Customer Requirements Contracts in the Thames Valley

Customer Requirements
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Customer Requirements skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Customer Requirements over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 89 148
Rank change year-on-year -14 +59 -66
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 37 64 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.38% 2.18% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 2.38% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 39 12
10th Percentile - £57 £235
25th Percentile £205 £213 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £400 £431
Median % change year-on-year -47.50% -7.25% -4.17%
75th Percentile £488 £441 £469
90th Percentile £503 £471 £498
South East median daily rate £475 £441 £463
% change year-on-year +7.71% -4.65% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile - £26.15 £11.11
25th Percentile - £28.63 £12.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £33.50 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.27% +168.00% -3.70%
75th Percentile - £39.63 £13.00
90th Percentile - £42.85 -
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £60.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year -68.33% +29.73% +2.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Customer Requirements 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 advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,337 2,689 3,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.10% 91.56% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,302 1,867 2,096
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 62 87
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £24.86 £11.78
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.80
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.45
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.72% -18.36%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Customer Requirements as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Requirements in the Thames Valley

Customer Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer Requirements in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Customer Requirements in the Thames Valley

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Requirements in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Requirements in the Thames Valley

Customer Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer Requirements in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Customer Requirements in the Thames Valley

Customer Requirements
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Requirements within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Berkshire +2 32 £210 -50.59% 18
Buckinghamshire -3 5 - - 12
Customer Requirements
South East

Customer Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 21 (56.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (48.65%) LAN
2 3 (8.11%) VPN
3 2 (5.41%) BGP
3 2 (5.41%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (5.41%) MPLS
3 2 (5.41%) SSL
3 2 (5.41%) WAN
4 1 (2.70%) 3G
4 1 (2.70%) 4G
4 1 (2.70%) 5G
4 1 (2.70%) Broadband
4 1 (2.70%) DSL
4 1 (2.70%) Firewall
4 1 (2.70%) Unified Communications
General
1 25 (67.57%) Social Skills
2 18 (48.65%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Finance
4 4 (10.81%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Hardware Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Break Fix Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Developer
3 4 (10.81%) Informatica Developer
4 2 (5.41%) Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Lead
4 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Network Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Server Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Support Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Technical Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Windows Support Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Analyst
5 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 1 (2.70%) Network Delivery Manager
5 1 (2.70%) Product Owner
5 1 (2.70%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (48.65%) Driving Licence
2 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.41%) PMI
3 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (56.76%) Windows
1 21 (56.76%) Windows 7
2 18 (48.65%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) Customer Service
2 20 (54.05%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (48.65%) ITIL
3 18 (48.65%) Service Delivery
3 18 (48.65%) Software Deployment
3 18 (48.65%) Software Testing
4 6 (16.22%) Architectural Design
4 6 (16.22%) Data Architecture
4 6 (16.22%) Data Governance
4 6 (16.22%) Data Integration
4 6 (16.22%) Information Management
4 6 (16.22%) Master Data Management
4 6 (16.22%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (16.22%) Product Information Management
5 5 (13.51%) Business Strategy
5 5 (13.51%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (10.81%) Information Security
6 4 (10.81%) Project Management
7 3 (8.11%) PRINCE2
7 3 (8.11%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 25 (67.57%) Security Cleared
2 21 (56.76%) DV Cleared
3 18 (48.65%) Degree
4 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
5 3 (8.11%) PMI Certification
6 2 (5.41%) PgMP
7 1 (2.70%) CSPO
7 1 (2.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.11%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (48.65%) Firmware
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (48.65%) SCCM
2 2 (5.41%) Endace
Vendors
1 25 (67.57%) Microsoft
2 18 (48.65%) HP
3 6 (16.22%) Informatica
4 4 (10.81%) Cisco
5 2 (5.41%) F5
5 2 (5.41%) Juniper
5 2 (5.41%) VMware
6 1 (2.70%) Computacenter