Customer Requirements Contracts in the UK excluding London

Customer Requirements
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 134 120
Rank change year-on-year -60 -14 +107
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 145 336 496
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.14% 1.64% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.94% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 130 201
10th Percentile £319 £180 £210
25th Percentile £461 £285 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +8.95% +5.56%
75th Percentile £611 £590 £563
90th Percentile £638 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 90 168
10th Percentile £32.30 £17.00 -
25th Percentile £43.13 £25.50 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.50 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year - +486.73% -79.37%
75th Percentile £72.50 £65.00 £23.63
90th Percentile £84.74 - £63.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £47.83 £10.63
% change year-on-year +4.54% +349.95% -77.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,533 17,354 21,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.54% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,213 10,334 14,740
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £660 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 833 2,042 1,299
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.30 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.18 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.13 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.86 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.68 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.44% +1.39% +44.00%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Customer Requirements as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London

Customer Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London

Customer Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London

Customer Requirements
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London

Customer Requirements
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East -27 46 £600 +26.32% 147
South West +19 26 £600 +1.69% 48
East of England +4 26 £500 -16.67% 52
North of England +1 20 £456 -4.00% 112
Scotland +13 15 £525 +65.62% 24
North West +6 15 £511 +7.64% 64
Midlands -11 11 £405 -10.00% 88
West Midlands +2 10 £403 -46.22% 42
Yorkshire -7 4 £232 -51.21% 39
North East -3 1 - - 12
East Midlands -9 1 £525 +204.35% 40
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 10
Customer Requirements
UK

Customer Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.76%) WebLogic
3 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.38%) CMS
4 2 (1.38%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.69%) Apache
5 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.69%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.14%) Windchill
3 5 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.76%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.76%) Simulink
5 1 (0.69%) CATIA
5 1 (0.69%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (2.07%) Primavera
2 2 (1.38%) Movex
2 2 (1.38%) SAP PP
2 2 (1.38%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.69%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.69%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (11.72%) Azure
2 16 (11.03%) AWS
3 12 (8.28%) PaaS
3 12 (8.28%) SaaS
4 7 (4.83%) Amazon S3
4 7 (4.83%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.14%) GCP
5 6 (4.14%) GitHub
6 5 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (3.45%) Amazon Cognito
6 5 (3.45%) AWS CloudTrail
6 5 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.45%) Serverless
7 3 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.07%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.07%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.38%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.97%) VoIP
2 11 (7.59%) LAN
3 10 (6.90%) PBX
4 6 (4.14%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (4.14%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (3.45%) Cisco IOS
5 5 (3.45%) Junos
6 4 (2.76%) BGP
7 3 (2.07%) Ethernet
7 3 (2.07%) Firewall
7 3 (2.07%) OSPF
7 3 (2.07%) SAN
7 3 (2.07%) WAN
8 2 (1.38%) Broadband
8 2 (1.38%) DNS
8 2 (1.38%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (1.38%) MPLS
8 2 (1.38%) NAS
8 2 (1.38%) VLAN
8 2 (1.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
1 5 (3.45%) DynamoDB
1 5 (3.45%) Parquet
2 4 (2.76%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.07%) Big Data
3 3 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.07%) Metadata
4 2 (1.38%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.69%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.69%) DB2
5 1 (0.69%) Looker
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.69%) Power BI
5 1 (0.69%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (4.83%) JIRA
2 4 (2.76%) Git
2 4 (2.76%) Toad
3 2 (1.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.38%) NUnit
3 2 (1.38%) Postman
3 2 (1.38%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.69%) MSI
4 1 (0.69%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.69%) Selenium
4 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
General
1 55 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (9.66%) Telecoms
4 12 (8.28%) Finance
4 12 (8.28%) Manufacturing
5 10 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.76%) Electronics
6 4 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.07%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.07%) Automotive
7 3 (2.07%) Games
7 3 (2.07%) Marketing
8 2 (1.38%) Aviation
8 2 (1.38%) Billing
8 2 (1.38%) Law
8 2 (1.38%) Military
8 2 (1.38%) Publishing
9 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (18.62%) Senior
2 22 (15.17%) Architect
3 15 (10.34%) Analyst
4 11 (7.59%) Consultant
4 11 (7.59%) Network Engineer
5 10 (6.90%) Developer
6 8 (5.52%) Network Architect
6 8 (5.52%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (4.14%) SAP Analyst
7 6 (4.14%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.45%) Administrator
8 5 (3.45%) Business Analyst
8 5 (3.45%) Cloud Developer
8 5 (3.45%) Configuration Engineer
8 5 (3.45%) Senior Developer
8 5 (3.45%) Test Engineer
9 4 (2.76%) SAP Test Analyst
9 4 (2.76%) Technical Architect
9 4 (2.76%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.52%) JSON
2 7 (4.83%) XML
3 5 (3.45%) AWS CDK
4 4 (2.76%) REST
5 3 (2.07%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.07%) PySpark
5 3 (2.07%) SOAP
5 3 (2.07%) Web Services
6 2 (1.38%) .NET
6 2 (1.38%) Playwright
7 1 (0.69%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.69%) ADO
7 1 (0.69%) Flash
7 1 (0.69%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.69%) Kafka
7 1 (0.69%) NumPy
7 1 (0.69%) POSIX
7 1 (0.69%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.69%) SAPUI5
7 1 (0.69%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.03%) Management Information System
2 9 (6.21%) Blackberry
2 9 (6.21%) Video Conferencing
3 6 (4.14%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.76%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.76%) FPGA
5 4 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.76%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.76%) Verilog
6 3 (2.07%) CMDB
6 3 (2.07%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.07%) IoT
6 3 (2.07%) PCIe
7 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.38%) PKI
8 1 (0.69%) IVR
8 1 (0.69%) Replication
8 1 (0.69%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 25 (17.24%) Windows
2 8 (5.52%) Windows Server
3 7 (4.83%) Linux
4 6 (4.14%) Unix
5 2 (1.38%) Android
5 2 (1.38%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.38%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.38%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.69%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (35.86%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (26.90%) Agile
3 26 (17.93%) Migration
4 23 (15.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (11.72%) Validation
6 16 (11.03%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (10.34%) Root Cause Analysis
8 13 (8.97%) Roadmaps
9 12 (8.28%) Impact Assessments
9 12 (8.28%) Thought Leadership
10 11 (7.59%) CI/CD
10 11 (7.59%) Commercial Awareness
10 11 (7.59%) Decision-Making
10 11 (7.59%) Preventative Maintenance
10 11 (7.59%) Project Management
11 10 (6.90%) DevOps
11 10 (6.90%) Machine Learning
11 10 (6.90%) PRINCE2
11 10 (6.90%) Service Design
12 9 (6.21%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (12.41%) Python
1 18 (12.41%) SQL
2 11 (7.59%) PowerShell
3 7 (4.83%) VB
4 6 (4.14%) Java
5 4 (2.76%) MATLAB
6 3 (2.07%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.07%) SystemVerilog
6 3 (2.07%) Tcl
6 3 (2.07%) VBScript
7 2 (1.38%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.69%) Perl
8 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 71 (48.97%) Security Cleared
2 57 (39.31%) SC Cleared
3 25 (17.24%) DV Cleared
4 14 (9.66%) Degree
5 13 (8.97%) CCNP
5 13 (8.97%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (6.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (4.83%) AWS Certification
8 6 (4.14%) HNC
9 5 (3.45%) HND
10 4 (2.76%) ISEB
10 4 (2.76%) ISTQB
10 4 (2.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (1.38%) CCIE
11 2 (1.38%) JNCIE
11 2 (1.38%) JNCIP
11 2 (1.38%) MCP
11 2 (1.38%) MCSA
11 2 (1.38%) MCSE
11 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.03%) SLA
2 6 (4.14%) QA
3 5 (3.45%) DO-254
3 5 (3.45%) PMO
4 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.38%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.38%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.38%) GDPR
5 2 (1.38%) NCSC
6 1 (0.69%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.69%) NIST
6 1 (0.69%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (8.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (6.21%) Docker
3 7 (4.83%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.07%) Firmware
4 3 (2.07%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (1.38%) BitLocker
5 2 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.69%) GPFS
6 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.69%) NFS
6 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (4.83%) Jamf Pro
2 6 (4.14%) Ansible
2 6 (4.14%) Terraform
3 5 (3.45%) FortiGate
4 3 (2.07%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.38%) NetBackup
5 2 (1.38%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (1.38%) SCCM
6 1 (0.69%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.69%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.69%) Podman
6 1 (0.69%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 1 (0.69%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 25 (17.24%) Cisco
1 25 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.10%) Juniper
3 15 (10.34%) F5
4 14 (9.66%) Palo Alto
4 14 (9.66%) VMware
5 13 (8.97%) SAP
6 10 (6.90%) Ericsson
6 10 (6.90%) Nokia
7 9 (6.21%) Avaya
7 9 (6.21%) Oracle
7 9 (6.21%) Ribbon
8 7 (4.83%) Apple
8 7 (4.83%) Samsung
8 7 (4.83%) ServiceNow
8 7 (4.83%) SOTI
9 5 (3.45%) Citrix
10 4 (2.76%) Salesforce
10 4 (2.76%) webMethods
11 3 (2.07%) Intel