Requirements Analysis Contracts in Scotland

Requirements Analysis
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 109 118
Rank change year-on-year +9 +9 +33
Contract jobs citing Requirements Analysis 16 20 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.98% 0.90% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.02% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 37
10th Percentile £406 £445 £409
25th Percentile £424 £456 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £464
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -0.32% +7.41%
75th Percentile £494 £506 £501
90th Percentile £519 - £508
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £508
% change year-on-year -4.76% +3.35% +1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £60.50 -
UK median hourly rate £86.00 £71.88 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.65% +10.58% +63.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Requirements Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Analysis in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Analysis in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Analysis in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Analysis in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Analysis in Scotland

Requirements Analysis
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Edinburgh +10 15 £467 -7.71%
Glasgow +1 1 £323 -36.17% 5
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Requirements Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (6.25%) GeoServer
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
1 4 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (25.00%) Serverless
2 2 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.25%) Data Mining
3 1 (6.25%) GIS
3 1 (6.25%) Power BI
3 1 (6.25%) Star Schema
3 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
2 1 (6.25%) ER Studio
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (56.25%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Front Office
4 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
4 1 (6.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Analyst
2 7 (43.75%) Business Analyst
3 5 (31.25%) Senior
4 4 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (25.00%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) CRM Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Data Modeller
6 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Digital Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Implementation Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Modeller
6 1 (6.25%) Tableau Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Tableau Specialist
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (18.75%) PostGIS
3 2 (12.50%) React
3 2 (12.50%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) Middleware
4 1 (6.25%) Next.js
4 1 (6.25%) Node.js
4 1 (6.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) User Experience
3 6 (37.50%) Business Analysis
3 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (37.50%) User Research
4 5 (31.25%) Community of Practice
4 5 (31.25%) DevOps
4 5 (31.25%) GAP Analysis
4 5 (31.25%) Minimum Viable Product
4 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 5 (31.25%) Target Operating Model
4 5 (31.25%) User Stories
5 4 (25.00%) Code Coverage
5 4 (25.00%) Code Quality
5 4 (25.00%) Human-Centred Design
5 4 (25.00%) Inclusive Design
6 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 3 (18.75%) Lean UX
6 3 (18.75%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
3 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Databricks
1 1 (6.25%) IDERA
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle