Customer Requirements Contracts in the South West

Customer Requirements
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 87 101
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 -2
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Customer Requirements 32 52 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.66% 1.88% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 2.25% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 41 21
10th Percentile £418 £500 £313
25th Percentile £447 £540 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +21.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £633 £629
90th Percentile £668 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 21
10th Percentile - - £40.00
25th Percentile - £39.15 £54.00
Median hourly rate £6.00 £44.94 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -86.65% -30.87% +17.22%
75th Percentile - £47.83 £71.90
90th Percentile - - £80.00
England median hourly rate £24.66 £47.83 £65.00
% change year-on-year -48.44% -26.42% +12.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,735 2,307 2,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.85% 83.20% 87.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,013 1,473 2,060
10th Percentile £213 £264 £313
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +2.48%
75th Percentile £615 £634 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 255 251
10th Percentile £14.98 £13.86 £19.00
25th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 £42.55
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £64.15
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +5.23% +18.79%
75th Percentile £64.06 £72.50 £75.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £76.50 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £40.85
% change year-on-year -40.82% +4.05% +51.39%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Requirements in the South West

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Customer Requirements.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Customer Requirements

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Requirements in the South West over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Requirements in the South West

Customer Requirements
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Customer Requirements.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Customer Requirements

Customer Requirements
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 21 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +12 22 £446 -24.41% 23
Wiltshire +16 5 £525 -21.88% 6
Somerset -2 3 £638 +27.50% 7
Gloucestershire +19 2 £488 -22.00% 25
Customer Requirements
England

Customer Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 (3.13%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (31.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) PaaS
1 9 (28.13%) SaaS
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (3.13%) AWS
3 1 (3.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (31.25%) VoIP
2 9 (28.13%) PBX
3 2 (6.25%) BGP
3 2 (6.25%) WAN
3 2 (6.25%) Wireless
4 1 (3.13%) 4G
4 1 (3.13%) 5G
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (3.13%) DHCP
4 1 (3.13%) DNS
4 1 (3.13%) Firewall
4 1 (3.13%) LAN
4 1 (3.13%) MPLS
4 1 (3.13%) OSPF
4 1 (3.13%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.13%) Unified Communications
4 1 (3.13%) VLAN
4 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Telecoms
3 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.13%) Finance
5 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Analyst
1 10 (31.25%) Pricing Analyst
2 4 (12.50%) Architect
3 3 (9.38%) Developer
3 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (3.13%) Consultant
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Lead
4 1 (3.13%) Network Architect
4 1 (3.13%) Network Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.13%) Technical Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Test Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Unified Communications Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) CSS
1 1 (3.13%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) AS400
2 8 (25.00%) Blackberry
2 8 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.25%) PKI
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
1 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (40.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (37.50%) Migration
4 10 (31.25%) ERP
4 10 (31.25%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (28.13%) Commercial Awareness
5 9 (28.13%) Impact Assessments
5 9 (28.13%) Roadmaps
5 9 (28.13%) Service Design
5 9 (28.13%) Thought Leadership
6 8 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
6 8 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
6 8 (25.00%) Validation
7 4 (12.50%) Service Delivery
8 3 (9.38%) Customer Service
8 3 (9.38%) Decision-Making
8 3 (9.38%) Knowledge Transfer
9 2 (6.25%) Data Migration
9 2 (6.25%) Mentoring
9 2 (6.25%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
1 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (53.13%) Security Cleared
2 15 (46.88%) SC Cleared
3 11 (34.38%) CCNP
3 11 (34.38%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (31.25%) DV Cleared
5 8 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (6.25%) CCNA
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
7 1 (3.13%) CCIE
7 1 (3.13%) HNC
7 1 (3.13%) ISTQB
7 1 (3.13%) JNCIE
7 1 (3.13%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.13%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (3.13%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) Cisco
1 11 (34.38%) Palo Alto
2 10 (31.25%) Juniper
2 10 (31.25%) Salesforce
3 9 (28.13%) Ericsson
3 9 (28.13%) F5
3 9 (28.13%) Nokia
4 8 (25.00%) Avaya
4 8 (25.00%) Ribbon
4 8 (25.00%) VMware
5 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
6 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.13%) Google