Requirements Gathering Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 51 62
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 +4
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 22 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.98% 0.87% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 1.01% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 3
10th Percentile £309 £324 £401
25th Percentile £330 £349 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £379 £444 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.75% +4.47% -6.59%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £819
90th Percentile - - £1,048
England median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% +0.48%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 868 494 606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.13% 86.36% 78.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 329 412
10th Percentile £200 £211 £200
25th Percentile £388 £322 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £433 £419
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% +3.35% -8.02%
75th Percentile £545 £523 £550
90th Percentile £619 £590 £625
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 35 55
10th Percentile £13.53 £13.81 £11.24
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.87 £19.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% +11.76% -17.69%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £31.15 £38.18 £35.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +1.39%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Requirements Gathering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Requirements Gathering job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Requirements Gathering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the East Midlands

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Requirements Gathering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 May 2026. 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
Northamptonshire -7 9 £330 -2.65% 1
Lincolnshire - 5 £550 -
Derbyshire - 5 £400 - 3
Leicestershire -6 1 - - 4
Requirements Gathering
England

Requirements Gathering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (54.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) MS Visio
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Teamcenter
2 2 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 3 (13.64%) SaaS
3 1 (4.55%) Azure
3 1 (4.55%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) Power Query
2 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (59.09%) JIRA
General
1 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Manufacturing
3 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 4 (18.18%) Banking
5 3 (13.64%) Retail Banking
6 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Analyst
2 11 (50.00%) Business Analyst
3 6 (27.27%) Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (9.09%) CRM Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) CRM Business Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM Business Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Finance Business Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Financial Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Financial Business Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) IT Manager
4 2 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Senior IT Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Senior IT Project Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (9.09%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) JSON
1 1 (4.55%) Web Services
1 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 3 (13.64%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.55%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) User Stories
2 7 (31.82%) Acceptance Criteria
2 7 (31.82%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (27.27%) Migration
3 6 (27.27%) Use Case
3 6 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (27.27%) Validation
4 5 (22.73%) Change Management
4 5 (22.73%) Data Migration
4 5 (22.73%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 5 (22.73%) PLM
4 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (18.18%) Backlog Management
5 4 (18.18%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 4 (18.18%) Backlog Refinement
5 4 (18.18%) Epics
5 4 (18.18%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (18.18%) Sprint Retrospective
5 4 (18.18%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 1 (4.55%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) VMware
3 1 (4.55%) Databricks
3 1 (4.55%) JD Edwards
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow