Requirements Gathering Contracts in Berkshire

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 101 68
Rank change year-on-year +25 -33 +6
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 22 14 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.84% 0.80% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 0.94% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 38
10th Percentile £354 £329 £430
25th Percentile £401 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.18% +7.14% +19.64%
75th Percentile £539 £641 £626
90th Percentile £614 £673 £658
South East median daily rate £444 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -14.04% -1.67% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £53.90
25th Percentile - - £54.50
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £61.00
90th Percentile - - £61.90
South East median hourly rate - £67.02 £57.38
% change year-on-year - +16.81% +13.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,103 1,493 1,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.22% 85.76% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 679 792 1,003
10th Percentile £350 £319 £313
25th Percentile £416 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.58% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 80 58
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.75 £17.30
25th Percentile £16.66 £41.25 £27.13
Median hourly rate £32.05 £61.33 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -47.74% +6.08% +92.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.73 £73.59
90th Percentile £87.64 £87.46 £75.80
South East median hourly rate £21.32 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.82% +14.70% +100.00%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Berkshire

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Berkshire

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in Berkshire

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Berkshire

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
Reading +35 14 £488 -7.14% 5
Bracknell +7 6 £388 -38.00% 1
Wokingham -11 1 - -
Requirements Gathering
South East

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 3 (13.64%) Camunda
2 1 (4.55%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Workday HCM
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (4.55%) SAP QM
2 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) AWS
2 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.55%) Boomi
2 1 (4.55%) GCP
2 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.55%) SaaS
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Data Hub
1 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.55%) Data Mart
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Retail
3 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Local Government
4 1 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Analyst
2 10 (45.45%) Business Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Report Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Security Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Business Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Workday Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Operations Business Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Operations Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Business Systems Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Implementation Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Project Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
1 3 (13.64%) React
1 3 (13.64%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Operational Technology
1 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (4.55%) Learning Management System
2 1 (4.55%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Agile
2 5 (22.73%) Analytics
2 5 (22.73%) BPMN
2 5 (22.73%) User Stories
3 4 (18.18%) Business Analysis
3 4 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (18.18%) Data Analysis
3 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (18.18%) Technical Architecture
3 4 (18.18%) Waterfall
3 4 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (13.64%) Dashboard Development
4 3 (13.64%) Microservices
4 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (13.64%) Process Management
4 3 (13.64%) Scrum
4 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.55%) CISM
2 1 (4.55%) CISSP
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) IIBA
2 1 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) GRC
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Workday
2 1 (4.55%) Capita
2 1 (4.55%) Dell
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.55%) SAP