Requirements Gathering Contracts in Cheshire

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Requirements Gathering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Requirements Gathering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 54 40
Rank change year-on-year +22 -14 +4
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 25 8 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.99% 1.48% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.91% 1.63% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 4 12
10th Percentile - £424 £364
25th Percentile £405 £441 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £463 £495
Median % change year-on-year +11.46% -6.57% +20.00%
75th Percentile £614 £505 £505
90th Percentile £638 £536 £620
North West median daily rate £463 £425 £487
% change year-on-year +8.82% -12.73% +9.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Requirements Gathering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 423 492 457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.43% 91.28% 86.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 333 262
10th Percentile £277 £275 £219
25th Percentile £400 £389 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £538
90th Percentile £637 £655 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 24 26
10th Percentile £13.70 £15.97 £10.28
25th Percentile £16.61 £22.97 £15.55
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +29.96% -27.06%
75th Percentile £42.31 £35.00 £33.62
90th Percentile £44.13 £38.80 £60.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Cheshire

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in Cheshire

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Cheshire

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Macclesfield -10 9 £410 -6.29%
Knutsford +17 8 £577 - 1
Chester - 4 £638 -
Warrington +6 1 - - 1
Wilmslow - 1 £400 -
Requirements Gathering
North West

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (4.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (8.00%) SaaS
3 1 (4.00%) Azure
3 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.00%) Google Workspace
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Git
General
1 12 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (44.00%) Finance
3 9 (36.00%) Manufacturing
4 7 (28.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (8.00%) Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (8.00%) Front Office
6 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Analyst
1 12 (48.00%) Business Analyst
2 11 (44.00%) Project Manager
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
3 4 (16.00%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) IT Manager
4 2 (8.00%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Report Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Risk Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Risk Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Risk Management Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Risk Management Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Reporting Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Risk Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Developer
5 1 (4.00%) QA Tester
5 1 (4.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) .NET
1 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
1 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (4.00%) Sass
1 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Industry 4.0
1 4 (16.00%) IoT
1 4 (16.00%) Robotics
2 3 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (40.00%) Business Analysis
3 9 (36.00%) Project Management
4 8 (32.00%) Agile
5 7 (28.00%) CRM
5 7 (28.00%) Design Patterns
5 7 (28.00%) Software Engineering
5 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 7 (28.00%) Systems Engineering
5 7 (28.00%) Thought Leadership
6 6 (24.00%) Matrix Organization
6 6 (24.00%) Use Case
7 5 (20.00%) Business Process Modelling
7 5 (20.00%) Data Governance
7 5 (20.00%) Data Protection
7 5 (20.00%) Lean Six Sigma
7 5 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
7 5 (20.00%) Requirements Engineering
7 5 (20.00%) Six Sigma
7 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) SQL
2 7 (28.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.00%) Bicep
3 1 (4.00%) C#
3 1 (4.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Degree
1 5 (20.00%) IIBA
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) GDPR
1 5 (20.00%) Good Clinical Practice
1 5 (20.00%) GxP
2 1 (4.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Avaloq
2 1 (4.00%) Kronos
2 1 (4.00%) Salesforce