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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 130 89
Rank change year-on-year -1 -41 +12
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 346 450 891
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.66% 1.96% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.20% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 333 655
10th Percentile £313 £358 £359
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +8.45%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £538
90th Percentile £639 £605 £593
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 20 8
10th Percentile - £53.15 £22.73
25th Percentile £23.63 £55.16 £25.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £61.50 £45.58
Median % change year-on-year -41.46% +34.94% +55.82%
75th Percentile £53.00 £65.75 £58.84
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £65.85
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £61.50 £55.48
% change year-on-year -22.76% +10.86% +47.93%

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 17,354 20,436 27,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.24% 89.17% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,295 14,024 19,087
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,139 1,241 1,336
10th Percentile £12.47 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +24 114 £490 +3.16% 57
North West +36 78 £465 +3.33% 34
South East -15 75 £525 +1.94% 47
Midlands +17 71 £400 -12.09% 38
West Midlands +16 63 £375 -21.05% 28
Scotland +24 43 £450 -5.26% 26
Yorkshire -5 35 £490 -5.77% 20
South West -17 25 £450 +12.50% 35
East of England +4 20 £410 -8.89% 16
East Midlands -2 5 £425 -3.41% 10
Northern Ireland +1 2 £513 +28.13% 4
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 (3.47%) CICS
1 12 (3.47%) SAS
2 11 (3.18%) Confluence
3 5 (1.45%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.16%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (2.31%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.87%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.29%) Revit
Business Applications
1 14 (4.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.02%) SAP PM
3 5 (1.45%) NetSuite
4 4 (1.16%) Infor SunSystems
4 4 (1.16%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.87%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.87%) SAP MII
6 2 (0.58%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.58%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.29%) Magento
7 1 (0.29%) Maximo
7 1 (0.29%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.29%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.29%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.29%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.29%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 34 (9.83%) Azure
2 21 (6.07%) Power Platform
3 19 (5.49%) AWS
4 11 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (2.31%) SaaS
6 6 (1.73%) Akamai
6 6 (1.73%) Cloudflare
6 6 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (1.73%) Power Automate
6 6 (1.73%) PowerApps
7 5 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (1.45%) Snowflake
8 4 (1.16%) GCP
9 2 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.58%) PaaS
9 2 (0.58%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 2 (0.58%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (0.58%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.29%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.18%) WAN
2 9 (2.60%) LAN
3 8 (2.31%) Junos
4 7 (2.02%) Firewall
5 6 (1.73%) VPN
6 5 (1.45%) Wireshark
7 4 (1.16%) BGP
7 4 (1.16%) Cisco IOS
7 4 (1.16%) IPsec
7 4 (1.16%) MPLS
7 4 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.87%) DNS
9 2 (0.58%) IP Telephony
9 2 (0.58%) Network Security
9 2 (0.58%) PBX
9 2 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
9 2 (0.58%) SAN
9 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.58%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.58%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.91%) Power BI
2 16 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
2 16 (4.62%) MySQL
3 13 (3.76%) DB2
4 11 (3.18%) IDMS
5 6 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.16%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.16%) GIS
6 4 (1.16%) SAP BW
7 3 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (0.87%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.87%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.87%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.58%) Big Data
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.58%) Tableau
9 1 (0.29%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.29%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 35 (10.12%) JIRA
2 28 (8.09%) Git
3 3 (0.87%) InstallShield
3 3 (0.87%) MSI
4 2 (0.58%) AdminStudio
5 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
General
1 111 (32.08%) Social Skills
2 75 (21.68%) Finance
3 34 (9.83%) Manufacturing
4 32 (9.25%) Public Sector
5 31 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.91%) Pharmaceutical
6 17 (4.91%) Retail
7 10 (2.89%) Banking
7 10 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.02%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.73%) Automotive
10 5 (1.45%) Local Government
10 5 (1.45%) Marketing
11 3 (0.87%) Advertising
11 3 (0.87%) Billing
11 3 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.58%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.58%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.58%) Legal
Job Titles
1 154 (44.51%) Analyst
2 132 (38.15%) Business Analyst
3 41 (11.85%) Consultant
4 31 (8.96%) Architect
5 24 (6.94%) Developer
6 23 (6.65%) Project Manager
7 15 (4.34%) Lead
8 13 (3.76%) Technical Analyst
9 12 (3.47%) IBM Mainframe Developer
9 12 (3.47%) Mainframe Developer
9 12 (3.47%) SAP Consultant
10 11 (3.18%) Senior
11 9 (2.60%) Product Analyst
11 9 (2.60%) Systems Analyst
11 9 (2.60%) Technical Business Analyst
12 8 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (2.02%) Management Consultant
13 7 (2.02%) Network Architect
13 7 (2.02%) Service Management Consultant
13 7 (2.02%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.31%) Web Services
2 4 (1.16%) .NET
2 4 (1.16%) HTML
2 4 (1.16%) REST
2 4 (1.16%) SOAP
3 3 (0.87%) RESTful
4 2 (0.58%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.58%) CSS
4 2 (0.58%) Entity Framework
4 2 (0.58%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (0.58%) JSON
4 2 (0.58%) React
4 2 (0.58%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.29%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.29%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.29%) J2EE
5 1 (0.29%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.29%) PySpark
5 1 (0.29%) SAP MI
5 1 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.91%) Product Ownership
2 12 (3.47%) IBM Mainframe
2 12 (3.47%) Mainframe
3 10 (2.89%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.45%) Data Structures
4 5 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.16%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.16%) Industry 4.0
5 4 (1.16%) IoT
5 4 (1.16%) Robotics
6 3 (0.87%) Data Centre
6 3 (0.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (0.87%) Life Science
6 3 (0.87%) Mobile App
6 3 (0.87%) NHS
7 2 (0.58%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.58%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.18%) Windows
1 11 (3.18%) zOS
2 5 (1.45%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.87%) Linux
4 2 (0.58%) Unix
5 1 (0.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (36.42%) Agile
2 81 (23.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 77 (22.25%) Business Analysis
4 54 (15.61%) Project Management
5 53 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (14.45%) Scrum
7 49 (14.16%) User Stories
8 33 (9.54%) Software Engineering
8 33 (9.54%) Workshop Facilitation
9 29 (8.38%) Analytics
9 29 (8.38%) User Acceptance Testing
10 27 (7.80%) Migration
10 27 (7.80%) Process Improvement
10 27 (7.80%) Requirements Workshops
11 25 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (7.23%) DevOps
12 24 (6.94%) CRM
12 24 (6.94%) Project Delivery
12 24 (6.94%) Roadmaps
12 24 (6.94%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 32 (9.25%) SQL
2 14 (4.05%) PL/SQL
3 13 (3.76%) COBOL
4 11 (3.18%) CLIST
4 11 (3.18%) REXX
5 10 (2.89%) SELCOPY
6 4 (1.16%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.16%) Python
6 4 (1.16%) VB
7 3 (0.87%) C
7 3 (0.87%) Java
7 3 (0.87%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.58%) C#
8 2 (0.58%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.29%) ABAP
9 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.29%) C++
9 1 (0.29%) JCL
9 1 (0.29%) Scala
9 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (15.90%) Security Cleared
2 51 (14.74%) Degree
3 40 (11.56%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.76%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (3.76%) IIBA
5 12 (3.47%) CCNP
6 10 (2.89%) CCNA
7 7 (2.02%) CBAP
7 7 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.45%) JNCIS
10 4 (1.16%) ACCA
10 4 (1.16%) CIMA
10 4 (1.16%) JNCIA
10 4 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.16%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.87%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.58%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.65%) QA
2 14 (4.05%) GDPR
3 13 (3.76%) SLA
4 12 (3.47%) Good Clinical Practice
4 12 (3.47%) GxP
5 6 (1.73%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.16%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.87%) HL7
8 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.58%) PMO
9 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.29%) NCSC
9 1 (0.29%) PSD2
9 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.58%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (4.62%) Grafana
2 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.45%) SCCM
3 3 (0.87%) Terraform
4 1 (0.29%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 41 (11.85%) Microsoft
1 41 (11.85%) SAP
2 16 (4.62%) Denodo
2 16 (4.62%) Talend
3 13 (3.76%) IBM
3 13 (3.76%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.47%) Cisco
4 12 (3.47%) ServiceNow
5 11 (3.18%) Avaloq
5 11 (3.18%) Syncsort
6 10 (2.89%) Juniper
7 8 (2.31%) F5
8 4 (1.16%) Pega
8 4 (1.16%) Sun
9 3 (0.87%) Anaplan
9 3 (0.87%) ESRI
9 3 (0.87%) JDA
9 3 (0.87%) Oracle
9 3 (0.87%) Siemens
10 2 (0.58%) VMware