Requirements Engineering Jobs

Requirements Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Requirements Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Requirements Engineering 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 833 882 1105
Rank change year-on-year +49 +223 -258
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Engineering 65 98 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.097% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.10% 0.064%
Number of salaries quoted 54 45 48
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,145 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,125 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - +4.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £103,750 £65,000
90th Percentile - £106,250 £72,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £42,029 £50,000
% change year-on-year +54.66% -15.94% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Requirements Engineering 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 Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Engineering in the UK

Requirements Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Requirements Engineering in the UK

Requirements Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Requirements Engineering over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Requirements Engineering in the UK

Requirements Engineering
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Engineering 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 +78 56 £62,500 +15.21% 34
UK excluding London -12 50 £65,000 +54.66% 30
South West +5 31 £75,000 +38.25% 13
Work from Home +65 25 £57,500 +35.29% 14
London +97 14 £50,000 -48.72% 6
Scotland -55 7 £67,500 - 3
South East +10 4 £45,000 - 7
North of England +32 3 £38,500 -7.23% 4
Wales +6 2 - -
North West -2 2 £27,000 -36.47% 4
East of England - 2 £41,686 - 2
Yorkshire +77 1 £50,000 +22.70%
West Midlands -10 1 £54,000 +29.94% 2
Midlands -29 1 £54,000 +29.94% 2

Requirements Engineering
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 17 (26.15%) Apache
1 17 (26.15%) Apache Spark
1 17 (26.15%) Jupyter
1 17 (26.15%) nginx
2 3 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.62%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.54%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.15%) Amazon S3
1 17 (26.15%) MinIO
1 17 (26.15%) OpenShift
2 6 (9.23%) Azure
3 2 (3.08%) SaaS
4 1 (1.54%) Asana
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle Service Cloud
4 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) Intranet
2 1 (1.54%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.54%) ISDN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.15%) Big Data
1 17 (26.15%) Hadoop
1 17 (26.15%) Presto
2 2 (3.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (26.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 17 (26.15%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.08%) JIRA
2 2 (3.08%) Rational DOORS
General
1 12 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (12.31%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (9.23%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.15%) Aviation
5 4 (6.15%) Marketing
6 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.08%) Legal
6 2 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Publishing
7 1 (1.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (30.77%) Analyst
2 18 (27.69%) Business Analyst
3 17 (26.15%) Big Data Engineer
3 17 (26.15%) Data Engineer
3 17 (26.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (26.15%) Systems Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) Junior
5 4 (6.15%) Architect
5 4 (6.15%) Junior Systems Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Safety Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Systems Safety Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Senior
6 3 (4.62%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (4.62%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (4.62%) Software Architect
6 3 (4.62%) Systems Architect
7 2 (3.08%) Consultant
7 2 (3.08%) Support Analyst
7 2 (3.08%) Systems Analyst
7 2 (3.08%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (26.15%) ActiveMQ
1 17 (26.15%) Apache NiFi
1 17 (26.15%) Elastic Stack
1 17 (26.15%) RabbitMQ
1 17 (26.15%) YAML
2 2 (3.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.15%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (6.15%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.54%) PMI
4 1 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 18 (27.69%) Linux
2 9 (13.85%) Windows
2 9 (13.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.77%) Thought Leadership
2 19 (29.23%) Agile
3 18 (27.69%) Data Engineering
4 17 (26.15%) Business Analysis
4 17 (26.15%) CI/CD
4 17 (26.15%) Containerisation
4 17 (26.15%) DevOps
4 17 (26.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (26.15%) Observability
4 17 (26.15%) Service Delivery
4 17 (26.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 15 (23.08%) Requirements Analysis
5 15 (23.08%) Systems Engineering
6 14 (21.54%) Waterfall
7 10 (15.38%) Customer Requirements
8 9 (13.85%) Project Delivery
8 9 (13.85%) Project Management
9 8 (12.31%) ITIL
9 8 (12.31%) Requirements Gathering
9 8 (12.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.15%) Bash
1 17 (26.15%) Python
1 17 (26.15%) Shell Script
2 4 (6.15%) C
2 4 (6.15%) SQL
3 3 (4.62%) Embedded C
4 2 (3.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 20 (30.77%) Degree
3 19 (29.23%) DV Cleared
4 8 (12.31%) SC Cleared
5 4 (6.15%) CBAP
6 3 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.08%) HND
7 2 (3.08%) IIBA
7 2 (3.08%) ISEB
7 2 (3.08%) Master's Degree
7 2 (3.08%) PhD
7 2 (3.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (1.54%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.54%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) PMO
1 3 (4.62%) QA
2 2 (3.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.08%) ECSS
3 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (26.15%) Docker
2 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (26.15%) Ansible
1 17 (26.15%) Grafana
1 17 (26.15%) HAProxy
1 17 (26.15%) Kubernetes
1 17 (26.15%) Prometheus
1 17 (26.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.69%) Remedy
3 2 (3.08%) VMware
4 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.54%) SAP