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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 115 144
Rank change year-on-year -1 +29 +36
Contract jobs citing Requirements Management 7 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.32% 0.42% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.50% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £458 - £434
25th Percentile £474 £656 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £663 £510
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% +29.90% +11.78%
75th Percentile - £669 £536
90th Percentile - - £556
England median daily rate £475 £525 £620
% change year-on-year -9.52% -15.32% +24.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £51.18 - -
25th Percentile £51.82 £37.55 -
Median hourly rate £63.02 £40.33 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +56.28% -27.01% -
75th Percentile £70.94 £49.20 -
90th Percentile £72.63 £60.18 -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.82% -15.38% +6.12%

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 1,935 2,016 2,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.07% 84.67% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 1,233 1,853
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £401 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% - +0.40%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £593
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 181 170
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.90 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% -4.41% +49.45%
75th Percentile £57.57 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.38 £70.90 £63.08
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +62.40%

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 3 August 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 3 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
Cheshire - 3 £500 - 4
Manchester +7 2 - - 7
Cumbria - 2 - - 9
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 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Gradle
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Payments Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Payments Solutions Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) JavaFX
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Architectural Design
1 3 (42.86%) Domain-Driven Design
1 3 (42.86%) Integration Patterns
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
1 3 (42.86%) TOGAF
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Validation
2 2 (28.57%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Business Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Business Transformation
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Dependency Management
3 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Software Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) RIBA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Atlassian