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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Requirements Engineering 3 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.38% - 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% - 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £395 - -
25th Percentile £439 - £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £523
75th Percentile £538 - £560
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £525 - £525

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 677 556 412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 85.37% 91.90% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 422 278
10th Percentile £314 £313 £311
25th Percentile £410 £358 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £447 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.28% -5.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £582 £522 £573
90th Percentile £650 £644 £638
North West median daily rate £492 £453 £500
% change year-on-year +8.55% -9.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 21 16
10th Percentile £14.59 - £13.50
25th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £30.31
Median hourly rate £33.61 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% -8.57% +14.60%
75th Percentile £85.00 £50.00 £43.75
90th Percentile - £70.00 £47.50
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £27.90 £32.75
% change year-on-year +79.20% -14.80% -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
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Engineering in Cheshire over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Engineering in Cheshire

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 5 August 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
Crewe - 2 £525 - 1
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 (33.33%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Automotive
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Banking Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Banking Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Finance Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Business Case
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) QA