Requirements Analysis Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Requirements Analysis
England > East Midlands

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 47 62
Rank change year-on-year -29 +15 +20
Contract jobs citing Requirements Analysis 7 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.63% 1.30% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.51% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £364 £261 £328
25th Percentile £366 £409 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £430 £353
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +21.81% -38.61%
75th Percentile £377 £450 £370
90th Percentile £377 £461 £373
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 880 465 607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.28% 86.11% 78.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 307 409
10th Percentile £200 £201 £200
25th Percentile £382 £324 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £443 £410
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.93% -8.89%
75th Percentile £542 £525 £550
90th Percentile £614 £593 £625
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 31 56
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.33
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.17 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.75 £18.87 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.64% +11.00% -7.43%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.91 £26.15
90th Percentile £30.93 £33.75 £38.75
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -0.96%

Requirements Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Requirements Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Requirements Analysis job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Requirements Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Requirements Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Requirements Analysis

Requirements Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Requirements Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Requirements Analysis

Requirements Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Northamptonshire -22 2 £373 -17.17%
Nottinghamshire -23 1 - - 1
Derbyshire - 1 - - 1
Requirements Analysis
England

Requirements Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
1 4 (57.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (57.14%) Influencing Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Marketing
1 4 (57.14%) Presentation Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Retail
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Business Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Salesforce Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Salesforce Business Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Salesforce Trainer
1 4 (57.14%) Trainer
2 2 (28.57%) Test Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) e-Learning
1 4 (57.14%) Learning Management System
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Acceptance Criteria
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Business Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) Business Process Mapping
2 4 (57.14%) Coaching
2 4 (57.14%) Commercial Awareness
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (57.14%) E-Commerce
2 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
2 4 (57.14%) Requirements Workshops
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) Software Delivery
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (57.14%) Time Management
2 4 (57.14%) User Stories
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) CSPO
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Google
1 4 (57.14%) Salesforce