Customer Experience (CX)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Customer Experience skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Customer Experience over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 95 84
Rank change year-on-year -35 -11 +74
Permanent jobs citing Customer Experience 2,189 3,454 6,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.19% 3.49% 4.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 3.65% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,339 1,340 2,261
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,613 £33,648
25th Percentile £35,700 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £61,456 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.78% +2.43% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,313 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% -5.45% +13.40%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,129 94,506 156,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.14% 95.59% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 59,760 55,709 83,161
10th Percentile £29,078 £34,000 £33,618
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Customer Experience.

Salary trend for Customer Experience in the UK

Customer Experience
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Experience over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Customer Experience in the UK

Customer Experience
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Experience within the UK over the 6 months to 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -42 1,910 £45,000 -26.23% 712
UK excluding London -51 1,474 £40,000 -23.08% 484
Work from Home -63 842 £41,250 -36.85% 352
London -26 618 £60,000 -14.29% 236
South East +5 396 £38,000 -20.00% 141
North of England -78 363 £43,461 -29.16% 148
Midlands +52 319 £42,500 -15.00% 84
West Midlands +55 239 £40,000 -20.00% 53
North West -25 181 £39,817 -42.67% 83
Yorkshire -71 145 £44,000 -26.67% 45
South West -24 141 £45,000 +14.65% 47
Scotland -106 99 £60,000 -13.60% 25
East Midlands +10 79 £50,000 - 31
Wales +20 69 £37,500 +12.19% 16
East of England -21 68 £50,000 +19.05% 34
Northern Ireland +67 48 £35,000 - 6
North East +17 41 £50,000 +11.11% 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 79 (3.61%) SharePoint
2 59 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (1.32%) SAS
4 18 (0.82%) Confluence
5 17 (0.78%) CMS
6 14 (0.64%) Umbraco
6 14 (0.64%) WordPress
7 12 (0.55%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.50%) Apache
9 8 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (0.27%) IBM Domino
11 4 (0.18%) JBoss
12 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.14%) Drupal
12 3 (0.14%) GlassFish
12 3 (0.14%) Moodle
12 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.091%) IIS
13 2 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.046%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 309 (14.12%) Microsoft Office
2 241 (11.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 54 (2.47%) Sketch
4 23 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.091%) Trello
10 1 (0.046%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.046%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.046%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.046%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.046%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 32 (1.46%) Endur
2 18 (0.82%) SAP CX
2 18 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.59%) Adobe Campaign
4 12 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.46%) SAP ERP
5 10 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
6 8 (0.37%) Magento
6 8 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 5 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.23%) Shopify
9 4 (0.18%) Lawson
9 4 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.18%) SAP CRM
10 3 (0.14%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.14%) OpenLink RightAngle
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 247 (11.28%) Azure
2 150 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
3 135 (6.17%) AWS
4 126 (5.76%) SaaS
5 90 (4.11%) Power Platform
6 68 (3.11%) Figma
7 62 (2.83%) GCP
8 51 (2.33%) Miro
9 46 (2.10%) Heroku
10 23 (1.05%) Entra ID
10 23 (1.05%) Snowflake
11 22 (1.01%) Power Automate
12 21 (0.96%) Google Analytics
13 19 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (0.87%) Serverless
14 18 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 15 (0.69%) IaaS
16 14 (0.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 92 (4.20%) Firewall
2 64 (2.92%) VPN
3 59 (2.70%) DNS
3 59 (2.70%) TCP/IP
4 58 (2.65%) WAN
5 49 (2.24%) LAN
6 40 (1.83%) DHCP
7 37 (1.69%) Internet
8 33 (1.51%) Wireless
9 18 (0.82%) SAN
10 17 (0.78%) Network Security
11 16 (0.73%) VLAN
12 12 (0.55%) Unified Communications
13 11 (0.50%) SD-WAN
14 10 (0.46%) SMS
15 9 (0.41%) HTTP
15 9 (0.41%) HTTPS
15 9 (0.41%) SSL
16 8 (0.37%) PBX
16 8 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (4.71%) Tableau
2 64 (2.92%) Power BI
3 36 (1.64%) SQL Server
4 32 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (1.23%) Relational Database
6 24 (1.10%) Big Data
7 21 (0.96%) Amazon QuickSight
8 20 (0.91%) NoSQL
9 19 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (0.78%) Metadata
10 17 (0.78%) MySQL
11 15 (0.69%) BigQuery
12 14 (0.64%) Data Mining
13 13 (0.59%) Data Lake
14 12 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (0.55%) Looker
15 11 (0.50%) MongoDB
16 8 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (0.37%) Hadoop
16 8 (0.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 105 (4.80%) Git
2 58 (2.65%) JIRA
3 13 (0.59%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.55%) GitLab
5 8 (0.37%) Vagrant
6 7 (0.32%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.23%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.23%) Subversion
7 5 (0.23%) webpack
8 4 (0.18%) Postman
9 3 (0.14%) JUnit
9 3 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 2 (0.091%) Axure RP
10 2 (0.091%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.091%) NUnit
10 2 (0.091%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.091%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.091%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 650 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 521 (23.80%) Finance
3 314 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
4 251 (11.47%) Marketing
5 222 (10.14%) Retail
6 167 (7.63%) Military
7 153 (6.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 136 (6.21%) Telecoms
9 96 (4.39%) Banking
10 91 (4.16%) Presentation Skills
11 82 (3.75%) Public Sector
12 78 (3.56%) Legal
13 56 (2.56%) Manufacturing
14 48 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
15 39 (1.78%) Games
16 35 (1.60%) Electronics
17 33 (1.51%) Brand Awareness
18 27 (1.23%) Billing
18 27 (1.23%) Publishing
19 26 (1.19%) Law
Job Titles
1 369 (16.86%) Senior
2 225 (10.28%) Development Manager
3 223 (10.19%) Analyst
4 222 (10.14%) Business Manager
5 216 (9.87%) Business Development Manager
6 179 (8.18%) Graduate
7 131 (5.98%) Architect
8 125 (5.71%) Lead
9 112 (5.12%) Designer
10 101 (4.61%) Support Engineer
11 90 (4.11%) Developer
12 83 (3.79%) Consultant
13 76 (3.47%) Product Manager
14 74 (3.38%) Data Scientist
15 67 (3.06%) Senior Data Scientist
16 62 (2.83%) UI Designer
17 57 (2.60%) UX Designer
18 56 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
19 55 (2.51%) UI/UX Designer
20 51 (2.33%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (5.80%) HTML
2 64 (2.92%) CSS
3 58 (2.65%) Pandas
4 49 (2.24%) PySpark
5 48 (2.19%) .NET
5 48 (2.19%) React
6 45 (2.06%) scikit-learn
6 45 (2.06%) TensorFlow
7 40 (1.83%) Web Services
8 30 (1.37%) RESTful
9 25 (1.14%) XML
10 20 (0.91%) jQuery
11 19 (0.87%) JSON
11 19 (0.87%) Node.js
12 18 (0.82%) .NET Core
12 18 (0.82%) REST
13 17 (0.78%) AngularJS
14 15 (0.69%) Vue
15 14 (0.64%) GraphQL
16 13 (0.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 279 (12.75%) Onboarding
2 163 (7.45%) Product Ownership
3 73 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 69 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
5 67 (3.06%) Algorithms
6 49 (2.24%) Data Structures
7 43 (1.96%) Driving Licence
8 42 (1.92%) Social Media
9 41 (1.87%) Data Centre
10 30 (1.37%) Virtual Team
11 24 (1.10%) Cloud Native
12 22 (1.01%) Mobile App
12 22 (1.01%) Robotics
13 21 (0.96%) IoT
14 15 (0.69%) PlayStation
15 14 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
15 14 (0.64%) Credit Risk
15 14 (0.64%) Public Cloud
15 14 (0.64%) Reinsurance
16 13 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 148 (6.76%) Windows
2 66 (3.02%) Windows Server
3 57 (2.60%) Linux
4 30 (1.37%) Windows 10
5 28 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
6 27 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 20 (0.91%) Apple iOS
9 17 (0.78%) Ubuntu
10 16 (0.73%) Android
11 14 (0.64%) Mac OS
12 12 (0.55%) CentOS
12 12 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 11 (0.50%) Windows 8
14 10 (0.46%) Windows 7
15 9 (0.41%) Debian
16 5 (0.23%) AIX
16 5 (0.23%) Unix
17 4 (0.18%) CoreOS
18 3 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (24.85%) Customer Service
2 491 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
3 434 (19.83%) Agile
4 370 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 262 (11.97%) Business Development
6 261 (11.92%) Data Analysis
7 236 (10.78%) Roadmaps
8 234 (10.69%) Analytics
9 227 (10.37%) Client Onboarding
10 225 (10.28%) Coaching
11 221 (10.10%) Process Improvement
12 212 (9.68%) Logistics
12 212 (9.68%) Performance Metrics
13 203 (9.27%) Creative Thinking
14 197 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
15 188 (8.59%) Decision-Making
16 176 (8.04%) Actionable Insight
17 175 (7.99%) User Experience
18 170 (7.77%) Contingency Planning
19 158 (7.22%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 263 (12.01%) SQL
2 173 (7.90%) Python
3 99 (4.52%) JavaScript
4 64 (2.92%) Java
5 51 (2.33%) C#
6 48 (2.19%) R
7 35 (1.60%) TypeScript
8 28 (1.28%) Bash
9 27 (1.23%) C
10 20 (0.91%) PowerShell
11 18 (0.82%) PHP
12 11 (0.50%) C++
13 10 (0.46%) VBA
14 8 (0.37%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.32%) MATLAB
16 6 (0.27%) Go
16 6 (0.27%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.27%) Ruby
17 4 (0.18%) Scala
18 3 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 570 (26.04%) Degree
2 150 (6.85%) Security Cleared
3 134 (6.12%) SC Cleared
4 94 (4.29%) Master's Degree
5 69 (3.15%) DBS Check
6 42 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.19%) Azure Certification
9 20 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
10 14 (0.64%) PMI Certification
10 14 (0.64%) PMP
11 13 (0.59%) MBA
12 12 (0.55%) A+ Certification
12 12 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
12 12 (0.55%) PhD
13 10 (0.46%) CISSP
14 8 (0.37%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.37%) Network+ Certification
15 7 (0.32%) MCP
15 7 (0.32%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (5.80%) Accessibility
2 106 (4.84%) SLA
3 48 (2.19%) QA
3 48 (2.19%) WCAG
4 21 (0.96%) Data Quality
5 20 (0.91%) GDPR
6 13 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.55%) PMO
8 10 (0.46%) NIST
9 6 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.27%) GAAP
9 6 (0.27%) IFRS
9 6 (0.27%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.27%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.27%) NEBOSH
9 6 (0.27%) PSD2
10 3 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.14%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.091%) COBIT
System Software
1 84 (3.84%) Active Directory
2 52 (2.38%) Docker
3 50 (2.28%) Hyper-V
4 30 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.27%) XenApp
7 6 (0.27%) XenDesktop
8 5 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
9 4 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.14%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.091%) Firmware
11 2 (0.091%) NFS
12 1 (0.046%) pfSense
12 1 (0.046%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.046%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (2.24%) Kubernetes
2 41 (1.87%) Ansible
3 28 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (0.96%) SCCM
5 17 (0.78%) Terraform
6 16 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (0.55%) SCOM
8 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 8 (0.37%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.27%) Grafana
9 6 (0.27%) SCDPM
10 4 (0.18%) Autotask
10 4 (0.18%) Puppet
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Statspack
11 3 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.091%) CASB
12 2 (0.091%) Core Impact
12 2 (0.091%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.091%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.091%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 321 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 285 (13.02%) Salesforce
3 87 (3.97%) SAP
4 62 (2.83%) Oracle
5 59 (2.70%) Adobe
6 56 (2.56%) VMware
7 49 (2.24%) Databricks
8 37 (1.69%) Google
9 35 (1.60%) Citrix
10 31 (1.42%) Fortinet
11 29 (1.32%) Juniper
11 29 (1.32%) ServiceNow
12 25 (1.14%) IBM
13 23 (1.05%) Facebook
14 22 (1.01%) Dell
14 22 (1.01%) Sandvine
15 21 (0.96%) Cisco
16 17 (0.78%) Samsung
17 15 (0.69%) Sony
18 13 (0.59%) Meraki