Requirements Gathering Jobs

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Requirements Gathering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 201 211
Rank change year-on-year +11 +10 -45
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Gathering 1,526 1,741 3,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.43% 1.86% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.95% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,093 1,162 2,040
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,000 £45,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 88,771 89,162 163,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.39% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,540 53,734 83,113
10th Percentile £29,375 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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% +9.10%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Requirements Gathering in the UK

Requirements Gathering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Requirements Gathering in the UK

Requirements Gathering
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Gathering within the UK over the 6 months to 5 June 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 +9 1,352 £55,000 -8.33% 367
UK excluding London +22 996 £50,000 -4.76% 216
Work from Home +25 764 £55,000 -8.33% 232
London -3 458 £70,000 +7.69% 160
South East +23 263 £50,000 - 42
North of England +27 228 £50,000 -3.85% 62
Midlands -19 171 £45,000 -14.29% 36
South West +11 142 £50,000 - 33
North West +1 125 £50,000 -2.44% 35
West Midlands -35 102 £45,000 -14.29% 28
Yorkshire +71 90 £54,900 +5.58% 22
Scotland -48 81 £44,000 -13.73% 21
East of England -31 78 £49,500 -17.50% 15
East Midlands -7 66 £49,500 -5.71% 8
Wales -6 20 £47,000 +6.21% 5
North East -18 13 £57,965 -25.21% 5
Northern Ireland +2 9 £54,400 +3.62% 5
Isle of Man - 4 £54,000 -
Channel Islands -2 1 £60,000 +71.43%

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 59 (3.87%) Confluence
2 54 (3.54%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.98%) Apache
5 11 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.72%) CMS
6 10 (0.66%) IIS
6 10 (0.66%) SAS
7 5 (0.33%) JBoss
7 5 (0.33%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.33%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.33%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.33%) WildFly
8 2 (0.13%) Drupal
8 2 (0.13%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.13%) Moodle
8 2 (0.13%) nginx
8 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.066%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.066%) Umbraco
Applications
1 107 (7.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (2.75%) MS Visio
3 40 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.85%) Sketch
7 6 (0.39%) InVision
8 4 (0.26%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.26%) Windchill
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.066%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.066%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.066%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 57 (3.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.85%) Maximo
3 13 (0.85%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.79%) Dynamics AX
4 12 (0.79%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
6 10 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
7 8 (0.52%) SAP MDG
8 7 (0.46%) SAP HCM
9 6 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.39%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.39%) SAP FI
9 6 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
10 5 (0.33%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.26%) Oracle Payroll
11 4 (0.26%) Sonata
12 3 (0.20%) SAP MDM
12 3 (0.20%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 241 (15.79%) Power Platform
2 221 (14.48%) Azure
3 89 (5.83%) Dynamics 365
4 85 (5.57%) SaaS
5 80 (5.24%) AWS
6 64 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
7 49 (3.21%) PowerApps
8 38 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (2.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 32 (2.10%) Amazon S3
11 27 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 27 (1.77%) Miro
12 25 (1.64%) Entra ID
13 23 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (1.44%) Power Automate
15 20 (1.31%) OCI
16 18 (1.18%) GCP
17 13 (0.85%) GitHub
17 13 (0.85%) OneDrive
18 11 (0.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.11%) WAN
2 16 (1.05%) 5G
2 16 (1.05%) SD-WAN
3 13 (0.85%) HTTP
4 12 (0.79%) Unified Communications
5 10 (0.66%) Broadband
5 10 (0.66%) Internet
5 10 (0.66%) WPA
6 9 (0.59%) Firewall
7 8 (0.52%) Intranet
7 8 (0.52%) SAN
7 8 (0.52%) Wireless
8 6 (0.39%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (0.39%) VPN
9 5 (0.33%) DNS
10 4 (0.26%) Ethernet
10 4 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (0.20%) SSH
11 3 (0.20%) SSL
12 2 (0.13%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (13.50%) Power BI
2 97 (6.36%) SQL Server
3 80 (5.24%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (3.21%) Tableau
5 37 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 24 (1.57%) Power Query
6 24 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 19 (1.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 19 (1.25%) Metadata
8 18 (1.18%) Data Lake
9 16 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
9 16 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (1.05%) NoSQL
10 15 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
11 13 (0.85%) Relational Database
12 12 (0.79%) Data Mining
13 10 (0.66%) DynamoDB
14 9 (0.59%) BusinessObjects
14 9 (0.59%) MongoDB
14 9 (0.59%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 144 (9.44%) JIRA
2 27 (1.77%) Git
3 14 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 14 (0.92%) Visual Studio
4 12 (0.79%) Eclipse
5 9 (0.59%) GitLab
5 9 (0.59%) TestRail
6 7 (0.46%) Cucumber
6 7 (0.46%) JMeter
6 7 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (0.39%) LoadRunner
7 6 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.33%) Gatling
8 5 (0.33%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.33%) Postman
8 5 (0.33%) Selenium
8 5 (0.33%) Subversion
9 3 (0.20%) JUnit
9 3 (0.20%) Rational Rhapsody
10 2 (0.13%) Hudson
General
1 532 (34.86%) Social Skills
2 326 (21.36%) Finance
3 300 (19.66%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (6.03%) Retail
5 84 (5.50%) Marketing
6 83 (5.44%) Law
7 76 (4.98%) Presentation Skills
8 75 (4.91%) Public Sector
9 72 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 65 (4.26%) Manufacturing
11 50 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
12 47 (3.08%) Banking
13 44 (2.88%) Legal
14 25 (1.64%) Electronics
15 24 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
16 23 (1.51%) Local Government
17 19 (1.25%) Front Office
18 18 (1.18%) Telecoms
19 17 (1.11%) Games
20 14 (0.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 550 (36.04%) Analyst
2 352 (23.07%) Business Analyst
3 222 (14.55%) Senior
4 194 (12.71%) Consultant
5 147 (9.63%) Developer
6 112 (7.34%) Senior Analyst
7 108 (7.08%) Lead
8 92 (6.03%) Project Manager
9 76 (4.98%) Senior Business Analyst
10 68 (4.46%) Architect
11 53 (3.47%) IT Analyst
12 52 (3.41%) Data Analyst
13 49 (3.21%) Technical Consultant
14 47 (3.08%) Business IT Analyst
14 47 (3.08%) IT Business Analyst
15 39 (2.56%) Product Owner
16 35 (2.29%) Senior Consultant
17 34 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
17 34 (2.23%) Systems Analyst
18 33 (2.16%) Supplier Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (4.46%) HTML
2 51 (3.34%) .NET
3 37 (2.42%) JSON
4 36 (2.36%) REST
5 34 (2.23%) CSS
5 34 (2.23%) Web Services
5 34 (2.23%) XML
6 31 (2.03%) AngularJS
7 21 (1.38%) React
8 19 (1.25%) XSL
9 18 (1.18%) EDI
9 18 (1.18%) Spring
10 16 (1.05%) RESTful
11 15 (0.98%) ASP.NET
11 15 (0.98%) Lightning Web Components
11 15 (0.98%) SOAP
12 14 (0.92%) Middleware
13 13 (0.85%) Hibernate
14 11 (0.72%) HTML5
15 10 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 116 (7.60%) Self-Motivation
2 105 (6.88%) Product Ownership
3 53 (3.47%) Management Information System
4 38 (2.49%) Onboarding
5 32 (2.10%) Data Centre
6 23 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
6 23 (1.51%) Virtual Team
7 17 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (1.11%) Public Cloud
8 16 (1.05%) Driving Licence
8 16 (1.05%) NHS
9 14 (0.92%) Data Structures
10 12 (0.79%) Algorithms
10 12 (0.79%) Low-Code
10 12 (0.79%) Mobile App
10 12 (0.79%) Reference Data
10 12 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
11 11 (0.72%) Reinsurance
12 10 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (0.59%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 50 (3.28%) Windows
2 42 (2.75%) Linux
3 17 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.98%) Windows 10
5 11 (0.72%) Unix
6 8 (0.52%) Android
6 8 (0.52%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.066%) CentOS
7 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (30.80%) Agile
2 384 (25.16%) Problem-Solving
3 261 (17.10%) Project Management
4 248 (16.25%) Business Analysis
5 231 (15.14%) Business Intelligence
6 203 (13.30%) Stakeholder Management
7 186 (12.19%) Roadmaps
8 168 (11.01%) User Stories
9 153 (10.03%) Migration
10 147 (9.63%) Project Delivery
11 141 (9.24%) Workshop Facilitation
12 139 (9.11%) Scrum
13 136 (8.91%) Analytics
14 133 (8.72%) Mentoring
15 126 (8.26%) Actionable Insight
16 116 (7.60%) Decision-Making
17 110 (7.21%) SDLC
18 108 (7.08%) Data Analysis
19 106 (6.95%) Process Improvement
20 103 (6.75%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 327 (21.43%) SQL
2 139 (9.11%) Python
3 72 (4.72%) Java
4 70 (4.59%) C#
4 70 (4.59%) JavaScript
5 52 (3.41%) T-SQL
6 41 (2.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 29 (1.90%) PL/SQL
8 24 (1.57%) PowerShell
9 20 (1.31%) R
10 19 (1.25%) C
11 15 (0.98%) C++
12 13 (0.85%) PHP
13 12 (0.79%) VBA
14 11 (0.72%) Embedded C
14 11 (0.72%) RPG
14 11 (0.72%) TypeScript
15 10 (0.66%) MATLAB
16 8 (0.52%) VB
17 4 (0.26%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 264 (17.30%) Degree
2 178 (11.66%) Security Cleared
3 120 (7.86%) SC Cleared
4 46 (3.01%) DBS Check
5 36 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (2.16%) Master's Degree
7 29 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.11%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (1.11%) PMI Certification
9 14 (0.92%) AWS Certification
9 14 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (0.85%) PMP
11 9 (0.59%) ISTQB
11 9 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 8 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 7 (0.46%) CSPO
14 6 (0.39%) CBAP
14 6 (0.39%) CISM
14 6 (0.39%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (6.42%) QA
2 44 (2.88%) Data Quality
3 15 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 12 (0.79%) ISO 9001
5 8 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 8 (0.52%) GDPR
5 8 (0.52%) PMO
6 5 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.26%) JTAG
7 4 (0.26%) SLA
7 4 (0.26%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.20%) NIST
9 1 (0.066%) ECSS
9 1 (0.066%) GMP
System Software
1 31 (2.03%) Active Directory
2 23 (1.51%) Docker
3 19 (1.25%) Firmware
4 13 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.79%) Embedded Firmware
5 12 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.20%) vSphere
9 1 (0.066%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 28 (1.83%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (0.66%) Terraform
4 6 (0.39%) SCCM
5 4 (0.26%) WSUS
6 3 (0.20%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.13%) Ansible
7 2 (0.13%) Grafana
7 2 (0.13%) Puppet
8 1 (0.066%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.066%) Graylog
8 1 (0.066%) HP SiteScope
8 1 (0.066%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.066%) Nagios
8 1 (0.066%) Perfmon
8 1 (0.066%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.066%) TeamSite
8 1 (0.066%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 282 (18.48%) Microsoft
2 90 (5.90%) Oracle
3 74 (4.85%) Salesforce
4 72 (4.72%) SAP
5 23 (1.51%) ServiceNow
6 21 (1.38%) Adobe
7 17 (1.11%) Workday
8 15 (0.98%) IFS
8 15 (0.98%) VMware
9 13 (0.85%) Apple
9 13 (0.85%) EMC
10 12 (0.79%) Databricks
11 10 (0.66%) Cisco
12 8 (0.52%) Epicor
12 8 (0.52%) F5
13 7 (0.46%) Google
13 7 (0.46%) IBM
13 7 (0.46%) ION Trading
13 7 (0.46%) Juniper
13 7 (0.46%) Sage