Requirements Analysis Job Trends in the North West

Requirements Analysis
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Requirements Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 203 161
Rank change year-on-year +25 -42 +118
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Analysis 3 4 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.049% 0.077% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.058% 0.085% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 16
10th Percentile - £42,007 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,143 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £46,232 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +29.78% -21.31% -9.62%
75th Percentile £65,000 £49,266 £70,000
90th Percentile - £50,370 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Requirements Analysis 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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,141 4,689 3,469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.40% 90.17% 89.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,474 2,328 2,662
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Requirements Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Requirements Analysis relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Requirements Analysis job vacancy trend in the North West

Requirements Analysis
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Requirements Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Requirements Analysis

Requirements Analysis
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Analysis within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +27 3 £60,000 - 4
Requirements Analysis
England

Requirements Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
2 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Go
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Rancher
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform