Customer Requirements Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Customer Requirements
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Customer Requirements skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 136 128
Rank change year-on-year -16 -8 -41
Permanent jobs citing Customer Requirements 15 30 122
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.33% 1.06% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 1.13% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 12 12 101
10th Percentile £33,500 £53,688 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,375 £54,672 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +33.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £57,500
90th Percentile - £87,250 £63,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +33.33% -20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,458 2,660 5,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 75.32% 94.33% 86.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,130 1,202 3,846
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,754 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,563 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £66,778
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Customer Requirements job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Customer Requirements
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Customer Requirements.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Customer Requirements

Customer Requirements
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Requirements in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Customer Requirements in the Thames Valley

Customer Requirements
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Requirements within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 March 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
Berkshire -9 7 £67,500 +14.16% 6
Oxfordshire +3 5 £37,000 -43.08% 2
Buckinghamshire -11 3 £40,000 -33.33% 5
Customer Requirements
South East

Customer Requirements
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (20.00%) AutoCAD
2 2 (13.33%) EPLAN
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Power Automate
1 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
1 2 (13.33%) PowerApps
2 1 (6.67%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) BGP
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (6.67%) HTTP
2 1 (6.67%) MPLS
2 1 (6.67%) SNMP
2 1 (6.67%) VPN
2 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
General
1 4 (26.67%) Marketing
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Games
3 2 (13.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
4 1 (6.67%) Aviation
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Military
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Account Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Applications Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Network Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Power BI Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Security Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Electrical Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Presales Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Sales Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Presales Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) XML
2 2 (13.33%) JSON
2 2 (13.33%) JSON Schema
2 2 (13.33%) LDAP
2 2 (13.33%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Driving Licence
1 3 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (13.33%) SCADA
3 1 (6.67%) e-Learning
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) PKI
3 1 (6.67%) Reference Data
3 1 (6.67%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (13.33%) Analytics
2 2 (13.33%) Application Security
2 2 (13.33%) Architectural Design
2 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (13.33%) SIEM
2 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (6.67%) B2B Sales
3 1 (6.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (6.67%) People Management
3 1 (6.67%) Presales
3 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (6.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (6.67%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (13.33%) VBA
3 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
1 3 (20.00%) HND
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) HNC
2 2 (13.33%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Endace
1 1 (6.67%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Siemens
1 3 (20.00%) VMware
2 2 (13.33%) Allen-Bradley
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco
2 2 (13.33%) Wonderware
3 1 (6.67%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (6.67%) F5
3 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.67%) Juniper
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) N-able
3 1 (6.67%) Rockwell
3 1 (6.67%) Sophos