Requirements Analysis Contracts

Requirements Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 416 453
Rank change year-on-year +15 +37 +110
Contract jobs citing Requirements Analysis 120 168 272
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.39% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.45% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 126 204
10th Percentile £409 £394 £413
25th Percentile £435 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +3.35% +1.60%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £616
90th Percentile £650 £675 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% +1.20% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 18
10th Percentile - - £42.76
25th Percentile - £60.25 £52.22
Median hourly rate £86.00 £71.88 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.65% +10.58% +63.62%
75th Percentile - £88.75 £68.75
90th Percentile - - £69.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £86.00 £67.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year +26.94% +23.18% +32.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Requirements Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Requirements Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Analysis in the UK

Requirements Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Analysis.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Analysis in the UK

Requirements Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Analysis over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Analysis in the UK

Requirements Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Analysis.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Analysis in the UK

Requirements Analysis
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +15 96 £525 - 152
UK excluding London +12 56 £487 -3.80% 120
London +45 52 £550 -6.38% 52
Work from Home +22 40 £510 -1.31% 94
North of England +25 16 £511 +24.70% 14
Scotland +9 16 £463 +0.11% 13
North West +24 15 £504 +22.96% 10
Midlands +27 11 £430 +3.49% 12
South East +14 11 £550 +4.76% 26
East Midlands +13 7 £430 +21.81%
West Midlands +16 4 £463 -2.63% 12
East of England +16 1 £500 +21.95% 20
Wales +1 1 £167 - 1
North East - 1 £625 - 1

Requirements Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (5.00%) Confluence
2 4 (3.33%) Apache
2 4 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.83%) CMS
3 1 (0.83%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.83%) IIS
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.83%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (5.83%) MS Visio
2 5 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.83%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (7.50%) SAP HR
1 9 (7.50%) SAP Payroll
2 4 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 14 (11.67%) AWS
2 11 (9.17%) Azure
3 4 (3.33%) Amazon S3
3 4 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (3.33%) Power Platform
3 4 (3.33%) Serverless
4 2 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (1.67%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (1.67%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.67%) GCP
4 2 (1.67%) OpenShift
4 2 (1.67%) SaaS
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (0.83%) Collibra
5 1 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) HTTP
1 1 (0.83%) Internet
1 1 (0.83%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.17%) DB2
3 5 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.33%) Big Data
4 4 (3.33%) Hadoop
4 4 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.33%) Power BI
5 3 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.50%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.67%) GIS
6 2 (1.67%) Metadata
6 2 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.67%) Tableau
7 1 (0.83%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.83%) DataStage
7 1 (0.83%) DTS
7 1 (0.83%) MySQL
7 1 (0.83%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (7.50%) TestRail
2 8 (6.67%) JIRA
3 2 (1.67%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.67%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.67%) GitLab
3 2 (1.67%) JMeter
3 2 (1.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (1.67%) tSQLt
4 1 (0.83%) Appium
4 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.83%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.83%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.83%) ERwin
4 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.83%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.83%) Mocha
4 1 (0.83%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.83%) Selenium
4 1 (0.83%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 47 (39.17%) Social Skills
2 27 (22.50%) Finance
3 16 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.67%) Front Office
5 13 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (10.00%) Banking
7 9 (7.50%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (5.83%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (5.83%) Retail
9 3 (2.50%) Law
9 3 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.67%) Advertising
10 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.67%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.67%) Marketing
11 1 (0.83%) Automotive
11 1 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (46.67%) Analyst
2 41 (34.17%) Business Analyst
3 16 (13.33%) Developer
4 15 (12.50%) Architect
4 15 (12.50%) Senior
5 11 (9.17%) Senior Analyst
5 11 (9.17%) Senior Business Analyst
5 11 (9.17%) Test Analyst
6 10 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
6 10 (8.33%) Test Engineer
7 9 (7.50%) Consultant
7 9 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (7.50%) Technical Business Analyst
8 8 (6.67%) SAP Consultant
9 6 (5.00%) .NET Developer
9 6 (5.00%) C# .NET Developer
9 6 (5.00%) C# Developer
9 6 (5.00%) Retail Business Analyst
10 5 (4.17%) Project Manager
10 5 (4.17%) SAP Payroll Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.83%) .NET
2 6 (5.00%) .NET Framework
2 6 (5.00%) React
2 6 (5.00%) Reactive Extensions
2 6 (5.00%) Web Services
3 5 (4.17%) Akka.NET
3 5 (4.17%) Spring
4 4 (3.33%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.33%) AWS CDK
4 4 (3.33%) RESTful
5 3 (2.50%) DCOM
5 3 (2.50%) PostGIS
5 3 (2.50%) REST
6 2 (1.67%) FHIR
6 2 (1.67%) Middleware
6 2 (1.67%) PySpark
6 2 (1.67%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.67%) XML
7 1 (0.83%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.83%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.00%) Fixed Income
3 5 (4.17%) Life Science
4 4 (3.33%) CMDB
4 4 (3.33%) LIMS
4 4 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.67%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.67%) Clustering
5 2 (1.67%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.67%) Replication
6 1 (0.83%) Acoustics
6 1 (0.83%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.83%) NHS
6 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.83%) PMI
6 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.00%) Linux
1 6 (5.00%) Unix
2 1 (0.83%) Android
2 1 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (53.33%) Agile
2 29 (24.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 26 (21.67%) Business Analysis
4 23 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (15.00%) Decision-Making
5 18 (15.00%) Project Management
5 18 (15.00%) Scrum
6 16 (13.33%) DevOps
6 16 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
6 16 (13.33%) Validation
7 14 (11.67%) Data Modelling
7 14 (11.67%) Test Automation
7 14 (11.67%) User Stories
8 12 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
8 12 (10.00%) Roadmaps
9 11 (9.17%) User Acceptance Testing
9 11 (9.17%) User Experience
10 10 (8.33%) Data Analysis
10 10 (8.33%) Design Patterns
10 10 (8.33%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.00%) Python
2 10 (8.33%) Java
3 9 (7.50%) SQL
4 8 (6.67%) C#
4 8 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.83%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.17%) F#
7 4 (3.33%) Perl
7 4 (3.33%) Scala
7 4 (3.33%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.67%) C
8 2 (1.67%) C++
8 2 (1.67%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.67%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.67%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.83%) Ada
9 1 (0.83%) Assembly Language
9 1 (0.83%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.83%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.00%) Degree
3 10 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 10 (8.33%) ISTQB
3 10 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 8 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.50%) IIBA
6 2 (1.67%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.83%) CBAP
7 1 (0.83%) PhD
7 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.17%) QA
2 7 (5.83%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.33%) GxP
3 4 (3.33%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.67%) HL7
5 1 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.83%) NIST
5 1 (0.83%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (1.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (2.50%) Grafana
2 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.83%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (11.67%) SAP
2 12 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.83%) Oracle
4 5 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.33%) Databricks
5 4 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.33%) Sybase
6 2 (1.67%) RedGate
6 2 (1.67%) Sparx
7 1 (0.83%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.83%) HP
7 1 (0.83%) IBM
7 1 (0.83%) IDERA
7 1 (0.83%) IFS
7 1 (0.83%) Informatica
7 1 (0.83%) Pega
7 1 (0.83%) VMware