Requirements Engineering Contract Job Trends in London

Requirements Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Requirements Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 383 417
Rank change year-on-year +11 +34 +133
Contract jobs citing Requirements Engineering 2 10 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% 0.063% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.070% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - £425 £549
25th Percentile £675 £491 £621
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £588 £745
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% -21.14% +30.99%
75th Percentile £725 £631 £818
90th Percentile - £656 £860
England median daily rate £500 £580 £525
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -8.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £30.00
England median hourly rate - - £66.33

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,062 14,204 17,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.11% 89.64% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,608 9,158 12,720
10th Percentile £335 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £771 £800 £800
England median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 171 238
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.55
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.44
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +5.81% -9.13%
75th Percentile £47.50 £55.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £80.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.02 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.17% -21.31% +19.85%

Requirements Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Requirements Engineering job vacancy trend in London

Requirements Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Requirements Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Requirements Engineering

Requirements Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Requirements Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Requirements Engineering

Requirements Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Business Process Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft