Requirements Gathering Contracts in Scotland

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 81 105 64
Rank change year-on-year +24 -41 +14
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 42 60 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.96% 2.22% 3.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 2.40% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 40 94
10th Percentile £237 £363 £391
25th Percentile £282 £407 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £436
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +8.88% +5.12%
75th Percentile £515 £500 £500
90th Percentile £561 £551 £550
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,884 2,495 3,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.04% 92.48% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,766 2,240
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £17.67
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Scotland

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in Scotland

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Scotland

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +23 18 £282 -37.33% 8
Glasgow +11 16 £483 -3.50% 11
Lanarkshire +5 3 £488 - 2
Perthshire +6 2 £450 -10.00%
Aberdeen - 1 - - 1
Requirements Gathering
UK

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (2.38%) Confluence
1 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.29%) Azure
2 5 (11.90%) AWS
3 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.38%) Figma
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 3 (7.14%) RDBMS
1 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.19%) Finance
3 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.14%) Banking
5 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (59.52%) Analyst
2 19 (45.24%) Business Analyst
3 7 (16.67%) Consultant
3 7 (16.67%) Management Consultant
3 7 (16.67%) Service Management Consultant
3 7 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
4 5 (11.90%) Systems Analyst
5 4 (9.52%) Project Manager
6 3 (7.14%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Banking Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Data Business Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Digital Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Digital Business Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Implementation Consultant
7 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Lead
7 2 (4.76%) Service Implementation Consultant
8 1 (2.38%) Payments Analyst
8 1 (2.38%) Salesforce Analyst
8 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.38%) NHS
3 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (2.38%) Taxonomies
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (76.19%) Agile
2 9 (21.43%) Business Analysis
2 9 (21.43%) Process Management
3 8 (19.05%) Service Management
3 8 (19.05%) User Stories
4 7 (16.67%) Coaching
4 7 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 7 (16.67%) Project Management
4 7 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 6 (14.29%) ITIL
5 6 (14.29%) ITSM
6 5 (11.90%) Change Management
6 5 (11.90%) Scrum
6 5 (11.90%) Systems Analysis
6 5 (11.90%) Use Case
7 4 (9.52%) Business Process Modelling
7 4 (9.52%) Business Transformation
7 4 (9.52%) DevOps
7 4 (9.52%) Epics
7 4 (9.52%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.05%) SQL
2 4 (9.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.05%) SLA
2 6 (14.29%) QA
3 3 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.38%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) ServiceNow
2 4 (9.52%) Avaloq
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.38%) Salesforce