Requirements Gathering Contracts in the South West

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 105 86
Rank change year-on-year -22 -19 -3
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 22 63 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.69% 1.74% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.93% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 37 69
10th Percentile £260 £228 £345
25th Percentile £348 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% +15.15%
75th Percentile £694 £575 £575
90th Percentile £725 £596 £725
England median daily rate £533 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.52% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 2
10th Percentile - - £40.64
25th Percentile - £57.25 £45.86
Median hourly rate £53.00 £61.50 £56.08
Median % change year-on-year -13.82% +9.67% -
75th Percentile - £65.75 £66.79
90th Percentile - - £72.32
England median hourly rate £58.18 £61.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -5.40% +44.71% +91.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,653 3,256 3,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.09% 89.72% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,693 2,396 2,335
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +6.21%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £589
90th Percentile £700 £723 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 334 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.19 £16.32 £20.08
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £48.61
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +26.52% +8.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.37 £69.95
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Requirements Gathering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in the South West

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the South West

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the South West over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the South West

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the South West

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Bristol +2 8 £320 -26.86% 9
Wiltshire -5 6 £700 +40.00% 4
Gloucestershire +1 2 £550 +15.79% 5
Somerset +2 1 £350 +438.46% 4
Devon -7 1 £409 -3.76% 7
Cornwall - 1 £625 -
Requirements Gathering
England

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (13.64%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
1 1 (4.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (4.55%) Magento
1 1 (4.55%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.55%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
General
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 3 (13.64%) Advertising
4 3 (13.64%) Manufacturing
5 2 (9.09%) Local Government
6 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Billing
6 1 (4.55%) General Ledger
6 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Consultant
2 5 (22.73%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 4 (18.18%) Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Lead
3 4 (18.18%) Lead Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) Business Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) IT Trainer
4 3 (13.64%) Trainer
5 2 (9.09%) Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Process Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Business Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Business Process Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Business Process Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Migration Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Process Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Product Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Project Coordinator
6 1 (4.55%) Project Officer
6 1 (4.55%) Project Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
1 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
1 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Agile
2 6 (27.27%) Migration
3 5 (22.73%) Data Migration
3 5 (22.73%) GAP Analysis
3 5 (22.73%) Requirements Workshops
3 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (22.73%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (18.18%) Inventory Management
4 4 (18.18%) Project Management
4 4 (18.18%) Supply Chain Management
4 4 (18.18%) System Testing
4 4 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (13.64%) Business Analysis
5 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Focus Group
5 3 (13.64%) Product Management
5 3 (13.64%) Programme Management
5 3 (13.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (13.64%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) C
1 1 (4.55%) C++
1 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (13.64%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.55%) APMP
5 1 (4.55%) Degree
5 1 (4.55%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 1 (4.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (4.55%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (4.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Adobe
2 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.55%) SAP