Customer Requirements Contracts in the South East

Customer Requirements
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Customer Requirements skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Customer Requirements over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 111 164
Rank change year-on-year +35 +53 -64
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 136 109 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.46% 1.89% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 2.11% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 68 51
10th Percentile - £57 £325
25th Percentile £205 £363 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £431 £463
Median % change year-on-year +10.14% -6.76% +8.00%
75th Percentile £563 £525 £519
90th Percentile £588 £587 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 20
10th Percentile £17.00 £34.75 £12.07
25th Percentile £18.00 £48.75 £12.25
Median hourly rate £19.00 £61.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -68.85% +31.89% +2.78%
75th Percentile £30.31 £63.00 £65.51
90th Percentile £49.38 - £67.80
England median hourly rate £47.83 £10.63 £45.14
% change year-on-year +349.95% -76.45% +0.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Customer Requirements is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,676 5,160 6,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.69% 89.37% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,738 3,592 4,709
10th Percentile £250 £250 £226
25th Percentile £400 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 222 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.53 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.53
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +127.43% -20.05%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £48.71
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.98 £62.70
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Requirements in the South East

Customer Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer Requirements in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Customer Requirements in the South East

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Requirements in the South East over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Requirements in the South East

Customer Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer Requirements in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Customer Requirements in the South East

Customer Requirements
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Requirements in the South East over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Requirements in the South East

Customer Requirements
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Hampshire +42 84 £500 -9.09% 37
Thames Valley -11 36 £210 -47.50% 45
Berkshire +7 31 £210 -50.59% 16
Surrey +20 11 £525 +5.00% 9
Buckinghamshire -4 5 - - 12
West Sussex +8 3 £575 +15.00% 7
M4 Corridor - 2 £510 -
Customer Requirements
England

Customer Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (1.47%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.74%) MTS
Applications
1 20 (14.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.47%) FileZilla
2 2 (1.47%) Windchill
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.94%) AWS
2 3 (2.21%) Azure
3 1 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (0.74%) IaaS
3 1 (0.74%) PaaS
3 1 (0.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (21.32%) LAN
2 28 (20.59%) Firewall
3 25 (18.38%) WAN
4 24 (17.65%) BGP
4 24 (17.65%) Cisco Firepower
4 24 (17.65%) MPLS
4 24 (17.65%) SSL
5 5 (3.68%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.21%) Network Security
6 3 (2.21%) VPN
7 2 (1.47%) FTP
7 2 (1.47%) SAN
8 1 (0.74%) 3G
8 1 (0.74%) 4G
8 1 (0.74%) 5G
8 1 (0.74%) Broadband
8 1 (0.74%) DSL
8 1 (0.74%) SDH
8 1 (0.74%) SNMP
8 1 (0.74%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 9 (6.62%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (2.94%) JIRA
3 1 (0.74%) LabVIEW
General
1 35 (25.74%) Finance
2 29 (21.32%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 12 (8.82%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.62%) Marketing
6 6 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.68%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.94%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.47%) Back Office
11 1 (0.74%) Advertising
11 1 (0.74%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.74%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 56 (41.18%) Architect
2 47 (34.56%) Network Architect
3 29 (21.32%) Network Engineer
4 17 (12.50%) Hardware Engineer
5 16 (11.76%) Senior
6 13 (9.56%) Cisco Engineer
6 13 (9.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) Systems Engineer
8 7 (5.15%) Senior Architect
9 6 (4.41%) DOORS Engineer
9 6 (4.41%) Integration Engineer
9 6 (4.41%) Senior Integration Engineer
9 6 (4.41%) Service Architect
9 6 (4.41%) Software Integration Engineer
9 6 (4.41%) Systems Integration Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Break Fix Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Developer
10 5 (3.68%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Senior Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.74%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.50%) Driving Licence
2 6 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.21%) PKI
5 2 (1.47%) CMDB
5 2 (1.47%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.47%) PMI
6 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (22.06%) Windows
2 20 (14.71%) Windows 7
3 17 (12.50%) Windows 10
4 8 (5.88%) Unix
5 4 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (37.50%) Network Design
2 33 (24.26%) ITIL
2 33 (24.26%) Technical Leadership
3 29 (21.32%) Network Management
3 29 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (16.18%) Agile
5 20 (14.71%) Customer Service
6 18 (13.24%) Software Testing
7 17 (12.50%) Service Delivery
7 17 (12.50%) Software Deployment
8 16 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
9 13 (9.56%) Requirements Management
10 12 (8.82%) Preventative Maintenance
11 11 (8.09%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (7.35%) Process Improvement
12 10 (7.35%) Requirements Analysis
12 10 (7.35%) Risk Management
12 10 (7.35%) Validation
13 9 (6.62%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 105 (77.21%) Security Cleared
2 31 (22.79%) Degree
3 30 (22.06%) DV Cleared
3 30 (22.06%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.35%) Master's Degree
5 8 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (4.41%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.94%) PMP
8 3 (2.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (1.47%) PgMP
9 2 (1.47%) PhD
10 1 (0.74%) CCNA
10 1 (0.74%) CCSP
10 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.74%) CISSP
10 1 (0.74%) CSPO
10 1 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.74%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.03%) SLA
2 11 (8.09%) PCI DSS
3 6 (4.41%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.47%) GDPR
5 1 (0.74%) GRC
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (12.50%) Firmware
2 4 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (17.65%) Endace
2 17 (12.50%) SCCM
3 1 (0.74%) QRadar
Vendors
1 54 (39.71%) Cisco
2 28 (20.59%) Microsoft
3 27 (19.85%) Fortinet
4 25 (18.38%) Juniper
5 24 (17.65%) F5
6 17 (12.50%) HP
7 6 (4.41%) Informatica
8 4 (2.94%) VMware
9 1 (0.74%) Computacenter
9 1 (0.74%) Fujitsu
9 1 (0.74%) IBM
9 1 (0.74%) Nokia
9 1 (0.74%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.74%) Snow
9 1 (0.74%) Splunk