Customer Requirements Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Customer Requirements
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Customer Requirements skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 - 59
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 2 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.15% - 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% - 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £225
Median % change year-on-year - - -43.75%
75th Percentile - - £238
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £538 £527 £525
% change year-on-year +2.09% +0.29% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £14.08 - -
25th Percentile £15.31 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £19.13 - £13.50
75th Percentile £24.69 - £14.25
90th Percentile £26.98 - -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £18.23 £52.50
% change year-on-year +160.63% -65.29% -19.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,017 719 644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.61% 86.52% 83.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 491 396
10th Percentile £233 £225 £263
25th Percentile £400 £350 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £415 £445
Median % change year-on-year +15.90% -6.74% -11.00%
75th Percentile £575 £518 £550
90th Percentile £667 £630 £615
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 67 29
10th Percentile £12.76 £16.17 £13.37
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.87 £15.10
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £21.59
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% -12.60% -5.10%
75th Percentile £25.86 £25.15 £50.00
90th Percentile £36.02 - £51.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Customer Requirements relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Customer Requirements job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Customer Requirements.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Customer Requirements

Customer Requirements
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Customer Requirements.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Customer Requirements

Customer Requirements
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Requirements in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 4 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Requirements in the East Midlands

Customer Requirements
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 October 2026. 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
Leicestershire - 1 - - 15
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 14
Customer Requirements
England

Customer Requirements
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Controller
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) Inventory Control
1 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Production Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Assembly Language
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP