Requirements Engineering Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Requirements Engineering
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Requirements Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Requirements Engineering 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.27% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £414 - -
25th Percentile £417 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 - -
75th Percentile £477 - -
90th Percentile £485 - -
South East median daily rate £643 £475 -
% change year-on-year +35.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £83.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £83.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,507 1,103 1,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 82.35% 91.08% 87.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 934 692 763
10th Percentile £350 £316 £325
25th Percentile £430 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £650 £693
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 44 67
10th Percentile £16.52 £14.75 £19.35
25th Percentile £35.22 £17.45 £44.50
Median hourly rate £80.28 £37.28 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +115.33% -39.38% +2.49%
75th Percentile £91.31 £59.44 £69.93
90th Percentile £104.35 £87.43 £86.08
South East median hourly rate £49.00 £21.82 £57.50
% change year-on-year +124.54% -62.05% +9.52%

Requirements Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Requirements Engineering job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Requirements Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Requirements Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Requirements Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 26 September 2026. 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
Reading - 5 £443 - 2
Requirements Engineering
South East

Requirements Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Aerospace
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Principal Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Principal Security Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Product Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Transformation Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) User Stories
2 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Digital Enablement
3 2 (40.00%) Digital Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) SBOM
3 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Verification and Validation
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team Management
3 2 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) NIST
2 2 (40.00%) NIST 800
3 1 (20.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Ceridian
1 1 (20.00%) NGA Human Resources