Requirements Analysis Contracts in Cheshire

Requirements Analysis
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Requirements Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Requirements Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing Requirements Analysis 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.30% - 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% - 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £326 - -
25th Percentile £380 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.54%
75th Percentile £511 - £438
90th Percentile £582 - -
North West median daily rate £504 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.97% +5.00% -20.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £86.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £86.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Requirements Analysis 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 565 417 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 92.02% 85.45% 87.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 280 226
10th Percentile £307 £311 £281
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £586
90th Percentile £647 £643 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 33
10th Percentile - £11.18 £17.16
25th Percentile £12.82 £16.06 £22.53
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +14.60% +40.22%
75th Percentile £50.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £39.15
North West median hourly rate £27.38 £34.61 £30.65
% change year-on-year -20.89% +12.91% +40.71%

Requirements Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Analysis in Cheshire

Requirements Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Analysis in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Analysis in Cheshire

Requirements Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Analysis in Cheshire over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Analysis in Cheshire

Requirements Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Analysis in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Analysis in Cheshire

Requirements Analysis
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Analysis within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 16 August 2025. 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
Knutsford - 6 £477 - 1
Chester - 1 - -
Requirements Analysis
North West

Requirements Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (12.50%) JBoss
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (50.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP HR
1 1 (12.50%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Gradle
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) JUnit
1 1 (12.50%) Maven
1 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Business Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
1 3 (37.50%) Senior Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Senior Business Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Payroll Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Payroll Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) SOAP
1 1 (12.50%) Spring
1 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) CMDB
1 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) Test Strategy
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Business Analysis
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (50.00%) Focus Group
3 4 (50.00%) ITSM
3 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 4 (50.00%) Service Catalogue
3 4 (50.00%) Service Management
3 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Identification
3 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) OOP
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) SAP