Customer Requirements Contracts in the West Midlands

Customer Requirements
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 96 126
Rank change year-on-year +8 +30 -27
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 21 44 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.09% 1.85% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 2.08% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 27 32
10th Percentile £448 £376 £383
25th Percentile £503 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £465 £419
Median % change year-on-year +61.29% +11.04% +16.32%
75th Percentile £775 £544 £459
90th Percentile - £593 £573
England median daily rate £500 £500 £464
% change year-on-year - +7.82% +3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.50 - -
Median hourly rate £26.00 - £22.00
75th Percentile £26.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.83 £10.63 £45.07
% change year-on-year +349.95% -76.41% +0.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,114 3,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.67% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,452 2,361
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £401 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 69
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.05
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 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
Birmingham +3 7 £560 +14.87% 13
Warwickshire - 6 £750 - 7
Shropshire +24 3 £449 +6.40% 1
Staffordshire +2 1 £800 - 20
Worcestershire +2 1 - - 16
Solihull -13 1 - -
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:

Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Google Workspace
1 3 (14.29%) IaaS
1 3 (14.29%) PaaS
1 3 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) WAN
2 6 (28.57%) Firewall
2 6 (28.57%) LAN
2 6 (28.57%) MPLS
2 6 (28.57%) PBX
2 6 (28.57%) VoIP
2 6 (28.57%) VPN
2 6 (28.57%) WLAN
3 5 (23.81%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (23.81%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (23.81%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (23.81%) DHCP
3 5 (23.81%) DNS
3 5 (23.81%) Internet
3 5 (23.81%) SD-WAN
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (4.76%) HSRP
4 1 (4.76%) OSPF
4 1 (4.76%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (4.76%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Rational DOORS
General
1 7 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 3 (14.29%) Legal
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Aeronautics
4 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.76%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Analyst
2 5 (23.81%) Data Analyst
2 5 (23.81%) Enterprise Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Test Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Hardware Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Hardware Support Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) SAP HCM Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Design Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Design Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 4 (19.05%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (14.29%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Analytics
1 6 (28.57%) Architectural Design
1 6 (28.57%) Data Analytics
1 6 (28.57%) ITIL
1 6 (28.57%) Mentoring
1 6 (28.57%) Network Architecture
1 6 (28.57%) Performance Management
1 6 (28.57%) Programme Management
1 6 (28.57%) Resource Management
1 6 (28.57%) SOA
1 6 (28.57%) Storage Management
1 6 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
1 6 (28.57%) TOGAF
2 5 (23.81%) Project Delivery
2 5 (23.81%) Test Scripting
3 2 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (9.52%) Problem Management
3 2 (9.52%) Process Improvement
3 2 (9.52%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (9.52%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (28.57%) CCIE
2 6 (28.57%) CCIE Data Center
2 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
4 4 (19.05%) Degree
5 3 (14.29%) APMP
5 3 (14.29%) PMI Certification
5 3 (14.29%) PMP
6 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (9.52%) CCNP
6 2 (9.52%) Dell Certification
7 1 (4.76%) CCNA
7 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) SLA
2 1 (4.76%) NIST
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Cisco
2 6 (28.57%) Oracle
2 6 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 5 (23.81%) CheckPoint
3 5 (23.81%) Infoblox
3 5 (23.81%) Symantec
3 5 (23.81%) Zscaler
4 4 (19.05%) Denodo
5 3 (14.29%) Google
5 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 3 (14.29%) Salesforce
5 3 (14.29%) SAP
6 2 (9.52%) Dell
6 2 (9.52%) Fujitsu
6 2 (9.52%) HP
6 2 (9.52%) Sun
7 1 (4.76%) IBM
7 1 (4.76%) Juniper
7 1 (4.76%) Nokia