Client Onboarding Job Trends

Client Onboarding (Customer Onboarding)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Client Onboarding skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 457 323
Rank change year-on-year +55 -134 +356
Permanent jobs citing Client Onboarding 284 250 666
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.50% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.54% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 210 156 569
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,938 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £57,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +43.75% -38.46%
75th Percentile £60,000 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,650 £103,750 £81,050
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,250 £45,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year -12.78% +18.42% -30.91%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,411 45,996 65,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.77% 91.99% 88.32%
Number of salaries quoted 31,090 22,202 50,938
10th Percentile £28,809 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £101,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

Client Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Client Onboarding job vacancy trend in the UK

Client Onboarding
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Client Onboarding

Client Onboarding
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Client Onboarding over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Client Onboarding in the UK

Client Onboarding
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 February 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
England +61 246 £40,000 -28.89% 164
UK excluding London +49 192 £39,250 -12.78% 129
Work from Home +78 104 £36,000 -34.55% 125
London +27 71 £67,500 -10.00% 46
South East +32 58 £38,500 +14.93% 43
North of England +13 53 £40,000 -23.81% 26
North West +21 35 £36,000 -31.43% 19
Midlands -9 31 £47,500 -24.00% 24
West Midlands +21 22 £47,500 +11.76% 13
South West 0 18 £37,500 +7.14% 14
East of England +23 14 £35,000 -26.32% 12
Yorkshire -24 13 £40,000 -3.03% 7
Scotland -17 10 £46,250 -11.90% 7
East Midlands -35 9 £44,250 -31.92% 11
Wales - 6 £47,500 - 3
North East - 5 £35,000 - 1
Northern Ireland -19 2 £30,000 - 1

Client Onboarding
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 19 (6.69%) Confluence
2 5 (1.76%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.41%) nginx
4 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.70%) IIS
6 1 (0.35%) CMS
Applications
1 36 (12.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (7.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.46%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (2.82%) Fidessa
2 4 (1.41%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.06%) Sage 200
3 3 (1.06%) Sage 50
3 3 (1.06%) Sage CRM
4 1 (0.35%) Global One
4 1 (0.35%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 71 (25.00%) SaaS
2 54 (19.01%) Azure
3 41 (14.44%) AWS
4 20 (7.04%) Power Platform
5 18 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (2.82%) Snowflake
8 7 (2.46%) GCP
8 7 (2.46%) Power Automate
9 6 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.76%) Boomi
10 5 (1.76%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.06%) Slack
12 2 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.70%) Google Ads
12 2 (0.70%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.70%) IaaS
12 2 (0.70%) PaaS
12 2 (0.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.69%) Firewall
2 10 (3.52%) DNS
2 10 (3.52%) VPN
3 8 (2.82%) Multicast
4 6 (2.11%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.76%) FIX Connectivity
6 4 (1.41%) DHCP
6 4 (1.41%) Unified Communications
7 3 (1.06%) BGP
7 3 (1.06%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (1.06%) IGMP
7 3 (1.06%) OSPF
7 3 (1.06%) VLAN
7 3 (1.06%) VoIP
7 3 (1.06%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.70%) Internet
8 2 (0.70%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.70%) SSL
8 2 (0.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.75%) Relational Database
2 14 (4.93%) Power BI
3 11 (3.87%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.52%) Tableau
5 8 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.11%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (1.41%) MySQL
8 2 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.70%) Looker
9 1 (0.35%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 36 (12.68%) JIRA
2 2 (0.70%) GitLab
2 2 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
General
1 142 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 75 (26.41%) Finance
3 64 (22.54%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (16.20%) Retail
5 44 (15.49%) Marketing
6 29 (10.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (8.45%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (4.93%) Public Sector
9 13 (4.58%) Law
10 12 (4.23%) Legal
10 12 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (3.17%) Advertising
11 9 (3.17%) Banking
12 8 (2.82%) Health Technology
13 7 (2.46%) Billing
13 7 (2.46%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (2.46%) Telecoms
14 6 (2.11%) Automotive
15 5 (1.76%) Local Government
15 5 (1.76%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 58 (20.42%) Analyst
2 36 (12.68%) Business Manager
3 33 (11.62%) Business Development Manager
3 33 (11.62%) Development Manager
4 28 (9.86%) Senior
5 26 (9.15%) Developer
6 17 (5.99%) Support Analyst
7 15 (5.28%) Account Manager
8 14 (4.93%) Business Analyst
9 13 (4.58%) Lead
10 10 (3.52%) Consultant
11 9 (3.17%) Product Manager
11 9 (3.17%) Technical Support
12 7 (2.46%) Business Support Analyst
12 7 (2.46%) Delivery Manager
12 7 (2.46%) Product Analyst
12 7 (2.46%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.46%) Service Manager
12 7 (2.46%) Support Manager
13 6 (2.11%) Product Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.69%) REST
2 15 (5.28%) JSON
3 12 (4.23%) React
4 10 (3.52%) AngularJS
4 10 (3.52%) Razor View Engine
5 8 (2.82%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (2.11%) XML
7 4 (1.41%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (1.06%) .NET
9 2 (0.70%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (0.70%) Middleware
9 2 (0.70%) Node.js
9 2 (0.70%) SOAP
9 2 (0.70%) Visualforce
10 1 (0.35%) Blazor
10 1 (0.35%) Bootstrap
10 1 (0.35%) Entity Framework
10 1 (0.35%) OpenID
10 1 (0.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 232 (81.69%) Onboarding
2 25 (8.80%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (5.99%) Public Cloud
4 16 (5.63%) Management Information System
5 12 (4.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (3.87%) Driving Licence
6 11 (3.87%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.52%) Operational Technology
8 8 (2.82%) Eurex
9 6 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.76%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.76%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.76%) Equities
10 5 (1.76%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.76%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.41%) ARM Cortex
11 4 (1.41%) Educational Technology
11 4 (1.41%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.04%) Windows
2 15 (5.28%) Windows Server
3 13 (4.58%) Linux
4 3 (1.06%) Solaris
4 3 (1.06%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.06%) Unix
4 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (33.45%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (19.72%) CRM
2 56 (19.72%) Customer Experience
3 53 (18.66%) Business Development
4 42 (14.79%) AI
5 40 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 37 (13.03%) Agile
6 37 (13.03%) Customer Service
7 34 (11.97%) Process Improvement
8 32 (11.27%) Project Management
9 31 (10.92%) B2B
10 30 (10.56%) Service Delivery
11 25 (8.80%) Project Delivery
12 22 (7.75%) Analytics
12 22 (7.75%) Workflow
13 21 (7.39%) Coaching
13 21 (7.39%) Cybersecurity
13 21 (7.39%) Decision-Making
13 21 (7.39%) Roadmaps
14 20 (7.04%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 44 (15.49%) SQL
2 30 (10.56%) Python
3 23 (8.10%) PowerShell
4 13 (4.58%) C#
5 7 (2.46%) Bicep
5 7 (2.46%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.76%) Apex Code
7 4 (1.41%) Bash
7 4 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (1.41%) PHP
8 2 (0.70%) SOQL
8 2 (0.70%) SOSL
8 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.70%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.35%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.35%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (7.39%) Degree
2 18 (6.34%) AWS Certification
3 7 (2.46%) City & Guilds
4 6 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.76%) PMI Certification
5 5 (1.76%) PMP
6 4 (1.41%) CCNP
7 3 (1.06%) CCNA
7 3 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (1.06%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.06%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.70%) ACCA
8 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.70%) MCDST
8 2 (0.70%) MCITP
8 2 (0.70%) MCSA
8 2 (0.70%) MCSE
8 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.82%) Accessibility
1 8 (2.82%) QA
2 7 (2.46%) GDPR
3 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.70%) SLA
4 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.35%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.35%) NIST
4 1 (0.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 15 (5.28%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.23%) Hyper-V
2 12 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.70%) Docker
3 2 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (2.82%) Terraform
2 7 (2.46%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.06%) Nagios
4 2 (0.70%) Argo
4 2 (0.70%) Istio
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.70%) SCOM
5 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 49 (17.25%) Microsoft
2 44 (15.49%) Salesforce
3 18 (6.34%) VMware
4 17 (5.99%) Adobe
4 17 (5.99%) Apple
5 10 (3.52%) Cisco
5 10 (3.52%) Google
5 10 (3.52%) Oracle
6 9 (3.17%) Citrix
6 9 (3.17%) Veeam
7 8 (2.82%) Bloomberg
7 8 (2.82%) CQG
7 8 (2.82%) ION Trading
7 8 (2.82%) Patsystems
7 8 (2.82%) Reuters
7 8 (2.82%) Trayport
8 6 (2.11%) HubSpot
8 6 (2.11%) Intapp
8 6 (2.11%) Zoho
9 5 (1.76%) ServiceNow