Requirements Gathering Contracts in Cheshire

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 37 42
Rank change year-on-year -20 +5 +11
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 17 13 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.77% 2.66% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 3.11% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 7
10th Percentile £313 £425 £393
25th Percentile £348 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £552 £463
Median % change year-on-year -15.04% +19.35% +8.82%
75th Percentile £507 £565 £575
90th Percentile £542 £590 £580
North West median daily rate £478 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.50% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 565 418 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 92.02% 85.48% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 281 225
10th Percentile £307 £311 £275
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.95% -4.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £586
90th Percentile £647 £650 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 33
10th Percentile - £11.18 £17.16
25th Percentile £12.82 £16.06 £22.53
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +14.60% +42.78%
75th Percentile £50.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £39.15
North West median hourly rate £27.38 £35.00 £30.65
% change year-on-year -21.79% +14.20% +40.71%

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

Requirements Gathering
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 17 August 2025.

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 17 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
Knutsford - 14 £469 - 3
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 7 (41.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (17.65%) MS Visio
2 2 (11.76%) InVision
2 2 (11.76%) UserZoom
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) GitHub
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
1 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (70.59%) JIRA
2 6 (35.29%) Git
3 4 (23.53%) Cucumber
3 4 (23.53%) GitLab
3 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
3 4 (23.53%) JUnit
4 2 (11.76%) Axure RP
5 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
General
1 10 (58.82%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Banking
4 3 (17.65%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Legal
5 1 (5.88%) Marketing
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Business Analyst
2 7 (41.18%) Analyst
3 6 (35.29%) Developer
4 5 (29.41%) Java Developer
5 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
6 2 (11.76%) AWS Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Change Manager
7 1 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
7 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Junior
7 1 (5.88%) Junior Analyst
7 1 (5.88%) Junior Business Analyst
7 1 (5.88%) Scrum Master
7 1 (5.88%) Service Analyst
7 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
7 1 (5.88%) Technical Delivery Manager
7 1 (5.88%) Technical Manager
7 1 (5.88%) User Experience Researcher
7 1 (5.88%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) REST
2 5 (29.41%) React
2 5 (29.41%) RESTful
2 5 (29.41%) Spring
2 5 (29.41%) Spring Boot
3 4 (23.53%) Kafka
4 3 (17.65%) CSS
4 3 (17.65%) HTML
5 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.88%) CSS3
5 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.88%) HTML5
5 1 (5.88%) JMS
5 1 (5.88%) LDAP
5 1 (5.88%) Node.js
5 1 (5.88%) OAuth
5 1 (5.88%) SailPoint
5 1 (5.88%) SAML
5 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) CMDB
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) PMI
2 1 (5.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Android
1 2 (11.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Agile
2 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (41.18%) Business Analysis
3 7 (41.18%) Scrum
4 6 (35.29%) SDLC
4 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (35.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (29.41%) Microservices
5 5 (29.41%) Project Management
5 5 (29.41%) Sprint Planning
5 5 (29.41%) Sprint Retrospective
5 5 (29.41%) User Stories
6 4 (23.53%) Acceptance Criteria
6 4 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (23.53%) Migration
6 4 (23.53%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (23.53%) Release Management
6 4 (23.53%) TDD
7 3 (17.65%) Analytics
8 2 (11.76%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) Java
3 5 (29.41%) Python
4 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) CBAP
3 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.76%) COBIT
3 1 (5.88%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.88%) ISO 20022
3 1 (5.88%) PSD2
3 1 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (5.88%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) ServiceNow
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Okta