Requirements Management Contracts

Requirements Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Requirements Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Requirements Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 525 605
Rank change year-on-year +59 +80 -91
Contract jobs citing Requirements Management 132 189 252
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.32% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.35% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 106 132
10th Percentile £475 £425 £400
25th Percentile £498 £488 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £487
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +10.78% +8.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £593
90th Percentile £700 £694 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £569 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +8.33% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 37 51
10th Percentile £55.60 £47.50 -
25th Percentile £60.25 £51.19 £39.75
Median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +46.07% +1.71%
75th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £53.38
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £52.80
% change year-on-year -6.92% +23.12% +17.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Requirements Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,562 53,490 80,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.88% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,188 37,115 56,434
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,451 1,742 1,926
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.00%

Requirements Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Management in the UK

Requirements Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Management.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Management in the UK

Requirements Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Management in the UK

Requirements Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Management.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Management in the UK

Requirements Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Requirements Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Requirements Management in the UK

Requirements Management
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +103 122 £550 +3.77% 113
UK excluding London +28 84 £569 +8.33% 105
South East +31 54 £525 +5.00% 26
London +84 39 £550 -0.90% 18
Work from Home +94 36 £550 +10.00% 38
South West +10 11 £600 -2.04% 21
Midlands +28 6 £619 +7.61% 13
West Midlands +28 5 £619 +7.61% 10
East of England -3 5 - - 12
Scotland +41 4 - - 8
North of England +24 4 £663 +26.79% 22
North West +23 4 £663 +27.40% 19
East Midlands +17 1 - - 3

Requirements Management
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 8 (6.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Simulink
2 2 (1.52%) Stateflow
3 1 (0.76%) CATIA
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Primavera
1 4 (3.03%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (8.33%) Azure
2 9 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (4.55%) AWS
3 6 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (4.55%) PaaS
3 6 (4.55%) SaaS
4 2 (1.52%) BlazeMeter
4 2 (1.52%) BrowserStack
4 2 (1.52%) Firebase
4 2 (1.52%) Miro
4 2 (1.52%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.52%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 2 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.64%) Ethernet
2 14 (10.61%) SD-WAN
3 4 (3.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.30%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.52%) Power BI
4 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (26.52%) Rational DOORS
2 13 (9.85%) JIRA
3 3 (2.27%) GitLab
4 2 (1.52%) Appium
4 2 (1.52%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.52%) JMeter
4 2 (1.52%) Postman
4 2 (1.52%) Rational Team Concert
5 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.76%) Git
5 1 (0.76%) MagicDraw
5 1 (0.76%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 26 (19.70%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.94%) Electronics
3 22 (16.67%) Finance
4 15 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (10.61%) Marketing
5 14 (10.61%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.82%) Manufacturing
7 8 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (5.30%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (4.55%) Aerospace
9 6 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (3.03%) Banking
11 2 (1.52%) Automotive
11 2 (1.52%) Back Office
11 2 (1.52%) German Language
11 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.52%) Law
11 2 (1.52%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.76%) Police
Job Titles
1 40 (30.30%) Analyst
2 35 (26.52%) Business Analyst
3 31 (23.48%) Senior
4 26 (19.70%) Architect
5 20 (15.15%) Network Architect
6 18 (13.64%) Consultant
7 14 (10.61%) Systems Engineer
8 12 (9.09%) Business IT Analyst
8 12 (9.09%) IT Analyst
8 12 (9.09%) IT Business Analyst
8 12 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
9 10 (7.58%) Senior Business Analyst
10 9 (6.82%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
11 8 (6.06%) Agile Business Analyst
11 8 (6.06%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 7 (5.30%) Lead
13 6 (4.55%) DOORS Engineer
13 6 (4.55%) Network Engineer
13 6 (4.55%) Senior Integration Engineer
13 6 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.52%) .NET
1 2 (1.52%) Middleware
1 2 (1.52%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (0.76%) Node.js
2 1 (0.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.39%) Analogue Electronics
2 18 (13.64%) Robotics
3 11 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 8 (6.06%) IoT
5 6 (4.55%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.03%) Device Driver
6 4 (3.03%) PCIe
6 4 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.03%) Verilog
6 4 (3.03%) VHDL
7 3 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.76%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.61%) Windows
2 8 (6.06%) Unix
3 5 (3.79%) Linux
3 5 (3.79%) VxWorks
4 4 (3.03%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (26.52%) Agile
2 34 (25.76%) Systems Engineering
3 26 (19.70%) Network Management
3 26 (19.70%) SIEM
3 26 (19.70%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (16.67%) Validation
5 20 (15.15%) Business Analysis
5 20 (15.15%) Presales
6 18 (13.64%) Prototyping
7 16 (12.12%) Customer Requirements
7 16 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (12.12%) Risk Management
8 15 (11.36%) Design for Manufacturing
9 14 (10.61%) Test Strategy
10 13 (9.85%) ITIL
10 13 (9.85%) Requirements Analysis
11 12 (9.09%) DevOps
12 11 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
12 11 (8.33%) UML
12 11 (8.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.30%) C
2 4 (3.03%) Embedded C
2 4 (3.03%) MATLAB
3 3 (2.27%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.52%) Fortran
4 2 (1.52%) SQL
5 1 (0.76%) Assembly Language
5 1 (0.76%) C++
5 1 (0.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 47 (35.61%) Security Cleared
2 30 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 22 (16.67%) Degree
4 10 (7.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (7.58%) Master's Degree
5 8 (6.06%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (3.03%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.52%) CBAP
8 1 (0.76%) APMP
8 1 (0.76%) CSPO
8 1 (0.76%) HND
8 1 (0.76%) IIBA
8 1 (0.76%) ISEB
8 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.82%) PCI DSS
2 7 (5.30%) QA
3 5 (3.79%) MISRA
3 5 (3.79%) MISRA C
4 3 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.76%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 1 (0.76%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (3.03%) Firmware
2 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (5.30%) SAP
2 5 (3.79%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.79%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.03%) Atlassian
3 4 (3.03%) Intel
4 3 (2.27%) Oracle
5 2 (1.52%) MathWorks
6 1 (0.76%) IBM
6 1 (0.76%) Mentor Graphics
6 1 (0.76%) Siemens
6 1 (0.76%) Sybase
6 1 (0.76%) VMware