Requirements Analysis Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Requirements Analysis
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Requirements Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 123 131
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 +38
Contract jobs citing Requirements Analysis 2 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.12% 0.18% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.21% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £480 -
25th Percentile £413 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -25.00% +34.62%
75th Percentile £438 £563 -
90th Percentile - £570 -
South East median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,544 1,866 2,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.88% 85.44% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 951 1,047 1,632
10th Percentile £256 £295 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £510 £524
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -2.72% +4.85%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 80 84
10th Percentile £14.60 £18.68 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.59 £29.44 £24.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.43 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year -56.96% +14.46% +158.48%
75th Percentile £42.67 £65.04 £66.11
90th Percentile £79.25 £76.47 £74.94
South East median hourly rate £22.19 £58.38 £53.50
% change year-on-year -61.99% +9.11% +83.79%

Requirements Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Requirements Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Requirements Analysis job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Requirements Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Requirements Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Requirements Analysis

Requirements Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Requirements Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Requirements Analysis

Requirements Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Berkshire +11 2 £425 -19.05% 2
Requirements Analysis
South East

Requirements Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) GIS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) B2B
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Business Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Epics
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Magik
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce