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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 55 86
Rank change year-on-year -28 +31 -1
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 32 42 15
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.46% 3.32% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 3.73% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 23 11
10th Percentile £363 £410 £363
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -8.81% -
75th Percentile £519 £561 £591
90th Percentile £609 £575 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -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 £70.00 £27.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year +154.55% -43.59% -20.73%

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 1,723 1,125 1,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.57% 88.86% 83.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 831 512 501
10th Percentile £190 £200 £198
25th Percentile £385 £364 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £645
England median daily rate £525 £510 £530
% change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 401 276 461
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.84 £14.56
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.43 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.50 £36.75 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.25% -14.53% +117.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.35 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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
Essex -9 8 £375 -28.57% 4
Norfolk - 7 £513 - 3
Suffolk - 7 £450 -
Hertfordshire -27 5 £638 +27.50% 13
Bedfordshire 0 3 £500 +14.29% 3
Cambridgeshire -12 1 £523 +16.11% 1
East Anglia - 1 £450 - 1
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:

Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Sage X3
2 2 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (6.25%) Maximo
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (3.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (3.13%) SAP FI
3 1 (3.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 2 (6.25%) OCI
3 1 (3.13%) AWS
3 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (12.50%) Power BI
1 4 (12.50%) Power Query
1 4 (12.50%) ZAP BI
2 2 (6.25%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (6.25%) Tableau
General
1 11 (34.38%) Finance
2 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Legal
4 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 3 (9.38%) Retail
6 2 (6.25%) General Ledger
7 1 (3.13%) Billing
7 1 (3.13%) Local Government
7 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Analyst
2 7 (21.88%) Business Analyst
2 7 (21.88%) Data Modeller
2 7 (21.88%) Senior
2 7 (21.88%) Senior Data Modeller
3 5 (15.63%) Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Product Manager
4 4 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Power BI Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Report Developer
4 4 (12.50%) SQL BI Developer
4 4 (12.50%) SQL Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Consultant
5 3 (9.38%) Functional Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Crystal Reports Developer
6 2 (6.25%) ERP Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Oracle Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Sage Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Tableau Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.13%) IDoc
2 1 (3.13%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.38%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.13%) CMDB
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Business Analysis
1 13 (40.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 9 (28.13%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (28.13%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (28.13%) User Stories
2 9 (28.13%) Workshop Facilitation
3 8 (25.00%) User Experience
4 7 (21.88%) Agile
4 7 (21.88%) Data Modelling
5 6 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
5 6 (18.75%) Validation
6 5 (15.63%) Analytics
6 5 (15.63%) Product Backlog
6 5 (15.63%) Project Delivery
6 5 (15.63%) Translating Business Requirements
7 4 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
7 4 (12.50%) Data Lineage
7 4 (12.50%) Data Validation
7 4 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) SQL
2 4 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 4 (12.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) Sage
3 2 (6.25%) IBM
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle
3 2 (6.25%) Planon
4 1 (3.13%) OpenText
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.13%) SAP
4 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.13%) SGI
4 1 (3.13%) Workday