Customer Requirements Job Trends in Scotland

Customer Requirements
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Customer Requirements skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 123 177
Rank change year-on-year -15 +54 -79
Permanent jobs citing Customer Requirements 5 23 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.18% 0.89% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.96% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 4
10th Percentile £54,080 - £41,200
25th Percentile £61,700 £35,105 £44,482
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,400 £60,000 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% +26.16% -2.94%
75th Percentile £87,100 £70,000 £50,044
90th Percentile £94,720 £70,900 £52,268
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,173 2,395 2,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.89% 92.90% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,061 1,005 1,817
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,800 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,808 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,950 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Customer Requirements job vacancy trend in Scotland

Customer Requirements
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Customer Requirements.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Customer Requirements

Customer Requirements
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Requirements in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Customer Requirements in Scotland

Customer Requirements
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Requirements within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 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
Inverclyde - 2 £49,000 -
Fife +6 1 - -
Renfrewshire - 1 - -
South Ayrshire - 1 £99,800 -
Customer Requirements
UK

Customer Requirements
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Electronics
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Hardware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Analogue Electronics
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Design for Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Design-to-Cost
2 1 (20.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Schematic Capture
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (60.00%) HNC
2 3 (60.00%) HND
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
4 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (20.00%) PhD
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 15288