Requirements Engineering Contract Job Trends in the North West

Requirements Engineering
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Requirements Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 - 108
Rank change year-on-year - - +39
Contract jobs citing Requirements Engineering 3 0 11
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.080% - 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.096% - 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile £395 - £425
25th Percentile £439 - £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £525
75th Percentile £538 - £603
90th Percentile - - £628
England median daily rate £500 £475 £520
% change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% -16.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,116 1,913 2,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.96% 87.95% 84.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,817 1,228 1,233
10th Percentile £277 £279 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.55% -9.35% -
75th Percentile £596 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £668 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 126 180
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.90 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year +79.20% -14.80% -0.76%
75th Percentile £73.94 £57.57 £51.91
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.38 £70.90
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

Requirements Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Requirements Engineering job vacancy trend in the North West

Requirements Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Requirements Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Requirements Engineering

Requirements Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Engineering in the North West

Requirements Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Requirements Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Requirements Engineering

Requirements Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 5 August 2026. 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
Cheshire - 3 £525 - 2
Requirements Engineering
England

Requirements Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (33.33%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Automotive
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Banking Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Banking Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Finance Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Business Case
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) QA