Requirements Gathering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 86 107 93
Rank change year-on-year +21 -14 +2
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 355 541 1,239
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.40% 2.20% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.45% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 390 911
10th Percentile £360 £388 £355
25th Percentile £425 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +6.06% +4.21%
75th Percentile £638 £621 £575
90th Percentile £725 £725 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 5
10th Percentile - £53.50 £24.61
25th Percentile £61.68 £54.19 £37.15
Median hourly rate £63.36 £64.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% +1.59% +165.49%
75th Percentile £65.03 £66.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - £67.50 £71.60
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,973 22,093 40,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 15,633 29,139
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 507 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Requirements Gathering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Requirements Gathering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Requirements Gathering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Requirements Gathering.

Requirements Gathering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Requirements Gathering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Requirements Gathering.

Requirements Gathering hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 13 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.54%) Confluence
3 8 (2.25%) CICS
3 8 (2.25%) SAS
4 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.85%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.56%) CMS
6 2 (0.56%) IIS
6 2 (0.56%) JBoss
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 14 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.25%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.13%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.56%) Trello
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (6.20%) Dynamics AX
2 20 (5.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (3.10%) Endur
4 7 (1.97%) SAP Travel Management
5 6 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (1.13%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.85%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.56%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.56%) SAP Hybris
8 2 (0.56%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.28%) Magento
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.28%) SAP CCM
9 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.28%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.28%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.28%) SAP Payroll
9 1 (0.28%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 64 (18.03%) Azure
2 34 (9.58%) Power Platform
3 33 (9.30%) Dynamics 365
4 25 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (6.76%) Power Automate
5 24 (6.76%) PowerApps
6 22 (6.20%) AWS
7 9 (2.54%) SaaS
8 7 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (1.97%) Amazon S3
8 7 (1.97%) Route 53
8 7 (1.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (1.69%) GCP
9 6 (1.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 5 (1.41%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.13%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 4 (1.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.82%) Network Security
2 5 (1.41%) WinSCP
3 3 (0.85%) Firewall
3 3 (0.85%) HTTP
4 2 (0.56%) Internet
4 2 (0.56%) VPN
4 2 (0.56%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.28%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.28%) Junos
5 1 (0.28%) LAN
5 1 (0.28%) WAN
5 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.45%) Power BI
2 24 (6.76%) Data Lake
3 15 (4.23%) SQL Server
4 13 (3.66%) DB2
5 10 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.25%) IDMS
7 7 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.41%) MySQL
8 5 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.41%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.13%) GIS
10 3 (0.85%) Airbyte
10 3 (0.85%) Flink
10 3 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.85%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.85%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.56%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.56%) Looker
11 2 (0.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 30 (8.45%) JIRA
2 20 (5.63%) Git
3 9 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.13%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.85%) Postman
5 3 (0.85%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.56%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.28%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.28%) GitLab
General
1 133 (37.46%) Social Skills
2 111 (31.27%) Finance
3 57 (16.06%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.99%) Public Sector
5 36 (10.14%) Banking
6 24 (6.76%) Retail
7 23 (6.48%) General Ledger
8 17 (4.79%) Front Office
9 14 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (3.38%) Manufacturing
11 11 (3.10%) Back Office
12 10 (2.82%) Financial Institution
12 10 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (2.54%) Marketing
14 7 (1.97%) Billing
15 5 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.41%) Investment Banking
16 4 (1.13%) Legal
17 3 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.85%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 136 (38.31%) Business Analyst
2 134 (37.75%) Analyst
3 70 (19.72%) Consultant
4 30 (8.45%) Architect
4 30 (8.45%) Developer
5 25 (7.04%) Senior
6 18 (5.07%) Data Business Analyst
7 17 (4.79%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 16 (4.51%) SAP Consultant
9 15 (4.23%) Technical Analyst
10 14 (3.94%) Lead
10 14 (3.94%) Microsoft Consultant
10 14 (3.94%) Project Manager
11 13 (3.66%) Management Consultant
11 13 (3.66%) Product Owner
12 12 (3.38%) C# Developer
12 12 (3.38%) Senior Analyst
12 12 (3.38%) Senior Business Analyst
13 11 (3.10%) Technical Business Analyst
14 10 (2.82%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.38%) SOAP
2 11 (3.10%) REST
3 10 (2.82%) .NET
3 10 (2.82%) Web Services
4 8 (2.25%) SAP TM
5 7 (1.97%) ASP.NET
6 5 (1.41%) .NET Framework
6 5 (1.41%) HTML
7 3 (0.85%) EDI
7 3 (0.85%) Entity Framework
7 3 (0.85%) JDBC
7 3 (0.85%) JSON
7 3 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.85%) RESTful
8 2 (0.56%) HTML5
8 2 (0.56%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.56%) React
8 2 (0.56%) Spring
8 2 (0.56%) Swagger
8 2 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.01%) Product Ownership
2 23 (6.48%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.38%) Derivative
4 9 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.54%) Equity Derivative
4 9 (2.54%) IBM Mainframe
4 9 (2.54%) Mainframe
5 7 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.69%) Replication
7 4 (1.13%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.13%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.13%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.13%) Reinsurance
7 4 (1.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.56%) Equities
9 2 (0.56%) IVR
9 2 (0.56%) NHS
9 2 (0.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.82%) Windows
2 8 (2.25%) zOS
3 5 (1.41%) VMS
4 4 (1.13%) Unix
5 3 (0.85%) Linux
6 2 (0.56%) AIX
6 2 (0.56%) Solaris
7 1 (0.28%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (30.42%) Agile
2 65 (18.31%) User Stories
3 61 (17.18%) Business Analysis
4 57 (16.06%) Stakeholder Management
5 52 (14.65%) DevOps
6 42 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (11.83%) Requirements Workshops
7 40 (11.27%) Scrum
7 40 (11.27%) User Acceptance Testing
8 39 (10.99%) Business Intelligence
9 38 (10.70%) Project Management
10 30 (8.45%) GAP Analysis
10 30 (8.45%) Migration
11 24 (6.76%) Data Migration
12 23 (6.48%) Accounts Payable
12 23 (6.48%) Accounts Receivable
13 22 (6.20%) Analytics
13 22 (6.20%) Project Delivery
13 22 (6.20%) Waterfall
13 22 (6.20%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 27 (7.61%) SQL
2 20 (5.63%) Python
3 18 (5.07%) C#
4 11 (3.10%) COBOL
4 11 (3.10%) Java
5 10 (2.82%) REXX
6 9 (2.54%) SELCOPY
7 8 (2.25%) CLIST
8 6 (1.69%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.13%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.56%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.28%) Bicep
11 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.28%) R
11 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 50 (14.08%) Degree
2 35 (9.86%) Security Cleared
3 30 (8.45%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.25%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.13%) MBA
9 3 (0.85%) PhD
9 3 (0.85%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.85%) PMP
10 2 (0.56%) CBAP
10 2 (0.56%) CCNA
10 2 (0.56%) CCNP
10 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.56%) CSPO
10 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.56%) IIBA
10 2 (0.56%) ISEB
10 2 (0.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.86%) QA
2 14 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.10%) SLA
4 6 (1.69%) PMO
5 5 (1.41%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.56%) GDPR
6 2 (0.56%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.28%) HL7
7 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.28%) NCSC
7 1 (0.28%) PMBOK
7 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 8 (2.25%) Docker
2 3 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.56%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 11 (3.10%) Grafana
2 8 (2.25%) Terraform
3 7 (1.97%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.97%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.56%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 58 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.14%) SAP
3 21 (5.92%) Oracle
4 14 (3.94%) IBM
4 14 (3.94%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.82%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.82%) Syncsort
6 8 (2.25%) Pega
7 6 (1.69%) F5
8 5 (1.41%) OpenLink
9 4 (1.13%) Ariba
9 4 (1.13%) Avaloq
9 4 (1.13%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.13%) Denodo
9 4 (1.13%) Refinitiv
9 4 (1.13%) Talend
10 3 (0.85%) ESRI
10 3 (0.85%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.85%) ION Trading
10 3 (0.85%) Reuters