Requirements Gathering Contracts in Manchester

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 57 86
Rank change year-on-year -5 +29 -12
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 17 39 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.84% 2.57% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.95% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 30
10th Percentile £374 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £353 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £420
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +7.14% -12.04%
75th Percentile £510 £598 £450
90th Percentile £575 £599 £538
North West median daily rate £483 £463 £425
% change year-on-year +4.32% +8.82% -12.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Manchester

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Manchester

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in Manchester

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Manchester

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stockport - 1 £501 - 6
Requirements Gathering
North West

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.88%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
2 2 (11.76%) Tableau
3 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) EDRMS
General
1 13 (76.47%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Law
4 2 (11.76%) Legal
4 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Games
5 1 (5.88%) Marketing
5 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Business Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Product Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Commercial Officer
4 2 (11.76%) Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Data Migration Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Migration Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Records Management Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Report Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) SAP Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) SharePoint Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) SharePoint Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (47.06%) Migration
3 7 (41.18%) Waterfall
4 6 (35.29%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) Change Management
4 6 (35.29%) Service Delivery
5 5 (29.41%) Business Case
5 5 (29.41%) Data Management
5 5 (29.41%) Product Roadmap
5 5 (29.41%) Product Strategy
5 5 (29.41%) Product Vision
5 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
5 5 (29.41%) WFM
6 3 (17.65%) Analytics
6 3 (17.65%) Customer Engagement
6 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Product Management
6 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
7 2 (11.76%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) ISEB
1 1 (5.88%) SAP Certification
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) SAP
3 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow