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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 68 84
Rank change year-on-year -11 +16 +24
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 29 16 32
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.60% 1.51% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 1.75% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 26
10th Percentile £363 £365 £331
25th Percentile £430 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £500 £410
Median % change year-on-year +17.00% +21.95% -13.68%
75th Percentile £713 £522 £449
90th Percentile £800 £635 £500
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £30.93 -
25th Percentile £16.50 £36.81 £35.50
Median hourly rate £18.00 £47.25 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.90% -10.85% -18.46%
75th Percentile £19.50 £58.31 £75.00
90th Percentile - £64.58 -
England median hourly rate £21.52 £39.81 £55.00
% change year-on-year -45.95% -27.61% -10.57%

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 1,457 916 1,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 80.23% 86.42% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 643 450 825
10th Percentile £196 £243 £250
25th Percentile £350 £378 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -1.00%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £696 £713
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 442 152 484
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.35 £18.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.35 £48.72 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -58.23% +30.79% +40.57%
75th Percentile £60.75 £70.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.26% - -

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 22 February 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 22 February 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
Hertfordshire -16 11 £675 -10.00% 4
Bedfordshire -5 10 £585 +37.65%
Essex - 4 £375 - 6
Norfolk - 2 £463 -
Suffolk +7 1 £351 -22.00% 2
Cambridgeshire -9 1 - - 3
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 2 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) CATIA
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (3.45%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 7 (24.14%) SAP HCM
1 7 (24.14%) SAP Payroll
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (10.34%) Sage X3
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (3.45%) BASE24
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (3.45%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) SuccessFactors
2 4 (13.79%) Power Platform
3 3 (10.34%) OCI
4 1 (3.45%) Apigee
4 1 (3.45%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure
4 1 (3.45%) Boomi
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (13.79%) Power BI
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (10.34%) Power Query
2 3 (10.34%) ZAP BI
3 1 (3.45%) Big Data
3 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.45%) DataStage
3 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.45%) Metadata
3 1 (3.45%) MySQL
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) JIRA
General
1 12 (41.38%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 10 (34.48%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Aerospace
3 5 (17.24%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Retail
5 1 (3.45%) Billing
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Analyst
2 10 (34.48%) Business Analyst
2 10 (34.48%) Senior
3 8 (27.59%) Consultant
4 7 (24.14%) Senior Analyst
4 7 (24.14%) Senior Business Analyst
5 6 (20.69%) SAP Consultant
5 6 (20.69%) SAP HCM Consultant
6 5 (17.24%) Functional Consultant
6 5 (17.24%) SAP Functional Consultant
7 4 (13.79%) Developer
8 3 (10.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 3 (10.34%) Power BI Developer
8 3 (10.34%) Report Developer
8 3 (10.34%) Sage Developer
8 3 (10.34%) SQL BI Developer
8 3 (10.34%) SQL Developer
9 2 (6.90%) Lead
9 2 (6.90%) Oracle Financials Support
9 2 (6.90%) Senior Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) SOAP
1 8 (27.59%) Web Services
1 8 (27.59%) XML
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.45%) JSON
3 1 (3.45%) Kafka
3 1 (3.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Replication
2 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.45%) FMCG
2 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Business Analysis
1 10 (34.48%) Process Improvement
2 9 (31.03%) Data Modelling
2 9 (31.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 9 (31.03%) Workshop Facilitation
3 8 (27.59%) Requirements Workshops
4 7 (24.14%) Data Analysis
4 7 (24.14%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (24.14%) Time Management
5 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
5 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (13.79%) Analytics
7 4 (13.79%) Change Management
7 4 (13.79%) Coaching
7 4 (13.79%) ETL
7 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.34%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 3 (10.34%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (10.34%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) SQL
2 7 (24.14%) ABAP
3 3 (10.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (10.34%) VBA
4 1 (3.45%) Java
4 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.24%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) ACCA
4 1 (3.45%) CIMA
4 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.45%) PMO
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) SAP
2 6 (20.69%) Oracle
3 5 (17.24%) Computacenter
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.34%) Sage
5 2 (6.90%) Talend
6 1 (3.45%) BMC
6 1 (3.45%) Dell
6 1 (3.45%) Google
6 1 (3.45%) Informatica
6 1 (3.45%) Retek
6 1 (3.45%) VMware