Requirements Analysis Contracts in the UK excluding London

Requirements Analysis
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Requirements Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Requirements Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 296 298
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 +87
Contract jobs citing Requirements Analysis 48 101 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.49% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.59% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 79 99
10th Percentile £392 £405 £420
25th Percentile £416 £419 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £506 £508
Median % change year-on-year -6.08% -0.39% +9.36%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £578
90th Percentile £575 £625 £690
UK median daily rate £496 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.62% - +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 10
10th Percentile - £60.20 £42.79
25th Percentile - £60.25 £52.22
Median hourly rate £86.00 £60.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.15% +0.83% -1.52%
75th Percentile - £88.75 £80.31
90th Percentile - £89.00 £84.38
UK median hourly rate £86.00 £68.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +25.09% +5.77% +261.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,664 17,222 20,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.58% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,264 10,282 14,009
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,110 1,238
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

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 29 May 2025.

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
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 29 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
North of England +17 17 £511 +24.70% 13
North West +13 16 £511 +24.70% 6
Scotland +3 11 £471 -3.88% 9
Midlands +15 10 £410 +4.99% 16
East Midlands +8 7 £430 +20.79% 4
South East +10 6 £538 +2.38% 24
West Midlands +17 3 £375 -21.05% 12
East of England +19 2 £406 -0.91% 20
South West +29 1 £425 -29.17% 26
Wales +4 1 £167 - 1
North East - 1 £625 - 3
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 1 (2.08%) Confluence
1 1 (2.08%) GeoServer
Applications
1 8 (16.67%) MS Visio
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (14.58%) SAP HR
1 7 (14.58%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.75%) AWS
2 4 (8.33%) Amazon S3
2 4 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (8.33%) Serverless
3 3 (6.25%) Azure
3 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.17%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (4.17%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (6.25%) Power BI
3 2 (4.17%) GIS
4 1 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.08%) DataStage
4 1 (2.08%) DB2
4 1 (2.08%) Metadata
4 1 (2.08%) QualityStage
4 1 (2.08%) Spark SQL
4 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) TestRail
2 2 (4.17%) GitLab
2 2 (4.17%) JIRA
3 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.08%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.08%) tSQLt
General
1 10 (20.83%) Public Sector
1 10 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.58%) Banking
4 3 (6.25%) Finance
5 2 (4.17%) Retail
6 1 (2.08%) Advertising
6 1 (2.08%) Games
6 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (47.92%) Analyst
2 14 (29.17%) Business Analyst
3 8 (16.67%) Architect
3 8 (16.67%) Senior
3 8 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 8 (16.67%) Senior Business Analyst
3 8 (16.67%) Test Analyst
4 6 (12.50%) Consultant
4 6 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
4 6 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Payroll Consultant
5 5 (10.42%) SAP Payroll Consultant
5 5 (10.42%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (8.33%) AWS Architect
6 4 (8.33%) AWS Solution Architect
6 4 (8.33%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
7 3 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Project Manager
8 2 (4.17%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.33%) AWS CDK
2 3 (6.25%) PostGIS
3 2 (4.17%) React
3 2 (4.17%) REST
3 2 (4.17%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.08%) .NET
4 1 (2.08%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.08%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.08%) FHIR
4 1 (2.08%) Next.js
4 1 (2.08%) Node.js
4 1 (2.08%) PySpark
4 1 (2.08%) RESTful
4 1 (2.08%) Spring
4 1 (2.08%) Web Services
4 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 5 (10.42%) CMDB
3 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.08%) Clustering
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Life Science
4 1 (2.08%) LIMS
4 1 (2.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (56.25%) Agile
2 14 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (22.92%) Scrum
5 9 (18.75%) Business Analysis
6 8 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 8 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (14.58%) Data Modelling
7 7 (14.58%) Risk Management
7 7 (14.58%) User Experience
8 6 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (12.50%) Test Management
8 6 (12.50%) Test Scripting
8 6 (12.50%) Test Strategy
9 5 (10.42%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
9 5 (10.42%) Data Analysis
9 5 (10.42%) Data Migration
9 5 (10.42%) IT Governance
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.33%) Python
1 4 (8.33%) SQL
2 3 (6.25%) Java
3 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.17%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Degree
1 7 (14.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 6 (12.50%) ISTQB
3 2 (4.17%) IIBA
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.08%) ISEB
4 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.25%) QA
3 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.08%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.08%) GxP
3 1 (2.08%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.08%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (2.08%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) SAP
2 5 (10.42%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.08%) Databricks
4 1 (2.08%) IBM
4 1 (2.08%) RedGate
4 1 (2.08%) VMware