Customer Requirements Contracts in the North of England

Customer Requirements
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 139 159
Rank change year-on-year -34 +20 +42
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 10 30 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.25% 0.72% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.86% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 28
10th Percentile £350 £187 £240
25th Percentile £445 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.14% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £511 £538 £600
90th Percentile £556 £613 £679
England median daily rate £530 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +0.86% +10.53% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £47.00 £25.09 -
25th Percentile £48.13 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.20 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% - -
75th Percentile - £82.81 -
90th Percentile - £84.67 -
England median hourly rate £24.66 £47.83 £65.00
% change year-on-year -48.44% -26.42% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,543 3,477 4,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.04% 83.99% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,258 2,087 3,140
10th Percentile £268 £310 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% - -
75th Percentile £558 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 242 208
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.48 £14.67 £17.94
Median hourly rate £22.63 £25.65 £29.15
Median % change year-on-year -11.77% -12.01% +45.75%
75th Percentile £43.91 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.63 £69.98 £60.07
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Requirements in the North of England

Customer Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer Requirements in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Customer Requirements in the North of England

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Requirements in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Requirements in the North of England

Customer Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer Requirements in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Customer Requirements in the North of England

Customer Requirements
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 August 2025. 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
North West -20 7 £504 -3.97% 57
Yorkshire -20 2 £438 -7.89% 24
North East 0 1 - - 15
Customer Requirements
England

Customer Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (40.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP PP
1 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MSI
General
1 4 (40.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) SAP Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Applications Packager
5 1 (10.00%) Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Functional Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) SAP Functional Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) SAP PP Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) SAP QM Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) CMDB
1 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
1 4 (40.00%) Business Analysis
1 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
1 4 (40.00%) Focus Group
1 4 (40.00%) ITSM
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (40.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
1 4 (40.00%) Service Catalogue
1 4 (40.00%) Service Management
1 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Identification
1 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (40.00%) Test Strategy
1 4 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Business Change Management
2 3 (30.00%) Manufacturing Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Product Management
2 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (40.00%) SAP