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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 62 70
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 +7
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 17 16 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.59% 1.90% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.23% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 17
10th Percentile £411 £274 £397
25th Percentile £417 £347 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -13.89% -
75th Percentile £468 £448 £500
90th Percentile £531 £488 £580
Scotland median daily rate £450 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +9.70%

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 620 716 1,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.51% 85.04% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 398 703
10th Percentile £265 £209 £213
25th Percentile £413 £358 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £537 £540 £538
90th Percentile £589 £640 £600
Scotland median daily rate £466 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 22 4
10th Percentile £17.08 £13.21 £21.59
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.00 £34.23
Median hourly rate £17.87 £17.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -63.16% +111.58%
75th Percentile £41.44 £23.89 £55.94
90th Percentile £62.38 £36.62 £59.88
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.33
% change year-on-year +2.09% +6.90% -47.64%

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 August 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 2 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.76%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Datadog
2 1 (5.88%) IaaS
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.88%) OCI
2 1 (5.88%) PaaS
2 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) Data Mining
2 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) LoadRunner
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 8 (47.06%) Public Sector
3 4 (23.53%) Finance
4 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Banking
6 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Analyst
2 8 (47.06%) Business Analyst
3 5 (29.41%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior User Researcher
4 2 (11.76%) User Researcher
5 1 (5.88%) Business Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Database Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Database Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior User Experience Researcher
5 1 (5.88%) Support Officer
5 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Freedom of Information
1 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) AIX
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Solaris
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Agile
1 7 (41.18%) Business Analysis
2 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (29.41%) Project Management
2 5 (29.41%) Service Design
2 5 (29.41%) User Research
3 4 (23.53%) Analytics
3 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (17.65%) Business Case
4 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
4 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
4 3 (17.65%) PRINCE2
4 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (17.65%) Usability Testing
4 3 (17.65%) User Experience
4 3 (17.65%) UX Design
4 3 (17.65%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (11.76%) Requirements Workshops
5 2 (11.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) HND
2 2 (11.76%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (5.88%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Disclosure Scotland
1 4 (23.53%) GDPR
2 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
3 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
3 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Data Guard
1 1 (5.88%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (5.88%) Grafana
1 1 (5.88%) Kibana
1 1 (5.88%) logstash
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Dell
2 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.88%) Splunk