Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Requirements Gathering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 195 203 196
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 -33
Permanent jobs citing Requirements Gathering 1,509 1,877 3,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.52% 1.85% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.94% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,090 1,261 2,054
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,097
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,925 £60,000 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +4.80% +4.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £73,563
90th Percentile £85,075 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% -

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Requirements Gathering in the UK

Requirements Gathering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Requirements Gathering in the UK

Requirements Gathering
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Gathering within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +16 1,333 £55,000 -8.33% 330
UK excluding London +22 974 £49,500 -5.71% 194
Work from Home +34 749 £54,000 -6.09% 188
London +3 458 £70,000 +7.69% 154
South East +14 263 £50,000 -4.76% 39
North of England +59 221 £51,250 -6.62% 46
Midlands -22 167 £45,000 -14.29% 40
South West +16 134 £50,000 - 30
North West +16 125 £50,000 -9.09% 27
West Midlands -19 102 £45,000 -18.18% 30
Yorkshire +95 83 £54,950 +4.17% 12
East of England 0 79 £49,500 -17.50% 10
Scotland -49 77 £42,500 -15.00% 21
East Midlands -9 62 £44,250 -15.71% 10
Wales -3 20 £47,000 +10.01% 5
North East -9 13 £57,965 -25.21% 7
Northern Ireland +13 11 £54,400 +3.62% 7
Isle of Man - 4 £54,000 -

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 59 (3.91%) Confluence
2 48 (3.18%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.99%) Apache
5 13 (0.86%) CMS
6 11 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.66%) IIS
8 9 (0.60%) SAS
9 5 (0.33%) JBoss
9 5 (0.33%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.33%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.33%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.33%) WildFly
10 2 (0.13%) Drupal
10 2 (0.13%) IBM Domino
10 2 (0.13%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.13%) Moodle
10 2 (0.13%) nginx
10 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 112 (7.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (2.58%) MS Visio
3 37 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.86%) Sketch
7 6 (0.40%) InVision
7 6 (0.40%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.27%) Windchill
9 3 (0.20%) InDesign
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.066%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.066%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 56 (3.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.73%) Dynamics AX
3 11 (0.73%) Dynamics NAV
3 11 (0.73%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.60%) Workday HCM
5 8 (0.53%) Maximo
6 7 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.40%) SAP MDG
8 5 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.33%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.33%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
8 5 (0.33%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.27%) Oracle Payroll
9 4 (0.27%) SAP HCM
9 4 (0.27%) Sonata
10 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 256 (16.96%) Power Platform
2 226 (14.98%) Azure
3 94 (6.23%) Dynamics 365
4 83 (5.50%) SaaS
5 74 (4.90%) AWS
6 63 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 54 (3.58%) PowerApps
8 40 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 31 (2.05%) Amazon S3
11 28 (1.86%) Miro
12 27 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 25 (1.66%) Entra ID
14 24 (1.59%) Power Automate
15 22 (1.46%) OCI
16 21 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (0.86%) GitHub
17 13 (0.86%) OneDrive
18 9 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
18 9 (0.60%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.99%) WAN
2 13 (0.86%) 5G
2 13 (0.86%) SD-WAN
3 12 (0.80%) HTTP
3 12 (0.80%) Unified Communications
4 11 (0.73%) Internet
5 10 (0.66%) Broadband
5 10 (0.66%) WPA
6 9 (0.60%) Firewall
7 8 (0.53%) Intranet
7 8 (0.53%) SAN
7 8 (0.53%) Wireless
8 6 (0.40%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (0.40%) VPN
9 5 (0.33%) DNS
10 4 (0.27%) Ethernet
10 4 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (0.20%) SSL
12 2 (0.13%) LAN
12 2 (0.13%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (14.71%) Power BI
2 100 (6.63%) SQL Server
3 84 (5.57%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (3.45%) Tableau
5 38 (2.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 27 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 24 (1.59%) Power Query
8 21 (1.39%) Data Lake
9 18 (1.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 17 (1.13%) Metadata
10 17 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
11 16 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (0.99%) Amazon QuickSight
13 14 (0.93%) NoSQL
14 11 (0.73%) Data Mining
14 11 (0.73%) Relational Database
15 10 (0.66%) Big Data
16 9 (0.60%) DynamoDB
16 9 (0.60%) MongoDB
16 9 (0.60%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 139 (9.21%) JIRA
2 29 (1.92%) Git
3 16 (1.06%) Visual Studio
4 15 (0.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 12 (0.80%) Eclipse
6 10 (0.66%) TestRail
7 9 (0.60%) GitLab
8 7 (0.46%) JMeter
8 7 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (0.46%) Selenium
9 6 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.40%) LoadRunner
9 6 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.33%) Gatling
10 5 (0.33%) Postman
10 5 (0.33%) Subversion
11 4 (0.27%) Jenkins
12 3 (0.20%) Rational Rhapsody
13 2 (0.13%) Hudson
13 2 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 506 (33.53%) Social Skills
2 337 (22.33%) Finance
3 298 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (6.43%) Retail
5 86 (5.70%) Marketing
6 78 (5.17%) Law
7 77 (5.10%) Public Sector
8 71 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 69 (4.57%) Presentation Skills
10 63 (4.17%) Manufacturing
11 48 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
12 46 (3.05%) Banking
12 46 (3.05%) Legal
13 25 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.59%) Local Government
15 23 (1.52%) Electronics
16 18 (1.19%) Telecoms
17 17 (1.13%) Front Office
17 17 (1.13%) Games
18 15 (0.99%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 548 (36.32%) Analyst
2 352 (23.33%) Business Analyst
3 212 (14.05%) Senior
4 184 (12.19%) Consultant
5 154 (10.21%) Developer
6 110 (7.29%) Senior Analyst
7 109 (7.22%) Lead
8 92 (6.10%) Project Manager
9 80 (5.30%) Senior Business Analyst
10 73 (4.84%) Architect
11 50 (3.31%) IT Analyst
12 48 (3.18%) Technical Consultant
13 45 (2.98%) Data Analyst
14 43 (2.85%) Business IT Analyst
14 43 (2.85%) IT Business Analyst
14 43 (2.85%) Product Owner
15 38 (2.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 36 (2.39%) Senior Consultant
16 36 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
17 34 (2.25%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (4.44%) HTML
2 51 (3.38%) .NET
3 35 (2.32%) CSS
4 34 (2.25%) JSON
4 34 (2.25%) Web Services
5 32 (2.12%) REST
6 31 (2.05%) AngularJS
6 31 (2.05%) XML
7 22 (1.46%) React
8 17 (1.13%) Spring
8 17 (1.13%) XSL
9 16 (1.06%) EDI
9 16 (1.06%) RESTful
10 15 (0.99%) ASP.NET
11 14 (0.93%) Lightning Web Components
12 12 (0.80%) Hibernate
12 12 (0.80%) HTML5
12 12 (0.80%) Middleware
13 11 (0.73%) .NET Core
14 10 (0.66%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 113 (7.49%) Product Ownership
2 112 (7.42%) Self-Motivation
3 53 (3.51%) Management Information System
4 35 (2.32%) Onboarding
5 32 (2.12%) Data Centre
6 20 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (1.33%) Virtual Team
7 19 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (1.13%) Public Cloud
9 16 (1.06%) NHS
10 15 (0.99%) Low-Code
11 14 (0.93%) Data Structures
11 14 (0.93%) Driving Licence
12 13 (0.86%) Mobile App
13 12 (0.80%) Reference Data
13 12 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
14 11 (0.73%) Algorithms
15 10 (0.66%) Taxonomies
16 9 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
16 9 (0.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 50 (3.31%) Windows
2 40 (2.65%) Linux
3 17 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.99%) Windows 10
5 10 (0.66%) Unix
6 8 (0.53%) Android
6 8 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.066%) CentOS
7 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (31.61%) Agile
2 377 (24.98%) Problem-Solving
3 259 (17.16%) Project Management
4 255 (16.90%) Business Analysis
5 244 (16.17%) Business Intelligence
6 210 (13.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 188 (12.46%) Roadmaps
8 178 (11.80%) User Stories
9 156 (10.34%) Migration
10 144 (9.54%) Analytics
10 144 (9.54%) Workshop Facilitation
11 143 (9.48%) Project Delivery
12 137 (9.08%) Scrum
13 136 (9.01%) Mentoring
14 129 (8.55%) Actionable Insight
15 117 (7.75%) Decision-Making
16 110 (7.29%) SDLC
17 108 (7.16%) ERP
18 107 (7.09%) Process Improvement
19 105 (6.96%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 313 (20.74%) SQL
2 128 (8.48%) Python
3 74 (4.90%) C#
4 71 (4.71%) JavaScript
5 69 (4.57%) Java
6 53 (3.51%) T-SQL
7 43 (2.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 30 (1.99%) PL/SQL
9 24 (1.59%) PowerShell
10 19 (1.26%) R
11 15 (0.99%) C
12 14 (0.93%) C++
13 13 (0.86%) PHP
14 12 (0.80%) VBA
15 11 (0.73%) RPG
15 11 (0.73%) TypeScript
16 10 (0.66%) VB
17 9 (0.60%) Embedded C
17 9 (0.60%) MATLAB
18 4 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 260 (17.23%) Degree
2 174 (11.53%) Security Cleared
3 114 (7.55%) SC Cleared
4 46 (3.05%) DBS Check
5 41 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (2.39%) Master's Degree
7 31 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.13%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (0.99%) DV Cleared
11 13 (0.86%) PMP
12 12 (0.80%) AWS Certification
12 12 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.66%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 9 (0.60%) CISM
14 9 (0.60%) CISSP
15 8 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 7 (0.46%) CSPO
17 6 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (6.23%) QA
2 44 (2.92%) Data Quality
3 15 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (0.86%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.80%) ISO 9001
6 9 (0.60%) PMO
7 8 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.53%) GDPR
8 5 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.27%) JTAG
9 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.20%) NIST
11 2 (0.13%) SLA
12 1 (0.066%) ECSS
12 1 (0.066%) GMP
System Software
1 29 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.33%) Docker
3 18 (1.19%) Firmware
4 13 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.80%) Embedded Firmware
5 12 (0.80%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.20%) vSphere
9 1 (0.066%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 27 (1.79%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (0.46%) Terraform
4 6 (0.40%) SCCM
5 4 (0.27%) WSUS
6 2 (0.13%) Ansible
6 2 (0.13%) Grafana
6 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.13%) Puppet
7 1 (0.066%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.066%) Graylog
7 1 (0.066%) HP SiteScope
7 1 (0.066%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.066%) Nagios
7 1 (0.066%) Perfmon
7 1 (0.066%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.066%) TeamSite
7 1 (0.066%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 280 (18.56%) Microsoft
2 90 (5.96%) Oracle
3 73 (4.84%) Salesforce
4 70 (4.64%) SAP
5 23 (1.52%) Adobe
5 23 (1.52%) ServiceNow
6 15 (0.99%) VMware
7 14 (0.93%) IFS
7 14 (0.93%) Workday
8 13 (0.86%) Apple
8 13 (0.86%) EMC
9 10 (0.66%) Cisco
10 8 (0.53%) F5
10 8 (0.53%) Sage
11 7 (0.46%) Databricks
11 7 (0.46%) Epicor
11 7 (0.46%) Google
11 7 (0.46%) ION Trading
11 7 (0.46%) Juniper
11 7 (0.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud