Requirements Engineering Contract Job Trends in the South East

Requirements Engineering
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Requirements Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 182 216
Rank change year-on-year +17 +34 +40
Contract jobs citing Requirements Engineering 14 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.36% 0.049% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.058% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £391
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.19%
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile £573 - -
England median daily rate £500 £580 £663
% change year-on-year -13.79% -12.45% +19.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £30.00
England median hourly rate - - £70.66

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,442 3,473 4,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 87.92% 84.94% 89.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,182 2,124 3,140
10th Percentile £219 £258 £217
25th Percentile £388 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.46%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £615
90th Percentile £653 £688 £695
England median daily rate £508 £525 £547
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.02% -0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 377 167 247
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.72 £16.34
25th Percentile £16.17 £28.88 £25.00
Median hourly rate £20.71 £57.54 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.01% +9.60% +20.69%
75th Percentile £34.83 £70.00 £66.34
90th Percentile £69.11 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +27.14%

Requirements Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Requirements Engineering job vacancy trend in the South East

Requirements Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Requirements Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Requirements Engineering

Requirements Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Engineering in the South East

Requirements Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Requirements Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Requirements Engineering

Requirements Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Engineering within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 November 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
Hampshire +8 11 £500 - 1
Surrey - 2 £480 -
West Sussex - 1 £550 -
Requirements Engineering
England

Requirements Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (7.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (42.86%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) git-flow
General
1 8 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Aviation
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Electronics
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Military
3 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Requirements Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Requirements Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business Requirements Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) DOORS Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) IT Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Product Owner
4 1 (7.14%) Requirements Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Requirements Management
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
3 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (42.86%) Validation
5 5 (35.71%) Systems Engineering
6 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (21.43%) Conflict Resolution
7 3 (21.43%) ITIL
7 3 (21.43%) Line Management
7 3 (21.43%) Mathematics
7 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
7 3 (21.43%) Requirements Analysis
8 2 (14.29%) Business Analysis
8 2 (14.29%) Business Process Mapping
8 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 2 (14.29%) Verification and Validation
9 1 (7.14%) Information Assurance
9 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 1 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
2 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) IIBA
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Def Stans
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) IBM
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Remedy
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce