Requirements Gathering Contracts in Edinburgh

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Requirements Gathering over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 52 76
Rank change year-on-year +2 +24 -20
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 18 21 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.85% 2.58% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 2.90% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 23
10th Percentile £413 £201 £366
25th Percentile £422 £243 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £282 £450
Median % change year-on-year +57.98% -37.33% -
75th Percentile £497 £467 £500
90th Percentile £525 £500 £568
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £444
% change year-on-year -2.63% +7.04% -1.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 600 724 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.94% 88.83% 95.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 422 884
10th Percentile £219 £228 £254
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £545
90th Percentile £638 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 32 11
10th Percentile - £13.66 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £21.02 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -1.13% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £18.79 £17.47
% change year-on-year +14.90% +7.59% -56.33%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Requirements Gathering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (27.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) IBM Blueworks
3 1 (5.56%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) Datadog
3 1 (5.56%) IaaS
3 1 (5.56%) OCI
3 1 (5.56%) PaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.56%) Data Mining
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) LoadRunner
General
1 9 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 3 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Banking
5 2 (11.11%) Retail Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) Analyst
2 14 (77.78%) Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Database Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Database Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Tableau Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Clustering
1 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) AIX
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Solaris
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (38.89%) Translating Business Requirements
3 6 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 5 (27.78%) ETL
4 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (22.22%) Agile
5 4 (22.22%) User Stories
6 3 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (16.67%) Analytics
6 3 (16.67%) Product Backlog
6 3 (16.67%) Scrum
6 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (11.11%) CRM
7 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
7 2 (11.11%) Migration
7 2 (11.11%) Service Design
7 2 (11.11%) Target Operating Model
7 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) Data Quality
2 3 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Data Guard
1 1 (5.56%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (5.56%) Dell
2 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.56%) Splunk