Requirements Engineering Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Requirements Engineering
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Requirements Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Requirements Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 0.54% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £475 - £391
% change year-on-year - - -9.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

Requirements Engineering 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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 152 132 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 82.61% 85.16% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 94 250
10th Percentile £170 £195 £200
25th Percentile £214 £358 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £492
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -8.50% -0.65%
75th Percentile £525 £527 £569
90th Percentile £711 £625 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 5 4
10th Percentile £12.89 £24.45 £15.29
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.00 £19.84
Median hourly rate £16.00 £28.00 £35.38
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -20.85% +74.48%
75th Percentile £20.69 £29.00 £53.52
90th Percentile - £35.75 £63.45
South East median hourly rate £20.40 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.43% +9.24% +64.96%

Requirements Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Job postings citing Requirements Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Engineering in West Sussex

Requirements Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Requirements Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Requirements Engineering

Requirements Engineering
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Engineering within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Crawley - 1 £550 -
Requirements Engineering
South East

Requirements Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) SysML
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Verification and Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared