Requirements Gathering Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 40 43
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 +22
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 17 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 5.12% 1.80% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.78% 2.18% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile £383 £305 £359
25th Percentile £394 £425 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £565 £430
Median % change year-on-year -24.78% +31.40% -9.47%
75th Percentile £450 £738 £522
90th Percentile - - £619
East of England median daily rate £500 £538 £513
% change year-on-year -6.98% +4.88% +4.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 294 367 505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.55% 82.66% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 115 231
10th Percentile £200 £212 £225
25th Percentile £350 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £538
90th Percentile £685 £638 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 163 183
10th Percentile £14.46 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £15.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.71 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.93% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.42 £20.56
90th Percentile £60.00 £48.60 £28.50
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -6.25% +90.48% +6.01%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Cambridgeshire

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Cambridgeshire

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Cambridgeshire

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Cambridge +8 13 £400 -35.48% 4
Peterborough +8 4 £450 - 2
Requirements Gathering
East of England

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 13 (76.47%) WebLogic
1 13 (76.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) SaaS
General
1 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Consultant
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Business Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Design Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Finance Business Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Financial Business Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) IT Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) ITSM Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Design Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (76.47%) .NET
1 13 (76.47%) HTML
1 13 (76.47%) Middleware
1 13 (76.47%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) ITSM
2 3 (17.65%) Business Analysis
2 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
2 3 (17.65%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (17.65%) Knowledge Management
2 3 (17.65%) Performance Metrics
2 3 (17.65%) Performance Testing
3 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis
3 2 (11.76%) SDLC
4 1 (5.88%) Agile
4 1 (5.88%) BPMN
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.88%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (5.88%) Information Security
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineering
4 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.88%) UML
4 1 (5.88%) Use Case
4 1 (5.88%) Waterfall
4 1 (5.88%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) C
1 13 (76.47%) C++
1 13 (76.47%) Java
1 13 (76.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) Dynatrace
2 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow