Requirements Analysis Contracts in England

Requirements Analysis
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 404 467
Rank change year-on-year +15 +63 +70
Contract jobs citing Requirements Analysis 96 138 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.37% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.43% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 105 145
10th Percentile £414 £397 £425
25th Percentile £441 £410 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% +0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £713 £682 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £508
% change year-on-year -4.76% +3.35% +1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 10
10th Percentile - £63.94 £41.90
25th Percentile - £72.66 £43.36
Median hourly rate £86.00 £82.50 £53.57
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +54.02% +34.84%
75th Percentile - £88.75 £60.00
90th Percentile - £89.13 £71.38
UK median hourly rate £86.00 £71.88 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.65% +10.58% +63.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Requirements Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Analysis in England

Requirements Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Analysis in England

Requirements Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Analysis in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Analysis in England

Requirements Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Analysis in England

Requirements Analysis
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +45 52 £550 -6.38% 33
North of England +25 16 £511 +24.70% 12
North West +24 15 £504 +22.96% 8
Midlands +27 11 £430 +3.49% 11
South East +14 11 £550 +4.76% 25
East Midlands +13 7 £430 +21.81%
West Midlands +16 4 £463 -2.63% 11
East of England +16 1 £500 +21.95% 20
North East - 1 £625 - 1
Requirements Analysis
UK

Requirements Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (5.21%) Confluence
2 4 (4.17%) Apache
2 4 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.04%) CMS
3 1 (1.04%) IIS
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.04%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (7.29%) MS Visio
2 5 (5.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.04%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (7.29%) SAP HR
1 7 (7.29%) SAP Payroll
2 4 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (1.04%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.42%) AWS
2 7 (7.29%) Azure
3 2 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (2.08%) GCP
3 2 (2.08%) SaaS
4 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.04%) Collibra
4 1 (1.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) HTTP
1 1 (1.04%) Internet
1 1 (1.04%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.21%) DB2
2 5 (5.21%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.17%) Big Data
3 4 (4.17%) Hadoop
3 4 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.08%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.08%) Metadata
6 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.04%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.04%) DataStage
6 1 (1.04%) DTS
6 1 (1.04%) GIS
6 1 (1.04%) MySQL
6 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.04%) Power BI
6 1 (1.04%) QualityStage
6 1 (1.04%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (9.38%) TestRail
2 7 (7.29%) JIRA
3 2 (2.08%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.08%) JMeter
4 1 (1.04%) Appium
4 1 (1.04%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.04%) ERwin
4 1 (1.04%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.04%) Mocha
4 1 (1.04%) Selenium
4 1 (1.04%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.04%) tSQLt
General
1 42 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 24 (25.00%) Finance
3 13 (13.54%) Front Office
4 10 (10.42%) Banking
5 9 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (7.29%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 6 (6.25%) Retail
8 3 (3.13%) Law
9 2 (2.08%) Advertising
9 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.08%) Marketing
9 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Automotive
10 1 (1.04%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (1.04%) Electronics
10 1 (1.04%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (46.88%) Analyst
2 33 (34.38%) Business Analyst
3 14 (14.58%) Architect
4 12 (12.50%) Developer
5 11 (11.46%) Test Analyst
6 10 (10.42%) Test Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) Senior
7 8 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
7 8 (8.33%) Technical Business Analyst
8 7 (7.29%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (7.29%) Senior Business Analyst
9 6 (6.25%) .NET Developer
9 6 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
9 6 (6.25%) C# Developer
9 6 (6.25%) Consultant
9 6 (6.25%) Retail Business Analyst
9 6 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
10 5 (5.21%) Project Manager
10 5 (5.21%) SAP Payroll Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.25%) .NET
1 6 (6.25%) .NET Framework
1 6 (6.25%) Reactive Extensions
2 5 (5.21%) Akka.NET
2 5 (5.21%) Web Services
3 4 (4.17%) AngularJS
3 4 (4.17%) React
3 4 (4.17%) RESTful
3 4 (4.17%) Spring
4 3 (3.13%) DCOM
5 1 (1.04%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.04%) HTML
5 1 (1.04%) HTML5
5 1 (1.04%) JMS
5 1 (1.04%) Middleware
5 1 (1.04%) PySpark
5 1 (1.04%) REST
5 1 (1.04%) WebdriverIO
5 1 (1.04%) WebSockets
5 1 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.25%) Fixed Income
1 6 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.21%) Life Science
3 4 (4.17%) CMDB
3 4 (4.17%) LIMS
3 4 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.08%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.04%) Acoustics
5 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.04%) Clustering
5 1 (1.04%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.04%) NHS
5 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.04%) PMI
5 1 (1.04%) Replication
5 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.25%) Linux
2 5 (5.21%) Unix
3 1 (1.04%) Android
3 1 (1.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (54.17%) Agile
2 22 (22.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (19.79%) Business Analysis
5 17 (17.71%) Project Management
6 16 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
7 15 (15.63%) Decision-Making
7 15 (15.63%) Validation
8 14 (14.58%) Scrum
9 11 (11.46%) Data Modelling
9 11 (11.46%) Test Automation
10 10 (10.42%) DevOps
10 10 (10.42%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 10 (10.42%) Test Management
10 10 (10.42%) User Acceptance Testing
11 9 (9.38%) Data Analysis
11 9 (9.38%) Data Management
11 9 (9.38%) Design Patterns
11 9 (9.38%) User Stories
12 8 (8.33%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.33%) C#
1 8 (8.33%) Java
2 7 (7.29%) Python
3 6 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.21%) F#
4 5 (5.21%) TypeScript
5 4 (4.17%) Perl
5 4 (4.17%) Scala
5 4 (4.17%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.13%) SQL
7 1 (1.04%) C
7 1 (1.04%) C++
7 1 (1.04%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.04%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (17.71%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.46%) Degree
3 10 (10.42%) DV Cleared
3 10 (10.42%) ISTQB
3 10 (10.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 7 (7.29%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.08%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.04%) CBAP
6 1 (1.04%) PhD
6 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.46%) QA
2 4 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.17%) GxP
2 4 (4.17%) HIPAA
3 3 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.04%) HL7
4 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.04%) NIST
4 1 (1.04%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (1.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (1.04%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.04%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (12.50%) SAP
2 11 (11.46%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.25%) Oracle
4 4 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.17%) Sybase
5 2 (2.08%) Databricks
5 2 (2.08%) Sparx
6 1 (1.04%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.04%) HP
6 1 (1.04%) IBM
6 1 (1.04%) Informatica
6 1 (1.04%) Pega
6 1 (1.04%) RedGate
6 1 (1.04%) VMware