Requirements Engineering Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Requirements Engineering
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Requirements Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Requirements Engineering 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 1.72% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £500 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -20.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 148 80 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 85.06% 74.77% 65.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 47 91
10th Percentile £182 £330 £280
25th Percentile £305 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -6.98% +4.88%
75th Percentile £543 £581 £650
90th Percentile £663 £610 £713
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +6.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 5
10th Percentile £12.21 - £20.45
25th Percentile £12.29 - £31.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £34.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +85.13%
75th Percentile £45.06 - £75.00
90th Percentile £84.00 - £76.50
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -40.83% -36.36% +30.49%

Requirements Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Requirements Engineering job vacancy trend in Southampton

Requirements Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

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

Requirements Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Requirements Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Requirements Engineering

Requirements Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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 (66.67%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (66.67%) Eloqua
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 3 (100.00%) OLAP
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle OLAP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Business Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 3 (100.00%) Data Management
1 3 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Information Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 3 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 3 (100.00%) Quality Management
1 3 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 3 (100.00%) Use Case
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
1 3 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Salesforce
1 2 (66.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud