Requirements Gathering Contracts

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 114 113 97
Rank change year-on-year -1 -16 -6
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 865 1,331 2,371
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.00% 2.23% 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 2.48% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 943 1,642
10th Percentile £351 £380 £363
25th Percentile £413 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £627 £613 £575
90th Percentile £725 £733 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 35 11
10th Percentile £23.63 £50.50 £25.50
25th Percentile £35.50 £55.06 £25.57
Median hourly rate £53.00 £61.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.82% +44.71% +77.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £66.90 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £61.50 £40.33
% change year-on-year -41.46% +52.50% +68.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in the UK

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the UK

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the UK

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the UK

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the UK

Requirements Gathering
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 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
England +2 739 £533 +1.52% 349
London -1 417 £550 - 167
Work from Home +22 356 £530 +0.95% 170
UK excluding London +1 342 £475 - 202
North of England +33 114 £490 +8.89% 57
South East +3 79 £528 +5.50% 40
North West +39 75 £463 +8.82% 33
Midlands -8 62 £400 -20.00% 29
West Midlands +3 52 £358 -31.81% 23
Scotland +18 43 £481 +6.94% 24
Yorkshire -5 38 £490 -2.00% 14
East of England +19 24 £428 -5.00% 10
South West -19 22 £450 +2.86% 33
East Midlands +6 6 £438 -3.85% 6
Northern Ireland +6 2 £516 +29.06% 7

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 28 (3.24%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.08%) Confluence
3 16 (1.85%) CICS
4 14 (1.62%) SAS
5 7 (0.81%) CMS
6 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.46%) IIS
7 4 (0.46%) JBoss
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) Apache
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 22 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.62%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.39%) Chatbot
5 10 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.35%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 43 (4.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (3.35%) Dynamics AX
3 12 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (1.27%) Endur
5 9 (1.04%) SAP PM
5 9 (1.04%) SAP SD
6 7 (0.81%) SAP EWM
7 6 (0.69%) SAP Travel Management
8 5 (0.58%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.46%) Infor SunSystems
9 4 (0.46%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.46%) SAP PS
10 3 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
10 3 (0.35%) SAP MII
10 3 (0.35%) SAP MM
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
11 2 (0.23%) SAP HCM
11 2 (0.23%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 123 (14.22%) Azure
2 69 (7.98%) Power Platform
3 61 (7.05%) Dynamics 365
4 57 (6.59%) AWS
5 39 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (3.35%) Power Automate
6 29 (3.35%) PowerApps
7 21 (2.43%) GCP
8 13 (1.50%) Amazon S3
8 13 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
8 13 (1.50%) SaaS
8 13 (1.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 11 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (1.27%) Route 53
9 11 (1.27%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 11 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (1.16%) Snowflake
10 10 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.85%) Network Security
2 13 (1.50%) Cisco IOS
3 12 (1.39%) BGP
3 12 (1.39%) MPLS
4 11 (1.27%) WAN
5 9 (1.04%) Firewall
5 9 (1.04%) IOS XR
5 9 (1.04%) LAN
6 8 (0.92%) Junos
6 8 (0.92%) VPN
7 7 (0.81%) HTTP
8 5 (0.58%) SSH
8 5 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.58%) WinSCP
8 5 (0.58%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.46%) IPsec
10 3 (0.35%) DNS
11 2 (0.23%) Intranet
11 2 (0.23%) IPv6
11 2 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (6.71%) Power BI
2 38 (4.39%) Data Lake
3 29 (3.35%) SQL Server
4 27 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (2.77%) DB2
6 15 (1.73%) IDMS
7 14 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.39%) MySQL
9 11 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
12 8 (0.92%) KDB
12 8 (0.92%) Tableau
13 7 (0.81%) Big Data
14 5 (0.58%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
14 5 (0.58%) GIS
14 5 (0.58%) Metadata
14 5 (0.58%) Relational Database
15 4 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 58 (6.71%) JIRA
2 43 (4.97%) Git
3 16 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.69%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.58%) GitLab
5 5 (0.58%) JUnit
5 5 (0.58%) Postman
5 5 (0.58%) SoapUI
6 4 (0.46%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.46%) Vagrant
6 4 (0.46%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.12%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.12%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.12%) Selenium
8 1 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 287 (33.18%) Social Skills
2 257 (29.71%) Finance
3 133 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (9.02%) Public Sector
5 70 (8.09%) Banking
6 47 (5.43%) Retail
7 44 (5.09%) Manufacturing
8 38 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (3.93%) General Ledger
10 24 (2.77%) Front Office
11 22 (2.54%) Marketing
12 17 (1.97%) Back Office
12 17 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
12 17 (1.97%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.73%) Financial Institution
14 13 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (1.27%) Legal
17 9 (1.04%) Billing
18 8 (0.92%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 347 (40.12%) Analyst
2 321 (37.11%) Business Analyst
3 143 (16.53%) Consultant
4 78 (9.02%) Developer
5 74 (8.55%) Senior
6 73 (8.44%) Architect
7 38 (4.39%) SAP Consultant
8 37 (4.28%) Project Manager
9 36 (4.16%) Data Business Analyst
9 36 (4.16%) Lead
10 32 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
11 29 (3.35%) Senior Business Analyst
12 27 (3.12%) Product Owner
12 27 (3.12%) Technical Analyst
13 26 (3.01%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 25 (2.89%) Functional Consultant
15 24 (2.77%) Data Analyst
15 24 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (2.31%) Technical Business Analyst
17 19 (2.20%) Microsoft Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.89%) Web Services
2 20 (2.31%) REST
2 20 (2.31%) SOAP
2 20 (2.31%) XML
3 17 (1.97%) .NET
3 17 (1.97%) JSON
4 13 (1.50%) RESTful
5 12 (1.39%) ASP.NET
6 10 (1.16%) .NET Framework
6 10 (1.16%) HTML
6 10 (1.16%) Lightning Web Components
7 7 (0.81%) NETCONF
7 7 (0.81%) Spring
7 7 (0.81%) YANG
8 6 (0.69%) CSS
8 6 (0.69%) J2EE
8 6 (0.69%) React
8 6 (0.69%) SAP TM
9 5 (0.58%) JPA
9 5 (0.58%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 67 (7.75%) Product Ownership
2 41 (4.74%) Data Structures
3 28 (3.24%) Management Information System
4 17 (1.97%) Derivative
4 17 (1.97%) Mainframe
5 14 (1.62%) Fixed Income
5 14 (1.62%) IBM Mainframe
5 14 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (1.27%) IVR
8 10 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.16%) Equity Derivative
9 9 (1.04%) Onboarding
10 8 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (0.81%) Reinsurance
11 7 (0.81%) Replication
12 6 (0.69%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.69%) Equities
12 6 (0.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.54%) Windows
2 14 (1.62%) Unix
3 13 (1.50%) Linux
3 13 (1.50%) zOS
4 5 (0.58%) VMS
5 4 (0.46%) AIX
5 4 (0.46%) Solaris
6 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (27.05%) Agile
2 158 (18.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 147 (16.99%) Business Analysis
4 133 (15.38%) User Stories
5 125 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
6 118 (13.64%) Project Management
7 102 (11.79%) DevOps
8 98 (11.33%) Scrum
9 96 (11.10%) User Acceptance Testing
10 84 (9.71%) Migration
11 78 (9.02%) Business Intelligence
12 73 (8.44%) Workshop Facilitation
13 72 (8.32%) Requirements Workshops
14 71 (8.21%) Roadmaps
15 68 (7.86%) Analytics
16 59 (6.82%) Data Migration
17 58 (6.71%) Change Management
17 58 (6.71%) GAP Analysis
18 54 (6.24%) Data Modelling
19 51 (5.90%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 87 (10.06%) SQL
2 51 (5.90%) Python
3 29 (3.35%) Java
4 26 (3.01%) PL/SQL
5 25 (2.89%) C#
6 19 (2.20%) COBOL
7 15 (1.73%) REXX
8 14 (1.62%) SELCOPY
9 13 (1.50%) CLIST
10 11 (1.27%) JavaScript
11 7 (0.81%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.58%) C++
12 5 (0.58%) Perl
12 5 (0.58%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.58%) XPath
12 5 (0.58%) XQuery
13 4 (0.46%) VBA
14 3 (0.35%) ABAP
14 3 (0.35%) C
14 3 (0.35%) JCL
Qualifications
1 139 (16.07%) Degree
2 91 (10.52%) Security Cleared
3 63 (7.28%) SC Cleared
4 23 (2.66%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (2.54%) CCNP
6 19 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.08%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.62%) IIBA
9 12 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (1.27%) CBAP
10 11 (1.27%) CCNA
11 9 (1.04%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.69%) SAP Certification
14 5 (0.58%) JNCIS
14 5 (0.58%) MBA
14 5 (0.58%) PhD
14 5 (0.58%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.46%) CIMA
15 4 (0.46%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (8.67%) QA
2 28 (3.24%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.08%) GDPR
4 16 (1.85%) SLA
5 12 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
5 12 (1.39%) Good Clinical Practice
5 12 (1.39%) GxP
6 10 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.81%) PMO
8 5 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.12%) HL7
10 1 (0.12%) IFRS
10 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.12%) PMBOK
10 1 (0.12%) PSD2
10 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 12 (1.39%) Docker
2 5 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
4 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (2.54%) Grafana
2 14 (1.62%) Terraform
3 13 (1.50%) Kubernetes
4 11 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.81%) Ansible
6 4 (0.46%) Tivoli
7 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.23%) SCCM
9 1 (0.12%) MOM
9 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 110 (12.72%) Microsoft
2 105 (12.14%) SAP
3 53 (6.13%) Oracle
4 40 (4.62%) Salesforce
5 25 (2.89%) IBM
6 19 (2.20%) Cisco
7 17 (1.97%) ServiceNow
8 15 (1.73%) Syncsort
9 13 (1.50%) Avaloq
9 13 (1.50%) F5
10 12 (1.39%) Genesys
11 11 (1.27%) Denodo
11 11 (1.27%) Juniper
11 11 (1.27%) Talend
12 9 (1.04%) Adobe
12 9 (1.04%) Nokia
13 8 (0.92%) Databricks
13 8 (0.92%) Google
13 8 (0.92%) Pega
14 7 (0.81%) Calypso