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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 96 86
Rank change year-on-year -33 -10 +74
Permanent jobs citing Customer Experience 2,195 3,476 6,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.20% 3.51% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 3.67% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,366 1,339 2,229
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,119 £33,730
25th Percentile £35,700 £42,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £61,456 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.78% +2.43% +8.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,350 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -26.95% -4.55% +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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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% +9.38%

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 18 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 18 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 -38 1,915 £43,500 -28.90% 778
UK excluding London -47 1,480 £38,350 -26.95% 535
Work from Home -51 874 £40,000 -38.76% 347
London -23 618 £60,000 -14.29% 297
South East +15 418 £38,000 -20.00% 173
North of England -76 363 £43,231 -28.25% 147
Midlands +46 299 £42,500 -15.00% 90
West Midlands +51 223 £40,000 -20.00% 59
North West -21 183 £39,817 -42.67% 78
South West -32 143 £45,000 +5.88% 48
Yorkshire -71 143 £43,500 -27.50% 51
Scotland -103 100 £60,000 -13.60% 25
East Midlands +10 75 £45,000 -10.00% 31
Wales +19 69 £37,500 +6.07% 17
East of England -18 69 £52,500 +25.00% 46
Northern Ireland +58 48 £35,000 - 8
North East +17 41 £50,000 +11.11% 19

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 78 (3.55%) SharePoint
2 58 (2.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (1.32%) SAS
4 19 (0.87%) Confluence
5 17 (0.77%) CMS
6 14 (0.64%) Umbraco
7 13 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 13 (0.59%) WordPress
8 11 (0.50%) Apache
9 9 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (0.27%) IBM Domino
11 4 (0.18%) JBoss
12 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.14%) GlassFish
12 3 (0.14%) IIS
12 3 (0.14%) Moodle
12 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.091%) Drupal
13 2 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.046%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 286 (13.03%) Microsoft Office
2 220 (10.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 54 (2.46%) Sketch
4 22 (1.00%) 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 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.32%) Magento
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
10 4 (0.18%) SAP CRM
11 3 (0.14%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.14%) OpenLink RightAngle
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 246 (11.21%) Azure
2 150 (6.83%) Microsoft 365
3 137 (6.24%) AWS
4 125 (5.69%) SaaS
5 91 (4.15%) Power Platform
6 68 (3.10%) Figma
7 63 (2.87%) GCP
8 51 (2.32%) Miro
9 46 (2.10%) Heroku
10 23 (1.05%) Entra ID
10 23 (1.05%) Snowflake
11 22 (1.00%) Power Automate
12 21 (0.96%) Google Analytics
13 19 (0.87%) Serverless
14 18 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 15 (0.68%) IaaS
16 14 (0.64%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 91 (4.15%) Firewall
2 64 (2.92%) VPN
3 59 (2.69%) DNS
3 59 (2.69%) TCP/IP
4 58 (2.64%) WAN
5 49 (2.23%) LAN
6 40 (1.82%) DHCP
7 37 (1.69%) Internet
8 33 (1.50%) Wireless
9 18 (0.82%) SAN
10 17 (0.77%) 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 (0.36%) IPsec
16 8 (0.36%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (4.74%) Tableau
2 65 (2.96%) Power BI
3 37 (1.69%) SQL Server
4 32 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (1.23%) Relational Database
6 24 (1.09%) Big Data
7 21 (0.96%) Amazon QuickSight
7 21 (0.96%) NoSQL
8 19 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (0.82%) Metadata
9 18 (0.82%) MySQL
10 15 (0.68%) BigQuery
11 14 (0.64%) Data Mining
12 13 (0.59%) Data Lake
13 12 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.55%) Looker
14 11 (0.50%) MongoDB
15 8 (0.36%) Hadoop
15 8 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
15 8 (0.36%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 105 (4.78%) Git
2 59 (2.69%) JIRA
3 13 (0.59%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.50%) GitLab
5 8 (0.36%) Vagrant
6 7 (0.32%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.27%) Subversion
8 5 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.23%) webpack
9 4 (0.18%) Postman
10 3 (0.14%) JUnit
10 3 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 2 (0.091%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.091%) NUnit
11 2 (0.091%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.091%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.091%) Spinnaker
11 2 (0.091%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 648 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 519 (23.64%) Finance
3 316 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (11.39%) Marketing
5 223 (10.16%) Retail
6 152 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 146 (6.65%) Military
8 134 (6.10%) Telecoms
9 97 (4.42%) Banking
10 91 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
11 83 (3.78%) Public Sector
12 78 (3.55%) Legal
13 56 (2.55%) Manufacturing
14 49 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
15 39 (1.78%) Games
16 35 (1.59%) Electronics
17 32 (1.46%) Brand Awareness
18 27 (1.23%) Billing
18 27 (1.23%) Publishing
19 26 (1.18%) Law
Job Titles
1 370 (16.86%) Senior
2 256 (11.66%) Development Manager
3 253 (11.53%) Business Manager
4 247 (11.25%) Business Development Manager
5 223 (10.16%) Analyst
6 158 (7.20%) Graduate
7 133 (6.06%) Architect
8 125 (5.69%) Lead
9 113 (5.15%) Designer
10 99 (4.51%) Support Engineer
11 89 (4.05%) Developer
12 84 (3.83%) Consultant
13 75 (3.42%) Product Manager
14 74 (3.37%) Data Scientist
15 67 (3.05%) Senior Data Scientist
16 62 (2.82%) UI Designer
17 57 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
17 57 (2.60%) UX Designer
18 55 (2.51%) UI/UX Designer
19 51 (2.32%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (5.74%) HTML
2 63 (2.87%) CSS
3 58 (2.64%) Pandas
4 49 (2.23%) PySpark
5 48 (2.19%) .NET
5 48 (2.19%) React
6 45 (2.05%) scikit-learn
6 45 (2.05%) TensorFlow
7 40 (1.82%) Web Services
8 30 (1.37%) RESTful
9 25 (1.14%) XML
10 19 (0.87%) jQuery
10 19 (0.87%) JSON
10 19 (0.87%) Node.js
11 18 (0.82%) .NET Core
11 18 (0.82%) REST
12 17 (0.77%) AngularJS
13 14 (0.64%) GraphQL
13 14 (0.64%) Vue
14 13 (0.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 258 (11.75%) Onboarding
2 163 (7.43%) Product Ownership
3 72 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 68 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
5 67 (3.05%) Algorithms
6 49 (2.23%) Data Structures
7 43 (1.96%) Driving Licence
8 42 (1.91%) Data Centre
8 42 (1.91%) Social Media
9 29 (1.32%) Virtual Team
10 24 (1.09%) Cloud Native
11 22 (1.00%) Mobile App
11 22 (1.00%) Robotics
12 21 (0.96%) IoT
13 15 (0.68%) PlayStation
14 14 (0.64%) Credit Risk
14 14 (0.64%) Public Cloud
14 14 (0.64%) Reinsurance
15 13 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 147 (6.70%) Windows
2 67 (3.05%) 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 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 20 (0.91%) Apple iOS
9 17 (0.77%) 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
1 521 (23.74%) Customer Service
2 491 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
3 432 (19.68%) Agile
4 347 (15.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 294 (13.39%) Business Development
6 258 (11.75%) Client Onboarding
7 240 (10.93%) Data Analysis
8 236 (10.75%) Roadmaps
9 235 (10.71%) Analytics
10 225 (10.25%) Coaching
11 200 (9.11%) Process Improvement
12 198 (9.02%) Stakeholder Management
13 191 (8.70%) Logistics
14 190 (8.66%) Performance Metrics
15 187 (8.52%) Decision-Making
16 182 (8.29%) Creative Thinking
17 176 (8.02%) Actionable Insight
18 174 (7.93%) User Experience
19 158 (7.20%) Mentoring
20 153 (6.97%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 266 (12.12%) SQL
2 175 (7.97%) Python
3 98 (4.46%) JavaScript
4 65 (2.96%) Java
5 51 (2.32%) C#
6 48 (2.19%) R
7 35 (1.59%) TypeScript
8 28 (1.28%) Bash
9 27 (1.23%) C
10 20 (0.91%) PowerShell
11 17 (0.77%) PHP
12 11 (0.50%) C++
12 11 (0.50%) VBA
13 8 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.32%) MATLAB
15 6 (0.27%) Go
15 6 (0.27%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.27%) Ruby
16 5 (0.23%) Scala
17 3 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 548 (24.97%) Degree
2 151 (6.88%) Security Cleared
3 134 (6.10%) SC Cleared
4 93 (4.24%) Master's Degree
5 69 (3.14%) DBS Check
6 42 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.18%) 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 (0.36%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
15 7 (0.32%) MCP
15 7 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (5.83%) Accessibility
2 105 (4.78%) SLA
3 48 (2.19%) WCAG
4 47 (2.14%) QA
5 21 (0.96%) Data Quality
6 20 (0.91%) GDPR
7 13 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.59%) 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 (3.83%) Active Directory
2 51 (2.32%) 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%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
9 3 (0.14%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.091%) Firmware
10 2 (0.091%) NFS
11 1 (0.046%) pfSense
11 1 (0.046%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.046%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (2.23%) Kubernetes
2 41 (1.87%) Ansible
3 28 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (0.96%) SCCM
5 18 (0.82%) Terraform
6 15 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (0.55%) 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 (0.091%) 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
1 319 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 315 (14.35%) Salesforce
3 87 (3.96%) SAP
4 63 (2.87%) Oracle
5 59 (2.69%) Adobe
6 56 (2.55%) VMware
7 49 (2.23%) Databricks
8 38 (1.73%) Google
9 35 (1.59%) Citrix
10 31 (1.41%) Fortinet
11 29 (1.32%) Juniper
12 28 (1.28%) ServiceNow
13 26 (1.18%) IBM
14 24 (1.09%) Facebook
15 22 (1.00%) Dell
15 22 (1.00%) Sandvine
16 21 (0.96%) Cisco
17 17 (0.77%) Samsung
18 15 (0.68%) Sony
19 13 (0.59%) Meraki