Requirements Engineering Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Requirements Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Requirements Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Requirements Engineering 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 300 329 467
Rank change year-on-year +29 +138 +108
Contract jobs citing Requirements Engineering 4 16 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.10% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% 0.12% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 7
10th Percentile - £365 £475
25th Percentile £615 £403 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £466 £570
Median % change year-on-year +35.12% -18.20% +14.00%
75th Percentile £645 £538 £638
90th Percentile - £549 £678
UK median daily rate £575 £410 £570
% change year-on-year +40.24% -28.07% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £22.16
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £65.50 £55.25
% change year-on-year +14.50% +18.55% +40.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Requirements Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Requirements Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Requirements Engineering trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Requirements Engineering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Requirements Engineering.

Requirements Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Requirements Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Requirements Engineering.

Requirements Engineering hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Requirements Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) German Language
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Angular Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) UI Developer
2 1 (25.00%) UI/UX Developer
2 1 (25.00%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) RxJS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
3 1 (25.00%) Product Management
3 1 (25.00%) Product Vision
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft