Customer Requirements Jobs

Customer Requirements
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Customer Requirements skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Customer Requirements over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 245 178
Rank change year-on-year +133 -67 +136
Permanent jobs citing Customer Requirements 1,480 1,181 2,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.70% 1.19% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 1.39% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 541 695 609
10th Percentile £42,939 £28,500 £31,262
25th Percentile £48,869 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,196 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.43% -10.96% -4.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,793 £48,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +12.98% -7.62% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,302 84,920 96,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.76% 85.59% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 27,015 59,883 56,845
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,008 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Customer Requirements as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Requirements in the UK

Customer Requirements
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Customer Requirements.

Salary trend for Customer Requirements in the UK

Customer Requirements
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Customer Requirements over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Customer Requirements in the UK

Customer Requirements
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Requirements within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 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
England +118 1,421 £54,793 +4.37% 727
UK excluding London +138 1,373 £54,793 +12.98% 490
South East +86 394 £65,000 +44.44% 154
North of England +130 363 £50,055 +0.11% 109
North West +109 327 £50,055 +0.11% 60
East of England +112 325 £59,250 +7.73% 51
Midlands +10 209 £47,500 -11.63% 91
East Midlands +98 194 £45,000 +55.17% 41
Work from Home -37 106 £72,000 +27.43% 353
London +40 77 £80,000 +14.29% 310
South West +33 47 £56,121 +27.55% 50
Wales +52 28 £65,000 +100.00% 10
Yorkshire +43 27 £51,250 -6.82% 39
West Midlands -104 15 £50,000 -13.04% 43
Scotland +117 10 £46,000 +8.24% 27
North East +49 9 £55,000 +36.65% 11
Northern Ireland +33 1 £60,000 +41.18% 9

Customer Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (1.35%) CMS
1 20 (1.35%) Umbraco
2 4 (0.27%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.20%) WinCC
4 1 (0.068%) nginx
4 1 (0.068%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 38 (2.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.34%) Simulink
6 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.27%) Trello
7 3 (0.20%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.068%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 5 (0.34%) Q-Pulse
2 3 (0.20%) Magento
3 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.14%) Shopify
4 1 (0.068%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.068%) LabWindows
4 1 (0.068%) Maximo
4 1 (0.068%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.068%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.068%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 46 (3.11%) Azure
2 24 (1.62%) AWS
3 21 (1.42%) SaaS
4 18 (1.22%) GCP
5 15 (1.01%) Power Platform
6 13 (0.88%) Serverless
7 10 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (0.54%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (0.54%) Figma
10 7 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (0.47%) GitHub
11 6 (0.41%) Azure Functions
11 6 (0.41%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (0.41%) Pulumi
11 6 (0.41%) Smartsheet
12 5 (0.34%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (0.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (0.34%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (0.34%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 739 (49.93%) 5G
2 735 (49.66%) Wireless
3 733 (49.53%) GSM
4 731 (49.39%) LTE
4 731 (49.39%) Wi-Fi
5 730 (49.32%) Bluetooth
5 730 (49.32%) UMTS
6 20 (1.35%) Intranet
7 19 (1.28%) WAN
8 13 (0.88%) SD-WAN
9 12 (0.81%) Network Security
10 11 (0.74%) Internet
11 9 (0.61%) OSPF
12 8 (0.54%) EIGRP
13 7 (0.47%) Firewall
13 7 (0.47%) SSL
14 6 (0.41%) BGP
14 6 (0.41%) RIP
14 6 (0.41%) SNMP
14 6 (0.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (1.69%) SQL Server
2 11 (0.74%) Power BI
3 6 (0.41%) DTS
4 4 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.20%) Big Data
5 3 (0.20%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.20%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.068%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.068%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.068%) MySQL
7 1 (0.068%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (3.99%) Rational DOORS
2 19 (1.28%) JIRA
3 13 (0.88%) Git
4 7 (0.47%) Postman
5 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (0.27%) Balsamiq
6 4 (0.27%) Selenium
6 4 (0.27%) Subversion
7 2 (0.14%) ERwin
7 2 (0.14%) Maven
7 2 (0.14%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.068%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.068%) CMake
8 1 (0.068%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.068%) FitNesse
8 1 (0.068%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.068%) Newman
8 1 (0.068%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.068%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 760 (51.35%) Electronics
2 272 (18.38%) Social Skills
3 196 (13.24%) Avionics
4 149 (10.07%) Aerospace
5 108 (7.30%) Manufacturing
6 87 (5.88%) Finance
7 68 (4.59%) Influencing Skills
8 57 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
9 33 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
10 31 (2.09%) Public Sector
11 29 (1.96%) Marketing
12 27 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
13 22 (1.49%) Retail
14 20 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 20 (1.35%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.15%) Military
16 14 (0.95%) Aviation
17 11 (0.74%) Law
18 10 (0.68%) Police
19 8 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 737 (49.80%) Electronics Engineer
2 732 (49.46%) Test Engineer
3 730 (49.32%) Electronics Test Engineer
4 316 (21.35%) Senior
5 260 (17.57%) Systems Engineer
6 238 (16.08%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 154 (10.41%) Architect
8 71 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
9 61 (4.12%) Project Manager
10 56 (3.78%) Systems Architect
11 52 (3.51%) Lead
12 35 (2.36%) Developer
13 33 (2.23%) Infrastructure Manager
13 33 (2.23%) Infrastructure Project Manager
14 28 (1.89%) Software Team Leader
14 28 (1.89%) Team Leader
15 27 (1.82%) Analyst
15 27 (1.82%) Consultant
16 21 (1.42%) Senior Manager
17 20 (1.35%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.89%) CSS
1 28 (1.89%) XML
2 27 (1.82%) HTML
3 20 (1.35%) HTML5
3 20 (1.35%) jQuery
4 15 (1.01%) AngularJS
5 10 (0.68%) Vue
6 9 (0.61%) .NET
7 7 (0.47%) JSON
7 7 (0.47%) React
8 6 (0.41%) .NET Framework
8 6 (0.41%) ASP.NET Web API
8 6 (0.41%) Flash
8 6 (0.41%) gRPC
8 6 (0.41%) Loki
8 6 (0.41%) Middleware
8 6 (0.41%) Tailwind CSS
9 5 (0.34%) Bootstrap
10 4 (0.27%) NgRx
10 4 (0.27%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 746 (50.41%) Driving Licence
2 65 (4.39%) Management Information System
3 29 (1.96%) NHS
4 20 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
4 20 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (1.15%) Product Ownership
6 16 (1.08%) Virtual Team
7 10 (0.68%) Algorithms
8 9 (0.61%) Onboarding
9 8 (0.54%) Data Structures
9 8 (0.54%) Self-Driving Car
9 8 (0.54%) Social Network
10 7 (0.47%) Cloud Native
10 7 (0.47%) Clustering
10 7 (0.47%) Data Centre
10 7 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (0.41%) CPLD
11 6 (0.41%) FPGA
12 5 (0.34%) e-Learning
12 5 (0.34%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.62%) Linux
2 13 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (0.61%) Unix
3 9 (0.61%) Windows
4 8 (0.54%) Solaris
5 7 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.41%) zOS
7 3 (0.20%) AIX
8 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.068%) Android
9 1 (0.068%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.068%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 830 (56.08%) Mentoring
2 805 (54.39%) Coaching
3 761 (51.42%) Validation
4 737 (49.80%) Verification and Validation
5 730 (49.32%) Test Strategy
6 281 (18.99%) Systems Engineering
7 241 (16.28%) Requirements Management
8 223 (15.07%) Business Case
9 167 (11.28%) SDLC
10 135 (9.12%) Feasibility Study
11 132 (8.92%) Hazard Analysis
12 110 (7.43%) Collaborative Working
13 106 (7.16%) Problem-Solving
14 102 (6.89%) Project Management
15 87 (5.88%) Roadmaps
16 75 (5.07%) Systems Thinking
17 72 (4.86%) Configuration Management
18 68 (4.59%) Project Delivery
19 64 (4.32%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
20 63 (4.26%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 54 (3.65%) SQL
2 36 (2.43%) C#
3 29 (1.96%) C
4 17 (1.15%) JavaScript
5 16 (1.08%) Python
6 14 (0.95%) Ada
6 14 (0.95%) TypeScript
7 12 (0.81%) C++
7 12 (0.81%) MATLAB
8 8 (0.54%) Bash
9 7 (0.47%) Go
10 5 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.34%) VB
11 4 (0.27%) Perl
11 4 (0.27%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.20%) Java
12 3 (0.20%) PHP
12 3 (0.20%) R
13 2 (0.14%) ABAP
13 2 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,161 (78.45%) Degree
2 794 (53.65%) HND
3 308 (20.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 94 (6.35%) HNC
5 80 (5.41%) Chartered Engineer
6 61 (4.12%) Security Cleared
7 40 (2.70%) SC Cleared
8 24 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (0.95%) Master's Degree
9 14 (0.95%) PhD
10 13 (0.88%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.47%) CCNP
11 7 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.41%) CISM
13 5 (0.34%) CISSP
13 5 (0.34%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.20%) APMP
14 3 (0.20%) CCIE
14 3 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (4.53%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 35 (2.36%) QA
3 30 (2.03%) NEBOSH
4 22 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.35%) GDPR
5 20 (1.35%) WCAG
6 16 (1.08%) PMO
7 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.41%) SLA
8 5 (0.34%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.27%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.27%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.20%) NIST
11 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.14%) GMP
11 2 (0.14%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.14%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.068%) ISO 9000
12 1 (0.068%) JSP 440
System Software
1 6 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.27%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.20%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (0.20%) Firmware
4 2 (0.14%) Docker
5 1 (0.068%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.068%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.068%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.068%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 12 (0.81%) Terraform
2 9 (0.61%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.47%) Grafana
4 4 (0.27%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.20%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.14%) SCCM
7 1 (0.068%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.068%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.068%) HP UCMDB
7 1 (0.068%) OPNET
7 1 (0.068%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 66 (4.46%) Microsoft
2 59 (3.99%) IBM
3 21 (1.42%) Cisco
3 21 (1.42%) HP
4 14 (0.95%) Google
4 14 (0.95%) Oracle
5 10 (0.68%) CheckPoint
6 9 (0.61%) Red Hat
7 8 (0.54%) Fortinet
8 7 (0.47%) Hitachi
9 6 (0.41%) ANSYS
9 6 (0.41%) Dell
9 6 (0.41%) SAP
9 6 (0.41%) SolarWinds
9 6 (0.41%) VMware
10 5 (0.34%) Databricks
10 5 (0.34%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.34%) Siemens
11 4 (0.27%) Juniper
11 4 (0.27%) Palo Alto