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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 390 399 466
Rank change year-on-year +9 +67 +74
Contract jobs citing Requirements Analysis 90 139 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.38% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.44% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 105 134
10th Percentile £409 £400 £450
25th Percentile £436 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £684
90th Percentile £728 £675 £736
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 11
10th Percentile - £63.94 £42.67
25th Percentile - £65.63 £47.47
Median hourly rate £86.00 £76.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.79% +27.08% +233.33%
75th Percentile - £88.75 £76.88
90th Percentile - £89.13 £83.75
UK median hourly rate £86.00 £68.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +25.09% +5.77% +261.11%

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 21,762 31,336 43,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 86.24% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,222 20,550 30,257
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £412 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 920 2,253 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.95 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%

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 23 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 23 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 +56 50 £550 - 60
North of England +23 17 £511 +24.70% 61
North West +16 16 £511 +24.70% 26
Midlands +21 10 £410 +4.99% 65
East Midlands +12 7 £430 +20.79% 25
South East +17 6 £538 +2.38% 90
West Midlands +15 3 £375 -21.05% 37
East of England +18 2 £406 -0.91% 66
North East - 1 £625 - 10
Requirements Analysis
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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 4 (4.44%) Apache
1 4 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.11%) CMS
2 1 (1.11%) Confluence
2 1 (1.11%) IIS
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.11%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (8.89%) MS Visio
2 6 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.11%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (7.78%) SAP HR
1 7 (7.78%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (2.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.11%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.89%) AWS
2 5 (5.56%) Azure
3 2 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.11%) Collibra
4 1 (1.11%) GCP
4 1 (1.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) HTTP
1 1 (1.11%) Internet
1 1 (1.11%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.56%) DB2
2 5 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.44%) Big Data
3 4 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.44%) Hadoop
3 4 (4.44%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.22%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.22%) Metadata
5 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.11%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.11%) DTS
5 1 (1.11%) MySQL
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.11%) Power BI
5 1 (1.11%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.11%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.11%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (6.67%) TestRail
2 2 (2.22%) JIRA
3 1 (1.11%) Appium
3 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.11%) ERwin
3 1 (1.11%) JMeter
3 1 (1.11%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.11%) Selenium
3 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.11%) tSQLt
General
1 42 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.56%) Finance
3 13 (14.44%) Front Office
4 10 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.11%) Banking
5 9 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (7.78%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 6 (6.67%) Retail
8 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Law
8 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.22%) Marketing
8 2 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.11%) Advertising
9 1 (1.11%) Automotive
9 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.11%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 41 (45.56%) Analyst
2 31 (34.44%) Business Analyst
3 14 (15.56%) Architect
4 12 (13.33%) Developer
5 9 (10.00%) Senior
5 9 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (10.00%) Test Analyst
6 7 (7.78%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (7.78%) Senior Business Analyst
6 7 (7.78%) Technical Analyst
6 7 (7.78%) Technical Business Analyst
6 7 (7.78%) Test Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) .NET Developer
7 6 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
7 6 (6.67%) C# Developer
7 6 (6.67%) Consultant
7 6 (6.67%) Retail Business Analyst
7 6 (6.67%) SAP Consultant
8 5 (5.56%) Project Manager
8 5 (5.56%) SAP Payroll Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.67%) .NET
1 6 (6.67%) .NET Framework
1 6 (6.67%) Reactive Extensions
2 5 (5.56%) Akka.NET
2 5 (5.56%) RESTful
2 5 (5.56%) Web Services
3 4 (4.44%) AngularJS
3 4 (4.44%) React
3 4 (4.44%) Spring
4 2 (2.22%) DCOM
5 1 (1.11%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.11%) HTML
5 1 (1.11%) HTML5
5 1 (1.11%) JMS
5 1 (1.11%) Middleware
5 1 (1.11%) PySpark
5 1 (1.11%) REST
5 1 (1.11%) SAP PI
5 1 (1.11%) WebSockets
5 1 (1.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.67%) Fixed Income
2 5 (5.56%) CMDB
2 5 (5.56%) Life Science
2 5 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.44%) LIMS
4 2 (2.22%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.22%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.11%) Acoustics
5 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.11%) Clustering
5 1 (1.11%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.11%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.11%) NHS
5 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.11%) PMI
5 1 (1.11%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.11%) Replication
5 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.67%) Linux
2 5 (5.56%) Unix
3 1 (1.11%) Android
3 1 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (50.00%) Agile
2 23 (25.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (23.33%) Business Analysis
5 18 (20.00%) Project Management
6 16 (17.78%) Decision-Making
6 16 (17.78%) Validation
7 15 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
8 14 (15.56%) Scrum
9 12 (13.33%) Data Modelling
10 11 (12.22%) Data Analysis
10 11 (12.22%) User Acceptance Testing
11 9 (10.00%) Data Management
11 9 (10.00%) Test Automation
12 8 (8.89%) Actionable Insight
12 8 (8.89%) Computer Science
12 8 (8.89%) Design Patterns
12 8 (8.89%) DevOps
12 8 (8.89%) SOA
13 7 (7.78%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.89%) Java
2 7 (7.78%) C#
2 7 (7.78%) Python
3 5 (5.56%) F#
3 5 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.44%) Perl
4 4 (4.44%) Scala
4 4 (4.44%) Shell Script
4 4 (4.44%) SQL
4 4 (4.44%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.11%) C
5 1 (1.11%) C++
5 1 (1.11%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.11%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (14.44%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.33%) Degree
3 7 (7.78%) DV Cleared
3 7 (7.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 6 (6.67%) ISTQB
4 6 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.33%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.11%) CBAP
6 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.11%) ISEB
6 1 (1.11%) PhD
6 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.11%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.78%) QA
2 5 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.44%) GxP
3 4 (4.44%) HIPAA
4 3 (3.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.11%) HL7
5 1 (1.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (1.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (14.44%) SAP
2 12 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.78%) Oracle
4 5 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.44%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.44%) Sybase
6 2 (2.22%) Databricks
6 2 (2.22%) Sparx
7 1 (1.11%) Hitachi
7 1 (1.11%) HP
7 1 (1.11%) IBM
7 1 (1.11%) Informatica
7 1 (1.11%) Pega
7 1 (1.11%) RedGate
7 1 (1.11%) VMware