Customer Requirements Contracts in the UK excluding London

Customer Requirements
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Customer Requirements skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Customer Requirements over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 120 230
Rank change year-on-year -15 +110 -48
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 327 487 331
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.60% 2.07% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 2.32% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 194 186
10th Percentile £166 £199 £157
25th Percentile £259 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £590 £572 £519
90th Percentile £688 £650 £644
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 168 42
10th Percentile £17.00 - £12.25
25th Percentile £25.50 - £15.77
Median hourly rate £57.50 £9.80 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year +486.73% -78.84% +2.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £23.63 £51.71
90th Percentile - £63.00 £60.93
UK median hourly rate £47.83 £10.63 £45.14
% change year-on-year +349.95% -76.45% +0.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Customer Requirements is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,300 21,032 27,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.50% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,532 18,929
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,281 1,348
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.05
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.92
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Customer Requirements as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London

Customer Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London

Customer Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London

Customer Requirements
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Customer Requirements in the UK excluding London

Customer Requirements
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Requirements within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +32 133 £475 +10.14% 121
East of England +8 50 £600 +45.45% 59
South West -41 47 £590 -1.67% 60
Midlands +20 41 £505 +6.32% 109
North of England -32 38 £475 -5.00% 111
North West +12 22 £475 -20.83% 59
West Midlands -4 21 £694 +46.05% 73
East Midlands +33 20 £173 -51.75% 36
Scotland +22 18 £375 -28.23% 38
Yorkshire -25 15 £475 -5.00% 39
North East +11 1 £150 -70.00% 14
Customer Requirements
UK

Customer Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.22%) SAS
3 3 (0.92%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.61%) CMS
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.31%) MTS
Applications
1 42 (12.84%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (5.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (5.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.75%) Windchill
5 2 (0.61%) FileZilla
6 1 (0.31%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.31%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.61%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (7.34%) Azure
2 13 (3.98%) AWS
2 13 (3.98%) PaaS
2 13 (3.98%) SaaS
3 11 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (3.06%) IaaS
5 9 (2.75%) Google Workspace
6 7 (2.14%) Power Platform
7 6 (1.83%) OpenShift
8 5 (1.53%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.22%) OCI
9 4 (1.22%) OneDrive
9 4 (1.22%) Oracle Service Cloud
10 1 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.31%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.31%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.31%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (0.31%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 44 (13.46%) WAN
2 39 (11.93%) Firewall
3 36 (11.01%) LAN
4 35 (10.70%) Modbus
4 35 (10.70%) RS-422
4 35 (10.70%) RS-485
5 31 (9.48%) MPLS
6 30 (9.17%) Cisco Firepower
7 25 (7.65%) BGP
7 25 (7.65%) SSL
8 18 (5.50%) VPN
9 14 (4.28%) VoIP
10 10 (3.06%) DHCP
10 10 (3.06%) DNS
11 9 (2.75%) PBX
11 9 (2.75%) SDH
12 8 (2.45%) SAN
12 8 (2.45%) SD-WAN
13 7 (2.14%) WLAN
14 6 (1.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.14%) Power BI
2 6 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.22%) DB2
5 2 (0.61%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.31%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (6.73%) Rational DOORS
2 11 (3.36%) Git
3 8 (2.45%) JIRA
4 6 (1.83%) NUnit
4 6 (1.83%) Postman
4 6 (1.83%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.92%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.61%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.61%) HP UFT
6 2 (0.61%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.31%) JUnit
7 1 (0.31%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.31%) Maven
7 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.31%) Rational Software Modeler
7 1 (0.31%) Selenium
7 1 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 101 (30.89%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.68%) Finance
3 42 (12.84%) Electronics
4 30 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (8.26%) Telecoms
6 20 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (5.81%) Organisational Skills
8 17 (5.20%) Public Sector
9 15 (4.59%) Marketing
10 9 (2.75%) Aerospace
10 9 (2.75%) Legal
11 8 (2.45%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.14%) Aeronautics
12 7 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.22%) Military
14 4 (1.22%) Publishing
15 3 (0.92%) Banking
15 3 (0.92%) Digital Economy
15 3 (0.92%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 98 (29.97%) Architect
2 52 (15.90%) Network Architect
3 38 (11.62%) Software Engineer
4 31 (9.48%) Network Engineer
4 31 (9.48%) Senior
5 26 (7.95%) C++ Software Engineer
6 25 (7.65%) Systems Engineer
7 19 (5.81%) Analyst
8 18 (5.50%) Hardware Engineer
8 18 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (3.98%) Cisco Engineer
9 13 (3.98%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 12 (3.67%) Support Engineer
11 11 (3.36%) Consultant
12 9 (2.75%) Developer
12 9 (2.75%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 9 (2.75%) Systems Architect
12 9 (2.75%) Test Engineer
13 8 (2.45%) Storage Engineer
13 8 (2.45%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.45%) AngularJS
2 7 (2.14%) Web Services
3 6 (1.83%) .NET
4 5 (1.53%) GraphQL
4 5 (1.53%) LDAP
4 5 (1.53%) Playwright
5 4 (1.22%) Flash
5 4 (1.22%) POSIX
6 3 (0.92%) REST
7 2 (0.61%) XML
8 1 (0.31%) Ajax
8 1 (0.31%) CSS
8 1 (0.31%) HTML
8 1 (0.31%) JSON
8 1 (0.31%) Middleware
8 1 (0.31%) Node.js
8 1 (0.31%) RESTful
8 1 (0.31%) SOAP
8 1 (0.31%) Spring
8 1 (0.31%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (12.54%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (4.89%) Driving Licence
3 10 (3.06%) Virtual Team
4 9 (2.75%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.45%) CMDB
5 8 (2.45%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.45%) PKI
6 6 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.53%) Clustering
8 4 (1.22%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.22%) NVMe
9 3 (0.92%) Blackberry
9 3 (0.92%) EMC VNX
9 3 (0.92%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.92%) Replication
9 3 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.61%) PMI
11 1 (0.31%) NHS
11 1 (0.31%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.31%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 62 (18.96%) Windows
2 27 (8.26%) Windows 7
3 21 (6.42%) Windows 10
4 15 (4.59%) Unix
5 14 (4.28%) Windows Server
6 9 (2.75%) Linux
7 4 (1.22%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.22%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (1.22%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.22%) Windows Vista
8 3 (0.92%) AIX
8 3 (0.92%) Solaris
8 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.61%) Android
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (22.32%) Agile
2 62 (18.96%) DevOps
3 60 (18.35%) ITIL
4 55 (16.82%) Software Testing
5 53 (16.21%) Network Design
6 49 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (13.46%) Software Engineering
9 41 (12.54%) TDD
10 40 (12.23%) Unit Testing
11 38 (11.62%) Technical Leadership
12 37 (11.31%) Continuous Integration
13 35 (10.70%) Pair Programming
14 32 (9.79%) Customer Service
15 28 (8.56%) Network Management
16 25 (7.65%) Collaborative Working
16 25 (7.65%) Systems Engineering
17 22 (6.73%) Roadmaps
17 22 (6.73%) Service Delivery
18 21 (6.42%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 36 (11.01%) C++
2 35 (10.70%) C
2 35 (10.70%) C#
3 10 (3.06%) SQL
4 8 (2.45%) Python
5 7 (2.14%) Java
6 6 (1.83%) Perl
6 6 (1.83%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.83%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 153 (46.79%) Security Cleared
2 69 (21.10%) SC Cleared
3 50 (15.29%) Degree
4 46 (14.07%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.28%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (4.28%) PMI Certification
6 12 (3.67%) PMP
7 10 (3.06%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.75%) APMP
9 8 (2.45%) CCNP
9 8 (2.45%) HND
9 8 (2.45%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (2.14%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (1.83%) CCIE
11 6 (1.83%) CCIE Data Center
12 4 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.22%) JNCIA
13 3 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 3 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.09%) SLA
2 11 (3.36%) PCI DSS
3 6 (1.83%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.83%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.53%) NCSC
5 4 (1.22%) QA
6 3 (0.92%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.61%) GDPR
8 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.31%) GRC
8 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (4.89%) Firmware
2 15 (4.59%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.36%) Docker
4 8 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.53%) BitLocker
5 5 (1.53%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.53%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (1.53%) Terminal Services
5 5 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.22%) GPFS
6 4 (1.22%) NFS
7 3 (0.92%) SRDF
8 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (7.65%) Endace
2 20 (6.12%) SCCM
3 6 (1.83%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.53%) vCenter Server
4 5 (1.53%) vMotion
5 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 4 (1.22%) Terraform
5 4 (1.22%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 4 (1.22%) WhatsUp Gold
6 3 (0.92%) Ansible
6 3 (0.92%) EMC TimeFinder
7 2 (0.61%) Grafana
7 2 (0.61%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.31%) Avamar
8 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.31%) Puppet
8 1 (0.31%) QRadar
8 1 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 74 (22.63%) Cisco
2 60 (18.35%) Microsoft
3 37 (11.31%) Juniper
4 28 (8.56%) Fortinet
5 25 (7.65%) F5
6 18 (5.50%) HP
6 18 (5.50%) ServiceNow
7 17 (5.20%) Oracle
8 16 (4.89%) Google
9 15 (4.59%) VMware
10 14 (4.28%) IBM
11 12 (3.67%) Nokia
12 10 (3.06%) Infoblox
12 10 (3.06%) Salesforce
13 9 (2.75%) Palo Alto
13 9 (2.75%) SAP
14 8 (2.45%) EMC
15 7 (2.14%) Brocade
16 6 (1.83%) Computacenter
16 6 (1.83%) Veritas