Requirements Engineering Job Trends in Kent

Requirements Engineering
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Requirements Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Engineering 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £48,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - -
75th Percentile £56,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £51,250 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.82% +22.22% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Kent

Requirements Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,064 476 1,173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 74.46% 91.19% 82.43%
Number of salaries quoted 555 234 880
10th Percentile £26,750 £23,812 £23,725
25th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% +5.29% -13.27%
75th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,431 £70,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

Requirements Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Requirements Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Requirements Engineering job vacancy trend in Kent

Requirements Engineering
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Requirements Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Requirements Engineering

Requirements Engineering
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Engineering within the Kent region over the 6 months to 13 April 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Rochester - 1 £52,500 -
Sandwich - 1 - - 1
Requirements Engineering
South East

Requirements Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Simulink
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (50.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) FMEA
1 1 (50.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Physics
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Management
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Safety Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) SysML
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Def Stans
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Siemens