Requirements Gathering Contracts in Bedfordshire

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 2.55% - 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% - 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £365 - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £463 - -
90th Percentile £485 - -
East of England median daily rate £500 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +19.40% -6.94% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £27.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £47.25 £53.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -10.85% -18.46% +10.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 148 213 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 94.27% 86.59% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 124 117
10th Percentile £463 £304 £208
25th Percentile £500 £409 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +10.53% -3.06%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £628
East of England median daily rate £500 £461 £475
% change year-on-year +8.40% -2.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 34 6
10th Percentile £20.26 £15.32 £18.50
25th Percentile £28.21 £15.39 £29.31
Median hourly rate £60.75 £21.50 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +182.56% -66.27% +15.91%
75th Percentile £81.25 £32.90 £87.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £65.75 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year - +81.82% +41.94%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Bedfordshire

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Bedfordshire

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in Bedfordshire

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 May 2025. 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
Dunstable - 1 £350 -
Luton - 1 - - 3
Requirements Gathering
East of England

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MagicDraw
1 1 (25.00%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (25.00%) Automotive
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Japanese Language
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Analytics Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) PMO Manager
1 1 (25.00%) PMO Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) TM1 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) SysML
2 1 (25.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) CSPO
2 1 (25.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) PTC Integrity
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Cognos
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) PTC
2 1 (25.00%) Sparx