Customer Requirements Job Trends in the North of England

Customer Requirements
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Customer Requirements skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 226 239
Rank change year-on-year -74 +13 +3
Permanent jobs citing Customer Requirements 59 84 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.27% 0.88% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.98% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 34 49 70
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,700
25th Percentile £33,813 £40,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,886 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.66% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £67,125
90th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,406 8,556 11,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.35% 89.42% 78.23%
Number of salaries quoted 11,548 4,275 7,908
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,530
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Customer Requirements job vacancy trend in the North of England

Customer Requirements
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Customer Requirements

Customer Requirements
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Requirements in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Customer Requirements in the North of England

Customer Requirements
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
North West -40 24 £47,750 -4.60% 28
Yorkshire -22 22 £42,750 -22.27% 20
North East -48 13 £55,000 - 10
Customer Requirements
England

Customer Requirements
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (13.56%) Apache
1 8 (13.56%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (13.56%) Apache Spark
1 8 (13.56%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.39%) AutoCAD
3 2 (3.39%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (3.39%) Windchill
4 1 (1.69%) EPLAN
4 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.69%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.64%) AWS
2 10 (16.95%) SaaS
3 8 (13.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (13.56%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (13.56%) Amazon ECR
3 8 (13.56%) Amazon EMR
3 8 (13.56%) Amazon S3
4 7 (11.86%) Textract
5 5 (8.47%) Azure
6 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.78%) Unified Communications
2 2 (3.39%) Firewall
2 2 (3.39%) LAN
2 2 (3.39%) VPN
2 2 (3.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) Amazon Athena
1 8 (13.56%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.39%) Redis
2 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (13.56%) GitLab
2 1 (1.69%) LabVIEW
General
1 28 (47.46%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.42%) Finance
3 8 (13.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (13.56%) Manufacturing
4 5 (8.47%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.78%) Advertising
5 4 (6.78%) Aerospace
5 4 (6.78%) Legal
6 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.39%) Law
7 2 (3.39%) Marketing
7 2 (3.39%) Retail
8 1 (1.69%) Electronics
8 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (15.25%) Architect
2 7 (11.86%) AWS DevOps
2 7 (11.86%) Lead
3 6 (10.17%) Account Manager
3 6 (10.17%) Team Leader
3 6 (10.17%) Telesales Team Leader
4 5 (8.47%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.78%) Consultant
5 4 (6.78%) Network Architect
5 4 (6.78%) Presales Solution Architect
5 4 (6.78%) Sales Account Manager
5 4 (6.78%) Sales Manager
5 4 (6.78%) Senior
5 4 (6.78%) Telesales Account Manager
5 4 (6.78%) Telesales Manager
6 3 (5.08%) Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) Legal Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) Product Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) SaaS Analyst
7 2 (3.39%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) PySpark
2 2 (3.39%) Node.js
2 2 (3.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Onboarding
2 9 (15.25%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.39%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.39%) IoT
3 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.69%) Arduino
4 1 (1.69%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.69%) Life Science
4 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.08%) Windows
1 3 (5.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.51%) Coaching
1 18 (30.51%) Mentoring
2 16 (27.12%) Validation
3 13 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (20.34%) Presales
4 12 (20.34%) Telesales
5 11 (18.64%) CI/CD
5 11 (18.64%) CRM
6 10 (16.95%) B2B
6 10 (16.95%) Data Analysis
6 10 (16.95%) Test Automation
6 10 (16.95%) Time Management
7 9 (15.25%) Agile
7 9 (15.25%) DevOps
7 9 (15.25%) Workflow
8 8 (13.56%) Containerisation
8 8 (13.56%) Customer Service
8 8 (13.56%) Data Engineering
8 8 (13.56%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.34%) SQL
2 10 (16.95%) Python
3 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.69%) Bash
4 1 (1.69%) C#
4 1 (1.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.56%) Degree
2 8 (13.56%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (6.78%) HNC
5 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.69%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.95%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.08%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) COSHH
3 1 (1.69%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 9 (15.25%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.39%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.69%) Firmware
4 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (13.56%) Terraform
2 2 (3.39%) Functional Safety
3 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.78%) Mitel
3 3 (5.08%) VMware
4 1 (1.69%) Allen-Bradley
4 1 (1.69%) Cisco
4 1 (1.69%) Dell
4 1 (1.69%) EMC
4 1 (1.69%) Google
4 1 (1.69%) HP
4 1 (1.69%) Panasonic
4 1 (1.69%) Riverbed
4 1 (1.69%) Siemens
4 1 (1.69%) Xerox