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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 54 49
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 15 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.84% 1.56% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 1.87% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 15
10th Percentile £314 £391 £353
25th Percentile £325 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £420 £455
Median % change year-on-year -14.76% -7.69% -9.00%
75th Percentile £381 £500 £494
90th Percentile £447 £550 £533
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £86.25
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
75th Percentile - - £93.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £27.50 £48.75 £66.25
% change year-on-year -43.59% -26.42% +5.16%

All Process and 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 704 643 741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.27% 83.40% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 393 541
10th Percentile £224 £263 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £449 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% -10.20% +7.53%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £600
90th Percentile £629 £619 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 31 49
10th Percentile £16.17 £12.75 £12.80
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.23% -6.52% +30.98%
75th Percentile £25.15 £46.13 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.16%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Requirements Gathering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering 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 28 September 2025.

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 28 September 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
Northamptonshire -3 14 £358 -10.78% 2
Leicestershire - 1 - - 5
Requirements Gathering
England

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) SaaS
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 9 (60.00%) Banking
2 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Analyst
2 9 (60.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Payments Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Payments Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Digital Product Owner
4 2 (13.33%) Product Owner
4 2 (13.33%) Programme Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Business Analysis Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Business Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Change Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Junior
5 1 (6.67%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Project Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Scrum Master
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Agile
2 10 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 6 (40.00%) Scrum
4 5 (33.33%) Business Analysis
4 5 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 5 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 5 (33.33%) User Stories
5 4 (26.67%) Backlog Management
5 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
5 4 (26.67%) User Experience
6 3 (20.00%) Analytics
6 3 (20.00%) Kanban
6 3 (20.00%) Project Management
6 3 (20.00%) Waterfall
7 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
7 2 (13.33%) CRM
7 2 (13.33%) High Availability
7 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Java
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) DocuSign
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) Remedy
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow