Requirements Gathering Contracts in Edinburgh

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 50 77 55
Rank change year-on-year +27 -22 +6
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 21 35 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.58% 2.69% 4.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 2.82% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 23 60
10th Percentile £201 £366 £412
25th Percentile £243 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £282 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -37.33% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £467 £500 £500
90th Percentile £500 £568 £550
Scotland median daily rate £481 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +6.94% - +8.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 720 1,240 1,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.34% 95.17% 93.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 884 1,254
10th Percentile £228 £254 £257
25th Percentile £413 £406 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £568
90th Percentile £675 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 17
10th Percentile £15.10 £13.16 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.87 £21.26 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% -46.85% -26.57%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £54.50 £53.97
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.11% -55.69% -0.01%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (9.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 5 (23.81%) Finance
4 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Analyst
2 10 (47.62%) Business Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Consultant
3 4 (19.05%) Management Consultant
3 4 (19.05%) Service Management Consultant
4 3 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Digital Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Digital Business Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Asset Management Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Asset Management Business Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Junior
6 1 (4.76%) Junior Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Junior Systems Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Power BI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) NHS
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Agile
2 8 (38.10%) Business Analysis
3 5 (23.81%) ITIL
3 5 (23.81%) ITSM
3 5 (23.81%) Process Management
3 5 (23.81%) Project Delivery
3 5 (23.81%) Service Delivery
3 5 (23.81%) Service Management
4 4 (19.05%) Business Case
4 4 (19.05%) Change Management
4 4 (19.05%) Coaching
4 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (19.05%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (14.29%) Lean Six Sigma
5 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 3 (14.29%) Six Sigma
5 3 (14.29%) Systems Analysis
5 3 (14.29%) User Stories
6 2 (9.52%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (9.52%) Requirements Workshops
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) QA
2 5 (23.81%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (23.81%) SLA
3 1 (4.76%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) ServiceNow
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft