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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 318 354
Rank change year-on-year +12 +36 +82
Contract jobs citing Requirements Management 35 75 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.36% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.44% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 27 48
10th Percentile £350 - £413
25th Percentile £402 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +17.02%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £650
90th Percentile £650 £731 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £530 £561
% change year-on-year -3.77% -5.57% +12.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 17
10th Percentile £47.50 £37.17 £45.39
25th Percentile £49.84 £37.55 £55.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.70% -6.92% +20.37%
75th Percentile £74.38 £60.75 -
90th Percentile £78.50 £64.10 £65.70
UK median hourly rate £63.02 £60.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.60% -7.31% +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 11,611 17,183 20,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.67% 83.60% 89.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,236 10,256 14,118
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.09%
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% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 836 2,100 1,244
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.38 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.38% +7.86% +75.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.02 £36.40
% change year-on-year -23.66% -1.02% +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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +17 14 £565 +7.62% 78
North of England +17 10 £488 -26.42% 39
North West +5 8 £488 -26.42% 26
South West +43 7 £631 +5.21% 48
Midlands +16 6 £500 -19.19% 50
East Midlands +8 5 £500 - 16
Yorkshire - 2 - - 10
West Midlands +4 1 £625 +1.01% 33
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 4 (11.43%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 13 (37.14%) AWS
2 8 (22.86%) Azure
3 4 (11.43%) GCP
3 4 (11.43%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) BGP
1 3 (8.57%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (8.57%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (8.57%) DNS
1 3 (8.57%) Firewall
1 3 (8.57%) MPLS
1 3 (8.57%) NGFW
1 3 (8.57%) OSPF
1 3 (8.57%) SD-WAN
1 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
1 3 (8.57%) VLAN
1 3 (8.57%) VPN
1 3 (8.57%) WAN
2 2 (5.71%) Software-Defined Radio
2 2 (5.71%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.71%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.71%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.86%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 9 (25.71%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (11.43%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.86%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) Gradle
3 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) JUnit
3 1 (2.86%) Maven
3 1 (2.86%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (28.57%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Banking
3 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.71%) Marketing
6 2 (5.71%) Military
6 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Electronics
7 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Law
7 1 (2.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Systems Engineer
2 9 (25.71%) Analyst
2 9 (25.71%) Architect
2 9 (25.71%) Business Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Senior
5 3 (8.57%) Digital Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Digital Business Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Payments Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Snowflake Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) JavaFX
1 1 (2.86%) Spring
1 1 (2.86%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.43%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (8.57%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) Derivative
4 2 (5.71%) Equities
4 2 (5.71%) Fixed Income
4 2 (5.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) PKI
5 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (34.29%) Migration
2 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (25.71%) TOGAF
2 9 (25.71%) Validation
3 8 (22.86%) Agile
3 8 (22.86%) Systems Engineering
3 8 (22.86%) Verification and Validation
4 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (17.14%) Architectural Design
5 6 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (17.14%) Domain-Driven Design
5 6 (17.14%) Integration Patterns
5 6 (17.14%) ITIL
6 5 (14.29%) Data Management
6 5 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (14.29%) UML
7 4 (11.43%) Data Security
7 4 (11.43%) Product Analysis
7 4 (11.43%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.14%) SQL
2 4 (11.43%) Bash
2 4 (11.43%) Python
3 1 (2.86%) C++
3 1 (2.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (51.43%) Security Cleared
2 9 (25.71%) SC Cleared
3 8 (22.86%) DV Cleared
4 5 (14.29%) RIBA
5 3 (8.57%) HND
6 2 (5.71%) Degree
6 2 (5.71%) MCSE
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (5.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.86%) HNC
7 1 (2.86%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) GDPR
2 4 (11.43%) HIPAA
3 2 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (5.71%) NCSC
3 2 (5.71%) NIST
4 1 (2.86%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.86%) MISRA
4 1 (2.86%) MISRA C
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (8.57%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Cisco
2 3 (8.57%) Palo Alto
2 3 (8.57%) VMware
3 2 (5.71%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.86%) SAP