Requirements Gathering Contracts

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Requirements Gathering over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 115 95
Rank change year-on-year +7 -20 0
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 878 1,247 2,392
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.01% 2.24% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.50% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 888 1,649
10th Percentile £350 £381 £367
25th Percentile £405 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £622 £619 £588
90th Percentile £725 £725 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 28 14
10th Percentile £23.63 £50.88 £25.50
25th Percentile £32.75 £54.88 £25.97
Median hourly rate £47.50 £61.50 £58.48
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +5.17% +55.93%
75th Percentile £66.89 £65.75 £70.06
90th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £80.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £61.50 £48.05
% change year-on-year -41.46% +27.99% +28.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Requirements Gathering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,161 49,793 79,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.16% 89.64% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,765 34,463 55,606
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,583 1,678 1,849
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £33.14 £21.00
% change year-on-year +15.02% +57.82% -

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 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
England +6 762 £525 - 362
London -5 425 £550 - 165
UK excluding London +4 355 £450 -5.26% 207
Work from Home +15 350 £538 +2.38% 218
North of England +26 113 £488 +2.63% 60
Midlands +19 83 £400 -12.09% 31
North West +37 78 £475 +7.04% 32
West Midlands +17 75 £375 -21.05% 25
South East -19 74 £500 -2.91% 46
Scotland +15 37 £481 +1.32% 19
Yorkshire -19 34 £490 -5.77% 23
South West -15 28 £430 +2.57% 28
East of England +1 22 £410 -8.89% 15
East Midlands -2 5 £425 -1.16% 6
Northern Ireland -1 2 £513 +28.13% 5

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 (3.19%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.62%) Confluence
3 14 (1.59%) CICS
3 14 (1.59%) SAS
4 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.57%) CMS
6 4 (0.46%) IIS
6 4 (0.46%) JBoss
7 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.11%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.11%) Camunda
8 1 (0.11%) LiveLink
8 1 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 18 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.48%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.34%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.23%) Trello
9 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 31 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (3.30%) Dynamics AX
3 10 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.14%) SAP EWM
3 10 (1.14%) SAP SD
4 9 (1.03%) Endur
5 7 (0.80%) SAP PM
5 7 (0.80%) SAP Travel Management
6 6 (0.68%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.46%) Infor SunSystems
7 4 (0.46%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.46%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.34%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.34%) SAP Hybris
8 3 (0.34%) SAP MII
9 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.23%) SAP HCM
9 2 (0.23%) SAP PP
9 2 (0.23%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 136 (15.49%) Azure
2 78 (8.88%) Power Platform
3 61 (6.95%) Dynamics 365
4 41 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (4.56%) AWS
6 35 (3.99%) PowerApps
7 32 (3.64%) Power Automate
8 18 (2.05%) SaaS
9 15 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (1.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 12 (1.37%) Amazon S3
12 11 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (1.25%) Route 53
12 11 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (1.03%) GCP
13 9 (1.03%) Snowflake
14 8 (0.91%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.59%) WAN
2 13 (1.48%) Network Security
3 11 (1.25%) Cisco IOS
4 10 (1.14%) Firewall
4 10 (1.14%) LAN
4 10 (1.14%) MPLS
5 9 (1.03%) BGP
5 9 (1.03%) SSH
6 8 (0.91%) Junos
6 8 (0.91%) VPN
7 7 (0.80%) IOS XR
8 5 (0.57%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.46%) IPsec
9 4 (0.46%) Unified Communications
9 4 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.34%) DNS
10 3 (0.34%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.23%) Cisco Firepower
11 2 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
11 2 (0.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (7.40%) Power BI
2 35 (3.99%) Data Lake
3 31 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
3 31 (3.53%) MySQL
4 30 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (3.08%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.51%) DB2
7 13 (1.48%) IDMS
8 11 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (1.03%) Tableau
10 8 (0.91%) KDB
11 7 (0.80%) Big Data
11 7 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
11 7 (0.80%) GIS
11 7 (0.80%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (0.68%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.57%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13 5 (0.57%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 71 (8.09%) JIRA
2 59 (6.72%) Git
3 17 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.14%) Cucumber
5 9 (1.03%) JUnit
6 5 (0.57%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.57%) GitLab
7 4 (0.46%) Vagrant
7 4 (0.46%) Visual Website Optimizer
8 3 (0.34%) InstallShield
8 3 (0.34%) MSI
9 2 (0.23%) AdminStudio
9 2 (0.23%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.11%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.11%) Gradle
10 1 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.11%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 303 (34.51%) Social Skills
2 239 (27.22%) Finance
3 137 (15.60%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (8.43%) Public Sector
5 69 (7.86%) Banking
6 50 (5.69%) Retail
7 43 (4.90%) Manufacturing
8 34 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
9 31 (3.53%) General Ledger
10 26 (2.96%) Front Office
11 24 (2.73%) Marketing
12 23 (2.62%) Back Office
13 19 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
14 16 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 14 (1.59%) Investment Banking
16 13 (1.48%) Financial Institution
17 11 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
18 10 (1.14%) Billing
18 10 (1.14%) Telecoms
19 9 (1.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 351 (39.98%) Analyst
2 317 (36.10%) Business Analyst
3 129 (14.69%) Consultant
4 87 (9.91%) Developer
5 73 (8.31%) Senior
6 72 (8.20%) Architect
7 39 (4.44%) SAP Consultant
8 37 (4.21%) Senior Analyst
9 36 (4.10%) Lead
10 34 (3.87%) Senior Business Analyst
11 32 (3.64%) Project Manager
12 31 (3.53%) Technical Analyst
13 30 (3.42%) Data Analyst
13 30 (3.42%) Data Business Analyst
14 29 (3.30%) Product Owner
15 27 (3.08%) Technical Business Analyst
16 26 (2.96%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
17 22 (2.51%) Functional Consultant
17 22 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
18 19 (2.16%) Microsoft Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (3.87%) Web Services
2 21 (2.39%) XML
3 20 (2.28%) .NET
4 19 (2.16%) SOAP
5 18 (2.05%) JSON
5 18 (2.05%) REST
6 14 (1.59%) ASP.NET
7 13 (1.48%) React
8 11 (1.25%) Spring
9 10 (1.14%) HTML
9 10 (1.14%) J2EE
10 9 (1.03%) .NET Framework
10 9 (1.03%) Hibernate
10 9 (1.03%) JPA
10 9 (1.03%) Lightning Web Components
11 8 (0.91%) CSS
11 8 (0.91%) SAP TM
12 5 (0.57%) ASP.NET Core
12 5 (0.57%) EDI
12 5 (0.57%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 72 (8.20%) Product Ownership
2 38 (4.33%) Data Structures
3 27 (3.08%) Management Information System
4 16 (1.82%) Fixed Income
4 16 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (1.59%) Derivative
6 14 (1.59%) IBM Mainframe
6 14 (1.59%) Mainframe
7 12 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.25%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.25%) Reinsurance
9 9 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 7 (0.80%) Cloud Native
11 7 (0.80%) Data Centre
11 7 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (0.80%) Replication
12 6 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.30%) Windows
2 17 (1.94%) Unix
3 15 (1.71%) Linux
4 13 (1.48%) zOS
5 6 (0.68%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.57%) Android
6 5 (0.57%) VMS
7 4 (0.46%) AIX
7 4 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.46%) Solaris
8 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (29.73%) Agile
2 170 (19.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 146 (16.63%) Business Analysis
4 135 (15.38%) User Stories
5 130 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
6 117 (13.33%) Scrum
7 109 (12.41%) Project Management
8 102 (11.62%) DevOps
9 95 (10.82%) Migration
10 94 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
11 82 (9.34%) Analytics
11 82 (9.34%) Business Intelligence
12 81 (9.23%) Workshop Facilitation
13 74 (8.43%) Requirements Workshops
14 69 (7.86%) Roadmaps
15 66 (7.52%) GAP Analysis
16 65 (7.40%) Software Engineering
17 60 (6.83%) Process Improvement
18 59 (6.72%) Data Modelling
19 53 (6.04%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 97 (11.05%) SQL
2 49 (5.58%) Python
3 34 (3.87%) Java
4 25 (2.85%) C#
4 25 (2.85%) PL/SQL
5 17 (1.94%) COBOL
6 15 (1.71%) REXX
7 14 (1.59%) SELCOPY
8 13 (1.48%) CLIST
9 11 (1.25%) JavaScript
10 7 (0.80%) Apex Code
10 7 (0.80%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.68%) Perl
12 5 (0.57%) C++
12 5 (0.57%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.57%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.57%) XPath
12 5 (0.57%) XQuery
13 4 (0.46%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 130 (14.81%) Degree
2 105 (11.96%) Security Cleared
3 81 (9.23%) SC Cleared
4 23 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (2.39%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.28%) CCNP
7 15 (1.71%) IIBA
8 14 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.37%) CBAP
10 10 (1.14%) CCNA
11 8 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.91%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.80%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.80%) PMP
13 5 (0.57%) JNCIS
14 4 (0.46%) CIMA
14 4 (0.46%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.46%) JNCIA
14 4 (0.46%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.97%) QA
2 22 (2.51%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.05%) GDPR
4 14 (1.59%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.37%) Good Clinical Practice
5 12 (1.37%) GxP
6 9 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (1.03%) SLA
7 7 (0.80%) PMO
8 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.34%) HL7
10 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.11%) GRC
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.11%) NCSC
11 1 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 11 (1.25%) Docker
2 5 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
4 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (4.56%) Grafana
2 15 (1.71%) Terraform
3 13 (1.48%) Kubernetes
4 11 (1.25%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.80%) SCCM
7 5 (0.57%) Ansible
8 4 (0.46%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 124 (14.12%) Microsoft
2 98 (11.16%) SAP
3 44 (5.01%) Oracle
4 40 (4.56%) Salesforce
5 29 (3.30%) Denodo
5 29 (3.30%) Talend
6 24 (2.73%) IBM
7 20 (2.28%) Cisco
8 15 (1.71%) ServiceNow
8 15 (1.71%) Syncsort
9 14 (1.59%) F5
10 11 (1.25%) Avaloq
10 11 (1.25%) Juniper
11 8 (0.91%) Ariba
11 8 (0.91%) Databricks
11 8 (0.91%) Google
11 8 (0.91%) Guidewire
11 8 (0.91%) Pega
12 7 (0.80%) ION Trading
12 7 (0.80%) Workday