Requirements Gathering Contracts in the North East

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - +28
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.74% - 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% - 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £379 - -
25th Percentile £394 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.94%
75th Percentile £466 - £569
90th Percentile £471 - £580
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +5.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 229 208 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 79.79% 85.60% 87.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 108 175
10th Percentile £210 £300 £315
25th Percentile £419 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £581
90th Percentile £625 £725 £690
England median daily rate £510 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -3.77% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 25 10
10th Percentile £11.60 £14.45 £16.93
25th Percentile £12.49 £18.25 £18.19
Median hourly rate £17.30 £46.18 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.54% +77.62% +55.22%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £47.34 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.75 £40.85
% change year-on-year -41.17% +4.66% +51.39%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in the North East

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Requirements Gathering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Requirements Gathering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear - 3 £419 - 8
Durham - 1 £438 - 1
Requirements Gathering
England

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (20.00%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Miro
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP MM Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP SD Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP SD/MM Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) Swagger
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (40.00%) UML
2 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (20.00%) Business Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (20.00%) Design Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Epics
2 1 (20.00%) Fintech
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) User Stories
2 1 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) SAP