Requirements Gathering Contracts in Birmingham

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 55 46
Rank change year-on-year +17 -9 +5
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 12 12 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.30% 1.55% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 1.86% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 22
10th Percentile £443 £214 £376
25th Percentile £476 £393 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +13.89% +2.86%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £566
90th Percentile £611 £598 £697
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £358 £525
% change year-on-year +43.16% -31.81% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £92.50
Median hourly rate - - £95.00
75th Percentile - - £97.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £95.00
% change year-on-year - - +442.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Birmingham

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Birmingham

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in Birmingham

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Birmingham

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (8.33%) SAP MM
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
1 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Advertising
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Business Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Finance Business Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Developer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Mortgage Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) EDI
1 2 (16.67%) IDoc
1 2 (16.67%) J2EE
1 2 (16.67%) JDBC
1 2 (16.67%) REST
1 2 (16.67%) SOAP
1 2 (16.67%) XSLT
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) NHS
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (8.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (33.33%) Requirements Workshops
2 3 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) API Management
3 2 (16.67%) B2B
3 2 (16.67%) BPMN
3 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (16.67%) Business Transformation
3 2 (16.67%) Data Management
3 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 2 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) Validation
3 2 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (8.33%) Data Mapping
4 1 (8.33%) Matrix Management
4 1 (8.33%) Test Scripting
4 1 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) ABAP
1 2 (16.67%) Groovy
1 2 (16.67%) Java
1 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP Certification
2 1 (8.33%) ACCA
2 1 (8.33%) CBAP
2 1 (8.33%) CIMA
2 1 (8.33%) CIPFA
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) ICAEW
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Adobe
3 1 (8.33%) Ariba
3 1 (8.33%) AVEVA
3 1 (8.33%) Civica
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle