Requirements Management Contracts in the North West

Requirements Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Requirements Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Requirements Management over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 133 147
Rank change year-on-year +16 +14 +25
Contract jobs citing Requirements Management 6 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.30% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.21% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £438 - £448
25th Percentile £440 £656 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £663 £520
Median % change year-on-year -30.42% +27.40% +6.78%
75th Percentile £496 £669 £538
90th Percentile £506 - £560
England median daily rate £520 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -5.45% +1.85% +10.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £54.09 - £52.64
25th Percentile £56.95 £37.55 £53.08
Median hourly rate £64.27 £40.33 £55.82
Median % change year-on-year +59.38% -27.75% +40.90%
75th Percentile £70.29 £43.10 £59.12
90th Percentile £72.37 - £59.89
England median hourly rate £56.04 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.54% -11.54% +46.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Requirements Management 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 1,776 2,345 2,862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.15% 86.28% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,495 2,036
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £662 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 245 141
10th Percentile £16.03 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.72 £13.31 £22.41
Median hourly rate £32.50 £22.11 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.99% -38.58% +71.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.88 £49.52
90th Percentile £84.33 £57.50 £65.75
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.33 £36.77
% change year-on-year -19.99% -1.19% +51.01%

Requirements Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Requirements Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Management in the North West

Requirements Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Management in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Management in the North West

Requirements Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Management in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Management in the North West

Requirements Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Requirements Management in the North West over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Requirements Management in the North West

Requirements Management
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 Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Manchester +13 2 £475 -28.30% 1
Lancashire 0 2 - - 3
Cheshire - 1 £447 -
Cumbria - 1 - - 5
Requirements Management
England

Requirements Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (16.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) C++ Software Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Payments Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Payments Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Records Management Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) SysML
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) UML
2 2 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) ISEB
2 1 (16.67%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) MISRA
1 2 (33.33%) MISRA C
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft