Customer Requirements Contracts in the West Midlands

Customer Requirements
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 89 86
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +37
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 8 21 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.59% 1.08% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.29% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 27
10th Percentile £301 £448 £376
25th Percentile £402 £503 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £750 £465
Median % change year-on-year -41.27% +61.29% +11.04%
75th Percentile £527 £775 £544
90th Percentile £566 - £593
England median daily rate £560 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +12.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £16.26 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.46% - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £47.83 £10.63
% change year-on-year +4.54% +349.95% -76.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,189 1,632 2,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.34% 83.95% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 783 1,084 1,439
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £378 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 114 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.08 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £24.61 £40.38 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £58.00 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Customer Requirements in the West Midlands

Customer Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Customer Requirements in the West Midlands

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Requirements in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Requirements in the West Midlands

Customer Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Customer Requirements in the West Midlands

Customer Requirements
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Birmingham +9 3 £476 -15.00% 17
Staffordshire +3 2 £405 -49.38% 15
Warwickshire -4 2 £575 -23.33% 5
Shropshire -4 1 £402 -10.55% 4
Customer Requirements
England

Customer Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (12.50%) CMS
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
1 1 (12.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Figma
1 2 (25.00%) IaaS
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (25.00%) PaaS
1 2 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Toad
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) IT Manager
1 2 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Resilience Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Designer
2 1 (12.50%) ICT Support
2 1 (12.50%) Project Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Technical Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Support Officer
2 1 (12.50%) User Experience Architect
2 1 (12.50%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ADO
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) IVR
1 1 (12.50%) PMI
1 1 (12.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity Management
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) User Experience
2 2 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (12.50%) Business Impact Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Contract Management
3 1 (12.50%) Defect Management
3 1 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Personalization
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
3 1 (12.50%) Qualitative Research
3 1 (12.50%) Quantitative Research
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ISEB
1 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
1 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (25.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) webMethods