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 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 191 240 194
Rank change year-on-year +49 -46 +7
Contract jobs citing Customer Experience 518 612 1,296
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.20% 1.09% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.22% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 394 831
10th Percentile £263 £302 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -7.05% +15.79%
75th Percentile £597 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £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 37
10th Percentile £11.25 £12.75 £10.97
25th Percentile £11.87 £13.71 £12.50
Median hourly rate £15.00 £16.23 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% -7.26% +24.73%
75th Percentile £17.87 £19.75 £36.75
90th Percentile £31.62 £42.75 £61.95
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 36,802 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 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 1 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 1 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 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 +44 466 £500 -2.44% 806
London +96 277 £525 -4.55% 292
UK excluding London -23 191 £485 +2.11% 514
Work from Home +37 177 £506 +6.58% 327
South East -2 93 £463 +8.82% 143
North of England -6 42 £508 -7.73% 169
North West +5 35 £520 +4.00% 86
South West +6 22 £370 -7.50% 47
Scotland +22 16 £440 -16.19% 24
Midlands +13 10 £495 -1.49% 81
West Midlands +7 8 £500 -11.11% 51
East of England -10 6 £438 -12.50% 45
Yorkshire +3 5 £475 -17.39% 50
Northern Ireland +3 4 £435 +45.00% 6
East Midlands +9 2 £485 +2.11% 29
Wales +15 1 £300 -50.00% 15
North East - 1 £625 - 34

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 14 (2.70%) CMS
2 10 (1.93%) Confluence
2 10 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.54%) govService
4 7 (1.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.77%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.58%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (0.58%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.58%) Jadu
7 2 (0.39%) Apache
7 2 (0.39%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.19%) Appian
8 1 (0.19%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 29 (5.60%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (4.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (3.28%) Chatbot
4 14 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (3.09%) Shopify
2 7 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.77%) Oracle 11i
4 4 (0.77%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.77%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
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%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.19%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 52 (10.04%) Azure
2 35 (6.76%) AWS
3 25 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (3.47%) Cloud Computing
5 17 (3.28%) SaaS
6 16 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (2.70%) BigCommerce
7 14 (2.70%) GCP
8 12 (2.32%) Power Platform
9 8 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (1.54%) Google Analytics
9 8 (1.54%) Twilio
10 7 (1.35%) PaaS
10 7 (1.35%) Serverless
11 6 (1.16%) GitHub
12 5 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (0.97%) OneDrive
13 4 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.58%) Entra ID
14 3 (0.58%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.63%) 5G
2 20 (3.86%) Radio Access Network
3 17 (3.28%) 3G
3 17 (3.28%) 4G
4 16 (3.09%) VPN
5 15 (2.90%) DNS
5 15 (2.90%) VoIP
6 11 (2.12%) CTI
7 8 (1.54%) TCP/IP
8 7 (1.35%) HTTP
8 7 (1.35%) Internet
8 7 (1.35%) VoLTE
8 7 (1.35%) Wireshark
9 6 (1.16%) Diameter Protocol
9 6 (1.16%) GGSN
9 6 (1.16%) LTE
9 6 (1.16%) RANAP
9 6 (1.16%) SGSN
10 5 (0.97%) 2G
10 5 (0.97%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.12%) Power BI
2 9 (1.74%) Tableau
3 7 (1.35%) GIS
4 5 (0.97%) MySQL
5 4 (0.77%) Data Mining
5 4 (0.77%) QGIS
5 4 (0.77%) SQL Server
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%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 27 (5.21%) Git
2 17 (3.28%) JIRA
3 12 (2.32%) git-flow
4 10 (1.93%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.54%) Maven
5 8 (1.54%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 5 (0.97%) Appium
7 4 (0.77%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.58%) GitLab
8 3 (0.58%) Postman
8 3 (0.58%) Subversion
9 2 (0.39%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.39%) Capybara
9 2 (0.39%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.39%) GoCD
9 2 (0.39%) Gradle
9 2 (0.39%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.39%) XCTest
9 2 (0.39%) XCUITest
General
1 168 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 105 (20.27%) Finance
3 78 (15.06%) Marketing
4 76 (14.67%) Retail
5 70 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
6 68 (13.13%) Telecoms
7 44 (8.49%) Public Sector
8 29 (5.60%) Banking
8 29 (5.60%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.51%) Law
11 12 (2.32%) Retail Banking
12 11 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (2.12%) Legal
13 10 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.93%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.74%) Corporate Banking
14 9 (1.74%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.74%) Local Government
15 8 (1.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 72 (13.90%) Senior
2 59 (11.39%) Analyst
3 41 (7.92%) Architect
4 35 (6.76%) Consultant
5 32 (6.18%) Lead
6 30 (5.79%) Project Manager
7 27 (5.21%) Support Engineer
8 23 (4.44%) Business Analyst
9 21 (4.05%) Product Owner
10 18 (3.47%) Data Analyst
10 18 (3.47%) Designer
10 18 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (2.90%) Product Manager
11 15 (2.90%) Technical Leader
12 13 (2.51%) Desktop Engineer
12 13 (2.51%) Desktop Support
12 13 (2.51%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 13 (2.51%) Head of Customer Experience
12 13 (2.51%) Head of Digital
12 13 (2.51%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.44%) CSS
2 20 (3.86%) React
3 18 (3.47%) Web Services
4 14 (2.70%) VML
5 13 (2.51%) Sass
6 12 (2.32%) HTML
7 11 (2.12%) .NET
7 11 (2.12%) Jest
7 11 (2.12%) REST
8 10 (1.93%) LESS
8 10 (1.93%) Material-UI
8 10 (1.93%) OpenFin
8 10 (1.93%) Redux
8 10 (1.93%) RESTful
8 10 (1.93%) Tailwind CSS
8 10 (1.93%) WebSockets
9 9 (1.74%) Middleware
9 9 (1.74%) Node.js
10 8 (1.54%) JSON
11 6 (1.16%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 47 (9.07%) Product Ownership
2 20 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (3.47%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.70%) Mobile App
4 14 (2.70%) Virtual Team
5 12 (2.32%) IVR
6 11 (2.12%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.12%) Data Structures
7 10 (1.93%) Fixed Income
8 9 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.54%) BYOD
9 8 (1.54%) Social Media
10 7 (1.35%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.16%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.16%) Taxonomies
12 5 (0.97%) FMCG
13 4 (0.77%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.77%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.34%) Windows
2 18 (3.47%) Linux
3 17 (3.28%) Windows 10
4 16 (3.09%) Android
5 15 (2.90%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.54%) Unix
6 8 (1.54%) Windows 7
7 5 (0.97%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.58%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (22.78%) Agile
2 101 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 66 (12.74%) Analytics
5 65 (12.55%) User Experience
6 64 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 62 (11.97%) DevOps
8 51 (9.85%) Decision-Making
8 51 (9.85%) Project Management
9 50 (9.65%) CRM
10 46 (8.88%) Change Management
10 46 (8.88%) Customer Service
10 46 (8.88%) Roadmaps
11 42 (8.11%) Computer Science
11 42 (8.11%) Scrum
12 41 (7.92%) Data Analysis
13 40 (7.72%) Service Design
14 38 (7.34%) ITIL
14 38 (7.34%) Software Engineering
15 37 (7.14%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 39 (7.53%) SQL
2 31 (5.98%) JavaScript
3 30 (5.79%) Java
4 27 (5.21%) Python
5 20 (3.86%) TypeScript
6 12 (2.32%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.74%) C#
8 7 (1.35%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.97%) Go
10 4 (0.77%) Bash
10 4 (0.77%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.58%) PHP
11 3 (0.58%) Ruby
11 3 (0.58%) Scala
11 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.58%) Swift
11 3 (0.58%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.39%) C++
12 2 (0.39%) R
13 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 71 (13.71%) Degree
2 43 (8.30%) Security Cleared
3 29 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (4.05%) Master's Degree
4 21 (4.05%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (1.74%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.54%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.97%) PhD
9 4 (0.77%) CCNA
9 4 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (0.77%) MBA
9 4 (0.77%) PMP
10 3 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.39%) IIBA
11 2 (0.39%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.19%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.95%) SLA
2 22 (4.25%) GDPR
3 21 (4.05%) QA
4 16 (3.09%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.70%) PCI DSS
6 12 (2.32%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (1.54%) HIPAA
7 8 (1.54%) SOC 2
8 7 (1.35%) 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 18 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.12%) Docker
3 6 (1.16%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.77%) 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 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (1.74%) Ansible
2 9 (1.74%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.54%) SCCM
4 7 (1.35%) Terraform
5 4 (0.77%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 3 (0.58%) WSUS
7 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.39%) Puppet
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 66 (12.74%) Microsoft
2 39 (7.53%) SAP
3 33 (6.37%) Salesforce
4 30 (5.79%) Adobe
5 26 (5.02%) Cisco
6 23 (4.44%) Google
7 19 (3.67%) ServiceNow
8 17 (3.28%) Avaya
8 17 (3.28%) Sitecore
9 14 (2.70%) Oracle
10 12 (2.32%) Dell
10 12 (2.32%) Intel
11 10 (1.93%) Genesys
12 8 (1.54%) Apple
12 8 (1.54%) BT
13 6 (1.16%) Databricks
13 6 (1.16%) Empirix
13 6 (1.16%) NetScout
13 6 (1.16%) Optimizely
14 5 (0.97%) VMware