Requirements Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Requirements Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 313 361
Rank change year-on-year +8 +48 +67
Contract jobs citing Requirements Management 38 74 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.36% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.43% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 28 50
10th Percentile £351 - £413
25th Percentile £411 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £569 £556
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +2.24% +17.11%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £651
90th Percentile £673 £731 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £530 £561
% change year-on-year -3.77% -5.57% +12.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 19
10th Percentile £29.65 £51.02 £47.19
25th Percentile £43.32 £60.13 £60.13
Median hourly rate £55.52 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% -6.92% +23.70%
75th Percentile £74.06 £60.75 -
90th Percentile £77.63 £67.45 £65.35
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.92% +46.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,601 17,153 20,838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.50% 84.38% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,223 10,226 14,391
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 837 2,053 1,276
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.31 £10.93
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.25 £15.40
Median hourly rate £25.43 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.08% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.82 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -22.48% +0.29% +41.73%

Requirements Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Management in the UK excluding London

Requirements Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Management in the UK excluding London

Requirements Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Management in the UK excluding London

Requirements Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Management in the UK excluding London

Requirements Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Requirements Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Requirements Management in the UK excluding London

Requirements Management
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 Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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 +16 15 £565 +7.62% 75
South West +43 8 £638 +6.25% 29
North of England +20 8 £488 -26.42% 28
North West +11 7 £488 -26.42% 22
Midlands +19 6 £500 -19.19% 27
East Midlands +15 5 £500 - 4
East of England +23 3 - - 24
West Midlands +11 1 £625 +1.01% 23
Yorkshire - 1 - - 6
Requirements Management
UK

Requirements Management
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 3 (7.89%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Misys Midas
1 1 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (34.21%) AWS
2 9 (23.68%) Azure
3 4 (10.53%) GCP
3 4 (10.53%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.63%) IaaS
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.63%) PaaS
4 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) BGP
1 3 (7.89%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (7.89%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (7.89%) DNS
1 3 (7.89%) Firewall
1 3 (7.89%) MPLS
1 3 (7.89%) NGFW
1 3 (7.89%) OSPF
1 3 (7.89%) SD-WAN
1 3 (7.89%) TCP/IP
1 3 (7.89%) VLAN
1 3 (7.89%) VPN
1 3 (7.89%) VSAN
1 3 (7.89%) WAN
2 2 (5.26%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.63%) EDRMS
4 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (7.89%) JIRA
3 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (26.32%) Finance
2 7 (18.42%) Banking
2 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.26%) Aerospace
5 2 (5.26%) Automotive
5 2 (5.26%) Japanese Language
5 2 (5.26%) Legal
5 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.26%) Marketing
5 2 (5.26%) Military
6 1 (2.63%) Electronics
6 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Law
6 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Systems Engineer
2 10 (26.32%) Architect
3 8 (21.05%) Analyst
3 8 (21.05%) Business Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Senior
6 3 (7.89%) Digital Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Digital Business Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Payments Architect
6 3 (7.89%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.89%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Snowflake Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Technical Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Technical Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.89%) PKI
3 3 (7.89%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) CMDB
4 1 (2.63%) Derivative
4 1 (2.63%) Equities
4 1 (2.63%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Android
1 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
1 1 (2.63%) VxWorks
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (31.58%) Migration
2 10 (26.32%) TOGAF
3 9 (23.68%) Validation
4 8 (21.05%) Agile
4 8 (21.05%) ITIL
4 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (21.05%) Systems Engineering
4 8 (21.05%) Verification and Validation
5 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
5 7 (18.42%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (15.79%) Architectural Design
6 6 (15.79%) Domain-Driven Design
6 6 (15.79%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (13.16%) Data Management
7 5 (13.16%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (10.53%) Data Migration
8 4 (10.53%) Data Modelling
8 4 (10.53%) SysML
8 4 (10.53%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) SQL
2 4 (10.53%) Bash
2 4 (10.53%) Python
3 1 (2.63%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 9 (23.68%) SC Cleared
3 8 (21.05%) DV Cleared
4 5 (13.16%) Degree
4 5 (13.16%) RIBA
5 3 (7.89%) HND
5 3 (7.89%) MCSE
5 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (7.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.63%) HNC
6 1 (2.63%) ISEB
6 1 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) GDPR
2 4 (10.53%) HIPAA
3 3 (7.89%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (7.89%) NCSC
3 3 (7.89%) NIST
4 1 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.63%) MISRA
4 1 (2.63%) MISRA C
4 1 (2.63%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (10.53%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) Cisco
2 4 (10.53%) Palo Alto
2 4 (10.53%) VMware
3 2 (5.26%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.63%) BMC
4 1 (2.63%) Remedy
4 1 (2.63%) SAP
4 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.63%) Wind River