Requirements Gathering Contract Job Trends in Essex

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 17 21
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 +12
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 7 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 2.06% 1.80% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 1.92% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 £513 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £525 £375
Median % change year-on-year -26.19% +40.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £470 £538 £388
90th Percentile £522 - -
East of England median daily rate £500 £479 £525
% change year-on-year +4.44% -8.81% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 253 104 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 74.63% 93.69% 83.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 48 50
10th Percentile £310 £199 £188
25th Percentile £350 £309 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £363
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +10.34% -27.50%
75th Percentile £559 £488 £538
90th Percentile £600 £529 £576
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 29 31
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.25 £15.98
25th Percentile £16.06 - £29.17
Median hourly rate £19.61 £18.87 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.92% -74.84% +71.90%
75th Percentile £35.38 £43.20 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £75.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £34.37 £42.75
% change year-on-year +38.21% -19.61% +115.80%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Requirements Gathering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Requirements Gathering job vacancy trend in Essex

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Requirements Gathering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Essex over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in Essex

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Requirements Gathering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
Maldon - 3 £375 -
Chelmsford - 1 £488 -
Requirements Gathering
East of England

Requirements Gathering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Sage X3
2 2 (28.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI
1 3 (42.86%) Power Query
1 3 (42.86%) ZAP BI
2 2 (28.57%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (28.57%) Tableau
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) Manufacturing
4 1 (14.29%) Billing
4 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Report Developer
1 3 (42.86%) SQL BI Developer
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Crystal Reports Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Tableau Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) CRM Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Product Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Sage Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Data Lineage
3 3 (42.86%) Data Validation
3 3 (42.86%) ETL
3 3 (42.86%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (42.86%) Technology Transformation
3 3 (42.86%) User Experience
3 3 (42.86%) Validation
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) CRM
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) User Stories
4 2 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (14.29%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
5 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
1 3 (42.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Sage
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce