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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 68 89
Rank change year-on-year -14 +21 +9
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 32 20 24
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.43% 1.91% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 2.13% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 16 17
10th Percentile - £431 -
25th Percentile £363 £472 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £428
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +16.96% -5.00%
75th Percentile £628 £565 £538
90th Percentile £673 £575 £655
England median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.15% -4.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £20.17 - -
25th Percentile £25.69 - £35.50
Median hourly rate £34.87 £59.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.90% +18.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.75 £38.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +80.92% -20.00% -22.76%

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 1,759 938 1,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.88% 89.67% 83.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 472 665
10th Percentile £190 £214 £200
25th Percentile £385 £372 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £442
Median % change year-on-year - +13.12% -9.33%
75th Percentile £594 £580 £575
90th Percentile £688 £656 £652
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 191 629
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.60 £16.95 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.88 £36.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% -10.00% +90.48%
75th Percentile £67.79 £72.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.00 £74.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.38 £38.00
% change year-on-year +73.52% -27.96% +7.04%

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 21 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Requirements Gathering in the East of England over the 6 months to 21 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the East of England

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 21 June 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 - 8 £375 -
Bedfordshire -6 7 £585 +23.16% 1
Norfolk - 7 £513 -
Hertfordshire -21 6 £644 +17.05% 5
Cambridgeshire +5 2 £523 +16.11% 2
Suffolk - 2 £351 - 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 1 (3.13%) Apache
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) CATIA
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (3.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Sage X3
2 2 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (6.25%) Maximo
3 1 (3.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (3.13%) SAP FI
3 1 (3.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) Power Platform
2 2 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (3.13%) Azure
3 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.13%) GCP
3 1 (3.13%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (21.88%) Power BI
2 6 (18.75%) Power Query
2 6 (18.75%) ZAP BI
3 2 (6.25%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (6.25%) Tableau
4 1 (3.13%) Big Data
4 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.13%) Metadata
4 1 (3.13%) MySQL
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 8 (25.00%) Finance
1 8 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Aerospace
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Billing
4 1 (3.13%) Local Government
4 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Analyst
1 12 (37.50%) Senior
2 10 (31.25%) Business Analyst
3 7 (21.88%) Data Modeller
3 7 (21.88%) Developer
3 7 (21.88%) Senior Data Modeller
4 6 (18.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Power BI Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Report Developer
4 6 (18.75%) SQL BI Developer
4 6 (18.75%) SQL Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (15.63%) Senior Business Analyst
6 4 (12.50%) Sage Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Consultant
7 2 (6.25%) Crystal Reports Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Functional Consultant
7 2 (6.25%) Tableau Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Oracle Financials Consultant
8 1 (3.13%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) IDoc
1 1 (3.13%) Kafka
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (3.13%) REST
1 1 (3.13%) SAP ALE
1 1 (3.13%) SOAP
1 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (3.13%) CMDB
1 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
1 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
1 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
1 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (62.50%) Business Analysis
2 14 (43.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 9 (28.13%) Data Analysis
4 8 (25.00%) Analytics
4 8 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 8 (25.00%) Validation
5 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (21.88%) ETL
5 7 (21.88%) User Experience
6 6 (18.75%) Customer Engagement
6 6 (18.75%) Data Lineage
6 6 (18.75%) Data Validation
6 6 (18.75%) Kalman Filter
6 6 (18.75%) Technology Transformation
7 5 (15.63%) Change Management
7 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
7 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (12.50%) Project Delivery
8 4 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) SQL
2 6 (18.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 6 (18.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) PMO
2 1 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) SLA
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) Sage
3 2 (6.25%) IBM
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle
3 2 (6.25%) Planon
4 1 (3.13%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) Informatica
4 1 (3.13%) OpenText
4 1 (3.13%) SAP
4 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.13%) Talend
4 1 (3.13%) Workday