Requirements Gathering Contracts

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 118 96
Rank change year-on-year +6 -22 -4
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 871 1,296 2,407
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.02% 2.19% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 2.44% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 915 1,662
10th Percentile £339 £384 £363
25th Percentile £405 £432 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £585
90th Percentile £725 £725 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 32 11
10th Percentile £23.63 £51.48 £25.50
25th Percentile £35.50 £55.16 £25.57
Median hourly rate £58.18 £61.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% +44.71% +77.08%
75th Percentile £69.69 £65.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £67.35 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £61.50 £40.33
% change year-on-year -41.46% +52.50% +68.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in the UK

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the UK

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the UK

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the UK

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the UK

Requirements Gathering
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +3 741 £533 +1.52% 395
London -5 412 £550 - 198
Work from Home +29 360 £550 +4.76% 229
UK excluding London +4 348 £475 - 227
North of England +33 116 £490 +7.40% 57
South East +3 81 £525 +2.69% 47
North West +49 77 £475 +11.76% 32
Midlands +11 67 £375 -25.00% 35
West Midlands +9 58 £358 -31.81% 26
Scotland +25 43 £450 - 28
Yorkshire -6 38 £490 -2.00% 18
East of England +13 22 £419 -6.94% 13
South West -15 22 £500 +14.29% 37
East Midlands +10 5 £425 -6.59% 9
Northern Ireland +4 1 £513 +28.13% 8

Requirements Gathering
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 28 (3.21%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.30%) Confluence
3 14 (1.61%) CICS
3 14 (1.61%) SAS
4 7 (0.80%) CMS
5 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.46%) IIS
6 4 (0.46%) JBoss
7 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 23 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.95%) MS Visio
4 11 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.92%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.34%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 45 (5.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (3.33%) Dynamics AX
3 12 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (1.38%) Endur
4 11 (1.26%) SAP SD
5 9 (1.03%) SAP EWM
5 9 (1.03%) SAP PM
6 7 (0.80%) SAP Travel Management
7 5 (0.57%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.46%) Infor SunSystems
8 4 (0.46%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.46%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.46%) SAP PS
9 3 (0.34%) SAP Hybris
9 3 (0.34%) SAP MII
10 2 (0.23%) Magento
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 120 (13.78%) Azure
2 69 (7.92%) Power Platform
3 62 (7.12%) Dynamics 365
4 49 (5.63%) AWS
5 39 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (3.33%) Power Automate
6 29 (3.33%) PowerApps
7 15 (1.72%) GCP
7 15 (1.72%) SaaS
8 14 (1.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 13 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (1.38%) Amazon S3
11 11 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (1.26%) Route 53
11 11 (1.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 11 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (1.15%) Snowflake
12 10 (1.15%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.84%) Network Security
2 13 (1.49%) Cisco IOS
3 12 (1.38%) BGP
3 12 (1.38%) MPLS
4 11 (1.26%) WAN
5 10 (1.15%) Firewall
6 9 (1.03%) IOS XR
6 9 (1.03%) LAN
7 8 (0.92%) Junos
7 8 (0.92%) VPN
8 7 (0.80%) HTTP
8 7 (0.80%) WinSCP
9 5 (0.57%) SSH
9 5 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.57%) Wireshark
10 4 (0.46%) IPsec
11 3 (0.34%) DNS
12 2 (0.23%) Internet
12 2 (0.23%) Intranet
12 2 (0.23%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (6.66%) Power BI
2 36 (4.13%) Data Lake
3 26 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (2.87%) SQL Server
5 22 (2.53%) DB2
6 19 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 18 (2.07%) MySQL
8 13 (1.49%) IDMS
9 11 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
11 8 (0.92%) KDB
11 8 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.92%) Tableau
12 7 (0.80%) Big Data
12 7 (0.80%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.57%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13 5 (0.57%) GIS
13 5 (0.57%) Metadata
13 5 (0.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 62 (7.12%) JIRA
2 49 (5.63%) Git
3 16 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.69%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.57%) GitLab
5 5 (0.57%) JUnit
5 5 (0.57%) Postman
5 5 (0.57%) SoapUI
6 4 (0.46%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.46%) Vagrant
6 4 (0.46%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.11%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.11%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.11%) Selenium
8 1 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 291 (33.41%) Social Skills
2 257 (29.51%) Finance
3 136 (15.61%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 70 (8.04%) Banking
6 47 (5.40%) Retail
7 43 (4.94%) Manufacturing
8 36 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (3.90%) General Ledger
10 24 (2.76%) Front Office
11 20 (2.30%) Marketing
12 18 (2.07%) Back Office
13 17 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
14 16 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (1.72%) Financial Institution
16 10 (1.15%) Billing
16 10 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (1.15%) Legal
16 10 (1.15%) Telecoms
17 9 (1.03%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 349 (40.07%) Analyst
2 323 (37.08%) Business Analyst
3 144 (16.53%) Consultant
4 78 (8.96%) Developer
5 76 (8.73%) Senior
6 68 (7.81%) Architect
7 41 (4.71%) SAP Consultant
8 36 (4.13%) Data Business Analyst
8 36 (4.13%) Project Manager
9 35 (4.02%) Lead
10 33 (3.79%) Senior Analyst
11 30 (3.44%) Senior Business Analyst
11 30 (3.44%) Technical Analyst
12 27 (3.10%) Product Owner
13 26 (2.99%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 25 (2.87%) Data Analyst
14 25 (2.87%) Functional Consultant
15 24 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
16 23 (2.64%) Technical Business Analyst
17 19 (2.18%) Microsoft Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (3.10%) Web Services
2 20 (2.30%) REST
2 20 (2.30%) SOAP
2 20 (2.30%) XML
3 17 (1.95%) .NET
3 17 (1.95%) JSON
4 12 (1.38%) ASP.NET
5 10 (1.15%) .NET Framework
5 10 (1.15%) HTML
5 10 (1.15%) Lightning Web Components
6 8 (0.92%) RESTful
6 8 (0.92%) SAP TM
7 7 (0.80%) NETCONF
7 7 (0.80%) Spring
7 7 (0.80%) YANG
8 6 (0.69%) CSS
8 6 (0.69%) J2EE
8 6 (0.69%) React
9 5 (0.57%) JPA
9 5 (0.57%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 69 (7.92%) Product Ownership
2 39 (4.48%) Data Structures
3 28 (3.21%) Management Information System
4 17 (1.95%) Derivative
5 16 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.61%) Fixed Income
6 14 (1.61%) IBM Mainframe
6 14 (1.61%) Mainframe
7 12 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.15%) Equity Derivative
9 9 (1.03%) Onboarding
10 8 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (0.92%) Reinsurance
11 7 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (0.80%) Replication
11 7 (0.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (0.69%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.69%) Equities
12 6 (0.69%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.64%) Windows
2 14 (1.61%) Unix
3 13 (1.49%) Linux
3 13 (1.49%) zOS
4 5 (0.57%) VMS
5 4 (0.46%) AIX
5 4 (0.46%) Solaris
6 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (28.13%) Agile
2 159 (18.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 147 (16.88%) Business Analysis
4 133 (15.27%) User Stories
5 130 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
6 114 (13.09%) Project Management
7 103 (11.83%) DevOps
7 103 (11.83%) Scrum
8 95 (10.91%) User Acceptance Testing
9 83 (9.53%) Migration
10 76 (8.73%) Business Intelligence
11 74 (8.50%) Analytics
12 73 (8.38%) Workshop Facilitation
13 72 (8.27%) Requirements Workshops
14 67 (7.69%) Roadmaps
15 60 (6.89%) Data Migration
16 58 (6.66%) GAP Analysis
17 55 (6.31%) Software Engineering
18 54 (6.20%) Change Management
19 53 (6.08%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 89 (10.22%) SQL
2 50 (5.74%) Python
3 29 (3.33%) Java
4 26 (2.99%) PL/SQL
5 25 (2.87%) C#
6 17 (1.95%) COBOL
7 15 (1.72%) REXX
8 14 (1.61%) SELCOPY
9 13 (1.49%) CLIST
10 11 (1.26%) JavaScript
11 7 (0.80%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.57%) C++
12 5 (0.57%) Perl
12 5 (0.57%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.57%) XPath
12 5 (0.57%) XQuery
13 4 (0.46%) VBA
14 3 (0.34%) ABAP
14 3 (0.34%) C
14 3 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 141 (16.19%) Degree
2 94 (10.79%) Security Cleared
3 67 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 23 (2.64%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (2.53%) CCNP
6 21 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (2.18%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.61%) IIBA
9 12 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (1.26%) CBAP
10 11 (1.26%) CCNA
11 9 (1.03%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.69%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.69%) SAP Certification
14 5 (0.57%) JNCIS
14 5 (0.57%) MBA
14 5 (0.57%) PhD
14 5 (0.57%) PMP
15 4 (0.46%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (8.61%) QA
2 27 (3.10%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.07%) GDPR
4 16 (1.84%) SLA
5 12 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
5 12 (1.38%) Good Clinical Practice
5 12 (1.38%) GxP
6 11 (1.26%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.80%) PMO
8 3 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.23%) HL7
10 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.11%) GRC
10 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.11%) NCSC
10 1 (0.11%) PMBOK
10 1 (0.11%) PSD2
10 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.11%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 12 (1.38%) Docker
2 5 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
4 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (3.21%) Grafana
2 14 (1.61%) Terraform
3 13 (1.49%) Kubernetes
4 11 (1.26%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.80%) Ansible
6 4 (0.46%) Tivoli
7 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.23%) SCCM
9 1 (0.11%) MOM
9 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 110 (12.63%) Microsoft
2 109 (12.51%) SAP
3 52 (5.97%) Oracle
4 41 (4.71%) Salesforce
5 23 (2.64%) IBM
6 19 (2.18%) Cisco
7 18 (2.07%) ServiceNow
8 17 (1.95%) Denodo
8 17 (1.95%) Talend
9 15 (1.72%) Syncsort
10 13 (1.49%) Avaloq
10 13 (1.49%) F5
11 10 (1.15%) Juniper
12 9 (1.03%) Adobe
12 9 (1.03%) Ariba
12 9 (1.03%) Nokia
13 8 (0.92%) Google
13 8 (0.92%) Pega
14 7 (0.80%) Calypso
14 7 (0.80%) Genesys