Requirements Gathering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 128 86
Rank change year-on-year -5 -42 +16
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 352 464 902
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.72% 1.98% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 2.21% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 337 667
10th Percentile £313 £360 £357
25th Percentile £363 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% - +8.51%
75th Percentile £570 £550 £538
90th Percentile £650 £603 £588
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 23 8
10th Percentile - £53.78 £22.73
25th Percentile £23.63 £56.25 £25.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £61.50 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year -41.46% +52.50% +68.03%
75th Percentile £58.50 £65.75 £55.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.15 £65.85
UK median hourly rate £50.25 £61.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.29% +44.71% +66.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Requirements Gathering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in the UK excluding London

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the UK excluding London

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the UK excluding London

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the UK excluding London

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the UK excluding London

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +33 119 £490 +5.95% 49
South East +6 80 £525 +1.94% 38
North West +40 77 £469 +10.29% 29
Midlands +19 69 £377 -24.70% 39
West Midlands +14 60 £358 -28.40% 29
Scotland +23 42 £450 - 21
Yorkshire -1 41 £490 -3.21% 13
South West -23 23 £450 +2.86% 30
East of England +5 22 £419 -11.84% 10
East Midlands +16 5 £425 -6.59% 10
Northern Ireland +2 1 £513 +28.13% 7
Requirements Gathering
UK

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (3.41%) CICS
1 12 (3.41%) SAS
2 9 (2.56%) Confluence
3 4 (1.14%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.85%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (2.56%) MS Visio
2 8 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.85%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.27%) SAP PM
3 5 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.14%) Infor SunSystems
4 4 (1.14%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.85%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.85%) SAP MII
6 2 (0.57%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.57%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.57%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.57%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.28%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.28%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.28%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.28%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.28%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.28%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 30 (8.52%) Azure
2 20 (5.68%) AWS
3 18 (5.11%) Power Platform
4 12 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (1.99%) SaaS
7 6 (1.70%) Akamai
7 6 (1.70%) Cloudflare
8 5 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.42%) GCP
8 5 (1.42%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.85%) Power Automate
9 3 (0.85%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.57%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.57%) PaaS
10 2 (0.57%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 2 (0.57%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 2 (0.57%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.28%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.84%) WAN
2 9 (2.56%) LAN
3 8 (2.27%) Junos
4 7 (1.99%) Firewall
5 6 (1.70%) VPN
6 5 (1.42%) Network Security
6 5 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.42%) Wireshark
7 4 (1.14%) BGP
7 4 (1.14%) Cisco IOS
7 4 (1.14%) IPsec
7 4 (1.14%) MPLS
8 3 (0.85%) DNS
9 2 (0.57%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (0.57%) Radio Access Network
9 2 (0.57%) SAN
9 2 (0.57%) Wireless
10 1 (0.28%) 4G
10 1 (0.28%) 5G
10 1 (0.28%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.55%) Power BI
2 15 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 15 (4.26%) MySQL
3 13 (3.69%) DB2
4 11 (3.13%) IDMS
5 6 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.14%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (0.85%) GIS
7 3 (0.85%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.85%) SAP BW
7 3 (0.85%) Tableau
8 2 (0.57%) Big Data
8 2 (0.57%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.57%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.28%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.28%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 31 (8.81%) JIRA
2 27 (7.67%) Git
3 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
General
1 111 (31.53%) Social Skills
2 74 (21.02%) Finance
3 38 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.66%) Manufacturing
5 33 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.83%) Pharmaceutical
7 15 (4.26%) Retail
8 11 (3.13%) Banking
9 9 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.70%) Automotive
11 6 (1.70%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.42%) Marketing
12 5 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.14%) Local Government
14 3 (0.85%) Advertising
14 3 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.85%) Law
15 2 (0.57%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 163 (46.31%) Analyst
2 140 (39.77%) Business Analyst
3 43 (12.22%) Consultant
4 28 (7.95%) Architect
5 25 (7.10%) Project Manager
6 22 (6.25%) Developer
7 16 (4.55%) Technical Analyst
8 13 (3.69%) SAP Consultant
9 12 (3.41%) IBM Mainframe Developer
9 12 (3.41%) Mainframe Developer
9 12 (3.41%) Senior
10 11 (3.13%) Lead
11 10 (2.84%) Technical Business Analyst
12 9 (2.56%) Product Analyst
12 9 (2.56%) Systems Analyst
13 8 (2.27%) User Researcher
14 7 (1.99%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 7 (1.99%) Management Consultant
14 7 (1.99%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (1.99%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.27%) Web Services
2 4 (1.14%) REST
2 4 (1.14%) SOAP
3 3 (0.85%) .NET
4 2 (0.57%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.57%) Entity Framework
4 2 (0.57%) HTML
4 2 (0.57%) JSON
4 2 (0.57%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (0.57%) RESTful
4 2 (0.57%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.28%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.28%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.28%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.28%) Blazor
5 1 (0.28%) HTML5
5 1 (0.28%) Kafka
5 1 (0.28%) PySpark
5 1 (0.28%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.28%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.11%) Product Ownership
2 12 (3.41%) IBM Mainframe
2 12 (3.41%) Mainframe
3 9 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.42%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.14%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.14%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.14%) Industry 4.0
5 4 (1.14%) IoT
5 4 (1.14%) Life Science
5 4 (1.14%) Robotics
5 4 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (0.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (0.85%) Mobile App
6 3 (0.85%) NHS
7 2 (0.57%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.13%) zOS
2 9 (2.56%) Windows
3 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.85%) Linux
3 3 (0.85%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.57%) Unix
5 1 (0.28%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (36.93%) Agile
2 85 (24.15%) Business Analysis
3 76 (21.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 58 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (16.48%) Project Management
5 53 (15.06%) Scrum
6 50 (14.20%) User Stories
7 31 (8.81%) Software Engineering
8 30 (8.52%) Workshop Facilitation
9 28 (7.95%) Analytics
10 27 (7.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (7.67%) Project Delivery
10 27 (7.67%) Waterfall
11 26 (7.39%) DevOps
11 26 (7.39%) Process Improvement
11 26 (7.39%) Roadmaps
11 26 (7.39%) User Acceptance Testing
12 25 (7.10%) CRM
13 24 (6.82%) Migration
14 23 (6.53%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (9.09%) SQL
2 14 (3.98%) PL/SQL
3 13 (3.69%) COBOL
4 11 (3.13%) CLIST
4 11 (3.13%) REXX
5 10 (2.84%) SELCOPY
6 3 (0.85%) C
6 3 (0.85%) C#
6 3 (0.85%) Java
6 3 (0.85%) Python
7 2 (0.57%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.57%) VB
8 1 (0.28%) ABAP
8 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.28%) Bicep
8 1 (0.28%) C++
8 1 (0.28%) JCL
8 1 (0.28%) Scala
8 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 56 (15.91%) Degree
2 55 (15.63%) Security Cleared
3 40 (11.36%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.98%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (3.69%) CCNP
5 13 (3.69%) IIBA
6 11 (3.13%) CCNA
7 8 (2.27%) CBAP
7 8 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.70%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.42%) JNCIS
9 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.14%) ACCA
10 4 (1.14%) CIMA
10 4 (1.14%) JNCIA
10 4 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.14%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.85%) ISEB
11 3 (0.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.97%) QA
2 15 (4.26%) GDPR
2 15 (4.26%) SLA
3 12 (3.41%) Good Clinical Practice
3 12 (3.41%) GxP
4 7 (1.99%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.14%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.85%) HL7
7 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.57%) PMO
8 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.28%) NCSC
8 1 (0.28%) PSD2
8 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (4.26%) Grafana
2 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.85%) SCCM
2 3 (0.85%) Terraform
3 1 (0.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 45 (12.78%) SAP
2 32 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.26%) Denodo
3 15 (4.26%) Salesforce
3 15 (4.26%) Talend
4 12 (3.41%) IBM
4 12 (3.41%) ServiceNow
5 11 (3.13%) Avaloq
5 11 (3.13%) Syncsort
6 10 (2.84%) Cisco
6 10 (2.84%) Juniper
7 8 (2.27%) F5
8 5 (1.42%) Oracle
9 4 (1.14%) Pega
9 4 (1.14%) Sun
10 3 (0.85%) ESRI
10 3 (0.85%) JDA
10 3 (0.85%) Siemens
11 2 (0.57%) Genesys
11 2 (0.57%) Informatica