Requirements Engineering Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Requirements Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Requirements Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 336 379
Rank change year-on-year -42 +43 +97
Contract jobs citing Requirements Engineering 16 11 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.088% 0.075% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.086% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 14
10th Percentile - £535 £364
25th Percentile £463 £568 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £613 £466
Median % change year-on-year -18.78% +31.37% -18.20%
75th Percentile £518 £631 £538
90th Percentile £550 - £633
UK median daily rate £500 £613 £475
% change year-on-year -18.37% +28.95% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £42.40
25th Percentile - - £61.00
Median hourly rate - - £70.66
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £75.06
UK median hourly rate - - £66.33
% change year-on-year - - +199.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,633 12,740 17,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.61% 87.32% 87.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,564 7,476 11,022
10th Percentile £220 £240 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,732 732 1,229
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.58 £30.78 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.41% -31.60% +43.91%
75th Percentile £51.21 £64.20 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.71% +25.00%

Requirements Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Requirements Engineering job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Requirements Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Requirements Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Requirements Engineering

Requirements Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Engineering in the UK excluding London

Requirements Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Requirements Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Requirements Engineering

Requirements Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
South East +2 11 £500 - 14
South West -5 3 - - 7
North of England -49 1 £495 -18.18% 7
Wales - 1 £308 -
Yorkshire - 1 £495 - 2
Requirements Engineering
UK

Requirements Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (6.25%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (6.25%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (43.75%) JIRA
General
1 11 (68.75%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Aerospace
3 3 (18.75%) Aviation
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Electronics
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Military
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Requirements Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Requirements Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) System Verification Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Validation Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Verification Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Business IT Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Business Requirements Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Data Migration Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Data Migration Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) DOORS Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) IT Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Migration Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Requirements Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (6.25%) NHS
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Requirements Management
2 10 (62.50%) Agile
3 9 (56.25%) Validation
4 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (37.50%) Systems Engineering
6 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (18.75%) Conflict Resolution
7 3 (18.75%) ITIL
7 3 (18.75%) Line Management
7 3 (18.75%) Mathematics
7 3 (18.75%) Requirements Analysis
7 3 (18.75%) Verification and Validation
8 2 (12.50%) Business Analysis
8 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
8 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
8 2 (12.50%) Systems Thinking
8 2 (12.50%) Workload Management
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Degree
2 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (18.75%) IIBA
5 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Def Stans
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) IBM
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce