Requirements Engineering Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Requirements Engineering
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Requirements Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Requirements Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.097% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £600 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 - -
75th Percentile £601 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £601 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Requirements Engineering 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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 882 526 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 85.38% 94.60% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 350 201
10th Percentile £366 £300 £381
25th Percentile £431 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £466 £515
Median % change year-on-year +8.92% -9.61% -14.17%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £514
% change year-on-year +8.11% -10.02% -14.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - £15.00 £20.20
25th Percentile - £17.33 £20.50
Median hourly rate £13.69 £18.36 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.43% -12.58% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £18.87 £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.60 £18.36 £12.83
% change year-on-year +12.22% +43.08% -35.85%

Requirements Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Requirements Engineering job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Requirements Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Requirements Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Requirements Engineering

Requirements Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Epics
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust