Customer Requirements Job Trends in the South West

Customer Requirements
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Customer Requirements skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 158 141
Rank change year-on-year 0 -17 -22
Permanent jobs citing Customer Requirements 26 42 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.52% 0.97% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.15% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 6 20 52
10th Percentile £38,875 £29,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £41,491 £42,250 £38,082
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,310 £53,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +2.38% +34.62%
75th Percentile £57,043 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £58,066 £76,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £54,793 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.37% -4.55% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,638 3,658 3,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 72.60% 84.34% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,464 1,879 3,024
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +7.49%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,781
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
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 South West

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

Customer Requirements job vacancy trend in the South West

Customer Requirements
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Customer Requirements.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Customer Requirements

Customer Requirements
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Requirements in the South West over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Customer Requirements in the South West

Customer Requirements
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Requirements within the South West region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +9 10 £42,500 -37.04% 20
Gloucestershire +11 5 £40,108 -58.86% 25
Devon +5 5 - - 14
Somerset -15 3 £57,000 +1.57% 15
Wiltshire +4 1 - - 7
Cornwall -12 1 - - 1
Dorset - 1 - - 10
Customer Requirements
England

Customer Requirements
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (11.54%) Apache
1 3 (11.54%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 3 (11.54%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (11.54%) Photoshop
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Shopify
2 1 (3.85%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
1 3 (11.54%) AWS
1 3 (11.54%) AWS Fargate
1 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (11.54%) Azure
1 3 (11.54%) Serverless
2 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) BGP
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
1 2 (7.69%) Network Security
1 2 (7.69%) OSPF
1 2 (7.69%) SNMP
1 2 (7.69%) SSH
1 2 (7.69%) WAN
2 1 (3.85%) DHCP
2 1 (3.85%) DNS
2 1 (3.85%) SAN
2 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.69%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Git
1 4 (15.38%) JIRA
2 3 (11.54%) Bitbucket
2 3 (11.54%) GitLab
2 3 (11.54%) JUnit
General
1 5 (19.23%) Electronics
1 5 (19.23%) Marketing
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Retail
3 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Legal
4 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Police
4 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (11.54%) Operations Manager
2 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Support Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Network Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) QA Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Quality Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) .NET Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Design Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Graduate Systems Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Sales Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Technician
4 1 (3.85%) Software Engineering Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Software Project Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (11.54%) Hibernate
1 3 (11.54%) JSF
1 3 (11.54%) PrimeFaces
1 3 (11.54%) React
2 1 (3.85%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.85%) HTML
2 1 (3.85%) HTML5
2 1 (3.85%) RESTful
2 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 3 (11.54%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.69%) CCTV
3 2 (7.69%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.85%) Clustering
4 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) AIX
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) Customer Service
2 4 (15.38%) Agile
2 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (15.38%) Document Management
2 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (15.38%) Project Management
2 4 (15.38%) Scrum
2 4 (15.38%) Software Engineering
3 3 (11.54%) B2B
3 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
3 3 (11.54%) Customer-Centricity
3 3 (11.54%) E-Commerce
3 3 (11.54%) Inventory Management
3 3 (11.54%) Mentoring
3 3 (11.54%) Microservices
3 3 (11.54%) Unit Testing
4 2 (7.69%) Defect Management
4 2 (7.69%) Internal Audit
4 2 (7.69%) Line Management
4 2 (7.69%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
1 4 (15.38%) Python
1 4 (15.38%) TypeScript
2 3 (11.54%) Java
3 2 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) C#
4 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (11.54%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) ISO 9001
3 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Kibana
2 1 (3.85%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) Backup Exec
2 1 (3.85%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle
3 3 (11.54%) Adobe
3 3 (11.54%) Atlassian
4 2 (7.69%) CheckPoint
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco
4 2 (7.69%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.85%) Hitachi
5 1 (3.85%) IBM
5 1 (3.85%) NetApp
5 1 (3.85%) SAP
5 1 (3.85%) Snow
5 1 (3.85%) Veritas
5 1 (3.85%) VMware