Requirements Gathering Contracts in the Midlands

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 84 66 77
Rank change year-on-year -18 +11 -4
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 27 67 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.41% 2.43% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 2.96% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 51 77
10th Percentile £386 £275 £326
25th Percentile £459 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £378 £500
Median % change year-on-year +37.24% -24.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £548 £538
90th Percentile £600 £638 £580
England median daily rate £525 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £92.50
Median hourly rate - - £95.00
75th Percentile - - £97.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £27.06 £58.18 £61.50
% change year-on-year -53.48% -5.40% +44.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in the Midlands

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the Midlands

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in the Midlands

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in the Midlands

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands -20 23 £513 +43.16% 100
East Midlands +8 4 £525 +20.00% 55
Requirements Gathering
England

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (7.41%) SAP CO
2 2 (7.41%) SAP ERP
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (3.70%) SAP BPC
3 1 (3.70%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.70%) AWS
2 1 (3.70%) Azure
2 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.70%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
2 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Power BI
1 3 (11.11%) SAP HANA
2 1 (3.70%) Data Mining
2 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.70%) GIS
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 6 (22.22%) Finance
2 4 (14.81%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Advertising
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Local Government
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Analyst
1 9 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Consultant
3 4 (14.81%) Developer
3 4 (14.81%) SAP Consultant
4 3 (11.11%) Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Business Change Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Business IT Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Business Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Change Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Finance Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Integration Developer
5 2 (7.41%) IT Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) IT Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) SAP Architect
5 2 (7.41%) SAP CO Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) SAP Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) EDI
1 3 (11.11%) IDoc
1 3 (11.11%) J2EE
1 3 (11.11%) JDBC
1 3 (11.11%) REST
1 3 (11.11%) SOAP
1 3 (11.11%) XSLT
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Educational Technology
1 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
1 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Learning Management System
2 1 (3.70%) NHS
2 1 (3.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Agile
2 5 (18.52%) Business Analysis
2 5 (18.52%) Requirements Workshops
3 4 (14.81%) Change Management
3 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
3 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (14.81%) Project Delivery
3 4 (14.81%) Project Management
3 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (14.81%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (11.11%) B2B
4 3 (11.11%) BPMN
4 3 (11.11%) Business Case
4 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (11.11%) ERP
4 3 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
4 3 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
4 3 (11.11%) Process Improvement
4 3 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) ABAP
1 3 (11.11%) Groovy
1 3 (11.11%) Java
1 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.70%) COBOL
2 1 (3.70%) R
2 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) SAP Certification
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) ACCA
3 1 (3.70%) CBAP
3 1 (3.70%) CIMA
3 1 (3.70%) CIPFA
3 1 (3.70%) ICAEW
3 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) SAP
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Adobe
3 1 (3.70%) Ariba
3 1 (3.70%) AVEVA
3 1 (3.70%) Civica
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Salesforce