Requirements Analysis Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Requirements Analysis
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Requirements Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 49 68
Rank change year-on-year -9 +19 +22
Contract jobs citing Requirements Analysis 6 17 11
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.00% 2.79% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 2.99% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 6
10th Percentile £482 £425 £418
25th Percentile £500 £445 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £480 £465
Median % change year-on-year +13.27% +3.12% +3.33%
75th Percentile £555 £491 £500
90th Percentile £597 £519 £507
Scotland median daily rate £543 £470 £463
% change year-on-year +15.56% +1.62% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.25
Median hourly rate - - £60.50
75th Percentile - - £60.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate - - £60.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 542 568 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 90.48% 93.11% 90.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 302 487
10th Percentile £216 £205 £219
25th Percentile £408 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £550
90th Percentile £663 £630 £638
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +3.33% -9.55% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 28 17
10th Percentile £17.29 £20.30 £12.71
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.93 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.25 £23.80 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year -14.90% +4.04% +7.57%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £30.15 £61.05
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +15.15%

Requirements Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Requirements Analysis job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Requirements Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Requirements Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Requirements Analysis

Requirements Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Analysis in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Analysis in Edinburgh

Requirements Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Requirements Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Requirements Analysis

Requirements Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Collibra
3 1 (16.67%) Dagster
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) Data Vault
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modeller
2 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Payments Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) boto
1 3 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 3 (50.00%) NumPy
1 3 (50.00%) OpenCV
1 3 (50.00%) Pandas
1 3 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (50.00%) SQLAlchemy
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CDK
2 2 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
3 1 (16.67%) JWT
3 1 (16.67%) OAuth
3 1 (16.67%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) AI
1 4 (66.67%) Code Coverage
1 4 (66.67%) Code Quality
1 4 (66.67%) Community of Practice
1 4 (66.67%) User Experience
2 3 (50.00%) Async-Await
2 3 (50.00%) Coaching
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Vision
2 3 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 3 (50.00%) Deep Learning
2 3 (50.00%) ETL
2 3 (50.00%) LLM
2 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) OCR
2 3 (50.00%) OO
2 3 (50.00%) OOP
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
1 1 (16.67%) WorldPay