Requirements Analysis Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Requirements Analysis
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Requirements Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 454 361
Rank change year-on-year -36 -93 +136
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Analysis 32 104 218
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.075% 0.29% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.096% 0.32% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 19 55 132
10th Percentile £46,200 £46,750 £42,439
25th Percentile £53,750 £61,500 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,250 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,410 32,047 30,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.40% 89.07% 88.63%
Number of salaries quoted 19,288 14,407 22,672
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,971
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.83% -5.51%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Requirements Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Requirements Analysis job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Requirements Analysis
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Requirements Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Requirements Analysis

Requirements Analysis
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Requirements Analysis in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Requirements Analysis in the UK excluding London

Requirements Analysis
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Analysis within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Midlands +22 8 £62,500 - 7
West Midlands +21 8 £62,500 - 3
South East +12 8 £69,250 -1.07% 17
South West -38 7 £62,500 -7.41% 7
East of England +22 4 £65,000 -5.45% 5
North West +23 3 £60,000 +29.78% 3
North of England +12 3 £60,000 +41.18% 4
Scotland +3 2 £30,000 -20.10% 3
Requirements Analysis
UK

Requirements Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Azure
2 7 (21.88%) AWS
3 3 (9.38%) Serverless
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.25%) Azure AKS
4 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.25%) GCP
4 2 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.13%) Azure AI
5 1 (3.13%) GitHub
5 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) 4G
1 1 (3.13%) 5G
1 1 (3.13%) Broadband
1 1 (3.13%) GSM
1 1 (3.13%) LTE
1 1 (3.13%) TETRA
1 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) DynamoDB
1 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.38%) MySQL
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.13%) Data Mining
4 1 (3.13%) Power BI
4 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) GitLab
2 3 (9.38%) Git
2 3 (9.38%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.13%) IntelliJ
4 1 (3.13%) jMock
4 1 (3.13%) JUnit
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Avionics
2 4 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.25%) Retail
5 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.13%) Electronics
5 1 (3.13%) Marketing
5 1 (3.13%) Police
5 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Senior
2 6 (18.75%) Project Manager
3 5 (15.63%) Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Hardware Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Hardware Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Business Analyst Team Leader
6 2 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Developer
6 2 (6.25%) IT Manager
6 2 (6.25%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Lead
6 2 (6.25%) Lead Business Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Team Leader
7 1 (3.13%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) RESTful
2 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.25%) .NET
3 2 (6.25%) CSS
3 2 (6.25%) HTML
3 2 (6.25%) React
3 2 (6.25%) Vue
4 1 (3.13%) Java EE
4 1 (3.13%) Java SE
4 1 (3.13%) Middleware
4 1 (3.13%) Quarkus
4 1 (3.13%) Swing
4 1 (3.13%) Web Services
4 1 (3.13%) WPF
4 1 (3.13%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
1 3 (9.38%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (9.38%) Virtual Team
2 2 (6.25%) PMI
2 2 (6.25%) Private Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.13%) CMDB
3 1 (3.13%) FPGA
3 1 (3.13%) GNSS
3 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.13%) NVMe
3 1 (3.13%) PCIe
3 1 (3.13%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Agile
2 10 (31.25%) Validation
3 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 7 (21.88%) DevOps
5 7 (21.88%) Software Engineering
6 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 6 (18.75%) PRINCE2
7 5 (15.63%) Coaching
7 5 (15.63%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (15.63%) Customer Requirements
7 5 (15.63%) ERP
7 5 (15.63%) Microservices
8 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (12.50%) SDLC
8 4 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
9 3 (9.38%) Business Process Modelling
9 3 (9.38%) Containerisation
9 3 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (9.38%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) SQL
2 5 (15.63%) Java
3 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.50%) Python
4 2 (6.25%) C#
4 2 (6.25%) Go
4 2 (6.25%) VB.NET
5 1 (3.13%) Assembly Language
5 1 (3.13%) C
5 1 (3.13%) C++
5 1 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (3.13%) R
5 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.13%) VB
5 1 (3.13%) VB6
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (18.75%) Degree
2 6 (18.75%) DV Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) HNC
4 3 (9.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (6.25%) CAPM
5 2 (6.25%) PMI Certification
5 2 (6.25%) PMP
6 1 (3.13%) APMP
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (3.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Ansible
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.25%) Rancher
1 2 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.13%) Altera
2 1 (3.13%) Databricks
2 1 (3.13%) EMC
2 1 (3.13%) Xilinx