Requirements Gathering Contracts in Berkshire

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 75 69
Rank change year-on-year -22 -6 -8
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 23 40 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.16% 2.20% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 2.43% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 32 46
10th Percentile £415 £426 £358
25th Percentile £488 £450 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £511 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.67% +27.81% -5.88%
75th Percentile £594 £560 £500
90th Percentile £755 £638 £538
South East median daily rate £525 £505 £465
% change year-on-year +3.96% +8.60% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% -
South East median hourly rate £25.25 £59.75 £47.75
% change year-on-year -57.74% +25.13% -12.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,758 1,647 2,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.83% 90.69% 90.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 913 1,060 1,375
10th Percentile £213 £345 £270
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £707 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 48 44
10th Percentile £20.17 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.75 £25.72 £17.38
Median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%
75th Percentile £72.18 £73.69 £39.38
90th Percentile £87.41 £79.51 £76.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.45
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.72% -18.36%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Berkshire

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Berkshire

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Berkshire over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in Berkshire

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Berkshire

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Reading -21 12 £530 +2.91% 3
Bracknell -8 4 £688 +23.32% 2
Wokingham +1 2 £631 +40.28%
Slough +9 1 £525 +31.25% 1
Maidenhead - 1 £263 -
Requirements Gathering
South East

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (8.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) Azure
2 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (8.70%) PaaS
2 2 (8.70%) SaaS
3 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
3 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
3 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (4.35%) Junos
2 1 (4.35%) LAN
2 1 (4.35%) Network Security
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
2 1 (4.35%) WAN
2 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.35%) Data Mining
1 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
General
1 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Finance
4 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.70%) Retail
6 1 (4.35%) General Ledger
6 1 (4.35%) Marketing
6 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (65.22%) Analyst
2 11 (47.83%) Business Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Product Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) OSS Business Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Product Business Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Security Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Transformation Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Development Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Finance Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Finance Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Network Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle Financials Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle Financials Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (4.35%) PySpark
1 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Life Science
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.35%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Business Analysis
2 8 (34.78%) Agile
3 5 (21.74%) Business Case
3 5 (21.74%) DevOps
3 5 (21.74%) Project Management
3 5 (21.74%) Scrum
3 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (21.74%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (17.39%) Data Security
4 4 (17.39%) User Stories
5 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (13.04%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.04%) Project Delivery
5 3 (13.04%) System Integration Testing
5 3 (13.04%) Time Management
5 3 (13.04%) Waterfall
6 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
6 2 (8.70%) Conflict Resolution
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) CBAP
2 1 (4.35%) CCNA
2 1 (4.35%) CCNP
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) ISEB
2 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.35%) JNCIA
2 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.35%) HL7
1 1 (4.35%) PMO
1 1 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Juniper
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco
3 1 (4.35%) SAP