Requirements Management Contract Job Trends in Reading

Requirements Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Requirements Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 64 89
Rank change year-on-year +2 +25 -4
Contract jobs citing Requirements Management 31 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 2.73% 0.17% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 0.18% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 £406 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £412 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.36% -8.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £475 £417 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £556 £525
% change year-on-year -19.03% +5.86% -10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £88.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £103.10 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £88.00 - £66.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 948 552 987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 83.52% 92.46% 86.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 353 522
10th Percentile £352 £350 £332
25th Percentile £454 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £580
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -7.33% +5.45%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £733 £700 £713
Berkshire median daily rate £520 £504 £543
% change year-on-year +3.12% -7.05% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 17 36
10th Percentile £57.50 - £14.50
25th Percentile £80.75 £14.75 £52.55
Median hourly rate £85.00 £20.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +309.64% -66.31% -5.41%
75th Percentile £88.00 £38.42 £79.61
90th Percentile £107.00 £60.50 £87.48
Berkshire median hourly rate £84.00 £37.28 £61.33
% change year-on-year +125.32% -39.21% +7.81%

Requirements Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Requirements Management job vacancy trend in Reading

Requirements Management
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Requirements Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Requirements Management

Requirements Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Requirements Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Requirements Management

Requirements Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Requirements Management in Reading over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Requirements Management in Reading

Requirements Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) Azure
1 5 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 25 (80.65%) Rational DOORS
General
1 30 (96.77%) Aerospace
2 5 (16.13%) Finance
2 5 (16.13%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Legal
3 2 (6.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (77.42%) Delivery Manager
1 24 (77.42%) Product Delivery Manager
1 24 (77.42%) Product Manager
2 21 (67.74%) Systems Delivery Manager
2 21 (67.74%) Systems Manager
3 5 (16.13%) Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) Business Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Lead
4 4 (12.90%) Lead Business Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Engineering Manager
5 3 (9.68%) Requirements Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Business Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Senior
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (77.42%) Product Ownership
2 21 (67.74%) Data Structures
3 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
3 3 (9.68%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (96.77%) Agile
2 29 (93.55%) Programme Management
3 27 (87.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 25 (80.65%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 25 (80.65%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 24 (77.42%) Computer Science
5 24 (77.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (77.42%) PRINCE2
5 24 (77.42%) Systems Engineering
6 22 (70.97%) Configuration Management
6 22 (70.97%) DoDAF
6 22 (70.97%) SysML
6 22 (70.97%) UML
7 21 (67.74%) Change Control
8 6 (19.35%) Business Analysis
9 5 (16.13%) DevOps
9 5 (16.13%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 5 (16.13%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (9.68%) Requirements Engineering
Qualifications
1 30 (96.77%) Security Cleared
2 24 (77.42%) Degree
3 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 25 (80.65%) IBM
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) SAP