAPI
4 2 (1.16%) Playwright
4 2 (1.16%) Pyramid
4 2 (1.16%) SAML
4 2 (1.16%) Swagger
4 2 (1.16%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (1.16%) Web Services
5 1 (0.58%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.58%) JWT
5 1 (0.58%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.58%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (5.81%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.91%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.91%) Virtual Team
4 4 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.33%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.74%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.74%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.74%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.16%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.16%) PMI
6 2 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.58%) CMDB
7 1 (0.58%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.58%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.23%) Windows
2 4 (2.33%) Linux
3 2 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.16%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.16%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.58%) Android
4 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (30.81%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (29.07%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 45 (26.16%) Agile
4 33 (19.19%) Project Management
5 31 (18.02%) Customer Service
5 31 (18.02%) Roadmaps
6 26 (15.12%) Customer Experience
7 24 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
8 23 (13.37%) User Stories
9 22 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (12.21%) Decision-Making
11 19 (11.05%) Analytics
12 18 (10.47%) Business Intelligence
12 18 (10.47%) Infrastructure Management
12 18 (10.47%) Risk Management
13 17 (9.88%) Scrum
13 17 (9.88%) Service Management
14 15 (8.72%) Coaching
14 15 (8.72%) DevOps
14 15 (8.72%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.23%) SQL
2 8 (4.65%) Python
3 7 (4.07%) TypeScript
4 6 (3.49%) C++
4 6 (3.49%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.74%) Bicep
5 3 (1.74%) Java
5 3 (1.74%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.16%) Bash
6 2 (1.16%) C
6 2 (1.16%) Go
6 2 (1.16%) Scala
7 1 (0.58%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 20 (11.63%) Degree
2 11 (6.40%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.23%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.91%) Postgraduate
6 4 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.33%) CSPO
6 4 (2.33%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.74%) APMP
7 3 (1.74%) PgMP
8 2 (1.16%) ACCA
8 2 (1.16%) CCENT
8 2 (1.16%) CIMA
8 2 (1.16%) CIPD
8 2 (1.16%) CIPFA
8 2 (1.16%) ISEB
8 2 (1.16%) PMP
8 2 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.98%) QA
2 9 (5.23%) PMO
3 6 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.91%) SLA
5 4 (2.33%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.16%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.58%) GRC
8 1 (0.58%) P3O
System Software
1 2 (1.16%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.74%) Terraform
2 2 (1.16%) Progress Chef
2 2 (1.16%) Puppet
2 2 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.58%) AirWatch
3 1 (0.58%) Ansible
3 1 (0.58%) Grafana
3 1 (0.58%) Kibana
3 1 (0.58%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.58%) NetIQ Identity Manager
Vendors
1 32 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.40%) Oracle
3 10 (5.81%) SAP
4 7 (4.07%) Google
5 6 (3.49%) Cisco
6 4 (2.33%) BT
7 3 (1.74%) Adobe
7 3 (1.74%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.16%) Ariba
8 2 (1.16%) Citrix
8 2 (1.16%) Genesys
8 2 (1.16%) Guidewire
8 2 (1.16%) Huawei
8 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.58%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.58%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.58%) NCR
9 1 (0.58%) NetIQ
9 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.58%) SolarWinds