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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 197 213
Rank change year-on-year +2 +16 -46
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Gathering 1,522 1,794 3,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.45% 1.89% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.98% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,098 1,190 2,041
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,813 £45,250
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 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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% +9.38%

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 2 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 2 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 +15 1,347 £55,000 -8.33% 424
UK excluding London +6 988 £50,000 -4.76% 228
Work from Home +21 761 £55,000 -8.33% 240
London +3 460 £70,000 +7.69% 214
South East +16 264 £50,000 - 46
North of England +30 226 £50,000 -4.76% 57
Midlands -23 169 £45,000 -14.29% 38
South West +19 139 £50,000 - 36
North West -15 125 £50,000 -4.76% 34
West Midlands -28 102 £45,000 -14.29% 28
Yorkshire +66 88 £54,900 +4.57% 20
Scotland -43 81 £44,000 -13.73% 26
East of England -24 77 £49,500 -17.50% 15
East Midlands -8 64 £49,500 -5.71% 10
Wales -6 19 £44,750 +1.13% 7
North East -14 13 £57,965 -25.21% 3
Northern Ireland +1 9 £54,400 +3.62% 4
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 58 (3.81%) Confluence
2 53 (3.48%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.99%) 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%) IBM Domino
8 2 (0.13%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.13%) Moodle
8 2 (0.13%) nginx
8 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.066%) Umbraco
Applications
1 107 (7.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (2.76%) MS Visio
3 40 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (1.45%) 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 58 (3.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.85%) Maximo
4 12 (0.79%) Dynamics AX
4 12 (0.79%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.79%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
6 10 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
7 8 (0.53%) SAP MDG
8 7 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.46%) SAP HCM
9 5 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
9 5 (0.33%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.26%) Oracle Payroll
10 4 (0.26%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.26%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.26%) Sonata
11 3 (0.20%) SAP MDM
11 3 (0.20%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 242 (15.90%) Power Platform
2 220 (14.45%) Azure
3 91 (5.98%) Dynamics 365
4 87 (5.72%) SaaS
5 79 (5.19%) AWS
6 64 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
7 49 (3.22%) PowerApps
8 38 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (2.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 32 (2.10%) Amazon S3
11 28 (1.84%) Miro
12 27 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 25 (1.64%) Entra ID
14 23 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (1.45%) Power Automate
16 21 (1.38%) OCI
17 15 (0.99%) GCP
18 13 (0.85%) OneDrive
19 12 (0.79%) GitHub
20 11 (0.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.12%) 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 (0.53%) Intranet
7 8 (0.53%) SAN
7 8 (0.53%) 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%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (13.60%) Power BI
2 97 (6.37%) SQL Server
3 81 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (3.15%) Tableau
5 36 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 25 (1.64%) Power Query
7 24 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 19 (1.25%) Data Lake
8 19 (1.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 18 (1.18%) Metadata
10 16 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
10 16 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (1.05%) NoSQL
11 15 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
12 12 (0.79%) Data Mining
12 12 (0.79%) Relational Database
13 10 (0.66%) DynamoDB
14 9 (0.59%) BusinessObjects
14 9 (0.59%) MongoDB
14 9 (0.59%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 143 (9.40%) 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%) Postman
8 5 (0.33%) Selenium
8 5 (0.33%) Subversion
9 4 (0.26%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.20%) JUnit
10 3 (0.20%) Rational Rhapsody
11 2 (0.13%) LSMW
General
1 528 (34.69%) Social Skills
2 328 (21.55%) Finance
3 302 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (6.04%) Retail
5 84 (5.52%) Law
5 84 (5.52%) Marketing
6 75 (4.93%) Public Sector
7 74 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
8 72 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 62 (4.07%) Manufacturing
10 50 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
11 47 (3.09%) Banking
12 45 (2.96%) Legal
13 24 (1.58%) Electronics
13 24 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.51%) Local Government
15 19 (1.25%) Front Office
16 18 (1.18%) Telecoms
17 17 (1.12%) Games
18 13 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 554 (36.40%) Analyst
2 357 (23.46%) Business Analyst
3 219 (14.39%) Senior
4 193 (12.68%) Consultant
5 146 (9.59%) Developer
6 111 (7.29%) Senior Analyst
7 107 (7.03%) Lead
8 93 (6.11%) Project Manager
9 76 (4.99%) Senior Business Analyst
10 69 (4.53%) Architect
11 53 (3.48%) IT Analyst
12 50 (3.29%) Data Analyst
12 50 (3.29%) Technical Consultant
13 47 (3.09%) Business IT Analyst
13 47 (3.09%) IT Business Analyst
14 40 (2.63%) Product Owner
15 35 (2.30%) Senior Consultant
16 34 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
17 33 (2.17%) Supplier Manager
17 33 (2.17%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (4.47%) HTML
2 51 (3.35%) .NET
3 37 (2.43%) JSON
4 36 (2.37%) REST
5 34 (2.23%) CSS
5 34 (2.23%) Web Services
5 34 (2.23%) XML
6 31 (2.04%) AngularJS
7 21 (1.38%) React
8 18 (1.18%) EDI
8 18 (1.18%) Spring
8 18 (1.18%) XSL
9 16 (1.05%) RESTful
10 15 (0.99%) ASP.NET
10 15 (0.99%) Lightning Web Components
10 15 (0.99%) SOAP
11 13 (0.85%) Hibernate
11 13 (0.85%) Middleware
12 11 (0.72%) HTML5
13 10 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 116 (7.62%) Self-Motivation
2 106 (6.96%) Product Ownership
3 53 (3.48%) Management Information System
4 38 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 32 (2.10%) Data Centre
6 23 (1.51%) Virtual Team
7 22 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (1.12%) Public Cloud
9 16 (1.05%) Driving Licence
9 16 (1.05%) NHS
10 14 (0.92%) Data Structures
11 13 (0.85%) Mobile App
12 12 (0.79%) Algorithms
12 12 (0.79%) Low-Code
12 12 (0.79%) Reference Data
12 12 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
13 10 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.66%) Reinsurance
14 9 (0.59%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 50 (3.29%) Windows
2 41 (2.69%) Linux
3 17 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.99%) Windows 10
5 11 (0.72%) Unix
6 8 (0.53%) Android
6 8 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.066%) CentOS
7 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 468 (30.75%) Agile
2 383 (25.16%) Problem-Solving
3 262 (17.21%) Project Management
4 247 (16.23%) Business Analysis
5 232 (15.24%) Business Intelligence
6 202 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 187 (12.29%) Roadmaps
8 170 (11.17%) User Stories
9 152 (9.99%) Migration
10 147 (9.66%) Project Delivery
11 142 (9.33%) Workshop Facilitation
12 139 (9.13%) Scrum
13 136 (8.94%) Analytics
14 132 (8.67%) Mentoring
15 126 (8.28%) Actionable Insight
16 117 (7.69%) Decision-Making
17 107 (7.03%) Process Improvement
17 107 (7.03%) SDLC
18 106 (6.96%) Data Analysis
19 102 (6.70%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 324 (21.29%) SQL
2 135 (8.87%) Python
3 70 (4.60%) Java
4 69 (4.53%) C#
4 69 (4.53%) JavaScript
5 52 (3.42%) T-SQL
6 42 (2.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 28 (1.84%) PL/SQL
8 24 (1.58%) PowerShell
9 20 (1.31%) R
10 17 (1.12%) C
11 13 (0.85%) C++
12 12 (0.79%) PHP
12 12 (0.79%) VBA
13 11 (0.72%) RPG
13 11 (0.72%) TypeScript
14 10 (0.66%) Embedded C
14 10 (0.66%) MATLAB
15 8 (0.53%) VB
16 4 (0.26%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 262 (17.21%) Degree
2 175 (11.50%) Security Cleared
3 118 (7.75%) SC Cleared
4 46 (3.02%) DBS Check
5 36 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (2.17%) Master's Degree
7 30 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (1.12%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.05%) DV Cleared
10 14 (0.92%) AWS Certification
10 14 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (0.85%) PMP
12 9 (0.59%) ISTQB
12 9 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 8 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 7 (0.46%) CSPO
15 6 (0.39%) CBAP
15 6 (0.39%) CISM
15 6 (0.39%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (6.44%) QA
2 43 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 15 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 12 (0.79%) ISO 9001
5 8 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
5 8 (0.53%) GDPR
5 8 (0.53%) 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 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.38%) Docker
3 18 (1.18%) 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 (1.84%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (0.59%) 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 (18.53%) Microsoft
2 90 (5.91%) Oracle
3 76 (4.99%) Salesforce
4 71 (4.66%) SAP
5 23 (1.51%) ServiceNow
6 21 (1.38%) Adobe
7 17 (1.12%) Workday
8 15 (0.99%) IFS
8 15 (0.99%) VMware
9 13 (0.85%) Apple
9 13 (0.85%) EMC
10 12 (0.79%) Databricks
11 10 (0.66%) Cisco
12 8 (0.53%) Epicor
12 8 (0.53%) F5
13 7 (0.46%) IBM
13 7 (0.46%) ION Trading
13 7 (0.46%) Juniper
13 7 (0.46%) Sage
13 7 (0.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud