Customer Requirements Contracts in the UK excluding London

Customer Requirements
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Customer Requirements skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Customer Requirements over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 120 235
Rank change year-on-year -22 +115 -47
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 326 474 340
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.53% 2.09% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 2.34% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 173 199
10th Percentile £167 £185 £165
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +3.83% +8.67%
75th Percentile £630 £550 £588
90th Percentile £688 £625 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 167 44
10th Percentile £17.86 - £12.48
25th Percentile £25.50 - £14.67
Median hourly rate £62.50 £9.80 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +537.76% -79.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £24.25 £57.53
90th Percentile £65.75 £63.00 £65.47
UK median hourly rate £47.83 £10.63 £47.50
% change year-on-year +349.95% -77.62% -5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Customer Requirements falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,592 20,238 27,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.79% 89.10% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,357 13,876 18,979
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,189 1,255 1,329
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.46 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +66.67% +0.65%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.97 £74.92 £63.05
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Customer Requirements as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London

Customer Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London

Customer Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London

Customer Requirements
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London

Customer Requirements
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
South East +33 133 £495 +21.47% 143
South West -45 59 £600 - 72
Midlands +18 47 £595 +19.00% 124
East of England -4 41 - - 70
North of England -16 37 £475 -5.00% 114
West Midlands +6 27 £672 +34.40% 75
North West +6 21 £525 +2.44% 62
East Midlands +23 20 £173 -51.75% 49
Yorkshire -31 14 £475 -2.56% 39
Scotland +11 9 £281 -45.91% 47
Northern Ireland +6 6 £167 - 10
North East +13 2 £263 - 15
Wales +1 2 £123 -77.21% 11
Customer Requirements
UK

Customer Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.23%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.61%) CMS
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.31%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.31%) MTS
4 1 (0.31%) Smallworld
Applications
1 36 (11.04%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (6.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (5.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.61%) FileZilla
4 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.61%) Windchill
5 1 (0.31%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.31%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (0.31%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.31%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.61%) SAP HCM
2 2 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.31%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.31%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 19 (5.83%) Azure
2 14 (4.29%) PaaS
2 14 (4.29%) SaaS
3 11 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (3.07%) IaaS
5 9 (2.76%) Google Workspace
6 8 (2.45%) AWS
7 7 (2.15%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.23%) OCI
8 4 (1.23%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 3 (0.92%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.92%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.61%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.31%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.31%) GitHub
11 1 (0.31%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.31%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 44 (13.50%) WAN
2 37 (11.35%) Firewall
3 33 (10.12%) LAN
3 33 (10.12%) Modbus
3 33 (10.12%) RS-422
3 33 (10.12%) RS-485
4 31 (9.51%) MPLS
5 30 (9.20%) Cisco Firepower
6 25 (7.67%) BGP
6 25 (7.67%) SSL
7 16 (4.91%) VPN
8 15 (4.60%) VoIP
9 10 (3.07%) PBX
9 10 (3.07%) SDH
10 8 (2.45%) DHCP
10 8 (2.45%) DNS
11 7 (2.15%) Internet
11 7 (2.15%) SD-WAN
11 7 (2.15%) WLAN
12 5 (1.53%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.15%) Power BI
2 6 (1.84%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.61%) Big Data
4 2 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.61%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.61%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.31%) GIS
5 1 (0.31%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (6.44%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (3.07%) Git
3 6 (1.84%) NUnit
3 6 (1.84%) Postman
3 6 (1.84%) Visual Studio
4 5 (1.53%) JIRA
5 4 (1.23%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.61%) HP UFT
6 2 (0.61%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.61%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.31%) JUnit
7 1 (0.31%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.31%) Maven
7 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.31%) Selenium
7 1 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 85 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 50 (15.34%) Finance
3 44 (13.50%) Electronics
4 34 (10.43%) Telecoms
5 33 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (8.59%) Public Sector
7 19 (5.83%) Marketing
7 19 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (4.29%) Legal
9 12 (3.68%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (3.07%) Aerospace
11 7 (2.15%) Aeronautics
11 7 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.23%) Military
13 4 (1.23%) Publishing
14 3 (0.92%) Digital Economy
15 2 (0.61%) Back Office
15 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 105 (32.21%) Architect
2 51 (15.64%) Network Architect
3 38 (11.66%) Software Engineer
4 34 (10.43%) Network Engineer
5 26 (7.98%) Systems Engineer
6 24 (7.36%) C++ Software Engineer
6 24 (7.36%) Senior
7 20 (6.13%) Analyst
8 19 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (4.29%) Hardware Engineer
10 13 (3.99%) Cisco Engineer
10 13 (3.99%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 11 (3.37%) Consultant
11 11 (3.37%) Support Engineer
12 9 (2.76%) Systems Architect
13 8 (2.45%) Developer
13 8 (2.45%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 7 (2.15%) Senior Test Engineer
14 7 (2.15%) Service Architect
14 7 (2.15%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.45%) .NET
1 8 (2.45%) AngularJS
2 7 (2.15%) Web Services
3 5 (1.53%) GraphQL
3 5 (1.53%) Playwright
4 3 (0.92%) LDAP
5 2 (0.61%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.61%) Kafka
5 2 (0.61%) REST
5 2 (0.61%) XML
6 1 (0.31%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.31%) CSS
6 1 (0.31%) HTML
6 1 (0.31%) JSON
6 1 (0.31%) Middleware
6 1 (0.31%) Node.js
6 1 (0.31%) RESTful
6 1 (0.31%) SOAP
6 1 (0.31%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.27%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (3.68%) Driving Licence
3 11 (3.37%) Virtual Team
4 8 (2.45%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.45%) SCADA
5 6 (1.84%) CMDB
5 6 (1.84%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.23%) Blackberry
6 4 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (0.92%) Clustering
7 3 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.92%) EMC VNX
7 3 (0.92%) PKI
7 3 (0.92%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.92%) Replication
8 2 (0.61%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.61%) NHS
8 2 (0.61%) PMI
9 1 (0.31%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 54 (16.56%) Windows
2 23 (7.06%) Windows 7
3 15 (4.60%) Linux
4 14 (4.29%) Windows 10
5 9 (2.76%) Unix
5 9 (2.76%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.23%) Windows Vista
8 3 (0.92%) AIX
8 3 (0.92%) Solaris
9 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (22.39%) Agile
2 67 (20.55%) DevOps
3 59 (18.10%) ITIL
4 54 (16.56%) Network Design
5 49 (15.03%) Software Testing
6 48 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (13.50%) Software Engineering
9 39 (11.96%) TDD
10 37 (11.35%) Technical Leadership
10 37 (11.35%) Unit Testing
11 35 (10.74%) Continuous Integration
12 33 (10.12%) Pair Programming
13 29 (8.90%) Customer Service
14 27 (8.28%) Network Management
15 25 (7.67%) Collaborative Working
15 25 (7.67%) Systems Engineering
16 21 (6.44%) ArchiMate
16 21 (6.44%) Roadmaps
16 21 (6.44%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 35 (10.74%) C#
2 34 (10.43%) C++
3 33 (10.12%) C
4 7 (2.15%) SQL
5 6 (1.84%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.53%) Java
6 5 (1.53%) Python
7 4 (1.23%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.92%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.92%) Perl
9 2 (0.61%) Bash
Qualifications
1 167 (51.23%) Security Cleared
2 84 (25.77%) SC Cleared
3 46 (14.11%) Degree
4 39 (11.96%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (4.29%) PMI Certification
7 12 (3.68%) PMP
8 9 (2.76%) APMP
8 9 (2.76%) CCNP
8 9 (2.76%) Master's Degree
9 8 (2.45%) HND
10 7 (2.15%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (2.15%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (1.84%) CCIE
11 6 (1.84%) CCIE Data Center
12 4 (1.23%) JNCIA
12 4 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (11.04%) SLA
2 10 (3.07%) PCI DSS
3 6 (1.84%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.84%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.53%) NCSC
5 4 (1.23%) QA
6 3 (0.92%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.61%) GDPR
8 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.31%) GRC
8 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (3.68%) Active Directory
1 12 (3.68%) Firmware
2 9 (2.76%) Docker
2 9 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.92%) BitLocker
3 3 (0.92%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.92%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (0.92%) SRDF
3 3 (0.92%) Terminal Services
3 3 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (7.67%) Endace
2 13 (3.99%) SCCM
3 4 (1.23%) WhatsUp Gold
4 3 (0.92%) EMC TimeFinder
4 3 (0.92%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.92%) Terraform
4 3 (0.92%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.92%) vMotion
5 2 (0.61%) Ansible
6 1 (0.31%) Autotask
6 1 (0.31%) Grafana
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.31%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.31%) Puppet
6 1 (0.31%) QRadar
6 1 (0.31%) Rancher
6 1 (0.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 75 (23.01%) Cisco
2 51 (15.64%) Microsoft
3 38 (11.66%) Juniper
4 28 (8.59%) Fortinet
5 26 (7.98%) F5
6 17 (5.21%) Oracle
7 15 (4.60%) HP
8 14 (4.29%) ServiceNow
8 14 (4.29%) VMware
9 13 (3.99%) Nokia
9 13 (3.99%) SAP
10 12 (3.68%) Google
11 10 (3.07%) Dell
11 10 (3.07%) IBM
11 10 (3.07%) Palo Alto
11 10 (3.07%) Salesforce
12 8 (2.45%) Infoblox
12 8 (2.45%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.84%) Informatica
14 5 (1.53%) Avaya