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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 31 29
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 -7
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 2.34% 0.44% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 0.53% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £455 - £578
25th Percentile £463 - £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £588
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.50%
75th Percentile £488 - £594
90th Percentile £495 - £598
East of England median daily rate £500 £410 £450
% change year-on-year +21.95% -8.89% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £59.00 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.00% - -
East of England median hourly rate £59.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.00% -23.08% +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 160 187 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 93.57% 82.38% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 103 103
10th Percentile £390 £300 £208
25th Percentile £500 £369 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £650 £586 £600
90th Percentile £723 £650 £625
East of England median daily rate £500 £441 £480
% change year-on-year +13.38% -8.13% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 39 4
10th Percentile £26.27 £15.37 £17.10
25th Percentile £60.75 £15.39 £20.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £21.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +272.09% -55.67% -7.62%
75th Percentile £88.00 £64.75 £82.50
90th Percentile £92.10 £66.30 £87.00
East of England median hourly rate £36.00 £40.00 £21.01
% change year-on-year -10.00% +90.43% +31.28%

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
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend 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 14 June 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
Luton - 3 £450 - 9
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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) AdminStudio
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) ICT Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) ICT Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) TM1 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Software Packaging
2 1 (25.00%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Application Packaging
1 3 (75.00%) Business Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) Business Case
1 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Software Rationalisation
1 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
1 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 2 (50.00%) Software Licensing
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CBAP
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Cognos
2 1 (25.00%) IBM