Requirements Analysis Contracts in England

Requirements Analysis
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Requirements Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Requirements Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 415 461
Rank change year-on-year +18 +46 +76
Contract jobs citing Requirements Analysis 97 139 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.37% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.44% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 104 124
10th Percentile £410 £402 £450
25th Percentile £430 £422 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £542 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.59% -1.50% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £596 £675
90th Percentile £750 £707 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 10
10th Percentile - £62.25 £41.90
25th Percentile - £65.63 £45.14
Median hourly rate £86.00 £68.75 £73.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.09% -6.78% +309.72%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £88.44
90th Percentile - £77.25 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £86.00 £60.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +42.15% -10.37% +275.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 23,546 31,936 42,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.13% 85.56% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,157 20,719 29,767
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.86% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,176 2,324 1,553
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.14 £75.82
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

Requirements Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Analysis in England

Requirements Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Analysis in England

Requirements Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Analysis in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Analysis in England

Requirements Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Analysis in England

Requirements Analysis
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Analysis within the England region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +35 54 £550 -3.51% 121
North of England +20 18 £511 +24.70% 40
North West +20 17 £511 +24.70% 21
Midlands +8 10 £430 +1.18% 43
East Midlands +5 8 £430 +20.79% 11
South East +22 6 £538 +2.38% 59
South West +27 3 £425 -29.17% 29
East of England +11 2 £406 -0.91% 40
West Midlands +10 2 - - 32
North East - 1 £625 - 1
Requirements Analysis
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Requirements Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (4.12%) Apache
1 4 (4.12%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.06%) Confluence
3 1 (1.03%) CMS
3 1 (1.03%) IIS
3 1 (1.03%) JBoss
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.03%) SAS
3 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (6.19%) MS Visio
2 5 (5.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.03%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (7.22%) SAP HR
1 7 (7.22%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.31%) AWS
2 7 (7.22%) Azure
3 2 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.03%) Collibra
4 1 (1.03%) GCP
4 1 (1.03%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) Internet
2 1 (1.03%) HTTP
2 1 (1.03%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.25%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.15%) DB2
2 5 (5.15%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.12%) Big Data
3 4 (4.12%) Hadoop
3 4 (4.12%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.06%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.03%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.03%) Data Hub
5 1 (1.03%) DataStage
5 1 (1.03%) DTS
5 1 (1.03%) GIS
5 1 (1.03%) Metadata
5 1 (1.03%) MySQL
5 1 (1.03%) QualityStage
5 1 (1.03%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.03%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.03%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (6.19%) TestRail
2 5 (5.15%) JIRA
3 3 (3.09%) Selenium
4 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.06%) Git
5 1 (1.03%) Appium
5 1 (1.03%) Gradle
5 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.03%) JMeter
5 1 (1.03%) JUnit
5 1 (1.03%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.03%) Maven
5 1 (1.03%) NUnit
5 1 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (45.36%) Social Skills
2 25 (25.77%) Finance
3 14 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.40%) Front Office
5 9 (9.28%) Banking
5 9 (9.28%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (7.22%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (6.19%) Retail
8 5 (5.15%) Public Sector
9 4 (4.12%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.06%) Law
10 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.06%) Marketing
10 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.06%) Spanish Language
11 1 (1.03%) Advertising
11 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.03%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (41.24%) Analyst
2 31 (31.96%) Business Analyst
3 14 (14.43%) Architect
4 13 (13.40%) Developer
5 9 (9.28%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (9.28%) Test Analyst
6 8 (8.25%) Project Manager
7 7 (7.22%) C# Developer
7 7 (7.22%) Senior
7 7 (7.22%) Technical Analyst
7 7 (7.22%) Technical Business Analyst
7 7 (7.22%) Test Engineer
8 6 (6.19%) .NET Developer
8 6 (6.19%) C# .NET Developer
8 6 (6.19%) Consultant
8 6 (6.19%) Retail Business Analyst
8 6 (6.19%) SAP Consultant
9 5 (5.15%) Payroll Consultant
9 5 (5.15%) SAP Payroll Consultant
9 5 (5.15%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.22%) .NET
1 7 (7.22%) .NET Framework
1 7 (7.22%) RESTful
2 6 (6.19%) Reactive Extensions
3 5 (5.15%) Akka.NET
3 5 (5.15%) Spring
4 4 (4.12%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.12%) React
4 4 (4.12%) Web Services
5 2 (2.06%) DCOM
5 2 (2.06%) REST
6 1 (1.03%) ADO
6 1 (1.03%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.03%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (1.03%) HTML
6 1 (1.03%) HTML5
6 1 (1.03%) SAP PI
6 1 (1.03%) SOAP
6 1 (1.03%) WebSockets
6 1 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.19%) Fixed Income
2 5 (5.15%) Life Science
2 5 (5.15%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.12%) CMDB
3 4 (4.12%) LIMS
4 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.06%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.03%) Acoustics
5 1 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.03%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.03%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.03%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.03%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.22%) Linux
2 6 (6.19%) Unix
3 1 (1.03%) Android
3 1 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (48.45%) Agile
2 26 (26.80%) Project Management
3 23 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (21.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (19.59%) Business Analysis
6 17 (17.53%) Validation
7 15 (15.46%) Requirements Gathering
8 14 (14.43%) Decision-Making
8 14 (14.43%) Scrum
9 12 (12.37%) Test Automation
10 11 (11.34%) Data Analysis
10 11 (11.34%) DevOps
10 11 (11.34%) User Acceptance Testing
11 10 (10.31%) Computer Science
11 10 (10.31%) Data Modelling
12 9 (9.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 8 (8.25%) Data Management
13 8 (8.25%) GAP Analysis
13 8 (8.25%) SDLC
13 8 (8.25%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.34%) Java
2 8 (8.25%) C#
3 7 (7.22%) Python
4 5 (5.15%) F#
4 5 (5.15%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.15%) Shell Script
5 4 (4.12%) Perl
5 4 (4.12%) Scala
5 4 (4.12%) SQL
5 4 (4.12%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.03%) C
6 1 (1.03%) C++
6 1 (1.03%) Korn
6 1 (1.03%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.03%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (13.40%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.37%) Degree
3 7 (7.22%) DV Cleared
3 7 (7.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 6 (6.19%) ISTQB
4 6 (6.19%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.06%) CISM
5 2 (2.06%) CRISC
5 2 (2.06%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.06%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.06%) PMP
6 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.03%) ISEB
6 1 (1.03%) PhD
6 1 (1.03%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.25%) QA
2 4 (4.12%) GxP
2 4 (4.12%) HIPAA
3 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.06%) PMO
5 1 (1.03%) EMIR
5 1 (1.03%) MiFID
5 1 (1.03%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (1.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.03%) Terraform
1 1 (1.03%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (13.40%) Microsoft
1 13 (13.40%) SAP
2 7 (7.22%) Oracle
3 4 (4.12%) ServiceNow
3 4 (4.12%) Sybase
4 3 (3.09%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.03%) Databricks
5 1 (1.03%) Hitachi
5 1 (1.03%) HP
5 1 (1.03%) IBM
5 1 (1.03%) Informatica
5 1 (1.03%) Pega
5 1 (1.03%) Sparx
5 1 (1.03%) Trayport
5 1 (1.03%) VMware
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