Requirements Gathering Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 22 17
Rank change year-on-year -12 -5 +24
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 4 11 7
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 1.49% 4.80% 4.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 6.59% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £342 £521 -
25th Percentile £379 £553 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £613 £325
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +88.46% -18.75%
75th Percentile £491 £628 -
90th Percentile £496 £634 -
North West median daily rate £425 £551 £525
% change year-on-year -22.87% +4.95% +5.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 228 167 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 85.07% 72.93% 85.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 89 73
10th Percentile £133 £145 £225
25th Percentile £151 £188 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year -40.63% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £623 £635
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 14
10th Percentile - £13.07 £14.07
25th Percentile £15.18 £14.84 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.86 £18.60 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.09% -7.03% +13.90%
75th Percentile £51.02 £23.13 £26.86
90th Percentile - £23.53 £34.73
North West median hourly rate £37.50 £30.20 £37.50
% change year-on-year +24.17% -19.47% +45.29%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Requirements Gathering job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Merseyside over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in Merseyside

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
Liverpool -4 4 £438 -28.57% 14
Requirements Gathering
North West

Requirements Gathering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Qlik Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Qlik Sense Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
1 2 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Data Extraction
1 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Data Security
1 2 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) ERP
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) RBAC
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (50.00%) User Experience
1 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) QA