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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 123 233
Rank change year-on-year -13 +110 -57
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 320 480 331
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.58% 2.09% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 2.33% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 186 186
10th Percentile £166 £194 £158
25th Percentile £363 £383 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +6.01%
75th Percentile £590 £550 £522
90th Percentile £688 £628 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 167 43
10th Percentile £17.00 - £12.25
25th Percentile £25.50 - £13.68
Median hourly rate £62.50 £9.80 £45.14
Median % change year-on-year +537.76% -78.29% +0.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £22.11 £51.62
90th Percentile - £62.40 £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 17,112 20,583 27,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.30% 89.45% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,187 18,951
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,254 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +43 130 £475 +12.23% 114
South West -42 49 £590 -1.67% 66
East of England 0 47 £600 +45.45% 62
Midlands +15 40 £450 -5.26% 128
North of England -19 38 £475 -5.00% 137
North West +11 22 £475 -20.83% 79
East Midlands +26 20 £173 -51.75% 45
West Midlands +3 20 £638 +34.21% 83
Scotland +17 16 £450 -13.46% 45
Yorkshire -27 15 £475 -5.00% 46
North East +11 1 £150 -70.00% 13
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 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (1.25%) SAS
2 3 (0.94%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.63%) CMS
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.31%) MTS
Applications
1 41 (12.81%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (5.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.88%) Windchill
5 2 (0.63%) FileZilla
6 1 (0.31%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.31%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.63%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (7.19%) Azure
2 14 (4.38%) PaaS
2 14 (4.38%) SaaS
3 12 (3.75%) AWS
4 11 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (3.13%) IaaS
6 9 (2.81%) Google Workspace
7 7 (2.19%) Power Platform
8 6 (1.88%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.25%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.25%) OCI
10 4 (1.25%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.25%) Oracle Service Cloud
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.31%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.31%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.31%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.31%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 44 (13.75%) WAN
2 38 (11.88%) Firewall
3 35 (10.94%) LAN
3 35 (10.94%) Modbus
3 35 (10.94%) RS-422
3 35 (10.94%) RS-485
4 31 (9.69%) MPLS
5 30 (9.38%) Cisco Firepower
6 25 (7.81%) BGP
6 25 (7.81%) SSL
7 17 (5.31%) VPN
8 15 (4.69%) VoIP
9 10 (3.13%) PBX
10 9 (2.81%) DHCP
10 9 (2.81%) DNS
10 9 (2.81%) SDH
11 8 (2.50%) SAN
11 8 (2.50%) SD-WAN
12 7 (2.19%) WLAN
13 6 (1.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.19%) Power BI
2 6 (1.88%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.25%) DB2
4 2 (0.63%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.31%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (6.88%) Rational DOORS
2 11 (3.44%) Git
3 7 (2.19%) JIRA
4 6 (1.88%) NUnit
4 6 (1.88%) Postman
4 6 (1.88%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.94%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.63%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.63%) HP UFT
6 2 (0.63%) 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 96 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 48 (15.00%) Finance
3 41 (12.81%) Electronics
4 30 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (8.75%) Telecoms
6 20 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (5.63%) Public Sector
8 15 (4.69%) Marketing
9 9 (2.81%) Aerospace
9 9 (2.81%) Legal
10 8 (2.50%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.19%) Aeronautics
11 7 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.25%) Military
13 4 (1.25%) Publishing
14 3 (0.94%) Banking
14 3 (0.94%) Digital Economy
14 3 (0.94%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (30.94%) Architect
2 52 (16.25%) Network Architect
3 38 (11.88%) Software Engineer
4 31 (9.69%) Network Engineer
5 29 (9.06%) Senior
6 26 (8.13%) C++ Software Engineer
7 25 (7.81%) Systems Engineer
8 19 (5.94%) Analyst
9 18 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
10 17 (5.31%) Hardware Engineer
11 13 (4.06%) Cisco Engineer
11 13 (4.06%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 12 (3.75%) Support Engineer
13 10 (3.13%) Consultant
14 9 (2.81%) Developer
14 9 (2.81%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 9 (2.81%) Systems Architect
15 8 (2.50%) Test Engineer
15 8 (2.50%) Windows Engineer
15 8 (2.50%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.50%) AngularJS
2 7 (2.19%) Web Services
3 6 (1.88%) .NET
4 5 (1.56%) GraphQL
4 5 (1.56%) Playwright
5 4 (1.25%) Flash
5 4 (1.25%) LDAP
5 4 (1.25%) POSIX
6 3 (0.94%) REST
7 2 (0.63%) XML
8 1 (0.31%) Ajax
8 1 (0.31%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.31%) CSS
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 40 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (4.69%) Driving Licence
3 10 (3.13%) Virtual Team
4 9 (2.81%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.19%) CMDB
7 6 (1.88%) PKI
8 5 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.25%) Blackberry
9 4 (1.25%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.25%) Clustering
9 4 (1.25%) NVMe
9 4 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (0.94%) EMC VNX
10 3 (0.94%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.94%) Replication
11 2 (0.63%) PMI
12 1 (0.31%) NHS
12 1 (0.31%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 60 (18.75%) Windows
2 26 (8.13%) Windows 7
3 20 (6.25%) Windows 10
4 15 (4.69%) Unix
5 13 (4.06%) Windows Server
6 9 (2.81%) Linux
7 4 (1.25%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.25%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (1.25%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.25%) Windows Vista
8 3 (0.94%) AIX
8 3 (0.94%) Solaris
9 2 (0.63%) Android
9 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (22.50%) Agile
2 62 (19.38%) DevOps
3 60 (18.75%) ITIL
4 54 (16.88%) Software Testing
5 53 (16.56%) Network Design
6 49 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (13.75%) Software Engineering
8 41 (12.81%) TDD
9 40 (12.50%) Unit Testing
10 38 (11.88%) Technical Leadership
11 37 (11.56%) Continuous Integration
12 35 (10.94%) Pair Programming
13 31 (9.69%) Customer Service
14 28 (8.75%) Network Management
15 25 (7.81%) Collaborative Working
15 25 (7.81%) Systems Engineering
16 22 (6.88%) Roadmaps
17 21 (6.56%) ArchiMate
17 21 (6.56%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 36 (11.25%) C++
2 35 (10.94%) C
2 35 (10.94%) C#
3 10 (3.13%) SQL
4 8 (2.50%) Python
5 7 (2.19%) Java
6 6 (1.88%) Perl
6 6 (1.88%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.56%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 151 (47.19%) Security Cleared
2 69 (21.56%) SC Cleared
3 48 (15.00%) Degree
4 43 (13.44%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (4.38%) PMI Certification
7 12 (3.75%) PMP
8 10 (3.13%) Master's Degree
9 9 (2.81%) APMP
9 9 (2.81%) CCNP
10 8 (2.50%) HND
10 8 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (2.19%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (1.88%) CCIE
12 6 (1.88%) CCIE Data Center
13 4 (1.25%) JNCIA
13 4 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.31%) SLA
2 11 (3.44%) PCI DSS
3 6 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.88%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.56%) NCSC
5 4 (1.25%) QA
6 3 (0.94%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.63%) GDPR
8 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.31%) GRC
8 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (4.69%) Firmware
2 14 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.44%) Docker
4 9 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.25%) BitLocker
5 4 (1.25%) GPFS
5 4 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.25%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (1.25%) NFS
5 4 (1.25%) Terminal Services
5 4 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.94%) SRDF
7 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (7.81%) Endace
2 19 (5.94%) SCCM
3 6 (1.88%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (1.25%) Terraform
4 4 (1.25%) vCenter Server
4 4 (1.25%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 4 (1.25%) vMotion
4 4 (1.25%) WhatsUp Gold
5 3 (0.94%) Ansible
5 3 (0.94%) EMC TimeFinder
6 2 (0.63%) Grafana
6 2 (0.63%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.31%) Autotask
7 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.31%) Puppet
7 1 (0.31%) QRadar
7 1 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 75 (23.44%) Cisco
2 58 (18.13%) Microsoft
3 38 (11.88%) Juniper
4 28 (8.75%) Fortinet
5 26 (8.13%) F5
6 19 (5.94%) ServiceNow
7 17 (5.31%) HP
7 17 (5.31%) Oracle
8 16 (5.00%) Google
9 15 (4.69%) VMware
10 14 (4.38%) IBM
11 13 (4.06%) Nokia
12 10 (3.13%) Palo Alto
12 10 (3.13%) Salesforce
13 9 (2.81%) Infoblox
14 8 (2.50%) EMC
14 8 (2.50%) SAP
15 7 (2.19%) Brocade
16 6 (1.88%) Computacenter
16 6 (1.88%) Informatica