Requirements Engineering Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Requirements Engineering
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Requirements Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Requirements Engineering 1 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.13% - 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £366 - £410
75th Percentile - - £550
90th Percentile - - £560
North West median daily rate £366 - £450

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 649 501 466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 87.11% 95.07% 83.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 372 312
10th Percentile £313 £313 £310
25th Percentile £400 £358 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £447 £476
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% -6.14% -9.29%
75th Percentile £586 £538 £580
90th Percentile £652 £669 £638
North West median daily rate £475 £460 £495
% change year-on-year +3.26% -7.07% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 24 32
10th Percentile £13.47 £12.82 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.32 £17.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £73.25 £38.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +90.26% +5.48% +24.74%
75th Percentile £85.00 £73.81 £43.75
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £32.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +56.25% +4.92% +0.76%

Requirements Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Requirements Engineering job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Requirements Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Requirements Engineering
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 Engineering within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 21 June 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
Knutsford - 1 £366 -
Requirements Engineering
North West

Requirements Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Banking Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Banking Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Finance Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Conceptual Models
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality