Requirements Gathering Contracts in Kent

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 23 29
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 +2
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 1.50% 0.55% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 0.85% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £428
25th Percentile £663 - £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £500
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £450 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -11.33% -3.33% +7.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.02 -
South East median hourly rate - £67.02 £59.75
% change year-on-year - +12.17% +18.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 110 118 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 82.71% 64.48% 73.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 63 128
10th Percentile £200 £153 £200
25th Percentile £256 £203 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £463
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -13.51% -5.13%
75th Percentile £525 £562 £540
90th Percentile £624 £698 £641
South East median daily rate £500 £519 £518
% change year-on-year -3.66% +0.11% +2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 8
10th Percentile - - £53.38
25th Percentile £16.36 £15.00 £54.22
Median hourly rate £20.40 £24.00 £62.12
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -61.37% +67.30%
75th Percentile - £54.18 £79.05
90th Percentile £21.02 £62.96 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -58.15% +14.70% +80.31%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Kent

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

Requirements Gathering
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 26 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Dover - 2 £675 - 1
Requirements Gathering
South East

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager