Requirements Gathering Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 59 40
Rank change year-on-year -5 -19 +15
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 11 6 43
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.65% 0.89% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.04% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 29
10th Percentile £356 £529 £412
25th Percentile £365 £549 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.15% +7.27% +18.92%
75th Percentile £553 £624 £600
90th Percentile £581 £640 £638
West Yorkshire median daily rate £448 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -22.17% +9.52% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 578 976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.92% 85.38% 89.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 370 676
10th Percentile £305 £337 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £671 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 11
10th Percentile £25.10 £15.38 £16.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £20.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +50.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £27.63 £38.75 £22.53
90th Percentile £28.30 £51.00 £23.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% +44.74% -9.52%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Requirements Gathering job vacancy trend in Leeds

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Leeds over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in Leeds

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Requirements Gathering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Functions
3 2 (18.18%) dbt
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Asana
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) Figma
4 1 (9.09%) IBM Blueworks
4 1 (9.09%) Lucidchart
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (9.09%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) BigQuery
1 2 (18.18%) Bigtable
1 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Legal
5 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Analyst
1 6 (54.55%) Business Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Payments Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Payments Business Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Data Architect
3 2 (18.18%) GCP Architect
3 2 (18.18%) GCP Data Architect
3 2 (18.18%) IT Manager
3 2 (18.18%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) HR Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) HR Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (27.27%) Business Analysis
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (18.18%) Architectural Design
3 2 (18.18%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Data Design
3 2 (18.18%) ETL
3 2 (18.18%) Information Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
3 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 2 (18.18%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
3 2 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) ANSI SQL
1 2 (18.18%) Java
1 2 (18.18%) Python
1 2 (18.18%) Scala
1 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (9.09%) ACCA
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Control-M
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) IBM
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
1 1 (9.09%) Wrike