Requirements Analysis Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Requirements Analysis
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Requirements Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 - 103
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing Requirements Analysis 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.42% - 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% - 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £444 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £701 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £603 £469 £650
% change year-on-year +28.46% -27.85% +18.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,066 960 1,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.96% 90.40% 88.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 725 572 979
10th Percentile £304 £294 £302
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £645 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 35 47
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.94 £15.06
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.25 £17.42
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% +8.33% -24.05%
75th Percentile £57.50 £33.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.00 £75.25
North West median hourly rate £41.00 £30.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year +36.67% -20.53% +38.53%

Requirements Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Requirements Analysis job vacancy trend in Manchester

Requirements Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Requirements Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Analysis in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Analysis in Manchester

Requirements Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Requirements Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Systems Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) API Design
1 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (20.00%) Business Process Mapping
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (20.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) Microservices
1 1 (20.00%) Migration
1 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (20.00%) Project Management
1 1 (20.00%) SDLC
1 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle