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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 57 73
Rank change year-on-year +7 +16 -9
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 30 40 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.18% 2.75% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 3.19% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 24 29
10th Percentile £353 £325 £390
25th Percentile £425 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% -11.46%
75th Percentile £534 £562 £525
90th Percentile £585 £599 £563
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -9.09%

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 829 1,253 1,621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.91% 86.18% 90.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 822 1,194
10th Percentile £306 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £689 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £453 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -8.43% -1.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 79 51
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.50 £14.65
25th Percentile £20.39 £14.13 £16.85
Median hourly rate £49.99 £26.52 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.51% +17.87% +23.29%
75th Percentile £72.50 £60.00 £38.75
90th Percentile £82.78 £75.80 £66.00
North West median hourly rate £30.88 £30.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year +2.93% -1.77% +26.72%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -
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:

Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Maximo
1 2 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.33%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) Google Sheets
1 3 (10.00%) SaaS
2 2 (6.67%) Azure
2 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.33%) AWS
3 1 (3.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.67%) Power BI
1 2 (6.67%) Tableau
General
1 17 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 3 (10.00%) Retail
6 2 (6.67%) Banking
7 1 (3.33%) Games
7 1 (3.33%) Law
7 1 (3.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Analyst
2 9 (30.00%) Business Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Product Manager
4 4 (13.33%) Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) Commercial Officer
5 3 (10.00%) Operations Manager
5 3 (10.00%) Senior
6 2 (6.67%) Data Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Data Migration Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Maximo Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Migration Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Technical Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Technical Operations Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Banking Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Banking Business Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Financial Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) IT Business Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Research Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.33%) Credit Risk
4 1 (3.33%) EPoS
4 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (36.67%) Agile
3 8 (26.67%) Business Case
3 8 (26.67%) Migration
3 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (26.67%) Roadmaps
4 7 (23.33%) Change Management
4 7 (23.33%) Product Strategy
4 7 (23.33%) Waterfall
5 6 (20.00%) Service Delivery
6 5 (16.67%) Product Management
6 5 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
6 5 (16.67%) Product Vision
6 5 (16.67%) Project Management
6 5 (16.67%) WFM
7 4 (13.33%) Contract Management
7 4 (13.33%) Customer Journey Map
7 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
7 4 (13.33%) Journey Map
7 4 (13.33%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) SAP
3 3 (10.00%) Google
4 2 (6.67%) IBM
4 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow