Requirements Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Requirements Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Requirements Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Requirements Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 358 420
Rank change year-on-year +38 +62 +54
Contract jobs citing Requirements Engineering 10 37 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.18% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.22% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 26 6
10th Percentile £475 - £450
25th Percentile £498 £405 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £410 £500
Median % change year-on-year +28.05% -18.00% +15.61%
75th Percentile £641 £488 £573
90th Percentile £658 £544 £728
UK median daily rate £575 £450 £598
% change year-on-year +27.78% -24.69% +19.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 6
10th Percentile - - £29.46
25th Percentile £70.00 £65.25 £41.38
Median hourly rate £75.00 £65.50 £64.13
Median % change year-on-year +14.50% +2.14% -
75th Percentile £80.00 £68.21 £77.38
90th Percentile - £70.66 £84.00
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £65.50 £64.13
% change year-on-year +14.50% +2.14% +63.21%

All Process and 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 11,596 17,041 20,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.69% 84.15% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,235 10,189 14,096
10th Percentile £231 £250 £259
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,063 1,256
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.34 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.73
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

Requirements Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Engineering in the UK excluding London

Requirements Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Engineering in the UK excluding London

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 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Engineering in the UK excluding London

Requirements Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Engineering in the UK excluding London

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 22 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
South East +48 4 £600 +26.32% 9
West Midlands +13 3 £525 - 3
Midlands +12 3 £525 - 3
South West +32 2 £625 +35.14% 16
North of England +7 1 £495 +20.73% 6
Yorkshire - 1 £495 -
Requirements Engineering
UK

Requirements Engineering
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 2 (20.00%) Apache
1 2 (20.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (20.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Big Data
1 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Business Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Asset Management Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Asset Management Business Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Software Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Traffic Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Business Case
3 2 (20.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) ETL
3 2 (20.00%) Feasibility Study
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Observability
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
3 2 (20.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) CBAP
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
1 2 (20.00%) Grafana
1 2 (20.00%) HAProxy
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Remedy