Requirements Analysis Contracts in the Midlands

Requirements Analysis
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 125 143
Rank change year-on-year -15 +18 +57
Contract jobs citing Requirements Analysis 5 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.20% 0.30% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.37% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 8
10th Percentile £153 £373 £459
25th Percentile £213 £398 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% -12.20% +13.89%
75th Percentile £405 £509 £675
90th Percentile £446 £549 £679
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,206 2,164 2,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.75% 81.45% 85.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 1,480 1,812
10th Percentile £231 £270 £250
25th Percentile £358 £373 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £648 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 92 85
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.12 £14.70 £18.25
Median hourly rate £21.39 £20.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.34% -25.45% +44.74%
75th Percentile £26.86 £37.50 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £54.57 £68.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

Requirements Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Analysis in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Analysis in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Analysis in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Analysis in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Analysis in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
East Midlands -4 3 £290 -25.74%
West Midlands -12 2 £325 -36.59% 7
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England

Requirements Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Advertising
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Banking Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Banking Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) ETRM Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Mortgage Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Product Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (40.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (20.00%) IT Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) System Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) Use Case
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) EMIR
1 1 (20.00%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Trayport