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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 38 43
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 +9
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 14 18 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.49% 2.64% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 3.22% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 23
10th Percentile £377 £450 £393
25th Percentile £410 £463 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £556
90th Percentile £598 £628 £715
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £400 £488
% change year-on-year +12.50% -17.95% -1.52%
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 491 559 714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.21% 81.96% 83.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 391 485
10th Percentile £164 £225 £263
25th Percentile £325 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.27%
75th Percentile £538 £634 £623
90th Percentile £639 £738 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 17 23
10th Percentile - £13.70 £12.74
25th Percentile £12.62 £20.50 £15.57
Median hourly rate £18.87 £40.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -52.83% +58.42% +41.46%
75th Percentile £22.08 £52.50 £30.52
90th Percentile £26.89 £56.25 £88.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £22.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +8.18% -16.67% +54.29%

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 16 August 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (7.14%) SAP MM
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Broadband
1 1 (7.14%) Internet
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Legal
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Advertising
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Business Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Implementation Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Implementation Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Online Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Product Manager
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) SAP MM Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Service Manager
4 1 (7.14%) SharePoint Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (21.43%) Educational Technology
1 3 (21.43%) Learning Management System
1 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
1 3 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.14%) CMDB
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) SCORM
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (28.57%) Project Management
4 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (21.43%) Business Analysis
5 3 (21.43%) Contract Negotiation
5 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
5 3 (21.43%) PRINCE2
5 3 (21.43%) User Experience
6 2 (14.29%) Business Process Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) Business Transformation
6 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
6 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 2 (14.29%) Scrum
6 2 (14.29%) Use Case
6 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team Management
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) PMI Certification
2 3 (21.43%) PMP
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Progress
2 2 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Ariba
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow