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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 97 83
Rank change year-on-year -31 -14 +74
Permanent jobs citing Customer Experience 2,210 3,394 6,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.19% 3.45% 4.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 3.60% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,338 1,334 2,268
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,700 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.45% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,531 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £94,504 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% -5.45% +14.58%

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 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
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 23 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 23 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 -37 1,931 £45,000 -25.31% 811
UK excluding London -46 1,497 £40,000 -23.08% 595
Work from Home -57 837 £41,821 -35.97% 420
London -23 617 £60,000 -14.29% 291
South East +14 397 £38,000 -20.00% 203
North of England -69 363 £43,461 -29.33% 165
Midlands +53 340 £42,500 -15.00% 88
West Midlands +58 255 £40,000 -20.00% 55
North West -18 181 £40,000 -42.40% 92
Yorkshire -69 145 £44,000 -26.67% 52
South West -29 139 £45,000 +16.88% 48
Scotland -97 99 £60,000 -13.60% 36
East Midlands +22 84 £45,000 -10.00% 31
Wales +20 70 £37,500 +12.19% 17
East of England -17 70 £55,000 +26.44% 46
Northern Ireland +66 48 £35,000 - 7
North East +18 41 £50,000 +11.11% 23

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 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 59 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (1.31%) SAS
4 18 (0.81%) Confluence
5 17 (0.77%) CMS
6 14 (0.63%) Umbraco
6 14 (0.63%) WordPress
7 12 (0.54%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.50%) Apache
9 8 (0.36%) 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 (0.090%) IIS
13 2 (0.090%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.045%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 330 (14.93%) Microsoft Office
2 262 (11.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 54 (2.44%) Sketch
4 23 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.72%) 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 (0.090%) Trello
10 1 (0.045%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.045%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.045%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.045%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.045%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.045%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 29 (1.31%) Endur
2 18 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.77%) SAP CX
4 13 (0.59%) Adobe Campaign
5 12 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
6 10 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.45%) SAP ERP
6 10 (0.45%) Unit4 Business World
7 8 (0.36%) Magento
7 8 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 5 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.23%) Shopify
10 4 (0.18%) Lawson
10 4 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (0.14%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (0.14%) SAP CRM
12 2 (0.090%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 249 (11.27%) Azure
2 150 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
3 137 (6.20%) AWS
4 126 (5.70%) SaaS
5 91 (4.12%) Power Platform
6 68 (3.08%) Figma
7 63 (2.85%) GCP
8 51 (2.31%) Miro
9 46 (2.08%) Heroku
10 23 (1.04%) Entra ID
10 23 (1.04%) Power Automate
10 23 (1.04%) Snowflake
11 20 (0.90%) Google Analytics
12 19 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (0.86%) Serverless
13 18 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 15 (0.68%) IaaS
15 14 (0.63%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 92 (4.16%) Firewall
2 63 (2.85%) VPN
3 59 (2.67%) DNS
3 59 (2.67%) TCP/IP
4 57 (2.58%) WAN
5 48 (2.17%) LAN
6 40 (1.81%) DHCP
7 36 (1.63%) Internet
8 32 (1.45%) Wireless
9 18 (0.81%) SAN
10 17 (0.77%) Network Security
11 16 (0.72%) VLAN
12 11 (0.50%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.50%) Unified Communications
13 10 (0.45%) SMS
14 9 (0.41%) HTTP
14 9 (0.41%) HTTPS
14 9 (0.41%) SSL
15 8 (0.36%) IPsec
15 8 (0.36%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (4.66%) Tableau
2 64 (2.90%) Power BI
3 35 (1.58%) SQL Server
4 31 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (1.18%) Relational Database
6 24 (1.09%) Big Data
7 21 (0.95%) Amazon QuickSight
8 20 (0.90%) NoSQL
9 19 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (0.77%) Metadata
10 17 (0.77%) MySQL
11 14 (0.63%) BigQuery
11 14 (0.63%) Data Mining
12 13 (0.59%) Data Lake
13 12 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.54%) Looker
14 11 (0.50%) MongoDB
15 8 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (0.36%) GIS
15 8 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 105 (4.75%) Git
2 58 (2.62%) JIRA
3 12 (0.54%) GitLab
3 12 (0.54%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.36%) Vagrant
5 7 (0.32%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.23%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.23%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.23%) Subversion
6 5 (0.23%) webpack
7 4 (0.18%) Postman
8 3 (0.14%) JUnit
8 3 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 2 (0.090%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.090%) NUnit
9 2 (0.090%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.090%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.090%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.090%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 652 (29.50%) Social Skills
2 522 (23.62%) Finance
3 311 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
4 252 (11.40%) Marketing
5 222 (10.05%) Retail
6 188 (8.51%) Military
7 154 (6.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 135 (6.11%) Telecoms
9 100 (4.52%) Banking
10 93 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
11 82 (3.71%) Public Sector
12 77 (3.48%) Legal
13 56 (2.53%) Manufacturing
14 47 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
15 38 (1.72%) Games
16 35 (1.58%) Electronics
17 33 (1.49%) Brand Awareness
18 27 (1.22%) Billing
18 27 (1.22%) Publishing
19 26 (1.18%) Law
Job Titles
1 371 (16.79%) Senior
2 223 (10.09%) Development Manager
3 221 (10.00%) Analyst
3 221 (10.00%) Business Manager
4 215 (9.73%) Business Development Manager
5 200 (9.05%) Graduate
6 134 (6.06%) Architect
7 124 (5.61%) Lead
8 112 (5.07%) Designer
9 100 (4.52%) Support Engineer
10 91 (4.12%) Developer
11 83 (3.76%) Consultant
12 75 (3.39%) Product Manager
13 74 (3.35%) Data Scientist
14 67 (3.03%) Senior Data Scientist
15 62 (2.81%) UI Designer
16 57 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
16 57 (2.58%) UX Designer
17 55 (2.49%) UI/UX Designer
18 53 (2.40%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (5.75%) HTML
2 63 (2.85%) CSS
3 58 (2.62%) Pandas
4 49 (2.22%) PySpark
5 48 (2.17%) .NET
5 48 (2.17%) React
6 45 (2.04%) scikit-learn
6 45 (2.04%) TensorFlow
7 40 (1.81%) Web Services
8 30 (1.36%) RESTful
9 25 (1.13%) XML
10 20 (0.90%) jQuery
11 19 (0.86%) JSON
11 19 (0.86%) Node.js
12 18 (0.81%) .NET Core
12 18 (0.81%) REST
13 17 (0.77%) AngularJS
14 15 (0.68%) Vue
15 14 (0.63%) GraphQL
16 13 (0.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 302 (13.67%) Onboarding
2 160 (7.24%) Product Ownership
3 73 (3.30%) Management Information System
4 68 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
5 67 (3.03%) Algorithms
6 49 (2.22%) Data Structures
7 43 (1.95%) Driving Licence
8 42 (1.90%) Social Media
9 41 (1.86%) Data Centre
10 29 (1.31%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.13%) Cloud Native
12 24 (1.09%) Mobile App
13 22 (1.00%) Robotics
14 21 (0.95%) IoT
15 15 (0.68%) PlayStation
16 14 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
16 14 (0.63%) Credit Risk
16 14 (0.63%) Reinsurance
17 13 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
17 13 (0.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 148 (6.70%) Windows
2 66 (2.99%) Windows Server
3 57 (2.58%) Linux
4 30 (1.36%) Windows 10
5 28 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
6 27 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 20 (0.90%) Apple iOS
9 17 (0.77%) Ubuntu
10 16 (0.72%) Android
11 14 (0.63%) Mac OS
12 12 (0.54%) CentOS
12 12 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 11 (0.50%) Windows 8
14 10 (0.45%) 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
1 565 (25.57%) Customer Service
2 489 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
3 436 (19.73%) Agile
4 391 (17.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 282 (12.76%) Data Analysis
6 263 (11.90%) Business Development
7 242 (10.95%) Process Improvement
8 234 (10.59%) Logistics
9 233 (10.54%) Performance Metrics
9 233 (10.54%) Roadmaps
10 232 (10.50%) Analytics
11 228 (10.32%) Coaching
12 226 (10.23%) Client Onboarding
13 223 (10.09%) Creative Thinking
14 197 (8.91%) Stakeholder Management
15 191 (8.64%) Contingency Planning
16 189 (8.55%) Decision-Making
17 176 (7.96%) Actionable Insight
18 174 (7.87%) User Experience
19 159 (7.19%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 262 (11.86%) SQL
2 172 (7.78%) Python
3 98 (4.43%) JavaScript
4 62 (2.81%) Java
5 51 (2.31%) C#
6 48 (2.17%) R
7 35 (1.58%) TypeScript
8 28 (1.27%) Bash
9 27 (1.22%) C
10 20 (0.90%) PowerShell
11 18 (0.81%) PHP
12 11 (0.50%) C++
13 10 (0.45%) VBA
14 8 (0.36%) 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
1 588 (26.61%) Degree
2 150 (6.79%) Security Cleared
3 134 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 94 (4.25%) Master's Degree
5 69 (3.12%) DBS Check
6 41 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.18%) Azure Certification
9 20 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
10 14 (0.63%) PMI Certification
10 14 (0.63%) PMP
11 13 (0.59%) MBA
12 12 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
12 12 (0.54%) PhD
13 11 (0.50%) A+ Certification
14 10 (0.45%) CISSP
15 8 (0.36%) DV Cleared
15 8 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
16 7 (0.32%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (5.79%) Accessibility
2 106 (4.80%) SLA
3 48 (2.17%) QA
3 48 (2.17%) WCAG
4 22 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 20 (0.90%) GDPR
6 13 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.50%) NIST
7 11 (0.50%) PMO
8 6 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.27%) GAAP
8 6 (0.27%) IFRS
8 6 (0.27%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.27%) ISO 9001
8 6 (0.27%) NEBOSH
8 6 (0.27%) PSD2
9 3 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.14%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.090%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 85 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 53 (2.40%) Docker
3 50 (2.26%) Hyper-V
4 30 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.45%) 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 (0.090%) Firmware
11 2 (0.090%) NFS
12 1 (0.045%) pfSense
12 1 (0.045%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.045%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 41 (1.86%) Ansible
3 28 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (0.95%) SCCM
5 18 (0.81%) Terraform
6 16 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (0.54%) SCOM
8 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 8 (0.36%) 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 (0.090%) CASB
12 2 (0.090%) Core Impact
12 2 (0.090%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.090%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.090%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 321 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 284 (12.85%) Salesforce
3 86 (3.89%) SAP
4 61 (2.76%) Oracle
5 59 (2.67%) Adobe
6 56 (2.53%) VMware
7 49 (2.22%) Databricks
8 35 (1.58%) Citrix
8 35 (1.58%) Google
9 31 (1.40%) Fortinet
10 29 (1.31%) Juniper
10 29 (1.31%) ServiceNow
11 25 (1.13%) IBM
12 23 (1.04%) Facebook
13 22 (1.00%) Sandvine
14 21 (0.95%) Cisco
14 21 (0.95%) Dell
15 17 (0.77%) Samsung
16 15 (0.68%) Sony
17 13 (0.59%) Meraki