Requirements Analysis Contracts

Requirements Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Requirements Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Requirements Analysis over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 410 453 564
Rank change year-on-year +43 +111 -134
Contract jobs citing Requirements Analysis 169 273 308
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.46% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.51% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 200 195
10th Percentile £397 £415 £368
25th Percentile £413 £456 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +1.60% +12.36%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £632
90th Percentile £669 £713 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +1.20% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 19 9
10th Percentile - £42.78 -
25th Percentile £60.25 £56.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £68.75 £65.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +78.08% -23.16%
75th Percentile £88.75 £68.75 £60.92
90th Percentile - £83.75 £62.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £60.00 £60.92
% change year-on-year +12.92% -1.51% +28.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Requirements Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 6 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Requirements Analysis over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Requirements Analysis in the UK

Requirements Analysis
Top 15 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 6 May 2024. 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 +60 141 £525 -4.55% 110
UK excluding London +27 107 £506 +1.20% 81
Work from Home +69 58 £506 +1.20% 46
London +76 49 £563 -3.02% 31
South East +34 42 £525 +2.44% 21
Scotland +14 20 £463 -0.32% 4
South West +27 15 £600 +1.27% 29
East of England +6 15 £410 -22.64% 5
North of England +15 10 £410 -18.00% 8
North West +26 8 £410 -13.68% 5
Midlands +29 6 £416 -28.97% 13
East Midlands +20 4 £353 -38.61% 6
West Midlands +18 2 £475 -10.38% 7
Yorkshire +9 2 £1,000 +86.05% 3
Wales +9 1 - - 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 7 (4.14%) Confluence
2 5 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.78%) CMS
3 3 (1.78%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.59%) IIS
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) NetSuite
1 3 (1.78%) SAP EWM
1 3 (1.78%) SAP QM
2 2 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.59%) Endur
3 1 (0.59%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.59%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.59%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.59%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.59%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.59%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.59%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 22 (13.02%) AWS
2 16 (9.47%) Azure
3 12 (7.10%) Amazon S3
3 12 (7.10%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (5.92%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (5.92%) OpenShift
4 10 (5.92%) Serverless
5 9 (5.33%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.96%) Amazon SageMaker
6 5 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.37%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.37%) Rekognition
7 4 (2.37%) Textract
8 3 (1.78%) Boomi
9 2 (1.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.18%) GCP
9 2 (1.18%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.37%) Internet
1 4 (2.37%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.78%) 5G
2 3 (1.78%) DHCP
2 3 (1.78%) DNS
2 3 (1.78%) iSCSI
2 3 (1.78%) Link 16
2 3 (1.78%) SAN
2 3 (1.78%) Tactical Data Link
2 3 (1.78%) VLAN
2 3 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.18%) Firewall
4 1 (0.59%) 4G
4 1 (0.59%) Network Security
4 1 (0.59%) VPN
4 1 (0.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.92%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.14%) Power BI
5 5 (2.96%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.96%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.96%) Star Schema
6 4 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.37%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.78%) Big Data
8 2 (1.18%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.18%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.59%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 15 (8.88%) Jenkins
1 15 (8.88%) Rational DOORS
2 13 (7.69%) JIRA
2 13 (7.69%) TestRail
3 10 (5.92%) Git
4 5 (2.96%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.96%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.37%) CppUnit
5 4 (2.37%) PVCS
6 3 (1.78%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.78%) ERwin
6 3 (1.78%) Selenium
7 2 (1.18%) EasyMock
7 2 (1.18%) ER Studio
7 2 (1.18%) GitLab
7 2 (1.18%) JUnit
7 2 (1.18%) Maven
7 2 (1.18%) Mockito
7 2 (1.18%) TestNG
8 1 (0.59%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 37 (21.89%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.53%) Finance
3 23 (13.61%) Public Sector
4 19 (11.24%) Manufacturing
5 12 (7.10%) Pharmaceutical
6 11 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (5.92%) Banking
7 10 (5.92%) Marketing
7 10 (5.92%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.55%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.96%) Back Office
11 4 (2.37%) Investment Banking
11 4 (2.37%) Publishing
11 4 (2.37%) Wholesale Banking
12 3 (1.78%) Front Office
13 2 (1.18%) Electronics
13 2 (1.18%) International Banking
13 2 (1.18%) Legal
13 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (34.32%) Analyst
2 36 (21.30%) Business Analyst
3 25 (14.79%) Developer
4 21 (12.43%) Senior
5 16 (9.47%) Architect
6 14 (8.28%) Test Analyst
7 12 (7.10%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
8 11 (6.51%) Integration Engineer
8 11 (6.51%) Systems Engineer
9 10 (5.92%) Senior Integration Engineer
10 9 (5.33%) Lead
10 9 (5.33%) Technical Architect
11 8 (4.73%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 7 (4.14%) Consultant
13 6 (3.55%) DOORS Engineer
13 6 (3.55%) Project Manager
13 6 (3.55%) Software Integration Engineer
13 6 (3.55%) Systems Integration Engineer
13 6 (3.55%) Test Engineer
14 5 (2.96%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.51%) AWS CDK
1 11 (6.51%) REST
2 7 (4.14%) CSS
2 7 (4.14%) HTML
2 7 (4.14%) Spring Boot
3 6 (3.55%) .NET
3 6 (3.55%) React
3 6 (3.55%) Spring
4 5 (2.96%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (2.37%) OAuth
5 4 (2.37%) OAuth2
5 4 (2.37%) Spring Security
6 3 (1.78%) ADO
6 3 (1.78%) JSON
6 3 (1.78%) pytest
6 3 (1.78%) SOAP
6 3 (1.78%) Spring MVC
6 3 (1.78%) Spring Web Flow
6 3 (1.78%) Thymeleaf
7 2 (1.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.92%) Data Protection Act
2 9 (5.33%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.55%) Taxonomies
5 5 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.37%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.78%) CMDB
7 3 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.78%) Freedom of Information
7 3 (1.78%) Freedom of Information Act
7 3 (1.78%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.78%) Wiki
8 2 (1.18%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.18%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.18%) NHS
8 2 (1.18%) PKI
8 2 (1.18%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.28%) Unix
1 14 (8.28%) Windows
2 9 (5.33%) Linux
3 1 (0.59%) Android
3 1 (0.59%) Windows 7
3 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (38.46%) Agile
2 33 (19.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 31 (18.34%) Test Automation
4 26 (15.38%) Data Protection
5 21 (12.43%) Business Analysis
5 21 (12.43%) Requirements Gathering
6 20 (11.83%) Roadmaps
7 16 (9.47%) Code Coverage
7 16 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (9.47%) Process Improvement
8 15 (8.88%) Code Quality
8 15 (8.88%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (8.88%) Migration
8 15 (8.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 15 (8.88%) SDLC
8 15 (8.88%) Test Management
9 14 (8.28%) Collaborative Working
9 14 (8.28%) Customer Requirements
9 14 (8.28%) Unit Testing
9 14 (8.28%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 29 (17.16%) Python
2 26 (15.38%) SQL
3 22 (13.02%) Java
4 15 (8.88%) C
5 12 (7.10%) C++
6 10 (5.92%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.33%) Bash
7 9 (5.33%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.14%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.37%) C#
10 2 (1.18%) ProC
10 2 (1.18%) R
10 2 (1.18%) Scala
10 2 (1.18%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.59%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 47 (27.81%) Security Cleared
2 37 (21.89%) Degree
3 26 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 23 (13.61%) DV Cleared
5 14 (8.28%) ISTQB
6 13 (7.69%) IIBA
6 13 (7.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 12 (7.10%) Master's Degree
8 8 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (4.73%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.78%) FFIEC
10 2 (1.18%) IBM Certification
10 2 (1.18%) ISEB
10 2 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.59%) CEH
11 1 (0.59%) CISA
11 1 (0.59%) CISM
11 1 (0.59%) CISSP
11 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.06%) QA
2 13 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 12 (7.10%) GDPR
3 12 (7.10%) Good Clinical Practice
3 12 (7.10%) GxP
4 11 (6.51%) PCI DSS
5 8 (4.73%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.96%) NIST
7 4 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.59%) HL7
8 1 (0.59%) SLA
8 1 (0.59%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (8.28%) Docker
2 7 (4.14%) vSphere
3 4 (2.37%) Firmware
3 4 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.37%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.37%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (6.51%) Grafana
2 8 (4.73%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.55%) Terraform
4 4 (2.37%) Ansible
5 3 (1.78%) Kibana
6 1 (0.59%) logstash
6 1 (0.59%) Nessus
Vendors
1 18 (10.65%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.33%) Oracle
2 9 (5.33%) SAP
3 6 (3.55%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.37%) Atlassian
4 4 (2.37%) VMware
5 3 (1.78%) Databricks
6 2 (1.18%) IBM
6 2 (1.18%) IDERA
7 1 (0.59%) Ab Initio
7 1 (0.59%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.59%) Pega
7 1 (0.59%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.59%) RedGate
7 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.59%) SimCorp
7 1 (0.59%) Splunk
7 1 (0.59%) Wind River