Requirements Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Requirements Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Requirements Analysis over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 448 458 570
Rank change year-on-year +10 +112 +73
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Analysis 539 657 911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.66% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.69% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 261 229 436
10th Percentile £40,750 £40,654 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £62,500 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% +10.13% +19.47%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.45% +4.76% +22.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Requirements Analysis in the UK

Requirements Analysis
Top 17 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 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +32 457 £63,500 +5.83% 100
UK excluding London -16 436 £63,500 +15.45% 77
Work from Home +35 203 £65,000 - 45
South West +10 126 £65,000 +8.33% 21
South East +42 104 £70,000 +40.00% 22
London +59 87 £63,750 -7.21% 34
North of England -24 66 £50,000 -23.08% 9
Midlands -3 64 £52,500 +40.00% 11
North West -44 43 £65,000 - 3
East Midlands -30 38 £50,000 +33.33% 6
Scotland -60 36 £41,750 - 6
West Midlands +29 26 £62,500 +47.06% 5
Yorkshire +67 22 £35,000 -27.56% 4
Wales +2 17 £75,000 +47.78% 2
Northern Ireland +28 14 £72,500 +61.11%
East of England -37 9 £65,000 +18.18% 7
North East -4 1 £75,000 +57.89% 2

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 6 (1.11%) IIS
2 2 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.37%) Simulink
3 2 (0.37%) Stateflow
3 2 (0.37%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 24 (4.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (2.04%) NEC Housing
3 7 (1.30%) Magento
4 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.19%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 95 (17.63%) Azure
2 87 (16.14%) AWS
3 15 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
4 11 (2.04%) OCI
5 10 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (1.11%) Amazon S3
8 6 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (1.11%) Power Platform
8 6 (1.11%) Serverless
9 5 (0.93%) SaaS
10 4 (0.74%) Google Docs
11 3 (0.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.56%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.19%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.19%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.71%) 5G
1 20 (3.71%) SD-WAN
1 20 (3.71%) WAN
2 16 (2.97%) Firewall
2 16 (2.97%) Internet
3 7 (1.30%) FTP
4 6 (1.11%) Network Security
5 3 (0.56%) Multicast
5 3 (0.56%) VPN
6 2 (0.37%) Intranet
6 2 (0.37%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.37%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.19%) HTTP
7 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.24%) SQL Server
2 23 (4.27%) Data Lake
3 22 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 18 (3.34%) MySQL
5 17 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.30%) Crystal Reports
7 7 (1.30%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.74%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.74%) Power BI
10 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.37%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.37%) Tableau
12 1 (0.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.19%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.19%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 68 (12.62%) GitLab
2 31 (5.75%) Selenium
3 25 (4.64%) Git
4 18 (3.34%) JIRA
5 17 (3.15%) Jenkins
6 15 (2.78%) Visual Studio
7 13 (2.41%) Robot Framework
8 9 (1.67%) TestRail
9 6 (1.11%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (0.74%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.74%) Rational Rhapsody
10 4 (0.74%) Subversion
11 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.56%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.56%) FitNesse
11 3 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.56%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.56%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.56%) WebDriver
12 2 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 102 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 73 (13.54%) Aerospace
3 66 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (10.02%) Finance
5 30 (5.57%) Electronics
6 28 (5.19%) Marketing
7 27 (5.01%) Legal
7 27 (5.01%) Retail
8 24 (4.45%) Law
9 17 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.48%) Advertising
13 8 (1.48%) Automotive
13 8 (1.48%) Public Sector
14 7 (1.30%) Banking
14 7 (1.30%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.30%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 98 (18.18%) Senior
2 87 (16.14%) Analyst
3 84 (15.58%) Lead
4 71 (13.17%) Developer
5 61 (11.32%) Product Manager
6 58 (10.76%) Business Analyst
7 57 (10.58%) Architect
8 46 (8.53%) Technical Leader
9 33 (6.12%) Senior User Researcher
9 33 (6.12%) Systems Engineer
9 33 (6.12%) User Researcher
10 31 (5.75%) Technical Architect
11 28 (5.19%) Software Engineer
12 25 (4.64%) Automation Tester
12 25 (4.64%) Tester
13 24 (4.45%) Consultant
14 23 (4.27%) Junior
14 23 (4.27%) Project Manager
15 22 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
16 21 (3.90%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.90%) React
2 19 (3.53%) HTML
2 19 (3.53%) XML
3 16 (2.97%) .NET
4 11 (2.04%) .NET Framework
5 9 (1.67%) AngularJS
5 9 (1.67%) Entity Framework
5 9 (1.67%) Middleware
5 9 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
6 7 (1.30%) EDI
7 6 (1.11%) ASP.NET
7 6 (1.11%) CSS
8 5 (0.93%) .NET Core
8 5 (0.93%) REST
9 4 (0.74%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (0.74%) LDAP
9 4 (0.74%) NumPy
9 4 (0.74%) Rendezvous
9 4 (0.74%) WCF
10 3 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 64 (11.87%) Private Cloud
2 50 (9.28%) Product Ownership
3 37 (6.86%) Cloud Native
4 22 (4.08%) GNSS
5 21 (3.90%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
8 13 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (2.04%) FPGA
10 9 (1.67%) Robotics
11 8 (1.48%) Housing Association
11 8 (1.48%) MicroBlaze
11 8 (1.48%) VHDL
12 7 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.30%) IoT
12 7 (1.30%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.30%) Taxonomies
13 6 (1.11%) Social Media
14 5 (0.93%) Equities
14 5 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 75 (13.91%) Linux
2 52 (9.65%) Windows
3 5 (0.93%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.74%) Android
4 4 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (59.18%) Agile
2 157 (29.13%) Actionable Insight
3 111 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
4 102 (18.92%) DevOps
5 97 (18.00%) User Research
6 78 (14.47%) Mentoring
7 76 (14.10%) SDLC
8 74 (13.73%) Computer Science
9 72 (13.36%) Collaborative Working
10 68 (12.62%) Continuous Integration
11 65 (12.06%) Code Quality
12 61 (11.32%) Test Automation
13 59 (10.95%) Full Stack Development
13 59 (10.95%) Project Management
13 59 (10.95%) Roadmaps
13 59 (10.95%) Software Engineering
14 57 (10.58%) Business Analysis
14 57 (10.58%) Change Management
14 57 (10.58%) Validation
15 54 (10.02%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 96 (17.81%) Java
2 69 (12.80%) Python
3 64 (11.87%) JavaScript
4 51 (9.46%) TypeScript
5 49 (9.09%) SQL
6 48 (8.91%) C++
7 33 (6.12%) C#
8 32 (5.94%) T-SQL
9 30 (5.57%) C
10 26 (4.82%) Bash
11 21 (3.90%) Perl
12 16 (2.97%) PL/SQL
13 15 (2.78%) MATLAB
14 8 (1.48%) Tcl
14 8 (1.48%) VB
15 5 (0.93%) R
15 5 (0.93%) Scala
16 3 (0.56%) PHP
16 3 (0.56%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.56%) XAML
Qualifications
1 223 (41.37%) Security Cleared
2 139 (25.79%) Degree
3 116 (21.52%) SC Cleared
4 43 (7.98%) DV Cleared
5 17 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.78%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 11 (2.04%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 9 (1.67%) ISTQB
11 8 (1.48%) PMP
12 7 (1.30%) PgMP
13 6 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.93%) CISA
14 5 (0.93%) CISM
14 5 (0.93%) CISSP
14 5 (0.93%) CRISC
14 5 (0.93%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.93%) PhD
14 5 (0.93%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (13.91%) QA
2 33 (6.12%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.45%) PMO
4 8 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.30%) ISO 13485
5 7 (1.30%) ISO 9000
6 6 (1.11%) NIST
7 4 (0.74%) ISO 26262
8 3 (0.56%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.56%) JTAG
8 3 (0.56%) SLA
9 2 (0.37%) ECSS
10 1 (0.19%) COBIT
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.19%) GRC
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.19%) TickIT
System Software
1 25 (4.64%) Docker
2 16 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.41%) Firmware
4 10 (1.86%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (6.68%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.93%) Functional Safety
3 3 (0.56%) Control-M
4 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (6.49%) Oracle
2 32 (5.94%) Microsoft
3 14 (2.60%) ServiceNow
4 11 (2.04%) NEC
5 8 (1.48%) Altera
5 8 (1.48%) Green Hills
5 8 (1.48%) Motorola
5 8 (1.48%) Xilinx
6 7 (1.30%) Epicor
6 7 (1.30%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.74%) BeyondTrust
7 4 (0.74%) CyberArk
7 4 (0.74%) Google
7 4 (0.74%) IBM
7 4 (0.74%) SAP
7 4 (0.74%) Thales
7 4 (0.74%) TIBCO
8 3 (0.56%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.56%) Micro Focus
9 2 (0.37%) VMware