Requirements Management Contracts

Requirements Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 453 517
Rank change year-on-year -13 +64 +78
Contract jobs citing Requirements Management 60 131 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.30% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.35% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 69 106
10th Percentile £358 £475 £425
25th Percentile £438 £498 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +1.85% +10.78%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £565 £569 £525
% change year-on-year -0.66% +8.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 37
10th Percentile £30.40 £55.60 £47.50
25th Percentile £47.07 £60.25 £51.19
Median hourly rate £55.52 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% -6.92% +46.07%
75th Percentile £72.50 £77.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.88 £80.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.04 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.37% -6.92% +23.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,620 37,484 53,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.85% 86.34% 89.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,162 24,149 37,016
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,075 2,454 1,744
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.30 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%
75th Percentile £60.38 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%

Requirements Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Management in the UK

Requirements Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Management in the UK

Requirements Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Management over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Management in the UK

Requirements Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Management in the UK

Requirements Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Requirements Management over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Requirements Management in the UK

Requirements Management
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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 +3 56 £520 -5.45% 117
UK excluding London +13 36 £565 -0.66% 111
London +25 20 £500 -9.09% 18
Work from Home +22 15 £475 -13.64% 84
South East -2 15 £545 +3.81% 47
South West +27 8 £638 +6.25% 20
North of England +13 6 £461 -30.42% 13
North West +12 6 £461 -30.42% 9
East of England +37 4 - - 8
Midlands +15 3 £402 -35.03% 21
East Midlands +15 2 £380 - 2
West Midlands +9 1 £625 +1.01% 18

Requirements Management
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 7 (11.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.67%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Misys Midas
1 2 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.67%) Endur
2 1 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.33%) Azure
2 10 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (6.67%) GCP
3 4 (6.67%) Snowflake
4 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.33%) Kong
5 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.67%) IaaS
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.67%) Miro
6 1 (1.67%) PaaS
6 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) BGP
1 3 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (5.00%) DNS
1 3 (5.00%) Firewall
1 3 (5.00%) MPLS
1 3 (5.00%) NGFW
1 3 (5.00%) OSPF
1 3 (5.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (5.00%) VLAN
1 3 (5.00%) VPN
1 3 (5.00%) VSAN
1 3 (5.00%) WAN
2 2 (3.33%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 4 (6.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.00%) Big Data
4 2 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (3.33%) Power BI
5 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.67%) EDRMS
5 1 (1.67%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 13 (21.67%) Rational DOORS
2 8 (13.33%) JIRA
3 3 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.67%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.67%) Git
General
1 17 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.00%) Finance
3 10 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 9 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (11.67%) Banking
6 5 (8.33%) Telecoms
7 4 (6.67%) Military
8 2 (3.33%) Aerospace
8 2 (3.33%) Automotive
8 2 (3.33%) Japanese Language
8 2 (3.33%) Legal
8 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.33%) Marketing
8 2 (3.33%) Retail
9 1 (1.67%) Aviation
9 1 (1.67%) Electronics
9 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.67%) Front Office
9 1 (1.67%) Law
9 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (38.33%) Analyst
2 21 (35.00%) Business Analyst
3 11 (18.33%) Systems Engineer
4 10 (16.67%) Senior
5 7 (11.67%) Architect
6 5 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) Senior Business Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Digital Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Digital Business Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Product Owner
8 3 (5.00%) Snowflake Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Technical Architect
9 2 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
9 2 (3.33%) Project Manager
9 2 (3.33%) Senior Technical Architect
9 2 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) REST
1 2 (3.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.00%) Freedom of Information
3 3 (5.00%) Freedom of Information Act
3 3 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.00%) PKI
3 3 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) CMDB
4 1 (1.67%) Derivative
4 1 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.67%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.67%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Linux
1 2 (3.33%) VxWorks
1 2 (3.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.67%) Android
2 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.00%) Agile
2 17 (28.33%) Validation
3 16 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (26.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 14 (23.33%) Business Analysis
5 13 (21.67%) Migration
6 10 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 10 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (15.00%) Process Improvement
7 9 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (13.33%) Acceptance Criteria
8 8 (13.33%) Data Management
8 8 (13.33%) ITIL
8 8 (13.33%) Scrum
8 8 (13.33%) Systems Engineering
8 8 (13.33%) Verification and Validation
9 7 (11.67%) CI/CD
9 7 (11.67%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (11.67%) TOGAF
9 7 (11.67%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.33%) Python
2 4 (6.67%) Bash
2 4 (6.67%) C++
2 4 (6.67%) SQL
3 2 (3.33%) Java
4 1 (1.67%) Ada
4 1 (1.67%) Assembly Language
4 1 (1.67%) C
4 1 (1.67%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (38.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.00%) Degree
3 9 (15.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.33%) RIBA
5 3 (5.00%) HND
5 3 (5.00%) MCSE
5 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.67%) CBAP
6 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.67%) HNC
6 1 (1.67%) ISEB
6 1 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) GDPR
2 4 (6.67%) HIPAA
3 3 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (5.00%) NCSC
3 3 (5.00%) NIST
4 2 (3.33%) MISRA
4 2 (3.33%) MISRA C
4 2 (3.33%) PMO
4 2 (3.33%) QA
5 1 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.67%) Cisco
2 4 (6.67%) Palo Alto
2 4 (6.67%) VMware
3 3 (5.00%) Atlassian
3 3 (5.00%) SAP
4 2 (3.33%) Wind River
5 1 (1.67%) Avaloq
5 1 (1.67%) BMC
5 1 (1.67%) FNZ
5 1 (1.67%) IFS
5 1 (1.67%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.67%) Pega
5 1 (1.67%) Remedy
5 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow