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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 450 472 566
Rank change year-on-year +22 +94 +67
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Analysis 534 631 876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.62% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.65% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 271 227 422
10th Percentile £40,936 £40,435 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,538
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £63,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.43% +21.05%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.45% +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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +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%

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 10 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 10 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 +47 451 £63,500 +1.60% 92
UK excluding London -8 432 £63,500 +15.45% 60
Work from Home +19 199 £65,000 - 35
South West +22 126 £65,000 +13.04% 22
South East +38 103 £70,000 +33.33% 19
London +67 85 £63,750 -7.21% 29
North of England +1 68 £50,000 -23.08% 6
Midlands -13 59 £51,250 +36.67% 7
North West -31 43 £65,000 - 3
Scotland -50 37 £43,500 - 3
East Midlands -30 33 £50,000 +33.33% 3
West Midlands +16 26 £61,250 +44.12% 4
Yorkshire +77 24 £35,000 -27.56% 3
Wales +1 16 £75,000 +73.41% 1
Northern Ireland +20 14 £72,500 +36.79%
East of England -24 9 £65,000 +18.18% 4
North East -9 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 6 (1.12%) IIS
2 2 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.37%) Simulink
3 2 (0.37%) Stateflow
3 2 (0.37%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 24 (4.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (2.06%) NEC Housing
3 7 (1.31%) Magento
4 2 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.19%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 98 (18.35%) Azure
2 86 (16.10%) AWS
3 13 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
4 11 (2.06%) OCI
5 10 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (1.12%) Amazon S3
7 6 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (1.12%) Power Platform
7 6 (1.12%) SaaS
7 6 (1.12%) Serverless
8 4 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (0.75%) Google Docs
9 3 (0.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (0.56%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.19%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.19%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.93%) 5G
1 21 (3.93%) SD-WAN
1 21 (3.93%) WAN
2 16 (3.00%) Internet
3 14 (2.62%) Firewall
4 7 (1.31%) FTP
5 6 (1.12%) Network Security
6 3 (0.56%) Multicast
6 3 (0.56%) VPN
7 2 (0.37%) Intranet
7 2 (0.37%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.37%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.19%) HTTP
8 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 24 (4.49%) Data Lake
3 22 (4.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 18 (3.37%) MySQL
5 17 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.50%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.31%) Crystal Reports
9 6 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.75%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.75%) Power BI
11 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.37%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.37%) Tableau
13 1 (0.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.19%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.19%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 68 (12.73%) GitLab
2 29 (5.43%) Selenium
3 25 (4.68%) Git
4 16 (3.00%) JIRA
5 15 (2.81%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.81%) Visual Studio
6 11 (2.06%) Robot Framework
7 10 (1.87%) TestRail
8 6 (1.12%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.75%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.75%) Rational Rhapsody
9 4 (0.75%) Subversion
10 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.56%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.56%) FitNesse
10 3 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.56%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.56%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.56%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 104 (19.48%) Social Skills
2 69 (12.92%) Aerospace
3 67 (12.55%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (10.67%) Finance
5 31 (5.81%) Electronics
6 28 (5.24%) Marketing
7 24 (4.49%) Law
8 20 (3.75%) Retail
9 17 (3.18%) Legal
9 17 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.69%) Public Sector
14 8 (1.50%) Advertising
14 8 (1.50%) Automotive
14 8 (1.50%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.31%) Banking
16 6 (1.12%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 100 (18.73%) Senior
2 83 (15.54%) Lead
3 78 (14.61%) Analyst
4 73 (13.67%) Developer
5 61 (11.42%) Product Manager
6 58 (10.86%) Architect
7 49 (9.18%) Business Analyst
8 47 (8.80%) Technical Leader
9 34 (6.37%) Systems Engineer
10 33 (6.18%) Senior User Researcher
10 33 (6.18%) User Researcher
11 31 (5.81%) Technical Architect
12 28 (5.24%) Software Engineer
13 24 (4.49%) Project Manager
14 23 (4.31%) Automation Tester
14 23 (4.31%) Junior
14 23 (4.31%) Tester
15 22 (4.12%) Senior Software Engineer
16 21 (3.93%) Consultant
16 21 (3.93%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.93%) React
2 20 (3.75%) HTML
3 19 (3.56%) .NET
4 17 (3.18%) XML
5 13 (2.43%) .NET Framework
6 10 (1.87%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (1.69%) AngularJS
7 9 (1.69%) CSS
7 9 (1.69%) Entity Framework
7 9 (1.69%) Middleware
8 8 (1.50%) ASP.NET
9 7 (1.31%) EDI
9 7 (1.31%) REST
10 6 (1.12%) .NET Core
11 5 (0.94%) CSS3
11 5 (0.94%) HTML5
12 4 (0.75%) ASP.NET Web API
12 4 (0.75%) LDAP
12 4 (0.75%) NumPy
12 4 (0.75%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 64 (11.99%) Private Cloud
2 50 (9.36%) Product Ownership
3 37 (6.93%) Cloud Native
4 22 (4.12%) GNSS
5 21 (3.93%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (3.00%) Legacy Applications
8 11 (2.06%) FPGA
8 11 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (1.69%) Robotics
10 8 (1.50%) Housing Association
10 8 (1.50%) MicroBlaze
10 8 (1.50%) VHDL
11 7 (1.31%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.31%) IoT
11 7 (1.31%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.31%) Taxonomies
12 6 (1.12%) Augmented Reality
12 6 (1.12%) Social Media
12 6 (1.12%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 73 (13.67%) Linux
2 52 (9.74%) Windows
3 5 (0.94%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.75%) Android
4 4 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (60.11%) Agile
2 159 (29.78%) Actionable Insight
3 111 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
4 100 (18.73%) DevOps
5 96 (17.98%) User Research
6 79 (14.79%) Mentoring
7 75 (14.04%) Computer Science
8 69 (12.92%) SDLC
9 68 (12.73%) Continuous Integration
10 67 (12.55%) Collaborative Working
11 65 (12.17%) Code Quality
12 62 (11.61%) Roadmaps
13 61 (11.42%) Test Automation
14 60 (11.24%) Project Management
15 59 (11.05%) Full Stack Development
16 57 (10.67%) Software Engineering
16 57 (10.67%) Validation
17 55 (10.30%) Change Management
18 54 (10.11%) Test Assurance
19 50 (9.36%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 96 (17.98%) Java
2 68 (12.73%) Python
3 65 (12.17%) JavaScript
4 51 (9.55%) C++
4 51 (9.55%) SQL
4 51 (9.55%) TypeScript
5 38 (7.12%) C#
6 33 (6.18%) T-SQL
7 31 (5.81%) C
8 24 (4.49%) Bash
9 21 (3.93%) Perl
10 16 (3.00%) PL/SQL
11 14 (2.62%) MATLAB
12 8 (1.50%) Tcl
12 8 (1.50%) VB
13 5 (0.94%) R
13 5 (0.94%) Scala
14 3 (0.56%) PHP
14 3 (0.56%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.56%) XAML
Qualifications
1 222 (41.57%) Security Cleared
2 132 (24.72%) Degree
3 116 (21.72%) SC Cleared
4 42 (7.87%) DV Cleared
5 18 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.00%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 11 (2.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 11 (2.06%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.87%) ISTQB
10 8 (1.50%) PMP
11 7 (1.31%) PgMP
12 6 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.94%) CISA
13 5 (0.94%) CISM
13 5 (0.94%) CISSP
13 5 (0.94%) CRISC
13 5 (0.94%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.94%) PhD
13 5 (0.94%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (12.55%) QA
2 33 (6.18%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.49%) PMO
4 8 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.31%) ISO 13485
5 7 (1.31%) ISO 9000
6 6 (1.12%) NIST
7 4 (0.75%) ISO 26262
8 3 (0.56%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.56%) JTAG
8 3 (0.56%) SLA
9 2 (0.37%) Automotive SPICE
9 2 (0.37%) 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 (4.68%) Docker
2 16 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.43%) Firmware
4 10 (1.87%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (6.37%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.94%) Functional Safety
3 3 (0.56%) Control-M
4 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (6.55%) Oracle
2 33 (6.18%) Microsoft
3 14 (2.62%) ServiceNow
4 11 (2.06%) NEC
5 8 (1.50%) Altera
5 8 (1.50%) Green Hills
5 8 (1.50%) Motorola
5 8 (1.50%) Xilinx
6 7 (1.31%) Epicor
6 7 (1.31%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.75%) BeyondTrust
7 4 (0.75%) CyberArk
7 4 (0.75%) Google
7 4 (0.75%) IBM
7 4 (0.75%) SAP
7 4 (0.75%) Thales
7 4 (0.75%) TIBCO
8 3 (0.56%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.56%) Micro Focus
9 2 (0.37%) VMware