Requirements Gathering Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 20 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 2.65% 0.81% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 1.06% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £350 £415
% change year-on-year +28.48% -15.60% -7.78%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 123 94 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 81.46% 75.81% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 54 82
10th Percentile £131 £138 £191
25th Percentile £313 £250 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £386 £449
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% -13.98% +6.90%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £538
90th Percentile £634 £571 £625
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £410 £445
% change year-on-year +15.85% -7.87% -6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £16.31 £18.85 £14.45
25th Percentile £17.88 £19.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.70 £20.50 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -9.89% +11.96%
75th Percentile £30.94 £21.03 £25.56
90th Percentile £33.75 £21.19 £27.48
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 £16.82
% change year-on-year -5.26% +12.99% -41.51%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Requirements Gathering job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

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

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

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

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 9 July 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
Leicester +2 3 £450 -14.29%
Coalville - 1 - -
Requirements Gathering
East Midlands

Requirements Gathering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Lucidchart
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Local Government
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Change Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) BPMN
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) Logistics
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Project Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Workshops
3 1 (25.00%) Six Sigma
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
1 1 (25.00%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) JD Edwards
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) SAP
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow