Requirements Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Requirements Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Requirements Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Requirements Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 128 136
Rank change year-on-year +40 +8 +21
Contract jobs citing Requirements Management 14 17 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.93% 0.63% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.73% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 14
10th Percentile £339 £429 £324
25th Percentile £358 £453 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £513 £463
Median % change year-on-year +15.12% +10.81% +10.45%
75th Percentile £630 £578 £622
90th Percentile - £606 £668
South East median daily rate £590 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +12.38% +5.00% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Requirements Management 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 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Requirements Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Requirements Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Management in the Thames Valley

Requirements Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Management in the Thames Valley

Requirements Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Management in the Thames Valley

Requirements Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Management in the Thames Valley

Requirements Management
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 Management within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Buckinghamshire - 12 £590 - 9
Berkshire +16 2 £623 +21.46% 6
Oxfordshire - 2 £355 - 1
Requirements Management
South East

Requirements Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) IaaS
2 5 (35.71%) PaaS
2 5 (35.71%) SaaS
3 4 (28.57%) GCP
3 4 (28.57%) Snowflake
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) VSAN
2 3 (21.43%) BGP
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (21.43%) DNS
2 3 (21.43%) Firewall
2 3 (21.43%) MPLS
2 3 (21.43%) NGFW
2 3 (21.43%) OSPF
2 3 (21.43%) SD-WAN
2 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
2 3 (21.43%) VLAN
2 3 (21.43%) VPN
2 3 (21.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Architect
2 7 (50.00%) Senior
2 7 (50.00%) Technical Architect
3 6 (42.86%) Senior Architect
3 6 (42.86%) Senior Technical Architect
4 3 (21.43%) Snowflake Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Senior VMware Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (14.29%) VMware Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Network Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Security Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Security Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (50.00%) PKI
2 4 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (21.43%) Public Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
1 11 (78.57%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (57.14%) DevSecOps
2 8 (57.14%) TOGAF
3 7 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 7 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (50.00%) IT Strategy
3 7 (50.00%) ITIL
3 7 (50.00%) Microservices
3 7 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
3 7 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
4 6 (42.86%) Matrix Organization
4 6 (42.86%) Migration
5 5 (35.71%) Use Case
5 5 (35.71%) Virtual Environments
6 4 (28.57%) Data Management
6 4 (28.57%) Data Migration
6 4 (28.57%) Data Security
6 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Bash
1 4 (28.57%) Python
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 7 (50.00%) MCSE
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 5 (35.71%) DV Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) HNC
4 1 (7.14%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (50.00%) NCSC
1 7 (50.00%) NIST
2 4 (28.57%) GDPR
2 4 (28.57%) HIPAA
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (57.14%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Cisco
1 8 (57.14%) Palo Alto
1 8 (57.14%) VMware
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft