Requirements Engineering Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Requirements Engineering
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Requirements Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Requirements Engineering 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.43% - 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% - 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £458
75th Percentile - - £461
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate - - £434
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £61.43
25th Percentile - - £62.06
Median hourly rate - - £63.75
75th Percentile - - £65.06
90th Percentile - - £65.48
East of England median hourly rate - - £63.75

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Requirements Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 208 135 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 89.66% 87.10% 86.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 69 150
10th Percentile £380 £216 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £597 £675 £550
90th Percentile £650 £703 £600
East of England median daily rate £475 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -0.58% -4.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 13
10th Percentile £25.15 £22.96 £15.39
25th Percentile £37.50 £29.89 £18.00
Median hourly rate £68.21 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.42% +132.56% -63.25%
75th Percentile £80.00 £62.05 £53.75
90th Percentile £90.60 £75.20 £61.90
East of England median hourly rate £20.09 £40.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -49.78% +63.27% +11.36%

Requirements Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Requirements Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Requirements Engineering job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Requirements Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Requirements Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Requirements Engineering

Requirements Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Requirements Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Requirements Engineering

Requirements Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (100.00%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Ada Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Ada Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware