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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 447 515 570
Rank change year-on-year +68 +55 -21
Contract jobs citing Requirements Management 132 169 276
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.30% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.33% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 99 157
10th Percentile £463 £450 £400
25th Percentile £488 £500 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +12.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £631 £651 £606
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £569 £550 £475
% change year-on-year +3.41% +15.79% +9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 32 44
10th Percentile £37.36 £47.50 -
25th Percentile £41.29 £50.64 £39.75
Median hourly rate £60.25 £65.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.31% +46.07% +7.88%
75th Percentile £60.75 £68.75 £49.44
90th Percentile £62.43 £72.50 £59.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -6.92% +20.37% +35.00%

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 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

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 2 June 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 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Requirements Management in the UK

Requirements Management
Top 14 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 2 June 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 +86 124 £525 -6.25% 102
UK excluding London +38 77 £569 +3.41% 93
London +92 47 £530 -15.20% 9
South East +25 44 £525 - 18
Work from Home +97 36 £550 +10.00% 43
South West +3 9 £600 +4.35% 16
North of England +27 8 £663 +27.40% 26
North West +15 7 £663 +29.90% 20
Midlands +24 6 £619 +12.50% 21
East of England -2 6 £225 -64.54% 9
West Midlands +14 5 £619 +12.50% 13
Scotland - 4 - - 7
East Midlands +10 1 - - 8
North East - 1 - - 2

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 9 (6.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Simulink
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.52%) Stateflow
3 1 (0.76%) CATIA
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Misys Midas
2 2 (1.52%) Primavera
2 2 (1.52%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.76%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 17 (12.88%) Azure
2 9 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (5.30%) Miro
4 6 (4.55%) AWS
4 6 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (4.55%) PaaS
4 6 (4.55%) SaaS
5 4 (3.03%) BlazeMeter
5 4 (3.03%) BrowserStack
5 4 (3.03%) Firebase
5 4 (3.03%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 3 (2.27%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.64%) Ethernet
2 7 (5.30%) SD-WAN
3 4 (3.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.30%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.03%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.03%) SAP HANA
3 3 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.27%) Power BI
4 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (27.27%) Rational DOORS
2 17 (12.88%) JIRA
3 5 (3.79%) GitLab
4 4 (3.03%) Appium
4 4 (3.03%) Cypress.io
4 4 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.03%) JMeter
4 4 (3.03%) Postman
5 2 (1.52%) Git
5 2 (1.52%) Rational Team Concert
6 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.76%) MagicDraw
6 1 (0.76%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 27 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.70%) Finance
3 25 (18.94%) Electronics
4 19 (14.39%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (10.61%) Public Sector
6 13 (9.85%) Marketing
7 9 (6.82%) Manufacturing
8 7 (5.30%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (5.30%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (4.55%) Aerospace
9 6 (4.55%) Back Office
10 5 (3.79%) Banking
10 5 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (3.03%) Military
12 2 (1.52%) German Language
12 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.52%) Law
12 2 (1.52%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.76%) Automotive
13 1 (0.76%) Police
Job Titles
1 47 (35.61%) Analyst
2 41 (31.06%) Business Analyst
3 33 (25.00%) Senior
4 19 (14.39%) Architect
5 18 (13.64%) Consultant
6 16 (12.12%) Senior Analyst
7 14 (10.61%) Senior Business Analyst
8 13 (9.85%) Business IT Analyst
8 13 (9.85%) IT Analyst
8 13 (9.85%) IT Business Analyst
8 13 (9.85%) Network Architect
8 13 (9.85%) Systems Engineer
9 10 (7.58%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
10 8 (6.06%) Agile Business Analyst
11 7 (5.30%) Lead
11 7 (5.30%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 7 (5.30%) Software Engineer
12 6 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (3.79%) Integration Engineer
13 5 (3.79%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.03%) Middleware
1 4 (3.03%) SAP PI
1 4 (3.03%) WebdriverIO
2 2 (1.52%) .NET
3 1 (0.76%) Node.js
3 1 (0.76%) React
3 1 (0.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.39%) Analogue Electronics
2 18 (13.64%) Robotics
3 12 (9.09%) Onboarding
4 8 (6.06%) IoT
5 7 (5.30%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.79%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.03%) Device Driver
7 4 (3.03%) PCIe
7 4 (3.03%) Verilog
7 4 (3.03%) VHDL
8 2 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.76%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.85%) Windows
2 7 (5.30%) Unix
3 5 (3.79%) Linux
3 5 (3.79%) VxWorks
4 4 (3.03%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.09%) Agile
2 31 (23.48%) Systems Engineering
3 26 (19.70%) Validation
4 24 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (16.67%) Business Analysis
6 18 (13.64%) Network Management
6 18 (13.64%) Prototyping
6 18 (13.64%) SIEM
7 17 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (12.12%) Software Engineering
9 15 (11.36%) Design for Manufacturing
9 15 (11.36%) Risk Management
9 15 (11.36%) User Stories
10 14 (10.61%) Customer Requirements
10 14 (10.61%) GAP Analysis
10 14 (10.61%) UML
11 13 (9.85%) Data Migration
11 13 (9.85%) Migration
11 13 (9.85%) Presales
12 12 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.30%) C
2 6 (4.55%) SQL
3 5 (3.79%) JavaScript
3 5 (3.79%) MATLAB
4 4 (3.03%) C++
4 4 (3.03%) Embedded C
5 2 (1.52%) Fortran
6 1 (0.76%) Assembly Language
6 1 (0.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 41 (31.06%) Security Cleared
2 29 (21.97%) SC Cleared
3 23 (17.42%) Degree
4 10 (7.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (7.58%) Master's Degree
5 7 (5.30%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.27%) CBAP
6 3 (2.27%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.52%) HND
8 1 (0.76%) APMP
8 1 (0.76%) CSPO
8 1 (0.76%) EMC Certification
8 1 (0.76%) HNC
8 1 (0.76%) IIBA
8 1 (0.76%) ISEB
8 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.85%) PCI DSS
2 10 (7.58%) QA
3 8 (6.06%) MISRA
3 8 (6.06%) MISRA C
4 5 (3.79%) ISO 20022
5 4 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.76%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (0.76%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (3.03%) Firmware
2 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 12 (9.09%) SAP
2 7 (5.30%) Atlassian
2 7 (5.30%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.79%) CyberSource
3 5 (3.79%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.03%) Intel
5 3 (2.27%) Oracle
6 2 (1.52%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.76%) EMC
7 1 (0.76%) IBM
7 1 (0.76%) Mentor Graphics
7 1 (0.76%) Sybase
7 1 (0.76%) VMware