Client Onboarding Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Client Onboarding (Customer Onboarding)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Client Onboarding skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 395 271
Rank change year-on-year +63 -124 +288
Permanent jobs citing Client Onboarding 188 171 349
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.47% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.53% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 141 104 289
10th Percentile £28,750 £30,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +8.55% -29.63%
75th Percentile £48,750 £62,500 £45,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £73,750 £65,250
UK median annual salary £41,000 £55,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year -25.45% +44.74% -39.68%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Client Onboarding 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,182 32,357 28,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.09% 88.47% 89.85%
Number of salaries quoted 18,966 14,690 21,477
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,329
25th Percentile £33,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,778
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Client Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Client Onboarding relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Client Onboarding job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Client Onboarding
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Client Onboarding.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Client Onboarding

Client Onboarding
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Client Onboarding in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Client Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Client Onboarding
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Client Onboarding within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
North of England +41 59 £35,000 -12.50% 29
South East +35 58 £36,000 +7.46% 44
North West +34 44 £35,000 -34.88% 17
Midlands 0 28 £47,500 -24.00% 13
West Midlands +23 21 £47,500 +18.75% 8
East of England +21 14 £35,000 -26.32% 8
South West +16 11 £37,500 +7.14% 6
Yorkshire -8 11 £30,500 -6.15% 10
Scotland -2 10 £46,250 +42.31% 4
East Midlands -26 7 £35,000 -46.15% 5
Wales - 6 £51,250 - 2
North East - 4 £35,000 - 2
Northern Ireland -4 2 £30,000 -
Client Onboarding
UK

Client Onboarding
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (6.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.26%) Confluence
2 8 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.13%) nginx
4 2 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 33 (17.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (9.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.06%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.19%) Salesforce CRM
2 5 (2.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.53%) Global One
3 1 (0.53%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 45 (23.94%) Azure
2 33 (17.55%) SaaS
3 32 (17.02%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (15.96%) AWS
5 20 (10.64%) Entra ID
6 10 (5.32%) Power Platform
7 9 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (4.26%) Microsoft Copilot
8 8 (4.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (4.26%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.13%) GCP
10 2 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.06%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.06%) Dagster
10 2 (1.06%) Prefect
10 2 (1.06%) Serverless
11 1 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.85%) Firewall
2 10 (5.32%) DNS
3 9 (4.79%) VPN
4 6 (3.19%) DHCP
4 6 (3.19%) WAN
5 5 (2.66%) LAN
5 5 (2.66%) WLAN
6 4 (2.13%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.06%) Internet
7 2 (1.06%) SSL
7 2 (1.06%) VLAN
7 2 (1.06%) VoIP
7 2 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.53%) Network Security
8 1 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.36%) Relational Database
2 10 (5.32%) Power BI
3 8 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.26%) Tableau
4 6 (3.19%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (2.13%) MySQL
6 3 (1.60%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 24 (12.77%) JIRA
2 2 (1.06%) GitLab
General
1 120 (63.83%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.15%) Retail
3 34 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (17.02%) Finance
5 22 (11.70%) Marketing
6 21 (11.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.13%) Law
9 3 (1.60%) Legal
9 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.06%) Advertising
10 2 (1.06%) Agriculture
10 2 (1.06%) Brand Awareness
10 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.06%) Local Government
10 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.53%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (22.87%) Analyst
2 19 (10.11%) Business Development Manager
2 19 (10.11%) Business Manager
2 19 (10.11%) Development Manager
3 17 (9.04%) Developer
3 17 (9.04%) Senior
4 13 (6.91%) Support Engineer
5 12 (6.38%) Lead
5 12 (6.38%) Support Analyst
6 11 (5.85%) Technical Support
7 8 (4.26%) Applications Engineer
7 8 (4.26%) Applications Support
7 8 (4.26%) Applications Support Engineer
7 8 (4.26%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 8 (4.26%) Microsoft Engineer
7 8 (4.26%) Support Technician
8 7 (3.72%) Business Analyst
8 7 (3.72%) Consultant
9 6 (3.19%) Support Team Leader
9 6 (3.19%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.91%) React
2 11 (5.85%) REST
3 10 (5.32%) AngularJS
3 10 (5.32%) JSON
3 10 (5.32%) Razor View Engine
4 4 (2.13%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (1.60%) Node.js
6 2 (1.06%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.06%) Redux
7 1 (0.53%) .NET
7 1 (0.53%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.53%) Blazor
7 1 (0.53%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.53%) OpenID
7 1 (0.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 152 (80.85%) Onboarding
2 17 (9.04%) Public Cloud
3 14 (7.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (6.91%) Driving Licence
5 10 (5.32%) Operational Technology
5 10 (5.32%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.79%) Management Information System
7 8 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.13%) ARM Cortex
8 4 (2.13%) Client/Server
8 4 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.13%) PropTech
8 4 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.60%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.06%) Digital Signage
10 2 (1.06%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.06%) Home Automation
10 2 (1.06%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.06%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.70%) Windows
2 12 (6.38%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.13%) Mac OS
3 4 (2.13%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.60%) Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (34.04%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (20.74%) Customer Experience
3 37 (19.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 31 (16.49%) AI
5 30 (15.96%) CRM
6 29 (15.43%) Agile
6 29 (15.43%) Customer Service
7 27 (14.36%) Business Development
8 25 (13.30%) Process Improvement
9 21 (11.17%) Cybersecurity
9 21 (11.17%) Mentoring
10 17 (9.04%) Cost Optimisation
10 17 (9.04%) FinOps
10 17 (9.04%) Software Licensing
11 15 (7.98%) Coaching
11 15 (7.98%) ITIL
12 14 (7.45%) Task Automation
13 13 (6.91%) DevOps
13 13 (6.91%) Root Cause Analysis
14 12 (6.38%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (25.00%) SQL
2 26 (13.83%) PowerShell
3 25 (13.30%) Python
4 11 (5.85%) C#
5 5 (2.66%) Bicep
6 4 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (2.13%) PHP
7 3 (1.60%) Bash
7 3 (1.60%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.60%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (9.04%) AWS Certification
2 13 (6.91%) Degree
3 10 (5.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (4.79%) MCP
5 8 (4.26%) Network+ Certification
6 6 (3.19%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (2.66%) A+ Certification
7 5 (2.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 5 (2.66%) MCITP
8 3 (1.60%) CCNA
8 3 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.06%) ACCA
10 1 (0.53%) CCNP
10 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.91%) QA
2 8 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.72%) GDPR
4 5 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 24 (12.77%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.32%) Hyper-V
3 6 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.06%) Docker
4 2 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (3.72%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (3.19%) Terraform
3 2 (1.06%) Argo
3 2 (1.06%) Istio
4 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (30.32%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.17%) Salesforce
3 17 (9.04%) Adobe
3 17 (9.04%) Apple
4 12 (6.38%) VMware
5 9 (4.79%) Citrix
5 9 (4.79%) Veeam
6 6 (3.19%) HubSpot
6 6 (3.19%) Zoho
7 5 (2.66%) Aruba
7 5 (2.66%) HP
8 4 (2.13%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (2.13%) Google
8 4 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.13%) Splunk
9 3 (1.60%) Cisco
10 2 (1.06%) Nokia
10 2 (1.06%) Oracle
10 2 (1.06%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (1.06%) Xero