Requirements Engineering Contracts in England

Requirements Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Requirements Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Requirements Engineering 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 471 498 630
Rank change year-on-year +27 +132 +82
Contract jobs citing Requirements Engineering 14 44 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.057% 0.12% 0.046%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.14% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 31 11
10th Percentile £481 - £475
25th Percentile £513 £405 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £570
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -21.05% +14.00%
75th Percentile £631 £488 £688
90th Percentile £650 £550 £763
UK median daily rate £575 £410 £570
% change year-on-year +40.24% -28.07% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - - £28.00
25th Percentile £70.00 £65.25 £36.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £65.50 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.50% +18.55% +40.62%
75th Percentile £80.00 £68.21 £75.50
90th Percentile - £70.66 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £65.50 £55.25
% change year-on-year +14.50% +18.55% +40.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 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 Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Engineering in England

Requirements Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Engineering in England

Requirements Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Engineering in England

Requirements Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Engineering in England

Requirements Engineering
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 Engineering 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 +34 4 £553 +16.32% 6
South East +46 3 - - 7
South West +45 3 £613 +32.43% 8
Midlands +20 2 £525 - 6
West Midlands +14 2 £525 - 1
North of England +9 1 £495 +20.73% 5
Yorkshire - 1 £495 - 2
Requirements Engineering
UK

Requirements Engineering
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 3 (21.43%) Apache
1 3 (21.43%) Apache Spark
1 3 (21.43%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Big Data
1 3 (21.43%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) German Language
2 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Analyst
1 5 (35.71%) Business Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Asset Management Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Asset Management Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Product Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Software Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Product Manager
4 1 (7.14%) UI Developer
4 1 (7.14%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (21.43%) YAML
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Business Case
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) ETL
3 3 (21.43%) Business Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
3 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
3 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (21.43%) Observability
3 3 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Thought Leadership
3 3 (21.43%) User Stories
3 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
3 3 (21.43%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (14.29%) Asset Management
4 2 (14.29%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) C#
1 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Ansible
2 3 (21.43%) Grafana
2 3 (21.43%) HAProxy
2 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
2 3 (21.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Remedy
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk