Customer Requirements Job Trends in the North East

Customer Requirements
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Customer Requirements skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 74 66
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 +19
Permanent jobs citing Customer Requirements 10 12 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.98% 1.29% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.45% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 6
10th Percentile - £44,250 £41,375
25th Percentile £31,750 £45,000 £44,156
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% -9.09% -22.43%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile - £55,750 £60,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

Customer Requirements falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 803 827 674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 78.80% 88.83% 89.51%
Number of salaries quoted 541 337 579
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £29,700
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,897 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £61,973
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Customer Requirements relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Customer Requirements job vacancy trend in the North East

Customer Requirements
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Customer Requirements.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Customer Requirements

Customer Requirements
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Requirements in the North East over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Customer Requirements in the North East

Customer Requirements
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Requirements within the North East region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +16 9 £33,500 -29.47% 1
Durham +3 1 - - 2
Customer Requirements
England

Customer Requirements
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (30.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Asterisk PBX
1 6 (60.00%) Firewall
1 6 (60.00%) PSTN
1 6 (60.00%) VoIP
General
1 9 (90.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (70.00%) Telecoms
3 6 (60.00%) Finance
3 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (30.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Support Specialist
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Business Systems Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Design Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) RF Design Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) RF Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) FreeSWITCH
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (60.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Business Analysis
4 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (30.00%) SDLC
4 3 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (10.00%) Design for Manufacturing
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Bash
1 6 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 6 (60.00%) CCNP
2 6 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (60.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 6 (60.00%) Network+ Certification
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft