Requirements Analysis Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Requirements Analysis
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Requirements Analysis skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 97 116
Rank change year-on-year -10 +19 +19
Contract jobs citing Requirements Analysis 6 16 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.38% 0.85% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.99% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 27
10th Percentile £485 £429 £379
25th Percentile £496 £454 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.66% +6.67% -3.02%
75th Percentile £555 £494 £503
90th Percentile £590 - £525
UK median daily rate £497 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -5.33% -0.94% +1.92%

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 1,450 1,619 2,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.31% 86.39% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 983 1,465
10th Percentile £261 £207 £250
25th Percentile £394 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £602 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 48 59
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.28 £13.71
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.94 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +0.31% +3.95% -10.79%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £58.89
90th Percentile £36.00 £45.23 £74.60
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.06%

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

Requirements Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Requirements Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Requirements Analysis

Requirements Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Analysis in Scotland over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Analysis in Scotland

Requirements Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Requirements Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Requirements Analysis

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 21 September 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 +4 5 £543 +11.87%
Glasgow -20 1 £500 +5.93% 3
Requirements Analysis
UK

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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) Collibra
3 1 (16.67%) Dagster
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) Data Vault
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modeller
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) boto
1 3 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 3 (50.00%) NumPy
1 3 (50.00%) OpenCV
1 3 (50.00%) Pandas
1 3 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (50.00%) SQLAlchemy
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CDK
3 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
3 1 (16.67%) JWT
3 1 (16.67%) Next.js
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) OAuth
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Code Coverage
2 4 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 4 (66.67%) Community of Practice
2 4 (66.67%) User Experience
3 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Async-Await
3 3 (50.00%) Coaching
3 3 (50.00%) Computer Vision
3 3 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
3 3 (50.00%) Deep Learning
3 3 (50.00%) ETL
3 3 (50.00%) LLM
3 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) OCR
3 3 (50.00%) OO
3 3 (50.00%) OOP
4 2 (33.33%) Kanban
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks