Requirements Gathering Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 51 79
Rank change year-on-year -37 +28 +2
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 30 42 15
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.27% 3.22% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 3.60% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 21 11
10th Percentile £350 £410 £363
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -8.81% -1.18%
75th Percentile £519 £561 £566
90th Percentile £545 £575 £738
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Median hourly rate £34.87 £59.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.90% +18.00% -35.48%
England median hourly rate £68.00 £27.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year +147.27% -43.59% -26.42%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,853 1,166 1,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.22% 89.42% 81.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 839 504 458
10th Percentile £190 £200 £200
25th Percentile £368 £379 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £446
Median % change year-on-year - +12.11% -10.80%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £686 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 467 312 383
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.38 £14.62
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.81% -37.13% +101.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £68.60
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Requirements Gathering job vacancy trend in the East of England

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the East of England

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Norfolk -2 7 £513 - 4
Essex -12 7 £450 -14.29% 14
Suffolk - 7 £450 - 6
Hertfordshire -31 5 £638 +15.91% 25
Bedfordshire -3 3 £500 +14.29% 7
East Anglia - 1 £450 - 2
Requirements Gathering
England

Requirements Gathering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Maximo
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) OCI
2 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.33%) AWS
3 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 2 (6.67%) Power BI
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Legal
3 5 (16.67%) Retail
4 2 (6.67%) General Ledger
5 1 (3.33%) Billing
5 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Analyst
2 8 (26.67%) Business Analyst
3 7 (23.33%) Data Modeller
3 7 (23.33%) Senior
3 7 (23.33%) Senior Data Modeller
4 5 (16.67%) Product Manager
5 4 (13.33%) Consultant
6 3 (10.00%) Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Oracle Consultant
7 2 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (6.67%) ERP Consultant
7 2 (6.67%) Functional Consultant
7 2 (6.67%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 1 (3.33%) Architect
8 1 (3.33%) Business Architect
8 1 (3.33%) Business Consultant
8 1 (3.33%) CRM Specialist
8 1 (3.33%) Lead Business Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Business Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.33%) CMDB
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) NHS
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Business Analysis
1 12 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (36.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 10 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 9 (30.00%) Data Modelling
4 9 (30.00%) User Stories
5 8 (26.67%) Agile
6 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 5 (16.67%) Product Backlog
6 5 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 5 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (13.33%) Translating Business Requirements
7 4 (13.33%) User Experience
8 3 (10.00%) Asset Management
8 3 (10.00%) Logistics
8 3 (10.00%) Requirements Management
8 3 (10.00%) Risk Management
8 3 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) SQL
2 2 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
1 1 (3.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) IBM
2 2 (6.67%) Planon
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.33%) SGI
3 1 (3.33%) Workday