Requirements Analysis
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 465 474 572
Rank change year-on-year +9 +98 +58
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Analysis 515 642 875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.62% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.65% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 278 234 433
10th Percentile £41,204 £40,012 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,538
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% +8.70% +21.05%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,125 £82,500 £87,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.91% +4.76% +23.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Requirements Analysis 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 84,862 98,882 150,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59,922 58,137 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,251 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,251
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Requirements Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Analysis in the UK

Requirements Analysis
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Requirements Analysis in the UK

Requirements Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Requirements Analysis over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Requirements Analysis in the UK

Requirements Analysis
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +48 436 £63,500 +3.67% 103
UK excluding London -15 411 £63,750 +15.91% 73
Work from Home +28 196 £65,000 - 43
South West +5 125 £65,000 +18.18% 27
South East +44 101 £70,000 +33.33% 18
London +76 87 £63,750 -7.21% 31
North of England +4 66 £60,000 -7.69% 7
Midlands +4 48 £52,500 +31.25% 13
North West -19 42 £65,000 - 4
Scotland -57 36 £43,924 - 4
East Midlands -36 26 £50,000 +33.33% 6
Yorkshire +84 23 £42,500 -12.04% 3
West Midlands +38 22 £62,500 +47.06% 7
Wales +7 15 £75,000 +73.41% 1
Northern Ireland +19 12 £72,500 +18.85% 1
East of England -26 8 £65,000 +18.18% 3
North East -10 1 £75,000 +57.89%

Requirements Analysis
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 8 (1.55%) IIS
2 2 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.39%) Simulink
3 2 (0.39%) Stateflow
3 2 (0.39%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 25 (4.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (2.33%) NEC Housing
3 7 (1.36%) Magento
4 3 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.39%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.39%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 98 (19.03%) Azure
2 86 (16.70%) AWS
3 11 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
3 11 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (1.94%) OCI
5 8 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (1.17%) Amazon S3
6 6 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (1.17%) Power Platform
6 6 (1.17%) SaaS
6 6 (1.17%) Serverless
7 4 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (0.78%) Google Docs
8 3 (0.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (0.58%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.19%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.19%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.27%) 5G
1 22 (4.27%) SD-WAN
1 22 (4.27%) WAN
2 18 (3.50%) Internet
3 12 (2.33%) Firewall
4 7 (1.36%) FTP
5 6 (1.17%) Network Security
6 3 (0.58%) Multicast
6 3 (0.58%) VPN
7 2 (0.39%) Intranet
7 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.39%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.19%) HTTP
8 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (9.13%) SQL Server
2 24 (4.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 19 (3.69%) MySQL
4 17 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.94%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.75%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.36%) Crystal Reports
9 6 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.78%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.78%) Power BI
11 3 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.39%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.39%) Tableau
13 1 (0.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.19%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.19%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 68 (13.20%) GitLab
2 31 (6.02%) Selenium
3 25 (4.85%) Git
4 15 (2.91%) Visual Studio
5 13 (2.52%) Jenkins
5 13 (2.52%) JIRA
6 10 (1.94%) TestRail
7 9 (1.75%) Robot Framework
8 6 (1.17%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.97%) FitNesse
9 5 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
9 5 (0.97%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.97%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.97%) WebDriver
10 4 (0.78%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.78%) Rational Rhapsody
10 4 (0.78%) Subversion
11 3 (0.58%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.58%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.39%) TensorBoard
General
1 105 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 67 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (12.43%) Finance
4 52 (10.10%) Aerospace
5 31 (6.02%) Electronics
6 28 (5.44%) Marketing
7 23 (4.47%) Law
8 17 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
8 17 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.52%) Retail
10 11 (2.14%) Legal
11 10 (1.94%) Banking
12 9 (1.75%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.75%) Public Sector
13 8 (1.55%) Advertising
13 8 (1.55%) Automotive
14 6 (1.17%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 101 (19.61%) Senior
2 83 (16.12%) Lead
3 74 (14.37%) Developer
4 70 (13.59%) Analyst
5 61 (11.84%) Product Manager
6 48 (9.32%) Technical Leader
7 46 (8.93%) Architect
8 41 (7.96%) Business Analyst
9 34 (6.60%) Systems Engineer
10 33 (6.41%) Senior User Researcher
10 33 (6.41%) User Researcher
11 29 (5.63%) Software Engineer
12 24 (4.66%) Project Manager
13 23 (4.47%) Automation Tester
13 23 (4.47%) Full Stack Developer
13 23 (4.47%) Tester
14 22 (4.27%) Senior Software Engineer
15 20 (3.88%) Technical Analyst
16 19 (3.69%) Consultant
16 19 (3.69%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.08%) .NET
2 20 (3.88%) React
3 18 (3.50%) HTML
4 17 (3.30%) XML
5 15 (2.91%) .NET Framework
6 12 (2.33%) Entity Framework
7 11 (2.14%) AngularJS
7 11 (2.14%) ASP.NET
7 11 (2.14%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (1.75%) CSS
8 9 (1.75%) Middleware
9 7 (1.36%) EDI
9 7 (1.36%) REST
10 6 (1.17%) ASP.NET MVC
10 6 (1.17%) ASP.NET Web API
10 6 (1.17%) WCF
11 5 (0.97%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 5 (0.97%) LINQ
11 5 (0.97%) NHibernate
11 5 (0.97%) Silverlight
Miscellaneous
1 64 (12.43%) Private Cloud
2 50 (9.71%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.47%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.47%) Management Information System
4 22 (4.27%) GNSS
5 17 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.14%) FPGA
7 9 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (1.75%) Robotics
8 8 (1.55%) Housing Association
8 8 (1.55%) MicroBlaze
8 8 (1.55%) Taxonomies
8 8 (1.55%) VHDL
9 7 (1.36%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.36%) IoT
9 7 (1.36%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.17%) Augmented Reality
10 6 (1.17%) Social Media
10 6 (1.17%) Virtual Reality
11 5 (0.97%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 56 (10.87%) Linux
2 53 (10.29%) Windows
3 5 (0.97%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.78%) Android
4 4 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (59.61%) Agile
2 163 (31.65%) Actionable Insight
3 109 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
4 97 (18.83%) DevOps
5 96 (18.64%) User Research
6 79 (15.34%) Mentoring
7 76 (14.76%) Computer Science
8 70 (13.59%) Continuous Integration
9 65 (12.62%) Code Quality
10 64 (12.43%) Test Automation
11 63 (12.23%) SDLC
12 61 (11.84%) Full Stack Development
13 60 (11.65%) Project Management
14 59 (11.46%) Validation
15 56 (10.87%) Software Engineering
16 55 (10.68%) Test Assurance
17 51 (9.90%) Migration
18 50 (9.71%) Collaborative Working
18 50 (9.71%) Roadmaps
19 49 (9.51%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 95 (18.45%) Java
2 66 (12.82%) Python
3 65 (12.62%) JavaScript
4 52 (10.10%) SQL
5 51 (9.90%) C++
6 50 (9.71%) TypeScript
7 40 (7.77%) C#
8 35 (6.80%) T-SQL
9 31 (6.02%) C
10 22 (4.27%) Bash
11 21 (4.08%) Perl
12 17 (3.30%) PL/SQL
13 14 (2.72%) MATLAB
14 8 (1.55%) Tcl
14 8 (1.55%) VB
15 5 (0.97%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.97%) R
15 5 (0.97%) Scala
15 5 (0.97%) XAML
16 3 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 224 (43.50%) Security Cleared
2 126 (24.47%) Degree
3 116 (22.52%) SC Cleared
4 44 (8.54%) DV Cleared
5 19 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.11%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 11 (2.14%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.94%) ISTQB
9 10 (1.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 8 (1.55%) PMP
11 7 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.36%) PgMP
12 5 (0.97%) CISA
12 5 (0.97%) CISM
12 5 (0.97%) CISSP
12 5 (0.97%) CRISC
12 5 (0.97%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.97%) PhD
12 5 (0.97%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (11.26%) QA
2 33 (6.41%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.66%) PMO
4 8 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.36%) ISO 13485
5 7 (1.36%) ISO 9000
6 6 (1.17%) NIST
7 4 (0.78%) ISO 26262
8 3 (0.58%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.58%) JTAG
8 3 (0.58%) SLA
9 2 (0.39%) Automotive SPICE
9 2 (0.39%) ECSS
10 1 (0.19%) COBIT
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.19%) GRC
10 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (4.85%) Docker
2 17 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.52%) Firmware
4 10 (1.94%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (6.21%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.97%) Control-M
2 5 (0.97%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (6.60%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.41%) Oracle
3 13 (2.52%) ServiceNow
4 12 (2.33%) NEC
5 8 (1.55%) Altera
5 8 (1.55%) Green Hills
5 8 (1.55%) Motorola
5 8 (1.55%) Xilinx
6 7 (1.36%) Epicor
6 7 (1.36%) Salesforce
7 5 (0.97%) SAP
8 4 (0.78%) BeyondTrust
8 4 (0.78%) CyberArk
8 4 (0.78%) Google
8 4 (0.78%) IBM
8 4 (0.78%) Thales
8 4 (0.78%) TIBCO
9 3 (0.58%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.58%) Micro Focus
10 2 (0.39%) VMware