Requirements Analysis Jobs

Requirements Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Requirements Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Requirements Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 442 464
Rank change year-on-year -101 +22 +113
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Analysis 190 539 640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.54% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.63% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 97 263 228
10th Percentile £47,000 £40,787 £40,520
25th Percentile £48,869 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% +1.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,750 £63,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.33% +15.45% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,544 85,078 94,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.81% 85.26% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,695 59,840 55,939
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,071 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Requirements Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Requirements Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Analysis in the UK

Requirements Analysis
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Requirements Analysis.

Salary trend for Requirements Analysis in the UK

Requirements Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Requirements Analysis over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Requirements Analysis in the UK

Requirements Analysis
Top 13 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 May 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
England -93 173 £61,500 -3.15% 147
UK excluding London -48 154 £60,750 -4.33% 125
Work from Home -2 63 £50,055 -22.99% 109
South West +41 53 £72,500 +11.54% 33
North of England +18 39 £50,055 +0.11% 16
North West -5 39 £50,055 -22.99% 6
South East +20 35 £61,500 -12.14% 33
London +52 24 £100,000 +56.86% 42
Midlands +15 15 £60,000 +14.29% 9
West Midlands +33 12 £46,250 -26.00% 5
Scotland +85 9 £52,500 +25.75% 8
East of England +33 3 £70,000 +7.69% 28
East Midlands -12 2 £68,500 +37.00% 3

Requirements Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.11%) CICS
2 3 (1.58%) Confluence
3 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.11%) Simulink
2 3 (1.58%) Maya
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.58%) SAP CO
1 3 (1.58%) SAP FI
1 3 (1.58%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (1.58%) SAP FSCM
1 3 (1.58%) SAP IBP
1 3 (1.58%) SAP IS-U
1 3 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 24 (12.63%) AWS
2 13 (6.84%) Azure
3 11 (5.79%) GitHub
4 6 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (3.16%) Amazon S3
4 6 (3.16%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.16%) Serverless
5 5 (2.63%) SaaS
6 3 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.58%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.58%) npm
6 3 (1.58%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.05%) Smartsheet
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (0.53%) AWS IoT
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.53%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.53%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.42%) 5G
1 16 (8.42%) SD-WAN
1 16 (8.42%) WAN
2 4 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.05%) ATM
3 2 (1.05%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.53%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.53%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.53%) Firewall
4 1 (0.53%) HTTP
4 1 (0.53%) Internet
4 1 (0.53%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (0.53%) Modbus
4 1 (0.53%) MQTT
4 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.53%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.53%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.32%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.21%) Data Lake
3 6 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.63%) DB2
4 5 (2.63%) Power BI
4 5 (2.63%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.11%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.11%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.58%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.58%) MySQL
6 3 (1.58%) SAP BW
7 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.53%) DataStage
8 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.53%) QualityStage
8 1 (0.53%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.53%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 27 (14.21%) Git
2 14 (7.37%) GitLab
2 14 (7.37%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.21%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.68%) ClearCase
4 7 (3.68%) Rational DOORS
5 6 (3.16%) JIRA
6 3 (1.58%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.58%) MSTest
6 3 (1.58%) NUnit
6 3 (1.58%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.58%) Subversion
6 3 (1.58%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.05%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.53%) FitNesse
8 1 (0.53%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.53%) Selenium
General
1 51 (26.84%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.42%) Electronics
3 34 (17.89%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (17.37%) Finance
5 21 (11.05%) Avionics
6 12 (6.32%) Marketing
6 12 (6.32%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (5.79%) Law
8 9 (4.74%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.16%) Banking
10 5 (2.63%) Police
11 4 (2.11%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.58%) Front Office
12 3 (1.58%) Games
12 3 (1.58%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.58%) Military
12 3 (1.58%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.05%) Automotive
13 2 (1.05%) Aviation
14 1 (0.53%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 74 (38.95%) Senior
2 52 (27.37%) Software Engineer
3 34 (17.89%) Systems Engineer
4 27 (14.21%) Design Engineer
5 26 (13.68%) Engineering Manager
6 23 (12.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 17 (8.95%) Electronics Design Engineer
7 17 (8.95%) Electronics Engineer
7 17 (8.95%) Senior Design Engineer
7 17 (8.95%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
7 17 (8.95%) Senior Electronics Engineer
8 15 (7.89%) Analyst
9 14 (7.37%) Lead
10 13 (6.84%) Developer
11 11 (5.79%) Business Analyst
12 8 (4.21%) C Software Engineer
12 8 (4.21%) C++ Software Engineer
12 8 (4.21%) Project Leader
12 8 (4.21%) Technical Leader
12 8 (4.21%) Technical Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.37%) XML
2 12 (6.32%) React
3 11 (5.79%) .NET
3 11 (5.79%) AngularJS
3 11 (5.79%) REST
4 9 (4.74%) JSON
5 8 (4.21%) J2EE
6 7 (3.68%) .NET Framework
6 7 (3.68%) HTML
6 7 (3.68%) XSD
7 6 (3.16%) CSS
7 6 (3.16%) Node.js
7 6 (3.16%) RESTful
7 6 (3.16%) Swagger
8 5 (2.63%) GWT
8 5 (2.63%) JPA
8 5 (2.63%) Kafka
8 5 (2.63%) Middleware
8 5 (2.63%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.63%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.47%) Optoelectronics
2 16 (8.42%) Self-Driving Car
3 13 (6.84%) GNSS
4 9 (4.74%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.21%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.21%) Private Cloud
6 7 (3.68%) Wiki
7 6 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.63%) FPGA
8 5 (2.63%) MicroBlaze
8 5 (2.63%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.63%) Satnav
8 5 (2.63%) VHDL
8 5 (2.63%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.58%) Credit Derivative
9 3 (1.58%) Derivative
9 3 (1.58%) Equities
9 3 (1.58%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.58%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.53%) Linux
2 7 (3.68%) Windows
3 5 (2.63%) Rocky
4 3 (1.58%) zOS
5 1 (0.53%) Android
5 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (44.74%) Agile
2 63 (33.16%) Software Engineering
3 43 (22.63%) Test Automation
4 41 (21.58%) Prototyping
4 41 (21.58%) Validation
5 39 (20.53%) UML
6 35 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (13.16%) Computer Science
8 24 (12.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (12.63%) Systems Engineering
9 23 (12.11%) Continuous Integration
10 21 (11.05%) B2B
10 21 (11.05%) Defect Tracking
10 21 (11.05%) Project Management
11 20 (10.53%) Microservices
11 20 (10.53%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
11 20 (10.53%) SysML
12 18 (9.47%) DevOps
12 18 (9.47%) Schematic Capture
12 18 (9.47%) Stress Analysis
Programming Languages
1 32 (16.84%) SQL
2 29 (15.26%) Java
3 21 (11.05%) Python
4 20 (10.53%) C
5 17 (8.95%) C++
6 13 (6.84%) C#
6 13 (6.84%) JavaScript
7 10 (5.26%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.74%) MATLAB
8 9 (4.74%) Perl
9 7 (3.68%) Bash
10 5 (2.63%) Tcl
10 5 (2.63%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.63%) VB
11 4 (2.11%) COBOL
11 4 (2.11%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.58%) VBA
13 1 (0.53%) PHP
13 1 (0.53%) REXX
13 1 (0.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 90 (47.37%) Degree
2 28 (14.74%) BPSS Clearance
3 18 (9.47%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.68%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.68%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.63%) HNC
5 5 (2.63%) HND
6 3 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.53%) APMP
7 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.53%) PMO
2 6 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.11%) QA
4 3 (1.58%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.58%) NIST
4 3 (1.58%) SEPA
4 3 (1.58%) WCAG
5 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.53%) GDPR
5 1 (0.53%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.53%) JTAG
5 1 (0.53%) NIST 800
System Software
1 24 (12.63%) Embedded Firmware
1 24 (12.63%) Firmware
2 12 (6.32%) Docker
3 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.68%) Terraform
3 3 (1.58%) Grafana
4 2 (1.05%) Argo
4 2 (1.05%) CA Endevor
4 2 (1.05%) Graylog
4 2 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.53%) Ansible
5 1 (0.53%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 11 (5.79%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.26%) Oracle
3 5 (2.63%) Altera
3 5 (2.63%) Green Hills
3 5 (2.63%) Red Hat
3 5 (2.63%) SAP
3 5 (2.63%) Xilinx
4 4 (2.11%) IBM
4 4 (2.11%) Intel
5 2 (1.05%) Planview
5 2 (1.05%) Splunk
5 2 (1.05%) Workday
6 1 (0.53%) Databricks
6 1 (0.53%) Google
6 1 (0.53%) Lauterbach
6 1 (0.53%) MathWorks
6 1 (0.53%) NVIDIA