Customer Requirements Contracts in the North West

Customer Requirements
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 113 122
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 +21
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 12 22 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.61% 0.83% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.96% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 13
10th Percentile £439 - £385
25th Percentile £462 £122 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.14% -20.83% +33.33%
75th Percentile £511 £494 £675
90th Percentile £574 £535 £685
England median daily rate £550 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +8.91% +1.00% +6.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 0
10th Percentile £47.75 £17.72 -
25th Percentile - £25.50 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% - -
75th Percentile - £62.17 -
90th Percentile £62.00 £83.55 -
England median hourly rate £46.25 £61.25 £10.63
% change year-on-year -24.49% +476.20% -76.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,762 2,284 2,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.08% 85.96% 90.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,452 1,952
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £388 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £596 £588
90th Percentile £663 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 252 138
10th Percentile £15.23 £10.96 £16.78
25th Percentile £22.74 £13.50 £23.15
Median hourly rate £31.88 £24.15 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.04% -32.93% +52.90%
75th Percentile £63.10 £45.96 £49.49
90th Percentile £85.03 £62.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -21.23% -2.14% +49.20%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Requirements in the North West

Customer Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Requirements in the North West

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Requirements in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Requirements in the North West

Customer Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Requirements in the North West

Customer Requirements
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Requirements in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Requirements in the North West

Customer Requirements
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Cheshire 0 11 £511 +319.09% 7
Manchester +13 1 £450 -7.69% 31
Customer Requirements
England

Customer Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (33.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP MM
1 1 (8.33%) SAP PP
1 1 (8.33%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Business Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Architect
4 2 (16.67%) SAP Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
5 1 (8.33%) Functional Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 1 (8.33%) SAP Functional Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Wintel Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (8.33%) SAPUI5
1 1 (8.33%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (33.33%) CMDB
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Android
1 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Agile
1 5 (41.67%) Change Management
1 5 (41.67%) Manufacturing Engineering
1 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (41.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 5 (41.67%) Service Management
2 4 (33.33%) Active Listening
2 4 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 4 (33.33%) Business Change Management
2 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 4 (33.33%) Focus Group
2 4 (33.33%) ITSM
2 4 (33.33%) Product Management
2 4 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
2 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 4 (33.33%) Service Catalogue
2 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Identification
2 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) VB
1 1 (8.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) MCP
2 1 (8.33%) MCSA
2 1 (8.33%) MCSE
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) BitLocker
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) SAP
2 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) McAfee
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Symantec
3 1 (8.33%) VMware