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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 71 77
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 +26
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 43 15 31
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.68% 1.32% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% 1.57% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 22
10th Percentile £409 £288 £274
25th Percentile £422 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £463 £440
Median % change year-on-year +17.03% +5.17% -12.75%
75th Percentile £688 £516 £500
90th Percentile £721 £531 £558
England median daily rate £500 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -8.26% -0.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £47.25 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -40.94% +23.08%
England median hourly rate £70.50 £30.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +135.00% -55.56% +9.76%

All Process and 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 1,356 956 1,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.43% 84.23% 86.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 561 404 780
10th Percentile £198 £241 £225
25th Percentile £363 £339 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -4.45% -
75th Percentile £581 £588 £600
90th Percentile £681 £688 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 441 190 347
10th Percentile £14.09 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.41 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.75 £30.78 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.59% +39.91% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.23 £78.17
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +22.56%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 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
Hertfordshire -6 16 £675 +42.11% 35
Cambridgeshire -4 14 £425 -15.00% 20
Bedfordshire 0 9 £491 +40.36% 18
Essex - 2 - - 25
Norfolk - 2 £463 - 10
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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (39.53%) WebSphere
2 15 (34.88%) WebLogic
3 3 (6.98%) Confluence
4 2 (4.65%) Apache
4 2 (4.65%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (16.28%) SAP HCM
1 7 (16.28%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (4.65%) BASE24
2 2 (4.65%) Maximo
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (4.65%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.28%) SuccessFactors
2 2 (4.65%) OCI
3 1 (2.33%) Apigee
3 1 (2.33%) AWS
3 1 (2.33%) Azure
3 1 (2.33%) Boomi
3 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.33%) SaaS
3 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.65%) DB2
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.33%) DataStage
2 1 (2.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) JIRA
General
1 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 11 (25.58%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.63%) Finance
4 3 (6.98%) Retail
5 2 (4.65%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Marketing
6 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (53.49%) Consultant
2 10 (23.26%) Analyst
2 10 (23.26%) Business Analyst
3 6 (13.95%) SAP Consultant
3 6 (13.95%) SAP HCM Consultant
3 6 (13.95%) Senior
4 5 (11.63%) SAP Functional Consultant
5 4 (9.30%) Functional Consultant
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Business Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Lead
7 2 (4.65%) Maximo Consultant
7 2 (4.65%) Oracle Financials Support
7 2 (4.65%) Product Owner
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Functional Consultant
7 2 (4.65%) Senior SAP Consultant
7 2 (4.65%) Senior SAP HCM Consultant
8 1 (2.33%) Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.88%) .NET
1 15 (34.88%) HTML
1 15 (34.88%) Middleware
1 15 (34.88%) Node.js
2 10 (23.26%) XML
3 9 (20.93%) SOAP
3 9 (20.93%) Web Services
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (2.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Replication
2 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.33%) FMCG
3 1 (2.33%) IoT
3 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Windows
1 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.26%) Workshop Facilitation
2 8 (18.60%) Data Modelling
2 8 (18.60%) ITSM
2 8 (18.60%) Process Improvement
3 7 (16.28%) Requirements Workshops
3 7 (16.28%) Root Cause Analysis
3 7 (16.28%) Time Management
4 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (11.63%) Agile
5 5 (11.63%) Business Analysis
5 5 (11.63%) CI/CD
6 4 (9.30%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (9.30%) User Stories
7 3 (6.98%) Data Analysis
7 3 (6.98%) DevOps
7 3 (6.98%) Facilities Management
7 3 (6.98%) Knowledge Management
7 3 (6.98%) Use Case
7 3 (6.98%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (37.21%) Java
2 15 (34.88%) C
2 15 (34.88%) C++
2 15 (34.88%) PHP
3 7 (16.28%) ABAP
4 6 (13.95%) SQL
5 3 (6.98%) Python
6 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) Degree
4 1 (2.33%) ACCA
4 1 (2.33%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 15 (34.88%) Dynatrace
2 7 (16.28%) SAP
3 5 (11.63%) Computacenter
3 5 (11.63%) Oracle
4 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.65%) IBM
6 1 (2.33%) BMC
6 1 (2.33%) Dell
6 1 (2.33%) Retek
6 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.33%) Talend
6 1 (2.33%) VMware