Requirements Gathering Contracts in England

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Requirements Gathering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 113 99
Rank change year-on-year +5 -14 -8
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 733 1,085 1,886
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.01% 2.25% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 2.50% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 777 1,315
10th Percentile £354 £388 £363
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £636 £626 £588
90th Percentile £725 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 30 13
10th Percentile £23.63 £53.28 £25.50
25th Percentile £32.53 £55.75 £25.64
Median hourly rate £50.25 £61.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% +16.04% +152.38%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £74.38 £67.50 £70.40
UK median hourly rate £50.25 £61.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -18.29% +16.04% +120.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Requirements Gathering 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,464 43,415 63,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.38% 90.10% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,624 30,476 45,458
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,526 1,738
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in England

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in England

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in England

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in England

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Requirements Gathering in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in England

Requirements Gathering
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 Gathering within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London -3 413 £550 - 169
North of England +29 115 £490 +3.16% 65
South East +11 78 £525 +1.94% 49
North West +39 74 £475 +8.57% 37
Midlands +16 69 £377 -24.70% 30
West Midlands +19 61 £359 -28.20% 23
Yorkshire -6 40 £490 -5.77% 23
South West -29 22 £450 +4.35% 31
East of England -2 20 £419 -16.25% 10
East Midlands +5 5 £425 -6.59% 7
Requirements Gathering
UK

Requirements Gathering
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 25 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.18%) Confluence
3 12 (1.64%) CICS
3 12 (1.64%) SAS
4 5 (0.68%) CMS
4 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.27%) IIS
6 2 (0.27%) JBoss
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 20 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.77%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.41%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 39 (5.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (3.82%) Dynamics AX
3 13 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (1.64%) Endur
5 8 (1.09%) SAP PM
6 6 (0.82%) SAP Travel Management
7 5 (0.68%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.55%) Infor SunSystems
8 4 (0.55%) SAP SD
9 3 (0.41%) SAP Hybris
9 3 (0.41%) SAP MII
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.27%) SAP HCM
10 2 (0.27%) WebTrends
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 113 (15.42%) Azure
2 65 (8.87%) Power Platform
3 57 (7.78%) Dynamics 365
4 33 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (4.23%) AWS
6 30 (4.09%) PowerApps
7 28 (3.82%) Power Automate
8 15 (2.05%) SaaS
9 12 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (1.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 8 (1.09%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (1.09%) GCP
11 8 (1.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 8 (1.09%) Snowflake
12 6 (0.82%) Akamai
12 6 (0.82%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.82%) Cloudflare
12 6 (0.82%) SuccessFactors
13 5 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (0.68%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.36%) Cisco IOS
1 10 (1.36%) Network Security
1 10 (1.36%) WAN
2 9 (1.23%) BGP
2 9 (1.23%) Firewall
2 9 (1.23%) LAN
2 9 (1.23%) MPLS
3 8 (1.09%) Junos
3 8 (1.09%) VPN
4 7 (0.95%) SSH
5 6 (0.82%) IOS XR
6 5 (0.68%) Wireshark
7 4 (0.55%) IPsec
7 4 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.41%) DNS
8 3 (0.41%) HTTP
9 2 (0.27%) Broadband
9 2 (0.27%) Internet
9 2 (0.27%) IPv6
9 2 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (7.78%) Power BI
2 33 (4.50%) Data Lake
3 26 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (3.41%) SQL Server
5 18 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (2.46%) DB2
6 17 (2.32%) MySQL
7 11 (1.50%) IDMS
8 10 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (1.23%) Tableau
10 8 (1.09%) Geospatial Data
10 8 (1.09%) KDB
10 8 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (0.95%) Big Data
12 6 (0.82%) GIS
12 6 (0.82%) SAP HANA
13 5 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.68%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13 5 (0.68%) Metadata
14 4 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 51 (6.96%) JIRA
2 38 (5.18%) Git
3 8 (1.09%) Cucumber
3 8 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.95%) JUnit
5 5 (0.68%) GitLab
6 4 (0.55%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.27%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.14%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.14%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.14%) Postman
8 1 (0.14%) Selenium
8 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.14%) WebDriver
General
1 251 (34.24%) Social Skills
2 220 (30.01%) Finance
3 125 (17.05%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (9.28%) Public Sector
5 65 (8.87%) Banking
6 46 (6.28%) Retail
7 39 (5.32%) Manufacturing
8 34 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
9 31 (4.23%) General Ledger
10 24 (3.27%) Front Office
11 23 (3.14%) Back Office
12 19 (2.59%) Marketing
13 17 (2.32%) Pharmaceutical
14 15 (2.05%) Financial Institution
15 12 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (1.36%) Investment Banking
17 9 (1.23%) Billing
18 8 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
18 8 (1.09%) Legal
19 7 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 303 (41.34%) Analyst
2 274 (37.38%) Business Analyst
3 100 (13.64%) Consultant
4 76 (10.37%) Senior
5 75 (10.23%) Developer
6 56 (7.64%) Architect
7 33 (4.50%) Data Business Analyst
7 33 (4.50%) Senior Analyst
8 30 (4.09%) Product Owner
8 30 (4.09%) Senior Business Analyst
9 28 (3.82%) Lead
9 28 (3.82%) SAP Consultant
10 27 (3.68%) Data Analyst
10 27 (3.68%) Project Manager
11 21 (2.86%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 21 (2.86%) Technical Analyst
12 19 (2.59%) Functional Consultant
12 19 (2.59%) Microsoft Consultant
13 18 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
13 18 (2.46%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (3.55%) Web Services
2 18 (2.46%) XML
3 16 (2.18%) .NET
3 16 (2.18%) JSON
4 14 (1.91%) SOAP
5 13 (1.77%) REST
6 11 (1.50%) ASP.NET
7 9 (1.23%) .NET Framework
7 9 (1.23%) Lightning Web Components
7 9 (1.23%) Spring
8 8 (1.09%) HTML
8 8 (1.09%) J2EE
9 7 (0.95%) Hibernate
9 7 (0.95%) JPA
9 7 (0.95%) React
9 7 (0.95%) SAP TM
10 5 (0.68%) ASP.NET Core
10 5 (0.68%) CSS
10 5 (0.68%) EDI
10 5 (0.68%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 64 (8.73%) Product Ownership
2 38 (5.18%) Data Structures
3 28 (3.82%) Management Information System
4 16 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (2.05%) Derivative
6 14 (1.91%) Fixed Income
7 12 (1.64%) IBM Mainframe
7 12 (1.64%) Mainframe
8 10 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.36%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.23%) Equity Derivative
10 8 (1.09%) Reinsurance
11 7 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (0.95%) Replication
11 7 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 5 (0.68%) Equities
12 5 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (0.68%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.46%) Windows
2 13 (1.77%) Linux
3 12 (1.64%) Unix
4 11 (1.50%) zOS
5 4 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.55%) VMS
6 3 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.27%) AIX
7 2 (0.27%) Android
7 2 (0.27%) Solaris
7 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (27.15%) Agile
2 146 (19.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 129 (17.60%) Business Analysis
4 116 (15.83%) User Stories
5 115 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
6 100 (13.64%) Project Management
7 95 (12.96%) Scrum
8 87 (11.87%) User Acceptance Testing
9 86 (11.73%) DevOps
10 78 (10.64%) Migration
11 72 (9.82%) Business Intelligence
12 71 (9.69%) Analytics
13 64 (8.73%) Workshop Facilitation
14 61 (8.32%) Requirements Workshops
15 58 (7.91%) Roadmaps
16 52 (7.09%) Software Engineering
17 50 (6.82%) Data Analysis
17 50 (6.82%) Data Migration
17 50 (6.82%) Data Modelling
17 50 (6.82%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 77 (10.50%) SQL
2 40 (5.46%) Python
3 23 (3.14%) C#
3 23 (3.14%) Java
4 19 (2.59%) PL/SQL
5 15 (2.05%) COBOL
6 13 (1.77%) REXX
7 12 (1.64%) SELCOPY
8 11 (1.50%) CLIST
9 9 (1.23%) JavaScript
10 7 (0.95%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.68%) C++
11 5 (0.68%) Perl
11 5 (0.68%) PowerShell
11 5 (0.68%) XPath
11 5 (0.68%) XQuery
12 4 (0.55%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.55%) VBA
13 3 (0.41%) C
14 2 (0.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 123 (16.78%) Degree
2 86 (11.73%) Security Cleared
3 61 (8.32%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (2.59%) CCNP
7 18 (2.46%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.91%) IIBA
9 11 (1.50%) CBAP
9 11 (1.50%) CCNA
10 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.95%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.68%) JNCIS
13 5 (0.68%) PhD
14 4 (0.55%) ACCA
14 4 (0.55%) CIMA
14 4 (0.55%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.55%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.55%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (7.64%) QA
2 24 (3.27%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.46%) GDPR
4 15 (2.05%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.64%) Good Clinical Practice
5 12 (1.64%) GxP
6 8 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.95%) SLA
8 4 (0.55%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.41%) HL7
9 3 (0.41%) PMO
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.14%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (0.82%) Docker
2 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
3 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (3.00%) Grafana
2 7 (0.95%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.82%) Terraform
4 5 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.55%) Ansible
6 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.41%) SCCM
7 2 (0.27%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 96 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 86 (11.73%) SAP
3 42 (5.73%) Oracle
4 33 (4.50%) Salesforce
5 18 (2.46%) IBM
6 17 (2.32%) Denodo
6 17 (2.32%) Talend
7 16 (2.18%) Cisco
8 13 (1.77%) Syncsort
9 11 (1.50%) F5
10 10 (1.36%) Juniper
10 10 (1.36%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.09%) Avaloq
11 8 (1.09%) Google
12 7 (0.95%) Adobe
13 6 (0.82%) Calypso
13 6 (0.82%) Nokia
13 6 (0.82%) Reuters
14 5 (0.68%) ION Trading
14 5 (0.68%) OpenLink