Customer Requirements Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Customer Requirements
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Customer Requirements skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 46 44
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.54% 0.91% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.02% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £471 - -
25th Percentile £484 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £534 - -
90th Percentile £544 - -
South West median daily rate £750 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
South West median hourly rate £39.00 £58.75 £65.98
% change year-on-year -33.62% -10.96% +573.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 328 293 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 88.41% 89.06% 85.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 202 225
10th Percentile £312 £372 £363
25th Percentile £413 £461 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £676 £688
90th Percentile £700 £749 £750
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 46
10th Percentile £15.08 £22.30 £17.01
25th Percentile £25.43 £33.34 £37.31
Median hourly rate £51.21 £66.25 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -22.70% +35.98% -18.80%
75th Percentile £65.57 £68.75 £73.44
90th Percentile £69.36 £69.38 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £57.35 £65.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -11.77% +20.93% -12.60%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Customer Requirements job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Customer Requirements.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Customer Requirements

Customer Requirements
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Customer Requirements.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Customer Requirements

Customer Requirements
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 5 February 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
Gloucester -6 2 £513 - 1
Customer Requirements
South West

Customer Requirements
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable