Customer Requirements Jobs

Customer Requirements
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Customer Requirements skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Customer Requirements over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 217 183 318
Rank change year-on-year -34 +135 +1
Permanent jobs citing Customer Requirements 1,404 1,917 2,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.29% 2.06% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 2.16% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 670 604 953
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,262 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,349 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% -0.26% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £79,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £91,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.62% +5.00% -2.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 9 June 2024.

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 9 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -7 1,320 £50,000 -13.04% 640
UK excluding London -43 1,222 £48,500 -7.62% 570
Midlands +78 420 £46,250 -7.50% 126
South East -30 404 £45,000 -10.00% 147
Work from Home -27 356 £55,000 -15.38% 228
West Midlands +83 276 £57,500 +9.52% 77
North of England -6 153 £50,000 -9.09% 114
East Midlands +39 144 £30,000 -26.83% 49
London -87 134 £70,000 -6.67% 92
South West -63 124 £44,000 -13.73% 73
North West -3 97 £50,000 -9.09% 62
East of England -73 90 £55,000 -4.35% 71
Yorkshire +28 52 £55,000 - 39
Wales -52 17 £32,500 -17.05% 11
Scotland -185 17 £42,500 -13.27% 48
Northern Ireland +17 12 - - 12
North East -6 11 £40,250 -25.12% 15

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 34 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.71%) Confluence
4 6 (0.43%) Apache
4 6 (0.43%) Tomcat
5 5 (0.36%) IIS
5 5 (0.36%) JBoss
5 5 (0.36%) Kinematics
5 5 (0.36%) SharePoint 2010
5 5 (0.36%) SharePoint 2013
5 5 (0.36%) WebLogic
5 5 (0.36%) WebSphere
5 5 (0.36%) WildFly
6 4 (0.28%) CMS
7 3 (0.21%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.071%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 414 (29.49%) Microsoft Office
2 341 (24.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (1.21%) Simulink
5 14 (1.00%) MS Visio
5 14 (1.00%) SOLIDWORKS
6 12 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.71%) OrCAD
8 9 (0.64%) Solid Edge
9 8 (0.57%) Stateflow
10 6 (0.43%) InVision
10 6 (0.43%) Sketch
11 5 (0.36%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.36%) Trello
12 4 (0.28%) CANalyzer
13 1 (0.071%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 8 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.50%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.28%) SAP WM
5 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.14%) HiPortfolio
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.14%) Primavera
5 2 (0.14%) Workfront
6 1 (0.071%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.071%) Maximo
6 1 (0.071%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 106 (7.55%) Azure
2 70 (4.99%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (4.42%) SaaS
4 61 (4.34%) AWS
5 42 (2.99%) Power Platform
6 27 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
7 26 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (1.21%) Entra ID
9 16 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (0.78%) GCP
10 11 (0.78%) Power Automate
11 7 (0.50%) Google Sheets
11 7 (0.50%) PowerApps
12 6 (0.43%) PaaS
12 6 (0.43%) WhatsApp
13 4 (0.28%) Google Analytics
13 4 (0.28%) Snowflake
14 3 (0.21%) Figma
14 3 (0.21%) Google Data Studio
14 3 (0.21%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 52 (3.70%) WAN
2 34 (2.42%) Firewall
3 30 (2.14%) TCP/IP
4 27 (1.92%) VPN
4 27 (1.92%) Wireless
5 26 (1.85%) LAN
5 26 (1.85%) SD-WAN
6 25 (1.78%) Internet
7 21 (1.50%) DNS
8 20 (1.42%) 5G
9 17 (1.21%) BGP
9 17 (1.21%) MPLS
10 16 (1.14%) HTTP
10 16 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (1.07%) Ethernet
11 15 (1.07%) RS-232
11 15 (1.07%) SAN
11 15 (1.07%) Unified Communications
12 14 (1.00%) DHCP
13 12 (0.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (3.28%) SQL Server
2 30 (2.14%) Power BI
3 24 (1.71%) NoSQL
4 14 (1.00%) MongoDB
5 10 (0.71%) GIS
6 9 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
8 6 (0.43%) MySQL
8 6 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (0.36%) Big Data
9 5 (0.36%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.28%) DTS
10 4 (0.28%) PowerPivot
10 4 (0.28%) Redis
11 3 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.21%) Looker
12 2 (0.14%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.14%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 48 (3.42%) JIRA
2 35 (2.49%) Git
3 26 (1.85%) Subversion
4 21 (1.50%) Rational DOORS
4 21 (1.50%) Visual Studio
5 16 (1.14%) GitLab
6 9 (0.64%) Rational Rhapsody
7 7 (0.50%) Eclipse
8 5 (0.36%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.36%) LabVIEW
8 5 (0.36%) NUnit
9 4 (0.28%) CANoe
10 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.14%) Balsamiq
11 2 (0.14%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.14%) Hudson
11 2 (0.14%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.14%) WebDriver
General
1 566 (40.31%) Social Skills
2 505 (35.97%) Analytical Skills
3 402 (28.63%) Finance
4 313 (22.29%) Marketing
5 262 (18.66%) Retail
6 193 (13.75%) Organisational Skills
7 155 (11.04%) Influencing Skills
8 87 (6.20%) Electronics
9 86 (6.13%) Presentation Skills
10 80 (5.70%) Manufacturing
11 50 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 42 (2.99%) Telecoms
13 36 (2.56%) Aerospace
14 35 (2.49%) Legal
15 33 (2.35%) Automotive
16 29 (2.07%) Games
17 28 (1.99%) Public Sector
18 24 (1.71%) Law
19 23 (1.64%) Military
20 13 (0.93%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 176 (12.54%) Analyst
1 176 (12.54%) Development Manager
2 148 (10.54%) Senior
3 120 (8.55%) Product Analyst
3 120 (8.55%) Sales Analyst
4 106 (7.55%) Architect
5 104 (7.41%) Project Manager
6 83 (5.91%) Consultant
6 83 (5.91%) Support Engineer
7 82 (5.84%) Developer
8 80 (5.70%) Systems Engineer
9 74 (5.27%) Lead
10 67 (4.77%) Solutions Architect
11 49 (3.49%) Software Engineer
12 47 (3.35%) Applications Engineer
13 31 (2.21%) Network Engineer
14 28 (1.99%) Product Manager
15 27 (1.92%) Business Architect
15 27 (1.92%) Business Solution Architect
16 26 (1.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (4.77%) .NET
2 45 (3.21%) HTML
3 41 (2.92%) SOAP
4 39 (2.78%) Web Services
5 38 (2.71%) CSS
6 31 (2.21%) .NET Framework
6 31 (2.21%) XML
7 27 (1.92%) RESTful
8 24 (1.71%) REST
9 23 (1.64%) AngularJS
10 22 (1.57%) JSON
11 19 (1.35%) Node.js
11 19 (1.35%) React
12 17 (1.21%) Qt
13 15 (1.07%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (0.78%) ASP.NET
14 11 (0.78%) jQuery
14 11 (0.78%) Kafka
14 11 (0.78%) NETCONF
14 11 (0.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 138 (9.83%) Self-Motivation
2 126 (8.97%) Management Information System
3 59 (4.20%) Data Centre
4 51 (3.63%) IoT
5 42 (2.99%) Driving Licence
6 39 (2.78%) Product Ownership
7 37 (2.64%) Robotics
8 29 (2.07%) Algorithms
9 28 (1.99%) Clustering
10 27 (1.92%) Virtual Team
11 21 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
12 19 (1.35%) Analogue Electronics
12 19 (1.35%) Public Cloud
13 16 (1.14%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.07%) Embedded Systems
14 15 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
15 14 (1.00%) PKI
16 13 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
16 13 (0.93%) FPGA
16 13 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 121 (8.62%) Windows
2 89 (6.34%) Linux
3 33 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.71%) Windows 10
5 18 (1.28%) Unix
6 17 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (1.07%) Ubuntu
8 14 (1.00%) AIX
9 13 (0.93%) CentOS
10 12 (0.85%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (0.21%) FreeBSD
12 3 (0.21%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.14%) Android
13 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.14%) OS/2
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.071%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (30.48%) Problem-Solving
2 413 (29.42%) Agile
3 325 (23.15%) Business Development
4 258 (18.38%) Data Management
5 254 (18.09%) Logistics
6 253 (18.02%) Project Management
7 247 (17.59%) CAD
8 245 (17.45%) Commercial Awareness
9 226 (16.10%) Facilities Management
10 225 (16.03%) Financial Modelling
11 222 (15.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 212 (15.10%) Customer Service
13 164 (11.68%) Mathematics
14 145 (10.33%) Presales
15 143 (10.19%) Mentoring
16 110 (7.83%) Collaborative Working
17 108 (7.69%) Software Engineering
18 97 (6.91%) Decision-Making
19 95 (6.77%) DevOps
20 89 (6.34%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 124 (8.83%) SQL
2 86 (6.13%) Python
3 73 (5.20%) JavaScript
4 70 (4.99%) C#
5 61 (4.34%) C
6 55 (3.92%) C++
7 33 (2.35%) Java
8 23 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 20 (1.42%) MATLAB
9 20 (1.42%) VB
10 14 (1.00%) ActionScript
11 9 (0.64%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.50%) Bash
12 7 (0.50%) Go
13 5 (0.36%) XAML
14 4 (0.28%) Assembly Language
14 4 (0.28%) Embedded C
14 4 (0.28%) Ruby
15 3 (0.21%) Perl
15 3 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 472 (33.62%) Degree
2 184 (13.11%) Security Cleared
3 89 (6.34%) SC Cleared
4 38 (2.71%) Master's Degree
5 33 (2.35%) DV Cleared
6 24 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 22 (1.57%) HND
8 19 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (1.00%) DBS Check
12 13 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (0.85%) CCNP
13 12 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 11 (0.78%) HNC
14 11 (0.78%) MBA
14 11 (0.78%) PhD
15 10 (0.71%) Chartered Engineer
16 9 (0.64%) CCNA
16 9 (0.64%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.70%) SLA
2 73 (5.20%) PMO
3 49 (3.49%) QA
4 29 (2.07%) ISO 9001
5 26 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.14%) GDPR
7 15 (1.07%) ISO 26262
8 11 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (0.78%) Automotive SPICE
9 10 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.50%) ISO 9000
10 7 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 7 (0.50%) JTAG
11 5 (0.36%) NCSC
11 5 (0.36%) NIST
12 4 (0.28%) GRC
12 4 (0.28%) IEC 61131
12 4 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 3 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (4.56%) Active Directory
2 50 (3.56%) Firmware
3 40 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.92%) Docker
5 15 (1.07%) vSphere
6 14 (1.00%) OpenSSH
6 14 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (1.00%) XenApp
7 6 (0.43%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.071%) FreeRADIUS
9 1 (0.071%) NFS
9 1 (0.071%) Shibboleth
9 1 (0.071%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 25 (1.78%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.64%) Ansible
3 18 (1.28%) Terraform
4 14 (1.00%) IBM BigFix
4 14 (1.00%) PowerCLI
4 14 (1.00%) vCenter Server
5 13 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (0.85%) Backup Exec
6 12 (0.85%) Functional Safety
6 12 (0.85%) NetBackup
7 6 (0.43%) Endace
7 6 (0.43%) SCCM
8 4 (0.28%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.28%) HP UCMDB
9 3 (0.21%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (0.21%) Fluentd
9 3 (0.21%) Grafana
9 3 (0.21%) logstash
9 3 (0.21%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 424 (30.20%) Microsoft
2 51 (3.63%) VMware
3 50 (3.56%) Oracle
4 47 (3.35%) Cisco
5 37 (2.64%) IBM
6 29 (2.07%) Google
7 26 (1.85%) Apple
8 25 (1.78%) Dell
9 24 (1.71%) Juniper
10 22 (1.57%) IFS
11 21 (1.50%) Citrix
12 20 (1.42%) Adobe
13 19 (1.35%) HP
13 19 (1.35%) Workday
14 17 (1.21%) ServiceNow
15 16 (1.14%) SAP
16 14 (1.00%) NetApp
17 12 (0.85%) Hitachi
17 12 (0.85%) Snow
17 12 (0.85%) Veritas