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

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 513 521
Rank change year-on-year +122 +8 -27
Contract jobs citing Customer-Centricity 178 182 328
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.32% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.36% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 133 216
10th Percentile £173 £168 £329
25th Percentile £341 £340 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £512 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% -7.00% -
75th Percentile £595 £625 £707
90th Percentile £675 £700 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £392 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -21.60% +5.26% +11.76%
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 36,577 50,687 79,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.85% 89.72% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,572 35,094 55,727
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,481 1,678 1,891
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.73 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +40.67% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

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 24 May 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 24 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +93 161 £456 -9.65% 305
London +80 86 £475 -9.52% 106
UK excluding London +47 77 £392 -21.60% 228
Work from Home +119 63 £478 -2.05% 168
South East +25 35 £450 +28.57% 75
South West +23 12 £280 -51.39% 22
East of England +17 10 £345 -28.31% 14
North of England +29 9 £550 -7.56% 64
Scotland +33 7 £455 -19.11% 12
Yorkshire +12 5 £600 +18.23% 20
North West +28 4 £438 -31.37% 37
Wales +17 2 £91 -84.17% 7
Midlands +12 2 £398 -24.29% 37
West Midlands +1 2 £398 -23.30% 23

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 (4.49%) Confluence
1 8 (4.49%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.93%) CMS
3 1 (0.56%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (5.62%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (3.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.12%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.56%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.56%) InVision
5 1 (0.56%) Revit
5 1 (0.56%) Sketch
5 1 (0.56%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.56%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 13 (7.30%) Power Platform
2 12 (6.74%) Azure
2 12 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (6.18%) AWS
3 11 (6.18%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (4.49%) Figma
5 7 (3.93%) SaaS
5 7 (3.93%) Slack
6 6 (3.37%) Serverless
7 5 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.81%) Google Workspace
7 5 (2.81%) PaaS
8 4 (2.25%) GCP
8 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.69%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.69%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.69%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.25%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (1.12%) 3G
2 2 (1.12%) 4G
2 2 (1.12%) 5G
2 2 (1.12%) Broadband
2 2 (1.12%) SSH
2 2 (1.12%) Telnet
2 2 (1.12%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.12%) VoIP
3 1 (0.56%) 2G
3 1 (0.56%) DSL
3 1 (0.56%) Firewall
3 1 (0.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.74%) Power BI
2 6 (3.37%) Tableau
3 4 (2.25%) Couchbase
4 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.69%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.56%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (3.93%) JIRA
2 4 (2.25%) Git
3 2 (1.12%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.12%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.12%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.56%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.56%) GitLab
General
1 103 (57.87%) Social Skills
2 46 (25.84%) Finance
3 41 (23.03%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (14.61%) Telecoms
5 15 (8.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (8.43%) Marketing
5 15 (8.43%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (7.30%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (7.30%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.93%) Banking
7 7 (3.93%) Legal
7 7 (3.93%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.37%) Retail
9 5 (2.81%) Electronics
9 5 (2.81%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.12%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.12%) Back Office
11 2 (1.12%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.12%) Law
Job Titles
1 35 (19.66%) Analyst
2 19 (10.67%) Senior
3 13 (7.30%) Designer
4 11 (6.18%) Senior Analyst
5 10 (5.62%) Architect
5 10 (5.62%) Lead
5 10 (5.62%) Product Manager
6 8 (4.49%) Product Owner
6 8 (4.49%) Service Designer
6 8 (4.49%) Support Analyst
7 7 (3.93%) Business Analyst
7 7 (3.93%) Support Engineer
7 7 (3.93%) Technical Analyst
7 7 (3.93%) Technical Support
8 6 (3.37%) Desktop Engineer
8 6 (3.37%) Technical Support Analyst
9 5 (2.81%) Data Analyst
9 5 (2.81%) Desktop Support
9 5 (2.81%) Developer
9 5 (2.81%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.81%) Node.js
2 4 (2.25%) Kafka
2 4 (2.25%) REST
3 3 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.69%) React
4 2 (1.12%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.12%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.12%) CSS
4 2 (1.12%) HTML
4 2 (1.12%) OpenAPI
4 2 (1.12%) Playwright
4 2 (1.12%) Pyramid
4 2 (1.12%) Swagger
4 2 (1.12%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (1.12%) Web Services
5 1 (0.56%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.56%) JWT
5 1 (0.56%) Next.js
5 1 (0.56%) Redux
5 1 (0.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.74%) Product Ownership
1 12 (6.74%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (3.37%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.25%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.25%) Virtual Team
4 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.69%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.12%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.12%) PMI
5 2 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.56%) CMDB
6 1 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.56%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.56%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.06%) Windows
2 4 (2.25%) Linux
3 3 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.12%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.56%) Android
5 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (30.90%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (28.09%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 48 (26.97%) Agile
4 36 (20.22%) Project Management
5 35 (19.66%) Roadmaps
6 32 (17.98%) Customer Service
7 31 (17.42%) Customer Experience
8 26 (14.61%) Stakeholder Management
9 24 (13.48%) Decision-Making
9 24 (13.48%) User Stories
10 21 (11.80%) Analytics
10 21 (11.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (10.11%) Business Intelligence
11 18 (10.11%) Infrastructure Management
11 18 (10.11%) Risk Management
12 17 (9.55%) Scrum
12 17 (9.55%) Service Management
13 16 (8.99%) Product Management
14 15 (8.43%) Change Management
14 15 (8.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.06%) SQL
2 8 (4.49%) Python
3 7 (3.93%) TypeScript
4 6 (3.37%) C++
4 6 (3.37%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.69%) Bicep
5 3 (1.69%) Java
5 3 (1.69%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.12%) Bash
6 2 (1.12%) C
6 2 (1.12%) Go
6 2 (1.12%) Scala
7 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 22 (12.36%) Degree
2 10 (5.62%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.49%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.81%) Postgraduate
6 4 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.25%) CSPO
7 3 (1.69%) APMP
7 3 (1.69%) PgMP
7 3 (1.69%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.12%) ACCA
8 2 (1.12%) CCENT
8 2 (1.12%) CIMA
8 2 (1.12%) CIPD
8 2 (1.12%) CIPFA
8 2 (1.12%) ISEB
8 2 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.30%) QA
2 9 (5.06%) PMO
3 6 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.81%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.81%) SLA
5 3 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.12%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.56%) GRC
7 1 (0.56%) P3O
7 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.69%) Progress Chef
1 3 (1.69%) Puppet
1 3 (1.69%) Terraform
2 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.56%) AirWatch
3 1 (0.56%) Ansible
3 1 (0.56%) Grafana
3 1 (0.56%) Kibana
3 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 31 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.62%) Oracle
2 10 (5.62%) SAP
3 7 (3.93%) Google
4 6 (3.37%) Cisco
5 4 (2.25%) Adobe
5 4 (2.25%) BT
6 3 (1.69%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.12%) Ariba
7 2 (1.12%) Citrix
7 2 (1.12%) Genesys
7 2 (1.12%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.12%) Huawei
7 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.56%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.56%) IFS
8 1 (0.56%) NCR
8 1 (0.56%) Okta
8 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow