Requirements Analysis Contracts in the UK excluding London

Requirements Analysis
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Requirements Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Requirements Analysis over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 286 312 377
Rank change year-on-year +26 +65 -46
Contract jobs citing Requirements Analysis 107 141 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.59% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.66% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 106 88
10th Percentile £405 £411 £371
25th Percentile £413 £457 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £523
90th Percentile £625 £650 £631
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +3.35% +1.60% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 6
10th Percentile £60.23 £42.79 £26.63
25th Percentile £60.25 £52.22 £41.67
Median hourly rate £67.75 £60.00 £60.93
Median % change year-on-year +12.92% -1.52% +28.26%
75th Percentile £88.75 £80.31 £66.80
90th Percentile £88.88 £84.38 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £65.00 £37.90
% change year-on-year +5.77% +71.53% -20.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Requirements Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,416 21,395 27,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.70% 89.57% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,844 19,217
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,048 1,307 1,356
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Requirements Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Requirements Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Analysis in the UK excluding London

Requirements Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Analysis in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Analysis in the UK excluding London

Requirements Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Analysis in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Analysis in the UK excluding London

Requirements Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Analysis in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Analysis in the UK excluding London

Requirements Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Requirements Analysis in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Requirements Analysis in the UK excluding London

Requirements Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
South East +35 42 £525 +2.44% 22
Scotland +16 20 £463 -0.32% 4
South West +27 15 £600 +1.27% 28
East of England +14 15 £410 -22.64% 3
North of England +20 10 £410 -18.00% 8
North West +27 8 £410 -13.68% 5
Midlands +27 6 £416 -28.97% 6
East Midlands +20 4 £353 -38.61% 3
West Midlands +21 2 £475 -10.38% 3
Yorkshire +8 2 £1,000 +86.05% 3
Wales +8 1 - - 1
Requirements Analysis
UK

Requirements Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (6.54%) Confluence
2 1 (0.93%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) SAP EWM
1 2 (1.87%) SAP QM
1 2 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.93%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.93%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.93%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.93%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.93%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.95%) AWS
2 10 (9.35%) Amazon S3
2 10 (9.35%) AWS CloudFormation
2 10 (9.35%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (9.35%) OpenShift
2 10 (9.35%) Serverless
3 8 (7.48%) Azure
4 5 (4.67%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (3.74%) Rekognition
5 4 (3.74%) Textract
6 3 (2.80%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.87%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.93%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.74%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.80%) DHCP
2 3 (2.80%) DNS
2 3 (2.80%) iSCSI
2 3 (2.80%) Link 16
2 3 (2.80%) SAN
2 3 (2.80%) Tactical Data Link
2 3 (2.80%) VLAN
3 1 (0.93%) Network Security
3 1 (0.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.28%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (9.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.80%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.80%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.80%) Power BI
5 2 (1.87%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.87%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.87%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.87%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.93%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 15 (14.02%) Rational DOORS
2 13 (12.15%) TestRail
3 8 (7.48%) JIRA
4 6 (5.61%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.74%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.74%) CppUnit
5 4 (3.74%) PVCS
6 3 (2.80%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.87%) ER Studio
7 2 (1.87%) Git
7 2 (1.87%) GitLab
8 1 (0.93%) Rational Team Concert
8 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.93%) tSQLt
General
1 21 (19.63%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.89%) Manufacturing
3 15 (14.02%) Finance
4 13 (12.15%) Public Sector
5 12 (11.21%) Pharmaceutical
6 9 (8.41%) Marketing
6 9 (8.41%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (5.61%) Aerospace
7 6 (5.61%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.87%) Front Office
9 2 (1.87%) Legal
10 1 (0.93%) Electronics
10 1 (0.93%) Military
10 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (39.25%) Analyst
2 23 (21.50%) Business Analyst
3 18 (16.82%) Developer
4 16 (14.95%) Senior
5 13 (12.15%) Test Analyst
6 12 (11.21%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
7 11 (10.28%) Integration Engineer
7 11 (10.28%) Systems Engineer
8 10 (9.35%) Senior Integration Engineer
9 8 (7.48%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 7 (6.54%) Architect
11 6 (5.61%) DOORS Engineer
11 6 (5.61%) Software Integration Engineer
11 6 (5.61%) Systems Integration Engineer
11 6 (5.61%) Test Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) Full Stack Developer
12 5 (4.67%) Product Analyst
13 4 (3.74%) Hardware Engineer
13 4 (3.74%) Senior Test Engineer
13 4 (3.74%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.28%) AWS CDK
2 7 (6.54%) REST
3 6 (5.61%) CSS
3 6 (5.61%) HTML
3 6 (5.61%) React
4 5 (4.67%) Spring
4 5 (4.67%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.74%) OAuth
5 4 (3.74%) OAuth2
5 4 (3.74%) Spring Security
6 3 (2.80%) Spring MVC
6 3 (2.80%) Spring Web Flow
6 3 (2.80%) Thymeleaf
7 2 (1.87%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (1.87%) Node.js
7 2 (1.87%) PySpark
7 2 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.93%) CSS3
8 1 (0.93%) HTML5
8 1 (0.93%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.48%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (5.61%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.80%) Wiki
4 2 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.87%) NHS
4 2 (1.87%) PKI
5 1 (0.93%) Clustering
5 1 (0.93%) CMDB
5 1 (0.93%) GNSS
5 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.93%) Replication
5 1 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.21%) Windows
2 10 (9.35%) Unix
3 9 (8.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (39.25%) Agile
2 29 (27.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (18.69%) Business Analysis
3 20 (18.69%) Test Automation
4 18 (16.82%) Data Protection
5 17 (15.89%) Roadmaps
6 16 (14.95%) Code Coverage
7 15 (14.02%) Requirements Gathering
7 15 (14.02%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 14 (13.08%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (13.08%) Process Improvement
8 14 (13.08%) Test Management
8 14 (13.08%) Validation
9 13 (12.15%) Business Process Modelling
9 13 (12.15%) Requirements Management
9 13 (12.15%) Verification and Validation
10 12 (11.21%) Code Quality
10 12 (11.21%) Collaborative Working
10 12 (11.21%) Customer Requirements
10 12 (11.21%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.82%) Python
2 14 (13.08%) Java
3 12 (11.21%) SQL
4 11 (10.28%) C
5 9 (8.41%) TypeScript
6 8 (7.48%) JavaScript
7 7 (6.54%) C++
8 5 (4.67%) Bash
8 5 (4.67%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.87%) ProC
9 2 (1.87%) R
9 2 (1.87%) Scala
10 1 (0.93%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.93%) C#
10 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (34.58%) Security Cleared
2 30 (28.04%) Degree
3 22 (20.56%) DV Cleared
4 16 (14.95%) SC Cleared
5 13 (12.15%) IIBA
5 13 (12.15%) ISTQB
5 13 (12.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 12 (11.21%) Master's Degree
7 8 (7.48%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.87%) IBM Certification
9 2 (1.87%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.93%) APMP
10 1 (0.93%) CBAP
10 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.93%) ISEB
10 1 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.15%) Accessibility
2 12 (11.21%) GDPR
2 12 (11.21%) Good Clinical Practice
2 12 (11.21%) GxP
3 8 (7.48%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.80%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.87%) QA
6 1 (0.93%) HL7
6 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (9.35%) Docker
2 7 (6.54%) vSphere
3 4 (3.74%) Firmware
3 4 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.74%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (3.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (10.28%) Grafana
2 4 (3.74%) Ansible
2 4 (3.74%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.74%) Terraform
3 2 (1.87%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (6.54%) SAP
2 6 (5.61%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.74%) Atlassian
3 4 (3.74%) Oracle
3 4 (3.74%) VMware
4 2 (1.87%) Databricks
4 2 (1.87%) IBM
4 2 (1.87%) IDERA
5 1 (0.93%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (0.93%) Pega
5 1 (0.93%) RedGate
5 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.93%) Wind River