Requirements Gathering Contracts in Northern Ireland

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 29 29
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 -
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 2 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.35% 1.96% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 2.55% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £507 £378 £356
25th Percentile £507 £381 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £400 £381
Median % change year-on-year +29.06% +4.92% -
75th Percentile £527 £419 £402
90th Percentile £529 £423 £412
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £61.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -13.82% +44.71% +77.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 112 157 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 75.68% 76.96% 81.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 81 88
10th Percentile £210 £165 £145
25th Percentile £331 £270 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £435
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -8.05% +5.45%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £500
90th Percentile £660 £623 £550
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 11
10th Percentile - £13.40 £10.22
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.91 £10.26
Median hourly rate £13.94 £15.25 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% -3.11% +12.43%
75th Percentile £23.54 £16.78 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £18.12 -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Northern Ireland

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Northern Ireland

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 27 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
County Antrim +1 2 £516 - 4
Requirements Gathering
UK

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Test Architect
1 1 (50.00%) User Researcher
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Research
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) User Research
1 1 (50.00%) UX Research
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA