Requirements Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Requirements Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Requirements Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Requirements Engineering over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 417 487
Rank change year-on-year +57 +70 -64
Contract jobs citing Requirements Engineering 37 15 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.066% 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.074% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 4 26
10th Percentile - £458 £358
25th Percentile £405 £469 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £433
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +15.61% -26.07%
75th Percentile £488 £613 £500
90th Percentile £538 £770 £548
UK median daily rate £450 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -28.00% +25.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 0
10th Percentile - £30.91 -
25th Percentile £65.25 £46.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.50 £73.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% - -
75th Percentile £68.21 £84.00 -
90th Percentile £70.66 £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £73.00 £39.29
% change year-on-year -10.27% +85.80% -21.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Requirements Engineering 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 17,222 20,406 27,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.58% 89.33% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,282 14,013 19,104
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £375 £400 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £690 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,110 1,238 1,365
10th Percentile £12.40 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.22 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £62.63
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%

Requirements Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Engineering in the UK excluding London

Requirements Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Engineering in the UK excluding London

Requirements Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Engineering in the UK excluding London

Requirements Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Engineering in the UK excluding London

Requirements Engineering
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 Requirements Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
North of England +40 13 £410 - 9
North West +35 13 £410 - 8
East of England - 13 £410 - 1
South West +1 4 £463 -28.85% 16
Midlands +23 3 £525 - 3
South East +14 2 £475 -5.00% 2
West Midlands +9 2 £525 - 3
Scotland - 2 £415 - 3
East Midlands +14 1 - -
Requirements Engineering
UK

Requirements Engineering
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 1 (2.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Magento
1 1 (2.70%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (2.70%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.51%) Azure
1 5 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.70%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Internet
1 2 (5.41%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) JIRA
1 1 (2.70%) LabVIEW
General
1 12 (32.43%) Manufacturing
1 12 (32.43%) Pharmaceutical
2 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.41%) Automotive
5 2 (5.41%) German Language
5 2 (5.41%) Military
5 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 27 (72.97%) Analyst
2 25 (67.57%) Business Analyst
3 7 (18.92%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior
6 2 (5.41%) Business IT Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) IT Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) IT Business Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Process Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) Project Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) Requirements Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) Senior Business Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Cyberattack
1 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) Business Analysis
2 17 (45.95%) Requirements Gathering
3 15 (40.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (37.84%) Stakeholder Analysis
5 13 (35.14%) Lean Six Sigma
5 13 (35.14%) Six Sigma
6 12 (32.43%) Business Process Modelling
6 12 (32.43%) Data Governance
6 12 (32.43%) Data Protection
6 12 (32.43%) Requirements Analysis
7 10 (27.03%) Agile
8 7 (18.92%) Product Backlog
8 7 (18.92%) Project Management
8 7 (18.92%) Systems Engineering
9 6 (16.22%) Data Analysis
9 6 (16.22%) Project Delivery
10 5 (13.51%) Customer Requirements
10 5 (13.51%) Product Management
10 5 (13.51%) Sprint Review
10 5 (13.51%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.41%) C
1 2 (5.41%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (48.65%) Degree
2 13 (35.14%) IIBA
3 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) CBAP
5 1 (2.70%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (32.43%) GDPR
1 12 (32.43%) Good Clinical Practice
1 12 (32.43%) GxP
2 2 (5.41%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) vSphere
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) VMware
3 1 (2.70%) Adobe
3 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.70%) SAP