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

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 456 512
Rank change year-on-year -20 +56 +66
Contract jobs citing Requirements Management 54 130 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.30% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.35% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 68 101
10th Percentile £340 £460 £450
25th Percentile £360 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -10.64% +16.05%
75th Percentile £625 £628 £652
90th Percentile £649 £695 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £416 £562 £563
% change year-on-year -26.13% -0.01% +18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 29
10th Percentile £47.44 - £47.50
25th Percentile £48.31 £37.55 £55.25
Median hourly rate £63.02 £60.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -7.31% +46.07%
75th Percentile £74.69 £60.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £78.13 £65.48 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.70% -6.92% -

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 27,791 36,956 49,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.01% 85.22% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,543 23,553 34,315
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,341 2,551 1,689
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.74 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.95 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -34.42% +8.91% +66.67%

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 28 June 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 28 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Requirements Management in the UK

Requirements Management
Top 13 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 28 June 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 -31 47 £500 -4.76% 182
UK excluding London -8 35 £416 -26.13% 159
London +21 17 £500 -5.66% 32
Work from Home +24 15 £475 -9.52% 89
South East +16 11 £355 -32.38% 58
North of England +11 9 £500 -24.53% 17
North West +13 7 £500 -24.53% 14
South West +36 6 £625 +4.17% 38
Scotland +10 5 £350 - 10
East Midlands +9 5 £500 - 7
Midlands +8 5 £500 -19.19% 25
Yorkshire - 2 - - 3
East of England +22 1 - - 12

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 9 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (7.41%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.52%) AWS
2 5 (9.26%) Azure
3 4 (7.41%) GCP
3 4 (7.41%) Snowflake
4 2 (3.70%) Kong
5 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.85%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (7.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.70%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.70%) RDBMS
2 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (20.37%) JIRA
2 10 (18.52%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.85%) Git
3 1 (1.85%) Gradle
3 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.85%) JUnit
3 1 (1.85%) Maven
3 1 (1.85%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.93%) Finance
3 12 (22.22%) Banking
4 11 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.41%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.85%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Front Office
8 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.85%) Marketing
8 1 (1.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (46.30%) Analyst
2 23 (42.59%) Business Analyst
3 13 (24.07%) Systems Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Architect
5 5 (9.26%) Digital Analyst
5 5 (9.26%) Digital Business Analyst
5 5 (9.26%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (7.41%) Senior
7 3 (5.56%) Lead
7 3 (5.56%) Payments Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Payments Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Snowflake Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Data Business Analyst
8 2 (3.70%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
8 2 (3.70%) Project Manager
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) REST
1 2 (3.70%) Swagger
2 1 (1.85%) JavaFX
2 1 (1.85%) Spring
2 1 (1.85%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.56%) Derivative
3 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.70%) Equities
4 2 (3.70%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.85%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.85%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.33%) Agile
2 15 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (27.78%) Validation
3 13 (24.07%) Requirements Gathering
4 12 (22.22%) Migration
5 10 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (18.52%) Systems Engineering
5 10 (18.52%) Verification and Validation
6 8 (14.81%) Data Modelling
6 8 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (14.81%) User Stories
7 6 (11.11%) Architectural Design
7 6 (11.11%) Business Analysis
7 6 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 6 (11.11%) Domain-Driven Design
7 6 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
7 6 (11.11%) Process Improvement
7 6 (11.11%) Scrum
7 6 (11.11%) TOGAF
8 5 (9.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.67%) SQL
2 6 (11.11%) Python
3 4 (7.41%) Bash
4 3 (5.56%) Java
5 1 (1.85%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.37%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.96%) DV Cleared
4 5 (9.26%) RIBA
5 3 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (5.56%) HND
6 2 (3.70%) Degree
7 1 (1.85%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) GDPR
1 4 (7.41%) HIPAA
2 2 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.85%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
1 1 (1.85%) Avaloq
1 1 (1.85%) FNZ
1 1 (1.85%) ION Trading
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
1 1 (1.85%) SAP